<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587</id><updated>2011-09-20T18:39:40.805+01:00</updated><category term='Modernism'/><category term='Modern world'/><category term='Christendom'/><category term='Leftwing lies'/><category term='Armenia'/><category term='Architecture'/><category term='Wickedness'/><category term='Jacobins'/><category term='Cities'/><category term='Toryism'/><category term='Jihad'/><category term='Maghreb'/><category term='Big Government'/><category term='Kingdom of Ireland'/><category term='Terrorism'/><category term='elections'/><category term='Arabs'/><category term='abortion'/><category term='Democracy'/><category term='Film'/><category term='Greed'/><category term='Gypsies'/><category term='Marxism'/><category term='London'/><category term='Blacks'/><category term='counterrevolution'/><category term='Bosheviks'/><category term='war'/><category term='Serbia'/><category term='European Union'/><category term='Regicide'/><category term='cultural decline'/><category term='Malta'/><category term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category term='crime'/><category term='those United States'/><category term='Fraud'/><category term='International Finance'/><category term='Monarchy'/><category term='Bankers'/><category term='Obama'/><category term='Lament'/><category term='The Troubles'/><category term='Eastern Christendom'/><category term='Money'/><category term='Racism'/><category term='Medieval Europe'/><category term='Debt'/><category term='Hysteria'/><category term='Islam'/><category term='Ulster'/><category term='referenda'/><category term='Bureaucrats'/><category term='recession'/><category term='Homosexuality'/><category term='Republicanism'/><category term='Italy'/><category term='The Crusades'/><category term='feminism'/><category term='Theft'/><category term='humour'/><category term='Georgia'/><category term='Poll'/><category term='Modern Slavery'/><category term='Kosovo'/><category term='Immigration'/><category term='Iran'/><category term='Ugliness'/><category term='amorality'/><category term='The Elites'/><category term='history'/><category term='Beauty'/><category term='Pakis'/><category term='Russia'/><category term='&apos;Conservative parties&apos;'/><category term='The West'/><category term='revolution'/><category term='Mexico'/><category term='Ireland'/><category term='big business'/><category term='morality'/><title type='text'>Irish Tory</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>62</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-6818939180873294679</id><published>2009-05-20T19:39:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T19:44:33.705+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sick of Blogger</title><content type='html'>I think the time has come to move the web log to Wordpress. Blogger really is terrible, especially when one is attempting to put photos in one's post. I have has the wordpress blog up for a good while now, but after trying today to write a post about my recent travels to Paris, I decided I had had enough of pictures jumping all over the post mired in writing, which itself is split up and thrown over the page in random sections!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My new home &lt;a href="http://anirishtory.wordpress.com/"&gt;Irish Tory&lt;/a&gt; at wordpress.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-6818939180873294679?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/6818939180873294679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=6818939180873294679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6818939180873294679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6818939180873294679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/05/sick-of-blogger.html' title='Sick of Blogger'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-4449609111154973849</id><published>2009-04-15T14:53:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T15:28:40.688+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><title type='text'>Bus journey in Paris</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SeXqqKyi1WI/AAAAAAAAATQ/u3vKzuVei2k/s1600-h/Scene+on+bus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SeXqqKyi1WI/AAAAAAAAATQ/u3vKzuVei2k/s400/Scene+on+bus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324920144607237474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The poor French fellow who was attacked on a bus by a gang of 'youths' in Paris, has caused a bit of an uproar on a certain part of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;blogosphere&lt;/span&gt;, having watched it, I can't really understand why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it that no one else has lived in a large 'diverse' European city?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have, and have seen this sort of thing many times, tried to rescue prey from their attackers, mostly &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;unsuccessfully&lt;/span&gt;, as the gangs tend to be in the dozens, and those willing to help in the ones or twos, I have also been attacked by a group of Somalian teenagers, about a dozen or so, who pretended to play fight and bumped into others, I caught one of them with their hands in my pocket about to take my wallet. Well, after a bit of a standoff, I got off at the next stop, I thought it wise due to the Somalian habit of carrying knives and being quite ready to kill someone for a cheap lighter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that there are many naive Europeans even on the 'right', or are they just trying to build this up with a lot of righteous anger? Are they trying to convince the open border types that immigration is not working? Well even the poor fellow who was attacked seems to think it was not that big a deal and worries not that these people could do this to his fellow countrymen again, or that these heathens are even in his fair France, no what he worries about is this video being abused by 'radicals' for political reasons!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be a genuine belief among those, for want of a better term, on the 'right', who seem to think that we can convince our fellows to awaken to the reality of our perilous situation. I hope they are right, I hope that the great majority can wake up before it is too late, that we can &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;expel&lt;/span&gt; the alien and restore Christian Europe! However, I think this becomes increasingly futile, our enemy controls the media, it runs the news channels, it folds its worldview into the soaps people watch, into the cartoons, films and documentaries we see. It writes, edits and prints our books and papers, it educates our children and it passes our laws. The people, our fellow country men are in awe of our enemy, they spend their days listening to his subtle lies, his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;exaggerations&lt;/span&gt;, his misrepresentations and his deceit, they read it, the watch it they grow up on it, they suckle at the teat of our enemy and if they are good and do what is expected of them, they get some two bit soul destroying job and get the chance to enslave themselves with a death pledge (mortgage) with the hope of owning a few sods of earth at some indeterminate point in the future, when they are too old and too broken to resist the enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;disapprove&lt;/span&gt; of trying to educate our fellows on the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt;, it is all to the good, but I think we need to realise how little power we have, how little influence and how little sway with our fellow men. It is frustrating, that even &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; attacked, the victim seems almost to blame himself, one screams inwardly, 'What is wrong with you?', 'Why did you not fight back? Why did you just lay down and take that beating? Why not fight back?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we all know why, this poor young Frenchman is completely unprepared to meet such heathens on his way home, he has never come &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;across&lt;/span&gt; such barbarity and it is too shocking to him to react as a man should. And so he weeps and begs the driver for help, this is where the sons of Charlemagne have come to!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God help us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fdesouche.com/articles/33981"&gt;Video of attack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-4449609111154973849?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/4449609111154973849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=4449609111154973849' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4449609111154973849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4449609111154973849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/04/bus-journey-in-paris.html' title='Bus journey in Paris'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SeXqqKyi1WI/AAAAAAAAATQ/u3vKzuVei2k/s72-c/Scene+on+bus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8429618293074887739</id><published>2009-03-10T11:58:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-03-10T12:18:14.075Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Republicanism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Troubles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><title type='text'>Republicanism rears it's ugly head,again!</title><content type='html'>Well, it seems some can't get enough of killing the 'seasenach', how brave of those who gun down an unarmed and unready foe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ireland is in trouble, our rulers have unleashed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of foreigners on us, they use our money to support the invaders, giving them free housing, health, education as well as everything else. When the invaders attack, main or rape one of us, they provide legal aid so that they can lie their way out of court and back onto the streets so that they can go on their merry way, raping, pillaging and murdering as they go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, some morons seem to believe that this is not too much of a problem, they seem to think that some young fellows who are in the British Army, getting a pizza is more outrageous then having our nation overrun, and this time for real! No let the Africans and Muslims do as they please, the real enemy are the English, yes those fellow Christian Europeans, yes they are the existential threat to Ireland's future!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mosques are being built, triumphant minarets are beginning to tower over the homes of Irishmen, and these numskulls, these morons, these ignorant, narrow minded thugs think that they will be thanked or admired for their murders!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A curse on them and their type.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the reason I loathe republicanism, it is the avenue to cowardly murders, sneaky ambushes and the like. No great battles for Irish Republicans, no, neither is there any noble one on one combat, no, only cowardly ambushes, or assassinations, or grievous murder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that goes for the original IRA, the one many seem to think is different from the PIRA or RIRA. They are all the same, murdering, thieving, treasonous scum!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8429618293074887739?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8429618293074887739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8429618293074887739' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8429618293074887739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8429618293074887739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/03/republicanism-rears-its-ugly-headagain.html' title='Republicanism rears it&apos;s ugly head,again!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1962073901253576632</id><published>2009-02-18T12:29:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-02-18T12:31:42.454Z</updated><title type='text'>Treason's power</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by: Marcus Tullius Cicero&lt;br /&gt;(106-43 B.C.) &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1962073901253576632?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1962073901253576632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1962073901253576632' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1962073901253576632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1962073901253576632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/02/treasons-power.html' title='Treason&apos;s power'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-3100420173314164075</id><published>2009-02-09T20:20:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-02-09T20:48:14.700Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><title type='text'>Financial Coup d'Etat</title><content type='html'>I found this interesting article &lt;a href="http://solari.com/blog/?p=2058"&gt;'A Financial Coup d'Etat'&lt;/a&gt;. It is a fascinating read, and exposes much of the boom of the past twenty five years or so as a money grab by elite banks and other financial institutions and their greedy bosses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that privatisation was actually a way for them to get discounted public utilities, and then sell them on for a profit, at our expense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I can't say much surprises me anymore, almost everything I once thought I knew has been exposed as lies! I feel a fool, and to think the lefties were actually right about something? All that talk about big business and fat cats and insider dealing and governments in bed with big business and the evils of globalisation, all the things I thought were actually good for us, were in fact wrong, and not only wrong, but in essence they were Satanic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have been bankrupting us for decades, they have been lying to us and syphoning our money away so that they can live lives of luxury on stolen goods, things that once belonged to us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The opening paragraph states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'In the fall of 2001 I attended a private investment conference in London to give a paper, &lt;a href="http://www.dunwalke.com/gideon/q301.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;The Myth of the Rule of Law or How the Money Works: The Destruction of Hamilton Securities Group&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The presentation documented my experience with a Washington-Wall Street partnership that had:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Used “privitization” as form or piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Other presenters at the conference included distinguished reporters covering privatization in Eastern Europe and Russia. As the portraits of British ancestors stared down upon us, we listened to story after story of global privatization throughout the 1990s in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Slowly, as the pieces fit together, we shared a horrifying epiphany: the banks, corporations and investors acting in each global region were the exact same players. They were a relatively small group that reappeared again and again in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Asia accompanied by the same well-known accounting firms and law firms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Clearly, there was a global financial &lt;em style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;coup d’etat&lt;/em&gt; underway.'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only way these thieves will be stopped, is with violence, not something I personally support, although in my darker moments I admit I do fantasise about violent things happening to the scum that rule us, but it is inevitable that someone is going to have a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Falling Down'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; moment, somewhere at some point, of all the millions who have lost everything, or the millions more who are about to lose everything, there must be one man who is on the edge, whose &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Falling Down'&lt;/span&gt; moment could be the spark that lights this petrol soaked house that is the 'Way Things Are'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;God help us all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-3100420173314164075?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/3100420173314164075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=3100420173314164075' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3100420173314164075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3100420173314164075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/02/financial-coup-detat.html' title='Financial Coup d&apos;Etat'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-4585892196336413287</id><published>2009-02-09T00:04:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-02-09T00:09:38.591Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abortion'/><title type='text'>Newborn baby thrown out with the trash alive!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'A young mother has accused a Florida clinic of botching her abortion, allowing her child to be born alive - then putting the baby into a plastic bag and throwing her out with the trash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sycloria Williams is suing Dr Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique and the abortion clinic's owners in a case that has shocked both sides of the abortion debate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Aged 18, Ms Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated and ready for the procedure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;But Dr Renelique did not arrive in time - and, according to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labour and delivered a live baby girl.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Then, Ms Williams and the Department of Health claim, one of the clinic's owners - who has no medical licence - cut the infant's umbilical cord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ms Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic bio-hazard bag and threw it out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;An autopsy revealed air in the baby girl's lungs - proving that she was born alive and breathing.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is so much about this that is so wrong, I don't know where to start!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1137486/Newborn-baby-thrown-trash-ALIVE-botched-abortion.html"&gt;Source&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-4585892196336413287?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/4585892196336413287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=4585892196336413287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4585892196336413287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4585892196336413287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/02/newborn-baby-thrown-out-with-trash.html' title='Newborn baby thrown out with the trash alive!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5244452738103591063</id><published>2009-01-30T16:21:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-01-30T16:41:28.533Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bureaucrats'/><title type='text'>Children ripped from family and handed to sodomites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Two young children are to be adopted by a gay couple, despite the protests of their grandparents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The devastated grandparents were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they dropped their opposition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The couple, who cannot be named, wanted to give the five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister a loving home themselves. But they were ruled to be too old — at 46 and 59.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does this sound like to you? Soviet Russia? Mao's China? Hitler's Germany? No, it's modern day Britain!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things look worse and worse all the time, Satandom seems to be strengthening every day, these government employees who hand over young children to sodomites, even though they have grandparents aged 46 and 59 can only be described as wicked people!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would be shocking if it were not so predictable, it is written, 'they place bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, dark for light and light for dark', we are storing up a terrible wrath for ourselves, God be merciful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1130066/They-say-old-care-grandchildren-Social-workers-hand-siblings-gay-men-adoption.html"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5244452738103591063?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5244452738103591063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5244452738103591063' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5244452738103591063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5244452738103591063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/children-ripped-from-family-and-handed.html' title='Children ripped from family and handed to sodomites'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-63382554485168005</id><published>2009-01-29T20:46:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-01-29T20:52:10.531Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><title type='text'>Banks: Market Cap</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SYIW6gJqkkI/AAAAAAAAATI/JBCT47F2E_c/s1600-h/Morgan+Stanley+RBS+Deutsche+Bank+Credit+Agricole+Societe+Generale+Barclays+BNP+Paribas+UBS+Credit+Suisse+Goldman+Sachs+Santander+Citigroup+JP+Morgan+HSBC+Investment+Banks+Market+Cap+Capitali.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SYIW6gJqkkI/AAAAAAAAATI/JBCT47F2E_c/s400/Morgan+Stanley+RBS+Deutsche+Bank+Credit+Agricole+Societe+Generale+Barclays+BNP+Paribas+UBS+Credit+Suisse+Goldman+Sachs+Santander+Citigroup+JP+Morgan+HSBC+Investment+Banks+Market+Cap+Capitali.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296821306059821634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seems that there is going to be more touble with these bad figures!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-63382554485168005?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/63382554485168005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=63382554485168005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/63382554485168005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/63382554485168005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/banks-market-cap.html' title='Banks: Market Cap'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SYIW6gJqkkI/AAAAAAAAATI/JBCT47F2E_c/s72-c/Morgan+Stanley+RBS+Deutsche+Bank+Credit+Agricole+Societe+Generale+Barclays+BNP+Paribas+UBS+Credit+Suisse+Goldman+Sachs+Santander+Citigroup+JP+Morgan+HSBC+Investment+Banks+Market+Cap+Capitali.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2085550106322542977</id><published>2009-01-12T22:14:00.006Z</published><updated>2009-01-12T23:12:23.096Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterrevolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><title type='text'>The Convulsion</title><content type='html'>The thieves and liars who have left our nations bankrupt have already got away with their crimes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our media have ensured that, instead we hear irrelevant dung being said about actors and actresses, we hear stupid cliches mouthed about how awful it is that Prince Harry said the word 'Paki', OMG!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are fed emotional tripe about the 'Palestinians' and all the 'war crimes' going on there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are ensured by these same people that the recession is just that, a recession, not the end of the financial system as we know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more I read and study about this crisis, the more I'm convinced that this is truly exceptional. I know I've been banging on about this since I have started this web log, but this is the 'big story' of 2008 and will be the big story of this decade, no this century. The world is changing and changing completely, the everyday blah blah of politics and show biz news will thankfully be a thing of the past in the not too distant future, the 'War on Terror' is over, this idiotic campaign instigated by greedy and feckless politicians and their allies in big business as a way to go to war, when there is no war to be had. It reminds me of the wars that Oceania would fight against East Asia and Eurasia in 1984, these wars did not have a goal in sight, there could not be a victory as that is not what the government wanted, they just wanted the powers that a modern state has in wartime. It is not even made clear if Oceania was even fighting a war at all or if it was just a way of maintaining control, this is where we are at now with this ridiculous GWoT, and what an irritating acronym!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I digress, this GWoT is over, we cant afford it anymore, well not for much longer, the soldiers will be needed to quell the unrest back home in Europe and America, as when we end up penniless, we will be fighting people in the street for food. The 'ethnic minorities' will unleash their barely concealed hatred against us rampaging through the cities and suburbs murdering, robing and raping as they go, our governments will be powerless to prevent this tsunami of chaos, which will overtake us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The armies and police will fracture and dissolve as soldiers and police will go home and attempt to protect their own families and homes, weapons will very quickly end up in many peoples hands, sold to them by soldiers off home, or looters and savvy entrepreneurs, making the violence even more bloody.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money will be worthless, tobacco, alcohol, food and weapons will be the currency of the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The criminals who brought this on will avoid this fate, as being the slimy lickspittles that they are, they will have homes in Switzerland and Monaco, although one would hope that will face their comeuppance at some point in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media, in effect an organ of the state, will not tell you how bad it is going to get, they are under instructions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we are facing is TEOTWAWKI, as Jim Rawles of Survivor Blog refers to it, the end of the world as we know it, I don't think it is Judgement day, or the Rapture or anything like that, although it could be, but I do think that sin has consequences, and the sins of greed, lies, theft, deceit, lust, sloth, arrogance will ensure a retribution. This is the natural retribution we all face as a consequence of our sin, in the east they call it karma, science understands it as for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What we now face are the results, the reaction, the karma of our civilisational sins, and oh, do we so richly deserve it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will happen then? That I can not say, I can only prognosticate the above as it is the consequence of the sins and folly that have happened and are continuing today. The chaos unleashed by present folly's will continue, the results are unknowable for us mere mortals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those of us who hate the way this world is, can use the results of others sins for the good of many. The world will very soon be in flux, the political institutions, financial system, social mores, religion, all will be up for grabs, all will be ready for reformation or destruction, you can be one of those who makes the system that replaces the one we now have, the one that will soon be gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being ready for that should be your goal. Societies often have convulsions, then they are remade, the time of convulsions have started, are you ready?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2085550106322542977?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2085550106322542977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2085550106322542977' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2085550106322542977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2085550106322542977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/convulsion.html' title='The Convulsion'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8749275620090343483</id><published>2009-01-11T13:10:00.011Z</published><updated>2009-01-13T20:31:55.829Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cities'/><title type='text'>A Look at our Lost Cities.</title><content type='html'>A few Photos of European cities, before they were destroyed by war and disfigured by modernist zealots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNhodgkI/AAAAAAAAASc/0tS3lu4DTKI/s1600-h/Paris+Avenue+de+L%27Opera.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNhodgkI/AAAAAAAAASc/0tS3lu4DTKI/s320/Paris+Avenue+de+L%27Opera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024451992027714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paris, still much the same I think!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNmWZU7I/AAAAAAAAASU/k2VcbYJyW74/s1600-h/Luxembourg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNmWZU7I/AAAAAAAAASU/k2VcbYJyW74/s320/Luxembourg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024453258433458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luxembourg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNXu74mI/AAAAAAAAASM/4jo5qtixsqA/s1600-h/Louvain+Le+Vieux+Marche.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNXu74mI/AAAAAAAAASM/4jo5qtixsqA/s320/Louvain+Le+Vieux+Marche.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024449334829666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Louvain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNdNX92I/AAAAAAAAASE/vHbmNned7lw/s1600-h/Lisbon+Liberdade.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNdNX92I/AAAAAAAAASE/vHbmNned7lw/s320/Lisbon+Liberdade.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024450804676450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lisbon, still much the same, although some buildings have been replaced by concrete lumps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNUdgN2I/AAAAAAAAAR8/eBmMyvZE8sM/s1600-h/Italian+Street.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNUdgN2I/AAAAAAAAAR8/eBmMyvZE8sM/s320/Italian+Street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024448456406882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bellagio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5jDIgSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/Y6hoTl90KWQ/s1600-h/Innsbruck+Maria+Theresienstrasse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5jDIgSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/Y6hoTl90KWQ/s320/Innsbruck+Maria+Theresienstrasse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024108774949154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Innsbruck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5e4itTI/AAAAAAAAARs/8YA4i_Jra0g/s1600-h/Granada.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5e4itTI/AAAAAAAAARs/8YA4i_Jra0g/s320/Granada.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024107656787250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Granada, still much the same, but last time I was here, it was full of African immigrants trying to push DVDs on to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5YAhn1I/AAAAAAAAARk/MGzqtnXYqXg/s1600-h/crch200rouen_cour-d-albane.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5YAhn1I/AAAAAAAAARk/MGzqtnXYqXg/s320/crch200rouen_cour-d-albane.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024105811222354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House backed onto cathedral in Rouen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5CODIkI/AAAAAAAAARc/q6c6MwO9Kjw/s1600-h/Segovia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnw5CODIkI/AAAAAAAAARc/q6c6MwO9Kjw/s320/Segovia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290024099962364482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segovia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnSUZLhI/AAAAAAAAARU/fGze2E5-rlw/s1600-h/Siena.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnSUZLhI/AAAAAAAAARU/fGze2E5-rlw/s320/Siena.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023795046297106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sienna, still thankfully a beautiful place, It looked exactly like it does here when I went there a few years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnfBGhcI/AAAAAAAAARM/s_lw2sEfis8/s1600-h/Trier+Hauptmarkt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnfBGhcI/AAAAAAAAARM/s_lw2sEfis8/s320/Trier+Hauptmarkt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023798455043522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnKwqxYI/AAAAAAAAARE/_0lJ-D4TeG0/s1600-h/Turin+Piazza+Castello.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 146px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnKwqxYI/AAAAAAAAARE/_0lJ-D4TeG0/s320/Turin+Piazza+Castello.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023793017406850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnHrmQ5I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/DdK8E6KUsWM/s1600-h/Ypres+Grand+Place.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 195px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwnHrmQ5I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/DdK8E6KUsWM/s320/Ypres+Grand+Place.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023792190833554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ypres, poor old place. It's probably a big lump of concrete now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwX8BMpUI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/C0sHHJZRxLs/s1600-h/Vienna+Schottenring.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 161px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwX8BMpUI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/C0sHHJZRxLs/s320/Vienna+Schottenring.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023531362166082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vienna&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwX5XnTkI/AAAAAAAAAQs/_f-hKE54I-Y/s1600-h/Warsaw+Ul+Marchallkowska.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwX5XnTkI/AAAAAAAAAQs/_f-hKE54I-Y/s320/Warsaw+Ul+Marchallkowska.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023530650881602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warsaw, unfortunately, this city was raised to the ground in the Second World War. All this is gone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwX4xYdgI/AAAAAAAAAQk/vVUD3Kevzzc/s1600-h/Utrecht+Zadelstraat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwX4xYdgI/AAAAAAAAAQk/vVUD3Kevzzc/s320/Utrecht+Zadelstraat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023530490525186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Utrecht&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwXWkZLLI/AAAAAAAAAQc/rKdfFjSZaUg/s1600-h/Nurnberg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwXWkZLLI/AAAAAAAAAQc/rKdfFjSZaUg/s320/Nurnberg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023521309240498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuremberg, such a beautiful place!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwFDfOGeI/AAAAAAAAAQU/_8jirtli4Mw/s1600-h/Florence+Il+Campanile+Di+Giotto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwFDfOGeI/AAAAAAAAAQU/_8jirtli4Mw/s320/Florence+Il+Campanile+Di+Giotto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023206949624290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Florence, another perfect place, thankfully little touched by modernity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwFH3VwNI/AAAAAAAAAQM/BwxMCqOnFb8/s1600-h/Frankfurt+Am+Main+Lutherhaus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwFH3VwNI/AAAAAAAAAQM/BwxMCqOnFb8/s320/Frankfurt+Am+Main+Lutherhaus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023208124530898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankfurt am Main, another city ravaged by war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwFFC3UfI/AAAAAAAAAQE/ewji3IvfgZk/s1600-h/Brugge+Groote+Markt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwFFC3UfI/AAAAAAAAAQE/ewji3IvfgZk/s320/Brugge+Groote+Markt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023207367561714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brugges&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwE21bnbI/AAAAAAAAAP8/hropoAefqew/s1600-h/Bordeaux.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 189px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwE21bnbI/AAAAAAAAAP8/hropoAefqew/s320/Bordeaux.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023203553123762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bordeaux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwE1Jm72I/AAAAAAAAAP0/BRyvC4YNoDU/s1600-h/Algiers+Rue+Michelet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnwE1Jm72I/AAAAAAAAAP0/BRyvC4YNoDU/s320/Algiers+Rue+Michelet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290023203100880738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Algiers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnv2mbohxI/AAAAAAAAAPs/50LAZsSylEw/s1600-h/Berlin+Friedrichstrasse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnv2mbohxI/AAAAAAAAAPs/50LAZsSylEw/s320/Berlin+Friedrichstrasse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290022958631782162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berlin, another great and beautiful city reduced to rubble in the Second World War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All photos are taken from &lt;a href="http://www.carfree.com/"&gt;Carfree Cities.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8749275620090343483?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8749275620090343483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8749275620090343483' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8749275620090343483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8749275620090343483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/few-photos-of-european-cities-before.html' title='A Look at our Lost Cities.'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWnxNhodgkI/AAAAAAAAASc/0tS3lu4DTKI/s72-c/Paris+Avenue+de+L%27Opera.