Animal Cruelty and Kosher/Halal slaughter

by Ryan Walsh

Nationalist Alternative condemns the exemption to pre-stunning slaughter methods extended on religious grounds to Kosher and Halal as a further example of multiculturalism in action.
We have previously published an article on live export and our support for pre slaughter stunning Australia wide in an effort to improve animal welfare.
On the weekend October 29-30,2011 an article titled ‘ Religious abattoirs dodge stun law’ appeared on page 7, The Nation in The Weekend Australian (October 29-30,2011). This article describes the decision by primary industry ministers including Federal Labour Minister Joe Ludwig to not impose mandatory pre stunning in all abattoirs Australia wide.
Pre stunning before slaughter aims to ensure the animal is rendered unconscious and insensible to pain.
Instead in what can only be described as timid governance unsure of its sovereignty, we are pandering to minorities which in this instance is supporters of Kosher/Halal slaughter amongst sections of Australia’s Jewish and Muslim population and possibly elsewhere.
Twelve abattoirs will be provided with exceptions which according to the article will see up to 250,000 alive and conscious sheep, cattle, and hens killed a year without first being rendered unconscious before their throats are cut.
We condemn such practices as barbaric, inhumane, cruel and a affront to Australian morality and further examples of multiculturalism NOT enriching Australian culture. Some fellow opponents of ritual slaughter may baulk or sidestep our inclusion of multiculturalism with this issue but they are clearly linked particularly when some supporters claim their religion or culture demands/obligates this practice and that they would be discriminated against or lead ‘less fulfilling lives’ if not allowed to continue.
Kosher and Halal slaughter requires the animal to be alive to facilitate the draining of the blood and proponents argue the throat slitting is humane because the animal dies quickly or some claim instantaneously.
It is claimed that due to the ‘sharp’ blade the animals are killed in one stroke. With the animal collapsing almost immediately due to an abrupt outpouring of blood thanks to a clean and complete severing of both jugular veins and cateroid arteries.
It has also been claimed, in some articles or commentary, that ritual slaughter is in fact more humane and painless than mandatory pre stun captive bolt conventional methods.
Analysis of the ritual slaughter proponents assertions
We will provide opposing evidence below including quotes that include eye witness accounts as well as hard science to disprove the above claims.
We believe the evidence against ritual slaughter is so overwhelming that assertions and articles presenting it as humane seem like ignorance at best and at worst deliberate equivocating in order to mislead and provide partial truths. All in a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable banning or shunning of the practice, at least in Western countries that do not share these cultural views.
Claim: Ritual slaughter involves instantaneous, painless ‘quick’ death or where pain occurs it is minimal.
Opposing evidence:
Proof of pain leads to calls for ban on ritual slaughter. Oct 2009.
…But the new research suggests otherwise. Dr Craig Johnson and his colleagues at New Zealand’s Massey University reproduced the Jewish and Islamic methods of slaughter in calves. The calves were first anaesthetised so although their pain responses could be detected, they wouldn’t actually feel anything. They were then subjected to a neck incision. A pain response was detected for up to two minutes following the cut, although calves normally fall unconscious after 10 to 30 seconds.
The team then stunned the calves five seconds after cutting their throats: the pain signal detected by electroencephalography ceased immediately.
Johnson told the New Scientist he thought this work was “the best evidence yet that [ritual slaughter] is painful”. However, he observed that the religious community “is adamant animals don’t experience any pain so the results might surprise them”.
The findings have earned Johnson the inaugural Humane Slaughter Award from the Humane Slaughter Association. Dr James Kirkwood, the charity’s chief executive, said: “This work provides significant support for the value of stunning animals prior to slaughter to prevent pain and distress.”

Adam Rutherford, an editor of Nature, wrote on the Guardian website: “It suggests that the anachronism of slaughter without stunning has no place in the modern world and should be outlawed. This special indulgence to religious practices should be replaced with the evidence-based approaches to which the rest of us are subject.”
Some European countries, such as Sweden, require all animals to be stunned before slaughter with no exception for religions. ¹ [emphasis added]

Opposing evidence:
Time to loss of brain responsiveness – The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) found in its 2003 Report on the Welfare of Farmed Animals at Slaughter or Killing found that by observing brain function the “evidence shows that sheep become insensible within 5-7 seconds of the cut”, and adult cattle may take between 22 and 40 seconds to become insensible.”
” Furthermore, a separate study of brain response after Shechita (Jewish ) slaughter of cattle compared to that after captive-bolt stunning indicated responses for up to 60 seconds in the former and no response in the latter ” ² [emphasis added]

Claim: In Ritual slaughter ‘ knife throat cuts are not painful and instead quick and efficient with a sharp blade”

Opposing evidence:
Pain and distress during exsanguination – The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) found in its 2003 Report on the Welfare of Farmed Animals at Slaughter or Killing found
“When a very large transverse incision is made across the neck a number of vital
tissues are transected including: skin, muscle, trachea, oesophagus, carotid arteries,
jugular veins, major nerve trunks (e.g. vagus and phrenic nerves) plus numerous minor nerves. Such a drastic cut will inevitably trigger a barrage of sensory information to the brain in a sensible (conscious) animal. We are persuaded that such a massive injury would result in very significant pain and distress in the period before insensibility supervenes.” ² [emphasis added]

more on claims of the ‘ lack of pain’ involved with throat cutting
Opposing evidence:
” That lead me to look-up studies on the agony of human suicide, as these studies are not likely affected by either monetary grants or by religious beliefs pertaining to halal or kosher slaughter of animals. There are several studies on this issue, among them the study by Rhyne, et al. (1995) Dimensions of suicide: perceptions of lethality, time, and agony. In this study, a group of pathologists was asked to rate the time to death (in minutes) and the agony of dying. The agony of dying was rated by using scale that ranged from 0 (painless) to 100 (excruciating). Results of this study are listed in the table below.

The agony of death by cutting the throat was rated by medical experts only second to that by burning. In secular slaughterhouses the animals are rendered unconscious by firing a bolt into the animal’s head, corresponding to the ‘gunshot to head’ method in the Table 1. The duration of dying (Figure 1, in minutes) and the agony of dying (Figure 2, on a 0-100 scale) ³
We are aware that the table and study in the quote relate to humans however if you re read the quote immediately above this one by The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) the likelihood of extreme pain with a cut throat seems highly likely and correlates with this separate study.
Claim: The ritual slaughter technique involves an efficient ‘ one stroke’ knife throat cut
Opposing evidence:
from the Viva Going for the Kill’ .Viva! Report on Religious Slaughter.by Juliet Gellatley BSc Zoology. PART TWO – The Reality of Religious Slaughter –
“Viva! has interviewed experienced slaughtermen to discover whether the stated procedures above are adhered to and to find out the reality of religious slaughter. These men have many decades of experience in killing animals and observing different methods of slaughter. We have also referred to the eminent Farm Animal Welfare Council’s (government advisory body) report on religious slaughter (11); to published scientific studies and to video evidence.
Examples of Witness Statements obtained by Viva! from Slaughtermen in the UK regarding Jewish and Muslim Slaughter”
Mike
“I have been working for well over forty years and that’s a lot of killing. I have seen Kosher and Halal carried out in many different places and I’ve assisted. It disgusts me… Jewish Shechita slaughter is just a sick joke. They claim they kill with one cut but with the bigger animals it never is. The Shochet slices backwards and forwards and it can take as many as 20 cuts and the animal obviously feels real pain. It can take minutes to lose consciousness.”
…Viva! Video of Jewish Slaughter
Viva! has obtained video evidence, filmed officially, of two bullocks being killed by the Jewish slaughter method. Viva! has been told on several occasions that cattle are killed by one stroke across the neck and that the animal collapses almost immediately, however this is not the case.
Case 1
The bullock’s neck is extended and the head lifted upwards by a chin lift in an upright pen. The animal’s nostrils are flaring, eyes staring and he is salivating. The slaughterer cuts the bullock’s throat by slicing across it, backwards and forwards 13 times. The bullock jerks away from the knife as far as he can and his facial reaction shows pain and great aversion. The bullock does not collapse immediately (the filming ends before he does).
Case 2
Again, the bullock’s neck is extended and the head lifted upwards by a chin lift in an upright pen. After three strokes the blood pours out; the chin lift which supports the head is removed, but the animal does not collapse. He is clearly conscious as the blood gushes from his gaping wound. His eyes are seeing, his ears moving and he holds his head upright. The captive bolt is used on him after 30 seconds, but he still does not collapse. He is still managing to hold his head up without any support after 50 seconds when the filming is stopped.
Did the video footage show legal slaughtering methods?
The slaughter shown in Case 1 formed part of Viva!’s Sentenced to Death video, which exposed cruelty in both mainstream and religious slaughter. Viva! submitted this footage to the Meat Hygiene Service in August 2000.
MHS Chief Executive Chris Lawson responded, “With regard to the video footage of a bovine being slaughtered using Shechita methods, we can confirm that the slaughter of this bovine was in compliance with the relevant legislation applicable to slaughter by a religious method. Such methods do not always render animals immediately unconscious. However, they do have to be carried out by licensed slaughterers.” (53)
This confirms that the extreme suffering we have on film is legal and strengthens our case for a ban on Shechita slaughter methods.
Chris Day MRCVS viewed our video footage of Shechita slaughter and comments:
“The religious slaughter appears clearly to show an animal standing and fully conscious, pouring blood from the carotid artery area, having had its throat cut. This method of killing will inevitably cause pain and distress. I join Viva! in calling for stunning, prior to such procedures, to be made compulsory.” ⁴ [emphasis added]

