God damn it, when people get over the idea there is a conspiracy of telepathic dolphins behind everything they dislike they might get something useful done - or even said.
We're controlled from an evil Jew (or Nazi, pick one) base on the dark side of the moon.
Likewise with the "Eurabia conspiracy" or the "Multi-culturalist conspiracy". There is none.
Developments on several fields and layers of Western World from social sciences to immigration to current mainstream political views to our understanding of human rights to global markets and globalization to information flow add up to cause something unforeseen and something anyone did not, surely, plan for.
Racism and NWO theories are some of the things that keep levelheaded nationalism and firm opposition of "politically correct" multicultural/diversity ideologies from taking faster leaps back into the mainstream.
Where ever someone dares speak against mass immigration and diversity that is forced on people (as in not chosen by, say, a vote) the NWO/Jew-attack/USA-mind-control-gun/Black-IQ-is-low/Global-Bankers people show up and do their utmost to divert the discourse from what matters to what does not matter:
It is irrelevant if there is an "evil Jew conspiracy" that compells us to vote for politicians that do us harm. It is relevant that we vote them. We can hardly prove the secret moon base: we can easily divert our vote and support (at least, if diverting your support does not cause you direct disadvantage and damage, you can ask yourself why so many people in EU soil choose to write anonymously and remind yourself the victim industry provides occupation to millions).
It is not relevant why purple people of religion X from continent Y on average might show lower intelligence, anti-social behaviour, hostility, or perform generally worse within country Z, it is much more relevant if we continue to invite them to live in country Z nevertheless.
But why not the other way around? Should we not seek to fix shit up? Sure. Yet as for now, obviously, we cannot even begin to fathom or fix, or admit what is wrong, so we should then try our utmost to stop the damage from spreading, which is something that we already know how to do.
Common sense: 80 million or more people are born outside of Europe every year, we can invite 80 million impoverished human beings (over 1 billion live in countries that are on failed state level red alert and thus have cause to seek asylum) to EU soil and MAKE NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL. EVER.
It is more or less 100% positive we will never find the proof that the Rothschild family or Barack Obama or Isreal or the secret moon Nazis are behind all the tribulations we are subjected to or will be in the near future, and while speculating if it's the mysterious Space Hamster or the Clinton Mind Ray that is fucking up EU is interesting it will do us little good. There are obvious, real targets for criticism and opposition.
I admit suspensful conspiracies are exciting, though. I might be the Minority Ombudsman of Finland.
10.10.09
6.10.09
What will happen to Dubai?
Dubai and the emiratis are fucked. Also, from the point of view of a secular western individualist, they appear as monsters when you probe the depths of what has transpired but I might be biased.
For those who still (like I did - only a few years ago) think they are achieving something positive and are suspicious of the validity of severe judgment do yourself a favor and read the report "The Dark Side of Dubai" by Johann Hari on the Independent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
In fact, if you are simply interested about Arabs, Emirati culture or the developing world in general read it anyway. I promise you rewarding thrills.
Dubai by and large could (will) end up like any of the massive North Korean building projects that were never finished.
Another interesting article from the (surprise surprise) Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/middleeast.gender
Oh my!
To follow general events in Dubai (most of which are scary to horrific) here is your hub. It almost seems their economy is based on a huge bubble. Who could have known?
From Hari's relentless assault one almost comes to the conclusion that Dubai (and others) will in a decade or two end up as wastelands, ruins of failed projects that were fueled by megalomaniac ambition, gathering sand in the desert... Keep in mind the emirates are unable to even maintain their most basic infrastructure on their own. What happens when ALL of those who can, leave, or escape (as some like the French Herbe have done)? It is not hard to imagine.
Burj Dubai looming over the desert, surrounded by a city which grows darker by the day. Standing guard over polluted beaches and a dead sea. Beaten by the sands. Empty. Dark. Rusting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/
For those who still (like I did - only a few years ago) think they are achieving something positive and are suspicious of the validity of severe judgment do yourself a favor and read the report "The Dark Side of Dubai" by Johann Hari on the Independent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
In fact, if you are simply interested about Arabs, Emirati culture or the developing world in general read it anyway. I promise you rewarding thrills.
Dubai by and large could (will) end up like any of the massive North Korean building projects that were never finished.
Another interesting article from the (surprise surprise) Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/middleeast.gender
Oh my!
To follow general events in Dubai (most of which are scary to horrific) here is your hub. It almost seems their economy is based on a huge bubble. Who could have known?
From Hari's relentless assault one almost comes to the conclusion that Dubai (and others) will in a decade or two end up as wastelands, ruins of failed projects that were fueled by megalomaniac ambition, gathering sand in the desert... Keep in mind the emirates are unable to even maintain their most basic infrastructure on their own. What happens when ALL of those who can, leave, or escape (as some like the French Herbe have done)? It is not hard to imagine.
Burj Dubai looming over the desert, surrounded by a city which grows darker by the day. Standing guard over polluted beaches and a dead sea. Beaten by the sands. Empty. Dark. Rusting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/
30.9.09
On absolute and relative criminality, and why rapes have become social problem of magnitude
A comment here, while many of us believe that most of these rapes, pimping and exploitation of barely teenage girls (girls who doubtlessly perceive themselves to be more or less adults, and I might imagine flaunt and strut their bodies, a terrible shame on our Western culture) are committed by persons of immigrant origin (in Finland, foreigners and immigrants already commit up to half to 70% of sexual assaults in areas where they make 7% to 10% of the population) but the attackers are by no means all muslims or Africans, even though many are, according to criminal statistics, also our eastern neighbours, while drunk, have some differing opinions regarding the right of women to say no... And of course rest of the rapes, or even most in most parts of Finland, are commmitted by Finns.
I'm starting to have a sinking feeling there is something terribly wrong about sexual relations in Sweden in general. Is it the elimination of sex roles? Do women somehow behave in a manner that utterly dehumanizes them as women, for the men to rape? Because I'm convinced in some of the cases I posted, native Swedish men MUST be involved. If in a culture of a country rape, forced sexual activity and exploitation, especially of young women or teens comes to be seen as just "something pretty common" and if there are little (to none) legal consequences, as my post reveals, might "it's just a bit of rape..." become mainstream culture - among more of the population than Africans and Muslims (who, culturally, view rape completely differently from Western secular individualists, another thing multiculturalists without fail deny, in fact, if you point out that in sub-saharan Africa the first sexual encounter for 30% of more of women, often little girls, is rape or gang-rape, you are simply called a racist, the fact that rape is so common bizarrely being meaningless - now, people from a culture where rape is not even known as rape, why do multiculturalists suppose they behave differently, in, say Belguim? Or Sweden? Especially if they are not punished?)
A final problem that to some "masks" the issue or make irrelevant comments Savant or I or you might make, is that the non-judgmental, tolerant, pro-immigration clique always shout that MOST RAPISTS ARE STILL FINNS or SWEDES or BRITS as that in itself refutes something. Let us examine this claim.
In a society where 95% to 80% of the population are Finns or Swedes, it would be pretty incredible if most rapists were NOT "natives". For example the "final refutation" to Finnish liberals is that Finnish men make most of the rapes in ABSOLUTE numbers, and they also commit a lot sexual violence that is never reported to the police (for some reason, they fail to see that immigrants can as well commit such acts that are never reported, for example in forced marriages the women are raped daily, sometimes several times during a day).
Of course the problem is this: if in a city like Helsinki a 10% population of immigrants commits 50% of rape THEY ARE MASSIVELY OVER REPRESENTED. They should commit 10% of sexual assaults if "they don't rape any more than Finns". But the number is 50%. And because 5%+ of the immigrants are culturally close to Finns, we must assume that 5% or less of the population is somehow behind 50% of sexual crime. This should be a problem dealt with swiftly, as by simply dealing with a small part of the population somehow, we could eliminate up 50% of crime of the worst sort, crime that leaves families torn and victims permanently tormented and scarred.
Deportations of caught individuals, long sentences and enforcement of local cultural mores would probably deter many rapists: you would certainly end up having to deport or lock up only a minority of rape-inclined persons if they knew they will face very harsh repercussions lest they indulge in a little rape. But it almost feels like preventing rape, in the EU of human-rights, has become a human-rights infringement. Do any of you find this even remotely reasonable?
Yet, I have not met a single left-wing enthusiast who can wrap his brains around this fact. Only absolute numbers matter to them, because it supports their twisted world view. If 1% of the population, all from some Crapistan, performed 49% of all random street rapes, it would not matter to them: after all, Finns, 99% of the population, would still commit most, that is 51% of rape so THERE IS NO ISSUE. I sometimes wonder if they've gone through basic math in ground school
I'm starting to have a sinking feeling there is something terribly wrong about sexual relations in Sweden in general. Is it the elimination of sex roles? Do women somehow behave in a manner that utterly dehumanizes them as women, for the men to rape? Because I'm convinced in some of the cases I posted, native Swedish men MUST be involved. If in a culture of a country rape, forced sexual activity and exploitation, especially of young women or teens comes to be seen as just "something pretty common" and if there are little (to none) legal consequences, as my post reveals, might "it's just a bit of rape..." become mainstream culture - among more of the population than Africans and Muslims (who, culturally, view rape completely differently from Western secular individualists, another thing multiculturalists without fail deny, in fact, if you point out that in sub-saharan Africa the first sexual encounter for 30% of more of women, often little girls, is rape or gang-rape, you are simply called a racist, the fact that rape is so common bizarrely being meaningless - now, people from a culture where rape is not even known as rape, why do multiculturalists suppose they behave differently, in, say Belguim? Or Sweden? Especially if they are not punished?)
A final problem that to some "masks" the issue or make irrelevant comments Savant or I or you might make, is that the non-judgmental, tolerant, pro-immigration clique always shout that MOST RAPISTS ARE STILL FINNS or SWEDES or BRITS as that in itself refutes something. Let us examine this claim.
In a society where 95% to 80% of the population are Finns or Swedes, it would be pretty incredible if most rapists were NOT "natives". For example the "final refutation" to Finnish liberals is that Finnish men make most of the rapes in ABSOLUTE numbers, and they also commit a lot sexual violence that is never reported to the police (for some reason, they fail to see that immigrants can as well commit such acts that are never reported, for example in forced marriages the women are raped daily, sometimes several times during a day).
Of course the problem is this: if in a city like Helsinki a 10% population of immigrants commits 50% of rape THEY ARE MASSIVELY OVER REPRESENTED. They should commit 10% of sexual assaults if "they don't rape any more than Finns". But the number is 50%. And because 5%+ of the immigrants are culturally close to Finns, we must assume that 5% or less of the population is somehow behind 50% of sexual crime. This should be a problem dealt with swiftly, as by simply dealing with a small part of the population somehow, we could eliminate up 50% of crime of the worst sort, crime that leaves families torn and victims permanently tormented and scarred.
