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Monday, September 29th

"Far right" Success in Austrian Elections



The combined vote of both rightist parties equalled that obtained by Austria's Social Democrats, who picked up just over 29 per cent of the vote. The conservatives won some 26 per cent. However, final results are not expected to be known until the beginning of October, after postal ballots have all been counted.

The EU imposed sanctions on Austria in 2000 after the Freedom Party won 28 per cent of the vote. Mr Haider, who was then party leader, became the butt of international criticism after he praised Hitler's employment policies and described members of the Nazi SS as " men of honour". In an interview with The Independent last week, Mr Haider insisted that his praise for the Nazis was a thing of the past.

Michael Haupl, Vienna's mayor, was one of many Austrian observers who complained bitterly about the resurgence of the far right less than a decade after they were voted out of office. "If this trend continues, then the next Chancellor of Austria will be Strache," he said.

[ The trend certainly will continue and, so long as the elections really are "free and fair" we will see ethno-nationalists in power somewhere in Europe within as little as ten years. Then there should be a domino effect - but expect violent resistance to be arranged by the guardians of the phony democracy, who would rather bring about a war or starve people into submission. ]
nationalist on 09.29.08 @ 01:23 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Sunday, September 28th

Blacks think whites discriminate more against them than whites believe they do



Four of every 10 white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, calling them "lazy," or "violent" or blaming them for the ills of black America, according to the AP-Yahoo poll. Such surveys draw criticism from whites who say the numbers are exaggerated and from blacks who say the numbers are too low.

When asked "how much discrimination against blacks" exists, just 10 percent of whites said "a lot" and 45 percent said "some."

Among blacks, 57 percent said "a lot" and all but a fraction of the rest said "some."

[ All this could be down to blacks finding it implausible that whites would not be discriminating against them. After all, studies show blacks regularly discriminate against other blacks themselves. Really everyone should discriminate, and whether that is positively or negatively really just depends on the situation. Everyone with natural instincts prefers their own kind. ]
nationalist on 09.28.08 @ 08:58 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Friday, September 26th

Poll says immigrants eroding Britain's national identity



A British Council-sponsored poll has found that most young Brits think the country's national identity is being comprised by the unrestricted entry of immigrants.

Almost two-thirds (60 percent) of the young people surveyed thought the presence of foreign immigrants was "diluting" their sense of national identity.

A quarter said immigrants posed a threat to British workers' jobs and 12 percent said they thought the influx of people from abroad was a risk to security and public order.

Describing the results as "worrying", the British Council's Director in Italy, Paul Docherty, said: "This study throws up some interesting reflections, and also some rather worrying results."

[ Of course foreign presence dilutes national identity - the real question is just how much people CARE about this development. If Brits do care then they must vote BNP. ]
nationalist on 09.26.08 @ 12:48 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Far right set for gains in Austrian election



The far right in Austria is going into this weekend's general election in confident mood. Their fortunes appear to have been boosted by the sharp economic downturn and rising inflation that has have driven up the cost of living. Both the Freedom Party and Jorg Haider's new party say their championing the cause of "real Austrians".

They portray immigration as at least part of the problem. Out of a population of 8.4 million 1.4 are of foreign origin, primarily form the Balkans and Turkey.

Against this background the Freedom Party, under the leadership of Heize Christian Strache, have proposed a halt to immigration and the creation of a ministry of repatriation.

Together both parties could capture up to a quarter of the vote. The rest of Europe will look on with interest on the coalition horse trading that seems sure to follow Sunday’s election.

[ As I understand it, the Freedom Party has split into two parties - one taking a softer stance than the other. When convenient, with a suitable number of votes, they would then rejoin. Think about it. ]
nationalist on 09.26.08 @ 11:55 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Eugenic measures proposed by Louisiana Republican State Rep. John LaBruzzo



As Hurricane Gustav loomed off the coast of Louisiana, thousands of impoverished people flocked into shelters, where some of them seemed unprepared to take care of their young children's basic needs, forgetting to bring along diapers or medicine.

