Iceland's tragic experience in the face of predatory globalists should underscore the theme that we live in a world filled with hidden as well as open dangers. If you possess anything that is good and positive, chances are there are people somewhere in the world with a predatory or parasitic frame of mind who want to steal it away from you. No one can afford to be "happy go lucky" and live in a "fools paradise" any more. "Naïveté" can easily lead to racial, ethnic, and national suicide.
Anyone who is incapable of consciously defining and defend their strengths from a nationalist viewpoint will likely eventually see these things get stolen out from underneath them. This includes such intangibles as indigenous ethnicity, culture, religion, and national sovereignty. As I explain on my "Reconciling Libertarianism vs. Nationalism" web page, one requires genuine forms of nationalism in order to preserve genuine forms of libertarianism.
Adding complexity to this situation is the fact that old proverb "the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend" still applies.
On the one hand, anarcho-libertarians like Max Keiser have performed a valuable service to Icelanders by exposing the crooked financial operations of major financiers in the City of London and New York. Unfortunately, individuals like Kaiser are also capable of offering advice that would be a total disaster for the Icelandic people from a long term nationalist perspective. If a person is not firmly grounded in nationalist principles, he may blindly fall for such misdirection.
In his 21 May 2010, 4th hour interview at 11 min, 25 sec, with Alex Jones, Max Keiser commented:

Max Keiser: ...What is happening Iceland, you know we made a film in Iceland about the collapse of the krona, the collapse of the Icelandic economy, and I have gotten pretty friendly with a lot of the legislators up in Iceland. I am proposing to them that they introduce some new economic citizenship so that anyone in the world who wants to escape, for example a U.S. citizen who wants to escape the tyranny of the U.S., can buy a passport for Iceland. And to make it competitive, so it only costs $20,000. Right now there are only two territories or countries that offer economic citzenship: Nevis St. Kitts and Dominica. They are both in the Bahamas. They cost $200,000 and $75,000 respectively. I am saying that Iceland, to be competitive, they can offer economic citizenship for $20,000 and if they could get 200,000 or half a million citizens from the U.S. to renounce U.S. citizenship and move to Iceland, they could raise ten billion dollars immediately to help recapitalize their country, and they are talking about rewriting their constitution in ways that will favor free speech and freedom of the press. Anyone who is interested in freedom of the press would immediately want to immigrate to Iceland. So you have these pockets of resistance and pockets of strength from the work that you are doing directly and the work I have been doing and now these people are starting to respond, because global insurrection against the banking occupation is on!

I shudder to think what may happen if 340,000 New York Jews were to buy citizenship in Iceland, and then use their new majority to take over Iceland's Parliament and turn formerly "Nordic" Iceland into a "New Jerusalem," "New Babylon," or even a "New Neanderthaldom."
For starters, we could expect a total change in Iceland's political and social institutions. As I explain in my discussion of Jewish criminal totalitarian psychopathology in my mutualism vs. parasitism article, the real Israel is not a "democracy," but rather a paranoid, belligerant, Orwellian police state run by Mossad criminal gangsters. One of the basic rules of Right Wing 101 is that as a particular people rises in power, they tend to increasingly imprint their own characteristics on the surrounding environment, and we could expect no less from a Jewish takeover.
We could reasonable expect that Iceland would become "Israelized" and its indigenous Nordic population would become "West Banked" and "Gazad" just like what has happened to Christian and Muslim Palestinians who once formed the majority in Palestine. See, for example, the circa 1900 cartoon titled "The New Jerusalem -- formerly New York" that appears in the article "Revenge of the Neanderthal" by Willis Carto, Barnes Review, May/June 2010, which describes the late 19th century Jewish invasion of New York City that completely altered the political and social institutions of that city. See also the illustration of butchered Palestinian children in Michael Collins Piper's article "Teaching Religious Hatred." I have provided both illustrations below.
We could also reasonably expect that some day little blond-haired and blue-eyed Icelandic children will get on the extermination, organ theft, Mossad-related snuff porn, global pedophile ring, Child "Protective" Services "legalized" kidnapping, or even ritual sacrifice target lists in Iceland just like Muslim and Christian children who have been targeted by Jews for years in Palestine.