Deportations of caught individuals, long sentences and enforcement of local cultural mores would probably deter many rapists: you would certainly end up having to deport or lock up only a minority of rape-inclined persons if they knew they will face very harsh repercussions lest they indulge in a little rape. But it almost feels like preventing rape, in the EU of human-rights, has become a human-rights infringement. Do any of you find this even remotely reasonable?
Yet, I have not met a single left-wing enthusiast who can wrap his brains around this fact. Only absolute numbers matter to them, because it supports their twisted world view. If 1% of the population, all from some Crapistan, performed 49% of all random street rapes, it would not matter to them: after all, Finns, 99% of the population, would still commit most, that is 51% of rape so THERE IS NO ISSUE. I sometimes wonder if they've gone through basic math in ground school
29.9.09
Sweden: the human rights champion of the world
Sweden is a nice place these days. Certainly far "richer" and "vibrant" than the Sweden I remember from the 90s or 80s, when I often vacationed in it's various beautiful resorts or could enjoy the atmosphere of old Stockholm. Let's take a quick review of recent news and events in this successful social democratic heaven of a welfare state. I warn you: the titles get a little... absurd as we progress on, but I assure you, I am not making this up and will provide links for your pleasure/horror.
SPATE OF UNREST AND ARSON HITS SWEDISH CITIES, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Falkenberg and Södertalje under attack. For example in Gothenburg the saldo of a single day was one school, one railway car and 85 cars. Left-wing activist blame neo-nazis for burning the cars to collect insurance by fraud. Sociologist suspect untypically warm weather. Uppsala policeman Christer Nordström complains that citizens are upset because of the events (how should they feel, happy?) and fears the burning and riots might provoke racism. I am very sorry for Mr. Nordström, as I fear he might be unduly anxious and need drama therapy or something, and hope his fears are unwarranted. It would be beyond pale for people to object at vandalism and arson in their living areas. Fortunately, in Södertörn police think it's just your regular Friday every Friday. Thank heavens, irregularities would not be tolerated in Sweden. http://www.thelocal.se/22042/20090912/
FOUR WEEKS OF RIOTING AND BURNING IN UPPSALA. Police finally make arrests: Police accused of racism and "provocation" (in Sweden, arresting someone for 30 days of rioting is provocation, not justice, and will provoke more riotous unrest, so I understand the predicament). http://svtplay.se/v/1703084/13_ungdomar_gripna_for_gottsundaupplopp
WHILE RINKEBY IS IN FLAMES, "youths" in nearby Husby start burning down the town too, not to be one-upped I imagine. http://www.svd.se/stockholm/nyheter/artikel_3258935.svd
WOMAN OF 28 THROWN OFF A BALCONY in Malmö. Police suspect honor killing. Husband released immediately. Neighbor Moustafa Ali thinks suggestion of crime creepy. HOWEVER in much more important news: a policeman reportedly shows the "finger" to an immigrant. Balcony "accident" not taken seriously, but alleged police sign language investigated as racist hate crime.
http://nyhetskanalen.se/1.1080376/2009/07/05/polis_som_rackte_finger_ar_anmald
CURFEW CALLED! Last May, the situation in Herrgården (Rosengård) became "untenable" and both the police and firemen gave up on the area. Youth gangs had taken the suburb over. The youth won the round. Sorry guys. The area is now Kabul Sweden. Firemen quit in disgust after warned of molotov attacks. http://www.thelocal.se/19184/20090501/
PROJECT: RECLAIM ROSENGÅRD!! In answer, police established heavy presence in the area. Alas, left antifascist thugs oppose such fascist police oppression (after all, if "youths" want to burn the town up, it is only their right to do so as a response to the oppression of police who attempt to prevent them from burning up the area - wait, are we going in circles here) and in July invaded Herrgården to "reclaim" the area. Unfortunately, the immigrant gangs did not respect radical antifascist any more than they respect police or firemen, and proceeded to beat them up. Eventually, the police had to save the left-wing "activists" (as MSM calls them), who took shelter in, prepare to laugh, a local McDonalds restaurant. Much fun was had by all (except for the antifascist moron scum who probably can't figure out what happened) Video of immigrants beating up left-wing shitheads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3WmgUfqrk
FINNISH CREW ENRICHED: A Finnish crew from YLE travels to Gothenburg to film a story about exciting riots and enrichment but unfortunately a cultural enricher immediately enriches the team and makes off with their camera at knife point, which thwarts their reporting efforts. http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=113&a=518544
BLACK COBRAS TAKING CONTROL! Aftonbladet publishes a sweet story, reminding the general public the criminal Cobra gangbangers didn't appear out of thin air: Swedish society is, we are to suppose I presume, must be at fault. Unfortunately they forget to mention the gang founders were Palestinian criminals (who were given asylum lest they be mistreated by evil Israel) and mostly recruit Turkish and Arab immigrants. In a sense Aftonbladet is right, they did not drop from the moon: they dropped from Palestine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
ARMED GANG ATTACKS MALMÖ NIGHTCLUB after denied entry. A group of 10 to 15 individuals armed with sticks and rocks attacked Slagthuset nightclub in central Malmö on Friday night. The entryway was damaged, but none of the security guards were "seriously injured". No arrests were made. In Finland, may I remind you, the group of 10 to 15 would have been dragged off to a cell right away. I guess in Sweden, it is important not to hurt the feelings of armed gangs that attack nightclubs. http://www.thelocal.se/19486/20090516/
PRISON FOR 40 YEAR OLD HEAD OF TEENAGE SEX GANG RAPE RING a Stockholm-area businessman has been charged for using the internet to pimp Swedish school girls for violent group sex. 4 years of prison (of which he will probably sit for 2) for aggravated pimping of children including a 14 year old, and violent gangbang rape in which the "businessman" participated. Raping kids is sure fun (and profitable) in Sweden. Women's rights and shit, guys. http://www.thelocal.se/22344/20090928/
SWEDISH GIRLS SUFFER WIDESPREAD HARASSMENT: report. 6% of girls raped. Liberals claim rapes imaginary, accuse warm weather and youth alcohol consumption. http://www.thelocal.se/22184/20090920/
SERIAL RAPIST SENTENCED TO PRISON for 2 years, 9 months. Huh? I suggest group drama therapy. This culturally rich asylum seeker is an international fugitive and an extradition request has been filed by authorities in Belgium, where he is suspected of raping at least five women. To the Swedish officials, this was a trivial matter, and they were only too happy to release him into the public where he managed to violently rape three more women (needless to say, in immigrant heavy suburbs) before being imprisoned. He will probably serve half the sentence and then be released back into the public with orders to leave the country (which he has no reason to do, after all, where he comes from, Somalia, he might be killed and shot for indiscriminate rape: it is better to serial rape in EU soil. Yes, he is not identified as a Somali but word gets around). http://www.thelocal.se/21762/20090829/
TEENAGE GIRLS ARRESTED FOR PIMPING TEENAGE GIRL in brutal manner. "STRIP NOW OR DIE!" In Malmö... What's wrong with Ulrika and Erika and Swedish kids? I mean, it's not normal behaviour for Nordic teenagers to forcefully pimp each other and subject each other to brutal forced sex? Or so I thought? Might this be simply what follows from a lack of equality and a patriarchal culture of oppression? I call for more social studies, more feminism and more IMMIGRATION! IT HAS WORKED QUITE WELL THIS FAR BUT NOT WELL ENOUGH YET IT SEEMS! http://www.thelocal.se/22264/20090924/
SCHOOLDAY FUN RAPE TIME IN HAMMARKULLEN: a girl was dragged to an empty room in the middle of a class and promptly raped during your regular school day. The rapist received 6 months in a juvenile center and the accomplice 30 hours of community service. That will teach them! Despite the victim repeatedly cried for help, nobody gave a shit. The school principal says they have a nice atmosphere and nice students. I have my doubts but what do I know. Hammarkullsskolan is mostly immigrant. http://nyhetskanalen.se/1.1080376/2009/07/05/polis_som_rackte_finger_ar_anmald
FIVE MEN GANGRAPE 14 YEAR OLD IN HELSINBORG, RELEASED IMMEDIATELY into the general public to the great comfort of said public. I repeat, they were caught, but immediately released. Is the Swedish state waging war against it's populace? You know, in West-Africa, sexual warfare (gangrape of opposing tribals) is a common occurance. As cultural relativists, we must conclude the practice is in no way better nor worse than anything we or the Swedes can come up with, and completely in accordance to acceptable behaviour. So then, it is similarly acceptable in Sweden. Go, Sweden, go. http://www.thelocal.se/21576/20090820/
PROSECUTOR ABANDONS TEEN SUICIDE DRUG RAPE CASE: The prosecutor in a high-profile rape case in Jönköping where a 15-year-old victim (VERY CONVENIENTLY I MIGHT ADD) committed suicide hours before the trial, has withdrawn from the case. The 42 year old man had introduced the girl to hard drugs, then demanded sex in exchange for continued dosage and also indulged in raping the girl violently. As a country famous for it's high standard of human-rights, as the victim is now dead there is no case and the drug dealer rapist pedophile was released into the public. The man, however, was later sentenced to 3 years (I assume 1.5 years or so) for other drug related offenses. And justice for all! http://www.thelocal.se/18844/20090414/
MALMÖ RAPE TAXIS SPREAD DISCOMFORTABLE FEELING: in a short spate, at least 8 women have been raped by taxi drivers in Malmö, a successful multicultural city where all races and ethnic groups are welcome and famous for it's egalitarian customs and laws, for example the fact women do not have to wear a bra in public sauna or beach. Because both men and women have breasts, why should women have to hide them? Next time I'm there, I'll run around with my dick hanging loose and explain women have a clitoris, then go serial rape children and get 30 hours of community service. Goddamn Swedes are worthless pieces of shit. In fact, I'm getting more and more infuriated as I write on.
