A Nice Chat

Conversation I had as ‘Mime’ on http://www.anicechat.net
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Mime: !
Ayvara: Howdy
Mime: *waves*
Ayvara: Wait…. you’re a mime
Mime: ………..?
Mime: *nods*
Ayvara: So you won’t speak then?
Mime: *points to you*
Mime: *shakes yead*
Mime: *points at mouth*
Ayvara: Awww that sucks
Ayvara: Why can’t you talk?
Mime: *holds throat*
Mime: !!!
Mime: *falls over*
Ayvara: Lost your voice?
Mime: *nods*
Ayvara: Illness?
Mime: ……..?
Ayvara: So what time is it wherever you are?
Mime: *holds up both hands*
Ayvara: Ahhh so you’re in the UK!
Mime: *holds up 2 fingers*
Mime: *nods*
Mime: *points at you*
Mime: …….?
Ayvara: The same
Ayvara: Whereabouts within the UK?
Mime: *makes shape of tower with hands*
Ayvara: London?
Mime: *nods*
Mime: *points up*
Ayvara: North London?
Mime: *nods*
Mime: *points at you*
Ayvara: I used to live in NE London
Mime: ………..?
Mime: !!!
Mime: ………?
Ayvara: Although I live near Hull now
Mime: !!!
Mime: *points at self*
Mime: *mimes reading book*
Mime: *points at you*
Ayvara: Hmm
Ayvara: You study there?
Mime: *nods*
Ayvara: University?
Mime: *nods*
Ayvara: Oooo same as me!
Ayvara: What subject?
Mime: *points backwards*
Ayvara: History
Mime: *nods*
Mime: *points at you*
Mime: …….?
Ayvara: Should be doing English when you’ve an imagination like that
Ayvara: Computer Science
Mime: *nods wide eyed*
Mime: *points at you, then at head, nodding*
Ayvara: Clever?
Mime: *points at you and nods*
Ayvara: Heh I wouldn’t say so myself
Ayvara: How come you’re in London if you’re doing History in Hull?
Ayvara: Or are you in Hull now but live in London?
Mime: *points at self, mimes tower, points at ground*
Mime: *mimes shaking hands and hug*
Mime: *dances*
Mime: *mimes drinking*
Ayvara: You’re in London for a dig site?
Ayvara: Something about a party too
Mime: *nods*
Mime: *bends over and hobbles*
Ayvara: Old?
Mime: *mimes hugging bent over person*
Ayvara: So you’re hugging an old person?
Mime: *nods*
Mime: *dances like old person*
Mime: *blows*
Mime: *mimes singing*
Ayvara: Heh I’m confused now!
Mime: shakes head
Mime: *glances at watch*
Ayvara: Ahh too late?
Mime: *reels backwards*
Mime: ………………!
Mime: *nods*
Ayvara: No, ignore that
Ayvara: Start again?
Mime: *waves sadly*
Ayvara: Ah no, time to go
Ayvara: Well have a good evening!
Mime: *points at you*
Mime: *waves*
Ayvara: Thank you

More Music moments

Quite honestly just for my own convenience; another Hold steady album with ‘Almost Killed Me’.

Music for the Moment

The Hold steady with ‘Girls and Boys in America’ (including one of the bonus tracks, ‘Girls Like Status’ which was used in some film…

On Churchill

I’d happily put Churchill on trial, though not necessarily for passing comment on the Quran.

What man of sanity would say of the Japanese “we shall wipe them out, every last one, man woman and child, there shall not be a Japanese left on the face of the earth”,?

What man of principal would order British troops to fight alongside Nazi divisions to crush the indigenous Greek resistance movement which had just overthrown German occupation?

What democrat would help fund and support the most expensive election campaign ever ($10billion in 1945 money) to prevent Fronti Popuilari winning the first Italian election after liberation from Mussolini – instead supporting the installation of one of Mussolini’s right hand men?

What ‘true British nationalist’ would match Eisenhower’s $10million to fund the coup against the democratically elected Iranian government to force British control of Iranian-Persian Oil (now known as BP), with the CIA installation of a strict Islamic government?

