Margaret Thatcher

By Archbishop Cranmer

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to die...a time to lose...a time to mourn...a time to weep...

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, is dead.

She was the first woman leader of the Conservative Party (indeed, of any major political party) and the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, holding office from 1979 to 1990.

Some will doubtless rejoice at the news, but very many more will mourn. They may not have agreed with all that the Iron Lady said or did, but the vast majority respected her as a woman of conviction and of principle; a woman who said what she thought and did what she said. Surveying the modern political scene of sophistry, duplicity, inconsistency and spin, she clearly belonged to another era.

Thousands of obituaries will be written today the world over. They will speak eloquently of how she reversed Britain’s decline of the 1970s; of how she forged a distinct Conservative political philosophy; transformed economic thinking; survived an assassination attempt and won a glorious victory for liberty against tyranny in the Falkland Islands.

They will recall the Cold War era and her close friendship with President Ronald Reagan, which was based not merely on a shared distrust of Communism, but the genuine warmth of fraternity. Few obituaries are likely to mention her devout Christian faith, which was the foundation of her political programme and the bedrock of her conviction for less government, lower taxes, more freedom and greater personal responsibility.

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See also:

Margaret Thatcher Was Freakishly Correct About Why The Euro Would Be Such A Big Disaster

And

Which of these PMs sacked the most miners? (Clue: It wasn't Lady Thatcher)... The amazing facts that make a mockery of the rabble who want to wreck her funeral

And

Norman Tebbitt: The lightweights who brought Thatcher down

Robert Henderson: Margaret Thatcher, a Useful Idiot and the Tool of Liberal Internationalism

Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown

OJPed Vol.3 No.1, March 2013

Joseph J. Mangano, Janette D. Sherman

ABSTRACT

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Various reports indicate that the incidence of congenital hypothyroidism is increasing in developed nations, and that improved detection and more inclusive criteria for the disease do not explain this trend entirely. One risk factor documented in numerous studies is exposure to radioactive iodine found in nuclear weapons test fallout and nuclear reactor emissions. Large amounts of fallout disseminated worldwide from the meltdowns in four reactors at the Fukushima-Dai-ichi plant in Japan beginning March 11, 2011 included radioiodine isotopes. Just days after the meltdowns, I-131 concentrations in US precipitation was measured up to 211 times above normal. Highest levels of I-131 and airborne gross beta were documented in the five US States on the Pacific Ocean. The number of congenital hypothyroid cases in these five states from March 17-December 31, 2011 was 16% greater than for the same period in 2010, compared to a 3% decline in 36 other US States (p < 0.03). The greatest divergence in these two groups (+28%) occurred in the period March 17-June 30 (p < 0.04). Further analysis, in the US and in other nations, is needed to better understand any association between iodine exposure from Fukushima-Dai-ichi and congenital hypothyroidism risk.

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The New World Order Is Not the Figment of Some Conspiracy Theorist's Imagination

Some people may think that the New World Order is a conspiracy theory invented by Alex Jones and other wackos in the alternative media.

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In fact, making the New World Order seem like some wacko conspiracy theory may be precisely the function of wacko conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones.

That the New World Order is the delusional product of a conspiracy theorist's imagination is, however, entirely mistaken. The New World Order is simply a name for global empire, world governance or whatever you want to call one-world government.

The current plan of implementation was announced by President George H. W. Bush, in 1991.But efforts to bring about a system of global governance are much older than that.

Realistic visions of global empire were born in the 19th century when the telegraph, the steamship and the machine gun made the creation of a global empire clearly feasible.

In the 1890's a British group seized on the idea of developing their empire, which controlled one quarter of the World’s population, into a global confederation of democratic states. The group was founded by Cecil Rhodes and included Rhodes' banking friends, Lord Rothschild and Alfred Beit, William Stead, the long-time Editor of the Times (of London, Lord Astor, Prop.), then the most influential news organ in the world, and Alfred Lord Milner, the central figure in the development of Britain’s early 20th century foreign policy.

The work of this group led to the formation of the Roundtable Groups, including the Council on Foreign Relations, today America's foremost foreign policy think tank, which staunchly backs (and presumably plans) every war for America global hegemony.

But the Anglo-American drive for World domination did not go unchallenged. The Communists, from Marx onward, have always preached global revolution. And the term New World Order was the title of the book in which Fabian socialist, H.G. Wells (friend of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and sometime admirer of Adolf Hitler), spelled out his vision of a united planet.

To many, the idea of global governance may seem benign. But what they should realize is that its achievement entails the destruction of the sovereign nation state, i.e., the process of global genocide as the term “genocide” was defined by Raphael Lemkin.

The destruction of the nation state means the destruction of the distinctive cultures of both nations and civilizations. Hence the war on Islam, aka, the war on terror, and also the war on Christianity. That is why the “stomp on Jesus incident” at Florida Atlantic University is significant. For the success of the New World Order, American national identity, culture and European racial majority must be destroyed, just as the identity of every other nation must be replaced by a synthetic identity adapted to the needs of global system of governance subservient to the money power.

See also: 

James Fetzer, Conspiracy Theories, and the Defence of the State Against the People

Aangirfan: THE STATE IS NOT WORRIED BY THE BLOGGERS

 Biden: The 'affirmative task' before us is to 'create a new world order' 

The US Greenback: Cash or Trash?

From the liberal left to the war-mongering Neocon right, America's political establishment has adopted as a fundamental principle Dick Cheney's Doctrine that "deficits don't matter".

Or rather the principle they have adopted is that deficits do matter — a lot — since without them it would be impossible to pursue the War on Terror or provide food stamps and healthcare to the tens of millions of Americans whose jobs have been exported to the Third World by profit maximizing American corporations, such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft.

The price of endless wars and mass welfare, so the new thinking goes, is endless and unimaginably huge deficits covered by money printing.

Money printing, or quantitative easing as it is more politely termed, is thus broadly accepted as the necessary financial laxative for America's insufficiently productive economy.

But not everyone agrees.

Place No Trust in Financial Markets

According to Reagan Administration budget Director, David Stockman, writing in the New York Times, not only has printing a flood of money failed to revive  the  Main Street economy, it has inflated another unsustainable Wall Street bubble, and when that bubble bursts, "America will descend into an era of zero-sum austerity and virulent political conflict, extinguishing even today’s feeble remnants of economic growth."

What to do?

"Get out of the markets," says David Stockman, "and hide out in cash."

Place Your Trust in the Dollar? You Have to Be Kidding

But according Paul Craig Roberts, who was also a high official of the Reagan Administration, in cash is just what you don't want to be because ad-lib money printing is about to cause a rout of the greenback.

Inteviewed by Rob Krall of OpEdNews, Roberts said:

The dollar is one of the biggest bubbles in history.  The Federal Reserve is creating over a trillion new dollars annually, but the demand for dollars is not rising by a trillion annually.  And so, sooner or later, this has to affect the price of the dollar, that is, the exchange value.  And we already see the important nations moving to decouple from the dollar.

We have the BriCs: this is China, Russia, Brazil, India, South Africa.  Altogether now, that's probably about half the world's population.  And it's probably half of the traded goods (laughs).  And so they're setting up a system in which they settle their trade with one another in their own currencies.  The dollar is no longer used as a reserve currency.  They're setting up their own version of an IMF.  They're just going to bypass all the Western institutions.  We see in China and Asia the rise of an Asian currency bloc, which is being organized around the Chinese currency.  We see deals with Japan and China to settle their trade with one another in their own currencies. 

