The 300 Year Old New World Order

May 2012 origionaly posted at the BNP Site

The compound debt of the western world, especially in light of the latest ''bailout'' of Greece, can be traced back to 1694. That year, the wrongly termed ''Bank of England'' was formed, not by ordinary people, nor government, but by private investors.
They immediately halted the old ''Tally Stick System''.
By John Salvage-They realised it was a fairer system, and thus, power and profit lay outside the power of the money changers.
Obviously, no one would expect the Tally Stick system to stay in its exact form, where sticks of highly hewed wood, with notches inlaid along one edges to signify the denominations would suffice until today. However, this system, and what could have followed, whereby proof of the holder and the crown, had a legal record through one piece each, worked for over 700 years. It actually became the most fair and equitable form of currency in history.
The British Empire, a trading empire essentially, was built through use of the Tally Stick system, now lost in a world without understanding of the system, and in debt to literally a few dozen elitist maniacs. Under King Henry 1, half was kept as proof against any illegal counterfeiting, and then the other spent in the markets, or as payment for goods and services, where it continued as regulated currency.
People thus had confidence in accepting these ''sticks'' as money. Such was the greed and insanity of those whom now control, or change nations at their will, the now familiar ''national debt'' reared its ugly and illegal head.
So much so that, by 1698, just four years after the bank's formation, the national debt rose from £1,250,000 per year, to £16,000,000 per year. The ordinary man in the street, and those hard working families, already pressed into hard labour just to keep a roof over their heads, then had to endure an increase in taxes, simply to supply the facilitation of profit to these alien greed mongers, and their treacherous stooges.
Sound familiar?
President James Madison (1809 - 1817) wrote:
''History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
With that in mind, and considering that even back then, a US president knew what was, and whom, were behind wars and poverty, it then presupposes that in the 21st century, the same clique of war mongers, should now be engineering yet more mass murder, poverty, and total control over the once free peoples of this nation, the western world, and other nations elsewhere. We are not seeing ''a new world order,'' just a three centuries old one, being played out before our very own eyes.
Greece, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland, Britain, France, and America, not to mention other nations with a centralised foreign banking elite, and a ''placebo government'', have been crushed, and have had their economies ruthlessly taken over by stealth, and every other avenue mentioned by James Madison in the above quote.
There is almost no nation on this planet, that can be said to be truly sovereign, as the military complex now under the banking cartel's control, are ensuring that there is little room for any real revolution as in days gone past. We, all of us, whether British, fellow Europeans, Americans, and all the other nations, have some serious thinking and planning to do... and that will mean solidarity without egos, and creating a system within a system.
Without the traitors, and those whom have ''something on them'' they would rather not share with others, none of this could have been achieved.
Speaking of treachery at a high level, we now hear that those controlling America, are to arm militia close to Al Qaeda, thus bringing another nation, Syria, to their alter of evil. Any member of the western Armed Forces reading this article, including many within the Special Forces, should keep a clear head, remembering that they are simply being used as cannon fodder. What a tragedy, what a stab in the back, especially when one thinks about all those Americans, British, and fellow service men and women, who will never see their loved ones again. Arming ones enemy is not new of course, but the whole pretext of the last twelve or so years of conflict, was supposedly to bring ''democracy'' to the nations of the Middle East, and to stop the supposed killing of civilians.
Oddly enough, more innocent people have been killed by the ''coalition forces'' than the numbers allegedly killed by dictators. Money, control over resources, and in part, a cultural and religious agenda, are really what drives the elites, especially the bankers.
Here, the Bank of England is a model, a blue print if you like, to show every nation how to operate the ''fractional reserve banking system''. Taxes are the preferred way to pay back the illegal debt, but anyone with an eye on the economy of both America, and the western world in general, will be uncertain as to how our broken and debt ridden businesses, private and public sectors, can ever get free... they can't, and that is the plan.
It's hard to believe, but it was not that long ago, probably just before the Second World War started, but the press and media were actually reporting things as they really were. The media had not at that time, been ''bought off'', and some articles and comment called the system "a great swindle, a vulture, a viper, and a cobra."
Those days are long gone, Newcomers to Nationalism, have always, without hesitation, one question they ask.. ‘‘How come the BNP never gets in the news?''. Or, ''you should be on Question Time, or this or that programme, otherwise you'll get nowhere.'' Well, read this, and other articles, then take a look at so-called ''live shows,'' where our Chairman and others have appeared, and you'll see why this never really works in general.
Such is the era we are in. Party media, and other patriotic formats, and literature is claiming scalps regularly, and with each new member, ten others will soon know what we are doing, and the message then becomes a tool, a way out of the controlled media grip.
What was once considered ''conspiracy,'' is now the talking point amongst the world's free thinkers, and that includes anyone coming to the British National Party. Essentially, knowledge is key. Outside of the political arena, there are many other things we can do. Culturally, and socio-economically, we can work together far more closely, we can create a system within a system, and that includes eating healthily, and trading and working with each other.
A sound mind can only come from a healthy diet, and even food is not off limits to the elite. Napoleon Bonaparte said:
''When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
Once gain has been accomplished, everything else, once thought of as free, cheap, or at least easily attainable, becomes just another commodity to the ruthless and greedy alien parasite. As Napoleon suggests, financiers are without patriotism, decency, or a motherland. Speaking of which, George Soros, the billionaire carpet-bagger, and in part, creator of Britain's ''Black Wednesday'', in September 1992, is now doing what his ilk has done for centuries.
George Soros is backing Gavilon Grain's purchases, to control food production and grain distribution in the United States. Gavilon, which has become the third largest grain company in that country, with Soros's investment, will result in a similar internationalist capitalist/Marxist strategy that saw energy markets and oil, totally controlled by a small group of already super-rich corporations. The price will then be engineered through their artificial control over its supply.
Food brokers consolidating into a few large companies, controlling the majority of any market, will culminate in prices set, not by ''supply and demand'', but by the manipulation of supply. If the price of food, for example in the United States is low, then grain can be shipped to other markets for sale, causing then an artificial supply problem in the very country that produced the grain in the first place. (Source: Examiner.com).
This smacks of the great depression, whereby this sad, but deliberate scenario, saw people starve, and go broke in the 1920's and 30's. The so-called ''New Deal,'' then indebted the tax payer even more, through programmes that created the US welfare state. History repeating itself, only world wide.
Soros has strong ties to the Obama administration, influencing the economic and political outcomes that enable him to consolidate both the purchasing, and shipping of domestic agriculture around the world. If ever there was time for a ''Nationalist Spring'' revolution, this is it.
As mentioned previously, violent revolutions are generally staged, as we are seeing with those engineered by elements within the British, American, and Israeli governments and military, thus, anger must be directed politically, and socio-culturally.
Looking around the various controlled media outlets, many people are fooled by a one sided explosion of revolutionary acts of defiance. However, imagine what would become of our people, especially the white population, if the same principle was applied. Let's be honest, one only has to see the various and disparate groups involved here, and in Greece, Spain, and America, to see that no such combined organisational strategy is logistically or intellectually possible when demonstrating against our own or other Euro-Zone government policies.
The ''Western Spring'' discussed here, is only possible through a co-ordinated effort, whereby what this party used to describe as ''The Quiet Revolution'' becomes both quiet, and yet sees action through working together. All of the disparate groups currently protesting against what is going on in society, many of them controlled by our enemy politically and culturally, have members amongst them that would also independently be a part of such a move. There is no ''New World Order'', it already happened.
What is required now is a massive, singular dedicated move, no matter what traditional political or cultural side we support, where we, as Freemen and women of this nation, and all others valuing theirs, oppose the coming World Government. It can only be achieved through a new and independent socio-economic freedom, plus the willpower to work and trade with each other. The New World order is already 300 years old, it's now time to create our own system.

