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March 2015

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Reviewing China’s Hundred Year Marathon

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Michael Pillsbury is a man experienced and knowledgeable in the political sphere. His work has informed Presidents, Generals, and Congressman and determined the strength and scope of their policies. He is one of those men who hide behind the curtain, those whose words send legions of spooks into action. But all indirectly, all hands off, all through analysis. And it’s fitting. He’s got the looks for it. He’s also the mastermind behind the recent foreign policy hit, “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower”. In it he scares the bejesus out of American bureaucrats […]

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Can Multiculturalism Be Retracted?

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The doctrine of multiculturalism is increasingly facing pressure from populist protest movements across Europe. PEGIDA in Germany and the groups associated with the National Front in France — both buttressed by popular books decrying the ideology (“Germany Abolishes Itself” and “The French Suicide”) — are finding support not just from the lower classes who are most directly threatened by mass immigration, but by the middle classes as well. In the United Kingdom, UKIP plays this political role, but with a stronger tinge of being against the European Union. In Europe, the concerns are mostly about the displacement of native European culture by foreign […]

Monday

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March 2015

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Different Mentalities

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Hello. I’m a Russian occupier. It is my profession. Historically, it just happened. I once occupied Siberia… I once occupied the Baltic States … I once occupied Central Asia … I once occupied Ukraine … Yes, I’m an occupier, and I’m tired of apologizing for it! I’m an occupier by birthright, an aggressor and a bloodthirsty monster. Be afraid. … All and sundry came to my house: the Turks, the British, the Poles, the Germans, the French — we’ve got enough land, two and a half meters for each and every one of them! Please, understand. I don’t need your hypocritical “freedom.” […]

Saturday

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February 2015

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Ascending The Tower – Episode IV, Part 1 – “Bureaucracy Is This Giant Maze”

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http://www.socialmatter.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ATT_Episode_IV_Pt_1.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week, we’re joined by Hurlock for a discussion on bureaucracy. Brought to you by Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and represents the latest project of the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Surviving Babel, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com   Related show links:  Opening Music – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1130269/sand-bones-skulls Closing Music – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1058487/rekreation Hurlock’s old blog – http://hurlock-151.tumblr.com/ New blog – https://hurlock1.wordpress.com/ James Goulding’s GBCReaction post – https://web.archive.org/web/20130609174305/ http://suspiriadeprofundis.net/2013/05/29/no-more-mr-reaction-guy Also relevant – https://foseti.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/randoms-112/ Germanic […]

Friday

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February 2015

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Weekend Material: Watch Predator (1987)

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On this, an occasion of no particular significance, let us pause and revisit one of the great achievements of modern drama.  In an age when technology is demonized and environmentalism exalted, there remains at least one last shining example of Man overcoming nature.  I speak, of course, of Predator (1987). The plot is straightforward: sent into the Central American jungle to kill some generic rebels, Arnold and company succeed spectacularly only to find themselves stalked by a mysterious alien Predator.  In the end, only Arnold survives the creature’s attacks, and he defeats it by covering himself in mud and crushing […]

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February 2015

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The Crab and the Bear: On Alexander Dugin

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I first heard the name Alexander Dugin around the time that “neo-Eurasianism” was first being noticed by the online alternative Right.The Russian Question had been brought up by figures on the European New Right. An example is Guillaume Faye and his vision of a European civilization “from Lisbon to Vladivostok”. Dugin fascinates many on the Right because he has gone beyond theory. A man who can both have a conference with Alain de Benoist and also claim to influence minds in the Kremlin has outdone every Western critic of global liberalism. These days even the Western media wants to know […]

Thursday

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February 2015

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The Red-And-White Blues, a Follow Up.

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Last Thursday, I wrote about the ethnic dimension of politics. More specifically, I wrote about a strange phenomenon in American public discourse whereby conservatives consistently pretend, in all their official correspondence and rhetoric, that no such dimension exists. I argued that this habit puts them at a marked disadvantage against many of their competitors in the national arena, who exhibit no such compunctions and feel free to speak, protest, lobby in terms of plain ethnic interests. The conservatives have to engage in proxy arguments and byzantine circumlocutions and the occasional ritual sacrifice of one of their own on the altar […]

Tuesday

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February 2015

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Making Impossible Thoughts Possible

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When proposing a challenging idea, most reasonable people will tell you that it’s almost certainly going to be impossible. Based on their entirely reasonable estimates, they will be correct. Every big idea has to start somewhere, as a small idea, usually only held by one person or a small group. It’s easy to become discouraged by the natural indifference and skepticism of other people to new notions, because their natural indifference is just the wall that ideas need to be compelling enough to be able to hop over. That wall of distrust protects people from the swirling mass of terrible ideas […]

Monday

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February 2015

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Neoreaction is a Jewish Conspiracy to Thwart the Incipient National Socialist Revolution

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…is exactly the sort of nonsense to which I will be now establishing a well-rounded rebuttal. Are you a conservative or rightist of some kind? Have you heard about neoreaction? Have you heard good things about it? Have you heard bad things? Have you heard that neoreaction is just a bunch of Silicon Valley nerds with obscene power fantasies? Have you heard neoreaction is really just bunch of wimpy Yankees theorizing from an Ivory Tower (skyscraper?) in New York City? Have you heard neoreaction is just a poorly articulated justification for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and bigotry? Have you heard neoreaction […]

Thursday

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February 2015

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The Red-and-White Blues

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All politics are tribal. And so it follows that all politics are ethnic, however and at whatever scale you decide to define the ethnos. Race in part generates and delineates tribal identities. Tribal identities drive politics. Them’s the breaks. Not everyone’s willing to admit to this state of affairs, of course. But trying to play the game of politics while studiously ignoring the racial warp thereof is like trying to beat someone at Risk without acknowledging the defender’s-advantage mechanic. It’s going to be much more difficult than anticipated. Your hopes will be frustrated. Battles that you reckoned you had in the […]