So the demand and use for the dollar is about to rapidly constrict.  We'll have a situation where the Feds are not only creating a trillion new dollars more than the demand is growing, but the demand will be shrinking!  And so the thing will blow up.  And when the dollar bubble pops, so does the bond market bubble, the stock market bubble.  We will have the biggest economic catastrophe in the history of the world, and there is no solution.  The United States will go from being a so-called superpower to a nothing! 

"Where to Hide?

So how best to avoid the deluge, by hiding out in cash or stocking up on canned beans and ammunition?

Or is the panic premature?

In 1782, in correspondence with Adam Smith about British reverses in the American War of Independence, John Sinclair, heir to the earldom of Caithness wrote: "If we go on at this rate, the nation must be ruined." to which Smith replied: "Be assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation."

At the time, the British Empire had more than 150 years to run and had not yet reached its apogee. Today, America's position is perhaps not dissimilar to that of Britain in 1782.

Is the Dollar Weak?

Among the few known uses of gold.

The dollar is not as good as gold. Which is to say that it increases in quantity far more rapidly than gold and, in itself, is even more useless than a lump of shiny soft metal, which might at least serve as a doorstop or if suitably worked, adorn a dusky maiden.

But is the dollar doomed? Might the greenback someday be worth less than the paper its printed on?

What, for example, if China or someone else got mad at the US for printing so much cash and sold all their US treasuries. Well nothing, really, except that the US Fed would print another $trillion or so and buy up the unwanted paper. That would leave the Bank of China or Japan or whoever the seller might be with dollars they didn't want, which they would sell for, well, they would sell for what?

Do they think Euros, or Yen or Renminbis offer a better store of value? It seems unlikely.

The EU has a much higher cost structure than the US and is much less flexible in adapting to the globalized market.

The Japanese are swallowing the quantitative easing purgative with abandon, and are openly avowing the intention to boost inflation, so what's to like about the yen?

As for China's currency, it's printed as fast as the Americans turn out greenbacks, or faster.

So the dollar, which was up today by 3% against the Yen and up against the pound, the Euro and the Canadian loonie, looks at least as good as most other forms of paper money you might hold.
 
So What Will Hold Its Value?

Cash: For the foreseeable future manufactured stuff and services that can be off-shored or computerized, will continue getting cheaper, which means money will hold its value or increase relative to the cost of many things. This trend will be sustained not only through global wage arbitrage, but as the result of advancing technology and the replacement of workers with robots.

Real Estate: In the long run real estate will escalate in nominal value, since the supply relative to the money in circulation continually falls. But real estate markets are cyclical, so prices can fall for many years after a boom or a bubble. Moreover, real estate improvements, as opposed to land, are like all artifacts, subject to depreciation. And as innovative technologies are applied to construction, the dollar cost of real estate improvements could plummet.

Commodities: Supplies of most commodities can still be greatly increased through the application of new extraction and processing technologies. Prices, therefore, will likely remain stable, although prices of individual commodities are susceptible to political action, e.g., China's controls on the export of rare earth elements, or Americas military interventions in the global energy supply chain.

Stocks:  American financial markets are prone to panics and excursions, but even the panic of 2008 caused no permanent damage to those who were invested in sound assets and kept their nerve. Those stocks are now higher than ever.

Bonds: It's possible that US bonds will sell off if inflation picks up, but why should it? Government statistics show US unemployment near 8%, while other measures suggest a real rate of unemployment at least twice that. And exporters of the American economy have now hit their stride. Whatever American workers can do for ten, twenty or thirty dollars an hour, the Third World can do for one, two or three dollars an hour. If its tradable, it has to be a lot cheaper than it was ten years ago. That's indicative not of inflation,but  of deflation.

So for those scared by stocks and GIC's the bond market will likely continue to give a better return than cash under the mattress.

Race and the complexity of human diversity

There is a tendency in the discussion of human racial diversity to focus on unidimensional statistics such as IQ, prison incarceration rate, or a few other measures that tend to reinforce the notion of a human ladder of evolutionary advancement.

In the American context, this usually places blacks at the bottom, hispanics next, then whites, Asians and, at the tippy top, America's six or eight million Jews whose names are so prominent on the Forbes rich list, on Wall Street, at the head of many top law firms and among faculty and students of the Ivy league universities. Quite where the Amerindians stand in the hierachy is unclear, although most often they are simply forgotten.

There’s no question that humans are diverse — with the exception of monozygotic twins, we are all genetically unique. Human diversity, however, is usually much greater within populations than between populations, especially if environmental effects on development are accounted for.

There are exceptions to this generalization but they usually reflect population differences in rather trivial single-gene or linked-gene traits. For example, skin color, proportion of fast muscle, eye-shape, etc. When one considers traits with a complex genetic base, e.g., intelligence, racial characterization can be highly misleading. Thus, as Ron Unz explains in his article Myth of American Meritocracy,

 Over the years, claims have been widely circulated that [in America] the mean Jewish IQ is a full standard deviation—15 points—above the white average of 100, but this seems to have little basis in reality. Richard Lynn, one of the world’s foremost IQ experts, has performed an exhaustive literature review and located some 32 IQ samples of American Jews, taken from 1920 to 2008. For the first 14 studies conducted during the years 1920–1937, the Jewish IQ came out very close to the white American mean, and it was only in later decades that the average figure rose to the approximate range of 107–111.. … [and] Jewish academic achievement has apparently plummeted in recent decades…

I have no axe to grind concerning Jewish claims to intellectual accomplishment, although having been Christened in the Anglican, aka Episcopalian, church, I was amused by Unz’s statement that: “An analysis of the data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that Americans raised in the Episcopal Church actually exceeded Jews in mean IQ.”

But because they are not necessarily different when compared on some arbitrary and questionable measure of intellectual ability, it does not mean that Jews and, say, Episcopalians are intellectually or otherwise indistinguishable, or that any differences between them are unimportant or best eliminated. We simply don’t know much about those differences or how much they matter in particular circumstances. In any case,  Jews have surely accomplished enough to deserve a continued lease on life as a distinct ethnic — which is to say racial and cultural — group, as for that matter have the English, Episcopalian or otherwise.

Thus before the globalists destroy every nation and mix every race, we should take a break of a hundred years to considered what is involved in the drive for global miscegenation. And even then we should ensure every race a homeland where those who wish to go on being Viking or Jew, Malian or Chinese can maintain their national genetic and cultural identity.

For North Americans, however, the idea of racial separation is problematic. While resisting the inclusion of blacks, most Americans have long seen their country as a racial melting pot. Canadians mostly abandoned the idea that theirs is a country of two nations, English and French, following the loss of Quebec's 1980 independence referendum, although by that time English Canada was mostly anything but English. Integration, homogenization and miscegenation to produce what become identifiable as American and Canadian races is thus the probably outcome for North America's populations.

The loss of racial and cultural differentiation within North America is no reason, however, for the destruction of the races and nations from which the North American (and Australian) nations have sprung, including the indigenous nations of North America.

Chinese kindergarten. Image source

Certainly, maintaining human genetic and cultural diversity must, in any sane society, be more important than preserving the existence of the snail darter, the marbled murrelet, the purple toadflax and other non-human forms of biodiversity, about which concern is so often publicly expressed. But then there is nothing racist about seeking to preserve an endangered species, whereas to oppose the genocide of one's own people, their race and nation, is now generally condemned by the witless liberals who dominate the media as tantamount to Nazism and Holocaust denial.

