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The first round of the French Presential Elections are underway. Here is a list of the candidates:
Lionel Jospin
Current Prime Minister. Socialist.
Jacques Chirac
Incumbent. Markets himself as a ‘Conservative’ but his policies are virtually indistinguishable from those of Jospin.
Jean-Pierre Chevenement
Former Interior Minister. Marxist nationalist.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Veteran National Socialist.
Bruno Megret
Another National Socialist.
Noel Mamere
Green Party.
Arlette Laguiller
Trotskyite Worker’s Struggle Party.
Robert Hue
Communist Party.
Francois Bayrou
Former Minister of Education. Centrist.
Jean Saint Josse
Hunting, Fishing, Shooting, Nature and Traditions Party.
Daniel Gluckstein
Party of Workers. Another Communist.
Christiane Taubira
Left Radical Party.
Olivier Besancenot
Revolutionary Communist League.
Corinne Lepage
Nationalist Enviromentalist.
Christine Boutin
Socialist.
Alain Madelin
Liberal Democracy Party. Advocates Anglo-Saxon style free market reforms. Very unpopular. Doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of even getting past the first round.
The two candidates polling the most votes go through to a run-off for the Presidency. It is widely expected that these will be Jospin and Chirac although Arlette Lagullier has been putting in a strong show and could pip either one of them.
I always enjoy a hearty guffaw when American enviro-mentalists claim that they are warring against big business and ‘greedy’ corporations. Those guys should just go over to Europe where they can enjoy working hand-in-glove with corporations in a real partnership for a ‘greener’ Europe (not to mention a more expensive one).
Don’t believe me? Well, take a look this latest ‘triumph’ of green ideology as the EU has passed a law requiring all electrical goods to be recycled
“The new rules, which would come into force in 2005, would require individual companies to pay to recycle their electrical products once the family home no longer had use of them
Mais Naturellement it all got rubber-stamped through the EU parliament without so much as a hitch nor a blink and is being roundly welcomed as a tool for ‘changing behaviour’. That’s what these guys love more than anything on earth; changing behaviour. They get a swelling in their loins at just the thought of it. Our behaviour is very bad you see. We’re all naughty children despoiling the earth and ruining it for future generations of EUnuchs. We must be smacked firmly across the backs of our chubby little legs.
Well, we have been smacked; smacked with the bill for paying for all this recycling which Europe’s state-backed monopoly giants will simply pass onto us consumers. Thankyou, chaps. I wasn’t paying anywhere near enough for my washing-machine. But what is my comfort when compared to the happiness of the greens, the Eurocrats and, above all, Europe’s quasi-state corporations
“The Parliament’s decision was applauded by Electrolux, the Swedish white goods maker, which called on EU Governments to adopt a similar approach. “What MEPs have done is good news for producer responsibility and is constructive,” Viktor Sundberg, a director, said.
Certainly its ‘constructive’. Its helping to construct a wall of protection for the likes of Electrolux from competition both domestic and foreign. Smaller non-state backed companies will not be able to handle the regulatory burden and non-EU suppliers will fall foul of the new laws.
This is why greens were invented; as a ‘black op’ for corporatists who need to protect their patch while fooling the public into thinking they are defending themselves against a ‘radical’ anti-corporate opposition. Still, you’ve got to admit that it works.
Scene: EU Commission in Brussels. A urgent meeting of EU Officials.
LOUIS: This is an outrage!!
HANS: It is totally unacceptable.
SVEN: Intolerable.
DIRK: We cannot allow it.
LOUIS: To be scorned by such a shitty little country.
HANS: Don’t they realise who we are?
DIRK: How important we are?
LOUIS: We are World Leaders after all. First it was the Balkans, now the Middle East. We are in danger of not being taken seriously again.
SVEN: You mean, we are taken seriously now?
LOUIS: OF COURSE WE ARE, YOU SWEDISH OAF!!!
DIRK: Okay, okay. Let’s calm down. We must present a united front.
LOUIS: The Americans, the Israelis. Is there anybody else out there who is going to humiliate us?
SVEN: The Russians?
LOUIS: Shut up, Sven! We cannot allow this to stand.
HANS: Absolutely.
DIRK: We must put our foot down.
HANS: For sure.
