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Post-Christian pagan revival

You may recall that a pan-European pagan revival was something I predicted a few years ago ago.  Secularism is not an option because it has nothing to offer philosophically or spiritually; that’s precisely why the humanists are always producing manifestos as well as books attempting to explain why it is possible for someone to square a circle even though no one has managed it yet.  This petty Greek paganism is insignificant today, but if they are successful in marrying it to the powerful nationalist revival represented by Golden Dawn, it could prove surprisingly popular.

In the last few years, though, some have come to
distrust that prism, and to say so in public. While Church membership
is still extremely high (more than 95% of all Greeks are at least
nominally Orthodox) and the leadership is still highly involved in
state affairs, there has been a resurgence of popular interest in the pre-Christian
past. With it has come a small explosion of pagan groups, philosophical
societies, Spartan schools, “Hellenist” magazines and
performances of classical theater….

One of the most visible facets of the revivalist movement has
been the campaign for recognition for the Dodecatheon, or “Religion
of the Twelve Gods.” The campaign has hardly been successful: polytheists have twice applied to the
Greek religion ministry for official status, and twice they have
been ignored. Coverage of the movement in the popular press has
not been flattering. (The word many Greeks use when asked about
the pagans is “funny.”) But the movement has been attracting attention. 

Paganism looks funny from the perspective of the post-Christian, who has the benefit of more than a thousand years of Christian civilization.  It’s not quite so funny if you happen to be sufficiently well-educated about historical paganism; there is a reason why “the Dark Ages” historically refers to the time before the coming of Jesus Christ, The Light of the World.

(The so-called “Enlightenment”, like all Satanic inspirations, is nothing more than a cheap and perverted knock-off of the original concept.)

In any event, the history of the 20th century should demonstrate that pagan nationalists, particularly those with pan-European ambitions, are no laughing matter.

Un Braccio di Ferro

Italy is rapidly losing patience with the EU:

Something snapped in the Italian psyche last week after the European Central
Bank offered nothing to combat the credit crunch asphyxiating small
business, and more broadly washed its hands of Euroland’s incipient
deflation crisis and catastrophic wastage of its youth.
The next day ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi called for a showdown, or “Braccio
di Ferro”, with northern powers before it loses it chemical, car and steel
industries altogether.
Mr Berlusconi told Il Foglio that Italy’s government – which his
Liberty Party keeps in office – is complicitly serving forces that are
destroying Italy. It must instead confront the north, “and particularly
Angela Merkel’s Germany”, with a stark choice: either they call a halt to
fiscal and monetary contraction, and opt instead for full-blown reflation;
or they must expect the victims to snatch back their own destinies.

And keep in mind, Berlusconi and the Liberty Party are the moderates. Beppo Grillo and Movimento 5 Stelle are even more openly anti-EU.  Italy has to leave the Euro and I’ve always suspected they would be the first to do so.  Evans-Pritchard knows it too:

A game theory study by Bank of America found that Italy would benefit most
among big EMU states from a euro exit. It has a primary surplus, so it would
not face an instant funding crisis. It has fat gold reserves, providing bond
collateral that could be used to raise €400bn in a crisis. Italian household
wealth is €275,200, compared with €195,200 for Germany. A basket case it is not, and Italy’s industrial barons know it. The country
has one great structural problem: it is in the wrong currency with an
intra-EMU exchange rate overvalued by 20pc to 25pc.

Forza Lira!

The new Dawn rising

Golden Dawn and Movimento 5 Stelle look to be the first Nationalist parties to take back control of their countries from governments under the control of the global fascists:

It wasn’t just that their symbols looked like swastikas. Or that thousands of Greek flags filled the marble square beneath the Acropolis. Or that they were marking the 560th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople.

It was that there were so many of them. Angry men and angry women furiously screaming “Greece belongs to Greeks” in the heart of ancient Athens, as tourists – some befuddled, some shocked – looked on or fled at the sight of neo-Nazis coming to town.

“Now we are in the thousands,” thundered Nikos Michaloliakos, the bespectacled mathematician who leads Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party. “Long live victory!”

Like the soldiers on whom they model themselves, the Greeks who subscribe to the ultra-nationalist, neo-fascist dogma of Golden Dawn are the first to say they are at war. This week, as Antonis Samaras’s coalition government struggled to contain an escalating crisis over efforts to curb the extremists, it was they who appeared to be winning that war.

