Street theatre is a very good way of getting the message across, as are publicity stunts.  But you’re right, there is very little that can be achieved through politics in the current climate and most of my own recent activities have been centred not just on music but also hiking, making runestaffs and producing a series of booklets for Woden’s Folk.  Political parties are designed precisely for that, politics.  National-Anarchists and the New Right, on the other hand, must focus upon intellectual warfare and the development of a counter-cultural avant-garde.  People in our circles must express themselves, bring their talents to the fore and do all they can to assemble a philosophical and artistic elite that can radically change the direction of modern society.  Don’t subscribe to folkish ideals, live them out.  Don’t talk about history, make it. Have children, teach them at home.  Remember, you live on through them.  All these things are essential.  If we don’t do this, our values will die.

Troy Southgate, quoted at Stormfront in a thread-starter by NZ New Right intellectual and activist, Welf Herfurth.

Troy and I have some differences on the matter of “the way forward”.  I much admire him, but he takes the view that the loss of England’s cities is inevitable and permanent.  Consequently, we must regroup in the remaining living space, and live the healthy, bucolic life.  My England happens to include London and Leicester, Bradford and Birmingham.  It’s my country and I want it back, cities included (notwithstanding James’ arguments).

Besides, the Third World will never stop coming here, and never stop breeding here, never stop miscegenating here.  Troy’s idyll among the whale-backed hills and green meadows of the English countryside would, at best, be a brief respite.  Probably, it would not even be that.

Something more manful than the bucolic life, adorned by an approximation of Wodenism, is required to answer modernity.  And let’s be clear that we are creatures of modernity in positive as well as negative ways.  The West’s intellectual and technological advancement is part of who and what we are.  I would argue that making technological progress is much more “us” than making runestaffs, not least because it accords with our sociobiology - conflicted with Nature as we are.  I am not in favour of gratuitous Saxonry.  The gratuitous, the inauthentic is of no utility.

So, yes to the intellectual stimulation of politics from the “right”.  Yes to developing a successor to the decaying liberal zeitgeist.  Yes to developing a new, loyal, revolutionary elite.

This is the activism I understand, and which I believe to be capable of producing the genuinely large-scale political, cultural and demographic shifts on which our survival depends.

Less than ten miles from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s mansion in Harare—the largest private residence on the African continent—Cleophus Masxigora digs for mice. On a good day, he told me, he can find 100 to 200. To capture the vermin, he burns brush to immobilize them, then kills them with several thumps of a shovel. This practice has become so widespread in Zimbabwe that, as a Zimbabwean journalist informed me, state-run television has broadcast warnings against citizens setting brush fires. Masxigora began hunting mice to support (and feed) his wife and three children soon after Mugabe began confiscating thousands of productive, white-owned farms in 2000, a policy that has since led to mass starvation. Not long ago, Zimbabwe, the “breadbasket of Africa,” exported meat and produced what was widely considered to be Africa’s finest livestock. Today, Masxigora tells me that each mouse nets $30 Zim dollars, about 12 cents, which makes him a wealthy man in Zimbabwe.

From the heated Slashdot.org thread on Bill Gates’ latest lies before the US Senate about H-1b Visa limits:

When job reqs get that specific, it means that there [is] already someone with exactly the same qualifications working for them, most likely an H1B and or someone with F1-practical-training waiting to become H1B. These adverts are crafted to reduce or reject other applicants, not to select any.

Good news, everyone! The Department of Labor has addressed this, and employers no longer need to pretend that they tried to hire someone that was already in the US.

The Department of Labor has published it’s strategic 5 Year Plan.

Under Performance Goal 2H, “Address worker shortages through the Foreign Labor Certification Program”, we find:

H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker.

Isn’t that special? I could bring in a new hire H1-B at what DOL thinks are the prevailing wages for Engineers, a whole 40K/year in Silicon Valley (Level 1 Engineer, DOL stats!), and I can use them to displace overpriced US college grads. Pretty slick. Of course the displaced workers can be retrained to something more appropriate.

Repeat after me:

“Do you want fries with that?”

To: Liam Byrne, Minister of State, Immigration

Date 7th March, 2007

My dear Liam,

Another bloody awful day, don’t you think?  As if I hadn’t had enough of them already!

