Nationalist Cities of the Future and the A-A-A plan

By Peter Middleton

Pope Benedict XVI recently called for more ‘silence’ and ‘reflection’ in today’s world:

Pope Benedict is asking people to stop amid the noise and haste and listen to the sounds of silence in life.

Benedict dedicated the theme of his message for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Communication to the relationship between silence and words.

 ’Silence is an integral element of communication; in its absence, words rich in content cannot exist,’ he said in the message.

‘In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves,’ he said.

Benedict, who is a shy and quiet man himself, said that today ‘silence is a precious commodity’ in a world with a ‘surcharge of stimuli and data’.

 ’It is often in silence, for example, that we observe the most authentic communication taking place between people who are in love: gestures, facial expressions and body language are signs by which they reveal themselves to each other,’ he said.

 Joy, anxiety, and suffering can all be communicated in silence, sometimes more powerfully than with words and silence often gives people a chance to listen – to God, to themselves and to others.

 In short, the Pope is asking everyone to turn down the noise, reflect, evaluate and analyse.

 ’For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of ‘eco-system’ that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds,’ he said. ['Shhhh... Pope appeals for world to stop, listen and enjoy the sound of silence', The Daily Mail, 24/1/2012].

Why is it, for instance, that cities like Melbourne and Sydney – cities in one of the richest countries in the world, with the best standard of living – are so ugly? Why do the people seem so pinched and frustrated? (One can tell a lot from someone else’s body language: one can tell what they’re feeling and thinking. My observations are based on my everyday experience with most working Melbournites). One can blame Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones, SMS-texting; as well as that, there are crowds. (On that note, quite a few economists and demographers see crowds, population increase and immigration as being beneficial to ‘the economy’ and ‘growth’: perhaps they are – but they are not beneficial to human beings).

Really, though, I put it down to at least three reasons.

The first is cars. Today’s cities, in the West and elsewhere, are built on top of highways, throughways and parking lots. In Melbourne CBD, cars can come out at pedestrians (viz., human beings) at all four directions: one can be walking along a footpath (a sidewalk, to Americans) and suddenly be barged into a car emerging from the entrance to a fifty-floor carpark building, or perhaps a little alleyway (which the driver has decided, sneakily, to drive his car along). On top of that, cars have the right to go through traffic lights, even when pedestrians are crossing. Often, even when crossing the (always busy) road at a green ‘go’ signal, one risks being run down by an impatient driver. So one can’t walk across the road; one has to dash – for one’s life.

The modern city is designed for cars, not human beings. (To a lesser extent, it’s also designed for bicycles and motorbikes). We can’t do without cars, of course. But is it possible to live in a city without them? Of course it is.

The second reason for our spiritual discontent is, of course, immigration. One particular sub-class of immigrant, which I won’t name here (out of political correctness), almost always dresses shabbily, but flaunts expensive mobile phones – which on which the male of that sub-class jibber-jabbers, for hours, to his brethren back in his home country. In the ‘old’ Australia, certain classes of immigrant used to be, well, quiet; but now that they are congregating here, in huge numbers, they tend to be unrestrained, noisy, boisterous among their own kind. (Certainly, we humans can be uninhibited when part of a large group). As these immigrants increase and increase, the average Aussie working man or woman, commuting for long hours into the city, and competing for jobs, housing or space on a train against these immigrants, grins and bears it. (Perhaps, out of some misplaced sense of guilt, he makes an effort to be nice to them; or maybe he makes the effort because of his corporate code of conduct demands it). He knows that nothing can be done about it. Since John Howard’s fourth term (2004-2007), Australia has been on the death-march, immigration-wise, bringing in six-figure numbers of immigrants per year. Neither Gillard, Abbott or the Greens will do a thing about it: and why should they – the policy is part of their ideology. The outlook is grim. All the Australian can do – and this cuts across class, and income – is commute to work each day on the overcrowded morning train, and try and read his Kindle or IPhone app, and try and avoid having an elbow shoved in his face.

The third reason, for the absence of calm in our lives, is: animals. As a society which (like all human societies for the past million years or so) exploits, kills, tortures and consumes animals, we are generating (what a hippie would call) ‘bad karma’ for ourselves. In fact, were I an occultist type, I would say that the sum of collective animal suffering, in our cities and suburbs, generates ‘psychic waves’ which disturbs the ‘psychic ether’. Our survival and well-being, in the 21st century, doesn’t depend on hurting, killing and eating animals: for an Eskimo in his igloo, or Grizzly Adams in his mountain shack, one has to kill animals to survive; in Melbourne, Sydney, New York, London, Berlin, one doesn’t.

Aside from that, there are the health effects – physical and mental – of eating meat and dairy. No real scientific evidence has emerged to show that eating meat, like smoking, is bad for you; all the same, it is my conviction that it is – and ‘scientific studies’ will show this, over time.

So, there is my formula for improving our cities, and our lives: abolish meat (and other animal products); abolish cars; abolish immigration. I call it the A-A-A plan (this title has been inspired by the Republican candidate for the US presidency, Herman Cain, and his 9-9-9 plan). I myself am willing to be flexible when it comes to implementing this plan: there may be more than one path towards it. Possibly, some sort of compromise is necessary. We can have animal products, immigrants, and cars, outside of our cities – in the outer suburbs, for instance (where, coincidentally, many of our immigrants live). But our cities (and this includes cities outside of Australia) will be oases of no meat, no cars and no immigration.

In order to implement the plan, we must be stern: no compromises. E.g., we can’t allow meat into our cities for ‘special occasions’; neither can we give immigrants day passes on weekends (or internal ‘work visas’, allowing them to work in the cities and then go home to the outer suburbs). That would defeat the purpose. (I am in favour of making exceptions for delivery trucks, etc., in our cities. It’s not that we can’t live, today, without cars: it’s that we don’t have to live, work and shop, on parking lots and highways).

Following the Triple-A plan would give Western man – peace of mind. He would find that such an environment gives him inner calm, stillness, the chance to develop his soul. I call this ‘interiority’: the development of one’s inner self, one’s soul. One can’t develop interiority when one is being badgered, 24 hours a day, by cars, hordes of scowling immigrants, or the sensation of döner kebabs and Hungry Jacks doing damage to one’s body (and that’s not counting the stink of these fast food establishments – also the unpleasant odour of seafood, emanating from Asian restaurants). Melbourne and Sydney would become like Venice, or the car-free parts of Paris, Athens, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Vienna (to name a few European cities) which Western man spends a fortune on, each year, visiting. (Are Australian and American tourists attracted to these cities because of the cultural affinity they feel for them? Or is it the car-free environment? The answer is, both).

I will say, as a caveat, that the A-A-A plan isn’t an environmentalist one. Environmentalists, of course, tend to be anti-car; some environmentalists even are anti-population growth. There are vegans who believed that, among the reasons for getting rid of meat consumption, is ‘global warming’: cattle-farming leads to huge increases in the number of cows, and cow flatulence and excrement brings about global warming – which, as we know will melt the polar ice-caps and drown us all in a flood of Biblical proportions. (I think, here, that vegans are trying to give legitimacy to their ideas by latching on to the environmentalist movement – a tactical error, in my view). I am not an environmentalist; I simply believe that suffering, in our day and age, and in our advanced Western societies, is unnecessary. As well as that, I believe that the West’s cities and major population centres should be places of quiet reflection and contemplation, as we go about work in our everyday lives, and enjoyment.

This is important for the nationalists, because, while we in the movement recognise the danger of immigration – the threat to our national existence, our culture, our civilisation, our way of life – we never ask ourselves the question, ‘Why is our way of life worth preserving?’. In our car-dominated suburbs, we forbid our own children from playing in the street, out of fear of being knocked down. In North America, we wreck our bodies through the consumption of meat and through the excessive consumption of sugar products (obesity, and diabetes, is a growing problem in North America, as is the excessive consumption of anti-depressants which may, in turn, induce psychotic effects). The American TV shows, Breaking Bad and Big Love illustrate the white man’s ‘suburban hell’ brilliantly; and the neighbourhoods (which are mostly white and ethnically-homogeneous in these TV shows) aren’t so different from the whiter suburbs in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

We whites, in short, have devised a trap for ourselves. I often see a kind of discontent on the faces of immigrant families, when I pass them in the street. I wonder if the source of that discontent is disillusionment with their lives here in Australia: the feeling that they have been sold a false bill of goods. Not only does the white man not like them very much (certain immigrant groups are always complaining, vocally, of how Australians are “racist” and how Australians “discriminate” against them); but perhaps the white man’s life isn’t so good, after all. They have the accouterments of the white Australian – a massive mortgage, a mobile phone, middle-class welfare payments for having children, the dreadful morning and evening commute, the chance to shop at an outer-suburban mall on weekends – but this life really isn’t so great.

In a way, the hippies and counter-cultural rebels of the sixties were right: what use is the wealth and prosperity of the West when the white man forgoes his soul? It’s a timeless question, and a spiritual one. But it is more pertinent than ever, in this increasingly noisy, crowded and uncomfortable civilisation – the civilisation of ‘becoming’, and not ‘being’.

