Düzgün Yildirim, the new Socialist Party Senator mentioned as an example of the crop of candidates from ethnic minorities in the previous post, made a proposal. He says that the subsidy Geert Wilders, the leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) receives from the state should be withdrawn. The reason he gave was that Wilders owes the threat against his life from Leftists and Muslims to his "radical utterances" towards Islam and the multicultural society (Dutch).
Yildirim says that politicians should not be protected their whole lifes at the expense of the Treasury.
Nobody ever asked whether Dutch society should be multicultural. This was forced on society. Those who asked questions were ostracised or attacked by "Antifa" the vigilantes of the Left. Now that there finally are people who are brave enough to stand up to intimidation, they need protection from the vigilantes and Muslims 24 by 7.
Yildirim shows were his real loyalty lies. With his own Muslim community. He attempts to use his political power to rob Wilders of the shield that he needs to survive and represent that part of the Dutch community that has retained a sense of nationhood.
Yildirim thinks that it is legal to attack those who attack Islam and the multiculturalist ideology that enables Islam to settle in Dutch society. He thinks it is illegal for the Dutch to oppose it. This fits with the Islamic view of those who do not agree with Islam and become Muslims are agressors against Islam.
The next step in the drama is obvious. Senator Yildirim has received many death threats from ethnic Dutchmen. E-mails, letters, packages, phonecalls stating support for Wilders and threats of murder and rape against himself and members of his family. Yildirim has reported these to the police.
Meanwhile, a German-Danish group led by a Dr. Udo Ulfkotte is planning a protest against the Islamization of Europe. The mayor of Brussels turned down the application for a permit to demonstrate by the organisers. The grounds for the denial was: "a real danger of violence between demonstrators and Muslims living in the neighbourhood." according to Mayor Thielemans.
Another application for a permit to demonstrate was granted. To "a group claiming that the 9/11/2001 terror attacks are the work of the American government, acting on behalf of the Jews".
This groups consists of Muslims and Leftists. There is no ground to deny this group a demonstration. Because there is no threat of violence from the ethnic Europeans against them.
By default this clearly shows who the violent side is, in the dispute between the Left and Islam on one side, and the groups who oppose Islamisation on the other side. As the opposers of Islamisation are confronted with the these facts and the obvious bounty on the use of violence, there will be a trend towards the use of counter-violence against the Left and Islamic communities. It is the only way to get represented and recognised politically.
As a result of Multiculturalism different ethnic and religious groups are competing within the same political space. They do not perceive the claims of the other groups as legitimate, hence they resort to threats of violence rather than to debate. Civil society is eroding. The government will have many excuses to rule in an authoritarian manner, rather than consult the public, as it is made up of warring groups.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Population replacement: nice political strategy, but is it sustainable?
In the project to abolish European nations in general, and the Dutch nation in particular, the elites use the strategy of population replacement. By importing hostile third worlders the politicos obtain a sledgehammer. To break their own people. And to create a garrison force to keep the broken people down.
In order to get a grip on the sledgehammer, it is necessary to select leaders from the imported groups and to INCORPORATE them into the elite. This happens during elections, when immigrants use block votes to get their candidates to jump ahead on the party lists, so they can represent them in the "ethnic spoils game" of multicultural politics.
Some parties are not attractive to the immigrants, such as the Liberal-Democrats and the Christian-Democrats, because their message is at odds with the "ethnic spoils" ethos or their culture is too particular to be attractive to foreigners.
The Left however are ideally suited to attract particularist immigrants, as the message of the Left has always been a transgression of the Tenth Commandment, articulating "covet your neighbour's money, house and car".
There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing" however and it is ripping the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) apart. Labour won big vicories in the 2006 municipal elections and they strengthened their hold on urban town councils accross the country. However there was a flood of non-Dutch councillors that had been low on the Labour Party lists that became councillors because their ethnic constituents voted for them en masse: the block vote!
Labour Party leader Wouter Bos warned that there were risks connected to the sudden infusion of ethnic leadership. The new councillors might be inexperienced and hail from a culture of particularism, he warned.
With the 2007 national elections Labour appointed two Muslim Deputy Ministers in order to advertise their special care for Muslim interests.
However the strategy is backfiring in a big way. Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders made an issue of the nationalities of the Deputy Ministers. The political establishment reacted furiously, but the damage was done. White voters are running away from the Labour Party with every attack by Wilders and the party is dropping in the polls. This week they poll as low as 22 seats, from 33 during the elections. Meanwhile Freedom Party is polling at 19, so the establishment Labour Party is hardly bigger than the new kid on the block. The establishment Liberal-Democrat Party (VVD) also polls at 20 plus seats, a third less than were the were a five years ago.
It would seem then that the population replacement strategy can severely backfire on the political establisment parties.
Most of the white voters of Labour go to the Socialist Party (SP), a far Left Party, with a strong charismatic leader, a well-developed local cadre and lots of grass roots support.
The Socialist Party has always taken a hard line on the particularism of immigrants. The Labour Party defectors now in the SP are often shocked by this hard line, but SP holds on to its line and tells their new voters to go back to Labour, if they do not like it. They have more voter support than they know what to do with, given the constraints of training new cadre.
The reason why population replacement is backfiring for Dutch Labour, is that there are credible alternatives for white voters, both on the Left and the Right.
Recently Düzgün Yildirim, a Turkish politician, was elected from the provincial council of Overijssel on the German border to the National Senate. However his election went against his position on the party list hierarchy. The SP party leadership insisted despite considerable opposition that he step down. Yildirim is still in the Senate, but the latest news is that he will be purged from the Maoist SP in September (Dutch) if he does not step down.