That heartbreaking scenario inspired Louisiana Republican State Rep. John LaBruzzo to start thinking about ways to stem generational welfare, in which many welfare recipients have children who also end up dependent on government assistance, according to the representative.

His idea - giving $1,000 to poor women to undergo reproductive sterilization by Fallopian tube ligation - is stirring up controversy among some medical professionals, who say that the proposal is offensive and smacks of long-discredited eugenics programs.

LaBruzzo has also suggested other controversial ideas: paying poor men to get vasectomies and giving tax incentives for college-educated wealthy couples to have more children.

[ Very brave of LaBruzzo to say this, let's hope others in office dare to agree with him. Eugenics has never been "discredited" in any way other than by being considered politically incorrect. Eugenics is scientifically just as sound as natural selection. All it is is humane selection (avoiding Nature's preference for selection by death) and a measure to reduce pain and suffering. The concept is misrepresented and misunderstood by the public. ]
nationalist on 09.26.08 @ 06:22 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Thursday, September 25th

Cologne aggressively protects Islamification



When radical-right activists from around Europe arrived in Cologne on Saturday for a rally, the city was ready. Thousands of protesters flooded the rally site, disrupted city transportation and even attacked a river boat where a press conference was supposed to be held.

Police had prepared for about 1,500 far-right activists, organized by the local "Pro Cologne" movement, to make a public show of discussing what they called the "Islamization" of Europe. Pro Cologne had invited prominent members of Europe's radical right, like Filip Dewinter, who heads Belgium's ultra-nationalist Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party, and members of the UK's whites-only British National Party, to attend and speak.

But an estimated 40,000 protesters turned up in Cologne's downtown Heumarkt area, many wearing clown suits, to disrupt the rally. They blocked urban trains to keep delegates away and raided a tourist boat shaped like a whale -- called the "Moby Dick" -- where the far-right gathering had been hoping to hold a press conference. A Pro Cologne spokesman said, "Stones, bricks and paint bombs were thrown and the panoramic windows of the Moby Dick were shattered."

Even away from the rally, the anti-Islam conference was massively unpopular within Cologne. The city's motto for the weekend seemed to be "No Kolsch for Nazis," Kolsch being a local style of beer. About 150 bars hung banners and handed out beer mats bearing that slogan, and the bar owners refused to serve any obvious far-right visitors.

[ The Leftists don't stop to think what life will be like for them, for women, for homosexuals, for Jews, and those who like to drink beer, etc in an Islamic Europe. And most ordinary Germans don't think either. All turn on those who are trying to keep Germany germanic. ]
nationalist on 09.25.08 @ 03:25 AM CST [more..] [2 Comments]


Wednesday, September 24th

Racism in the name of religion



There are moments when I find myself truly ashamed to be part of Israeli society. I had a moment like that recently as I stood outside the Supreme Court with women from Ahoti, a Sephardi feminist organization, waiting for a ruling on the religious girls' school in Emanuel where racism is so entrenched that parents will do all it takes to keep antiquated Jim Crow-like separations in place.

What is happening in the Beit Ya'acov school is nothing less than the formalization of racism. Here the school implements a policy in which Sephardi girls are not allowed to be in a class with Ashkenazi or hassidic girls, and they have different teachers, different classes and even different recess times and a fence between their yards just to ensure that the two groups do not mingle during the breaks.

It's not just Emanuel, but in other religious girls' schools around the country, such as Elad, where parents protested to ensure that a Sephardi girl would not be allowed in to the class. Protested! There have been reports from around the country of girls being rejected or ejected from schools because of the color of their skin or their last name. And even though the High Court ruled last week that the apartheid has to end, the school and parents are refusing to comply, thus rejecting civil as well as moral obligations. This is not the post-Civil War South, but Israel of 2008, where I would have expected more people to be outraged by this blatant racism.

[ You can delay but never defeat the kladogenic forces of evolution. The more people are artificially mixed and blended, the more painful the eventual natural separation process will be. So let's avoid unnecessary millenia of bloodshed, and introduce parallelism. ]
nationalist on 09.24.08 @ 08:50 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Tuesday, September 23rd

Is "The Guardian" institutionally racist?



