tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post429102120998711033..comments2024-03-27T21:30:35.824+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Doom and Gloom ...Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-25843591375508841752009-03-09T10:44:00.000+00:002009-03-09T10:44:00.000+00:00See 'Street Jihad'See <A HREF="http://kwelos.tripod.com/subjects.htm" REL="nofollow"> 'Street Jihad' </A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-33442964683788698462009-03-04T17:20:00.000+00:002009-03-04T17:20:00.000+00:00'one of things that most worry globalists today is...'one of things that most worry globalists today is the idea of countries pulling up the drawbridges. Not the threat of aggressive nationalism'.<BR/>Spot on. <BR/>Furthermore, whenever our 'leaders' prattle about 'international co-operation' adjust your bullshit monitor accordingly.<BR/>In Broon's mouth now 'international co-operation' probably means the upcoming G20 conference he's hosting next month. One of the side effects of the G20 meeting may actually be to increase discord WITHIN the EU- as none of the accession states will get a hearing at this festival of 'internationalism'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-24848499022400704612009-03-04T11:32:00.000+00:002009-03-04T11:32:00.000+00:00http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-44744028160839889622009-03-04T06:14:00.000+00:002009-03-04T06:14:00.000+00:00Dearieme,Fails, goddammit!Dearieme,<BR/><BR/>Fails, goddammit!Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11219870920638914624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-37246244781338145132009-03-03T23:47:00.000+00:002009-03-03T23:47:00.000+00:00Niall is writing propaganda. He even admits to it'...Niall is writing propaganda. He even admits to it's obvious historicist fallacies to make it more <I>achingly sincere.</I><BR/><BR/>Read up on the Turkophiles, of Gladstone's era, read up another era's bullshit to see just how stupid people can be.Homophobic Horsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358511824189191231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-64617695781120103752009-03-03T22:34:00.000+00:002009-03-03T22:34:00.000+00:00"Niall never to amaze me".Manages or fails?"Niall never to amaze me".<BR/>Manages or fails?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-69672962223769460832009-03-03T21:43:00.000+00:002009-03-03T21:43:00.000+00:00“I was more struck Putin's bluster than his potent...“I was more struck Putin's bluster than his potential to bite, when he spoke at Davos. But he made a really good point, which I keep coming back to. In his speech, he said crises like this will encourage governments to engage in foreign policy aggression. I don't think he was talking about himself, but he might have been" - <BR/><BR/>Niall Ferguson, 2009.<BR/><BR/>"THERE IS NO such thing as the future. There are only futures, plural. Historians are supposed to confine themselves to the study of the past, but by drawing analogies between yesterday and today, they can sometimes suggest plausible tomorrows.<BR/><BR/>Seven years ago, the economist Brigitte Granville and I published an article in the Journal of Economic History titled "Weimar on the Volga," in which we argued that the experience of 1990s Russia bore many resemblances to the experience of 1920s Germany. <BR/><BR/>No historical analogy is exact, needless to say. Russia's currency did not collapse as completely as Germany's did in 1923, though the annual inflation rate did come close to 300% in 1992. Our hunch, nevertheless, was that the traumatic economic events of the 1990s would prove as harmful to Russian democracy as hyperinflation had been for German democracy 70 years earlier. <BR/><BR/>"By discrediting free markets, the rule of law, parliamentary institutions and international economic openness," we concluded, "the Weimar inflation proved the perfect seedbed for national socialism. In Russia, too, the immediate social costs of high inflation may have grave political consequences in the medium term. As in Weimar Germany, the losers may yet become the natural constituency for a political backlash against both foreign creditors and domestic profiteers."<BR/><BR/>Seven years later, the man who succeeded Boris N. Yeltsin as our article was going to press is doing much to vindicate our analysis. " - <BR/><BR/>Niall Ferguson, 'Reviving the evil empire', 'Los Angeles Times', May 28 2007.<BR/><BR/>Niall never to amaze me.