THREE GANGRAPERS GIVEN A... SCOLDING: Two, one who is an asylum seeker from Norway but rejected there, have to leave the country for a few years (but there is no way of telling if they will, after all, they might choose not to), while one is permitted to stay because he has formed local family ties. I assume the victim thanks the Swedish state for it's leniency, understanding, and humane forms of punishment. http://norran.se/nyheter/norrochvasterbotten/article334601.ece
SEVEN YEARS FOR 16 HOUR CAR-RIDE SERIAL RAPE OF SWEDISH TEENS! Welcome to absurdistan: A 30-year-old man who repeatedly raped two 17-year-old girls during a frightful 16-hour car ride through southern Sweden (where else!) was sentenced to seven years in prison. This all happened while the girlfriend of the man was tied in the car. IIRC, the man occasionally raped here as well as well as threatened to kill her. The man had previously been convicted for aggravated rape and sexually abusing a child, but was released from prison in January 2008 after serving four and a half years of a seven year sentence. Obviously, he was REFORMED! In the early 1990s, the man had also been sentenced to court ordered psychiatric care for assault. Apparently the court later decided he was in no need of psychiatric care after all, and committed his crimes under full understanding, and hence was set free. I sometimes find the Swedish interpretation of "justice" rather difficult to comprehend. But then again, who am I to judge. I'm a "racist" who wishes to see criminals locked up, after all, and who could expect me to perform complicated feats of mental agility such as understanding the Swedish justice system. http://www.thelocal.se/19472/20090515/
WEBCAM PEDOPHOLE RAPIST SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS! A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to eight years (isn't that a little much? I'm sure with good behaviour and an appeal, he'll be out in four or less) in prison for raping a teenager and engaging in a series of webcam-related sex crimes involving 60 girls. The man is from Uppsala, threatened to kill victim (no, he was not born in Uppsala, I assure you). http://www.thelocal.se/21728/20090827/
THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL RAPED Sandviken. Sandviken is also the town where someone poured cyanide into the water supply and has been on the news for lethal knife attacks and such. Nothing to see here, disperse, disperse. http://www.thelocal.se/20474/20090705/
HIGH COURT RULES VICTIM TESTIMONY NOT ENOUGH FOR RAPE CONVICTION (what, do they request four male witnesses as in Iran or what's up?) http://www.thelocal.se/20448/20090703/
SWEDISH RAPIST ENJOY IMPUNITY! RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE... RAPE! Amnesty International. Well I never... If estimates are correct, then it indicates that as few as 5-10 percent of all rapes are reported (which would add up to 30k+ rapes a year) to the police. Equally disturbing is the statistic from BRÅ stating that in 2007, less than 13 percent of the 3,535 rape crimes reported resulted in a decision to start legal proceedings. Amnesty slams the Swedish judicial system and the prevalence of attrition within it, concluding that, "in practice, many perpetrators enjoy impunity." Hmmmm, aren't they being a little harsh. I've heard people are given community service, after all, if they repeatedly rape someone. http://www.thelocal.se/19124/20090428/
SWEDEN TOPS EUROPEAN RAPE LEAGUE: Sweden has the highest incidence of reported rapes in Europe - twice as many as "runner up" the UK, a new study shows. WOW! SWEDEN IS BEST AT SOMETHING - THEY WIN PRESTIGIOUS RAPE LEAGUE!!! The high figures in Sweden can not it seems be explained purely by an increased tendency to report rapes and other more minor sexual offences. Rape simply appears to be a more common occurrence in Sweden than in the other EU countries studied, the researchers argue (read that again, researches do not believe in the normal liberal sociologist shit that citizens have merely started reporting tens of thousands of rapes because they are bored or something(. Then again the Swedish leaders of thought and policy... Well, they argue rapes are just reported more often or do not happen. From the news I've reported above, we can easily deduct rapes CERTAINLY do not happen. Wait, no... http://www.thelocal.se/19102/20090427/
STD's CONSIDERED COOL: Sexually transmitted diseases are considered "manly" by young men of "Swedish" origin. The more diseases you have, the cooler you are. Conclusion: "Swedes" are also incredibly stupid, not just criminal, violent and very equal. http://www.thelocal.se/21622/20090822/
YOUTUBE-TV: New Norwegian TV-programme: how firemen cope, survive hostile and violent Muslim immigrants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt77xc8ESkE
AWESOME HELICOPTER HEIST: A team of professional criminals empty Stockholm area of cash in daring helicopter heist. Everyone but for the MSM suspect the "Jugomafia" (former hardcore criminals and mercenaries, that is, refugees to Sweden). http://www.thelocal.se/22260/20090924/
DOG STABBED: Man attacks from the bushes, knives "dirty" dog, walked by it's owner. I don't know if I should laugh or cry? http://gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=361&a=516920
SWEDES ARE VERY BROAD MINDED: Migration Board: Hamas a liberation movement. http://www.thelocal.se/15214/20081025/
SWEDES ALSO RECOGNIZE REAL CRIME WHEN THEY SEE IT: Migration board employee with impeccable career demoted/fired over writing "pro-Israel" views on blog. THOUGHT CRIME DETECTED! http://www.thelocal.se/10112/20080226/
IMMIGRATION MIGHT HAVE SLIGHT HICKUPS: Swedish integration policies 'a failure' concludes politician. Sweden's Minister for Integration, Nyamko Sabuni, however, refused to see the increased concentration of immigrants in city districts as an indication of the success or failure of Sweden's integration politics. Instead she thinks the opposite. While Sabuni often speaks sense, this is not one of those times. http://www.thelocal.se/22244/20090923/
So, boys and girls. Looking to move to Sweden any time soon? What's worse, it took me about 20 minutes to find the above pieces, collected during the past six months or so, and another to write this post down. AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE BEGINNING OF IT. The archives of urban and civil unrest to drug related criminal rape of teenagers and children to gang rape to criminal incompetence to massive egotism to complete disregard to law and order from both the citizenry and the political leadership to astounding bank heists to street violence of all types is so long I could compile TEN of these posts - merely from events that have taken place after the spring of 2009... This in a country of 9 million, which was very recently mostly famous for it's peaceful atmosphere, clean nature and equality.
What.
The.
Hell?
SPATE OF UNREST AND ARSON HITS SWEDISH CITIES, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Falkenberg and Södertalje under attack. For example in Gothenburg the saldo of a single day was one school, one railway car and 85 cars. Left-wing activist blame neo-nazis for burning the cars to collect insurance by fraud. Sociologist suspect untypically warm weather. Uppsala policeman Christer Nordström complains that citizens are upset because of the events (how should they feel, happy?) and fears the burning and riots might provoke racism. I am very sorry for Mr. Nordström, as I fear he might be unduly anxious and need drama therapy or something, and hope his fears are unwarranted. It would be beyond pale for people to object at vandalism and arson in their living areas. Fortunately, in Södertörn police think it's just your regular Friday every Friday. Thank heavens, irregularities would not be tolerated in Sweden. http://www.thelocal.se/22042/20090912/
FOUR WEEKS OF RIOTING AND BURNING IN UPPSALA. Police finally make arrests: Police accused of racism and "provocation" (in Sweden, arresting someone for 30 days of rioting is provocation, not justice, and will provoke more riotous unrest, so I understand the predicament). http://svtplay.se/v/1703084/13_ungdomar_gripna_for_gottsundaupplopp
WHILE RINKEBY IS IN FLAMES, "youths" in nearby Husby start burning down the town too, not to be one-upped I imagine. http://www.svd.se/stockholm/nyheter/artikel_3258935.svd
WOMAN OF 28 THROWN OFF A BALCONY in Malmö. Police suspect honor killing. Husband released immediately. Neighbor Moustafa Ali thinks suggestion of crime creepy. HOWEVER in much more important news: a policeman reportedly shows the "finger" to an immigrant. Balcony "accident" not taken seriously, but alleged police sign language investigated as racist hate crime.
http://nyhetskanalen.se/1.1080376/2009/07/05/polis_som_rackte_finger_ar_anmald
CURFEW CALLED! Last May, the situation in Herrgården (Rosengård) became "untenable" and both the police and firemen gave up on the area. Youth gangs had taken the suburb over. The youth won the round. Sorry guys. The area is now Kabul Sweden. Firemen quit in disgust after warned of molotov attacks. http://www.thelocal.se/19184/20090501/
PROJECT: RECLAIM ROSENGÅRD!! In answer, police established heavy presence in the area. Alas, left antifascist thugs oppose such fascist police oppression (after all, if "youths" want to burn the town up, it is only their right to do so as a response to the oppression of police who attempt to prevent them from burning up the area - wait, are we going in circles here) and in July invaded Herrgården to "reclaim" the area. Unfortunately, the immigrant gangs did not respect radical antifascist any more than they respect police or firemen, and proceeded to beat them up. Eventually, the police had to save the left-wing "activists" (as MSM calls them), who took shelter in, prepare to laugh, a local McDonalds restaurant. Much fun was had by all (except for the antifascist moron scum who probably can't figure out what happened) Video of immigrants beating up left-wing shitheads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3WmgUfqrk
FINNISH CREW ENRICHED: A Finnish crew from YLE travels to Gothenburg to film a story about exciting riots and enrichment but unfortunately a cultural enricher immediately enriches the team and makes off with their camera at knife point, which thwarts their reporting efforts. http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=113&a=518544
BLACK COBRAS TAKING CONTROL! Aftonbladet publishes a sweet story, reminding the general public the criminal Cobra gangbangers didn't appear out of thin air: Swedish society is, we are to suppose I presume, must be at fault. Unfortunately they forget to mention the gang founders were Palestinian criminals (who were given asylum lest they be mistreated by evil Israel) and mostly recruit Turkish and Arab immigrants. In a sense Aftonbladet is right, they did not drop from the moon: they dropped from Palestine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
ARMED GANG ATTACKS MALMÖ NIGHTCLUB after denied entry. A group of 10 to 15 individuals armed with sticks and rocks attacked Slagthuset nightclub in central Malmö on Friday night. The entryway was damaged, but none of the security guards were "seriously injured". No arrests were made. In Finland, may I remind you, the group of 10 to 15 would have been dragged off to a cell right away. I guess in Sweden, it is important not to hurt the feelings of armed gangs that attack nightclubs. http://www.thelocal.se/19486/20090516/
PRISON FOR 40 YEAR OLD HEAD OF TEENAGE SEX GANG RAPE RING a Stockholm-area businessman has been charged for using the internet to pimp Swedish school girls for violent group sex. 4 years of prison (of which he will probably sit for 2) for aggravated pimping of children including a 14 year old, and violent gangbang rape in which the "businessman" participated. Raping kids is sure fun (and profitable) in Sweden. Women's rights and shit, guys. http://www.thelocal.se/22344/20090928/
SWEDISH GIRLS SUFFER WIDESPREAD HARASSMENT: report. 6% of girls raped. Liberals claim rapes imaginary, accuse warm weather and youth alcohol consumption. http://www.thelocal.se/22184/20090920/
SERIAL RAPIST SENTENCED TO PRISON for 2 years, 9 months. Huh? I suggest group drama therapy. This culturally rich asylum seeker is an international fugitive and an extradition request has been filed by authorities in Belgium, where he is suspected of raping at least five women. To the Swedish officials, this was a trivial matter, and they were only too happy to release him into the public where he managed to violently rape three more women (needless to say, in immigrant heavy suburbs) before being imprisoned. He will probably serve half the sentence and then be released back into the public with orders to leave the country (which he has no reason to do, after all, where he comes from, Somalia, he might be killed and shot for indiscriminate rape: it is better to serial rape in EU soil. Yes, he is not identified as a Somali but word gets around). http://www.thelocal.se/21762/20090829/
TEENAGE GIRLS ARRESTED FOR PIMPING TEENAGE GIRL in brutal manner. "STRIP NOW OR DIE!" In Malmö... What's wrong with Ulrika and Erika and Swedish kids? I mean, it's not normal behaviour for Nordic teenagers to forcefully pimp each other and subject each other to brutal forced sex? Or so I thought? Might this be simply what follows from a lack of equality and a patriarchal culture of oppression? I call for more social studies, more feminism and more IMMIGRATION! IT HAS WORKED QUITE WELL THIS FAR BUT NOT WELL ENOUGH YET IT SEEMS! http://www.thelocal.se/22264/20090924/
SCHOOLDAY FUN RAPE TIME IN HAMMARKULLEN: a girl was dragged to an empty room in the middle of a class and promptly raped during your regular school day. The rapist received 6 months in a juvenile center and the accomplice 30 hours of community service. That will teach them! Despite the victim repeatedly cried for help, nobody gave a shit. The school principal says they have a nice atmosphere and nice students. I have my doubts but what do I know. Hammarkullsskolan is mostly immigrant. http://nyhetskanalen.se/1.1080376/2009/07/05/polis_som_rackte_finger_ar_anmald
FIVE MEN GANGRAPE 14 YEAR OLD IN HELSINBORG, RELEASED IMMEDIATELY into the general public to the great comfort of said public. I repeat, they were caught, but immediately released. Is the Swedish state waging war against it's populace? You know, in West-Africa, sexual warfare (gangrape of opposing tribals) is a common occurance. As cultural relativists, we must conclude the practice is in no way better nor worse than anything we or the Swedes can come up with, and completely in accordance to acceptable behaviour. So then, it is similarly acceptable in Sweden. Go, Sweden, go. http://www.thelocal.se/21576/20090820/
PROSECUTOR ABANDONS TEEN SUICIDE DRUG RAPE CASE: The prosecutor in a high-profile rape case in Jönköping where a 15-year-old victim (VERY CONVENIENTLY I MIGHT ADD) committed suicide hours before the trial, has withdrawn from the case. The 42 year old man had introduced the girl to hard drugs, then demanded sex in exchange for continued dosage and also indulged in raping the girl violently. As a country famous for it's high standard of human-rights, as the victim is now dead there is no case and the drug dealer rapist pedophile was released into the public. The man, however, was later sentenced to 3 years (I assume 1.5 years or so) for other drug related offenses. And justice for all! http://www.thelocal.se/18844/20090414/
MALMÖ RAPE TAXIS SPREAD DISCOMFORTABLE FEELING: in a short spate, at least 8 women have been raped by taxi drivers in Malmö, a successful multicultural city where all races and ethnic groups are welcome and famous for it's egalitarian customs and laws, for example the fact women do not have to wear a bra in public sauna or beach. Because both men and women have breasts, why should women have to hide them? Next time I'm there, I'll run around with my dick hanging loose and explain women have a clitoris, then go serial rape children and get 30 hours of community service. Goddamn Swedes are worthless pieces of shit. In fact, I'm getting more and more infuriated as I write on.