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8010267499025546848</id><published>2009-01-11T00:34:00.007Z</published><updated>2009-01-11T22:29:15.292Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modernism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ugliness'/><title type='text'>The Ugliness of Modernism</title><content type='html'>One of the signs of our cultural debasement is the quality of our environment, that is, our homes, our shops, cities, streets, bridges etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not that I'm opposed to any architectural innovation at all, that would be pointless, there are always buildings that need to be cleared away for some reason or another, and to replace them with an exact replica every time would not be rational or desired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thing that strikes me is how ugly our environments are, there are the tower blocks, the great concrete, glass and metal lumps that are called libraries or city halls or 'community centres' or police stations and hospitals. There are the modern days slums, the almost unnaturally ugly estates on the edge of most European cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When one looks at pictures of European cities from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt; 1914 days, one is struck by the sheer beauty of the surroundings, even the slums are better then the modern soulless pits build for the betterment of the slum dwellers, by the disciples of Le &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Corbusier&lt;/span&gt; who believed zealously in themselves. The modernists were the architectural equivalent of the Frankfurt School in the political and social spheres and had as much of an influence as the Frankfurt School, undermining decency and goodness, whilst the modernists undermined any notion of a natural or human environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I grew up in the country on a lane that was about two miles long, there were a few farms off the road and my house was the only one on that lane. At the far end of this lane there was a farmyard, and facing onto the lane was a whitewashed stone outhouse, on my travels I would pass this stone barn and would appreciate, even at such a young age, the ancient pedigree of this stone barn, there was something about it which spoke of permanence, but with out the insensitive arrogance that concrete projects, the stone was natural and comfortable in a way concrete could never be. A few years ago I went for a walk with the dogs and passed this farmyard, and something seemed odd about that stone barn, I had to stop and have a look, to my shock and disgust I realised that the reason there was something odd, was because the stone barn was no more, I was looking at a concrete lump that had been whitewashed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, that farmer has a perfectly good, solid, stone barn. For some idiot reason, he decided to pull the stone barn down, and in the very same place build a concrete barn, the same shape, the same size, if you were a county council planner, you would probably not notice the difference, which is probably the reason it was built to look exactly the same as before, but why? Why pull down a perfectly good building and replace it with something exactly the same? Why waste the money? This is the insanity of modern architecture and the ideology behind it, tare down the old, no matter how useful it is, no matter how beautiful and replace it with the new, no matter how ugly, no matter how much it costs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whole cities have been reduced to large open air concrete slums, Birmingham comes to mind, it used to be a beautiful city, full of handsome buildings, fruit of it's industrial wealth, even now there are still remnants of this, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Bournville&lt;/span&gt;, where the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Cadbury's&lt;/span&gt; factory is, is still impressive, the Botanical Gardens, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Colmore&lt;/span&gt; Row, Victoria Square, but you must not take too wide a view when looking at these places, because horrific, monumental ugliness usually looms not far away, which is a great pity. The Prince of Wales has remarked something along the lines of 'At least the Luftwaffe only left rubble', referring to the trendy lefty modernists who were so zealous in removing old, interesting and beautiful buildings from the map.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coventry is another formerly beautiful city that now resembles a large open air toilet, the ancient cathedral which was bombed out in the Second World War is still beautiful, and next door, is a hideous, immensely ugly lump of concrete. The modern cathedral seems to mock God by it's very existence, all hip and trendy, all ugly and meaningless! The sad thing about Coventry, is that you see the odd ancient building and see the shadow of what Coventry once was, the stone gateway here, the old pub there, the town hall, the ruined cathedral, but everywhere else, concrete, concrete, glass and steel, all big and monumentally ugly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even cities that have not been disfigured, or disfigured as much as others, such as London or Venice or Rome or Paris, still have &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; hideous suburbs, when taking the train into Venice, you pass through the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Mestre&lt;/span&gt;, which is almost hellishly ugly, with the oil refineries and steel plants belching out steam and smoke all day long, with motorways and concrete pillars everywhere one looks, with factories and storage facilities and ugly tower blocks, ugly estates and ugly houses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Parisian &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Banlieue&lt;/span&gt; are worse then the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Mestre&lt;/span&gt;, not only are they hideously ugly, they are filled with hateful unemployed Muslims who spend their time rioting and siring offspring. The suburbs of Rome are less ugly then Paris or Venice, but they are still not as beautiful as they could have been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;uglifying&lt;/span&gt; our cities, we should be attempting to beautify them, but I suppose that this is the point I'm trying to make. The increasing ugliness in our cities is a sign of how ugly we are becoming as people, the ugliness in our souls is mirrored in our homes and offices, in our shops and schools, everything we use and do is being consumed by ugliness. We have entered the age of ugliness and the only thing that will cure that, is a moral regeneration, a Renaissance of our souls, only then will we see great and beautiful structures built once more.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8010267499025546848?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8010267499025546848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8010267499025546848' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8010267499025546848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8010267499025546848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/ugliness-of-modernism.html' title='The Ugliness of Modernism'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2408935093998245936</id><published>2009-01-06T23:36:00.007Z</published><updated>2009-01-07T00:00:02.185Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jihad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Crusades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Malta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christendom'/><title type='text'>The Great Siege of Malta 1565</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWPskmnqOqI/AAAAAAAAAPc/zOyXWlvoamo/s1600-h/Siege_of_malta_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWPskmnqOqI/AAAAAAAAAPc/zOyXWlvoamo/s320/Siege_of_malta_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288330501049432738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;I read this today and was inspired by it. I was aware of this battle but had not yet got around to reading about it as thoroughly as I would have wanted. The author is an Alan Stang, not someone I'm familiar with, but he draws the right conclusions from the Great Siege of Malta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Recently, I received a complaint from a now happily departed reader. He took issue with a recent piece in which I recalled the history of our centuries-long conflict with Islam. The reader said he has no interest in history. He is only interested in “now.” Specifically, he wants to hear about the Jews, nothing else. Happily, he announced that he is no longer with us, so there is no chance that these modest comments could offend his belligerent ignorance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;In one of his books, Czech novelist Milan Kundera has a character explain that when the Communists impose their version of Socialism on a country, they always destroy its history. They stop teaching it in the schools. They don’t talk about it in the media. They delete and pervert it in the movies. After a while, nobody knows it. Why do the Communists do that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;They do it because if you don’t know your history, you don’t know what you are; you don’t know &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; you are. Personally, if you don’t know your history, you have amnesia. Nationally, if you don’t know it, you are no longer a nation. You are people milling about in a wide spot in the road. You have no cohesion. You are disunited and easily conquered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Now look at the people Jay Leno interviews on his “Jaywalks.” Look at the recent You Tube interview of people who had just voted for Senator Also Known As. They love Sarah Palin and thought she was his running mate. They can’t identify Nancy Peelousy. They have no idea what Also Known As would do. Jay’s people don’t know whom we fought in World War II or when or who won. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Remarkably, they know they are ignorant, but their ignorance does not trouble them. On the contrary, when Jay’s questions expose it, they laugh, pleased with themselves, so they will do nothing to abate it. Their ignorance is “cool,” which, where I come from, has always meant, “not so hot.” They are potential slaves, waiting for some dictator to corral them. They will still be giggling inanely about how, like, cool it is, man, as they are put aboard the cattle cars. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Look with me at just one chapter in our history. Since millions of young, putative Americans – who stalk among us and vote – apparently know little if anything about World War II, my guess is that only a pitiful remnant has even heard of the siege of Malta in 1565, or could even find that historic island on a map.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;In 1565, Islam is again threatening Europe. Muslim slavers are raiding the nations all along the Mediterranean, depopulating villages, taking white – white – white slaves. Indeed, the Muslims took white slaves as far away as Iceland. Imagine! Today you are in Reykjavik, blond, blue-eyed, enjoying the ice; a few days later you wake up with a knot on your head, the grandmother of all migraines, and you are a white slave in Morocco, eaten up with envy of the free blacks in the Congo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;More than two centuries later, the fledgling United States will fight its first war against these Muslim slavers and pirates. But now we are at Malta, it is 1565, and our host for this expedition is Michael Davies, who told the story at the 2002 Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute Symposia in New York. You could also consult &lt;em&gt;The Great Siege&lt;/em&gt;, by Ernle Bradford (New York, Harcourt, Brace &amp;amp; World, 1962). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Malta, in the western Mediterranean, was Christian, like the Holy Land, which the Muslims had raped, robbed and conquered after almost seven centuries of hegemony by worshippers of Jesus. Its strategic location endangered the lucrative Muslim piracy and slavery racket. Maltese vessels were harrying Ottoman Empire piracy routes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Suleiman the Magnificent – Vice-Regent of God on Earth, Lord of the Lords of East and West, and Possessor of Men's Necks, et cetera and so on – ruled Islam at the time and commanded the most awesome military force in the world. He sent 200 ships, 40,000 troops plus innumerable thousands of slaves and more than 6,000 elite Janissaries, the “Invincible Ones.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Beside them were the drug-crazed &lt;em&gt;Iayalars&lt;/em&gt; who wore the skins of wild beasts and whose &lt;em&gt;raison d'etre&lt;/em&gt; was to reach paradise through death by slitting Christian throats in battle. Suleiman’s vengeance would be sweet and easy. Only 9,000 Christians waited to confront him, including 5,000 Maltese irregulars and 500 galley slaves. He would roll over them like the tide in the Bosporus, crush them; drown them in the sea. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Overcome by &lt;em&gt;hubris&lt;/em&gt;, he may have overlooked the 700 knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem among them. Maybe he didn’t know about their leader, Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette, who had survived a year as a galley slave himself, sometimes rowing twenty hours a day stark naked in the bowels of a Muslim ship. De la Valette’s people hailed from Toulouse, which means he was French. What? Yes, French!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;De la Valette told his Christian warriors this: “It is the great battle of the Cross and the Koran which is now to be fought. A formidable army of infidels are on the point of invading our island. We, for our part, are the chosen soldiers of the Cross, and if Heaven requires the sacrifice of our lives, there can be no better occasion than this. Let us hasten then, my brothers, to the sacred altar. There we will renew our vows and obtain by our faith in the sacred Sacraments, that contempt for death which alone can render us invincible.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;In May 1565, the Muslims arrived and assaulted Fort. St. Elmo, at the tip of what is now the Maltese capital Valletta on the north shore of Grand Harbor. The Muslims expected to take it in three days. It took thirty five. Every day the knights at St. Elmo held out gave the defenders at St. Angelo, the main base across the harbor, more time to prepare. At night, Valette sent reinforcements. Aware they were heading to certain death, they were grateful for the honor of dying there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Word arrived that the help the Christians expected from Don Garcia de Toledo, Viceroy of nearby Sicily, would not come in time, if at all. On May 31, La Valette read this dispatch to his Council:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;“We now know that we cannot look to others for our deliverance! It is only upon God and our own swords that we must rely. Yet this is no reason to be disheartened. Rather the opposite, for it is better to know the truth of one's situation than be deceived by specious hopes. Our faith and the honor of our Order are in our own hands. We shall not fail.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The invaders pounded the walls to dust. Then they attacked, endless waves of screaming Muslims, trampling the bodies of their slain, across the moat into which the walls of St Elmo had slid. Each time the diminishing band of defenders fought them off, with pikes and battle-axes, firing muskets and dropping blocks of stone, throwing fire-hoops and cauldrons of boiling pitch that set the flowing robes of the Muslims ablaze and burned them to death like human torches. Michael Davies comments: “The pork-like odor of burning flesh filled the air.” Burning Muslims who smelled like pork? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Knight Rafael Salvage and Captain de Miranda arrived from Sicily with Viceroy Don Garcia's latest message to La Valette. Here is what they saw at St. Elmo: “The insupportable fatigues increasing, chiefly the whole night, and the burying in the parapets of bowels and limbs of men all torn to pieces and pounded by the hostile cannon, to such a pass had the hapless besieged been reduced; never stirring from their posts, but sleeping there and eating; with all other human functions; in arms always, and prepared for combat; . . . they had got so disfigured that they hardly knew each other any more. Ashamed of retiring for wounds not manifestly quite dangerous or almost mortal, those with the smaller bones dislocated or shattered, and livid faces bruised with frightful sores, or extremely lame and limping woefully; these miserably bandaged round the head, arms in slings, strange contortions—such figures were frequent and nearly general, and to be taken for spectres rather than living forms.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;On the 18th of June, La Valette called for volunteers to reinforce. Thirty knights along with 300 soldiers came forward, offering themselves for certain death. The original garrison of St. Elmo numbered 1,500. On Friday, June 22, 1565, a few hundred survivors remained. They sang hymns, prayed, defiantly tolled their chapel bell and prepared to meet Jesus. Those who could no longer stand were seated in chairs, fully armed. Incredibly, they managed to fight on for some hours. The Muslims had finally won the outpost but had lost precious time and thousands of their best troops.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Then the Muslim commander, Mustapha Pasha, made a fatal mistake. Raging at Christian impertinence, he decapitated the knights, raised their heads on spikes, crucified their officers to mock Jesus and floated their headless bodies across the harbor to Fort St. Angelo, where they washed up next morning. De La Valette responded with cannon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;It did little damage, but the Mohammedans were horrified when they saw what he was using for balls. They may have even recognized some of them. When his crucified knights washed up on shore, De La Valette decapitated the Muslim prisoners he was holding, threw their corpses into the sea and armed the cannon with their heads. Mustapha and his Mohammedans were enormously offended. Some of those missiles had belonged to friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;De la Valette told his men to take no prisoners. Every day until the end of the siege they hanged one Turkish prisoner upon the walls of Medina. Aghast at the enormity of his losses to take so small a prize, Mustapha offered safe passage to the Knights if they would only surrender the island and leave. They refused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The Grand Master told the knights this: “I will tell you now openly, my brethren, that there is no hope to be looked for except in the succor of Almighty God – the only true help. He who has looked after us until now, will not forsake us, nor will he deliver us into the hands of the enemies of the Holy Faith. We are soldiers and we shall die fighting. If, by any evil chance, the enemy should prevail, we can expect no better treatment than our brethren who were in St. Elmo. . . . Let no man think that there can be any question of receiving honorable treatment, or escaping with his life. If we are beaten, we shall all be killed. It would be better to die in battle than terribly and ignominiously at the hands of the conqueror.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The siege continued, the target now St. Angelo, the fortified enclave of the knights on the southern side of Grand Harbor. No one anywhere has ever fought a battle more ferocious. The Mohammedans tunneled beneath the Christian defenses to bury a mine and blow the knights up. When the Muslims ignited it, on August 18th, the head of the mine was finally under the Bastion of Castile. It destroyed a vast section of the main wall. Muslim troops swarmed through the breach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;La Valette seized a pike and rushed from his post of command in Birgu towards the Bastion of Castile. About to give way, his soldiers saw the Grand Master at the head of some knights running towards the danger. They forgot their fear and stopped the invading Muslims.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;A grenade injured La Valette in the leg. Men shouted, “The Grand Master is in danger!” From every side knights and soldiers came rushing to his aid. The Muslims staggered and fell back. “Withdraw, Sire, to a place of safety!” a knight shouted. “The enemy is already in retreat!” Limping, la Valette continued up the slope. “As long as their banners still wave in the wind,” he said, “I will not withdraw.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Not until the Christians reoccupied the whole bastion and repaired the defenses did he agree to have his wound dressed. At dawn, when the Muslims finally withdrew, both fortresses were still in Christian hands. By the way, Grand Master Jean de la Valette was not only French; when he commanded Christian defenders at the siege of Malta he was seventy one years old. Are you striplings in your sixties embarrassed yet? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The siege lasted 112 days. More than 40,000 Muslims had arrived. Only some 10,000 returned to formerly Christian Constantinople. Almost 250 knights of the Order had been killed; the survivors were badly wounded or crippled for life. Of the original 9,000, barely 600 still could bear arms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Michael Davies says this: “The Maltese were one with the Knights, determined, whatever the cost, to be rid of the Turkish invader, though of the nobles there is barely a word in contemporary records; presumably they sat it out in their palaces in Medina.” In other words, they were irrelevant. See my recent piece entitled, “Innocent Bystanders.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;All this happened in 1565, not long ago, a mere four hundred some years. Look at the map and you will see that the Christian triumph at Malta was one of the hallowed few that saved Western civilization. Another was the battle of Tours, where Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, “the Hammer,” commanded the French knights who stopped the Muslim advance in 732. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;There was the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, where the Christian fleet commanded by Don John of Austria defeated the Muslims. Miguel de Cervantes, wounded in that battle, would go home to write one of the greatest books of all time. And the next time you explain how many Polaks you need to screw in a light bulb, remember that without the Poles you would now be speaking Arabic. The Polish hussars commanded by King John Sobieski saved the West in 1683, when they stopped the advancing Muslims at the gates of Vienna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Are you a Christian? Are you a man of the West? All of this is your history. Without it, you are what the conspiracy for world government wants. You are a Jay Leno interviewee, a giggling ignoramus, reveling in your ignorance, a parasite ripe for extortion and conquest, brainwashed to be exactly that in the nation’s communist government schools. You don’t know who and what you are; so you are nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" &gt;What are you in possession of your history? I chose one example to narrate. As you read it did you not feel something elemental struggle to erupt? Did you not feel the feminism and political correctness and multiculturalism and affirmative action, the “religion of peace,” pansy preachers and make nice slough off? Notice that in the siege of Malta the knights saw no need to let bull dykes play games. Does your history not overwhelm all of that with righteous, masculine, inexhaustible Christian power?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The couple of years to come will require Christian warriors like Jean Parisot de la Valette and his knights. You are very fortunate because you just happen to be here right now. You have the chance to fight and maybe even to die in the same cause. History will make you the envy of Christendom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Men of the West! Stand and fight!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan181.htm"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2408935093998245936?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2408935093998245936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2408935093998245936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2408935093998245936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2408935093998245936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/great-siege-of-malta-1565.html' title='The Great Siege of Malta 1565'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SWPskmnqOqI/AAAAAAAAAPc/zOyXWlvoamo/s72-c/Siege_of_malta_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2945315855384537934</id><published>2009-01-02T15:19:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-01-02T16:26:49.676Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterrevolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><title type='text'>2009</title><content type='html'>the year of our Lord, two thousand and nine, time does fly!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The past year has been one of great upheaval, the fraud of 'finance' and fiat currency has been left discredited, the foolishness of men has been exposed for what it is, arrogance, ignorance and greed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The foolishness of our 'rulers' continues, however. They have borrowed insane amounts of money to bail out failing and fraudulent companies, it is probably just a coincidence that the politicians and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;CEOs&lt;/span&gt; of those companies are social &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;acquaintances&lt;/span&gt;, having gone to the same schools, attending the same clubs and married to each others sisters and cousins!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These bailouts have failed, well they were bound to, the bailouts were in reality just a way of those company bosses getting this years bonus, the companies are still the same fraudulent &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Ponzi&lt;/span&gt; schemes they always were. Once these 'bailouts' failed, our 'great' leaders decided to print money and lower interest rates, in those United States this has led to what is in effect a negative return on money, with interest rates at 0.25% going as low as 0%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This debasing of currencies is not new, it is something greedy governments and bankers have been indulging in for centuries, although in most cases the bankers and politicians were wise enough not to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our present crop of bankers and politicians seem to be very unwise, they have been consumed by their greed, their unholy desire to be rich beyond the most perverse dreams of even the most greedy of men, they have decided that they can avoid the fate of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Wiemar&lt;/span&gt; Germany and squeeze us of what little wealth we have, just so that they can have more money in the bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will rob us of our money by inflation, by '&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;quantative&lt;/span&gt; easing' and more tax rises, they will attempt to 'harmonise' tax rates in the EU, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;eradicate&lt;/span&gt; tax havens and strip us of any right to social assistance, no more dole or pensions for us, they will tell us that they can't afford it, although they will continue to afford to pay for their client base, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;immigrants&lt;/span&gt; and the feckless who suck on the teat of state, sucking up our taxes so that they can do nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our rulers hate us, that is made plainer ever day, they rob us of our money, what little we have. However their hate is made clear by their desire to murder us when we are of no use to them. The recent episode in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg makes it very clear what they think of us, these Satanists, those who hate us, have already coerced millions of European women to murder their children, this sin is an unforgivable sin, it is one thing to go out of your way to murder an innocent, it is another &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;altogether&lt;/span&gt; to convince a weak minded woman that she must murder her child, just so you can have her in the workforce to do some mind numbing job and pay those Satanists their taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Satanists are not happy with this level of murder, they want to make murder more mainstream, more acceptable, now they want to kill off the old and the sick and the disabled, they add nothing to the big money pot so they must go. So the Satanists want us to exterminate ourselves by encouraging people to be sexually &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;promiscuous&lt;/span&gt;, thus degrading ourselves, but the media are there to tell us its all &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;OK&lt;/span&gt;, because faith is nonsense anyway and only nasty judgmental hypocritical Christians would &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;disapprove&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then once we are degraded through constant casual sex, they want us to murder the children that result from this promiscuity, because every time this happens, our consciences are seared as with a hot iron, but this is all well and good for the Satanists, because the darker our souls become, the more like them we are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the murder of the helpless continues on, first the unborn, now the sick, the lame, the old and the handicapped. The further our souls are seared, the closer to Hell we get.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same Satanists use our money to fund an invasion of Europe by the barbarians, they use our money to fund Satan's aims of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;eradicating&lt;/span&gt; Christendom. The infidels, the worshipers of that demon Allah, are being used to swamp us in our own homes, the Christ haters who rule us not only intend to rob us of what little money we have, they intend to exterminate us, to defeat the Church, damn our souls and wave the flag of victory for the Devil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Satanists who rule Europe have allied themselves wholeheartedly with the incoming administration in Washington, this alone should be enough to forewarn us of what is to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia has been tested, and the Satanists have been found wanting, their power is not as great as they believed, they are quite weak, the only power they have is the fear they breed in us by their &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;control&lt;/span&gt; of our minds via the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year will be a crucial year for the Satanists, they are on the cusp of total victory, but they are also on the cusp of a great defeat, they have in many ways overplayed their hands, their aims are now quite plain to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year could be the year of their downfall, let us pray that it is, for their victory will be a terrible thing, we would be enveloped in darkness for a very long age, their hate, their terror and their lies would poison everything that is beautiful, and the darkness would extinguish all light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;optimist&lt;/span&gt; by nature, I see a great chance ahead of us this year, one where we could have the only chance in a very long time to wrest control from the Devil worshippers, the chance to destroy or at least weaken their hateful power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us all hope and pray for victory this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God Bless and keep you all!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2945315855384537934?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2945315855384537934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2945315855384537934' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2945315855384537934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2945315855384537934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2009/01/2009.html' title='2009'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-4425777733641542247</id><published>2008-12-28T21:57:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-12-28T22:18:49.734Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leftwing lies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Medieval Europe'/><title type='text'>Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!</title><content type='html'>Well, it is that season once again, where a new year is about to drag us another year closer to our demise!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say that I'm not enjoying this week between Christmas and New Year, I rarely do, it seems such a terrible time of excess and boredom, unable to get anything done, or anything planned because everyone else is doing the same as you, sitting at home watching the television, going out drinking or stuffing their faces with the remains of the turkey or the last mince pies. Although I still enjoy the old spiced beef, nothing quite like it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that these 'holidays' lose their meaning once Christmas day is gone, and although it is nice to have a bit of a break, it seems overdone to take weeks off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although saying that, in medieval Europe Christmas was an affair that lasted months and usually ran into Lent and Easter, which itself ran on for weeks, exasperating the landowners who could not make the peasants work on a holy day, in fact, were forbidden to do so. They had to convince the Church to pair back their definition of a holy day so as to allow the land to be ploughed efficiently and harvested fully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if weeks of feasting is what I would really want, although it does sound good! It is one of those evils lies put about by the haters of Christendom, that the peasants of the medieval world never had time off, or did anything but suffer and starve, when in fact, most of the calender was devoted to various holy days and the feasts of saints. We are all familiar with Lent, but fewer would be familiar with Advent before Christmas, or the myriad of feast days once celebrated by the Church, it is a wonder anything got done in that time, although much was, perhaps with a bit of a hangover?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are told we have never had a life so leisurely then ours! Another bald lie!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, may God bless you in the new year!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-4425777733641542247?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/4425777733641542247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=4425777733641542247' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4425777733641542247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4425777733641542247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html' title='Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2359563925158287276</id><published>2008-11-16T14:57:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-11-16T15:35:41.258Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&apos;Conservative parties&apos;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>V for Vendetta?</title><content type='html'>I have read quite a few favourable reviews about the above film and have seen references to it on various sites that I have a great deal of respect for. Thinking that V may be a film worth seeing I sat down on Friday evening to take it in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a waste of my time! That film makes no sense at all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, we are expected to believe that a right-wing Christian member of the Conservative party imitated Hitler and won round huge crowds of people who elected him into power where he instituted a 'fascist' clerical dictatorship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This government exterminates Muslims and immigrants and forces the Christian religion on everyone! Right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Christians all happen to be hypocrites, secret junkies, bloodthirsty murderers and paedophiles! That's original!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most saintly people portrayed in this film are the sodomites! They are all pure of heart, decent clean people who are 'just in love', this nasty Christian fascist state drags off the sodomites to torture and kill them, (for what reason we are never told, even in the real life totalitarian states, sodomites were only dragged off if they were political subversives or if they were indiscreet about their perversions) Stephen Fry once again playing his role of intellectual morally superior homosexual, a role that is getting tiresome! I wonder why they never portray sodomites as paedophiles? Hmmmmm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most absurd part of the film was when people were watching the television, and proclaiming that all the news that was being told them was 'bollocks' or 'that's a lie', etc..., we all know that most people accept without doubt anything told them by their box in the corner. Perhaps a tiny number would doubt the official story, but only a tiny minority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However the thing that struck me most was how pleasant London looked before V's revolution, everyone seemed to be well off, everyone had nice flats or houses, all with flat screen TVs, there were no minorities, the streets were clean, I presume crime was almost nonexistent, and the liberals had been run out of town or kept down. And no democracy! It's almost a perfect vision of the future! Why would anyone want to end that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They portrayed a surveillance state, but why would you need such surveillance if there are no minorities? No minorities will imply little to no crime, and the part where they showed Natalie Portman being attacked by white men intent on gang rape is so absurd as to make this the least intelligent film Ive seen in a long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The premise was good, a government that becomes totalitarian and oppressive, but lets be realistic, no one would follow a conservative Christian, they &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;would&lt;/span&gt; follow an atheist socialist, and where has all the loss of freedom come from over the past decade? The Labour Party. Who has recently been proclaimed a 'sort of messiah', not a Christian conservative, but the Marxist mulatto, Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never has a true conservative movement been as successful as that portrayed in V, and never will they be, due to their innate conservatism, conservatives prefer the comforts of home to the hardship of campaigns or political battles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps Franco or Pinochet could be declared to be successful 'conservatives', but then again any victories they acheived have long ago been reversed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So. Don't bother watching V for Vendetta if you've not already done so!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2359563925158287276?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2359563925158287276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2359563925158287276' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2359563925158287276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2359563925158287276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/11/v-for-vendetta.html' title='V for Vendetta?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5658859191453984377</id><published>2008-11-06T15:53:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-11-06T16:20:03.323Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lament'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='those United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blacks'/><title type='text'>A Changed World</title><content type='html'>“The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          Treebeard, The Lord of the Rings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a strange thing indeed, to see a nation sell it's birthright to an hostile alien, it is stranger still when you see what was once a great nation give it away as happened yesterday in those United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will admit to feeling shaken when it became clear the Marxist Mulatto was going to win the American presidential election, even though I has resigned myself to it anyway, it still came as a shock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't say I wished McCain to win, I didn't, he seemed a dangerous man to entrust such power, but neither did I wish to see Obama win it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fear that this may be the end of a great power, the ending of an age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The celebrations surrounding his victory disturb me, that white people can actually wish and desire to become vassals of an outsider, of a foreigner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I also fear that this will be only the first such act of surrender in the west.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My only hope is that this will mean an American government not so desirous of a conflict with Russia, McCain would have sought out a confrontation with the Kremlin, he would have brought the Ukraine and Georgia into an alliance with those United States, whether as part of NATO or not. My hope is that Obama leaves Russia alone. It is interesting that President Medvedev made a confrontational speech to the Duma, the day Obama won, something methinks would have been muted had McCain won.