How right he is. Certainly, there is a lack of opportunity for contemplation, reflection and the development of inner spirituality in today’s world. Ours is not a still world, a calm world; it doesn’t have the characteristics of what Evola calls ‘being’; instead, it is a world of ‘becoming’ – endless, transitory motion.

Constitutional Change: Liberalism, Liebler’s List and the coming Police State

By Michael Kennedy and Ryan Walsh

The freedom of Australians to speak freely, particularly those of European/white heritage (the founders, builders, the people who comprised 98% of those who fought and died in two world wars, creators of the country that is so appealing it attracted thousands of migrants and currently still the majority demographic of ‘Australia’) is under threat, again, from Liberalism’s zeal to end any debate on multiculturalism in the name of ‘anti-racism’. A national debate is raging over a panels proposed change to the constitution, though one would hardly know it, as the public is taking very little part in the debate. The argument is about a 300 page report which contains proposed changes to the constitution to move racist sections and a recommendation to add a clause prohibiting racial discrimination.ⁱ
The report was delivered to Canberra by Melbourne lawyer, Mark Liebler, (former President of the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia and apparently the National Chairman of lobby group: Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) ) ⁱⁱwho Co-Chaired the Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. In a letter which was submitted to Parliament, Leibler writes

“When it was approved one hundred and twelve years ago, the Australian Constitution established the rules for governing one of the most prosperous, peaceful and democratic nations in the world. However, the Constitution understandably reflects the values and beliefs of the time it was drafted. The Founding Fathers deserve our gratitude and respect. But their perspectives – including those on race – were of the 19th Century, not the 21st.”

Mr Leibler doesn’t elucidate why perspectives have changed, very few Liberals ever do. It is merely to be taken for granted that 19^th Century views are to be discarded, and that the ‘view’ of the 21^st century conflicts with our nations constitution. This is a common line exploited by the left, the “It’s 2012, not 1812” argument, one hollow and meaningless. An argument which is supposed to impress upon the reader the modernity of their views in contract with their opponents archaic views, without ever having to explain why it is that the supposed modern views are to supplant the old ones.
Leibler and his story continue

“But racism casts a shadow over many lives, including my own. It was racism and its off-shoot Nazism that caused my parents to flee Belgium in 1939. It was racism that saw my maternal grandparents murdered in Auschwitz. Racism turns your life into a lottery. To stay or go becomes a matter of life or death. Racism reduces your ability to control your life’s destiny or make decisions for yourself.” ⁱⁱⁱ

Leibler puts the specific so called ‘anti-Semitism’ of the German Nationalist Socialist regime under the racist umbrella, an umbrella which now includes anyone who might oppose multiculturalism, high immigration or who might simply wish to preserve their racial and cultural heritage whilst reserving the right for all peoples around the globe to do the same. In doing so, Leibler downplays the specificity of the ‘anti-Semitism’ of the German Nationalist Socialist regime, and attributes this to broad racism. This is indeed incorrect, as the Nazi preoccupation with the Jewish question was disproportionately greater than their preoccupation with racial purity, and other ‘racist’ ideals.
Hypocrisy? What if modern day Jewish concerns about intermarriage and assimilation within the Jewish community were construed as racism? Many Rabbi’s and Jewish leaders around the world openly talk of the need of preserving Jewish identity, of preserving their race or culture or religion et al. For instance recently a Likud MP in Israel Danny Danon (Likud) put a proposal to Australian Jewish MP Michael Danby re sending African migrants from Israel to Australia. Danon was quoted in the 2011 Jerusalem Post article as saying

The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity,” Danon told The Jerusalem Post.

“The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.” ^iv

One of the most hypocritical examples of double standards on issues of on the right of demographic survival of an ethnicity/nation is by Mark Liebler’s brother Isi Liebler. In a Herald Sun article titled “Multiculturalism not for Israel – Leibler”

Melbourne – Jewish leader Isi Leibler, a staunch defender of Australian multiculturalism, says the policy has no place in Israel.
“This is a country which was set up and created as a Jewish country for the Jews,” he told a Jerusalem newspaper.
Mr. Leibler has previously said that multiculturalism in Australia was something that “we are all proud being part and parcel of…
Mr. Leibler said post-Zionists were pushing a universalist agenda in schools aimed at eliminating Jewish nationalism and creating a multicultural state. “ ^v

Many in the Jewish community openly discuss that in order to preserve their identity, intermarriage with gentiles must be eschewed. In a 2010 article titled Jews in the Lucky Country by Isi Liebler which appears to be mainly aimed at a Jewish audience he promotes Australia as one of the better countries for Jews who live outside of Israel.

If there were more Jewish communities like Australia’s, the future of Diaspora Jewry would be far more secure than it is now… Australian Jewry is frequently depicted as a role model for other Diaspora communities… it is dominated by painful memories but is also a forward looking Zionist community.” ^vi

The article lists what it considers positives such as Jewish dayschools and other institutions but also and notably the positive fact that intermarriage is currently relatively low

Intermarriage while growing is much lower than in other Western Jewish communities…. Of course, all is not rosy. The younger generation, like its global counterparts, lacks the passion of its forbears…
The level of intermarriage, while low compared to the US and most European countries, is growing… Yet notwithstanding these emerging challenges, if there were more Jewish communities like Australia, the future of Diaspora Jewry would be far more secure than it is.” ^vii

Would Mark Leibler consider sentiment opposing intermarriage and multiculturalism amongst his own Jewish community and indeed his own brother Isi racist?
I doubt it.
But what if it were a White gentile (non jew), expressing the same concerns. What if it were, instead of an Israeli Jew expressing the desire of maintaining Israel as a Jewish state, a White gentile expressing a desire to keep their nation White? Unfortunately, caring about our survival as a distinct people is considered racism and some in the Jewish community, who facing their own possible extinction through assimilation , who should understand and empathise with this sentiment the most, are most keen to denounce and portray this thought as racism.
What is racist is to deny the existence of race or ethnicity, to deny or hinder directly or indirectly the right of a race/ethnic group to survive as a distinct sovereign people living according to their own culture, values and beliefs as a majority in their own land who at the same time extend that right to all other peoples.
Further on the double standards – if so much of what Liebler has helped put forward for constitutional change in Australia helps the Aborigines then why is he not pushing for the same in Israel for the Palestinians? Liebler’s bio talks about him being involved deeply with Jewish issues and Israel related organizations so he must have the time.
Tony Abbott seems to be concerned about the ramifications of adding such a clause. Abbott says “We want this to be a unifying moment, like the 1967 constitutional change, and if something is put up which is going to end up substantially distorting the traditional rights and freedoms and protections that we’ve had in this country, well I think that could be a problem. I would want to look very carefully at the legal ramifications of putting anti-discrimination provisions into the Constitution.”
We at Nationalist Alternative are more than concerned. The Liberal party, while voicing ‘concern’ would never take a Politically Incorrect position, and defend the right of a race of people to speak in defence of themselves, their culture and their right to remain a majority in their own land with laws written by us for us to ensure our survival as a people. We at Nationalist Alternative however do defend these rights for Australians and for all the peoples of the globe.
Tony Abbot scratches the surface with his comment about the threat of these constitutional changes ‘distorting the traditional rights and freedoms’ Australians enjoy. Totalitarian liberalism and its proponents already attack and attempt to legislate away the freedom of association and speech rights of Westerners to discuss matters of ethnic/cultural survival handing them constitutional power to do so will simply usher in a Stalinist state. Recent domestic political history in Australia demonstrates this with the appalling media treatment of the grassroots political party One Nation. However a particular nasty incident occurred in July 1998 that was known by some as Lieblers List.
The Australia-Israel Review somehow obtained the membership list of the newly formed patriotic party One Nation, and published the names of 2,000 One Nation members and donors along with a provocative front cover that implied in our opinion that they were some sort of criminals saying “Gotcha! …. Thousands of members revealed”
Given the publicly known physical violence that has already been directed against One Nation supporters publication of the list could only have been seen as intimidation. This blatant act left ordinary mum and dads, elderly and humble Australians from all walks of life, many participating in politics for the first time, subject to potential threats, harassment and intimidation from multicultural left wing thugs who already attacked One Nation meetings.

The newspaper article titled ‘Anger as One Nation members named ‘had the following quote

Mr William May, of Ashfield, said he did not think his membership was anyone’s business.
“It is discrimination against people who have different political views to them and a lot of these people are elderly, like myself, who have worked all of their life and a lot of them have been in World War II,” he said.” ^viii

What is particularly chilling is that Mark Leibler was the chairman of the Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council, the magazine’s publisher back in 1998 That’s right ! The same man who in 2011-12 has Co-Chaired the Panel on Constitutional Change that this article discusses. Liebler was quoted in The Daily Telegraph 1998

the decision to publish the list of members and donors was in the interests of “political transparency”. ⁸

We wonder if he would have the same attitude to transparency if a group obtained and then published in full or in part the membership lists of various Jewish advocacy groups.
The Sydney Daily Telegraph published the astonishing news on July 9 1998 under an angry banner headline that shouted LEIBLER’ LIST. “The presentation associated with the list invites vilification” the newspaper editorialized and “The McCarthy-like imputation is that these people in some way transgressed, their beliefs — like those of communist sympathisers in the United States in the 1950s — are deemed to be a danger to the state.” ^ix Interestingly a cartoon in The Sydney Daily Telegraph compared what was named by some as ‘ Lieblers List’ with the Nazis of 1938. What is also notable, is how Leibler can sit idle and take part in harassment against people because of their political beliefs. Harassment which has led to physical violence, persecution and public ‘shaming’. The very activity that Leibler should know very well, doesn’t accord with a free and open society. Yet here he sides with those that would persecute and attack someone based on their beliefs. Irony or hypocrisy?