THREE GANGRAPERS GIVEN A... SCOLDING: Two, one who is an asylum seeker from Norway but rejected there, have to leave the country for a few years (but there is no way of telling if they will, after all, they might choose not to), while one is permitted to stay because he has formed local family ties. I assume the victim thanks the Swedish state for it's leniency, understanding, and humane forms of punishment. http://norran.se/nyheter/norrochvasterbotten/article334601.ece
SEVEN YEARS FOR 16 HOUR CAR-RIDE SERIAL RAPE OF SWEDISH TEENS! Welcome to absurdistan: A 30-year-old man who repeatedly raped two 17-year-old girls during a frightful 16-hour car ride through southern Sweden (where else!) was sentenced to seven years in prison. This all happened while the girlfriend of the man was tied in the car. IIRC, the man occasionally raped here as well as well as threatened to kill her. The man had previously been convicted for aggravated rape and sexually abusing a child, but was released from prison in January 2008 after serving four and a half years of a seven year sentence. Obviously, he was REFORMED! In the early 1990s, the man had also been sentenced to court ordered psychiatric care for assault. Apparently the court later decided he was in no need of psychiatric care after all, and committed his crimes under full understanding, and hence was set free. I sometimes find the Swedish interpretation of "justice" rather difficult to comprehend. But then again, who am I to judge. I'm a "racist" who wishes to see criminals locked up, after all, and who could expect me to perform complicated feats of mental agility such as understanding the Swedish justice system. http://www.thelocal.se/19472/20090515/
WEBCAM PEDOPHOLE RAPIST SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS! A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to eight years (isn't that a little much? I'm sure with good behaviour and an appeal, he'll be out in four or less) in prison for raping a teenager and engaging in a series of webcam-related sex crimes involving 60 girls. The man is from Uppsala, threatened to kill victim (no, he was not born in Uppsala, I assure you). http://www.thelocal.se/21728/20090827/
THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL RAPED Sandviken. Sandviken is also the town where someone poured cyanide into the water supply and has been on the news for lethal knife attacks and such. Nothing to see here, disperse, disperse. http://www.thelocal.se/20474/20090705/
HIGH COURT RULES VICTIM TESTIMONY NOT ENOUGH FOR RAPE CONVICTION (what, do they request four male witnesses as in Iran or what's up?) http://www.thelocal.se/20448/20090703/
SWEDISH RAPIST ENJOY IMPUNITY! RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE... RAPE! Amnesty International. Well I never... If estimates are correct, then it indicates that as few as 5-10 percent of all rapes are reported (which would add up to 30k+ rapes a year) to the police. Equally disturbing is the statistic from BRÅ stating that in 2007, less than 13 percent of the 3,535 rape crimes reported resulted in a decision to start legal proceedings. Amnesty slams the Swedish judicial system and the prevalence of attrition within it, concluding that, "in practice, many perpetrators enjoy impunity." Hmmmm, aren't they being a little harsh. I've heard people are given community service, after all, if they repeatedly rape someone. http://www.thelocal.se/19124/20090428/
SWEDEN TOPS EUROPEAN RAPE LEAGUE: Sweden has the highest incidence of reported rapes in Europe - twice as many as "runner up" the UK, a new study shows. WOW! SWEDEN IS BEST AT SOMETHING - THEY WIN PRESTIGIOUS RAPE LEAGUE!!! The high figures in Sweden can not it seems be explained purely by an increased tendency to report rapes and other more minor sexual offences. Rape simply appears to be a more common occurrence in Sweden than in the other EU countries studied, the researchers argue (read that again, researches do not believe in the normal liberal sociologist shit that citizens have merely started reporting tens of thousands of rapes because they are bored or something(. Then again the Swedish leaders of thought and policy... Well, they argue rapes are just reported more often or do not happen. From the news I've reported above, we can easily deduct rapes CERTAINLY do not happen. Wait, no... http://www.thelocal.se/19102/20090427/
STD's CONSIDERED COOL: Sexually transmitted diseases are considered "manly" by young men of "Swedish" origin. The more diseases you have, the cooler you are. Conclusion: "Swedes" are also incredibly stupid, not just criminal, violent and very equal. http://www.thelocal.se/21622/20090822/
YOUTUBE-TV: New Norwegian TV-programme: how firemen cope, survive hostile and violent Muslim immigrants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt77xc8ESkE
AWESOME HELICOPTER HEIST: A team of professional criminals empty Stockholm area of cash in daring helicopter heist. Everyone but for the MSM suspect the "Jugomafia" (former hardcore criminals and mercenaries, that is, refugees to Sweden). http://www.thelocal.se/22260/20090924/
DOG STABBED: Man attacks from the bushes, knives "dirty" dog, walked by it's owner. I don't know if I should laugh or cry? http://gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=361&a=516920
SWEDES ARE VERY BROAD MINDED: Migration Board: Hamas a liberation movement. http://www.thelocal.se/15214/20081025/
SWEDES ALSO RECOGNIZE REAL CRIME WHEN THEY SEE IT: Migration board employee with impeccable career demoted/fired over writing "pro-Israel" views on blog. THOUGHT CRIME DETECTED! http://www.thelocal.se/10112/20080226/
IMMIGRATION MIGHT HAVE SLIGHT HICKUPS: Swedish integration policies 'a failure' concludes politician. Sweden's Minister for Integration, Nyamko Sabuni, however, refused to see the increased concentration of immigrants in city districts as an indication of the success or failure of Sweden's integration politics. Instead she thinks the opposite. While Sabuni often speaks sense, this is not one of those times. http://www.thelocal.se/22244/20090923/
So, boys and girls. Looking to move to Sweden any time soon? What's worse, it took me about 20 minutes to find the above pieces, collected during the past six months or so, and another to write this post down. AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE BEGINNING OF IT. The archives of urban and civil unrest to drug related criminal rape of teenagers and children to gang rape to criminal incompetence to massive egotism to complete disregard to law and order from both the citizenry and the political leadership to astounding bank heists to street violence of all types is so long I could compile TEN of these posts - merely from events that have taken place after the spring of 2009... This in a country of 9 million, which was very recently mostly famous for it's peaceful atmosphere, clean nature and equality.
What.
The.
Hell?
22.9.09
The final refutation.
There is no honest discourse anymore. You must only discuss or analyze in such a manner nobody will take offense. This is extremely difficult, as by the nature of difficult issues, they will often show something in a negative light. But if you offend somebody the "righteously indignant" judge that you are wrong irrespective of your point.
9.10.08
On arguments
In Scandinavia, or rather among any liberals anywhere, a popular method of "refuting" criticism targeted at any number of third world cultures or shitholes (say, Turkey) in regards of how they stand comparison to the Western world, is to point out Western country X has in the past partaken in Y, in which Y is something possibly considered unethical by the standards of today.
Hence we have no "right" to say modern Turkey is a shithole, with little regard for human rights to boot, and that we have no moral justification for taking a long, good look before considering their EU membership.
A simpleton, or a child should see the problems of logic behind this type of argument. If your neighbor runs to you saying, "your roof is on fire, your roof is on fire!" by the logic employed, a valid answer, explanation and solution, to the issue of the flaming roof would be to smugly answer "nevermind, friend, so is the equipment shed. And it's not even my shed. And it burned last week". And leave it aflame basking in the knowledge everything is, again, proven equal.
And one wrong does not justify another in any case, especially if the wrong happened when nobody who walks the earth today is alive and of those who are everyone singularly condemns whatever did happen.
We are not engaged in a competition of who has the purest history or race lineage or heritage. We are trying to shove different cultures and worlds together in a globe that is getting smaller and smaller. Hence we must recognize them for what they are and leave the artificial pretence of their singular equality. And if history makes us understand what brings us to this day, it is not a simple reflection of how we ARE this day, now. Otherwise it would doom us to remain the same, locked in place and forced to repeat the same mistakes, live the same way forever. If all cultures were equal, and if we would not take steps ahead, not develop, we would still live in caves. What was done in the past makes those of us who go forward all the better now, instead of serving as justification for bashing women on the head with clubs and grunting in trees.
Hence we have no "right" to say modern Turkey is a shithole, with little regard for human rights to boot, and that we have no moral justification for taking a long, good look before considering their EU membership.
