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Emmanuel Todd’s Conceit

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Emmanuel Todd

Emmanuel Todd

Emmanuel Todd, a leading French demographer and political pundit, has predicted that racial tensions in France will disappear once the “hegemonic” older generation dies off. Here is in full what he recently told the center-left magazine Le Nouvel Observateur:

[The race riots of 2005 in France were] an aspiration to equality. The ethnically-mixed youth of Seine-Saint-Denis are in the tradition of social upheaval which punctuates the history of France.

I was sure that Nicolas Sarkozy, responsible for the outbreak of violence in the banlieues [referring to the 2005 race riots across France], would suffer as Minister of the Interior. These riots had rather filled me with hope . . .

In fact, they marked the beginning of when politicians and ideologues would be rewarded for attacking the banlieue and youths [i.e. for race-baiting].

The fundamental effect of these events was to tense up older voters. French society turned into a mass gerontocracy. Some wanted to see ethnic problems in what was in fact a conflict between older and younger people. The violence of 2005 marks the failed rebellion of the youth and the success of Nicolas Sarkozy, the elected official most supported by the elderly in the entire history of the right: 44 percent of over-65s voted for him in 2007.

Sexagenarians are criticizing young people for being Arabs, Muslims, or rappers, as they criticized the children of the 60s for having long hair and liking Anglo-American pop.

What these people reject is the very idea of a new France. The problem will not be resolved through a violent ideological struggle. The solution is demographic: We are old hegemons, but we will disappear. One can always find reasons in oneself to reject the passage of time and the replacement of generations. The real “grand remplacement” [great displacement].

This passage, I suggest, is the most egregious kind of falsehood or the most deceitful kind of lie; for it is littered with often perceptive half-truths, while ultimately being completely misleading. Read more

“Unrepentant Marxist” Eric Hobsbawm Still Celebrated as Britain’s Greatest Historian

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Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm lamented, “To this day, I notice myself treating the memory and tradition of the USSR with indulgence and tenderness.”

I met up with a conservative former professor of mine, for a few rounds of drinks and some lively political conversation this past Thursday, as we do from time to time when he’s up north.

Although the good professor teaches Colonial History at a liberal British university and no doubt watches his P’s and Q’s around this particular former student, after several pints of ale and a few laughs, he’s typically quite forthright.

We touched on an array of topics over lunch, including Britain’s current immigration crisis, my ‘misguided decision’ to volunteer my services as spokesman for the British National Party, Nigel Farage’s being against maternity leave due to all the lasses he’s impregnated, and the All-Blacks incredible victory over the Aussies at last week’s Rugby World Cup Final.

As the third anniversary of Eric Hobsbawm’s death had just passed, I felt it befitting to introduce the man’s name into the conversation at some point.

After all, Marxist historian Hobsbawm had also read history at Cambridge, and in spite of his unrepentant Marxist views, is still widely regarded as Britain’s most influential historian.

“Were you aware that Eric Hobsbawm expired with almost two million quid to his name?” (1) I snickered, as I attempted to mop up wayward gravy with my third Yorkshire pudding.  Read more

Review of PBS Frontline’s The War Behind Closed Doors

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While I was in the midst of trying to publicize the Jewish instigation and the folly of invading Iraq in early 2003 as an occasional writer of scripts for American Dissident Voices,  PBS Frontline presented a rather helpful documentary called The War Behind Closed Doors, written by Michael Kirk, and coproduced by Michael Kirk and Jim Gilmore.

The introduction to The War Behind Closed Doors is quite promising, with Frontline’s narrator stating: “Over two decades, they had served three presidents, and argued for one big idea, that the United States must project its power and influence throughout the world. This is the story of how they set out to change American foreign policy in the days immediately after the tragedy of September 11th.” Then, to be more specific about what that means, the intro includes a clip of former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack saying: “And it does seem very clear that this group seized upon the events of September 11th to resurrect their policy of trying to go after Saddam Hussein and a regime-change in Iraq.” This was a documentary that would clarify who was responsible for the drive for war against Iraq: Neoconservatives — which meant that the war was not fundamentally about oil.

The documentary describes the path to invasion of Iraq (which seemed imminent but had not yet occurred when the program aired on 20 February 2003) as a struggle between Neoconservatives (also calling themselves “Neo-Reaganites” or “hawks”) led by Paul Wolfowitz, and “pragmatists” or “realists” ostensibly led by Colin Powell. The Neoconservative position was that Saddam Hussein’s government must be destroyed, while the pragmatists, without disputing the Neoconservatives’ provocative claims about Saddam Hussein, advocated containment as the appropriate response. Read more

Why Donald Trump should have held a Miss Universe pageant in Iran

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donald trump smlYou know American politics is broken when the wealthiest candidate is the populist. As the larger than life Donald Trump continues to outpace the cardboard cut-outs of the Republican field, perhaps a greater number of his critics should also “not have time for political correctness” in giving the real estate mogul an appraisal.

