Economagic is a fantastic resource for people who care about economics!

For a simple example, you can drill down to house price data history and then click on the “GIF Chart” link to see this:

“Turn advanced features on” and you can save multiple data series to your workspace which you can then use to create composite graphs like this:

I chose that more or less on a “whim” based on my suspicion that rental vacancies may be a proxy for wealth centralization (you can’t afford to hold onto ownership of a rental unit that is vacant unless you are wealthy) and that labor force participation rates, sans bubbles, go down when wealth centralizes*.  I was not surprised to see the 1990s bubble increasing labor force participation rates but I was a bit surprised by the fact that the housing bubble didn’t prevent more of a slide—that is until I remembered that much of the construction work went to illegals…

This resource was started as a class project to help teach economics forecasting and has evolved into a nice free service with enhanced subscription services.

You’d think the gummint would have standardized all these time series and presented them in this public form long before an unfunded student project would have, but that’s only if you had any faith in gummint to do the job it proclaims itself to do…

*When the middle class is rebuilding, this correlation can reverse as greater security allows a return to the bread-winning father, mother and children, but at present, the women are committed to participate in the labor force to try to sustain the illusion of a middle class.

by Bo Sears, for Resisting Defamation

Van “Well the answer to that is, they’re assholes” Jones has quite a mouth on him.  As the man who brought race to the green agenda with his statements about “white polluters” and “white environmentalists steering poison into the people of color communities,” he didn’t hide his opinions too much.  Thus, in the end, the midnight departure of this supremacist from federal employment.

I hesitate to call him a racist, by the way, because that term has lost all its meaning in both the dominant media culture and the corporate entertainment culture. Besides, anyone who flinches at being called a racist is way behind the times. But the same can’t be said of ...

Supremacist, hypocrite, bigot, divisive

It was clear from his claim that all Euro-Ams are clones of each other and lack diversity, that Jones was a hard-core supremacist. He was, by his own statements, also a bigot and divisive.  His caricature of white Americans pointedly made no reference to nationality (e.g., American) or to continental origins (e.g., Europe).  We happen to know from other sources that to verbally strip blacks of their American nationality and their African origin is regarded by Jones as a wholly bigoted and divisive act.

... liar

And he was a liar for saying that school massacres are only carried out by ‘suburban white kids.’

Most of the dominant media culture, a creature controlled by the urban-coastal class, flinched from reporting Jones’ anti-white rhetoric.  Instead, the emphasis was laid on his remarks about Republicans and the 9/11 Truthers.  Reporting of Jones’ racism was suppressed.  That the dominant media culture on TV and in print acted so uniformly (except for the instance of the article referenced above) tells us all we need to know about the media bosses dislike of “whites” roused by black radical rhetoric.  It also tells me that they definitely do not respect RD’s position that denigration and dehumanization of European Americans is not to be tolerated.

But something good may have came out of Jones’ full-on attack on “whites” as a demographic - most probably, some of us woke up to the fact that, for the Obama Administration, we are marked by the color of our skin.

That said, a close reading of Jones’ comments yields something even more useful.  It’s ironic of course, given his racism, but some of his claims we can build on.

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by Don Miller, for Resisting Defamation

A “small but vocal” group of American Latino radicals has called for a boycott of the US Census unless and until the US government moves forward with federal legislation to legalize all the illegal aliens in the USA.

A small but vocal group of advocates is urging illegal immigrants and their supporters nationwide to boycott the 2010 Census to protest the government’s inaction on immigration legislation, a move that, if successful, could cost Massachusetts and other states millions of dollars.

The campaign is setting off alarms across the United States because census figures are crucial to determining how much federal funding cities and towns receive. A large-scale boycott, state officials and prominent pro-immigrant groups warn, could force Massachusetts to cut services from school lunch programs to highway construction, and heighten its chances of losing a seat in Congress.

... Participation in the census is required by law every 10 years so the government can obtain an accurate count of every resident in the United States. But the fine for failure to register is only $100, and the Census Bureau has generally not pursued violators.

