Letter: Two Children Dead

Dear Editor

Quite a ruckus has been stirred up over the latest civilian killings in Afghanistan. Australian troops have been mentioned as possibly being involved in the incident. There will be the inevitable enquiry as to what happened. But will we be told the truth?

You can’t fight a war without there being causalities. WW2, Korea, and Vietnam saw many 100s of 1000s if not millions of civilians killed. We can all lament war and wish for peace but the only solution to Australian troops being involved in these incidents is to bring the troops home at once, and let the Afghanistan national government run their own war.

Australia is planning to disengage from the war by 2014 and obviously Aussie troops aren’t too keen on being a causality of this no- win-war, and if they shoot first and ask questions later; who can blame them.

Unfortunately, there will be other wars and more civilian AND military deaths. Until nation states revamp their foreign policies these incidents will continue to happen.

Jay Nauss,

Glen Aplin Qld.

Vale: Nick Maine

Your humble scribe only met Nick once, at the very last Inverell Forum.

But, like everyone in the nationalist scene, yours truly was regularly in receipt of Nick's news, information, rants, solicitations and, perhaps most importantly, his incisive, inciteful and occasionally obscene observations on "life, the universe, and everything".

Anyone with half a brain (and I'm sure Nick suspected that was all any of us had) knew that he was on borrowed time.  Indeed, he had been on borrowed time for many years.

Now, he is gone.

This author didn't know him well enough to call him a friend.  But Nick Maine was a true friend to all nationalists.  Many he never met, and many he never knew existed -- but we all knew him.

The emails were relentless, as were the continual calls to action and the ever-present sub-text: what the bloody hell are you lot doing about it?

Goodbye, Nick.

We will give the bastards hell, just like you told us to.

A Reply to Che Guevara

by Paul Rackemann: reflections on Che Guevara's pamphlet on the development of cadres, reprinted by the Sons of Kokoda, and distributed by the Australia First Party.

     One must remember that military men are in some respects different from men of peace, and the relationships within a Communist organisation are in some respects different from the relationships between free members of a voluntary organisation in a society that is not actually in the throes of armed conflict.
     Comrade Guevara appears to be looking down on his revolutionary group from above. He also assumes responsibility for an entire aspect of society that we can leave alone, i.e. economic production.
     As long as we allow the existence of a stable money system and do not interfere unnecessarily in the affairs of commercial firms, we can confidently expect them to provide for the economic wants of our community. That is one enormous group of cadres we shall not have to train.
     He blathers on about "errors" which are only to be expected when a bunch of soldiers, ignorant of the principles of economics, and equally ignorant of the particular technical knowledge of every industry which can only be known by those actively engaged in it, blithely take command and start issuing orders. He is also, of course, worried about the inevitable development of a class of officers or officials who, having acquired power and some degree of expertise, begin to settle into their positions and make themselves comfortable.
     From what I can recall, Trotsky blathered on about these sorts of "errors" as well.
     Che's romantic ideas about the development of cadres, in special schools mind you, fall down because he and his professors are all working from mistaken assumptions. He shows a childlike belief in the great modern god, Education, which will fail like all the other gods, because it focusses on doctrine and tries to fight reality.
     We as nationalists are not fighting the better aspect of human nature. We are certainly fighting the craven compulsion to conform to the corrupt doctrines of a treacherous ruling elite. We are not fighting the economic instincts of man, which lead to self-interested economic efforts and the existence of a range of large and small economic units specialising in various parts of the productive process. We may be fighting the political power of large economic units, which seek to create a homogenous, non-white market which they can exploit. We are certainly fighting the enormous industry of deception, which calls itself education and the media, and which ties large numbers of rather silly and dishonest people to a depraved doctrine, which they must pass on to get their wages.
     We may need to "develop cadres," as Che says, but we don't need to do it in the way he envisages. We mostly need to develop people with an immunity to the corrupt doctrines of the Establishment, an ability to think without being frightened by the programming so thoroughly inculcated by the scum in authority. We don't need to create superhumans, as Che thinks he does: we simply need to create free minds. Minds that are free will not willingly co-operate in their own destruction by the relatives of man.

