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These are the preliminary Wikio overall rankings for UK blogs for October. The full set (which may change slightly) are due out soon after the end of the month. I have no idea how soon that will be.

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George Handlery about the week that was. Falling for tested and failed ideas. Campaign promises and good government. Why Europe elected Obama. The prospects of multilateralism. A house cleaning for the GOP. Crime prevention and personal freedom. Will success bring moderation?
 
1. Obama is close to getting elected. Add this to the costs of the financial crisis. At this point one hopes that he will cling to his record. The record is adaptation to whatever serves his rise. If elected his fate and that of the country become connected, and so the hope amounts to a well wish for America. Obama has a debt to clients that depend on contributions. Once he does not need them, he will be wise to see to it that he does not appear to be the President of special interest groups. To achieve that he will have to refuse to deliver on some of the expectations connected to his election.
 
2. From over here in Europe it appears that some of Obama’s campaign has taken place abroad. This made sense: some circles in the US are impressed by acclamations from overseas. Generally, in the US the opinions of the supposedly sophisticated Europeans count. The problem is that this approval will soon ebb. If Obama acts in the national interest during the coming test-by-crisis in order to avoid the label of a shoe-licker then he will be re-cast as another American hard-liner. Europe “elected” Obama not to lead in confrontations but as a flexible politician who avoids rows by wiggling. Bush was unpopular because he did not avoid clashes. He faced them if they came his way. Obama promised to avoid them. Therefore, unless he appeases, he will be held responsible for the altercations others will initiate.
 
3. One of the unspoken promises of candidate Obama to his peacenik followers and to his fans abroad has been the end of American unilateralism. The intent: to restore American credibility and leadership. As President, Obama will be haunted by this. When he will need to lead, he will find empty spaces backing him up. This becomes understandable if we consider the past. US unilateralism was a product of the discovery during the Cold War that, for the hard going, America has few allies. So Washington had to act and if it acted, it had to act alone. The advocates of dogmatic multilateralism assume that challenges are the consequence of American assertiveness and not the other way around.
 
4. If elected, a challenge, by the way an undeserved one, faces Obama. He might, in accordance with his ideology, attempt to win Europe for consensual politics. Abandoning Republican unilateralism – allegedly the root of all problems – will demand concessions. The hope will be that with Europe enlisted, a number of looming problems can be successfully tackled. However, once it comes to joint action Washington will discover that the original enthusiasm has given way to reluctance. Its cause will be that the sacrifices implied by acting continue to be shunned. With that unilateralism will be back. Once that happens the realists can lecture Obama that the castigated unilateralism was a response to the reluctance of allies to take a stand and not a cause of their desertion.
 
5. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the GOP needs to subject itself to a remodelling. Unless it wishes to be reduced to fossil status, the party must cease to be a normal party. The misuse of power, pork and corruption must be terminated. Within the party hard-nosed supervision recommends itself. Especially so because, to prevail, the Republican Party must live up to its platform. The party rises or falls to the degree that it measures up to its claimed ethics. Prevailing depends on taking implied commitments seriously. Standing in for better and smaller government requires that those advocating it be efficient and honest. The people forgive the Democrats, but not the Republicans, for their abuses. Therefore, the GOP needs to police itself preventively. If it does not, then the voter will.
 
6. America’s problem harks back to a weakness of Americans. In their exceptionalism, they are isolated from the experiences that other societies made at other places and at other times. This follows from the island-nature of America and the limited analytical interest in others. Ergo, Americans are innocently unaware of the record left behind by solutions that are proposed to them. Therefore, as we see, tried and failed ideas, if cleverly packaged, find support.
 
7. Europe’s Social Democrats are in danger of being viewed as supporters of groups that subvert the local way of life and act as the source of economically or politically motivated violence. Bending to the wind their Swiss branch is discussing a “security program”. In the course of the debate a “young Socialist” (therefore a radical) pleaded that video cameras in public places “limit our personal freedom’. No one retorted that crime, too, limits personal freedom. Everybody’s.
 
8. After decades, Switzerland is again a target in the sights of a German party. This time the hostility comes from the left. Germany’s high taxes and declining fortunes prompt many Germans to pursue their happiness in Switzerland: German capital and persons like to move there. Right now there are 220,000 in that country of seven million. Monthly the number is growing by three 3,000. The entrants are highly qualified specialists who flee imposed equalitarianism. The right-left coalition government’s Social Democratic Minister of Finance, P. Steinbrück, is angered by the implications of this indirect vote. So in several speeches he explained the small neighbor’s success as coming from harboring crooks in a “tax oasis”. (Indeed, German taxes are about 35% of income while Switzerland takes around 15%.)
 
9. Social justice and the acceptance of other cultures are translated by those who define such terms as “tolerance of criminal behavior”.
 
10. A student researching for a women’s study program has been arrested in Iran on October 23. Such actions must be condemned and the victim deserves sympathy. Nevertheless, one is made to wonder about the detainee’s judgment. The anti-woman intolerance, as well as the arbitrariness of Iran’s rulers, are common knowledge. In this case, the risks were augmented by the US-connections of the student with Persian roots. Ignoring such dangers is only imaginable if she was not aware of them. Could it be that she came to believe the leftist-multiculturalist campus ideology that regards such facts as right wing propaganda? If so, the confrontation with realty is a shock. The arrest, however, will hardly move those to modify their views who see Iran as “good” and the US and her Zionist Entity as “bad”.
 
11. Is it reasonable to assume that Islam, as it firms its hold over the West – while denying religious freedom were it is already in power – will respond to its success by moderation?
 
12. Islam is more than simply a faith among others the way advanced societies understand the term. In these, religion operates in a separate area. It is kept apart from public affairs, the interaction between communities and of political positions. On the other hand, Islam is mostly part of the political system, in fact, it is the glue that holds it together. This means that Islam is not a private preference but a condition that is meant to have political consequences.
 
13. The crisis. Watch for the rising demand that capitalism, like God, be declared dead. Not only from the loco left is there a discernible trend to replace private enterprise by the state. Indeed, the state can save rogue/failing/stupid businesses. However, no firm can save the state that exercises control over the economy. This one-sided nexus implies that the economically dominant state, if it fails – trust me, it will – must go under. With the captain and even the rats of the ship.

Feedback on Radio 4 carried a fairly balanced discussion about the Russell Brand / Bill Brewer / Peter Gurney / Andrew Sachs / Peter Davy / Jonathon Ross / Dan'l Whiddon / Daily Mail / Harry Hawke / Lesley Douglas / Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all / BBC / Jan Stewer scrummage.

The segment is quite long - 20 minutes, but it covers most of the different aspects and contains most viewpoints.

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Six years ago, when Belgian Minister Louis Michel addressed the Belgian Foreign Affairs Committee, on November 12, 2002, he explained that the EU intended to incorporate the whole of North Africa and the Middle East, but also Russia. In other words, the entire northern half of Asia as far as Vladivostok, is to be incorporated into the EU.