Coming to Iceland soon with "economic citizenship"? The article "Revenge of the Neanderthal," by Willis Carto, Barnes Review May/June 2010 has the following caption: "This circa 1900 illustration from the popular Judge Magazine is entitled `The New Jerusalem -- formerly New York' and portrays the growing perception at the time that Jewish people were literally invading the city in waves of late 19th Century and early 20th Century immigration by Jews, overwhelmingly from Eastern Europe, and virtually establishing a stranglehold on business, finance, and social affairs in that teeming metropolis."

Having already created a mess in America, to include subverting the constitutional form of government created by its WASP founders, we could expect New York Jews who immigrate to Iceland to take everything that is currently positive about Iceland, to include its stable and productive Nordic culture and its Nordic libertarian traditions, and totally mangle all these things in the exact same manner that they have already fouled up the original democratic institutions of America's declining WASP population.
In addition, everywhere the Jews have gone in history, they have shown an amazing tropism towards mixing up their host countries on a racial and ethnic level. Jews invited Moors into Christian Spain, and opened up the floodgates of Third World immigration into America with immigration law changes in the mid-1960's. Thanks to the Jewish influence in America, they have played a key role in reducing the white population from 90% to less than 70% today. Whites are still rapidly declining, in fact, within a few years, the majority of new births in America will be nonwhite, and in about 20 years, given present trends, America will be majority nonwhite. Hence, once Jews buy up enough control in Iceland to set the tone for Icelandic society, we can expect them to change immigration policies to flood Iceland from every corner of the planet with every form of "wretched refuse" (in the words of the Zionist-Marxist author Emma Lazarus, in her famous poem "The New Collosus" about America's Statue of Liberty).
In time, Nordic peoples would be reduced to less than 20% of the total population in Iceland, just like the way WASPs and Nordics have been reduced from over 60% of the white population to less than 20% in America the last one hundred and fifty years.
Nordic Icelanders would soon find themselves servants in the house of their ancestors, being "last hired and first fired." Any native Icelanders who openly protest the alien invasion will very likely find themselves getting summarily fired from their jobs or even put through thought crime investigations for the content of private conversations.
What Icelander with even the slightest shred of patriotism and loyalty to Nordic heritage would allow any of this to be inflicted upon future generations in return for up front $10 billion "economic citizenship" payments?
Max Keiser reinforced my worst my fears in his 3rd hour interview (MP3 link Here) with Alex Jones on 16 Aug 2010, beginning at 8 minutes, 20 seconds:

Alex Jones: Max Keiser is our guest for the remainder of the hour. We are going to get into the economy and all the economic news that is coming in. Max, in Atlanta Georgia and other cities we have seen people getting into fights, riots breaking out over food stamps. We have now got 42 million Americans -- just a few months ago it was 40 million on food stamps -- the equivalent of the digital soup lines. We see major police departments laying off more than half of their police officers and saying those that are left will only generate revenue for the state. Will not help people who are being burglarized or having their cars stolen. This is a road warrior scenario. The taxes are going up, the services are being removed like Argentina or some other country that has been looted by these people. These global banks are offshore. They tried to go into Europe in the last six months and loot that. Merkel kicked them out, calling them criminal. So they have come back towards the dollar. There is some talk of China imploding, and a lot of manipulation happening there. So break down this currency war, who is running it, and where you see it going.
Max Keiser: Well, you know, here is how I am making money on it. In other words I am not thinking about saving anybody in America. Forget them. They are lost. They won't save themselves. So here is how I am playing it. I am buying Corrections Corp. of America. Trades on the New York Stock Exchange. They have got a deal with ICE. You know ICE goes down there and rounds up people and throws them in jail. They have a deal with ICE. They pay them 11 million dollars a month. So Correction Corp of America is paying ICE 11 million dollars a month to go round up people to put them in prison because prisons are a hugely profitable business. You own the prisons, you own the restaurants, you own the hotels. CCA, Corrections Corp of America. So bring it on! All those stupid people who are allowing their government to arrest them and throw them in jail and treat them like slaves and nincompoops, it is going to make money for CCA. I'm passive Alex. I am not going to say anything to help anybody there any more because I am making money like the rest of the world. 95% of the world's population is not American. They are looking at America now as a place to zap money out, to make money. It is not a beacon of democracy. It is not worth saving. It is just a place to make a few extra bucks and then drop it, like a load of garbage on the street.
Jones: Well Max, let me stop you. I know you are being somewhat sarcastic. You normally talk about doing things with stocks to be moral like going out and trying to drive down the price of Coca Cola. If everybody gets this casino, Gulag attitude, and give in to the evil--
Keiser: Look at the story -- look at the story out of the UK. The NHS is launching a pill with a patch. You swallow the pill, and then when your body through the patch senses that the pill is wearing off it sends a text email to you to take another pill. Now if that is not the casino Gulag, we are going to have what we call "chip and pill," the high tech tablets that will text you when it is time to take another dose. So here you have all these people in America, no job, no wages, on food stamps, so here is a new pill that tells you when to give yourself another pill. So now you have all these neurotic, psychotic people with no jobs who are being dosed by themselves who are "texted" for the pills.
Jones: And now the media is proposing lithium in our water and vaccines that literally destroy neurons in the brain to make you docile. We are entering something worse than Soylent Green.

