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Theodore Dreiser

September 23rd, 2009

The press, with very few exceptions, is a kept press. Kept by the big corporations the way a whore is kept by a tycoon.

-Theodore Dreiser

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News Briefs Sept. 13-19/2009

September 16th, 2009
  • Barroso: The EU is key to resisting the “dark forces of extremism” that threaten open societies and markets, especially the “temptation of naked nationalism”.
  • “The West Wants a Decaffeinated Kosovo”- interview with Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and sociologist Slavoj Zizek.
  • German organic gardening guru Alwin Seifert took tips from Dachau experiments. Seifert, who after the war became a founder of the Green movement, was one of the top landscape gardeners of the Nazi era.
  • The Special Air Service (SAS) has been ordered by the UK government to train Libyan special forces, despite the country having armed the IRA. The British commandos are not happy campers: “The SAS is being ordered to do something it knows is morally wrong.’’
  • A Danish Special Forces sergeant may be jailed for revealing sensitive information in a tell-all book about the unit’s missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo.
  • More than 6 decades after the end of WWII, long-suppressed information about a massacre of around 2,000 Sudeten Germans in June 1945 is dividing the Czech town of Postoloprty.
  • Brother Against Brother: According to a recent study, countries are far more likely to go to war with other countries whose populations are genetically similar to their own.
  • No more memorial Mass in Spain for Franco.
  • A huge 4.5-acre jihadist base- complete with “swimming pool, stabling for more than a dozen horses, an ornamental fountain and even swings and a slide for children“- is operating under the Pakistani government’s nose. And according to Pakistan’s ex-spy chief, the US has its own plans to “keep the country destabilized and control its nuclear weapons.”
  • Ex-Pakistani army chief: Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits.
  • Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Four – Fantasy in pop-culture; military SF; and space opera.
  • With unemployment topping four million, Britain’s union leaders warn of riots and social unrest.
  • Popular fairy tales and folk stories are more ancient than was previously thought, according to biologists.
  • Eurasian origin of Homo erectus?
  • Prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of sat nav based on stone circle markers, GPS co-ordinates show all are accurate to within 100 metres.
  • The Science Cartel vs. Immanuel Velikovsky.
  • JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a government codebreaker in the run up to the Second World War.
  • Return of the Habsburgs? Members of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty that ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire have asked for the right to run for the Austrian presidency.
  • Dr. Z, Saddam’s WMD chemist, serves Polish military. An updated version of Operation Paperclip?
  • Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan dictator, used a firm that employs an ex-British intelligence chief to carry out research for his doctoral thesis.
  • The life and mind of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
  • A new report on global wealth says that Europe has overtaken the United States to become the richest region in the world.
  • Brzezinski on Afghanistan: “We are running the risk of replicating – obviously unintentionally – the fate of the Soviets.”
  • You Ain’t Seen Pirates Yet: The world’s navies can’t stop the coming surge of attacks.
  • The US Special Operations Command has awarded General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites”. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”.

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Herbert Spencer

September 15th, 2009

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

-Herbert Spencer, Essays [1891]

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News Briefs Sept. 6-12/2009

September 11th, 2009
  • Michael O’Meara reviews Dominique Venner’s Ernst Jünger: Another European Destiny.
  • Arabs and kibbutzniks forge unlikely alliance against proposed haredi city. Talk about strange bedfellows!
  • The Socialist Party of the Netherlands has profited from its opposition to immigration and the free movement of labour. A must read!
  • Keith Preston dissects Classical Marxism: To the degree that the globalization process is being resisted, it is being done by populist-nationalists (like Hugo Chavez) or non-state religious militants (like Osama bin Laden) who appeal to the very particularist sentiments that Marxists vociferously reject.
  • Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: Germany Recalls the Myth that Created the Nation.
  • Germany’s New AIDS Ad — Starring Hitler.
  • Margaret Thatcher, Secret Defender Of Soviet Security.
  • A leading German historian claims that Mahatma Gandhi was “one of the greatest friends of Nazi Germany”.
  • Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Three – Subgenres of fantasy.
  • Persian Angels and Demons.
  • Tarantino’s Homage To The European Race? Mark Ames of eXiled offers a very different interpretation of Inglourious Basterds.
  • Tintin to be sued for ‘racism’.
  • David Irving sparks row in Spain: “The Holocaust is just a slogan, a product like Kleenex or Xerox printers. They’ve turned it into a commercial phenomenon, and succeeded in making money out of it – producing films about it which have made millions.”
  • Human Rights Watch hires a Nazi memorabilia collector. The Israelis- predictably- are outraged.
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist cause and exiled its author.
  • Neomelodic Minstrels for the Mob: Italy’s Neapolitan neomelodic singers break hearts, not balls. “If gangster rap is the CNN of the American ghetto, neomelodics are the CNN of the Neapolitan ghetto.”
  • Cluny to Celebrate 1,100 Years.
  • Megadeth Awakens to the New World Order.
  • Handbook of Chaos by Albert Caraco: He was a reactionary and a misanthrope of the first class. “I don’t hide my profession of pessimism and I’m an avowed partisan of reaction” … He was not only a racist and a colonialist, but also vaguely a monarchist, at least nostalgic of the Old Order (“The sooner we reestablish monarchy, the best” ); inegalitarian (“Behold the species of abortions which form the common humanity, does it look as if they are our brothers?”; “Which is the most false idea? Equality”).
  • From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four: Hayek and Orwell.
  • Rossellini, Italian cinema and the Left: Following Nobel writer Günther Grass’s tardy confession several years ago that he entered the Nazi Waffen SS as a seventeen-year old in late 1944, Italian critics began trying to pinpoint the precise dates in the middle of last century in which Italian intellectuals converted from Fascism to Communism.

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Erich Fromm

September 8th, 2009

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind — not the fiend or the sadist.

Erich Fromm

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