How are we to explain this? Does it mean that The Guardian, if it systematically ignores Indians, harbours specially friendly feelings towards blacks? By no means: I think the most likely explanation is quite otherwise. I admit that my hypothesis cannot be proved and is somewhat speculative, but I think it is more plausible than the alternatives.

The people who run and write The Guardian have deep, suppressed and subliminal doubts about the equality of human races. To prove to themselves that they do not have such doubts, they overcompensate by publishing as many photographs of blacks as possible in their pages.

They don't have any such doubts with regard to the Indians and the Chinese. Moreover, these two groups have a horrible and fatal vice, as far as the mindset of The Guardian and its readers is concerned: grosso modo, these two groups can shift for themselves, and require no help from the coalition of intellectuals, moral entrepreneurs and bureaucrats in order to thrive. On the contrary, they are well on the way to outstripping the white population in achievement, thus demonstrating the redundancy of that coalition.

[ The author of the article knows to avoid bringing racism against whites into the discussion since this would mark him out to be virtually a criminal, and his observations to be "hate speech". Such is the situation in Britain.]
nationalist on 09.23.08 @ 12:59 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Colorblindness is insanity



There is a growing trend in America today, especially among Whites, to embrace the idea of colorblindness when it comes to race relations. Mind you, I'm not really talking about the dream articulated by Martin Luther King four decades ago, that one day his children would be judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. No, I'm referring to literal colorblindness whereby Whites claim that they don't even so much as notice the race of other people around them.

Have you ever had a conversation like the fictional one above, in which the person you're talking to (or you yourself) have hesitated before using race to describe someone? Even when mentioning race would so would be a perfectly reasonable way to disambiguate who it is you're trying to describe? This is the type of colorblindness I'm describing.

Or the observations of Janet Schofield, a psychologist who conducted a study of a junior high school in which the teachers claimed not to notice the race of their students and went to comical lengths to avoid any mention of race in the classroom. She reported the amazing story that one of the students in the class was quite surprised to learn during an interview with the research team that Dr. King was Black, not White.

What is behind this effort to avoid acknowledging that we even notice racial difference? Typically, it's the thought that if I don't even notice race, then I know I won't be called a racist. In other words, colorblindness has emerged in many circles as the safe way to handle the potentially dicey topic of race.

[ If you don't give allowances for ethnic differences, then the majority race, especially as long as it is white, will consider various ethnic differences to be down to weirdness, and attribute blame to individuals where the tolerance of accepting a biological difference would be far kinder. It is also involves such mental gymnastics to think in this colorblind way, that science has shown it depletes cognitive function for some time after such an incident. ]
nationalist on 09.23.08 @ 12:51 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]


The latest global corruption index is published



Top: Denmark; NZ; Sweden; Singapore; Finland; Switzerland, Iceland; Netherlands

[ Nordic countries consistently score very favorably.]
nationalist on 09.23.08 @ 12:32 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Saturday, September 20th

Italy must face legal action for anti-Gypsy measures, says Soros



Billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros has said at a top-level EU conference on the problems facing Roma people in Europe that he supports legal action against Italy over recent anti-Gypsy measures, particularly the fingerprinting of adults and children.

"Certainly, fingerprinting, racial profiling and so on is unacceptable and, I believe, illegal, and I hope that the European Court of Justice will take up the case and declare it illegal," the Hungarian-born founder of the Open Society Institute said on Tuesday (16 September) in a press conference at the first "European Roma Summit" in Brussels, an event jointly organised by the European Commission and the Soros foundation.

"I am worried that this could become a de facto European standard," Mr Soros added.

Earlier this year, Mr Berlusconi's government declared a national state of emergency in response to a rise in crime blamed mainly on Romanian immigrants and announced that authorities would begin fingerprinting the Roma population.

[ Soros should face legal action for his anti-Italian measures. I wonder if he complains about how his fellow Jews in Israel treat Arabs? ]
nationalist on 09.20.08 @ 01:35 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]


Friday, September 19th

Tod Palin and his much touted Eskimo ancestry



Some myths, and questions, persist about Todd Palin's Yup'ik ancestry. A few:
For starters, the PC terms (I know, I know, but we Alaskans have a set of our own terms, too) would be Yup'ik or (groan) Yup'ik Eskimo if the person is okay with it. Eskimo is not the most popular term to be used by non-"Eskimo" people in reference to them. Yup'ik is best.

