"REPARATIONS" FOR SLAVERY -- A SOLUTION

A current Leftist stunt is the claim that American blacks should receive "reparations" for the harm that their ancestors experienced as a result of slavery. This does of course go against a most basic principle of natural justice -- that people are not liable for the deeds of others -- even if those others happen to be our grandparents.

Let us however assume that this case is exceptional and that a doctrine of inherited guilt has to be accepted on this occasion. So who is guilty? Our ancestors who bought the slaves or the black chieftans who sold them to the slave traders? I think that the black chieftans are obviously at least as guilty as the white buyers and that that the guilt is therefore as much black guilt as white guilt.

Nigeria is the modern descendant of some of the early black nations that sold the slaves and Nigeria has lots of oil revenue so I propose that the reparations be shared by the descendants of both guilty parties: The US government and the Nigerian government. I am sure that if the US government offered to match dollar for dollar whatever the Nigerian government offered by way of reparations, the whole matter could be resolved very cheaply.

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PROTECTIONISM

Government "protection" of an industry normally ruins the industry concerned in the long run. China hand gives a good example of the process from modern China.

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KOREAN MYSTERY SOLVED

North Korea is something of a mystery in the modern world. How come it survives (if surviving is the word for it) in what seems like a still pure Stalinist state? The other three notable surviving "Communist" regimes (Cuba, Vietnam and China) have had to embrace capitalism in various ways. How come North Korea is the only standout?

Hawaiian blogger, Marc Miyake has just sent me an email that serves to explain it all. Marc has an amazing grasp of Asian languages and one of them is Korean! He writes that North Korea's

"brand of Leftism is extremely nationalistic. I am a linguist who has published and presented papers on Korean, and I regularly read the North Korean press, in both the original Korean and its official English translation. My blog cites countless examples of North Korean propaganda in translations by me and their own translators. Here's a quick example:

"Editorial: The Number One Ideology of the Korean Race Is the Driving Force to Construct a Strong, Flourishing Great Nation of Socialism" [my translation]

The number of times the phrase "Korean race" or the like appears in their writings is nauseating. I almost feel like saying "koreanisches Volk" instead.

In many ways North Korea and, to a lesser extent, South Korea are intellectual heirs of Japanese Fascism, which in turn was influenced by Nazism. A lot of North Korean madness seems to be repackaged Imperial Japanese rubbish: e.g., the cults of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il resemble Koreanized versions of the Japanese emperor cult forced upon Koreans prior to 1945."

So that is it! North Korea has never really been Communist. It has always been Fascist: It has always combined Leftism with nationalism. And that is a magic mix when it comes to getting popular support (or at least popular acquiescence) -- as Hitler and Mussolini showed only too well. Communism crumbled in most of the world because in the end virtually none of its citizens believed in it any more. But nationalism is much more emotionally involving than Communism so it seems probable that many North Koreans still believe in "Juche" -- hence the survival of the regime.

Marc also notes that belief in their racial greatness is also widespread in both South Korea and Japan -- in a way that would be generally regarded as obnoxious in any European country. So Asia is a fertile ground for Fascism. Fortunately, however, both Japan and South Korea have recently seen opposition parties come to power through democratic elections so at least those countries seem to have passed the worst of their Fascist stages.

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MUSLIM BARBARISM

A short and simple site here about Islam. It is written not by Christians but by Zoroastrians -- the still-surviving remnant of the pre-Islamic Iranian religion. I have counted Zoroastrians among my friends for many years and have long noted that it takes a Zoroastrian to REALLY take the piss out of Islam. Be warned, however, the site contains a really disgusting photo that summarizes Islam better than any words could.

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MONARCHY & ANARCHY

Dave Trowbridge of the �Redwood Dragon� is a bit unusual: He describes himself as both a monarchist and an anarchist. I am a bit that way myself. Anyway he is one of those who have linked to my recent post about modern China being more Fascist than Commmunist so he is obviously a good egg!

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FATAL WOMEN

A few bloggers have noted with glee that even the idiotic Maureen Dowd seems to have come to her senses a bit after her recent trip to Saudi Arabia. I liked this bit:

�Saudi Arabia is a thicket of unfathomable extremes. Lingerie shops abound, even though female sexuality is considered so threatening that the mere sight of a woman's ankle will cause civilisation to crumble. As one cleric put it, women can become "the most dangerous weapon of destruction" for Islamic nations�

I suppose one really should feel sorrry for anyone as messed-up as these Muslims seem to be. Perhaps they suspect that we feel sorry for them and that is why they hate us.

In historical terms, modern Western civilization is more Hellenistic than Hebraic -- and that takes us a long way away from Islam.

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