What won't happen in 2012, let's hope

By CanSpeccy

This is the time of year when some otherwise sensible people offer a prediction as to how the World's economy will unfold during the forthcoming year. Such forecasts are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless because the evolution of the economy depends on events that cannot be predicted with the requisite accuracy. 

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For example, the Atlantic Island of La Palma, just off the northwest coast of Africa, periodically sheds a few trillion tons of congealed lava into the ocean setting off a tsunami of such destructiveness as to make the 2011 Japan tsunami look like a ripple on the surface of a puddle.

Such a wave, according to a BBC report  would be

...far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean.

So there go your New York mega banks and with them the global financial system.

Area of the US under ash after an eruption of the
Yellowstone mega-volcano.

And that's not all that Americans have to worry about.

There's Yellowstone, the World's largest volcano. If that blows, it's basically all over for the US economy -- half the country would be buried in ash. And that would mean collapse of the Chinese since they'd have no one to print the money to buy all their stuff.

China itself could be the source of economic disturbance no less catastrophic. A place where people and pigs, fish and poultry live in close proximity and in huge numbers, China is where a hitherto insignificant virus may at this moment be switching hosts to cause a global pandemic that rivals the black death in global reach, lethality and economic impact.

Plague victims, Martigues, France.

China, though, may not represent the greatest threat as a source of the next pandemic. Dutch scientists have just reverse engineered bird flu to make it spread through the air. Let loose it could wipe out most of the World's population, which would certainly mean a hit to global GDP.

"It only took a small number of mutations to change the avian flu virus," said one of the scientists concerned. 

We have discovered that this is indeed possible, and more easily than previously thought. In the laboratory, it was possible to change H5N1 into an aerosol-transmissible virus that can easily be rapidly spread through the air.

Oh, well done, chaps. The planet may be rid of this pesky creature Homo sapiens sooner than the most radical ecopolyptic environmentalist could hope.

But the chances of any of the above happening in 2012 is probably less than even, although a small to medium-sized nuclear war, starting in the Middle East seems far from improbable.  More likely, though, we'll get through with nothing much worse than the complete bankruptcy of half a dozen countries and the disappearance of most if not all of your pension and mine.

The World Economy in 2012

Clark and Dawe: World Economy Collapse explained in 3 minutes


John Ross: China's pivotal role in the world economy in 2012

James Petras: A Doomsday View of 2012

The Government Can - By Tim Hawkins


John Ward: The EU debt crisis; Poppa Piccolino’s cash concertina hits the highnotes

Mish: 2012 Predictions; 2011 Year in Review with Max Keiser

Aangirfan: The Economy in 2012

Max Keiser and With Steve Keen: the UK’s 950% Debt to GDP (From 14.00 On)

And from Nostradamus: 

Cool Climate Links

Steve McIntyre: How U. East Anglia handles a Freedom of Information Request

Roger Tattersall: Climate realism: Tallbloke style

R. Neukom et al.: The Southern Hemisphere medieval warm period

... mean summer temperatures between 900 and 1350 are mostly above the 1901–1995 climatology. After 1350, we reconstruct a sharp transition to colder conditions, which last until approximately 1700. The summers in the eighteenth century are relatively warm with a subsequent cold relapse peaking around 1850. In the twentieth century, summer temperatures reach conditions similar to earlier warm periods. The winter temperatures in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were mostly below the twentieth century average.

Tony Brown: The long, slow thaw?

A warming trend can be observed from 1659, the start date of Central England Temperature  (CET)- the oldest instrumental record in the world- to today.  It would be a notable coincidence if the warming started at the exact point that this record began. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct CET from its current start point, through the use of diverse historical records, to 1538, in order to see if the commencement of this centuries long warming trend can be identified from within this time frame.