What hasn't been mentioned is whether he is an enrolled member of a tribe. There are more stringent blood quantum requirements for some tribes. That they haven't said, "And a member of X tribe... or X village tribal organization..." is pretty telling.

What keeps being mentioned is that he is a descendant of a Yup'ik woman (his mother.)

To be very clear - I absolutely do not believe that blood quantum defines how "Native" you are. The frequent mention of it as a disqualifying factor is wrong. For that matter, there are countless ways to be a proud member of the Native community, and none of it has to do with that extra 1/16 more Native blood you have than the next guy over. What defines you as a Native leader, and a Native example is much easier to nail down, and in this case, Todd would not be the definition of either.

[ If someone who would pass easily for an indigenous European racially nevertheless identifies with some non-white ancestry - be it real or imagined - then they have made a choice regarding where their loyalties lie and others should take note of that. ]
nationalist on 09.19.08 @ 09:20 AM CST [more..]


Thursday, September 18th

Sarah Palin looks forward to witnessing the "End of Days".



"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. "She looked in my eyes and said, 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'"

Bess is unnerved by the prospect of Palin - a woman whose mind is given to dogmatic certitude - standing one step away from the Oval Office. "It's truly frightening that someone like Sarah has risen to the national level," Bess said. "Like all religious fundamentalists - Christian, Jewish, Muslim - she is a dualist. They view life as an ongoing struggle to the finish between good and evil. Their mind-set is that you do not do business with evil - you destroy it. Talking with the enemy is not part of their plan. That puts someone like Obama on the side of evil.

[ Isn't it a bit disconcerting that someone who wants armageddon in her lifetime may be in the right position to bring it about? And isn't it almost unbelievable that someone like that is the electoral choice of millions of Americans? ]
nationalist on 09.18.08 @ 01:16 PM CST [more..]


Tuesday, September 16th

Chief of Carib tribe warns against miscegenation



In May this year, the chief of an ancient Caribbean people came up with a drastic solution to protect their heritage - and their future.

Chief Charles Williams of the Carib - or Kalinago - people of Dominica said they should not marry non-Kalinago people.

"The impact of colonisation has been so strong on us that if we do not take steps to protect the race, it will be soon extinct," he said.

Extinct is a word that the academics who study this people would never use, but Chief Williams has little doubt that the Kalinago could be in danger of disappearing altogether.

[ The Carib are Amerindians. They lived in the Caribbean before Whites came, bringing negro slaves. It is good that they are aware of the need to preserve their ethnicity. ]
nationalist on 09.16.08 @ 07:57 AM CST [more..]


Sharia courts operating in Britain



Civil courts based on Islamic law have been operating in Britain for more than a year.

British Muslims have followed the Jewish example of operating a rabbinical court, or bet din, based on the country's arbitration law.

The Muslim courts are based on the sharia law, and rule on divorce, financial disputes, inheritance and even domestic violence, as long as both parties agree to accept the authority of the court. Once the parties accept the authority of the court, its rulings can be enforced through the county and high court.

The Islamic courts are classified by British law as arbitration tribunals.

[ Jewish religious courts, Beth Din, have been operating in Britain for centuries - however Judaism is not threatening to become the national religion and doesn't have an intention of converting the world to its faith. This is why the Sharia Courts are more worrying to Britons. ]
nationalist on 09.16.08 @ 07:45 AM CST [more..]


Sunday, September 14th

New teenage trend to be as sexually promiscuous as possible in Chile



It is just after 5 p.m. in what was once one of Latin America's most sexually conservative countries, and the youth of Chile are bumping and grinding to a reggaeton beat. At the Bar Urbano disco, boys and girls ages 14 to 18 are stripping off their shirts, revealing bras, tattoos and nipple rings.

The place is a tangle of lips and tongues and hands, all groping and exploring. About 800 teenagers sway and bounce to lyrics imploring them to "Poncea! Poncea!": make out with as many people as they can.

