Intelligence vs. control of the money supply

A recent proposal has argued that nationalists should try to seek reproduction with higher IQ whites so that:

“They will naturally rise to the highest levels of society and victory will be inevitable. This is how the white race will be saved.”

The prospects can be empirically evaluated. Richard Lynn has extensively summarized IQ studies on Jews. Most studies are non-representative. A representative American study reported a Jewish (Ashkenazi) verbal IQ of 107.5. Two representative British studies have reported Jewish (Ashkenazi) IQs as 108.5 and 107.7 (verbal = 107.3, non-verbal = 108.0). The best reading of American and British Ashkenazi IQ is 110. The average white IQ in these regions is 100.

In the U.S., there are about 200 million whites and 6.5 million Jews. Assuming a standard deviation of 15 in both populations, we get the following.

As anyone can see, Jews haven’t achieved their spectacular success (e.g., control of the mainstream media, ZOG, etc.) as a result of IQ; they achieved it by acquiring control of the money supply. Nationalists are advised to target getting back control of the money supply instead of trying to increase IQ. I’m not against increasing IQ, but IQ just isn’t relevant to the matter.

Posted by R-news on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 09:44 PM in Anthropology,  European Nationalism,  Global Elitism,  IQ and Heredity,  Jewish Diaspora,  That Question Again,  White Nationalism
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Public Schools, Cash is Trash, and the New World Order

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A Nation Rejoices: Justice at Last!

Unless you live in an ice cave in ultima Thule the chances are very high that you will not have escaped the joyous post-Holiday tidings that (two of) the alleged perpetrators of the evil, racist 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence have finally been brought to book. Today at the Old Bailey Mr. Justice Treacy sentenced Gary Dobson (36) and David Norris (35) to detention ‘at Her Majesty’s pleasure’, stipulating that they should serve minimum sentences of at least 15 years and 14 years, respectively, before becoming eligible for consideration for parole.

Evil racists: Gary Dobson (l), David Norris

The purpose here is not to analyse the trial or the verdict, and certainly not to drum up sympathy for the accused who seem to be, putting it mildly, unsavoury characters who probably belong behind bars if not for this crime, then for their generally anti-social behaviour. That said, more than a few eyebrows have been raised at the level of effort expended by the Metropolitan Police in bringing this case to at least partial closure. According to an article in today’s Daily Mail, the unprecedented prosecution effort has cost more than £50 million, with police even going to the extreme of purchasing the house next door to one of the suspects, in order to perform bugging operations which one officer described as ‘pure James Bond’. A private laboratory was commissioned to perform an multi-million pound forensic analysis of physical evidence which had lain in police custody for 18 years, resulting in the new evidence which permitted prosecutors to request a new trial   As Acting Deputy Commissioner Cressida Dick, who has overseen the Lawrence probe since 2006, said:

‘It is an extraordinary inquiry. ‘When you put all different aspects together, it is clearly utterly unique. ‘We can’t think of another very large case which has run on and on, in the same way, over 18 years.’

It certainly eclipses by far any efforts made by the police to pursue and prosecute the members of the Asian gang who murdered Gavin Hopley in 2002. But then of course Gavin was white, as was Christopher Yates so, strictly speaking, they don’t really count.

Not Evil Racists

Stepping aside from the immediacy of the trial and verdict, it is important to consider the Lawrence case and its politically-charged aftermath in their larger impact upon society as a whole. The leader in today’s Telegraph provides a sobering, if incomplete, overview of what that has entailed:

... The Macpherson report would ultimately draw much wider lessons than those that might reasonably be learnt from a bungled police inquiry, and its effect was profound. Race relations laws were overhauled, double-jeopardy protections against retrials for the same crime were removed and the public sector was required to be re-educated in the ways of race awareness. Thousands of state bodies employing millions of people were given new statutory duties to deliver racial equality. Schools started to keep a tally of allegedly racist remarks uttered innocently by children as young as five and people found themselves denounced for harmless, if inappropriate, remarks. The development of this pernicious culture has been totally out of proportion to the problem.

The general response of the Great and Good to the outcome of the trial has been to pat themselves on the back in reflecting on what Jack Straw called today “a sea change” in British society brought about, per Straw, by the ‘terrible’ murder of Stephen as well as the (Macpherson) Inquiry, which he himself initiated. But, as other commentators have noted, there is still much more to do if racism is to be totally eradicated from British society and future ‘Stephens’ will be able to realise their legitimate aspirations, free from racial harassment and persecution. As a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, Herman Ouseley, notes in today’s Guardian,  the Lawrence verdict “... creates a new baseline in establishing standards of investigation and prosecution for all hate crimes.”