... proponents of a boycott say it is a chance to grab the attention of politicians who have failed to pass legislation addressing illegal immigrants, even as their numbers have swelled to 12 million nationwide and 190,000 in Massachusetts - or about 1 in 5 immigrants. Overall, 14 percent of the state’s population is foreign born; most are here legally.

I don’t see any reason why European Americans shouldn’t just attach themselves to this boycott proposal.  My reasoning is that the federal government would have a hard time convicting us of a federal violation without going after the American Latinos leading the fight.

Here are some possible grounds for a boycott.  Obviously anything like this would have to have support from a significant number of Euro-Am activists who would pick & choose the most appropriate grounds.

Suggestions:

1.  We will boycott without clear & convincing legislation & appropriations for completing the wall along the southern border, for verifying every applicant for every job in the USA, and for commencing a sweep of illegal immigrants before January 2010, in order to protect job opportunities for the diverse white American peoples.

2.  We will boycott unless the 2010 census offers opportunity to European Americans to express their national origin, continental origin, and ethnicity on the face of the census form, to let the USA know about the depth and richness of our internal diversity.

3.  We will boycott the 2010 census unless the federal government offers clear & convincing commitments to fund local programs governed by members of the diverse white American peoples to rescue young white boys and girls from the three principal social ills in which they are over-represented— binge drinking, meth use, and tobacco smoking.  The federal government has utterly failed young Euro-Am kids.

Well, that’s a start.

If you watch this video starting at 23:00 and listen to Elizabeth Warren’s 2007 interview:

This video will make more sense:

What this lady apparently doesn’t understand is that the credit card companies simply pile on penalties and judgments until they total to a high enough value that when written off as a loss, they may make as much money as they would have by actually collecting.  This is part of the perverse incentive structure that is driving credit card companies to raise their APRs to the point that they know it will cause the customers to declare bankruptcy.  Another part is that since the 2005 law (discussed by Warren in that video) it has become much more difficult to declare bankruptcy, so the charges can pile up to a higher level before the process is terminated.

The BNP’s lawyers have proposed that the party introduces an ethnic monitoring form, in line with the mad strivings after equality that afflict hundreds of public bodies in the UK.  The idea of Evil Nazis monitoring people’s ethnicity is likely to occasion John Wadham and his anti-English colleagues in the EHRC rather more unease than schadenfreude.  But that’s their outlook.

The draft form can be perused via the link at the bottom of this article (pdf).  It is exhaustive on the subject of native British ethnicity - Archipel Normandian, anyone?  But not so all the rest of the globe’s by no means migrationally economic and vibrant diversity, who hardly receive racially-equal treatment.

But one ethnic group stands out by it’s absence.  Yes, it’s the one which never likes to be monitored - never mind named - yet defines itself obsessively night and day.

Looking at the available options to tick, I suppose Jewish must simply mean English to the BNP.  Except it passes down the matrilinear line as some sort of jus judaicus.  Or maybe Jewish is just a religion, and we needn’t take any account of it at all.  The one thing that is certain is that leaving Jews off the form is intended as a sop, not a snub.

Lee Barnes, as I mentioned recently, has a blog titled 21st Century British Nationalism.  Since the BNP and the EHRC went head to head in the courts last week Lee has been blogging profusely, obviously moved by the need to resolve several difficult questions.

Two or three days ago he put up a post defining British nationalism by explaining that the enemy in the ranks is White Nationalism and the overt racialism on which it is predicated.  It contained this passage:

British Nationalism is a political movement designed to represent and promote the interests of the Indigenous British people, whilst white nationalism represents the interests of all whites worldwide.

This difference is of fundamental importance in relation to issues like immigration.

A white nationalist welcomes mass immigration into the UK as long as the immigrants are white eg Polish, Russians etc regardless of how this affects the interests of the indgenous British folk.

A white nationalist would never support the slogan ‘British jobs for British workers’ as that would mean that all immigration into the UK from white nations would have to be stopped and whites who are not British would be denied access to British jobs - whilst the fundamental aim of white nationalism is the compulsory repatriation of all non-whites and them replaced by whites from anywhere in the world, the fundamental aim of British nationalism os to put the interests of the British people first.