See also:

The Unassimilated Indian
Race and IQ: Are Comparisons Intelligent 
Race and IQ in America

The Corruption of Capitalism in America

By David Stockman

New York Times, March 30, 2013: The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be very afraid.

Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later — within a few years, I predict — this latest Wall Street bubble, inflated by an egregious flood of phony money from the Federal Reserve rather than real economic gains, will explode, too.

Since the S.&P. 500 first reached its current level, in March 2000, the mad money printers at the Federal Reserve have expanded their balance sheet sixfold (to $3.2 trillion from $500 billion). Yet during that stretch, economic output has grown by an average of 1.7 percent a year (the slowest since the Civil War); real business investment has crawled forward at only 0.8 percent per year; and the payroll job count has crept up at a negligible 0.1 percent annually. Real median family income growth has dropped 8 percent, and the number of full-time middle class jobs, 6 percent. The real net worth of the “bottom” 90 percent has dropped by one-fourth. The number of food stamp and disability aid recipients has more than doubled, to 59 million, about one in five Americans.

So the Main Street economy is failing while Washington is piling a soaring debt burden on our descendants, unable to rein in either the warfare state or the welfare state or raise the taxes needed to pay the nation’s bills. By default, the Fed has resorted to a radical, uncharted spree of money printing. But the flood of liquidity, instead of spurring banks to lend and corporations to spend, has stayed trapped in the canyons of Wall Street, where it is inflating yet another unsustainable bubble.

When it bursts, there will be no new round of bailouts like the ones the banks got in 2008. Instead, America will descend into an era of zero-sum austerity and virulent political conflict, extinguishing even today’s feeble remnants of economic growth.

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The Myth of American Meritocracy

By Ron Unz

American Conservative, November 28, 2012: Just before the Labor Day weekend, a front page New York Times story broke the news of the largest cheating scandal in Harvard University history, in which nearly half the students taking a Government course on the role of Congress had plagiarized or otherwise illegally collaborated on their final exam.1 Each year, Harvard admits just 1600 freshmen while almost 125 Harvard students now face possible suspension over this single incident. A Harvard dean described the situation as “unprecedented.”

But should we really be so surprised at this behavior among the students at America’s most prestigious academic institution? In the last generation or two, the funnel of opportunity in American society has drastically narrowed, with a greater and greater proportion of our financial, media, business, and political elites being drawn from a relatively small number of our leading universities, together with their professional schools. The rise of a Henry Ford, from farm boy mechanic to world business tycoon, seems virtually impossible today, as even America’s most successful college dropouts such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg often turn out to be extremely well-connected former Harvard students. Indeed, the early success of Facebook was largely due to the powerful imprimatur it enjoyed from its exclusive availability first only at Harvard and later restricted to just the Ivy League.

During this period, we have witnessed a huge national decline in well-paid middle class jobs in the manufacturing sector and other sources of employment for those lacking college degrees, with median American wages having been stagnant or declining for the last forty years. Meanwhile, there has been an astonishing concentration of wealth at the top, with America’s richest 1 percent now possessing nearly as much net wealth as the bottom 95 percent.2 This situation, sometimes described as a “winner take all society,” leaves families desperate to maximize the chances that their children will reach the winners’ circle, rather than risk failure and poverty or even merely a spot in the rapidly deteriorating middle class. And the best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university, which provides an easy ticket to the wealth of Wall Street or similar venues, whose leading firms increasingly restrict their hiring to graduates of the Ivy League or a tiny handful of other top colleges.3 On the other side, finance remains the favored employment choice for Harvard, Yale or Princeton students after the diplomas are handed out.4

The Battle for Elite College Admissions

As a direct consequence, the war over college admissions has become astonishingly fierce, with many middle- or upper-middle class families investing quantities of time and money that would have seemed unimaginable a generation or more ago, leading to an all-against-all arms race that immiserates the student and exhausts the parents. The absurd parental efforts of an Amy Chua, as recounted in her 2010 bestseller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, were simply a much more extreme version of widespread behavior among her peer-group, which is why her story resonated so deeply among our educated elites. Over the last thirty years, America’s test-prep companies have grown from almost nothing into a $5 billion annual industry, allowing the affluent to provide an admissions edge to their less able children. Similarly, the enormous annual tuition of $35,000 charged by elite private schools such as Dalton or Exeter is less for a superior high school education than for the hope of a greatly increased chance to enter the Ivy League.5 Many New York City parents even go to enormous efforts to enroll their children in the best possible pre-Kindergarten program, seeking early placement on the educational conveyer belt which eventually leads to Harvard.6 Others cut corners in a more direct fashion, as revealed in the huge SAT cheating rings recently uncovered in affluent New York suburbs, in which students were paid thousands of dollars to take SAT exams for their wealthier but dimmer classmates.7

But given such massive social and economic value now concentrated in a Harvard or Yale degree, the tiny handful of elite admissions gatekeepers enjoy enormous, almost unprecedented power to shape the leadership of our society by allocating their supply of thick envelopes. Even billionaires, media barons, and U.S. Senators may weigh their words and actions more carefully as their children approach college age. And if such power is used to select our future elites in a corrupt manner, perhaps the inevitable result is the selection of corrupt elites, with terrible consequences for America. Thus, the huge Harvard cheating scandal, and perhaps also the endless series of financial, business, and political scandals which have rocked our country over the last decade or more, even while our national economy has stagnated.

Just a few years ago Pulitzer Prize-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden published The Price of Admission, a devastating account of the corrupt admissions practices at so many of our leading universities, in which every sort of non-academic or financial factor plays a role in privileging the privileged and thereby squeezing out those high-ability, hard-working students who lack any special hook. In one particularly egregious case, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, later sent to Federal prison on political corruption charges, paid Harvard $2.5 million to help ensure admission of his completely under-qualified son.8 When we consider that Harvard’s existing endowment was then at $15 billion and earning almost $7 million each day in investment earnings, we see that a culture of financial corruption has developed an absurd illogic of its own, in which senior Harvard administrators sell their university’s honor for just a few hours worth of its regular annual income, the equivalent of a Harvard instructor raising a grade for a hundred dollars in cash.

An admissions system based on non-academic factors often amounting to institutionalized venality would seem strange or even unthinkable among the top universities of most other advanced nations in Europe or Asia, though such practices are widespread in much of the corrupt Third World. The notion of a wealthy family buying their son his entrance into the Grandes Ecoles of France or the top Japanese universities would be an absurdity, and the academic rectitude of Europe’s Nordic or Germanic nations is even more severe, with those far more egalitarian societies anyway tending to deemphasize university rankings.

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BBC Launches New Attack on Christianity

As the Telegraph reports, following its derisive and obscene skit on the Archbishop of Canterbury, the BBC continues the genocidal assault on English culture by further insulting Christianity, the religion of England's national church.

The Telegraph, March 29, 2013: The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the former bishop of Rochester, said the programme, presented by Melvyn Bragg would be “hugely offensive” to devout Christians because it amounted to the “sexualisation of Christ”.

He said it was all the more upsetting because it is being screened at midday on Good Friday – the moment the Bible says Jesus was put on the cross.

Last night one Christian group issued an alert to its supporters urging them to contact the BBC’s complaints line.