A simpleton, or a child should see the problems of logic behind this type of argument. If your neighbor runs to you saying, "your roof is on fire, your roof is on fire!" by the logic employed, a valid answer, explanation and solution, to the issue of the flaming roof would be to smugly answer "nevermind, friend, so is the equipment shed. And it's not even my shed. And it burned last week". And leave it aflame basking in the knowledge everything is, again, proven equal.
And one wrong does not justify another in any case, especially if the wrong happened when nobody who walks the earth today is alive and of those who are everyone singularly condemns whatever did happen.
We are not engaged in a competition of who has the purest history or race lineage or heritage. We are trying to shove different cultures and worlds together in a globe that is getting smaller and smaller. Hence we must recognize them for what they are and leave the artificial pretence of their singular equality. And if history makes us understand what brings us to this day, it is not a simple reflection of how we ARE this day, now. Otherwise it would doom us to remain the same, locked in place and forced to repeat the same mistakes, live the same way forever. If all cultures were equal, and if we would not take steps ahead, not develop, we would still live in caves. What was done in the past makes those of us who go forward all the better now, instead of serving as justification for bashing women on the head with clubs and grunting in trees.
8.9.08
Africa after independence: Ghana part I
One could write endlessly about the All-African hero, Kwame Nkrumah. He was a superbly energetic megalomaniac who, by his own account, even "relaxed by working". A well read, politically active and educated Ghanaian, much traveled in the West, he was called to Ghana from London, to act in a role of a political organizer to a party of lawyers and intellectuals, who were being groomed by the Brits to lead a political reform on the Gold Coast.
The leftist (self proclaimed "marxist socialist") Nkrumah quickly had a falling out with the party and set out to create his own, CCP, preaching immediate independence as the way to better all the wrongs suffered by the people of Ghana.
A man of ability, he instantly became a political magician of the people of all walks of life, agitated protests (that eventually turned violent), and was elected as prime minister while serving prison time.
In this role he almost tore Ghana apart by taking over the Cocoa Marketing Board which turned corrupt, sieving money to his CCP party, and further fucked over the Cocoa farmers in setting the fixed prices of cocoa at 1/3 of the global price, simply to save government funds.
But despite another spate of violence in protest of this, he still won another election with relative ease, at which point the Brits were satisfied enough to award independence.
It was 1957. To the Brits, Gold Coast was special. It had been the leading producer of Cocoa for four decades, it's farming system well developed and prosperous, it was wealthy, had the best education system and most advanced reservoir of trained workers of all the colonies. They believed Ghana was ready.
During the next decade in power, Nkrumah achieved much.
The Akosombo hydro-electric plant in the Volta river continues to produce cheap power for Ghana to this day. The road network was improved at an immense rate. He also built the largest dry dock in Africa as a sign of prestige (though it was rarely used). He ordered an airmail bride, with whom he did not share any language with, from Egypt's Nasser and married, trying family life.
But his party also had a jarring effect on government operations and as soon as 1960 government corruption was, by a particularly eloquent account described as a "howling monster threatening to wreck the whole nation".
Party officials promoted their family members and private businesses at will, heedless of consequence. An independent corruption investigation found out that corruption was pervasive in absolutely every level of society, from minister down, as everyone routinely required a 10% bribe to perform any function or basic task. Angered, Nkrumah declared an ultimatum, ordering ministers and high officials to either "give up the loot" or to leave the office. But in reality, little was done.
The price of Cocoa plummeted in -61, affecting economy adversely. Taxing was sharply increased, the cost of living rocketing. Despite this, Nkrumah dove into almost any project he could come up with, impatient to spectacularly transform Ghana.
Steelworks, mines, shipyards, a footwear factory constructed at eight times the price an adviser suggested, a medical plant, at ten times the price. A visit to Soviet Union in -61 convinced him huge state run corporations were a shortcut to success and many were founded, only to produce nothing while running at a huge loss. An airline, flying jets to Cairo and other cities, was founded with the only passengers being party members using public funds.
A press, which served only to employ relatives of the management, but never printed anything, mechanized state farming to replace a relatively well producing farming system, all of which turned into graveyards of rusting machinery (and halved the Cocoa production), and countless useless projects foreign businessmen peddled.
Dissidents of neighbouring countries received training in Ghana. Nkrumah even reputedly attempted to organize assassinations among other African leaders he disliked, making him extremely unpopular by his counterparts, already in paroxysms of rage over his vainglorious personality cult and aspirations as a pan-African leader.
A huge complex for a single OAU meeting in 1965, with 65 superbly furnished villas, a banquet hall for 2000 guests and fountains that shot water 60 to feet of height was built, while people were lining for food. The standard of living for the average peasant was reduced to a level similar between the World Wars. By 1965 Ghana was bankrupt, turned from one of the most prosperous countries in all of the tropics to one suffering from food shortages and quite apparently in huge debt.
But it was impossible to asses in how much debt exactly, since the records of public contracts were not kept at the government files. In fact, Nkrumah was in the habit of awarding contracts personally without consulting anyone. In a catastrophe of finances, the absence of proper records made it utterly impossible to know exactly where most of the money had gone, and worse, what still lay ahead, as much of Ghana's future revenues had been mortgaged by Nkrumah in his impatience to run projects even after funds had dried out.
Nkrumah also introduced a one party system by 1963 but that changed little, as he had pursued opponents mercilessly from the beginning, surrounding himself with sycophants. He used violence, bribes and threats to break strikes, had complete control of the media and purged his own cabinet and ministers at will.
Special courts, from which there was no appeal, worked full time as Nkrumah mercilessly destroyed anyone who suspected the wisdom of his policies. Dissidents were jailed without trial. Yet, all of this only covers some of what he managed and merely touches his aspirations as a pan-African leader, the President of Africa or his various attempts at global politics, in which he tried to work as a mediator. His energy was, indeed, limitless.
But everything comes to an end. While Nkrumah was in Beijing during 1966, vainly trying to mediate the Vietnam War, the army ousted him. Of Sandhurst tradition the officers had stood aside without meddling to that point, though worried by the corruption and poverty Nkrumah had driven Ghana into, but when he interfered with the army, planting spies, trying to exert his control and break cohesion, it was deeply resented. Nkrumah caused further anger and inflamed egos of the military clique by favouring his private Presidential Guard regiment with better weapons, uniforms and special salary rates. This would in the end finish him.
As an amusing note, because of the poor records rampant under Nkrumah's reign, years after the coup, weird shit kept popping up. A 7500 ton yacht was delivered for Nkrumah's personal use. A 5£ mil warship suddenly turned up. Nobody knows how many projects were bought but simply never delivered.
Finally, Nkrumah set a bad precedent for future leaders. He was first accepted in the West as a type of a philosopher king, something that many future African leaders would strive to emulate, as well as his grasping at socialism, impressed as Nkrumah was by the Soviet Union and West European welfare states founded after the Second World War.
The leftist (self proclaimed "marxist socialist") Nkrumah quickly had a falling out with the party and set out to create his own, CCP, preaching immediate independence as the way to better all the wrongs suffered by the people of Ghana.
A man of ability, he instantly became a political magician of the people of all walks of life, agitated protests (that eventually turned violent), and was elected as prime minister while serving prison time.
In this role he almost tore Ghana apart by taking over the Cocoa Marketing Board which turned corrupt, sieving money to his CCP party, and further fucked over the Cocoa farmers in setting the fixed prices of cocoa at 1/3 of the global price, simply to save government funds.
But despite another spate of violence in protest of this, he still won another election with relative ease, at which point the Brits were satisfied enough to award independence.
It was 1957. To the Brits, Gold Coast was special. It had been the leading producer of Cocoa for four decades, it's farming system well developed and prosperous, it was wealthy, had the best education system and most advanced reservoir of trained workers of all the colonies. They believed Ghana was ready.
During the next decade in power, Nkrumah achieved much.
The Akosombo hydro-electric plant in the Volta river continues to produce cheap power for Ghana to this day. The road network was improved at an immense rate. He also built the largest dry dock in Africa as a sign of prestige (though it was rarely used). He ordered an airmail bride, with whom he did not share any language with, from Egypt's Nasser and married, trying family life.
But his party also had a jarring effect on government operations and as soon as 1960 government corruption was, by a particularly eloquent account described as a "howling monster threatening to wreck the whole nation".
Party officials promoted their family members and private businesses at will, heedless of consequence. An independent corruption investigation found out that corruption was pervasive in absolutely every level of society, from minister down, as everyone routinely required a 10% bribe to perform any function or basic task. Angered, Nkrumah declared an ultimatum, ordering ministers and high officials to either "give up the loot" or to leave the office. But in reality, little was done.
The price of Cocoa plummeted in -61, affecting economy adversely. Taxing was sharply increased, the cost of living rocketing. Despite this, Nkrumah dove into almost any project he could come up with, impatient to spectacularly transform Ghana.
Steelworks, mines, shipyards, a footwear factory constructed at eight times the price an adviser suggested, a medical plant, at ten times the price. A visit to Soviet Union in -61 convinced him huge state run corporations were a shortcut to success and many were founded, only to produce nothing while running at a huge loss. An airline, flying jets to Cairo and other cities, was founded with the only passengers being party members using public funds.
A press, which served only to employ relatives of the management, but never printed anything, mechanized state farming to replace a relatively well producing farming system, all of which turned into graveyards of rusting machinery (and halved the Cocoa production), and countless useless projects foreign businessmen peddled.
Dissidents of neighbouring countries received training in Ghana. Nkrumah even reputedly attempted to organize assassinations among other African leaders he disliked, making him extremely unpopular by his counterparts, already in paroxysms of rage over his vainglorious personality cult and aspirations as a pan-African leader.
A huge complex for a single OAU meeting in 1965, with 65 superbly furnished villas, a banquet hall for 2000 guests and fountains that shot water 60 to feet of height was built, while people were lining for food. The standard of living for the average peasant was reduced to a level similar between the World Wars. By 1965 Ghana was bankrupt, turned from one of the most prosperous countries in all of the tropics to one suffering from food shortages and quite apparently in huge debt.
But it was impossible to asses in how much debt exactly, since the records of public contracts were not kept at the government files. In fact, Nkrumah was in the habit of awarding contracts personally without consulting anyone. In a catastrophe of finances, the absence of proper records made it utterly impossible to know exactly where most of the money had gone, and worse, what still lay ahead, as much of Ghana's future revenues had been mortgaged by Nkrumah in his impatience to run projects even after funds had dried out.
Nkrumah also introduced a one party system by 1963 but that changed little, as he had pursued opponents mercilessly from the beginning, surrounding himself with sycophants. He used violence, bribes and threats to break strikes, had complete control of the media and purged his own cabinet and ministers at will.
Special courts, from which there was no appeal, worked full time as Nkrumah mercilessly destroyed anyone who suspected the wisdom of his policies. Dissidents were jailed without trial. Yet, all of this only covers some of what he managed and merely touches his aspirations as a pan-African leader, the President of Africa or his various attempts at global politics, in which he tried to work as a mediator. His energy was, indeed, limitless.
