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• How does a culture that has become unmoored from its own past cope with an influx of newcomers? That’s Europe’s problem…
• The Queen and Prince of Wales have both “grown increasingly sympathetic” to the Catholic Church over the years, while being “appalled” at developments in the Church of England.
• Eurasian NATO flexes muscles.
• Knut Hamsun: Norway’s Black Sheep. Warning: a rather unfair, negative take on Hamsun and his legacy.
• The First Counter-revolutionary: “Not unlike the Italian Futurists, Hobbes put dissolution in the service of resolution. He was the first and, along with Nietzsche, the greatest philosopher of counterrevolution, a blender avant la lettre of cultural modernism and political reaction who understood that to defeat a revolution you first must become the revolution.”
• House of the real ‘Dracula’ found in Hungary.
• French Socialists & National Front unite in opposition to Frédéric Mitterrand, Sarkozy’s perverted culture minister.
• Watch out, North Korea! Envious powers are eying your tantalizing riches.
• T.S. Eliot has been named Britain’s favourite poet, thankfully beating out a Rastafarian guy.
• Did Lancaster bombers that killed 600,000 in German cities deliberately target civilians? A new book says YES…
• Manga version of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ a hit in Japan.
• Lockerbie witness & brother received $3 million reward from US government.
• Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Is he Jewish or not? The Telegraph says yea, The Guardian nay. MORE: some background info on Iranian Jewry, plus other “shocking” Jewish outings.
• The Anglo-world of settlers, not dominators: uncoupling “settlerism” from “imperialism”. A revisionist look at the British Empire…
• Stories of a vanished England: The countryside is dying – part of the reason is that too many of the people living there have the attitudes of ‘townies’…

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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

-Malcolm Muggeridge

Dan Quotes

• A German Jihad Colony: Islamists in Pakistan Recruit Entire Families from Europe.
• Are we seeing the emergence of a healthy German nationalism, one that will curb “alien powers” such as the EU?
• Hell’s bells! The joy of Morris Dancing.
• The folly of the French Revolution’s metric calendar.
• Forget Sudokus and crosswords: if you want to sharpen up your thinking, immerse yourself in Kafka’s stories of the surreal.
• Bibi is a Persian’s best friend? Whoa, talk about sheer chutzpah! You’d think that Netanyahu is Mother Theresa reincarnated!
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Five – Dune and current-day reality. And: Part Six – Some notable SF works
• The Soviet system’s inhumanity to man left psychological scars that will endure for generations. But it also left more visible scars on the architecture and townscapes of the communist world.
• Taliban targets descendants of Alexander the Great: For centuries, the blond-haired, blue-eyed people of the Kalash tribes of North West Pakistan have lived a libertine lifestyle.
• Ertugrul Osman – the would-be sultan known in Turkey as the “Last Ottoman” – has died in Istanbul at the age of 97.
• Guerrilla signs: culture jamming Britain’s roads and rails.
• Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious.
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guard vs. UFO! Hint: the Guard wins.
• India’s Gurkhas are preparing to unilaterally declare independence in a separate “Gorkhaland” state in the area around Darjeeling. With their legendary fighting repution, who the hell is going to stop them?
• Ayatollah’s wacky Wookiee army.
• The European Gendarmerie Force. Never heard of it? Read on. More background here.
• The Cult of GDP: Can Economies Function without Growth?
• Will the “Third Rome” reunite with the “First Rome”?
• Killer propaganda. Literally!
• Israeli warplanes over Mecca?
• China’s revolution: from bloody repression to capitalism red in tooth and claw.
• A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Socialism’s slow collapse.
• Bagpipes & Swamis: Scottish island to become ashram.
• Prince Charles denounces the “domination of the car over the pedestrian.”
• And the Duke of Edinburgh voices concerns over village life.
• The World, RIP.
• Nero’s rotating dining room found: “The hall is said to have had a revolving wooden floor which allowed guests to survey a ceiling painted with stars and equipped with panels from which flower petals and perfume would shower onto the tables below.”
• Allegory Of The Cave: Meet Your Puppet-Handlers.
• The Supercriminals of Sweden: they are “wickedly smart and exhibit an excess of panache.”
• Right-wing English and hardline Irish nationalist camps, ordinarily hostile, are making common cause.
• A review of Jenny Uglow’s A Gambling Man – Charles II and the Restoration.
• Naked Wanderlust: German Plans Country’s First Nudist Trail.
• Hasn’t this German war guilt nonsense gone far enough?
• Lysenko: Stalin’s mad scientist.

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