Afghanistan Campaign “A Half-cocked Con”
December 20, 2008 by John Bean
Filed under John Bean, National News
From the desk of Identity editor, John Bean: Symbolic of the cut-cost approach of the Government when it comes to equipment for our armed forces, the Snatch Land Rover widely used in Iraq and then in Afghanistan has acquired the nickname among our soldiers of ‘mobile coffin’.
It was designed for peace-keeping missions and its thin-skinned armour will only withstand small arms fire, not roadside bombs, which in the past five years have killed more than 30 of our soldiers in Afghanistan.
Most notable of these were Cpl Sarah Bryant and three male SAS soldiers who were killed when a roadside bomb destroyed their Land Rover on June 17th this year.
On November 1st Major Sebastian Morley, the SAS reservist commander in Afghanistan resigned in protest on “chronic under investment “ in equipment generally supplied for our forces by the Ministry of Defence.
A week later Major Will Pike, who led a company of the 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment in Helmand Province two years ago, said that our forces were sent into Helmand on a “half-cocked” campaign to “con” world opinion about the country’s military strength.
How right the Major is, for the BNP has consistently opposed the use of our armed forces in non-British interests in order for the Lib-Lab-Con parties to posture upon the world stage as the bringers of democracy, and the joys of global banksters, to the heathen nations. However, whilst our men and women are giving their lives in these dubious campaigns, they should at least have the very best equipment.
According to a Daily Telegraph report (10.11.08) Major Pike said “rival agencies” were being pursued in Afghanistan by different government departments while the forces on the ground were left with inadequate air cover and poor equipments such as the Snatch Land Rover. Having had a spell in Whitehall before leaving the Army, he thought it remained unclear whether the mission was being run by the MoD, the Foreign Office or (this is significant) the Department for International Development.
Saint Obama or Another Uncle Tom?
December 20, 2008 by John Bean
Filed under John Bean, National News
From the desk of Identity editor, John Bean: In the December issue of Identity we have stated that some radical right and nationalist commentators may be reading the situation wrongly when they believe that the massive support given to Barack Obama by young white American voters means that the United States is irrevocably destined to be subjected to multiracial rule.
The overwhelming majority of those liberal whites rarely mix with blacks beyond the campus gates of the colleges and universities, no more than their parents do who also voted for Obama and who mainly live in gated safe white areas, whether it is in multi-ethnic California or New York State.
Their vote was a protest against the policies of George W Bush and the economic meltdown with spiralling unemployment, and who can blame them? Fortunately for the Democrats they chose a candidate with charisma, intelligence and oratorical powers against which the 71-year-old war hero McCain’s sole weapon was his patriotism. Yet he still picked up 55% of the white vote to Obama’s 43%, plus 95% of the black vote and two thirds of Hispanic and Asian votes and 77% of Jewish votes.
Note also that in the traditional Southern States, which have the highest black population, the whites voted overwhelmingly for McCain, and with the exception of Virginia the States all remained Republican. Generally Obama did not play upon his ‘blackness’ (more on this later), but for those in the know the exceptional amount of time he spent in winning over Virginia showed that he was very much aware of it.
This was the former capital of the breakaway Southern Confederation and Obama knew that the symbolism of winning the State was in the same manner as Lincoln sending in black Federal troops when its Capital, Richmond, fell in June 1865.
How effective Obama can be as a president can only be seen with the passage of the next twelve months or so. But when America’s blacks in particular see that little has changed for them then he will no longer be regarded as Saint Obama but as another Uncle Tom. It really depends upon his backers, which include the remaining banks and finance houses of Wall Street. Much play was made of the two million or more small donations to Obama’s war chest via his excellent internet campaign, but more than half his record $650 million funding came from big business.
His appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff is interesting. Much of the global financial collapse can be traced to the granting of cheap mortgages to immigrants and poor blacks, with little chance of paying them back, by the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac. Emanuel served on its board of directors when scandal was first brewing.
According to a complaint filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002, although Emanuel was not accused of being personally responsible for this. His father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, now living in Chicago, was an active member of “Irgun” or the Stern Gang fighting the then British rule in Palestine.