Figure 1 CET from 1659-in the style of Hadley 1772

How the Liberal-Left Are Destroying Britain's National Identity

'The English are potentially very
aggressive, very violent" - Jack Straw

By Info on Islam

So this is what they've been doing for the past twelve years...
".....replacing traditional pride with inherited guilt: all of this could be facilitated by a large influx of migrants whose presence in the population would require the wholesale deconstruction of the country's sense of its own identity."

"New Labour tide brought with it in the beginning: the contempt for history and the Year Zero arrogance with which they set about "modernising" the nation's institutions."

"But the subtext was always self-examination and personal guilt: the indigenous Briton must be trained (literally, by the education system) always to question the acceptability of his own attitudes, to cast doubt on his own motives, to condemn his own national identity and history, to accept the blame even for the misbehaviour of new migrants – whose conduct could only be a reflection of the unfortunate way they were treated by the host population." - Green Arrow

Hidden agenda
When the Labour control freaks came to power twelve years ago they had a secret agenda to destroy British identity and national pride, with Englishness as public enemy number one.

At the time of their election victory, anyone who suggested that Labour were setting out on a deliberate campaign of nation-wrecking would have been regarded as a loony conspiracy theorist. But recently overwhelming evidence has emerged showing that this was their intention all along.

Politically motivated attempt to radically change the country
The first revelation of their hidden agenda came from Andrew Neather, a former government adviser
"The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its core working class vote." - Telegraph

Secret policy paper proposed a cultural jihad against Britishness
Then, confirmation came from the release of the full text of the draft policy paper composed in 2000 by a Home Office research unit – the gist of which had already been made public by a former Labour adviser – released under Freedom of Information rules. It is political dynamite.

Genocide of the English

By Paul Weston 

“A West which has not yet understood that whites, in a world become too small for its inhabitants, are now a minority and that the proliferation of other races dooms our race, my race, irretrievably to extinction in the century to come, if we hold fast to our present moral principles”

Jean Raspail, 1982, The Camp Of The Saints
 
It is understandable that the vast majority of the heavily propagandised English populace remain unaware of the continental shift in immigrant demographics and birth rates that will relegate the indigenous population of England under the age of 40 to ethnic minority status in their homeland within twenty years.

Understandable, admittedly, but if these recipients of a progressive education and 24/7 cradle-to-grave state-sponsored brainwashing could remove their liberal blinkers and gaze in horror at their surroundings through the eyes of their grandparents, then they could only have themselves to blame, because their dispossession was carried out in full view of those that would not see, and in retrospect how could there be any other outcome than gradual extinction when one considers exactly what out socialist rulers have carried out over the last few decades?

Almost Three-Quarters of Brits Consider Moving From Their Advanced Cultural Marxist Totalitarian Country

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Reuters, May 10, 2010: Almost three-quarters of Britons have considered emigrating this year, with Australia as the most popular destination, according to a new survey.

The survey carried out by foreign exchange broker Currency UK found that 31 percent of respondents cited the poor state of the British economy as the reason for wanting to leave, while 23 percent blamed the lack of job prospects and 19 percent said they are worried about the outcome of last week's election.

"Our survey highlights that many Brits are concerned by the prospect of a hung Parliament and that the next four years will be dominated by huge tax rises, cuts in public service and inflation," Currency UK senior account manager Adrian Jacob said.

The numbers have dramatically risen compared to Currency UK's last survey on emigration in 2005, when only 25 percent of respondents said they had considered leaving Britain.

About one in 10 of the 1,029 people surveyed said that a change in the pace of life was the main reason they wanted to emigrate.

The survey also found that Canada was the next most popular destination after Australia, followed by the United States, New Zealand, Spain, France and Thailand.

(Reporting by Valle Aviles Pinedo, editing by Paul Casciato)

And What Is Racist About Objecting to the Genocide of Your Own People?

See any Brits, lately? (Image source)

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

But it's not just an accusation, according to You-Tube:
Racist London Tram Lady 2011 - Emma West of New Addington in Croydon - CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!!