If that happens, Sarah Palin will be seeing Europe from her window instead of Russia.

At the time, many thought that Mr Michel was voicing his own dream of a political Utopia. Today, however, it seems that this dream is under construction. On October 13th, the EU granted Morocco an "advanced association status." It is the first special association status granted by the EU to a third country and it is meant to be a step towards fully integrating Morocco in the EU.

From now on, the Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs will be allowed to participate in the EU Foreign Affairs Council of Ministers and in other EU institutions such as Europol, the European Police Office, and Eurojust, the EU body dealing with judicial cooperation. Israel is said to be the next candidate to obtain a "special association status" with the EU.

The Moroccan Foreign Minister, Taïeb Fassi Fihri, welcomed the "advanced status" and stressed that Rabat would henceforth benefit from "all" the advantages of the EU, "except the institutions."

Again, many thought at the time that Mr Michel was taking his own dreams for reality. Last week, however, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told journalists that Russia should join the EU. This is a "vision," Mr Berlusconi said, which he has held for many years: "My plan is for the Russian Federation to be able to become of member of the European Union in the coming years." Mr Berlusconi has been a personal friend of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for many years.

Some leading politicians in Europe are not only dreaming of, but also working towards the establishment of a European Empire, a nuclear superpower with a Muslim population of 50%, extending from the Sahara to the North Pole and from Ireland to Vladivostok.
 
Hon. Alexandra Colen, Ph D, is a Vlaams Belang member of the Belgian Federal Chamber of Representatives. She is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian Parliament and the chairperson of the Advisory Committee for Social Emancipation of the Parliament.

This article was first published at the website of The Hudson Institute New York

George Handlery about the week that was. Falling for tested and failed ideas. Campaign promises and good government. Why Europe elected Obama. The prospects of multilateralism. A house cleaning for the GOP. Crime prevention and personal freedom. Will success bring moderation?
 
1. Obama is close to getting elected. Add this to the costs of the financial crisis. At this point one hopes that he will cling to his record. The record is adaptation to whatever serves his rise. If elected his fate and that of the country become connected, and so the hope amounts to a well wish for America. Obama has a debt to clients that depend on contributions. Once he does not need them, he will be wise to see to it that he does not appear to be the President of special interest groups. To achieve that he will have to refuse to deliver on some of the expectations connected to his election.
 
2. From over here in Europe it appears that some of Obama’s campaign has taken place abroad. This made sense: some circles in the US are impressed by acclamations from overseas. Generally, in the US the opinions of the supposedly sophisticated Europeans count. The problem is that this approval will soon ebb. If Obama acts in the national interest during the coming test-by-crisis in order to avoid the label of a shoe-licker then he will be re-cast as another American hard-liner. Europe “elected” Obama not to lead in confrontations but as a flexible politician who avoids rows by wiggling. Bush was unpopular because he did not avoid clashes. He faced them if they came his way. Obama promised to avoid them. Therefore, unless he appeases, he will be held responsible for the altercations others will initiate.
 
3. One of the unspoken promises of candidate Obama to his peacenik followers and to his fans abroad has been the end of American unilateralism. The intent: to restore American credibility and leadership. As President, Obama will be haunted by this. When he will need to lead, he will find empty spaces backing him up. This becomes understandable if we consider the past. US unilateralism was a product of the discovery during the Cold War that, for the hard going, America has few allies. So Washington had to act and if it acted, it had to act alone. The advocates of dogmatic multilateralism assume that challenges are the consequence of American assertiveness and not the other way around.
 
4. If elected, a challenge, by the way an undeserved one, faces Obama. He might, in accordance with his ideology, attempt to win Europe for consensual politics. Abandoning Republican unilateralism – allegedly the root of all problems – will demand concessions. The hope will be that with Europe enlisted, a number of looming problems can be successfully tackled. However, once it comes to joint action Washington will discover that the original enthusiasm has given way to reluctance. Its cause will be that the sacrifices implied by acting continue to be shunned. With that unilateralism will be back. Once that happens the realists can lecture Obama that the castigated unilateralism was a response to the reluctance of allies to take a stand and not a cause of their desertion.
 
5. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the GOP needs to subject itself to a remodelling. Unless it wishes to be reduced to fossil status, the party must cease to be a normal party. The misuse of power, pork and corruption must be terminated. Within the party hard-nosed supervision recommends itself. Especially so because, to prevail, the Republican Party must live up to its platform. The party rises or falls to the degree that it measures up to its claimed ethics. Prevailing depends on taking implied commitments seriously. Standing in for better and smaller government requires that those advocating it be efficient and honest. The people forgive the Democrats, but not the Republicans, for their abuses. Therefore, the GOP needs to police itself preventively. If it does not, then the voter will.
 
6. America’s problem harks back to a weakness of Americans. In their exceptionalism, they are isolated from the experiences that other societies made at other places and at other times. This follows from the island-nature of America and the limited analytical interest in others. Ergo, Americans are innocently unaware of the record left behind by solutions that are proposed to them. Therefore, as we see, tried and failed ideas, if cleverly packaged, find support.
 
7. Europe’s Social Democrats are in danger of being viewed as supporters of groups that subvert the local way of life and act as the source of economically or politically motivated violence. Bending to the wind their Swiss branch is discussing a “security program”. In the course of the debate a “young Socialist” (therefore a radical) pleaded that video cameras in public places “limit our personal freedom’. No one retorted that crime, too, limits personal freedom. Everybody’s.
 
8. After decades, Switzerland is again a target in the sights of a German party. This time the hostility comes from the left. Germany’s high taxes and declining fortunes prompt many Germans to pursue their happiness in Switzerland: German capital and persons like to move there. Right now there are 220,000 in that country of seven million. Monthly the number is growing by three 3,000. The entrants are highly qualified specialists who flee imposed equalitarianism. The right-left coalition government’s Social Democratic Minister of Finance, P. Steinbrück, is angered by the implications of this indirect vote. So in several speeches he explained the small neighbor’s success as coming from harboring crooks in a “tax oasis”. (Indeed, German taxes are about 35% of income while Switzerland takes around 15%.)
 
9. Social justice and the acceptance of other cultures are translated by those who define such terms as “tolerance of criminal behavior”.
 
10. A student researching for a women’s study program has been arrested in Iran on October 23. Such actions must be condemned and the victim deserves sympathy. Nevertheless, one is made to wonder about the detainee’s judgment. The anti-woman intolerance, as well as the arbitrariness of Iran’s rulers, are common knowledge. In this case, the risks were augmented by the US-connections of the student with Persian roots. Ignoring such dangers is only imaginable if she was not aware of them. Could it be that she came to believe the leftist-multiculturalist campus ideology that regards such facts as right wing propaganda? If so, the confrontation with realty is a shock. The arrest, however, will hardly move those to modify their views who see Iran as “good” and the US and her Zionist Entity as “bad”.
 
