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News Briefs August 23-29/2009

August 24th, 2009
  • Saif Gaddafi’s powerful insider network: Nat Rothschild, Lord Mandelson, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, Lord Mandelson, and even Prince Andrew. Oh, what a tangled web they weave!
  • An interesting profile of Jacques Vergès, the controversial Franco-Vietnamese lawyer with many connections to holocaust revisionists, Third World guerrillas, European third positionists, and so forth.
  • Russian press allege Mossad connection to ‘Arctic Sea’ seajacking.
  • Jared Diamond, guru of collapse: Could we be next? Could the great skyscrapers of Manhattan one day become deserted canyons of a bygone civilisation, a modern version of Ozymandias’s trunkless legs of stone?
  • Rome Wasn’t Destroyed in a Day Either: review of Adrian Goldsworthy’s How Rome Fell.
  • Excerpt from The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West by Tom Holland.
  • After crushing the Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka will likely train the Pakistani army in counter-insurgency operations (and perhaps U.S., Indian, Bangladeshi and Filipino forces). Sri Lanka, in turn, was trained by the Israelis.
  • Why Israeli Jew Uri Davis joined Fatah to save Palestine: The first Jewish member of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah talks about a unique political journey.
  • Winnie the gangster-terrorist: Winston Churchill’s unhealthy fascination with covert operations and special forces.
  • Zombies invade Monastery of St Florian in Austria. Creepy.
  • The World’s First Fantasy Magazine – Der Orchideengarten, The Garden of Orchids.
  • Armed with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm.
  • 1,000 Year Tradition: Long before the Americans declared independence, centuries before Columbus discovered the new world and before Gutenberg invented movable type, Germans were already perfecting the art of making beer.
  • Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Two – Utopia, dystopia, fantasy, and reality.
  • Tarantino’s Kosher Porn: “as a member of the Jewish tribe, I thank you, motherfucker, because this movie is a fucking Jewish wet dream.” Classy…
  • Madonna Booed In Bucharest For Defending Gypsies: “Madonna is a pop star. She is not an expert on interethnic relations.”
  • Palestinian women knit Jewish skullcaps.
  • Despite Israel’s harsh protests, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a second article accusing the IDF of harvesting Palestinian organs.
  • Masonic Lodges Open Those Mysterious Doors.
  • It’s right to expose Wiesenthal: Accepting that the great Nazi hunter was a braggart and, yes, a liar…
  • Saint Louis IX and Politics: As the formerly Christian West is sliding further into the tyranny of liberalism, it is balm to the soul to consider that the people in Louis’ France were freer than we are today.
  • In his suggestive new book The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars, the distinguished historian Richard Overy looks back to the time of Spengler to explore how the paradox of progress and peril consumed almost every aspect of British society in the two decades between the First and Second World Wars.
  • Fascism and communism: Two sides of the same coin.
  • Chic, unique: As Brigitte Bardot approaches her 75th birthday, the original sex kitten is back in fashion. Of course the article contains the obligatory Politically Correct condemnation of BB’s so-called “race hatred”, National Front hubby, etc., etc.

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Samuel Seabury

August 22nd, 2009

If I must be enslaved let it be by a King at least, and not by a parcel of upstart lawless Committeemen. If I must be devoured, let me be devoured by the jaws of a lion, and not gnawed to death by rats and vermin.

—Samuel Seabury

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News Briefs August 9-22/2009

August 17th, 2009
  • Troy Southgate’s Tradition and Revolution reviewed.
  • Germany’s Central Council of Jews want Mein Kampf reprinted to “prevent neo-Nazis profiting from it.”
  • A Postmodern Middle Ages?the city-state, the most prominent medieval political unit, will continue its resurrection…. Today’s sovereign wealth funds, fused with city-state savvy, will be tomorrow’s Hanseatic League, forming capital networks that radiate the newest technologies to those in their proximity.
  • Happiness is… a military assault on North Korea? Meet Japan’s new Happiness Realization Party.
  • Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part One – The “selective” nature of today’s world.
  • Human experimentation at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor: workers made to drink uranium. Shades of Dr. Mengele?
  • Some controversy over the redeployment of New Zealand SAS commandos to Afghanistan.
  • The Sex Pistol: ‘Viagra’ ice cream to go on sale at Selfridges.
  • Dutch journalist accused of “blood libel” for suggesting the bird flu pandemic might be a Jewish conspiracy.
  • Hamas cracks down on the ultra-radical Salafist “Jund Ansar Allah” , or Soldiers of the Partisans of God, calling them “outlaws”.  Perhaps these clashes are related to the recent Obama White House overture to both Hamas and Hezbollah?
  • The much-vaunted Israel Defense Forces are facing severe discipline problems, including in elite units.
  • Empty Cradles, Demographic Destiny & the Death of the West.
  • Is the Jewish mind instinctively drawn to commentary and criticism rather than the creation of original works?
  • The New Yorker pans Tarantino’s anti-Nazi snuff film, Inglourious Basterds.
  • Holy Land Gangland: An investigative series into the world of the Israeli mafia.
  • North Korea’s totalitarian kitsch.
  • When Britain Feared the Blackshirts: A dialogue between Nicholas Mosley, novelist and son of Sir Oswald Mosley, and academic Sir Raymond Carr.
  • The Great Game: Israel consolidates the strategic Baku-Tel Aviv axis via huge arms deals.
  • Shin Bet guards top Palestinian leaders in parts of the West Bank.
  • Why some conservative Catholics want to halt the sainthood of Pope John Paul II.

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Robert Anton Wilson

August 9th, 2009

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

-Robert Anton Wilson

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News Briefs August 2-8/2009

August 8th, 2009
  • When you’re lying alone in your Afghan bivvy… British soldier re-writes Rudyard Kipling poem in damning attack on conditions.
  • The Wisdom of Harry Patch. RIP, Harry.
  • A Jewish Fatah member- a self-described “Palestinian Hebrew” -nominated for party’s Revolutionary Council.
  • Delighted antiques dealer discovers 1,300-year-old Knights Templar relic at car boot sale.
  • A review of Prophet for a Dark Age: A Companion to the Works of Rene Guenon.
  • Time to De-Grow? Interview with economist Serge Latouche: “The de-growth society would not be the same in Texas and in the Chiapas, in Senegal and in Portugal. De-growth would open up anew the human adventure to the plurality of its possible destinies.”
  • Mongolia’s neo-Nazis: an admittedly implausible but often intimidating, and occasionally violent, movement.
  • New book claims Mossad was ready to rub out Swedish leftist.
  • Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad.
  • Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, “righteous gentile”? So says the Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic movement: the senior Nazi saved Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Schneerson, the movement’s leader during World War II.
  • Andrew Roberts’ new book, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, is reviewed here. Seems quite interesting.
  • Al-Moharer: this Baath Arab Socialist website has great selection of English language material.
  • Smart Grid can be wiped out by electromagnetic weapons.
  • Kai Murros on Europe’s Future Challenges.
  • Gallup: 59% of Pakistanis view the US as the greatest threat to the country.
  • Israeli businessmen running sweatshop in Jordan.
  • AMORC celebrating 100th anniversary.

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