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• Iceland’s fashion autarky: “The crash has affected us in a really good way. No one is traveling abroad, so you have to shop locally. We have actually doubled our sales.”
• The fetishisation of ‘progress’ in Western education & how thinkers as diverse as Gramsci and Oakeshott (and Arendt & Lenin!) viewed education as a conservative institution for transmitting the ‘store of human knowledge’.
• Gentlemen Of Bacongo: The Dandies Of Sub-Saharan Africa. A Congolese subculture that’s conservative, colonial nostalgic, and Straight Edge. File this one under weird.
• Shangri-La found?
• 200,000 Testicles Offered Up to the Gods of Song: Great Castrati of the 18th Century.
• Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform.
• Taoism & the British conservatism of Michael Oakeshott.
• Orientalism & White Slavery: ”It is accepted almost as an axiom that slaves in modern Europe were all non-European. But in the early modern era there were just as many European slaves – victims of Mediterranean pirates – in the hands of Muslims as there were blacks, if not more. In fact, there were several million European slaves.”
• The BNP’s nascent Sikh wing.
• “Militants are the enemies of culture”: Taliban fanatics suffocate Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage, as well as the culture of the fair-skinned and light-eyed Kalash people.
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Fourteen — A variety of films and TV shows.
• Japan’s light-skinned & hairy natives, the Ainu, fight for cultural survival.
• Interesting piece on British ‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond & his new think-tank, ResPublica. More on Blond here and here.
• Support White Culture: Buy a Cheap Bookcase!
• Defending Martin Heidegger.
• Globesity: Behold the world’s 10 fattest countries.
• Check out Ab Aeterno, the new journal of the Academy Of Social And Political Research. A review here and more info here.
• Veiled Threat: The guerrilla graffiti of Princess Hijab.
• Are the current Jewish people an invention? And the Palestinians the true Jews?
• New book foretells the secession of Northern Italy (‘Padania’)
• Sad News: His Tremendousness Giorgio I of the Principality of Seborga has passed away.
• Vincere- the tragic life of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s first wife (warning: a Trotskyite-slanted film review).
• The Manliest Game On Earth: Calcio Fiorentino was an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. The modern version allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking, but forbids sucker-punching and kicks to the head.
• Dutch more worried about their culture than economy.
• Nuclear arsenal placed under control of Pakistani parliament. For some reason this doesn’t seem terribly reassuring…
• Saudi Columnist: “Obama fought tooth and nail to be the first black president of the U.S., and he was successful at it. But in the future he may also gain the title of ‘President of the United Collapse of America.‘”
• Jewish Mother Russia: the Jewish Autonomous Region celebrates its 75th birthday this year.
• Israeli army strip-searches… an ultra-Orthodox battalion. Jewish civil war cometh?

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

–Voltaire, Rights (1771)

Dan Quotes

• National-Anarchist review of the Christiania squat in Copenhagen.
• Mozart & Orientalism (& Freemasonry): “Orientalists changed forever the intellectual and spiritual landscape of Europe, and allowed artists, writers, and composers to enter imaginatively and sympathetically into civilizations hitherto unfamiliar to Westerners…”
• Tories face controversies on both its pro-Israeli and pro-Islamic wings. Ah, the glories of multiculturalism!
• Friedrich Schiller: Europe’s tragedy, and Europe’s tragedian.
• Contrary to romantic legend, Trotsky was no better than his nemesis Stalin.
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Thirteen – Olaf Stapledon; 1968 cinema; and four women’s main speculative worlds.
• Christopher Hitchens holds forth on Arthur Koestler’s ideological “riot of enthusiasms and contradictions.”
• IDF Chief Rabbi: Troops who show mercy to enemy will be ‘damned’.
• Interracial marriage higher in Israel than US, but Ethiopian Jews remain largely separate.
• Mt. Athos: Scenes from the Christian Tibet.
• Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on economic stability: “we have to question what we mean by ‘growth’. The ability to produce more and more consumer goods (not to mention financial products) is in itself an entirely mechanical measure of wealth.”
• Arabs are WAYCISTS! Nubian fury at pop star Haifa Wehbe’s ‘Monkey’ lyric.
• 7 Badass Vikings.
• Missing Iranian Deputy Minister Held In Israel?
• Mob Surveillance and Crowdsourced Fascism: A British company is allowing people to anonymously monitor some of London’s 4.3 million CCTVs, and make money while doing it.
• The soon-to-be-published journals of Mussolini’s mistress reveal Il Duce was a confirmed racist but resented Hitler’s higher profile.
• Digging the dirt on Goldstone: Zionists rehash the judge’s apartheid past.
• The Spiritual Calamity of the Modern Diet.
• Germany Wants Quiet: Germany’s postwar internationalism seems to be giving way to parochialism.
• EU Parliament Building based on Brueghel’s Tower of Babel painting…
• The Dalai Lama enters Italy’s contentious crucifix debate, stands up for the West: “It is of fundamental importance to maintain your own traditions, and Italy has a Christian and Catholic background. Therefore, to keep the tradition of the crucifix in the schools is extremely important.”
• How Not to Take Over a Country: The Six Most Ridiculous Invasion Attempts in Military History.
• Death (Metal) of the West: “Love it or hate it, Metal has been contributing to a European cultural revival of sorts.”
• Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco has some deep thoughts on lists & their place in culture.

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It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the U.S., to attain its racist ambitions.

-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking about Israel at the United Nations, Sept. 2009

Dan Quotes

• Red Taliban: Maoist Naxalite rebels in India link up with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
• The Royal Mail rejected a postage stamp featuring Benny Hill because his saucy antics contravened company policy on harassment in the workplace. This is unreal! Hail Benny in all his saucy splendor!
• Plans afoot to cordon off “Nazi” Heidegger’s ideas: “These measures would function as a warning label, like a skull-and-crossbones on a bottle of poison [...] lest they spread sinister ideas as dangerous to modern thought.” Cultural Marxism rears its ugly head (yet again)…
• Not everyone is rejoicing the anniversary of The Fall of the Berlin Wall. MORE: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism
• Russian envoy says NATO has given up eastward expansion.
• What would happen if Nazi Germany lost the war? An alternative history parody.
• Libyan militants develop new jihad code.
• Black-on-Black Slavery: “We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless.”
• One world language: the new Tower of Babel.
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Twelve – Grandmasters of SF.
• On What Europe Owes to Cluny.
• The Pakistani government has lost control of rogue military and intelligence officers who aid Al Qaeda and its allies and play a double game with the West, a renowned French judge asserts in an upcoming book.
• Principality of Hutt River: A micronation of epic proportions. Plus some unclaimed land for your very own micronation.
• This Just in From the 1890s: the steady infiltration of 19th-century haberdashery into the 21st-century wardrobe.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much- remembering Gareth Jones, the Welsh journalist who exposed the Red terror-famine against the Ukrainian people.
• 55 years later, Israeli Military Intelligence figures out what went wrong in Lavon affair.
• New Book: Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Prof. Jeffrey Herf
• The Jewish exodus from Arab countries is not equivalent to the Zionist expulsion of Palestinians.
• Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany.

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