11. Is it reasonable to assume that Islam, as it firms its hold over the West – while denying religious freedom were it is already in power – will respond to its success by moderation?
 
12. Islam is more than simply a faith among others the way advanced societies understand the term. In these, religion operates in a separate area. It is kept apart from public affairs, the interaction between communities and of political positions. On the other hand, Islam is mostly part of the political system, in fact, it is the glue that holds it together. This means that Islam is not a private preference but a condition that is meant to have political consequences.
 
13. The crisis. Watch for the rising demand that capitalism, like God, be declared dead. Not only from the loco left is there a discernible trend to replace private enterprise by the state. Indeed, the state can save rogue/failing/stupid businesses. However, no firm can save the state that exercises control over the economy. This one-sided nexus implies that the economically dominant state, if it fails – trust me, it will – must go under. With the captain and even the rats of the ship.

One will not likely find many people in the Boston phone book who would prefer to join the foreign army than their own in the event of a war between the United States and a foreign nation. In Europe, that certainty no longer exists.

Last week, my good friend David Brooks reminded us of a famous saying of the late Bill Buckley. As Buckley said, he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty.

There is usually more common sense, indeed wisdom, in the opinions of the common man than in the theories of intellectuals and even of professional politicians.

On opening the Brussels phone book and browsing through its first 2,000 names, however, one quickly realizes that to advocate Buckley's advice in contemporary Western Europe would lead to the installation of rulers with names reminiscent of Arabian Nights, names such as Aarab, Abbas, Abdel Kader, Abdellaoui, Al Mahi, Al Maghreb El Jadid, ...

The face of the old continent is changing faster than many realize and the repercussions are already being felt in Europe's elections. In many countries the Muslim vote is on the brink of tipping or has already tipped the electoral balance. Most immigration into Europe has been welfare immigration. Hence, it is no wonder that the immigrant vote favors the Left.

In the Netherlands, 70% of the immigrants participated in the 2006 Dutch general elections, with over 80% of them voting for the left. In the 2005 German general elections, 94% of the Germans of immigrant (mainly Turkish) origin voted for the parties of the left - Socialists, Greens or "Post"-Communists – who gained 51.1% of the national vote. In France, a country with over 10% Muslims, their electoral clout has become so important that even the far-right Front National tries to attract part of the Muslim vote.

The new generation of immigrant politicians cater for their fellow Muslims. They have little in common with the former Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born immigrant who was a Muslim apostate advocating anti-islamic legislation. Ms Hirsi Ali left the Dutch parliament in 2006 and moved to the United States.

The newly elected immigrant politicians, on the contrary, represent a growing and demographically young electorate that insists on asserting its Muslim identity. Their loyalties lie more with their countries of origin than with the Dutch nation, which they look upon mainly as a welfare distributing Santa Claus. In Belgium, Ergün Top, a Turkish-born Muslim politician who ran for the Senate last year, admitted that he feels more loyalty towards Turkey than towards Belgium. He told an audience of Turkish-born Belgian voters that if there ever were a war between Belgium and Turkey, he would join the Turkish army and fight Belgium.

This indicates that turning the tide of Islamization in Europe will be very difficult. So here is a new statement to replace Bill Buckley's famous words: If the first 2,000 names in the phone book sound more exotic than the university's faculty staff, elections are likely to be won by the Left and Sharia law is just around the corner.

 
Paul Belien is an Adjunct Fellow of The Hudson Institute. This article was first published at the website of The Hudson Institute New York

Current events have been begging for direct, pragmatic commentary. This serial essay is therefore cutting into the "Empire of Yin" series, which is more philosophical. Apology to my long-suffering readers. "Empire" will resume in a few weeks.

European Commissioners opine that “Immigration Is Moral Necessity” and “Islam Is Welcome.” A French President predicts that “Arabic Is the Language of the Future.”  A Moroccan becomes Mayor of Rotterdam. Europeans who wish to assert their ethnic identity and interests versus those of aliens are roughed up.

In the United States -- a country that has ruined itself through its own naïveté about human nature, about the world and about itself, the presidential election is being contested between a right-liberal candidate of the Stupid Party and a left-liberal candidate of the Evil Party. The latter’s position’s is that America’s wealth should be redistributed to the Afro-American “community” so that the country can have its salvation. He may have rephrased this idea in more unctuous words as his political shrewdness was increasing over the years, but essentially this is still the intention.

Yet, Mr. Obama is likely to win, partly due to electoral fraud of his supporters and fawning adulation by mainstream media that disseminate news and opinions filtered to put him in the White House.

With Barack Obama in the White House and his party on the way to a supermajority in Congress, soon enough the United States will be turning from a stupid form of capitalism to a stupid form of socialism, and from a stupid form of multiculturalism to an evil one – of the Eurabian kind. It will be Sweden West, without the virtues that ethnic Swedes still possess.

Indeed, Mr. Obama would fit seamlessly as Norway’s Prime Minister or France’s Minister of Housing, give or take a language or two. He has vowed not only to transform America but also to “change the world.”  Many millions in the United States and around the world are waiting for this changin’ and rearrangin’, ignorant that Lenin also promised to change his country and the world – which he did.

Keeping Lenin in mind, what are people like us to do? Here are one man’s answers, based on years of acquaintanceship with “people like us” in a dozen countries over many years. To begin with, who are “we”?

 

One Identity

We are the ethno-conservatives -- perhaps 60 million people in Western Europe, North America and Oceania. There are probably four times that number who are like us, but they are latent, unable at this time to cut through the fog of suppressive propaganda and inertia.

In every Western country, we are a minority encircled by brainwashed zealots discharged at a steady rate from the left-only assembly line of public education. The conveyor belt’s propulsive power is multiplied many times over by the giant dynamos of Mainstream Media (MSM) and manufactured pop culture. Our own propulsive power comes from inner conviction, books by Dead White Males, and – to steal a phrase from Abraham Lincoln – the mystic chords of memory.

We are vastly outnumbered, and have few friends among the leading elites of the Western world. But it helps to remember that 185 million ex-Russia, non-Muslim Eastern Europeans are behind us. Living under Soviet tyranny has immunized them against the terrible mental virus that has ravaged the West. They have their own problems, related to economic development, but their combined weight is on our side. We ought not to forget who came to the rescue of Vienna and Western civilization in their hopeless encirclement in 1683.

Over 1.5 billion East Asians are of the same mind as we are with regard to their own answers as to who they are. But they are busy beating us at our own game: technology, industry, innovation, commerce. And the reason they are beating us is that the same elites and their remote-controlled supporters who have brought us Eurabia and Multimerica have also brought us a stifling socialism in Europe and a dumb and self-defeating capitalism in America.