The BNP, whose website already has more visitors than all other UK political parties added together, can still learn much from the brilliant use of the internet by the Obama team. Its mastery of the internet as a campaigning tool was key to his victory. To give a few examples, as well as sending out millions of e-mails to potential Democrat voters, in particular first time voters, his team brought in the co-founder of Facebook, Chris Hughes, and created its own social networking site. This attracted over 1.5 million members who organised themselves into separate activists’ groups to ensure the election, if not the deification, of their idol.
Finally, one could not help noticing the joy upon the news announcers faces, both ITV as well as BBC, when after 48 hours devoted to the second coming they were able to announce that Lewis Hamilton, our “black” Formula One racing driver was now world champion – which he fully deserved. The point is that both Lewis Hamilton and Saint Obama have white mothers. Is this another form of racism disregarded by the liberal intelligentsia who apparently consider that only the black blood counts? I am not suggesting that we should return to Kiplingesque terminology of “half castes”, or even accusing the parents of having “warped biological instincts”, as was once fashionable, but surely “mixed race” would be more accurate?
Tories Pander To The Muslim Vote
November 25, 2008 by News Team
Filed under John Bean, National News
In the November issue of Identity I wrote that it is disheartening to see that although their lead has slipped the so-called ‘Conservative’ Party, which now conserves ever fewer British interests, still leads in the polls. This is at a time when they have failed to come up with any answer to the economic problems facing this country as thousands more lose their jobs every week, and they still manage to kid some of the electorate that they “will do something” about escalating immigration. On the economy we would recommend you to read Nick Griffin’s article this month, and the editorial on page 3.
We already have a good idea of how a future Tory Government would deal with immigration and the ethnic ‘minority’ community in the statements made by Cameron glossing over Muslim extremism and refusing to commit his party to any effective restrictions on immigration in general. His comments are best described by that rather basic term, “wind and piss”, particularly when one recalls his commitment on asylum seekers “to taking them to our hearts, and feeding and clothing and schooling them”.
Now his potential rival, the jolly London mayor Boris Johnson has said “I will carry on Livingstone’s work on diversity”. This was in an interview for the Muslim News.
Promising them to “celebrate the achievements of communities”, he said: “One thing I decided very early on was that the only way to run London is to support diversity and to recognise that you have got to be proactive and give encouragement and support to all communities.”
To the Muslim News’ concerns that festivals such as ‘Eid in the Square’, ‘Diwali in the Square’ and other faith base events would not be funded or supported under his regime, Boris was adamant that he was “totally behind that” and would “support that completely”.
Boris Johnson’s Policy Director in London is Anthony Browne, who in the past did not endear himself to Cameron when he showed a modicum of concern with the current rise in immigration. Now that’s all changed and he has suggested that illegal immigrants who have been living in Britain for seven years should be offered an amnesty, which would allow them to become residents and earn citizenship. And this is from a person who is considered to be on the “right” of the Conservative Party. When jovial Johnson was questioned in his interview with Muslim News about Browne having allegedly making critical comments about Islam, he went into pc overdrive saying Browne was “utterly committed to a glorious multiracial, multiethnic, multifaith London”.
Over in Wales the local Tories are keen to show the Londoners that they too know how to pander to the Muslim electorate. Nick Bourne, the leader of the Conservative Party in Wales has formed the Welsh Conservative Muslim Forum. Speaking at its inaugural meeting last month he made these enlightening comments.
“On his election as Leader, David Cameron promised to reach out to minority ethnic communities and to recognise the contribution immigrants have made to our prosperity and culture. And I am determined that we should do so in Wales as well.
“In many ways, Muslim values are Conservative values. We all believe in strong families, in enterprise, in self-reliance and in individual responsibility. I believe that diversity is a positive force and should not be a barrier to social cohesion.”
Inventiveness and Black History
Several contributors to Identity (the October issue is now published) have in recent months explained how the Marxists, having failed to export their Soviet revolution, founded the Frankfurt School in the twenties with the objective of the ‘long march through the institutions’ to maintain their constant onslaught on western culture. With this in mind, it is easy to see the objective of our Socialist government’s education policies, and not least the recent announcement that black history is to be made compulsory in our schools – as it already is in the USA.
