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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The best fit of quarterly US foreclosure starts since 2007 3rd quarter extrapolated to the 3rd quarter of 2012 shows that the cumulative prime mortgages, not “sub-prime” and not “underwater”, not “delinquent” but foreclosed is nearly 25 million.  It is a very good fit (R-squared adjusted: 0.998).

There are a total of 128 million housing units in the United States.

See derivation of this graph below.

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The case of Brandon Huntley, a white South African granted asylum by an Immigration Board in Ottawa, has been in the headlines for a couple of days.  The Canadian’s recognition that black violence and South African governmental dereliction can constitute grounds for asylum for fleeing whites has stung both the aforementioned government and the ANC.  The moral poverty of both is evident in their reflexive ascription of racism to the decision.

But some rather more interesting reactions have surfaced elsewhere … here in the Huffington Post, for example, where Western purveyors of the old anti-apartheid rubric are struggling - and failing - to come to terms with the moral superiority of the white South African victim.  Like “sa-Ireland”:

There are brutal murders, hacking up of whites, slaying pets, and terrorizing and raping. The rule of thumb is to whites.
now if a white is not allowed to get a good job, (those in the good jobs were there for a long time , or are expats), if a white is not allowed a FREE education, because the last 3 years of school will not be paid by the government, if a white can not own property without the risk of it being removed forcibly, If a white has to live behind prison bars on our houses, can not own anything valuable as it WILL be forcibly removed, If we live in fear daily, because we own a car, a TV, or another valuable item then what is persecution?
There is a plan when Mandela dies - Whites are threatened daily with it. Our guns were redistributed to the blacks as well. When he dies, they will massacre us. All know about it and there is constant, daily propaganda, on the news, in TV programs, and everywhere, to PROMOTE white hatred. My kids weren’t even allowed to report a black in school for bullying as it was classed as racism.
There was a small group long LONG LONG-ago who did the apartheid. It was over in 1989. Why must we suffer for THEM?

The fact remains, though, that of the 4 million + South African whites well over three-quarters of them have not fled the country, and a substantial number appear to be willing to trade personal security for the benefit of the climate, the beaches, the bars, the upscale metropolitan white lifestyle.  It’s hardly news that in South Africa the racial question still preoccupies everyone, whites included.  But the old divisions among whites are long gone.  Now they are split between optimists who are prepared to keep their head down and take what’s going on one side and, on the other, pessimists like “sa-Ireland”, for whom getting out is only a matter of time, and the realists who will stay but try to create change.

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What Nobel Prize Winning Jewish Economist wrote the following in a 1992 white paper?

When the incentives for productivity become negative due to capital welfare in excess of the economic growth rate, wealth is structurally centralized at the expense of others in the economy. The absolute level of net assets owned by the general population actually decreases so as to increase the net assets of the wealthy.  This not only removes all incentives for production and entrepreneurial investment from the economy, but consumer demand collapses as credit is liquidated to pay for necessities. Depression ensues.  It is under these circumstances that demands for socialist intervention in the economy via “public investment” take on an air of urgent legitimacy.

In such a desperate environment, Marx’s arguments in “Das Kapital” appear as rational and appealing as any made by Schumpeter, Laffer or even Adam Smith.  It is therefore critical to understand to what extent socialist criticisms of capitalism are valid so we can credibly argue against their fallacies—particularly when they are promoted during obvious manifestations of capitalism’s flaws.

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by The Narrator

The question is asked time and again, “what can I do to save The West and defend my people?” The answers are generally (if at all suggested) of a broad scope encompassing political movements or counter movements, media presentation and so on. But as the expression, ‘life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans’ is so resoundingly true, it might pay to consider that we (individually) do not need grandiose blueprints to save and defend our people and culture. We simply need to affirm both to ourselves and before our enemies, that we, the Sons and Daughters of The West, are yet alive. For that which is alive celebrates its life. The West is a living entity, and we are its lifeblood. Therefore to celebrate The West is to celebrate our own being, our own existence. And as any wise man knows, true affection is not expressed in grand actions but in the everyday gestures, in the little things.