But everything comes to an end. While Nkrumah was in Beijing during 1966, vainly trying to mediate the Vietnam War, the army ousted him. Of Sandhurst tradition the officers had stood aside without meddling to that point, though worried by the corruption and poverty Nkrumah had driven Ghana into, but when he interfered with the army, planting spies, trying to exert his control and break cohesion, it was deeply resented. Nkrumah caused further anger and inflamed egos of the military clique by favouring his private Presidential Guard regiment with better weapons, uniforms and special salary rates. This would in the end finish him.
As an amusing note, because of the poor records rampant under Nkrumah's reign, years after the coup, weird shit kept popping up. A 7500 ton yacht was delivered for Nkrumah's personal use. A 5£ mil warship suddenly turned up. Nobody knows how many projects were bought but simply never delivered.
Finally, Nkrumah set a bad precedent for future leaders. He was first accepted in the West as a type of a philosopher king, something that many future African leaders would strive to emulate, as well as his grasping at socialism, impressed as Nkrumah was by the Soviet Union and West European welfare states founded after the Second World War.
Africa after Independence: Tanzania part II
Nyerere, the most influential African writer and intellectual of his time, established himself as a hero and a prophet for the poor of the world, giving sermons as opposed to political speeches, preaching socialism.
His socialist experiment in Tanzania would stand as a beacon of hope in Africa. He was modest, lived simply, and unlike many of his counterparts, was not interested in personal shows of wealth. As it were, he had many admirers abroad and as a result Tanzania soon received more in foreign aid than any other African country.
The driving force of the state was Julius Nyerere alone: there was no popular movement, no military body, not a mass of peasants agitating socialism. The vision was his alone. For five years he took no action apart from his frequent sermons but in 1967, alarmed that a "new African elite" was emerging in Tanzania, began operating against the perceived threat with rapid speed.
Donor pressure was to be minimized to ensure Tanzanian independence. During the (in)famous Arusha Declaration, Nyerere announced mass nationalization. Yet there were no detailed plans, no cabinet meetings, no legal preparations.
In two fell sweeps almost everything worth anything was nationalized, the operation victimizing primarily the wealthy Asian community. Nyerere's code stipulated that all senior party and government officials had to be from the peasant or working class. "Some believed they could develop by having a middle class" he intoned, but "not in Tanzania. We shall be a nation of equals".
Next, Nyerere proposed establishment of self-sufficient socialist village communities as the basis of rural development. The scattered rural population was to be gathered in larger, communal units, ensuring easier access to technology, schools, medicine and water.
But progress was slow. Peasants living near poverty balked at giving away the relative safety of their holdings and finally most of the new communal units were established merely to ensure government aid. After insisting joining communal units had to be voluntary, by 1973 Nyerere announced a compulsory resettlement of the rural population. Nyerere scolded the population for "being lazy in their socialist aspirations".
During the next four years 11 million people were forcibly relocated. Despite Nyerere's insistence that the relocation was voluntary, reports tell otherwise. The ruling socialist party, TANU, employed force and violence at will, mercilessly harassing all who refused. The police, army, a national service and a militia were mobilized to move the population. Houses were turned uninhabitable by torching or kicking holes in the walls, and tearing off doors, and windows. Millions of people were moved overnight only to find themselves in an empty wasteland they were expected to turn into villages and fields.
As a result food production collapsed, compounded by drought. The villagisation programme catastrophically disrupted the whole nation. Famine loomed. Foreign reserves exhausted, in 1975 the government had to be rescued by grants and loans arranged by the IMF, and the World Bank, and by more than 200 000 tons of food aid. By 1979, 90% of the peasants had been located to communal farms but produced only 5% of the agricultural output.
Other aspects of the natiolisation failed similarly.
The multitude of state owned corporations ran on debt, were incompetently managed, overstaffed and inefficient. State banks, state shops, state marketing boards, state industries which all existed in the hundreds, were ran by bureaucrats operating under a system of patronage instead of businessmen: workers came to regard their jobs as guaranteed by the socialist state. By the 80s foreign debt was soaring, trade deficit widening. National output between 1977 and 1982 declined by one third. Factories and farms could not afford spare parts. Rising oil prices caused havoc. Basic commodities ran out.
Despite all these difficulties Nyerere held on to his socialist system, dismissing the possibility that his strategy might be at fault. His one party system stifled all opposition, the press was muzzled, party committees holding power were intolerant of change for fear of losing their benefits. By 1982 Nyerere admitted Tanzania faced "very real" problems but concluded a worse evil, that of capitalism and the birth of a new rich elite, had been avoided.
What Nyerere did achieve were major steps forward in education, health care and the social system: but without foreign aid, of which three billion was received in the 70s and which reached 600 million annually by 1982, Tanzania would have plunged. His achievement was to persuade foreign sponsors to continue their programs of aid, not of running a successful African social state.
The 80s in general became known as "the lost decade" of Africa, so deep was the economic decline of the continent, not only in Tanzania. By the mid 80s most of Africa was as poor, or poorer, then at the time of independence. At every level, governments were losing their capability to function. Salaries of civil servants eroded dramatically, draining what honesty and morale remained: for example in Tanzania the real buying power of the civil service dropped by 90% between 1969 and 1985. Brain drain reached massive proportions. Bereft of expertise, much of Africa suffered a collapse in the quality of governmental civil services which become renowned for absenteeism, corruption, and low morale, incapable of performing even basic tasks (in 1995 it was calculated in twenty low-income African countries, that half had 20 or fewer qualified accountants in the whole public sector). In Tanzania, much like everywhere else, unofficial parallel markets outside of government regulation were used for survival. Two thirds of the agricultural produce was sold in this manner.
Unable to raise funds from local sources and shunned by commercial banks abroad, governments were forced to turn to Western donor organizations, who in effect became the bankers for Africa.
The IMF and the World Bank cooked up a plan of economic reforms. In the 60s Western development economists had encouraged state motored progress while dismissing markets, in the 80s, they turned to the private sector and held the state as the primary cause of failure. IMF and World Bank required cuts in the bloated bureaucracies, deregulating prices, selling or closing state corporations, raising the price of agriculture commodities, freeing foreign investment, regulating budget deficits and reduced public borrowing and turning to investing. This all was, of course, opposed. The systems of patronage and regulation by the government were the primary tools of power. The ability of the elite to reward relatives, tribal kinsmen and political supporters by lucrative positions, contracts, bureaucratic jobs and other possibilities of gain were primary political assets.
The elites were basically faced with losing all their perks. Furthermore, public instead of private enterprise was a symbol of national sovereignty even if they performed catastrophically (but without options, most leaders had to accept the reform policies and 200 billion more in aid flowed into Africa during the 80s and 90s).
Despite all this Julius Nyerere emerged as a champion against the new requirements and would not budge until his retirement in 1985 when he became the sixth African leader to relinquish power voluntarily, of some 150 heads of state seen during African independence.
The former interior minister and vice president Ali Hassan Mwinyi or "Anything Goes" succeeded Nyerere, a compromise choice from within the CCM (ex. TANU) party. His government was quick to abandon the socialist strategy, introduce reforms and took austerity measures, achieving a good status with the donors. Yet under his leadership corruption was asvrampant as ever and inflation severe. His compliance with the donors (to ensure continuing aid, nothing more) succeeded in introducing some steps towards a more liberal economy, and multi-party politics were introduced in -92 during his second term.
Two parliamentary by-elections (won by CCM) in early 1994 were the first-ever multiparty elections in Tanzanian history.
Today the liberalization of the economy has gone further. The GDP of Tanzania is rising at a 4% yearly rate. It is still far too low to lift the average Tanzanian out of poverty, and the economy is still supported by foreign donors.
And even though debts worth $6 billion have recently been canceled, foreign debt eats 40% of government expenditure.
His socialist experiment in Tanzania would stand as a beacon of hope in Africa. He was modest, lived simply, and unlike many of his counterparts, was not interested in personal shows of wealth. As it were, he had many admirers abroad and as a result Tanzania soon received more in foreign aid than any other African country.
The driving force of the state was Julius Nyerere alone: there was no popular movement, no military body, not a mass of peasants agitating socialism. The vision was his alone. For five years he took no action apart from his frequent sermons but in 1967, alarmed that a "new African elite" was emerging in Tanzania, began operating against the perceived threat with rapid speed.
Donor pressure was to be minimized to ensure Tanzanian independence. During the (in)famous Arusha Declaration, Nyerere announced mass nationalization. Yet there were no detailed plans, no cabinet meetings, no legal preparations.
In two fell sweeps almost everything worth anything was nationalized, the operation victimizing primarily the wealthy Asian community. Nyerere's code stipulated that all senior party and government officials had to be from the peasant or working class. "Some believed they could develop by having a middle class" he intoned, but "not in Tanzania. We shall be a nation of equals".
Next, Nyerere proposed establishment of self-sufficient socialist village communities as the basis of rural development. The scattered rural population was to be gathered in larger, communal units, ensuring easier access to technology, schools, medicine and water.
But progress was slow. Peasants living near poverty balked at giving away the relative safety of their holdings and finally most of the new communal units were established merely to ensure government aid. After insisting joining communal units had to be voluntary, by 1973 Nyerere announced a compulsory resettlement of the rural population. Nyerere scolded the population for "being lazy in their socialist aspirations".
During the next four years 11 million people were forcibly relocated. Despite Nyerere's insistence that the relocation was voluntary, reports tell otherwise. The ruling socialist party, TANU, employed force and violence at will, mercilessly harassing all who refused. The police, army, a national service and a militia were mobilized to move the population. Houses were turned uninhabitable by torching or kicking holes in the walls, and tearing off doors, and windows. Millions of people were moved overnight only to find themselves in an empty wasteland they were expected to turn into villages and fields.
As a result food production collapsed, compounded by drought. The villagisation programme catastrophically disrupted the whole nation. Famine loomed. Foreign reserves exhausted, in 1975 the government had to be rescued by grants and loans arranged by the IMF, and the World Bank, and by more than 200 000 tons of food aid. By 1979, 90% of the peasants had been located to communal farms but produced only 5% of the agricultural output.
Other aspects of the natiolisation failed similarly.
The multitude of state owned corporations ran on debt, were incompetently managed, overstaffed and inefficient. State banks, state shops, state marketing boards, state industries which all existed in the hundreds, were ran by bureaucrats operating under a system of patronage instead of businessmen: workers came to regard their jobs as guaranteed by the socialist state. By the 80s foreign debt was soaring, trade deficit widening. National output between 1977 and 1982 declined by one third. Factories and farms could not afford spare parts. Rising oil prices caused havoc. Basic commodities ran out.
Despite all these difficulties Nyerere held on to his socialist system, dismissing the possibility that his strategy might be at fault. His one party system stifled all opposition, the press was muzzled, party committees holding power were intolerant of change for fear of losing their benefits. By 1982 Nyerere admitted Tanzania faced "very real" problems but concluded a worse evil, that of capitalism and the birth of a new rich elite, had been avoided.