The fact that the policies of white nationalism if enacted into law would destroy British culture by importing into the country millions of culturally disparate whites from around the world to replace culturally british non-whites and at the same destroy the unique ethnic gene lines of the indigenous British folk groups via the mixing of the different ethnic sub sets of the white race into one homogenous racial enetity is irrelevant to white nationalists - white nationalists do not care that the indigenous British could become extinct in our own country along with British culture as long as Britain was filled with whites.

To what extent this view is shared by senior party members I cannot say.  Perhaps it is only the view of Lee (who blogs as “Defender of Liberty”, btw).  But, anyway, it commended a path that, essentially, trades principle for an allegedly enhanced prospect of power, however distant.  I think such a move is highly agreeable to the Establishment, the more intelligent members of whom probably know that they won’t kill the party outright.  But they might train it to become harmlessly “cultural” and “civic”.

Anyhow, I couldn’t agree with Lee on the WN issue either, so ...

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by David Hamilton

Many people outside Britain [think the British Empire was] about oppression, exploitation, violence, arrogance, slavery and racism … no less than an early Holocaust.

This is Linda Colley professor of History at Princeton and a Wolfson Prize winner; and historian, showing her prejudices in her book, Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850.

The book expresses contemporary orthodoxy.  Of today she writes:

There are those who argue, with the utmost sincerity, that were the British to remind themselves of their empire it would only further incite the racism inextinguishably associated with it.

To Colley, racism and sexism are the unforgivable crimes - that is code for attacking white males!  The British Empire was evil and its “victims” would have been perfect if it were not for us.  These themes are still the prevalent ideology now, and are re-interpreted in government policy as moral debts which the beleaguered British people are forced to pay.

Well, I thought we should see how intellectual some Caste academics are.  These people, this intelligentsia, are erudite and articulate when talking on comfortable subjects.  But when it comes to immigration and national identity they go to pieces and can not talk rationally.  They become childish or avoid an objective analysis by retreating into the past.

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Simon Darby posted this link to a news report on a BBC regional programme, Look East.  John Standing found the opening remarks by reporter Nikki Jenkins so staggeringly dishonest he took it upon himself to contact the lady’s employer:

This mail is a complaint about the journalistic standards and political bias displayed by Nikki Jenkins of Look East in the video report currently online here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8232154.stm

At this stage I am not seeking a formal process, and will be satisfied with an honest and sincere reply from Nikki to the following questions, which I put to her in good faith and out of a desire to better understand what motivates this sort of journalistic behaviour.

Dear Nikki,

You opened a video report on an attack of the police in Luton by Muslim youths with the following words:-

“Well, the Home Secretary’s ban on marching worked.  The BNP didn’t turn up.  But there again they didn’t have to.  These young men did their job for them.”

I have the following questions for you, Nikki:

1. Were you mistaken about the British National Party being due to attend the banned English Defence League march, organising it or being in any way associated with it?

2. If you knew the BNP was, in fact, totally unconnected to the banned march but you wished to make an association nonetheless, what reason did you have for doing so?

3. Would making such an association be within the BBC’s rules on journalism?

4. Did you attempt to contact the BNP to find out if it was involved in the banned march?

5. Would misrepresenting the BNP in your report be acceptable journalism?

6. Will you issue a public retraction?

7. If not, why not?

8. Why did you not identify the youths attacking the police as Muslims?

9. Was their behaviour racist?

10. Why did you not apply the moral yardstick to them that you wrongly applied to the BNP?

Now, I am loathe to place my real name and address on the contact details below this panel because of the violence of the forces opposing the BNP and its supporters.  Notwithstanding my anonymity, I wish you, Nikki, to take this mail as a serious matter that requires your earnest attention.  Would you provide me, please, with the answers I am seeking?

Ignoring this mail or attempting to answer my questions in any way other than fully and honestly will result in a formal complaint to the Corporation.

In the event of a reply John Standing will no doubt post it here.

UPDATE 09.09.09

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