DIRK: Show that we cannot just be pushed around.
LOUIS: Bravo! We must hit back.
HANS: Retaliate.
SVEN: How about a military response?
LOUIS: What with, Sven, what with?
SVEN: Oh yes. Good point.
DIRK: We must do something.
HANS: To show them we mean business.
LOUIS: I know, I’ve got it……!!
SVEN: What?
LOUIS: We will impose immediate trade sanctions on the Israelis.
HANS: Excellent idea.
SVEN: Louis strikes again.
DIRK: That is perfect, perfect.
HANS: That will teach them a lesson.
SVEN: They will never cross swords with us again.
LOUIS: We will prohibit all movement of goods, all travel and all banking transactions to and from Israel.
DIRK: Will I still be able to buy bagels?
HANS: Dirk, you are being very unharmonious today.
DIRK: Sorry.
LOUIS: One week of this and they will be begging, begging us to intervene and impose a solution on the Middle East.
HANS: So are we all decided?
DIRK: Definitely.
SVEN: I vote yes.
HANS: Good. I will prepare an immediate proposal on behalf of the whole Commission.
[Pause]
DIRK: Er…aren’t we…perhaps, being a bit hasty here?
LOUIS: What do you mean?
DIRK: Well…er…maybe it might make things worse.
SVEN: Oh yes, yes. Dirk has a point here. Maybe it could inflame the situation.
DIRK: Cause all manner of reprecussions.
HANS: Hmmm…well, we must avoid being confrontational I suppose.
LOUIS: But we must appear strong.
SVEN: But the Israelis are rather sensitive, just now.
DIRK: And they have a big army.
LOUIS: They do?
SVEN: And nuclear missiles!
LOUIS: Mon Dieu!! [Presses Intercom] “Francois, book me on a flight to New Zealand…”
HANS: And then of course there is the Americans.
DIRK: Oh yes, the Americans…..
SVEN: There is not telling how they might react.
LOUIS: They are a bunch of cowboys….
HANS: Unsophisticated.
DIRK: Savages, really.
SVEN: They might take this very badly.
HANS: Who knows what they might do?
DIRK: And then, of course, there’s Tony.
LOUIS: Tony won’t like it.
SVEN: No, he definitely won’t like it.
HANS: He’ll make trouble for sure. I have an election this year.
DIRK: I’m very frightened of him, actually.
LOUIS: Oh pull yourself together, Dirk.
DIRK: Sorry (sniffle).
SVEN: Er…maybe…maybe we could put the matter on the agenda for a later date.
LOUIS: Yes.
DIRK: For discussion…
HANS: For debate…..
SVEN: As a way of sharing our concerns.
LOUIS: We will think about it.
DIRK: Consider it as a possibility.
HANS: As an idea….
SVEN: One of a number of options.
LOUIS: We can mention it in passing.
HANS: So, we are all agreed on that then?
ALL: Yes.
HANS: So. The matter is settled.
[Long Pause. Somewhere in the building a door slams. Outside a car backfires. In the distance, a dog is barking]
SVEN: Ahem…clears throat…I…I have some proposals regarding the standardisation of milk cartons.
DIRK: Milk Cartons! Excellent!
HANS: Now you’re talking.
LOUIS: Why didn’t you say so before?
DIRK: We must do something on this burning issue.
HANS: At last, we can address this festering sore in our body politic.
LOUIS: We must give the matter our utmost attention.
DIRK: Now we’re cooking with gas. Three cheers for Sven.
HANS: Louis, order some more white wine and cheese nibbles. We’re in for a long session.
I spent an hour this evening having my blood slowly boiled by another of ‘The West Wing’, (Yes, they do show it over in the UK on Channel 4)
When the series first appeared, last year, I thought it was rather promising. Yes, I realise that the premise was a Democrat President but, nonetheless, it was blessed with a good cast, a sharp script and the kind of slick production values we have come to expect from these high-profile American TV dramas. Of course, I had to put up with left bias but it was, for the most part, tut-worthy rather than infuriating. But it is rapidly becoming infuriating. Tonight it almost jumped off the scale.
