Breaking news - BBC website about to have story link on the BNP membership lists online
Link when we get it..............
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
BNP MEMBERSHIP LIST 2008 GOES ONLINE
Someone has just tried to post the link to this website on here, we have deleted it.
WARNING
2008 list online
WTF is going on at the BNP?
UPDATE:
We are being told that, John Walker(ALLEGEDLY), ex BNP treasurer, has uploaded the full 2008 list online. NWN can confirm the list is real after being contacted by members who are on the list.
WARNING
2008 list online
WTF is going on at the BNP?
UPDATE:
We are being told that, John Walker(ALLEGEDLY), ex BNP treasurer, has uploaded the full 2008 list online. NWN can confirm the list is real after being contacted by members who are on the list.
(NWN does NOT have this list. It is on a website totally unconnected to us.)
If Griffin cannot keep the memberships secure he should resign.
Does anyone have anymore info?
For more info .....http://www.nwn-forum.co.uk/
Please, sign this petition
The Evil Mother of Baby P• Eight broken ribs and a broken back, with another area of bleeding around the spine at neck level.
• Numerous bruises, cuts and abrasions, including a deep tear to his left ear lobe, which had been pulled away from his head.
• Severe lacerations to the top of his head, including a large gouge which could have been caused by a dog bite.
• Blackened finger- and toenails, with several nails missing; the middle finger of his right hand was without a nail and its tip was also missing, as if it had been sliced off.
• A tear to his fraenulum, the strip of skin between the middle of the upper lip and the gum, which had partially healed.
• One of his front teeth had also been knocked out and was found in his colon. He had swallowed it.
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=1551
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=1551
Bring back the death sentence-Sign the petition
Land Kill
'Frankenstein' crops could be grown in secret to halt GM trial sabotage
GM crop trials should be carried out in secret or behind security fences in a bid to prevent saboteurs from ripping them out of the ground, it is claimed.
UK scientists and biotech companies are putting pressure on ministers to implement special protection measures.
They are understood to have support in government from Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who is keen to support GM science and farming.
However, the proposals have been slammed by critics who say secret trials would expose vast areas of the country to disastrous GM contamination.
Conventional and organic farmers could find their crops are contaminated with GM pollen without any idea who is responsible.
The vast majority of consumers, supermarkets and food manufacturers in Britain and Europe have made clear they do not want GM crops and food.
Questions have been raised about GM farming techniques and their harm on the environment and beneficial insects such as bees.
Just last week, a study funded by the government of Austria suggested GM corn could harm fertility following a feeding trial with rats.
Experts at the University of Leeds claim they are being prevented from carrying out trials on GM potatoes and other crops for fear they will be wrecked by protestors.
They claim the only way to go ahead is either to keep their precise location a secret or spend many thousands of pounds on security fencing and guards.
They are considering asking a Government funding body, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to stump up £100,000 for fencing.
More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1086615/Frankenstein-crops-grown-secret-halt-GM-trial-sabotage.html
THE GM GENOCIDE
Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops
When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it's even WORSE than he feared.
The children were inconsolable. Mute with shock and fighting back tears, they huddled beside their mother as friends and neighbours prepared their father's body for cremation on a blazing bonfire built on the cracked, barren fields near their home.
As flames consumed the corpse, Ganjanan, 12, and Kalpana, 14, faced a grim future. While Shankara Mandaukar had hoped his son and daughter would have a better life under India's economic boom, they now face working as slave labour for a few pence a day. Landless and homeless, they will be the lowest of the low.
"Shankara's crop had failed - twice. Of course, famine and pestilence are part of India's ancient story.
But the death of this respected farmer has been blamed on something far more modern and sinister: genetically modified crops.
Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead."
MORE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html
GM crop trials should be carried out in secret or behind security fences in a bid to prevent saboteurs from ripping them out of the ground, it is claimed.
UK scientists and biotech companies are putting pressure on ministers to implement special protection measures.
They are understood to have support in government from Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who is keen to support GM science and farming.