further opposing evidence here
D.K. Blackmore (22) of the Dept. of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Massey University, New Zealand who has published many papers on slaughter states:
“A BASIC requirement for humane slaughter is that an animal should be rendered insensible before exsanguination (bleeding) is initiated and this should last until the animal becomes permanently insensible from cerebral anoxia.”
Blackmore studied the behaviour of sheep and cattle after being cut; he found that sheep lose consciousness more quickly than cattle. Lambs collapsed after an average of 2.6 seconds and stopped attempting to stand after 10 seconds (not being able to stand does not mean inability to feel); in contrast calves were standing up to 135 seconds after their throat was cut and were attempting to stand up to 385 seconds after that. Even though the calves had both carotid arteries and jugular veins severed three out of four were breathing up to 11.6 minutes later and so were shot. Lambs were gasping for up to 3.8 minutes after carotid arteries and jugular veins were cut. A bull was killed by the Jewish method and was still gasping sporadically for seven minutes after his carotid arteries, jugular veins, oesophagus and trachea were cut. ⁵ [emphasis added]

further opposing evidence here
Thornton’s Textbook of Meat Inspection says:
“A factor of considerable importance, and to which not sufficient attention has been paid in considering the problem of Jewish slaughter, is that after the carotid arteries of cattle are severed transversely, they tend, by virtue of their elasticity, to retract rapidly within their own external connective tissue coat, and as a result the sealing of the cut ends of the vessels may occur.As the blood pressure…is then maintained by the heart, the blood pressure in the vertebral arteries may likewise be maintained at a substantial level and unconsciousness therefore delayed”.
This explains why “some cattle have regained their feet and walked a considerable distance before they succumbed some minutes later.”
>The Textbook of Meat Inspection continues: “these occurrences have been attributed to the fact that all the neck vessels may not have been severed completely, but observations lead one to the conclusion that the cut is invariably made dextrously… There is therefore considerable doubt as to whether unconsciousness always follows rapidly in cattle after the severance of the neck vessels, for by the very nature of the neck cut made in Jewish slaughter it is impossible to ensure that self-sealing of the cut ends of the carotid arteries will not occur.”⁴ [emphasis added]

Combine, one, potentially long times to unconsciousness as quoted above (therefore the prolonged period in which pain is felt) with two, a ‘quickly rush every task’ production line mentality that we can reasonably assume occurs at any commercial abattoir and you have fertile conditions for this shocking further excerpt from the Going for the Kill – Viva.org.uk article
“In Jewish slaughter the Shochet examines the thoracic cavity of cattle and sheep for signs of abnormalities. The FAWC found that this examination can take place too quickly – the hand being plunged into the body while the animal was alive.. 8
Alle Processing in New York one of the largest U.S. kosher-meat suppliers owned or was owned by Mottel Bergman and imports a large proportion of its meat from South America, notorious for using the shackle and hoist method. PETA activists after initially exposing the practice at one plant in 07/08 shot another video in 2010 illustrating the same horrific practice STILL being carried out at the slaughterhouse known as Frigorifico Las Piedras outside Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo.
Israel is also another large importer from South American slaughter houses and despite some noise being made seemingly tokenly from Israel and the Orthodox Union in the US on stopping certification of animals killed via shackle and hoist nothing concrete has ensured as the PETA videos shot over several years indicate.
Inverted Pens and Rotating Cages
In this section we discuss what became a supposed more human alternative from the shackle and hoist method. Shockingly this method still relies on having the cow upside down prior to the live throat cut.

The animal is lead into a cage which then rotates upside down all whilst still alive ensuring the animal ends up in effectively the same situation as the shackle and hoist just by different means.

Some have commented that stress levels for inverted slaughter with devices known as the Weinberg pen (which are less stressful than shackling and hoisting) have yielded the highest average stress ratings ever published (almost 300% higher than cattle killed in upright pens).
The above photos are snapshots from a video on Agriproccessors, a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa that was owned by Aaron Rubashkin and managed by two of his sons, Sholom Rubashkin and Heshy Rubashkin. Eventually it became the largest kosher meat-packing plant in the United States.
As described above (and shown as untrue) supposedly in kosher slaughter the animal is killed with a quick, deep stroke across the throat with a sharp knife. A PETA undercover investigation over several years from 2004 – 2008 revealed many disturbing practices, below a just a few including an observation about the inverted rotating cage above.
2004
PETA’s first investigation at Agriprocessors in 2004 revealed almost 300 instances of inhumane slaughter, in which cows’ sensitive faces were shocked with electric prods, fully conscious cattle had their tracheas and esophagi ripped from their throats with meat hooks or knives, and they writhed in pools of their own blood, trying desperately to stand up for up to three minutes as blood poured from their throats.
The following are excerpts from the investigator’s notes:
The cow was loaded into a machine that resembles a large metal tube. His head stuck out of the front, then a metal bar clamped under his neck and forced his head upwards and back, cocked in an awkward and painful-looking position. The entire machine rotated, turning the cow upside-down. This process seemed to terrify him—his eyes were wide with fright—I imagine because he had never been in such a helpless position. The cow’s exposed neck was scrubbed with a hose and brush, then a rabbi came out of a small room and slit the cow’s throat. Another worker followed the rabbi and gouged a chunk of flesh out of the cow’s neck and then pulled his trachea or esophagus (I’m not sure which one) outside of his throat so that it hung down. Then the machine reverted the cow into an upright position. The trap door on the side opened up, and the cow was dumped onto the floor, where another worker attached a chain to the animal’s ankle so that he could be hoisted into the air and sent down the line.
Many cows were still alive and conscious when they came out of the tube and were slammed onto the floor. Their heads often hit the concrete with a sickening crack. I watched as one cow landed on his feet and started scrambling around with a shocked look on his face. The workers simply jumped behind their barricade and waited for him to collapse. ⁹ [emphasis added]

Please visit the article ‘PETA Reveals Extreme Cruelty at Kosher Slaughterhouses’ for the full story including 3 separate graphic videos shot on each undercover operation there.

1. Mutilations at Agriprocessors Slaughterhours
2. Second investigation still reveals cruelty at Agriprocessors
3. Undercover at Rubashkins Again!

Incredulously we found an article titled ‘Rubashkin: It’s all a lie’ dated June 3 2008 by Ben Harris on the website jewishjournal.com which quotes Rubashkin
““We got 21 or 23 inspectors,” Rubashkin said in a thick Yiddish accent. “Every minute the plant is open, there is USDA inspector. We got maybe 30 rabbis. How can we do something which is wrong? If I want to, God forbid! We are ethical people. We don’t do no injustice to nobody, not to a cat.” ¹⁰



We further note this excerpt from the PETA article linked above
‘ After a May 2008 federal raid of the plant over immigration violations, 76 percent of the 968 Agriprocessors employees were found to be using false or fraudulent Social Security numbers that were allegedly supplied by plant management’ ⁹
Inverted slaughter methods such as the pens above have been banned in England and some countries in Europe however allegedly the Israeli Chief Rabbinate requires that the animals be inverted in order for the cut to be in a downward motion in line with Jewish law.
Upright Pens
These pens followed a path from opposition to shackle and hoist, which then lead to the inverted pens and now in some places the upright pens are used.
From the viva.org.uk, Part Two, The Reality of Religious Slaughter under the section titled ‘ ‘ Examples of Witness Statements obtained by Viva! from Slaughtermen in the UK regarding Jewish and Muslim Slaughter ‘ we quote Mike who says

“Now they say there’s nothing wrong with the upright crushes but there is. In fact the Shochet is cutting upwards, working against gravity and with a weaker set of arm muscles. It therefore makes the cut much weaker and often means more of them. ^4″
The above must be read in conjunction with the claim that Kosher slaughter involves a clean single cut of the neck as a big part of how its supposedly ‘ humane ‘. See earlier quotes at the start of the article.
In our opinion the ‘ evolution ‘ of handling methods, whilst noted as a separate component of suffering mainly represent attempts to present the whole killing process as humane and the industry as being concerned and seeking improvements. Clearly slaughter itself without mandatory pre stunning is cruel and not in line with Western morals.
Any improvements/prospects on reducing or eliminating religious slaughter
Halal:
New Zealand appears to have made some headway with Halal meat (but not Kosher) being already pre stunned according to the article titled ‘ Humane Slaughter? killing animals fully conscious ‘ ¹¹ on the website www.safe.org.nz.
However this ‘pre stunning’ is only via electrical stunning and is sometimes known as ‘ reversible stunning’ where the animal can regain consciousness prior to the throat cut. This is to be compared to irreversible captive bolt pre stunning required by all other non halal non kosher slaughter. It is obviously a concession to religious interests with the loss being to the animal.
The 2008 Adams/Sheridan report on animal welfare prepared by the Animal Welfare Branch of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, states
‘reversible stunning is not in itself sufficient to lead to death of the animal.   All stunning must be inextricably linked to the performance of slaughter using a reliable and fast means of exsanguination.’ ¹²( p XIV)
Lets speak directly to the plain truth here, unless the animal has been properly bled in the small time before the stunning wears off, it wakes up into the middle of its own murder with its throat cut and a crescendo of pain. In a commercial environment of animal after animal, with staff that get tired, bored, distracted over a long day it is reasonable to assume that mistakes and incompetency can and does happen.
Now finding direct data from the abattoirs is difficult only due to the obvious self interest religious slaughter houses have in keeping such statistics hidden, denied, covered up or not recorded at all. It is in such an environment that we applaud undercover investigations such as PETA or the frank if anonymous reports current and ex slaughtermen provide such as can be found quoted here from the viva.org.uk articles.
One other such place to search is of course the internet and below we quote a revealing discussion from the Muslim internet chartroom which we have saved even if they tactically delete it
‘sunniforum.com – a resource for the propagation of authentic Islamic teachings’ . Here – ‘Abdullahnana’(15/2/2010)   -we read in the report by the Muslim scholars who toured Australian slaughter houses  at the end of 2009  that –
 ‘Slaughterers are authorized to remove animals from the line which did not bleed properly, were not stunned properly, or were not cut properly. They will mark them with a special tag and inform the plant manager to process the animal separately. There are strict measures in place to keep these animals completely separate from the regular halal animals. These carcasses are not labeled as halal and not exported to halal markets