Pupils will be taught about the slave trade and the British Empire to “help them understand modern-day issues such as immigration”. The two subjects will join the two world wars and the Holocaust as periods that must form part of the history syllabus. The objective here, of course, is that by devious means it will be shown that if you oppose mass immigration into 21st Century Britain, you somehow support the abomination of slavery and also condone the killing of Jews by the Nazis in World War Two. Although children will be taught about the achievements of several minor black people from history, Sir Winston Churchill is now omitted from the list of figures that must be studied. How the history of World War 2 and the British Empire can be taught without mentioning Winston Churchill beggars belief.
Remember the names of those responsible for pushing this Marxist nonsense through. They are Kevin Brennan, the children’s minister, and Mick Waters, the director of curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
Primarily because of the pressure on space in this column, I will give just one example of how today’s Marxists ( no matter what labels they masquerade under) invent an ethnicity for a figure from history in order for the gullible liberal-minded to accept that Africans have contributed much to British and European history and culture. A favourite, particularly with the BBC’s children’s programmes, is Septimus Severus, who became Roman Emperor in AD 193 and during his visit to Britain was instrumental in having Hadrian’s Wall repaired.
Because Septimus Severus was born in Carthage, what is now Tunisia, our children are told he was a “Black Emperor”. He even appears on a website entitled “100 Great Black Britons”. Wikipedia and other sites all agree that his mother was of Roman descent from an ancient clan and his father came from a distinguished local Berber family. The Berbers lived in North Africa for at least 2,000 years before the arrival of Arabs or any sub-Saharan black Africans and are described as more akin to modern Spaniards, Sicilians or even ancient Egyptians. A glance at the photo of a bust of Septimus Severus that appears on both of the above mentioned websites shows that he is about as black as I am!
Yet the Daily Telegraph (hardly a Marxist paper) can publish a letter from Chris McGovern, Director, History Curriculum Association, commenting on the new ‘black is beautiful’ history curriculum in which he said: “Slavery has been a shared human experience. A dark-skinned African emperor, Septimus Severus, was prominent in enforcing enslavement in Britain at the start of the third century AD.”
Credit Crisis Was Waiting To Happen
By the time the October issue of Identity is published (from which this comment is an extract) there will be several thousand more City workers losing their jobs in addition to the 4,000 former employees at Lehman Brothers. Whilst we have sympathy for them, particularly those who have not even been paid for their month’s work, the media seemed to have less concern for the many thousands who lost their jobs in British industry. As our manufacturing capability was exported East, we were told that the service industries and the financial sector would provide our future employment and national wealth. How wrong was this forecast.
Like Merril Lynch, Lehmans had a huge exposure to the US mortgage crisis and global debt markets (credit cards debts could be the next disaster zone. Discussing the beginnings of the world credit crisis in this column last April, we showed that in order to maintain the debt system and to keep the whole show on the road, the hedge fund sector of the global capitalists came up with the ‘bright’ idea of offering mortgages to America’s poor – which had full government backing – including millions of immigrants, many of whom would soon lose any worthwhile jobs and thus the ability to pay off the mortgage. So, as part of the debt-based system, their debts were sold off around the world to various country’s equivalents of Northern Rock. Their greed overcame common sense.
In regard to Northern Rock, it is astounding that in early August they were given an additional bail-out of £3.4billion from the taxpayers. This was mainly raised by converting a chunk of the bank’s debt into new shares taken up by the Treasury. Was this action motivated by chance that Northern Rock was previously a financial supporter to the tune of £500,000 of Labour’s favourite far left think-tank, the IPPR?
As for an example of greed, we have the case of Crispin Odey who started betting against British banks a year before the first cracks appeared in the global financial system. He is one of the City of London’s top hedge fund managers and has made £28 million out of the credit crisis. Since the middle of 2006, his company has been a so-called short seller of struggling Bradford & Bingley and of HBOS, which means it gambled that the price of shares in both companies would fall.
It is opportune to again repeat that although we cannot isolate ourselves completely from the erratic behaviour of the world’s money markets, we can at least modify its effects by retaining and regaining British ownership and control of British industry and resources, including financial resources, as well as oil and gas, water and electricity. We must give protection for industry and jobs by selective tariffs on foreign manufactured goods that we can make competitively ourselves.