However, the proposals have been slammed by critics who say secret trials would expose vast areas of the country to disastrous GM contamination.
Conventional and organic farmers could find their crops are contaminated with GM pollen without any idea who is responsible.
The vast majority of consumers, supermarkets and food manufacturers in Britain and Europe have made clear they do not want GM crops and food.
Questions have been raised about GM farming techniques and their harm on the environment and beneficial insects such as bees.
Just last week, a study funded by the government of Austria suggested GM corn could harm fertility following a feeding trial with rats.
Experts at the University of Leeds claim they are being prevented from carrying out trials on GM potatoes and other crops for fear they will be wrecked by protestors.
They claim the only way to go ahead is either to keep their precise location a secret or spend many thousands of pounds on security fencing and guards.
They are considering asking a Government funding body, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to stump up £100,000 for fencing.
More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1086615/Frankenstein-crops-grown-secret-halt-GM-trial-sabotage.html
THE GM GENOCIDE
Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops
When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it's even WORSE than he feared.
The children were inconsolable. Mute with shock and fighting back tears, they huddled beside their mother as friends and neighbours prepared their father's body for cremation on a blazing bonfire built on the cracked, barren fields near their home.
As flames consumed the corpse, Ganjanan, 12, and Kalpana, 14, faced a grim future. While Shankara Mandaukar had hoped his son and daughter would have a better life under India's economic boom, they now face working as slave labour for a few pence a day. Landless and homeless, they will be the lowest of the low.
"Shankara's crop had failed - twice. Of course, famine and pestilence are part of India's ancient story.
But the death of this respected farmer has been blamed on something far more modern and sinister: genetically modified crops.
Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead."
MORE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html
Manchester being 'bullied' by Government into accepting road tolls
Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, said funding for new tram lines, extra buses and trains would be cancelled unless a majority of Greater Manchester's 1.8 million population voted “yes” in next month's road pricing referendum.
Mr Hoon's comments, in an interview with The Times, angered opponents of Manchester's proposed charging scheme. They accused the Government of trying to bully the city into voting for a tax on commuting by car.
Under the scheme, drivers would have electronic tags fitted to their cars and set up prepaid accounts. Up to £5 a day would be deducted automatically from their accounts as they passed roadside beacons on an inner and outer ring around the city.
Unlike in London, where motorists pay £8 a day to travel any distance inside the charging zone, drivers in Manchester would pay only at peak times in the busiest direction of travel. Ministers fear that a “no” vote in Manchester will end any hope of introducing charging across the country for at least a decade. They realise that few people want another tax, but are hoping they will vote “yes” if they believe that is the only way to secure record investment and 10,000 extra jobs.
Mr Hoon said Manchester would not get the funding without road pricing. “There is no Plan B. I would not want people to be under any illusion about that,” he said.
Asked if Manchester would get even a small proportion of what it needed if it voted “no”, Mr Hoon said: “None whatsoever. If the vote is ‘no', there will be no central government funding. The rules are very clear.”
Mr Hoon said the money earmarked for Manchester would be given to other cities. He said: “There will be plenty of other cities looking to take up the opportunity if Manchester doesn't.”
He also said that the Government would increase its budget for rewarding cities that introduced road pricing. The Department for Transport has already allocated £200 million a year for the next ten years, a total of £2 billion, for congestion charging schemes across the country.
Mr Hoon said the total amount on offer would be increased if Manchester voted “yes”. “We will find more money for other cities,” he said.
This means that an even greater proportion of government funding for transport projects would be linked to road pricing. Cities wanting a share of the money would have no choice but to introduce some form of congestion charging. Cambridge, Bristol and Leeds are considering charging schemes as a way of securing central government funding.
Graham Stringer, Labour MP for Manchester Blackley and a member of the Commons Transport Select Committee, said: “This is last-minute bullying by Mr Hoon. It shows how worried they are about losing.” Nigel Humphries, spokesman for the Association of British Drivers, said: “The Government is holding a gun to Manchester's head. They know congestion charging is unpopular, but they are trying to introduce it by the back door by picking on a city which has been trying for years to get the money to expand its tram system.”
