Biting the Hand That Has Fed Them

ISN’T it strange how those immigrants who have become influential within particular fields of our society appear to have a chip on their shoulder.

You would have thought that they would be satisfied to have risen to the top of their trade and done so well in spite of the rampant racism and insurmountable anti-immigrant bias that they tell us infects our society from top to bottom.

Take Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur for example. He’s a Ugandan Muslim immigrant who owes everything to Britain -– his education, his career and his current elevated status. Yet he is not a happy bunny and is suing his employers, the Metropolitan Police, for everything he can get, claiming that inherent racism within the Force has stopped him getting even higher up the promotional ladder.

His self-preening performance at the press conference in central London at which he launched his obscene claim was reminiscent of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown at her very worst. She is another Ugandan Muslim immigrant who has made a career as a ‘social commentator’ with The Independent and BBC by savaging the hand that feeds her and denouncing white British people as workshy, ignorant and, of course, “racist”.

But neither of them can hold a light to the great chieftain of ethnic arrogance himself –- Trevor Phillips, the supremo of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Before he joined the Gravy Train, Phillips claimed to be a socialist, although by sending his own children to private schools, he somewhat undermined these credentials. Now Trevor is of Guyanese parents and that country today is a cauldron of racial and religious strife, as various ethnic groups battle for supremacy, and is far from an advertisement for the joys of multiculturalism. Rather than trying to suppress the indigenous White folk of our islands, you would have thought a radical campaigner likes Phillips would have relished the challenge of promoting equality and human rights in his country of ethnic origin.

But, of course, we mustn’t blame the likes of Phillips, Ghaffur and Alibhai-Brown for this almost studied hostility towards the country and the people that have allowed them, albeit in many cases reluctantly, to make Britain their home. Their ungrateful attitude is the fault of the liberal intelligentsia and an orchestrated campaign of brainwashing by the media that everything about immigrants is “vibrant” and wonderful and that the boring old British people should be so grateful that these people have chosen to come and live amongst us.

The ethnic minorities and their cultures have been put on a pedestal by successive Labour and Conservative Governments which haven’t allowed a single word of criticism to be said against them. (I was banged up in Pentonville for three months in 1985 for voicing such criticism.)

Even when immigrants were rioting, burning down our inner cities and hacking to death with machetes PC Keith Blakelock, it wasn’t their fault — it was apparently ours — that of British society for not giving them all the opportunities they were entitled to.

The liberal agenda and a fawning media have made Trevor Phillips, Tarique Ghaffur and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown the monsters they are today. Without that help and if they’d been on a level playing field, they wouldn’t have risen through the ranks and wouldn’t have any influence.

The blame, as always, lies with Britain’s politicians of the last fifty years who have betrayed the interests of the British people. They have made us second class citizens in our own country who have to take it on the chin without comment when bullied and denounced by those whom seem to be our new masters.

Read Martin Wingfield’s blog here.

Muslims Object to Christian Prayer Meeting in Oxford Church

In yet another sign of the increasing Islamification of Britain, a Muslim pressure group in Oxford has demanded — and received — an apology from a Christian prayer group which organised a “Call to Prayer” meeting in St. Aldate’s Church (illustration) in that city centre.

The Muslim Education Centre of Oxford (Meco) accused Witney-based Christian “Open Doors UK” of preaching “evangelical propaganda”, despite that organisation holding an indoor meeting in a Christian Church, and not forcing anyone to attend.

Pathetically, Open Doors UK immediately apologised and insisted the prayer meeting had been taken out of context, although it “regretted” any offence that had been caused. On the contrary, a spokesman for the Christian group said the meeting’s aim “was to reduce fear of Islam.”

Meco chairman Dr Taj Hargey said he was “shocked by their theological self-righteousness. They assume the self-appointed task to ‘pray for Muslims’. They also say that each year there are incredible stories about how God answers these prayers, revealing Himself to Muslims around the world, and bringing many to faith in Jesus.”

He added: “Not only was this evangelical activity ill-conceived and insensitive, it was grossly insulting and inflammatory to Oxford’s Muslim inhabitants. At Meco our aim is to bring people of all faiths together, not divide them further. Things like this only serve to break people apart.”

A joint statement from Open Doors UK and St Aldate’s Church said: “Open Doors and St Aldate’s very much regret that offence has been taken by Meco at an event designed to encourage church-going Christians to engage positively with Muslims. Hundreds of Christians responded to an invitation that had been sent to churches to a series of meetings held in a church aimed at ‘reducing fear of Islam, increasing love for Muslims’. Thus we would emphasise that it was not a meeting targeted at Muslims. Before the event we emphasised that we were not denigrating Islam or criticising Muslim beliefs. At the same time we do believe that having discovered God’s love in Jesus and made a choice to become Christians ourselves, everyone has the right to explore religious faiths and make decisions based on their exploration.”