Lord Bragg, who describes himself as “no longer a believer”, argues that Mary’s close relationship with Jesus was effectively airbrushed out of the accepted Biblical account by “misogynist” Romans.

He points to a series of ancient writings known as the Gnostic Gospels which were not included in the agreed list of books which became the New Testament.

They include references to Mary being “kissed on the mouth” by Jesus, being his favourite and even, as one passage suggests, his wife.

The suggestion that Mary had a sexual relationship with Jesus lies behind the storyline of the Hollywood film The Last Temptation of Christ, which provoked a scandal, and more recently the Da Vinci Code, the best-selling novel by Dan Brown.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph last week, Lord Bragg said: “She was acknowledged by other disciples as his favourite and there is one taunting scrap of record which may well lead to the conclusion that she was his wife.

“What then? What then for the celibacy which has led the organised Church into so many abuses and crimes and distorted lives?”

But Bishop Nazir-Ali accused the corporation of deliberately causing offense to Christians and questioned whether other groups would be treated in the same way.

The Pakistan-born cleric, who was the fist non white bishop in the Church of England, added that the programme could cause particular problems for Christians in Muslim countries where they are already facing persecution.

He said: “This is going out at 12 o’clock on Good Friday which is exactly the time that Christians are thinking about Christ on the cross, this highly provocative stuff that really encourages a sexualisation of Christ with references to him being kissed on the mouth by Mary Magdalene and it refers to her being his wife.

“I am concerned about the misuses of very obscure Gnostic gospels to impugne the integrity of the Bible.

“It is highly provocative in terms of its content for Christians on Good Friday and it attempts to sexualize Christ in the most offensive way.

“Biblical Christians are not given any kind of response to this.

“They can say whatever they like on Good Friday and nobody it seems is going to put the Biblical point of view about who Mary was and what her relationship with Jesus was.

“Why is the BBC doing this on Good Friday and why is it doing it in such a provocative way.”

“There will be huge offence, here must be some way of putting the other point of view across.”

Last night the group Christian Concern emailed its supporters urging them to contact the BBC’s complaints line and offering links to online complaint forms.

Andrea Williams, director of Christian Concern, said: “Noon Good Friday is the precise time Christians are remembering Jesus' crucifixion.

“To air a programme which questions the purity of Christ is at best insensitive and at worst offensive.

“Who is making such bewildering decisions in the BBC's religious programming department?

“A programme redressing the balance based on sound scholarship - rather than pseudo-scholarship popularised by Dan Brown novels - needs to broadcast.”

See also:

Those BBC Bastards Pissed On My Church

Anaxagoras and Other Bits of Cut and Paste

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham

The weather forecast for CanSpeccy's patch of the sub-boreal zone is for another six days of sunshine, which means 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang blogging!' Instead we will continue to plagiarize our-self, with some swift bits of cut and paste.

Anaxagoras
(ca. 500 BC–428) b. Clazomenae, Ionia (Modern Turkey)

Iconoclastic speculation
The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. It is the sun that puts brightness into the moon.*

John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy, 3rd edn., A & C Black, London, 1920.

* As a native of Ionia, Anaxagoras was heir to the Milesian school of philosophy founded by Thales. He migrated to Athens, where he became a friend and teacher of Pericles. He sought to explain meteorological and celestial phenomena. He believed that celestial bodies are made of soil and rocks just like the earth, an idea that may have been prompted by the fall of a large rocky meteorite at Aigos Patamos on the Hellespont in the year 468–457 BC. He believed the sun to be a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese, Greece's southern peninsular. The Peloponnese has an area of 21,549.6 square kilometers, whereas the sun is about 70 million times larger — even larger, perhaps, than Anaxagoras imagined.

The Athenians were intolerant of such speculation and condemned Anaxagoras to death for impiety. He managed, however, to escape Athens, probably with the aid of Pericles. Socrates, who acknowledged the influence of Anaxagoras on his own teaching, was also convicted by the Athenians of impiety, but unlike Anaxagoras, did not escape the ultimate penalty.

Source: A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Of Men, Apes and Civilization

Alfred Burdett, April 20, 2012: The close DNA sequence similarity between men and apes has led some to suppose that a man is no more than a wimpy chimp with a slightly swollen head. Further, it has been suggested, since the difference between men and apes is so trivial, there must be creatures somewhere in the limitless expanse of the universe at least as superior in intellect to us as were are to chimps. So, according to this line of thinking, despite the modest enlargement of the human fore-brain, we have little to be swelled-headed about. But this view reflects a misunderstanding of the difference between men and apes and the significance of that difference.

Both men and apes are mammals, which means that they are built to the same plan. They have liver and lights, stomach and spleen, four limbs, a head and a tail. At the cellular level the similarity of design is even closer: the same membranes, organelles, nucleic acids and enzymes. So inevitably men and apes share much the same DNA sequence, as they do with horses and hamsters, and even with reptiles and fishes, fungi and forest trees.

There is a underlying biochemical unity to the life of this Earth. But that does not make the fangs of a tiger and the molars of a camel functionally equivalent. Small changes in the proportions and slight differences in the elaboration of a basic design can result in fundamental differences in function.

Likewise with the brains of man and chimp. In the lobes and their connections the two are largely similar. But the human brain has approximately twice the mass of the brain of a chimp, and there is a many-fold difference between the two in the size of particular features. The human brain is thus adapted to functions unknown to the mind of a chimp.

And it is possible for very slight genetic changes to result in qualitatively transformational changes in function. For example, a single-gene mutation that results in one additional round of cell division in a portion of the embryonic brain would double the final volume of this or that portion of the brain.

Why, then, it might be said, if the only thing distinguishing a man from an ape is a small collection of single gene mutations, the difference between us is trivial indeed. But that is to misunderstand the evolutionary step that man has made and which no other ape can ever make.

To evolve a larger brain, an organism must have a use for a larger brain. The brain is an energy intensive organ, requiring a continuous infusion of glucose and oxygen. A chimp with a brain like that of a human would be at a severe disadvantage. It would want to sit around and think but it would need to work harder than every other chimp to obtain the food necessary to keep its costly brain alive. The only way such a chimp could survive would be to invent language, create a civilization and its associated technologies thereby raising the chimp living standard while lowering the hours of hard physical work necessary to physical survival. That is what mankind achieved. And that is what no other species on Earth can achieve while mankind exists because mankind has preempted the resources of the entire planet.

As to the claim that an extraterrestrial intelligence would likely consider the mind of man as feeble a thing as we humans are inclined to consider the mind of a chimp, the answer should be, “give us time.” It took humans about one hundred thousand years to exchange the lifestyle of an ape for that of a yuppie. But most of that transformation occurred, with exponential acceleration, in the last ten thousand years.

Humanity is now at a critical point in its existence. We have a technology, the Internet, that puts the entire accumulated knowledge of the species at the fingertips of every one of seven billion humans at practically zero cost. The result is an ongoing explosion in technological innovation that will likely either destroy us within a matter of decades or grant us the power of gods. Not only do we have the ability to educate every receptive mind to a point far beyond the reach of Aristotle or Newton, but to build intelligent machines that can outperform the human intellect by orders of magnitude.

This is precisely the transformation that any intelligent civilization created by organically evolved creatures anywhere in the universe must have undergone. It is the transformation from advancement through haphazard accumulation of mutations and genetic rearrangements that yield short-term survival advantage, to the engineered improvement of the human organism and its enveloping civilization.

