News Briefs Dec. 6-12/2009
December 8th, 2009
- 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.“