Incredibly, Dr Hargey said that “while Meco had been offended, it would not hold a grudge.”

Is this what Britain has become? A country where Christians are now browbeaten and criticised for holding prayer meetings in Christian Churches? Where Muslims can demand ‘apologies’ from Christians simply for practising their religion?

Every day, Sharia law draws nearer for Britain. One day, if this immigration invasion is left unchecked, the new Muslim rulers of this country will outlaw other religions, as is the case in Saudi Arabia and many other countries they rule.

There is only one party which will halt, and reverse this demographic invasion: the British National Party.

Manchester – Policing Without Pride

On Saturday 23rd August, Manchester witnessed the largest ever gathering of gay police officers during the annual ‘gay pride’ march in the city centre. Officers appeared in public wearing sweatshirts adorned with the slogan ‘Police with Pride’. Regrettably, this bizarre spectacle was just another depressing milestone in the humiliating decline of Greater Manchester police from a once proud force, into little more than a showcase for politically-correct exhibitionism.

The BNP firmly believes that the state should not concern itself with what consenting adults, ‘gay’ or ‘straight’, do in the privacy of their own homes. Equally, state institutions such as the police or prison services should not demean themselves by encouraging their officers to flaunt their private predilections in a public parade. A police officer might be homosexual, but surely he or she should be obliged to present a dignified and smart public persona? Police officers would never be allowed to participate in a ‘white pride’ parade, so why should they be officially encouraged to take part in ‘Gay Pride’?

Unfortunately for Greater Manchester Police (GMP), the ‘Police with Pride’ spectacle coincided with the release of a report showing that GMP missed 13 of its 17 targets between April and June 2008. Burglary, drugs offences and serious violent crime were among the categories where GMP’s results were deemed ‘unacceptable. Greater Manchester Police Authority has also expressed ’serious concerns’ about the force’s performance.

Of course, most ordinary GMP police officers continue to serve their community conscientiously and impartially, just as they have always done. Indeed their ranks have included a fair number of outright heroes, such as DC Stephen Oake, who fell in the line of duty while trying to arrest a Muslim terrorist and was justly awarded a posthumous George Cross. Nonetheless, these fine rank-and-file officers have been increasingly let down by a cadre of senior commanders whose dedication to advancing their politically-correct careers seems to exceed their dedication to upholding law and order.

These senior officers notoriously included the late Chief Constable Todd, whose unexplained death on Mount Snowdon — assumed to be suicide — generated national publicity. Todd was popular with his officers, but the sordid press revelations which accompanied his death cast doubt on his fitness to be a police officer at all, let alone Chief Constable of Britain’s second largest force.

Towards the end of Todd’s tenure as Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police seemed to lose interest in ordinary policing, in favour of politically-motivated repression. The force adopted an increasingly anti-white stance, and pursued their policy of institutional discrimination against the BNP with an almost missionary zeal.

For example, in May 2007, with massive publicity, GMP launched a prolonged investigation into ludicrous allegations that off-duty police officers had been seen drinking with ‘BNP supporters’ outside a city centre pub on St George’s day. Predictably, the investigation failed to make any headway, but not before vast sums of taxpayers’ money had been wasted. (1)

Greater Manchester Police commanders seem to have a particular problem with Mancunians who dare to celebrate St George’s day. On St George’s day 2008, senior officers saw fit to authorise the baton-charging of exuberant St George’s day revellers in the city centre. The contrast with GMP’s kid glove treatment of overt criminality during Eid celebrations in the Rusholme district of the city has been widely noted.

Senator McCarthy himself would have been proud of Greater Manchester Police’s political witch-hunts. During the local election campaign of 2008, the Manchester Evening News ran a series of stories, seemingly sourced from Greater Manchester Police, describing GMP’s efforts to hound out officers suspected of harbouring political sympathy for the BNP. One officer who supposedly wore a union flag badge was ‘investigated’. Another officer who disclosed that he had purchased a copy of Voice of Freedom for research purposes was disciplined and transferred. The human right of free expression and free access to lawful newspapers obviously ceased to exist a long time ago in GMP! (2)

Most seriously of all, in the city of Manchester itself, Greater Manchester Police attempted to intervene directly in an election campaign. In the district of Blackley, where the BNP always commands more than a quarter of the vote, a senior police officer was quoted in a local newspaper warning about the BNP “latching onto” racism. This unprecedented intervention in party politics was made just three weeks before the local elections. (3)

BNP activists in Manchester suspect that the governing politburo of Greater Manchester Police might be very dismayed indeed if they grasped the true extent of BNP support among GMP officers in general, and sergeants and inspectors in particular. After all, it is these brave officers who deal day and night with the dreadful consequences of Manchester’s failed multicultural experiment, even as they are undermined and betrayed by their own senior commanders.