Just wait until Jews reduce Nordic people in Iceland to less than 20% of the population, and the country falls into further chaos from the influx of a hodge podge of Third World peoples and its conversion into a financially driven, Jewish-style casino society. Jews in Iceland will then try to make money off imprisoning Nordic Icelanders who dare to protest. They will also denounce Nordic Icelanders who get marginalized by this new system as "dumb schmucks" who get everything they deserve.
After Jews with ownership in pharmaceutical companies make even more money by adding toxic chemicals to drinking water, food, and vaccines, which not only help keep Icelanders passive but also further a global depopulation agenda, Jews will then start packing their bags in order to leave Iceland for some new victim country.
To paraphrase Keiser, we can expect Jews and other "economic citizens" to then say, "Iceland is not worth saving. It is just a place to make a few extra bucks and then drop it, like a load of garbage on the street."
A major reason why America is in such terrible shape today is because it allowed too many immigrants into this country with purely "economic citizenship" motivations in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. All these rent-seekers care about is money. They can care less about the moral, spiritual, cultural, racial, ethnic, or political welfare of the people they exploit as their hosts.
I have had considerable personal experience with high level individuals who have turned their backs on Nordic-related traditions that once laid the foundations for America in the 18th and 19th centuries. As one example, in 1990 I was put through a "thought crime" Board of Inquiry in America as a former Marine Corps officer based upon my concerns expressed in off duty, private conversations about illegal Third World immigration, Holocaustianity-related disinformation, and my interest in the revitalization of indigenous Nordic religion. Please see my1990 letter to defense lawyer Donald W. MacPherson, Esquire prior to a thought crime Board of Inquiry. The Board exonerated me, finding that virtually all the "findings of fact" of the investigative officer were proven wrong, as noted in a 1 Feb 1991 letter from my defense counsel U.S. Navy Capt. Charles Tucker. Nevertheless, the witch hunt hysteria put a chill in mine spine that persists to this day. Capt. Charles Tucker sent a letter to the convening authority prior to the Board of Inquiry which made the point that even if all the government charges were true, the government still did not have a case under the First Amendment.
More recently, Alex Jones has described how at certain schools in the American Southwest, American kids are prohibited from displaying the U.S. flag, for fear it may appear insensitive to illegal alien Mexican children, many of whom want to break off the Southwestern U.S. to form "Aztlan." In "Leaked Machete Script Reveals Race War Plot" Alex Jones even describes a movie filmed in Austin, Texas with millions of dollars of state government funding support that glorifies in the slaughter of white Americans by illegal alien Mexican immigrants.
We can expect that once Jews and other aliens reach a certain critical mass of influence in Iceland, it will become illegal to show the current Icelandic flag in various places. Jewish-controlled media in Iceland will brand this as some kind of expression of "racism," "anti-Semitism," or "nativism," just as Jewish-controlled media in America have already totally demonized the Confederate flag that was once part of the South Carolina state flag. Icelandic school children will also be told that if they show any reverence for Icelandic saga literature, or display any Viking era symbols, this could also be construed as unacceptable forms of "racism," "insensitivity," and "nativism" in the presence of the new alien majority. Please look at my Henrik Holappa archive web page, about the persecution of a young, idealistic Finnish nationalist for his opposition to the rape of Nordic Finnish girls by African immigrants, and also please note the "Elovena" billboard illustration which shows only one of myriad ways that Jews viciously sneer at Finland's Nordic national symbols. Please also consider Marine Marynova's May/June 2010 Barnes Review article "Russia's Christian Martyr's" which describes how Jews "hit Russia and its people in the very heart." We could plausibly expect no less for traditional Iceland once its Nordic leadership element gets dispossessed by Jewish invaders.
None of what I am describing is far-fetched. It has already happened in some degree or another to America's declining WASP population, which is undergoing a slow form of genocide. As mentioned previously in this series, to the extent that both the American Revolution and Protestant Reformation took place in countries with majority Nordic demographics, one can make the case that on a deep sociological level, America has been slowly reversing both the American Revolution and the Protestant Reformation in direct proportion to the decline of its WASP populations, and in direct inverse proportion to the ascendancy of not only Jews, but also totalitarian Catholic allies, who are now as numerous as Protestants in America. (Please see may additional discussion about Catholics in America in my "Handling Real Nazis" discussion in Chapter 34 of my Trilogy). The rise of the police state in America has grown in direct inverse correlation with the decline of WASP demographics and influence.