Government Can’t Afford to Save Suffolk from the Sea
Coastal erosion is of major concern in East Suffolk right now. It has, of course affected many parts of eastern England since the last ice age, stretching from Northumberland down to the Thames Estuary. It has been estimated that within 20 years some 25 square miles of good farmland and several villages will be lost to the sea around Southwold. The Government spends £800 million a year on coastal defences throughout the UK and have said that they cannot afford the extra £60 million needed to protect further land loss in Suffolk and Norfolk, which would become ever more valuable with the expanding world food crisis.
Most readers will think as I did: “£60 million is peanuts compared with the total handouts Britain makes to the Third World.” It was opportune that a BNP member had just sent me the website address of the Department for International Develoment giving a breakdown of how much of the British taxpayers money is sent abroad as aid. The gross expenditure of the Department for the year 2006/2007 was £7,487m. And they can’t spare £60 million, less than one per cent, to save 25 square miles of Britain!
To see a breakdown of the expenditure go to: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutdfid/howwefightpoverty.asp
Here are some details.
Education. We are spending £8.5 billion of taxpayers money on education in poor countries – mainly Africa – in the next 10 years. In Ghana, for example, more school places and textbooks to be funded through £105m.
Climate change. UK is giving £800 million to tackle climate change. £75 million to India (which has space rockets and nuclear weapons) to help switch to solar power for street lighting.
Conflict. The UK has spent more than £350 million in the Sudan providing food and aid in 2006/7. The EU (of which Britain is a main contributor) is increasing support for Africa Union peacekeeping with an extra £300 million over three years.
Disasters. Britain is the main backer to the UN Central Emergency Fund, giving £163million over four years.
Fighting Poverty. UK spent £323 million in 2006/7 “to help governments to govern better”. (It doesn’t say if Zimbabwe got a slice of this particular cake.)
Killer Diseases. Britain is spending £1.5 billion over three years to help drive back HIV and AIDS.
Health Care for Mothers. Between 2002 and 2007 the DFID spent £1.88 billion on health, “a large slice going to improve women’s health”. (We would respectably suggest that it would do them far more good, and the Third World at large, if at least half of this was spent on birth control).
Stronger Economies. In 2005/2006, the DFID gave around £480 million to support economic growth.
And we are told that the Government can’t trim a few percentage points off any of these items to raise £60 million for coastal Suffolk. Have the Tories or the Lib-Dems said anything about it? Of course not.
An extract from John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the September issue of Identity – just published.
Baiting the Bear
From John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the September issue of Identity:
Let it be said for a start that there are certain aspects of Premier Putin’s (former President) rule in Russia which is not exactly what we would practice in Britain, but this pales into insignificance against the hypocrisy of the United States and its UK and EU sycophants over Russia’s actions in Georgia.
Let us not forget that Georgia, unprovoked, attacked the city of Tskhinvali in South Ossetia, an independent state between Russia and Georgia, causing heavy casualties. As the majority of the South Ossetians hold Russian passports, it was not surprising that Russia came to their rescue..
Let us remember that in the 1990s the West supported the secession of the republics making up Yugoslavia and, in 1999 Nato attacked, including widespread bombing of Belgrade, the remaining Serbian part of Yugoslavia in defence of Kosovan guerrillas. This was despite the fact that Serbia had not threatened any other sovereign state and that Kosovo had been part of Serbia for nearly a thousand years. Surely, Russia’s response to the situation in Georgia was no different from Nato’s to that in Kosovo?
A finger of suspicion must be pointed at Bush’s Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, who visited Georgia at least two weeks before its attack on South Ossetia. Did she tell the American educated Georgian president, Mikhell Saakashvill (Georgia’s version of Don Quixote) that American backing would enable them to take South Ossetia? More important, was this part of the ploy to finally get Poland to accept nuclear missiles on its soil and to encourage Ukraine to start talking about accepting Nato membership and its missile bases? For this has been the outcome of the Georgian crisis, which was not of Russia’s making. And Russia does not like being encircled, even when it is told that the Polish based missiles are purely for defence of America against a Middle East inspired rocket attack. You don’t need an A-level in geography to see that is nonsense.