A spokesman for the Yes Campaign said: “The Transport Secretary could not have been more clear. Unless Manchester votes ‘yes', the opportunity to transform its public transport infrastructure will be lost for a generation.”
The Conservatives oppose national road pricing, but support local charging schemes. They have said they would abide by the result of the Manchester referendum.
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities has announced a number of exemptions and discounts from the proposed charge in order to attract more “yes” votes.
Drivers on minimum wages will get a 20 per cent discount for at least the first two years; the maximum anyone will pay has been cut from £10 to £5 a day, and employees on the Trafford Park industrial estate will be exempt for three years. The association had already pledged not to introduce the charge until 2013, by which time 80 per cent of the transport improvements would have been made.
The question posed in the postal referendum does not mention road pricing, though the preamble on the ballot paper refers to it twice. The question says: “Do you agree with the Transport Innovation Fund proposal?”
Mr Hoon said Manchester would not get the funding without road pricing. “There is no Plan B. I would not want people to be under any illusion about that,” he said.
Asked if Manchester would get even a small proportion of what it needed if it voted “no”, Mr Hoon said: “None whatsoever. If the vote is ‘no', there will be no central government funding. The rules are very clear.”
Mr Hoon said the money earmarked for Manchester would be given to other cities. He said: “There will be plenty of other cities looking to take up the opportunity if Manchester doesn't.”
He also said that the Government would increase its budget for rewarding cities that introduced road pricing. The Department for Transport has already allocated £200 million a year for the next ten years, a total of £2 billion, for congestion charging schemes across the country.
Mr Hoon said the total amount on offer would be increased if Manchester voted “yes”. “We will find more money for other cities,” he said.
This means that an even greater proportion of government funding for transport projects would be linked to road pricing. Cities wanting a share of the money would have no choice but to introduce some form of congestion charging. Cambridge, Bristol and Leeds are considering charging schemes as a way of securing central government funding.
Graham Stringer, Labour MP for Manchester Blackley and a member of the Commons Transport Select Committee, said: “This is last-minute bullying by Mr Hoon. It shows how worried they are about losing.” Nigel Humphries, spokesman for the Association of British Drivers, said: “The Government is holding a gun to Manchester's head. They know congestion charging is unpopular, but they are trying to introduce it by the back door by picking on a city which has been trying for years to get the money to expand its tram system.”
A spokesman for the Yes Campaign said: “The Transport Secretary could not have been more clear. Unless Manchester votes ‘yes', the opportunity to transform its public transport infrastructure will be lost for a generation.”
The Conservatives oppose national road pricing, but support local charging schemes. They have said they would abide by the result of the Manchester referendum.
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities has announced a number of exemptions and discounts from the proposed charge in order to attract more “yes” votes.
Drivers on minimum wages will get a 20 per cent discount for at least the first two years; the maximum anyone will pay has been cut from £10 to £5 a day, and employees on the Trafford Park industrial estate will be exempt for three years. The association had already pledged not to introduce the charge until 2013, by which time 80 per cent of the transport improvements would have been made.
The question posed in the postal referendum does not mention road pricing, though the preamble on the ballot paper refers to it twice. The question says: “Do you agree with the Transport Innovation Fund proposal?”
NWN: Another of those NWO votes, and if the vote turns up a 'NO', then they will have another vote till they get the vote they want. Then no more !
Sunday, November 16, 2008
White, British, need a job?
20,000 migrant workers register for London Olympics jobs - despite pledge to provide work for local people
Promises of a 'skills legacy' from the London Olympics were in doubt today as it emerged that 20,000 migrant workers had registered for jobs in the main 2012 borough in the past year.
The surge in new National Insurance numbers in Newham has prompted concerns over pledges to provide thousands of skilled construction jobs to the local community.
The surge in new National Insurance numbers in Newham has prompted concerns over pledges to provide thousands of skilled construction jobs to the local community.