He has threatened to start his own party, but the SP is not impressed. They are not trying to curry favour with immigrant groups at the expense of white voters, because they know these are the backbone of their support AND the economy. This shows that they are smarter than the Dutch political establishment and e.g. George Bush' advisor Karl Rove, who has insisted on the desastrous pro-Hispanic strategy of the Republican Party, which will ensure Democrat hegemony in the near future.
Already in 1983 the Socialist Party wrote in their report "Guest Labour and Capital" by Anton Constandse that importing Muslims and other Third Worlders was to the detriment of the working class both economically and socially. The SP has claimed that therefore they were the first to make a stand against immigration. However, they were quickly intimidated by the political and media establishment into joining the political cartel on immigration. They never had the spine to really stand up for their constituents and now they are relying on the Freedom Party to do the dirty work on immigration restriction.
IMO that will prove too little and too late. While immigration continues in a flood, the country will continue to tear itself apart over issues of crime, religion, ethnicity and identity.
And Dutch Labour is the first to fall victim to that development.
In order to get a grip on the sledgehammer, it is necessary to select leaders from the imported groups and to INCORPORATE them into the elite. This happens during elections, when immigrants use block votes to get their candidates to jump ahead on the party lists, so they can represent them in the "ethnic spoils game" of multicultural politics.
Some parties are not attractive to the immigrants, such as the Liberal-Democrats and the Christian-Democrats, because their message is at odds with the "ethnic spoils" ethos or their culture is too particular to be attractive to foreigners.
The Left however are ideally suited to attract particularist immigrants, as the message of the Left has always been a transgression of the Tenth Commandment, articulating "covet your neighbour's money, house and car".
There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing" however and it is ripping the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) apart. Labour won big vicories in the 2006 municipal elections and they strengthened their hold on urban town councils accross the country. However there was a flood of non-Dutch councillors that had been low on the Labour Party lists that became councillors because their ethnic constituents voted for them en masse: the block vote!
Labour Party leader Wouter Bos warned that there were risks connected to the sudden infusion of ethnic leadership. The new councillors might be inexperienced and hail from a culture of particularism, he warned.
With the 2007 national elections Labour appointed two Muslim Deputy Ministers in order to advertise their special care for Muslim interests.
However the strategy is backfiring in a big way. Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders made an issue of the nationalities of the Deputy Ministers. The political establishment reacted furiously, but the damage was done. White voters are running away from the Labour Party with every attack by Wilders and the party is dropping in the polls. This week they poll as low as 22 seats, from 33 during the elections. Meanwhile Freedom Party is polling at 19, so the establishment Labour Party is hardly bigger than the new kid on the block. The establishment Liberal-Democrat Party (VVD) also polls at 20 plus seats, a third less than were the were a five years ago.
It would seem then that the population replacement strategy can severely backfire on the political establisment parties.
Most of the white voters of Labour go to the Socialist Party (SP), a far Left Party, with a strong charismatic leader, a well-developed local cadre and lots of grass roots support.
The Socialist Party has always taken a hard line on the particularism of immigrants. The Labour Party defectors now in the SP are often shocked by this hard line, but SP holds on to its line and tells their new voters to go back to Labour, if they do not like it. They have more voter support than they know what to do with, given the constraints of training new cadre.
The reason why population replacement is backfiring for Dutch Labour, is that there are credible alternatives for white voters, both on the Left and the Right.
Recently Düzgün Yildirim, a Turkish politician, was elected from the provincial council of Overijssel on the German border to the National Senate. However his election went against his position on the party list hierarchy. The SP party leadership insisted despite considerable opposition that he step down. Yildirim is still in the Senate, but the latest news is that he will be purged from the Maoist SP in September (Dutch) if he does not step down.
He has threatened to start his own party, but the SP is not impressed. They are not trying to curry favour with immigrant groups at the expense of white voters, because they know these are the backbone of their support AND the economy. This shows that they are smarter than the Dutch political establishment and e.g. George Bush' advisor Karl Rove, who has insisted on the desastrous pro-Hispanic strategy of the Republican Party, which will ensure Democrat hegemony in the near future.
Already in 1983 the Socialist Party wrote in their report "Guest Labour and Capital" by Anton Constandse that importing Muslims and other Third Worlders was to the detriment of the working class both economically and socially. The SP has claimed that therefore they were the first to make a stand against immigration. However, they were quickly intimidated by the political and media establishment into joining the political cartel on immigration. They never had the spine to really stand up for their constituents and now they are relying on the Freedom Party to do the dirty work on immigration restriction.
IMO that will prove too little and too late. While immigration continues in a flood, the country will continue to tear itself apart over issues of crime, religion, ethnicity and identity.
And Dutch Labour is the first to fall victim to that development.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Former Amsterdam mosque leader arrested
The saga of the project to built a huge mosque in Amsterdam-West continues. This project is an effort by Milli Gorüs, a Islamist Turkish organisation which is rather powerfull in the Turkish community in Western Europe.
Two months ago I wrote about the fact that the Amsterdam municipality had subsidized the mosque building project fraudulently, supporting the project with more than two million Euros. When you read the linked article pay special attention to the comment made by a Dutch liberal reader.
One of the leaders of the project, Üzeyir Kabaktepe was arrested yesterday:
"Amsterdam police have arrested the former director of the city's still-to-be-built Western mosque in connection with an investigation into embezzlement and money laundering.
