News Briefs April 19-25/2009
April 25th, 2009
- Rózsa-Flores wanted to form a secessionist army in Bolivia’s mineral-rich Santa Cruz region: “They called me from Bolivia, from Santa Cruz, they told me to come home, because the motherland calls… My task is to form an army in Santa Cruz as soon as possible and to be its leader… I’m not a mercenary, nor will I ever be, but if motherland needs me I’m going… Only if autonomy doesn’t succeed by peaceful means, will we proclaim independence.”
- The National-Anarchist Litmus Test.
- The Empire spins KLA atrocities, while a straightforward Serbian probe of Bosniak war crimes raises “alarm” & “controversy”.
- Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies—And Why They Disappeared. Interesting new book.
- Vatican planned to move to Portugal if Nazis captured Pope Pius XII.
- Mexico’s vanishing icons: the hard-working burro disappears in the face of modern pickup trucks & tractors.
- OK, Who Brought The Israeli Oranges Into Iran?
- J.G. Ballard was a man of the Right — not that the Right really wanted him. Strange article but there you go…
- Music File: NATIONAL-ANARCHY IN THE EU (a short piece from the new Von Thronstahl album, ‘Germanium Metallicum’) and AWAKENING & BRAVERY (words and vocals by Troy Southgate, sounds by Kristian Olsson).
- Britain’s top modernist architects have condemned Prince Charles in an open letter, accusing the Prince of Wales of “skewing the democratic process.” Three cheers for Charles the Traditionalist!
- The Nine Billion Names of God (1967), a fictional interlude by Arthur C. Clarke.
- Hitler’s Mein Kampf has become a popular book among business students in India looking for tips on management tactics.
- These United States: Too Big to Fail? Or too big to survive? An excellent article by paleolibertarian Justin Raimondo.
- Jack London on America: “We’re the white folks that failed.”
- Muhammad Ali the Race Exploiter? A hit piece on the great boxer’s “racist” beliefs.
- Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age. An online book by Fr. Seraphim Rose.
- The novelist JG Ballard, who conjured up a bleak vision of modern life in a series of powerful novels and short stories published over more than 50 years, has died after a long battle with cancer.
- A collection of 14 unpublished stories by Kurt Vonnegut will be published in November.
- Too Small to Fail: The Wilhelm Roepke solution to our economic woes.
- The Europe syndrome: On the perils of the welfare state- spiritual enfeeblement & the rise of Nietzsche’s “Last Man”.
- Use a condom, thwart that evil Hitler sperm!
- English eccentric under siege: Nottinghamshire Police target man’s dung-firing catapult.
- High weirdness in Bolivia: Islamo-Hungarian left/right-winger Eduardo Rózsa-Flores killed in a plot to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales. Confusing story…
- Update from Troy Southgate: “I am in touch with Eduardo Rózsa-Flores’ foster brother on Myspace. Their Movement is known as the National Anarchist Party (NAP = SUN).” Their website (Ellenkultúra means ‘counter-culture’) and blog.
- The Stupid Quote of the Week Award goes to Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin: “Yesterday the world witnessed the return of Adolf Hitler. This time he has a beard and speaks Persian.”
- Why the West is Boyle’d: “in China, 60 million children are learning Western classical music under the gimlet gaze of strict teachers. East Asian singers, particularly Koreans, are working their way up the ranks of provincial opera companies, and every one of them sings better than Boyle. Who do you think is going to run the world 20 years from now?”