The main concern is whether the animal remains alive after this method of stunning.The two scholars have conducted research on electric stunning for sheep……. They even requested that a sheep be stunned with the electric stunner and removed from the line in order to give it time to regain consciousness. The animal DID regain consciousness within a few seconds.
A pneumatic stunner or mushroom stunner is used for beef. This is also a non-lethal type of stunning in which the device does not penetrate the brain of the animal. The beef plants have measures in place to reject those animals whose skulls are damaged or cracked from the stunner. This type of stunning also will not cause the death of the animal and will not affect the halal status of the meat. ¹³ [emphasis added]

Snippets of conversation like this by two Muslims interested in whether the killing process in Australia meets Halal requirements (NOT animal welfare) in this authors opinion contribute to a far more revealing insight into what goes on then any whitewashed official news release by a Halal slaughterhouse or spokesperson. For instance the statement about the ‘main concern is whether the animal remains alive after this method of stunning’ is diametrically opposed to our aims.
Kosher:
The move to pre stunning appears even less prevalent in the Kosher world of animal slaughter with staunch opposition argued by some theologically to the more humane mandatory pre stun technique as illustrated in the quote below
‘Jewish law requires that all animals for slaughter must be healthy and without injury prior to slaughter, otherwise the meat is trefar, unfit for human consumption. Levinger states that Jews cannot accept stunning because the definition of healthy is that the animal moves. If the animal is stunned it may not move.Secondly, there should not be any pathological-anatomical changes. The bolt causes brain damage; electric shock causes damage… ¹⁴ [emphasis added]

The Viva article that provided the above quote also contains the following
‘National Council of Shechita Boards makes the following astonishing justification of religious slaughter in a letter to Viva!:
In reference to cows being killed “the animal, being an herbivore, does not react to blood and remains oblivious throughout to what is happening around it and to it, both prior to and during Shechita.” (14) They are suggesting that because an animal does not eat meat, it is not familiar with blood and so doesn’t react when its throat is sliced open; or presumably when it is cut elsewhere. ‘¹⁴
Another non Viva UK source further confirming the above is found in the small piece titled ‘ What’s wrong with stunning? ’ by Chabad.org states
“Stunning” refers to the methods of attempting to render an animal or bird unconscious prior to slaughter. The main methods used in the general slaughtering industry for cattle and sheep are:
• captive bolt gun: a steel bolt is shot into the skull at the front of the animal’s brain.
• electric shock: electrodes are clamped to the animal’s head/heart and the animal is electrocuted.
These methods are contrary to Jewish law, because an animal intended for food must be healthy and uninjured at the time of shechita. The above stunning methods injure the animal, making it treifa (non-kosher and thus prohibited). If the stunning kills the animal it makes it neveila (an animal which has not been shechted) and is forbidden as food for Jews.” ¹⁵
To conclude this section ‘ Any improvements/prospects on reducing or eliminating religious slaughter’ we have observed during our research for this article that
1: Jewish-Kosher slaughter seems to get an easier ride than Muslim-Halal slaughter in the press despite both involving horrific slaughter of live animals and in some reporting the Jewish-Kosher practice seems conveniently ignored whilst Halal is discussed.
2: Kosher slaughter looks to possess the least chances for improvement based on its very rigid and inflexible theological underpinnings.
To the second point we reference two pieces
Stunning Use under Halal, Kosher Practices Revealed
UK – No poultry are now slaughtered for halal production without stunning while no kosher poultry are stunned before killing, according to a senior Defra official. However, the Halal Monitoring Committee (HMC) says all poultry at its certified plants are killed without prior stunning.
The Muslim News of the UK reports that Lord Moonie asked the Government “What estimate they have made of the number of domesticated animals and birds slaughtered in 2010 without being stunned first.”
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Lord Henley, responded that the most recent data on the slaughter of animals without prior stunning was published in March 2004 by the Meat Hygiene Service in its Animal Welfare Review. The data was collected through a survey of meat plants between 1 and 7 September 2003.
The number of animals killed over that period without prior stunning for the production of Kosher and Halal meat: cattle, 365; calves 8; young lambs, 6,845; other sheep, 11,454; goats, 62; broilers, 167,745; hens, 15,900; turkeys, 749 and ducks, 610.
More recent data collected by the EU Dialrel project shows that, of the UK abattoirs surveyed, 100 per cent of the animals and birds slaughtered for the production of Kosher meat were slaughtered without prior stunning. For Halal meat, 25 per cent of cattle and seven per cent of sheep were slaughtered without prior stunning. The Dialrel data also indicates that no poultry were slaughtered for Halal production without stunning. (Source: Hansard, House of Lords, Written Answers, January 18)
However, one of the many organisations which certify halal meat products, the Halal Monitoring Committee (HMC), told The Muslim News that “Poultry certified by HMC is done without stunning. HMC does not actually certify any abattoir as such, HMC certifies the poultry product that has been witnessed and labelled by the HMC inspectors on site at the time of slaughter.” ¹⁶
This article illustrates that despite conflicting data regarding Halal slaughter there is at least more evidence of pre-stunning (even if only the non permanent and still unacceptable pre-stun..) being attempted whilst on the Kosher count (in the UK) moves to pre stunning are rare to non existent instead ‘compromise’ has involved in some instances a ‘post stun’ after the live throat cut which is laughable.
The following quote proudly written by a Kosher slaughter supporter on the Israellycool blog is gold as far as evidence towards proving point 2 about re Kosher’s rigidity and therefore lack of will to compromise in achieving a humane end. Note text sections preceded by ‘Ed.’ have been added by us.
Halal: It’s Just Not Kosher
Over the coming months we will see attempts to ban halal slaughter in Europe. But they won’t be worded in such a way to target only halal, they’ll probably go after something nebulous like “ritual slaughter” or “religious slaughter without stunning”. If that happens (as is ongoing in New Zealand) it will more likely than not deprive European Jews of kosher meat and make very little difference to the lives of farm animals.
This essay will be general but will draw specific examples from the UK.
As much as Muslims like to talk about halal, it is not a religious requirement in the same way as kosher has been to Jews for thousands of years. There is conclusive historical and archeological evidence across Israel and anywhere else Jews lived, that the rules of “Shechita” have been followed in an unaltered form for millennia. The mere fact that kosher food is perfectly acceptable to Muslims while halal is not acceptable to Jews shows the Muslim requirement has a certain inherent flexibilityborn of political expediency. The Jewish laws do not yield for convenience or to achieve other goals. Halal has also been flexible enough to include “light stunning” which has been enough to sidestep a ban in New Zealand. A very large proportion of the lamb consumed in the middle east is actually New Zealand lamb and in the UK this halal lamb is nearly always sold unmarked in big supermarkets. ¹⁷ [emphasis added]

So the author is admitting he/she is not concerned about ‘nebulous’ things like animal rights which the generic title ‘ritual slaughter ‘ fairly covers instead it’s just about denying Muslims their practice whilst maintaining the Jewish one! Hypocrisy. The comment about ‘ little difference being made to the lives of farm animals’ flies in the face of evidence of extreme pain during live throatcutting.
The comment about ‘the rules of “Shechita” have been followed in unalterated form for millennia’ proves our point 2 on Koshers rigidity and least likelihood to change compared to Halal. The comment ‘shows the Muslim requirement has a certain inherent flexibility born of political expediency’ attacks the notion of being flexible on ritual slaughter and at the same time just proves again our point 2.
As for Halal being more flexible due to ‘political expediency’ , response one is that anything that results in less animal suffering is a win for the animals regardless. Response two, is that this could imply the Jewish side is for some reason less susceptible or more resistant (stubborn?) than Muslims to community pressure against ritual slaughter in Western countries. Indicating this group possesses more relative societal ‘ power ‘ to weather the storm of adverse public opinion and/or find ways to deflect or lessen any negativity. If this is the case then ritual slaughter opponents of all stripes should bear this in mind when attempting to reign in Kosher slaughter as part of a broad approach that seeks to stop ritual slaughter of ANY kind by ANYONE.
Finally the comment ‘The Jewish laws do not yield for convenience or to achieve other goals’just about sums up our argument then on point 2, at least in the case of this individual Kosher Jewish slaughter supporter.
Labelling
It is shocking to think that there is no clear labeling system for ritually slaughtered meat in Australia and/or in many other Western nations.
An example of an appropriate clear and transparent label would be
“Animal subject to live slaughter in accordance with Kosher/ Halal religious requirements.”
Followed on a second line with the Kosher and Halal symbols.
We demand clear explicit labeling of religious slaughtered meat for 2 primary reasons
1 Cultural:
Kosher and Halal slaughter with its inhumane methods are not part of Australian culture or values or indeed Western culture and hence our people and children should not be forced to be eating meat with such origins. Current Australian slaughter guidelines reflect our values regarding pre stunning and we note it is mandatory across the land…other than the religious minority exceptions discussed here.
2 Health
In our opinion massive amounts of stress hormones would be released in animals that are either not stunned at all or only stunned via the reversible method as they recover consciousness.  Animals would begin releasing these stress hormones as they smell the blood, hear the cries of other animals and are forced into positions (think hoist shackle, inverted pens, upright pens with neck compresses) needed for slaughter men to cut the throat of a conscious animal!