About 2,700 workers are on the Olympics site, rising to 9,000 by 2010. Estimates of the number of migrant workers there - mostly from Poland and Baltic states within the European Union - range from 10 to 70 per cent.
According to the Olympic Delivery Authority's last month employment figures for the Olympic Park, 58 per cent of the 2,700 workforce were resident in London and 24 per cent from the East End. However, the figures do not indicate the worker's nationality - or how long they have lived in Britain.
Labour MP Frank Field, who published the National Insurance figures, said: 'It is totally lawful but British taxpayers and lottery players are paying for jobs for foreign workers and it is not what we signed up for."'
The ODA has promised a skills legacy for east London and is in the forefront of the Government's agenda under which Gordon Brown promised 'British jobs for British workers'.
The ODA has a plant training school at the Olympic Park and says one in 10 of its workforce was previously unemployed. But the ODA is also under pressure to balance its books after losing £500million in private sector investment in a year with the credit crunch and, according to unions, has targeted savings on labour costs.
Construction workers' union Ucatt is increasing pressure on the ODA to continue to honour agreed minimum site rates. It is thought that migrant workers hired through agencies are typically paid up to £2 less per hour than their British counterparts.
More:
Friday, November 14, 2008
Osama bin Laden is Dead
Archives
Nov 13, 2008
I'm pleased to see Barak Obama hit the ground running after his election on the 4th. The US needs change.
I'd like to see him announce the death of Osama bin Laden as one of his first official duties. Bin Laden often better known as bin Forgotten died in December of 2001. There is nothing I am saying that is news to anyone who has actually spent any time thinking.
Osama bin Laden had serous kidney disease that required him to have dialysis treatment twice a week. There aren't any dialysis machines floating around in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. A few months back a reporter finally asked the question that should have been asked years ago at a White House press conference.
How is it that a guy who was seriously ill seven years ago is getting treatment for end-stage renal disease in some cave in Afghanistan? The woman conducting the press conference panicked at the thought of answering that most basic question and immediately canceled the rest of the briefing.
The United States does not need a boogieman living in a cave in Asia. Osama bin Laden is dead. Barak Obama should be honest enough with the American people to declare him dead.
Here are the facts.
The last intelligence intercept of Osama bin Laden was on December 14 of 2001. He has not been heard from since.
President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld hinted in late December of 2001 that they knew Osama bin Laden was dead.
President Musharraf of Pakistan announced in January of 2002 that Osama bin Laden was probably dead of kidney disease.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was quoted in October of 2002 as saying, "The more we don't hear of him, and the more time passes, there is the likelihood that he probably is either dead or seriously wounded somewhere."
But the actions of the US Military are the most telling. There isn't a single soldier, sailor or Marine tasked with chasing down Osama bin Laden, dead or alive. Because we know exactly where he is. He's dead. So the US military is either totally or absolutely incompetent or Osama bin Laden died years ago and we've been fighting the boogieman.
As early as July of 2002, even the FBI's counterterrorism chief was quoted as saying; Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead.
The US does not need a boogieman; we have real challenges ahead of us. We need a President who will not lie to us on a constant basis.
While you are at it Mr President Elect, you may want to mention that Iran never threatened to wipe Israel off the map and 16 US Intelligence agencies all agree [pdf] Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. But you knew that, didn't you? Iran is neither the enemy of the United States nor Israel.
Nov 12, 2008
Bob Moriarty
President: 321gold
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Is your home being repossessed?
Beating house repossession is easy.
Become a Muslim until the recession blows over.
Imagine a mortgage lender who allows you to take all the increase in the price of your home when you sell, but is prepared to share any loss if the property has fallen in value. Such a deal may seem too good to be true in the current property market, but it is exactly what a handful of banks specialising in Islamic home loans are offering.
Islamic mortgages have been in the mainstream market in the UK for some years but it can often be difficult to get to grips with sharia-compliant financial products, which can seem confusing. In Islam, making money from money by charging interest is deemed unfair and is not permitted. So where do you start when choosing an Islamic mortgage?