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I've written before, Russia seems the only sane Christian power left in the world, one that increasingly looks likely to be our only hope of survival in the years ahead. Those United States are now not only a bad ally, they are set to become an open enemy of Christendom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So passes the great American republic, destroyed by its own foolish belief in 'democracy', poisoned by years of Satanic propaganda, and now left as the primary vehicle of evil in this world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not a time for celebration as fans of the Marxist Mulatto believe it is, it is a time of mourning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5658859191453984377?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5658859191453984377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5658859191453984377' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5658859191453984377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5658859191453984377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/11/changed-world.html' title='A Changed World'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7463229466822975585</id><published>2008-10-24T16:48:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T17:17:38.460+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bureaucrats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><title type='text'>The ongoing collapse</title><content type='html'>It is an interesting time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The markets, house prices, commodities and consumer items continue their fall, the talking heads on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;MSNBC&lt;/span&gt; are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;puzzled&lt;/span&gt; by what they term '&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;irrational&lt;/span&gt; selling', but what could be more rational then selling what is probably overpriced?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incredible dumping of trillions of dollars into the markets and banks in the passed few weeks will fire a destructive inflation that will leave the people of the world &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;aghast&lt;/span&gt;. These bailouts were not only immoral, but &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;recklessly&lt;/span&gt; stupid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Britain, under the guidance of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;incompetent&lt;/span&gt; Brown, has over the passed few weeks dumped well over a trillion pounds into their banks and financial system, the GDP of Britain is not much more then one trillion, what happens when one does that? Massive debilitating inflation, am I the only one that knows that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here in Ireland our porcine &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Taoiseach&lt;/span&gt; Mr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Cowen&lt;/span&gt;, has &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;guaranteed&lt;/span&gt; the full amount of all deposits in all Irish banks! That may sound good, but what happens if that is tested, will we the Irish people be able to back that up?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iceland has in all effects collapsed, it's banks are nationalised, bank accounts of Icelandic banks and businesses have been frozen in Britain, under a terrorist act, something that sounds like an act of war!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This crisis is only at it's &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;beginning&lt;/span&gt;, there are many months ahead of crises, it shall take many months, perhaps years, before things have stabilised, and what we shall see will be a different order, perhaps one influenced by traditionalists?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is a time to hunker down and wait, in a few months it will be the time to take advantage of the situation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7463229466822975585?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7463229466822975585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7463229466822975585' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7463229466822975585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7463229466822975585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/10/ongoing-collapse.html' title='The ongoing collapse'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5049724331874302602</id><published>2008-09-20T16:12:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-20T17:03:19.811+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterrevolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><title type='text'>The end of the Liberal West?</title><content type='html'>Could the economic chaos which ripped through the markets this week mark the beginning of the end of the Liberal West?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, one can always hope!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The crisis, is far from over, the root of the crisis, is the mountain of debt on which we sit, there is the hundreds of trillions of mortgage debt, the trillions of credit card debt, the trillions that is owed by government, the hundreds of trillions of unsecured derivatives, the tens of trillions owed by government (ie:us) to keep the welfare states afloat, that is a lot of debt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collapse of Lehman's, AIG, HBOS and Merill Lynch were only the symptoms of the problem, the problem is that we can't possibly pay all this debt back, no chance! What we face is civilisational bankruptcy, many of us personally face bankruptcy as well. No amount of government interventions can stop it, well it could have, but they would have had to intervene ten or twenty years ago to make borrowing harder and saving easier and more profitable, they would have had to reform the welfare state and commit the state to being debt free, but as we know that did not happen, because that is the fundamental weakness of a democracy, the politicians are focused, not on our future, but on how they can get reelected in two or four of five years time, democracy is doomed to death by its own most glaring weakness, its inability to think of the next generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we have all had a great time buying rubbish we don't need with money we didn't earn and all we now have is debt, strangely in the preceding twenty years, debt was sold as an asset, now banks and other financial institutions realise what everyone else instinctively knows, debt is debt, it ain't an asset. So debt is harder to trade, those stuck with bad debt are being dragged down as house prices come back to Earth, how the mighty have fallen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not only the banks and governments who are to blame, although they have earned the most lavish contempt, it is all of us who bought into this scam, everyone who has a credit card they can't manage, everyone who bought a house they couldn't afford, everyone who took out loans for things they didn't need, all of us are culpable and are now getting our just desserts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say this as someone who did all the above, except the unmanageable mortgage thing, but thankfully I have got out of credit card debt and most of the loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To think people were taking out loans for a holiday!! What is that? Pure stupidity, loans should only be for something that will profit you and yours, like a car or a start up loan or something similar, it should provide you with something tangible and lasting, not some photos and sunburn!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last time we faced such a crisis was in 1929, I think we are facing something far worse then that, at least then most people stayed within their means and saved what little they could, most people didn't own their own houses, so mortgage debt wasn't as monstrous as now, most people could do real things, such as grow veggies and cook, and clean and make things, such as clothes and chairs and tables and such like, very few people can do that now, we can programme something or flip burgers or do things online, very few of us could do easily what our grandparents and great grand parents did daily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Depression almost marked the end of democracy, this upcoming depression could kill it once and for all, this may be the moment we have been waiting for! The next few years could be years of political ferment, we could see the rise of nasty totalitarians, leftists, neo-NAZIs and the like, we must be ready in the next decade or so to take our own advantage, to propose a return to faith and tradition, and the rejection of mass democracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course our elites would try as best they could to fight all the anti-democrats to retain power, they could themselves become the new totalitarians, not something I think is beyond the realms of reality, these people have been in the business of banning things since at least the beginning of the twentieth century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we shall see in the next few weeks and months how this turns out, how bad it will actually get, myself, I hope it is really bad, I hope the whole system is shaken down, that as many big businesses as possible go under, that as many governments as possible fall and that in their new found poverty the masses can wake up to the reality of what has been happening over the past fifty or sixty years, what our rulers have done to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then and only then will we have a chance to restore our nations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5049724331874302602?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5049724331874302602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5049724331874302602' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5049724331874302602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5049724331874302602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/09/end-of-liberal-west.html' title='The end of the Liberal West?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-995737689993309010</id><published>2008-09-09T12:03:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T13:59:18.644+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterrevolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eastern Christendom'/><title type='text'>Virtue and Sin</title><content type='html'>In my last post, I was a trifle simplistic in what I described about Russia and America,&lt;br /&gt;So just to make more clear what I meant, I will attempt a better explanation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia is not saintly, it is not &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt; holy, it is a nation scarred by 80 years of brutal atheistic communism, genocidal wars, famines and fear. Russia and the Russians do seem to have a fear of the west, a fear that is sometimes unjustified and can be as irrational as the Russophobia displayed in certain parts of the west.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I make the point that America is the real threat to the west culturally, I should have made myself clearer. There are many Americans not a part of this threat, but most of the recent degeneracies we are facing were birthed in America, whether it is the 'gay rights' movement that started in the 'Stonewall Riots' a grand name for a pub fight! Abortion on demand which I know was not invented in America, but due to Americas dominance of TV and film, it is Americans who are the chief promoters of it even here in Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modern feminism, which seems to be a political form of lesbianism, started in 60s America, and has been disseminated since then via American TV programmes and Hollywood films. Divorce, again the chief promoter of divorce are the hundreds of Americans TV programmes beamed into Irish homes, it took a long time for this propaganda to convince us, but convince us it did and we voted for divorce in the 90s!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not trying to say Americans should not defend their home and hearth, that is admirable, what I'm saying is that there is another America, the America of the Sodomites, the feminist man-haters, the Christ haters, the pornographers, the lawless men who hide behind 'freedom of speech', which I don't think was meant to protect pornography or public displays of sodomy, but which nonetheless is invoked by the degenerate to shut 'conservatives' up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lawless amoral elite who rule America, use America's traditions against their own, I'm not talking of the revolutionary tradition, an oxymoron of a phrase if ever there was one!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America's traditions are basically English traditions, refined and mixed to make a uniquely American tradition, decency, friendliness, freedom, the real sort, not an unlicensed ability to spread smut, but the right to question things to discuss religion and politics without fear of being gaoled, something we now no longer have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America is where much of the inspiration for the European left has emanated from, whether it was 'civil rights', 'feminism', 'anti-westernism', 'pro-Islamism', anti-Christianity', 'gay rights', 'reproductive rights', 'immigrant rights', open borders and the deification of the barbarians without. All of this already had been seeded in Europe, but due to the flowering of the left in Sixties America and the dominance America has had in the media since then, it has inspired much evil in Europe and across the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know whether Putin is a sincere Christian or not, I have heard both that he is and he is not, both could be true, however what Putin does realise, is that Christianity is vital for Russia's rebirth as a nation, it is indispensable for the salvation of his people, and he seems to know that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christianity in America is under attack, it is maligned and mocked, it is ridiculed, and faithful Christians made to feel like fools, and wicked fools at that. It is true of the west as a whole, Christianity is either mocked and ridiculed or defamed as racist, nasty, imperialist or the favorite insult 'intolerant'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Anglicans and some other non-apostolic churches have decided to join the anti-Christian bandwagon, they apologise for slavery, apologise for all of the sins we are accused of by Marxist anti-Christs. I suppose for some Christians it is too much of a burden to be outside the self righteous camp, the people who have appointed themselves our conscience, grieving, or at least appearing to grieve(in front of the cameras of course) for all of our collective sins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christ and salvation are irrelevant to these people, looking good is what they are after, the Anglicans now have atheist bishops! Atheist Bishops!!! They have practicing homosexual vicars and one famous sodomite Bishop in America! I watched him in a BBC interview and he was shameless about his sodomy, absolutely shameless!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have women priests, so I suppose they are priestesses, right? I have listened to some of these priestesses and they don't seem very interested in Jesus or salvation, they seem more interested in sexism and poor Somalian refugees!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then we have the Russian Orthodox Church, no sodomites there, well at least no sodomites that parade their perversions for everyone to see! The Russian Orthodox Church condemned last years Moscow Gay Pride, some Orthodox Priests attended the Gay Pride and were wearing full vestments holding up the Bible and condemning the sodomites and leading their people against the perverts and their western backers such as &lt;a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4495.html"&gt;Peter Tatchell&lt;/a&gt;, that is what Catholic and Anglican priests should be doing in Dublin and London and Paris and San Francisco, they should be brave, just as the Russian priests are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No cultural cringing for the Russian Church, no, it is the Church in Russia that saved much of it's culture from the Bolsheviks, no apologies for Russians being Russians!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No priestesses, no trendy church 'services', none of that modern none sense for the Russian Church, it is a truly conservative operation, old vestments, old prayers, old hymns, old masses, tradition and a pride in Holy Mother Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is one of the reasons I have hope for Russia, much more hope then America which I fear is too far gone, too degraded to save. I hope in Russia because I hope for Europe, I hope we can see the errors of our ways and if we need help to restore ourselves, that Russia can be both an inspiration to us and possibly a very real ally in helping us rid ourselves of the barbarians within.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I rambled a bit, and I know it seems I'm obsessed with Russia at the moment, but I do think this is vitally important, we must not jeopardise our future for a silly and misplaced present day pride. We will not be where we are for too much longer, we have hard times coming and need to start choosing our friends for the hard times, Russia is the one friend that will prove indispensable.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-995737689993309010?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/995737689993309010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=995737689993309010' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/995737689993309010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/995737689993309010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/09/russia-v-america.html' title='Virtue and Sin'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8979951439877941744</id><published>2008-08-26T20:40:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-26T20:55:38.810+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><title type='text'>A New Cold War?</title><content type='html'>If we are indeed to have a new Cold War as many American pundits seem to be dreaming of, I know with whom I will stand. Holy Mother Russia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leaders of the west are spineless worms, unworthy of our great heritage, they have continually betrayed us, they have sold us out, they scorn us and our past. They are the ultimate anti-westerners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia is a Christian nation, it is a true nation, not like the hollowed out states that pass for nations in the west anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I despised the Soviet Union, mainly because of the spiritual rape it committed on the Russian people, the new Russia is not the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia, one of the last European nations to stand up for itself, it is being threatened and bullied by the very same monsters who threaten and bully us, Russia is our most natural of allies, we must work with Russia in this new 'Cold War', it is the leaders of the west and especially the leadership of the United States that are the true threat to the continuity of our culture, our 'way of life'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hypocrisy of the American administration is stupefying, they condemn Russia for recognising Abkhazia and South Ossetia, yet do not seem to think their illegal and immoral betrayal of the Serbs over Kosovo is not many times worse, what are these people smoking?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In all our travails, we at least have one true ally, that is Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God save Holy Mother Russia!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8979951439877941744?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8979951439877941744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8979951439877941744' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8979951439877941744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8979951439877941744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-cold-war.html' title='A New Cold War?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7794921713221758132</id><published>2008-08-25T21:32:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T22:27:02.701+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterrevolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><title type='text'>Will you be the saviour of the broken and the damned?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;'When I was young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;He said 'son, when you grow up would you be the saviour of broken, the beaten and the damned?'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;He said 'will you defeat them, your demons and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made? Because one day I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer to join the black parade'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nw1-_5-Vk&amp;amp;feature=PlayList&amp;amp;p=EB0F959C677E6761&amp;amp;index=0&amp;amp;playnext=1"&gt;black parade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was thinking about where we are, the possibility of losing everything, the betrayal of our children we could be committing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I see it thus, we have a choice between hope and despair, despair is easier, for all we need to do is sit back and accept our fate. It seems morally superior, we can tell everyone 'I told you so', we could whisper to ourselves in our old age, 'if only they had listened to me, all would be right with the world'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hope seems the more challenging emotion, for if we hope, we must act to fulfill that hope, and what would that imply? Sacrifice, possible death, and yet, being lazy and contented, we reject hope, we accept despair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;'Would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?', most of us say no thanks, I've got some Sex in the City to watch! So our inheritance is sold to any passing migrant, any barbarian interested in living the easy life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;It is far past the time to admit, that we will not be saved by some white knight, some hero, it is up to you, to me, to us, to save ourselves and our people. The liberals will never get it, or it they do, they are content to see us enslaved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;It is in the end about love and courage and the willingness to sacrifice, are we able to do so? Are we willing to make ourselves uncomfortable to save all that we seem so desperate to save?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I hope so, because it seems or enemy is triumphant, they march on the field of battle victorious, sneering at us, supported, or at least accepted by the majority. We will never win if we accept the lie that we must have the majority behind us, that is the way of defeat and despair, we must reject democracy, reject &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;majoritarianism&lt;/span&gt;, we must accept that all that is there to oppose them, is us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I wonder if we can admit that?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7794921713221758132?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7794921713221758132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7794921713221758132' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7794921713221758132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7794921713221758132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/will-you-be-saviour-of-broken-and.html' title='Will you be the saviour of the broken and the damned?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-6614887467217218914</id><published>2008-08-24T23:50:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T00:14:23.337+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern Slavery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><title type='text'>Debt as Money</title><content type='html'>The following video explain money, and how it comes to be. I used to wonder at those admonitions not to accept or commit usury in Scripture, it seemed a bit odd and out of date, 'old fashioned' if you will. How wrong I was!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the past year or so, I have learned quite a bit about money and debt, but this is the most concise and clear explanation so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 326px" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" hl="en&amp;amp;fs=" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is well worth the 45 minutes!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-6614887467217218914?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/6614887467217218914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=6614887467217218914' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6614887467217218914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6614887467217218914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/debt-as-money.html' title='Debt as Money'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-4748927107843688781</id><published>2008-08-23T01:51:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T02:37:08.974+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monarchy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lament'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bosheviks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jacobins'/><title type='text'>Who are we?</title><content type='html'>We are orphans, subjects of wicked men who claim they 'care' for us, we are lost, walking in the darkness, in the ruins of what was once a glorious civilisation. We are a people lost in our dreams, hoping one day, we can awake to a reality much like our dreams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But our waking lives are a nightmare, we struggle to survive, despised by our rulers, loathed by the elite, who seek our dissolution, they sponsor a wave of human migration, the likes the world has never seen, they sponsor violence against us and ours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are told we are evil and wicked, we are mocked, or fathers are condemned as wicked, by those who rule us with a rod, a rod of fear, of threatened violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are a people separated from our past, from our forefathers, from the glories of Europe before the great slaughter of the First World War, the suicide of the west.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are peoples wandering, without roots, without hope, drenched in grief and mourning for this lost world. Most of us can't explain why we feel this way, most find it difficult to express our loss, our grief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hear this grief in our music, we sense it all around us, but cant define it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world has been through many terrible griefs, we have seen many terrible things, we have toiled and bled, we have fought and many have died, many of those who have died, died in vain, but nothing can compare to the fratricide unleashed in 1914.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In those terrible years we were marked, like Cain, we are cursed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We seek a saviour, a messiah, and all to many times we have sought solace in false Messiahs, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, De Gaulle, Thatcher, Blair and now Obama, at other times we have sought saviours in 'democracy', 'human rights' and in discarding our past, our faith and morality, what fools we are, what desperation we must feel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet, we still have our dreams, as weak as they are, as demoralised as we are, there is still a spark of goodness there, a point of light, a hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This hope is not in politics, it is not in arguing with our enemies, it is not in letter writing or pointless protests, it is not in powerless 'constitutional monarchies', it is in our souls, in our spirits, our peoples, the men of the west.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are weak, many of us still believe vainly in 'democracy', but if we can get past this, just a small minority can change things, how many men were involved in instigating the French Revolution? Or the Russian Revolution? Not many, a few thousand at most, they led, they seized power from weakened governments, they did not campaign for election, they took power, not that I like the Jacobins or Bolsheviks in any way, I despise them and their works.  But we must take lessons from their exploits, if we are ever to be serious, we need to discard our antique and unthinking belief in 'democracy' or voting or trying to convince the majority, the majority will always just go along with the way things are, we must think the unthinkable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are a lost people, a rudderless sham of a civilisation, if we don't do something serious soon, even that shadow of what we once were will be gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's time for a counterrevolution.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-4748927107843688781?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/4748927107843688781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=4748927107843688781' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4748927107843688781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4748927107843688781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-are-we.html' title='Who are we?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2602178302152504126</id><published>2008-08-22T17:12:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T18:27:51.139+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='those United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monarchy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eastern Christendom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><title type='text'>Monarchy in Georgia?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/08/20/demoralised_georgia_may_renew_itself_by_restoring_its_monarchy"&gt;Gerald Warner &lt;/a&gt;in the Telegraph suggests that a restoration of their ancient monarchy may be the way to definitively show their separateness from Russia, seems not a bad idea to me, especially if it means the ousting of that oaf Saakashvilli!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Warner seems to be thinking of a King Juan Carlos situation, myself, I would hope any restoration of monarchy would be a genuine restoration of political power and influence to a king, not some excuse for glorified tourist tat!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Catholicos of the Georgian Church, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_II"&gt;Ilia II &lt;/a&gt;has suggested a restoration of the monarchy, causing debate among the various parties in the Georgian Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem with most 'Constitutional Monarchs', is that they are in fact, not very 'constitutional' at all, they are absent monarchs or plastic monarchs. Kings and queens without power sidelined by bitter republicans who resent the symbolism they represent. Too many monarchs are imprisoned, imprisoned at the politicians pleasure, with the Sword of Damocles hanging over them, the slime ball politicos ready and waiting for an excuse to abolish that monarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I would like to see, is a King of Georgia with powers similar to those the Princes of Monaco and Lichtenstein wield, that to me is a proper constitutional monarchy, one where the monarch works as part of the constitution, not as a fancy decoration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope that Georgia can use this defeat to right itself, to restore it's rightful king and depose that American stooge Saakashvilli, then perhaps it can seek friendship with Holy Mother Russia and the wounds opened over the past few decades and the war fought over the last fortnight can be consigned to memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.caucaz.com/home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=331"&gt;Europe News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=420&amp;amp;&amp;amp;issue_id=4276"&gt;Jamestown Foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eurasianet.net/departments/insight/articles/eav101207a.shtml"&gt;Eurasia.Net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2602178302152504126?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2602178302152504126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2602178302152504126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2602178302152504126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2602178302152504126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/monarchy-in-georgia.html' title='Monarchy in Georgia?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1932534141114529996</id><published>2008-08-16T16:16:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T16:25:53.441+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bankers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bosheviks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jacobins'/><title type='text'>A Brief History of Finance</title><content type='html'>The following is an excellent post describing the most natural revolutionaries, the bankers, the ones who seem to have molded the world around them to benefit them and their balance sheet, it is a long read, but quite instructive!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken from &lt;a href="http://bedlamnation.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bedlam Nation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Centuries ago, international bankers found that by financing governments who wished to make war on each other they could maintain control over them, ensure favorable business conditions and pile up enormous wealth. If they were displeased by the performance of the leaders they installed, they could finance the opposition. The international bankers want open population flows because they think of people as interchangeable parts. As long as the populace is not in a position to make trouble and are able to buy the products and services marketed to them, the financiers are satisfied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America’s “robber barons” of the 19th century followed the same basic formula. Most of them were young men during the Civil War, which they bought their way out of. Some, like Jay Cooke, were aligned with the bankers and acted as agents in the war's financing. Others, like Rockefeller, Gould, Armour, Carnegie and many more, sought to develop the industries that would enable the country to be brought under a single hegemonic rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steel, railroads and oil would unite all markets into one. The federal government dished out massive acreage for railroad use. Elected officials of both national and local scale were amenable to these schemes. Small localities could be turned overnight into boomtowns or ruined instantly by the mere location of the railroad tracks. Municipal officials were compelled by the railroad magnates to provide the financing for each section of track and other infrastructure. The railroads brought with them the possibility of huge economic benefits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Business, trade, population and housing all boomed. The town fathers who were in on the ground floor stood to reap gigantic wealth. The Indians were wiped out, the free rangers were fenced in, the freebooters, gamblers and other unruly elements were brought under control and the territories made safe for the farmers and settlers who provided the necessary population. Eventually these places sought statehood and were brought into the federal system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing about the robber barons, especially Rockefeller, that has generally escaped the notice of the popular imagination is that they hated competition. Having a lot of small operators all competing against each other in a single industry – the Adam Smith model – is messy and hampers the growth of the huge economies of scale that allowed the magnates to mass enormous wealth and power. The hype surrounding Progressive-era politics was that men like Theodore Roosevelt broke up the trusts in the interests of the little guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the truth is big business became bigger than ever. As the century turned, these original magnates, whose goals and methods made them natural allies with the international bankers, faced two problems. One, an increasing need to standardize both markets and labor force; and two, to shield their wealth from the new tax laws that were coming in to buy off the threat of socialist unrest. They hit upon two solutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One, a public education system that would ensure a citizenry that was thoroughly indoctrinated in the right attitudes to function as both docile workers and reliable consumers. And two, a central bank, under their control, that would ensure both the bankers’ control over government in perpetuity and also enable them to manipulate credit and the money supply to keep the peasantry sufficiently able to buy the gewgaws of the ever-growing commercial sector to keep them satisfied with their serfdom, forever. The tax-exempt foundation and the Federal Reserve would enable them to accomplish these goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1953, the &lt;a href="http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/13/dodd-interview.htm"&gt;Reece Commission &lt;/a&gt;investigated the money links between the tax-exempt foundations and the socialistic elements in the educational system. The picture that emerged was one of the vast wealth of the monopoly capitalists, shielded from taxation, being used to promulgate grossly socialistic schemes. Why would capitalists fund institutions that preached the expropriation of the rich? Because they really had nothing to fear from these people, and they knew it. Once a socialist movement reached ascendancy in a country and formed a government, its leaders would need financing and would have to come to the bankers to get it. The money would come with strings attached, and once again the elements of high finance would be in control. People would have before them just the options provided them by the money power, and no more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After World War II, the major opinion-forming bodies – the interlocking heads of the foundations and the education theorists in charge of disseminating their dictates – decided that what was needed was a “one-world citizen.” All of these cooperating branches of the propaganda machine championed the notions of freedom, democracy and international brotherhood. The media was expanded from its roots in American newspapers as the herald of commercial advertisers to a force for change in the directions dictated by the internationalists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newspapers, movies, radio, television and the music industry began to hammer home relentlessly the new themes: the innate goodness and deserving nature of long-suffering blacks; the need for equal rights for blacks and women; tolerance of sex and lifestyle freedoms; the virtue, frankness, openness and general goodness of the common man of mass democracy; that the world’s people were really just Americans at heart and deserved a chance to prosper and therefore should be admitted into the country at once, all of them; and the need for the churches to stop trying to bring man into redemption from sinfulness through Christ and instead to enforce love and tolerance of his fellows, which will be distorted in practical terms to mean the acceptance of ever more outrageous and vile conduct in thought and deed as normal, healthy and benevolent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Most people remain basically unalarmed by all of this. On the one hand you have the minorities, who agree with most of these tendencies; their only reservation is that they are not being implemented fast enough. Their spokesmen and their white allies complain constantly that racism, sexism and homophobia are more pervasive than ever. On the other hand the rank and file white people are cowed into submission by the relentless brainwashing of the media. It’s just not nice to notice that most of the &lt;a href="http://www.nc-f.org/findings.htm"&gt;crime &lt;/a&gt;is committed by blacks and mestizos, and that wherever middle-class American culture is being debased and disparaging media images of whites abound, Jews and their anti-Christ secular allies are pulling the strings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working against white solidarity in the face of minority onslaught and demographic subsumation by mass immigration is that most whites simply don’t think they are vulnerable. As long as the money machine keeps working, and the system of imperial control of the world’s labor and vital resources keeps the cheap goods flowing, well, everything is all right. Another problem is that not all whites think of themselves as “white.” This goes back almost fifteen hundred years to the struggles between the Celtic Britons and Scots and Irish and the Germanic Saxons, Angles, Norse and Normans. Growing up the descendant mainly of Germans and Puritan WASPs in an Irish and Italian Catholic milieu, I noticed early on that there existed a natural animosity wherever the Saxon-Celt divide was perceptible. The Irish kids I grew up with seemed to define themselves in opposition to anything “whitebread” (Bo Sears, are you listening?