With Todd’s death, the people of Greater Manchester dared to hope for a return to traditional policing priorities, and a renewed commitment to upholding law and order. Sadly, it seems as if residents’ hopes have now been dashed. Todd’s replacement as the new Chief Constable of Greater Manchester is Peter Fahy, formerly Chief Constable of Cheshire and chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ so-called “Race & Diversity” unit.

Fahy’s main contribution to the national policing debate seems to be his call for overt discrimination against white police officers to be legalised. Fahy is reported to have said, “Clearly, if we are going to be held to account on particular targets based on representation, the only way we can meet that is through affirmative action … to take into account somebody’s ethnic background.” (4)

With all this in mind, it is no surprise that few Mancunians feel any sense of pride in their police, ‘gay’ or otherwise.

Labour Minister Repeats Disgusting Accusation That Whites Are Responsible for Islamic Terrorism in Britain

Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has repeated the disgustingly untrue allegation, first claimed by the so-called ‘intelligence’ service MI5, that Whites are to blame for Islamic terrorism in Britain.

A letter from Smith to Gordon Brown, leaked to the Daily Mail, contains the allegation that an economic downturn will “increase support for racism”  and that this “presents a threat as there is evidence that grievances based on experiencing racism is one of the factors that can lead to people becoming terrorists.”

In other words, if whites react badly to any of the following:

- car bombs in London’s city centre;

- bus bombs;

- London Underground bombs;

- mosques being built in every town and city;

- the Muslim religion being forced on white kids at school;

- anti-white ‘affirmative action’ government-sponsored programmes;

- countless anti-white racist attacks which have seen hundreds of innocents murdered;

- the supplantment of the the white British people by hordes of invaders;

then it is the whites’ fault that Muslims become terrorists, according to Smith and her MI5 genii.

Well, we beg to disagree.  We believe that there are two primary causes of terrorism in Britain:

1. Mass Third World immigration which has seen millions of people enter this country who do not seek to become British, but to convert this country into another Iran;

2. Biased British foreign policy in the Middle East which has caused this country, along with America and some other European nations, to become the scapegoats for all that is wrong in the Middle East.

The only solution to tackling the question of terrorism in Britain is, therefore, to halt and reverse Third World immigration, and to employ an unbiased foreign policy which puts British interests first.

We, and increasing numbers of the British public, reject with contempt the allegation that whites are responsible for all the world’s problems.

*Important to note was the Tory response to Smith’s letter. Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, said: “This rips the veil off the complacent comments we have been getting from Home Office ministers about how their performance is improving. It is clear that in almost all areas of the Home Office things are going to get worse.”

Readers will note how Green avoids mentioning the main allegation — that whites are somehow responsible for driving Muslims towards terrorism, and also avoids the whole issue of what is to be done to solve the problem.

Given that the Tories were, and still are, enthusiastic supporters of the illegal war in Iraq (one of the primary drivers for terrorism in Europe), it is not surprising that they shy away from addressing any real issue.

Were you thinking that the Tories would be any better? Think again. The BNP is the only party with clear cut solutions to the mess created by years of Tory and Labour misrule.

Slavery Lessons the Anti-White Establishment Will Not Teach Our Children

In the anti-white mania which has gripped modern Britain, the Atlantic Slave Trade is to be given wide prominence in schools from this term onwards — but the million Europeans who were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 will be ignored.

The untold story of the million whites enslaved by non-whites is covered in a new book by Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University. He developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.

Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said.

Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Davis’s new estimates appear in the book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan).

“Enslavement was a very real possibility for anyone who travelled in the Mediterranean, or who lived along the shores in places like Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and even as far north as England and Iceland.”

“Much of what has been written gives the impression that there were not many slaves and minimizes the impact that slavery had on Europe,” Davis said. “Most accounts only look at slavery in one place, or only for a short period of time. But when you take a broader, longer view, the massive scope of this slavery and its powerful impact become clear.”