They came they saw they conquered (Mayor for Liverpool)

Child Sex Grooming Gangs: It IS About Race Whatever Police and Politicians Say

 

South West Nationalist

• 
• 

May

2012

 

Child Sex Grooming Gangs: It IS About Race Whatever Police and Politicians Say

Written by Southwest Nationalist

"There is no excuse for this kind of criminality, whoever is involved in it, but I don’t think it is a particular group of people, I don’t think it’s a particular race or religion"
"It’s totally wrong to say that it is, because you open up a Pandora’s box as far as race relations is concerned and I don’t think that’s necessarily what we want"
That's Chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee and Labour MP Keith Vaz, commenting on the conviction of yet more Pakistani men for the sexual grooming and rape of white children.
It of course relates to todays conviction of 9 men for an horrendous catalogue of sexual abuse against young, white girls in the Rochdale area.
Convicted at Liverpool Crown Court for a string of offences including rape, trafficking, and sexual assault, are Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and an un-named 59 year old.  They will be sentenced on Wednesday.
"It is not a racial issue.  This is about adults preying on vulnerable young children.  It just happens that in this particular area and time the demographics were that these were Asian men"
"However, in large parts of the country we are seeing on-street grooming, child sexual exploitation happening in each of our towns and it isn't about a race issue"
There's Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood, whose force missed a chance to catch these perverts years ago after a victim complained in 2008.
So, it's not about a race or a religion.  One wonders if officialdom would say the same had there been numerous high profile cases of white gangs raping Pakistani/Muslim children.  You all know the answer.
Again, would Pakistanis/Muslims accept official assurances that it wasn't about race/religion if it were their children being raped by whites in case after case?   Once more, you all know the answer.
What the hell have demographics got to do with it as well?  Is what Steve Heywood is really trying to say is that if you get a lot of Pakistani men in an area then expect white children to get gang raped by them?
After all, if demographics was the only factor then - given a high Pakistani population - one would also expect a high number of Pakistani victims.  Only, all of the victims in this case (as in numerous others) are white - it's only the perpetrators who are Pakistani (and one from Afghanistan).
Police and politicians may insist that it's not about race/religion, or that we should ignore that angle because it opens "Pandora's box as far as race relations are concerned", but they are absolutely wrong.
It is entirely about race and religion.  There has been imported into Britain a vile element which considers white British girls to be nothing more than meat, there for the sexual gratification of pervert after pervert.
Even a Muslim community leader, Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation admits it, saying that: "There is a significant problem for the British Pakistani community, there is an over-representation amongst recent convictions in the crime of on-street grooming, there should be no silence in addressing the issue of race as this is central to the actions of these criminals"
"They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community"
Only, it's not truly a problem for the Pakistani community, nobody should care about their 'shame' - it's our children who are being raped and sexually abused, it is our children who should matter above all else.
Lying politicians and police schooled in the art of putting race relations ahead of crime may choose to tell us differently, but it is absolutely a problem of race, culture, and religion.  One has only to look at who makes up most members of gangs in recent grooming cases.
The police and politicians prefer to keep a lid on it though, they repeat over and over that it's not about race and hope that Britain will be dumb enough to believe it - whilst all the while more white, British girls are being sexually abused and raped.
Let's tell it exactly like it is - we have imported a foreign element who consider white children to be sexual playthings, scum, mere objects to be passed around for sexual gratification.  Not all Pakistanis or Muslims are members of child sex grooming gangs, but most members of child sex grooming gangs are Pakistani or Muslim.  Most, nearly all, victims in a multitude of cases?  White girls.
Worse, we see only the tip of the iceberg.  Much goes unreported.  Much has been covered up in the name of race relations or community cohesion.  There are countless victims out there we will never hear a thing about.
It's time for police and politicians to drop the bullshit rhetoric, give up on the excuses, and tell us the truth - if they are capable of that.
The truth is simple, and it is that this is entirely a racial, cultural, and religious issue, and it is an issue which has been created by the importation of alien people into this land.  It is also an issue which officialdom has attempted to hide for years.
Young, white girls are the ones who are paying the price in childhood shattered and innocence lost, and officialdom seems to consider them a price worth paying in order to avoid admitting to the terrible truth of the nightmare which Britain's children are now being forced to endure.

Nine Asian Muslim men guilty of grooming white schoolgirls for sex after plying them with vodka and drugs

Nine Asian Muslim men were today found guilty of grooming and passing round vulnerable white schoolgirls aged between 13 and 15 for sex after plying them with alcohol and drugs.
Five girls were 'shared' by Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and a 59-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The ten-week trial was told that the men - who are all from Pakistan, some from the same village, apart from Safi who is from Afghanistan - groomed the teenage girls because they were vulnerable and from broken homes,

'They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought - it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community.'The jury of three men and nine women heard that the defendants plied the girls, some as young as 13, with fast food, drink and drugs so they could 'pass them around' and use them for sex.
The victims were picked up from 'honeypot locations' where teenagers congregate, such as outside takeaway restaurants, and were then taken to 'chill houses' around the north of England for sex.
One 13-year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted.

The court heard that she sometimes had sex with one man while another raped a girl in the same room

The 59-year-old man was found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16, two counts of rape, aiding and abetting a rape, one count of sexual assault and an allegation of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation.
It took the jury of three men and nine women 21 hours and 22 minutes to reach all their verdicts.
Judge Gerald Clifton adjourned sentencing until tomorrow.
The offences happened in and around Rochdale in 2008 and 2009.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141279/Rochdale-child-sex-trial-Nine-men-guilty-grooming-passing-round-young-girls-sex-plying-vodka-drugs.html#ixzz1uIRo6bLA

France Cheering into the Abyss

Cheering into the Abyss

Yesterday, the people of France took on a new credit card from a very dodgy lender. They did so although the interest rate, hidden in the small print was extortionate, and would soon make their situation even worse. However, like the overspending family in the final spiral of their debt they grasped at it as a means of still affording a few luxuries whilst keeping the creditors at bay until that long awaited miracle or lottery win solves all their problems.

It is hard to believe that so many could so wilfully delude themselves to the truth so as to vote for the bovine François Hollande in sufficient numbers to place that political dinosaur in the Élysée Palace for the next five years.  Hard to believe that is until one glance at his cheering supporters reveals the predominance of immigrants, hard bitten trades unionists and empty headed schoolgirls the only people naïve or self interested enough to still believe in the fantasies which have dragged Europe to the brink of her destruction.

Of course Sarkozy was really not much better, in the agonies of his political death he gasped some  half hearted words about immigration and identity in the hope of saving himself. But they were meaningless.  The wily Mme Le Pen saw through him, when she advised the 6.4 million who voted for her in the first round of the election to “cast a blank vote” in the second round rather than vote for Sarkozy. She knew his words were lies and would have been forgotten in an instant had he been re-elected.

Even if he had meant them, Sarkozy need only look to Hungary to see how the new world order punishes a government which puts people before ideology, and he is not brave enough to face that.

