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Jules Crittenden presents:
A colossal steaming pile from a London School of Economics wonk that is a must read if only to grasp how dim academics can be, and for the opportunity it provides to see the world through Eurogoggles.
Do read. Speaking of Eurogoggles, Sir Nicholas Stern—the guy who thinks goggle warming will lead to gender inequalities and forced marriages—is apparently fixing to quit the British treasury.
UPDATE. Tony Blair removes Labour’s Eurogoggles:
Tony Blair formally declared Britain’s multiculturalist experiment over today as he told immigrants they had “a duty” to integrate with the mainstream of society.
In a speech that overturned more than three decades of Labour support for the idea, he set out a series of requirements that were now expected from ethnic minority groups if they wished to call themselves British.
Looks like Cousin Tony wants to nail a few issues down during his farewell year.
Well maybe now some aussie leaders with a few cohones have come out and said this sort of stuff much more strongly and direct, and not been burned at the stake for it, Tony has managed to take his balls out of Cherie’s handbag and tell it a bit how it is…
Hopefully he won’t be the last… Pity some of these guys have to wait for someone else to try it first, before they are willing to give it a go…
Good news on the offical shut down of multiculturism in Britain. I’ve always defined multiculturism as one culture’s tolerance of other cultures intolerance.
But I have to agree, it may be too little too late for Britain. I hope not.
Still…..imagine Galloway choking on his tea and biscuits!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 09 at 11:00 AM • permalinkThe dim-bulb LSE wonk that Crittenden is attacking is Martin Jacques. Jacques used to be the editor of ‘Living Marxism’. That is all you need to know, right there.
Posted by David Gillies on 2006 12 09 at 11:14 AM • permalinkSorry, ‘Marxism Today’, not ‘Living Marxism’. But both are about as useful as a self-help pamphlet entitled ‘How to Nail Jelly to the Ceiling’.
Posted by David Gillies on 2006 12 09 at 11:18 AM • permalink#7, Paco is right. Crittenden’s blog is very informative, and Reality Check is so entertaining. He’s like one of those blow-up clowns with the round bottom, you can punch him and he wobbles back up with the same stupid grin. I suspect we’ve had him here a time or two, and by had, well… you know what I mean.
“In 1975 the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong…”—Martin Jacques
We weren’t in Vietnam in 1975.
Dumbass.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 09 at 01:01 PM • permalinkThat is positively the best definition of the term I’ve ever seen.
The kudos go to another, paco, a former commander of mine. It is a good one, isn’t it? ;-D
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 09 at 01:32 PM • permalink“Such a scenario may well mean that the key alliance that has shaped the Middle East since 1956 - between the US and Israel -”—Martin Jacques
We didn’t have an alliance with Israel in 1956. What we had was a total arms embargo, because the liberal Democrats had set up a de facto alliance with, and protectorate over the various states on the Arabian peninsula during the reign of King Franklin I (by far the worst president in United States history, btw…that fucking idiot makes Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton look good in comparison), and they, the liberal Democrats, didn’t want to do anything that would piss off their Arab pals (like selling arms to the Jews).
The arms embargo remained in place until liberal Democrat rocket scientist, Jack Kennedy decided he wanted it lifted, in order to jack up the Russian commies who had made states like Egypt and Iraq into de facto Soviet allies at which point we started selling and giving arms to the Israelis.
Call from the cluephone: Martin, you need to pop a history book before you start blithering.
Dumbass.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 09 at 01:33 PM • permalinkAnd incidentally, Dave, most of the weapons that the Israelis used to fight off the ululating sand monkeys came from the USSR, which saw it as a neat opportunity to stick it to the US. Okay, that was a while ago and it was probably Martin’s predecessor who got the memo from the Kremlin.
Incidentally, many of the Israeli Air Force’s first fighter planes were former German Bf 109’s, via Czechoslovakia.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 09 at 01:46 PM • permalink“In 1975 the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong…”—Martin Jacques
We weren’t in Vietnam in 1975.
Dumbass.