Basically, there is no ideological, territorial or even economic quarrel between Russia and Britain and even the United States. The root of the problem is that ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991-92 we have not really played fair with Russia. The former Republican Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan had some sound words to say about this last October in an article on Antiwar.com headed: Who Restarted the Cold War? Some key points were:
Russia agreed to let the Soviet Union dissolve into 15 nations an d the Communist Part let itself be voted out. Russia embraced freedom and American-style capitalism, and invited Americans in to show them how it was done.
Russia did not use its veto in the Security Council to block the US war to drive Saddam Hussein, a Russian ally, out of Kuwait. When 9-11 struck, Putin gave his blessing to US troops using former republics as bases for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
What was Moscow’s reward for its pro-American policy? The US began moving Nato into Eastern Europe and then into former Soviet republics. Six ex-Warsaw Pact nations are now Nato allies, as are three ex-republics of the Soviet Union. Nato expansionists have not given up on bringing Ukraine, united to Russia for centuries, or Georgia, Stalin’s birthplace, into Nato.
Racism and Knife Attacks
Under pressure from a shocked public, the Home Office has revealed that knife crime offences in England and Wales over the past year have totalled 22,151 — 7,409 of these in London. However, eagerly supported by the BBC, it is making great play of a supposedly 9 per cent reduction in crime recorded by the Police, with the violent crime sector being reduced by 8 per cent.
The key word here is recorded crime. It is now well known that in those areas hardest hit by crime many people are not even bothering to report burglaries or even muggings because their experience says that even if the police turn up no action will result. Overall, less than half of crimes are actually reported A secondary factor is that because of the advances made in car security by the manufacturers, car theft by amateur thieves and “joy riders” has fallen considerably, bringing the vehicle crime category down by 14 per cent, thus helping to lower the overall recorded crime rate.
It is but a further example of “smoke and mirrors” policies from a beleaguered government who have no idea how to control crime in general, let alone stop the daily murder of mainly young men on the streets of our towns and cities. It is often black upon black knife murders by teenagers, who if they reach twenty will then result to using guns.
What is worrying is the fact that a number of these murders by knifing appear to be racially motivated. But as it is whites murdered by blacks it is not considered as a racial incident by our media, certainly not the BBC. Of those murders carried out this summer, this seemed highly likely to be the case with the Sidcup murder of the young bit-part “Harry Potter” actor (two blacks arrested), and also with the murder of Ben Kinsella, brother of “EastEnders” actress Brooke Kinsella – four blacks arrested. Incidentally, it was noticeable that in the protest march of six hundred or more young people in North London, there were some black girls present giving their support, but no black boys.
In the March issue this year of Identity Nick Griffin gave us an extensive report, Racism Cuts Both Ways, on how the political elite, the media, the police and the courts are covering up an epidemic of racist violence against our long suffering indigenous people. As a result of research work by a BNP team, the article was full of facts and statistics to show how bad the situation really is. But even with the latest bout of killings (and I have only mentioned two above) , you ask a typical Joe Public to name a victim of racist violence and the only name he can give you is Stephen Lawrence, or possibly Anthony Walker. Goebbels was an amateur in the art of brainwashing compared with our modern media practitioners.
I have mentioned before in past issues a news-sheet called Combat that I used to edit in a former life. In a 1959 issue I ran a front page report headed “Blacks Go Berserk”, with a photo of a West Indian gentleman, frothing at the mouth and being held by two policemen. Of course today, having become more educated in the ways of mankind (and having read all the updates on various Race Relations Acts) I realise that I should have headed the article “Some Black People, Like Whites in General and Not Necessarily Descendants of Vikings, Go Berserk”.
My article was actually based on two reports from the London Metropolitan Police and the West Midlands Police which at that time had expressed concern in the growing number of crimes of violence being carried out by some newly arrived West Indians. The rate per head of population was something like four times that committed by the indigenous Brits.
Many West Indians at that time were God-fearing people who formed the then typical family units. Today, many of these black boys involved in street crimes, including murder, do not have a father to control them, and no doubt some have inherited those genes of violence. As for police reports, well they stopped taking ethnicity into account long, long ago, even before Stephen Lawrence was born.