Le Pen plays a dangerous game though, who knows what pieces will still be left to pick up after Hollande has done with France.

Elsewhere in Europe other votes have taken place in the last week.

We should not be unduly misled by the fact that the so called “far right” made gains in Greece.  It is encouraging that Nationalism is on the rise throughout Europe, but it still has far to go.  What the Greek people were really voting for was to still be allowed to keep some of their sweets and longer holidays, even they have not yet grasped the reality facing them.

And what of we in Britain?  How could the results we saw in the local government and mayoral elections last week have really happened?  How could so many white, native Britons have voted for Labour, a party which feels nothing but hatred and contempt for them,  a party which has done so much damage and which spent so many decades conspiring at out destruction.    

Like the French and the Greeks, the dumbed down, brainwashed, and still just comfortable, British don't get it yet, and I fear they may not get it until it is too late.

However, to be fair what alternative did we offer them? What consistent message? What hope did we give them? None that I could see.

The right is so divided in this country we make the Balkans appear united, that is why we can not win, and we never will until we find unity and common cause.

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad, and we have gone mad.

Nationalism in Britain has fragmented into a proliferation of grumpy little groups all more intent on hating each other or of coddling their special interests than they are in saving our country.

We are effectively expecting electorate to select from what amounts to the British not Nick Griffin party, the British Not Nick Griffin or Eddie Butler Party, the British we hate poofs party, the British we hate Jews Party, the British we hate both Jews and poofs more that you party, and then we do not understand why nobody votes for us.  It is total folly and we, in our self indulgent arrogance brought it on ourselves.

We have no future until we set aside silly and trivial issues and stop calling “traitors” those who take a slightly different approach or are less ideologically pure than we would wish them to be,  then focus on the real enemy, and do it together.

Sadly, I am not sure if most nationalists are still capable of that.

It may well be too late, not just for Nationalism but for the West. It may be that we will have to witness the seemingly inevitable destruction of the great civilisation which our forefathers built for us before we come to our senses and drag some final remnants back from the Abyss. 

Perhaps we have reached the point where things must be broken before they can be mended.

In the short time still left to them, our people slumber on still refusing to awaken from their dream, even though it is fast becoming a nightmare.  However, the end is coming fast and they will awaken soon, screaming from their sleep.  And what then, will they find us waiting to save them, or will they find us still fighting with our own?

If it is the latter, then it will be the ultimate betrayal of that which we claim to love.

We must act soon for we do not have long.

Jury Retires in trial of 11 Muslim men accused of grooming young British girls for sex

Some of the victims in Rochdale were forced to have sex with several men in a day, several times a week, trial heard

Abdul Rauf, Kabeer Hassan and Liaquat Shah, three of the 11 men on trial.

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of 11 men accused of being part of a child exploitation ring that allegedly groomed underage girls for sex by plying them with alcohol and drugs.
Liverpool crown court heard that five teenagers were "shared" by the defendants, with some forced to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week".
The men allegedly gave the victims, who were as young as 13, junk food, alcohol and drugs so they could "pass them around" and use them for sex, the nine-week trial heard.
The alleged offences are said to have taken place in and around Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in 2008 and 2009 at times when the girls were so incapacitated by drugs or drink that they were incapable of having any control over whether or with whom they had sex.
One 13-year-old girl became pregnant by one of the defendants, Adil Khan, and had a termination, the court was told. Despite DNA proof that he was the father, he denied knowing the girl.
Another teenager recalled being raped by two men while she was "so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed".
The court heard that one defendant allegedly told a 15-year-old girl from whom he wanted sex: "It's part of the deal because I bought you vodka, you have to give me something."
At the opening of the trial, Rachel Smith, prosecuting, told the jury: "Some of you may find what you are about to hear distressing. The events and circumstances described by the girls are at best saddening and at worst shocking in places. No child should be exploited as these girls say they were."
Kabeer Hassan, 25, Abdul Aziz, 41, Abdul Rauf, 43, Mohammed Sajid, 35, Adil Khan, 42, Abdul Qayyum, 43, Mohammed Amin, 44, Qamar Shahzad, 29, Liaquat Shah, 41, Hamid Safi, 22, and a 59-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons all deny conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16.
The 59-year-old also denies two rapes, aiding and abetting a rape, sexual assault and trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation. The other defendants, excluding Qayyum, are variously accused of rape, trafficking, sexual assault and sexual activity with a child, and deny all charges. The men are all from the Rochdale and Oldham areas.
The girls would often spend their days "unsupervised by responsible adults", were not in school regularly and spent time around kebab shops late at night befriending staff who worked there, the court heard.
Two of the men worked in the takeaways Tasty Bites and Balti House, both in Heywood, which are now under new management. Four others were taxi drivers, one was a student and four were unemployed.

Bilderbergers and the New World Order

Bilderbergers and the New World Order

Written by Green Arrow

Well I must confess to being well impressed with a recent article by James Delingpole over on the Telegraph and I would like to thank the many people who emailed me the link.  I would not liked to have missed this piece of James's work.
The article opens with a clever little image that I have taken the liberty of using, then James starts off his article by writing briefly about the Bilderbergers and the New World Order and asking whether the reader believes they are a force for good or evil.

First off, this years Bilderberg meeting was held in Spain, unreported and held in camera and if you visit this link you will discover just exactly how the self appointed "elite" get together to decided the direction of the world.
However, now that they have been dragged from under their stone and into the view of the world, they have started to announce their meetings and who attends them.  They do not go into the details of the "private" meetings that also take place after their conferences.

At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. Since 1954, fifty-seven conferences have been held. The names of the participants are made available to the press. Participants are chosen for their experience, their knowledge, and their standing; all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.

If I had time, I would just love to do research into every single British person, their organisations and companies who have attended Bilderberg Meetings.  Here is the attendees list for this year.

Of course these days, people now accept that the Bilderbergers and the New World Order exist but I remember back in 1976 when I first got involved with Nationalism being asked by my local Organiser whether I had ever heard of The Bilderbergers, New World Order and Arthur R. Butz?

"No", I replied, "I've just come out of the Navy" and then I started to discover the truth and what a long journey it has been. 

And what hard work it has also been for nationalists the world over, in trying to alert the general public about the evils of the Bilderbergers and the New World Order.  We were laughed at and ridiculed for even saying those organisations existed and accused of being conspiracy freaks.  You will learn that anyone who starts to get near the truth is usually called a "conspiracy freak" or attacked in other ways but bit by bit we are getting the truth out and more and more people are waking up to the evil that is the New World Order.

But this James Delingpole is good, very good.  Check out the following and see if you can spot what James spotted -  because I missed it on my first pass.

The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.

Ok, forget about asking questions about just who pays for the hugely expensive Bilderberg meetings and the massive security that surrounds these events.  Forget for now, how The European Union is involved with them and how Van Rompuy of Belgium was appointed as the first EU President after attending the 2009 Bilderberg meeting.  Forget those questions for now, let's just look at James's article and what it was he spotted in their "press release".