Anti-racism is anti-white and any modern form of ‘anti-racist’ action has an anti-white component to it that makes such actions abhorrent. The issue isn’t about Aboriginals or Torres Straight Islanders, but that reliably, without fail, anti-racist action always, always goes beyond ending direct racial discrimination and violence, to controlling thought and speech which may be construed by a hyper sensitive and paranoid individual as possibly being racist, or leading to racism. Even if the sentiment isn’t racist at all, all a white Australian has to do, all any White Anglo or European has to do, is discuss in a frank manner their belief that their race too like all others, has a right to self preservation, and every Liberal, every Politically Correct zealot will automatically construe that as ‘racist’, despite the lack of any racist sentiment. Every anti-racist anti white will take anything less that complete support and devotion to the multiracial experiment as an evil that must be stomped out.
Given the disregard for our right to be concerned about our future and McCarthy like tactics illustrated above along with the anti free speech legislation (vilification laws et al) already in place and growing. We ask the people of Australia to consider this carefully and to reject any changes to our constitution which could effectively outlaw any position against Liberalisms desire to create a melting pot in ALL and ONLY white countries. Not only is the potential for organisations to be deemed ‘illegal’, for advocating for and supporting our race/culture/ethnicity, just as other groups such as the Aboriginal and Jews are free to do, but it has the potential to make YOU criminally liable for what you say, even if you just said that immigration levels are too high.

i Deadline shifts on referendum.
The Australian January 21, 2012
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/deadline-shifts-on-referendum/story-fn59niix-1226249860843 ii>http://www.abl.com.au/ablattach/leibler.pdf< or
http://www.jafi.org.il/NR/exeres/FA8BC582-E6DF-4FC8-9F07-A907FD618422
iii >Leibler Panel Calls for Constitution Change.January 20, 2012 by J-Wire Staff
http://www.jwire.com.au/news/leibler-co-chairs-panel-on-constition-change/21978
ivDanny Danon: Send African migrants to Australia. By Lahav Harkov
 06/30/2011. The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227332
Multiculturalism not for Israel – Leibler. By John Masanauskas. Herald Sun.September 27, 2000
http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/jews/purejews.htm/a>
viJews in the Lucky Country – Isi Leibler visits Australia By J Wire staff. September 25, 2010
http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/jews-in-the-lucky-country-isi-leibler-visits-australia/11837
viiJews in the Lucky Country – Isi Leibler visits Australia. By J Wire staff. September 25, 2010
http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/jews-in-the-lucky-country-isi-leibler-visits-australia/11837
viii Anger as One Nation members named. The Sydney Morning Herald. July 10 1998.
By Greg Roberts,Andrew Clennell And Nick Papadopoulus
Also here http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/98/07/articles/Leibler100798.html
ix The Daily Telegraph. London July 10 1998
Or
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/98/07/articles/Leibler100798.html

Putting Authoritarianism before Democracy

By Jim Osborne
Anti-racism is anti-white, whichever way you cut it. Whether you are ‘tolerating’ sustained mass immigration, or wanting to ban any event which could be construed as ‘pro-white’. Political Correctness says white people must go, and anyone who disagrees isn’t just wrong, but should be marginalized, fined, or even jailed.

It would seem the Independent member for Burnett, Rob Messenger agrees. He has launched an online petition to protest the Hammered Music Festival which is a supposedly neo-Nazi event. ⁱ You can see the flyer for the event here, http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/state-wont-stop-nazi-morons/story-e6freoof-1226241239162 . Rob Messenger and those like him should ask the real questions, What is Racism, What is Neo Nazism? If investigated honestly they would quickly find they are mere labels designed to shut down any expression of appreciation and pride in ones ancestry and heritage. Something available to all people groups, except apparently those of European descent.
What is it about such a festival that stirs people so? The possibility that there may be neo-Nazi’s listening to music? That the ideas expressed might offend the delicate sensitivities of people who would never go anyway? That it might spill into a full blown riot, something which has never happened from similar previous held events. Rob Messenger’s petition may be nothing more that Liberal authoritarianism coming to the fore. Freedom of speech is necessary for functional and progressive society, and there is no impact on others by this event.
The real danger though, as if his proposal wasn’t already against the very fundamental principles that Western society was built on, is the scope of the potential new laws. His petition states “Your petitioners therefore request the House to call on the Premier of Queensland and the Opposition Leader to commit to supporting legislative change that will ensure our state has the toughest laws in Australia which enable the banning and punishment of ‘ Neo Nazis and other race hate proponents’ activities”.
The danger is in the words “other race hate proponents’ activities”. We already know that ANY pro-white speech, or ANY speech which might solely be talking about issues facing Whites in the Western world is often construed as ‘race hate’. We at Nationalist Alternative have to deal with this label, despite the complete and utter lack of any ‘race hate’ sentiment or material. Liberalism doesn’t define ‘race hate’ (for whites) as deliberate incitement of hatred against an identifiable group, but extends this further to include any discussion of racial issues in a non Politically Correct context. We are all aware, that simple saying “Australia is full”, is in itself considered racist, despite the fact it contains no directed hate at anyone. Rob Messenger’s proposal will give Political Correctness strong legal means by which to silence dissent and remove any threats to the current Liberal social experiment that is being undertaken at the expense of the West.
We call on people to discuss this issue, and let others know of the dangers involved. NO ethnic group should face punitive measures for discussing their own well being, survival and continuation. To deliberately deny any group of people the right to preserve their heritage is akin to a directed attack against them and lays the groundwork for genocide. To deny them the speech, language and right to discuss and hold these ideas, is an attack against that group. It is in essence, doing what the ‘ Nazi’s ‘ are accused of doing, in the name of ‘anti-Nazism’.
Anti-racism is anti-white. Mr Messenger may very well be trying to score Politically Correct brownie points by making the necessary visible propitiations to the PC priests and thereby prove himself as ‘progressive’. He may very well not be aware of the ramifications of his proposal, doing this only as brainless political opportunism, but people like us must make others aware of the dangers of this type of thinking and action. It isn’t just music that falls into the sights of such kneejerk reactions, but the rights of us all to speak.
This concert is a fairly insignificant even in the scheme of things. Most Australians would have never heard of it, and its impact on others is negligible. There are quite simply no real consequences to letting these people have their concert, as evidenced by the fact that they have been held before around Australia and nothing has happened as a result. The proposed laws which Mr Messenger is agitating for though, could have real consequences for Citizen rights to speak on issues and concerns that affect their families, nation and our collective future. Mr Messenger’s ideas in our opinion reek of Stalinist authoritarianism and are a dangerous threat to a free progressive society.
ihttp://www.robmessenger.com/anti-neo-nazi-petition

The necessity of positive activism and supporting the Sea Shepherd

By Vivian Roberts

A core aim of Nationalist Alternative is to safeguard the heritage and identity of the Australian people and culture within the biodiversity of the entire planet. Our appreciation of diverse life must extend beyond the human species and hence includes the various flora and fauna of this vast continent and nearby oceans. In keeping with this mandate, Nationalist Alternative activists have put together over $250 worth of supplies for the activists of the Sea Shepherd.

‘Sea Shepherd are a volunteer based organisation that uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately-balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations.’

This article does not concentrate on other elements of their philosophy but specifically supports the direct action they take in protecting and thereby preserving the various forms of whales and other oceanic life in the southern oceans. Indeed their activism is congruent with one of our stickers – Radical Autonomous Resistance
Why positive Nationalism is necessary
The old paradigms associated with Nationalism reflect an image of fear-mongering and negativity which is perpetuated by the media and other self-serving interests. These outdated portrayals consist of angry individuals, namely white single males from poor socioeconomic backgrounds, who’s single modus operandi is to ‘protest’ or ‘oppose’. Nationalism has been given a bad name, and in some respects it’s well deserved. If Nationalism were personified as a friend, it would quite often be perceived as complaining, negative and dysfunctional. Too often activism performed by Nationalists is seen as contrary or in opposition of something, rather than being supportive and nurturing of the things worthy of respect, admiration and love. In a previous article written by Michael Kennedy, he clearly stated “To love your country, make it more lovable.” The same can be said of Nationalism. To love Nationalism, make it more loveable.
Positivity breeds positivity
Louise Hay, a renowned author, has an underlying philosophy of positive affirmation, where she believes strongly in the metaphysical law of attraction. According to Wikipedia:

The law of attraction is a metaphysical belief that “like attracts like“, that positive and negative thinking bring about positive and negative physical results, respectively. According to the law of attraction, the phrase “I need more money” allows the subject to continue to “need more money”. If the subject wants to change this they would focus their thoughts on the goal (having more money) rather than the problem (needing more money). This might take the form of phrases such as “I do have more money” or “I will have more money”.