Merry Christmas

Thank you all for your support and interest over the past year.  To every one of our readers, supporters and fellow nationalists in general, we wish you all a very merry Christmas, a safe holiday and a happy, healthy and productive 2013.  Let us all hope that this coming new year brings us closer to our goals and that, through our efforts, it will be a year that sees the continued growth of the nationalist message and further victories for our Party and our movement.

Book Review: Cannibal Capitalism

“Cannibal Capitalism”

By Michael C. Hill.

They used to say that people who used a lot of fancy words to say very little had “swallowed a dictionary.” Michael C. Hill seems to have swallowed the “Wall Street Journal.”

Michael C. Hill is, he tells us, the son of a bona fide rocket scientist, who worked at NASA on the space program. After sacrificing his marriage to his career, the elder Hill was put out of a job by the contraction of space exploration after the big excitement of the moon landings. Young Michael, like a lot of us, was determined not to repeat Dad’s mistakes.

He became a capitalist just in time to lose all his money in the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. Now he has written a book called “Cannibal Capitalism” to explain to us where we all went wrong.

There is not a word in the book that I have found to indicate that he is a Negro, but this is coyly revealed by a photograph on the inside back of the dust cover – the book is a hardback.

Michael apparently doesn’t know anything about what is called “fiat money” and the history of corrupt economics – they wouldn’t tell him that at college. He thinks he knows about “capitalism,” and having played the game according to the rules he was taught in college and lost, he has decided, of course, that the rules should be changed. Nobody told him that the rules had been changed way back in the year 1914, and that is when corruption entered the system.

Without going into the details of economic theory, it is certainly possible to argue that all the corrupt banking practices and laws that have been introduced since 1914 amount to an attempt by immensely wealthy families to hold onto their power. One can suspect the Windsors, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and the rest of them of having a hand in the unscrupulous banking laws and the bogus socialist political rhetoric which have helped to preserve the power of these ruling families by freezing people into the class into which they were born.

But Michael C. Hill has apparently never heard of any of this. He thinks the system is a machine that needs tinkering with, and having been to “college” and read all the manuals, he thinks he is just the boy to do the tinkering. He has managed to get a book on the shelves along with Nouriel Roubini and all the other supposed intellectuals who are busy explaining to us how they can tinker with the system better than the next tinkerer. One might almost think they were a bunch of out-of-work mechanics.

In our system, we are supposed to have freedom of speech and publication, so it isn’t always possible to keep people from speaking or writing truth. What you can do, if you are a corrupt Establishment, is to make sure that the words of truth are drowned in an ocean of falsehoods. That is the real function of books like this one by Michael C. Hill, the good Negro, son of another good Negro, both of whom played by whitey’s rules and lost.

Movie Review: Inside Job

Inside Job is a documentary movie dealing with the Subprime Crisis and the following Global Financial Crisis. This movie was produced written and directed by Charles Ferguson with Sony Pictures 2011 and is narrated by Matt Damon.

Running for approximately 2 hours, Inside Job begins with a short examination of financial and political events in Iceland prior to the meltdown. It continues with a thorough examination of what occurred in especially the USA leading on to the eventual 2008 GFC ( Global Financial Crisis ).

The beauty of Inside Job is in its simplicity. It is not a movie exclusively for those well versed in finance and economics, it is presented at a level that most people, irrespective of their station in life will easily understand. The methods used build from one stage to the next and provided the viewer remains alert ( you can always replay individual scenes ) the rewards of new knowledge are without bounds.

Inside Job examines, the banks, the insurance companies, the financial trade, the stock exchanges, the politicians, the academics and the regulators and from this writers point of view at least, finds them all wanting. Inside Job digs up the real issues and puts the hard questions to the right people, some of whom are very noticeable by their unavailability to answer questions and some by the way in which they responded to fair questions. Get the story on what really happened.

The final message of Inside Job is a concerning one. It proposes that despite the promises of politicians, especially the US President, necessary change is not apparent and it infers that the whole exercise could be repeated.

If you don’t think that you could possibly understand the details of the financial and banking world, think again. Get a hold of Inside Job and treat yourself to some raw information that exposes the decision makers and the benefactors. You won’t regret it. Highly Recommended.