What Nyerere did achieve were major steps forward in education, health care and the social system: but without foreign aid, of which three billion was received in the 70s and which reached 600 million annually by 1982, Tanzania would have plunged. His achievement was to persuade foreign sponsors to continue their programs of aid, not of running a successful African social state.
The 80s in general became known as "the lost decade" of Africa, so deep was the economic decline of the continent, not only in Tanzania. By the mid 80s most of Africa was as poor, or poorer, then at the time of independence. At every level, governments were losing their capability to function. Salaries of civil servants eroded dramatically, draining what honesty and morale remained: for example in Tanzania the real buying power of the civil service dropped by 90% between 1969 and 1985. Brain drain reached massive proportions. Bereft of expertise, much of Africa suffered a collapse in the quality of governmental civil services which become renowned for absenteeism, corruption, and low morale, incapable of performing even basic tasks (in 1995 it was calculated in twenty low-income African countries, that half had 20 or fewer qualified accountants in the whole public sector). In Tanzania, much like everywhere else, unofficial parallel markets outside of government regulation were used for survival. Two thirds of the agricultural produce was sold in this manner.
Unable to raise funds from local sources and shunned by commercial banks abroad, governments were forced to turn to Western donor organizations, who in effect became the bankers for Africa.
The IMF and the World Bank cooked up a plan of economic reforms. In the 60s Western development economists had encouraged state motored progress while dismissing markets, in the 80s, they turned to the private sector and held the state as the primary cause of failure. IMF and World Bank required cuts in the bloated bureaucracies, deregulating prices, selling or closing state corporations, raising the price of agriculture commodities, freeing foreign investment, regulating budget deficits and reduced public borrowing and turning to investing. This all was, of course, opposed. The systems of patronage and regulation by the government were the primary tools of power. The ability of the elite to reward relatives, tribal kinsmen and political supporters by lucrative positions, contracts, bureaucratic jobs and other possibilities of gain were primary political assets.
The elites were basically faced with losing all their perks. Furthermore, public instead of private enterprise was a symbol of national sovereignty even if they performed catastrophically (but without options, most leaders had to accept the reform policies and 200 billion more in aid flowed into Africa during the 80s and 90s).
Despite all this Julius Nyerere emerged as a champion against the new requirements and would not budge until his retirement in 1985 when he became the sixth African leader to relinquish power voluntarily, of some 150 heads of state seen during African independence.
The former interior minister and vice president Ali Hassan Mwinyi or "Anything Goes" succeeded Nyerere, a compromise choice from within the CCM (ex. TANU) party. His government was quick to abandon the socialist strategy, introduce reforms and took austerity measures, achieving a good status with the donors. Yet under his leadership corruption was asvrampant as ever and inflation severe. His compliance with the donors (to ensure continuing aid, nothing more) succeeded in introducing some steps towards a more liberal economy, and multi-party politics were introduced in -92 during his second term.
Two parliamentary by-elections (won by CCM) in early 1994 were the first-ever multiparty elections in Tanzanian history.
Today the liberalization of the economy has gone further. The GDP of Tanzania is rising at a 4% yearly rate. It is still far too low to lift the average Tanzanian out of poverty, and the economy is still supported by foreign donors.
And even though debts worth $6 billion have recently been canceled, foreign debt eats 40% of government expenditure.
Africa after independence: Tanzania part I
The state of Tanzania was born from a union between Zanzibar and Tanganyika, in 1964, when President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika became alarmed that Zanzibar was at risk of being sucked into the sphere of the Cold War. Tanganyika had gained a relatively peaceful independence in 1961, while Zanzibar attained it during 1963, immediately after which a Leftist revolution overthrew the ruling Sultan.
The revolution of Zanzibar was instigated by a relatively unknown "Field Marshall" and loonie, by the name of John Okello, and gave power to Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume. Some hundred black Africans took control of Zanzibar in a few hours and then proceeded with an act of genocide, killing up to 12 000 Arabs and Asians while raping women of other ethnic origins and throwing others into the sea in dhows with little to no provisions.
The revolution took place after the uneducated Karume's AZP party won a majority of 54% in votes, yet, received a minority in council chairs. This intensified the prevalent deeply rooted racial animosities and eventually lead into the coup.
Karume immediately established a bizarre and vindictive regime where the Revolutionary Council ordered arrests of Zanzibar Arabs without trial, tortured, killed and raped at will, and confiscated plantations. The 20k strong Asian community was left intact but suffered greatly, as civil servants were sacked, schools closed and people flogged publicly for minor offenses.
Karume took as concubines Persian girls and arrested, tortured and flogged relatives of those who resisted. Despite apparent attempts, Julius Nyerere, unfortunately, was utterly unable to control him.
Under Karume's dictatorship a one-party system was established. An African socialist, he abolished private business and trade. Distrustful of education and intellectuals he quickly fell foul with the Marxists members of the Revolutionary Council: they were executed for plotting. His East-Germany trained secret police was free to kidnap, kill and torture.
Karume banned contraceptives. He sent off all WHO workers. Despite gaining a sizeable foreign reserves from cloves, he hoarded the wealth, while hospitals ran without medicine and food had to be rationed.
Karume died in -72 after an officer shot him on account of a personal grudge. Karume was relaxing with friends at the party HQ, playing checkers, when he received a bullet.
Karume was succeeded by Aboud Jumbe, an ASP party member, and later the president of Tanzania Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
We return to larger Tanzania. Now, in most African countries, political leaders were forced to spend time with the "Ethnic Arithmetic", working out alliances with different ethnic groups and rival tribes to remain in control, however, Nyerere lucked out, as his domain constituted of more than 120 tribes, all too small to gain dominance and all of which shared a common language, Swahili (spread by Arab traders).
So it would appear Julius Nyerere was off to a good start. In the next post let us examine how Nyerere performs and in which manner Tanzania proceeds towards a better tomorrow.
The revolution of Zanzibar was instigated by a relatively unknown "Field Marshall" and loonie, by the name of John Okello, and gave power to Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume. Some hundred black Africans took control of Zanzibar in a few hours and then proceeded with an act of genocide, killing up to 12 000 Arabs and Asians while raping women of other ethnic origins and throwing others into the sea in dhows with little to no provisions.
The revolution took place after the uneducated Karume's AZP party won a majority of 54% in votes, yet, received a minority in council chairs. This intensified the prevalent deeply rooted racial animosities and eventually lead into the coup.
Karume immediately established a bizarre and vindictive regime where the Revolutionary Council ordered arrests of Zanzibar Arabs without trial, tortured, killed and raped at will, and confiscated plantations. The 20k strong Asian community was left intact but suffered greatly, as civil servants were sacked, schools closed and people flogged publicly for minor offenses.
Karume took as concubines Persian girls and arrested, tortured and flogged relatives of those who resisted. Despite apparent attempts, Julius Nyerere, unfortunately, was utterly unable to control him.
Under Karume's dictatorship a one-party system was established. An African socialist, he abolished private business and trade. Distrustful of education and intellectuals he quickly fell foul with the Marxists members of the Revolutionary Council: they were executed for plotting. His East-Germany trained secret police was free to kidnap, kill and torture.
Karume banned contraceptives. He sent off all WHO workers. Despite gaining a sizeable foreign reserves from cloves, he hoarded the wealth, while hospitals ran without medicine and food had to be rationed.
Karume died in -72 after an officer shot him on account of a personal grudge. Karume was relaxing with friends at the party HQ, playing checkers, when he received a bullet.
Karume was succeeded by Aboud Jumbe, an ASP party member, and later the president of Tanzania Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
We return to larger Tanzania. Now, in most African countries, political leaders were forced to spend time with the "Ethnic Arithmetic", working out alliances with different ethnic groups and rival tribes to remain in control, however, Nyerere lucked out, as his domain constituted of more than 120 tribes, all too small to gain dominance and all of which shared a common language, Swahili (spread by Arab traders).
So it would appear Julius Nyerere was off to a good start. In the next post let us examine how Nyerere performs and in which manner Tanzania proceeds towards a better tomorrow.
24.8.08
Quote of the day
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
- General Sir Charles James Napier
- General Sir Charles James Napier
20.8.08
Please can I have my tax euro back
A new study from the University of Jyväskylä reveals that "beer will be consumed, if it is available. This means consumption of beer is affected by increase in availability: the easier it is to get beer, the more will be drunk".
A shocking revelation.
A shocking revelation.
Quote of the day
"More often than not the word racism today means a liberal is losing an argument to a conservative"
15.4.08
A liberal victory.
Let us say a community of ten thousand ethnics moved in from a third world, war torn or developing country, marketed by socialists, left wing liberals and the minority ombudsman as an incredible resource of skill and untapped talent, let us imagine the glowing headlines of a major newspaper describing how each arrival is a golden egg for their new host country, saving hundreds of thousands by their mere existence.
Let us say only 500 or 1000 of the new ethnic minority would end up working (and therefore irrefutably paying taxes, unless they can machinate a system which is capable of funneling the income out of country), and of those the vast majority at jobs and positions specially created to cater to the needs of the new community, as interpreters and members of various bureucratic boards and councils of integration, naturally all funded by the city, the community, the tax payers.
Let us say they would fail to integrate, either by their own conduct or the failure of the socialist system to integrate them despite the frothinig-from-the-mouth hype of this new incredible resource of talent, they woulf fail to learn the language thus remaining unemployable but for only the forementioned work catering their own community, would fail to learn or value the local culture and develop only a limited sense of the new custom and law they should abide to, all with the unlimited support of the sensibilities of multiculturalism where each and every culture and behavour pattern is to be protected as a unique diamond, instead they would continue to live much like they did in their former host nation, that is, a war torn third world field of corpses and sand. Furthermore let us say their young adult males commited more than 100 times more crime then their indeginous counterparts (which, when their conduct is not challenged in any manner nor by any authority, should not surprise anyone expect for possibly the sociologist and the minority ombudsman and the immigration minister) and that they would bring along a massive new drug trade, and that they would keep their women locked up from work or education.
Let us say the natives living close to them would observe all of this and become resentful. Let us say even racism would rear it's ugly head because of the resentment felt by the natives who view the new community, devoid of any good experiences, firstly as a repugnant lie from the social workers who so highly touted their arrival as the new source of power and income that will benefit all, second, as members of a vastly different culture and a huge public sink of resources, every euro and dollar which could have supported their own relatives, their our own children, their own elderly, unemployed and poor first. Since is it not true there is only a certain amount of funding that can be spent for such social work and benefits before it runs out, and as sad as it is, it cannot be increased and increased without any limit before there are new tax payers to provide new funds.
What would you make of this? Insanity or undoubtedly a resounding victory for multiculturalism in all its glory?