For Nationalists, rather than the only form of activism being testosterone fuelled and combative, a positive and supporting form of Nationalist activism is also needed. Changing negative stereotypes is a matter of being unashamedly involved and committed to the community. In each action you take, you are representing what it means to be a Nationalist to the community. Act as though you are the only Nationalist an individual might meet in their lifetime. This means working positively and positively working in a community which not only doesn’t share your values, your beliefs or ideals, but is openly hostile towards you.
Nationalism is paradoxically thought to be about segregation from the community. However, as the law of attraction clearly demonstrates, society will always reflect those who are willing to engage in it. Positive activism will support and cultivate goodwill, which in turn will cultivate and support Nationalism. For this reason, Nationalist Alternative seeks to engage in more regular positive activism, that supports various causes of environmental and social significance.

The angry, suppressed voice of Britain.

By Jim Osborne

Recently in England, a lady on public transport did something that according to our intellectual superiors, no mentally stable, sane person should ever do. What she did was sick, sick enough to warrant YouTube videos from disgusted citizenry, complete with the standard leftist affectations and 'hand to the forehead' gestures that come with morally righteous indignation. She didn't rip a pensioner out of her life savings, or leave a screaming child in a hot car. What she did was worse, pure heresy, heinous. She had the gall to be upset at the demographic trashing of her national identity. She was guilty of being unhappy that her ethnic group is disappearing. For shame!

There we have it, England today. A woman on public transport with her child, seeing the future of her home country, perhaps wondering what place her child has in this demographic morass, gets upset as anyone who cares would, and lets loose. This woman, who allegedly hurled racial abuse at people of a “diverse” background was arrested after passengers had filmed her and posted the video online.i The video can be viewed here www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJMPlMrUQA.

In an earlier article, "Cowardly Conservatives", Michael Kennedy writes about how the Labor party of the UK was using non white immigration as a means of attacking the right and forcing multi-racialism upon Britain. So unfortunately the states genocide against its own indigenous population continues, with opposition to this genocide being essentially illegal, through “hate speech” laws, called “hate” laws, because one must be full of hate against the Western world and its people in order to them to support it.

Was she racist? I don't think so. Racism is an unfounded assertion of superiority. Perhaps she was rude and uncivil.  There is no doubt that this isn't the most eloquent plea against colonisation masquerading as immigration, but what she did wasn't an attack on others.  It was a defence, a desperate lashing out. Westerners have no defence whatsoever against the anti-white programs which their governments impose against the will of their people upon them. There is no consultation with the English as to whether they want a future where white English are assimilated out. There is no permitted national debate, where people can freely decide whether programs which will in the end, remove entire ethnic groups from Europe can continue to exist or not. Such debate is not permitted, and denounced as racist.

Governments need never enforce ideology by law if those ideologies are perfectly sound, just and backed up by evidence. The only reason that the state requires punitive measures against people who are not Politically Correct is precisely because the ideology behind multi-racialism is corrupt, crooked, flawed and destructive. It is based on a shabby lie, that this is the way of the future, that this is inevitable, that this is of benefit to all involved. It needs state suppression for the same reason that Stalin had to send dissidents to the gulag, because it's an ideology that could never stand on its own legs.

The "Racist Tram Lady", as she is know, Emma West, however didn't need to attack the non-whites. It's ultimately the fault of the English people who insist upon ALL and ONLY white nations becoming multiracial melting pots. It's the fault of the English people who shamelessly, and with the backing of the state, advocate and implement genocide against the English.

Emma's ire is better directed at the whites on the tram, who are so deluded, full of self loathing of their own identity, that they turned against one of their own, in order to support third world immigrants who only see their nation as a resource to be used. This isn't to say that all English people are responsible, as anti-white Political Correctness is brow-beaten into the population by a very vocal and bullying few. The rest of England however, needs to wake up, and needs to realise that they are now at a crossroads, one of greater consequence to their nation than any experienced in the last few centuries, including facing the German Reich during World War II. That is, the people of Britain have to quite literally decide whether they want to continue to exist as a nation, as an ethnic group. They must decide between appeasing Political Correctness, or having a British identity which continues into their future. Their choice is start. Racial suicide or “respectability” in the eyes of leftists and cowardly conservatives who couldn't care about them anyway.

Now there is a second woman who is wanted, again captured by the amateur stasi, the nosey public with iPhones.ii Just as in East Germany, there was no shortage of people who were willing to turn on their fellow Germans to serve the state who's interests were ultimately foreign to them, there are plenty of British who are eager to be the lap dogs of the state, and act as its Big Brother, and turn their neighbour in.

This is a sorry state for any nation to be in.

i http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/28/tram-passenger-racist-abuse-arrested

iihttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068040/Youre-country-talk-language-Second-woman-filmed-hurling-vile-racist-abuse.html

Nationalists and the Markets

by David Ellerton




'You have to choose between trusting the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of members of the government. With due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold'.

--George Bernard Shaw, 1928


1. Introduction

Recently, nationalist comrades have been asking me for my opinion on the Occupy Wall Street protests. The question uppermost in their minds is: should nationalists support these protests? Or should they oppose them?

In order to answer that, we need, first, to look at another question: what is wrong with the Western world economies today? Why is there a financial crisis?

In day-to-day reporting of economic and financial events, we heard a lot of phrases which have become clichés. Among them are the following recommendations, on courses of action, which come from politicians, journalists, economists worldwide: 'We must lower interest rates to stimulate spending'; 'We must raise interest rates to cool down the overheating economy'; 'We must raise interest rates to strengthen the dollar'; 'We must increase government deficits to put more money in the pockets of consumers, to encourage them to spend'. This sort of language, and thinking, makes up the Keynesian school of thought which has dominated economic thinking in the West, and the world, for the past sixty or so years.

Before that period, though, classical economics was the dominant paradigm. Politicians, intellectuals, journalists, economists, bankers, businessmen, all spoke the language of the gold standard. (Marx wrote the first few chapters of his 'Das Kapital' on gold and currency). This article will be more or less about the same thing. However, some readers may find it disorienting, simply because they are so used to Keynesianism, which has become part of the air we breathe. Rest assured, the economics of the matter are very simple, and I myself have no economic training - what I am writing about here I have learned from contemporary popular authors and journalists on the subject.

2. Gold

Most of the financial crises in the past forty or so years can be traced back to one single cause: America, and the world's, abandonment of the gold standard back in 1971. Under the old Bretton Woods system, the US dollar was fixed to the value of gold (the US dollar was worth 1/35th of an ounce of gold, which is another way of saying that the gold price, in US dollars, was $US35/oz.). In turn, the rest of the world's major currencies - the pound, the franc, the deutschmark, the yen, the Australian dollar, and so on - were fixed to the US dollar (even the Russian ruble was fixed, surreptitiously, to the US dollar). The prevailing monetary system was one of a gold standard and fixed exchange rates.

The basis for the system was the understanding, among politicians and economists at the time, that gold was, simply put, money. The value of gold never changes, or, if it does, it does so incrementally that any change isn't really noticeable at all. Which is why gold has been used for money for thousands of years. Nowadays, of course, we see the dollar price of gold rising or falling every day: but this is dollars fluctuating in terms of gold. Dollars fluctuate, gold stays the same. Dollars, in fact, have no inherent value - they are pieces of paper (or plastic) or digits in an electronic bank account.

So, how did the Bretton Woods gold standard system operate? The US Federal Reserve injected, or withdrew, dollars into circulation, every day, to make sure that the gold price stayed fixed at $US35/oz. Injecting huge quantities of dollars into circulation devalues the dollar: increasing the supply of dollars this way makes it less valuable. Conversely, withdrawing large amounts of dollars from circulation revalues the dollar, making it more scarce, and more valuable. (In other words, the value of a currency goes up or down with supply and demand, just like any other commodity). Before 1971, the Federal Reserve would pay attention to the market price of gold, and withdraw, or subtract, US dollars from circulation accordingly.

For example: suppose the market price of gold floated up from $US35/oz. to $US40/oz. Speculators would buy ounces of gold from the Federal Reserve for $US35/oz. and sell them, on the market, for $US40/oz., making a tidy $US5 profit each time. The Federal Reserve would see its stocks of gold disappear, and so start withdrawing dollars from circulation, until the market price of gold plummeted back to $US35/oz.

Conversely, suppose the market price were to drop to $US30/oz. Speculators would buy gold, at the market, for $US30/oz. and sell to the Federal Reserve for $US35/oz., again making a $US5 profit for each transaction. The Federal Reserve would create money - print money - and use that newly-created money to pay for those ounces of gold. By injecting currency into circulation this way, the Federal Reserve would be devaluing the dollar, and so, the market price of gold would slowly climb up to $US35/oz. again.