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11219870920638914624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-76331853764562342842009-03-03T21:03:00.000+00:002009-03-03T21:03:00.000+00:00"These Muslims are kept in the dark, kept in their..."These Muslims are kept in the dark, kept in their place and as a result are both ignorant and easily filled with hostility and rubbish about democracy – something yearned for by millions of Muslims in undemocratic states. The idea of freedom and liberty is more alarming still for them and middle-class Muslims too. Their natural inclination is to bow to authority within families, communities, mosques, and political institutions. "<BR/><BR/>http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-why-muslims-will-not-fight-for-freedom-1635153.html<BR/><BR/>One is almost tempted to have a bit of sympathy for YAB, she is obviously painfully aware of the limitations of her own people. Then of course one remembers that she is a strident hag coloniser herself, then the empathy switches to the Last King of ScotlandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-10161126267526734652009-03-03T20:55:00.000+00:002009-03-03T20:55:00.000+00:00"Nearly three years on, the government’s biggest p..."Nearly three years on, the government’s biggest problem is that it is struggling with two big questions at once. One is the set of problems described under the catch-all term of “cohesion”—narrowing the social, economic and cultural gap between Muslims (especially in some poor urban areas of northern Britain) and the rest of society."<BR/><BR/>economically this is quite impossible, funny money economy is finito, so sharply falling GDP meets fast rising population. One of the last places of choice to import colonists from must be Mirpur in any case<BR/><BR/>One of the last bits of teaching I did I was in a room with maybe 25 of them, holding it pretty well, then I had a moment of revelation, "I've seen that one before".<BR/><BR/>Then looking into their dull eyes, I realised that was the case for most of them. I thought, "fxxk me, there's only about half a dozen sub-types"<BR/><BR/>First cousin marriage of course.<BR/><BR/>Socially, culturally......no way. Most of our sruff is apparently haram - they are deeply unprepossessing peopleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-30049319029988962622009-03-03T18:39:00.000+00:002009-03-03T18:39:00.000+00:00Economic crisis threatens the Euro<A HREF="http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/01/europe/union.php" REL="nofollow">Economic crisis threatens the Euro</A>Homophobic Horsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358511824189191231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-26812983628896424052009-03-03T18:08:00.000+00:002009-03-03T18:08:00.000+00:00"It's hardly going to help if they do another Geor...<I>"It's hardly going to help if they do another Georgia.”</I><BR/><BR/>Durrrr I dunno know Neall, maybe if NATO arms and trains Ukrainian army for the next 10 years and then lets them loose on ethnic Russians in Ukraine, Russia will just have to pull another one of those craaaaazy stunts.<BR/><BR/><I>" one of the things historically that we see, and also when we go back to 30s, but also to the depressions 1870s and 1980s, weak regimes will often resort to a more aggressive foreign policy, to try to bolster their position. It's legitimacy that you can gain without economic disparity – playing the nationalist card. "</I><BR/><BR/>Durrrrr, one of things that most worry globalists today is the idea of countries <I>pulling up the drawbridges.</I> Not the threat of aggressive nationalism. <BR/><BR/>The worst kind of nationalism, the "<B>we have a holy mission to civilise the world</B>" kind of nationalism epoused by America, which meets its nadir in the figure of Barack "We are the World" Obama is the most dangerous we face today. It's dangerous because it blends singular hubris and aggression with the monolithic prerogatives of globalisation. Another serious threat is the EU. These are the regimes that will be discredited and threatened by prolonged economic crisis.Homophobic Horsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358511824189191231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-91465190110969486892009-03-03T17:12:00.000+00:002009-03-03T17:12:00.000+00:00"This attack on the 15 yr old kid is almost unfath...<I>"This attack on the 15 yr old kid is almost unfathomable."