There is going to be war.  In Europe, it will be the European nationalists against the globalists and their African and Muslim jannisaries.  In the USA, it is going to be a confusing affair, with shifting alliances between the Black, Brown, Red, and White Americas, with Black, Brown, and Red America serving the interests of the globalists.

Of course, to say “there is going to be war” is somewhat misleading.  The war actually began in 1965; the first invasion soon after.  This nationalist response is a belated one, and is the result of the various nations finding themselves backed into a corner from which there is no other escape.

The globalists are going to try to crack down and keep the nationalists out of power, but the resulting exposure of what has always been their anti-democratic nature is going to completely eliminate their ability to claim any moral superiority over the nationalists.

This doesn’t mean Golden Dawn or the other nationalist parties are full of well-meaning angels.  Make no mistake about it, they are simply the lesser evil of the two options on offer.

Diversity in Sweden: Sixth Night

Apparently the real Swedes are getting tired of the violent antics of the paper ones:

Rioting spread to several Swedish towns on Friday night as police
stepped up arrests during a sixth night of unrest and far-right
vigilantes chased non-whites in southern Stockholm. In Linköping,
central southern Sweden, police responded to 120 incidents as cars,
caravans and two schools were set alight. At one point a blazing truck
was rolled into a building, which caught fire.

In Orebro, 120km west of Stockholm, police were stoned after cars and a
school were torched. In Uppsalla, north of Stockholm, there was minor
violence.

At this point, it should be obvious that my prediction of Anders Breivik being a harbinger of things to come was, at the very least, considerably less outlandish than many believed it to be at the time.  Nor are we seeing any sort of backlash in the form of more political support for the multicultural parties across Europe.

And if the police are stupid enough to play quisling and take the side of the immigrants, as they apparently are doing in Stockholm, then they’ll have to go too:

The number of police officers on the streets is simply staggering. The police appear to have focused all their resources on stopping the Swedes, Fredrik Becklin, spokesman for the nationalist youth organization Nordisk Ungdom (Nordic Youth), said Friday night. “It makes me sick to see the police clamp down on us Swedes with full force and without warning, using nightsticks and tear gas, while they don’t do a damn thing about the immigrants. We are only trying to help maintain order, while the immigrants set cars and buildings on fire,” said a young man who wished to remain anonymous.

Goldman Sachs opposes UK independence

In related news, Rapey McRaperson announced that he is opposed to women carrying handguns and pepper spray, saying that it would be a “loss/loss scenario”:

Kevin Daly, part of the investment bank’s economic team, has concluded that a
British departure from the EU would result in a “loss/loss scenario” in
which both the UK and the rest of the bloc would be damaged.
But in a note to investors, Mr Daly added that Goldman does not expect an
in/out referendum because the Tories first need to win an outright majority
and, the bank reckons, “at this stage, this doesn’t appear likely”.
Mr Daly said a UK exit would “come with a significant economic cost to the UK”
because it is “highly integrated” with the EU. The economist noted that
trade with the other 26 members of the EU accounts for 16pc of UK GDP.

He dismissed those who argue that Britain could negotiate a trade deal with
the EU once it had left. “Given the size and importance of the UK economy,
it is unlikely that the UK could negotiate the same access to the EU single
market that Switzerland and Norway have achieved,” he said.

Goldman isn’t even trying to make sense of its pro-EU position here.  Britain not only sends billions of pounds into the Brussels sinkhole every year, but has nonsensical and tremendously wasteful regulatory regimes imposed upon it, to say nothing of millions of unwanted economic migrants.  And when has being bigger and more important ever made it HARDER for a nation to pursue what it wants in negotiation?

The British vote for independence

UKIP is  slashing away at Tory support in the local elections, largely due to David Cameron’s treacherous refusal to hold the referendum he promised on the European Union:

Ukip has seen 117 councillors elected, of which 110 are gains,
with 4 councils to declare. It has 634 second place candidates and only 32
candidates polling under 10 per cent, according to a Ukip spokesman. 

Now that UKIP has won more than a quarter of the vote, the two major parties, and more importantly, the BBC, can no longer get away with pretending all the British people who are not interested in serfdom to the Lords of Brussels are “fruitcakes, loonies and closet
racists”.

One hopes that having been betrayed by Cameron once, the British people will not be foolish enough to fall for the blandishments of the stealth Europhile as he vows to “work really hard” to win back their vote by promising them the same referendum he already promised and denied them.


There is no point in supporting the Conservative Party in the UK, because there is nothing left to conserve. All the various political issues are secondary to the primary one of national independence, which makes UKIP the only reliable party and the only one worth supporting.