Earlier this year, the mosque's new leadership made a formal complaint against Üzeyir Kabaktepe, alleging he had syphoned off €1.5m in mosque funds into his own investment company Manderen.
Manderen had been awared the contract to build the mosque by Turkish organisation Milli Görüs."
Strangely there has been no action against the municipality.
The unused building grounds for the Westermosque are going to be temporarily converted into a playground. The municipality still has not shelved the plans to built a mosque on this terrain. Arco Verburg (Labour), a spokesman of the local council (stadsdeelraad) said that the municipality still wants a mosque (Dutch) to be built there.
Two months ago I wrote about the fact that the Amsterdam municipality had subsidized the mosque building project fraudulently, supporting the project with more than two million Euros. When you read the linked article pay special attention to the comment made by a Dutch liberal reader.
One of the leaders of the project, Üzeyir Kabaktepe was arrested yesterday:
"Amsterdam police have arrested the former director of the city's still-to-be-built Western mosque in connection with an investigation into embezzlement and money laundering.
Earlier this year, the mosque's new leadership made a formal complaint against Üzeyir Kabaktepe, alleging he had syphoned off €1.5m in mosque funds into his own investment company Manderen.
Manderen had been awared the contract to build the mosque by Turkish organisation Milli Görüs."
Strangely there has been no action against the municipality.
The unused building grounds for the Westermosque are going to be temporarily converted into a playground. The municipality still has not shelved the plans to built a mosque on this terrain. Arco Verburg (Labour), a spokesman of the local council (stadsdeelraad) said that the municipality still wants a mosque (Dutch) to be built there.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
President of Turkey on Islam and Islam critics
On MEMRI the news on Turkey is that the Islamist Turkish President Erdogan is angry with Westerners who believe in moderate Islam:
"These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it."
We got it on Islamist authority: "No such thing as moderate Islam. It is an insult even"
Yesterday President Erdogan also commented on those who criticize Islamist President-Candidate Gül in the harshest terms:
"The people who say that (Gul is not my president), must renounce their citizenship," quoted Reuters.
The Euro elite is still trying to make this country a EU member state!
"These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it."
We got it on Islamist authority: "No such thing as moderate Islam. It is an insult even"
Yesterday President Erdogan also commented on those who criticize Islamist President-Candidate Gül in the harshest terms:
"The people who say that (Gul is not my president), must renounce their citizenship," quoted Reuters.
The Euro elite is still trying to make this country a EU member state!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Neo-Marxist Quandary
Ehsan Jami, the apostate of Islam was assaulted by three dark-skinned men for his apostacy. They threatened him with death. As happened to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And as happens all the time in the Muslim world.
According to the mainstream, which is liberalism, all cultures and religions are equal. So Islam is equal to Bhuddism. Or Christianity. This late form liberalism is the latest incarnation of Marxism. Neo-Marxism or post-1989-Marxism. All opinion makers in Western countries are such Neo-Marxists.
When there are phenomenona that do not fit in the Neo-Marxist thinking pattern appear the opinion makers will ignore them. But sometimes there are incidents that are too big to ignore. Such as the 2002 Fortuyn election and the assassination of Van Gogh. Opinion makers have to deal with a reality that defies their ideology.
This peeves them. They get angry. This means they may actually be wrong. Which means their hegemony may be threatened. They may hit wildly about them.
When Theo van Gogh was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri many in the media elite wrote that it was his own fault for making "Submission". When Ayaan Hirsi Ali was threathened it was said that she was making it up in order to dramatize her situation. (In the end Ayaan was shown to be something of a cheat in her asylum request. She had never fled a war, but lived safely in Kenya and this destroyed her reputation with many Dutchmen. This was exposed by the media. They are not always wrong.)
When Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders was threathened for his criticism of Islam and the Islamic presence in The Netherlands it was his own fault that he requires a permanent four man body guard, like Ayaan in order to survive. He should have been more sensitive. Should have toed the party line. It was implied that Muslims are right to seek to kill critics. There was a shocking cartoon in Vrij Nederland, showing Geert Wilders as a coward, a man cowering behind his bodyguard. This was after TWO assasinations for a political purpose and in relation to Islam.
Now Ehsan Jami, the aspiring Labour politician founded a committee of ex-muslims, of apostates. Critisized Islam and was attacked for it by three men. His contact details were made public by a internet forum for Morroccans. He received a deluge of hate mail and phone calls.
And opinion leaders are jumping in the fray in order to cast doubt on the attack. Sociologist J.A.A. van Doorn published two pieces in two national newspapers, Trouw (Dutch) and NRC Handelsblad stating among other things: "It would seem that not only did Ehsan bait his victimhood with rough insults of Islam, but he even made it up."
Rudie Kagie, editor of Vrij Nederland, (Dutch) another snobbish leftist magazine did something similar. A part of the press corps jumped on top of this and started to question the reality of the attack on Ehsan using the testimony of one of the witnesses, who made some mistakes in his report and denied that Ehsan was hid and was bleeding. Various other witnesses gave conclusive testimony asserting that Ehsan was hit by a Somali, fell down unconcious that his girlfriend was molested and that Ehsan was insulted and singled out for insulting Mohammed.
All this to protect the Neo-Marxist worldview from inconvenient and damaging facts. To engage in incestious groupthink and to maintain conformism.
Meanwhile, white voters are leaving the Labour party in droves, running towards the anti-EU Socialist Party and the Conservative Freedom Party, where Geert Wilders called for a ban of the Quran, because it was a cause of intolerance. Wilders' story proved itself by the story of Ehsan, which happened at the same time. Polls show that the Freedom Party rose to 19 seats from 9 while Labour stands at 23 down from 33 during the last election.
