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.