And make out they do - with stranger after stranger, vying for the honor of being known as the "ponceo," the one who pairs up the most.

Chile, long considered to have among the most traditional social mores in South America, is crashing headlong into that reputation with its precocious teenagers. Chile's youths are living in a period of sexual exploration that, academics and government officials say, is like nothing the country has witnessed before.

[ In an ethnically diverse society, the only thing keeping the population restrained from debauchery would be strict coercion, normally from an aggressively imposed religion. Once that breaks down... ]
nationalist on 09.14.08 @ 01:26 AM CST [more..]


Saturday, September 13th

Criminalizing Criticism of Islam



There are strange happenings in the world of international jurisprudence that do not bode well for the future of free speech. In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam.

The prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially unusual because the alleged violations were not committed on Jordanian soil.

Among the defendants is the Danish cartoonist whose alleged crime was to draw in 2005 one of the Muhammad illustrations that instigators then used to spark Muslim riots around the world. His co-defendants include 10 editors of Danish newspapers that published the images. The 12th accused man is Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who supposedly broke Jordanian law by releasing on the Web his recent film, "Fitna," which tries to examine how the Quran inspires Islamic terrorism.

Neither Denmark nor the Netherlands will turn over its citizens to Interpol, as the premise of Jordan's extradition request is an affront to the very principles that define democracies. It is thus unlikely that any Western country would do so, either. But there is no guarantee for the defendants' protection if they travel to countries that are more sympathetic to the Jordanian court.

[ Western countries are fast becoming Islamic, with even the arch bishop of Canterbury in England seeing the inevitability of sharia law in the UK. It is legally questionable even in these western countries to criticise Islam, and this is set to become stricter - until enough people decide to stand up for their own culture. ]
nationalist on 09.13.08 @ 05:13 AM CST [more..]


Friday, September 12th

Avatar race and attractiveness discrimination has effect on attitudes



The experiment's moderate request: "Would you teleport to Duda Beach with me and let me take a screenshot of you?" In the DITF condition, that request was preceded by a request of the avatar to have screenshots taken in 50 different locations -- requiring about two hours of teleporting and traveling.

In one of the most striking findings, the effect of the DITF technique was significantly reduced when the requesting avatar was dark-toned. The white avatars in the DITF experiment received about a 20 percent increase in compliance with the moderate request; the increase for the dark-toned avatars was 8 percent.

"For decades, research has shown that the outcome of that reciprocity-inducing technique is affected by how the requester is perceived, whether a person -- or in this case an avatar -- is deemed worthy of impressing," said Gardner.

The finding is consistent with studies in the real world as well as the few in the virtual world that clearly demonstrate that physical characteristics, such as race, gender and physical attractiveness, affect judgment of others.

[ So any ugly dark people on Second Life had better choose sexy white avatars then? ]
nationalist on 09.12.08 @ 01:28 PM CST [more..]


Thursday, September 11th

DC hopes needle exchanges curb soaring AIDS rate



District of Columbia officials are counting on Jackson and others like him as they try to tackle an AIDS crisis so severe that one report has called it a "modern epidemic."

Despite such alarms, little has changed over the years as city leaders struggle to reverse a startling statistic - one in 20 residents in the nation's capital is believed to be infected with HIV, a rate worse than any American city and one that rivals some developing countries.

But there is reason for optimism, officials say.

Congress lifted a decade-long ban in December prohibiting D.C. from using local tax dollars to support needle-exchange programs. Critical funds are now starting to reach these groups, allowing them to increase outreach efforts and add workers like Jackson.

[ The only way that HIV can be stopped is when people change their lifestyles - sex and drug habits. Just handing out clean needles might slow it down a little that's all. ]
nationalist on 09.11.08 @ 01:08 PM CST [more..]


Wednesday, September 10th

Black judge says Constitution forbids racial preference



Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.

Thomas, addressing leaders of historically black colleges, said affirmative action "has become this mantra and there almost has become this secular religiosity about it. I think it almost trumps thinking."