Davis said it is useful to compare this Mediterranean slavery to the Atlantic slave trade that brought black Africans to the Americas. Over the course of four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade was much larger — about 10 to 12 million black Africans were brought to the Americas.

But from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas, according to Davis.

“One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature — that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true,” Davis said. “We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.”

During the time period Davis studied, it was religion and ethnicity, as much as race, that determined who became slaves.

Pirates (called corsairs) from cities along the Barbary Coast in north Africa — cities such as Tunis and Algiers — would raid ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as well as seaside villages to capture men, women and children.

The impact of these attacks was devastating — France, England, and Spain each lost thousands of ships, and long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants.

Although hundreds of thousands of Christian slaves were taken from Mediterranean countries, Davis noted, the effects of Muslim slave raids was felt much further away: it appears, for example, that through most of the 17th century the English lost at least 400 sailors a year to the slavers.

Even Americans were not immune. For example, one American slave reported that 130 other American seamen had been enslaved by the Algerians in the Mediterranean and Atlantic between 1785 and 1793.

Davis said the vast scope of slavery in North Africa has been ignored and minimized, in large part because it is on no one’s agenda to discuss what happened. “The enslavement of Europeans doesn’t fit the general theme of European world conquest and colonialism that is central to scholarship on the early modern era,” he said.

 Many of the countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later conquer and colonize the areas of North Africa where their citizens were once held as slaves. Maybe because of this history, Western scholars have thought of the Europeans primarily as “evil colonialists” and not as the victims they sometimes were, Davis said.

Davis said another reason that Mediterranean slavery has been ignored or minimized has been that there have not been good estimates of the total number of people enslaved. People of that time — both Europeans and the Barbary Coast slave owners — did not keep detailed, trustworthy records of the number of slaves. In contrast, there are extensive records that document the number of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves.

So Davis developed a new methodology to come up with reasonable estimates of the number of slaves along the Barbary Coast. Davis found the best records available indicating how many slaves were at a particular location at a single time. He then estimated how many new slaves it would take to replace slaves as they died, escaped or were ransomed.

“The only way I could come up with hard numbers is to turn the whole problem upside down — figure out how many slaves they would have to capture to maintain a certain level,” he said. “It is not the best way to make population estimates, but it is the only way with the limited records available.”

Putting together such sources of attrition as deaths, escapes, ransomings, and conversions, Davis calculated that about one-fourth of slaves had to be replaced each year to keep the slave population stable, as it apparently was between 1580 and 1680. That meant about 8,500 new slaves had to be captured each year. Overall, this suggests nearly a million slaves would have been taken captive during this period.

Using the same methodology, Davis has estimated as many as 475,000 additional slaves were taken in the previous and following centuries. The result is that between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.

Davis said his research into the treatment of these slaves suggests that, for most of them, their lives were every bit as difficult as that of slaves in America. “As far as daily living conditions, the Mediterranean slaves certainly didn’t have it better,” he said.

While African slaves did grueling labor on sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas, European Christian slaves were often worked just as hard and as lethally — in quarries, heavy construction, and above all rowing the corsair galleys themselves.

Davis said his findings suggest that this invisible slavery of European Christians deserves more attention from scholars.

“We have lost the sense of how large enslavement could loom for those who lived around the Mediterranean and the threat they were under,” he said. “Slaves were still slaves, whether they were black or white, and whether they suffered in America or North Africa.”

Islamic Colonisation

Most assuredly Anne Marie Keenan is not alone in her concern at the politically directed silence in the matter of ascendant Islam in Western society.

By far the most troubling evidence of Islamic colonisation of Britain, and indeed of Western Europe, is the demographic facts of disparate birth rates between indigenous British and Muslim women.

In the latest O.N.S. population report it is stated that ‘foreign’ women, on average, have 2.5 children each, rising to 3.9 for those from Bangladesh and to almost 5 for Pakistani women. Indigenous British women presently have an average of only 1.3 children. It is not difficult to agree with  Col. Muammar Gaddafi when he gave voice to the following, recently on Al Jazeera  TV, “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe, without guns, without swords, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent in three decades.”

In Britain the cities of Leicester and Birmingham are contesting candidates for Muslim majority populations within this decade.

The studied unwillingness to discuss the Islamification of Britain is sinister and well merits the concern of so many undisclosed Britons.

Scottish Office Press Officer

Taxpayers Cough up Another £1.3m to ‘Fight Islamic Extremism’ in London’s East End

Tower Hamlets council — which recently tried to force its non-Muslim members to observe the Ramadan fast — has been given £1.3 million of taxpayers’ money to “help tackle violent (Islamic) extremism being promoted in London’s East End.”