The above is an extract from John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the August issue of Identity which you can subscribe to here.
Let Us Praise Our Soldiers
As we so often criticise the media, let us at least acknowledge that various newspaper campaigns, and ITV programmes – but not BBC, have played their part in raising the public’s awareness of the shoddy treatment our armed services personnel have received in New Labour’s wars. At a time when our dead in Afghanistan has passed the 100 mark, also let our servicemen and women know that it was the BNP who campaigned for better treatment and acknowledgement of their value to our nation several years ago when it was not so fashionable to do so.
The BNP has continually campaigned for better equipment, yet it is a disgrace that our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting two wars that serve no British interests, are still partly dependent on the ubiquitous Land Rover as a battle vehicle. Many have been destroyed in both Iraq and Afghanistan by ambush with Iran-made roadside bombs, leaving the occupants either dead or crippled for life. It is the pure fighting ability of our troops in Afghanistan overcoming the handicap of shortages of helicopters and other equipment that has enabled them to claim that they have defeated the Taliban militarily: politically is another matter outside the scope of this article.
Our service troops do all this for a salary that is less than that of a traffic warden. But it is not only their pay that should be increased but the medical treatment back home that still does not live up to the promises made. According to a recent British Medical Association report thousands of injured soldiers are not getting the health care they were promised. Many are still on hospital waiting lists despite a pledge over a year ago that they would receive “fast-track” treatment and “priority” health care for conditions likely to have resulted from their service.
Dr Brendan McKeating, chairman of the BMA’s Armed Forces committee, said recently: “Only a minority of veterans are actually receiving priority care. The situation is disgraceful. If we are going to ask people to go out there and put their lives at risk then we have to offer them the best health care when they come back.”
The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the July issue of Identity.
Bulk of Immigrants are Non-Europeans
Led by the BBC, a considerable part of the media has been giving the impression that immigration is now coming mainly from eastern Europe, which we cannot control as we are part of the EU. The reason for this media campaign is that the Labour Government wishes to fool the electorate that it is controlling non-EU immigration, a myth that not only the Lib-Dems but also the Cameronite Tories will accept as they eagerly compete with each other to show their non-racist qualifications. The Lib-Lab-Cons have all in varying degrees suggested that there is no point in immigration controls that do not apply to EU citizens.
That it is a myth has been revealed by the figures published by MigrationwatchUK on June lst that of the 2.3 million immigrants arriving in Britain between 1991 and 2006 only 8 per cent were from Europe. We would recognise that this percentage is now higher because immigration from the East European nations did not start until they began to join the EU in 2004. However, as the UK’s credit squeeze and unemployment rises, many Poles and other east Europeans are going back home. This is not the case with the almost one million immigrants from the Indian sub-continent for the period, or the half million from Africa.
Perhaps the above was one of the reasons why a recent parliamentary inquiry let slip that official statistics on the hundreds of thousands of short-term immigrants are “not fit for purpose”. A Treasury Sub-Committee said that the counting system is so unreliable that it is not even possible to know the true population of Britain. It warned that this failure to correctly count the number of foreigners coming into Britain is putting unfair pressure on many local authorities and taxpayers.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimated that there were only 43,000 short-term migrants in England and Wales in the year to June 2005, with just 16,000 of these in Greater London. But MPs pointed out that other measures of the workforce suggest a much higher number. For example, there were 235,640 new national insurance number registrations in Greater London alone during 2005/06.
The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the July issue of Identity.
Speculators Push Up Oil Price
As Britain and the West faces the worst slump in 70 years the London-based bankers and financiers, who must take much of the blame for the crisis, have taken a record £12.5billion in bonuses so far this year.
This sum would almost match the £15billion hole that has emerged in the accounts of British banks as a result of the sub-prime collapse centred on US housing loans. Yet most of the bonus money has gone to the very investment bankers and hedge fund managers involved in that fiasco! As billionaire investor George Soros said, there will be recrimination. “There is a real problem with incentives for the banking and the hedge fund community.”