A casual observer might infer from all this that much of Britain still consists of ‘no-go zones’ into which members of ethnic minorities venture at their peril, areas still infested as Ouseley has it by “... Racist and fascist groups”, practising racial terrorism in the form of “abuse, threats, and petrol bombs and excrement through letterboxes or windows.” It was so bad, apparently, that “Many families – harassed on the streets, and their children abused at school – were afraid to go out alone.” Such commentary might lead the aforementioned observer to deduce that Britain seems like a very dangerous place to be if you are non-white, and if in search of a factual underpinning for this viewpoint, the observer will surely want to consult the official statistics on such matters. They will surely demonstrate, beyond any possible doubt, that non-whites are still disproportionately victimised by serious racial violence even now, almost twenty years after Stephen’s Lawrence’s death.

Won’t they? 

Continued...

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Government Cheese

Kievsky as guest blogger:

I’ve been waiting for a reason to use this as a blog post title, and this alternet article gave me a priceless quote illustrating exactly this truism.

Continued...

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On Ron Paul as controlled opposition and why he would be best for President of the United States

I’ve taken flak for describing Ron Paul as controlled opposition. Here I’ll discuss his stance on money. I was pointed to the following overview of Ron Paul on the money issue to correct my alleged misrepresentation of his stances.

Ron Paul argues against more regulation [on the part of the government] and pitches for a free market economy by saying that the Fed should not be given more power, whereas giving the Fed more power means less regulation by the government as the Federal Reserve banks are fully private; the more power the Fed has, the greater the influence of the “free market.”

Ron Paul addresses the housing bubble by saying that Congress and the Fed encouraged the housing industry... finally the bubble burst and “we” [government] try to [pursue stupid policies] such as stimulating the housing market, cash for clunkers.... as a result “we” have no confidence in the market economy.

Reality check: the housing bubble and its busting was caused by the bankers a.k.a. the “free market”:

Boom: generously give out loans, which are funded out of nothing, to earn interest off of nothing...

Laughing all the way to the bank: make money by selling debt that can’t be paid off to investors, make money by selling insurance against the probability of defaults, make money by gambling on the probability of defaults...

Bust: loan less and cause a recession; acquire houses for pennies on the dollar.

Another reality check: The only money created by the government comprises of coins. Stimulating the housing market and cash for clunkers is just the bankers getting the government and hence the people more under debt.

Continued...

Posted by J Richards on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 01:25 AM in Economics & Finance,  Libertarianism,  Political analysis,  U.S. Politics
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and so i challenge you

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Vdare and counter-currents donations pitch

Ran into Vdare begging for donations… bizarre excuses offered.  The main one’s that the writers have families to feed and are being ostracized.  Don’t use their names!  A successful publication, The Economist, does this.  The software Vdare uses allows for custom fields, sophisticated tagging and running boolean operators on tags, facilitating arbitrary categorization and custom display of taxonomy and fields.  There’s no need for author names. 

Peter Brimelow argues for VDare’s credentials by noting that the SPLC labels it a hate group, failing to add that the credentials are of uselessness at best, controlled opposition at worst!  The SPLC pretends MR doesn’t exist.  Why?  Because many of our articles make them pee pee and poo poo… the Hell they’ll give publicity to the real deal!

Brimelow says they don’t endorse candidates, in the midst of a tacit endorsement of Ron Paul, long revealed as controlled opposition.

In a nutshell, the donations request has to be a scam.  A good way of understanding this is to look at the recent fundraising marathon at counter-currents.com.  Greg Johnson claimed a need for $25,000, for what?  The web hosting should be less than $150/yr.  Apparently he’s trying to make a living off of it.  He got this much, which makes no sense given the Alexa ranking [traffic], age [set-up mid-2010] and quality of articles unless the bulk of it came from Juden, the only logical candidate as Johnson’s doing a great job of pleasing them.  Vdare’s not to be outdone, and should have no logical reasons to beg for money, but the Juden derive perverse pleasure in milking moolah from the people they’re scamming [witness wikipedia begging for donations].  Beware of the scamsters.

Posted by R-news on Friday, December 30, 2011 at 01:17 PM in Blogs & Blogging
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Demography challenge

The number of whites stands at 500 million.  White women on average give birth to 1.4 children each.  Not all of these children are white, and the number of white children born per white woman on average is 1.2.  Very pessimistic assumptions, aren’t they?

