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• Kalashnikov making inroads in the Kremlin: So who is Maksim Kalashnikov? A provocative blogger who has praise for Hitler and Stalin. A futurologist whose many books envision a restored Russian empire that seems a lot like a non-ideological Soviet Union … He has blamed the “Jewish wing of the Bolshevik party” for detaching Ukraine from Russia and said that Stalin, “thank God, suffocated that wing.”
• Imams in Senegal are not huge fans of North Korean social realist art.
• Well I guess Uncle Adolf didn’t escape to a secret underground base in Antarctica after all…
• Two Koreas. Both Starving. Different Reasons.
• Abortion and eugenics in the Weimar Republic.
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Seventeen — Conclusion.
• New Era in Rome-Moscow relations: “The totalitarian dictatorship of the past cannot be replaced with a new dictatorship of pan-European government mechanisms.“
• The Archaeology of Postmodernity, Part II: The Emancipation of Dissonance.
• How the revolutionary dreams of the Bauhaus became our everyday realities, and in some cases our everyday banalities.
• Before the Bauhaus, modernism was a volatile, centrifugal affair: Cubist, Futurist, Constructivist. After the Bauhaus, it gained a coherent focus…
• Mel Gibson will direct and Leonardo DiCaprio will star in an untitled period drama set in the world of Viking culture.
• A new film about Emperor Hirohito of Japan explores “the behavior of a god after his country is atom-bombed, as defeat closes in.” Sounds interesting…
• Industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles, says Pope Benedict.
• St. Zita? Church opens investigation into the sanctity of the Last Empress of Austria-Hungary.
• The gruesome world of European fairy tales.
• The beckoning silence: Why half of the world’s languages are in serious danger of dying out.
• Belgium Waffles: Belgium now looks like the kind of federalism that American states’-rights advocates used to dream of. What needs to be remembered is that the US started as a loose confederation of independent states, which have slowly (and perhaps excessively) coalesced over the centuries. “We’re different. We started as a unified nation-state and slowly but surely fell apart.”
• Last Exit to Utopia: an interesting profile of French anti-communist political philosopher Jean-François Revel.
• Stieg Larsson and “Sweden’s dark currents of Fascism and sexual predation.”
• Jewish anti-Christian graffiti at the Cenacle: Obscene graffiti on the doors leading to the church read “We killed Jesus”, “Christians out” (in English and Hebrew) and “F… off”, which were adorned with a “Star of David”, apparently so as to leave no one in doubt about the religious affiliation of the perpetrators.
• Lurching Towards Pandemonium: A Review of Alex Kurtagic’s Mister.
• ‘Authoritarian democracies’ deliver growth and suppress dissent: the new pact between the middle classes and their governments.
• A Real Life Lex Luthor? Switzerland Geologist on Trial for ‘Causing Quakes’.
• Polanski and Kubrick: Two occult tales (by Jacques Vallee).
• Modern life causes brain overload, study finds.
• Pope Benedict XVI & Roger Scruton at Vatican art conference: “The issue of God is central in our time, which often tends to reduce man to a single dimension — the ‘horizontal’ dimension — in the belief that his openness to the Transcendent is irrelevant to his life.” –Benedict XVI.
• Academia meets Black Metal.
• Hellfire Holidays: the phantasmagoric wonderland of sex that was Georgian Britain (four part travelogue).
• Darwin was one sick puppy. So why doesn’t natural selection apply here?

Dan News Briefs

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

-Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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• Judeo-Masonic Thought and the Birth of the Modern.
• The Russian Orthodox Church has published Europe, Spiritual Homeland, which includes writings by Pope Benedict XVI: “Europe … is a cultural continent that with its two wings, the Church of the East and of the West, rises above the narrow duality Russia-Western Europe.”
• Jared Diamond’s Noble Savage Collapse: Can the old Rousseauian Noble Savage vs. Hobbesian Jungle dichotomy be transcended?
• The Taliban are on the march – with sculpted thighs and firm buttocks.
• Sympathy for the devil worshipers. Inside Norway’s infamous black-metal scene: Misunderstood Robin Hoods or Satanic church-burning maniacs?
• Nepalese Maoists embrace extreme decentralization, declares 13 “federal autonomous states” (11 based on ethnic lines).
• Zomia, the anarchist’s Shangri-La: In the lawless mountain realms of Asia, a Yale professor finds a case against civilization.
• The Archaeology of Postmodernity, Part I: Viennese Mutations: Viennese modernism represents, according to Jacques Le Rider, “the appearance of a post-modern moment in the history of European culture”, or, as the Jewish satirist Karl Kraus described it, a “research laboratory for world destruction.”
• Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Sixteen – Canadian Speculative Fiction.
• “Chocolate City”: Inside China’s Negro problem. MORE: Iraq’s very own Harlem.
• How China Won and Russia Lost in their post-communist economic reforms. Hint: Centralized top-down, bad. Grassroots bottom-up, good.
• House of Elsewhere: Switzerland’s unique museum of science fiction, utopian & dystopian visions and extraordinary journeys.
• The Cult of Reason – The Dark Side of the Enlightenment.
• A Journey through Deep Romania.
• Tired Holocaust guilt-tripping, not just for Jews anymore.
• Turkish neofascist Gray Wolves might be behind some of those controversial Swiss mosques we’ve been hearing a lot about lately.
• Nguyen the Dutchman? “The most frequently occurring surnames among the indigenous Dutch are De Jong, Jansen and De Vries. The three fast-growing surnames are logically those of immigrants: Yilmaz, Nguyen and Ali.“
• Knock, knock! Who’s there? 20 million Bangladeshis!
• Neo-Bourbon movement makes its bid for southern Italy.
• Golda Meir, She Wolf of the Judeo-SS: no aliyah for Polish cripples and other pesky ‘defectives’!
• German KSK special forces involved in bloody Kunduz air strike.
• Are the Cape Coloureds a distinct people? I’d say yes, much in the same way as the Métis of Canada or the Seminoles of the US are distinct peoples.
• India to form the new state of Telangana, caving in to regional secessionists.
• How far can one stretch Holocaust analogies? Well, this far. In the comments section, the author was even “kind” enough to introduce us to his Kaufman’s Law: “Efforts such as Godwin’s Law to thwart the finding of contemporary relevance in the Holocaust is a form of Holocaust denial.“

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Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

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