The BBC deploys the same smear, but they're tricky about it:
Racist tram rant accused Emma West remanded after court hearing
See, they included the word "accused" but you get the idea, she's gotta be a white racial supremacist.

Then that stinker Nick Griffin (is he not of the security services?), steps in to associate Emma West, in the public mind, with his own toxic effluvium.

The Metro conveys the smear, while avoiding the risk of a libel suit by the use of inverted commas: Woman, 34, charged over 'racist rant' on My Tram Experience video.

The openly racist organization, Operation Black Vote, resorts to the same despicable legally permissible smear with its story:

Show ‘Emma the racist’ compassion

LOL. The settler colonists have no compunction when it comes to screwing a native.

Which prompts reproduction of the following article.

Emma West. Truth or Racial Harassment?

Green Arrow, The British Resistance: So they tracked down the Tram Lady, 34 year old Emma West for daring to speak the truth and stand up for British People in a public place, arrested her and held her on remand until she appears in Court sometime today. Did she attack someone after the camera stopped selectively filming?

Globalist Lies About Offshoring Jobs

The globalist lies about the British job market

Robert Henderson

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England Calling, November  19, 2011: One of the great lies of the modern liberal is that in developed countries such as Britain unskilled  and low skilled jobs are a rapidly shrinking commodity.  Daniel Knowles of the Daily Telegraph  was at it  on 17 November with Our greatest social problem: there are no jobs left for the dim (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielknowles/100118217/our-greatest-social-problem-there-are-no-jobs-left-for-the-dim/).  He tried to explain  away Britain’s growing problem of youth unemployment by arguing that the less bright, less educated British youngsters of  today are unemployed because “Robots and Chinese people have taken over the sorts of jobs that 16 year olds could get without any qualifications straight out of school and work in for a lifetime.  The only jobs left for the under-educated, or often just the less academic, are in service industries: serving coffee, cleaning toilets, stacking shelves. These jobs are not the first rung on the ladder. There is no ladder; no one hopes to work in Pret a Manger for life.”

There are several interesting aspects of Knowles’ comment. First, he assumes that offshoring jobs to places like China is something which cannot be reversed and the practice carries no moral opprobrium.  Second, he makes the assumption that everyone wants a career rather than just a secure job which allows them to live independently. Third, he makes no mention of the role mass immigration has played in creating unemployment amongst the young, something which can only be explained by  Knowles being of the generation which has been brainwashed into pretending that the ill effects  of immigration do not exist.

Knowles’ ideas about the young could be as readily applied to British workers of all ages if one accepts his interpretation of  the state of the labour market.  He is right on the superficial detail that  less well-qualified Britons British workers are increasingly being left without unskilled and low-skilled work, but wrong in understanding of why this is and his implied assumption that Britain’s economic circumstances cannot be changed.

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Emma West and the colonization of Britain

Alex Kurtagic
From the Occidental Observer

Only a racist could object. (Image)

With her four-letter words and direct syntax, Emma West has truly focused the Leftist mind, for one remarkable aspect of the reaction to her critique of government immigration policy in Britain is the sudden regurgitation, in concentrated form, of Leftist clichés in support of the status quo.

For those of us who enjoy analysing those clichés, this reaction has simplified our work, since we now need only to look at any one single source to find them all helpfully collated for our convenience.

It hardly seems worth bothering responding to some of the most common assertions. The idea that Britain has a ‘tradition’ of welcoming every imaginable race because the island was invaded at various times by White folk with differently coloured hair is simply not a matter for serious debate.

Merry Christmas

The Ilgachuz Range, left, and the Itcha Range, right, viewed from the West across a stretch of the Chilcotin Plateau, British Columbia, Canada. Most inhabitants of this region are First Nations people, members of the Tsilhqot'in and Dakelh peoples.

The so-named Ilgachuz Range is not a mountain range but rather a single, heavily-eroded extinct volcano formed about five million years ago. It is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the Chilcotin Plateau, 350 kilometres north-northwest of Vancouver and 30 km north of Anahim Lake.