And once evolution is intelligently planned, it likely follows the same course anywhere in the universe. We are about to become a species of the gods, provided we avoid destroying ourselves before we figure out how to manage technology for our own good.

Killing Moss, Homer as Harry Potter for Adults, and F.W. Maitland, The Free Society and the New World Order

I have posted nothing during the last week, which suggests the possibility of spontaneous remission of the blogging obsession.

In the meantime, I have been usefully engaged in such things as killing moss. With a bottle of ferrous sulfate solution that comes with a siphon and spray nozzle attached, I just connected to the hose and sprayed. Within a an hour, the moss had turned black, evidence of death of moribundity, I assume, while the grass acquired that attractive blue-green color of newly laid turf, or sod as we call it hereabouts. An amazing product: sixteen dollars plus applicable taxes for one liter of mostly water. But it works.

Also I finally got around to reading the complete works of Homer — the prose translation by Samuel Butler. I'd never thought much of Butler, a morose and self-centered character chiefly famous as the author of a novel called Nowhere (spelled backwards). But with Homer, he did a great job. It's Harry Potter for adults: sex, war, barbequed prime rib, wine, and magic.

There's nothing crudely Hollywood about the sex. It's left to the imagination, but the delights of comely maidens and other mens' wives stolen in battle is the main thing. Plus there's always the chance of getting laid with a goddess.

The war stuff is fun. Much boasting about high-tech bronze-tipped spears, shields made with seven layers of ox hide, and chariots with oaken axles and gold-plated wheels, although sometimes they were reduced to hurling sharp rocks. There's lots of uncoordinated dashing about, everyone doing their own thing according as how they felt at the particular moment.

Chariots were as much a means to exit the scene of battle as a conveyance to the front: spear a couple then high-tail it back to town for a visit with wifey and the babe-in-arms, to perform hecatombs to the gods, enjoy a feast and the boon of sleep then, at the crack of rosy fingered dawn child of the morning, back to nailing Acheans, Trojans, whoever.

F.W. Maitland of Trinity College
Cambridge (1850–1906). Image source.

 

 

 

Even more fascinating though, has been reading Alan MacFarlane's short work, F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World, which was kindly drawn to my attention by a learned friend (available in PDF here). Here is explained how, via the British Empire and the United States, English law of the Thirteenth Century gave rise to the modern world, the open society and individual liberty.

From Maitland's remarkable insights into the processes of social transformation, one sees how today, the post-modern neo-totalitarians, the social democrats, the neo-liberals, the Blair's and Bush's, the Cameron's and Obama's, are taking power back from the civil society and restoring it to the center, the state, the security services, international criminal networks and the globalist entities.

Whereas, during the emergence of a free society, independent associations created churches, schools, universities, sports associations, stock markets, insurance markets, scientific and philosophical societies, charitable institutions of all kinds and business enterprises, today the trend is all the other way. Independent schools, the English grammar schools for example, are undermined or fully absorbed by the state, home schooling is seen as a form of dissidence, members of religious groups are ridiculed, blasphemy is unpunished promoted, universities have become adjuncts of the state, unprecedentedly high taxation starves private charitable organizations and constricts the range and effectiveness of their actions, the "free press" is anything but, the narcotics trade is an intelligence services profit center, US prisons have become a gulag, and the US Homeland Security has become an agency for the intimidation and sexual humiliation of the populace.

That is the New World Order. It signals the end of the free society. Opposition cannot come through electoral processes that place in power the puppets of the globalist conspiracy. The only means of push back is through the re-invigoration of civil society and the recreation of powerful independent citizen associations to take back schooling from the bureaucrats, to take back hospitals and charitable works from the state, to restore the dignity of churches, to recapitalize independent scientific and research bodies, and to create political associations free of deep state penetration. The chances of success are slight, but Maitland indicated the only way in which success could be achieved.

Those BBC Bastards Pissed On My Church

The BBC, is a haven not only for terrorists, child molesters and rapists, but is also big on blasphemy, in which connection, Archbishop Cranmer draws our attention to a recent and contemptible assault by Britain's state broadcaster on England's national church. In a televised skit, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is mocked as an unbelieving trendy fool who tells us, among other things, that prayer doesn't work and that Jesus prefers the word "shag" to "fuck."

Typically, the cowardly scoundrels and liars at the BBC, facing widespread condemnation, promptly deleted the video from their own Web site and have had it taken down at U-Tube. But the damage will have been done. Millions saw the insult to the established church and the ridicule directed at both believers and Christ, but few indeed will be aware of the gutless way in which the BBC concealed the evidence of its vile action as soon as signs of a backlash were detected.

Henry VIII. You say those BBC bastards
pissed on my Church?

As Archbishop Cranmer well knows, his old boss, King Henry VIII, who founded the Catholic Church of England, would have known what to do with those responsible for this outrage: the BBC Director General, Tony Hall—the third Director General in about as many weeks, as one scandal overtakes another—the program producers, and the actor Rowan Atkinson. Old Harry would have had their guts for garters or, to be more specific, he'd have had them hanged, drawn, and quartered. One can only think it is a pity old Henry Eight is not still around to wield some stick.

But, in fact, the scum at the BBC would be better hanged for treason than blasphemy, for their attack on the Anglican Church is primarily an attack not on religion, but on one of the institutions of the English nation, undertaken as part of the genocidal assault on the nation state by a puppet government of the New World Order. Henry VIII would no doubt have agreed. He was into building a nation, not tearing one down.

Let's hope all Anglicans will take a stand against blasphemy and refuse to pay the BBC license fee.

See also:

Cameron accused of betraying Christians: Astonishing Easter attack on the PM by former Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury: I Am Not a Spy

Creating Financial Chaos: For the Want of a Lousy Six Billion Euros

For the want of a lousy Six billion Euros to fund the Cypriot Bank bailout, the Troika, which is to say the EU Council, The European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have created a potentially catastrophic crisis of confidence in the global banking system.

Instead of laying out the trivial sum of another ten Euros per citizen of the Eurozone, the Troika have decreed that, in flagrant denial of a government deposit guarantee, Cypriot bank depositors must lose at least 6% percent and up to 15% of their money to stabilize the institutions in whose hands they have placed their savings.

Now lets think about this. The Cypriot banks are supposed to be regulated by the governments of Cyprus and the EU. So if those banks are run by crooks or incompetent fools, whose fault is it? Obviously, it is the fault of those governments that have failed in their regulatory duty  and, as a failure of government, the cost of that fault should be borne collectively, i.e., by government, not haphazardly, by individuals according as whether or not they have saved their money.

Citizens of a modern state have no option but to deposit their savings in a bank. It may not be illegal to save cash under the mattress, but to be in possession of large quantities of cash is treated by government as a prime indicator of possible criminal or terrorist intent, for which reason banks are required to report to government all large cash transactions, either deposits or withdrawals.

And it is government that has declared gold, silver and copper, the age old measures of value, to be no longer legal tender.

The provision of a trustworthy monetary system is thus a fundamental responsibility of government, and dishonesty or incompetence in the management of money is a deadly destroyer of government legitimacy. If you doubt that, think of Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany.

What then must Western governments do to restore credibility in their management of money?

 A solution is not technically difficult, but it is all but impossible politically because it means sharply curbing the money power, which funds all  so-called democratic, elections in the West.

But here's the solution.