A longtime opponent of race-based preferences in hiring and school admissions, Thomas said, "Just from a constitutional standpoint, I think we're going to run into problems if we say the Constitution says we can consider race sometimes."

Thomas, 60, has voted on the court to outlaw the use of race in college admissions and in determining which public schools students will attend. He wrote with evident resentment in his autobiography "My Grandfather's Son" that he felt he was allowed to attend Yale Law School in the 1970s because of his race and took a tough course load to prove he was as able as his white classmates.

[ For well qualified and intelligent non-whites, affirmative action is insulting and patronising. Everyone assumes that they have been given an unfair advantage and must not really be as worthy as whites that they are working with. However, the real solution to this is that different groups have their own societies and do not have to fit in with the standards and expectations of the majority group. ]
nationalist on 09.10.08 @ 03:35 PM CST [more..]


Tuesday, September 9th

India: where Christians are a target for the religious murder mobs



The mob appeared an hour after sunset, armed with axes, clubs and paraffin. The carnage that followed would have been much worse if the Christians of Gadragaon, a remote village in northeast India, had not been warned by text message: "The Hindus are coming to kill you."

The alert gave most enough time to flee to the jungle, where 114 of them would hide for a week, drinking rainwater and foraging for food.

But the warning did not come early enough for those unable to run. "They doused him with petrol and taunted him; we could hear him screaming," said Ravindra Nath Prahan, 45, of his paralysed brother, Rasananda, 35, who was burnt alive by Hindu fanatics. "I could have tried to save him. But we had to save ourselves."

The attack on Gadragaon, by a mob that chanted "Hail Mother India" as they razed the village, was among the first of the grim litany of atrocities committed against minority Christians in the state of Orissa over the past two weeks. The Vatican has called the wave of violence "a sin against God and humanity".

[ How much longer before people get the message that different cultures, ethnicities and religions need to be kept apart from one another, or chaos results sooner or later? ]
nationalist on 09.09.08 @ 01:45 PM CST [more..]


Monday, September 8th

Rome mayor: Fascism not evil but 'complex'



Italy's opposition politicians and Jewish leaders reacted with outrage Monday to a newspaper interview in which Rome's right-wing mayor refused to condemn fascism as evil.

Gianni Alemanno's comments were published Sunday by Italian daily Corriere della Sera as the mayor and other Italian politicians concluded a trip to Israel that included a stop at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

In the interview, Alemanno condemned the racial laws passed by Benito Mussolini's regime in 1938, but when asked if he considered fascism "an absolute evil" the mayor took a softer stance.

"I don't think so and I never thought so: Fascism was a more complex phenomenon," Alemanno was quoted as saying by Corriere. "Many people joined it in good faith, and I don't feel like labeling them with that definition."

[ Asking Alemanno to condemn fascism as "an absolute evil" is unintelligent. It raises all sorts of questions over the nature of "evil" in a philosophical sense, as well as doubts over how well the interrogator understands the meaning of "fascism". It is only sensible to say "no". Similarly, if he was asked if Stalin or Pol Pot or Jack the Ripper, even a fictitious character like Satan was "pure evil" the only sane answer is "no". However Alemanno himself did not understand the nonsense of dualist judgements of "absolute good" and "absolute evil" himself because he added "the racial laws enacted by fascism, which caused its political and cultural end, were the absolute evil." Perhaps he thought he had overstepped the mark and needed to reassure his hosts for his own safety. ]
nationalist on 09.08.08 @ 04:18 PM CST [more..]


Sunday, September 7th

Haredim move to eradicate 'foreign' pop



Musicians who use rock, rap, reggae and trance influences will not receive rabbinic approval for their CDs, nor will they be allowed to play in wedding halls under haredi kosher food supervision, according to a new, detailed list of guidelines drafted with rabbinical backing that differentiates between "kosher" and "treif" music.

The guidelines, which are still being formulated, also ban "2-4 beats and other rock and disco beats;" the "improper" use of electric bass, guitars and saxophones; and singing words from holy sources in a disrespectful, frivolous manner.

"Michael Jackson-style music has no place in our community," says Mordechai Bloi, a senior member of the Guardians of Sanctity and Education, an organization based in Bnei Brak that enforces what it sees as normative haredi behavior.