The Itcha Range is the 2.5-million-year-old remnant of a 10-kilometer-diameter volcano that has been eroded by glaciers.

Image: The Bella Coola Blog

Scrooge (1951) with Alistair Sim


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Mark Stein: THE MULTICULTURAL DEPARTURE LOUNGE

The Economic Optimist: One American Still As Good As Ten Chinese

By CanSpeccy

Economics has been called the dismal science, but over at Carpe Diem, Professor Mark J. Perry's "Blog for Economics and Finance," it is the feelgood science. Whenever the markets slump I head over there for a dose of unrelenting economic and financial good cheer. Here, for example, are the topics of a recent handful of posts

The Magic and Miracle of the Marketplace. Yeah!
Mortgage Rates Fall to Fresh Historic Record Lows. Yeah!
Leading Economic Index Points to Ongoing Growth. Yeah!
US GDP tops pre-recession high. Yeah!
Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since Mid-2008. Yeah!

But here's the one I really like:

China Is Now World's No. 1 Manufacturer. Uh-oh!

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But don't worry. As the text is quick to explain, this reflects no great credit on the Chinese -- far from it:

China's manufacturing workforce is estimated to be around 100 million and could be as high as 120 million, compared to America's manufacturing employment of about 11.5 million. Therefore, China is producing roughly the same manufacturing output as the U.S. but Chinese worker productivity is so low it needs 9-10 workers for every one American factory worker.

Yeah!

Or, rather LOL.

For if Americans produced for themselves what the Chinese produce for them, for example, iPads, computers and car parts, those things would cost many times what they cost now.

In other words, Americans produce only what the Chinese don't, e.g., F-35 Fighter jets at $110 million per copy and rising, plus large civilian aircraft, missiles, cluster bombs, etc., patented drugs, lumber, leather, minerals, cement, steel and other bulky building products for home consumption, all of which can be sold at prices reflecting American wages because there's no Chinese competition.

True, in dollar terms, China produces only slightly more than America while using a much larger workforce to do it. But that reflects China's competitive advantage. Where China competes with America it provides massively better value.

Which explains the trajectory of growth in Chinese manufacturing. US post-recession manufacturing has barely recovered to the 2006 level. In the same period, China's manufacturing output has approximately doubled.

In a globalized economy, wages in the West are converging with those in the Rest. As they do so, prices of manufactured goods from China will rise. But by then it will be the Chinese who have the bulk of the World's manufacturing plant and the workforce skills to out-compete the West even on a level playing field.

Oh well, enjoy it if you can. It takes ten Chinese making iPads to produce the same dollar volume of output as one American sawing lumber or building rockets, which truly goes to show how smart we in the West are.

Exporting Democracy

By CanSpeccy

The God Obama?

Exporting democracy is something many American presidents have been keen to do. Woodrow Wilson, who campaigned for election on the promise of peace but who, on election, went to war with Germany, thereby extending World War One by two years to achieve a German surrender instead of a negotiated peace and achieving the Russian Revolution as a bonus, is among the great names in American democratic philanthropism.

Almost single-handedly Wilson created the League of Useless Nations, which did nothing whatever to prevent World War Two, but generated much rhetorical humbug, which is certainly the essence of American democracy.

But Barak H. Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who has started more wars than any other American, will surely be judged, as he judges himself, as one of the great American leaders when it comes to delivering America's democracy to other countries whether they want it or not.

This drive to export America's democracy to the World at whatever cost to the recipients, though undoubtedly admirably, has a downside, which is the creation of a shortage of democracy at home.

A glimpse at America's current democratic deficit was provided by Obama's recent boast that he can have any American killed, anywhere, anytime.

Perhaps Americans will be prompted by this to rename their chief executive. That Obama seems less American Presidential than Pharaohonically despotic, suggests the title, simple yet both descriptive and reverential of The God Obama.

