This yuletide we have a lot to pray over. Over 90 percent of Americans profess to be Christians in varying modes, but heaven doesn’t seem to be hearing from us. Islam is grabbing all the headlines and converting adherents faster than you can say Allah. Catholics and Protestants — and even Jews — are more concerned with being sensitive than they are their own preservation. And Europe, from where 78 percent of us claim our Christian origins, is de facto Eurabia. As the observant columnist Mark Steyn puts in it in his new book America Alone, more babies are named Mohammed than William in the big cities of Europe.
Perhaps Christmas with a vengeance in America is a proper theme for 2006 as it will be clear quite soon that we are the last stronghold against the rising tide of Islam in what we used to call the “civilized world.” The reason, as stated in this column ad seriatim, is the big lie that we are over-populated. Western Europe, basking since 1945 in a moronic state of political self-indulgence — security provided by the US via NATO and the “atomic shield” — is slated for extinction.
The replacement birth rate is fixed at 2.1 births per couple. In each Western European country, the rate is far below, with Italy looking like the first to go to the trash bin of history. Simply stated, the bloated welfare economies and employee-centered business sector cannot sustain itself without new births to pay the cost. Already, most of the large cities are creeping up to a Muslim majority as these desperate nations import workers to pay the taxes to keep the aging boomers in the style they were promised.
Be thankful most Americans didn’t fall for the blather of Paul Ehrlich, author of the infamous book The Population Bomb. Written in 1968, it became the founding document of the environmental movement by predicting Armageddon by the year 2000 if we did not drastically reduce our birth rates. This fabricated tripe shows up today in public school textbooks and the mass media disguised as fact. The actual truth is, had America reduced its birth rates since 1968 — and had we not absorbed millions of legal and illegal Latino workers, we would be joining Europe in demographic apocalypse. And Europe is not alone. Japan will not be Japanese soon, Russia is committing societal suicide (a dangerous condition in an already dangerous country) and even China will begin its decline in the next 50 years.
And be thankful this Christmas the demographic clock is not ticking downward in the US. With a 2.1 birth rate, we’re OK until 2050. However, the world we live in will be drastically different. Our old sometimes friends and genetic cousins, the Europeans, will be withering away and learning to live under sharia. Steyn predicts that Russia will be selling or giving up under force huge swaths of its immense territory to China, while the occupants of our neighbor to the north will shrink into the wilderness. America will be alive but quite alone.
Notes from La-La Land
Marriott hotels demonstrate the new cultural politics of official sensitivity to anything and anyone while wielding a blunt instrument against others without a thought. If you are caught smoking in their lodgings, you are hit with a $250 fine that is applied to your credit card, conveniently on file at the front desk. In the name of sensitivity to an alleged constituency of “others,” certain groups are somehow open game to the cultural Nazis. Hitler banned smoking by the way.
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Porter Goss, former CIA director before the “re-engineering” that created the new Office of National Intelligence — headed by former State Department rising star John Negroponte — said that recently murdered Russian writer Anna Politkovskaya was the 211th journalist to be killed since Putin took over the country. Now it appears that Alexander Litvenenko, formerly of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) — which replaced the KGB, was investigating her murder when he was poisoned in a London sushi bar recently.
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This is no surprise to the attendees of the first Raleigh Spy Conference (www.raleighspyconference.com) held in 2003 where former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin told us that Putin was a very dangerous character. Kalugin certainly can testify to the environment of corruption and murder in Moscow. He had to flee to the US to escape retribution from Putin in 2001. Now an American citizen, Kalugin watches what he eats while he speaks out against his former underling in the old KGB.
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I.F. Stone, the pro-communist writer adored by the intellectual and journalistic community in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, is the subject of two new books, one a slanted hagiography, the other a selection of his “work,” which was actually Soviet propaganda. Via the Venona files, (recently declassified decrypts from Moscow to their American agents between 1942 and 1964) it is now demonstrated that Izzy worked for pay for the KGB and the GRU — although he did complain and quit once or twice: But not before regaling the association of urban newsweeklies in their first national meeting in Boston in 1979. Stone, it appears, was sent on a mission by his bosses in Moscow to propagandize the nascent publishers away from magazine content to advocacy journalism dedicated to bringing down America for its fascism, imperialism, racism and chauvinism. The useful idiots complied and changed their name to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. You can see the result in the larger cities and right here in the Triangle.
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Note that I have started a “blog” — of sorts. The idea is to provide commentary “Between Issues” since so much happens from one Metro to the next. As one of my sons pointed out: “It’s mercifully short.” I’ve weighed in on the recent elections and noted cultural cues from two new movies. If you have comments, send them to email@metronc.com.