In other words, the strategy of population replacement is backfiring for the Left. They lose their voters quicker than they can be imported. Only the SP is gaining votes of working whites. The right is also gaining cumulatively in the polls vis-a-vis the left.
In conclusion: right now this Labour Party weakness means that the Christian-Labour coalition is becoming increasingly unstable. And it is just in its first year.
The centre of Dutch politics is weakening. Politics is getting more and more polarised, with centrist parties weakening and hardline Leftist and Rightist parties making strong gains. It will be more and more difficult to put coalitions together and they will have a hard time remaining in power for the full term.
Neo-Marxism and mass immigration are a recipe for political instability. Societies going down this path seem to become ungovernable as can be seen in France, The Netherlands and the UK.
According to the mainstream, which is liberalism, all cultures and religions are equal. So Islam is equal to Bhuddism. Or Christianity. This late form liberalism is the latest incarnation of Marxism. Neo-Marxism or post-1989-Marxism. All opinion makers in Western countries are such Neo-Marxists.
When there are phenomenona that do not fit in the Neo-Marxist thinking pattern appear the opinion makers will ignore them. But sometimes there are incidents that are too big to ignore. Such as the 2002 Fortuyn election and the assassination of Van Gogh. Opinion makers have to deal with a reality that defies their ideology.
This peeves them. They get angry. This means they may actually be wrong. Which means their hegemony may be threatened. They may hit wildly about them.
When Theo van Gogh was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri many in the media elite wrote that it was his own fault for making "Submission". When Ayaan Hirsi Ali was threathened it was said that she was making it up in order to dramatize her situation. (In the end Ayaan was shown to be something of a cheat in her asylum request. She had never fled a war, but lived safely in Kenya and this destroyed her reputation with many Dutchmen. This was exposed by the media. They are not always wrong.)
When Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders was threathened for his criticism of Islam and the Islamic presence in The Netherlands it was his own fault that he requires a permanent four man body guard, like Ayaan in order to survive. He should have been more sensitive. Should have toed the party line. It was implied that Muslims are right to seek to kill critics. There was a shocking cartoon in Vrij Nederland, showing Geert Wilders as a coward, a man cowering behind his bodyguard. This was after TWO assasinations for a political purpose and in relation to Islam.
Now Ehsan Jami, the aspiring Labour politician founded a committee of ex-muslims, of apostates. Critisized Islam and was attacked for it by three men. His contact details were made public by a internet forum for Morroccans. He received a deluge of hate mail and phone calls.
And opinion leaders are jumping in the fray in order to cast doubt on the attack. Sociologist J.A.A. van Doorn published two pieces in two national newspapers, Trouw (Dutch) and NRC Handelsblad stating among other things: "It would seem that not only did Ehsan bait his victimhood with rough insults of Islam, but he even made it up."
Rudie Kagie, editor of Vrij Nederland, (Dutch) another snobbish leftist magazine did something similar. A part of the press corps jumped on top of this and started to question the reality of the attack on Ehsan using the testimony of one of the witnesses, who made some mistakes in his report and denied that Ehsan was hid and was bleeding. Various other witnesses gave conclusive testimony asserting that Ehsan was hit by a Somali, fell down unconcious that his girlfriend was molested and that Ehsan was insulted and singled out for insulting Mohammed.
All this to protect the Neo-Marxist worldview from inconvenient and damaging facts. To engage in incestious groupthink and to maintain conformism.
Meanwhile, white voters are leaving the Labour party in droves, running towards the anti-EU Socialist Party and the Conservative Freedom Party, where Geert Wilders called for a ban of the Quran, because it was a cause of intolerance. Wilders' story proved itself by the story of Ehsan, which happened at the same time. Polls show that the Freedom Party rose to 19 seats from 9 while Labour stands at 23 down from 33 during the last election.
In other words, the strategy of population replacement is backfiring for the Left. They lose their voters quicker than they can be imported. Only the SP is gaining votes of working whites. The right is also gaining cumulatively in the polls vis-a-vis the left.
In conclusion: right now this Labour Party weakness means that the Christian-Labour coalition is becoming increasingly unstable. And it is just in its first year.
The centre of Dutch politics is weakening. Politics is getting more and more polarised, with centrist parties weakening and hardline Leftist and Rightist parties making strong gains. It will be more and more difficult to put coalitions together and they will have a hard time remaining in power for the full term.
Neo-Marxism and mass immigration are a recipe for political instability. Societies going down this path seem to become ungovernable as can be seen in France, The Netherlands and the UK.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Brussels demo against Islamisation
Cassandra wrote:
"I've been scanning your blog in vein for any mention of the 9/11 rally in Brussels by the Stop Islamization of Europe organization. I would have thought this might be of interest to you. Your views?"
My view is that it is great. That is to say it is great if there will be a significant number of people: say 5.000. Even though mayor Thielemans has not given permnission for the demonstration. Vlaams Belang leader DeWinter has invited everybody to celebrate his birthday, so that seems a good reason to congegrate.
Brussels also has many excellent restaurants. I strongly suggest that all readers of this blog that can make it take the day, go to Brussels, visit the De Wetsstraat (where the demonstration is) and have a nice meal before heading home. If you are arrested for celebrating with a Patriot it will make things so much more interesting. And a nice story to tell the kids.
"I've been scanning your blog in vein for any mention of the 9/11 rally in Brussels by the Stop Islamization of Europe organization. I would have thought this might be of interest to you. Your views?"