Our common denominator is not white, for our most numerous and powerful opponents are also white. Rather, it is our opposition to our disfranchisement, marginalization and impoverishment by our own ruling elites in government, media, education, culture and business.

In America, we steam for having been abandoned by our government to mayhem and rape by illegal aliens. The two parties and their presidential candidates leave us a choice only between the details of how they will legalize the 12 –18 million illegals, with all the terrorists and vicious criminals embedded among them. We have nothing left but festering rage and memorials to the victims on YouTube.

But that’s exactly the same experience relayed through innumerable news items posted by Brussels Journal about Europeans victimized and terrorized by Muslim or just plain-African immigrants who are under European governments’ sponsorship and protection while the choices left to the rightful owners of Europe are to stew in terminal frustration, read The Camp of the Saints under cover with a flashlight, or emigrate.

We are unwilling to shut up about the de facto culling of whites by black and brown  (1) crime and Muslim terrorists. We are angry at the authorities’ cowardice in confronting these problems.

We are not Islamophobes, not really.  Anyone who has spent time in, say, Qatar, Kazakhstan or Brunei, has experienced values and features of a society that challenge one’s notions of the superiority of Western democracy and the wisdom of the Western über-value of hedonistic freedom.  It’s just that these people do not belong in the schoolrooms and supermarket aisles of Rome, London or Charlottesville, just as we don’t belong in Islamabad, Mecca, or Batna.

This is so obvious, that our ruling elites’ willful subversion of this precept is the greatest act of mass treason and insanity in the history of the world. In America’s case, it even has a farcical dimension, for here is a country that’s invading the Muslim world in the name of spreading freedom, while inviting Muslims from all over the world to live within its borders, thereby curtailing its own citizens’ freedom.

Nearly all the 9/11 Muslim terrorists had US-issued drivers licenses that enabled them to carry out all the preparations and the boarding of  the planes that they would crash into the country that had welcomed them. It’s relevant too that Mr. Obama’s main accomplishment in his all-too-brief legal career was his lawsuit on behalf of ACORN to implement the Motor Voter law in Illinois in the mid-1990s. For all we know, Mohammad Atta @ Co. voted in American elections, as can millions of illegal aliens with American drivers licenses. And they vote Obama.

It’s our own ruling elites that have put us on a collision course with Muslims, by importing them to our countries and subjecting us to a gross devaluation of our social capital through constant friction with people too different for us to absorb and digest, with alien ways and mores that we cannot condone.

Moreover, it’s our own ruling elites and the suprastructures they support such as EU and UN that have put us on a collision course with Islam. Jihad is an opportunistic infection that lay dormant as long as the West was strong and self-confident. The West's own impairment of its cultural immune functions and the related importation of millions of Muslims has allowed the dormant jihadi virus to thaw and flourish.

We are not racist. Nature’s strength is in diversity, and so is Humanity’s. But we are not Nature or Humanity. We are particular people trying to live our particular lives. And for that, we need our particular ethnicity and our singular culture, as other peoples need theirs.

Our ethnicity has a universal component: we are all Europeans, or descendants of Europeans. This is implanted in our cultural, spiritual and moral makeup. The molded life-forms encircling us charge that this amounts to a fixation on whiteness, blondness, disdain for other skin colors, cultures etc. But that’s absurd.

There are undoubtedly some people sitting right now in a bierstube in Leipzig or Baton Rouge who are classical racists. But that’s a small minority. Of all the people on earth, none are as fixated on skin color, and as racist as Africans and people of African descent are. People whose main political expression is an organization called La Raza certainly are not far behind, with the rest of non-whites in the world exhibiting ethnocentric and racist attitudes far beyond those of whites.

One wanders what would be the public reaction if the university graduation thesis of the white wife of the candidate for the U.S. presidency contained the sentence, “As a member of the white community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the white community first and foremost.” Yet these are the words of Michelle Obama, with “white” substituting for her original “black.”

European ethnicity is bound predominantly with white racial characteristics, but no one sound of mind and soul would exclude from it the part-black Pushkin and Dumas families, with all their distinguished members. Nor are there many among us who split hairs as to Aryan–Caucasian-Semite differences, what with sizeable Jewish presence in Europe going back to 400 BCE, and the Jewish imprint on Euro-Western culture ranging from Moses, Jesus, Peter and Paul to Mendelssohn, Kant, Disraeli, Einstein, von Mises and Salk. 

I say to liberals who accuse me of “racist” objections to Barack Obama that if Thomas Sowell ran against John McCain, I would be voting for the black man. But ultimately, one cannot convince a life-form spewed from a conveyor belt. I think we ought to accept the charge of “racism” calmly and not run for cover. For Nature itself is “racist.”

Racial differences are real, and not only in obvious physical features but in cognitive and psychological ones as well. This is increasingly moving from the realm of behavioral and cognitive statistics to hard genomic science.

Many of the differences do not favor whites, e.g. mean IQs versus East Asians or bodily-kinesthetic and musical intelligence scores versus those of blacks. But whites score far better than blacks and browns do in areas of intelligence like Logical-Mathematical and Verbal-Linguistic that are prerequisite for well-paying jobs in the modern economy. And since liberalism starts from the premise that all people would be equal in education, status and income but for malign social structures that hold back “minorities,” liberals spare no effort to stop contrary science.

We are not xenophobes. Most of the people I know on our side of the political divide – including in Japan – like to have foreigners among them. Life in Tokyo without pastry shops operated by the best of German and French patissiers would be as dull as French or Dutch football might be without black midfielders.

It’s a question of balance. 4% -5% of foreign-origin residents seems to be the level at which the marginal utility of diversity becomes zero, with negative values beyond that. And that in a unicultural but cosmopolitan society, which seems to be the optimal model. Even then, additional restrictions ought to apply on foreigners who are certain that they alone have a direct, exclusive telephone line to God, and those who do not are enemies to be subdued.

In contrast, the ruling American elite – including Republicans – has gone mad to such an extent that “minorities” are now over 1/3 of America’s population, soon to be half. And the EU ruling elite is welcoming, nay, soliciting, an Islamic wave that will accomplish what it failed previously at Tours, Lepanto and Vienna.

Together, they have brainwashed two generations of Westerners so effectively that the majority of whites in the world, notably among the young, celebrates “diversity” -- i.e. their peoples’ and Western Civilization’s inevitable dissolution – as their core value. It is against this part of the population, and the politicians and subversive intellectuals who hold their puppet strings, that I believe we ought to define ourselves.

 

The Pods

Most contemporary whites are docilely or actively complicit in their own displacement, disappropriation, and disproportional share of rape, battery and murder by more savage peoples who have fewer scruples.

The epitome is the Amy Biehl Syndrome. Amy Biehl was a young poster-girl “progressive”: blonde and upper–middle class, young and pretty, Stanford graduate and Fulbright scholar on a mission to help South Africa.