The £1.3 million has been allocated over the next three years to help Tower Hamlets council deal with extremism and get “disparate communities back into mainstream society.”

Now they are looking for proposals from voluntary and community groups to run projects to build “One Tower Hamlets” — an idea which has emerged from a series of public meetings which began last week.

The first consultation for the development of the East End’s new Community Plan for an integrated single community was held on Wednesday at the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel.

The authority is keen to jump on board the Government’s ‘Prevent’ agenda, which aims to promote cohesive communities and tackle violent extremism in invader-dominated inner city areas like the East End.

Community groups are being told by Tower Hamlets council how to bid for the cash if they can show how they would contribute to the five objectives laid out in the Government programme.

The five principles are: “Disrupting those who promote violent extremism; Backing vulnerable groups and individuals; Supporting ‘mainstream’ voices; Building community cohesion; and Addressing real grievances effectively” – whatever any of that actually means.

A Prevent Programme manager has been appointed, Assan Ali, to coordinate the campaign. We are sure Ali will be well compensated for this latest made-up fake ‘job’.

From Monday, Faith Schools are Legally Allowed to Discriminate on Basis of Religion

When the new school term starts on Monday, faith based schools — even those funded by the state — will be legally allowed to discriminate against students and staff based on their religion.

This means that a Muslim school will legally be allowed to give employment preference to Muslims; Jewish schools will be allowed to give preference to Jews, and Christian schools will be allowed to give preference to Christians. So much for the vaunted ‘integrated society’ proposed by the Labour/Tory mass immigration con-trick.

In some schools this will expand to include the headteacher while in others this would apply to non-teaching jobs, such as classroom assistants and cooks.

In 2006 faith schools were handed new powers to discriminate when Lord Adonis, the schools minister, brought forward an amendment to the education bill allowing them to favour members of the same religion when choosing support staff.

Shortly afterwards the education secretary, Alan Johnson, said he would no longer try to force faith schools to accept up to a quarter of their pupils from other faiths or with no religion.

Earlier this year the National Union of Teachers unveiled plans to rival faith schools, proposing that all schools should become practising multi-faith institutions.

Headteachers would bring in imams, rabbis and priests to instruct religious pupils as part of the curriculum in an attempt to satisfy parental demand for religion in schools.

Apocalypse?

It is the worst case scenario anyone can possibly imagine.

The extraction and processing of the finite fuels, oil and gas, are at the root of our industrialised and technological advanced society. Take the cheap oil and gas away and everything that is built on the availability of cheap, unlimited fuel collapses. Our complex, highly structured, regimented society depends ever more on the use of technology on complex logistics to ship goods around the world to meet consumer demands. Take away the power for that new technology and the world falls apart. What can we expect when we can no longer afford oil, when we can no longer run natural gas burning power stations, when the wheels of the UK economy literally grind to a halt.

Stranded

90% of all today’s transportation systems depend on oil. There is no other commodity which could replace oil (in the form of petrol or diesel) as a fuel to drive the millions of cars, freight vehicles and trains on Britain’s roads and railtracks. In fact the very roads themselves actually come from oil. 26 million tonnes of asphalt were produced in the UK in 1998 for use on British roads. Asphalt is not employed to make all road surfaces look dark grey but has been widely adopted as it is easily laid and rolled to give a smooth surface, enables easy drainage/run off, minimising skid risks, acts as a noise dampener and allows for coloured paints to be applied as road markings. No oil - no asphalt; no asphalt - no smooth water-proof road surfaces.

Perhaps more importantly aviation cannot be fuelled by any other source. Given the time and the money electric trains could replace all the diesel fleet of trains, given the time and money electric trams could replace conventional diesel driven buses, but no commercial aeroplane can possibly be run on any alternative fuel. So as oil becomes more expensive, budget airlines will cease to exist. Those two foreign holidays so many Britons consider as their “right” will become much more expensive.

Shipping all that food, all those electronic consumer goods from Korea and Taiwan, those cheap T-shirts and toys from China depends on oil. While shipping is far less energy consuming than aviation, those giant container ships are diesel and fuel oil guzzlers. Without a cheap supply of diesel and marine fuel oil Johnny doesn’t get his latest animated piece of plastic at Christmas but then millions of food aid recipients in the Third World will literally go without their daily bread and butter.