My view is that it is great. That is to say it is great if there will be a significant number of people: say 5.000. Even though mayor Thielemans has not given permnission for the demonstration. Vlaams Belang leader DeWinter has invited everybody to celebrate his birthday, so that seems a good reason to congegrate.
Brussels also has many excellent restaurants. I strongly suggest that all readers of this blog that can make it take the day, go to Brussels, visit the De Wetsstraat (where the demonstration is) and have a nice meal before heading home. If you are arrested for celebrating with a Patriot it will make things so much more interesting. And a nice story to tell the kids.
US power is faltering
In the 1920ies and 1930ies world power moved from Europe (Great Britain) West accross the Atlantic. It was not until the 1950ies that everybody understood that European power had collapsed and that the USA was racing ahead. The 1956 Suez crisis caused the world to realise what the new power realities were. Exit Europe. All eyes on the USA and the new contender, Soviet Russia and world communism.
Right now we can see a similar power shift. In the stage of the 1920ies and 1930ies shift of power, when the UK needed US capital to develop the economies of its empire in the Middle East and Asia. The new global financial power is China. And it has started to openly flex its muscle: "Two Chinese officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning, for the first time, that Beijing may use its $1,330bn (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress. Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies."
And a key US Policy maker is taking heed (HT Parapundit). David Walker, comptroller general of the US recently warned:
"The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon"
The fiscal imbalance meant the US was “on a path toward an explosion of debt”.
The recent waves made by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis only underscore the words of the US comptroller general. European and Asian banks are underwriting US consumption. The US saving rate is close to zero. The US does not have the capital to develop its own infrastructures, let alone the infrastructures of societies in the Middle East. Moreover unfettered Third World immigration is straining US education, transport, health and many other infrastructures. Its economy is strongly consumption driven and this consumption is fuelled by credit. Meanwhile China is sitting on a mountainous treasure, much like Fafnir, Sigurd's Dragon.
The US government and the Federal Reserve must make economies. But these cutbacks will cause a recession and unemployment. Together with a disastrious foreign war this will make US internal politics unstable and depressed in the next decade. Think of the post-Vietnam era, but then much worse.
After 1990, the US was the only power and we lived in uni-polar world. We are moving back into a bi-polar world and I would expect local powers to become restless as well. Similar to what happened in the 1920ies when Japan and Germany tried to fill the British power vacuum with military adventurism and warrior ideologies.
Countries that could play such a role are Iran, Turkey and Egypt, for the Middle East. Iran has already allied itself in the SCO with Russia and China for such a role.
Right now we can see a similar power shift. In the stage of the 1920ies and 1930ies shift of power, when the UK needed US capital to develop the economies of its empire in the Middle East and Asia. The new global financial power is China. And it has started to openly flex its muscle: "Two Chinese officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning, for the first time, that Beijing may use its $1,330bn (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress. Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies."
And a key US Policy maker is taking heed (HT Parapundit). David Walker, comptroller general of the US recently warned:
"The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon"
The fiscal imbalance meant the US was “on a path toward an explosion of debt”.
The recent waves made by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis only underscore the words of the US comptroller general. European and Asian banks are underwriting US consumption. The US saving rate is close to zero. The US does not have the capital to develop its own infrastructures, let alone the infrastructures of societies in the Middle East. Moreover unfettered Third World immigration is straining US education, transport, health and many other infrastructures. Its economy is strongly consumption driven and this consumption is fuelled by credit. Meanwhile China is sitting on a mountainous treasure, much like Fafnir, Sigurd's Dragon.
The US government and the Federal Reserve must make economies. But these cutbacks will cause a recession and unemployment. Together with a disastrious foreign war this will make US internal politics unstable and depressed in the next decade. Think of the post-Vietnam era, but then much worse.
After 1990, the US was the only power and we lived in uni-polar world. We are moving back into a bi-polar world and I would expect local powers to become restless as well. Similar to what happened in the 1920ies when Japan and Germany tried to fill the British power vacuum with military adventurism and warrior ideologies.
Countries that could play such a role are Iran, Turkey and Egypt, for the Middle East. Iran has already allied itself in the SCO with Russia and China for such a role.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
In the name of the Father?
"A Dutch Catholic bishop has suggested that Christians should refer to God as "Allah" to promote better relations with Muslims.
Bishop Martinus "Tiny" Muskens of Breda told the "Network" television show that "God doesn't really care how we address Him."
Bishop Martinus "bend over backwards" Muskens urges his flock to make maximum accomodation to Muslims in The Netherlands. It is impossible for anyone to respect people who will follow this urging of this shepherd. Neither a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew or a Muslim shall respect people with so little self respect. The Bishop has lost his salt.
But we should not be surprised that the Bishop has taken this position. As Lawrence Auster at View to the Right has pointed out regarding Pope Benedictus and his Regensburg Address, the Catholic hierarchy is bound to the 1965 Nostra Aetate. This is the document which addresses the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with the Non-Christian Religions. Among other things Nostra Aetate holds:
"No foundation therefore remains for any theory or practice that leads to discrimination between man and man or people and people, so far as their human dignity and the rights flowing from it are concerned."
This allows: "No people, no nation, no religion, no culture, no form of government, no family organization, no human society of any kind could maintain its existence under this rule." according to Mr. Auster.
Nostra Aetate is unfettered liberalism. It is nihilistically destructive even of Christianity itself. Think of this, the Bishop also said that God does not care what we call Him? Shall we address Him Shiva, or Lucifer, or Satan? It is all the same and to think that it is different would be evil, right?
