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Jim Green News Briefs, Rising press

• Kalashnikov making inroads in the Kremlin: So who is Maksim Kalashnikov? A provocative blogger who has praise for Hitler and Stalin. A futurologist whose many books envision a restored Russian empire that seems a lot like a non-ideological Soviet Union … He has blamed the “Jewish wing of the Bolshevik party” for detaching Ukraine from Russia and said that Stalin, “thank God, suffocated that wing.”
• Imams in Senegal are not huge fans of North Korean social realist art.
• Well I guess Uncle Adolf didn’t escape to a secret underground base in Antarctica after all…
• Two Koreas. Both Starving. Different Reasons.
• Abortion and eugenics in the Weimar Republic.
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Seventeen — Conclusion.
• New Era in Rome-Moscow relations: “The totalitarian dictatorship of the past cannot be replaced with a new dictatorship of pan-European government mechanisms.“
• The Archaeology of Postmodernity, Part II: The Emancipation of Dissonance.
• How the revolutionary dreams of the Bauhaus became our everyday realities, and in some cases our everyday banalities.
• Before the Bauhaus, modernism was a volatile, centrifugal affair: Cubist, Futurist, Constructivist. After the Bauhaus, it gained a coherent focus…
• Mel Gibson will direct and Leonardo DiCaprio will star in an untitled period drama set in the world of Viking culture.
• A new film about Emperor Hirohito of Japan explores “the behavior of a god after his country is atom-bombed, as defeat closes in.” Sounds interesting…
• Industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles, says Pope Benedict.
• St. Zita? Church opens investigation into the sanctity of the Last Empress of Austria-Hungary.
• The gruesome world of European fairy tales.
• The beckoning silence: Why half of the world’s languages are in serious danger of dying out.
• Belgium Waffles: Belgium now looks like the kind of federalism that American states’-rights advocates used to dream of. What needs to be remembered is that the US started as a loose confederation of independent states, which have slowly (and perhaps excessively) coalesced over the centuries. “We’re different. We started as a unified nation-state and slowly but surely fell apart.”
• Last Exit to Utopia: an interesting profile of French anti-communist political philosopher Jean-François Revel.
• Stieg Larsson and “Sweden’s dark currents of Fascism and sexual predation.”
• Jewish anti-Christian graffiti at the Cenacle: Obscene graffiti on the doors leading to the church read “We killed Jesus”, “Christians out” (in English and Hebrew) and “F… off”, which were adorned with a “Star of David”, apparently so as to leave no one in doubt about the religious affiliation of the perpetrators.
• Lurching Towards Pandemonium: A Review of Alex Kurtagic’s Mister.
• ‘Authoritarian democracies’ deliver growth and suppress dissent: the new pact between the middle classes and their governments.
• A Real Life Lex Luthor? Switzerland Geologist on Trial for ‘Causing Quakes’.
• Polanski and Kubrick: Two occult tales (by Jacques Vallee).
• Modern life causes brain overload, study finds.
• Pope Benedict XVI & Roger Scruton at Vatican art conference: “The issue of God is central in our time, which often tends to reduce man to a single dimension — the ‘horizontal’ dimension — in the belief that his openness to the Transcendent is irrelevant to his life.” –Benedict XVI.
• Academia meets Black Metal.
• Hellfire Holidays: the phantasmagoric wonderland of sex that was Georgian Britain (four part travelogue).
• Darwin was one sick puppy. So why doesn’t natural selection apply here?