Stolen gold in Cyprus

They took the credit money.  Now the EU is going after the real money as well:

First they purloin the savings and bank deposits in Laiki and the Bank of Cyprus, including the working funds of the University of Cyprus, and thousands of small firms hanging on by their fingertips.

Then they seize three quarters of the country’s gold reserves, making it ever harder for Cyprus to extricate itself from EMU at a later date.

The people of Cyprus first learned about this from a Reuters leak of the working documents for the Eurogroup meeting on Friday.

It is tucked away in clause 29. “Sale of excess gold reserves: The Cypriot authorities have committed to sell the excess amount of gold reserves owned by the Republic. This is estimated to generate one-off revenues to the state of €400m via an extraordinary payout of central bank profits.”

This seemed to catch the central bank by surprise. Officials said they knew nothing about it. So who in fact made this decision?

Pay no mind to the crashing gold prices, down more than $200 in less than a week. Look at what the elite financial institutions are doing, which is to say, getting their hands on as much of the so-called “barbarous relic” as they can manage.  At this point, Portugal, Italy, and any other EU member state has to be thinking about exiting the Euro before the Eurofascists can attempt to seize their gold.

UPDATE: At Goldman Sachs, a vice-president calls his clients: “Panic! Sell! Sell! Run to the safety of cash! Sell now! Sell it all!”  (hangs up, calls gold desk)  “Yeah, pick up another 10,000 ounces.”

The anti-democratic disaster

Helmut Kohl admits what was always obvious:

Helmut Kohl has admitted that he ‘acted like a dictator’ to bring the euro into Germany to replace the beloved D-Mark. Germany’s longest-serving postwar chancellor said that he would have lost any popular vote on the euro by ‘an overwhelming majority’. He said in an interview conducted in 2002 – but only just now published – : ‘I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That’s quite clear. I would have lost and by seven to three.’

It never ceases to amaze me that those who fetishize the so-called “right to vote” have absolutely no interest in when various politicians, in Europe and the USA, render all voting entirely irrelevant.

If you believe that women should have the right to vote, how can you possibly oppose referendums on the Euro and EU membership?  How can you possibly oppose the right of sovereign US States to secede?  What is the point of supporting a right that you don’t actually get to use on any substantial issues?

RIP Margaret Thatcher

The Iron Lady is dead at 87:

Baroness Thatcher, Britain’s first woman prime minster, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 87. Her children Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness had died peacefully following a stroke this morning.

I had the privilege of meeting her once. In my youth, I considered her a great and courageous leader of a nation in decline. I now consider her to be one of history’s tragic figures, who through naïvety and an inclination to take words at face value, betrayed the country she loved and sold its sovereignty for nothing more than empty economic promises. In light of how the European Common Market has finally revealed itself to be the fascistic, anti-democratic union the skeptics always believed it would become, one will read few sadder words in an autobiography of a world leader than these:

“We had to learn the hard way that by agreement to what were
apparently empty generalizations or vague aspirations we were later held
to have committed ourselves to political structures which were contrary
to our interests.”
– Lady Margaret Thatcher, “The Downing Street Years”

Dr. Sean Gabb, a UK libertarian, has more on Thatcher’s legacy, which is considerably different than you will likely glean from the conservative paeans you will be seeing in the Republican media today.

This should go over well

More news out of Cyprus:

With banks confiscating up to 80 percent of uninsured
deposits over 100,000 euros ($130,000) and the country facing a deep
economic crisis, Cyprus has forgiven loans to politicians and companies
while others are generally being required to pay in full, media reports
said, setting off fury on the island country. The Greek newspaper Ethnos and the website 24h.com.cy said that
loans to Members of Parliament from the three major political parties
and other officials in the public administration from the Bank of Cyprus
and Cyprus Popular Bank (Laiki) will be written down or off.

Not a bad deal.  The correct conclusion by the average Cypriot, I would imagine, is that there is no reason they should not insist on all of their debts being written off as well.

UPDATE: Forget Spain and Italy. CANADA could be next:

As part of the 2013 budget in Canada, the Minister of Finance tabled the Economic Action Plan 2013 which included the newest buzzword ‘bail-in’.

Source: budget.gc.ca/…/… Page 145
“The Government proposes to implement a “bail-in” regime for systemically important banks. This regime will be designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event that a systemically important bank depletes its capital, the bank can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital. This will reduce risks for taxpayers. The Government will consult stakeholders on how best to implement a bail-in regime in Canada. Implementation timelines will allow for a smooth transition for affected institutions, investors and other market participants.”