Let us say only 500 or 1000 of the new ethnic minority would end up working (and therefore irrefutably paying taxes, unless they can machinate a system which is capable of funneling the income out of country), and of those the vast majority at jobs and positions specially created to cater to the needs of the new community, as interpreters and members of various bureucratic boards and councils of integration, naturally all funded by the city, the community, the tax payers.
Let us say they would fail to integrate, either by their own conduct or the failure of the socialist system to integrate them despite the frothinig-from-the-mouth hype of this new incredible resource of talent, they woulf fail to learn the language thus remaining unemployable but for only the forementioned work catering their own community, would fail to learn or value the local culture and develop only a limited sense of the new custom and law they should abide to, all with the unlimited support of the sensibilities of multiculturalism where each and every culture and behavour pattern is to be protected as a unique diamond, instead they would continue to live much like they did in their former host nation, that is, a war torn third world field of corpses and sand. Furthermore let us say their young adult males commited more than 100 times more crime then their indeginous counterparts (which, when their conduct is not challenged in any manner nor by any authority, should not surprise anyone expect for possibly the sociologist and the minority ombudsman and the immigration minister) and that they would bring along a massive new drug trade, and that they would keep their women locked up from work or education.
Let us say the natives living close to them would observe all of this and become resentful. Let us say even racism would rear it's ugly head because of the resentment felt by the natives who view the new community, devoid of any good experiences, firstly as a repugnant lie from the social workers who so highly touted their arrival as the new source of power and income that will benefit all, second, as members of a vastly different culture and a huge public sink of resources, every euro and dollar which could have supported their own relatives, their our own children, their own elderly, unemployed and poor first. Since is it not true there is only a certain amount of funding that can be spent for such social work and benefits before it runs out, and as sad as it is, it cannot be increased and increased without any limit before there are new tax payers to provide new funds.
What would you make of this? Insanity or undoubtedly a resounding victory for multiculturalism in all its glory?
8.11.07
Times Online analyzes Finland
I think I don't need to collect my thoughts about this piece of reporting any further.
However a friend spotted an excellent reader contribution, thus:
However a friend spotted an excellent reader contribution, thus:
I can provide the other facts of Finland for the writer of this truely excellent analysis: We actually live in igloos and ride polar bears. Also our electricity, which we use to power up out Nokia phones is provided by Thor, the mighty god of thunder. What is this Internet he is talking about? Some sort of witchcraft perhaps?
6.11.07
Vanity of earthly concerns
"A surprisingly large number of auto-tattooists choose for the exercise of their dermatographical art the chief motto of British service industries, namely FUCK OFF. Why anyone would want these words indelibly imprinted in his skin is a mystery whose meaning I have not yet penetrated, though my researches continue, but I recall a patient who had the two words tattooed in mirror writing upon his forehead, no doubt that he might read them in the bathroom mirror every morning and be reminded of the vanity of earthy concerns."
30.10.07
I love the PC core.
I sometimes want to remind myself about this crap.
Although it is technically illegal to restrict jobs to certain ethnic groups, the racially fixated commissars have found a way round that problem by developing training schemes open only to minorities.
Wow, let's discriminate our own citizens and traditional population. It is the tolerant.
It is a bitter irony that the Labour Government, which works itself into such a synthetic rage over racial prejudice, should practise overt discrimination on an epic scale. The remorseless focus on supporting minorities has led to a perverted ideology of anti-white racism.
Jebus, UK today really sounds like a hellhole. Not that I'm at all surprised by the above, sounds all too familiar. A friend who stayed there for a while surprised me by telling me how the locals don't really like all the Pakis, for example, going as far as to hate them. Why was I surprised? Well, I believed then, at least partially, that societies with a longer tradition of immigrants and an immigrant workforce would as the liturgy goes, more "tolerant" and more adjusted to a diverce society. That was -97 and -98, so it was obvious, of course, the multi-culti paradise wasn't working any better than it is today. It is striking that despite urban, metropolitan area population resisting (albeit in somewhat of a silence) the flood of immigrants nothing was done to quell the tide, infact exactly the opposite.
With the consequences now in news from the Great Britain. The opposition of the local population and the feeling things are wrong were there but the PC card has silenced critics. So, for how long still?
You know, shit like above was getting old way, way back then and only pops up more often and often, why? This is just one example in a torrent of more before and then more waiting to happen.
Why don't the people put a fucking stop to this experiment I'm sure nobody but the elusive "leftist intellectual elites" support? Will the streets flow with blood before it ends? No, really. Like many others I'm most scared of this: that the many, many West Europeans who are being shoved Politically Correctness down their throats will someday utter "enough" and will throttle from liberal values to the opposite and embrace the right wing and nationalist as a way of putting an end to the spiritual (and soon all encompassing) misery they are being forced through by the very powers that be who they look for protection, that is, the nation state.
4.10.07
I can handle this but I can't handle anything else.
I'm pissed with addicts who let their substance abuse problems run their lives. My ability to feel empathy has been reduced to that of feeling contempt. We have spiritual lifts and downward spirals and seeking to chemically adjust your emotions into tolerable levels is just human but it is also a conscious choice. Keeping a habit up is a mere choice. Letting it affect your work, social relations or budget is a choice. Whining how bad you feel after a four day binge and screeching for some benzodiazepam to calm your raw nerves is fucking pathetic and still your own choice.
The worst thing by far is how sorry habitual substance abusers seem to feel for themselves and how they appear to act as if they had no choice because, well, they are addicts and addiction is a severe physical and psychological state. So tells us the television and the movies, the people you meet ('Did you hear about David? He took a sleeping and calming pill and now he's HOOKED, OH MY how TERRIBLE') and most of all your shitty junkie friends ('Man getting of the barbiturates was, like, the worst withdrawal ever, this meth I'm snorting 's nothing'). Bullshit.
It's a fucking LEARNING DYSFUNCTION.
You inhale stimulants which get you high which inevitably follows with a crash of various levels when you are decidedly low. To me there are two kinds of people, those who understand this and those who don't. The latter often become substance abusers of the sort who feel they have somehow lost voluntary control of their actions and continue their make believe habit. Yes, quitting a substance will cause unpleasant effects which is infact why most people will not pick up a habit that will cause excessive unpleasantness if you try to discontinue it. And it's still your OWN FUCKING CHOICE not to feel unpleasant for some days and leave it behind you.
I was read a quote yesterday:
The worst thing by far is how sorry habitual substance abusers seem to feel for themselves and how they appear to act as if they had no choice because, well, they are addicts and addiction is a severe physical and psychological state. So tells us the television and the movies, the people you meet ('Did you hear about David? He took a sleeping and calming pill and now he's HOOKED, OH MY how TERRIBLE') and most of all your shitty junkie friends ('Man getting of the barbiturates was, like, the worst withdrawal ever, this meth I'm snorting 's nothing'). Bullshit.
It's a fucking LEARNING DYSFUNCTION.
You inhale stimulants which get you high which inevitably follows with a crash of various levels when you are decidedly low. To me there are two kinds of people, those who understand this and those who don't. The latter often become substance abusers of the sort who feel they have somehow lost voluntary control of their actions and continue their make believe habit. Yes, quitting a substance will cause unpleasant effects which is infact why most people will not pick up a habit that will cause excessive unpleasantness if you try to discontinue it. And it's still your OWN FUCKING CHOICE not to feel unpleasant for some days and leave it behind you.
I was read a quote yesterday:
"So you understand this addiction is between your ears,
and admit nobody is forcing you into this habit you seek are
seeking a way out of?"
"- Yes"
"How has this understanding helped you, this far?"
and admit nobody is forcing you into this habit you seek are
seeking a way out of?"
"- Yes"
"How has this understanding helped you, this far?"
1.10.07
Jealousy
Jealousy fueled domestic violence is one of the evils of a modern society. Promiscuity is a social norm and we accept the fact almost anyone can sleep with just about anyone if they wish to, certainly if they are single. This image (imagined or real) can carry to haunt us in a relationship. We are assaulted by sex from above and below (and, in some cases, the behind), the media is shoving tanned skin down our throats and silicone up to our ears, the world around us seems to be obsessed.
Excluding rants about the "youth today" we have become more prone to having sex with those whom we are not married or even in a relationship with, some even celebrated if we manage to collect an improbably high number of partners. Somehow living in this environment permeated by promiscuity and emotionless sexual gratification does not free us of the connected feelings that can hurt us, for example jealousy, infact it appears to have a negative impact.
After a few sixpacks I should probably beat her and lock her in a closet, just to be on the safe side.
Excluding rants about the "youth today" we have become more prone to having sex with those whom we are not married or even in a relationship with, some even celebrated if we manage to collect an improbably high number of partners. Somehow living in this environment permeated by promiscuity and emotionless sexual gratification does not free us of the connected feelings that can hurt us, for example jealousy, infact it appears to have a negative impact.
After a few sixpacks I should probably beat her and lock her in a closet, just to be on the safe side.
30.9.07
Voting from the rooftops.
"Colombia's law prescribes lesser sentences for violent offenses allegedly committed for political ends, implicitly recognizing a partial right to resort to arms whenever a citizen thinks it just to do so; it should be no surprise that the resort to arms has been continual if not quite continuous."
29.9.07
From class to caste, hooray for equality!
What really differentiates a class society from a caste society...? Try like so: you can establish a caste society by excluding or refusing a group the culture or status of another, thereby permanently separating the two.
Refusing to admit any existing differences within a society, what some might call a society of the individual, surely infinitely better than one that dares classify those living in it and hence glorious, forces us to treat, judge, punish, reward, perceive everyone alike and ultimately disintegrates social networks and exactly what it seeks to protect: our identity. What follows are real, existing social groups denied to identify their identity making it impossible for them to adapt or change their status within the society. Like in a caste society where your family of birth will set in stone your future, a class denied it's existence is thus forever doomed to imaginary similarity with an upper (or lower) class and will become immobile.
Refusing to admit any existing differences within a society, what some might call a society of the individual, surely infinitely better than one that dares classify those living in it and hence glorious, forces us to treat, judge, punish, reward, perceive everyone alike and ultimately disintegrates social networks and exactly what it seeks to protect: our identity. What follows are real, existing social groups denied to identify their identity making it impossible for them to adapt or change their status within the society. Like in a caste society where your family of birth will set in stone your future, a class denied it's existence is thus forever doomed to imaginary similarity with an upper (or lower) class and will become immobile.
28.9.07
A thought on psychology.
"Psychology has a disastrous influence to our culture. It can render those susceptible to it incapable of distinguishing between the day-to-day flux of our emotional life and the greatest events in history. An interest in our own psychology encourages us to lose all sense of proportion—one reason that people are so apt these days to make trivial metaphorical use of Auschwitz."
Head trauma
"I don't think I have concussion problems. I have a history of guys giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I have a problem with. I was lifeless there, I was pretty grateful that I'm pretty much normal know"
- Dean McAmmond, hockey player.
- Dean McAmmond, hockey player.
11.8.06
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