Under the following assumptions, how long will it take to reduce the white population to 50 million, 10 million, 5 million and 1 million?  If the extinction point is reached at 500 white people, how many years will this take?  What can be inferred from this exercise?

At start, the age distributions are as follows, the birth and death rates remain constant throughout, only women between the ages of 20-40 give birth, and men and women are matched in numbers.

Age-Range | Percent | Death rate per 100k
0-20      |  20     |  300
20-40     |  40     |  150
40-60     |  25     |  500
60-plus   |  15     |  5000

Most answers in this excel sheet (if you can’t open it, install the free and open source open office or libre office suite).

Posted by R-news on Friday, December 30, 2011 at 08:07 AM in Demographics,  Psychology,  Race realism,  White Nationalism
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Numbers are of the Essence

MR regulars will have little difficulty in attributing a source to this aphorism, nor in recognising the context in which it was originally placed. We are talking of course about immigration into the UK, a topic never far from the headlines and one which was prominently featured again last month, following the release by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) of its latest statistics on Net Migration.

This article in the Daily Mail was typical, bemoaning the fact that net migration had again increased in the calendar year 2010, that is the final year in office of the Labour Government. This chart from the Mail illustrates the trend:

Like others, the Mail points to the pre-election proposal of the Conservatives, since (reluctantly) ratified by the Liberal wing of the coalition government, to reduce net migration from its present level of over 200,000 annually to some ‘tens of thousands’ (thus somewhere between 20,000 and 99,999, presumably).

There is widespread scepticism that a reduction on this scale is even feasible. Given that some components of the migrant stream, like asylum seekers and family ‘reunion’, are apparently ‘ring-fenced’ (off limits) for human-rights and other non-economic reasons, and others, like intra-company transfers, are fiercely protected by powerfully-vested economic interests, not to mention the fact that intra-EU migration is, by treaty, also off limits, it is difficult to see how the promised reduction is going to be achieved.

Nevertheless the government appears to be committed to the process at least, if not to a specific eventual outcome, as the recent imposition of an interim cap on employment visas for non-EU migrants seems to confirm. There are mutterings also about capping the number of student visas issued as well, although this will certainly be fiercely contested by the educational establishment which has come to rely upon the exorbitant fees paid by international students to finance many pet projects as well as maintaining the flow of decent claret for the dons’ refectory.

But all this chatter does not really address a key issue: what, exactly, is Net Migration? What does it measure, and is it a reliable indicator of the impact that continuing high levels of immigration are having upon the demographic (i.e. racial) makeup of the population? Commentary is particularly subdued on the latter, not even Migrationwatch UK nor its related organisation Balanced Migration dares to bring this matter into the public gaze, presumably hoping to stay on the right side of the Race Relations Industry and its familiars in the MSM.

It goes without saying that Majority Rights is unconstrained by consideration for such niceties, so it is time for us to take a closer look at Net Migration, and see what it actually entails.

Continued...

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Fashion challenge

This is a common scene in the contemporary fashion world.  The civil rights police has been complaining of the horrid lack of diversity, but hasn’t made much headway, in sharp contrast to its victories elsewhere.  What gives? 

Posted by R-news on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 06:06 PM in Media
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Tony Lecomber on the future of nationalism in Britain

Below the fold I am reproducing Tony Lecomber’s interesting and exhaustive overview of British nationalism’s past and clouded future, with a rather confused recommendation for a new party at the end.  It makes a number of good points.  English, not British, nationalism, Tony says, is the wave of the future.  That’s true, and certain, of course, if Alex Salmond wins his referendum on Scottish independence in three years time.  Tony then speculates that as such a victory would deprive the Labour Party of seventy Scottish MPs at Westminster and deliver power to the Tories in perpetuity in the remains of the UK, indiscipline on the right must, in time, set in.  Such indiscipline he sees as a precondition for the rise of nationalism in England.  Perhaps, but nationalism has to make its own future, and can’t rely on charity from its political foes.

Overall, Tony’s message is bleak.  The sense of embattlement on every front is very palpable, culminating in the despairing admission that “the multiracial state is here to stay”.  Well, if that is the case, what’s the point of nationalism?  To slow down our genetic dissolution and demographic replacement to a speed white people won’t find quite so unsettling?  To delay our minoritisation by one generation?  In such an admission is the false assumption that:

(a) the English people think it moral and right for Africans and Asians to continue living in England and to continue displacing, replacing and deracinating them, and will vote for that if ever the issue is forced to the front of electoral debate,

(b) anything and everything must be thrown overboard by nationalists to escape being labelled as “racist”.