There are three models of Home Purchase Plans (HPPs): Ijara, which means 'lease' in Arabic; Musharaka, which means 'partnership'; and Murabaha, meaning 'profit'. Depending on the model, the lender will levy rent or add profit to the amount you pay back instead of charging interest.
.......................................
The rent description of Sharia mortgages is very valuable indeed, because a Muslim being made unemployed cannot lose his home, instead, they are allowed to claim HOUSING BENEFIT to cover the cost of their mortgages because their mortgages are known as RENT.
Should History be Decided in a Courtroom?
Dr. Frederick Toben – Why is he in Prison in London?
Dr. Frederick Toben – Why is he in Prison in London?
He completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart in 1977.
In 1999 he was imprisoned for nine months at Mannhein, Germany for breaching Germany's Holocaust Law, Section 130.
In 2002 a judgement was passed in the Federal Court of Australia that prohibits him from questioning/denying the three pillars on which the >Holocaust-Shoah<> stands
Integrity: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change
The following letter gives a good summary of the issues involved and was written at the time of Dr. Toben’s 1999 imprisonment in Germany, by Robert Faurisson - a former French Professor of literature.
My friend Frederick Toben – by Robert Faurisson
If my Australian friend Frederick Toben is in jail in Germany it is for three reasons--factors for which I share responsibility.
First, he became a convinced revisionist essentially by reading my own historical material, of which he has published several articles and essays in translation in his country.
Second, after visiting me for the first time in Vichy (France), he decided to investigate the alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz (Poland) in exactly the way in which I had advised him to do so: essentially, to examine the remains of the so-called Nazi gas chamber or Krematorium-II in Birkenau and thus see with his own eyes that there were no holes in the roof for the alleged pouring of Zyklon B pellets, and to remark, consequently, that no gassing operation could ever even have begun in that place, the center of the entire "Holocaust" story. In other words, to state: No hole, no "Holocaust."
Third, it is because, after his second visit, that he decided to go and put some questions to a public prosecutor in Mannheim named Heiko Klein, although Dr. Toben and I both knew that he might well be arrested and thrown in jail.
A man deeply attached to his native land and sincerely distressed by the Niagara of lies told about Germany, F. Toben wanted to achieve something that no revisionist had yet done. I am the one who supplied him with the tools for the job in the form of the following ideas:
*On the one hand, we have "exterminationists" asserting that Germany committed an unprecedented crime, especially with an unprecedented weapon.
*On the other hand, we have "revisionists" asserting that this is a lie, a defamation, a calumny.
*The question is, "Who is right?"
*Where should such a question be put? Should it not be in Germany first, the people being, in principle, the most concerned?
*More precisely, the question should be put to "Bonn" (in April 1999, when F. Toben last visited me, Berlin was not yet the capital of Germany), or to "Ludwigsburg," or to "Arolsen-Waldeck."
*The trouble is that "Bonn" is interested in "political truths," not historical truths. The job of "Ludwigsburg" is essentially to define official truths about this or that camp. "Arolsen-Waldeck" closed its "Historische Abteilung" in 1978 precisely because the place was being visited by people asking questions.
And I said to my friend F. Toben that he should go and visit not an institution in Germany but an individual German, and as a matter of fact, the right man in the right place was the public prosecutor, Heiko Klein, the individual who seemed most certain of his right to jail people who did not respect the official truth about Auschwitz.
I remarked to him that he would thus be the first to go and ask an individual in authority: "Why exactly do you throw revisionists into jail?" He would in this way get the answer straight form the proverbial horse's mouth.
This had never yet been done by any revisionist "in camera clausa," eye to eye. It would be as if, in 1610, someone visited the presiding judge who had found Galileo Gailei guilty of heresy. Should we not be keen to have the account of that man? From a historical point of view, it would be very valuable today to get an individual answer from Pontius Pilate (assuming that the story of Jesus and Pilate is not mere fiction).