But delivering democracy by force or subversion can generate push back and according to Iran's highly unreliable Press TV quoting Israel's highly unreliable DEBKAfile military intelligence website, Iranian cyberwarfare agents broke into the CIA's drone control center in Langley, Virginia and hijacked America's newest stealth drone, which had been sent to spy on Iran. According to the report:

Iranians not only unlocked the Sentinel's secret software but also penetrated the command and control center running the drones from CIA Headquarters at Langley in McClean, Virginia.

Now if the Iranians can do that, then how difficult would it be for them to reprogram a drone intended to zap an obnoxious troublemaker and fly it through the Oval Office window?

Personally, I rather doubt that the Iranians could do that. But, with Russian or Chinese help, who knows?

Another regrettable consequence of trashing the culture and traditions that made you great is that you finish up less great. Hear Oxford/Columbia/Harvard/Stanford Prof. Niall Ferguson explain why China's economic rise is not the problem, but America's decline as a free society:



Meantime, the Europeans, in league with America to spread democracy to the World, are working overtime to use the debt crisis as a lever to force the creation of a democracy-free European Union that looks very much like a Western recreation of the Soviet Union, complete with a privileged nomenklatura, a crumbling economy and an impoverished proletariat.

Yet out of weakness may yet come strength. Whether Barak Obama is the worst President ever, as Bill Clinton is supposed to have informed him, many Americans are beginning to sense something is wrong with the course on which ship of state is headed. What's more, they seem to have considerable reservation about the main contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination, which could mean that this is Ron Paul's moment.

If elected, Paul might not prove the greatest US President ever, but he knows how to say no, and would probably say no to enough spending, enough new military adventures, and enough new measures aimed at humiliating and intimidating the American people that he'd rank pretty high overall.

US Nobel Peace Prize Winner, President Barak Obama: "I can kill anyone anywhere, anytime"

“President Obama Just Stated That He Can Have ANY American Citizen Killed!”
Jonathon Turley, Washington University, Constitutional law expert on CSPAN.

More Thoughts on Emma West

By Sean Gabb

One of the ways in which a ruling class keeps control is its insistence on rules of debate that place opposition at a regular disadvantage. I cannot think of any time or place where opposition voices have been listened to on fully equal terms. In modern England, however, the ruling class and its various clients and useful idiots are particularly rigid in their shepherding of debate. This is so not only because England is an increasingly totalitarian place, but also because the main legitimation ideologies are all obviously false and cannot be exposed to open criticism. Therefore, while speech mostly remains free in the legal sense, it will only be listened to when expressed in terms that privilege the ruling class.

Some of the rules of debate in England are linguistic. For example, if you refer to someone as a homosexual, you will be told that he is gay. Or you will be told that the Indian cities of Bombay and Calcutta must be called “Mumbai” and “Kokata;” or that the native population of England must be called the “white majority;” or an immigrant a “migrant,” or a failed suicide a “self-harmer,” or a mongol a Downs syndrome sufferer. If you persist in using the now disapproved words, you may be dismissed as ignorant: you may be denounced as some kind of bigot. Sometimes, the words keep changing, or different words must be used depending on the audience – therefore, Ethiopian became person of colour, and then negro, and then Negro, and then coloured, and then black, and then Afro-Caribbean, and may still be any of these except possibly the third. In many cases, names are changed merely when something pejorative is replaced by something neutral – obviously so in the instance just given. More often, though, the changes are made to humble those outside the naming elite. Whoever must follow the other side’s naming conventions loses any claim to equality of status, and will at least tend to lose any debate. This is so when the shift of name is mostly verbal – for example coloured to black. But it is specially so when the shift involves an acceptance of new facts. See again the shift from “native English” to “white majority.” The former implies that a particular territory is historically the possession of a self-defined group, and suggests that this group has a right to continue in possession. The latter simply implies that one group among many has what may be a passing numerical weight. Equally, “migration” is so much softer and less threatening than “immigration.” Quibbling over words may sound petty. But to control the words usable in debate really is to have a very great if subtle advantage in debate.