This mindset is surely the product of a lifetime of political failure allied to a paucity of creative thinking - not least on the wider political issues, particularly economics, but also on the great, undergirding question of the war of discourse.

Obviously, Tony is right that, short of the state jailing Nick Griffin (and why would it do that), political nationalism must find itself a new vehicle.  He is right about the risks.  I don’t think he is right to be so focussed on the party question.  No nationalist party can effect the vast change in the English public’s values and attitudes necessary for the embrace of such a revolutionary politics.  But perhaps that is work for other kinds of political animal.

Continued...

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, December 26, 2011 at 07:45 AM in British Politics
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A Christmas & New Year message from Papa

Readers who have followed or been involved in the recent travails of British nationalism will know that, while the “parallel party structure” appears to be moving forward within the BNP, there are indications that the jump to a new party is not far away:

A meeting was held on the 22nd. October, 2011 and attended by over 200 delegates. Please see picture below. The meeting voted to form a New Party by orgainising groups throughout the UK, such as The Brent Group, to recruit members and build a strong membership with which to launch the New Party.

Andrew Moffat together with Arthur Kemp, have been working behind the scenes preparing the foundations for the New Party. The bank account has been completed, a highly complicated and paperwork intensive operation. The Party Name, drawn from members suggestions, have been investigated. Many suggestions, including my own, have previously been registered. We could not launch the Party of course and have a legal problem on our hands over the name. A final shortlist of names will be published and the members will decide the name by democratic simple majority vote.

Such a move, of course, is high in risk.  Here’s someone for whom I have a lot of time explaining why to readers of British Democracy Forum:

It is pointless launching a new political party at this time, although I can see why supporters of Andrew Brons would want to have a replacement to campaign for his re-election when the European elections come round again.

It is pointless for the following reasons;

1. Getting either Andrew Brons and/or Nick Griffin re-elected to the European Parliament will provide no appreciable benefit for British Nationalism as a whole, unless of course the MEPs when re-elected, eschew the work they currently undertake within the European Parliament and instead use the large salaries and funding that they have to finance campaigning and electioneering here in the UK.

The European Parliament is a vast talking shop, largely composed of people who care not one jot what the two BNP MEPs have to say and those two MEPs have been completely ineffectual during their current tenure and will almost certainly continue to be completely ineffectual if re-elected.

2. Thanks to the mis-management of the BNP it it now greatly reduced in terms of membership numbers and more crucially, in terms of capable activists. It is now menaced by a number of new and newly revived rival nationalist parties, all of which have been swelled in terms of their strength by the exodus of disillusioned activists from the BNP. British Nationalism is now composed of several micro-parties (including the BNP, which has now been reduced to micro-party status) and when further elections come along, we will see them fighting against each other and splitting the nationalist vote in every ward or constituency where there is any sizeable amount of nationalist support. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, no British Nationalist party will get any candidates elected and it is therefore futile to launch another new political party at this time.

3. While nationalist policies remain popular with the public, this popularity rarely translates into votes at election time, and this is because, as a movement, we have no resources and no infrastructure of any significance. Therefore, even with a clear run and no nationalist infighting, in the best wards and constituencies in this country, we have only ever managed to get an insignificantly small number of candidates elected, and now under a sustained barrage of attacks from the establishment, virtually everything we formerly gained under the BNP banner is being lost.

Continued...

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, December 23, 2011 at 07:50 PM in Activism
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Physics challenge

A wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad, Iraq on Dec. 22, 2011.  Here’s a scene from one of these.  The question is what kind of car bomb causes this damage?

See a close-up of the scene.

The answer for those who haven’t figured it out: http://www.majorityrights.com/uploads/crater.avi

Posted by R-news on Friday, December 23, 2011 at 01:50 AM in Science & Technology,  War on Terror,  World Affairs
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Another straw in the wind

A few weeks ago Luis Suarez, a Uruguayan footballer currently overpaid by Liverpool Football Club, thoughtfully provided anti-white activists everywhere with a golden opportunity to jump up and down about “racism”.  He said the word “black” in his own language to Patrice Evra, an African footballer currently over-paid by Manchester United.  Evra is known for playing the race card from time to time, and he duly obliged.

The result for Suarez, perhaps inevitable given the Football Association’s keen desire to demonstrate its anti-racist credentials to the world, was an 8-game suspension and £40,000 fine.

This was not expected for so slight an incursion of orthodox speech requirements.  There is dissent, particularly from the direction of Liverpool. 

