www.new-right.org

• The American branch of New Right has a new blog. They advocate “unlimited individual freedom, a decentralized economy, harmony with the environment, and the right of all people to preserve their heritage and traditions.”
• An important new initiative, New Right Students Association, now has a presence on Facebook.
• Divided We Stand: What would California look like broken in three? Or a Republic of New England? With the federal government reaching for ever more power, redrawing the map is enticing…
• First ‘anti-stab’ knife to go on sale in nanny state Britain, the Home Office whole-heartedly approves.
• Why “the fascists” are winning in Europe. The author, Mark Steyn, is a renegade neocon and noted opponent of Political Correctness & the “human rights” racket in Canada…
• Ahmadinejad won. Get over it.
• Density Is Destiny: A less crowded society is a more polite society.
• Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gives a “contradictory” speech on women’s rights in Rome.
• Che Guevara’s granddaughter to appear in PETA campaign wearing only camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers of baby carrots.
• In war-time France, the authorities, both Vichy and Nazi, encouraged the arts, each for their own reasons. It was an oddly vibrant period…
• Winnie Churchill’s naked hijinks with FDR? Gives a whole new meaning to Anglo-American relations!
• The Greenhorns documents the efforts of young farmers to feed us safe food, conserve valuable land, and reconstitute communities split apart by strip malls.
• While decrying the “determinism” of Marxism, and its atheistic outlook in a 1985 paper “Market, Economy and Ethics,” Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, warned that an economic crisis in the West was possible.
• Koogle, the new “kosher” search engine launched by Orthodox Jews.
• James von Brunn may have targeted William Kristol’s neocon flagship, The Weekly Standard, complicating “any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms.”
• An interesting historical tidbit about the Asociación Blanca de Cuba (ABC, the Association of Cuban Whites), an early Cuban fascist/racialist/futurist outfit.
• It’s official: Obama creates more czars than the Romanovs.
• America’s Left-Conservative Heritage.
• The Amazing Neighborhood of Coriandoline: Homes bedecked with jewels and painted flowers. Lampposts adorned with cast-metal birds. This is a magical neighborhood, but it’s also a real place.
• What motivates people to rebel against global brands—or consumption in general?  Try nationalism…
• Tate Modern’s exhibition on Futurism is given a lengthy review by This is London while the Socialist Worker takes a crack at it, too. Both are rather pissy in tone.
• The Chechen President, Ramzan Kadyrov, is denounced as a follower of Alexander Dugin for pointing out the obvious:  “I like to call things by their proper names. The centre is located in America. In America they are working to bring about the collapse of the sovereign Russian state. It’s not the terrorists, or the Islamists. There’s not a whiff of Islam there. They’ve invented this system. They’re creating problems for Russia, they want to ruin Russia.”

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