Why is this man still the nationalist’s darling? A few speeches and a witty manner do not a war hero make. Show me the bullet wounds, show me the principals. Churchill was just another ruling-class boys-club politico with his own ideological agenda.

slurs and sleight of hand

Having now had my commenting privileges finally revoked at a BNP supporting blog I have followed for nigh on a year now, it is here that I must confine my posts to. In the last topic on which I was permitted to exercise my right of reply (a vital element of free speech you’d think, but oh well) a heated discussion arose as to why the BNP’s much touted ’silent majority’ remained so silent, so invisible. (The original subject of the thread had been the work of Fiona Edwards of Sheffield Uni, the post amounting to little more than an excuse to brand all students tools of a racist establishment, but we’ll let that slide for now.) At some point tomorrow I will do a final round-up on the discussion that was had there, so that debate can continue now that the BNP blogger has had enough of the bickering.

However, I will take this opportunity to briefly address a number of personal attacks and slurs made against me by frequenters of that forum, since I am unable to on the original page. I only hope that some of the people who made said accusations take a moment to read this.

1. “must be nice living in the Home countires huh???” – I grew up in Panshanger, a very deprived area in an otherwise very wealthy town (Welwyn Garden City). There’s a damn good reason I campaign for a Socialist economy and equality of opportunity.

2. “withall your home and enviroment advantages you already have advatages” – My Dad is a Police Sergeant, my Mum an NHS Physio. My grandparents were engineers, teachers and nurses. Which advantages, sorry?

3. “go to a state school (no, not one in the Home COunties, an inner city one and not grant maintained or grammar, try the real deal)” – You should have seen my school; the only grammar was in the archaic textbooks, and nothing about it was maintained! Puns aside, it was and is a struggling state school with loads of private institutions near by – not a nice place to spend 7 years, but I didn’t have much of an option. At least I could reach it by bike.

4. “I suggest she repost it on her site which has now been publicised” – Not that it’s particularly relevant, but I’m male. That said, I know through experience how often my prose often gets taken as feminine in origin, and it’s nice to see the ‘nationalist’ community go gender-blind sometimes.

As promised, I’ll address the ‘hegemony’ issue and all associated queries when I get some time tomorrow.

the problem with the BNP

So, this started off as a comment on a post on previously linked ‘Home of the Green Arrow’ blog, concerning the perceived ‘war on the British people’ and on the BNP in particular. The Orwell references, and my earlier reply to them are not directly connected to this post, but are nonetheless interesting and somewhat relevant. In any case, as is patently obvious no other frequenters of this blog had noticed the reply, or perhaps did not feel able to address it directly. It is for this reason that i later repeated similar sentiments as a reply to another post on the same blog, which was refused by the blog owner. Following his advice however, I will reproduce it in it’s entirety here.

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What do I know; clearly I’m a government paid agitator working at the behest of our Marxist overlords in their never ending quest to destroy the British way of life, and further collusion with the torrid evils of Islam. We will not rest until every feminazi-ruled man, suitably burqa’d woman and forced-to-be-gay child is worshipping idols of Gordon Brown in their broken society mixed-race homes whilst pensioners starve on the streets, and all white peace loving ‘true brits’ are silenced.

Oh yes, and the ‘indigenous British-Caucasian genotype’ – we want to destroy that too. Not for any particular reason, just ‘cos we’re nasty like that.

You may throw accusations of ‘fascist methods’ at the establishment, but the core ideology that made Nazism, Italian and clerico-fascism just isn’t there – the only other place I’ve come across conspiracy theories as bizarre as yours is in Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch – not that i’m claiming you worship Hitler (or indeed Mussolini or Franco) and his ideology. It’s merely that the vast, over-arching meta-theories of power (in Hitler’s case Jews=Communists=Germany’s traitors) – which you spout – tend to come as a combination of wilful historical inaccuracies, ignorance, and hate.