In a hard-hitting statement released in the wake of the ruling by a three-man commission, Liverpool made a set of claims that they believed showed that the judgement of the three-man commission, and conduct of the FA, was flawed. It amounted to one of the most strident attacks on the governing body by a member club in recent years and puts the two organisations at loggerheads.

In a series of criticisms – some aimed at the three-man commission of Paul Goulding QC, Denis Smith and Brian Jones – the club claimed that Suarez’s fate had effectively been decided before he was even first interviewed about the events of the home game against Manchester United on 15 October.

The club said: “The FA was determined to bring charges against Luis Suarez, even before interviewing him at the beginning of November.”

The Telegraph has run a reader poll today.  The current vote total stands at 13,278 of whom 48.72% declare the FA’s verdict “completely wrong” and a further 18.65% “too harsh”.

That’s a good enough sample size to suggest that such sentiment must extend well beyond the “right-wing” Telegraph readers.

Meanwhile, the paper’s editors were forced to close the Suarez-related comment threads as the anti-anti-racist commentary flowed.  They completely disappeared the thread to one new article with just a dozen comments posted, suggesting a certain desperation.  We are at a point where anti-racism holds sway as never before across the Establishment.  But it is also now losing its intimidatory power over the white masses.

The dissonance ought to grow quite naturally.  But, unfortunately, another footballer - the England captain, no less - has transgressed against orthodoxy much more spectacularly than Suarez.  That will certainly set back the prospects for undermining anti-racism in England.  It is difficult, though, to see how the English public - not a stranger to contempt for authority - can be held in check by anti-racism forever.

Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 08:57 PM in Anti-racism and white genocide,  Sport
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Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Wikileaks

Many should know that wikileaks is a 100% kosher undertaking.  The leaks comprise of data that are easily falsified in part.  The leaks embarrass America or Arabs, not Israel.  The leaks are about relatively trivial matters but never serious issues such as central banks being private banks, not government banks.  The “whistleblowers” don’t just maintain official versions of major events such as 9/11 but ridicule dissent as nonsense that detracts from the “serious work” they’re doing with their exposes!  The U.S. ICE (Israeli Content Enforcement) agency of the Department of Homeland Security, which seizes domains willy nilly for copyright infringement, hasn’t bothered with wikileaks.  And so on… 

Some crucial leaks were said to have been provided by Private Bradley Manning to Julian Assange.  Both men look effeminate, and one would think they’re homos, which makes for bad PR.  So they put on a show where Assange was accused of raping two Swedish women, making him appear a macho man, and used the ruckus to attract attention to wiki leaks.  All this would be amusing if it weren’t for the plight of Bradley Manning, who’s been imprisoned in solitary confinement, cut off from friends and family.  Long-term incarceration in such circumstances is designed to break people down and make them confess to anything you want them to.

Manning’s trial is currently under way by Americans even though he is British, and there isn’t much that can be done to prevent him from being convicted of bogus charges, but you can help expose the sham to others and make it embarrassing for those working for the Israelis behind the wikileaks scam to be who they are. 

Useful links:

http://www.freebradley.org/english.html
http://blog.ukfriendsofbradleymanning.org/

Posted by R-news on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:50 PM in Activism,  Journalism,  Links,  Media,  Military Matters,  U.S. Politics,  War on Terror,  World Affairs
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Close your accounts at large commercial banks

The larger a commercial bank, the greater the shrinkage of the money supply it can singlehandedly cause by loaning less.  This is the reason why bankers prefer fewer [and thereby larger] commercial banks and there’s a long-term trend of bank mergers.  You can do your part to slow down the bankers and counter the trend by closing your accounts at large banks, using credit unions or small/community banks instead.  Use this resource for more information, including how to motivate others to move away from big banks: http://www.newbottomline.com/move_our_money

Posted by R-news on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 09:41 PM in Activism,  Economics & Finance,  Links,  World Affairs
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Damned dams and who is damning them

Dams and the hydroelectric power stations that accompany them are being destroyed under phony environmental concerns.

The process in part achieves rural depopulation and increases the cost of rural habitation so that only the rich can live beyond the cities and suburbs: http://prfamerica.org/1998/LandForDams.html

More: http://morphcity.com/home/107-dam-liars-crooks-and-killers [be cautious with the rest of the website]

The uninhabited land will increasingly end up in the hands of bankers as governments owe them staggering amounts of debt that can’t be paid off as the bankers create debts out of nothing and the only money created by governments comprises of coins.

Cutting off a convenient source of electricity is another useful goal for the bankers as they can more easily disrupt the supply of fossil fuels used for generating electricity in a region, raising the cost of electricity or bringing the inhabitants to a grind if they protest too much against the banking system.