A similar advantage is had by taking real or pretended offence, and calling on an opponent to apologise. When those crying out in horror have numbers or the power of government on their side, they can avoid the danger of arguing with an opponent by smashing his reputation. People are led to believe that he is a bad person. Often the person himself can be brought to agree. We saw how this can work last week. Speaking on a BBC programme that lies on the border between news and light entertainment, Jeremy Clarkson said that strikers in the public sector should be shot. No one but a fool could believe he intended this as other than a joke. But it raised a storm of synthetic outrage. The BBC gave in at once and apologised for any offence caused. Mr Clarkson may or may not have apologised, but certainly did not stand his ground. His enemies are now circulating rumoursthat his mind is unbalanced, and the credibility of a prominent non-conformist may have been destroyed.

If Ron Paul Wins Iowa It Doesn't Count

The Fascist Threat

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

This talk was delivered at the Doug Casey conference, "When Money Dies," in Phoenix on October 1, 2011.

Everyone knows that the term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn’t like. There isn’t anyone around who is willing to stand up and say: "I’m a fascist; I think fascism is a great social and economic system."

But I submit that if they were honest, the vast majority of politicians, intellectuals, and political activists would have to say just that.

Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police State as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive State the unlimited master of society.

Europeans and the wounded snake syndrome

By CanSpeccy

Image source.

During a financial crisis, Teddy Roosevelt remarked that "When people have lost their money, they strike out unthinkingly, like a wounded snake, at whoever is most prominent in the line of vision."

As the debt crisis worsens, Europeans are beginning to exhibit the wounded snake syndrome, with European Bank Head, Christian Noyer, saying Britain's AAA credit rating should be cut before France's:

...they should start by downgrading Britain which has more deficits, as much debt, more inflation, less growth than us and where credit is slumping.

Meantime, in Portugal, Pedro Nuno Santos, vice-president of the Socialist Party, was taped at a party dinner calling for diplomatic warfare against the EU's northern powers:

We have an atomic bomb that we can use in the face of the Germans and the French: this atomic bomb is simply that we won't pay.

Hey, good thinking. Make those Nazi German bastards pay our inflated civil service salaries and fund our early retirement.

In Lisbon, protesters marched on Thursday denouncing plans by the new conservative government to raise the working week to 42 hours. Wages are being cut 16pc for higher paid, and 8pc for lower paid public workers.

But that's not enough, apparently. So why don't they just face reality and cut those public service salaries another 16%?

Why? Because they don't realize what's hit them.

The ruling elite just exported the economies of the Western nations to Asia, Africa and the Middle-East where people work for pennies an hour.

China is Europe's biggest trading partner. Europe imports 282 billion euros a year from China, exporting only 113 billion Euros a year in return. There is a similar huge imbalance in trade with Russia. If it weren't for the Americans buying tons of French wine, Italian fashion wear and millions of German cars, together worth far more than Americans export to Europe, the Europeans would already be flat broke.

So the idea that Portuguese civil servants can go on indefinitely earning many times as much as Chinese workers, while enjoying incredibly cheap manufactured goods from Asia and Eastern Europe is idiotic.

Enjoying the fruits of cheap foreign labor was possible only during the transition to an Asian dominated World economy, and it was made possible by escalating debt.

Now that the cost of debt service is destroying the European economies, it's time to get things straight, not strike out unthinkingly at the Germans who at least have the virtue of being exceptionally competent at manufacturing -- so much so that they can sell much of their stuff at many times the price of Chinese goods because people really like it.

For Europeans as a whole, the only hope is to acknowledge defeat, adjust wages to what is affordable in the global market and get back to work.