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, anybody whose people came here after 1860 tends to think of themselves as beyond responsibility for the race problem. That is, they don’t identify with the earlier American sense of the need to exercise control over alien and hostile populations. This is compounded by the fact that many of the post-1848 immigrants to America, the German socialists, the poor of Southern and Eastern Europe, were little more than serfs. They identified not so much with the blacks themselves – many had strong prejudices against them – but with their plight as menial workers at the bottom of society. What they really resented was the Anglo-Saxons who occupied the positions of power, wealth and influence in their new land. Siding with blacks was a way to get at the hated “bosses.” When World War I and II rolled around, this same impulse manifested itself as anti-German feeling. The Saxon type was seen to be doing the same thing to Europe as he was doing in America to blacks, Indians and immigrants. He would have to be dethroned. Jews lead the charge, but all non-WASP ethnics pile on heartily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this eventually leads to the destruction of any notion of aristocracy beyond the money power. It’s been over a hundred years now since the last pro-white American movement against the banks, the Populists, fizzled out, co-opted by the two major parties. The Age of Mass Man has settled in.Chilton Williamson Jr., writing in the September issue of Chronicles draws the grim portrait of our modern condition:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deprived of an authoritative aristocracy to direct its government, uphold a coherent social structure, fight its wars, and maintain high standards in learning and in the arts, Western civilization has approached near collapse, as the enfranchised rude republican of the 19th century has devolved steadily into the “empowered” mass man of the 20th and 21st , to the point where, today, democratic society exists only in the anthropological sense. The devastation is systemic, endemic, and all-pervasive, embracing government and public life, the professions, the arts, manners, morals, and religion. Modern Americans no longer recognize or appreciate civilization. They have ceased to be able to govern themselves, and they have ceased to be capable of thought, in part because mass democracy encourages thinking about everything in the mass – abstractly and statistically, according to the standards set by the social “sciences.” The mass man, Ortega said, thinks he is perfect. That is as good an explanation as any for the secularization of modern society and of religion itself, as only people who are aware of their radical imperfection can be expected to believe in the Christian God and to observe His commandments.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That man should become &lt;a href="http://www.rit.edu/~cma8660/mirror/www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/2print.html"&gt;standardized &lt;/a&gt;in his wants and needs, all material; that he should want nothing more than to live as only irresponsible aristocrats had once been able to live, in the illusion of vice, luxury and material comfort; to be self-sufficient with income from the increasingly abstract “work” of keeping the books for the transactions of the service economy, with his eye so close to one small facet of the scheme as to miss its whole import: this was the goal of the financiers and their industrialist confederates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feminism suits their ambitions perfectly, for it accomplishes several laudable goals. It expands the pool of both consumers and laborers; and it leads to a demographic crisis that drives mass immigration, allowing still more workers to be imported from alien countries, cultures and races. Anything that works against an ethnic national unity on the part of whites is essential to the scheme. Other races and types of men may be educated in an awareness of ethnic pride, because this can be used as a bludgeon against whites, who are increasingly shown to be the robbers of freedom of the downtrodden of the world. We must be ever vigilant against “racism” in order to prevent another KKK, another Hitler, another Wallace, indeed anyone or anything that would remind people that America was once a Protestant Christian country populated by predominantly Anglo-Saxon whites who did not want to amalgamate their country, their culture, their homes, businesses and families with Africans, Asiatics, Jews and Indians. And so the Civil Rights movement, organized, funded and propagandized by and for the interests of the money power and its international socialist wing and utterly pervasive at all levels of government, legal and academic bureaucracy, conducts an ongoing revolution designed to remake man to suit the demands of the new uniformity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moral cachet of the movement has been extended to the relations between the sexes and the interests of fathers within the family. The state declares that there shall be no gods before it: all allegiance to God and His created order shall hereby cease. Today’s soulless material man, propagandized under the new gods of Freud, Kinsey, Mead, Spock and Hefner, has embraced the Playboy Philosophy with relish. Sexual liberation for women, packaged in the Civil Rights wrappings, means that men can now enjoy sex without marriage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women, subsidized by government allotments and enabled by the cash and commodity economy, enjoy financial independence without men. Mass-market feminist magazines applaud women having sex and children without the restrictions of husbands, oppressive morals and social opprobrium. Birth control and abortion rights, no-fault divorce, custody laws and child support regimes mean that marriage and children pose too much of a financial risk for men, who can be threatened with expulsion from their families and the loss of half their income for almost any cause. For women, the risks of pinning their future and that of their children on a husband will be less attractive than delaying motherhood until an independent career can be established. Men and women will need each other only for sex and the satisfaction of their emotional needs while they pursue, almost separately even in cohabitation, their individual careers based on personal advancement and self-fulfillment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fragile basis for union will be strained fatally by precisely those human needs the new morality was calculated to liberate. The end result is atomized men and women hopelessly seeking satisfaction from the very things in life that are most sure to disappoint. The anxiety can be relieved only temporarily by the next round of spending on material pleasures: exactly the way the moguls want it. Your credit limit goes up as your moral condition goes down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be no way to reclaim this culture. Anyone who wishes to escape infection must separate from it, criticize it to all who will listen, and strive to set against it an appealing and heroic counterexample. We must relentlessly campaign to weaken its basic assumptions. These notions in particular must be countered: that everybody’s equal, with material circumstances determining outcomes; that democracy is good and that everybody, everywhere in all times and places, wants it; and that material progress is the only measure of the health of a society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At last, one by one, we must all “repent, turn to God and do works befitting repentance (Acts 26:20 NKJV).” For therein lies our hope and salvation.'&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1932534141114529996?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1932534141114529996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1932534141114529996' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1932534141114529996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1932534141114529996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/brief-history-of-finance.html' title='A Brief History of Finance'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8616565187944816612</id><published>2008-08-16T10:51:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T10:58:11.531+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='those United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eastern Christendom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia'/><title type='text'>Perfidious America.</title><content type='html'>'The US is financially bankrupt, with budget and trade deficits that exceed the combined deficits of the rest of the world together.  The dollar has wilted.  The American consumer market is dying from the offshoring of American jobs and, thereby, incomes, and from the wealth effect of the real estate and derivatives collapses.  The US has nothing to offer Europe.  Indeed, American economic decline is killing European exports by driving up the value of the euro.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America long ago lost the moral high ground.  Hypocrisy has become America’s best known hallmark.  Bush, the invader of Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis of lies and deception, thunders at Russia for coming to the defense of its peacekeepers and Russian citizens in South Ossetia.  Bush who ripped Kosovo out of Serbia’s heart and handed it to the Muslims, has taken an adamant stand against other separatist movements, especially the South Ossetians who wish to be part of the Russian Federation.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continue reading &lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts08132008.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8616565187944816612?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8616565187944816612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8616565187944816612' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8616565187944816612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8616565187944816612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/perfidious-america.html' title='Perfidious America.'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-3047039545479527376</id><published>2008-08-15T18:59:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T19:14:12.375+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lament'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Republicanism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Troubles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ulster'/><title type='text'>Omagh 10 years on!</title><content type='html'>I see it's been 10 years since the bombing of Omagh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember it, I was young and free and not connected to a mobile phone or the Internet or anything else really, I remember being at church the next day listening to the sermon in which some things about violence were mentioned, I looked down and under the seat in front of me was a Sunday paper with the story on the front page, it's odd, I felt really shocked!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years I had heard things about bombs and assassinations and shootings and intimidation, I had seen news about death and destruction, but never had felt anything much besides boredom!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thirty one people murdered by the 'Real' IRA, shoppers in a town all too like my own town, people all too like my people, it's odd how something can get to you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-3047039545479527376?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/3047039545479527376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=3047039545479527376' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3047039545479527376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3047039545479527376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/omagh-10-years-on.html' title='Omagh 10 years on!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-4662318336759451386</id><published>2008-08-15T18:38:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T18:58:52.912+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='those United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bosheviks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holy Mother Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eastern Christendom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia'/><title type='text'>Wars in the east!</title><content type='html'>I have been following the mini-war in Georgia over the past week and what seems strange to me is the virulent hatred of Russia that is still quite apparent in those United States and Britain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though they 'won' the cold war, even though Russia was broken and humiliated, it seems that it is not good enough for the 'west', it seems some want Russia to be dismembered and destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia has come a long way since 1991, it has rejected most of it's communist past, it has recognised privacy and the right to own land, it has restored many of the privileges of the Russian Orthodox church and seems to be trying to restore parts of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt;-revolutionary Russia, not Bolshevik Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In many ways Russians are probably more free then they have been since 1914, in fact they are considerably more free then we in the so called 'free West', they can own guns, they can keep most of their income, they can write and travel and argue, they can have opinions, unlike us, who must whisper our thoughts and opinions in secret so not to arouse the wrath of our governments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is always a pity when two Christian peoples can't find another way to disagree other then war, it is always the worst option, always a stain on Christendom, however, it does seem that those United States have an interest in testing Holy Mother Russia, they seem to be intent on keeping Russia down, and their puppet, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Saakashvilli&lt;/span&gt; seems to have believed, too much the earnest whispers of support from the American administration, and he has made a mistake that may cost him his office. Once again, those United States have proved themselves as perfidious and untrustworthy as Albion!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope that this war does not go much further, I'm especially disturbed by the American sabre rattling, but it is unlikely that this sabre rattling can become anything more than that as the Americans are tied down in Mesopotamia and Afghanistan as well as the hundreds of other bases throughout the world and the upcoming &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;bankruptcy&lt;/span&gt; of that nation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us hope the war is over soon and an equitable peace is established.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-4662318336759451386?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/4662318336759451386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=4662318336759451386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4662318336759451386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/4662318336759451386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/08/wars-in-east.html' title='Wars in the east!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-974073471864561673</id><published>2008-07-09T17:20:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-09T17:38:35.921+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='referenda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Elites'/><title type='text'>Switzerland goes in the right direction</title><content type='html'>It seems that there are some in Europe who are sensible enough to resist the Islamisation of their homes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'GENEVA (AP) — Swiss nationalists are forcing a popular vote on whether to ban the construction of Muslim minarets — a proposal that, if approved, could clash with Switzerland's constitutionally protected right to freedom of religion.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know how what is basically a planning issue can be described as preventing 'freedom of religion', but in reality, when people originally talked and wrote of 'freedom of religion', what they meant was freedom to choose ones version of Christianity, Not the freedom to worship an Arabian devil, or some weird elephant with lots of arms, or some blue woman with six breasts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'This is not the first time the People's Party has ignited a provocative campaign.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Recently it embarked on an anti-immigrant initiative, complete with posters showing a black sheep being kicked off a Swiss flag and dark hands grabbing at a pile of Swiss passports. But voters last month overwhelmingly rejected the party's proposal to make it harder for foreigners to gain citizenship.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the way the Volkspartie thinks, this is what Ireland needs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'More than 310,000 of Switzerland's 7.5 million people are Muslims, according to the Federal Statistical Office.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's even worse then us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'In Cologne, Germany, plans to expand the city's Ditib Mosque and complete it with dome and two 177-foot-tall minarets have triggered an outcry from right-wing groups and the city's Roman Catholic archbishop.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the way the AP is subtly smearing the opponents of the new massive mosque by calling them 'right wing', a great way to dismiss what someone says without having to consider what they are saying!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Switzerland's unique system of grass-roots democracy allows political hard-liners to take the issue further than in other European countries, where constitutional courts or governments have blocked moves against mosques and minarets. Any Swiss citizen who collects 100,000 signatures within 18 months can put an initiative to a nationwide vote.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say, Switzerland is probably one of best republics in the world, certainly the most well run!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that this issue is Europe wide, even worldwide, Muslims are causing trouble in Australia, Canada, those United States, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, etc....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are our elites allowing this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do they not stop it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is wrong with them??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this planned?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it something that our elites want us to suffer under?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes me angry to think about it!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKGgzL2v7BjS70ALL_GckqynPPsAD91PS7181"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-974073471864561673?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/974073471864561673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=974073471864561673' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/974073471864561673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/974073471864561673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/07/switzerland-goes-in-right-direction.html' title='Switzerland goes in the right direction'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2792722285708344169</id><published>2008-07-08T14:06:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-08T15:04:01.545+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pakis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blacks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gypsies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><title type='text'>The joys of 'diversity'!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SHNyCIF314I/AAAAAAAAAKo/2IIjZ5DUJds/s1600-h/Islamic+Bitch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220641773909956482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SHNyCIF314I/AAAAAAAAAKo/2IIjZ5DUJds/s320/Islamic+Bitch.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I remember even 10 years ago, there were little to no immigrants in Ireland, everyone I saw was white, when I went into Cork, there were no black or brown faces, there were no women dressed in the veil. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;When visiting England, it was interesting to see all the 'diversity' in the cities, it was fascinating, I thought it was 'cool' to have so much 'diversity', it seemed so much better then boring old 'White Ireland'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, having lived in England, I experienced this 'diversity' first hand, and realised what a disaster it was for England, the violence, the menace in parts of London and Birmingham, the filthiness of the streets, the aggressiveness of 'visible ethnic minorities' was very real and frightening.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I realised in England, that races are very different, that we act differently, we have different expectations and dreams and that our moralities are different. This is not to say this is bad, but that it is real.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, now that Ireland has it's own 'diversity', we can experience it now at home! already blacks are complaining about 'racism', already Muslims are shouting 'Islamophobia', this from groups who have been in our country at most for a few years. Already we hear demands that we change to fit their desires and that we must treat them as special so at to tackle our 'racism'!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Is it not odd, that no matter where these 'minorities' go, no matter how long or short a time they live somewhere, the host peoples are 'racist'? Is it not the greatest coincidence in the history of man, that no black community seems able to make money honestly? That no black community seems able to avoid drugs, promiscuity or being lured into crime? That most of them end up on benefit or in prison? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ireland, or more accurately Ireland's elites, seem to have thought like I did when I was a teenager, they must have visited London often and thought, 'oh how cool is all this vibrant diversity?' They probably thought about the fascinating little Indian and Paki neighbourhoods that could spring up in Dublin, Cork and other places. They probably dreamed of a Black community that could be integrated as we Irish are so accepting and non-racist, unlike those 'little Englanders'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, us Irish, are we not the 'Blacks of Europe' as was said in the film, 'The Commitments'?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Are we not one of the 'oppressed' peoples of the world just like the blacks and Pakis and others?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is amusing in some ways to see the reaction of normal Irishmen to this wave of immigration, I always get the automatic, 'I'm not racist but...' before every racialist tirade, the moans about the 'coloureds' the 'Nigerians', the 'Somalians', the 'Gypsies', the Muslims, the Pakis and the east Europeans. It seems we are not so unlike the 'little Englanders' as we liked to think! You see, it is all fine and dandy and ever so easy to be in favour of 'diversity' when there is none near you, and thats what we Irish did for so long, we felt so superior to the Yanks and the English, who were grappling with black criminality and violence. We could talk about how we were so 'good' because we knew what oppression was, we could empathise with the blacks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Once our economy took off, the blacks, ever eager for new green fields of opportunity to make money easily, poured into Ireland, as did the Pakis. We are now in as bad a situation as Britain, with regard the hordes of grasping, moaning minorities who never stop complaining about how terrible their situation is in this 'racist' country. The media, unsurprisingly has sided with the invaders against us, in our own country!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unlike many, the immigration of east Europeans does not bother me too much, they are White, come from a Christian background and seem to work hard and many have integrated, others work here and go home after a while.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The problem is the Blacks and Pakis, they will never go home in appreciable numbers, except to bag a bride to bring back here, so their numbers will only clime in the coming years, creating more and more problems for us natives, you will see ghettos arising, if they have not already done so, you will see grand mosques being built, you will see Blacks screaming racism ever more loudly, you will see gang rapes, gruesome murders, shocking violence and no support from our government.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The government will most likely try to disarm you completely as they have done in England, so that you are helpless when the feral black gangs come to your house, as happens in England, and America!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quite soon, you will be told that some Nigerian, or some violent hateful Somalian is as Irish as you because he has a passport! Oh the joys of 'diversity'!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, the truth is we had all the warnings we needed from seeing what has happened in England, in our arrogance, we thought we could do it better then England and we have failed, because it is not the English that are at fault, it is the people they allowed in that cause the problems! Now we have many decades of fear and violence ahead to appreciate that!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2792722285708344169?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2792722285708344169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2792722285708344169' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2792722285708344169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2792722285708344169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/07/joys-of-diversity.html' title='The joys of &apos;diversity&apos;!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SHNyCIF314I/AAAAAAAAAKo/2IIjZ5DUJds/s72-c/Islamic+Bitch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7993902489143306205</id><published>2008-06-16T21:53:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T22:14:58.092+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='referenda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poll'/><title type='text'>Ireland says No?</title><content type='html'>Does anyone think this is the end of it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, most of our pan-European elite believe &lt;a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3340"&gt;not&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not vote, I thought it pointless, my father voted no, my mother and brothers were unable as we had a family funeral to attend in Limerick, but, the overall opinion of everyone I've talked to about the 'vote' has been one of delight that the pompous politicians have been defeated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must admit, I have enjoyed watching the squirming of those elites, the incomprehension, the emotional devastation, it is truly wonderful. However, this will not stop them, this is in fact not yet a defeat, to achieve that we would have to reject all further referenda put before us, we would have to vote out sitting TDs who were those using threats against us, telling us we were 'in the driving seat, but we had to be careful where we drove', I don't think that will happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, for now, lets enjoy this short time, in a few months something will have been agreed and that will be that!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7993902489143306205?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7993902489143306205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7993902489143306205' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7993902489143306205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7993902489143306205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/06/ireland-says-no.html' title='Ireland says No?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-3255344917348978051</id><published>2008-05-24T12:11:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T12:46:12.888+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hysteria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gypsies'/><title type='text'>I is a racist, apparently!</title><content type='html'>I got a comment to my last post from a Gypsy accusing me of racism!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely the most overused accusation in the world today! I'm sure the commenter wants me to repent and seek forgiveness of them, for what, I'm not really sure?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They state:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The hight of ignorance comes out in this appauling article by Tory Irish. A man who also turned into cheap savage dog, like the uneducated Italian savage dogs in Napels who lost their minds. If only they woke up and realised what they are doing to a divine rich and beautiful culture with Asian roots, deep tradtions, beautiful music, loving families and innocent kids. A culture that has been stereotyped by outsiders for over 200 years. So you, Tory Irish will be on the Romani media watch black list if you don't read the links below learn about Romanies and apologise to the Romani people for your absolutely discriminative racist article. Yvonne Slee (Sinti Romani)'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, why they would want to put me on some &lt;em&gt;'watch list'&lt;/em&gt;, baffles me, since January less then two thousand people have bothered to visit this blog, the only thing putting me on a watch list can do is attract more people!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never knew there was a &lt;em&gt;'Romani media watch list'&lt;/em&gt;, sounds a bit Stalinist to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About having 'turned into cheap savage dog', was that article so out of sync with the rest of this blog? I don't really think so, perhaps Gypsies loved this site until the last article? Hence the word 'turned'?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the Roma having a rich culture and history, I would never dare disagree, I'm sure they do indeed have a unique rich culture, however it is one, I don't particularly like, and it is one that turns a lot of people off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have witnessed gangs of Gypsy women with unconscious children begging in the streets of London, I have seen gangs of similar looking Gypsy women in Rome, Florence, Palermo and Athens. This is fact, not conjecture, I don't like beggars, especially women who drug their children to keep them quiet, especially when they are begging on top of getting welfare payments form my taxes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure, that not all Gypsies are like this, however when talking or writing it is inevitable that one will generalise, we all do it, however even if it is true that there are some stand up Gypsies, it is also true that there are criminal Gypsies and Gypsies who take advantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the Neapolitans running the local Gypsies out of town, well, surely Gypsies are by definition, itinerant people, they are not Neapolitans, they are foreign to that town and if the locals want them gone, it is there choice? Hospitality can not be forced from anyone, it must be given freely, if that hospitality is abused, it is completely within the rights of the host, to withdraw that hospitality!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is what is happening in Italy, perhaps the anger goes too far? Perhaps the allegation of attempted child abduction is false or exaggerated, but it is also true that the Neapolitans patience and tolerance of the Gypsies is gone, surely the only sensible and decent thing to do is to move on?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether I am a racist, or hold racist views is completely irrelevant to this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some links the commenter sent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://geocities.com/romani_life_society/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Romani Life Society of Australia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rromaniconnect.org/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Romani Connection Website&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-3255344917348978051?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/3255344917348978051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=3255344917348978051' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3255344917348978051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3255344917348978051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-is-racist-apparently.html' title='I is a racist, apparently!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8157598444541333863</id><published>2008-05-22T18:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T19:05:47.808+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gypsies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><title type='text'>Italian Multiculturalism goes up in smoke!</title><content type='html'>Have the people of Italy had enough?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Italian elections confirmed Silvio Berlusconi's &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7347618.stm"&gt;reelection&lt;/a&gt; as Prime Minister in April, I was less then impressed, Mr Berlusconi was previously in power and did little but &lt;a href="http://french.hanban.edu.cn/english/international/69365.htm"&gt;insult&lt;/a&gt; people, not that it was not entertaining, but he achieved nothing that was worthwhile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well a few things have aroused my interest, firstly the burning of the gypsy camps in Naples and the rounding up of a few hundred others around Italy, It seems that the local mafia took the lead in Naples and was applauded by the locals, whilst representatives of the state (police and firemen) were jeered and stoned by angry crowds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Roma web site reports that the &lt;a href="http://www.romnews.com/community/modules.php?op=modload&amp;amp;name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=1912&amp;amp;mode=thread&amp;amp;order=0"&gt;UN is mute &lt;/a&gt;when asked about the riots in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never used to know what real Gypsies were until eastern Europe began to join the EU, I used to think of them as romantic travellers, beautiful and sultry women, charming men and an edgy folksy but terribly nice culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, Having lived in London and travelled Europe, I can safely say that my former views have been replaced by a somewhat less flattering idea of what Gypsies are like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even in my local town, there are gypsies who try to sell The Big Issue, as if I want to read that pap, and another fella who plays a guitar really badly, and he has been doing that in the same spot for years! Although to be fair, at least those Gypsies are not aggressive like the ones in London, and they don't seem to drug their children either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is a connection between Gypsies and crime, when the Gypsies come to town, the crime rate strangely sky rockets, and then when they leave, the crime leaves too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't say I blame the Neapolitans for their anger, when your government abandons you, sometimes you just have to make do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, a mosque in Verona is to be raised and a garden square to be built in its place, named after &lt;a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/05/oriana-fallaci-square.html"&gt;Oriana Fallaci&lt;/a&gt;, the legendary '&lt;em&gt;Islamophobe'&lt;/em&gt; who cheated her fatwah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is encouraging that someone somewhere is successfully opposing the building, or in this case the development of another mosque, it would of been frequented by illegal immigrants, a succour to Islamic anti-Christian violence and a blot on that beautiful town. More immigrants would mean, more intimidation, more threats more violence all leading to white flight, which would just leave that place an Islamic stronghold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sort of thing needs to become more frequent, we need to keep what is ours, we must not allow the liberals to sell our birth right from out under us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two small stories, based in two separate communities in one European country, may not be call for much in the way of celebration, yet, but it is an encouraging start!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3940192.ece"&gt;London Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/italian-tolerance-goes-up-in-smoke-as-gypsy-camp-is-burnt-to-ground-829318.html"&gt;The Independent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8157598444541333863?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8157598444541333863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8157598444541333863' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8157598444541333863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8157598444541333863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/05/italian-multiculturalism-goes-up-in.html' title='Italian Multiculturalism goes up in smoke!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1635059857147091510</id><published>2008-05-14T19:02:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T21:07:09.164+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lament'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bosheviks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marxism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jacobins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><title type='text'>The Days Have gone Down in the West!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Where is the horse and the rider?&lt;br /&gt;Where is the horn that was blowing?&lt;br /&gt;They have passed like rain on the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;like wind in the meadow.&lt;br /&gt;The days have gone down in the West&lt;br /&gt;behind the hills into shadow.