Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower

A good video of Pat Buchanan discussing his book Suicide of a Superpower, about the disintegration of the United States as a superpower and a united nation.

The first 30 minutes is the most interesting. Buchanan wants to stop illegal immigration, and curb the amount and type of legal immigration. He thinks American culture will only be restored initially by a St Paul type leader rather than a politician i.e. mass reconversion to an ethnocentric and traditional Christianity. And he really fires up about the insanity of free trade:

"If you go with NAFTA and GATT and the WTO and take this nation with the highest standard of living in the world, the highest wages, the toughest regulations on manufacturing, and you drop it into a pool where there's about a billion foreign workers who will work for one-tenth of it, you will lose every manufacturing job in the United States...

My view is very simple: if it can be made here, it should be made here."

(via The American Conservative)

File under: uncommon sense.

Van Halen & US Navy Blue Angels

An awesome combination.

46 plaques stolen from Canberra cemetery

Graves desecration a 'low' act

Graves at the Hall Cemetery were desecrated in an Anzac Day attack described by authorities as the "lowest of the low".

Thieves took 46 plaques from the old grave site, an inexplicable crime, given they were worth just a few hundred dollars...

Gee, who would feel so disconnected from society that they would act so low? It's not hard to imagine who, these days, given the country is increasingly filled with people who hate us.

File under: memorials of decline.

A formidable coalition critical of US alliance is forming

Michael Danby, These people want our foreign policy made in China

So Julie Bishop has a Huawei-donated iPad. Dangerous. Dangerous for her and dangerous for Australia if she ever aspires to become Foreign Minister. The iPad alone is but one of the micro details to emerge from Ms Bishop’s visit to China as a guest of the Chinese telco.

Some Liberals led by Julie Bishop together with vested mining interests questioned the Gillard Government’ accepting ASIO’s advice against letting Huawei bid for the National Broadband Network. But the bar on Huawei has wider significance because the controversy it has sparked illuminates the most vexing issue of Australian foreign policy - our relationship with China...

I’m sorry to sound like an unconstructed cold warrior, but I have to ask: Has anyone told Julie Bishop the real nature of the Beijing regime? ...

Despite 30 years of economic reform, the Communist Party has maintained and strengthened the all-powerful Party and State. China is ruled by an interlocking alliance of party, state, military and business elites...

China is still run by a regime whose main priority is the preservation of its own power...

The Huawei episode also highlights the widespread concerns about China’s role in cyber-espionage, both military and commercial...

It’s quite understandable that the mining billionaires Clive Palmer, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart, who fund the Liberal Party to which she belongs, don’t want Australia to do anything that might upset their largest customer. But someone who aspires to be Australia’s Foreign Minister, has to think about our national interest, not just the commercial interest of her party’s paymasters...

Malcolm Turnbull ... like paleo-conservtive editor of the Spectator Tom Switzer and Switzer’s bizarre anti-American columnist Mark Latham all think the relationship with the US has gone too far.

This consensus reaction to China/US tensions is very similar to that of the West Australian mining oligarchs and the arguments of the chief academic advocate of accommodating China, Professor Hugh White...

A formidable coalition critical of the traditional US/Australia alliance and accommodating Beijing is forming. Most surprisingly it is mainly forming on the political right.

File under: coalition of the willing to submit.

Music break

Time for some more folkish tunes. See here.

Belgistan? Sharia showdown looms in Brussels

Video from CBN News ...



CBN News, Belgistan? Sharia Showdown Looms in Brussels

Brussels is the capital of Europe. But some are now calling it the Muslim capital of Europe.

The graffiti on a building in Belgium says it all: "Welcome to Belgistan." Muslims are still a minority in Belgium, but in the capital of Brussels, they're already the largest religious group, comprising one-quarter of the city's population.

In less than 20 years they're expected to be the majority.

The most confrontational Muslim group here is Sharia4Belgium.

Many don't take the small group seriously. But Sharia4Belgium head Fouad Belkacem, alias Abu Imran, sounded very serious when he told CBN News he expects Muslims to dominate Belgium and the world.