As the most polarizing figure in American politics this side of Obama, everyone is still talking Donald Trump, including himself. It’s a little strange that the pundits could be dumbfounded and the public caught off-guard by someone that has been on American TV sets for decades. His cavalier and uninhibited demeanor have connected with the disaffected like no other. For those who can tolerate the clichés, the auto-piloted vernacular and his tendency to go off on ego-tripping tangents, Trump provides an engaging commentary on the financial and political clockwork of America, gossip included. His campaign is proving to be an ongoing exposé of the system and a shaming of various establishment figures and his pathetic rivals.

Media too are routinely outed at his rallies for their transgressions both past and projected. Trump has been surprisingly diplomatic about the biased coverage of the numbers he’s drawing, the random protesters showing up or the obvious liberal plants selected to ask questions. Clearly though, he doesn’t always help his cause when coherency and clarity issues aren’t able to be offset by the maverick persona and colloquial touch. He recently derided Obama for having the audacity to refer to the Iranian head of state as ‘Supreme Leader’ – which happens to be his official title. When asked during a morning television interview whether the alcohol ban he imposed on his children included even a glass of wine, his response was that he owned the largest winery on the east coast in a fantastic deal, before trailing off with multiple segues to leave an amused panel. Honed politicians obfuscate with intent, Trump does it by accident. Read more

Croatia Under Siege: Migrants vs. Mad Germans

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WhiteSlave Jean J.A Lecomte du Nouy (“The White Slave”, 1888, oil)

The article below is the slightly abridged English translation of the Croatian original published in 7Dnevno.

The Afro-Asian and Middle Eastern mass migration to Europe, falsely labeled by the mainstream media as the “refugee crisis,” is being examined from all angles. Why use the word ‘refugee’ if the majority of migrants passing through Croatia are men between 20 and 40 years of age? Unlike the present where hordes of non-Whites are welcomed with open arms, genuine refugees at the end of World War II had no luck of finding a welcoming culture despite being White. Let’s start with the alphabetical “K” letter in the description of the topography of death. Real refugees were German civilians in early 1945 who were fleeing the Bolshevik troops and Tito’s commissars south of Königsberg (Kaliningrad) and east of Constant; and then west of Karlovac; and then further west to their mass execution fields at Kočevski Rog. For hundreds of thousands of Croatian refugees, at their first station of the cross in Klagenfurt, in May 1945,  the English troops did not wait with “Golden ale,” nor were there American women like those in Salzburg or in Linz with boxes of Hershey’s chocolate. They were quickly dispatched by those liberal Anglo-American democrats into the jaws of Communism. Read more

What’s Angela’s Angle?

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With her recent “counterintuitive” decision to flood her country with Third World hordes, it’s tempting to see Angela Merkel as yet another old woman slowly going batty, or as a semi-tragic figure giving into her unrealized maternal instinct by fixating it on hordes of young male Muslim migrants that even a hyper efficient country like Germany can’t handle. I have given into these temptations myself in one or two articles, simply because such narratives are often the most enjoyable to explore.

But, in addition to being seductive, such interpretations are overgenerous to Merkel, suggesting she is merely foolish, soft-headed, or unwitting, rather than black-hearted, malevolent, or purposely evil, a perception that leads into yet another tempting narrative: Angela as a Rosa Klebb-style Stasi-esque monstrosity wreaking havoc on the Federal republic because, well, that’s what arch-villains do.

Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love

Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in the James Bond film, From Russia With Love

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Orbán vs. Merkel: Can Europe’s Conservative Populists End the Migrant Crisis?

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One of the great lies — endlessly repeated — of the world’s liberal-plutocratic media is that nation-states are “too small” or “powerless” to manage any major problems on their own in the age of globalization. This assertion is meant fundamentally to justify national authorities’ abdication of responsibility and legitimize the transfer of power to transnational authorities (such as the European Union, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization . . .) which are less democratic and thus less susceptible to being controlled by “populists” representing, after all, the people.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has now exposed these globalist lies concerning immigration: The building of a fence and the policing of borders have effectively halted the invasion of illegal migrants to his country. Hungarian police report that daily border crossings have collapsed from a peak of 9,380 to just 277. Hungary, a nation of just under 10 million people, has thus solved the “migrant crisis.”

 

Numbers of migrants crossing into Hungary

Numbers of migrants crossing into Hungary, August 18-September 16

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