The whole series seems to be nothing more now than a barely-disguised vehicle for left-wing propoganda and American ‘liberal’ neurosis. The threadbare plotlines are nothing more than emotive appeals on behalf of some chic left-wing canard such as gun-control, the environment, affirmative action and ‘hate’ groups. The President is, apparently, obsessed with these subjects and little else. The rarely-seen (and never heard) Republicans are always portrayed as knuckle-dragging racists who only want to get into power so that they hang homosexuals from lamposts.
The once-sparkling dialogue has debauched into a painfully contrived polemic and the attempt to disguise it as a dialogue makes it all the more embarrassing:
“C.J. we should be going after these hate groups now”
“No, Josh, its an election year. Our priority has to be to save the Alaskan Spotted Beaver”
It really does get that bad. The characters do everything short of making a direct appeal to the camera and, in some ways, it would actually better if they did. The whole thing smacks of an increasingly ham-fisted exercise in getting messages across rather than entertain. If anyone has not seen ‘The West Wing’ yet then I recommend you do so, if only to learn how not to do TV drama.
Still there is one good thing: the actress who plays the character of ‘C.J.’ – Hubba hubba
There are opportunities to enjoy stirring victories in the unlikeliest of places. Take, for example, the continued refusal of the Vatican to relent on the ordination of women priests.
As a Jew (and a secular Jew at that) this is a matter which should be none of my concern but somehow I can’t help getting my shorts in a knot over it. Every time the Vatican issues another refusal, I let out a cheer of the kind I emit when my football team scores at home. It stirs my blood and reinforces my hope that the forces of darkness can be kept at bay.
The reasons for my taking a stand on the issue become abundantly clear once you understand that the campaign to make the Church buckle is motivated not by matters of Catholic doctrine or faith but by a quite different agenda:
“It seems a topic that just will not go away – particularly in North America, where the feminist movement has successfully promoted an end to almost all gender discrimination in commerce, government, industry, and education. Increasingly, adults in North America are viewing gender-based discrimination in the same class as racial discrimination, and are rejecting it as bigotry, profoundly immoral, and irrational. Many criticize the Roman Catholic church for its stance on male-only ordination.”
Sounds familiar? Of course it does. The handprints of the post-modern leftists are all over this campaign and the issue isn’t women at all really, the issue is revolution by stealth. The Catholic Church is in their cross-hairs as being an institution which is ripe for ‘deconstruction’.
I can say this because I have witnessed this kind of ‘deconstruction’ campaign played out to its endgame against the Church of England. Each time it was attacked, it was foolish enough to relent to avoid bad headlines and every time it appeased, its antagonists just smelled the blood in the water and it sent them wild. So it died the Death of a Thousand Cuts and now the exsanguinated giant grovels embarrassingly meak apologies for its own existance to empty pews beneath the baleful glare of an irrationally hostile press.
It didn’t help the Church of England that it was the official religion of the British State and, as that State lost its sense of destiny and moral purpose, so did the Church. But the Church of Rome has not been co-opted by any government anywhere. Membership is voluntary and, consequently, so is abiding by its rules. If you don’t like what the Church is doing then you can always leave. You can go and establish your own Church of PC Drivel and preach it to whomsoever will listen. No-one is stopping you.
It is for that reason that I hope the Vatican continues to stick to its guns on this issue. I hope the Cardinals plant their feet, set their jaws, put up their dukes and fight resolutely. No compromises, no deals, no climbdowns, no retreats, no concessions and no surrender. If they don’t they will regret it. If they do then the dawn will soon come, the sun will rise shimmering over the horizon and send the moral-relativist vampires and their hideous acolytes screeching back to their coffins with nothing to show for their infernal efforts.
Just Say No, Your Holiness.You owe it not just to Roman Catholics but to all the rest of us who live by the doctrine of reason.
“Good evening, this is the news from the BBC.
Stars from the world of music and entertainment are converging on London’s Wembley Stadium for this weekend’s charity concert, ‘EuropAid’. The aim of the concert is to raise millions of dollars to provide much-needed food, tents and medical supplies for starving Europeans. Veteran music star, now political activist, Britney Spiers, who is organising the concert, has said she will meet with the French Ambassador to London, Bertrand Maginot to discuss his concerns. Monsieur Maginot has denounced the concert as ‘arrogant American imperialism’ and has warned that money given must have ‘no strings attached’.