Two other Western titles seem appropriate for Iceland in addition to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" cited in Part One. First, there is the movie "Bad Company" (1972) --whose title characterizes the Icelanders' investment banking relationships in London and New York. Then there is "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Below, Butch, played by Jewish actor Paul Newman, shows what has happened to countries like Iceland, Ukraine, or even the United States. "Circle Z" bankers have derisively used the term "PIIGs" (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Greece) for other victims. Nationalists tend to believe that "character is everything," whereas anarcho-libertarians and neo-Jacobins tend to ignore character issues.

In the long run, racial and ethnic character issues are everything. A huge part of national as well as personal success involves following long term policies that steer clear of entanglements with "bad company." This is something that anarcho libertarians like Max Keiser seem to be totally blind to.
Interestingly enough, according to former Naval intelligence officer Wayne Madsen, the father of the recent Jewish arch villain Bernie Madoff (see my additional discussion in Appendix III) tried to warn his son about the consequences of getting in bed with "bad company" on Wall Street:

I happen to agree with Ralph Madoff, namely that Wall Street today is indeed run by "crooks and SOB's," particularly of the Zionist sort, which it makes it all the more suspicious why Iceland's leaders would leverage up their country and make themselves vulnerable to the "tender mercies" of these people, not to mention allowing these malefactors to entice them into buying up companies around the world under peak-market conditions.
Even more ironic, when one takes a hard look at the indigenous Nordic character of the Icelandic people, as well their abundant energy resources and their high level of innate engineering talent, it becomes obvious that they should first focus their national economic strategy on hard manufacturing industries that exploit their natural resources. This kind of strategy is almost the total opposite of the highly leveraged, relationship-driven financial strategy that got them into such serious trouble.
On top of all of this, when one conducts a sociological analysis, the exact same results emerge. A strategy based on the development of natural resources and manufacturing not only fosters greater economic independence, but also associates Icelandic business leaders with more compatible and trustworthy people with similar values, such as Scandinavian engineers who can help develop their geothermal, hydropower, and possible offshore oil resources. .
Conversely, a national strategy in which Icelanders leverage themselves to the hilt to engage in global financial imperialism puts considerable pressure on Icelanders to entangle themselves with Jewish central bankers and Wall Street cabalists who routinely practice fraud by manipulating commodities, stock, and capital markets and who also hold underlying contempt for Western civilization.
Scandinavian countries lead the world in technological innovativeness per capita. Nordic workers are leaders in both physical and mental productivity as well as craftsmanship. Nordic peoples have historically been leaders in automation. On top of this, as Eumonn Fingleton observes in his landmark work In Praise of Hard Industries, industry rather than finance is the critical driver of real wealth creation over the long run. Therefore, it makes more sense for Iceland to aggressively focus on developing its energy resources, which in turn would drive manufacturing industries that capitalize on Icelandic innovativeness, technological proficiency, and worker productivity. They can succeed by manufacturing products where transportation costs to and from Iceland of raw materials and finished goods are a minor factor.
After reviewing Icelandic economic literature, a slogan pops in my mind: "Hard science and hard technology to produce hard industry, hard jobs, and a hardened economy for a hardy people."