&lt;br /&gt;How did it come to this?'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- King Theoden, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sometimes think that the '&lt;em&gt;west&lt;/em&gt;' that is so often invoked by various people has long since passed, the '&lt;em&gt;west&lt;/em&gt;' that we have now is a husk of it's former self, a parody of what the '&lt;em&gt;west&lt;/em&gt;' once was. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The nobility, the charity, the decency of our forefathers is gone, the selfishness and nihilism of the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks and capitalists has drained us most of our morality and vitality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We seem entranced by trash, the trash of television and celebrity, the trash and lies of 'free love', the deception of 'get rich quick', the lies of relativism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow&lt;/em&gt;.' What are we left with? Licence, promiscuity, a love of death, a toleration of lies, a rejection of God, a contempt of our past, of our forefathers and their decency. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;'How did it come to this?' The concept of revolution, of progress and a disposal of the past. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;No people, no race, no one can live completely cut off from who they are, no one, no people, no race can pretend that they popped into being with nothing behind them. We seem content with the lies told us, we seem happy with our lot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I don't feign to know all things, I know myself too well for that, I see my weaknesses vividly, I see the procrastination, the unholy, the impure, I l know my imperfections and the few strengths. I don't condemn my fellow westerners, my fellow Christian brothers, I lament their weaknesses, I mourn their uncaring regard for their peoples, I wish that they could be stronger.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I read a comment on a blog, I can't remember which, the gist of which of which, was that we we(white westerners) were like the Elves in the Lord of the Rings, that we had lived in this world, had molded it to our desires, had created such beauty, yet, through our avarice and folly had lost this world, just when we had everything in our power, and that we were now condemned to a slow by inexorable decline, to be overtaken by other, newer races, who would inherit that which we had created and cultivated.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I don't know how exact this is, but is does seem apt!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I hope that we can find ourselves again, I hope we can recover from the guilt of total war, genocide and slavery, I hope, that we can be who we once were, I hope!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1635059857147091510?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1635059857147091510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1635059857147091510' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1635059857147091510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1635059857147091510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/05/days-have-gone-down-in-west.html' title='The Days Have gone Down in the West!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1427235748887961298</id><published>2008-05-14T18:58:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T19:01:14.062+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeeesh!</title><content type='html'>For those three or four people who regularly view this blog, you will have noticed that I have reverted to the original layout!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new one was fine, looked good and had three columns, which was handy, but it was temperamental and slow, so here I am again!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1427235748887961298?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1427235748887961298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1427235748887961298' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1427235748887961298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1427235748887961298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/05/yeeesh.html' title='Yeeesh!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-6488076275660969534</id><published>2008-04-26T17:25:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T16:56:14.691+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wickedness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bureaucrats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><title type='text'>Jean Gambell dies!</title><content type='html'>I remember reading about a poor woman Jean Gambell, who was falsely accused of theft of half a Crown when she was 15 years of age in 1937. She was arrested, sectioned for some reason and then she disappeared into the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Half Crown was latter found, so no crime was actually committed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, Jean remained in custody.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was kept in Lunatic asylums and Orwellian named 'care homes' until someone realised she was not mad and in fact had been telling the truth all the years she had been kept incarcerated by the 'caring state'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, one month after she was released, after being robbed of her life, &lt;a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article357047.ece"&gt;she has died&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bet the 'care system' is wiping its brow, and sighing with relief, they don't have to apportion blame or give out any 'compo' now the old bat is dead! Such good timing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those lying, thieving scumbags!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'She was sectioned under the 1890 Lunacy Act and even though the money was later found, she has been moved from mental institution to mental institution. More recently, she went into a care home and has been lost to her family, who thought she was dead.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This poor girl had her entire life taken from her! All because of a mistake, or perhaps petty malice that got out of control?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah yes, remember this the next time someone tells you, 'there should be a law to prevent such and such' or 'the government should so something about such and such', remember this and tell them that this is what happens when the government does something, it does this because it does not care, it does this because, it is run by weak people who make mistakes, it is like this because the types of people who work for government agencies are usually lazy, incompetent or both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I couldn't believe it. I suddenly realised that my sister was still alive. I rang the care home straight away and they confirmed that our sister was there." He and his brother Alan, who had last seen their sister as small children when she was allowed to visit home with two wardens as guards, travelled to the Macclesfield home.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;They were told by staff that their 85-year-old sister was deaf, could only communicate in writing and was very unlikely to remember them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"A little old lady on walking sticks came in," said Alan. "She looked at us and cried out: 'Alan...David'. Then she put her arms around us. It was very emotional.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I am sure that what has kept her going all these years was the challenge of proving to the authorities that she had a family. The trouble was, nobody would listen to her."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is such a sad story, what wickedness was done to this poor girl, they took away her life, they took away the potential for her to have children, they took away her grandchildren and her husband, they took away her chance of having a home, a family and love, they stole what is most precious, her freedom, and now no compensation can repay her for this great evil done to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes no difference that this was an unintentional evil, it makes no difference if there were people who worked around her that were nice, thoughtful and friendly, it makes no difference if people really believed they were doing the best they could for her, in the end, they are as guilty as the most ruthless kidnappers, thieves or murderers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'She spent years, lost in a maze of institutions and care homes, trying to convince people in authority that she had a family. But nobody would believe her.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They took this girl away from her friends and family, her father and mother died not knowing her fate, she not knowing theirs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such wickedness!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just hope she can now rest in peace, the government and it's 'care system', can no longer torment her!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/29/nfree129.xml"&gt;Telegraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2701392.ece"&gt;Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7016541.stm"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-6488076275660969534?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/6488076275660969534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=6488076275660969534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6488076275660969534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6488076275660969534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/jean-gambell-dies.html' title='Jean Gambell dies!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2834898854117084831</id><published>2008-04-23T10:53:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T12:26:21.790+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maghreb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='big business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&apos;Conservative parties&apos;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arabs'/><title type='text'>Sarkozy wants more immigrants!</title><content type='html'>The current French president Nicholas &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Sarkozy&lt;/span&gt; was probably someone you thought of as 'right wing', this is the man who called the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;beur&lt;/span&gt; rioters 'scum' in 2005, this is the man who promised to reform France!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, It seems that no sooner then he had been elected to the office of the president, then he promptly plunged his knife into those people who had voted for him, why does this happen so often? Whether it is your TD, MP, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;MEP&lt;/span&gt; or any other number of acronyms, they vow to serve you and then once elected, strangely turn on you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, perhaps that is just democracy in action?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, Mr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Sarkozy&lt;/span&gt; has decided to to go one better and pretty much demand the replacement of his subjects, the French with Arabs, he calls it a Mediterranean Union, very much like the '&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurabia"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Eurabia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;' of legend, which was officially begun with the Barcelona Process in 1995.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is means for us, is that we give the governments of North Africa and the Middle East money, technology and diplomatic support and condemnation of Israel and in return we allow millions of their people to immigrate here as a sort of safety valve for their regimes, if we can get them jobs so they can send money home, then all the better, although it seems inevitable that many will end up on benefit. Another benefit is that we get a regular supply of oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is sold to us by dangling the prospect of ending illegal immigration, controlling terrorism and increasing trade, who can be against these things?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Illegal immigration will continue, because our governments are not really alarmed about it, they do try and look as if they care and are worried, but that just is not very believable after they have been squawking the same platitudes year in, year out, for the past decade!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terrorism, well, this is just some none-sense stirred up by western governments to try and frighten us into doing whatever they want, yes there is the odd bomb, yes it is terrible for those involved, but none of these things would be happening if we had border controls and did not allow every Ahmed, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Mustapha&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Osama&lt;/span&gt; into this continent!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trade, well, trade is all very good and well, but we don't need ten million young men to sweep into our cities to join the dole queues, do we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please note, Ireland, France, Britain, Poland, etc are not in fact sovereign anymore, that ended when we joined the EU, our real government is the European Commission and the European Council, it is they who decide the regulations we hear about, so that means that every head of government is part of our 'real government', Angela &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Merkel&lt;/span&gt;, Gordon Brown, Silvio &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Burlusconi&lt;/span&gt;, Robert Tusk, Jose Luis Rodriguez &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Zapatero&lt;/span&gt; as well as Bertie &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Ahern&lt;/span&gt;, soon to be &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Cowen&lt;/span&gt; are those with the power in this new '&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=11237"&gt;&lt;em&gt;empire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;'.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our leaders include Mr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Sarkozy&lt;/span&gt;, he is the one pushing for this new 'Union' of the Mediterranean, this obviously includes all of Europe as it is almost impossible to stop someone who has arrived in France or Italy, from coming to Ireland, Britain or Scandinavia. It has been suggested that Europe will need &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481684&amp;amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;amp;expand=true"&gt;twenty million &lt;/a&gt;new immigrants in the next decade! Where will they go?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently we need close to &lt;a href="http://www.workpermit.com/news/2008-01-14/europe/eu-needs-56-million-migrants-2050.htm"&gt;sixty million &lt;/a&gt;immigrants by 2050! Who writes this stuff? Who estimates this? Who pushes this? Big business, they like ethnic workers, people they don't have to pay well, people they can use and abuse for long hours and low pay, they like them because most Europeans would balk at the working conditions big business can demand of these immigrant workers. The left love the ethnic immigrants too, it grows their electorate, increases their power and influence, and as we know, politicians love power and influence and MONEY, above all else!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the 'right' being funded by big business talks tough on immigration, but does nothing of substance to stop it, the left love immigration because they hate their own so they extend immigration when in power, then the right does nothing to stop it, they talk and at times pass a law, that is never enforced, but they don't actually want to 'conserve' anything except their power and income, this can only be done by bowing the knee to big business and it's desires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know some will &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;accuse&lt;/span&gt; me of 'racism', or 'intolerance', but that is to just miss my point by a mile, I have been to North Africa and really loved it, I loved the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;medinas&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;casbahs&lt;/span&gt; and the heaps of spices and cafes and the crowds and the chaotic &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;character&lt;/span&gt; of the cities, I was impressed by the friendliness of the average man in the street, and charmed by the times I spent there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immigration is not only a disaster awaiting Europe, it is a disaster for the North Africans now, some of their best and brightest have been tempted away for good by Europe, some of their best educated have left, they have lost out. When in Europe, they feel out of place, they are foreign, they will not integrate, and why should they? I would not integrate into their society if I lived there, I would always be me, why should they be expected to dump their culture for us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immigration is bad for both of us, it encouraged laziness  and selfishness in Europeans, leading to lower birth rates, shrinking populations and more welfare, it leads to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;ghettoisation&lt;/span&gt; of immigrants and religious &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;extremism&lt;/span&gt;, it leads to criminality &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;among&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;unemployed&lt;/span&gt; and unemployable ethnic youth who are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;neither&lt;/span&gt; European nor Arab/African.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This cant be good for either of us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Mediterranean&lt;/span&gt; Union, will only &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;exacerbate&lt;/span&gt; the problems we already face, if our real government had any sense, they would reject it now to prevent worse problems in the future, but being elected politicians, they are by nature short sighted, looking only to the next election, so &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;don't&lt;/span&gt; hold your breath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/english/20070531.WWW000000419_we_wre_ready_to_create_a_mediterranean_union.html"&gt;Le Figaro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/10/africa/france.php"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;International&lt;/span&gt; Herald Tribune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0824/p07s02-woeu.html"&gt;CS Monitor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2834898854117084831?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2834898854117084831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2834898854117084831' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2834898854117084831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2834898854117084831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/sarkozy-wants-more-immigrants.html' title='Sarkozy wants more immigrants!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-6624493656023017833</id><published>2008-04-21T21:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-21T22:32:23.952+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultural decline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>Is London's Future Islamic?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SA0G_fkw4hI/AAAAAAAAAHU/BnJbj1gwXaA/s1600-h/Islamic+Bitch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191813633305272850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SA0G_fkw4hI/AAAAAAAAAHU/BnJbj1gwXaA/s320/Islamic+Bitch.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Time Out Magazine, had an interesting and slightly disturbing article back in June 2007 with the above title, the magazine is a 'whats on in London' type rag I remember well from my few years years there. It is a typical left wing establishment publication, and as such takes for granted all of the left wing victories of the past century as the norm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I found this article recently and was almost gaging as I read the sickly Islamophile propaganda that was so blatant, one could mistake it for a parody of what left wingers regularly write.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apparently Time Out think Islam would be great because of the public health benefits! Such as washing feet and hands on a daily basis! I was under the impression most people had a bath or shower on a daily basis? Perhaps the men and women at Time Out don't?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next point they make it that Islam is more ecologically friendly then Londoners presently are! I think that is a sop to the greenies!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next point they make is that Muslims do better at school, this is probably correct, as Muslim families have structure, fathers and stay at home mothers to make sure they don' go off the rails, unlike most white children in London.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;They then go on to say that religious minorities would be better off due to the Dhimma! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In fact the writer seems to think that an Islamic London would be a left wingers dream come true!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, my amazement at such naivete never seems to prepare of the next load of non-sense, spoken or written by people who know little or nothing about the realities of Islam, and the reality of living as a minority of some sort under the religious rule of Islamic fanatics! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It seems strange that writers, such as the one writing for Time Out, would actually wish this upon themselves, it is they who would be the first to suffer. It is all that they hold dear that would be destroyed, something I could quite readily stand aside for!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although I could happily stand aside and watch the fury of this coming Islamic storm sweep away all that the secularists, atheists, communists, feminists and other assorted lefties have achieved in the past century, I also realise that this would only be a temporary reprieve from the storm myself, as once they have done away with the most obvious insults to their god, they would turn on us, the ones who believe in the real God, we would have persecution like we have never known, persecution of the type the Copts, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks experienced to today! No doubt the godless would readily embrace Islam as a way to avoid any trouble, taking delight in our own travails, perhaps even joining in!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Islam is not only growing in London, it grows in Ireland, in Dublin and Cork, more and more arrive, we must ask ourselves, are we ready to ditch all that we were? Are we ready to become something else, just because we can't be bothered doing anything about it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm afraid the answer is an apathetic 'whatever'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2993.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-6624493656023017833?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/6624493656023017833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=6624493656023017833' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6624493656023017833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6624493656023017833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-londons-future-islamic.html' title='Is London&apos;s Future Islamic?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SA0G_fkw4hI/AAAAAAAAAHU/BnJbj1gwXaA/s72-c/Islamic+Bitch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-6998144387823263357</id><published>2008-04-21T19:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-21T20:57:50.029+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='referenda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><title type='text'>Bertie's two fingered salute to you!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SAzmQPkw4gI/AAAAAAAAAHM/aRHuNHmNJN0/s1600-h/wirish120c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191777637184365058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SAzmQPkw4gI/AAAAAAAAAHM/aRHuNHmNJN0/s320/wirish120c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;More on the supposedly 'democratic' nature of the European Union and the Irish government. Is it not great to know that these crooks have set themselves up as rulers? Does it not fill you with a thrill to know the Treaty of Lisbon will pass no matter how much you oppose it? Is it not humbling to know the European Commission has their gaze locked upon us, with steely, fearful eyes, grubby, corrupt hands and an insatiable lust for our money and dominion over our lives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It really is beyond a parody now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/20/wirish120.xml"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, does anyone think Bertie will be, or is trying to hustle himself a big fat exceptionally well paid job in Brussels?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-6998144387823263357?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/6998144387823263357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=6998144387823263357' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6998144387823263357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6998144387823263357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-on-supposedly-democratic-nature-of.html' title='Bertie&apos;s two fingered salute to you!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/SAzmQPkw4gI/AAAAAAAAAHM/aRHuNHmNJN0/s72-c/wirish120c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-3803942791771587744</id><published>2008-04-19T00:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T00:43:48.370+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lament'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><title type='text'>Rare Auld Times!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9T7OaDDR7i8&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9T7OaDDR7i8&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the best songs for a late night sing song at the local!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-3803942791771587744?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/3803942791771587744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=3803942791771587744' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3803942791771587744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3803942791771587744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/rare-auld-times.html' title='Rare Auld Times!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1503222708747267534</id><published>2008-04-17T10:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:22:24.832+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='referenda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><title type='text'>The lisbon Treaty</title><content type='html'>I have refrained from discussing the Lisbon Treaty for one reason, it does not matter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember when I was a young whipper snapper in 1992 when the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Maastricht&lt;/span&gt; Treaty was being fought over, I remember not really understanding it or caring that much, my parents told me they were voting against it, my father later told me he voted for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Maastricht&lt;/span&gt; for 'my future' and that of my siblings, whatever that means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I became more sceptical of the 'European project' as time went on, the more I learned of the EU and the European Parliament and the European Commission, I was appalled and began to speak out against this threat to our independence, I got involved in local politics to try to influence things, to try to convince people of the danger of what was happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the treaty of Nice was the high point I suppose, it was the point at which we could think, we did it, we defeated them, they must listen to us now!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha! Like hell they did!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They spent the next few months conspiring with our 'democratically elected' officials to overturn this vote. As anyone interested in 'European Affairs' will know, there is only ONE right answer when voting in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;referenda&lt;/span&gt; on European treaties, one must &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;agree&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We thick Micks had the gall to do something other then hold our caps in our hands and bow and scrape to the whores of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Brussels&lt;/span&gt;! We, Paddies, who had been 'given' all that money by Europe bit the hand that fed us, after all we would all still be living in mud huts were it not for the generosity of the degenerate hookers in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Brussels&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, we were asked to vote again. No, apologies, we were told to vote again, and this time we were told to vote the 'right way', so we had our 'democratically elected' government scurrying around the country in a desperate attempt to placate their real masters in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Brussels&lt;/span&gt;, desperate to undo the wrong done to their masters and the damage done to their chances of getting a nice post government job on the gravy train that is the European Commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And like mugs we voted for Nice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if they would allow us to vote for Nice again? No thought not!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's funny &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;ain't&lt;/span&gt; it? There is always only one real answer to a referendum question! If you vote the right way, they leave you alone, if you vote the wrong way they come back to poke and prod and threaten and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;cajole&lt;/span&gt; and coerce you until you give in and vote the way they want you to vote!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is the running joke we call 'democracy', Ha!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are not the only ones to vote the 'wrong way', the Danes did it in 1992, and had to vote again until they got it right, the French and the Dutch voted the wrong way in 2005 and have now been denied votes in this 'non constitution'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norway is asked every few years if the want to join the EU, they repeatedly vote 'NO', but their politicians continue to ask them! Perhaps the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Norwegian&lt;/span&gt; politicians are sick and tired of not being on the gravy train? They like the looks of the pensions and the perks in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Brussels&lt;/span&gt;? Why cant we be asked every few years if we want to continue to be in the EU? I know the answer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sick joke of voting for treaties is a farce, we all know what they will do if they lose, they just make us vote again, of they lose that, they repackage the treaty and tell us to vote again, and again, and again, they will not cease, they will not give in, they will not give up, until we give them what they want, it is only a matter of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the Treaty of Lisbon will pass, it may not pass this year or the next, it may not pass as the 'Treaty of Lisbon', perhaps it will be called the Treaty of Dublin, or Vienna or Athens? Who knows, what I do know is that our rulers care nothing for us or our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;opinions&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our leaders desire only power and money, Europe gives them this, they will never give that up, your concerns, your fears, your love of your country are incomprehensible to them, these men and women are prostitutes for money and power, they are the most brazen and perfidious whores! In fact whores have more morality then all of these brazen political sluts put together!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, as much as I admire those who campaign for Lisbon's rejection, I also know, that they will win in the end, every fibre of their beings will ensure that!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1503222708747267534?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1503222708747267534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1503222708747267534' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1503222708747267534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1503222708747267534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/lisbon-treaty.html' title='The lisbon Treaty'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5107196776555672094</id><published>2008-04-09T16:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-09T17:04:53.119+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='those United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hysteria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mexico'/><title type='text'>Vodka Infuriates Americans!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R_zoKOCYYVI/AAAAAAAAAG8/1FSmwZCeWs8/s1600-h/Mexico+Absolut.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187276133088387410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R_zoKOCYYVI/AAAAAAAAAG8/1FSmwZCeWs8/s320/Mexico+Absolut.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/us_nm/mexico_absolut_dc"&gt;this advert&lt;/a&gt; has sent some Americans into a righteous fury!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;They object to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Absolut&lt;/span&gt;, a Swedish vodka company, from using a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt;-1848 map of Mexico to market their drink. There has been some &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;bizarre&lt;/span&gt; comments made by 'right wing' Americans comparing this map, to a map showing Paris as part of Germany!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Absolut&lt;/span&gt; defended themselves, stating that this map represented an idealised time in Mexican history, before half of their territory was taken by those United States.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;War and conquest are a part of our being, conquest can be argued to be right and proper (mostly by the winning side) or it can be denounced as evil and immoral (the losing side), but it exists and that is how the American states of California, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona came into being part of those United States of America.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It seems some Americans are oblivious to this, that they did &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;pursue&lt;/span&gt; an aggressive war of conquest against their weaker neighbour and that they seized half of what used to be Mexico, at least admit you did that!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The territory may now be yours, but it was once Mexico, and looking at current &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;immigration&lt;/span&gt; statistics, it may once again be Mexican!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5107196776555672094?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5107196776555672094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5107196776555672094' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5107196776555672094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5107196776555672094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/vodka-infuriates-americans.html' title='Vodka Infuriates Americans!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R_zoKOCYYVI/AAAAAAAAAG8/1FSmwZCeWs8/s72-c/Mexico+Absolut.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7320390119077090905</id><published>2008-04-04T21:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T22:14:28.749+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt'/><title type='text'>The 500 Trillion Dollar Question!</title><content type='html'>Yes, you read right, 500 trillion dollars, not million or billion, but trillion!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's about 300 trillion Euro or 250 trillion Pounds!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of money you say? Yes it is, its an unimaginable amount of money, in fact, the GDP for the entire planet Earth in one year is about 50 trillion dollars, so 500 trillion dollars is ten times the entire GDP of the entire world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, what if I were to tell you that the &lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/derivatives-new-ticking-time-bomb/story.aspx?guid=%7BB9E54A5D-4796-4D0D-AC9E-D9124B59D436%7D"&gt;500 trillion &lt;/a&gt;number is the amount of potential bad debt that is currently floating around the world economy at the moment and that this is what is panicking the financial world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the moment the world has only felt an economic shudder, as the price of a wholesale panic, as the reality of the situation seems to suggest, would be the end of the financial world as we know it, so they are hanging on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The central banks have been criminal in their &lt;a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund45.html"&gt;actions&lt;/a&gt;, effectively removing money from our pockets with their magic trick of lowering interest rates thus causing inflation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is probably the worst time for these spoilt financiers and idiotic central bankers to be playing with our money to keep the greedy and feckless banks in operation, inflation is going up, food prices are going up, the Dollar and the Pound are becoming worthless and the Euro can't be that far behind, what with most European governments owing in debt, more then their annual national incomes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of ethanol subsides to farmers to grow maize to turn into fuel, regional droughts, &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/JD04Dk01.html"&gt;moulds&lt;/a&gt; and increased demand from Asia, &lt;a href="http://deltafarmpress.com/rice/demand-worldwide-0326/"&gt;food stores &lt;/a&gt;are at their &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/worldbusiness/29rice.html?ex=1364529600&amp;amp;en=327b34035b395bcf&amp;amp;ei=5124&amp;amp;partner=permalink&amp;amp;exprod=permalink"&gt;lowest in decades&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.falkvinge.com/2008/03/why-us-is-collapsing.html"&gt;500 trillion dollars &lt;/a&gt;is not something we can wish away, no matter how much we wish to, a &lt;a href="http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20080326-126430/New-face-of-hunger"&gt;shortage of food &lt;/a&gt;is also something we cant wish away, and yet, our governments, being run by the shortsighted, incompetent and downright deceitful politicians refuse to face the looming crisis that lies in front of us and act before the crisis is upon us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we are lucky, we will have a recession, if we are lucky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The facts suggest something altogether more terrible!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7320390119077090905?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7320390119077090905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7320390119077090905' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7320390119077090905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7320390119077090905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/04/500-trillion-dollar-question.html' title='The 500 Trillion Dollar Question!