You did spot it? Well done.  Global Cooling.  Suddenly it is no longer Global Warming that the global power elite are concerned about but Global Cooling and they are wetting themselves with fear at the backlash from the public who have been exploited for financial gain after discovering that Global Warming was nothing more than one big Con trick, because as James writes:

Our fuel bills have risen inexorably; our countryside, our views and our property values have been ravaged by hideous wind farms; our holidays have been made more expensive; our cost of living has been driven up by green taxes; our freedoms have been curtailed in any number of pettily irritating ways from what kind of light bulbs we are permitted to use to how we dispose of our rubbish. And to what end? If man-made global warming was really happening and really a problem we might possibly have carried on putting up with all these constraints on our liberty and assaults on our  income. But if it turns out to have been a myth……

James, finishes his excellent article by saying that we need a "Global Warming" Nuremberg.  Well if I recollect, the usual sentence for those found guilty at the Nuremberg Trials was death and I for one would have no problem with that sentence being passed on any of the New World Order.

Bradford: Newly-On-The-Street former Labour Leader blames "Youff" Vote For "Respect"

Bradford: Newly-On-The-Street former Labour Leader blames "Youff" Vote For "Respect"

Written by John of Gwent

In a development no-one was surprised about and few are likely to discuss openly and honestly, the leader of the Minority Labour administration was chucked onto the street by a margin of 17 votes.

UPDATE: I have just noticed in the local paper's "as it happens" blog (from which I noted at 22:40 an entry that said "The Press were to be excluded while the count proceeded" a far more worrying entry from 02:17 revealing that "Counting Had Now Started" (after a four hour delay, why so long ?) and that they were hearing '1,800 Postal Votes have just been "found" which might alter parties' predictions'

I think it's a safe bet we know whose candidate those 1800 votes were cast for.  Allah Be Praised.

The cult of the dead paedophile candidate secured 2,191 votes (that'll be two hundred blokes in the mosque filling in the postal votes for each of their wives and cousins by marriage then) which sent Labour's Ian Greenwood out on his ear having garnered what has to be the entire anglo-saxon vote, to judge by what google street view shows you on a virtual tour of the ward (I would not recommend doing a real one, unless you're delivering halal pizza).

Somehow, the Conservative candidate found 120 refugees from happier days (in the local soup kitchen maybe) and persuaded them to put an 'X' against the true blue candidate, and best news of the night was the revelation that once again, the Liberal Democrats came last, with a truly miserable ninety six votes, and then only by finding a candidate with a good islamic name to stand against George Galloway's islamist.

The Local Newspaper ominously reported a decision by the returning officer to deny members of the Press access to the building while the count was going on. 

Speaking after being given his P45, ex-council-leader Ian Greenwood, whose press pictures today are far from flattering, described the result as a trimph for Mr Galloway's party's tactic of engaging and mobilising the youth vote

Oh Mr Greenwood.  Such bare faced hyperbole does not become you. (Oh yes it does, he's a Labour Politician after all). The truth - and we all know it - is Mr Galloway's party's success stems from courting the islamist vote in what will soon be the new Sharia Enclave Of Yorkshire.

I see that in Greece today following the election of members of "Golden Dawn" it has become a regular occurrence for non-greeks to be dragged off buses and assaulted while police called to the scene stand and watch.

How long before the same starts in Bradford, I wonder, except that it will be the Anglo-Saxons that voted Tory being on the receiving end while sharia PSCO's look on from the sidelines, nodding their approval.

Horwich Should vote English Democrat on Polling Day 2012

It Is polling day in Horwich tomorrow May 3rd 2012 , And we would like to recommend the following English Democrat Candidate to you in the Horwich North East Ward, Mr Anthony Backhouse. I know the candidate at a personal level and know him to be a fine upstanding champion of Democracy , and the Freedom of thought and Speech. Something the rival Candidates Parties seem intent on destroying. 
Although the English Democrats are not my own personal choice of the Nationalist Parties in excistence. the candidate for me swings my vote to him.
And when you see the old three Anti British Anti English parties and even a Green candidate ( Vegetarian Marxists). You can see that the only alternative in Horwich is Mr Backhouse. And I wish all the best tomorrow, AND RECOMMEND HIM STRONGLY TO HORWICH VOTERS

Bradford by-Election: The Real Meaning

Bradford by-Election: The True Meaning

Posted at BNP IDEAS, 2012 

The massive by-election victory for George Galloway and the “Respect” Party is a direct result of the ethnic cleansing of white British people from that constituency and not a “collapse in support for the Labour Party” as ill-informed media pundits claim.

Galloway, who campaigned on an anti-war platform, won by targeting the votes of the “large Asian community” was all that the main media sources have dared to admit.

Mr Galloway told Sky News he had won a “big victory” – winning at least 50% of the vote in “some” areas, but failing to mention exactly where and how this occurred.

The Bradford West constituency consists of six wards: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, and Toller.

Nearly half of all “Asians” (that definition according to the official census) living in Yorkshire and the Humber live in Bradford, with the central wards of Bradford Moor, City, Little Horton, Manningham nad Toller having majority Asian populations, according to the official figures.

At the last weekend of campaigning, Galloway held a 1,000-strong rally at which he was endorsed by all the mosques in Bradford.

The Tories have at least openly admitted that the Third World coloniser-invader population is at the core of the issue—even if they have, in usual Conservative fashion, twisted it their own way, as witnessed by the comments made by the Daily Telegraph’s Ian Martin, “It should not be forgotten that Bradford West was on the list of Tory target-seats at the last general election.

“Conservative strategists say that winning over ethnic voters must be a big part of the party’s push between now and the next general election. It is said that the invisible Tory co-chairman, Baroness Warsi, has been beetling away on this work behind the scenes. On the evidence of Bradford West she has some way to go.”

Last year, Bradford was named today as one of 25 areas “most at risk from Islamic extremists” in an updated version of the Government’s “Prevent counter-extremist strategy.

In May 2011, Professor Steve Jones, from University College London, singled out Bradford as a case in point when he warned that inbreeding “among British Muslims is threatening the health of their children.”

“Bradford is very inbred. There is a huge amount of cousins marrying each other there,” Professor Jones was quoted as saying. Studies have shown that 55 per cent of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins – and in Bradford, this rises to 75 per cent.

In 2010, it was announced that the Church of England Diocese of Bradford would be scrapped because “Muslim worshippers outnumber Anglican churchgoers by two to one.”

Religious statistician Peter Brierley said that as the Muslim population in Bradford was about 80,000, on a conservative estimate 20,000 are regular worshippers, more than double the number of their Anglican counterparts.

Canon Rod Anderson, of St Barnabas Church in Heaton, Bradford, said he was aware officials had been considering merging the diocese to make savings.

He said during his 16 years at the church, the congregation had diminished from more than 100 on Sundays to between 40 and 60.

He added: ‘I have seen a demographic shift with a large ethnic Asian influx, which has had a noticeable impact on congregation sizes and the knock-on of this is a downturn in financial fortunes.’

St Margaret’s Church in nearby Thornbury has a weekly congregation of 20 to 30 and is surviving on a turnover of £20,000 a year.

Bradford’s 80 mosques, meanwhile, enjoy a healthy turnover of cash provided by Muslim worshippers, with a number raising more than £60,000 a year.

A spokesman for Bradford’s Council For Mosques said: ‘On Friday, all the mosques are crammed full. In the bigger ones it is not uncommon to see 2,000 worshippers or more go through in a day.’

The by-election result in Bradford West is a only portend of what will happen across all of Britain unless the Third World invasion is halted and reversed.

What is happening is nothing less than the total extermination of the indigenous British people and their replacement by the Third World.