Dan News Briefs

• Judeo-Masonic Thought and the Birth of the Modern.
• The Russian Orthodox Church has published Europe, Spiritual Homeland, which includes writings by Pope Benedict XVI: “Europe … is a cultural continent that with its two wings, the Church of the East and of the West, rises above the narrow duality Russia-Western Europe.”
• Jared Diamond’s Noble Savage Collapse: Can the old Rousseauian Noble Savage vs. Hobbesian Jungle dichotomy be transcended?
• The Taliban are on the march – with sculpted thighs and firm buttocks.
• Sympathy for the devil worshipers. Inside Norway’s infamous black-metal scene: Misunderstood Robin Hoods or Satanic church-burning maniacs?
• Nepalese Maoists embrace extreme decentralization, declares 13 “federal autonomous states” (11 based on ethnic lines).
• Zomia, the anarchist’s Shangri-La: In the lawless mountain realms of Asia, a Yale professor finds a case against civilization.
• The Archaeology of Postmodernity, Part I: Viennese Mutations: Viennese modernism represents, according to Jacques Le Rider, “the appearance of a post-modern moment in the history of European culture”, or, as the Jewish satirist Karl Kraus described it, a “research laboratory for world destruction.”
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Sixteen – Canadian Speculative Fiction.
• “Chocolate City”: Inside China’s Negro problem. MORE: Iraq’s very own Harlem.
• How China Won and Russia Lost in their post-communist economic reforms. Hint: Centralized top-down, bad. Grassroots bottom-up, good.
• House of Elsewhere: Switzerland’s unique museum of science fiction, utopian & dystopian visions and extraordinary journeys.
• The Cult of Reason – The Dark Side of the Enlightenment.
• A Journey through Deep Romania.
• Tired Holocaust guilt-tripping, not just for Jews anymore.
• Turkish neofascist Gray Wolves might be behind some of those controversial Swiss mosques we’ve been hearing a lot about lately.
• Nguyen the Dutchman? “The most frequently occurring surnames among the indigenous Dutch are De Jong, Jansen and De Vries. The three fast-growing surnames are logically those of immigrants: Yilmaz, Nguyen and Ali.“
• Knock, knock! Who’s there? 20 million Bangladeshis!
• Neo-Bourbon movement makes its bid for southern Italy.
• Golda Meir, She Wolf of the Judeo-SS: no aliyah for Polish cripples and other pesky ‘defectives’!
• German KSK special forces involved in bloody Kunduz air strike.
• Are the Cape Coloureds a distinct people? I’d say yes, much in the same way as the Métis of Canada or the Seminoles of the US are distinct peoples.
• India to form the new state of Telangana, caving in to regional secessionists.
• How far can one stretch Holocaust analogies? Well, this far. In the comments section, the author was even “kind” enough to introduce us to his Kaufman’s Law: “Efforts such as Godwin’s Law to thwart the finding of contemporary relevance in the Holocaust is a form of Holocaust denial.“

Dan News Briefs

• ‘The Red Book’: A Window Into Jung’s Dreams.
• Viking skalds predated medieval troubadours by 200 years in the creation of romantic poetry.
• East Africa’s albinos murdered, body parts used as “lucky charms”. Yikes, sounds like a real-life zombie movie!
• Why white skin is all the rage in Asia.
• Pope John Paul II practiced self flagellation.
• More omens of the coming Jewish civil war, here and here: Haredim call Israeli police ‘Nazis’… ‘Zionists, you caused the Holocaust’.
• The German “Pol-Pot Left” accused of “anti-Semitism”… left-wing protesters ranging in age from 16 to 70 shouted “Jewish pigs” and “faggots”…
• Afghanistan: The Future Is Feudal! MORE: The Tajik grip on the Afghan army signals a coming race war with the Pashtun majority.
• England soon to be a Mini-Israel/America, even hosting the world’s first academic institute for the study of “anti-Semitism”.
• Amazing vintage photos of the Meiji and Taisho periods from Japan’s forgotten master, T. Enami.
• Prominent Jewish leftist Shulamit Aloni slams Israel: “We are a nefarious people. What we are doing in the West Bank is worse than all the pogroms done to the Jews.“
• Pakistani Christian leader points out the sheer hypocrisy of Muslims vis-à-vis the recent Swiss minaret ban.
• Hyperborea found?
• Ich bin ein idiot? Drug-addled British rocker Pete Doherty dragged off German stage for singing Nazi anthem, later apologizes by citing Jewish background & antifa work.
• Who really killed Neda? The Iranian Basij militia chief is pretty damn adamant that Yanks had something to do with it…
• The Heidegger Controversy: a “mini-outbreak of illiberal liberalism”.
• Charles II loved theater, music, women, hunting, tennis, and gambling… You really got to love merry scoundrels like Charles II (or Louis Napoléon or King Farouk I of Egypt).
• Israel’s demographic crisis prompts IDF chief to muse about an Arab and ultra-Orthodox military draft. Israel dies not with a bang, but a whimper.
• The Other Idol-Breaker: Owen Barfield and the Plenitude of the Word.
• A revivified Christendom via Benedict XVI?
• For collaborators, life in Vichy Paris was sweet. Even for the likes of Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau it was hardly unlivable… “Cocteau did, on the other hand, frequent German literary salons, dine at Maxim’s with cultivated German officers, such as the writer Ernst Jünger, and praise the marble celebrations to Aryan manhood by Hitler’s favorite sculptor, Arno Breker. Artistic friendships, he claimed, were more precious to him than vulgar shows of patriotism.“
• Somali sea dogs set up stock exchange.
• Bangladeshis ♥ Hitler.
• Australia’s top special forces general has been poached by the United Arab Emirates.
• Sharia’a compliant banking: the best savings account you’ve never heard of…
• Iran bankrolls Afro-French comic Dieudonne’s new anti-Israel comedy.
• New Polish law bans both Communist and Nazi symbols. First they came for the swastika armbands, then they came for the Che Guevara t-shirts… like that slippery slope, lefties? Think about this next time you push for “hate speech” laws.
• How eugenics poisoned the British welfare state: “A century ago many leading leftists subscribed to the vile pseudo-science of eugenics … and the influence of that thinking can still be seen today.”
• More than 50 years after the Finnish composer died, a musicologist claims Jean Sibelius was culpably entangled with Nazi Germany, and should join Ezra Pound, Richard Wagner, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline in the select group of artists who have been cast into anti-Semitic ignominy.
• “Eurofascists” are apparently trying to woo Jewish groups into joining an anti-Islamic popular front, causing some confusion in neocon/neoliberal ranks.
• Nazi fetishism in Nippon.
• Jock Palfreeman, an Australian who stabbed to death a Bulgarian nationalist in downtown Sofia, has been sentenced to 20 years. Oddly enough, even though Palfreeman’s cause has been championed by antifa groups throughout the world, the local anarchists were friendly with the victim & have denounced his killer (scroll down to comments).
• The Lost World of Old Europe: A Lower Danube Valley civilization predated Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Dan News Briefs