Under the circumstances, then, I thought it best not to text you with this question: Which one of your brilliant minions dreamt up this garbage?  For God’s sake, Liam:-

Labour will get tough on illegal immigrants - by sending them text messages begging them to go home.

Under desperate plans to clear a backlog of 600,000 cases, their driving licences could also be cancelled.

This was just giving Davis an open goal - which, needless to say, he did not miss:-

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “This is a serious admission of defeat. John Reid is effectively giving up on trying to deport the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in this country, preferring instead to spam them with text messages.

“As for removing driving licences, does he really believe that a person who is prepared to live in a country illegally is that concerned about having the correct qualifications to drive in that country?

“Yet again we see another pathetic attempt to grab a headline rather than address a problem.

“Instead of spin and bluster from ministers, the public deserve effective action.”

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By necessity, I’ve coined the neologism “heterosity” as a counter to the subversion of the definition of “diversity” so that we may discuss “novel local diversity” as contrasted with the ecological diversity emerging from the slow process of natural selection.  The terms used by vectorists (promoters of heterosity) to describe the features of heterosity include “rich”, “vibrant”, “inclusive”, “tolerant” and, of course, that travesty of linguistics “diverse”.

And, as I’ve described before there are many, quite predictably, negative consequences observed in heterose systems, not the least of which is the evolution of virulence over mutualism in ecological relations.  These phenomena are so critical to understanding why “extremist” positions are not only understandable, but necessary, that they deserve their own neologisms: vectorism cum parasity.

In terms of laboratory experiments regarding high complexity social ecologies, it seems there has been a virtual collapse of empiricism since the early 1960s when John B. Calhoun, funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, conducted the last of his experiments letting rodents reproduce within confined spaces under varying conditions—ultimately showing that populations can not only stabilize at uncomfortable levels with on-going social pathology—but that populations can, seemingly mysteriously (if one ignores the potential of parasity in such environs) collapse to their utter extermination!  Nowadays it is easy to imagine proposals for such research being tabled for political reasons at odds with stated explanations.  Most probably the stated explanations for tabling such research proposals have to do with the ethics of NIMH imposing such suffering on animals, despite the fact that civilization is already imposing such suffering on billions of humans without any vigorous, experimentally validated, testing of beliefs that such conditions are “humane”.  The myth of the HBO series “Sex In the City”—where pushing-middle-aged women in female-saturated New York City face the dilemma of choosing between the marriage proposals from wealthy handsome business executives and wealthy handsome famous artists—is virtually a religious dogma enforced by the State and any laboratory work testing it is simply and “mysteriously” absent.

However, there was a 1987 paper titled “The Rat Populations of NIMH: Density, Reproduction, and the Neocortex” by one James L. Hill describing the experimental comparison between brain damaged rats and rats subjected to “social complexity” (you know… rich, vibrant, etc. environments).  It was found that the cognitive function of the rats subjected to such social complexity declined to the level of the brain damaged rats (specifically, pin-headed or micrencephalic rats).

Against such forces, there may be little one can do to reform civilization, which may help explain the inexorable dumbing down of our population.

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On February 28th Karlmagnus, in response to a question about major business managers on PF’s Calcium Imaging thread, ventured the opinion that:-

... since the system is about to collapse, the intellectual outlook of management may be very different at Dow 5000 to what it was at Dow 12000.  No point trying to change their thinking at the top of the bubble; large numbers of the current mob (particularly the investment bankers) will be behind bars by 2012, only peripherally because of their ideas on globalisastion.  Just as 1935’s CEO was a very different animal from 1928’s, so too will 2014’s be very different from today’s.

Requests for elaboration went unanswered.  But evidently, KM had already been at work on this because today the following piece appeared at Prudent Bear.

GW

This is what it will look like

It’s impossible to tell when the world’s stock markets will finally wake up from their easy-money induced stupor, but one thing is clear: when they do so the initial break will look like last Tuesday. A modest event of no apparent global significance will cause a stock market drop that cascades around the world, producing severe declines in other markets. Last Tuesday’s break may or may not have started the climacteric sell-off, but that sell-off cannot be long delayed.

More interesting than the unanswerable question of when precisely a crash will occur is that of which sectors will be worst affected, which relatively unscathed. Current market thinking appears to be that since the crash originated in China, that market is due for a significant downturn, and that emerging markets in general are overpriced and due for a fall. That view fails to reflect an intelligent appraisal of where the true economic vulnerabilities are.

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