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5158771531715715204</id><published>2008-04-04T14:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T14:21:37.297+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poll'/><title type='text'>Do you believe in Democracy?</title><content type='html'>Well, I know it's not scientific or representative blah blah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for those who happen across this site, it seems most do not believe in democracy, which is interesting, I was sure the yeas would have it, but it is the noes who come away as the clear winners!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results are bellow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do You Believe in Democracy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes - 8 (16%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No - 38 (76%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't Know - 4 (8%)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5158771531715715204?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5158771531715715204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5158771531715715204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5158771531715715204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='elections'/><title type='text'>The prostitute that calls itself 'democracy'!</title><content type='html'>I got a comment to the Onion News Network satire bellow, the poster the self named 'Dirty European Socialist' stated Democracy is always better the monarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would disagree, I am unaware of the British queen's wealth, and see that as irrelevant to the issue of whether someone is a monarchist or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem with politicians is that the seek office, that those who do so are by nature odd, egotistical and usually desire money as well as power, so once in a position of power seek to enrich themselves at our expense, I believe that Elizabeth II inherited much of her wealth and has invested wisely over the past 50 + years resulting in her very healthy bank account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 17 billion quoted is something I am unaware of and am not certain whether this includes such places as Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace which belong to the Crown and not personally to Elizabeth Windsor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The strength of monarchy is exactly that it is an accident of birth, that most monarchs are wealthy and have everything they can want, there is no reason to implement a 'programme' to prove or to feign activity or concern, they have no reason to enrich themselves as they are already rich beyond anyone's dreams, and they have nothing to prove.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lazy King would be a big improvement on an elected politician seeking to secure his position and please his constituency at the expense of his enemies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But anyway, one comment shall not convert me to what I see as the con that is called 'democracy', a false god that promises much and makes us think we actually have a say in how we are constantly defrauded, taxed and censured by the 'democratically' elected government!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to include an interesting HBO video on the Diebold voting machines here, it describes what can happen and most probably happens in the 'land of the free'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 326px" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" hl="en" flashvars=""&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-14286137862988444?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/14286137862988444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=14286137862988444' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/14286137862988444'/><link rel='self' 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type='text'>Iranians turn to Christ!</title><content type='html'>If this is not a good reason not to go to war, then I don't know what is!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If those United States stumble into another pointless war, it is the Christians once again that will suffer. Already they suffer as Dhimmis in the Dar Al Islam, but they would die and flee in the thousands if a long drawn out war is visited upon Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1988866222"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-6143857098294656560?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/6143857098294656560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=6143857098294656560' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/6143857098294656560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='text'>American election results come in early</title><content type='html'>This video sums up for me the reality of 'democracy'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" flashvars="file=http://www.theonion.com/content/xml/74800/video&amp;amp;debugging=true&amp;amp;autostart=false&amp;amp;image=http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/DIEBOLD_article.jpg&amp;amp;bufferlength=3&amp;amp;embedded=true&amp;amp;title=Diebold%20Accidentally%20Leaks%20Results%20Of%202008%20Election%20Early" height="355" width="400" &gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/74800?utm_source=embedded_video"&gt;Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-9114941387706438648?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/9114941387706438648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=9114941387706438648' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/9114941387706438648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/9114941387706438648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/03/american-election-results-come-in-early.html' title='American election results come in early'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2853925791598749473</id><published>2008-03-28T17:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-04-21T19:38:48.234+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='those United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hysteria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><title type='text'>American puppy killers!</title><content type='html'>It is odd, is it not, that after possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths in Iraq, after massacres of civilians by United States Marines and soldiers, after torture of dusky looking men in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other undisclosed places around the world. After showering cities, farms and villages with some of the most potent of modern weaponry, after allowing Islamists to terrorise the Christians of the Middle East into flight or hiding, Americans are finally becoming outraged with their Armed Forces, not for any of the above, no, they are outraged that a young American in uniform apparently killed a puppy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone else see something profoundly strange, indeed, perverse about the above?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it was not nice what they did, I thought 'the poor thing' when I watched it, but it is not a man or a child or a woman, it is a dog! A puppy, it is not human!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that Americans have their morals all inverted, they come across as self righteous, born again Christians, yet, their nation has spawned most of the ills of the modern world! From the Gay rights agenda to feminism, from the largest porn industry in the world, to a wreckless disregard for the lives of non - Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet, when a puppy is killed, they see nothing odd, nothing strange with venting fury on this soldier who betrayed a nastiness inherent in most Americans, a nastiness that they see nothing wrong with when Arabs or Afghans or 'Gooks' are on the receiving end!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this is what is upsetting modern Americans, then they are in for a shock, this sort of arrogance and blinded self righteousness will not go unpunished for very much longer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video is here,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed name="index" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/1a2_1201076580" width="450" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" scale="showall"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2853925791598749473?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2853925791598749473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2853925791598749473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2853925791598749473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2853925791598749473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/03/american-puppy-killers.html' title='American puppy killers!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-668781354665339211</id><published>2008-03-17T17:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-03-17T17:54:01.534Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Finance'/><title type='text'>A Cold Wind is Blowing!</title><content type='html'>It looks as if the financial chickens are coming home to roost! A bank run in the UK all but bankrupted Northern Rock a few months ago, something which the socialist government there seems unable to comprehend, they seem to think government has the power to dictate how economies go! But most governments assume this, that's why they say things like 'this government has created 3 million new jobs'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No you didn't, businessmen and entrepreneurs did, in spite of you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the American banking sector looks like it is on the precipice of collapse, the like we have not seen for seventy years. &lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/fed-acts-sunday-prevent-global/story.aspx?guid=%7B43265631-1656-4697-8377-55F05D859B76%7D"&gt;Bear &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Stearns&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is bankrupt, although they don't say that, they say it is 'being rescued', but the reality is the recklessness and greed of the nineties and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;noughties&lt;/span&gt; will have to be repaid, whether we like it or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now there are rumours circulating about &lt;a href="http://www.mansized.co.uk/talk/thread.phtml/post377393/#377393"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Citigroup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/lehman-shares-tumble-more-30/story.aspx?guid=%7BA43FD63B%2D1711%2D42A3%2DAB27%2D6C20A416638F%7D&amp;amp;dist=TNMostRead"&gt;Lehman Brothers &lt;/a&gt;and their viability. This is fine for the people involved, as they will just get a payout and go into early retirement, for the rest of us it means some very leans years ahead at best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, when greedy men, in concert with greedy and dishonest politicians decide to defraud the people, there is nothing we can do to stop it, they will tell us everything is fine, that there is no reason to be fearful, indeed they will involve us in the fraud, as long as they get the lion's share of the reward and are exposed to little of the consequences of the crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government gets its share by taxing the fraudulent exchanges, and debasing the currency, have you ever wondered why your Euro or Pound or Dollar is worth less then it was ten years ago? Well, its because they create new money and give it to the financiers in the City of London, Frankfurt and New York, once they have spent it, your money loses its value meaning your Euro is now only worth the equivalent of ninety cents before the government debased it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This goes on year after year, taxes go up to keep up with this slow motion devaluation and we, the normal people, are squeezed, whilst the government and financiers get wealthy on our backs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used to wonder why God forbade his people to charge interest on loans or got involved in what I thought were little things like scales and measurements, I think I understand now, I see the sin that these financiers get into, the greed that this fraud called 'International Finance' creates in people, the lies, deceit and theft we all become entangled in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recall talking to my parents and grandparents about money when they were young, in fact my grandmother gave me some old coins, some going back to the 1885, bearing the portrait of Queen Victoria, some had the face of Edward VII on them, and these coins were still in circulation in Ireland in the seventies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It means that the currency had not been debased in such a reckless and debauched way, it meant that a penny issued in 1885 was still being used to buy things in 1973! That is unbelievable to me, as I have seen two currencies in circulation, and various notes and coins which long ago became useless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely there is something wrong when the Pound, Shillings and Pence we used to use, managed to retained their value for centuries seeing small and insignificant inflation, to what we see now when the successor to the Pounds, Shillings and Pence is now all but worthless?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a man from the time of James I, spoke to a man from the time of Victoria about money, they would broadly understand each other, if any had the misfortune to talk to a man of today, they would be unable to understand how a pound is now worthless! This is the work of the greedy and dishonest men who inhabit governments all about the world, the habit of inflation, of debauching of the currencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fairy tale world of 'International Finance' is coming to a close, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;unfortunately&lt;/span&gt; for us, it is we, who will feel the cold wind of recession, not the ones responsible!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links: &lt;a href="http://www.swissamerica.com/article.php?art=03-2008/200803030806mn.txt"&gt;Swiss America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm"&gt;Urban Survival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JC18Dj03.html"&gt;Asian times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/17/ccview117.xml"&gt;Daily Telegraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-668781354665339211?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/668781354665339211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=668781354665339211' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/668781354665339211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/668781354665339211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/03/cold-wind-is-blowing.html' title='A Cold Wind is Blowing!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-2581134065844310806</id><published>2008-02-20T21:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-20T22:44:15.670Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eastern Christendom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Armenia'/><title type='text'>Armenia's cold war</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yi8CgEJvI/AAAAAAAAAGE/eW0GKoc9Hf4/s1600-h/Armenia_map.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169185624661698290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yi8CgEJvI/AAAAAAAAAGE/eW0GKoc9Hf4/s320/Armenia_map.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Armenia is one of those places we hear little of, somewhere far off somewhere in the east. It is also one the great nations of the world, an ancient nation, an ancient race of people who have a history that would intimidate many others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Armenia was a great kingdom in the time of Christ, it was the first nation in the world to establish Christianity as it's religion, it has been a nation that has risen and fallen many times, and a nation that seems to have migrated over hundreds of miles in that time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps only the Jews can compare with the Armenians in their antiquity and the integrity of their culture and religion. When other races have faded or mixed with newer ones, the Armenians kept themselves whole, through massacres, conquest and genocide they survived and managed somehow to thrive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yj7ygEJxI/AAAAAAAAAGU/FFHNPvTgfcY/s1600-h/armenia1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169186719878358802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yj7ygEJxI/AAAAAAAAAGU/FFHNPvTgfcY/s320/armenia1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Above: St. Stepanos church&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the Soviet Union began it's dissolution in the late 80s and early 90s, Armenia reclaimed itself once again and their brothers in the Kharabagh proclaimed their union with Armenia proper. Muslim Azerbaijan (in which Kharabagh is situated) declared this illegal, even though they themselves had just declared independence from the USSR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Stalin had been the Nationalities Commissar under Lenin, he had drawn the borders of the republics of the Soviet Union, in places he deliberately drew borders that divided peoples and ancient nations as a tool with which to divide the locals who would then look to Moscow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7ykLygEJzI/AAAAAAAAAGk/PWCGmxG81Fc/s1600-h/armenia-yerevan-mtg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169186994756265778" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7ykLygEJzI/AAAAAAAAAGk/PWCGmxG81Fc/s320/armenia-yerevan-mtg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Above: Yerevan - Armenia's capital&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kharabagh and Naxcivan, although majority Armenian, were handed over to Azerbaijan, in the years that followed Naxcivan was de-Armenianised, so was Kharabagh, but it was less successful in Kharabagh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yj0igEJwI/AAAAAAAAAGM/r0B3SMlx5N8/s1600-h/Armenia%20(24).jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169186595324307202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yj0igEJwI/AAAAAAAAAGM/r0B3SMlx5N8/s320/Armenia%2520(24).jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Above: The Tatev monastery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In response to a referendum in Kharabagh which decided on independence, Azerbaijan launched a war on the Kharabagh and the Armenian peoples. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians fled from Azerbaijan and Naxcivan, hundreds of thousands of Azeri's also fled from Armenia, the Kharabagh and the territories that Armenia would occupy in the war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, as is the case in Bosnia and Kosovo and other places, this conflict was frozen. Armenia won this war, but they have been unable to end this war as the 'international community' refuses to recognise reality and the will of the Armenian peoples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7ykECgEJyI/AAAAAAAAAGc/9THs5l9MLlA/s1600-h/photo_lg_armenia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169186861612279586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7ykECgEJyI/AAAAAAAAAGc/9THs5l9MLlA/s320/photo_lg_armenia.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Above: Khor Virap monastery, with Mount Ararat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not that I trust the will of any peoples, but surely if anyone has the right to this little slice of land, it is this ancient Christian race?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Azeri's already have a large nation, one enriched with oil and allied to Turkey and Iran. Armenia is a small nation, the Kharabagh even smaller, Azerbaijan could well do without this small impoverished province.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a great deal of respect for this ancient Christian people, their faith, their churches and monasteries, their sheer survival over time is enough to inspire. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yn2CgEJ1I/AAAAAAAAAG0/L-HQamYnqg4/s1600-h/armenia07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169191019140622162" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yn2CgEJ1I/AAAAAAAAAG0/L-HQamYnqg4/s320/armenia07.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Above:The Armenian Holy See in Echmiadzin is built over a pagan (fire) temple&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Their suffering is also humbling, a small group of highly cultured people, people who know how to make money and thrive, have been the scape goats for many less able and jealous races, most famously the Turks who came close to annihilating them in the Great War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us hope the Armenians can continue to inspire, let us hope they hold fast to their faith! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-2581134065844310806?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/2581134065844310806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=2581134065844310806' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2581134065844310806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/2581134065844310806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/02/armenias-cold-war.html' title='Armenia&apos;s cold war'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7yi8CgEJvI/AAAAAAAAAGE/eW0GKoc9Hf4/s72-c/Armenia_map.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5194933226329388650</id><published>2008-02-19T14:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-19T14:59:07.060Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Serbia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kosovo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eastern Christendom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><title type='text'>Serbia's betrayal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7rurygEJuI/AAAAAAAAAF8/5OZlG9lBvFU/s1600-h/serbia.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168705958419113698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7rurygEJuI/AAAAAAAAAF8/5OZlG9lBvFU/s320/serbia.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is done, Kosovo is now 'independent' from Serbia, Those United States, Britain, France and Germany have recognised this statelet as an equal!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Serbia has finally been dismembered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember the bombing of Serbia in 1999, I also remember the earlier bombing of the Serbs in Bosnia in 1995 and feeling that the Serbs had been turned into bogey men by the media. The press, as is so often the case, need a good story, Bosia became the story of the good Muslims and the bad Serbs, is it not interesting how Christians always end up as the bad guys? Think of the Christians in Lebanon or the Spanish civil war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst I so not condone murder of any kind, and am suspicious of all wars and the insigators of those wars, the wars in the Balkans were none of our business. The desire to help the unfortunate victims is an admirable one, the desire to send money and relief a natural response to suffering, but the demand to bomb one side implies that they are the 'baddies'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Serbs may have been involved in terrible crimes, they may have sinned grievously, but this is for them and their consciences, not us and our bombs! The Serbs were not the only ones to commit crimes in those conflicts, the Muslims imported Hisbollah and other Islamic radicals who massacred Christians and beheaded their enemy, the Muslim militias were as violent and merciless as any Serb, as were the Croats!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for our media, that would not do, the story had to be simple and understandable to the audience, so, Serbs = bad, Muslims = victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Kosovo, the KLA has been waging a guerilla war for months before the Serbian army went in to root them out, people fled as they do in war, and so the press decided to rehash the same story of Serb = bad, Muslim = victim for this new story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the Serbs were bombed again, their nation left in ruins, humiliated and vilified, isolated in the world for trying to defend their country against what would now be described as 'terrorists'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact what is the difference between what those United States has done in Afghanistan and what is continues to do and what Serbia did in Kosovo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, Kosovo is Serbian soil, and Albanian terrorists were atacking police stations and ethnically cleansing Serbs from their own homes. Kosovo has been the centre of the ancient Serbian kingdoms for centuries, as recently as the 1940s, the Serbs were a majority in Kosovo, but higher birth rates and migration from Albania meant that by the late 1990s the Serbs were a minority. This is when the Albanians decided to make a bid for power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The KLA is a criminal orginisation, it runs prostitution rings around Europe, is the main supplier of heroin in Europe and also smuggles guns to other criminal orginisations. These are the same people the west allied itself to in 1999.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In contrast Afghanistan has never been American, and although it hosted Al Qaida, has never actually attacked those United States, yet the Americans continue to kill Afghans and drop bombs and mines, but thats ok because Americans are not nasty Serbs, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed by the 'nice, unlike the Serbs, Americans'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hypocricy knows no humilty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that this action by the west has further alienated Russia and eastern Christendom from the west, from the criminal sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the abandonment of our Christian brothers to the Turks in later centuries, to the sneering contempt for Russia, we in the west have earned suspicion and distrust from the east, this reckless action will just continue this unfortunate and avoidable schism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today the west has empowered Islam once again, we have alienated the Orthodox and probably instigated a new cold war, it seems our foolishness and selfishness know no bounds!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps some day we will grow up?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5194933226329388650?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5194933226329388650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5194933226329388650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5194933226329388650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5194933226329388650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/02/serbias-betrayal.html' title='Serbia&apos;s betrayal'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R7rurygEJuI/AAAAAAAAAF8/5OZlG9lBvFU/s72-c/serbia.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1959632599074840214</id><published>2008-02-19T13:00:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-19T13:48:19.616Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morality'/><title type='text'>Carpe Diem</title><content type='html'>Seize the day, live as if this is your last day alive! Carpe Diem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was something I used to think, it was something I have uttered inanely whilst drunk! It is the attitude of the Universities, the press, our whole culture! Carpe Diem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was only a few days ago when I pondered the meaning of this, 'live for the day', what can it mean? For those who have faith it can mean something quite different from the unbeliever, for this world, it means have sex when you want, with whom you want, whenever you want. It means eat, eat and eat until you turn into a 20 stone blob of living lard! It means swear and curse those who get in your way or who irritate you, it means never forgive, never forget, it means lie if it gets you what you want, it means deceive, cheat and betray if this suits you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If people really 'lived for the day', what would it look like?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like some of our city centres on a Saturday night! If one truly lived for the day and you had no faith it would mean one would rape a woman that took one's fancy, it would mean steal instead of work, it would mean murder those whom you hate, it would mean betray those one loved, it would mean chaos, it would look like hell!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is most people don't really believe Carpe Diem, decent people work! Why work? Not for amusement, people work so they can pay their bills, buy a house, support their family and enjoy their lives. Most people remain faithful to their spouse most of the time, why? Love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Criminals are the people who most closely follow this 'live for the day' lark, and with out God, more do so all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A better phrase would be 'live for tomorrow', for this is what we should be aiming for, we should be bettering ourselves, investing in our families, friends and neighbours. We know from scripture that God hates theft, almost as much as he hates murder, we also know he loves righteousness, but what is righteousness? It is not an absence of theft and murder, it is something positive, it is a litany of good actions that build up to make us who we are, humility in little actions every day, decency toward others, generosity, kindness, faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems to me that we become who we are; this happens over time, good people are those who do lots of little seemingly irrelevant good things over time, bad people are those who do lots of bad things over time. Selfishness seems to be the root of this and Carpe Diem if taken seriously implies selfishness on a grand scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are of course times when we are presented with an opportunity, which would be foolish to turn down, but this is not the same as self absorbed attitude that we should 'live for the day', this is just part of the wider attitude in the degraded society of ours, that we owe no allegiance to anyone or anything, that we should endulge every desire and damn the consequences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin has consequences, so too does righteousness, we deserve most of the good or bad things that come our way, they are as a result of earlier deeds, its karma!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So forget about Carpe Diem, think Carpe Crastinum!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1959632599074840214?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1959632599074840214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1959632599074840214' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1959632599074840214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1959632599074840214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/02/carpe-diem.html' title='Carpe Diem'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-899651933347545708</id><published>2008-02-10T15:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-11T01:14:46.319Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marxism'/><title type='text'>Sharia and the Archbishop</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R68ZECgEJtI/AAAAAAAAAF0/VtWbuLCjLBM/s1600-h/sharia_lrg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165374854798780114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R68ZECgEJtI/AAAAAAAAAF0/VtWbuLCjLBM/s320/sharia_lrg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The furor surrounding Dr Rowan Williams' speech the other day seems a bit hysterical and unrealistic to me, the whole point of his speech, it seems to me, was that we need to face up to reality and understand that Sharia is already in Britain and much of Europe, although informal at the moment, and that it will spread and become entrenched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not much of an admirer of Islam, something that seems to me to be a heretical Judeo-Christian sect. For many years I have opposed the establishment of mosques and Islamic immigration into Europe and especially Ireland as a matter of principle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However it seems clear to me that the people who govern us are determined to ignore us, and worse to oppose our quite moderate, in my view, and sensible views on immigration and Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They seem to be determined to place large groups of Muslims in all our cities and to change the ethnic makeup of Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can't stop this, we can protest, we can write letters, we can complain, we can vote for another party, but none of this will make the slightest difference to what is happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, we must make our peace with reality, and that reality is that we will see large Islamic minorities in all western European nations in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who cheer on this ever increasing tide of immigrants are the very people who would suffer under Sharia law, the leftist revolutionaries, the feminists, the criminals, the degenerate etc, it is not the conservatives or the Christian who will feel the immediate wrath of Sharia, it is the former.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if we are unable to stop this, if we are to be under the jurisdiction of Islamic Law, then let those who made it possible feel it's wrath first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr Williams was only doing what any responsible leader in such circumstances would do, he is preparing for the future, a more Islamicised future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please don't think me a traitor or a defeatist, I am wearied of worrying about Islam and it's followers, let them have their law, let them do as they please, and let those who made all this possible suffer the consequences of their acts, as they should! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-899651933347545708?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/899651933347545708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=899651933347545708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/899651933347545708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/899651933347545708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/02/sharia-and-archbishop.html' title='Sharia and the Archbishop'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R68ZECgEJtI/AAAAAAAAAF0/VtWbuLCjLBM/s72-c/sharia_lrg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1258996148884821814</id><published>2008-02-02T23:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-03T00:19:47.460Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monarchy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Republicanism'/><title type='text'>Monarchy versus the Republic</title><content type='html'>Peter Hitchens, once again makes a good argument for monarchy, he contrasts it to the dreadful non-stop election that is American public life!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The Land of the Free is a lot less free than Britain's ancient monarchy. There is nothing like a dive into American politics to remind you that even the most successful republic in human history has its drawbacks.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the rest &lt;a href="http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/mailonsunday.html?in_page_id=1791&amp;amp;in_article_id=511912&amp;amp;in_author_id=224"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1258996148884821814?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1258996148884821814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1258996148884821814' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1258996148884821814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1258996148884821814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/02/monarcy-versus-republic.html' title='Monarchy versus the Republic'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-353736860729555902</id><published>2008-01-30T18:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-30T21:13:53.094Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Regicide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><title type='text'>Regicide</title><content type='html'>On this day in the year of our Lord 1649, His Majesty, Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland was murdered, His Majesty's last words before his execution were, "I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6DG-VWORvI/AAAAAAAAAEc/gY_HCx2m-90/s1600-h/charles1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161343947151132402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6DG-VWORvI/AAAAAAAAAEc/gY_HCx2m-90/s320/charles1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As is usual, this murder of a rightful king led to much evil in these isles, much suffering and darkness before the restoration of Charles II, the son and heir of the murdered king!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God save the King! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-353736860729555902?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/353736860729555902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=353736860729555902' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/353736860729555902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/353736860729555902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/regicide.html' title='Regicide'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6DG-VWORvI/AAAAAAAAAEc/gY_HCx2m-90/s72-c/charles1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-3934612508946590085</id><published>2008-01-26T20:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-26T21:48:48.956Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><title type='text'>Christendom</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXK1WORqI/AAAAAAAAAD0/B87DrOIRbmQ/s1600-h/ely4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXK1WORqI/AAAAAAAAAD0/B87DrOIRbmQ/s320/ely4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159884010457810594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I like that word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the certainty behind it, the sureness, the confidence it implies. There was a time when we actually were proud of ourselves, certain of our faith and culture. Certain that It was true, certain that is was a shining example to the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its hard to know exactly what happened, because so much has happened, but the revolutions of the eighteenth century obviously left their scars and planted the seeds for the evil to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nationalism was another of the viral contagions from the French Revolution that spread over Europe, it destroyed the Holy Roman Empire, it was used by atheist utopians to unify Italy and dispose the rightful Kings, Dukes and old republics of that peninsula as well as strip the Patrimony of St Peter from the Popes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nationalism led to pointless hatreds between people who should be the firmest of friends, the Hungarians, the Poles, The Germans, the Irish, The Catalans were all infected by this virus, this highest of lies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And nationalism led directly to that most foolish of wars, the Great War!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world was in a bad state in 1914 anyway, what with France a republic, poisoned with laicite and Portugal having recently overthrown their King. Then looking to the east, China had become a republic in 1911 leaving a vacuum that would not be filled until 1949. Ireland was on the verge of a bitter civil war, Italy, that plastic Kingdom was still trying to keep the Neapolitans and Sicilians down, The Balkans was a ferment of racialism, ethnic and sectarian enmity and all over the world ill educated but zealous ideologues stirred trouble, Communists, Anarchists, Republicans, Nationalists, Zionists and atheists!