And that is not to suggest that grand visions should not be fostered and implemented, but rather that we should be careful not to keep our gaze fixed so intently on the future that we miss out on the present day-to-day joys and celebrations of Western life.  And as autumn, and the (decidedly European in nature) Holiday Season, is soon upon us, what better time of the year is there for the sons and daughters of The West to indulge in the glory of our culture.

Of all the seasons that encompass the cycle of life, I doubt none holds a greater fondness in the hearts of Whites, than Fall. Or perhaps, more specifically, that late September to late December time frame when the days grow shorter as the sun begins to sink earlier, leaving the evening world painted in gold and the sky a deep blue-fading to purple starlit twilight, before it sets. The leaves begin to turn and the air becomes cool, clean, refreshing and enlivening. The nights seem deep and misty, while dawn comes bright and silvery over the frost covered landscape. Even those leafless, seemingly lifeless, trees look like finely etched works of art against the fading evening light of a Fall Sky. Autumn seems to bring a million such images (memories) to mind that seem to heighten our expectation of the season.

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by PF

My grandfather will one day be dead.  In as far as I am typing this here, he lives on genetically.  But is there any sense in which I am bound to him and his memory beyond merely carrying his last name, blue eyes, and penchant for seriousness?

What if blue eyes aren’t enough - what if I love this man so much that I want part of his vision inflicted on the world, even if that vision is simply that the world he lived in and was a part of should not completely perish?  Technological currents have destroyed most cultural traces of those times, but biological continuity is the last common denominator with meaning.  He wouldn’t recognize most aspects of modern Britain as anything understandable to him; in fact, in his daily comings and goings he is beset by difficulties which are similar to the experience of people living in foreign countries, so difficult is the translation between old Britain and new - is it too much to ask that he at least be able to recognize the people living there?

Did we enter any agreements, when he was spending time with me?  Did you enter agreements when you were spending time with your families?  Agreements that you would wish to see enforced, whether or not the people themselves are here to speak up on the topic?  Do you speak for yourself, or for those who came before you as well?  Are you their emissary, or simply a purveyor of your own world vision you thought up yourself?

Furthermore, are any of us bound even to prior ancestors whom we may not be acquainted with?  That seems a more subjective question.  Considering the massive work behind our inheritance, I think we are.  That boggles the average mind, however - and if understood can only be understood as ancestor worship in a religious or mythical context.

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OK, I said I wouldn’t do this.  But, well … you know.  This is the first of two posts on an alternative to the politics of spiritual regeneration - always assuming that the reader understands (a) that some systemic replacement for liberalism is necessary, and (b) that the current American empirical offerings lack motive power.

The second part will carry forward some of the arguments here and sketch out a model of Mind as a contribution, I hope, to the search for a new and syncretic founding theory.

Instead of the old metaphor of individuals as discrete entities like billiard balls, we need to think instead of them as nodes in a relationship network.

With these words Madeleine Bunting, the occasionally sensible but mostly Moslem-mad Guardian Woman, signposts the left’s remaining recourse in a world made hostile by neuroscience.

Moslem Maddie’s problem, you see, is that she has heard the rumours that the eponymous self of liberal self-authorship fame does not, in fact, exist.  “This”, she says, “is the kind of stuff which challenges almost everything you’re used to thinking about yourself.”  And about your politics, if you are a radical individualist as she is.

She writes:

… the point about this new explosion of interest in research into our brains is that it exposes as illusions much of these guiding principles of what it is to be a mature adult. They are a profound misunderstanding of how we think, and how our brains work. They are fairytales, about as fanciful and as implausible as goblins.

That’s a rather dramatic way of putting it, of course.  The constant flow of affirmations of self are wholly legitimate from an evolutionary standpoint.  The illusion of self exists even if self does not, and it is no less a product of evolution for that.  Genes for “self-ishness” and self-preservation are privileged for the fitness gain they offer.

So, what now for the left?  Cue the decampment, perhaps, from the half of the liberal project that pursues the unfettered will into the egalitarian and social democratic half?  Well, that may not be necessary.  A strange and unnerving synthesis of the two halves, of a self-authorship and a state-mandated compassion that were never entirely reconciled in the past, may just be coming down the turnpike:

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