(At this point, the reader will ask: does the Federal Reserve need huge stocks of gold to maintain a gold standard? The answer is no: speculators won't, under this system, exchange ounces of gold for $35 at the Fed's 'gold window', unless there is a disparity between the market price of gold and the Fed's target. That is, speculation and arbitrage won't pay off. Historically, gold standards in Britain, the USA and other countries were maintained even with very small stocks of gold in the central banks).



In its train, the devaluation brought about massive inflation. When dollars buy less and less of an ounce of gold, they buy less of other things too. During the post-war gold standard years, oil stayed around $US2.90 a barrel (!) for thirty years, but, after the abandonment of the gold standard, rose to the then-ruinous price of $US35 a barrel. Other prices in the economy rose too, of course, and so did interest rates and unemployment. Needless to say, this inflation had political effects: the careers of Nixon, Heath and Whitlam were destroyed, the Western world saw political, moral and social upheaval and chaos - student radicalism, terrorism, riots, mass industrial unrest, and a general decline in morality (Keynes, famously, wrote that there is no surer way of debauching the morals of a nation than by debauching its currency). While the West was brought to its knees, the Third World was more or less wiped out. The seventies (especially in Latin America and Africa) was a decade of coups, revolutions, civil war, famine and chaos. The destruction of the Third World economies prompted millions of non-whites to migrate to the (comparatively more wealthy) Western lands - and they did migrate, first in the hundreds of thousands, then in the millions.

3. The 2000s and the Australian commodities boom
Given all this, why did America - and the world - abandon gold? America had been on the gold standard for almost every year of its existence, leaving it briefly only during the Civil War; but by 1971, it came under the sway of Keynesian and monetarist economists, who disliked the discipline of the gold standard. Nixon was told, by his economic advisors, that abandoning gold would have two beneficial effects.

The first was that, by injecting huge amounts of dollars into circulation, an inflation would result, and this would, in turn, bring about strong economic growth and low unemployment (monetarism).

The second beneficial effect was that, by abandoning the discipline of gold, the Federal Reserve could turn its attention to manipulating interest rates - lowering them, in fact. Low interest rates discourage consumers from saving their money, encouraging them to spend it instead (Keynesianism).

All of this sounds familiar to modern readers, and, in fact, none of these arguments have ever gone away. Today's journalists, politicians, central bank chairmen (like Bernanke), economists, still rigidly adhere to these doctrines. (An accompanying argument for abandoning gold was a mercantilist one: without a gold standard, or fixed exchange rates, America could devalue its currency, thereby making its currency cheaper and bringing about an export-led boom, and 'improve' its trade deficit with Japan. Again, this is a doctrine which is widespread today).

Given the prevailing intellectual climate, the odds were stacked against the survival of the gold standard. America, in fact, began to wind it down in 1967, when the Federal Reserve stopped converting, on demand, gold into dollars, or vice versa, instead paying bonds which, the Federal Reserve promised, could be redeemed for gold at an unspecified 'future date'. At the same time, the Federal Reserve began to engage in 'pump-priming' exercises, injecting large quantities of dollars into circulation, in order to bring about the economic boom that the Keynesians and monetarists had augured. Finally, it became too much for the Federal Reserve: it could not serve two masters - classical economics and Keynesian/monetarist economics - at the same time, and so opted for Keynesian/monetarism. In August 1971, with deep misgivings, Nixon suspended the gold standard, and the rest is history.

To flash forward from the 1970s to the present, we now see the underpinnings of the 2008 financial crisis. From 2000 to 2008, the US gold dollar price rose from $US250/oz. to $US1000/oz. - smashing the previous record high of 1980. This was a major devaluation. Among the accompaniments of a devaluation are inflation, and several economic pathologies. Commodity prices (oil, copper, zinc, aluminium, pork bellies, soy beans, land) start to rise, followed by prices in the service economy (waitressing, law, dentistry, bus driving, etc.).

In fact, during an inflation, there is a sequenced rise of prices through the economy. Inflation could be compared to the hot air filling up a balloon. It makes itself felt in one part of the economy before the other. During an inflation, when the commodity prices rise (and these are the first to rise), investors become convinced that there is a real profit to be had in those sectors. Land is a commodity, so is gold, so is oil. Rising metal prices in the 2000s triggered off a huge mining boom in Australia (not seen since the Poseidon nickel boom of the 1970s) and rising land prices, a real estate boom in the US and Australia. Unfortunately, all the investors in, for instance, mining, were tricked. Commodity prices may be going off the charts during an inflation, but, in the end, so are other prices (the cost of production, for instance), as well, and these will, eventually, wipe out any profit.

To use an international example. Suppose that prices for gold, copper, zinc, aluminium, lead and nickel rise to stratospheric prices in US dollars. In practice, Australia exports to the US, not to get US dollars, but to buy US goods with those dollars. Because of the weak US dollar, prices in the US rise and rise, and so all the US dollars earned by the Australian mining companies don't buy as much of a US good any more. If the US dollar declines by 50% against the Australian, the Australian buys 50% less of a US car than it did before the 50% devaluation, because US car prices have risen.

This is what economists called 'the money illusion'. Inflation, brought about by a currency's weakness, deceive people into thinking that there is a boom - when really it was just inflation.

One of the other pathologies brought about by inflation is increased levels of investment and lending. Because a dollar is losing value, every day, holders of those dollars (banks and other institutional investors) want to get rid of them as quickly as possible. The declining value of the currency means that the currency becomes a hot potato, which has to be passed from hand to hand, lest the holder gets burned. Often, too, the holder of the currency will seek to abandon it and invest, instead, in hard assets - like gold, land and diamonds - whose value doesn't change.

(Why doesn't the value of these hard assets change? Because commodities such as land, gold and diamonds aren't easily consumed, whereas commodities such as oil, coal, soy beans, wheat and pork bellies are. This gives investors additional incentive to invest in gold and land. Again, this is another reason why massive amounts of money were shovelled into mining and into real estate in the 2000s).

4. The meltdown of 2008

Under a system of floating exchanges, the value of the dollar - in terms of gold and other currencies - is completely uncertain. No-one knows what it will be worth, from one day to the next. Under a gold standard, a central banker is constrained by keeping the currency fixed to gold; under a floating exchange rate system, he can choose any target he wants - and that target can change from day to day. In the summer of 2008, the Federal Reserve abruptly changed course, and allowed the gold/dollar price fall from a (then) all-time high of $US1000 oz. to $US700 oz.

I remember, at the time, welcoming the drop in gold (and other commodity prices), because I believed it would signify the end of the inflation and a return to a measure of monetary (and financial) stability. But I didn't appreciate (and the rest of the world didn't) how highly leveraged so many investment banks (and ordinary Americans) were. They were flush with cash, 'hot money', during the inflationary investment and lending boom; now, suddenly, they found the supply of liquidity drying up. Dollars were now in scarce supply, and one of the signs of that scarcity was a falling gold/dollar price.

It is a terrible situation for a borrower to be in - to have borrowed huge amounts of dollars when they were cheap, and now, all of a sudden, having to pay them back when they were expensive. To illustrate this, imagine that everyone holding Australian dollar balances in bank accounts were to check their accounts, one morning, to find that 33% of the money in there yesterday had vanished: that is, the total supply of Australian dollars had shrunk by a third. The economic consequences would be catastrophic. Undoubtedly, with fewer Australian dollars in circulation, the dollar would become more valuable, and buy more, and so prices would drop across the board. But the old debts, from the time before the magical disappearance of 33% of Australian dollars, would remain at the old price level.

To return to the summer of 2008. At the height of the deflation, the Federal Reserve embarked on a new policy: paying interest on excess reserves. When one bank - say, the Commonwealth - sends a request to withdraw money from another (say, Westpac), Westpac has to make sure that it has sufficient cash, on standby, to accommodate that demand. That store of cash is called reserves. Banks keep these reserves close to hand, in their vaults, so to speak, and also deposit any excess reserves in special accounts with the central bank. In 2008, the US Fed introduced a policy of paying interest on those excess reserves, and at a favourable rate as well. This was disastrous for failing banks and investment funds, which, at the time, needed to borrow liquidity - and fast - from other banks in order to meet their commitments, which were quite substantial. Deflation meant that homeowners and other borrowers were unable to repay their loans, and so banks and other financial institutions which had lent, heavily, to these borrowers were, all of a sudden, in danger. When an individual, of course, needs a huge amount of money very quickly, he can try and sell his house or car. But, often, assets like cars and houses aren't turned into cash very quickly - that is, they are not liquid. Failing banks were now in the same position in 2008. Unable to turn their assets into cash quickly enough, they needed to borrow liquidity - i.e., excess reserves. But the other banks which could provide that liquidity were less inclined to lend their money when more profit could be made by depositing it with the Fed and having it earn interest. One of the consequences was that the US stock market plummeted on the announcement of the Fed's new policy in October.

Because of the rapid appreciation of the US dollar, the US economy in 2008 underwent a brutal, forced deflation. Oil fell from $US140 a barrel to below $US40, while the US Consumer Price Index went from 5.5% in the June quarter to 0% in December quarter to -2% in March quarter 2009. The US dollar also appreciated against currencies like the euro.