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the economy had continued to grow, if peace had continued to reign, if the rightful kings and emperors of the world had continued to rule, prosperity would have diffused most of these passions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet despite these problems, Christendom still existed, there was still a confidence in who we were, faith, history, monarchy and culture were real to people back then, and they believed that Christendom was a light to a dark world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXt1WORtI/AAAAAAAAAEM/X6c8TRx3dws/s1600-h/cnp_arras_cathedral_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXt1WORtI/AAAAAAAAAEM/X6c8TRx3dws/s320/cnp_arras_cathedral_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159884611753232082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not easy to maintain that confidence after thirty million battle dead, forty million dead after a pandemic, the collapse of three empires, mass starvation, the use of poison gas, the desecration of churches and monasteries, the rape of nuns, the murder of an imperial family, genocide, ethnic cleansing, the pulling apart of ancient nations and a series of unlawful coup d’etats. This is bound to affect the morale of any civilisation; I suppose we should only be thankful that it failed to destroy us completely!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In July and August 1914 the military High Commands of Austria, Germany and Russia instigated what can only be called coup d’etats against the wishes and desires of their rightful sovereigns!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm did not want war, and worked for peace in the weeks that followed the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Franz Josef was an elderly and broken man, easily led by his conniving ministers and generals. Together the generals of Austria and Germany sealed the fates of their sovereigns and empires and decided to go to war!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXn1WORsI/AAAAAAAAAEE/D8J8Or4OPkY/s1600-h/52990328.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXn1WORsI/AAAAAAAAAEE/D8J8Or4OPkY/s320/52990328.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159884508674016962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Russian generals too, decided for war, they were tired of Nicholas’ prevarication, his fear of war and its consequences, one of his generals stated after receiving the go ahead for general mobilisation, that he disconnected his phone to stop the Czar from rescinding his order as he had done many times in the past! This is treason, and the Russian generals, as eager for blood and death as their Austrian and German peers committed treason, for them war and the mirage of glory was more important then their sovereign Lord!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilhelm was stunned when he rushed back to Berlin after the Russians mobilised, to find that he had been effectively sidelined in the decision to go to war, he was presented with a fait acompli, like their Russian peers, his generals did not trust the Kaiser, as he too feared the consequences of war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I"&gt;1914 marked the triumph of nationalism and militarism and ‘the future’&lt;/a&gt;, over the ‘forces of conservatism’, as Tony Blair so eloquently put it! It marked the end of the power of the aristocrats, kings and emperors and their replacement with bureaucrats, generals and politicians. This was the true significance of those fateful weeks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was nothing conservative about that war, nothing right, nothing moral, nothing noble or glorious, it was a bloody mistake, or maybe not, perhaps that is exactly how the ‘modern world’ needed to be birthed? In 1914, the state, whether the Russian state, the German state, the British state, the Italian, French or American States were small, mostly harmless things, one did not need a passport or any identification to travel the world in those days, one did not need the states approval to invest ones money abroad, or to take that money on holiday, one did not need the governments permission to keep ones pub open after ten in the evening, one did not need to register a gun or pay very much in tax, one did not need to be numbered, licenced, authorised or stamped by the government, AJP Taylor wrote that ‘an Englishman could live his whole life and the government would be unaware of his existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 1918 all this had changed and changed completely. War had been the excuse to bring in passports, so now they would know when and where one had gone, War was the excuse to steal property, in the form of railways and the coal mines, condemning them to their slow decline. War was the excuse for more and ever higher taxes, taking more and more of a mans wage, War was the excuse for the first ID cards, the dream of many a totalitarian and pushy bureaucrat, War was the excuse to close pubs and dance halls after 10 pm, War was the excuse to change time zones, War was the excuse to use poison gas, chemicals and billions of shells to kill as many as the enemy as possible, War was the excuse to cast aside decency and civility to achieve ‘victory’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXRlWORrI/AAAAAAAAAD8/ZGovwkNJsTc/s1600-h/cpe_gas_effects_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXRlWORrI/AAAAAAAAAD8/ZGovwkNJsTc/s320/cpe_gas_effects_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159884126421927602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of the things mentioned above were rescinded after the war, some are still in force to this day, the barbarity of total war degraded all of us, it opened the gates of hell and was the template for future wars and the conduct of instigators of Babi Yar and Mai Lai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worst of all Christendom died in the trenches of the Great War, the fury of that barbaric war, along with all the chaos, bloodshed and misery that followed knocked many peoples faith, for some it convinced them there was no God, for the professional atheist it was an opening, they condemned the old order, the one that had been overthrown as the instigator of this viciousness!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anarchists, communists, atheists and other trouble makers seized the opportunities provided by the war to end completely the old order of the world, the did this at Versailles and condemned us to an other war twenty years later which would finish off any semblance of the overthrown order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love to explore Europe, seeing the great cities, the great centres of our culture, but it also saddens me, as I look upon mere buildings, the treasures of Europe and experience the place, all the time I know what happened, this suicide, this murder of us took place among all this beauty and achievement by fools, by greedy  men who thought nothing of tradition or faith or morals!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christendom still lingers in some places, the odd village, some faded cities far from the centres of power, and the memory of the old order also lingers in places, the cathedrals, palaces and older parts of cities that were fortunate enough not to be flattened in the next war. Mostly it lingers in the hearts of the faithful, who in spite of the scorn and derision continue with their quiet but resolute faith in God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christendom survives, but only now in a spiritual sense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We now live in a ‘modern’ world, one committed to ‘progress’ and egalitarianism; truly, the world has been remade in the image of the Jacobins!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/"&gt;Resource&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-3934612508946590085?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/3934612508946590085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=3934612508946590085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3934612508946590085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/3934612508946590085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/christendom.html' title='Christendom'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5uXK1WORqI/AAAAAAAAAD0/B87DrOIRbmQ/s72-c/ely4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-1043565849055967131</id><published>2008-01-24T13:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-24T14:23:04.429Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toryism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><title type='text'>Revolutions</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5ieWVWORpI/AAAAAAAAADs/GR4y_BiX7qA/s1600-h/Revolution.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159047479677568658" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5ieWVWORpI/AAAAAAAAADs/GR4y_BiX7qA/s320/Revolution.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Revolutions have this odd hold on our minds, they are romanticised in film and novel, their instigators proclaim they fight for 'freedom', or 'liberty' or 'independence'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reality is that violence, bloodshed and unlimited greed are the results! Those United States did not begin their existence in some sort of nirvana in 1776, a small group of heavily indebted, petty aristocrats decided to use the issue of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts"&gt;'Intolerable Acts'&lt;/a&gt; as an excuse to rebel against their rightful King, they exaggerated the weight of the taxes that amounted to less then 1% of the GDP of the colonies, they whipped up anti-Catholic bigotry when they refereed to the decent treatment of the French colonists in Quebec by the Crown. They whipped up more bigotry and genocidal zeal when they objected to the the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Proclamation_of_1763"&gt;Proclamation line&lt;/a&gt; which had been set, so as to protect the Indians from unorganised and unlawful land grabs!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fully one third of the population supported the Crown, they were expelled, massacred, harassed, robbed, humiliated and 'cleansed' from certain areas, the rebel minority managed to tough out the long drawn out war and only achieved their independence as a result of French and Spanish intervention on their side.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the aftermath of American Independence in 1783, loyalists to the Crown were systematically excluded from the 'new order', tens of thousands left for Canada or other parts of the Empire, in the early years of the new republic, they did not do this as some sort of 'lifestyle change', they did this because of fears for their lives or property!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The new republic then went and started to tax their people heavier then the Crown had ever tired to! They mercilessly put down the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_rebellion"&gt;Whiskey rebellion&lt;/a&gt;, how ironic is that, some treasonous rebels put down some other rebels because they rebel against the rebels!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This new republic then applies the same murderous policy it had to 'Tories' to the Indians and begins to appropriate their lands, exterminate it's people and ethnically cleanse the lands east of the Mississippi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is not a coincidence that the Indians fought with the British in the war of 1812!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The French Revolution began peacefully, when the States General, proclaimed itself the National Assembly, but the evil and power hungry men of the Jacobins and the Girondistes wanted more, they wanted more power, they were not satisfied with reform, they wanted revolution, and that is what they got!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;When they murdered their King, Louis XVI, they unleashed a storm that would not only end the lives of millions, they unleashed something that can only be described as satanic into the world, this appetite for bloody revolution, this template, this inspiration to evil and wicked men who desire power over all things!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Terror, is aptly named, it haunts us to this day! The direct result of this revolution was Napoleon and his unbridled lust for domination, which led to the devastation of the wars that continued up to 1815.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The French Revolution inspired the ideologies of hate and envy that were eventually distilled by Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, inspired by this atheistic utopianism, the Bolsheviks took advantage of the disaster that was the Great War and overthrew the Russian government, they were not content with power alone, they wanted to meld the minds of all their newly acquired subjects, the deposed Czar with his family posed a threat to the ligitimacy of their new government and it's own Terror.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Imperial family were murdered, what followed was hell on earth for Russia and it's people for nigh on 80 long miserable, terrifying years! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Russian example gave rise to Hitler and Mao and Pol Pot! All of them inspired by the communist take over, all inspired by the Jacobins and the Bolsheviks! All inspired in part by the Rebels in America!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Revolution is an evil, wicked thing, planned and executed by atheistic, God haters. People who worship man above all things, those who lack humility or decency or even simple human kindness. Loyalty, duty, sacrifice, this is what the opponents of these revolutions displayed, this is their reward as they are now mostly forgotten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The loyal subject of King George, who lost all his property, who was tarred and feathered, beaten in front of his family!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The loyal subject of King Louis, Who was hunted down in the forests of the Vendee, who was tortured and murdered, who's family was scattered and lost!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;the loyal subject of Czar Nicholas, who was brutalised and butchered, his family left to starve, and if he had any descendants, they would have lived in fear for generations!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;these are the people who suffer at the hands of these pompous, overfed, over important, ignorant, evil men, who declare with such arrogance that they represent the people that they harm!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is not these evil men who represent the peasants and the lowly, it is the King, Le Roi, the Czar who represent these men and are the only ones capable of doing so! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Revolutions are evil, tens of millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions have lost their lives for the ambitions of republicans!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet nothing can change the reality that we are still enchanted by the Kings of old, republics are grey and lifeless, they speak to our heads not our hearts, only a King can speak to both!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-1043565849055967131?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/1043565849055967131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=1043565849055967131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1043565849055967131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/1043565849055967131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/revolutions.html' title='Revolutions'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5ieWVWORpI/AAAAAAAAADs/GR4y_BiX7qA/s72-c/Revolution.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7312110026596369767</id><published>2008-01-23T23:49:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-01-24T00:23:44.226Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toryism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kingdom of Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><title type='text'>Irish Republicanism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fYllWORoI/AAAAAAAAADk/iXbNw2fG-Hc/s1600-h/Ireland.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158830038368274050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fYllWORoI/AAAAAAAAADk/iXbNw2fG-Hc/s320/Ireland.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am an Irish Catholic of the Gaelic persuasion, both my parents whom are very dear to me, are dyed in the wool republican nationalists. They are the perfect parents, so growing up, I believed anything they said!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the things about being an Irish Tory is how odd it is to be one! Most of our history has been a reaction against England and it's actions, good and bad! Ireland has suffered much, the theft of lands, the slow extermination of our language and much of our culture, the expulsion of our natural aristocracy, the protestant ascendancy, the Act of Union and the violent bigotry of the worst aspects of protestant England.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our reactions have led to a vile Irish bigotry in itself, Irish republicanism, which is not so much republicanism, rather then a hatred of all things English, if England were a republic, I'm certain Ireland would of restored the Stuarts in the twenties or thirties just so we could thumb our noses at England, we would have had Irish monarchism!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;between 1171 and 1541 for better or for worse, the Kings of England were the Lords of Ireland and from then until 1949 they were the Kings of Ireland too. Ireland is a Kingdom without a King or possibly a Queen! The glorious revolution was a coup d'etat, committed by radical protestants and cynical businessmen in London, the following wars culminating in the Battle of the Boyne was a disaster for Ireland and the Irish, leading to this reactionary hatred of the English and a complete loss of confidence by us Irish in ourselves!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not often have a people been so despised as we, not often have a people despised themselves as much as we have and even sometimes continue to do so! We are now as wealthy as England, let us go one better and unite the best of our past with the best the future has to offer, we can dispense with this plastic republic, this republic of thieves and liars and scoundrels!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fYa1WORnI/AAAAAAAAADc/eyG_vPsxqwM/s1600-h/871.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158829853684680306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fYa1WORnI/AAAAAAAAADc/eyG_vPsxqwM/s320/871.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I say let us restore the Kingdom of Ireland, restore the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Ireland"&gt;old Parliament &lt;/a&gt;(above) to it's rightful use, and let us restore the heirs of James II, perhaps we shall yet have our own Queen? Perhaps &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%2C_Hereditary_Princess_of_Liechtenstein"&gt;Sophie&lt;/a&gt; Queen of Ireland?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7312110026596369767?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7312110026596369767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7312110026596369767' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7312110026596369767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7312110026596369767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/irish-republicanism.html' title='Irish Republicanism'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fYllWORoI/AAAAAAAAADk/iXbNw2fG-Hc/s72-c/Ireland.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7097682330736725011</id><published>2008-01-23T21:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-23T23:03:21.942Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marxism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&apos;Conservative parties&apos;'/><title type='text'>Our enemies!</title><content type='html'>As we continue our civilisational slide toward depravity and enslavement, it seems urgent that I harp on about how we could avoid this fate, and perhaps even succeed in reestablishing our belief in ourselves and our culture!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our enemy is not, as some would have us believe Muslims or even their religion, it is not even the leftist parties we are supposed to hate, whilst voting for the &lt;em&gt;'right wing&lt;/em&gt;' ones as the best of a bad lot. Our enemy are the traitors among us who desire our subjugation, enslavement and ultimately our obliteration. We don't see them for we are voting for them, they are the '&lt;em&gt;conservative&lt;/em&gt;' parties of Europe and America. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fB9FWOReI/AAAAAAAAACU/rC2KUJhIQec/s1600-h/_41126510_budapest_ap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158805153327760866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fB9FWOReI/AAAAAAAAACU/rC2KUJhIQec/s320/_41126510_budapest_ap.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ask yourself, what has the 'Conservative' party ever done that is actually &lt;em&gt;conservative&lt;/em&gt;? Have they opposed the abolition of the House of Lords? No, they supported it and tried to paint themselves as more radical then Labour!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have they opposed the 'European project'? No, they brought Britain in!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have they ever lowered taxes? No, they increased them!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have they ever, really opposed the Satanic welfare state? No, the enlarged it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have they ever opposed abortion? No, never!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have they ever opposed 'gay rights'? No, not recently!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have they ever supported a moral position that was not trendy at the time? No!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The same could be said of any &lt;em&gt;conservative&lt;/em&gt; party in Europe, they are revolutionaries in suits, they are sirens, calling us to support them, then they will betray us!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCFFWORfI/AAAAAAAAACc/ZoITjKWqqTQ/s1600-h/1200299009_61528db6cc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158805290766714354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCFFWORfI/AAAAAAAAACc/ZoITjKWqqTQ/s320/1200299009_61528db6cc.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Theodore Dalrymple says &lt;em&gt;"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. Ones standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thus we have the Race Relations Act, the Sex Equality Act, the many new and inventive 'hate laws' that make speech and thought criminal!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another effort to impose themselves on us they ban smoking, hunting and smacking of children, it seems they get off on proving just how powerful they are, they can reach into our very homes and prevent us from chastising our children, how arrogant. The most disturbing thing is that most people reflexively support these tyrannous powers, even gloat as the smokers have to go outside to enjoy their tobacco! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;local councils in England and throughout Europe love their powers, their power of destruction seems one of their favorite, they adore pulling down historic old buildings and erecting in it's place&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/images/20051001/4005BR4.jpg"&gt; pig ugly concrete boxes&lt;/a&gt;, you see it all over the place. Most of east London has been governed locally by communists and their sympathisers since WWII, as a result, it is one great big concrete slum.The same goes for Dublin, Cork and Limerick (one of the worst examples), this philistinism spreads over borders!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marxists, false conservatives and their sympathisers want to make us perfect people, perfectly healthy, perfectly submissive, perfectly hard working, they want us to own nothing, aspire to nothing, re-learn everything(this is already ongoing in the concentration camps they call schools) and to forget our Christian past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCjFWORiI/AAAAAAAAAC0/zW-a9KhZkhc/s1600-h/venice,pontesospiri,apartments,B&amp;amp;B,2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158805806162789922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCjFWORiI/AAAAAAAAAC0/zW-a9KhZkhc/s320/venice,pontesospiri,apartments,B%26B,2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The only way to ensure this is to destroy all evidence of this past through demolishing our heritage. This means restructuring our great cities, demolishing or converting our churches into food halls and strip joints and housing. It means closing our libraries, dumbing down our universities and making them into fortresses of the new religion, the anti religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marxists see the destruction of our past as a way of erasing our collective memories of the 'evils' of that past. In an effort to create a synthetic new humanity with a new history or none at all, they will go to any lengths, Marxists and their allies(conservative politicians) in the West have infiltrated our universities and schools and turned them from places of learning to places of indoctrination, preaching the evils of the West and our history, and calling for its demolition and replacement, although nowadays they tend not to tell us what it would be replaced with!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCQ1WORgI/AAAAAAAAACk/znu8NUsoFPY/s1600-h/Armenian02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158805492630177282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCQ1WORgI/AAAAAAAAACk/znu8NUsoFPY/s320/Armenian02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is sad and unsettling that our educational establishment have convinced us that most of our past was a living hell for our ancestors, that they lived in mud huts, were illiterate and oppressed, while the Islamic world was a beacon of light to the darkened and ignorant West!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact tells us that many of our ancestors were literate, 25% of English people were literate in 1620! This was not unusual in the West, In fact there were more literates in England in 1880 then there are now! 1880 being the year that the government began to involve itself in primary education, as good an argument against big government as any, methinks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCy1WORjI/AAAAAAAAAC8/8z354fiAVkU/s1600-h/SyriacMoses.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158806076745729586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fCy1WORjI/AAAAAAAAAC8/8z354fiAVkU/s320/SyriacMoses.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is irritating that one can hear a white Englishman state while travelling around the Pacific islands, " they have such a rich history, going back hundreds of years", whilst being blind to the richness of his own heritage which goes back thousands of years!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what is my point?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn your history, learn about the richness of your culture and your religion, learn about the relevance of the nice looking buildings where you live, see the beauty of Europe before it is too late, take in the galleries, read the literature, read the history books written at the end of the last century, before our academy became red. Read, discover, enjoy the fruits of our civilisation, know your self, then you will recognise the poison that emanates from our 'centres of learning' then you can counter the arguments of the traitors amongst us!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7097682330736725011?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7097682330736725011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7097682330736725011' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7097682330736725011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7097682330736725011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/our-enemies.html' title='Our enemies!'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R5fB9FWOReI/AAAAAAAAACU/rC2KUJhIQec/s72-c/_41126510_budapest_ap.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-5321065919750985149</id><published>2008-01-23T12:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-23T13:14:21.200Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toryism'/><title type='text'>Toryism and modernity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The word comes from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí — outlaw, robber, from the Irish word tóir, meaning 'pursuit', since outlaws were "pursued men"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally the word 'Tory' was a term of insult, as was the word 'Whig', as is often the case, the insult was adopted by those it was supposed to insult and worn as a badge of pride.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to impress this point on you, I am not a member of the British Conservative Party, I do not support them nor any other party, I describe myself as a Tory in the old sense of the word!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the original meaning of the word, it seems apt to me, as I feel as if I'm an outlaw or a pursued man with the beliefs I hold. I despise democracy and all the feel good propaganda that goes with it, I despise those politicians who seem such little men compared with those from even a century ago, I despise their smallness, their ignorance and their pandering to the basest instincts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I despise their attitude toward our culture, history and faith, they obviously hold them in contempt, as they banish Christianity from the school rooms, or even worse, make a mockery of it. They hold homosexuality and those who practice it in the sort of regard we used to hold the saints!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women are led to believe that the highest goal in life is to get a job, and that there is nothing wrong with acting like a slut, because hey, men have been doing it for so long, why can't we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then they wonder why they can't get married, and before they know it, they are 35 years old, single, overweight and childless!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our modern world is so full of lies, and we believe those lies, we live by these lies and as we see, people die by those lies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The old truths of faith, family, honour, decency, loyalty, duty and sacrifice are now ridiculed, they are laughed at, as cynicism, selfishness, promiscuity, sloth and greed are elevated to new heights, this is the new morality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These lies promise to liberate us, indeed, we are assailed every day by advertisements, songs, political propaganda and other trash telling us to 'just do it', to ignore morality and do 'what feels good to us', to dismiss honour and decency and duty for a one night stand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How pathetic is our rotten culture? How sad are those who live by this new morality?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would rather be an outlaw, a bandit a Tory!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-5321065919750985149?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/5321065919750985149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=5321065919750985149' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5321065919750985149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/5321065919750985149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/toryism-and-modernity.html' title='Toryism and modernity'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-7708181348404245624</id><published>2008-01-22T19:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-22T21:39:00.819Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>The weakness of the West</title><content type='html'>Someone sent me the article bellow, it is a bit long, but is definitly worth a read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I appologise in advance if this is belong's to anyone, there was no links or names attached!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Persian King Cyrus asked the Lydian King Croesus what he must do in order not to have to fear the Greeks in his kingdom rising up against him. Croesus&lt;br /&gt;replied: "[T]o make sure of their never rebelling against you, or alarming you more, send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war, command them to wear tunics under their cloaks, and to put laced shoes upontheir feet, and make them bring up their sons to lyre-playing, harping, and shop-keeping. So you will soon see them become women instead of men, and there will be no more fear of their revolting against you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Herodotus."The age of chivalry is gone. ... The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmund Burke"There are [those] who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things -- their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women. "Alexis de Tocqueville.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starting around the decade of the 60s, there began tobe observed a marked change in the character of the White male students enrolled in U.S. colleges. This change was commented upon by some of the more astute professors, and had to do with the tendency of these young men to be too soft, too timid, too lacking in what had always been considered normal male aggressiveness. Now, it must be said, there have always been men who were softer, more effeminate, more"girlish," than average; just as there have always been women with a tendency towards masculinity, but this was not what these professors were observing.What they saw was a relative increase in the number of such men, and this phenomenon has been growing at an ever accelerated pace ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it is an accepted commonplace among some of themore profound thinkers, philosophers, and socialists on the human condition, that there have always been --and will always be -- two kinds of men comprising that small percentage of individuals who've shaped history: the first being the "spiritual" man; the second being the "economic" man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first, the spiritual man, is characterized by the explorer, the conqueror, the warrior, the poet, the priest and the monk. The second, the economic man, by the merchant, the politician, the money-changer, the atheist, and the bureaucrat. Spiritual man has been the builder of civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the spiritual visionary, and the conqueror of empires: the man who lives for ideas. Economic man usually appears on the scene after the fact, and slowly wrests the levers ofpower away from spiritual man after the hard work ofnation and culture building has been done. He is the one who figures the percentages, who knows how to get along by going along, who believes only in what he can see, touch, smell or hear: he lives from ideas. The first can be exemplified by individuals such as Socrates, Hypatia, Alexander, St. Cosmas the Aetolian, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Feodore Dostoevsky, andRobert E. Lee. The second by such as Thrasymachus,Ephialtes, the Duc d' Orleans, Jimmy Swaggart,Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger, GWB, and Bill Clinton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first produces poets like Pindar who sang:[In} the presence of the honored gods, all who were wont to rejoice in keeping their oaths, share a life that knoweth no tears...[and]whosever...have been courageous in keeping their souls pure from all deeds of wrong, pass by the highway of Zeus unto the tower of Cronus, Where the ocean-breezes blow around the Islands of the Blest, and flowers of gold are blazing, some on the shore from radiant trees, while others the water fostereth; and with chaplets thereof they entwine their hands, and with crowns, according to the righteous councils of Rhadamanthys, who shareth for evermore the judgment-seat of the mighty Father, even the Lord of Rhea with her throne exalted beyond all beside While the second produces merchants who promote, politicians who allow, and priests who tolerate the sickening output of "poets" such as Maya Angelou,"writers" such as Sydney Sheldon, "artists" such as Picasso, and the culture-destroying and nihilistic trash emanating from Hollywood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; These are the economic men who feed upon the decaying corpse of our Western Helleno-Christian civilization. Their world produces "music" that includes such lines in a popular rap song by 2 Live Crew as these:"Suck my dick ... and make it puke Lick my ass up and down Lick it till your tongue turn doo-doo brown."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, one may well ask, just what all of this has to do with the feminization of our young White men; the ever-growing number of "sensitized" males and outright homosexuals we see all around us? Well, the answer lies in the replacement of spiritual man's aristocratic values, which foster honour, ambition, discipline, and self-control, with economic man's democratic and feminine values, which foster safety,comfort, security and the home. In a democratic society the role of the government shifts from that of a father, who maintains order but allows for the incentive and freedom necessary for success, to that of a mother whose function is to provide security and comfort to all of her children; to make sure that their demands are satisfied. As the role of the government changes, individual behavior follows suit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Children begin to be raised differently, and a disciplined environment gives way to a permissive one. Such things as spanking ordisciplining a child become subject to censure, andthe result is a failure on the part of the child to learn from his mistakes, to mature and grow up. This move from a masculine idealism to a feminine materialism leads inevitably to hedonism and self-absorbed egoism. The young -- both male and female -- put self-gratification as their most important goal in life, and it is this urge to satisfy the senses that economic man exploits and encourages.I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;n the case of the male, it is not the acquisition of honour, glory or esteem that is encouraged; what is touted as most important is indulging in whatever happens to satisfy one physically and emotionally: if it feels good, do it; if it's something that discomforts you, avoid it. Honour, glory, and self-control are not encouraged by economic man because there is no money to be made from such things in his world, and money, as a means to power, is what counts for him. As the merchant mentality dominates, and economic mangains more and more power, the opposing ideology ofspiritual man is ridiculed, distorted, and marginalized. Manliness, the sacredness of marriage, the idealization and protection of inviolate womanhood, the importance of religious belief, of race, heritage, and tradition, and other such values of spiritual man are scorned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic man realizes that the systematic weakening of these inclinations are in his best interest, because it is only in their diminishment or demise that he will be able to keep spiritual man at bay and maintain his own power. It is therefore perfectly understandable that the crowning achievements of spiritual man, Hellenism andChristianity, should be considered the absolute enemies of economic man. Hellenism and the glory that was Greece must be removed from the curricula of our schools; when it is allowed, it must be made to reflect the lies and myths that are being hustled, because the truth is too compelling, too magnetic, and would serve to inspire a new way of thinking: would serve to create a new kind of spiritual man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as Christianity is concerned, one need only look at theway it is portrayed by Hollywood and the television industry nowadays to see the scorn, contempt, and fear with which it is held by economic man in order to understand how important an adversary, and how much of a threat, he considers it to be to his power. It is truly to be regretted that so many of today's churchleaders -- in their desire to be "mainstream" -- have rejected the masculine Christianity of the past in favor of the ultimately self-destructive feminine Christianity so commonly seen today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few words about the severe damage beingcaused by the feminization of the White man are in order. Some examples will suffice, we think, to show that even though a man may not be a homosexual, his feminization can have dire consequences for the society in which he lives. A few years ago, some White employees of the Texaco Corporation were turned in to management by a group oftheir Black colleagues who'd been systematically tape-recording their telephone conversations. During these illegal invasions of privacy, the Whites used the words "niggers," and "black jelly-beans." The"Rev." Jesse Jackson saw in this another means by which he could extort money from what he knew to bethe wimpy White management that typifies the heads of American corporations these days, and this is exactly what he proceeded to do. Jackson threatened a boycott of Texaco, and, in the end, was able to grab approximately 170 million dollars from the lily-white management of the company who were too cowardly to stand up to an action which, if tried by the average citizen, would most likely land him in jail. It must be emphasized that the use of such words --as"honkey," "gringo," "dago," "spic," etc.