British Police Become Political Tools of the Establishment Liverpool 2012

Liverpool Mayoral Elections 2012 – Three days to go before election day, and politically motivated police raid British National Party candidate Cllr Mike Whitby’s family home following malicious allegations of electoral fraud by the political opposition to the BNP.
The video footage is damning. Political police refuse to allow Cllr Whitby to attend the police station of his own accord so that they can employ totalitarian tactics and send a clear message of terror to their political opposition.
Cllr Whitby was arrested and held in the police station for several hours before being released – without charge.
This shocking footage demonstrates just how rotten the British establishment of old political parties has become and stands as evidence that they view the BNP as the only genuine threat to their corrupt regime.

UAF VIOLENT LIARS SPREAD LIES THROUGH HORWICH LETTER BOXES

Today the violent extreme Marxist UAF  are spreading scurrilous leaflets through the letterboxes of Horwich voters. In these latest lies from this violent group who think that attacking ordinary members of the public celebrating St Georges Day. Are that patriots are Nazi,s instead of decent working people concerning at the ever increasing tide of immigration and spurious asylum cases.
I need say no more than this group funded by the Trade Unions and supported by the Labour Party are the most dangerous and violent element in British Politics today, Just look at the arrests of there members for violent conduct when the EDL just held a patriotic rally in Bolton, to voice concern over the epidemic of Muslim grooming of young British White Girls. 55 of there members were arrested for violent misconduct and they have the cheek to claim that BNP candidates are violent and say women like rape. THESE PEOPLE FROM THE UAF (UNITE AGAINST FASCISM) ARE DANGEROUS!!!! If still not convince just watch this supporting evidence !

Musings of a Durotrigan: Luton in ‘harmony’, or Luton in discord?

Musings of a Durotrigan: Luton in ‘harmony’, or Luton in discord?: “Read all about it! Five terror plot suspects arrested in Luton!” Yes, yet again dear reader, police have descended upon a number of addresses within a certain “community” to arrest a group of men alleged to have been planning to inflict death, injury and general misery upon the host population, simply because we do not share their warped backward Islamist ideology. So wearisomely familiar and routine have such arrests become, that it is increasingly hard to be moved to comment upon them, which is a worrying sign in itself.

Scarce a week seems to go by without another Islamist plot being uncovered, and for all of the media’s professed concern about a potential network of crypto-Breiviks lurking in the shadows waiting to butcher the innocent, this thankfully remains as firmly in the realms of fantasy as Breivik’s resurrected ‘Knights Templar’. Breivik the butcher, mercifully, remains an army of one; a genuine clerical fascist; a warped individual who carries within himself more the spirit of Mohammed than that of Christ; a man possessed of a lust for blood, rather than a desire for peace. Breivik is, in many respects, a mirror-image jihadi. A man who truly loves his people would never seek them out and methodically murder them, irrespective of any ideological difference. Breivik is no nationalist. He has made of himself a wretch and a perpetual outcast.

And what of the men in Luton who have just been arrested? What will they become? For the English, if these five prove to be found guilty, then true justice must surely demand that they be shunned and returned to their land of ancestral origin. Amongst their “community” however, how will they be regarded? Will they be ostracised or fêted? The likely attitude, sadly, is predictable, for although many of Luton’s Muslims will refrain from lionising these aspirant killers, significant numbers of them will not. As sure as night follows day, in the weeks, months and perhaps years ahead, their advocates will be heard, and they will shriek at us as if we were the criminals. Luton, according to an initiative funded by the town council, is in “harmony”. This arrest, together with this medium-sized town’s Muslim population having provided a home to the Stockholm suicide bomber Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, one of the fertiliser bomb plotters and a facilitator of the 7/7 bombings, attests to the fact that there is no such thing. It is also home of course, to Sayful Islam. For observers to profess to be perplexed at why Luton should have given birth to the EDL is thus disingenuous to say the least.

In a little under two weeks’ time, the EDL plans to demonstrate in Luton in celebration of its third anniversary. What impact, if any, will these arrests have upon that day, Saturday 5 May? Channel 4 may have dubbed Stephen Lennon and the EDL “proud and prejudiced”, but who can blame him and his supporters for wishing to articulate a deep and well-founded sense of unease arising from certain unwelcome phenomena originating within the Muslim population, that no major political party will acknowledge, let alone address? “Luton in harmony”? Unfortunately not. It could be, but that would demand something that our current authorities are unwilling to do: ditching multiculturalism and rooting out Islamism once and for all. The one reassuring thing to emerge from today’s story is the fact that our security agencies have once again nipped a potential plot in the bud. Overall, they have done a pretty good job in recent years. 

...

The Need to Conform

Written by Richard Newman

Many would not know of the attack by the UAF on the Brighton March for England St George parade.  The shocking images of up to seven hundred people, mostly left wing activists from the government sponsored UAF as they attack one hundred and fifty people, including women and children has now gone viral.

 

There are a number of issues here, not least the total lack of media coverage regarding the attack, let alone the injuries to the police and police horses.  The hypocrisy is clear when you contrast the blanket coverage of Steven, Trayvon and Breivik with the lack of coverage given to the various rapes by Muslims or this attack.  I say hypocrisy because one of the most enduring images is that of a middle aged man shielding his child from bricks and bottles thrown by the left.

 

 

The March for England organisers went to great lengths to point out that they did not belong to any group, and having searched the internet, I must admit that the march was billed as non-political!  Here therefore lies the second issue, in that MFE went to great efforts to invite members of the black and Asian community as well as members of the homosexual community, what a march that would have made, if you will excuse the pun, what a gay day.

 

The disintegrating EDL, and the MFE amongst many others who have declared themselves nationalists, or even laughingly patriots, have all gone down this route in trying to become inclusive, and invite everyone to take part in their party.  They of course do not understand that the gay/black/Asian/anyone left?  Do not wish to belong to a patriotic organisation.  They belong to their own groups.

 

A Nationalist/Patriot has three choices, to remain true to his beliefs, which means the left hate you.  Betray your beliefs, which means that you are hated by the left and the right, or leave politics and do nothing, which means that the left hate you!  As the EDL and the MFE have found to their cost, you can bend over backwards to accommodate the left and they will still attack you, so why accommodate them at all.  The same is true of all civic nationalist/plastic patriot organisations.

 

Finally, and on a much more serious note, the attack on the Brighton march has confirmed beyond any doubt that the media, police, government etc will ignore and even tacitly approve the persecution of one hundred and fifty flag waving people, by seven hundred yobs.  Imagine the furore if several hundred skin heads had attacked a Gay Pride march.

 

All nationalist organisations with maybe one or two exceptions need to raise their game.  I include the EDL and the Infidels in the groups which are now hamstrung by a lack of ideological direction, and disciplined organisation.  So much so that students, homosexuals and other freaks of the left can attack any public event with impunity.  The Muslims are even more divisive in their ridicule, after all, are they going to be afraid of “Muslamic Ray Guns!” 

 

It would be too much to hope that the EDL/MFE ditch their attempts at inclusiveness, the right ditch the booze and indiscipline, they get smart and learn the ideological strength of patriotic political action.  Because only then will they be able to put ten thousand political soldiers into Brighton and wipe the left from the streets.