Icelanders can chain down or completely neglect the financial services area and still become very wealthy and prosperous --probably more so as a result -- as Americans discovered in the 19th century when WASP captains of industry ran the economy and banking was kept decentralized.
Iceland has in fact made huge investments in developing its energy resources between the mid 1990's to 2008 --in some years investing as much as a whopping 25% of GDP. The 2008 Bank of Iceland Economy of Iceland Report (PDF) suggests that Iceland can still triple its power from where it stands today:

The American Aluminum company Alcoa has had a presence in Iceland since the late 1960's and has dramatically ramped up capacity in the last decade. Aluminum smelting is a perfect example of an industrial process that capitalizes on plentiful cheap power and where transportation costs of materials to and from the production site can become a minor factor by comparison.
In addition to ample untapped hydropower and geothermal resources, there is another potentially huge kicker on the upside, namely the prospect of ample offshore oil fields. Offshore oil has been a godsend for Norway in recent decades, and the same could be true for Iceland. The country has already solicited bids for its Dreki area in northern waters.

Having previously referred to Puritans in this work as "hardline followers of an inverted religion fabricated by Asiatic Jews with possible Neanderthal lineage," I am not overly fond of their theology either. However, the self-restraint of the Puritans, who came from the most Nordic part of England, reflected a certain stern streak in the Nordic character. Their personal drive and self-discipline was an important component of the old Protestant work ethic that helped make America the greatest industrial power with the highest standard of living in the 19th century.
It is hard to be a good libertarian when one is destitute. Therefore, a certain level of rationality, self-restraint, and work productivity is required to build a successful economy and sustain a viable libertarian society.
Regarding Hefner's Playboy Philosophy, some of the biggest constraints on sexual morality have more to do with "objective reality" than any particular religious or political ideology, as Dr. Raymond Cattell might have pointed out in a book like A New Morality From Science: Beyondism. Most men are more constrained by their financial ability to support a family than their ability to have sex. If a guy knocks up a girl, usually somebody has to help take care of her and raise the kid. Conversely, if a man never gets a girl pregnant, his own family line dies out. If everyone within a tribe or race fails to reproduce, they effectively genocide themselves.
In many ways, Hugh Hefner was simply slick about working the porno cash register on a society that had become highly disoriented from Jewish cultural Marxism promoted by Jewish-controlled national media and also by WWII Allied propaganda that condemned the conscious German Nationalist Socialist emphasis on supporting large and healthy white families.
Part of the severity of the early Puritans in America came from the fact that many of them had to deal with a very harsh environment, to include a very real threat of getting wiped out by winters or Indian attacks.
It is also worth mentioning that the original focus of the libertarian ideals of the American Revolution was to combat tyranny, not to promote self-indulgence. To overcome the forces of tyranny, one requires a certain critical mass of men motivated to engage in self-sacrifice for the long term common good, rather than focused upon immediate personal gratification and self-indulgence. Remember, at the onset of an insurrection, tyrants typically control the financial system and military forces, whereas rebels are typically poverty stricken and have mostly honor and moral suasion on their side to organize successful resistance. One of the greatest enemies of true patriots are informers who give police state oppressors the information they need to unjustly smear them in controlled media or to even round patriots up and kill them. This is because tyrants typically have more than enough money (since they typically control the banking system and can literally print it) to buy off corrupt able people. Resistance to tyranny has never been easily, particularly once the moral backbone of ones own nation has been eroded.
The libertine can be an irresponsible social parasite or criminal. By dumping unwarranted banking system risk on their fellow citizens, and by encouraging a bad national strategy that ruined society as a whole while benefiting only a few, Iceland's irresponsible leaders were practicing libertinism and not libertarianism.
Before leaving the topic of sex and society, some good excellent additional reading that squarely exposes flaws in Hefner's philosophy have been written by Dr. Henry Makow, a Canadian-Jewish writer. His works provide valuable links to other sources. The following are some examples Dr. Makow's insightful works:

2010-02-28 Most Men are Victims of Porn
2009-02-24 Why All Porn is Gay (Encore)
2001-11-01 Playboy and the (Homo) Sexual Revolution

The article "Wall Street on the Tundra" by Lewis comments upon important redeeming character traits of Icelanders:

My "nationalist response": The "nationalist" viewpoint looks at character traits as a potential source of national "comparative advantage," whereas the "environmental viewpoint" generally ignores them.
America is a good example where the environmental viewpoint, or "egalitarianism," has been pushed to such extremes that it is actually inverted. For example, most Americans are brainwashed by their controlled media and education system to believe that Jews are most noble people on earth, whereas in most other countries throughout history they have been viewed as one of the most deceitful, psychopathic, and ignoble of all races, as noted in the "Neanderthal-related" articles. Americans are also taught to not only be oblivious to the steady decline of its Nordic population, but consider it "racist" to raise the topic, and even rejoice in the way Nordic Americans have been biologically replaced by illegal Third World immigrants.
This anecdote about how Icelandic fisherman are willing to be more daring than Russians is an excellent example where alleged "hillbilly traits" can be a fantastic strength.
On a military level, "valor," "toughness," and "initiative" have been longstanding"trademarks" of Nordic peoples. For example, The History Channel -Barbarians - The Vikings begins "Late in the eighth century, they burst from the frigid seas of the North, to take the world by storm. For the next three hundred years, they ravaged the civilized nations. Nothing can stop them. Not the oceans. Not the dread of the unknown. Not the rulers of Europe. They are the Vikings, and behind their barbaric legend lies an even more spectacular reality. Explorers, settlers, and traders, Vikings strike out across the sea in search of plunder and legitimate wealth..."
In more recent centuries we have seen either Nordic peoples or closely related peoples employ a tremendous combination of valor and small unit initiative to achieve impressive battlefield results. A classic example was the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina during the War of Independence, where militia made up of Anglo-Saxon-Celtic and Scots-Irish Americans surrounded and annihilated a British and Tory unit of equal size utilizing innovative and flexible tactics. One of the American leaders, Isaac Shelby of Tennessee, exhorted his men "When we encounter the enemy, don't wait for a word of command. Let each of you be your own officer, and do the very best you can....If in the woods, shelter yourselves and give them Indian play; advance from tree to tree...and killing and disabling all you can...."
Other historic examples include the Dutch-descended Boer Kommando units, that fought the British army to a standstill although badly outnumbered in the Boer War, or the part-Nordic, part-Finno-Ugric peoples whose patrols wreaked havoc deep behind Soviet Army lines in the Winter War.
In his article "Military Matters: Learning from Norway" William S. Lind laments the lack of interest by the U.S. military in developing fluid maneuver warfare tactics that were once exemplified by "Norway's greatest naval commander, Peter Wessel Tordenskjold."
The 1998 Reader's Digest article "What makes them so tough? The harder the challenge, the more Norwegians like it," by Lucinda Hahn has the following abstract summary "Norwegians' superior showing in winter sports is traceable to their abiding love for life and its challenges. Everyone, including children and elderly people, takes weekend skiing tours in the forest. They are never bothered by the cold temperature for they are always attired warmly." This, combined with their stoicism and adventurousness, usually characterizes them as a "hardy people."
Fishing was was once classified as one of the most dangerous occupations in America, more so than being an IRS or FBI agent, steeplejack, coal-miner, or high rise steel worker. Its practice for thousands of years by Nordic peoples has been both a reflection of their character, and at the same time has also put a stamp on their character. It is quite common in sociobiology for genetic sculpturing influences to serve as both a cause and an effect at the same time.
Dr. Odd S. Lovoll, a retired Norwegian-America professor of Scandinavians studies at St. Olaf's college, told me once that he had conducted a study of fishing villages in western Norway. He was surprised at the relative scarcity of graves of adult males compared to women and children. The local people told him that in earlier eras, most men who spent their lives at sea could expect to eventually run out of luck, get caught in a bad storm, and drown.
These character traits can have enormous social, political, and even economic implications. My 1957 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica notes that the northern European countries tended to be much more resistant to fascism than the southern European countries in the 1930's.
Referring to predator vs. counter-predator ecological models, it takes a certain critical mass within the general population of individual initiative, intelligence, and courage to face off the bullying of would-be tyrants. Using the diffusion of innovations paradigm, it also takes a certain critical mass of innovators and early adopters as critical thinkers to see through and resist tyrant propaganda
In his 7 April 2010 (2nd hour) interview with Alex Jones, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts deplored the lack of individual courage and self-sufficiency found in America today, combined with a reliance by the state on bullying rather than reason:

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: [36:13]...Where is it going? The local police now are militarized. If you go to a gun club, all the police will be there. They have got automatic . weapons. There will twenty, thirty, forty or fifty of them and they are practicing massed fire, and what is it all about? It is for controlling the people who pay our salaries. So the whole thing is set up to prevent any kind of opposition from the population. And it is like you say, they can now declare anybody to be a terrorist. And therefore they can confiscate not just your life and rights, but all your assets. So it is a police state. People are not aware of this. They still pray the government is there to protect them in some way. I get a lot of emails from people who are already suffering the types of intrusions where they read my book about how the law has been destroyed and they are wondering what they can do. Of course they haven't any rights, so they can't do anything. I don't know how much of it is a plan of the direct goal in mind, or how much it is just police grabbing power. And of course it does not much matter, because under either system we have lost our rights. It is very hard for people, even if they are organized, and have weapons, to resist because of the kinds of weapons that police and military have. I mean, they have military rifles, to the kinds of weapons that people have is feeble.
Alex Jones: And now under NORTHCOM we have the military everywhere, conditioning the public at DWI checkpoints, at the Kentucky Derby, at football games, searching children, running checkpoints on the highways, an armed camp drilling and training to go after us.
Roberts: Right.
Jones: I want to cover one other issue before we get into the economy, Dr. Roberts. Have you seen the gun camera footage from three years ago in Iraq that Wikileaks released a few days ago. They said that they have got scores of these videos that they are going to be releasing where they are killing the kids and shooting a minivan trying to get a wounded reporter off the street, and a secondarily I get these emails, it is a minority of emails, saying "How dare you criticize our troops? This is a war" Well yes, this is a war that was built on lies on WMD's, we go invade the country, we kill over a million of them, and there is this droning, brainwashed message that we have got to support the troops by keeping them in two or three or five or six tours, and treating them like garbage when they get back. There is just this mindless supposed patriotism to worship tyranny. It is very reminiscent of what happened in Nazi Germany.
Dr. Roberts. Yes, that is right. They are Brown Shirts. I have been calling them Brown Shirts for years, and you have described it accurately. That is exactly the situation. This is another reason I thought writing for these people is pointless. I mean, they cannot fathom the danger they are in. And many of them, of course, are still fighting the Vietnam War. They are still angry that we did not win the war, but suppose we had won, what would be any different? The whole thing is some form of emotional infantilism. There are still people who are three years old. They are ruled by some sort of blind emotion which is incapable of thought. They cannot even take in facts. So talking to them is a waste of time.
Alex Jones: Well it is arrested development. They are very childlike. Facts meaning nothing. And it is this petty power trip that they are part of the state. They are part of the system. They are winners. But that very system is destroying their future as well, and as you know, as someone who has researched history, once you get into one big lie, then it is a bigger lie, a bigger lie, and then things accelerate at the end, and do you now agree that we have now reached that acceleration point where all of this preparatory slide into tyranny and corruption has seemed fast, but we ain't seen nothing yet.
Dr. Roberts. Yes, that is true, and if you look at the complicity of the Federal courts, even the supreme court, I mean how quiet they have been and tolerant of this. And the law schools, and the law deans, and the bar associations, and the law firms. Where ever you have looked there is just acceptance. There is essentially acceptance of this. You would have thought all the prestigious law schools would be on their high horse. The bar associations. People would be screaming "What are you doing? You can't destroy civil liberties on the basis of a hoax?" But that is exactly what is happening. And people are accepting it. They just try to find some way to make money out of it.

In contrast to the mental "hardening of the arteries" evident across America, "Wall Street Tundra," the author explains how a Nordic spirit of personal initiative, problem solving flexibility, and heroism is still alive and well in Iceland:

My "nationalist response": This is an interesting passage because it makes individual initiative look like a weakness. This is typical of many Nordic traits, which tend to be duel-edged swords. They are great strengths in some situations, "weaknesses" in others. This has to be factored into any nationalist analysis that looks for areas of "comparative advantage" regarding competition with other countries.
It can be a misleading over-generalization to state that in manufacturing you do not want people who try to fix something that is not their job to fix.
Two of the greatest inventors in American history saw themselves as "tinkerers" and "experimenters," namely Thomas Edison and Nicolas Tesla. Edison said that genius was 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. While Tesla was more theoretical in his approach than Edison, he still continually engaged in abstract forms of tinkering.
Nordic New Englanders of the 18th and 19th centuries gave rise to the term "Yankee Ingenuity" through their propensity to tinker. They contributed successful inventions completely out of proportion to their percentage of the overall population.
In My Life and Work, Henry Ford talks about how he was always looking for ways to increase shop floor beneficial suggestions and innovation. The Scanlon Plan is another famous example in American management history of an incentive system designed to increase shop floor "heroes."
In fact, one can make the case that when the Japanese started to take the shop floor quality improvement ideas of W. Edwards Deming more seriously than their American counterparts in the 1960's, this became symptomatic of the beginning of America's long decline in manufacturing capabilities.