The Catholic Church has been quite aloof from worldly matters, such as immigration, military and defense. But under Nostra Aetate the Roman Catholic Church has become actively hostile to ANY defense of the West. The Church hierarchy is part of the Treason Lobby, together with Big Business, the Trade Unions, the Political Class, the national and international Bureaucracies and the Church of the Left: the Media.
There is little point in complaining about the Bishop. The Bishop and the Pope are bound by this declaration, according to Catholic doctrin. For the Catholic Church to become defenders of the West and Western nations and of Christianity it is necessary first to repudiate Nostra Aetate and to come to a new non-liberal understanding of the relation between the Catholic Churches and the responsibilities of Catholics to defend their societies.
That will be quite a bit of work.
Bishop Martinus "Tiny" Muskens of Breda told the "Network" television show that "God doesn't really care how we address Him."
Bishop Martinus "bend over backwards" Muskens urges his flock to make maximum accomodation to Muslims in The Netherlands. It is impossible for anyone to respect people who will follow this urging of this shepherd. Neither a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew or a Muslim shall respect people with so little self respect. The Bishop has lost his salt.
But we should not be surprised that the Bishop has taken this position. As Lawrence Auster at View to the Right has pointed out regarding Pope Benedictus and his Regensburg Address, the Catholic hierarchy is bound to the 1965 Nostra Aetate. This is the document which addresses the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with the Non-Christian Religions. Among other things Nostra Aetate holds:
"No foundation therefore remains for any theory or practice that leads to discrimination between man and man or people and people, so far as their human dignity and the rights flowing from it are concerned."
This allows: "No people, no nation, no religion, no culture, no form of government, no family organization, no human society of any kind could maintain its existence under this rule." according to Mr. Auster.
Nostra Aetate is unfettered liberalism. It is nihilistically destructive even of Christianity itself. Think of this, the Bishop also said that God does not care what we call Him? Shall we address Him Shiva, or Lucifer, or Satan? It is all the same and to think that it is different would be evil, right?
The Catholic Church has been quite aloof from worldly matters, such as immigration, military and defense. But under Nostra Aetate the Roman Catholic Church has become actively hostile to ANY defense of the West. The Church hierarchy is part of the Treason Lobby, together with Big Business, the Trade Unions, the Political Class, the national and international Bureaucracies and the Church of the Left: the Media.
There is little point in complaining about the Bishop. The Bishop and the Pope are bound by this declaration, according to Catholic doctrin. For the Catholic Church to become defenders of the West and Western nations and of Christianity it is necessary first to repudiate Nostra Aetate and to come to a new non-liberal understanding of the relation between the Catholic Churches and the responsibilities of Catholics to defend their societies.
That will be quite a bit of work.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Poll: half of Dutch population sees Islam as a threat
Peil.nl, a firm specialized in public opinion and polls published a report on attitudes of Dutch voters regarding Islam. The cause was Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders' call to ban the Quran. This poll was already mentioned on the KleinVerzet blog by a MAUDLIN Erwin. I commented on his conclusion a few days ago.
The question: "Does the presence of the Islam in our country represent an enrichment or a threat or neither?
Fifty-one percent of the sample replied Islam is a threat. The sample was broken up according to the party the respondent voted in the last election. Ninety-nine percent of the sample that voted for the Conservative Freedom Party of Geert Wilders said Islam was a threat. The other big rightwing party supporters (CDA and VVD) showed a sixty to seventy percent rate of those who thought Islam is a menace to society. The small Christian Union supporters showed only thirty-four percent thought Islam is a threat, but their supporters are mostly in the little affeced countryside. Amazingly thirty-four percent of Labour Party supporters and thirty-seven percent of the hardline leftist Socialist Party supporters thought the presence of Islam threatens Dutch society and is no enrichment. And just eleven percent of the posh but small Greens viewed Islam as a threat.
So the view that Islam is a threat to society is widely held in the Netherlands, the majority view. This view is held by the overwhelming majority of those who identify with the Right and by a large minority of those who support the Left.
Finally, those who support the right are consistently slightly bigger than those who support the Left in The Netherland. Since 1972 however the media and political establishment are far more Leftist in their views than the population.
To condense it in one slogan: Multicultural ideology is dead in The Netherland. As far as the population is concerned. The political, academic and media elites are still ambling along as if nothing happened.
For those who read Dutch here is the link to the site with the research: Peil.nl.
The document can be found under: "09-08-2007 Geert Wilders en de Koran"
The question: "Does the presence of the Islam in our country represent an enrichment or a threat or neither?
Fifty-one percent of the sample replied Islam is a threat. The sample was broken up according to the party the respondent voted in the last election. Ninety-nine percent of the sample that voted for the Conservative Freedom Party of Geert Wilders said Islam was a threat. The other big rightwing party supporters (CDA and VVD) showed a sixty to seventy percent rate of those who thought Islam is a menace to society. The small Christian Union supporters showed only thirty-four percent thought Islam is a threat, but their supporters are mostly in the little affeced countryside. Amazingly thirty-four percent of Labour Party supporters and thirty-seven percent of the hardline leftist Socialist Party supporters thought the presence of Islam threatens Dutch society and is no enrichment. And just eleven percent of the posh but small Greens viewed Islam as a threat.
So the view that Islam is a threat to society is widely held in the Netherlands, the majority view. This view is held by the overwhelming majority of those who identify with the Right and by a large minority of those who support the Left.
