Mangled Thoughts

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Dissecting Left has two links to books reviews which cover matter which one had intended to post on. The first is a review of a book which argues Jihad is central to Islam, that Islamic terrorism is not accidental as a consequence. That is a conclusion which some in the West have drawn with or without the benefit of scholarship.
There is one statement one disagrees with, underlined in the quote from he article:

But the Koran (Sura 9:29), Islamic history and jurisprudence all hold that there are three choices for the non-Muslim in a Muslim land: conversion to Islam, dhimmitude, or death:

“The goal of jihad is thus the incorporation of non-Muslims into Muslim society, either by conversion or submission.”

Koranic injunctions to fight are numerous, as they are in the various collections of Hadith. And Muhammad himself set the example of violent conquest. The idea of complete submission to Islam, even to the point of death, argues Spencer, “remains a vital part of Islamic theology”. Thus jihad is very much concerned with the concept of holy war, and even terrorism. And as Spencer notes, “Neither Christianity nor any other religion has ever had a doctrine like jihad”.

Marxist doctrine asserts (civil) war and murder is necessary to bring about the grand socialist future, since economic history, as the onward march to good commie man, is conflict between groups and sections inimical to each other because of the cancer of civilisation, a proposition put by that fuck up called Rousseau.

Fascism and Nazism are two types of the root religious belief which is socialism.Ultimately, socialism is nothing but a doctrine of, `authentic man’ is tribal man, an attempt to recover the mores of the tribe to which open, free markets are a barrier. Socialism is also , ultimately, a retreat into economic autarchy which, because it prevents markets bringing on the development of resources and products, reducing commerce to the mercantilist assumption it is a game in which there are only winners and losers, issues into two things, decline of capital entailing increasing reduction in capital ( savings) and with it incomes, labour intesive activities which are of low marginal value so incomes, standards of living decline further and lastly, because of the constriction of commerce, yields frictions which lead to war.

The last observation is central to the economic policies of the Nazi regime. In the first instance, assuming the Nazi govt. did not go to war nor intend to do so, Germany would have crashed into economic depression - the economic recovery occurred 1920-1933 and not as some assume, 1933-45. But warfare was a corrollary of the producer - centrally directed and planned economic policies of the Nazi, with capital markets all but eliminated, profits taxed to loss making, labour organised into gangs and terms fixed by centrally decided `accords’. The rustification policy of the National Socialist Party corresponded, labour intensive production with a slightly feudalistic edge to it. It is the socialist assumptions which underpinned those policies which were summarised into the notion of Lebensraum and to secure them, paving the way for war.

The second review contains an illustration with which one entirely agrees:

I was very struck recently by seeing Tom Cruise’s appalling movie The Last Samurai, where an American adventurer takes the side of feudal and tribal chivalry in Japan, presumably because of its self-annihilating authenticity, but realizes during the course of several destructive massacres that the samurai ethos will not survive in the face of modernity. What is needed, he concludes, is a fusion or synthesis between new weapons and old ideas. It’s bad enough that an American, even a Scientologist, could actually desire to see what Japan eventually got — in the combination of an imperial god-king with a large air force and navy, an evil empire and an absolutely calamitous war. Even more alarming was the cultural myopia that prevented critics and audiences from seeing that precisely this combination of medieval and atavistic ideas with borrowed technology is what threatens Eastern societies no less than our own.

What Hitchens should have added, the reality of life under the fuedal lords of Japan was nasty, short, brutish. What the film brings out, curiously enough, is the depiction of the denziens of the few commercial towns as selfish, cowardly and, well, bourgeois non-enties, in contrast, to the heroic, honourable and yet sensitive samauri .That attitude was not peculiar to the samauri, it was typical of European feudal lords, knights and other minor gentry, including clerical. That attitude underpinned the reasons why France nad Germany took the world to the the trenches of WWI : commerce is immoral, anarchic, undermines the higher morality inculcated by the traditional (feudal) heirarchy).

Taking the two arguments together some things need to be said. Firstly, in the second review, it is asserted anti-western sentiment of middle easterners is late, we can take the crusades as the period in which hatred of the west began to take root in the east. Not so, amplified by mentioning the Persian War launched against Athens. What can be said is socialism was an influence in the east, particularly the Nazi govt 1933 -1943/44.