How will you get to work? In fact will you have a job to get to? What happens when there is a fire in your home, office, factory? Will the local authority have the money to put fuel in the tanks of the fire tenders, will the health board have the money to pay the exorbitant cost of what small amount of diesel or unleaded to fill up the tanks of the ambulances, the GP’s cars and the motorbikes of the paramedics? Will the police arrive in time to catch the burglars who have broken into your house while you were asleep? It is not like the “old days” when a patrol car could be dispatched but in a world where a gallon of petrol costs more than a weekly wage, the constables have a fair distance to walk or cycle from the station.

Famine

Every nation on the planet benefits from the advances made in dramatically boosting crop yields. Wheat and barley harvests in East Anglia are now nearly double what they were 50 years ago. Western nations have a food surplus which are used to either trade with other nations or given away to the starving of Africa, parts of Asia and Latin America. While some increase in crop yield can be attributed to selective breeding and fluctuations in climate, most of the increase in crop yield has arisen from the use of oil! Oil is not of course used directly on crops but pesticides are and many pesticides are derived from the processing of crude oil. Those pesticides are sprayed from booms attached to tractors and tractors use diesel which comes from the processing of crude oil.

The other major input in the crop production process is artificial fertiliser. This is made from ammonia which in turn comes from petroleum or natural gas. This artificial fertiliser is applied to Britain’s fields using the same diesel burning tractors mentioned above.

The bags of fertiliser and the chemical drums of pesticides are likely to be made of plastic and again plastic packaging needs oil.

The UK remains one of the leading chemical producing countries and exports millions of tonnes of both fertiliser and pesticide around the world - aboard diesel driven ships!

Away from the farm, the contents of the typical British/American/Western European larder are likely to have been harvested, distributed, processed, packaged and redistributed through supply chains of wholesalers, supermarkets and delivered to one’s nearest retailer by gas guzzling vans, artics or train. Keeping those perishable items chilled requires expensive refrigeration. Refrigeration units are energy demanding pieces of kit and depend upon oil or gas to generate the electricity to power them. What’s more the source of the refrigerant; the chemical mixture that is pumped around and around the coils in the refrigeration kit, is also derived from either oil or gas.

Without oil there would be considerably less inorganic fertiliser production, almost no pesticide production and a radical change in the distribution of those types of fertiliser and pesticide that are not dependent on crude oil. It means an end to cheap processed foods, an end to apples being shipped in from Chile and South Africa during a British winter, an end to Egyptian strawberries being available for Christmas desserts.

More significantly it means a drop in crop yields, which will lead to higher food prices in the west and less food aid to donate to the Third World.

Poor

The world’s wealth in the 20th century and opening years of the 21st century has been created by debt. A business with a good idea and which could show growth would seek a loan from a bank. That the bank never had the cash to lend to the customer but merely extended credit to the customer is not the point. The customer could get the credit needed to buy the equipment, rent the factiry unit, pay his wages and as long as his sales grew he was happy, the banks were happy, the staff were happy and his own customers were happy. But when growth stops and show no signs of recovering, the banks pull the credit, the customer cannot pay his suppliers, pay his rent, pay his wages and his business suffers. A simplistic overview but it does show that in modern economics growth is needed for businesses to survive. It should not have to be like that. After all we can all think of the self-employed window cleaner who does say 20 houses a day at £5 a time and takes £100 in cash a day. He cannot grow, he might have to work the extra hour or take someone else on to assist but he makes a reasonable living from doing what he does. That is human scale economics. The same applies to most self-employed people, small businesses and others who do not need to resort to the banks for credit. The big businesses need growth to satisfy firstly the big banks and secondly the other element in this the instituional investors, speculators, pension funds and insurance funds.

War

President Bush lies when he says he has sent teenage recruits from Iowa and Idaho to Iraq in order to create a safe democratic country now devoid of the tyranny of Dictator Saddam Hussein. Bush is not planning a war with Iran just so that the home of the once great Persian Empire will embrace American style democracy. Bush’s Troops do not continue to occupy Afghanistan just so the people there can grow opium poppies without being troubled by the Taliban. These three countries are key players in the oil based geo-political landscape.

“We now have the second largest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia,” Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh announced last July (2004).

He said that discoveries in the country’s south western deserts showed the Islamic Republic sitting on 132 billion barrels of proven reserves, a jump of 17 billion barrels.

BP puts Iraq in 3rd place for proven crude reserves with 115 billion barrels.

America is currently blackmailing nations to support its continued occupation of Iraq. Non American troops are being dispatched to the troubled region in exchange for oil deals.