One day in 1993, Amy drove to the shantytown of Gugutelu, on a do-good mission. A mob of 80 black men started throwing rocks on her car. She got out of the car and was stabbed and killed on the spot.

Four men were convicted of the murder. They spent five years in prison before applying for pardon. Amy Biehl’s parents came to the pardon hearings, in her father’s words, “as Amy came, in a spirit of committed friendship."

The Biehls not only forgave their daughter’s killers. They established a charitable foundation for the benefit of Gugutelu’s youngsters, and employed two of Amy’s killers in it. Mrs. Biehl has said  about her daughter’s murderers, "It was like an adoption. These were just children who didn't have a chance to have a childhood."

The Biehls are not monsters, but loving parents who decided to upend the laws of gravity in the social and moral realms. Except for small and esoteric sects like the Indian Jains, this particular inclination appears only among whites. And, except for one, no analogy conveys this bizarre refusal to perceive reality, as though the act of suspending an idea could suspend the object of the idea. Indeed, no true leftist – whether Marxist, cultural Marxist, Christian social penitent, New York liberal or Amsterdam libertine -- will ever let reality interfere with a good theory.

That’s why I think of them as “Pods” and of us as “Nonpods.”  I use these words in the context of one of the great masterpieces of American cinema, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”,  released in 1956 and directed by Don Siegel, based on a novel by Jack Finney. In it, a doctor returns to a small California town to find out that one by one, its people, most of whom he has known all his life, have been replaced by dopplegängers.

These emotionless beings animated by a single instinct – proliferation -- develop from large, foaming seedpods; in effect a biological production line for lifelike automatons, set up by evil space aliens.

One by one, real people disappear – acquaintances, friends and ultimately the protagonist’s girlfriend, until he remains the sole nonpod, encircled by human-like, giant legumes: the Body Snatchers.

Pods whose previous identities have been snatched and extinguished seem to be multiplying in our world too, and they are passionate in their hatred -- of us. Middle-aged men and women who demonstrate publicly their desire for Europe to remain European are beaten up by Antifa gangs half their age and twenty times their number. The few Americans who have the courage to demonstrate their support for the alternative to a crypto-Marxist disciple of Black Theology are heckled, beaten up, or firebombed in the Country of the Free.

Pods are deeply committed to the idea that freedom and equality are not mutually exclusive. They are the emotional children of the French Revolution and worship its motto so much that they are willing to install PC tyranny in the name of Liberté, enforce racist and gender discrimination and robbery of private property in the name of Egalité, and stop at no fraud, libel and persecution of their opponents in the name of Fraternité.

Pods view biological race and gender differences as social constructs, and therefore social group differences as an unjust inequality that must be rectified by reconstructing society. They view nation, ethnoculture, and private property as obsolete obstacles in the way of freedom, equality and fraternity of all people. Therefore, the right of anyone to immigrate anywhere precedes the right of the one suffering the destruction of his social capital by this immigration. The right of a slacker to home, sustenance, and self-esteem counseling precedes the right of the 80-hours-a-week worker not to have his earnings confiscated to float the slacker in splendid idleness.

They view the refusal to tolerate the intolerable as unacceptable intolerance, and the desire to protect and preserve one’s family, community, country and culture as racism and xenophobia. And lastly, they have stood Jesus’ metaphor on its end, so that they fail to see the beam in the nonwhites’, non-Christians’ eye, but they see and greatly magnify the speck in their own peoples’ eye.

This is deep, delusionary dementia. A recent headline conveys the essence of this syndrome: Cyclists 'braved freezing cold temps' to promote global warming awareness...

This mental disorder is now the dominant orientation of the Western peoples, with its triumphant apotheosis, The One We Have Been Waiting For, coasting on the final approach to the most powerful job in the world, so that he can change the world into Pod kingdom.

The dementia’s hold on the brains of the majority of the white population is such that the vile Afro-American racism that America’s probable 44th president imbibed during most of his adulthood goes unmentioned and uncriticized by the MSM. Even Mr. Obama’s opponent in the presidential election remains paralyzed by the possibility that anything he might say would be deemed "racist."

Barack Obama is expected to receive 75 - 80% of the white vote in many urban areas of the United States. If this is not having one’s body and soul snatched, nothing is.

 

Podism in history

Mass dementia across wide swaths of the population occurs only once in several hundred years. In the early 13th century, tens of thousands of Europeans, including many children, set out for the Holy Land, to convert Muslims to Christianity through love.  They were convinced that the Mediterranean Sea would part to let them through. Most of them would be killed by disease and shipwreck, and the rest were sold into slavery in Tunisia.

In mid-17th century, European Jews were gripped by messianic fever. The One They Had Been Waiting For was Shabbetai Tzvi, a Syrian Jewish kabbalist with delusions of grandeur and a taste for the good life.

In 1648, Shabbetai declared himself as the true Messianic redeemer, designated by God to change the world. His fame swept throughout Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities. He acquired wealth, a beautiful wife, and a veritable court.  He was issuing edicts that were circulating throughout the synagogues of Europe, and wherever he went, crowds of Jews greeted him with, "Long live our King, our Messiah!"

In 1666, “the Messiah” traveled to Istanbul, expecting the fulfillment of the prophecy of his campaign manager, one Nathan of Gaza, that he would be crowned as the sultan. Instead, the actual sultan had him put in chains and imprisoned, but on lenient terms. The lenient incarceration allowed The One to live in the prison castle in splendor -- financed by a huge stream of contributions from his many ardent followers.

Nathan of Gaza, a brilliant propagandist, kept disseminating fanciful reports about the miraculous deeds "the Messiah" was performing while incarcerated. Therefore, the incarceration, instead of proving to the adherents that Shabbetai was an impostor, strengthened their Messianic delusions instead.

But the charade had to end. Under the sultan’s pressure, Shabbetai, still a prisoner, converted to Islam. He received his freedom and various favors in exchange. Some of his followers also went over to Islam, but largely the conversion of the Jewish Messiah to Islam was so devastating to most of his myriad followers that echoes of the damage persist among traditional Jews to this day.

It is significant that despite Shabbetai's apostasy, Nathan’s astute propaganda campaign turned what should have been the spike of death for Shabbetianism into just a bump on the road to self-perpetuation. Many adherents –by then certified Pods—continued to cling to The One, asserting that his conversion was a part of the Messianic scheme.

Paul Johnson writes in his (philosemitic) A History of the Jews that Nathan of Gaza was an outstanding example of a “highly imaginative and dangerous Jewish archetype.” Like Marx and Freud, Johnson adds, Nathan could construct a system of explanations of events that was both highly plausible and sufficiently imprecise to accommodate new, contrary events.  And he could do it with tremendous conviction and aplomb. (2)

We will look into the eerily similar role of Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Axelrod, in a later chapter. But the talent for Body Snatching is found not only among Jews, for it is fundamental to phenomena such as mass advertising and pop culture, Islam and other forms of extreme religious fundamentalism, Fascism, Maoism, Peronism, and more.