-- though offensive, are constitutionally protected by the firstamendment which guarantees free speech. But to the "go along in order to get along," feminized, "captains of industry," like Texaco's "economic man" management team, avoiding the possibility of a red bottom line on the corporate balance sheet is more important than standing up for the precious right -- bought withblood, pain, and sacrifice -- of free speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During Mardi Gras in Seattle -- on so-called "FatTuesday" earlier this year [2001] -- small groups of Blacks viciously attacked individual White men and women in an overwhelmingly White crowd. While the Blacks punched young White women to the ground and then kicked them senseless, and while they ripped the clothes off other White women and pawed and probed them, White men standing nearby just stared without attempting to intervene. The victims were mostly between 20 and 30 years old. They were chased, dragged to the ground, punched severely, and kicked mercilessly; some were sexually assaulted. Of course,this incident wasn't reported on by the controlled national media, but the event was witnessed by so many people it could not be kept out of some of the local papers. On March 12th, an article in the SeattlePost-Intelligencer, described how White women were being forcibly held down by gangs of Blacks while effete White photographers took the pictures. "[T]hereare about 20 Black... hands on her body," wrote theWhite reporter about one typical incident, without feeling the least bit of shame for not acting to help the victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the evening of December 14th of 2000, two Blackbrothers, 20-year-old Jonathan Carr and 23-year-old Reginald Carr, invaded a White home in Wichita, Kansas and kidnapped the three White men and two White women inside, all of whom were in their 20s. They then drove them to a snow-covered soccer field outside of town after forcing them to withdraw money from several ATM machines. At the field, they raped the two women, then told all five of the Whites to kneel in the snow and shot them in the back of the head. After that, the two Blacks returned to the victims' home, burglarised it, and shot a pet dog they found there. One of the young women did not die, however. After recovering consciousness, she ran naked and bleeding to summon police. The Blacks were arrested and, of course, the national media clamped a total blackout on the story.The local female district attorney repeatedly asserted that "race was not a factor," and that the incidents would not be treated as "hate crimes"; but the idiocy of "Hate Crime" legislation is another matter for another time. What is important here is to analyse the behavior of the White victims. The degradation and humiliation they suffered would have been resisted most forcefully just a few decades ago. These animals not only raped the two women, they forced all of the Whites to put on a sex show for their amusement. They made the White men engage in homosexual acts, the women to have sex with each other and with the white men before shooting them, and then ran over their bodies with one of the vehicles they were driving. The pistol used by the Blacks was an anemic .380 caliber-- which does not have much stopping power. What should be especially noted is that three able-bodied White men let two blacks, armed only with a .380 caliber pistol, degrade their women and even took part in the degradation. They then knelt obediently in the snow and let themselves and their women be slaughtered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another example of the "demasculinization" of theWestern White male can be seen by anyone who visits some of the many trendy vacation spots -- mostly in the Caribbean -- frequented by sexually frustrated White women, seeking to escape from the still"straight" but flabby, limp-wristed, indecisive, fearful and sensitive White males back home. Decades ago, such scenarios had to do with the women from upper-class social strata -- educated, sheltered, and spoiled -- who would form liaisons with their White chauffeurs, music teachers, gardeners, gamekeepers, etc., ala Lady Chatterley's Lover. Nowadays, even these once robust types have been "sensitized" to the point where many can no longer satisfy the cravings of a sexually normal woman. How many times have we heard this complaint voiced by so many of today's young women?: "It seems every man I meet is gay." They're really not, of course, they're just "caring" and"non-aggressive," and "tolerant": that is, feminized. This has given a big boost to tourism in the Caribbean and to other vacation spots considered by many White women to be inhabited by men not tainted by the castrating poison of politically correct, liberal hate-mongering against White European males. (Itshould be noted that Greece and the Greek islands geta yearly influx of Scandinavian, English, and German girls eager to be "hit-on" by the local "kamakia, " as well.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a new book by Dial Press titled Privilege: the Enigma of Sasha Bruce, the true story of ablue-blooded heiress is told. She was the beautiful and intelligent daughter of a diplomat and one-timeU.S. ambassador to France, W. Germany, and Britain. Educated at the most exclusive and expensive schools, she ended up being murdered at 29 by her last lover. Prior to that, her fruitless search for a man who would not only love her but also master her had led her through an endless succession of Blacks, and just about every form of degradation, humiliation, and self-abasement at their hands imaginable; and her case is not at all unusual. One of the more bizarre forms this hunger to find a strong mate has taken in recent years, is the growing migration of White women to the jungles and shantytowns of Jamaica where they bed downwith the dreadlocked Blacks known as Rastafarians: members of a White-hating, drug-using, Black sect. Ina recent issue of Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, this phenomenon was written about in a lengthy article: "When one travels along Jamaica's north coast ... one is struck by the fascination the daughters of White civilization have for the Blacksons of the wilderness .... One sees rows of female eyes turn from the Jamaican sunset toward the locks of an approaching 'dread' .... One experiences the sight of a dozen blooming maidens following the lips of some talking Rasta. One feels the irritation of the hotel guests when a White girl with a Rasta shows up, she bright and combed, he dark and ragged." Not only German girls, but Canadian and American, and others have been drawn to such places as Jamaica. Some have been murdered, raped, and robbed, but they keep going. One woman interviewed by Der Spiegel was a 26-year-old German university student -- and a feminist. After seven semesters of Sociology, she left school and headed west. looking for something. She found it in the raw masculinity of the Rastas, "...who fought violently over me." The Rasta she is sleeping with is full of rage against "White oppressors," and he constantly berates her with tirades of his anti-White hate. This, she says, has given her a different perspective for her own race: "I understand better now, that although our race is totally deformed, it could one day become just as wonderful [as the Black race] if it would only return to its original ways."So that Black men [having a strong consciousness of their roots] are "simply more attractive [to me] thanWhite men." And finally, let us remember that when Odysseus returned to Ithaca and found his family, women, home,and substance being wasted and defiled, he did not concern himself with worrying about why the brutish suitors were behaving so reprehensibly; he did not seek to find justification for their insolence in some real or imagined trauma they may have suffered in their childhoods; he did not blame himself for being richer or more powerful than they, and feel guilt because he was the cause of their envy and resentment.He simply made a plan, gathered his son and loyal servants to his side, and massacred the bastards. What has always been a source of wonderment about this incident, was not that the suitors behaved as they did-- there have always been and will always be such people among us -- but that the rest of the population of Ithaca stood by and allowed the despoilment oftheir beloved King's family and property to go unchallenged. But then again, isn't the same thing happening today?. How many of us of White European ancestry are making plans and gathering friends and family in preparation for the day when we -- using all the legal means still available to us -- " 'massacre'the bastards" who are behind the planned destruction of our Helleno-Christian world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let us turn our attention now away from the feminized and back to the homosexual man. Such a person, from the age of Homer -- if he were "gay" in today's sense of the word --was called kinaithos (KINay thos), which means "causer of shame" in both modern and ancient Greek (aftós/aftí poú eíinai ó kinón tínAidó). The word has etymological connections to"shame," "corruption," "disgrace" (Aidó/Aísxos), and literally means "he who brings about the curse of Aídó(a minor goddess who punished moral transgressors and was a companion of the goddess, Nemesis). In Athens, and most other Greek city-states, he would not be allowed to take part in public affairs, and if he were blatant in his behavior (that is, behavior such as that characterized by homosexuals today), would be disenfranchised, exiled, or executed by the state. What must be kept in mind is that the ancient Greeks were perpetually at war, either with foreign(barbarian) or with Greek foes. War in those days was brutal and final. There were no M.A.S.H. units just behind the field of battle, ready to give life-savingfirst-aid. No helicopters to take the wounded to hospital. If one were captured, there were no Geneva Conventions to ensure the proper treatment of prisoners because there were no prisoners: All combatants were slain, their women, children, and non-combatants sold into slavery, taken as booty, or slaughtered as well. Such war-like societies must, perforce, develop a warrior code in order to survive.This meant that there was a premium on manhood and all that that word implied. Think of Achilles who, when given the choice of a long life with no glory, chose a short life with glory and honor instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think ofSparta and her "wall of men," of Leonidas and his 300,or of their Spartan mothers who said to their sons as they left for war: "Either come back with your shield, or on it." Think of Socrates who chose to die rather than bring dishonor upon himself by disobeying the laws of his beloved city: a city he had fought for with honor in many a battle. Think of Alexander the Great at Opis, in Persia, and of his famous speech to his men when he offered to strip in order to match his wounds with theirs, all of which were on his chest and none on his back. Such states could not afford the luxury of the kind of weak, effeminate men we see all around us today. The glory that was Greece was only possible because strong men were willing to fight and die so that their country could survive and their philosophers and poets could flourish. Before there could be a Parthenon there had to be a Marathon (Xoris Marathones then ginounte Parthenones).This concentration on the development of strong and honorable men, upon whom the very life of the state depended, ultimately resulted in the creation of anaesthetical male ideal. (As opposed to the feminine"Hollywood" ideal prevalent in the West today; focusing, as it does, on sex, romance, and the female form, instead.) And it naturally follows that, in such a society, the manly virtues (aretes) would also be the most prized. And since there were no military academies to train young men in these virtues, this important task was taken up by the older, experienced males who grew to love their charges, just as these young men grew to love and respect their elder mentors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such training also put a great deal of emphasis on the importance of friendship, especially in the need for a close companion or friend on the battlefield. So important was this training considered to be, that families unable to find a suitable pedagogue for their son felt socially slighted and disadvantaged. The aesthetical ideal of the male mentioned above (similar in its essentials to the idealized Christian feminine ideal, which inspires male effort to a higher good) is delineated in Plato's Symposium, where we are presented with the mystical realization of Plato's famous Doctrine of the Forms. Socrates, having been instructed in matters of love by the priestess, Diotima, seeks to show that by understanding "Eros" (love), we can learn to approach the Forms, toward which our souls are oriented. This is done initially by admiring a young man's body as a thing of beauty. One continues this "aestheticalascent" by the admiration of all bodies, then on to human institutions -- such as the state -- until, finally, one can come to understand and love the beauty not only of nature but of the Supreme Beauty ofGod Himself: an evolutionary process that is ultimately meant to purify one's soul, and free one from the enslavement of the flesh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Xenophon's version of the Symposium (sometimestitled, Banquet), Socrates expounds on the importance of a love that transcends bodily desires. He tells one of his fellow banqueters that: "My heart is set on showing you ... that not only mankind but also gods and demi-gods set a higher value on the friendship of the spirit than on the enjoyment of the body. For in all cases where Zeus became enamored of mortal women for their beauty, though he united with them he suffered them to remain mortal; but all those persons whom he delighted in for their souls' sake he made immortal." It is this love -- a love on a plane higher than that of the merely physical -- that has come to be known as "Platonic love" in all of the languages ofthe world. And it is just this love that set the standards of behavior that existed between teacher and boy, as well as between adult friends in ancient Greece. Though it never reached such lofty heights, the admiration of the beauty of the male form was also prevalent in the Roman world as evidenced by such as St. Augustine of Hippo (arguably Christianity's most heterosexual saint), who said that the body was obviously created for more than mere utilitarian purposes; it was also meant to be admired for its beauty. As an example, he cites the beard which has no functional purpose but was given to men to make them beautiful. So that we have the combination of the need in the Greek world to develop strong, honorable, and physically capable men, coupled with a male aesthetic of the beautiful that was universally admired and sought. Add to this the aforementioned custom of putting the schooling of young boys in the manly arts and virtues into the hands of older men, and one begins to see that such a mix could be potentially explosive. For this reason, although these friendships were encouraged, there were -- according to many sources such as Xenophon, Plutarch, Plato, and others--tough restrictions imposed by custom and law. As an example, an older man (Erastis) might take on the training of a young boy (Eromenos), but under no circumstances was intimate touching allowed. The difference between homo-erotic friendships, and actua lhomosexual practices (in the modern sense of what itmeans to be "gay"), was clearly defined. The Greek ideal was a non-physical, purely pedagogical,relationship. That some, if not many, may have strayed, cannot be denied, but what is important here is to understand that those who did risked serious legal penalties such as banishment or death, and that such behavior was most emphatically discouraged and forbidden by custom and law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proof of this can be found through an observation ofGreek vase paintings having the depiction of Erastisand Eromenos as the subject. The strong ties between the older man and the boy he is training are easily seen. No close bodily contact is ever depicted, however, and one notices that all of the prohibitions regarding these relationships are being strictly observed. Had overt homosexual behavior been considered acceptable, it would most definitely have been shown -- because the Greeks were prone to"letting everything hang out" -- but this is hardly ever the case. Those vase paintings that do depict what might accurately be categorized as homosexual scenes comprise such an insignificant percentage ofthe total -- something like 30 out of tens of thousands (cf A. Georgiades, Debunking the Myth ofHomosexuality in Ancient Greece. 2002. p. 126.), that one is perfectly justified in wondering just what the real purpose is that lies behind the extrapolation ofthis minute percentage into the absurd charge that they represent the norm. Moreover, a percentage ofthese 30 or so could have been commissioned by homosexuals, or even by "straight" customers who saw them as a means of ridiculing behavior they disliked or thought to be amusing. (It is important to notethat Greek vases were a major export item and have been found from Russia to Gibraltar, as well as throughout Northern and Western Europe. In the province of Attica alone -- where Athens is located --over 80,000 have been found to date.-- cf Georgiades.p.127.) When one compares this small number to what we see today on TV, in ads, books, magazines, the cinema, etc., one can just imagine what future generations will think of us.That such behavior was the subject of ridicule can be seen in the disapproval voiced by Socrates, for instance, who, as Xenophon tells us in his Memorobilia, when he found out that Critias loved Euthydemus, tried to restrain him by saying that such a thing was "mean," and that it was "unbecoming" of Critias to ask of Euthydemus "... a favor that it would be wrong to grant." When Critias persisted, Socrates berates him by saying that "Critias seems to have the feelings of a pig [that can't] help rubbing[itself] against stones"( Emphasis added.). And it is Xenophon as well who tells us in his Lacedaemonian Constitution, that Lycurgus, the great Spartan lawgiver, "... banned the [physical] connection [between man and boy] as an abomination; and forbadeit no less than parents were forbidden from sexual intercourse with their children and brothers and sisters with each other." Spartan life was harsh, and boys from a certain age slept in barracks with other boys as part of their training. This fact has given much cause for sly and cunning conjecture, but upon closer scrutiny the effects of this practice can most accurately be compared to what Evelyn Waugh, the English writer, said about the exclusive, all-boys private schools of his time. He said that though there may have been some homosexual activity, he did not know of one single case where a graduate, of his school for instance, did not go on to marry and raise a family. The same can be said of the Spartans who were expected to give strong children to their country, and who, according to Plutarch, in his "Life of Lycurgus," were severely dealt with if they didn't. Concerning Sparta, Plutarch, in the "Sayings of Spartan Women," to be found in his Moralia, relates some pithy but informative anecdotes about these extraordinary females. As one reads them, it is extremely difficult to think of the men they are talking about as being "gay," or effeminate in anyway. One of the most famous of these is the following: A woman from Attica asked a Spartiatisa, "Why is it that you Spartan women are the only women that lord it over your men?" The Spartan woman answered: "Because we are the only women that are the mothers of [real]men." It is worthy of note that what the woman from Attica said, in effect, was that all Greek women were under the complete control of their men, whereas the Spartan woman answered, in effect, that even these dominating Greek males were not "men" in comparison with Spartans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another, the wife of Leonidas, of Thermopylae fame, asked her husband what she should do[should he be killed]. He answered: "Marry a good man,and bear good children." First off, it is note worthythat she asked her husband what she should do, hardly a likely possibility if he were an effeminate male, and she, not he, were the master in the home. Secondly, his chief concern is that she marry and bear children; something a homosexual wouldn't give too much of a damn about. Another has to do with a Spartan girl who is the object of some very sissified advances by a visiting foreigner. She pushes him away and says deridingly: "Get away from me, you can't even 'comeon' to me like a man." This tells us, since it is perfectly logical to assume that the girl had never left Sparta (travel outside of Lacedaemonia was not something ordinarily done by anyone, male or female),that in her prior experiences with the men of Sparta,the advances they'd made were aggressive. Finally,when a Spartan woman was asked if she had made advances [before marriage] to her husband, she answered: "No, but he made them to me." And speakingof Spartan men, we mustn't forget that it was Menelaus, the Spartan, who waged war upon the Trojansin order to win back his wife, the beautiful Helen.Whether she was the actual cause of the war is not the issue here; what is important is that the idea of a Spartan husband -- not to mention the whole of Greece-- going to war for a woman had enough verisimilitude about it to be considered the natural thing for any husband to do. Had this story contained too much of the fantastic, it would not have had the staying power it has enjoyed down through the centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the time of Homer, in whose epic poetry there cannot be found one iota of a hint of homosexua lbehavior, to the time of Alexander the Great, such practices as sodomy between adults -- or between an adult and a boy -- were considered abominations, and were strictly forbidden and severely punished. As forAlexander, according to Plutarch in On The Fortune of Alexander, when the Macedonian conqueror was asked by the lickspittle governor of one of the conquered provinces in Asia Minor, if he would like him to send Alexander "...a youth, the like of whom for bloom and beauty did not exist." he received the followingreply: "Why you vilest of men, what deed of mine have you witnessed in the past that would make you think Iwould be interested in such pleasures?" And speaking of Homer, the friendship between Achilles and Patroclus has been the subject of much snide innuendo. This malicious and self-serving commentary always seems to ignore the fact that the whole theme of the Iliad -- Homer's great epic account of the Trojan War, and Achilles' heroic exploits in it -- was the "Wrathof Achilles." And what was Achilles so worked up(wrathful) about? Why, it was that Agamemnon, had taken Achilles' slave girl away from him. When Achilles and Patroclus came back to their tent after a hard day on the field of battle, their two captured slave girls -- taken as booty -- were waiting for them. When they went to sleep, they slept with these girls. The idea that the glorification of friendship that the Greeks so admired could have been nothing more than an excuse for sodomy, is as ridiculous as itis despicable and unhistorical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as the classical age is concerned, a reading ofAristophanes' great comedies (as just one source amongmany) should be enough to convince any reasonable person that, when this great artist poked fun at the perpetual battle between the sexes, he was accurately reflecting the ethos of an overwhelmingly heterosexual society. His play, Lysistrata, is the perfect case in point. The premise of the play is that the Peloponnesian War is destroying Athens, and the women want it to end. They decide that the best way to get their men to stop fighting is to refrain from having sex with them, so they go on what might be called a sex strike. It all makes for very funny reading, but the point we wish to emphasize here is that the men go crazy! After all kinds of very comical goings-on, the men finally give up and agree to stop fighting if only their women will come down from the Acropolis, where they've barricaded themselves, and sleep in their ownbeds again. If the ancient Greeks were "a bunch offairies," as that paradigm of civic virtue, the "Rev."Al Sharpton, once remarked, why did they all go nuts?Why were all of the males of Athens running aroundwith "three legs," as is so graphically and comically depicted in the play?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important to note that throughout the entire written history of Hellenism (and the same can be said of Christianity as well), erotic love was universally presented in terms of male and female: the bride and the bridegroom. This is true of all of the scriptural images we possess, just as it is true of about 99% ofGreek art and literature. When one looks over the whole of Greek literature, poetry, and art, for instance, one sees that when the subject of erotic attachment comes up, it is always between a man and a women: Odysseus and Penelope (whose relationship is a near-perfect model of a mature marriage), Hector and Andromache, Hippolytus and Phaedra, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. Even among the major gods like Ares and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hera (and Zeus' behavior can be best described as macho and heterosexual in the extreme), on down to the minor gods, such as Peleus, married to the goddess Thetis, and Heracles, who took the mortal Deianira to wife, the list goes on and on. And this model extends as well into the Hellenistic age, with such lovers as Leander and Hero, and all of the couples in the plays of Menander. The same pattern holds true of Greek art running from the Minoan, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic ages, a span of over 2000 years. All through this enormous length of time, the overwhelming majority of the sculptures, figurines, wall paintings, mosaics, andvase paintings (something like 99%), show males and females when the subject is erotic love. By contrast, America went from Christian Puritanism to "Gay andLesbian pride," "Heather has two Mommies," Barney Frank in the U.S. Congress, and "Don't ask, don't tell" in the U.S. Armed Forces -- with all of the attendant decadence these nihilistic constructs have brought us -- in just over 200 years. This pattern of strict adherence to God's Natural Law held true in the political arena as well. There was not one Greek political leader -- from Homeric to Classical times -- that was known to be a homosexual. Prominent men such as Odysseus, Diomedes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor, Priam, Paris, and Hector of theTrojan War; down to the classical period, with such men as Pericles (who, after he divorced his wife, lived with his mistress, Aspasia, until his death), Aristides, Phocion, Themistocles, Miltiades, Nicias, and others, too numerous to mention, were all, without exception, married or involved in heterosexual relationships with mistresses or Hetairai (roughly equivalent to the Japanese Geisha). The same can be said of the "mythological" heroes like Perseus, Cecrops (who first instituted monogamy among men), andTheseus (who was the first man to abduct Helen of Troywhen she was a girl); to such heroes as the Argonauts:men like Jason, Orpheus, and Heracles; all of whomwere involved in (sometimes stormy) heterosexual love affairs throughout their lives. The playwrights and poets too -- Hesiod, Archilochus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, and others, were all masculine, normal men as well. And this is true of the philosophers whose lives we know something about, such as Socrates (who married twice), Aristotle, and Plato. Though Plato never married, he had much to say on what he felt was normal behavior between the sexes: Much that would blow to pieces the devious and self-serving assertions being put forward by our postmodern"scholars," and "intellectuals" today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is asample: In his Laws he states quite categorically that"... male does not touch male for this purpose, sinceit is unnatural...." And again, in the same work, he tells us that "... when male unites with female for procreation the pleasure experienced is held to be dueto nature (kata physin), but is contrary to nature(para physin) when male mates with male or female with female, and that those ... guilty of such enormities[are] impelled by their slavery to pleasure." Plato's views might even be termed puritanical by many today for in his "Seventh Epistle" he tells us that "...if one's existence is spent in gorging food twice a day and never sleeping alone at night ... [then] not a single man of all who live beneath the heavens could ever become wise." And Plato, who has been called the wisest man who ever lived, was certainly wise enough to know that compulsive homosexuality leads inexorablyto the utter enslavement of, first, the individuals who practice it, and second, the society in which itis allowed to flourish. For, as the Emperor Julian(the "Apostate") -- a scholar of the first rank who was superbly schooled in Greek paideia -- so aptly put it in his Sixth Oration: "Then never think, my friend,that you are free while your belly rules you and the part below the belly, since you will then have masters who can either furnish you the means of pleasure or deprive you of them."So that what we see in ancient Greece is a devotion to the male ideal, engendered by the need to create a warrior class capable of defending home and hearth effectively. This self-preserving ideal resulted in the creation of strict codes of honor on the battlefield, and in the elevation of friendship between men carried to what may today be considered the extreme. A similar situation occurred in the age of the Samurai warrior in Japan. These men were the embodiment of heroic virtue, and their idealization led to the cult of the male in that country as well.These manly virtues may provide plenty of material for ridicule for the likes of Woody Allen (who gets lots of laughs when he quips: "I'm way beyond 4-F; I'm categorized as 'coward' by my draft board"); and Bill Clinton, who famously wrote that " I despise the military," and actually demonstrated against his country while American boys were dying in a war he was illegally evading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One more thought on Clinton: It was because those 1500 men on the Titanic had been raised while Helleno-Christian influence was still strong,that they were able to muster the courage and determination to give up their lives so that their women and children could live. There were, of course, a few cowards who dressed as women in order to gain a place on the lifeboats, and you can be sure that"Slick Willie" would have been one of these. Yet, this man --who would not have been allowed to hold the office of "night-soil collector" in ancient Greece --was elected the Commander-in-Chief of the American armed forces! What does this tell you, dear reader, about the state of "feminine democracy" in that country? What does this say about the contempt in which the dumbed-down and misinformed citizens of that once-great land are held by those who control that nation's media, and are therefore able to wield the power necessary to have the"lickspittle-of-their-choice" elected?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may be reasonably argued that there was something wrong with the culture that fostered these irregular and illegal homo-erotic relationships between some Greek males in the 6th, 5th, and 4th centuries. What must be repeatedly emphasized, however, is that, unlike in America (and more and more in Europe) today, this activity was never legalized, never encouraged, never lauded as being perfectly normal, never part of the Greek educational curriculum, never depicted on the stage as something trendy and "cool." No candidate for public office, known to be a homosexual, could ever, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, have been elected; no openly homosexual person -- male or female -- could have avoided death, banishment, or, at the very least, severe public censure. The idea of same-sex- marriage would have been incomprehensible and repugnant beyond words to them; and the thought ofa group such as the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA -- whose goal is "to end the oppression of men and boys who have mutually consensual relationships") forming in their community would have thrown them into paroxysms of uncontrollable rage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The philosophers and priests of ancient Greece were dedicated to the principle of never violating with thought or deed that which has been given to man by the gods. This principle was encapsulated in the much-heralded phrase, Sozein ta phenomena; which phrase we translate as follows: "Preserve the natural!" The acorn may most certainly be observed, commented upon, ridiculed or revered; but it must beallowed to become an oak tree. The idea that within the acorn there is a weeping willow struggling to"come out" would have been met with the ridicule and scorn such fuzzy-minded thinking deserves. This thinking is today encouraged and promoted by a malignant and elitist minority, hell-bent on bringing Western Civilization -- given to the world by White men and women of European ancestry -- to its knees so that it can fill the power vacuum that will result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some have stated that such thinking is only possible among academics and "intellectuals"; such a belief is simplistic and unrealistic. A more likely reason forthe collaboration of such water-bucket-carriers for the aforementioned elitist minority, is that these people are simply the products of a society controlled by the "economic men" previously described. If touting homosexuality, feminism, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., will enhance our careers, why let's do it , and to hell with what damage will be done to future generations. These are the Clintons, the Bushes, the Albrights, the Kissingers, the Friedans, the Abzugs, the Franks, the Simitis', the Karamanlis', the Jacksons, the Sharptons, and the Blairs of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For such creatures there is no salvation, no saving grace: everything they do is anathema, corrosive, and self-serving in the extreme. And their most feared common enemy is the White male of European ancestry:It is he who must be ridiculed, marginalized,f eminized, and ultimately destroyed before he awakens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those of us who wish to preserve what is left of our culture must develop a zero-tolerance attitude towards such people. The kind of "tolerance" demonstrated by the "diversity"-promoting leftists who demonstrate their love for diversity by shouting down speakers who don't toe the party line. We risk losing our identities, our culture, and our freedoms because we seem to think it more important to be polite than to engage in the kind of behavior that has proven so rewarding for our ideological enemies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-7708181348404245624?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/7708181348404245624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=7708181348404245624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7708181348404245624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/7708181348404245624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/weakness-of-west.html' title='The weakness of the West'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333055318999397587.post-8003387295344455037</id><published>2008-01-18T14:08:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-01-18T14:24:04.325Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toryism'/><title type='text'>An Irish Tory?</title><content type='html'>Yes, there are such creatures as Tories that happen to be Irish! I am attempting to keep a diary, a record of my thoughts and life. I wish to put &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;across&lt;/span&gt; an alternative view, an unpopular view, a despised view of this world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tories are by nature deeply suspicious of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;romanticism&lt;/span&gt;, sceptical of 'progress', and wary of those who seem so determined to overturn everything they see around them, from morality to the family, from faith in God to the sanctity of property!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Irish, there are not many Irishmen who describe themselves as Tories, in fact it would be considered by many to be treason to describe oneself as an Irish Tory, an oxymoron, an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;impossibility&lt;/span&gt;, or at the very least unlikely!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a slavish anglophile, although there are many things to admire in that nation, I am not a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;believer&lt;/span&gt; in the protestant supremacy or even of the Union of 1801.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do, however, reject the modern and republican mythology of the 'Irish Republic' or 'Eire' and all the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;violence&lt;/span&gt; and bloodshed and brutality associated with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a Tory by nature, by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;temperament&lt;/span&gt; and by conviction. Ideology is dangerous, purity and demand for it by anyone, must in all ages be suspect, and must be rejected. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Toryism&lt;/span&gt; is mostly about just wanting to be left alone, to be free of brutal, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;thieving&lt;/span&gt; and lying politicians, those same people who demand 'change' and 'reform', these agents of the devil. We must reject them, their lies and evil ambitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must be Tories!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3333055318999397587-8003387295344455037?l=anirishtory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/feeds/8003387295344455037/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3333055318999397587&amp;postID=8003387295344455037' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8003387295344455037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3333055318999397587/posts/default/8003387295344455037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anirishtory.blogspot.com/2008/01/irish-tory.html' title='An Irish Tory?'/><author><name>Irish Tory</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00728110234077613744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_FUeVikTzx0Q/R6MGflWORyI/AAAAAAAAAE8/qLCkVuhua5g/S220/150px-Lord_Castlereagh.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