Afghanistan has very little oil, it has some gas worth having but its great wealth lies in its strategic position, capable of carrying a much debated pipeline from central Asia to the Indian Ocean via Pakistan. America’s foreign policy does seem to indicate that the Whitehouse knows fine well about “Peak Oil” and that American troops are being deployed to safeguard the world’s oilfields. China’s current demand of 7 million barrels of crude a day, rising to 8 million barrels a day by the end of the decade is likely to spark off hostilities with competitive countries, principally America. Tensions are rising in Nigeria and noises are coming from the Oval Office about fighting the war on terrorism in the region.

Strange is it not that the places where “terrorism” abounds are precisely those places which have bountiful amounts of crude! Perhaps Uncle Sam will descend on Africa’s largest oilfields to protect the Nigerian infrastructure from “terrorism”. America is facing a sustained backlash from angry Muslims in Iraq. It will likewise face the same challenge in the more populous Iran and if it tries to take on the emerging superpower of China the backlash might lead to full scale military activity.

When the smaller poorer nations of the world cannot get their hands on the black stuff to help feed, clothe, transport and employ their own burgeoning populations are they going to wait for aid to come, wait for outside assistance and hope the price of crude falls once more, are they going to remain quiet and just on with things or are they going to fight their neighbours to seize whatever energy resources it can?

Pestilence

We quite rightly place great pride in the advances in medical science in the past 50 years. The risk of catching a deadly disease in a dirty hospital aside, which is more a political issue than a health issue, in the UK we have greater longevity, are less likely to succumb to the diseases that plagued our grandparents and can rely on our medical services to rescue us, treat us and give us all the medicines money can buy to prolong our active lives. How do you keep the donor organs at the right temperature? How do you power the magnetic scanners which are used to detect tumours, keep an eye on growing babes in the womb?

And what of those petrochemically derived pills and medicines, the analgesics, antihistamines, antibiotics, antibacterials, sedatives, tranquillisers and those plastics in all disposables used for maintaining sterile conditions; specialised plastics used in heart valves; common items such as isopropanol (rubbing alcohol); polyethylene and poly-vinyl acetate used in tubing, sheeting, splints, prostheses, blood bags, disposable syringes and catheters?

We take our water supplies for granted. Fresh clean potable water comes out of the tap whenever we ask for it. An awful lot of oil went into getting that water to the tap. Reservoirs need to be maintained, pumps need electricity, the water treatment works need a lot of electricity, to get the water in the first place needs concrete pipes, concrete is manfacutred using a lot of oil. The pipes have to be delivered by truck to the building sites, the trenches are dug using oil fuelled diggers and so it goes on. Water isn’t just for drinking. It is used to flush the loos in milions of homes, offices, schools and hospitals. Unflushed human waste is pretty unpleasant, not just the stench. Can you imagine the huge potential for the spread of some pretty nasty diseases; there is going to be a big demand for treatment of cholera, dysentry, gastro-enteritis, hepatitis.

Oh and the rats…with crumbling sewers and a lack of “fresh” human waste passing through the sewers yes the rats will have a wonderful time as the emerge from the sewers looking for the titbits that keep them breeding. Rats carry Weil’s disease which gives rise to flu like symptoms and leads to heart failure if not treated. It wasn’t the rats that caused the outbreaks of bubonic plague in the middle ages, it was the fleas that the rats carried, but when you are dying in agony as the lymph nodes in your neck, armpits and groin have swollen to the size of a walnut you will not be too interested in the method of carrying the disease! A good strong cat might be a useful pet and possible life-saver!

Without oil we all go back to a time of greater hardships; uncontainable epidemics, hospitals which cannot be heated or air conditioned, no rescue helicopters or airlifts, no mass produced vaccines or painkillers. Death comes closer to those without oil. How are we going to cope?

Vulnerable

The entire complex centralised societies of the west are wholly dependent on cheap fuel. Those surveillance cameras on every High Street, inside every rail station and public building are there to help deter criminals, make commuters and everyday shoppers feel safe and in the worst case scenario, if someone is attacked, mugged or murdered then well there is the camera footage to help identify the culprit and provide evidence in any trial. A database of fingerprint images and DNA samples of hundreds of thousands of criminals exists, easily accessible by any authorised police officer. Well perhaps….

Apart from the token bobby pounding the beat (in pairs of course…21st century society is far too dangerous for a lone police officer to go out on patrol) those police cars - from the humble patrol Astra to the gas guzzling Range Rovers, the favoured vehicle of traffic cops, they need oil and lots of it. Starve a constabulary of petrol and diesel and how are the officers going to deal with the local teenage louts…..the corporate fraudsters…the drug barons whose fortunes will increase as society falls apart and the weak, lonely, the redundant, the business failures and atomised seek solace in bootleg alcohol and whatever mind numbing substances they can lay their hands on? Of course there is always the Army, but an army these days drives rather than marches, can a few score thousand professional soldiers keep the peace on British streets?