Such stress hormones, released in large amounts under these circumstances would seep into the muscle (meat) as the animal slowly bleeds to death. We fail to see how such hormones would not be detrimental to human health.
Lack of Transparency:
Australians purchase meat believing it is pre stunned, we believe a clear majority would be shocked to learn that in fact Halal and Kosher meat finds its way into mainstream meat sales by stealth.
Consider the following quote
“British Veterinary Association : Our position is clear – all animals should be stunned before slaughter and if that’s not possible the meat should be labelled as not stunned…By ensuring that all meat from animals that are not stunned only enters the specific communities that it is targeted at, we can make a significant difference.” 2.1 million UK animals are killed annually using Shechita slaughter methods, of which none are pre-stunned, and an estimated 70% of those cattle slaughtered enter the non-Jewish market.… Last month, the EU Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee voted in favour of new labelling regulations requiring meat to be labelled as stunned or non-stunned. The new measures will be put forward for full approval by the parliament in July.”¹⁸ [emphasis added]

And here
‘Another area of concern that has been raised with the RMAA and the Department of Agriculture is a whole animal is kosher slaughtered (no pre-stun) but as we know only the forequarters are used for Jewish consumption. Currently the kosher slaughtered hindquarters are processed for the everyday meat market, we believe that that meat should be marked kosher slaughtered. Consumers believe that all meat that they buy – other than kosher, – is in fact pre-stunned, the above proves that to be wrong – this is mislabelling of products and should be addressed, consumers should have the right to make informed decisions. ¹⁹ [emphasis added]

Here
‘British public has no idea that they are eating halal meat, a senior member of the Church of England’s governing body said yesterday.

In comments likely to spark controversy, Alison Ruoff said, ‘this is just another back door way to the Islamification of our country.” [emphasis added]

Livestock destined for halal meat is dispatched in a process that involves the animal being prayed over by a Muslim butcher as its throat is cut. Some religious abattoirs do not stun the animal, as Sharia law stipulate that the animal must hear the prayer. It’s estimated that it can take around 30 seconds to die…
The interview on Premier Christian Radio’s Woman to Woman show yesterday tackled the issue of unlabelled halal meat being sold to unsuspecting customers in supermarkets; an issue that affect people of all faiths, and not just Christians. [emphasis added]

Ruoff revealed that most stores stock halal lamb only, with Morrisons being the only store to label their products.
She believes that most meat imported from New Zealand is halal, enabling them to sell on to Muslim markets. She alleged that economically it’s cheaper to butcher the animals in the same way, rather than halal and non-halal.
Joy Barrow, Interfaith Relations Officer said: ”No person should be made to eat halal meat. Clearly it’s an issue of labelling.” ²⁰
Commerce over Culture: Values be damned
The underlined text in the previous quote raises another issue, namely big business, food production and the lack of concern large enterprises commonly have for the values, customs and culture of the host populations they rely on.
We would agree with the sentiment that vast modern slaughterhouses simply make the decision that it is cheaper and more efficient (lovely adjective to excuse anything) to setup one production line then multiple ones. As it is currently not illegal to palm off’ ‘killed alive’ slaughtered meat on non muslims and non jews their business decisions are currently not liable to prosecution.
In fact such practices clearly fit with our position that international capitalism operates in the world from an economic reductionist position. Namely that diversity and difference between cultures, religions, ethnicities et al merely get in the way of ‘efficiency’ and add production costs. Costs that would be removed if the world did away with our diversity and humanity become a once race, one culture, one religion atomized consumer with the only diversity being the choices in a catalogue or menu.
Another economic related excuse related to labeling comes from the below quote
What would strict labelling mean?
One of the ways that people are calling for some introduction of control on the spread of halal meat is by calling for strict labelling of meat that is not stunned before slaughter. There is a particular issue with halal today because there is a large amount of halal meat in the normal food chain that is not labeled as such. This is not such an issue with kosher meat except in one respect. Fully kosher meat is always much more expensive than non kosher and this reflects the small nature of its market and the care with which it has to be produced. Halal is generally cheaper than non halal. Some parts of kosher slaughtered animals do end up in the non-kosher meat supply, however, because this does help keep kosher meat affordable.
So strict labelling would be a problem for Jews if it meant that producers of meat pies and sausages were reluctant to accept some meat because it would force them to label their end product as containing some parts from non stunned animals. ²¹
Animal welfare and pre stunning is what is at issue here, economic arguments from proponents whether ‘ Halal is cheaper so why not change your mind” or ‘ Strict labels will cause Kosher meat to be more expensive ’ bear no weight. In fact both are insults. The former implies we are happy to trade off our values and morals based on money and the second that we should trade off BOTH values and money for a minority to be satisfied against the wishes of the host population amongst whom they have been allowed to settle.
Prior to a complete ban being achieved transparency through labeling will provide Australians with the ability to take a ‘conscious vote’ as to the kill method employed when they choose their meat from the supermarket shelve.
Conclusion
Nationalist Alternative advocates on grounds of compassion and in line with Australian values the total ban on any form of inverted killing methods whether shackles, pens or otherwise for all slaughter in Australia. We also reject the token reversible pre stunning method.
We call to STOP ALL SLAUGHTER of ANIMALS that are NOT FULLY, PERMANENTLY  STUNNED and UNCONSCIOUS PRIOR to throat slitting.
There is no use being tricked into the often decades long slow reform path of ‘ compromise ‘ with the supporters of religious slaughter.
Politically correct politicians need to gain some backbone and ensure there are no exemptions for anyone and simply weather the minority lobby groups attempts to cry foul inevitability with the old chestnuts of ‘anti semitism or islamaphobia’ and ‘ how can we possibly live without these exemptions’ et al. In 2012 general citizens are slowly waking up to the fact that these labels are merely attempts to shut down discussion and close down opponents without debating them.
We would invite those proponents of such slaughter to emigrate to lands where these methods and values hold sway.
References
1
http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/19151/proof-pain-leads-calls-ban-ritual-slaughter
2
http://www.fawc.org.uk/reports/pb8347.pdf
or
http://www.fawc.org.uk/reports.htm and then select the report titled’ Welfare of Farmed Animals at Slaughter or Killing – Part 1: Red Meat Animals – 2003′
3 -
http://www.visualstatistics.net/043%20phenomenological%20analysis%20of%20obscured%20events/Slaughter.htm
this articles quotes the study: Rhyne, et al. (1995) Dimensions of suicide: perceptions of lethality, time, and agony. Suicide & Life Threatening Behavior, 25(3), 373-380
4
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill01.htm http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill2.htm#27
or pdf here
http://www.viva.org.uk/pdfs/GoingfortheKillReport.pdf
5
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill2.htm#27 under the section FAWC observations of Religious Slaughter
6
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill3.htm under the section titled
‘Conclusion’.
6
Going for the Kill.Viva! Report on Religious Slaughter. by Juliet Gellatley BSc (Zoology),
Director of Viva!

under the section titled ‘ Trefar ‘
also referenced in the Viva article at point 14: Letter from Michael Kester, Executive Director, National Council of Shechita Boards, 8 May 1997