Meanwhile, reports are coming in from Germany that six people have been killed in a stampede and riot following attempts by Red Cross officials to distribute parcels of rice and flour in Hamburg.
Israeli Prime Minister Dana International is coming under increasing pressure from Washington to withdraw Israeli troops from Isreali-controlled areas of Tehran. Prime Minister International assured Washington that troops would be withdrawn as soon as what she termed ‘mopping up operations’ had been completed. Speaking from the Whitehouse, President Glenn Reynolds said that it was important that the peace process remained on track but stressed that there could be no question of Israel returning to it’s pre-2010 borders without realistic guarantees of security.
At a press conference in Downing Street, Prime Minister Tony Blair has quashed rumours that he intends to retire on his 75th Birthday. Mr.Blair said that he felt as energetic as ever and still had a great deal to accomplish. Mr.Blair used the opportunity to lend his support to a new campaign being launched by the Clone Rights group Human 2. The campaign follows publication of a damning report which highlighted numerous cases of discrimination against Cloned people in employment, housing and health care. Mr.Blair said that Clonism is a ‘terrible blight on our society’ and had to end
And now for the weather…..”
If anybody needs a sobering insight into the mindset of the European elites, they need look no further than this staggering decision from an Italian Court.
“The case revolves around a wealthy family in the southern city of Naples, where the father is still paying some $680 a month in maintenance to a son who is in his 30s and has a university law degree”.
Seems that this low-life’s parents have to continue supporting him until he finds a job which is ‘to his liking’ (which, of course, will be never). Hardly an incentive to family-life in a country that already has a negative population growth.
Understandably, the father is less than best pleased:
“I feel disgust for a country that I love. It wasn’t always like this”
Do you think it might occur to him to stop voting for it? No, course not. Silly me.
I’m sorry but I cannot help myself. I am compelled to do these kinds of things and it’s all their fault really. They gave me the key to the castle and now I am running amok. It is late but I am awake and ready to wreak havoc.
Brian and I have agreed, through our interactions in the mind-numbingly prosaic two-dimensional world of reality, that we actually agree with other about what we mean. We remain, however, at loggerheads at how best to express what we mean.
I wonder if the lefties have this problem? Did they cross-swords with each other for years in the quest to find the appropriate linguistic tools with which to re-educate the bourgeoisie and dismantle the institutions of capitalism? Not ever having been a party to that party, I cannot say, but regardless of the procedures employed, they certainly managed to pick a winner in ‘multiculturalism’; a tool designed not to facilitate the voluntary interaction of free people but rather as a vehicle for spreading moral relativism.
The task of moral relativism was to abolish judgement. For it is by judgement that we conclude that a flushing toilet is absolutely better than crapping in a ditch; that veal parmesan is absolutely better than grubbing in the dirt for berries. It is judgement and the unfettered ability to use it that underpins our civilisation, not the other way around. Our culture is the collective expression of millions of private judgements; it is the canvas on which they are painted and shown off to an awestruck world.
Like all marxist tools, it has been employed with staggering success and the task of people like Brian and I is to blunt them and render them redundant. This is what we’re doing now, I hope.
The first stage of this process is to clarify exactly what the word ‘multiculturalism’ means and why it must be rejected. I hope I have gone small way towards doing this. But, secondly, we must find instruments of our own by which we spread the idea that ideas themselves are more important than ethnicity; that far from being ‘non-judgemental’ civilisation requires that we be vigourously and unreletingly judgemental and thereby continue to improve the human condition. Ethnicity cannot be altered by judgement or at all but values (and, hence, culture) can. That makes the latter important and the former just boring.
The term that both Brian and I are looking for is one that will satisfactorily encapsulate the idea that anyone can be judgemental and everyone should be. In this respect, may I respectfully suggest that the term ‘Melting Pot’ is not the term we should look to. I was a young boy in the 1970’s when I first became aware of the term and equally aware of the nature of its propagandists. They were the post-modern lefties and Gramschian marxists and ‘Melting Pot’ was their dry run; their prototype. It was a taste-it-and-see experiment from which they could calculate the likely success of their fully formulated plans that lay in wait. It was the equivalent of throwing it on the stoop to see if the cat licked it up. Well, the cat didn’t just lick it up, the cat lapped it up so it was full-steam ahead from that moment on.