Of course. Heiko Klein is not a judge, only a prosecutor. Still, his power in the matter is considerable. His name will go down in history as that of a major figure in a major historical problem. Why not go and visit this man, even at the risk of being jailed? History deserves that such risks are undertaken and sacrifices made, for its sake.
When on the walk back toward his car at the conclusion of our meeting, I remarked to him: "Frederic, you know, don't you, that you may go to jail?," he replied, "Yes."
I said "Good luck!," and I, for one, thought that we revisionists were fortunate to have such people on our side.
There you have essentially what I would say if ever I were allowed to testify in court on behalf of my friend Frederick Toben.
Conclusion: Is it not time that free discussion of historical events is allowed in Society as well as at Universities and other learning institutions? What is there to hide? The truth is a pre-requisite for the integrity and advancement of society.
Further reading for inquiring minds:
http://www.codoh.com/author/faurisson.html
http://www.vho.org/aaargh/engl/FaurisArch/FaurisArch.html
Bibliography [1] The Australian Online, October 11 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Grim reality of why the West's white race is now a dying breed
We will have to change societal rules devised in the 1960s and 1970s if we are to halt the steady decline in the western population, writes Desmond Fennell
LAST WEEK the news came from the United States that white people will be in a minority there in 2042, eight years sooner than previously predicted, according to US government projections. The reason for this is that in North America, as in Europe, the white population is not reproducing itself.
White women in western societies are producing on average fewer, sometimes much fewer, than 2.1 children per woman - the number of children required for the maintenance of a population. As things stand, therefore, the white race in the West is a dying breed.
There have been many instances of human groups not reproducing themselves, to the point of self-extinction or absorption into larger groups. The most common case has been a previously isolated tribe, when an outside agency has invaded and disrupted its way of life. The set of behavioural rules its members had worked out for themselves, and that made sense to them as a framework for life, gets disordered beyond repair.
They find themselves trying to live by a combination of rules that are partly remnants of their system, partly alien rules imposed on them. This haphazard combination does not make sense to them as a framework for life. So increasingly the will to reproduction flags, because it does not make sense to them to bear children into a senseless life.
It is likely that there is a similar reason for the flagging will of white westerners to reproduce their kind. Their historical background is in European or western civilisation which first took shape around a thousand years ago. That its core set of rules made sense is evidenced by its long endurance and by the mighty will to reproduce which it generated. Westerners overflowed from Europe to populate much of the world.
Then, beginning at the end of the second World War, white westerners, first in the United States, then in America's post-war European satellites, embarked on a great experiment. For the best of reasons - the pursuit of more justice, wealth and empowerment for all - they replaced many of the rules of European civilisation with new rules. Or rather, their democratic governments did this, employing left-liberals as their ethical guides, and enjoying enthusiastic support from the business corporations. The main rush of rule change took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Most white westerners, especially the younger generations, have made the new rules their own and have been living by them, or trying to.
The new collection of rules includes some of the old rules. It covers every sphere of behaviour: personal, interpersonal, male and female, parental and juvenile. It comprises, besides dos and don'ts, do-as-you-like rules.
People always assess for sense the collection of rules presented to them as a framework for life. They do so instinctively, drawing on generations of inherited experience. The point I am making is that this new collection of rules which white westerners have given themselves probably does not pass that litmus test. Probably it strikes growing numbers of them, deep down, as senseless, and therefore as a life framework which it does not make sense to bear children into.
That would not be surprising, given that it was thrown together in a very short time and based on idealistic theories rather than lived experience.
I have in mind an instructive parallel from the history of the Soviet Union. There, too, led by Russia, an idealistic experiment in rule-making was undertaken, with Marxist-Leninism as the ethical guide. In the latter years of that experiment, Russians noted with dismay an increasing fall in their fertility rate. The prospect appeared that they would become a minority in relation to the growing populations of the Union's Asian republics. In those populations, strong inherited cultures had rendered the impact of the Marxist-Leninist rules much lighter or next to null.
It is unlikely, even if the explanation I am offering for the flagging fertility of white westerners is accepted as valid, that any serious corrective measures will be undertaken. Our post-European collection of rules is the basis on which our successful consumerist system has been built, and everyone in power wants that to continue.