http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill01.htm
7
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill2.htm
under the section titled ‘ FAWC observations of Religious Slaughter’
also referenced in the article by – 37. Ghulam Mustafa Khan, 1982. Al-Dhabh; Slaying Animals for Food the Islamic Way. Islamic Medical Association.
Also see the pdf copy at http://www.iccservices.org.uk/pdf/Al-%20Dhabh%20M%20Khan.pdf
8
Widely condemned cattle-killing method is used by kosher meat firm’s supplier‘ by Nathaniel Popper in the Los Angeles Times, April 15 2010^.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/15/business/la-fi-kosher-slaughter15-2010apr15
9
PETA Reveals Extreme Cruelty at Kosher Slaughterhouses
http://www.peta.org/features/Agriprocessors.aspx
10
June 3, 2008. ‘ Rubashkin: It’s all a lie’ -By Ben Harris
http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/article/rubashkin_its_all_a_lie_20080604/
11
‘ Humane Slaughter? killing animals fully conscious ‘ under the subsection ‘Religious slaughter in New Zealand’
http://www.safe.org.nz/Campaigns/Religious-slaughter/
12
‘Specifying the Risks to Animal Welfare Associated with Livestock Slaughter without Induced Insensibility’ by David B Adams and Allan D Sheridan. Prepared by the Animal Welfare Branch of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. 28th Nov 2008. – page xiv.
13
www.sunniforum.com – a resource for the propagation of authentic Islamic teachings> General Forums > Health and Well-Being > Halal Meat Criteria in Australia?
Post by ‘ abdullahnana ‘ on 15-02-2010,6.26AM
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-54639.html
14
Under the section Trefar.
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/ritual_slaughter/goingforthekill01.htm – under the section ‘ Trefar’
15
What’s Wrong with Stunning?
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/222246/jewish/Whats-Wrong-with-Stunning.htm
16.
‘ Stunning Use under Halal, Kosher Practices Revealed ‘, Feb 24 2011, www.themeatsite.com
http://www.themeatsite.com/meatnews/13683/stunning-use-under-halal-kosher-practices-revealed
17
‘ Halal: It’s Just Not Kosher, May 06, 2011
http://www.israellycool.com/2011/05/06/halal-its-just-not-kosher/
18
‘BVA calls for total pre-stunned slaughter’ Gemma Mackenzie, Tuesday 17 May 2011.
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/17/05/2011/126837/BVA-calls-for-total-pre-stunned-slaughter.htm
19
‘ Many faces of slaughter ‘ 07/06/2010. National Council of SPCAs promoting the Welfare of All Animals
http://www.nspca.co.za/page.aspx?Id=291&CateId=14&Category=Farm&SubCateId=291&SubCategory=Slaughter
20
‘Halal meat: are you eating it without choosing it?’ Courtesy by: Inspire Magazine. Posted by Halal Research Council on Jan 19 2011
http://halalrc.blogspot.com/2011/01/halal-meat-are-you-eating-it-without.html
21
‘ Halal: It’s Just Not Kosher, May 06, 2011
http://www.israellycool.com/2011/05/06/halal-its-just-not-kosher/

Why I am not a National Socialist: or, do we need ‘Neo-Nazism’ any more?

An independant article by contributor by Wade Chambers

1. Introduction: A Fantasy Scenario

 Would anyone vote for Hitler, were he alive today? Let us perform a thought-experiment: suppose that, by a miracle, Hitler and the NSDAP were around today, in the year 2012. Despite the NSDAP’s chequered history (the mass gassing of 8 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and others, in giant gas chambers disguised as showers and vans; turning those said people into, according to the Nuremberg trial, bars of soap, lampshades, upholstery, pocketbooks, gloves and other items), all the party’s past excesses are forgiven. Hitler and the NSDAP are allowed to run on the same electoral platform as they did in the 1930s. How successful would they be?

 I would argue: not so successful. Once a politician enacts a certain reform, or policy, and it becomes law, and remains law – then he can’t run with that policy or reform again. For example: a politician running on a platform of decriminalising homosexuality, or allowing the widespread use of contraceptive pills. In the West, this would be a redundancy (although it would be, perhaps, in the Islamic and Arabic world, quite radical). Likewise, just about every part of the Hitler/NSDAP platform has become redundant. There are exceptions, of course, but the exception proves the rule.

 2. How we are already National Socialist

 Take the National socialist doctrines on anti-smoking and the cult of physical fitness and beauty. In Australia (and most western countries), these are part of everyday life, and certainly cultural life. Laws in Australia prevent smoking in just about every public place (and often in private places too, with the advent of mandatory smoke detectors in every apartment). As for physical fitness, the hobby, the lifestyle, has taken off everywhere in the West (since around the 1980s or so), and the craze shows no signs of abating – something which is visible to everyone (through fashion, media, advertising) and which anyone can see for themselves (unless they have been living in a cave for the past thirty years).

 Then there is National Socialist environmentalism. Just about every politician, whether on the Left or the Right, today wants to be seen as an environmentalist and holding to environmentally-friendly policies. Things have changed a lot in this regard since Hitler’s time. The NSDAP was the first green party, and the only left-leaning party to hold to environmentalism (the Soviet Union, before, during and after Hitler, pursued policies which were environmentally destructive).

 Since Hitler’s time, environmentalism has become an establishment doctrine, and, in fact, has mutated into a sort of Marxism. Just as the Marxists of old held to ‘scientific socialism’, and declared that only Marxism was true ‘science’ (dismissing everything else as mere ‘ideology’ or ‘false consciousness’), the environmentalists of today uphold true ‘science’ and dismiss anything that disagrees with it as ‘not science’. ‘Science’ (that is, environmentalist science) in their view, is unanimous, all-knowing, all-true and fixed, rigid, certain and immutable – just as Marxism was. (This is despite the fact that science has been, since the Einsteinian revolution in physics, an uncertain thing; almost two scientists, outside of the environmentalist sciences, can hardly agree on anything (except for the principles of something basic – say, combustion)).

 Environmentalism was always mixed with anti-capitalism. But, in 2012, the anti-capitalist parts of the doctrine have gained ascendancy, and a new element has emerged – scientism, that is, bowing down to the opinion of science, what Nietzsche called ‘submission to the facts’ (viz, the facts as determined by scientists).

 Along with this, governments – and corporations – have instituted environmentalist policies everywhere. The result has been a real perversion of the doctrine. In an anti-environmentalist article, James Delingpole writes that: ‘Wind farms, besides blighting views, destroying topsoil and causing massive noise pollution, kill around 400,000 birds a year in the U.S. alone’ (‘How green zealots are destroying the planet: a provocative claim from a writer vilified for denying global warming’, The Daily Mail, 7/2/2012). This is hardly a picture of man living in harmony with nature.

 That aside, a NSDAP couldn’t succeed today running on a green platform, for the simple reason that there are plenty of green parties out there which do environmentalism better – and that environmentalism has become part of Western culture anyway.

 What else is there? Autobahns, of course: well, Australia, and Europe, has plenty of these. In the time of Mussolini and Hitler, motorised transport was a new thing (and the German army, as we know, relied to a large extent, on moving around soldiers and supplies around by foot, horseback and train). It was National Socialist policy that every German family should have a car, and the chance to drive these cars on the autobahns criss-crossing the country (and, perhaps, the conquered East – i.e., those parts of the USSR conquered and colonised by the Germans – as well). In an odd way, this policy is evocative of the American way of life – then and now, America is the country of the car, the country which makes the ownership of one’s means of transport (whether it be a horse or a car) a sacred right. But, now, Europe (and Australia and North America) suffer from too many cars, and too many roads: our cities, suburbs and workplaces are designed for cars and around cars, and not for human beings. Cars are a nuisance (along with bicycles and motor bikes), and, while all these forms of transport are needed for modern civilisation to continue, it is arguable whether or not we need to work, live and play on top of giant roads and parking lots (which is what our living spaces have become).

 What of communism? Since 1991, we don’t have communism any more, and that’s that. Communist parties dominate some Third World countries (the notion of a ‘Third World’ being itself a Maoist one); but the only two countries which pursue strict communist policies are North Korea and Cuba.

In Hitler’s time, communism was a deadly foe; not only was it militarily powerful, and aggressive (having invaded Finland, Rumania, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; given the Japanese a pasting in Mongolia; and ‘intervened’ in the Spanish Civil War), but millions of working-class people around the world believed that communism stood for a better way of life. The jury is out as to whether or not the Soviet Union was, in the post-war era, capable of defeating NATO and subjugating Western Europe; but certainly, the perception of communism, by the working-classes in the West, as offering the ‘good life’ was invalidated fairly quickly by the end of the war.

 The decline and fall of the Soviet Union, and the backsliding of China into capitalism, was a huge set-back for Marxism; but it was an equally grievous blow for fascism. Contrary to post-war (Jewish) myth, Hitler maintained a very simple political objective throughout his career: not to destroy Jewry, but to destroy communism, by force, in Europe and the Soviet Union itself if necessary. Mussolini, and the rest of the fascist movement, maintained the same objective. (Which is why Mussolini, during the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact, wrote, in an aggrieved letter to Hitler, that the pact was a gross violation of the fundamental principles of fascism). Like many ideologies, fascism (and National Socialism) depended on its political opponent for the justification of its existence. If you were to take away communism, you would take away the justification for fascism.

 A German politician, whether Hitler or anyone else, would meet with indifference and incredulity, were he to campaign on a platform of sturdy anti-communism, in Germany or anywhere else in the West. Which is not to say that the radical Left in Germany aren’t a nuisance: they are. But they are not as egregious as, say, cars.

 3. The fascist as street-fighting man

 So, in 2012, we live in a West without communism. Which brings us to the next topic: fascism and the street-fighting man. In an article by Donald Winters, (‘The Neofascist Method’, at: http://www.natalt.org/2011/08/11/the-neofascist-method-the-edl-breivik-and-double-legality/ ), the topic of fascism and its tradition of association combat with communist opponents is explored. Just as Islamism relies upon terrorism as method for gaining power, fascism relied upon a violent, theatrical and paramilitarised confrontation, played out in public, with communism.

 The fascist strategy was obvious. The resulting social and political chaos, brought about by the confrontation (bordering on civil war), destabilises liberal democratic governments. This, in turn, leads to the opening of the field, so to speak, in politics: radical, extra-parliamentary movements, like fascism or communism, have the chance of seizing power from a weak, embattled liberal democratic government. (Liberal democracy is ‘suspended’ by the new fascist government in the interests of upholding ‘law and order’ and ‘decency’). It was a simple enough method – so simple that even the most dim-witted brownshirt or blackshirt could understand it – and, at the time, extremely effective.

 One of the theses of the Winters article was that, possibly, the fascist method could be transposed to the present: Islamism could take the place of communism, and a series of highly stylised, ritualised and theatrical street confrontations with Islamism could destabilise liberal democracy – just as the fascist and communist confrontations did in the 1920s and 1930s.