Nazi Germany was viewd by nationalists and Islamicists in the middle east as successfully challenging the wicked east and waging war, and the expectation was the Nazi regime would defeat the allies.

The mention of middle eastern nationalists is crucial to understanding middle eastern politics today. Unquestionably their are many in the east who desire economic liberty and the rule of law. Against them are not only Islamicists but national socialists, not discounting either pan-Arabic nationalists also. The three- national socialists pan-Arab nationlists and Islamicists from the 30’s worked in loose alliances, fundamental to the overthrow of the former Shah of Iran and the emergence of the tyranny of the Imams. The explanation is chillingly consistent with what is set out in the review and one’s own comments above: belief in economic autarchy, resentment of open commerce, a selective acceptance of some restricted products from the west while remaining closed to all other exchange with the west. In short, two primitive and savage doctrines, Islam and socialism are asserted in tandem, fuelling the murderous inclinations of far too many in the East.

The above is a bare bones outline of the case, obviously, but they are central to middle eastern politics, illuminated by the domestic economic decadence and political dangers of jordan, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and even Egypt. To be sure, however, the Egyptian is rahter more committed to ending savage economic and political primitivism, even progress is slow.

And then the very large number of easterners who are civilised, desire the advance which economic freedom brings and an end to capricious regimes , examplified by hatred of Iranians of the Islamic regime on the one hand, and the complete ruination of Lebanon by Hamas, PlO, PLF and other Arab-nationalist-Ilsamicist affiliates.

And there are so many in the west who still wish to blame Israel for what are problems which rest actually at the feet of the Arabs and Islamicists themselves.

For the reviews, visit Dissecting Leftism
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Having mentioned national socialism, whatever the distinctions between the coalition parties and the ALP ( the Dems and Greens are just commie ratbags), natioanl socialism and central economic planning and interventionism and running command economies is not one of them. The only shift was the final recognition by the Hawke govt. economic reality cannot be denied altogether and switched to `welfarism’, the `safety net’, and forced consumption through medicare, universities and schools, environmentalism, superannuation, as the major intstruments of central planning.

It is forgotten these days, income tax was a war measure which , on the end of WWII the federal govt did not abolish. It used an emotional appeal and an appeal to greed to justify the retention of income taxes, by promising to pay Austrlians retirement pensions. Thus began the onward march of all capital and income guzzling big fat bastard govt. From that modest aim, compared to todays largesse, the hard usage by legalised extortion called taxation has been advanced to free universites, schools, hospitals, medicine, locking up economic land in the name of environmentalism and to build and buy the votes of those pol potian commies the greenies.

The genius of Menzies was he relaised that there was a large section of the population who, over-time might not endure market fixing, non-lawful privileges bestowed to protected intersts, manufacturers in Melbourne, rural producers and unionised labour. Menzies cured that by bribing the rest of Australia by offering false opportunites imitating aspirational and middle class values by rapid escalation of govt. consumption, with middle class careers redefined as employment in bureacracy and govt owned monopolies, backed by the expansion of universities. This descennt into fraud, theft and central planning was mirrored at state and local govts.

It is appalling what is increasingly detectable, both major parties are atavisiti
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The Sunday morning news and current affairs programmes, channel 9, ABC wre still calling the murdering savage Yassin `the Spiritual Leader of Hamas’.

With Toffe Man Anan and Villaispan for the French Govt. condemning the killing,
British Labour m.p. Gerald Kaufman went further.

With Toffee Man Anan and Villaispan of France `condmening the killing of Yassin, Labour M.P. Gerald Kaufman goes further.
Sanctions urged to rein in Israel
From correspondents in London
29mar04

A BRITISH MP today called for economic sanctions against Israel, including cutting off arms supplies, to force it back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians.

Labour’s Gerald Kaufman said: “It is not enough for the world community, including our own government, to condemn the Israeli government’s brutal policies of repression.

“Only widespread economic sanctions on Israel, together with cutting off arms supplies, can make any impact on this government without a conscience.”