(Sorry to repeat the above section, but it illustrates my point rather better than typing ‘nutcase’ over and over again, and so I will probably continue to use it until someone makes at least an attempt at rationalising the arguments – taken from this blog – on which I drew to make that statement. I would have made this text smaller so as to make it less obtrusive to those attempting to read the rest, but none of the three html size tags I tried appear to work in the comment box, so apologies for that.)

This is why people find it so hard to take the BNP seriously – yes, the party may have shined its shoes and started leafleting instead of marching, but when supporters still talk and act like cranks, who is going to listen? Whatever you mean by the ‘genie of multiculturalism’ (I understood your argument, though I still believe it flawed, I’m just making a point) when you persist in using phrases like “keeping the stopper on the bottle”, it translates directly as ‘keeping Asians out of Britain’ in the minds of the general reader. Most of the British population live happily alongside the ‘invaders’, untroubled by the ‘evil monster’, and are unworried by whichever NWO/Marxist/Fascist/Islamic/Feminazi plot you happen to be harping on about at that moment in time. It is precisely because you see it as a ‘war on the British people’ that those same ‘British people’ (yes yes, white Caucasian indigenous blah blah blah…)people find it so difficult to swallow – what possible purpose does it serve? To hand Britain (a country valued so much for its… well… presumably of value for its great and glorious history for which the eventual conquerors have no respect – unless you’d like to suggest another reason that this little island is so eminently desirable) over to… to all people of Islam for their benefit…? Or possibly just to turn it into a self perpetuating war-zone for the sake of it? Crikey, these evil people must be stopped!

The BNP isn’t taken seriously, because of blogs like this – yes you do a marvellous job keeping up with current topics, and are at least quite consistent in your opinions on them – but all the general reader sees in cranky conspiracy theories and nutcase (damn, just slipped in there) conjecturing. I’m more than happy to engage in reasonable and logical discourse with those who’s political and social beliefs differ from my own, and I hope that you too will attempt this, rather than swinging the rhetoric bat around.

A bludgeoned debater has learnt nothing, as I’m sure you’d be the first to agree.

a comment on the ‘IQ affects politics’ study

A comment that I added (assuming my posting privileges have been restored following a reasoned discussion with the blog owner) on a BNP supporting blog concerning the Edinburgh University study into how childhood IQ effects political involvement.
Remember, I’m being super-liberal Mr Philosopher when posting on nationalist websites, so take some of this with a pinch of salt – it’s very very impartial.
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Though by this point the issue might be ignored by some, I very much doubt that the BNP and other ‘nationalists’ (who, let’s remember never forget) will stop raking over it again in later posts, so I will weigh in anyway to try and shed light on where the evidence stands here.

liberal fascists – Allow me to explain how they carried out the survey to allay your fears that it was carried out in a biased way:
In 1983, over 6000 (I can’t find the exact figure) 10 year-olds were given verbal and non-verbal IQ tests – tests designed to test basic intelligence and not schooling. 24 years later, the same people were surveyed about political involvement, including how they voted in the 2001 general election. After adjusting for class (which meant taking into account traditional class voting patterns and measuring how much each interviewee had moved away from what might be considered their ‘class loyalty’) the only notable spike in the results was that those who went on to vote Green and LibDem had a significantly higher average IQ (as measured aged 10).

Whilst in pure numbers, BNP and UKIP voters were shown to have the lowest average IQs, after adjusting for class and other factors this correlation vanished and it was shown that IQ had no bearing on people changing their vote from what would otherwise be expected of their upbringing and education any more than those who voted Labour or Conservative – it’s not that ’stupid people vote BNP’, simply that people who might be expected to vote BNP do not change their mind, however high or low their IQ. The fact that the deeper research found no correlation between IQ and changing your political views to support the BNP is why many reports (amongst others the Press association release) do not even mention the BNP. In short, the study shows no correlation between IQ and the desire to vote BNP merely that those who voted Green/LibDem had the highest average IQ.

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Those wanting a more thorough report would do well to visit the Medical Research Council website.