A mass attempt by the populace to storm a food distribution depot close to the M62 might be dealt with by a few hundred armed infantrymen, but if the scene is multiplied across two hundred depots in twenty counties and a further hundred High Streets and a score of coastal ports as desperate, genuinely desperate fathers, older brothers and husbands try and grab whatever food, medicines, drugs, alcohol for their crying, malnourished offspring siblings and family members. What if the working class storming the food distribution depots are the brothers, sisters, cousins of the twenty-something infantrymen armed with SA80s? Will the well trained British squaddie really fire on his neighbours, friends and family?

The cities will be dangerous places, conventional policing will be unable to contain the armed gangs who will control “their” areas. The wealthy can try and hide behind armoured gates and security systems, can establish their own armed gangs or buy protection from an armed gang. What of the rest of society? Even in today’s oil booming consumerist society there are no go areas for unarmed police officers, housing schemes who are in thrall to the local “Mr. Big” often a pimp, a drug dealer and fence. If the police are not there to help, just who is going to look after the law abiding residents? Do we take the law into our own hands or do we all become easy prey to the armed gangs of pimps, drug barons and organised crime rings?

The nights will of course be darker, the local councils will not be able to afford the cost of electricity to power street lamps. The nights will be quieter too, as millions of exhausts are silenced, lying rusting in driveways and gardens across the country. Fewer people will frequent the city centres, those that do risk assault, attack and even murder. Living in a city is a real health hazard in a world without oil.

Conclusion

A darker, hunger filled, more dangerous existence. That is one possible view of life after oil, but does it really have to be this bad? Could there be some upside, some silver lining on this particularly gloomy looking cloud?

It might be apocalyptic but it might just be a time of opportunity for those that are aware, those that are prepared and those that can adapt. Don’t have nightmares and see for yourself just what opportunities might open up.

 

“Muslim Gangs Have Turned Britain’s Oldest Park into No Go Zone”, Residents Claim

Muslim gangs have turned Derby’s historic Arboretum Park into a no-go zone for non-Muslims, according to local residents who have asked the BNP’s News Team to raise the issue that the commercial media refuse to touch.

There have been at least seven violent incidents in the park, which has the distinction of being Britain’s first public park, dating back to 1840. The majority of victims have been from the local white community, although one black and one Sikh have also been attacked.

Police are now trying to get ‘community’ leaders together to stop it becoming a no-go zone, according to a local newspaper.

Bizarrely, the park, whose adjoining councillors are all Pakistani in origin, was recently given a national Green Flag safety award. Crime victims are furious at the award, which flies in the face of the reality of the situation, and which led to a letter writer in the local newspaper alleging that someone must have been bribed to make the award.

Chris Jordan, 64, was the victim of a racial assault by a gang of what was described as Pakistani youths on June 9^th. He was kicked and spat upon by the gang.

On June 4, an 18-year-old Derby man was assaulted in what police said was a racially-aggravated attack. The white man was punched to the ground by an Asian youth and stamped on. Police say that the attacker also used ‘racist language’ during the unprovoked assault.

On July 19, Joe Ford, 16 (pictured), sustained a broken leg and facial injuries after being attacked by a gang of Muslim ‘youths’ in the park. He said he and a friend were approached by the group who told them “get off our park” before launching the attack.

He said: “They hit me a couple of times and then someone hit me on the back of my leg with a metal bar that put me straight down. They then started kicking me. I managed to hobble home with the help of my friend but then I had to go to the hospital. I won’t walk through the park again.”

On 28 July, a 53-year-old man was kicked in the back and stomach during an assault by two Pakistani teenagers as he walked through Arboretum Park.

On 21st August, a group of seven young schoolgirls were mugged in the park. A bicycle and mobile phone were taken from two of the group.

The Arboretum was Britain’s first public park and was the model for New York’s Central Park. A major revamp was given the go-ahead in 2003 after the council won a £5.6m National Lottery grant. The funding included £4.2m for entrances, a community building with a cafe, CCTV cameras, sports changing rooms and the refurbishment of several listed buildings. A further £1.4m went towards employing rangers to look after the grounds and other maintenance costs.

The Civic Trust, which organises the Green Flag Award, said that while it could not guarantee award-winning parks would not suffer crime, it said it judged the parks on what they did to try to make them safe.

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