Almost Compulsory Viewing.

Inside Job can be rented from most Video outlets and it is available for purchase online.

David Penberthy and his smears – the Greens, the September 11 truthers and me

Dr. Jim Saleam


Editor's note: the following item was received a few weeks ago and is still entirely relevant.  It is published as received, however readers need to take into account references therein to the timing of the events described which are relative to the time the article was written and not to the date of publication.  The delay in publication is entirely the fault of your humble editor!

David Penberthy, scribbler at the Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail has over the last couple of weeks taken my name in vain in a newspapers’ war against the NSW Greens Senator, Lee Rhiannon.

The story was that Senator Rhiannon met with Mr. John Bursill, a man who questions the official story and seeks ‘the truth’ about the September 2001 Twin Towers attacks in New York. It was then said that I had previously invited Mr. Bursill to address the Sydney Forum (variously described as a creation of the Australia First Party and an assembly of ‘far right activists’). It was then the smear that there is some ‘link’ between myself and Senator Rhiannon and she fails some credibility test via a ‘link’ with me. I could also say I might fail a credibility test via a link with her.

I note this horse manure has appeared also in The Australian newspaper over the last two weeks also. Why it should be that the papers have launched a broadside at Rhiannon I cannot say, but the truth around David Penberthy smells.

On September 23 the following appeared under Penberthy’s pen:

Lee Rhiannon: She can’t handle the truth(ers)

“Despite her left-wing convictions, Rhiannon went ahead and held a meeting with Bursill at the same time he had given an address to another meeting of right-wing extremists to push his truther views. The meeting was called the Sydney Forum and was a gathering of Far Right activists organised by a lapsed Nazi called Jim Saleam, the former head of the cheerily named National Socialist Party. “

Lovely. Unfortunately for Penberthy, I have never been the “former head” of the “cheerily named” National Socialist Party, a group which did exist in Australia, but which disappeared in 1975. I have observed that other journalists have insisted since that it does exist, but other than citing a few ex-agents of the discredited one-time Special Branch police making such claims, no evidence has really been produced. Of course, the journalists at issue knew whom they were quoting, which raises serious questions, all made worse because it has sometimes been me who has told them of this fact – but let us not stray too far from peeling back Penberthy’s falsity. Raising too many points about why journalists simply lie would be a book.

Penberthy’s bile prompted Senator Rhiannon to write in the Sunday Mail (September 30)

Greens senator says column incorrect:

David Penberthy (SM, September 23) made a serious mistake when he claimed that I attended and spoke at "a gathering of Far Right activists organised by a lapsed Nazi called Jim Saleam, the former head of the cheerily named National Socialist Party." This is false.

I have acknowledged I met with "truther", John Bursill. The Australian newspaper asserted that this person may have attended a meeting of the Sydney Forum. To then conclude that I attended this event or was associated with it is ludicrous.
- Lee Rhiannon, Australian Greens Senator for NSW

I have clashed with Penberthy before when he was editor at the Sydney Daily Telegraph, after I was smeared by a gutless ‘anti racist’ called Joe Hildebrand. I lost two cases against Hildebrand at the Press Council and won another, prompting Penberthy to berate me for taking cases there anyway. Of course, at the Press Council, wins and losses don’t mean too much as ‘truth’ ain’t really the issue there. Nonetheless, complaints can serve a useful purpose, although the best defence against journalist liars is never to talk to them at all.

But the hot story about this smear-monger goes back in time to Adelaide University in the 1980’s. Back then, Penberthy was a Trotskyite communist, a position from which he lapsed (sic) in the pursuit of the status and money a mainstream job surely holds. The story goes that either Penberthy personally, but certainly his closest friends, challenged violently two members of the nationalist organisation, Nation Action, which I then co-directed. Sadly, the Trotskyite gang picked the wrong two blokes and their defence against assault left bloodied noses and bruises.

Do I detect the smell of a journalist’s revenge? Is it that Penberthy can never resist a chance to tell some tall tale about me?

As nationalist politics develops in Queensland under the auspices of the Australia first Party, I have little doubt that David Penberthy will be there, his computer keyboard burning with his own ‘truth’ and his pen dripped in toilet water.