Every central bank will offer a retail savings bank service. This would be strictly online. Your account with the Bank of England, the Fed, the EU Central Bank or whatever, would be where your pay check would be deposited. There your money would be absolutely secure. The bank can never run out of funds to pay you back because it has the legal right to print money in any amount.

To access your central bank account, you'd have a cash or credit card, or where checks are still used, a check book.

Central bank accounts might pay nominal interest, just as the US Fed pays interest on surplus reserves deposited with it by the commercial banks.

Where Would You Go For a Loan?

The business of lending would remain with the commercial banks. But instead of lending money deposited by savers, they would lend funds borrowed from the Central Bank.

This would bring an end of fractional reserve banking, whereby banks lend so many times the cash in reserve, an entirely mythical system under which banks, in fact, lend as much as they like, conjuring the money out of thin air, the amount limited only by the banks' judgement of what loans it is safe to make, i.e., which borrowers can be relied upon to repay the debt.

And they don't have to worry about the ability of the borrower to repay where governments have been so irresponsible as to guarantee stupendous quantities of private debt, as for example, the trillions in mortgage debt guaranteed by the GSEs in the US, and the hundreds of billions guaranteed by Canada's CMHC.

Real Control of the Money Supply at Last

The amount loaned by the central banks to the commercial banks would be based not only on a judgement of how much it was safe to lend any particular bank, but also a judgement of the needs of the economy, i.e., the optimum quantity of money.


To determine the creditworthyness of the commercial banks, the central bank would have the power to audit banks, to determine the responsibility of their lending practises.

The overall amount of central bank lending to the commercial banks would be regulated through control of the lending rate. The rate would be such as to permit lending for productive investment, while preventing lending for mainly speculative investments that lead to the creation of a bubble or Ponzi economy.

Thus the central bank would have absolute control of money supply. Moreover, it would have the means, presently lacking, to "push on a piece of string." If the economy were in recession, interest rates would be lowered to encourage borrowing and thus stimulate spending and aggregate demand. If zero interest rates on loans to the commercial banks failed to stimulate sufficient demand, the central bank could apply a negative interest rate. For every dollar borrowed, the commercial banks would receive so many cents from the central bank, thus allowing further scope for downward adjustment in retail loan rates.

The same negative interest rate would, necessarily, be applied to commercial bank reserves to prevent hoarding of money bearing negative interest. Negative interest rates would, however, never apply to individual cash deposits, since that would destroy public confidence in the monetary system.

Elimination of Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Illicit Drugs

How would central banks prevent commercial banks from lending money they don't have, the practice in which they engage today?

Easily. All money would be created by the central bank, which would give each unit of currency a digital identifier, making each unit traceable at every instant, since all money at all times would consist solely in a number or a set of numbers in a data bank stored on a highly redundant and nuclear blast-proof computer system.

For example, a commercial bank borrows cash from the central bank to finance its loan program, each dollar borrowed having its own identity number. When you borrow from the commercial bank to buy a car the money can be tracked as it moves from the central bank to the commercial bank's central bank account, through your central bank account, to the central bank account of the car dealer.

In fact, every dollar in any account can be traced from the moment of its creation. Thus if politician X receives funds via lobbyist Y who works for company Z, the money can be traced and the police can make any relevant inquiries. If millions are going to the account of a Mexican citizen without no apparent legitimate means of support, via a bunch of ne'er-do-wells in Los Angeles or Toronto, the narcotics police can easily spot the trail. And if a hacker were to remove every cent from your bank account, the missing funds could instantly be located and returned to you.

This, of course, is no fun at all, since it would rob the financial "services" sector of the freedom to print their own money and generally mug the populace while buying the silence of the politicians.

Still, the perfectibility of society is something worth considering once in a while, if only as an meaningless diversion.

Postscript
In the event, the final settlement of the Cyprus banking crisis:

spares bank accounts below the insured limit of 100,000 euros. It imposes losses that two EU officials said would be no more than 40 percent on uninsured depositors at Bank of Cyprus Plc, the largest bank, which will take over the viable assets of Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl (CPB), the second biggest.

Cyprus Popular Bank, 84 percent owned by the government, will be wound down. Those who will be largely wiped out include uninsured depositors and bondholders, including senior creditors. Senior bondholders will also contribute to the recapitalization of Bank of Cyprus.(Source)

Some large depositors escaped the crash thanks to a tip-off by the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiades:

Cypriot president Nikos Anastasiades 'warned' close friends of the financial crisis about to engulf his country so they could move their money abroad, it was claimed on Friday.

The respected Cypriot newspaper Filelftheros made the allegation which was picked up eagerly by German media.

Italian media said the 4.5 billion euros left the island in the week before the crisis. (Source)

 See also:
Canspeccy: The Numero: Beyond Gold and Fractional Reserve Banking

Self-Determination and Self-Defense in Cherán, Michoacán

From El Enemigo Comun - by Simòn Sedillo

Anarchist News, January 8, 2013: On December 11, 2012, the US Justice Department announced that banking giant HSBC was immune from prosecution despite overwhelming evidence that they consistently failed to implement controls against money-laundering. Assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said: “Had the US authorities decided to press criminal charges, HSBC would almost certainly have lost its banking license in the US, the future of the institution would have been under threat and the entire banking system would have been destabilized.”

The entire banking system would have been destabilized?



The Department of Justice opted rather to charge HSBC a record-breaking 1.9 billion dollar fine, and ordered the bank’s activities monitored for five years. The 1.9 billion is equivalent to five weeks’ worth of HSBC earnings, in other words, a drop in the bucket. The saddest part of the story in the mainstream media, is the focus on money laundered and money fined, as opposed to lives lost and crime legitimized in one of the most grotesque admissions of complicity with organized crime in the so-called war on drugs. Basically what was announced to the world by the US Justice Department was that the money ran too thick, and the criminals were too powerful. The global economic impact of prosecuting a bank where the dirty money has been going, was too dangerous to risk. “Sorry kids, but we guess the bad guys win.”

In Cheran, Michoacan, Mexico the news of HSBC’s immunity from criminal prosecution and US sanctions comes as no surprise. Organized crime has been prevalent in the community since 2000. After a 2008 mayoral race that left a PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) candidate in office, illicit activity increased substantially. The community learned that organized crime is an integral part of local politics and economics everywhere. Cheran is a beautiful small indigenous Purepecha mountain community surrounded by precious forests, that knows the true cost of those profits laundered. Immediately after the 2008 mayoral race the community began experiencing the devastating effects of dog eat dog capitalism of which organized crime is only another part.

The illegal logging industry began to ravage the community’s most precious forests, which have been traditionally respected as a spiritual connection by the Indigenous Purepecha people to their territory. The logging began to look a lot more like pillaging and when community members began to attempt to defend their forests, they were met with a real life nightmare: the loggers were not only aided and protected by government agencies and local police, the entire logging operation was being coordinated by members of a major organized crime syndicate. [To this day I am told by community members not to name the actual syndicate in anything I write or say, or risk an almost certain death.]

The first community members who began to defend their forest were simply and quickly assassinated. From 2008-2011 the situation only became worse. Criminals charged protection to run even a small business in the community of Cheran. The forest was raped and terror reigned as anyone felt at risk. The city would become a ghost town by sunset. This is a reality confronted by too many communities in Mexico every day.