(It is worth pointing out that, up to deflationary spell in late 2008, the world's currencies also lost enormous value. The Australian gold dollar price, for example, went from $AU550/oz. in 2004, where it had been sitting for years, to around $AU1300/oz.).

5. Measuring the market's worth

The deflation of 2008 had a devastating effect on the capitalist economies. But how do we measure that effect?

One method is by looking at the value of the stock market. The DJIA is a measure which records the value of a random average sample of US capital - a chunk of the capital of America's biggest employers and producers. If we were to go to a casino, gather up all the chips of the wealthiest gamblers there, place them in a pyramid, and then take out a chunk of that pyramid - then we would have the DJIA (in an American casino), or the All Ords (in an Australian), or the London FTSE, or the German DAX...

The way to record the value of that handful of chips is to divide it by the price of gold. In the 1970s, the DJIA bottomed, and bought only 1 oz. of gold; it recovered, under Reagan and Bush Sr., in the 1980s; it reached an all-time high of 42/oz. during August 1999, at the peak of the late-90s boom and the biggest bull market in the history of the world; in Bush Jr's first term, from 2000 to 2004, it was at a comfortable 25/oz. In Bush Jr's second term, it declined to 17/oz.; in 2008, to 11/oz.; and, during the darkest days of the 2008 financial crisis, it bottomed at 6/oz. - where it had last been in the early 1990s. Similarly, Australia's All Ords hit an all time high of 14/oz. in 1970, stayed at 1/oz. during most of the 1970s, climbed above 7/oz. for the Howard years, and is now around 2/oz.

This method of assessing a market's value isn't perfect, of course, and doesn't give the whole story. But, contrary to those who say that the stock market represents 'pure speculation' with no relation to 'the real economy', the stock market's value does correlate to economic growth, a rising standard of living and low unemployment: in a bear market (like the 1930s, or the early 1970s, or the late 2000s) the economy of the 'real world' hurts too, with these economic indicators going into reverse.

6. The present situation

One would think that 2008's disastrous monetary episode would bring pause to the world's central bankers and make them rethink monetarism and Keynesianism, but no. Bernanke's response - an orthodox Keynesian/monetarist one - was to begin a program of 'quantitative easing', that is, pumping huge amounts of money into circulation. The Federal Reserve perceived, correctly, that the crash of 2008 was mainly because of the liquidity; so it reversed course, and began adding huge amounts of that liquidity. It overshot the mark, however, and the US dollar was again devalued to an enormous degree: the gold-dollar price climbed to over $US1900/oz. this year, beating all records. Even the Australian dollar is now worth more than the American.

In the meantime, the Obama administration undertook a Keynesian program of 'public works' spending (that is, spending on 'jobs creation' for mainly Afro-Americans) and deficit spending, which produced zero jobs. Obama has reacted to the failure of his policy by declaring the need for higher taxes (on 'the rich') to pay for more jobs programs which create no jobs. Obama and the Democrats are mentored by Jewish advisors, such as Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Robert Reich, Larry Summers and Paul Krugman, who can't understand why the orthodox Keynesian formulas aren't working.

In Europe, the Continent is seeing a 'debt crisis'. Greece has brutally high tax rates - a 16% payroll tax on employees, 28% on employers, for example - which encourages tax evasion, and brings about economic stagnation. As a result, the Greek government is unable to pay the interest on its debt. The European bankers, which are heavily invested in Greek bonds, stand on the brink, possibly to the same extent that banks did back in 2008.

What if Greece were to leave the euro and return to the drachma? The results would be disastrous. Greece's debt is denominated in euros, and, were Greece to return to the drachma, the drachma's value would probably plunge against the euro. If it fell by 50%, and became a near-worthless currency (which it was before Greece adopted the euro), Greece's euro-denominated debt would be worth twice as much.

The Keynesians and monetarists are suggesting this course, because they want Greece to print away its debts - that is, print billions of worthless drachmas and pay its debtors that way. It's the oldest trick in the book, financially speaking, and one Weimar Germany used in its attempt to escape its Versailles debts, and Zimbabwe too (for its debts to the UK). (Probably, it was old in the days of ancient Egypt and Babylon).

To illustrate this with an example. The states and territories of Australia are on a system of fixed exchange rates. Tasmanian dollars exchange, at an equal value, to Queensland dollars; Northern Territory dollars exchange on equal value with Victorian dollars. In other words, Australia enjoys a monetary union not unlike that of the Eurozone. Were the New South Wales government to become bankrupt, it could, possibly, pay down its debts by leaving the union and inventing its own currency (New South Wales dollars) and, by resorting to the printing press, pay off its debtors in New South Wales dollars, in just the same way as the Keynesians and monetarists are advocating for the Greek government. But this course of action would be unwise.

One can see that, in 2011, the old way of doing things - Keynesian, monetarism, floating exchange rates, the 'Bernanke standard' (as opposed to the gold standard) - hasn't worked; on top of that, the governments of Europe and America want socialism for the bankers and brutal austerity (spending cuts and tax hikes) for everyone else. Hence, Occupy Wall Street and the outrage - really a moral outrage - against bankers, financiers, politicians, economists and EU bureaucrats, who make up the ruling class of the Western world.

7. Greed



At this point, a critical reader may argue that, so far, I have been too far soft on finance capitalism and the 'capitalist greed' which got us into the present crisis. The way I have presented things here, it as though all the people who invested, so heavily, in banking, finance, commodities extraction (gold mining, oil drilling, etc.) and real estate were simply responding to the economic incentives of that time. These incentives were false, distorted, because of monetary policy, and in particular, the absence of a gold standard.

There are a large number of corollary causes of the 2008 financial crisis. One is the deregulation of American banking in 1999, which allowed ordinary deposit banks to engage in the risky enterprise of investment banking; the other is the proliferation of strange financial derivatives in the 2000s (such as Collaterised Debt Obligations and Credit Default Swaps) which helped finance the sub prime mortgage boom. Then, in America and Australia, it was the generous capital gains tax treatments of property, introduced in 1997 and 1999 respectively, which encouraged heavy investments in that sector. As well as that, there were the infamous 'mark to market' accounting rules, in America in the 2000s, which led to banks and other investment institutions having their assets valued, for accounting purposes, on the basis of what they would fetch on the market at the time. (Because of the bear market at that time, those assets were valued at a very low rate indeed, which meant that, on paper, those firms appeared broke).

All in all, though, things wouldn't have gotten to where they are now, had we not abandoned the gold standard in 1971.

It is true that there have been speculative bubbles occurring at the same time that the gold standard was in full swing. In the late 1920s, for example, there was a Florida land boom, which took place even though the US dollar was firmly fixed to gold at the rate of $20.67/oz. all throughout that decade. Bankers can always lend out of stupidity and investors can always borrow, and invest, out of stupidity. Sometimes these speculative bubbles can occur and have no relation to the wider economy as a whole (i.e., they come about regardless of what the fiscal and monetary policy is at the time); at other times, they are closely related to it.

As an example of the latter, there is the example of the US oil-producing states, such as Texas, which, in the 1970s, enjoyed economic success which was in contrast to the other states of the US at that time, because of the commodities boom. John Tamney, in 'Governor Perry's Speech Disqualifies Him for the Presidency', 18/10/2011, writes:

Today's Texas boom is merely a repeat of the 1970s when a cheap dollar money illusion similarly reared its ugly head.

Much like today there was a rush among Americans to Texas in the ‘70s as a nominally high price of oil turned the commodity state into a boomtown relative to other parts of the U.S. wilting under those same weak dollar policies that invariably retard investment in growth initiatives. Of course what Perry doesn't remember is that with Ronald Reagan's strong dollar ascendance in the ‘80s, the price of oil collapsed. And with the collapse of crude, so did the Texas economy decline such that its unemployment rate in the ‘80s was two percentage points higher than the national average. That U.S. taxpayers were forced to bail out so many bankrupt Texas S&Ls in the ‘80s was clearly a function of the money illusion luring lots of energy investment that logically went bust once dollar policy returned to a more credible course.

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/10/18/governor_perrys_energy_speech_disqualifies_him_for_the_presidency_99312.html

Of course, the oil boom in the South was the subject of the popular American early '80s soap, 'Dallas'. The mining states of Queensland and Western Australia today fulfil the role of Dallas, Texas, in today's Australia. Should another sustained downturn in gold and other commodities occur, as it did in the early 1980s, Western Australia and the Australian mining sector as a whole will be in the same disastrous position as the Texans and Dakotans, and the Middle Eastern oil producers, at that time. They will become victims of a ruinous deflation, which can be just as harmful as inflation.

8. Occupy Wall Street and the Jews

Obviously, given what I have written here is correct, the solution to our present economic problems would be a return to gold. At present, the Federal Reserve adopts an interest rate target: it adds (or subtracts) currency from circulation in order to raise or lower interest rates. Most central banks around the world, including Australia's Reserve Bank, and Europe's European Central Bank, do the same. In order to restore a gold standard, the Federal Reserve could abandon its interest rate targeting, and simply keep gold fixed at a certain level - say, $US1600/oz. The rest of the world could peg their currencies to the US dollar, and the world would be back on gold.

