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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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