The term ‘Melting Pot’ worked so well for them because it tweaked all the right guilt nodules just hard enough to bring tears to the eyes but no so hard that it caused screaming. The screaming came later. It was right for them for the same reason it is wrong for us; because it manifestly fails to distinguish between ethnicity and culture and, in fact, actively sought to blur those two things into one
It is time to give each of those concepts autonomy. My suggestion of the term ‘monoculturalism’ may come with as many Hydras as Brian suggests and maybe it should not be the settled choice. So I submit it as a place to start.
The search continues.
Things in EU land are going to get a lot worse before they get even worse than that. Within 18 months all Europeans could be lumbered with a Green Tax on airline travel.
I don’t know how I managed to read through this article without the veins in my head exploding, especially when sentiments such as this go unchallenged:
“Of course there would be a reduction in the number of people who want to fly. Setting the level will be a political choice …”
A political choice!!?? Readers, this is the voice and mind of the EUnuch.
It is yet another thin end of yet another very thick wedge. The tax, once created, will most assuredly be ‘reviewed’ and ‘adjusted’ until it makes travelling by air impracticable for all but the wealthiest and the bureaucratic elite. Not for nothing have the EUnuchs chained themselves to enviro-mentalist ideology.
I have made a promise with myself never to succumb to the melancholy indulgence of conspiracy-theory but isn’t this the kind of thing the regimes do when they want their tax-cattle to stay put?
Sometimes, Brian, it can take a lot less than twenty minutes.
Correct me if I am wrong (and you will do so unhesitatingly, I’m sure) but you take the view that you don’t in the least mind foreigners coming to live in Britain so long as they adopt and adapt to a culture which is particularly and identifiably British.
In other words, aren’t you a monoculturalist?
There’s an old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee. Well, what do you call a Navigational Positioning Satellite designed by a committee? Galileo.
“At a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, EU ministers reached a deal to provide funding for the launch of Galileo, the multi-billion Euro navigation satellite system intended to rival the US Global Positioning System (GPS), thereby removing the last obstacle in the way of the project.”
Ah yes, the ‘last obstacle’ being a blank cheque for the mind-boggling amount of taxpayers money that they are going to throw at this thing. The report estimates the cost at a laughable 3.6 billion €uros but who are they trying to kid? It’ll cost more than that to supply the EU ministers with a set of custom-made luxury ‘space slippers’ for when they attend the ceremonial launch.
Or, rather, when they don’t because if this thing ever actually makes it into space then my name is Buzz Lightyear. Just like that other grand EU project the Eurofighter the damned thing will be lucky if it ever emerges from the assembly line. The Eurofighter has had public money hosed it at for lord knows how long, it was obsolete 2 years ago and it hasn’t even been built yet!
The exhausted European taxpayer would have had to have forked out far less money if the EU had simply ordered a squadron of F-16s (as HM Government was advised to do by the Ministry of Defence). But, oh no, we don’t want that. We have to have a ‘European’ combat aircraft to express our distinct ‘European’ identity. Looks like they got it.
So, cue another round of horse-trading, bickering and monumental waste as each part of the Galileo project is apportioned out according to who makes the most noise. The French will build the electrics, the Italians will build the housing, the Belgians will make the navigation system, the Germans will make the rocket boosters, the Spanish will make the launch platform, the Austrians will make the sandwiches and Sweden will provide the environmental protestors.
And you can guess, I mean you just know that none of the bits will fit together, the rest of the bits won’t work and all the bits will be behind schedule, ludicrously over-budget and held up by strike action. And, naturally, nobody will wish to complain because to do will cause a diplomatic incident and the launch site will be located in the country that agrees not to vote against French agricultural subsidies (and guaranteed to be the one furthest away from the Equator – Finland probably).
The Galileo project will, again, graphically illustrate everything that is wrong with the EU. The Soviets managed to get into space because they had a command economy where a Kommisar for Space simply ordered that a satellite be built and it was duly built. Mind you, they had to work with a wooden crate, a leaky old battery and a tube of glue but, by golly, they did it. But there will no such bullish positivity for Galileo, proving that the EU is riven with all the drawbacks of a totalitarian state and none of the advantages.