One effect of this would be a pruning of the (at present) gargantuan financial sector. Louis Woodhill writes that the financial sector in the US took up only 4% of GDP, or $US42 billion, back in 1970; now it takes 8 percent, or $US1.2 trillion in 2010. The reason why the financial sector has become bloated, and so many derivatives have appeared, is because of the uncertainty produced by the lack of a gold standard. For instance, a trucking company has to consider what the price of fuel will be in six months. In today's world - where the price of oil regularly crashes, and then rises - a wrong guess on the price of fuel can have serious consequences. Which is why derivatives exist, to insure the trucking company against fluctuations, or lock in a prearranged price for fuel. Which means that derivatives can be a good thing. But surely it would be easier, and cheaper, to go back to gold and the 'good old days', when the oil stayed the same, despite decades of wars and upheavals in the Middle East?

So why can't we return to gold? The answer is complex, but, in my opinion, it comes back to question of race and ethnicity.

Theoretically, anti-Semitism and anti-Islam are sophisticated ideologies. They both subscribe to views regarding Semitic (that is, Jewish, or Muslim) behaviour which stem from the beliefs of the respective tribes: Islamic behaviour comes from the Koran; Jewish behaviour from the Talmud, Judaism, Jewish religious and cultural history (or what Gilad Atzmon calls 'Jewishness'). The classical anti-Semitic thesis is not that all Jews are evil and malign (although quite a few Jews, like the mass-murderers Beria and Henry Morgenthau Jr. (originator of the Morgenthau Plan) could be described as evil and malign): no, it is that when Jews predominate in a certain area (e.g., business, economics, politics, finance), their influence tends to be destructive - even when the Jews in question intend to do good (and there are plenty of well-intentioned Jews in the US Jewish élite).

A partial confirmation of this thesis can be found when one analyses the behaviour of Jewish-Americans who predominate in the US (and, increasingly, transnational) financial sector, and also at the highest levels of government (which are in charge of US fiscal and monetary policy, and financial sector regulation). Jewish-Americans tend to predominate as opinion-makers - in journalism, government, academia, and so on - when it comes to US policy on Israel and the Middle East but also on the economy and finance. (One only has to look, for instance, at how many 'talking heads' on a US finance television program are Jewish-American). It is these American Jews who really set the tone when it comes to US economic policy, and they have done so for years, just as they have in US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Yockey writes that Jewish-Americans have political dominance in the US, and that they achieved this dominance in 1933 (which he calls the 'American revolution of 1933') with the election of Roosevelt. But there was a second revolution, a kind of financial revolution, which took place in 1971.

For nearly two hundred years, American economic success had been founded on the talent, know-how and skill of Anglo-Saxon American men, and on the gold standard. America (and other gold standard countries, e.g. Britain) had gone off gold, temporarily (usually during a period of war), but had always returned to it. Classical economics reigned. Keynesianism and monetarism had always been around, in some form or another, but the sturdy Anglo-Saxons stuck to the old classical ideas for monetary policy (without ever, it must be said, fully understanding them). It was a case, so far as Anglo-Americans were concerned, of having the correct actions (i.e., maintaining a gold standard) but rather vague ideas as to how the whole thing worked.

In 1971, however, Nixon (counselled by the Jewish-American economists Herbert Stein and Milton Friedman) took America off gold, and monetary chaos broke out.

Something that a gold standard does is constrain central bankers to keeping the currency firmly fixed to gold: other than that, they don't have much to do. In a floating, gold-less, world, however, the central banker adds (or subtracts) liquidity at his discretion, in order to 'fight inflation' or to 'increase inflation' and thereby 'create jobs'. In other words, he relies not on a fixed rule (i.e., a gold standard) but on his own individual judgement. Which means that he, in order to make a success of things, must be a very clever and far-sighted individual. A genius, in fact. So, in the post-1971 era, we saw the rise of the Jewish genius central banker - Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan (the so-called 'Master of the Universe').

It has to be said, too, that Jewish-Americans, in the chaotic post-Bretton Woods era, did do some very clever, innovative things and devise some innovative financial products. But then, this is part of the perceived Jewish ability to make a buck in times of economic chaos. As Nathan Lewis writes, in his study of the Weimar-era hyperinflation:


The [German] middle class failed totally to respond to the inflationary environment with rational financial actions. The middle class was accustomed to investing in government bonds, and stayed with their bond investments until they were finally obliterated. Only a very small subset of individuals -- mostly Jews by the sound of it, as one would expect given Jews' better understanding of finance and speculation -- moved their assets into inflation-proof vehicles such as gold or foreign currencies linked to gold. For the most part, the middle class was completely bewildered by the whole episode, never able to understand rationally what was happening to them. Their assets were stripped as they were sold to pay for food. Grand pianos, paintings, automobiles, high-quality furniture, expensive furs, jewellery, silverware and the like were sold for a few pounds of potatoes. The middle class seems to have been able to hold onto their houses, but beyond that they were scraped down to the literal shirts on their backs.

['Learning from Germany', at: http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2010/101010.html]

The question is: were the financial innovations designed to shield investors from the effects of monetary chaos really necessary? The markets, and the economy, were, in many ways, stronger in the 1960s (in the US, Australia and the world) and it was in that period that we did without some of the novel financial practices introduced in the 1970s.


It is impossible to quantify how many people have benefited from monetary chaos and floating exchange rates, let alone which specific ethnic groups, e.g., Jewish Americans. Something we can be sure of, however, is that there would be tremendous intellectual resistance from establishment Jewish-Americans against the reinstitution of a gold standard. The majority of Jewish-Americans in business, finance, politics, academia, journalism, would put up a fight against a return to gold; each of these opposing Jewish-Americans would differ as to why gold is 'wrong'; they would only agree that is 'wrong'. (One can find a handful of Jewish-American commentators, of course, who do advocate a return to gold; but these are not establishment voices to the extent that Paul Krugman is, or Milton Friedman was). The classical anti-Semitic model of Jewish behaviour predicts that Jews don't want to solve problems, they want problems to continue - the same problems that they helped introduce. We can see a partial confirmation of that thesis in our problems today.

Interestingly, some Jewish-American journalists, publicists and pro-Jewish/Israel activists (all the same thing these days) have accused some in the Occupy Wall Street movement of "anti-Semitism". How much substance there is in this is difficult to say: one first has to define "anti-Semitism", something these Jewish-Americans are reluctant to do. What I think exists, in the Occupy Wall Street movement, is an intuitive recognition that Jewish-American domination of politics, and finance, hasn't worked. That is, as policy-makers, Jewish-Americans are guilty of wrong actions; as opinion-makers, wrong ideas.

9. Options for Australia
Can't Australia return to a gold standard? In truth, gold standards only work for very large countries (or economic zones, e.g., the Eurozone).

Supposing that, for instance, the Australian Reserve Bank had maintained its currency at $AU550/oz. from 2004, while the rest of the world (Russia, China, America, Britain, the Eurozone) went on to devalue theirs. Australia's currency would, more or less, be gold, and, in effect, become Australia's most valuable export. All the rest of Australia's industry would be crushed. At present exchange rates, one Australia dollar would have bought $US3.16.

Switzerland, in the 1970s, tried the same experiment: it kept its currency fixed to gold in the 1970s, while the rest of the world was floating, and devaluing, its currencies, but eventually gave up the exercise after the crushing of (the already very small) Swiss industry.

Strangely, Switzerland is now suffering from a similar problem. The Swiss franc is quite strong, relative to the euro, and so, at the margin, Swiss shoppers prefer to go to the neighbouring Eurozone country of Germany to pick up cheap bargains. Japan is suffering from a strong currency, relative to the US dollar and the euro, as well, and there is fretting, among Australia's commodity producers, over the high exchange rate of the Australian dollar compared to the American.

This is why, when one country devalues dramatically, as the US has done, sooner or later, all the other countries in the world must devalue. Otherwise, the country has to suffer the horrible effects of deflation - when the rest of the world's prices rise compared to the country's own. (Such effects can be mitigated if the country lives in complete economic isolation from the rest of the world. Cuba, perhaps, qualifies, as does North Korea; but both countries are dependent on the outside world for aid, and that aid is given to them for free).

Only the big economic producers, with a big internal market, can cope with a gold standard: the USA, Russia, the Eurozone, China. Small countries, with a small currency area (that is, the economic zone in which the currency is used), such as Australia, Vietnam, Cameroon and Paraguay, cannot do it. If the US is on gold, it matters little if, for instance, Thailand or Peru or Iceland choose to devalue their currencies against the US dollar. But, if those countries were on gold, and the US was on floating exchange rates and devaluing its currency (as it has been for the past ten years), then those countries would be in trouble.

One option for Australia is to form a 'Pacific Union' with New Zealand and the Pacific countries, with one currency (similarly, it has been suggested, in the Scandinavian press, that Sweden, Norway and Denmark form a 'Nordic Union'). In such a union, perhaps, a gold standard perhaps can be implemented, because the currency area is big enough.