Not to forget the Third Reich. What can be said about Hitler’s Germany that has not been said before? How could the country of Gutenberg, Goethe, Schiller, Mann, Bach, Beethoven, Kepler, Heisenberg, Bonhoeffer– and thousands more -- follow in ecstatic obedience to its doom and infamy an obvious, raving mad housepainter from Braunau?

Only Podism can account for that. One by one, your friends, your children, your wife, come home changed by an overwhelming force of propaganda they are unable to resist. And then you are left alone, doubting your sanity or preparing to emigrate. Just as we do now.

 

The Road from Meccania

Muslim fanatics and La Raza are easy. But the difficulty facing us versus the Pods is enormous. Because these are not space aliens but neighbors, wives and children. And they are not only on the identifiable left but also on the misidentified right, including such leaders of the right as George Bush and John McCain.

Readers of this website know about the attacks perpetrated on it by a section of the “anti-jihadist” blogosphere. There is much credence as well given by ostensibly reasonable Americans to leftist propaganda about the “extreme right” European parties, while the latter are in fact a thin red line standing alone in the way of a nascent Eurabian Caliphate. One can see Pod dementia even among libertarians, e.g. in this attack on two respected and scrupulous ethno-conservatives, slinging trope like “white nationalist,” “racist,” “crackpot” and “nonsense.”

Seeing that Eurabia and Multimerica may be merging into one ideological superstate, if not yet a formal one, naming it would be usefu so that it remains an easily identifiable concept.

A good name already exists in literature’s archives. It is the fictional Meccania – an oppressive police tyranny regimented and controlled by the government as much as errant garbage recyclers are monitored by CCTV cameras in the UK, cartoonists are kept in check by the PC compliance pashas of Eurabia, and unruly bananas are proscribed by EC Commission Regulation No 2257/94.

The neat thing is that Gregory Owen’s Meccania, the Super-State was published in 1918. And the other neat thing is that Meccania, probably attempting to conjure a mechanized society of the future, has the name Mecca in it.

Maybe it’s time to start thinking about the common denominator of the besieged ones in Meccania, and develop a joint course of action. Maybe Benjamin Franklin was right when he said that we must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.

A European who cares about Europe ought to care about America or Australia. Because when America goes, so does his freedom, whatever remains of it. And if Australia goes, he has no place to go in case life in Eurabia has become untenable and Multiamerica slides into a 1984  scenario.

Conversely, a Flemamericanadian who writes a bestseller gloating over Europe’s coasting toward the abyss, is not only blind to the provenance of all his mental furniture, but deaf to the gasping of his own, deeply wounded country.

Just as there is a Green Party everywhere – and that’s a poster case for an association of Pods – why not a Nonpod Party everywhere? 

Nonpod may not be the right name, but we can come up with the right name. The Peoples Party (no apostrophe), perhaps. The principle is to stand the Pods’ agenda on its head: think locally, act globally -- with local manifestation. And ultimately, perhaps, shrug Atlas’ burden  globally too, and leave the dhimmi-pods to their fate with the Ummah, the rappers and the rapists.

 

       

 

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(1) One would love to quote a compendium of similar cases and statistics based in Europe. Alas, there is no hope that the EU would ever venture in this direction, and the mass media are far more cowed in this regard than they are in the U.S.

 

(2) Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, Harper Perennial, 1988, pp. 267- 273.

 

 

There will be a new column starting on the Wardman Wire on Mondays next week.

It will be written as a tag team by Mick Fealty of Slugger O Toole and Mark Pack, who is the Head of Innovations for the Liberal Democrats.

The column will be about "the things that make politics work online" - which may be websites, or tools, or ways of organising, or anything else deemed relevant. It's a broad brief, and will also contain a proportion of articles cross-posted here because they both usually write in substantially different niches to the ones covered here.

There may be the odd intrusion from other contributors.

My "supposed to be weekly but didn't quite always make it" Blog Platform column will be moving back to its old Sunday slot.

It certainly does appear to, considering that it has got pretty much everything they wanted has happened. Frankly, it is disgusting the way that the BBC has caved in to the demands of the Daily Hatemail. After all, if being offensie was enough to get sacked, there would hardly be any journalists - and certainly no [...]

I've blogged about the Cynical Dragon calling Paul Flynn MP a "cock"
(with justification) on several occasions.

I just realised that "Paul Flynn" is an anagram of "Pull Fanny"

Some things just ... fit.

On the blogs this issue seems to be turning into a "we hate the Daily Mail" festival. Here's the general narrative (one example). Liberal Conspiracy's blog roundup yesterday:

So…Russell Brand prank calls an old guy, during a near recession, and it’s the PM and Leader of the Opposition’s job to wade in, sparking the BBC to suspend him, because of days of front page tabloid over-reaction. Hoax call a police force on the other hand and you get little more than slight coverage in the tabloids. I despair, as such here are my highly subjective links for the day…

I really think that a lot of people have got the right end of the wrong stick on this one.

 

Offline blog editors are PC-based editors that allow blog posts to be written on a local PC and then uploaded as a separate operation. In conversation last night I was asked about the benefits. I put a list together, and I thought I would post it today.

I've now done something like 2000 blog posts using an offline Blog Editor called Blogdesk by Johannes Oppermann. I am very pleased with the software.

This article explains the benefits and why I think that offline editors are a GOOD THING.

This is a beautiful song, released by a singer-songwriter who has no manager, no record label and no PR budget, who wants to break into the Top 40 - and should be able to if she can sell 2,500 copies of her song, only available online - and for just 79p! Bargain. And all the money [...]

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A cartoon from Indexed.

Gah !

A popup survey form from the Independent with no "close" button visible.

Click on the image for a full screenshot.

I think that what has happened is that the layers are messed-up and the TV Licence advert is displaying over the missing "close" button.

It really should render properly in Firefox.

There's been a lot of comment on the Russell Brand / Jonathon Ross Obscene / Prank phone call to Andrew Sachs farrago, such that I'm reluctant to add to the pile.

However ... I have one or two things that may be useful, such as a spliced audio recording and some information about the growth of the resulting fuss.

 

Cartoon: Gaping Void

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Garbo is away today, so I've stolen the slot to write about how the site will be developing.

This blog has gone through 3 stages, from personal blog to group blog to magazine style blog, which came in back in April. From the start we have been in a number of niches, and I want to build on that.

There was a short item on the Radio 4 Today Programme this morning about sexual abuse in Mosques. Here is the audio snippet (6 minutes). Click through on the title if you cannot see the Audio Player.

There has been some work in this area, notably by the UK Muslim Parliament (which is a totally reformed organisation from the one that was camapigning under the leadership of Dr Kalim Siddiqui for a "separate Islamic legal space" back in the 1990s). It is now lead by Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (no relation), and takes a co-operative rather than confrontational approach.