Unions, Conflict and Bigotry

Right, let’s kick off on a chilly Sunday evening with a look at something which has had me riled for quite some time – the British ‘trade union’ laughably named ‘Solidarity’.

First, let’s take a glance at the original Solidarity; the world famous 1980s union movement in Poland led by Lech Walesa. Born in the Lenin Shipyards (Gdansk/Danzig depending on your historiographical preference) in opposition to the Soviet-state controlled unions which ruled the industrial landscape. A worker’s movement, bringing together the broad left naturally found in an industrial environment, Walesa’s group took the usual union route of coordinating strikes and uniting factory activists into local committees, pushing for wage increases and a government freeze on rocketing food prices. This grew into a national (and, indeed, international) movement for wider union freedoms and influence in USSR satellites, and (after resisting the pressures of Soviet-imposed martial law) culminating in the beginning of free elections in 1989. Though no longer a notable force in Polish political affairs, Solidarity was a pivotal force in the central-European resistance to the lingering Stalinist policies of 1980’s USSR. The famous emblem – the Polish flag flying from the ‘Solidarnorsc‘ banner – became a symbol of freedom, worker’s struggle and political justice, displayed in car windows and sprayed on fences world-wide.

But now we come to something altogether sinister, worrying, and just occasionally, incredulous.

There is a ‘trade union’ based in the UK which also goes under the name of ‘Solidarity’, but shares little, if any, of the values associated with the Polish Solidarity. Under the full title of “Solidarity – the Union for British Workers“, the group which I shall henceforth refer to as ‘S-UK’ emerged in 2005 as an explicitly non-TUC cooperative group, with the aim to “promote the working and living conditions of the citizens of the British Isles”. Honourable enough intentions, one would suppose. Well, sadly my friends it must be revealed that S-UK shares little more than this hopeful phrase with the great vision of Walesa and the Polish resistance. Not only is this the only union organisation which enjoys the consistent support of the far-right British National Party (which otherwise eschews unionism as ‘far-left, decadent Leninism’), but the President himself Adam Walker is a BNP member, as are three of the five elected executive members. The remaining executive positions, as well as the chairmanship role, are occupied by members of the ecofascist ‘National Liberal Party’, also known as ‘Third way (UK)’ – a party formed largely from ex-national front members (much like the BNP was). Not only is the central leadership of S-UK a product of the far-right political kindergarten, but to have voted only active ‘british nationalist’ activists onto the executive committee, we are forced to assume that a reasonable proportion of the membership shares similar views.

Coupled with alleged funding agreements between the BNP and S-UK, the role of this pseudo-union as a BNP front organisation is only too apparent. The official BNP statement that S-UK is “a group of … victims of Marxist persecution in the workplace” appears to emphasise the exacting correlation between party pronouncements on the ‘Marxist’ government under which we apparently live, and the role of this ‘union’ in fighting the BNP’s cause.

Quite apart from this extreme-right corroboration having the gall to not only plagiarise the original Solidarity emblem, but then to trademark their version, it is sad to see the collaborative ethic of trade unionism besmirched by a rogue and uncooperative group which has little in common with the foundations it attempts to emulate.

Those of you who would be interested in browsing through the far-right propaganda associated with S-UK might like to visit the post which influenced this article, though anyone likely to be offended by displays of hatred and intolerance towards minorities (Islam in particular) and alternative sexualities be warned that the blog this link will take you to is filled to bursting with bile.

Emergence

In the Blue Lobster Cafe backyard
the head chef – arms outstretched -
bears what looks like a body,
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Sex and death are in the air
this may morning: pollen and spent
blossom on an airless breeze.
- Michael Symmons Roberts, from ‘Acension Day’.

Appropriate, I think, to open this fresh new slate with what wise man and troubadour Robyn Hitchcock once told me were the fundamentals of the human spirit; death, sex and food.

Rest assured this blog will go on to fulfil it’s remit to take a critical look at news, independent media, politics history and debate. Amongst other things. But for now, its late and I have work to complete.