But if the reality were different, and white westerners could act in their own long-term interest, they would institute an authoritative, critical examination of their prevailing rules system. And that would begin - but only begin - by scrutinising the prevailing, "politically correct" rules that bear on women's lives, and particularly on motherhood.
• Desmond Fennell's latest book is About Being Normal in Abnormal Circumstances (Athol Books). His website is http://www.desmondfennell.com/
LAST WEEK the news came from the United States that white people will be in a minority there in 2042, eight years sooner than previously predicted, according to US government projections. The reason for this is that in North America, as in Europe, the white population is not reproducing itself.
White women in western societies are producing on average fewer, sometimes much fewer, than 2.1 children per woman - the number of children required for the maintenance of a population. As things stand, therefore, the white race in the West is a dying breed.
There have been many instances of human groups not reproducing themselves, to the point of self-extinction or absorption into larger groups. The most common case has been a previously isolated tribe, when an outside agency has invaded and disrupted its way of life. The set of behavioural rules its members had worked out for themselves, and that made sense to them as a framework for life, gets disordered beyond repair.
They find themselves trying to live by a combination of rules that are partly remnants of their system, partly alien rules imposed on them. This haphazard combination does not make sense to them as a framework for life. So increasingly the will to reproduction flags, because it does not make sense to them to bear children into a senseless life.
It is likely that there is a similar reason for the flagging will of white westerners to reproduce their kind. Their historical background is in European or western civilisation which first took shape around a thousand years ago. That its core set of rules made sense is evidenced by its long endurance and by the mighty will to reproduce which it generated. Westerners overflowed from Europe to populate much of the world.
Then, beginning at the end of the second World War, white westerners, first in the United States, then in America's post-war European satellites, embarked on a great experiment. For the best of reasons - the pursuit of more justice, wealth and empowerment for all - they replaced many of the rules of European civilisation with new rules. Or rather, their democratic governments did this, employing left-liberals as their ethical guides, and enjoying enthusiastic support from the business corporations. The main rush of rule change took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Most white westerners, especially the younger generations, have made the new rules their own and have been living by them, or trying to.
The new collection of rules includes some of the old rules. It covers every sphere of behaviour: personal, interpersonal, male and female, parental and juvenile. It comprises, besides dos and don'ts, do-as-you-like rules.
People always assess for sense the collection of rules presented to them as a framework for life. They do so instinctively, drawing on generations of inherited experience. The point I am making is that this new collection of rules which white westerners have given themselves probably does not pass that litmus test. Probably it strikes growing numbers of them, deep down, as senseless, and therefore as a life framework which it does not make sense to bear children into.
That would not be surprising, given that it was thrown together in a very short time and based on idealistic theories rather than lived experience.
I have in mind an instructive parallel from the history of the Soviet Union. There, too, led by Russia, an idealistic experiment in rule-making was undertaken, with Marxist-Leninism as the ethical guide. In the latter years of that experiment, Russians noted with dismay an increasing fall in their fertility rate. The prospect appeared that they would become a minority in relation to the growing populations of the Union's Asian republics. In those populations, strong inherited cultures had rendered the impact of the Marxist-Leninist rules much lighter or next to null.
It is unlikely, even if the explanation I am offering for the flagging fertility of white westerners is accepted as valid, that any serious corrective measures will be undertaken. Our post-European collection of rules is the basis on which our successful consumerist system has been built, and everyone in power wants that to continue.
But if the reality were different, and white westerners could act in their own long-term interest, they would institute an authoritative, critical examination of their prevailing rules system. And that would begin - but only begin - by scrutinising the prevailing, "politically correct" rules that bear on women's lives, and particularly on motherhood.
• Desmond Fennell's latest book is About Being Normal in Abnormal Circumstances (Athol Books). His website is http://www.desmondfennell.com/
Unemployment highest for nearly 10 years
The Government was hit by a fresh bout of bad economic news today when unemployment reached its worst level for almost a decade.
