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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?

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