Murders, disappearances, kidnappings, the criminal amounts of illegal logging and the reign of terror came to a head on the early morning of April 15th, 2011. A group of women had begun quietly organizing in the days before an action to bring the ravaging of their town to a halt. On April 15th, with children and youth at their sides, the women rose up and attempted to detain loggers traveling through town. The loggers tried to run the women over and in response the community reacted as a whole, and began burning the loggers’ vehicles and began detaining the loggers themselves.

It is at this point that the community recognized the complicity of the local police when it was police officers who guided organized crime thugs to the place where the loggers were being held, in an attempt to violently release them. The community erected “fogatas” or bonfire barricades throughout town in order to prevent violence against community members. Within days the community decided that it no longer trusted any politicians from any political party or any of the local and state police. They began to organize for self-determination and self-defense and chose to return to their traditional Purepecha forms of self governance.

A general council of community elders was elected and commissions were formed in order to carry out the community’s logistical, social, economic, and political needs. Community members simply say that they referred to their history and referred to their elders in order to return to the way the community was organized before political parties, police, and organized crime existed. The general council is legally recognized as the governing body of Cheran, Michoacan today.

The community has maintained that they only have three demands: safety, justice, and the reforestation of their territory. They have actively been reforesting the entire region and take that aspect of their struggle very seriously, and remind us that for them protecting the forest is both a traditional and a spiritual obligation. Cheran does not believe that anybody will ever be able to bring them justice for their dead, disappeared, and displaced as a result of the conflict, nor do they expect anyone in power to understand the justice they seek for the forest. Today Cheran knows that justice is something that they will have to take care of obtaining on their own from now on. When it comes to safety, the world is able to see what it looks like for a community to take responsibility for its own safety through traditional indigenous forms of self governance and self-defense.

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Archbishop of Canterbury: I Am Not a Spy

Last week, as details of Justin Welby's career in some of the world's most dangerous countries came to light, Lambeth Palace "laughed off" suggestions that the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury may have been working for the Secret Intelligence Service.

Oh well then, nothing to worry about concerning the cold war role of the Centre for International Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral, then headed by Justin Weby, or Welby's dealings with Al Qaeda and his briefings thereon  to the US Government, or those high level dealings with the Nigerian government on behalf of that virginally pure oil co., Elf Aquitaine, the training in map memorization and codes. No, that was all just good clean Christianity.

As a spokesman for Lambeth Palace said today:

The Archbishop does not work for MI6 and never has done. He has never had any association with them.

That's great: sort of like the Pope announcing he believes in God — all concern on the question is immediately put to rest.

But then they might have commented on the Archbishop's possible connections with other intelligence agenices, British or foreign: the CIA, for instance.

Welby's father apparently made his money, some of it anyhow, bootlegging communion wine in the US during the prohibition era. How amusing. But it might be a good idea for the Anglicans to keep an eye on the communion wine — perhaps the silver and other church treasures too.
 
See also: 

The Archbishop and the oil sharks: A 'slick' young Justin Welby, the shady 'Monsieur Africa' and a £6billion mission to snag Nigeria's oil riches.

... a Mail on Sunday investigation has found that far from working on the margins of Elf Aquitaine, Justin Welby was one of its finance ‘sharks’ – and employed on a morally questionable plan to protect the firm’s oil interests in Nigeria in the early Eighties.

Named Bonny LNG, the plan involved persuading the country’s leaders that Elf and other major oil companies were poised to invest £6 billion in an energy project that had scant hope of being realised.

Throughout this period, the French state-owned company – which later became synonymous with corruption and scandal – was allegedly committing human rights abuses against the people of the oil-abundant Niger Delta.

Mr Welby, who made regular visits to the country’s capital for meetings at the time, strenuously denies being aware of the claims – or the true motivation for the Bonny LNG project.

During Mr Welby’s five years at Elf he worked under a number of colourful characters, none more so than the Corsican-born oil executive Andre Tarallo, dubbed Monsieur Africa.

Tarallo, who was in charge of African operations, would later feature in a massive fraud inquiry that tore the company apart in the Nineties. He was jailed for four years in 2003 for paying millions in bribes to African leaders in return for oil contracts.

‘Some of my other colleagues had contact with Tarallo and they were caught with their pants down,’ said Mr Welby’s former boss, Kjell Skjevesland.

‘Justin would have had direct contact with him. Justin would have been in the meetings with him, probably as the only non-French guy in there.’ However, Mr Welby denies meeting Tarallo in person.

When he joined the company in the late Seventies, the Nigerian government was planning to nationalise the country’s oil fields, something Elf, Shell, BP and others were desperate to prevent.

They attempted to talk the government out of it by dangling a giant carrot – a promise to invest £6 billion between them in a project that involved shipping natural gas from Nigeria to Europe.

But Bonny LNG collapsed before it began, just as the ‘investors’ knew it would. ‘Everyone was scrambling for crude at the time and everyone wanted to please the Nigerians,’ said Mr Skjevesland. ‘This project was way, way off and unrealistic.’

He said that the oil companies were simply ‘playing games’ with the Nigerian government to ensure they could ‘still get the crude out’.

Thomas Knutsen was another Elf finance executive who worked with Mr Welby. Asked if the project was designed to trick the Nigerian government into believing it would go ahead, when in all likelihood it would not, Mr Knutsen replied: ‘I think that is a good assumption.’

Asked if Mr Welby was aware of the tactic, Mr Skjevesland replied: ‘Yes, of course he was.’ But the Archbishop insists he ‘believed it to be a genuine project .  .  . and nothing [he] learned about it at the time suggested otherwise’.

After Bonny LNG’s demise, the plan to nationalise the industry was halted, ensuring the oil companies’ Nigerian interests were saved. They enjoyed massive profits, while the majority of Nigerians continued to lead impoverished lives.

Fifth Date Set for Emma West's Trial for Hateful Truth Speech

Emma West, the English woman charged with "racially aggravated harassment" for remarks made while riding a Croydon tram, has received a fifth trial date, of April 9, 2013, sixteen months after her alleged offense and initial incarceration for politically incorrect speech.

The repeated postponements have been at the request of the prosecution, suggesting either uncertainty about how to proceed with a tricky case of truth as hate speech, or the hope that, through demoralization by delay, Emma West could be persuaded to plead guilty — always the desired outcome in a political trial, since it relieves the prosecution of the necessity of devising plausible grounds, or any, grounds for conviction.

the following notes refer to what the Daily Mail claimed to be a transcript (see below) of Emma West's "horrific" remarks, as videoed by another passenger:

Notes:

1. In the Daily Mail transcript, the word fucking has, in a laughable pretense of modesty, been rendered as ****ing. I have not followed this affectation by the Daily Mail, a prime contender for the title of Britain's most prurient newspaper.

2. The Daily Mail omitted from the transcript comments by other passengers to which those of Emma West were, in part, a response.

3. The accuracy of the transcript is open to question. Statements that may have been mis-transcribed or incorrectly attributed to Emma West are in bold face, with corrections or interpolations sourced here in italics.

4. Many of Emma West's remarks are in response to comments by other passengers, which raises the possibility that she would not have spoken at all if not prompted to do so by an unrecorded comment or action of another passenger. Certainly, the statement that "I work" was in response to a black person's racist taunt "If we don't come here you don't want to work... go and work."

The Transcript
 
 What has this country come to? A load of black people and a load of fucking Polish. 

A load of fucking, yeah… you’re all fucking do you know what I mean?