This whole debacle could have been avoided if they’d simply taken up the American offer of buying bandwidth on America’s own GPS system. It would certainly have saved a mint. But, no, the EU has to have its own satellite system so it can cock a snoot at those imperialist ‘Yanquees’ and get on with doing lots of, er, ‘European’ things in space. Besides, the European taxpayers have got far more money than they need.
There is some small chink of light at the end of this particular worm-hole, though. The US government has expressed concern that should Galileo become operational it could be used by terrorist cells to plan attacks on the US. Now, personally, I think that the Americans, the Russians, the Indians, the Israelis, the Australians, the Japanese and just about everybody else will have functioning colonies on Mars before that happens, but, in the event that it does, the US just might find itself in a position where they have to shoot the bloody thing out of the sky (chortle, snigger, stuff handkerchief in mouth). What a tragedy!!
With so much in the world to write about, comment upon, illuminate, satirise and analyse, I can no longer remain oblivious to the elephant that has rudely bashed down my door and lumbered into my room.
He’s been loitering outside for a good while now, occasionally catching my eye with a baleful and accusatory glance. Thus far, I have succeeded in shutting him out but I still catch a glimpse of him through the crack in my curtains; I lie in bed at night and hear his tail swishing to-and-fro and feel the bump as his ample haunches scrape against my walls.
My efforts at exclusion have availed me nought for he has abandoned his patient vigil and simply barged his way in. He is standing next to me now, snorting and bellowing and commanding my every regard.
I write this not because I want to but because I feel I have to.
We have all watched while events in the Middle East have rapidly escalated to the point where Israel has, now, formally declared itself to be at war. It is a conflict that we all regard with a deep sense of foreboding because we all instinctively realise the implications not just for the parties concerned but beyond. Having read the posting from Perry de Havilland, it is with a heavy heart that I concur with both his analysis and his prognosis.
But it does not end there and it would be bad enough even if it did. As evidence mounts that both Syria and Iraq are preparing to enjoin a wider war and given the intention of both the USA and the UK to go after Saddam and America’s broader war against Al-Qaeda, the mind begins to boggle at just how bad all this could get. Will Islamic radicals take this war to the USA mainland again? And what happens if they do?
In a way that if the most frightening element of this mess; the fact that Arab radicals really seem to think they can push the Israelis into the sea and bring the West to its knees. Not wishing to be pejorative, but they are, quite simply, deranged. That’s what makes this so different from the Cold War. The Russians had chained themselves to a warped and bankrupt philosophy but they could always be relied upon to act in their own best interests.
Not so here, sadly. Too many Arabic radicals believe their own rhetoric and are suicidal enough to act upon it. They simply do not seem to appreciate that whatever force the Israelis can unleash it is not but a gnat’s bite compared to that which can be visited upon them by Uncle Sam.
I can see the confluence of forces beginning to take shape and time-honoured dark clouds brooding on the horizon. Maybe this is my sordid and pessimistic imagination at work but there are too many red lights flashing to dismiss them all as herrings.
Did it feel like this in 1913? Could anyone see then where that Great Power rivalry was going to lead? Did anyone imagine the scale of carnage that lay ahead? If they did, would history have been any different? Or is there something deep within the epistemology of our species that impels us inexorably towards these periodic bloodlettings, regardless of the steps we take to avoid them? Is that really what all our searching and truth-seeking is all about? A desire to know the truth about ourselves when the real truth hides in plain sight all around us. Libertarianism, Conservatism, Socialism, Marxism and all other ‘isms’ seem nothing more than ephemeral and foppish casuistry in times like these; parlour games for the effete, the safe and the well-fed.
The kind of parlour games they probably played with each other in that last, dappled Edwardian summer before Europe became a charnel-house.
I don’t know if Europe, or anywhere else, will become a charnel-house again. I certainly hope not. But if things go as badly as they could go, then a lot of consequences will follow and expect none of them to be very agreeable. Synagogues are already ablaze in France.
None of us may be touched, but all of us will be tested.
The elephant is still here. I suppose I will have to learn to live round him somehow. He tells me that he once appeared in the background in Out of Africa and he keeps quoting a line from the film; a resignation used by the African farm workers when they were facing a catastrophe or force majeure that they could neither avoid nor prevent.
“Mem’sahib” they would say ”God is coming”
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