Finally, those who support the right are consistently slightly bigger than those who support the Left in The Netherland. Since 1972 however the media and political establishment are far more Leftist in their views than the population.
To condense it in one slogan: Multicultural ideology is dead in The Netherland. As far as the population is concerned. The political, academic and media elites are still ambling along as if nothing happened.
For those who read Dutch here is the link to the site with the research: Peil.nl.
The document can be found under: "09-08-2007 Geert Wilders en de Koran"
Friday, August 10, 2007
Dutch Labour leader abandons Apostate of Islam
Ehsan Jami, the founder of the Dutch committee of ex-muslims and Dutch Labour party member was assaulted last weekend by angry Muslims.
Jami, who is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) is controversial within Labour for his stance on Islam. His party is heavily dependent on the Muslim vote in the immigrant saturated big cities and many towns across The Netherlands.
The latest development is that Labour Leader Wouter Bos now came out in an interview in "De Volkskrant" (Dutch) that he and his party do not support Jami and his call for protection of those who leave Islam. Because the way Jami presents his story is too provocative and injuring to Muslims.
The Left never misses a chance, to prove their dhimmitude.
Jami, who is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) is controversial within Labour for his stance on Islam. His party is heavily dependent on the Muslim vote in the immigrant saturated big cities and many towns across The Netherlands.
The latest development is that Labour Leader Wouter Bos now came out in an interview in "De Volkskrant" (Dutch) that he and his party do not support Jami and his call for protection of those who leave Islam. Because the way Jami presents his story is too provocative and injuring to Muslims.
The Left never misses a chance, to prove their dhimmitude.
DON'T THINK or DON'T BE SURPRISED
Dutch blogger Erwin at Kleinverzet wrote: "Almost 70% of the Dutch do not feel free enough to openly air their opinions on islam. In a purportedly free country as the Netherlands still likes to think it is, that is a most depressing statistic..."
No, no, my brother Erwin. This statistic is a cause for joy. Suppose people did not realise or recognize or deny they were unfree. Like it used to be. Then it would be impossible for them to THINK the truth. The people has to be aware of an issue, before they can deal with the issue.
A Czech told me a rhyme from Communist times:
"Don't think,
but if you think,
don't talk.
But if you talk,
don't write.
But if you write
don't sign.
And if you sign,
Don't be surprised."
Well, at a certain point people under Communism started thinking, then talking, then writing and around 1985 signing and demonstrating.
And then Communism fell apart in a few years.
People are now setting the first step of thinking and recognising they are unfree to speak. They are becoming aware of their unfreedom. And you and I and others are already writing. But not signing. It is too early for that.
Eventually the people will move on to sign and to assemble in the streets openly proclaiming what the people already believes. When the time has come the politico's and the other people in power will lose their own belief in neo-marxism.
At that point the whole ideological building will fall apart. And their power will dissappear. And that moment is not too far. It is now 1973 or 1983. I do not know which.
The other side bases itself on lies. If we are righteous and built our foundations on Truth and Honesty we are invincible.
The Sun is shining for us. The other side is heading into night and fog.
No, no, my brother Erwin. This statistic is a cause for joy. Suppose people did not realise or recognize or deny they were unfree. Like it used to be. Then it would be impossible for them to THINK the truth. The people has to be aware of an issue, before they can deal with the issue.
A Czech told me a rhyme from Communist times:
"Don't think,
but if you think,
don't talk.
But if you talk,
don't write.
But if you write
don't sign.
And if you sign,
Don't be surprised."
Well, at a certain point people under Communism started thinking, then talking, then writing and around 1985 signing and demonstrating.
And then Communism fell apart in a few years.
People are now setting the first step of thinking and recognising they are unfree to speak. They are becoming aware of their unfreedom. And you and I and others are already writing. But not signing. It is too early for that.
Eventually the people will move on to sign and to assemble in the streets openly proclaiming what the people already believes. When the time has come the politico's and the other people in power will lose their own belief in neo-marxism.
At that point the whole ideological building will fall apart. And their power will dissappear. And that moment is not too far. It is now 1973 or 1983. I do not know which.
The other side bases itself on lies. If we are righteous and built our foundations on Truth and Honesty we are invincible.
The Sun is shining for us. The other side is heading into night and fog.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Freedom Party leader proposes to ban Qoran
Fasten your seatbelts, this is the leader of the populist Freeddom party (PVV) speaking:
Geert Wilders, the controversial leader of the anti-immigration PVV party, has called for a ban on the Quran in the Netherlands. MORE ..
Geert Wilders, the controversial leader of the anti-immigration PVV party, has called for a ban on the Quran in the Netherlands. MORE ..
Multicultural festival in Amsterdam marred by violence
Last Sunday the ending of Amsterdam multicultural festival "Kwakoe" for Caribbean blacks was marred by violence. As the festival ended and revellers went home fights broke out. The police (Dutch) made seven arrests.
I witnessed an ongoing fight in the carriage behind the metro carriage that I was using travelling home after a trip to Berlin. Several enrichers were fighting it out for five minutes on the track from station Duivendrecht to Amstel.
Berlin is very mellow compared to Amsterdam. Berlin has only fourteen percent immigrants, while Amsterdam has close to fifty. Even so I was a witness on the S-Bahn of an angry confrontation between a German and a Turk, over the Turk playing music on his walkman.
In The Netherlands the train carriage got tense halfway in the country as about six muslim kids entered my carriage and started to play music loudly.