• Iceland’s fashion autarky: “The crash has affected us in a really good way. No one is traveling abroad, so you have to shop locally. We have actually doubled our sales.”
• The fetishisation of ‘progress’ in Western education & how thinkers as diverse as Gramsci and Oakeshott (and Arendt & Lenin!) viewed education as a conservative institution for transmitting the ‘store of human knowledge’.
• Gentlemen Of Bacongo: The Dandies Of Sub-Saharan Africa. A Congolese subculture that’s conservative, colonial nostalgic, and Straight Edge. File this one under weird.
• Shangri-La found?
• 200,000 Testicles Offered Up to the Gods of Song: Great Castrati of the 18th Century.
• Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform.
• Taoism & the British conservatism of Michael Oakeshott.
• Orientalism & White Slavery: ”It is accepted almost as an axiom that slaves in modern Europe were all non-European. But in the early modern era there were just as many European slaves – victims of Mediterranean pirates – in the hands of Muslims as there were blacks, if not more. In fact, there were several million European slaves.”
• The BNP’s nascent Sikh wing.
• “Militants are the enemies of culture”: Taliban fanatics suffocate Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage, as well as the culture of the fair-skinned and light-eyed Kalash people.
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Fourteen — A variety of films and TV shows.
• Japan’s light-skinned & hairy natives, the Ainu, fight for cultural survival.
• Interesting piece on British ‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond & his new think-tank, ResPublica. More on Blond here and here.
• Support White Culture: Buy a Cheap Bookcase!
• Defending Martin Heidegger.
• Globesity: Behold the world’s 10 fattest countries.
• Check out Ab Aeterno, the new journal of the Academy Of Social And Political Research. A review here and more info here.
• Veiled Threat: The guerrilla graffiti of Princess Hijab.
• Are the current Jewish people an invention? And the Palestinians the true Jews?
• New book foretells the secession of Northern Italy (‘Padania’)
• Sad News: His Tremendousness Giorgio I of the Principality of Seborga has passed away.
• Vincere- the tragic life of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s first wife (warning: a Trotskyite-slanted film review).
• The Manliest Game On Earth: Calcio Fiorentino was an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. The modern version allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking, but forbids sucker-punching and kicks to the head.
• Dutch more worried about their culture than economy.
• Nuclear arsenal placed under control of Pakistani parliament. For some reason this doesn’t seem terribly reassuring…
• Saudi Columnist: “Obama fought tooth and nail to be the first black president of the U.S., and he was successful at it. But in the future he may also gain the title of ‘President of the United Collapse of America.‘”
• Jewish Mother Russia: the Jewish Autonomous Region celebrates its 75th birthday this year.
• Israeli army strip-searches… an ultra-Orthodox battalion. Jewish civil war cometh?

Dan News Briefs