The italicized words are not spoken by Emma West at all, but by a nearby male, and he says: "Still to say our name." Emma was hesitating for the words to describe the immigrants. He meant, 'You have yet to say our name.' He was probably deliberately goading and tempting her to use a racial epithet. It could possibly be: "Y'gonna say our name?" or "Y'wanna say our name?" But it's definitely not Emma speaking, and "say our name" is definitely there.

‘You ain’t English. No, you ain’t English either. You ain’t English. None of you’s fucking English. Get back to your own fucking… do you know what sort out your own countries, don’t come and do mine.

This is incorrect in several instances. It's more like this:

"(---) (what)" So (work/riot) your own countries. Don't come and see mine."

The two paren'd words, the first unclear to me, are at 0:25 in this upload.

There is no way the first two questionable words are "do you know what." It' just two syllables. It sounds, to American ears, like "Jay wot" or "jai what." It could be "Say what." Opinions from those familiar with her accent, are invited. She clearly says "see mine," not "do mine.")

‘It’s nothing now. Britain is nothing now. Britain is fuck all. My Britain is fuck all.

(This is one of the most unfortunate errors that started circulating. Because when you know what she says you know more how she feels, what motivates her, that she has seen the riots and the problems brought by immigration. Emma clearly says:

"Britain is suffering now. Britain's f*** all. My Britain is f*** all now."

You can hear clearly the "s" and "r" of "suffering" in this video, the Emma West "Warlock Tribute". It's at 1:04, enhanced. With a bit of reverb and the right EQ "suffering" is clear.)

‘Yeah its fine. I have got a little kid here. Have respect? I have a little boy here. fuck you. I dare you, I fucking dare you.

‘Don’t watch my language.

('Don't watch my language."

She really says:

"I've watched my language.")

Go back to where you come from, go back to fucking Nicaragua or where ever you come from. Just fucking go back.

‘I work, I work, I work, this is my British country until we let you lot come over.

When the African says (not included in the Daily Mail transcript)

"If we don't come here you don't want to work... go and work"

Emma first responds:

"Eh really? I work! This is my British country."

Her wry "Eh, really" has been left out of the Daily Mail transcript.

Further, she does not say:

"Until they let your lot come over." It's definitely "they let" not "we let." 

No, someone's got to talk up for these lot.

(It's simply:

"No, somebody's got to talk up!"

The "somebody's" goes very fast but that's it. There is no "for these lot.")

Look the whole fucking tram, look at them. Who is black and who is white. 'There is all black and fucking burnt people.'

Many errors there. I have listened to this pandemonium many times. Most became very clear. Lengthy details here.

Emma West's recorded comments were made in part if not in their entirety, in response to comments by others on the tram, it is therefore difficult to see any moral or legal basis for prosecution on a charge of harassment.

The comment of the black lady who said "If we don't come here you don't want to work... go and work" appears to have been the only racist comment recorded, whereas Emma West's comments concerning the other occupants of the tram were purely factual, i.e., that they were "not English." This claim appears to have been correct if by English one means members of the indigenous population with roots in the British Isles going back thousands of years. (That  England is the homeland of the English, the only one they have, is an obvious reality that Britain's treasonous liberal-Con-Left elite refuse to acknowledge, calling racist all those who object to their own genocide.)

That Emma West was initially incarcerated "for her own protection," while the police did nothing as far as is known to prosecute those on Twitter and elsewhere on the Web who made criminal threats to rape or knife her, makes it clear that Emma West's trial is a political event, a show trial to enforce the rule of politically correct (i.e., undeviatingly supportive) speech on the question of mass immigration, and that she has been targeted precisely because what she said about the ethnic cleansing of the English in England's working class neighborhoods is the truth.

Already a quarter of births in Britain are to foreign born mothers. But mass immigration cannot be questioned without breach of the rules of political correctness. Political correctness is a polite term for the tyrannical denial of free speech. Political action, spoken or otherwise, to stem the tide of settlers from throughout the World who are occupying the European nation states is not a permitted option.

Genocide of the nation state for the sake of global governance is a fundamental, all-party principle of the British and EU government. Pointing out the crime of genocide must, therefore, itself be criminalized, which is easily enough done by calling it racism. That is to say, it is racist to oppose the destruction of one's own people, culture and national identity.

The children of Newham, England. Nice kids, no doubt,
but mostly they're not English and most likely they have
parents who don't speak English. Image source.

In London, and England's second city, Birmingham, the proportion of children born to foreign-born mothers is over 50%. In London, Leicester, Luton, the English are now a minority in their own home, and these cities will soon to be joined by Birmingham, Bradford and many others. In some urban areas, for example, the London borough of Newham the majority of the population cannot speak English.

Under the lightweight, Blair substitute, globalist puppet, David Cameron and his liberal stooges, the genocide of the English in the cause of global plutocratic rule is set to continue unabated.

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CanSpeccy, Self-hating white racism

Truth: The New Hate Speech

By James Tracy

The Southern Poverty Law Center[1] is advising the US government of the alleged “domestic terror threat” posed by political conservatives, “conspiracy theorists,” and others skeptical of their government’s policies and behavior. A March 5, 2012 letter to the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security points to the group’s recent report, “The Year in Hate and Extremism.” The study uses SPLC data to point to an almost one thousand percent upsurge in “militias and radical antigovernment groups … from 149 in 2008 to 1,360 in 2012.”

The publicity has an ominous historical precedent. In October 1994 the SPLC’s “KlanWatch” program issued a similar warning to the federal government on the purported threat of militias and prompted a steady drumbeat of US newspaper reports.[2] Six months later on April 19, 1995 the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. Such coverage set the national stage for the “domestic security threat” that would crystallize in Timothy McVeigh and subdue the growth of an increasingly popular movement. Shortly after the bombing SPLC director Morris Dees delivered the organization’s oft-repeated claim of how there had been a “gradual infiltration” of citizen militias “by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.”[3]

Twenty years later the organization continues to exercise significant credibility, particularly among major press outlets that unquestioningly accept its claims. Yet it casts such a wide net in the effort to catalog supposedly dangerous organizations that even groups such as “We Are Change”–a national association of activists whose main offense is insisting upon a genuine investigation into 9/11–is classified as a “hate group” and placed alongside a cartoonish array of white supremacist and neo-Nazi outfits.[4]

When the SPLC’s “The Patriot Movement Explodes” was released in March 2012 the New York Times carried a piece promoting the report by Times‘ Atlanta bureau chief Kim Severson.[5] When I contacted Severson to assess her understanding of the paper’s methodology she referred me to SPLC “Senior Research Fellow” Mark Potok. I felt that an explanation of such methods and contact information for the purportedly dangerous groups listed on the “Hate Map” were especially important since independent observes could not touch base with many listed groups to confirm their existence, inquire upon their motivations to “hate,” and thereby confirm the study’s findings. “We don’t make any special effort to collect that kind of information,” Potok wrote, “although we do sometimes have it … The groups for which we do not give a location beyond the state are groups that report only a ‘statewide’ chapter without giving any location. Generally, we know they’re active, but can’t prove exactly where they’re headquartered.”[6]

Potok further explained how some entities were included merely based on “Internet activities, including pages, forums, and, often, email groups.” Given the subjective criteria for what constitutes “hate” and the nontransparent ways in which the SPLC conducts its inquiries, just about any loose affiliation leaving some traces on the web may be designated as exhibiting “hate” and thus qualify for the list.

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