In the interim, however, Australia's best course of action would be to abandon interest-rate targeting and take up the policy of fixed exchange rates with a larger trading partner - e.g., Japan, which has, at the moment, a strong currency. The Reserve Bank would expand, or contract, the supply of dollars to meet the exchange rate target, that is, to keep the dollar fixed to the yen. (In just the same way, the Reserve Bank expands or contracts the dollar supply in order to keep the overnight interest rate fixed at, say, 4.75%).

10. Options for nationalists
 
Given all this, should nationalists be advocates for a return to gold and fixed exchange rates? The answer is: not really. The main problem is that the topic is mainstream, politically. Advocates for gold regularly have opinion-pieces published in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the mainstream right-wing press. They are also, too, part of the campaign - behind the scenes - for Republican candidates in the upcoming US presidential election. As well as that, one can detect, in the political mainstream, a growing unease regarding the present monetary system, a recognition that it doesn't work and hasn't been working for the forty years since the break-up of Bretton Woods. There isn't widespread agreement that the gold standard is the way out of our predicament, only that the existing system needs to be changed.

Possibly, the world has been too long off gold ever to return to it: central bankers lack the experience of implementing, and maintaining, a gold standard, and perhaps they couldn't do so today even if they tried. In any case, we are not returning to gold any time soon, but that is beside the point. Nationalists shouldn't embrace tendencies which are part of the political mainstream.

Take environmentalism, for instance: in 2011, everyone is an environmentalist. Even the biggest multinational corporations want to be portrayed as friends of the earth and lovers of the environment. As anyone who works in an office for a big company knows, the cafeteria is decked out with separate rubbish bins for recyclable waste, organic waste and 'landfill', and all employees are meant to take care and put their rubbish in the appropriate bin. All of this would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.

Supposing that a big nationalist party declared itself to be 'environmentalist', and ran on a green platform. The question has to be asked: why would anyone vote for a nationalist party on the basis of its 'green' credentials? Environmentalism and nationalism was a radical combination back in the days of Weimar Germany, and a vote-winner for the NDSAP (the NSDAP, perhaps, was the first green party). But now, everyone is a green, and if any voter wants environmentalist policies, they will vote for the Australian Greens, who stand more of a chance of getting elected than any nationalist party. Similarly, there are other popular Green parties in Europe (mainly on the Continent) which do a better job with environmentalism than any nationalist party ever could.

No, we need to concentrate on the racial and anti-immigration platform because, among other reasons, the political mainstream can't pilfer it from us. As well as that, there are other policies out there which any mainstream politician or journalist would be reluctant to appropriate. One such policy would be, for instance, of all meat and other animal products (including leather), which the electorate would, for obvious reasons, reject outright. That is just one example. There are probably a few others which would serve our need for product differentiation - making nationalism radically different to anything else out there.

But, by all means, nationalists should study the topics touched upon in this article: economics, exchange rates, monetary policy, etc. The more familiarity they have with the present mainstream discourse on these subjects, the better.

The only difference between us, however, and the mainstream writers on these subjects is: we nationalists look for the deeper underlying causes of things. An everyday economist or journalist will look at what happened to the world once it left gold; a nationalist, on the other hand, should be asking why - what were the underlying racial (and spiritual) causes?

Overpaid, and loving it.

By Michael Kennedy



The world is stagnating after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.  The cowboy bandits of Wall Street, the architects of the GFC, perhaps the only accomplishment outside of growing their own portfolio, got off basically scott free.  Many are expecting Global Financial Crisis Mark II.  As every cloud comes with a proverbial silver lining, the silver lining around the clouds of the financial storm is the increased awareness of people that something is wrong, and something needs to be done.  Discussion about the flaws of our financial system are propelled by the sense of urgency and despair.  The "Occupy" movement is gaining traction and gaining support.  They may not understand the issues and have much of an idea of the cause of financial catastrophes, and some may be there purely to try and promote an even worse alternative, but they at least understand that morality has a place in economics.  That's a start, a good start.

The mood has certainly shifted.  Misplaced optimism about a never ending housing bubble is all but gone and something else is happening which is even more foreboding.  The media is now openly stating that the boom is finished, and that things may well be on their way down.

An article in The Age¹ by the economics writer for the Sydney Morning Herald titled "Top Bosses' riches are undeserved"1 doesn't just call into question whether our top CEO's are overpaid, but openly states they aren't.  A bold move, for a mainstream publication.

Her argument is that in Australia, we have many Oligopolies, and that making a profit in an Oligopoly isn't that hard.  Corner the market, and you have your customers hostage.

Our greatest period of economic growth and prosperity, a period when the standard of living was on the increase, rather than the current trend downwards, was during a period when high incomes were taxed quite thoroughly, and where CEO remuneration where closer to that of average worker than today.  Arguments that we NEED to pay our CEO's exorbitant ransoms fall flat as soon as one realises that our current economy is in a miserable state.  The large quantities of money that CEO's rake in and pull from our economy seems inversely proportional to the health of our economy.  Given the sick state of Western economies, we are clearly paying big amounts for nothing, yet CEO's, like snotty school children stamp their feet down and demand more and more, lest they leave.

They know where the door is.

The arguments that they, Free Market ideologues, 'too much Ayn Rand' Capitalists and their assorted lick spittles put forward as justifications are nonsensical at best.

One argument is risk.  CEO's deserve a Kings ransom because of risk.  Given that they shed jobs at an astounding rate, it can be hardly argued that they get paid because they 'risk' losing our jobs.  If the share price of the stock of the company can increase through out sourcing, off to India those jobs go. Also, during a bull market, making a profit and increasing your share price is a given, no risk there. The only personal risk is their career, their job.  But when the WORST case scenario is that you leave with hundreds of thousands, or more likely, millions of dollars, it can hardly be considered a risk. Many Australians would jump at the chance to take a risk, where the losing position is making enough money to be set for life.  Risk, hardly.  A CEO can run a company into the ground, lose hundreds or thousands of jobs and even commit fraud, and come out better off.  Ralph Norris has little to worry about.  A $16 million per-annum pay packet, and a taxpayer guarantee to back up the banks in case they fail.  He has risk, but it is the government which ultimately is stopping the banks from failing, through regulating them, and underwriting them with tax payers money.

Another popular argument is the importance of their job.  Well, when neurosurgeons, ambulance drivers and pilots get paid millions, I'll take this argument seriously.

The fact is, our corporations, our businesses have been hijacked by a boys club, an inner circle of parasites who are merely using the economic instruments that others have built as a vehicle for bleeding our country dry.  We don't live in an ideal free market economy, or even a Capitalist one.  We live in a plutocracy, where corporate interests have bought our politicians, and our supposed "free market" has been usurped for the benefit of a few crony sociopaths who masquerade as entrepreneurs and have suckered many others into believing that they are anything other than socialist crooks.

To go against this excess greed is not advocating socialism, or a desire to be like North Korea.  In fact, if anything, our corporations are replicating that philosophy here.  It is highly unlikely that North Korea's leaders choose to be paid marginally more than their workers.  They no doubt do well for themselves, because they too, of course, deserve it, or so they would argue.  North Korea's boys club is just as busy convincing their populace that their austere lifestyle is necessary, while they horde the excess for ourselves.  Sound familiar?  Profits are privatised and losses are socialised.

Why are there huge remunerations, and why aren't ordinary Australians, who are supposedly now Howards "mum and dad" shareholders simply exercising their right to vote against this excess in companies they part own?  All working people are supposedly shareholders through their superannuation, and we are constantly reminded that we must have a strong share market and not interfere with super profits as it is in our interests.  But why don't we do anything about it?  When you look at who actually owns the shares of these companies, it is generally large financial companies.  You may own parts of Australian businesses through your super, but it is your super fund which votes.   Quite simply, because shares are owned by similar large companies, they are the ones who exercise power, and they would benefit from voting for larger and larger remunerations, as it sets the industry standard which will apply to them.  If you are a high level executive of CEO of a company which owns shares in other companies, then voting for a pay increase in the companies you own, means an increase for you as well.

There are people who are worthy of being wealthy.  People who are truly entrepreneurs, who actually create a business and enhance the nation.  Australians are not succumbing to "tall poppy syndrome", but are rightfully outraged at what is essentially hoarding through unproductive means wealth.  They are outraged that our nation, our livelihoods and futures are being stripped so someone who knows where their next thousand hot meals are coming from, and has already a lifestyle better than pretty much any human who ever lived, can get even more.

True entrepreneurs are people like Dick Smith, who has added to our business sphere, who has supported the nation which game him such opportunity.  Even now Dick Smith is still supporting the nation, arguing against our unsustainable population growth and supporting Australian made products by offering Australian made and owned varieties of popular foreign owned goods. Dick Smith is an example of the type of wealthy person we could use more of, people who's personal wealth represents the wealth that that person adds to our nation.

1http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/top-bosses-riches-are-undeserved-20111101-1mttj.html?comments=302#comments