Follow the suggestions of prfamerica.org for property rights activism, and also target the money masters: http://www.majorityrights.com/money#implementation

Posted by R-news on Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 10:14 PM in Activism,  Demographics,  Environmentalism & Global Warming,  White Communities & Micro-Economies,  World Affairs
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Starvation to keep the masses on a leash

The money people [bankers] aren’t content with just control of money and possession of most wealth in their hands, but they want to take away people’s ability to bypass their system in any way. So they’ve also been attacking the ability of individuals to grow food in one’s yard or land. A good discussion is here:

http://nzfoodsecurity.org/2011/07/19/food-a-controlled-substance-not-in-my-back-yard/

If the money masters get their way, what will happen? Easier mass starvation deaths, like the Holodomor, in regions with too many troublesome protesters against the system.

Learn, get wiser and pass it around.

Posted by R-news on Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 09:22 PM in Activism,  New Zealand Politics,  World Affairs
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Civic happiness or ethnic meaning

More or less all my “thinking life” I have wondered at the third component in that little phrase in the American Bill of Rights, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  How, I asked myself, could serious people raise happiness (the pursuit of), a product of many factors and passing circumstances, most of them not within the gift of politicians, to the status of an existential absolute?  If one needed an explanation of how we children of the liberal age, when given the choice of wealth or goodness, choose wealth, choose materialism, hedonism, nihilism, it is pretty much enshined in those four words.

To my mind, happiness as an abstracted and singularised human purpose leads away from itself.  It does it by creating in the mind of the subject a cheap and cheapening, easily met standard for itself.  For example, civic nationalists are satisfied with the lowest-hanging of political fruit - a few gestures in the direction of la patria, a flag, some symbols of military power, a bit of back-slapping with perfect strangers over some feigned shared value ...  It means nothing.  It is nothing compared to the sum at which the true nationalist prices the human meaning and worth found in the familial and in kind, in brotherhood, rootedness, belonging, trust, love, and the good of his people.

These are, in reality, the psychological essentials. But, politically, they belong to another universe, a nationalist universe too discreet for non-nationalists to penetrate.  Even ones who are psychologists.

From a study published earlier this month in the Association of Psychological Science:

National Pride Brings Happiness—But What You’re Proud of Matters

Research shows that feeling good about your country also makes you feel good about your own life—and many people take that as good news. But Matthew Wright, a political scientist at American University, and Tim Reeskens, a sociologist from Catholic University in Belgium, suspected that the positive findings about nationalism weren’t telling the whole story. “It’s fine to say pride in your country makes you happy,” says Wright. “But what kind of pride are we talking about? That turns out to make a lot of difference.” The intriguing—and politically suggestive—differences they found appear in a commentary in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science.

Reeskens and Wright divided national pride into two species. “Ethnic” nationalism sees ancestry—typically expressed in racial or religious terms—as the key social boundary defining the national “we.” “Civic” nationalism is more inclusive, requiring only respect for a country’s institutions and laws for belonging. Unlike ethnic nationalism, that view is open to minorities or immigrants, at least in principle.

The authors analyzed the responses to four key questions by 40,677 individuals from 31 countries, drawn from the 2008 wave of the cross-national European Values Study. One question assessed “subjective well being,” indicated by general satisfaction with life. Another measured national pride. The other two neatly indicated ethnic and civic national boundaries—asking respondents to rate the importance of respect for laws and institutions, and of ancestry, to being a true . . . fill in the blank . . . German, Swede, Spaniard. The researchers controlled for such factors as gender, work status, urban or rural residence, and the country’s per capita GDP.

Like other researchers, they found that more national pride correlated with greater personal well-being.  But the civic nationalists were on the whole happier, and even the proudest ethnic nationalists’ well-being barely surpassed that of people with the lowest level of civic pride.

The analysis challenges popular feel-good theories about nationalism. “There’s been a renaissance of arguments from political theorists and philosophers that a strong sense of national identity has payoffs in terms of social cohesion, which bolsters support for welfare and other redistributive policies,” says Wright. “We’ve finally gotten around to testing these theories.” The conclusion: “You have to look at how people define their pride.”

The findings, he adds, give a clue to what popular responses we might expect to “broad macro-economic and social trends”—that is, millions of people crossing borders (usually from poorer to wealthier countries) looking for work or seeking refuge from war or political repression. “It’s unclear what the political implications of the happiness measure are—though unhappy citizens could demand many politically dangerous, xenophobic responses. Ethnic nationalists, proud or not, appear relatively less happy to begin with and more likely to lead the charge as their nation diversifies around them.”