Apr

2012

 

The Definition of Art (full version)

Written by David Hamilton

There is confusion about what art is. The qualities that make something art are intrinsic, not external. It is the artifice, the organising of elements, perspective, choice of colour etc, that make it art.  The result is obtained by transforming reality and thus nature through human imagination and emotion and is realised by skill and technique.

The word Beauty (or beautiful) is descriptive if used as an adjective to express the response of the beholder to an object, or if used within a clear context; if used as an abstract noun it is universal, and therefore meaningless.

A significant difference between contemporary art and traditional art is the split between form and meaning.  This Cartesian duality is the split between mind and body, subject and form.  The split is in all the various forms and styles and substance and meaning, of the respective art forms.  In architecture contemporary buildings look like objects they are not which is why they are given comic nicknames - The Gerkhin, The Cheese Grater, or Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral, The Mersey Funnel.  The form is not related to function - the interior of a modern cathedral could be anywhere.

Traditional art develops within traditional forms and it develops the forms. In his Christian paintings of the fifties Dali adapted forms to his individual vision but they are recognisably traditional forms.  Dali was a genius - contemporary artists are not.  They need to shock to get recognition.  Real Art grows out of tradition and provides sustenance, spiritual or worldly, for people rather than negative emotions like shock or offence that are harmful.

To Marcel Duchamp it was enough for an artist to deem something "art" and put it in an art venue.  But it does not matter where you stick a urinal it is always a urinal with a specific non-artistic purpose.  To say something becomes art because you put it in a gallery is very muddled thinking.  I had an experience in the Ikon gallery in Birmingham where the only objects with artistic qualities are the water closets and washroom taps which had pleasing curves and smooth surfaces.  But they are not art: they are objects for specific non artistic purposes.

It is not the context of underpasses that makes or unmakes street artist Banksy's work art or otherwise: it does not have artistic subject matter and is just technique.  Artistic subject matter is realised through qualities of artifice and held together by purpose which concentrates the artifice and technique to the goal of producing art.

George Dickie and Arthur Danto held that works of art are objects connected to various social practices.  This depends on beauty as some objects like the taps or a motor car can be beautiful but because they have non-artistic functions are not art whereas a painting is.  To Dickie art is about being self-assigned but you can put a car anywhere, it is always a car and its function is different from a work of art even if it is beautifully designed.  When Artists begin to create they have a purpose and an artistic end in mind and to bring this into being they use appropriate technique.  They do not take into account aerodynamics, say, or how fast water pours out or precisely where its trajectory will take it as these are not part of the artistic purpose.  They are to engineers and designers of those objects.

This is the institutional theory of art which is a theory about the nature of art that holds that an object can only be art in the context of "the artworld".  Whatever an artworld is.  Danto wrote in: The Artworld: "To see something as art requires something the eye cannot descry-an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an art world."  That has nothing to do with the work itself but where it is.  Art is practice not theory.

Nothing can make Duchamps "readymades" art because they were made for a specific non-artistic purpose.  Theory does not change a pile of Brillo cartons in a supermarket into art, yet Danto thought if it was put in a gallery a substantive transformation took place.  Andy Warhol's pretentious Brillo Boxes (a pile of Brillo carton, replicas actually, so they are doubly pretentious) are a pile of Brillo boxes wherever they are put.

Dickie's institutional theory can be assessed from the definition in Aesthetics: An Introduction: "A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1) an artifact 2) upon which some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld) has conferred the status of candidate for appreciation." On the contrary, what makes something art is the intention of producing art through artifice and technique successfully realised.

Tracey Emin and Damian Hirst have declared works to be art because they say so.  They were promoted and financed by Saatchi who first declared their works art but he is not an artist.  It is critics and elite art buyers who decide what is art and usually because of its commercial value but that is external to the work, not intrinsic.  They are right about the commercial value of objects but not about its classification as art because designating something as art because it has commercial value is to apply external or non intrinsic criteria as the standard of judgement.  Some people are supposed to think they are Napoleon or royalty but does that make them so?

This takes us back to Duchamps folly.  This argument is that because he placed it in a gallery it became art.  To say something like Damian Hirst's pickled shark is important is pretentious.  It is supposed to make us think but by taking the shark out of context (the sea) it is rendered meaningless because it is deprived of its being which is its life, and its function to swim and hunt.  It's habitat and how it lives in are essential not extraneous.  A graffito by Banksy is not, it is added to the environment not part of it.

Picasso: "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.  When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."  Well, he has dismissed proportion but that is only one part of the whole.

Splodgeness Abounds

Commercial galleries need to appeal to a buying public and be more popular than avante garde painters yet they follow the fad of impressionistic landscapes that lose their meaning by technique over imaginative vision: the scene is obscured by splodges of paint!  This obtrudes between the scene depicted and the viewer and causes a disjuncture in the meaning.  This is technique over intuition; skill over the knack.  By contrast the camera can elevate the knack over technique as one makes an artistic judgement on what to photograph.  It gives a clear reproduction of the scene not splodgy brush strokes that could be anything from a cloud or wave or a sunbeam to just a slip of the brush.  These smears festoon every commercial art gallery in the country.  This effect is demonstrated by comparing these with photographs of the same scenes.

Public Art

Fills our ordinary lives with meaning and provides different feelings as they have different purposes.

Trying to shock people is petty and there are many more responses.  To shock is a means to the end of making themselves rich because the elites reward these attacks on our Art.  It is as though they have a brief to undermine our artistic traditions.  They have minor imaginations which cause only one response whereas a work by a major artist like Dali prompts several emotional responses.

A Liverpool pub, The Jacaranda, has a mural in the downstairs bar which John Lennon had a hand in painting when he was an art student, and this creates fascination and joy at the thought of someone so famous being part of it.  The painting is well executed but not devoted to a high purpose, but conveys feelings because we know who was involved.

The Peter Kavanagh, also in Liverpool, has a delightful mural based on Dickens characters in the snug-bar.  The story is that an artist who was a regular customer in the 1930s could not afford to pay for drinks on account, so he painted the mural. It produces delight and merriment, adds to the pubs character and raises it above the ordinary. ]

Statues are stylised and used to convey various human qualities.  Military heroes say, were shown in proud and honourable poses that suggested authority, fortitude, steadfastness such as Lord Nelson's famous column in Trafalgar Square.  They were cast in forms that conveyed meaning but contemporary public art fails in that elementary intention as the meaning is disjunctured.

I spent a few days in Shrewsbury recently.  It has honoured its famous local Charles Darwin by "public art".  But does it succeed in its purpose? One known as Quantum Leap is dissociated meaning as the form is not directly linked to the subject so there is no representation.  The title Quantum Leap actually refers to something in physics not evolutionary biology which was Darwin's study.  It is probably the contemporary informal term for making a major leap forward but applied to something celebrating Darwin confuses rather than elucidates.  These contemporary artefacts arouse no curiosity and one does not feel inclined to enquire about them.  They cannot be taken seriously as there is no spirit of genius behind them; rather, a commercial motive which are part of contemporary popular fashion and do not gain gravity from tradition.  Quantum Leap looks like an armadillo crossed with a pack of cards and seems to be influenced by popular film Jurassic Park rather than Darwin.

The Darwin Gate is three separate structures which unite to create an apparently solid structure. What does it mean? How does the form convey the meaning? The sculpture apparently combines the form of a Saxon helmet with a Norman window inspired by features of St Mary's Church which Darwin attended as a boy.  They claim that as darkness descends defused light shines through the columns suggesting stained glass windows with the tops of the posts resemble ecclesiastical arches. When it unites it resembles the shape of a church window. However, there is no connection with Darwin and the transmission of meaning to the public is split.  It is called The Eggbeater.