They were working on a project looking at Child Protection in Faith Based Environments (PDF) more than a year ago, which is worth a look.

 

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A few days spent in Belgrade feels like an age. Although I have been here more times than I can remember (albeit not for five years or so) the country remains almost insuperably foreign. There is something radically different about the Balkans, with respect to the rest of Europe, and there are few more quintessentially Balkan states than Serbia.
 
Where else, for instance, would you meet a man with the wonderful name of Slobodan Despot who smiles and hands you a copy of “The Road to Revolution” by Thomas Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber? Mr. Despot is a publisher previously worked for a conservative pro-Serb publishing house in Paris and the other titles in his own list now include a consolidated calendar of Orthodox and Western saints, and the memoirs of a woman who opened a sex shop in Paris in the early 1970s.
 
And where else would you find yourself on a sofa sipping wine and talking to a civilised young professor of medicine who was himself ethnically cleansed from his home town of Urosevac in Kosovo in June 1999, as NATO guards transported Albanian guerrillas in their Hummers across the province to commit their vicious and systematic arson, murder and rape? Where else – especially in Europe – would you meet a monk whose 25 parishioners (in one of the main towns of Kosovo) have to run the gauntlet every Sunday in order to avoid getting killed on the way to Mass?
 
All these things happened to me – and much more – in the space of a very short stay last week. Ever since the United Nations took over Kosovo in 1999, indeed, the province’s endemic corruption has exploded, as I was able to confirm by talking to two American policemen who work for the international administration there. “Every level of society is corrupt,” one of them said. “Every single aspect of the society is criminal.” This is largely because the Kosovo Liberation Army, the US-backed Contra-style guerrilla force which runs the province and which controls the government, the army and the police, is also notorious for its role as a powerful organisation running drugs, guns and sex slaves to Western Europe.
 
If organised crime is a way of life in Kosovo, so is the systematic destruction of churches: more than 150 churches and monasteries have been blown up on the UN’s watch in the last nine years, as Albanians seek not only to expel all Serbs from the province but also to eradicate any physical record of their ever having been their in the first place. Kosovo, one should never forget, is the original heartland of medieval Serbia, the Serbs having migrated North to Belgrade and the Pannonian plane beyond as a result of the Turkish invasions. Images of an angry mob pulling down crosses and stamping on them, such as were filmed on 17 March 2004, have not been seen since the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia; just under a century later they are now, once again, part of Europe’s present.
 
In spite of these atrocities, which include the pogrom conducted against Serbs in March 2004 – a killing spree which went largely unreported in the West and which is now completely forgotten about – the European Union and the United States have pushed Kosovo to proclaim its own independence unilaterally, even though international law clearly forbids such a step. In 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Quebec’s right unilaterally to secede from Canada, on the grounds that the inhabitants of Quebec had full civil and political rights within Canada. Since Kosovo has been governed by the UN since 1999, their proclamation of independence now can only mean that they did not have full political and civil rights under that administration – the very body thrust onto Serbia by the “international community” in the name of human rights and democracy.
 
In the remaining months of this year, the Western powers (the EU and the US) will try to finesse a way of transferring power from the UN administration to one run by the European Union. The main obstacle comes from Russia which has a veto in the UN Security Council, the only body which can relinquish authority over the province. For the time being, the Belgrade government says that it opposes EULEX because EULEX was created as a vehicle for the independence of Kosovo, and Russia has said it will support Serbia. In private, however, Serb ministers admit that they will do anything to get into the EU, including accepting the amputation of 15% of their state territory.
 
However the circle is squared, the likely fudge of authority between the EU and the UN will cause what little government there is in Kosovo to break down completely. As one of the American policemen said to me, “How can you arrest someone if the lines of authority are unclear?” This unclarity will of course again further benefit the gangsters, pimps and drug-runners who currently constitute the government of Kosovo, and who have been the West’s allies since 1998.
 
Kosovo is therefore now decisively lost to the Serbs, and therefore to Christian civilisation. A war waged in the name of human rights in 1999 has led to nothing less than genocide – the wholesale eradication both of the Serb population of Kosovo since then (the few remaining Serbs live in ghettos) and of the historical memory of that population.  In 1999, to justify the attack on Yugoslavia, the US State Department published a document called “Erasing History” which documented the alleged genocide against the Albanians. Now we know that the bulk of that document was war propaganda, its claims unproven despite years spent trying to prove them at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Yet “erasing history” is precisely what the Albanians have done in Kosovo since NATO occupied the province, and on its watch. They have also erased democracy, human rights, and all the basic tenets of common human decency. The history of the last ten years in Kosovo is nothing but tragedy and hypocrisy blended into one – a true death of the West and all it stands for.

There is a new blog on the block tracking the guesses of pundits against the outcomes of reality. It has a nice design, too.

The project sounds worthwhile:

This blog aims to do one thing: track the forecasts of Britain pundits, bloggers and others on politics and elections, foreign affairs and economic trends.

It is often said that there is no accountability for newspaper pundits - they can guess wrong time and again and see no consequences. With this blog and the way in which it highlights pundits' forecasts, that may change. But our aim is not to catch out or embarrass pundits, or to record only mistaken predictions. We aim but to keep a record for posterity of all forecasts - those that are proved right, those proved wrong and those that fall somewhere in between. If a pundit is particularly good at predicting what is to come, this blog will highlight this just as much.

However, it looks like a sod to keep track of once there are a few hundred predictions on there, so my prediction is that it will last between 9 and 12 months :-). I hope that I am wrong on this one. There is more information here.

In my view, it's insane that the United States can even contemplate electing a person such as Obama. Americans will look like a defeated nation to the rest of the world if they pick an individual who has for a generation been a member of an organization dedicated to hating the majority population of the country. That's exactly why so many of their enemies want him elected. Meanwhile, 7 years after Saudi Arabian Muslims staged Jihadist attacks against the United States, the Saudis are systematically infiltrating the Western education system at all levels with pro-Islamic propaganda. Americans are outsourcing their industry to China, their education system to Saudi Arabia and their breeding to Mexico. This is not a wise strategy followed by a country that wants to remain a superpower, or simply continue to exist.

A person with such a radical background should never have been close to nomination. The only reason why Obama got so far is because the media deliberately downplayed much of the most troubling information about him. The mass hysteria whipped up in favor of Obama in the press is disturbing. A person who had been a member of an openly anti-black or anti-Asian congregation for a couple of decades would never have been seriously considered for presidency, but being a member of an anti-white congregation is apparently OK. This tells us much about the cultural climate in the West at the moment.