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 08:35 PM in Psychology
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A thread for Serbia

The publicity machine for Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, has cranked into gear.  The line is that this love story across the ethnic and religious divide of the Bosnian war is stirring passions among those who lived through its three pitiless years.

Murat Tahirovic, who heads an association of ex-prisoners of war, added: “This film is deeply moving for the victims who experienced all of these things.

“It is completely objective and it really tells the facts of what happened during the war. She succeeded in telling the story of the whole war in her film and to show… situations that detainees faced - mass executions, rapes, [being used as] human shields and all the other horrors.”

But Branislav Djukic, who heads the Bosnian Serb Association of Camp Prisoners, had a very different reaction after seeing a trailer. He said that the film “is showing lies” as it depicts only Serbs as rapists during the war and called for it to be barred from cinemas in the autonomous Serbian half of Bosnia. “We’ll do our best to ban the film,” he said.

A commenter on the (at present, very short) thread writes:

A Croatian friend said something that made me think when I was over in Zagreb this summer, whilst discussing the conflicts he said “There are no good guys in this region.”

There is a sense in which the appreciation of the Serb role in the conflict as “no-good guys” but also as victims marks the break-down of the Establishment narrative.  Jolie is still telling it, of course, and she will win all the usual plaudits and probably an Oscar or two.  Coincidentally, another false narrative had an airing on BBC2 this evening.  But the “evil Serb” may not prove as enduring as the “evil Nazi”, and one small light on that may be thrown by the Telegraph comment thread.  So far, it’s hearteningly balanced.  I shall watch it with interest.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 08:23 PM in Popular Culture,  The Arts & Design
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The Entire Futures/Options Market Has Been Destroyed by the MF Global Collapse

http://silverbearcafe.com/private/12.11/barnhardt.html

We are now living in a lawless, Marxist, Communist, usurped [...] what used to be a representative republic but is no more. This is no longer a nation of laws. This has now transformed into a nation of men. It doesn’t matter what crime you commit. In the case of Jon Corzine, this man has stolen in excess of a billion dollars.

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Some early thoughts about Cameron’s veto

Well, I didn’t expect it.  Like most people, I think, I had David Cameron down as electable Mr Bland, a wax-work dummy from Madame Tussauds carefully placed in the leadership of the Conservative Party to follow the internationalist, neoliberal script.  And perhaps he would have done so, turning his back on national interest as every other British Prime Minister has, finally, over the last thirty-five years.  But, it seems, Sarko and his mandarins, possessed as they are of a vision for Europe on a Napoleonic scale and a horrible suspicion that Anglo-Saxon skulduggery is undermining it, made it impossible for him, wearing the colours of Arch-Defender of Financial Services, to sign on fiscal Europe’s bottom line.

Now we have a situation where seventeen eurozone states and nine EU member but non-eurozone states are going to make lovebird sounds to another, while totally ignoring the will of their respective peoples.  One other state is, as they say, “isolated”, though it is a rather smug and relieved isolation at the moment.  If Cameron calls a snap election now, or if the LibDems collapse the coalition (which they can’t, of course), he would scoot home.  Even with all the austerity.

But ... what does it all mean from a nationalist perspective?  Has anything changed for us?  Well, two things for starters.

First, the definition of a Eurosceptic has been expanded.  Cameron’s veto has made the beast mainstream.  Meanwhile, the ante has been vertiginously upped for supporters of joining the Euro.  The old argument about being at “the heart of Europe” to protect our interests is defunct – we are not going to be at the heart of Europe ever again.  Now Europhiles have to argue that agreeing to German oversight of UK taxation and spending policy and practise would be in the national interest.

Cameron’s veto will have an immediate effect on UKIP and on British nationalism, forcing a focus on the perfect nonsense of belonging to a club of 27 which 26 have left, and the half-life Britain will now increasingly inherit as the 26 develop their union.  The argument for independence therefore becomes one of re-definition and regularisation.  It has lost much of its power.

Second, notwithstanding our signature to the existing EU treaties (including Lisbon which effectively abolishes the nation state) the intergovernmental process of de-sovereignisation has come to a screeching halt for Britain.  The sole remaining interests for the British government in the EU are the preservation of (i) the Single Market and (ii) the unregulated status of the City of London.  The project has now become a neoliberal one, not an internationalist one, and that will require a more nuanced critique from nationalists.

In this respect globalisation presents a particular challenge.  It continues to exercise its baleful influence upon us and to be fully supported by the political mainstream.  But it is nebulous, and the power of corporations does not pack the same punch as a political target as the power of Brussels.