Another problem area for “the hedge fund community” must surely be their involvement with the futures market for oil and food. Hedge funds have piled in and many are making vast returns and are seeing the bet as a sure way to make up some of the losses incurred in recent months. However, for some weeks now financial correspondents have been down-playing their affect on the rising price of crude oil in particularly, but also food stuffs. But as Identity goes to press, George Sorus has warned that “speculation is increasingly affecting the price”, and an article in the Sunday Telegraph, May 25th, by Dan Roberts reveals how the hedge fund investors are playing their part in the ever increasing prices we have to pay at the pumps for our petrol and diesel, and also domestic heating oil, apart from this Government’s excessive fuel taxes. He writes:
“Some of the biggest money has been made by the investment banks, who act for hedge fund investors and are allowed special exemptions from rules governing the size of speculative commodity investments. It is no surprise to find that some of the biggest supporters of rising oil prices work in the research departments of such banks.
“Arjun Murti of Goldman Sachs is typical of this more sanguine breed, but at least he has form for getting it right. Last year he shot to fame by correctly predicting the “super spike” that would take oil prices to $100. Now he sees a real chance of $200 in six months to two years.”
Mr Murti is also quoted with the following, which is a good indication of the mindset of global capitalists. “The energy crisis will not be solved by punishing the big, bad speculator. The fact that tight oil (markets) are attracting large amounts of capital is a good thing. Higher oil prices signal to oil companies the need for greater investment and signal to consumers that they need to demand less. This is the point of capitalism”.
So now you know, if you didn’t already. Backing it up is this little gem from the same Dan Roberts article:
“I can tell you that I have made a fortune in the past two months”, says Charles, an oil futures trader. “This is the free market and I’m exploiting the free market, Long live the free market.”
Surely this makes a great case for a Nationalist policy which recognises that although we cannot isolate ourselves completely from the world’s money markets, we can modify its effects by retaining and regaining British control of British industry and resources, including financial resources.
The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the June issue of Identity.
Indian Praise For The British
So many of our children today are taught in school that the British rule in India was based on cruelty, racial persecution and exploitation. As someone who worked in India for a short time just a few years after its independence I can assure readers that although there were some who did indeed stand guilty of these charges, most Indians of post-independence recognise that overall the British Raj helped lay the foundation of a premier nation.
The following is the editorial by Prafull Goradia in the January 2008 issue of the Indian magazine Jana Sangh Today. Mr Goradia is a former member of the Indian Parliament.
“The Muslim invaders have mysteriously escaped the stamp of an invader in Hindus’ eyes. They stayed for a thousand years; and 60 years ago they took away nearly a third of Hindustan and made it their homeland, called Pakistan. On the other hand, the British ruled for 190 years, did not stay back nor did they take way any territory. Yet, they carry the stigma of an invader. Hindus pat themselves on their back for having waged a freedom struggle and sent back the British in 1947. As a follow up, most of the British street names have been removed; even the names of cities like Bombay, Calcutta and Madras have been changed. But not a single name of a Muslim invader whether Qutbuddin, Tughlaq, Lodhi or Babar has been replaced; nor have cities like Allahabad or Ahmedabad undergone renaming.
“The Muslim invaders exploited the land and its revenue to enjoy luxuries, run harems, acquire jewels and build mausoleums. They hardly took any interest in promoting trade or industry and left no surplus for economic development. Due to their negligence, India missed the industrial revolution till after the British initiated modern mining, textile mills, and other manufactures. Obviously, they did so for profit but their ways of governance were such as to bring incidental benefits to the country: be they the Railways, Post & Telegraph, the Laws, the Universities et al.
“The curiosity of their officers and scholars (British) led to the discovery of what was ancient Indian civilization which the Hindus themselves had largely forgotten. The Muslim invaders destroyed more of the old and created very little new except monuments. Can it not be concluded that the British earned the stigma of being invaders by so governing India as to teach Indians how to aspire for independence? Whereas, the Muslims browbeat Hindus into accepting them as fellow citizens.”
The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the June issue of Identity.