 This is logical enough: after all, it is fairly easy to draw comparisons between Islamism and communism. Both are dogmatic; both are intolerant of opposing creeds and religions; both are hierarchical and led from the top down (clerics and mullahs, Marxist intellectuals and philosopher-kings); both have a large compendium of theoretical texts behind them, ‘holy scriptures’ (Marx, Engels, Lenin for one, the Koran on the other); both have millions of fanatical adherents willing to die for the cause; both, once they are implemented, have a terrible record when it comes to liberalism, human rights and basic freedoms (all of which are taken for granted in the West); both are politically active and want to control their immediate environments (and the people in them); both use subversion, violence and extra-parliamentary activities in order to achieve that control; both are – and this is the most important thing – willing to come out, in large numbers, and fight fascists in the street.

 Time – and history – will prove if this thesis is correct. The Winters article raises possibilities; it does not say, ‘This is only way forward’ for nationalism; it merely says that this is one possible avenue. I myself am divided on it. The presence of millions of Muslims in the West, along with the Islamification of many Western European neighbourhoods and cities, is, quite possibly, a symptom of an underlying disease – not the disease itself. The millions of Muslims do want, paradoxically, to make Western Europe more like the Islamic countries they have fled; and their presence alone has transformed Europe. But they are not, like the aggressive communists of the 1920s and 1930s, seeking to subjugate, to conquer, the West: that is, they are not acting to a prearranged master plan (unlike the Muslims of old – e.g., during the expansionist phase of the Ottoman Empire). They are, in Spengler’s view, part of a spent civilisation; they are the remnants – fellahin – of that civilisation. They have no more ‘world-conqueror’ left in them – any more than today’s Mongolians have any Genghis Khan left in them.

Instead of the Muslims (and the millions of African, mainly Christian, immigrants to Europe), we should be focusing upon the whites who brought these groups here. It was whites who, for instance, abolished the whites-only immigration laws in the US in 1965; it was whites who, in Australia, created the intellectual climate which led to the downfall and destruction of the White Australia policy in that same decade; it was whites who were among the chief agitators for the destruction of apartheid and white South Africa (and white Rhodesia). A number of Jews, of course, played a significant role in all of this (as will be detailed later); but, in the end, it was all down to white people.

 Part of the beauty of fascist ideology was its simplicity. The enemy is communism; the enemies are communists; the communists are holding a rally next week: let’s turn up with some sturdy, uniformed lads and smash it! But how, in 2012, do we confront multiracialism – a destructive tendency which is spread among the white population at large and is not centrally located in any individual or party? Multiracialism and multiculturalism – nice terms which mean, in fact, the destruction of white people – don’t have a Comintern; nor do they have offices; or party rallies; or parties one can join. (They don’t have armies one can fight against, unless one counts the modern-day US army).

 My own conclusions are that we nationalists, today, are in a similar position to that of the French Situationists in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘Capitalism’ and the ‘consumer society’ are so endemic, so widespread, that they are a state of mind. Radical politics must apply a series of shocks, in order to wake people up – or jar them out of their normal, somnolent, accepting state of consciousness. In other words, what is needed is a mental revolution before a political revolution. Situationism, of course, ended in failure (after the failure of the May 1968 revolution in France), although its unique approach, and world-view, still dominate sectors of the Left today. But the fact that these methods didn’t really work for the extreme Left doesn’t mean that they can’t work for the extreme Right.

 In turn, this means that the nationalists need to win over two groups: the youth and the intellectuals. It is a new decade, a new century, and not only do we nationalists have a new weapon – the Internet – but also millions of disaffected white youths unhappy with the way things are. (Possibly, they are only unhappy, in America and Europe, because of the present economic malaise, but still…). We are only going to win the youth over to the nationalist cause by bypassing the mainstream media (and entertainment) with the Internet, and other tools, and by forcing them to think – and abandon the old dogmas held by their parents. (One of them is: the West’s colonies and empires were founded by the brutal mass-murder and despoliation of the coloured peoples of the Third World; the other dogma is regarding Germany and Italy and their conduct during the war, and the reasons why that war started. (It’s actually easier to persuade today’s youth to revise their views on the subject of Germany and the war, given that they – unlike their parents – are open to new media and new means of the transmission of information)). The multiracialists, in their portrayal of white people, in history books, and mass entertainment – as a nasty, brutal, degraded, murderous lot, forever committing terrible crimes against Jews and black people – wage psychological warfare against the whites of the West. The aim is to get white people to think less of themselves – to really see themselves as horrible, not worthy of life. The British get a steady dose of the ‘crimes of British imperialism’; the Germans, of course, get endless doses of Elie Wiesel, mass gassings at Auschwitz, etc.; the Americans, crimes of the segregationists in the South, and the alleged mass murder of native American Indians; and so forth. No group likes to see themselves as a bunch of killers and bastards. (Which is why Israeli Jews, for instance, have contrived an elaborate series of psychological defence-mechanisms to insulate themselves from the reality of what they do, and have done, to the Palestinians). If you alter the perception, created by the Left, white people have of themselves, then you have changed the way they think; if you change the way they think, then you change the way they act.

 4. Hitler, race and Eastern Europe

 I once asked a Serbian friend why Hitler, and National Socialism, were so popular in nationalist circles in Eastern Europe – despite the historical enmities some of the countries in these regions feel towards Germany. He replied that the peoples of Eastern Europe were being deluged by the biggest wave of immigration (from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East) that the world had ever seen; and, in response to this, they felt that Hitler’s racialist doctrine was highly pertinent.

 In the 1930s, there were two racialist creeds: one was the white Anglo-Saxon one, which we would, today, call ‘white supremacist’, and which every leading white politician, journalist and intellectual more or less accepted (including Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery); the other was Hitler’s rather strange brand of Germanic racialism. The Anglo-Saxonist racial view never really was intellectually articulated, or at least, made the subject of a fully-fledged political ideology. Hitler’s racialism, on the other hand, was fully-developed and lay at the centre of his ideology. Hitler’s notion that states owe their greatness (or inferiority) to their racial state was, at the time, a radical one – and still is. What British, Australian or American politician would dare assert, today, that the national greatness of their respective countries is due to their racial composition?

 Hitler’s doctrine, then, is a timely one, simply because of the terrible realities for white people today.

 The problem with the racially homogenous liberal democracies of the 1950s and 1960s – in Europe, Australia, and North America – was that they worked: there was no need for a neo-fascist revolution of any sort. Communism didn’t present the existential threat to the West, in those decades, that it did in the 1920s and 1930s. Fascism (or neo-fascism), as a creed, was unused and unloved – the property of a few eccentrics, like Yockey and Evola, and a few old nostalgics, like Mosley and Degrelle. Then along came multiracialism – which, carried to its logical conclusion, will see the utter biological extirpation of the peoples of the West. Now here is an existential threat – and one that is, in its way, worse than communism. (Had the communists taken over Britain, Italy, France, Germany, in the 1940s, millions would have been starved to death or executed; but at least a proportion of the indigenous inhabitants of those countries would have survived as a demographic majority. Not so now). Hitler’s racialism – and Mussolini’s – was dusted off and re-presented to the nationalist world. The line, taken by the nationalists and Far Rightists of the West, was almost: ‘Hitler anticipated this! He was right on race all along!’.

 At first sight this seems to be the case. But the fact is: today’s immigration problem is, in the West, completely without precedent; no sane white person, in Hitler or Mussolini’s time, have advocated the extirpation of the British, Dutch, Belgian, French, Swedish, et al., peoples through mass non-white immigration to Europe and the colonies of the West. Such an idea would have been beyond the ken of a Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin – as much as, say, a manned flight to the moon, or, for that matter, rock music.

 The second objection is that the doctrinal content of today’s racialism stems, not so much from Hitler’s rather peculiar anti-Slavic racialism as much as the Anglo-Saxon racialism of Britain, America and Australia. It was the politicians and intellectuals who invented ‘the white man’ and ‘the white peoples’ as a cultural and political category (Hitler preferred the term ‘Aryan’). This kind of Jack London, Rudyard Kipling racialism underwent a mutation by the 1970s, insofar as the peoples of Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union (Russia, Belarus and the Baltic States anyway) were now counted as honorary members of the ‘white race’. In other words, Canadians and Slovenians, Germans and Poles, Australians and Russians, both have the same racial and political status.

 Whatever the biology of the matter: many Westerners, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, assumed that the Eastern Europeans (e.g., the Serbs, or the Russians, or the Poles) thought and behaved exactly the same as the British, Swedes, Spanish, Irish, New Zealanders and Canadians did – in other words, that they were the same as us. Now, though, in 2012, we see a mass migration, from the economically depressed areas of Eastern Europe, to the more prosperous West. Many of these migrants are questionable from a racial point of view: e.g., many nationalists would dispute that the Albanians, Bosnian Muslims or ‘Romanians’ (most of the time, Roma, gypsies) flocking to Britain, France and Sweden are, in fact, white. But we also see the intriguing phenomenon of Western European whites (e.g., the British) coming into contact with Eastern European whites (e.g., Poles) in large numbers, for the first time, and not liking them very much (an additional question is: are all these Romanians in Britain, collecting huge welfare benefits and being put up in million-pound mansions by local councils, really Roma? Or are they just mendacious white Romanians?). We see where some of that anti-Slavism in Mein Kampf came from. In other words, not all members of the white race are brothers despite the fact we should be.