Even ordinary works can, if in surprising places, prompt a myriad of responses.  The Nags Head in Shrewsbury, has an unusual and painting with an obscure origin.  It has an unusual context in being on the inside door of a cupboard in a room above the pub.  There is a strange atmosphere up there, where the temperature can plummet in seconds. Some think the painting depicts Neptune, others, the Devil.  It is thought to be by a prisoner of war during World War II but staff at the local Rowley's House Museum purvey only a mystic tale but no accurate record.  One told me it is of a woman who committed suicide by jumping from an upstairs window.  In this legend it is said that the female figure will return if painted over.  The painting is not of a woman but there is an ambiguity as the figure has feminine legs which are disproportionately long and thick, and a short body. This painting prompts wonder, amusement, mystification, delight.

Rowley's House museum holds the excellent Morning View of Coalbrookdale by William Williamse. (3) An important function of both painting and photography is to reflection a way of life or, as in this case, a defining historical era.  There is too little representation of ways of life in contemporary art and fiction and people need this affirmation of themselves. These engaging paintings convey a powerful impression of the impact of early industrialisation on a still natural landscape. There are many forms of art which convey something important to people and prompt a variety of responses. Shock is just one: it is negative and it is unimportant.

Saint Alkmunds church in Shrewsbury, has a beautiful and moving stained glass in the east window.  This is The Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Francis Egington.  In this the Virgin Mary at the end of her journey through life and about to ascend to heaven. She is standing on the firm ground of the cross; with the Bible as the word of god for guidance and the sacraments represented by the chalice.  The struggles of life are symbolised by thistles on the path. She is looking up in faith at the symbolic crown with her arms outstretched and open to heavenly influence as if she were asking and waiting to be uplifted back to her home in heaven.  These were developments by Egington the artist who based the work on The Assumption of Saint Mary by Guido Remi of 1638 which is a more conventional Assumption painting and has Mary being lifted by Cherubim.

As you enter the church you are transfixed and walk towards it in awe looking up. It immediately begins to form an emotional response and the feeling of awe grows as you advance.  This is not an intellectual proposition but a deep feeling of transcendent emotions.

This acts like great art, on a deep, unconscious level like an archetype. It opens the imagination transmitting holy or noble feelings in contrast to the degenerate contemporary art which spreads negative and evil thoughts.  Old works have a quiet authority and the viewer pauses to contemplate it with respect, as when looking at old gravestones, to recreate the departed. It is a development of traditional form and links us with our roots.

The contemporary age is one of excess of technique. Jeff Robb, who has a permanent exhibition at the Victoria and Albert, uses a method of lenticular sheets which are only sold by one firm which is in Switzerland.  This is very clever and often fascinating but the subject matter is ordinary - nudes. His art is the cleverness of what he does with the subject but he does not transform the actual subject.  Jeff needs specific equipment and ink cartridges to produce his results. Technique is important but should be guided by the vision not for its own sake or it is empty form.

The qualities that qualify a work as art are intrinsic to art in general but Art with a capital "A" has an elevated, sublime, purpose and is only realised by a high quality of conception and execution.  A visual object or experience created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term art covers various media: painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation.  The various visual arts exist within a continuum that ranges from prompting deep feeling or transcendent emotion and great skill to reproducing figures or landscape which have a mood and also prompt thought or feelings.

Kimbolton School has murals by Pellegrini.  They give a sense of grandeur and seriousness and create a suitable frame of mind for study.

The modern understanding of art derived from Abbe Batteux in the 1740s who regarded the essence as an "imitation of nature" and, principally, that it caused pleasure. They cause various mental states in the beholder. He defined these mental states as pleasure and the experience of beauty. Prior to this, individual modes of art were attached to various sciences like Music to Mathmatics but this is the skill not the purpose. Kant promoted a universal criteria to decide if something was Art.  He used a geometric idea of patterns of shapes and lines.  In The Critique of Judgement he developed the notion of beauty as the cause of the the mental state. The problem is beauty is so abstract as to mean something different to everyone, though it is a word that describes the individual appreciation of something very pleasing.

English philosopher Michael Oakeshott described two sorts of knowledge:

"The first sort of knowledge I will call technical knowledge or knowledge of technique.  In every art and science, and in every practical activity, a technique is involved. In many activities this practical knowledge is formulated into rules which are, or may be, deliberately learned, remembered, and, as we say, put into practice; but whether or not it is, or has been, precisely formulated, its chief characteristic is that it is susceptible of precise formulation, although special skill and insight.

The second sort of knowledge I will call practical, because it exists only in use, is not reflective and (unlike technique) can not be formulated in rules... "  In art, this equates to the distinction between natural talent or genius and the skill and technique which realises the vision and meaning. Soccer players show a high degree of skill and to great players it is natural but developed by coaching and practice, but there is no high purpose involved.

Technique or genius; skill or a knack

There is a phenomenon in English art: a seven year-old Kieron Williamson. He has an indefinable knack that is called genius.  This is artistic judgement in the practice of painting when one knows instinctively what to put and where. He has natural qualities: perspective, choice of colours.  He has them automatically but perspective is a technique for realising the vision and choice of colours is part of the expression of the vision.

This knack is the artistic judgement. It is a non rational process - it is intuition or instinct and it is this that technique realises.  In Kieron's case it was triggered by the Devon and Cornwall landscape and "sprung full-born into life" like Athena from Zeus's head. It was instantly realised, not slowly educed. (2)

To clarify the working of the two functions of form and content, technique and vision we have a fine example from music.  Music was suffering the same culture war as painting and was dominated by atonal styles and was saved from an unexpected quarter. It was a paradox:

What we know as the culture wars and political correctness could not have made progress if it had not been adopted by the popular musicians of the 1960s.  The words to The Beatles hit Get Back were developed from a spoof of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech. Paul McCartney later turned into a more conventional rock song.

McCartney and John Lennon wrote melodies and through harmony revived tonal music. Atonalists were destroying traditional classical music as composers Schoenburg and Stockhausen did with water gurgling down a drain noises.  The Beatles natural musical genius was realised through the technique of producer George Martin: The Beatles were raw talent, Martin supplied the form.

McCartney and Lennon upported the New Left and McCartney had a single banned by the BBC for apparently supporting the IRA; Lennon was figurehead of the New Left-Politically Correct movement and his records like the album "Sometime in New York City" promoted it.  He donated to The Black Panthers and The IRA.

Atonal composers disdained their audiences as Bourgoise but Lennon and McCartney brought them together. Martin's skill at realising their meaning added to the whole and triumphed over the split between form and meaning in contemporary music.

Martin wrote the orchestral arrangements and instrumentation in collaboration with them.  It was Martin's idea to put a string quartet on "Yesterday".  To demonstrate his point he played it in the style of Bach to show what "voicings" could be used. To realise "Penny Lane" McCartney hummed the melody, and Martin wrote it in music notation and David Mason, the classically trained trumpeter played it in a piccolo trumpet solo. Eleanor Rigby was heightened by Martin's strings-only accompaniment inspired by Bernard Hermann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho.

