News Briefs Feb 22, 2009
February 22nd, 2009
- On America’s privileged apparatchik class: Gilt-Edged Pensions.
- “New” JRR Tolkien book to be published. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, a reworking in verse of old Norse epics, predates Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Ancient Eskimo-Viking contact. There are many stories of ‘Qavlunaat,’ white-skinned strangers who were encountered in Inuit-occupied lands in times of old.
- Cancer was a rare disease before the Industrial Era. So much for “progress”!
- In his questionable memoir, Stan Lauryssens claims to have exposed Salvador Dalí and his “Dark Circus”. But Dalí, a self-proclaimed anarcho-monarchist, is still a giant in my book!
- Gary Lachman discusses his new book, Politics and the Occult: “although ideological enemies, the radical extremes of left and right often meet in their shared detestation of modernity. Both believe that the modern world, the one we wake up to everyday, is a dark desolate place, whether its the Kali Yuga or late-capitalism that’s responsible for it”. Lachman also mentions Julius Evola.
- Obama aid dwarfs FDR’s New Deal. The feds to comprise a whopping 31% of the U.S. economy!