</I><BR/><BR/>As is the <A HREF="http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/search/2373718.Judge_gives_hammer_trial_man_one_last_chance/" REL="nofollow">'sentence'</A> given to one of the perpetrators:<BR/><BR/><I>"Marcus Davey, prosecuting, told Swindon crown court that on the second date he was due to do community service, May 22, a probation officer called his address and was told that Khan was asleep and that no one would wake him."</I><BR/><BR/>Ahhhh, bless....JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-59843860844781767752009-03-03T15:24:00.000+00:002009-03-03T15:24:00.000+00:00I agree that pensioners will want to time nicely a...I agree that pensioners will want to time nicely a dash from cash to stuff. Whether stuff had best be shares or property or commodities or bog-rolls and tinned beans, GAK.<BR/><BR/>As for the rest, I suspect that It's Too Late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-78433163909388984912009-03-03T14:00:00.000+00:002009-03-03T14:00:00.000+00:00"...I don't see it producing anything comparable w...<EM>"...I don't see it producing anything comparable with 1914 or 1939. It's kind of hard to envisage a world war. Even when most pessimistic, I struggle to see how that would work, because the U.S., for all its difficulties in the financial world, is so overwhelmingly dominant in the military world.”..."</EM><BR/><BR/>Will the U.S. still be so dominant 10 years hence? Especially after years of a possibly defense-slashing Democratic administration? And presumably no one will suddenly rise to power in some other state, having determined that force is the only way out of his country's troubles? <BR/><BR/>It was hard to envisage a world war looking ahead from March 1933 either. But are we living "1932-1933"? And is the "cliff" a few years down the road?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-87851618345171181592009-03-03T13:21:00.000+00:002009-03-03T13:21:00.000+00:00This attack on the 15 yr old kid is almost unfatho...This attack on the 15 yr old kid is almost unfathomable. Imagine if you were at that school and heard that 13 boys and men had arrived “tooled up” and almost killed your classmate. I had plenty of punch ups at school (20 yrs ago) but that was lack eyes and bloody noses stuff and I was always more worried about what my parents would say about the rip in my uniform, or worse, letter from the Rector (Scottish Headmaster).<BR/><BR/>I am now a copper and hitting someone on the head with a claw hammer (esp. if that person has been rendered helpless by a serious gang bashing) can only be an attempted murder….what other intent could he possibly have had? What effect did he think being repeatedly hit on the head with a hammer would have had on the victim? I’m not a doctor but I know that death is a likely result of hitting someone on the head with a clawhammer.<BR/><BR/>8 yrs (out in less than four) is offensive. It should have been life for all those carrying weapons and 15 (time served-none of this time off nonsense) for the rest. They went there with the premeditated intent of seriously injuring or killing their victim (evidenced by their prior arrangements and pre-arming).<BR/><BR/>If it were 13 white men assaulting an Asian school kid in the same manner their feet would not have touched the ground. Imagine the headlines. This poor woman had to fight tooth and nail to have the obvious (racial element) even considered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-15346857116323375162009-03-03T10:59:00.000+00:002009-03-03T10:59:00.000+00:00Niall FergusonThe powers that be have started pani...<I>Niall Ferguson</I><BR/><BR/>The powers that be have started panicking about the dangers of a BNP breakthrough. It reads to me that Niall is providing some intellectual muscle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-58633448606669293612009-03-03T09:59:00.000+00:002009-03-03T09:59:00.000+00:00Aside from the military might of the USA, there's ...Aside from the military might of the USA, there's another reasonably good reason why major wars are less likely. I think this is because many modern leaders of the major nations tend to meet each other much more frequently and have a number of forums they attend together. This was not the case before World Wars 1 and 2 to anything like the extent is is now.<BR/><BR/>It speaks volumes that Putin, of all people, was speaking at Davos. In addition, modern economies are much more interconnected than they were - trade has been globalised and more countries require foreign links and investment. However, the likes of an aggrieved Iran, Pakistan and N Korea do have the potential to cause a lot of damage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com