"We might be able to adopt Bach or Beethoven, music with class, but not goyishe African music and beats. We haredim want to protect ourselves from what we see as negative foreign influences. We are trying to maintain our own authentic music styles. We admit that times are changing, but we are trying to stay loyal to our roots."

[ It's amazing that they ever DID accept "trief" music at any stage. ]
daily on 09.07.08 @ 08:33 AM CST [more..]


German Far Right Latches onto Sex Murder of Girl


Far rightists, who have latched onto the sex murder of a little girl in Germany to call for the death penalty for child rape, have been accused by a mayor and other national figures of exploiting the bereaved family.

German tabloids have been running sensational daily accounts of the death of Michelle, 8, and the so-far unsuccessful police hunt for her murderer in the eastern German city of Leipzig.

On Monday evening, a crowd of 280 rightists, many of them committed neo-Nazis, demonstrated close to the place where her body was found, demanding Germany re-introduce the death penalty for serious crimes.

Though the rightists are pariahs in German public life, it was a fair bet that many tabloid readers would sympathize with the demand.

[ This report fails to mention Jewish anger that nationalists were also making observations connecting the nature of the girl's death which allegedly fitted with ancient Jewish sacrificial rituals. ]
daily on 09.07.08 @ 08:26 AM CST [link]


Wednesday, September 3rd

Somalians 'won't integrate' - Norway



A Somalian woman who came to Norway more than 10 years ago is harshly criticizing her fellow Somalian immigrants and Norwegian authorities. In a new book, she claims Somalians themselves don't want to integrate into Norwegian society, and that Norwegian welfare programs make it easy for them to remain isolated.

She claims that resistance to integration is widespread especially among Somalian men, who fear losing their culture and religion. Many are afraid of Norwegians and view them as infidels who can't be trusted.

She writes that violence is a part of life in Somalian homes, that young girls are often molested and women and children are intentionally kept isolated. Many Somalian men, she claims, prefer to live on welfare than accept jobs seemingly below their social status.

[ And what a charming culture they have. No wonder they feel that Norwegians should all follow their example. Very kind of them to honor Norway with their superior presence. But seriously - here is just another example of why pluralism cannot work. ]
nationalist on 09.03.08 @ 02:00 PM CST [more..]


Sharp rise in Swedish Nazi groups



Locally-based violent groups of Nazis are sprouting up in more and more places around Sweden, new figures show.

In the last two years 17 new groups have been formed, according to a survey carried out by the anti-racism foundation Expo.

The study shows that that there are currently around 30 Nazi groups in Sweden.

Every Swedish county except for Gotland and Jamtland have at least one group, although the highest concentration is found in middle and southern Sweden.

[ It is a positive sign of the increasing radicalization of the Swedish people. There is only so much anyone can put up with before they have to take a stand. I doubt these groups are violent, especially when compared to the groups that stand against them, or the violence they themselves have suffered, that made them see the need for action. Violent crime in Sweden is normally carried out by the kind of people nazis are dedicated to removing. ]
nationalist on 09.03.08 @ 01:53 PM CST [more..]


Tuesday, September 2nd

Americans adopting HIV-positive kids from Ethiopia



Ethiopia - Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.

As one of some 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the virus every year, Solomon's prospects for survival - much less adoption - were grim. But Erin Henderson's heart stirred when she saw him, and she decided, on the spot, to adopt him.

"They told me that they weren't sure he would live through the weekend," Henderson said by e-mail from her home in rural Wyoming, where she lives with her husband and 11 children, two of whom are HIV-positive adoptees from Ethiopia.

Figures from U.S.-based Adoption Advocates International, the agency that arranges the majority of HIV-positive adoptions in Ethiopia, show a clear and steady rise, from two such adoptions in 2005, four in 2006, 13 in 2007, and 38 either completed or pending this year.

[ It was only July this year that the Senate voted to lift the ban on immigration to the US of those who are HIV positive. Here we can see an example of an immediate effect. What possesses these adoptees to such insanity? ]
nationalist on 09.02.08 @ 09:35 AM CST [more..]