For "Strawberry Fields Forever", Martin combined two different takes into one.  For I Am the Walrus he provided an original arrangement for brass, violins, cellos, and vocal ensemble. He worked closely with McCartney to develop the orchestral 'climax' in A Day In the Life.

The Artistic Subject

When he became a Christian, Salvador Dali found an artistic subject and the inherent spirtuality of the subject gave him a fuller, more elevated vision and he painted the masterpieces of the twentieth century.  He was a skilled draftsman who developed his skills of realisation by studying Renaissance masters. Much criticism of Dali was because he supported General Franco rather than the Marxism of the orthodox Surrealists and art critics.  They were ideologues and like all ideologues expected their members to conform to the manifesto or have their thinking corrected.  Breton banned Dali from The Surrealist movement in 1941 and tried to ban his "Sistine Madonna" from the International Surrealism Exhibition in New York in 1960.  It is said that Breton a Trotskyist, called Dalí in for questioning on his politics as his political allegiances had changed.  After World War II, Dalí became close to General Franc's movement and issued statements of support. He congratulated Franco for his actions aimed "at clearing Spain of destructive forces" met him personally and painted a portrait of his granddaughter.

His fascination with the hypercube a four-dimensional cube and unfolding of a hypercube is featured in "Corpus Hypercubus" which changes the traditional form but it is still recognisable and we know what it represents.  His "Last Supper" and "The Christ of St. John of the Cross" are the masterpieces of the twentieth century. This brings us to the essence of great Art: genius and inspiration.

Contemporary painters and makers of installations show contempt for the audience and do not work for the public good.  They seek a response but it is a negative response.  They are not geniuses and have to shock to get noticed. In fact they are not really artists - but purveyors of clever tricks without deep meaning. Art is communication but contemporary art fails to communicate because of a disjuncture between subject and beholder, form and purpose.

The indefinable knack is intuitive practice called genius. This is artistic judgement in the practice of painting when one just knows instinctively what to put or where.  This knack is the artistic eye, artistic judgement and it is a non rational process - it is intuition or instinct and it is this that trained and developed technique realises."  John Dryden captures it :"But genius must be born, and never can be taught."  It is the technique that is taught not the genius, which is inborn, as the qualities that make a work art are intrinsic to the work, not external nor contingent on where the work is put.

The difference between nature and art is this. When I point my camera at something that pleases me I first use artistic judgement but I record natural phenomena. If I take a sunset it is reproducing nature and is not art but nature.  However, if I then use the zoom function, it has the effect of condensing the distance and thereby magnifying the gold or red which is moving from nature to art because it is introducing a technique to change the reproduction of the natural phenomena and make an artistic end. I recently took several photos of a sunrise in Penzance Bay in Cornwall and sunset at Brighton. There is little technique involved and as long as you point the camera at the right thing you are away.  The camera is recording natural phenomena but a meaning is conveyed from photographer to viewer as the scene automatically conveys certain emotions to the viewer. In the above examples it is natural beauty. When you look at a photograph of a landscape a chain of thought is triggered which moves from the inherent emotional state conveyed to personal and often unconscious thoughts and feelings.

A similar process occurs in art as the idea or a scene is transformed through human imagination and emotion till it becomes a work of art: transformed reality.

Click here for the reference notes relating to this posting

BBC’s fawning Interview of a Hard Left Extremist Historian

Apr

2012

 

Eric Hobsbawm. The Marxist BBC’s fawning Interview of a Hard Left Extremist Historian

Written by Tim Heydon

One can't imagine the culturally Marxist BBC ever devoting a programme lasting an hour on Radio 4 to some far–right historian.  The chances of David Irving, for example, being given such an opportunity, are nil.
Would the BBC ever celebrate the life of an academic apologist for the Nazis who justified his support for the extermination of millions of leftists, jews, homosexuals, Freemasons, gypsies and others?  Hell would freeze over first.
Yet, like it or not, the paying public were this week treated to an hour of 'Eric Hobsbawm, a Life in History'.  Hobsbawm is a man who has publicly proclaimed his support for the extermination of millions of 'class enemies' in the Soviet Union.
It might be argued that Hobsbawm, who, born in 1917 now has various academic posts of a largely honorific nature including the Presidency of Birkbeck College, University of London, is extremely prominent in his field.  It might also be argued that he should be a good deal less prominent than he is.
Approving of the Death of Millions
Hobsbawm is the Marxist historian who, when in 1994 he was asked on TV by the Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff whether 20 million Soviet Deaths may have been justified had they brought about the promised communist utopia, asserted that they were.  He confirmed that this remark was no slip of the tongue or momentary lapse the next year.  When Sue Lawley asked him on Desert Island Discs if the ''sacrifice of millions of lives" would have been worth a communist utopia, he replied: "That's what we felt when we fought the Second World War".
Soviet Murders are to be equated with fighting the Nazis?
In other words he equated the necessary deaths fighting off the Nazi German invasions with the deliberate deaths of 20 million Class Enemies in the Soviet Concentration Camps.  Not to mention those millions who died elsewhere; in the forced famines in the Ukraine and transportation of ethnicities, for example.  (Solzhenitsyn put the total figure of unnecessary deaths at 60 million, a figure which makes the 'Holocaust' look relatively minor ).  Hobsbawm also argued that, "In a period in which, as you might imagine, mass murder and mass suffering are absolutely universal, the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing".
Well, isn't that exactly what the Nazis thought too?  But can you see the BBC fawning over a Nazi historian who said that?
BBC Praise for an Old Marxist
The interview of Hobsbawm by Simon Schama was extraordinarily hands-off.  True, the Desert Island Discs remark was touched on - lightly.  But otherwise, Hobsbawm was given uncritical free rein.  His work was 'universally acclaimed', it was said.  No it wasn't.  The famed Kremlinologist Robert Conquest, author of 'The Great Terror.  Stalin's Purges of the 1930s' said of Hobsbawm's 'Age of Extremes', that the latter suffers from a "massive reality denial" regarding the USSR.  The philosopher John Gray, though praising of his efforts on the nineteenth century, thought his work on the post-1914 period as "banal in the extreme' and ' highly evasive' about the realities of communism.
Belief in the Improvement of Humanity (By Whom?) makes one both dangerous and wrong
Hobsbawm was praised by Schama as having a grip on human nature and the way people behave that would ensure his lasting greatness.  But a man who continues to believe in the 'improvement, if not the perfectibility of humanity' when he has his own personality and attitudes and the gross failure of the beliefs he continues to hold to as a standing reproach to this idea, does not understand himself, still less human nature in general.
A Case of Arrested Development
Hobsbawm came to Marxism at the age of 15, we were told.  When he read 'The Communist Manifesto', he thought, 'that's it!'  He became a communist activist in Germany.  He came to Britain when he won a scholarship to Cambridge.  Interestingly, while there he was a member of the Apostles, the society to which the Cambridge traitors Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt belonged in their time.
It seems he has made no progress emotionally since because such juvenile moments are emotional, not intellectual.  Like many other leftist intellectuals, his is a case of arrested development.  His adolescent fantasies of utopia have vitiated his undeniable talents and made them if not worthless, then worth much less than they might otherwise have done.
Hobsbawm is a Jew and it took another Jew, Tony Judt, to point out that Hobsbawm's bias in favour of the USSR and communism in general and his tendency to disparage any nationalist movement as passing and irrational, weakened his grasp of parts of the 20th century.
What a pity he has never really matured.