"The Sharia will dominate," Imran said. "We believe Sharia will be implemented worldwide." ...

Imran was completely open with CBN News, saying Islam and Sharia law are inseparable, and that democracy is evil.

"Sharia is Islam, to be clear," he said. "There is no difference between Islam and Sharia, it's just a name."

"Democracy is the opposite of Sharia and Islam," he said. "We believe Allah is the legislator. Allah makes the laws. He decides what is allowed and what is forbidden." ...

"That's really funny when I hear someone say I was speaking to a 'democratic Muslim,'" he replied...

"And the Muslim who says he's against Sharia, he's not a Muslim. It's impossible." ...

"The big cities in Europe are first places we can see what will happen when the majority is Muslim," warned Sam van Rooy, co-editor of an important new Dutch language book called Islam: Critical Essays on a Political Religion.

"We see it in the big cities: Brussels, Amsterdam also, Rotterdam and Antwerp," he said.

"Islam is a fascist ideology, and it's not a religion like Christianity and Judaism," he told CBN News. "The danger in it is that it has a religious side, not like Communism and Nazism, which are only ideologies, but Islam has a bit of both." ...

A showdown over Sharia is coming because the high Muslim birthrate is changing the political landscape. The most common baby name in Brussels for four years running has been Mohammed...

File under: stereotypes.

Smug Atheist Likes Kipper Ties and Predicts Future

A powerful little video on the times we live in: "Bamber Gascoigne doing his Nostradamus routine".


I'm an atheist but there's no escaping the fact that atheism/humanism has played a part in eroding the things we once valued: homogeneity and civility. Humanism tends to be infected with the same liberal pro-diversity open-borders lunacy that prevails in politics and the media.

So, us ethnocentric humanists have some work to do in offering an alternative to the pervasive liberal individualistic humanism.

File under: we have secularised badly.

Just a Regular French Youth

Serge Trifkovic, Just a Regular French Youth

Mohammed Merah (23), who was killed at his apartment on Thursday after a 30-hour standoff, was a Muslim — one of at least twenty million who now inhabit the European Union. The “context” was duly provided by The New York Times ... about this “soft-spoken and alienated youth” ...

1. Had Mr. Merah and his ilk had more “formal religious training,” they would have been less likely to kill ...

2. Had the infidel host-society been less racist and had it provided “jobs” ... they would not have succumbed to the lure of jihad.

The variants on the theme of “racism” as the root of all evil in France are too numerous to quote or hyperlink. The Associated Press report, carried by dozens of newspapers all over the United States, took note of the supposedly “chronic and ambient discrimination within French society.” ... “France is a deeply racist country, and Toulouse will only make that worse” was Adrian Hamilton’s headline in The Independent ...

This is all predictable liberal nonsense. The key neglected aspect of the Merah case is that he should have been marked, tracked, and prevented from carrying his murderous plans years ago...

The problem of Muslim terrorists with Western passports is not new, and the solution exists: European countries (as well as the United States) need laws that will treat a Muslim citizen’s links with Islamic extremism — amply documented in Merah’s case — as grounds for the removal of citizenship and deportation to the suspect’s country of origin, or in Merah’s case his parents’ country of origin. The only obstacle to such reasonable and morally as well as legally justified course is the self-destructive mindset of the Western liberal society itself.

Once it is accepted that a bona fide Islamist cannot and should not be a citizen of a secular Western state — and that realization will eventually sink in, after dozens, perhaps hundreds more lives are lost — the political will can be easily translated into legislation. Those who preach or promote jihad from Marseilles to Malmo, and advocate the introduction of sharia in the non-Muslim host-societies, can and should be treated in exactly the same manner as ideological extremists of other hues who preach violence. It will be a long and hard struggle to open the eyes of legislators and legal regulators that Islam itself is a radical, revolutionary ideology, inherently seditious and inimical to Western values and institutions, but it can be done. If France now gets closer to that realization, Merah’s victims will not have died in vain.

Other necessary measures would then follow ...

File under: the self-destructive mindset of Western liberal society.