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Jorge Luis Borges

June 27th, 2009

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

-Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

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News Briefs June 21-27/2009

June 27th, 2009
  • The American New Right blog has been recently updated. Among the new posts are Principles of The American New Right, The Coming Nationalist Schism and ‘Steampunk’ and Contemporary Mass Culture. Well done, gentlemen!
  • The Swiss canton of Obwalden is planning to launch “special living zones”, offering the super-rich a haven away from the poor. Critics call it ‘a form of apartheid’.
  • Chavista antisemitism? A mob of Venezuelan Red Shirts paints swastikas on an opposition governor’s house (the governor’s grandparents “died in the Holocaust”, of course) .
  • The Persian Conquest: Three decades ago, in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, entire neighborhoods of Tehran’s moneyed Jewish community fled to Los Angeles. Now, having amassed American-style fortunes and political clout, the Persians of Beverly Hills are living the ultimate California dream.
  • Israel still a major hotbed for human trafficking, including both sex slavery and forced labour.
  • Norway’s commemoration of Nobel Prize laureate Knut Hamsun is met by Zionist rage & hyperventilation. Quelle surprise!
  • Residents of Polish town try to save ‘Hitler’s tree’: “The tree has not hurt anyone and is not guilty of anything.”
  • Government-Assisted Terrorists: “The FBI informant allegedly gave the four men cash, food, rent money and drugs. And he agreed to pay for a sick brother’s liver transplant.”
  • The World As We Presently Know It. Ean Frick’s latest article.
  • BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda.
  • The Fog Machine: Iran, Social Media and the Rise of Genetically Modified Grassroots Organizations.
  • He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
  • US “black ops” in Iran, from the 1950s to the present day.
  • Is the ancient world all Greek (or Latin) to you? The case for classical education.
  • Michelangelo’s first painting was of a tormented Saint Anthony and is somewhat reminiscent of Salvador Dali’s style. Here is Dali’s own Temptation of St. Anthony.
  • Down with the therapeutic left and the managerial right! Part One. By Mark Wegierski.
  • Holocaust reparations swindle: Israeli firms accused of profiting from the Holocaust, families battle in court to reclaim assets.
  • Not only did President Nixon want Obama aborted, he thought the Jews had a death wish!
  • George Orwell’s brilliant, bitter novel 1984 turns 60 this month, but after all these years it has lost none of its nightmarish chill.
  • The EU Rip-Off by Tom Sunic.
  • One man in California’s East Bay is attempting to build a new car-free community — and his enthusiasm is catching on.

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John C. Sparks

June 20th, 2009

There probably are as many persons coerced into acting, not as they want, but as others want, through majority rule as through totalitarian dictatorship.

-John C. Sparks, The Freeman [May 1971]

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News Briefs June 14-20/2009

June 20th, 2009
  • The American branch of New Right has a new blog. They advocate “unlimited individual freedom, a decentralized economy, harmony with the environment, and the right of all people to preserve their heritage and traditions.”
  • An important new initiative, New Right Students Association, now has a presence on Facebook.
  • Divided We Stand: What would California look like broken in three? Or a Republic of New England? With the federal government reaching for ever more power, redrawing the map is enticing…
  • First ‘anti-stab’ knife to go on sale in nanny state Britain, the Home Office whole-heartedly approves.
  • Why “the fascists” are winning in Europe. The author, Mark Steyn, is a renegade neocon and noted opponent of Political Correctness & the “human rights” racket in Canada
  • Ahmadinejad won. Get over it.
  • Density Is Destiny: A less crowded society is a more polite society.
  • Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gives a “contradictory” speech on women’s rights in Rome.
  • Che Guevara’s granddaughter to appear in PETA campaign wearing only camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers of baby carrots.
  • In war-time France, the authorities, both Vichy and Nazi, encouraged the arts, each for their own reasons. It was an oddly vibrant period…
  • Winnie Churchill’s naked hijinks with FDR? Gives a whole new meaning to Anglo-American relations!
  • The Greenhorns documents the efforts of young farmers to feed us safe food, conserve valuable land, and reconstitute communities split apart by strip malls.
  • While decrying the “determinism” of Marxism, and its atheistic outlook in a 1985 paper “Market, Economy and Ethics,” Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, warned that an economic crisis in the West was possible.
  • Koogle, the new “kosher” search engine launched by Orthodox Jews.
  • James von Brunn may have targeted William Kristol’s neocon flagship, The Weekly Standard, complicating “any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms.”
  • An interesting historical tidbit about the Asociación Blanca de Cuba (ABC, the Association of Cuban Whites), an early Cuban fascist/racialist/futurist outfit.
  • It’s official: Obama creates more czars than the Romanovs.
  • America’s Left-Conservative Heritage.
  • The Amazing Neighborhood of Coriandoline: Homes bedecked with jewels and painted flowers. Lampposts adorned with cast-metal birds. This is a magical neighborhood, but it’s also a real place.
  • What motivates people to rebel against global brands—or consumption in general?  Try nationalism
  • Tate Modern’s exhibition on Futurism is given a lengthy review by This is London while the Socialist Worker takes a crack at it, too. Both are rather pissy in tone.
  • The Chechen President, Ramzan Kadyrov, is denounced as a follower of Alexander Dugin for pointing out the obvious:  “I like to call things by their proper names. The centre is located in America. In America they are working to bring about the collapse of the sovereign Russian state. It’s not the terrorists, or the Islamists. There’s not a whiff of Islam there. They’ve invented this system. They’re creating problems for Russia, they want to ruin Russia.”

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21st New Right Meeting

June 14th, 2009

13th June 2009

DAVID IRVING – ‘Being British’
JONATHAN BOWDEN – ‘Tintin & the Example of Degrellle’

Thanks to everyone for coming along.

New Right,
BM Box LCRN,
London WC1N 3XX,
England.

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