Not only that, but the Vietcong was essentially a spent force after the Tet offensive, and was a complete irrelevance by 1975. Saigon fell to NVA regulars driving Russian tanks.
now expected from ethnic minority groups if they wished to call themselves British
That’s nice - but it won’t affect the moslems in Britain who don’t want to call themselves British. Which may not be most moslems in Britain, but it’s obviously a sh*tload.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 12 09 at 07:11 PM • permalinkLove it. Stern’s reward for recommending economic suicide is the boot. From Gordon Brown and Tony Blair! Mwuhahaha.
I’ll say this for the Stern report: they didn’t do it by halves. Climate change impact worsens poverty, right? With that assumption firmly in mind, the field is open for a whole lot of extrapolation. Makes the Iraqi death count study look like a junior high social studies essay.
Can’t say I’d agree that FDR was the worst president in US history. In my opinion that palm has to be awarded either to James Buchanan or Jimmy Carter.
Buchanan gets it because he sat around with his thumb where the sun doesn’t shine while a civil war was brewing and did nothing to avert it, then went on to a successful career, if brief, as a Confederate Congresscritter.
As for Wee Jimmah, conpare FDR’s reaction to Nazi expansion with Jimmah’s to the Ayatollahs and the expansion of Commie governments after the destruction of South Vietnam and Cambodia. In economics at least FDR did not make things worse in four years. The economy wasn’t worse in 1936 than it had been in 1932. Jimmah ended up after 4 years pushing inflation and interest rates to three times what they had been under Ford, plus gave us an economy that combined stagnation with high inflation, a combination all the Keynesian economists told us was flatly impossible. What a great achievement by Jimmah, to achieve the impossible economically.
I might also note that the Eisenhower Administration did its level best to make friends of Nasser and the Pan-Arab nationalists, maintainibg the arms embargo on Israel. Nasser spurned this and turned to the USSR, quite gratuitously. If you want to be a socialist dictator, as Nasser did, it makes lots more sense to go with the Commies than with the free people.
Mr. Jacques of Londonistan had better start advocating massive increases in defense and other security spending for Europe. The US rode to the rescue of Western Europe three times in the last century when the Euros were threatened by mad militarism, totatlitarianism, and conqest. I doubt there will be a fourth time. He had better reflct on how much better than the nasty old USA, which leaves the Euros independent, it would be for him to be ruled by somebody like Saddam or the Ayatollahs. An enticing prospect for any Commie reactionary disappointed in how the Cold War came out, no?
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 12 09 at 08:23 PM • permalinkTony, It’s too late. You have sowed the wind. You will now reap the whirlewind. The cry that you have supported by the Palestinians, GIVE US A STATE, will know be heard in your backyard, only this time they will demand all of Britain as their state. And they will get it, given that their birthrate is 7 times that of your eunuch Britains, together with their immigrant deluge, in less than a genration they will control the government. Remember their cry: One Man, One Vote, One time.
Hey, Tony, take a clue from someone who said it 100 years ago:“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else ...... But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the Amerian flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American People. (Teddy Roosevelt 1907)
sorry sorry sorry to disagree as to defining “multiculturalism.” You are not accounting for the absolute shallowness of its proponents.
Multiculturalism is about restaurants… INTERESTING, UNUSUAL restaurants! Do you know there was a genuine Macedonian restaurant in Toronto, maybe it is still there. Ever since multiculturalism, Toronto has been such an INTERESTING city, so “world class”.
Actually, the kind of multiculturalism that merely results in interesting restaurants is the sort of multicult I can get behind. Actually, considering how many of these restaurants I have visited in the last twenty or so years, I have gotten quite a bit of a “behind.”
That being said, going to a restaurant with a contemporary multiculturist is a real appetite killer. It’s impossible to enjoy food through the cloud of self-congratulatory smugness (“Look how courageous I am eating food that didn’t come from the Dead White Male Oppressive Hegemon culture! And I’ve learned so well how to surreptitiously examine the silverware for stains and hide my disgust at the strange dark skin of the waiter!”) that enters the building with the multicultist and is practically an extra guest at the table.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 09 at 10:48 PM • permalinkWhat will Jews in Britain do if assimilation is forced upon them? ie Britain before faith/Israel
I wonder how the BBC is going to spin this one.
Posted by eraserhead on 2006 12 10 at 09:45 AM • permalinkI thought that a Hegemon was a Jamaican gardener. Were you out for roti, Andrea?
/professor bunyipPosted by andycanuck on 2006 12 10 at 10:56 AM • permalink
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