Kaufman, himself Jewish, said President George W. Bush’s father, the former

In the series on Israel, one drew attention to a BBC radio `documentary’ in which the majority of commentators were Jews. That, however doesn’t establish the merits of ost of their comments which were tripe. That Kaufmann is Jewish doesn’t alter the svagery of his comment and the equating of Israel and its govts with PLO-Hamas-Plf-etc.

Yah, its all Israel’s fault.

Oh, Brookesnews also puts paid to the `cycle of violence’ drivel today. As Jackson points out, kiilling the senior figures in terrorist outfits is very effective, after all, it brought IRA to heel.

I’m just surprised Israel hasn’t decided to bump off Arafat, for he should be for the butcher he is.
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Nary a month passes by without some very costly lunacy being announced by the Spring St. Commie Spivs. It seems they managed to announce two. Ilibcc has posted on the first. The second announcement of good ol’Keyneisan pump priming to ward of economic recession. I have banged loud and long on this matter, the spivs in Spring St are set to, once more, send Victorians careering over the precipice economic. What makes the economic larceny Bracks and Brumby are repeating, given both were involved in the Cain-Kirner govts., more ominous is the very problem of fiat money and the inconscionable practices of Central Banks, in this case Oz’s Reserve more on which Brookesnews carries an item.

The Herald Sun has announced the Spivs are planning a $10.7billion spending spree. First off, where is the money since the govt is on the verge of insolvency anyway.That Victoria will lead Oz into recession can be sheeted entirely to the Spring St. Spivs who have taxed and taxed and spent and spent on top of raising payroll and other high cost items at very high multiples. This is quite apart from scandlas such as Saiyzeraya and the latest, the squishing of commercial production of g.m. crops.

$1.7b war chest to ease economic slide
John Ferguson
29mar04

A $1.7 BILLION war chest is to be opened to help shield the state against an economic downturn.

The cash reserve will bring to $10 billion Labor’s allocation for capital works in its second term.

New major projects tipped to benefit include a convention centre and an overhaul of shipping infrastructure.

Victoria faces its biggest economic threat in nearly a decade as the Government frames the May 4 Budget.

Business has called for urgent tax relief, but Treasurer John Brumby had ruled that out.

THE STATE’S population base is under threat, possibly because of an exodus to the northern states.

THE 5.8 per cent unemployment rate remains below the national average for the 45th month in a row.

EMPLOYMENT has jumped by 8.8 per cent since Steve Bracks was elected in 1999.

BUSINESS and unions want more spent on infrastructure, but unions back more spending on government-funded services.

THE big-spending Government will be exposed to potential deficits if the economy slows markedly.

He said the economic statement would identify priority projects to build a more competitive state and aid the economy.

Govt. consumption is at the cost of capital, savings, and so production and, consequently, real incomes.

`Infrastructure’ is both protectionist businesses and unions code-word for `redistribution’/ `social welfare’ in their favour and runs like this: business occurs when govts spend money on `projects’ which engages businesses as suppliers and thus enabling them,consequently, to employ people, this describes Adelaide and why it is a city of mendicants and why S.A. is economically, like Tasmania, sclerotic.

What Bracks and Brumby are planning will only drive Vicotria from recession into depression, for the spending spree will compound the mess they have already created.

They are Spivs, economically illiterate, incompetent financially and their malkfeasance is ruinous, entirely.
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Clarke’s allegations has the medja frothing at the mouth but there are more than a few falsehoods to Clarke’s book and testimony before the Senate Committee. Brookes News relates some interesting and nasty matters involving Clarke and Clinton which Mao’s little Red Age, ABC, Saddamite Morning Herald, Melbourne Herald, Australian, and others will conveniently ignore.

Brookesnews also carries an interesting interview with Gaddafi’s son, and what is emerging as another positive shift in middle-east affairs.
Qaddafi’s Son says ?Libya Must Be A Democratic And Open Country? and he points out that is the direction Colonel Gaddifi and the Libyan are taking and committed to. This bit of very good news must be very annoying to leftoid journos whose views on the mid-east so contrary to just this sort of thing are have been well aired ad infinitum.
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