It’s Official: Immigration Brings No Benefits
For several years the BNP has been disputing the Lib-Lab-Con claim that somehow immigration has been a benefit to Britain. A few politicians and columnists have of late recognised the problems brought to housing, schooling and the NHS by several million immigrants, but they have still tried to maintain that it has brought economic advantages. This particular canard was blown out of the water by Ralph Musgrove in his article in April Identity which revealed the Home Office tricks to sustain this fiction.
The alleged £6billion annual benefit of immigration has now been officially exposed in a House of Lords committee report as being untrue. The committee, which includes two former chancellors and several former Cabinet ministers, came to the conclusion that the economic benefits “are small and close to zero in the long run”.
The committee took into account the increase in population, which is 190,000 annual gain after deducting from the immigrant total of some 300,000 those (mainly British) emigrating, and their use of local services such as health, education, and social housing.
David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, said in his evidence to the committee that the Government had excluded costs from crime, security, the race relations process, health ‘tourism’ and imported ailments such as TB. The real cost of immigration could be in the order of £8.8billion a year.
Richard Pearson, a visiting professor at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Migration Research, said: “While migrants have clearly helped alleviate often long-standing skill shortages, they have also filled many low-skilled jobs, often at very low wages. “
Importantly, he added: “These migrants are likely to be displacing, and reducing the incentive on employers to recruit and train low-skilled, indigenous workers”.
Lord Wakeham, who led the eight-month inquiry, said that high levels of immigration threaten to price millions of Britons out of the housing market over the next 20 years and it would add 10 per cent to the cost of homes.
There are gains from immigration in Britain, but it is for the immigrant himself who earns far more than he/she can in the homeland. Remittances will also help the family of the immigrant and his/her country’s economy. British householders will also benefit when they pay a plumber/carpenter/plasterer or nanny half the wage they would to a British born worker.
So also does the employer whose overheads are cut by using cheap labour and thereby holding down indigenous workers’ wages.
(From my Nationalist Notebook column in the May issue of Identity)
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We Must Not Be Down On The Muslims, Says Goldsmith
Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bob Quick, Scotland Yard’s new head of anti-terrorism, told a Parliamentary committee last month that 15 terrorist plots have been foiled in the three years since the London bombings, and that some of the planned attacks “were very recent”. The plots were not detailed individually. They were likely to have included Dhiren Barot, a British based al-Qa’eda fanatic who plotted to murder thousands, striking at buildings and railways stations with gas bombs in cars, detonating a radioactive dirty bomb and blowing up a train under the Thames.
The Met police chiefs told the committee that they needed an extension to the time limit that suspects can be held without charge and that the 28-day limit given by Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, was insufficient.
Interestingly, the former attorney general, Tony Blair’s old chum Lord Goldsmith, said he couldn’t possibly support an extension to the time limit. ”It is also counterproductive because it sends a message to particularly the Muslim communities that we are down on them.” Well, since the IRA dropped terrorism who other than Muslims are practising terrorism in the UK? Sikhs, Hindus, Tibetan’s? I think not! Goldsmith added that young Muslims could use a time extension “as justification for taking up arms”.
Possibly Goldsmith was paying some sort of penance to the Muslim community in view of the fact that it was on his legal advice that Britain went to war with Iraq in 2003 and has incurred the hostility of the Arab world – at one time our friends – ever since.
Lord Goldsmith resigned his former cabinet post just days before Blair left office. Like Blair, he soon found a gravy train to jump aboard, namely a £1m-a-year post with the American law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. His position with the company is “European chair of litigation.” Perhaps if his old mate Tony becomes EU President he can be the chief commissar, or even witch-finder general hunting down unreformed nationalists.
The above is one of the items in my Nationalist Notebook appearing in the May issue of Identity.
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Immigration and the NHS
May 21, 2008 by John Bean
Filed under John Bean, National News
Immigration and the NHS
The articles below will help you understand the extent to which immigration is damaging the NHS and placing strain on the UK health facilities.
The time has come to end all immigration into the UK and also to deport all non-UK citizen immigrants who are resident in the UK with chronic medical conditions who have been allowed to stay in the UK and use NHS facilities.
This has to be done on the grounds that their presence in the country threatens the public health and is also diverting resources away from UK citizens who are entitled to use the NHS through their National Insurance contributions, and also due t