Debate is also starting in Berlin over the possibility to assimilate the Turkish immigrants, as there has been a spate of honour killings in the past two years. More and more Turkish women in Germany is wearing the headscarve, although I did not see a single Burqa.
I witnessed an ongoing fight in the carriage behind the metro carriage that I was using travelling home after a trip to Berlin. Several enrichers were fighting it out for five minutes on the track from station Duivendrecht to Amstel.
Berlin is very mellow compared to Amsterdam. Berlin has only fourteen percent immigrants, while Amsterdam has close to fifty. Even so I was a witness on the S-Bahn of an angry confrontation between a German and a Turk, over the Turk playing music on his walkman.
In The Netherlands the train carriage got tense halfway in the country as about six muslim kids entered my carriage and started to play music loudly.
Debate is also starting in Berlin over the possibility to assimilate the Turkish immigrants, as there has been a spate of honour killings in the past two years. More and more Turkish women in Germany is wearing the headscarve, although I did not see a single Burqa.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Liberalism bites its own behind
Last weekend Amsterdam saw another installment of its hysterically touted "Gay Pride". The Amsterdam Gay Pride is a flotilla of party boats sailing on the Amsterdam canals in a column:
But the openness and inclusiveness also allow in masses of Third Worlders into the Netherlands. And thus into liberal Amsterdam. And these Third Worlders are decidedly unliberal in their outlook. As a result the Amsterdam Gay Pride was marred by attacks on gay revellers by Muslim youth for the past 5 years or so.
This year the message of the Pride was a call for tolerance and the spokesman of the Parade and several of the floats carried messages about gay bashing in general and immigrant gay bashing in particular:
The Irishmen is actually seriously injured, with a broken jaw, a broken nose and a dislocated joint in the neck.
Instead of calling for special protection under the law for special groups, Dutch society should start enforcing existing law, old-fashioned law and order and the borders. This means that all Thirld World immigration should cease.
The flotilla and party afterward is one of the biggest of the year in Amsterdam, and one in which the city upholds its reputation as one of Europe's gayest capitals.It is an opportunity for Liberals to wallow in smugness. "We are the best! The most tolerant and inclusive lot in the world. Big applause for ourselves!"
But the openness and inclusiveness also allow in masses of Third Worlders into the Netherlands. And thus into liberal Amsterdam. And these Third Worlders are decidedly unliberal in their outlook. As a result the Amsterdam Gay Pride was marred by attacks on gay revellers by Muslim youth for the past 5 years or so.
This year the message of the Pride was a call for tolerance and the spokesman of the Parade and several of the floats carried messages about gay bashing in general and immigrant gay bashing in particular:
Elferink of the COC (Gay rights organisation) disputed that the rise in attacks was due to better reporting.An Irishman and a Spaniard plus two Americans, all gays (Dutch), were attacked during the weekend. Gay rights organisations called for harsher measures against gay bashers, including collective punishment against groups of people when one of the members of the group attacks gays.
The Irishmen is actually seriously injured, with a broken jaw, a broken nose and a dislocated joint in the neck.
Instead of calling for special protection under the law for special groups, Dutch society should start enforcing existing law, old-fashioned law and order and the borders. This means that all Thirld World immigration should cease.
Muslim apostate assaulted by Muslims
Ehsan Jami is a son of Iranian immigrants to The Netherlands. He is a member of the PvdA, the Dutch Labour Party. A while ago he became well-known as a apostate of Islam. He also founded a "committee of ex-Muslims". The leadership of the Labour Party feared to lose the Muslim vote, which is a significant part of their electoral base and tried to muzzle him.
The latest news is that Ehsan Jami has been assaulted by a Moroccan and a Somali thug who made references to his judgement on the Prophet Muhammed:
"The chairman of the Netherlands-based Central Committee for Ex-Muslims confirmed late Monday, August 6, that he has been put under special police protection after being attacked over the weekend.
Ehsan Jami, 22, who is also city councillor of the left-leaning Dutch Labor Party (PvdA) in the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg, said he was beaten up Saturday, August 4, by three men while leaving a supermarket.
Both Jami and a female companion were reportedly injured in the attack in Voorburg, which was carried out by two Moroccans and a man from Somalia, Dutch media said.
It was the third time that Jami was attacked, prompting the Dutch National Coordinator Terrorism Suppression to intervene, Dutch television reported. "Yes I can confirm that I have protection and feel myself more safe," he told the Dutch television news show NOVA."
I am looking forward to the day when the authorities are actually going to protect ethnic Dutchmen against violent immigrants. For instance by enforcing public order and keeping Muslims out of our territory.
The latest news is that Ehsan Jami has been assaulted by a Moroccan and a Somali thug who made references to his judgement on the Prophet Muhammed:
"The chairman of the Netherlands-based Central Committee for Ex-Muslims confirmed late Monday, August 6, that he has been put under special police protection after being attacked over the weekend.
Ehsan Jami, 22, who is also city councillor of the left-leaning Dutch Labor Party (PvdA) in the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg, said he was beaten up Saturday, August 4, by three men while leaving a supermarket.
Both Jami and a female companion were reportedly injured in the attack in Voorburg, which was carried out by two Moroccans and a man from Somalia, Dutch media said.
It was the third time that Jami was attacked, prompting the Dutch National Coordinator Terrorism Suppression to intervene, Dutch television reported. "Yes I can confirm that I have protection and feel myself more safe," he told the Dutch television news show NOVA."
I am looking forward to the day when the authorities are actually going to protect ethnic Dutchmen against violent immigrants. For instance by enforcing public order and keeping Muslims out of our territory.
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