The term "Fascist" is so misused that people no longer remember its original meaning. A "Fascist" is now any person to the right of Hillary Clinton, especially if he's white and doesn't like Multiculturalism. However, the personality cult surrounding Obama is a traditional hallmark of Fascist and Communist societies. When an average voter dared to ask a few critical questions about Obama's Socialist sympathies, he was virtually ambushed by members of the mainstream media. This is the kind of behavior one expects to see in authoritarian societies when someone questions the Divine Wisdom of the Great Leader. It is disappointing and not very reassuring to see it in the land of the free, home of the brave.As journalist Nidra Poller put it: "The chance encounter between Barack Obama and a commoner—Joe the Plumber—not only exposed the Hope & Change candidate's plan for redistribution of wealth, it also revealed his attitude toward the ordinary guys he has pledged to serve. Leftists everywhere love the wretched of the earth…as long as the poor stay poor and the downtrodden downtrodden."

The Iranian ex-Muslim Ali Sina, author of the book Understanding Muhammad, comments on the dark sides of Obama's personality:

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer

 

"Never did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ronald Reagan arouse so much raw emotion. Despite their achievements, none of them was raised to the rank of Messiah. The Illinois senator has no history of service to the country. He has done nothing outstanding except giving promises of change and hyping his audience with hope. It's only his words, not his achievements that is causing this much uproar. When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong. Excessive adulation is indicative of a personality cult. The cult of personality is often created when the general population is discontent. A charismatic leader can seize the opportunity and project himself as an agent of change and a revolutionary leader." 

 

"If Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960s. Obama will set the clock back decades."

 

I don't agree with everything Sina says, but I am pretty sure an Obama presidency would dramatically increase racial and ideological tensions within the USA; I cannot see him "heal" anything. I agree that such displays of personality cult are always a sign of dark ideological undercurrents. Jimmy Carter was one of the worst presidents in American history. I don't recall that there ever was a "Carter Youth" movement in the 1970s or people claiming that he was the Messiah, but we do have an "Obama Youth" movement. This is unprecedented, a disturbing indication that the world's most powerful state no longer thinks in rational terms. Obama represents everything the American Founding Fathers tried to avoid when they wanted to make their young nation a constitutional Republic, not a mass democracy.

The dilemma is that both major parties ended up with arguably the worst possible candidates. The choice is between John McCain, an open-border fanatic with an anger management problem who isn't a real conservative, and Barack Hussein Obama, who has for a generation been a member of a church which is explicitly hostile to the majority population of his country, who has Socialist sympathies and ties to anti-American and Islamic radicals. As in the rest of the Western world, the radical Left has largely succeeded in moving politics to the left. The Republican candidate is now what the Democratic candidates used to be like, and the Democratic candidate comes from a background where open shows of hostility to one's own country are commonplace.

In 2007, a proposed immigration bill hundreds of pages long and supported by the Bush Administration would have amounted to the greatest changes in US immigration policies since the 1960s and de facto legalized millions of illegal aliens. As writer Matthew Spalding said at the National Review Online, "the devil is in the details. This legislation is long and complicated, with lots of details — and lots of devils." Yet its supporters were keen to have it implemented as soon as possible. "We all know this issue can be caught up in extracurricular politics unless we move forward as quickly as possible," said Senator John McCain, a key architect of the bill. The bill was stopped after massive popular resistance, but there is reason to fear that a future President McCain will support it in 2009 or 2010 as well.

There are both left-wing and right-wing Globalists. They have different agendas, for instance with left-wing Globalists putting emphasis on silencing free speech and promoting "international law" through the United Nations and similar organizations while right-wing Globalists concentrate more on the free flow of people across borders, just as they want free flow of goods and capital across borders. The presidential election campaign in the USA in 2008 between Obama and McCain is a race between a left-wing and a right-wing Globalist. Both want open borders, if only for slightly different reasons, and tend to think of countries as ideas, not as entities populated by distinct peoples with shared values and a common history.

This does of course not mean that President Obama and President McCain would follow the exact same policies in all areas. For instance, I fear that President Obama would be more aggressive in weakening the freedom of speech enshrined in the First Amendment than President McCain, although I could be wrong in this. Obama would most likely also be more active in pushing Socialist economic programs. When it comes to mass immigration, legal and illegal, I see little difference between them.

An Obama presidency would be bad for the United States but also bad for the world. Many Europeans seem to like Obama. I'm not one of them. Here in Western Europe, we are faced with increasingly aggressive Islamic colonization. How would the American political elites react if native Europeans suddenly grew a backbone and implemented serious policies aimed at halting and reversing Islamization? I don't think we should expect much sympathy from President Obama or the mainstream media. Since Americans are indoctrinated from birth with the idea that any person of European origins defending his cultural heritage is a white supremacist and a Nazi, I suspect we would be viewed as something along those lines. By that point it wouldn't be America Alone, as Canadian writer Mark Steyn says, it would be Europe Alone. Leftists have complained about virtually all American military campaigns except the NATO bombing against Serbs on behalf of Muslims.

For that matter, it isn't self-evident that President McCain would be wholly sympathetic, either. It is a great irony that the USA is vilified for its "anti-Islamic" policies. What anti-Islamic policies would that be? The American political establishment is dedicated to making the world safe for sharia. Muslim immigration to the US has increased since 9/11. The Bush Administration has sponsored the eradication of non-Muslim communities of Iraq, supports Turkish membership of the European Union and together with the EU awarded the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo by granting Muslim Albanians their very own Jihadist state.

I'm not going to blame Europe's problems on Americans; we made our own mess and should deal with it ourselves. Besides, it is quite possible that the Americans will soon have their hands full with problems of their own and will be in no position to assist anybody even if they wanted to. Europeans can and should maintain good relations and cooperate with ordinary North American citizens, who live under the same Multicultural regime as we do, but we cannot and should not rely on aid from the American elites.

Barack Hussein Obama hasn't been elected President yet, and it is quite possible that the polls we are shown in the media do not accurately reflect the popular support he has, but the very fact that he has come this far represents an unprecedented triumph for radical Leftism in the heart of the largest state in the Western world.

Anti-Western ideologies have penetrated the very core of our societies at the same time as we are under siege from outside. This is clearly not a sustainable situation and it will need to be resolved if our civilization is going to survive this century. Regardless of who wins this November, the West is in for a bumpy ride.

Via Iain Dale this morning, an essay from Andrew Sullivan entitled "Why I blog".

It's a long essay - around 4000 words - but worth following to the end. This quotes are from the last page, and throws some light on why attempts to prevent links to the opposition are futile: the result is that you will end-up vanishing down your owndrain.

Opinion pollsters using the telephone for political polls in the UK and the USA face some very different challenges.

In the UK, phoning a random selection of people and getting them to agree to take part in a survey has, for more than a decade, regularly produced samples that are too heavily weighted towards Labour sympathisers, necessitating all sorts of - at times very controversial - adjustments to be made to the raw figures in order to make the poll results more accurately representative of the population as a whole.