There were 1.72 million people out of work in the three months to July, up by 81,000 from the previous quarter and the highest total since the spring of 1999.
The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance rose for the seventh month in a row in August, by 32,500 to 904,900 - the biggest monthly hike since December 1992.
The Office for National Statistics said the trend on both the claimant count and the wider number of jobless was increasing.
The number of workers in manufacturing continued to fall, down by 42,000 in the latest quarter to 2.87 million, the lowest since records began 30 years ago.
There was also the first fall for more than a year in the UK's employment level, down by 16,000 to 29.54 million in the three months to July.
Today's data showed that the number of workers in the public sector in June was 5.77 million, up by 13,000 over the quarter, while private sector employment was down by 29,000 to 23.77 million.
Vacancies were also down to their lowest level for more than a year to 613,200 after a fall of 56,900 in the quarter to August.
Economic inactivity also rose, with the number of people on long-term sick leave, looking after a relative, students or who have given up looking for a job up by 4,000 to 7.86 million - 20 per cent of the working age population.
Average earnings increased by 3.5 per cent in the year to July, up by 0.1 per cent from the previous month.
Wages grew by 3.3 per cent in the public sector compared with 3.5 per cent in private firms.
The number of days lost through industrial disputes in July was 363,000, the highest monthly total for more than two years, largely as a result of strikes by local government workers.
The annual total to July was 1.1 million, almost double the figure for the previous year.
Full-time and part-time employment levels fell back in the latest quarter, although the figures also showed an increase in the total number of jobs in the UK, up by 26,000 to 31.68 million.
Around 138,000 people were made redundant in the three months to July, up by 28,000 from the previous quarter - the highest figure for over a year.
The TUC warned today that the number of people out of work for at least a year could almost double to 700,000 by the end of 2009.
The union organisation said total unemployment could hit two million by next year, partly as a result of the Government's tougher benefits regime.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unemployment-highest-for-nearly-10-years-933360.html
You can also discuss this at
http://www.nwn-forum.co.uk/
There were 1.72 million people out of work in the three months to July, up by 81,000 from the previous quarter and the highest total since the spring of 1999.
The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance rose for the seventh month in a row in August, by 32,500 to 904,900 - the biggest monthly hike since December 1992.
The Office for National Statistics said the trend on both the claimant count and the wider number of jobless was increasing.
The number of workers in manufacturing continued to fall, down by 42,000 in the latest quarter to 2.87 million, the lowest since records began 30 years ago.
There was also the first fall for more than a year in the UK's employment level, down by 16,000 to 29.54 million in the three months to July.
Today's data showed that the number of workers in the public sector in June was 5.77 million, up by 13,000 over the quarter, while private sector employment was down by 29,000 to 23.77 million.
Vacancies were also down to their lowest level for more than a year to 613,200 after a fall of 56,900 in the quarter to August.
Economic inactivity also rose, with the number of people on long-term sick leave, looking after a relative, students or who have given up looking for a job up by 4,000 to 7.86 million - 20 per cent of the working age population.
Average earnings increased by 3.5 per cent in the year to July, up by 0.1 per cent from the previous month.
Wages grew by 3.3 per cent in the public sector compared with 3.5 per cent in private firms.
The number of days lost through industrial disputes in July was 363,000, the highest monthly total for more than two years, largely as a result of strikes by local government workers.
The annual total to July was 1.1 million, almost double the figure for the previous year.
Full-time and part-time employment levels fell back in the latest quarter, although the figures also showed an increase in the total number of jobs in the UK, up by 26,000 to 31.68 million.
Around 138,000 people were made redundant in the three months to July, up by 28,000 from the previous quarter - the highest figure for over a year.
The TUC warned today that the number of people out of work for at least a year could almost double to 700,000 by the end of 2009.
The union organisation said total unemployment could hit two million by next year, partly as a result of the Government's tougher benefits regime.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unemployment-highest-for-nearly-10-years-933360.html
You can also discuss this at
http://www.nwn-forum.co.uk/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