 Part of the problem is that today’s racialism, in the nationalist movement, is Americanised. To the American, the Negro and the Hispanic is the racial Other: and a very prominent, visible and identifiable racial Other. Compared to the Negro and the Hispanic, the American of Lithuanian, Slovak or Greek immigrant origins is mighty ‘white’, that is to say, Anglo-Saxon.

 In turn, this is because America has been so successful, historically, in assimilating European immigrants. The immigrants from Greece, Russia, Italy, Poland, etc., were forced to learn English – Americanised English – in order to enter, and live in, the country. There are Italian and Irish Americans (particularly in New York) who claim to possess some filial bond with the country of their ancestors, but this is so much bunk: these are Americans, and are no more Irish, Polish or Italian than I am. Whereas, in Australia, the situation is completely the reverse: the Greeks, Italians, Poles, Lithuanians, Serbs, Hungarians, et al., were encouraged to retain their own language, and their own sense of separate ethnic identity (separate from the Anglo-Saxon racial host population); separate churches, ethnic newspapers, schools, radio stations, cultural events, were encouraged by the state. They were never ‘broken’ and ‘melted down’ in the way that their ethnic compatriots emigrating to America were. Australians never go to political demonstrations on behalf of Wales, Ireland or Scotland; but Greeks, Macedonians and Serbs, for instance, turn out in the thousands for rallies whenever a current issue, affecting their respective countries, crops up.

 Nationalist intellectuals have never really faced any of this. Hitler’s racialism was unique, a form of particularism, intended (mainly) for the Germans, and for the Germans alone; but what happened was that, in the hands of the George Lincoln Rockwells, it became transmuted into a kind of universalism which holds true for every white person in the world. It is one of the peculiarities of the Far Right that nationalism has become a doctrine of transnationalism.

 5. Today’s Jewish question

 Hitler’s thesis, of the Jew as the ‘race poisoner’ of the ‘Aryan’ people, was a radical one when it appeared in Mein Kampf. Many readers simply couldn’t understand how one ethnic group, living in the midst of a host population, could promote multiracialism, miscegenation, individualism and the extirpation of a unique national, racial and cultural identity (and the pride that comes with it), while at the same time holding their own group racially pure. That changed – in the nationalist world, at least – after George Lincoln Rockwell, David Duke, William Pierce and Kevin MacDonald. These men could draw upon their bountiful experience with, for instance, counter-culture Jews (hippies and communists) during the civil rights crusade in America in the 1960s. All they had to do was juxtapose Jewish activity in the anti-Apartheid struggle, or the Jewish role in the founding of the NAACP, with Jewish racial policies in Israel. (Also, Pierce and Duke would also use techniques such as reproducing full-page advertisements, taken out by Jewish activists, in the New York Times – these advertisements, penned by Jews, would be pleas for Americans Jews to marry only other Jews, lest ’3000 years’ of cultural, racial and religious history be sacrificed).

 Another thesis – of Jews and their relationship to Russian communism – also met with disbelief and incomprehension. The idea that Jews, in Europe and elsewhere, viewed communism as a vehicle for advancing their own ethnic interests, seemed absurd. Why would, for instance, a Jewish member of the capitalist class support a Bolshevik revolution in Russia or Hungary? Ethnic solidarity coming before class divisions? Madness!

 But post-war communist experience changed that. Maoism, for instance, utilised Chinese nationalism, Chinese transnational solidarity, the patriotic anti-Japanese resistance by the Chinese, and class collaboration between nationalist Chinese businessmen and Chinese communists. Successive communist groups availed themselves of the same techniques: we have a Kurdish separatist and nationalist Maoist communist group – the PKK – which is supported by wealthy capitalist Kurds, living overseas, and Kurds who don’t usually have any time for communism or Marxism. Which is how I explain Hitler’s thesis of ‘Judeo-Bolshevism’ to non-nationalists (of an intellectual bent): the Jews, in Russia and the USSR in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, practised a form of Maoism and advanced the cause of Stalinist communism – a universalist, internationalist, humanist and anti-nationalist ideology – simply because it would advance the Jewish ethnic interest in Russia (and, it was hoped, communist-occupied Western and Eastern Europe). In other words, they saw Stalin as their boy. Once Stalin, by 1952, turned on the Jewish minority in Russia, of course, Jewry worldwide turned on Stalin, who was denounced as an ‘anti-Semite’. Then we began to hear about all the terrible ‘anti-Semitism’ in the USSR, and why millions of captive Soviet Jews, a people ‘in bondage to the pharaoh’, should be allowed to emigrate to Israel.

Non-nationalists can easily be made to understand this idea – of an ethnic group utilising ideology and foreign policy in order to serve its group interest. One simply has to say something like, ‘Israel, the Israel lobby and their supporters amongst Jewish-Americans have large influence on the US political system in the US. If they decide that the US will bomb Iran, the US will bomb Iran, no questions asked. That doesn’t matter if Obama, or Mitt Romney, is president’. Non-nationalists can’t argue with that. Neither can the Left, and there are signs that even the Left is, now, becoming aware of the existence of a Jewish and Israel lobby. The idea that, of course, an ethnic minority group – the Jews – can control the entire politics of a state is, of course, a Hitlerian thesis. So the Left is articulating Hitlerism without knowing it.

 So, in that regard, certain of Hitler’s positions on the Jews have met with a kind of (covert) acceptance throughout the West: it’s just that these things must be spoken of, behind closed doors, and to people whose minds have not been corrupted by Israeli and US propaganda (and there are surprisingly many of these people). This represents an advance on, say, twenty years ago.

 The question is: are Hitler’s views on Jewry as ‘race poisoner’ still correct today?

 According to the Pierces and Dukes, multiracialism is a vast edifice, which is maintained by (mainly Jewish-American owned) media, which pumps out ‘race-mixing’ propaganda 24 hours a day; furthermore, the same Jews, advocating race-mixing and mass non-white immigration, also are supporters of the most radical, liberal causes as well – e.g., gay marriage. One cannot deny these facts; and, if one needs evidence, one can find copious amounts of it in Pierce, Duke, MacDonald. Likewise, one cannot deny the role Jews played in agitating for Negro civil rights, or the end of Apartheid, or the anti-war movement, in the sixties; or their long involvement, predating the 1960s, in radical causes.

 I have two problems with this thesis: one is that it neglects the role whites – particularly baby boomer whites – played in the sixties cultural revolution. It’s true that Jewish beatniks, hippies, communists and counter-cultural agitators played a big part; but so did many British, American, German, Australian, French, et al., whites. And these were not all at the cultural fringes: the whites who abolished the American immigration law in 1965 were white, and by today’s standard, conservative; as were the white Liberal Party politicians who overturned the White Australia policy in the late 1960s.

 The truth is that, just as in the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, there was a kind of madness in the air infecting all the participants in the 1960s Western cultural revolution. It was inescapable. One only had to turn on the television and see the film clip for the Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ – where a black Afro-Caribbean immigrant is holding hands and singing along, with British whites, around Paul McCartney’s piano. How could one fight the Beatles?

 (In this connection, one wonders what Hitler would have thought, had he lived to see the ‘Prague Spring’ – essentially a revolution against authoritarian, Brezhnev-era communism by liberals and hippies within the Czechoslovakian communist state – in 1968. I am inclined to speculate that one of Hitler’s age, temperament, life experience and politics would have led him to sympathise with Brezhnev).

 In short, the great cultural changes of the 1960s can be put largely at the feet of white people, not just ‘the Jews’. Now, though, in 2012, we in the West are enjoying the after effects of that sixties cultural revolution (just recently, we had to live through another American celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day). What strikes me is the degree to which multiracialism has become incorporated into the world-view – the way of acting, thinking, believing – of ordinary white people. The celebrants of Martin Luther King Day are ordinary, Anglo-Saxon Americans, who are completely ignorant of King’s dubious past – his debauchery, his plagiarisation of his doctoral thesis, his shadowy connections to communism. King the man has become subsumed to King the myth: and it is that ‘I have a dream’ myth which captivates white America (it is the same with the Mandela cult). And this is without ‘The Jew’.

 What I compare multiracialism to is a computer virus, like the malignant Stuxnet virus (created, according to rumour, by Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities). In my analogy, all the computers in the network – e.g., all the white Western European people in the world – are infected by it, and, to a certain extent, are completely unaware that they are infected. And, while ‘The Jew’ (along with Lyndon Johnson and John Lennon) contrived to release the virus upon an unsuspecting world – he is no longer soley responsible for maintaining its existence. The genie is out of the bottle, so to speak.

 In other words, Hitler’s ‘race poisoner’ thesis has become completely outdated. The reason why so many in the nationalist movement – particularly some white nationalists – cling to it is that they are unwilling, or unable, to acknowledge the whiteness of the multiracialist doctrine – or the fact that it is our own racial kind (our own parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles) who are using it to destroy us.

6. Germany Rising

 Other of Hitler’s doctrines which have now become commonplace are welfare subsidies to women, encouraging them to have children; others have not become that commonplace (e.g., animal welfare, vegetarianism, and laws against cruelty for animals). But we will finish here by concentrating on something else: geopolitics and Germany – one of the central themes of Mein Kampf and its successor, Secret Book.