A lot has changed today.  We do not yet know how all the pieces will fall finally.  But nationalism didn’t make much impact when the ideological times were good.  They just got tougher, and I am none too confident that we can rise to the challenge.

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 08:13 PM in European Union
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The compassion of the court

From the Daily Mail.  Comments off.

‘Woman on a tram’ to spend Christmas behind bars ‘for her own protection’ after court views video of alleged racist rant

A woman accused of launching a vile racist rant on a tram is to spend Christmas behind bars after she was remanded in custody for her own safety.

Magistrates took the decision to refuse Emma West’s bail application after they heard she had received death threats and that her address had been circulated on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.

There were outbursts from supporters of Miss West, who shouted ‘treason’ as she was denied bail at Croydon Magistrates’ Court.

Miss West, a 34-year-old mother from New Addington, appeared before JPs charged with a racially aggravated public order offence in connection with a video that was heavily circulated on YouTube.

The former dental assistant bowed her head and sobbed as three magistrates watched the footage, which has now been seen more than 11 million times online.

When Miss West was arrested her partner told police that had been a number of death threats made against her, Eka Ike, prosecuting, told the court.

Magistrates chairman Ian McNeal said during the hearing: ‘We are told that your address has been widely circulated on Facebook and Twitter and there has been numerous death threats.

‘This case has attracted a high degree of public interest as evidence today. For these reasons we are remanding you in custody for your own protection.’

Miss West’s supporters shouted ‘treason’ and ‘we love you Emma, be strong’ as she was led to the cells.

Earlier, after the foul-mouthed video was played to the packed court, the court clerk asked West how she wanted to plead.

‘Not guilty,’ she said.

Wearing a blue blouse and a black cardigan, she wiped tears from her face during the hearing.

For most of the time the video was played, around two minutes and 20 seconds, she was doubled over, out of sight from the public gallery.

Friends and family gathered to give her support.

The hearing had been adjourned until 2pm to give time for West to prepare reasons for her not guilty plea.

When she returned to the court room, her earlier plea of not guilty was rescinded due to an administrative error. Court records were amended to show she has not yet indicated a plea.

West was arrested on Monday last week for her own safety after the footage was posted on YouTube on Sunday by LadyK89 and viewed more than 10,000 times.

She had been remanded in custody after he first appearance at Croydon Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday.

Miss West has elected to have her case dealt with at the crown court. She will next appear at the same court on January 3 via a video link.

So, we now know that Emma has had some mental issues, and that her disinhibition may have been linked to that.  Instead of being given police protection she is imprisoned awaiting trial.  Her two children have been taken into care.  She has been broken by the system which will pass judgement upon her.

That system, meanwhile, demonstrated the nature of its compassion in this judgement, again reported in the Mail:

Continued...

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 08:15 PM in Oh Tempora, Oh Mores
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Ground taken in the thread wars

I had just spent a pleasant ten minutes sampling the anti-white racism of the liberal classes when, on checking the Telegraph opinion page, I found the first “right-wing” article about the Emma West video.  I say “right-wing” but it is written by a white female journalist who, it transpires, has Asian in-laws.

My first comment was also the first on the thread, and the 250+ that have followed demonstrate that, at the Telegraph at least and on threads specifically relating to the race issue, the only opinion that counts is our opinion.  The opinions of anti-racists and foreigners are almost wholly lacking.  But, and this is the significant thing, so too are the opinions of civicists, “respectable” conservatives, or anyone, frankly, close to the kind of view that the Telegraph itself puts forward on race matters.

This represents a real change.  To what extent it is the product of the kind of truth-speaking at which nationalists excel I can’t say.  It would be nice to think so.  But perhaps there is just a general drift towards the polarisation of opinion, which is fine too.

At any rate, I mark that one down as an objective achieved.  The next one is to effect the same kind of shift on threads not directly related to “the question” - on which I shall report later.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 04:01 PM in Thread Wars
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The mantra goes viral, maybe.

Does anyone know if a concerted effort is being mounted to plant Bob’s mantra across the MSM?  I happened to encounter a lot of it on this Telegraph thread about the short-lived racial segregation at Bjerke Upper Secondary School in Oslo.  Then at BDF I came across this quite powerful video, which is the work of a mantra-phile.

Anyone know anything about this?

And here’s another one:

Quite a few references to “the professional” Bob Whittaker, which I found superfluous but a target audience might not, I suppose.

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, November 28, 2011 at 07:41 PM in Activism,  White Nationalism
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