Hitchens dead, US mission in Iraq not accomplished, scientists make virus to kill half of humanity (Hey. Well done!), and much more

Father Raymond J. de Souza: Christopher Hitchens lived in service of plain hatred

Peter Hitchens: In Memoriam, my courageous brother Christopher, 1949-2011

Christopher Hitchens Dead at 62: NYTimes Obit
One naturally hopes that Hitchens was wrong in proclaiming the non-existence of God and is now before the throne, receiving a withering reprimand delivered with super-natural sharpness of wit.

James Corbett, Paul Hellyer: US/Canada merger by stealth

[See also:
The Election Over, Canada Renews Anschluss Talks with US

Who stands for Canadian Sovereignty? Not the Conservative Party of Canada]

How Ron Paul will be denied the Republican nomination whatever voters want

Margaret Thatcher (Source: WSJ)

What Would The Iron Lady Do?

Alan Hart - Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews

US Federal Government Takes Final Step to Suspend Constitution

Two teams of scientists have independently constructed a deadly strain of flu able to kill half of humanity
The drug companies can't wait for it to get loose. Novartis is already gearing to produce the vaccine.

Lizard expert [extraterrestrial?]
U. of Texas Dr. Eric R. Pianka

Top Texas scientist looks forward to the emergence of airborne Ebola virus
At the 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006, hundred[s of] members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka, the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.

And, in Iraq, Was the Mission Accomplished? Patrick Buchanan

the beginning of the end of Western global dominance The Slog
"The International Monetary Fund having suggested that developing economies will expand three times faster than advanced nations this year, PIMCO put some money where the mouth is by recommending that bond-based lenders desert U.S., U.K. and European debt. Debts from places like Russia and Egypt are now seen as safer."

Britain's self-hating white liberal elite

Try some Nirvana this week-end

Double Standards Under British Law

From a report by the Hudson Institute of New York

Last week a video of young, white, working class woman began circulating through the media. In the video, the woman – Emma West – is seen and heard verbally abusing fellow passengers on a train, many of whom are non-white. Ms. West's rant is certainly offensive, and must have been upsetting to those who had to listen to it. She complained, for example, that the train – and Britain – are full with "a load of black people and a load of ****ing Polish," and tells one woman "You ain't British, you're black. Ms. West was promptly arrested after the Daily Mail and Telegraph asked readers to call in with her identity – which was initially unknown. She has since been refused bail – accordingly for her own protection -- she received death threats – and is now spending time in jail. Her children have also been taken into custody. ." Even though Ms. West's diatribe is deplorable, insulting language should not be a crime.

The timing of the emergence of the video is somewhat unfortunate: Ms. West's case is now being contrasted, by several blogs at least, to the court case a few days later of four young Muslim women,. The four women – who were drunk at the time – had repeatedly assaulted Rhea Page, 22, as she waited for a taxi with her boyfriend. Even after she had collapsed motionless on the pavement, she was met with "a flurry of kicks to the head, back, arms and legs." As the four women attacked her, they shouted "kill the white slag."

Those perpetrating such a vicious and racially-motivated attack should expect to receive a sentence of up to five years.

However, Judge Robert Brown, who heard the case, told the women that: "Those who knock someone to the floor and kick them in the head can expect to go inside, but I'm going to suspend the sentence." The four were instead given a 12 month suspended sentence. Judge Brown took this decision because they were not used to being drunk, he said, because of their "religion."

Many British people now feel that they are living in a two-tier system of double standards: one for the white working class, and one for Muslims.

They "feel it?" They surely know it.

Palestine before 1948, and other links

Images of Palestinian cities during the 1920's and 1930's, before the creation of the state of Israel.

See also:
David Remnick to Haaretz: Gingrich statement on 'invented' Palestinians is 'alarming'

US Asks Iran to return spy drone
An odd request. "We need it to continue spying on you!" Could this thing be some kind of Trojan Horse?

The Government of Canada OutZionizing the Zionists

Aangirfan: In Egypt, what some scholars and Islamist candidates for Parliament are hoping for

Aangirfan: Terrible secrets of cleansed Libyan town