 In international power-politics, independence, sovereignty, is a rare thing: one’s country is either a great power (like the US/Israel, Russia, China) or a vassal (one could use a nicer word: ‘ally’; ‘friend’; ‘beneficiary’) of them. A small nation, true, can eke out an existence independent of the great powers: Cuba does, as do Iran, Vietnam, Laos, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua. But generally, this is not a position one wants to be in: one’s subordination to a great power means one is protected by that power (what Yockey calls, following Hobbes, the ‘law of protection and obedience’).

 This geopolitical model is an either/or model. But there are, in the real world, shades, gradations.

 One can, for instance, ‘lean towards’ a great power, and show signs of ‘toppling over’ and ‘falling into’ its sphere of influence: such was the case of Libya (previously a small, independent state, like Cuba or Vietnam) after 2003. Now, after the anti-Ghaddafi rebellion, the state is in the Washington/Tel Aviv camp – if one could call the anarchistic hodge-podge, which Libya is today, a state.

Likewise, a state – usually one with a past track record of greatness and independence – can show signs of ‘bursting out’, of ‘breaking away’, out of the sphere of influence of a great power; it, in turn, may lead to true independence, true sovereignty, and end up accruing great power and respect for itself. Such is the case with Turkey after 2010 and Germany after 2011. (A recent poll of around 26,000 people put Germany up the top as the most popular country in the world; the bottom three were Pakistan, Israel and North Korea).

 The latter would make the NSDAP member exclaim, upon hearing it: ‘What’s this! My beloved Germany, again becoming a great power! Then the program of Mein Kampf is well and truly fulfilled’.

 Germany is still under the thumb of Israel and the US. But the recent financial crisis, and the almost complete absence of US influence and interference on the Continent (and indeed, Obama can scarcely summon up any interest in European matters) has led to a strange power vacuum.

 This is a period in European history which is oddly evocative of the US isolationism of the 1930s, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Nothing, but nothing, could persuade the American people to take an interest in events on the Continent: not even a war between Germany and Britain. This was a source of great frustration to Roosevelt and his Jewish ‘Brains Trust’, who longed to throw America’s resources into the war. As a result of this isolationism, Germany scooped the pools and was the master of the Continent – and, except for Britain, all of Europe.

 Germany, in 2012, out of all the Continental European nations, has, as we know, avoided the worst effects of the European debt crisis, and is now taking upon itself the control of the fiscal affairs of all the other EU members (using the medium of the EU and France). Merkel’s fiscal austerity policies are dreadful, of course, and it is no wonder that Britain, and Greece, are resisting Germany’s power. But resistance is a sign of power being exerted, Nietzsche says. The fact that these countries are putting up a fight is a sign that Germany does have the power (and not Russia, the US or Israel). The Second World War was a battle for, among other things, German political and economic control of the Continent. Arguably, there can be no political control without economic control, and the adoption of a Europe-wide monetary policy – and now, under Merkel, a Europe-wide fiscal policy (awful as it is) – has facilitated Germany’s wartime aims of control of the Continent. This is without a shot being fired, and, unlike the first time around, it has happened with very little struggle. Certainly, other countries – like Poland, and Austria – have fallen like ninepins.

The strange thing is that none of this was intended: it simply happened. The Germans, under Merkel, never sought power, and, after Hitler and the war, were reluctant to be in a position of power over their fellow Europeans. Now we are seeing, for the first time in seventy years, a powerful Germany – led by a leader who is portrayed as a bully, and who has that grating, ugly, discordant German accent – which is imposing its own rather peculiar brand of economics on the subjugated European nations.

 This is, at first sight, due to the fact that, after the financial crisis, Germany was the last man standing, and that Germany is one of the wealthiest (if not the wealthiest) of the European nations, and blessed with a populace of hard workers, a large industrial base, innovative technology, and a fiscally prudent government. In other words: you can’t keep a good German down.

 But it goes deeper than that. Roosevelt, the interventionist, fought a tremendous, horrific war for control of the Continent. The ‘expulsion of the Nazis [viz., Germans]‘, from ‘All the countries they’ve conquered’, was dear to him: it was his penultimate aim. But Obama, and the US, are preoccupied with Iran only; they ignore Europe because American foreign policy is written for them by Tel Aviv. What’s more, America, under Bush Jr. and Obama, has gone through a deep economic, political and social decline. It is no longer interested, really, in maintaining a foothold in East Asia; likewise, it has let Latin America – its other backyard – be taken over, virtually, by populist demagogues of the Chavez, Ortega and Morales type. In effect, it no longer has the resources – political, economic, moral – to maintain its power in the two backyards. This decline is the outcome of five lost wars – in Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, Lebanon in 2006, Georgia in 2008 and Gaza in 2009 – wars lost by itself and its proxies. It takes great skill and statesmanship to arrest a political decline following such a series of military reverses, but, under Obama and Netanyahu, the Washington/Tel Aviv power unit hasn’t got it.

 So, what we are seeing at this point of history, is an extraordinary thing: Turkey, increasingly alienated from Israel and America, shows signs of shrugging off the yoke and wanting to become the strong man of an increasingly liberalised Middle East; Germany is already the strong man of Europe, and is forming an economic space which will be completely independent of the British and American one – a new European order which is for Europeans, and led by Germany. (Hitler, in one of his last radio addresses (in January 1945) speaks of Germany’s ‘destiny’ to ‘lead this continent’).

 During December last year, The Daily Mail (the British tabloid, which runs stories on Hitler, the NSDAP and WWII in the European theater, virtually every day) ran a feature on the anniversary of Germany’s ill-fated 1944 Ardennes offensive, (‘Vivid new Battle of the Bulge photos offer never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers braving the frigid weather as they fight off Nazi Germany’s last major offensive of World War II’, 18/12/11). As we know, the offensive was narrowly thwarted by the Allies, at great cost in American casualties. In the voluminous comments section for the article, one British poster commented acerbically, ‘Seems like a useless war. Less than a century later, Germany is in control of continental Europe again’. Another British poster wrote: ‘And some of us still want to join up with these Europeans, get out of europe before they try to destroy us again. Germany having lost twice has now got wise to itself and has taken over Europe at last without a shot being fired. All those brave men died for Nothing. LET THEM HAVE IT’.

 In an odd way, the British and Greek media propaganda comparing Merkel’s Germany to the Third Reich is accurate: the writers of these hate-filled screeds understand, intuitively, that Hitlerism and German National Socialism stood for a strong Germany – a Germany that is in a position of power over the other European nations (and being in a position of power is what leadership is about). National Socialism is a complex, multi-faceted ideology; but it is this belief in the German national virtues, and the belief that Germany should lead, which makes up the bedrock, the foundation, of German National Socialism. Hitler’s racialism is, in the end, a German racialist chauvinism: an expression in the belief in the German’s superiority to other Europeans (in particular, the French, and the Eastern Europeans) and an exhortation for Germans to take pride in this fact.

 (Much of Germany’s political success depends on its current popularity. It is seen, by the world, as a good country and a desirable place to live. Likewise, Turkey is popular in the Middle East – for standing up to Israel, among other things – and is economically prosperous, and what’s more, a model of how an Islamic country can develop itself along quasi-Western lines. Today’s anti-Iran propaganda tries to portray Iran as being much like 1930s Germany – that is, a small, bellicose nation, led by an arrogant, eccentric little leader, pursuing a policy of brinkmanship and no compromise. But this is imposing today’s political requirements on the past, malforming the past to suit the political needs of the present. Germany, in the 1930s, was a large, wealthy, successful and well-liked nation; it wasn’t isolated at all; and, just like today, it was held up as a model of prosperity and growth).

 Given this new modern context, who needs remixed 1930’s German ‘Neo-Nazism’? Who needs, indeed, a ‘German nationalism’ of the NPD variety? Or at least many of its older policies. It’s true that Germany has been inundated with Middle Eastern immigration, and that the new Germany shows no signs of wanting to sweep these immigrants away. Likewise, Germany – just like Turkey – shows no signs of edging towards out-and-out war with the US/Israeli political entity. But, in response to that, I say war is a means of attaining political control: one can attain power without war, and the remarkable thing about the Turkish and German ascent is that it has all happened so easily, viz, without war. Secondly, as for German immigration and racial policy: we can only hope that things will steer towards a new ethnic nationalist (ie. not the Wilders/Gates of Vienna civic camp) direction in the future (once Merkel and her ilk are gone). The main thing is that Europe, under the EU construct, is achieving a degree of economic independence and self-sufficiency. This will form the foundation of an immigration and racial policy which is separate from that of the US and the UK (it must be emphasised here: the foundation, not the policy itself).

 This is important, because Europeans – and Westerners – have become convinced that they cannot lead decent lives (the ‘good life’) without dependence on foreign labour and investment. Part of the justification for mass non-white immigration to the West is that the West cannot simply survive a day without the labour of the Hispanic from Mexico, or the menial labour from Africa, or the smart IT engineer from India. (As for Britain: the popular press, and the politicians, are continually lamenting that indigenous, white British won’t do the jobs that immigrant Romanians and Poles do, instead choosing to live their lives on welfare). This is an absurd argument, but Westerners have come to believe it. Once Europe, under the EU, becomes a self-sufficient entity, free of both immigrant labour and US investment, and trading with Russia and the Middle East (e.g., for gas and oil) on its own terms, then it can prove that Westerners don’t need the Third World – or the US. The ‘good life’ is possible without being part of the US-UK Anglo-Saxon economic sphere, or being part of a ‘globalised world economy’, viz., China and India.

 In an odd way, then, another of Hitler’s doctrines is becoming true, and is becoming assimilated to the cultural mainstream.

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.