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From HuffPo Canada. Two-thirds—two-fucking-thirds—of this spin-piece’s audience voted in favour of censorship: tie-dye totalitarians! ______________ A Conservative private members’ bill that repeals part of Canada’s hate speech laws has passed the House of Commons with scant media attention, and even less commentary. But it’s being cheered by many […]
From Boston.com. _______ By Claude Fischer Americans aren’t the rugged individuals we think we are. Americans like to see themselves as rugged individualists, a nation defined by the idea that people should set their own course through life. Think of Clint Eastwood rendering justice, rule-bound superiors be damned. […]
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From Kyle’s Corner. _______________ In these troubling economic times those that wish to defend the establishment are scrambling for a demographic to scapegoat. Naturally, they have landed on the poor. Recently, a young conservative, Christine Rousselle , demonstrated the point in her essay “My Time at Walmart: Why […]
From Kyle’s Corner. __________________ I’m tired of hearing activists gripe about the “apathetic non-voter”. The reasoning goes like this, if Americans would just pay more attention and vote then everything would be better. This is a ridiculous expectation; it discounts at least 230 years of American history and […]
An oldy-but-goody from Dylan Waco at the Left Conservative. _______________ Fresh off the heels of my post about the generational gap within the paleo movement on matters of race, comes the latest race obsessed nonsense from the folks at VDare. This time the issue is the alleged sellout […]
From the BBC. _____________ By Owen Bowcott Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden at the supreme court. By a majority of five to two, the justices decided that a public prosecutor was “judicial authority” and that therefore his arrest warrant had been lawfully issued. […]
Salon reports on the latest Stateside sin tax. ________________ By Tracy Clark-Flory It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society’s ills. Now they’re actually being charged for it. In recent years, measures have been introduced in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and, most recently, California […]
From the Guardian. In other news, Gary Glitter has been appointed chairman of UNICEF… _______________ by David Smith With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN’s choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk. […]
From the Daily Mail. Fuck the State, fuck these Stasi cunts, and fuck the Olympics! _________________ By James Slack Police have been handed ‘Chinese-style’ powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the London 2012 Olympics. Little-noticed measures passed by the Government will allow officers and […]
From the Guardian. Such views always remind me of this cartoon… I’m sure the Jacobin paternalists on the Continent would love to tell Nadiya how “oppressed” she is… _______________ by Nadiya Takolia When you think of the hijab, you probably don’t think “political”. Or “independent”. Or “empowered”. Feminist? […]
Tim Minchin’s wet dreams may yet *ahem* come to fruition. Not content with importing their daytime soaps, the UK looks set to contract AIDS (Acquired Imperative Democracy Syndrome) from the Aussies. Will Airstrip One become another Saudi Arabia of Democracy? It certainly seems to be on that road… […]
The boys (and girls) who cried Wolfsangel…. From Taki Mag… _______________ by Gavin McInnes It was a tough week for racial witch hunters. In fact, it’s been a tough quarter-century for them. Reality keeps knocking the liberal media off its high horse. When they picked up the Trayvon […]
Well, it certainly lived up to its name: gotta respect HAG’s integrity! From Yahoo UK… _______________ By Vanessa Green For the second time in two months a customer has collapsed at the infamous Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas mid-meal, and been carted off to hospital. The unlucky […]
This amuses me on many a level. From the Huffington Post… _____________ Over five centuries after the famed explorer’s death, historians are taking a fresh look at what motivated Christopher Columbus to make his voyage across the Atlantic — and how his faith may have played into those […]
From the Mail. Looks like the Healthstapo are invading the London Borough of Haringey… _______________________ By Tom Goodenough They have long been linked with an unhealthy lifestyle and causing damage to people’s health. But now one London council is taking drastic measures to try and stop its residents […]
From the Guardian. Goy vey! ______________________ By Harriet Sherwood The Israeli prime minister has stoked a volatile debate about refugees and migrant workers from Africa, warning that “illegal infiltrators flooding the country” were threatening the security and identity of the Jewish state. “If we don’t stop their entry, […]
From BBC News. Don’t “think of the children” too much, lest you lose valuable freedoms (and IQ points) in the process! ____________ Pornography filters on mobile phones are “censoring” normal web content, according to the Open Rights Group. Its report found that 60 websites were incorrectly blocked by […]
Thaddeus Russell makes his case. Not that I think homosexuals should have to fit anyone’s Ideal Procrustean Queer mould, but do they not signal their social conservatism to the degree that they embrace this ritual? __________________________ Back in the days when there was an identifiable counter-cultural movement in […]
So says Glenn Greenwald. Nice job, Miss Forrest! __________________________ A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by […]
Article by Kevin Carson. I rather like Sean Gabb’s offshoot from it… American pigs, so far as I can tell, have always been more piggish than the English pigs. But our own have become much more brutal and trigger-happy over the past few decades. For example, Mark Duggan […]
From Jennifer S. @ Harvest Liberty. A rather even-handed critique of the ideas and goals endorsed on this-here site. A question for her: what if the whole notion of a “culture war”, rather than secession, is the “diversionary tactic”?
A highly recommended read that distills everything that fails about democracy onto less than a hundred pages! Check out Aschwin De Wolf’s interview with Karsten at Against Politics; and, if you like that, grab yourself a copy. Democracy is widely considered to be the best political system imaginable. […]
From Antiwar.com. __________________________ News from the Empire in South Korea: A three-judge panel on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. soldier to six years in prison for raping a South Korean teenager in September. Pvt. Kevin Robinson was found guilty of raping the 17-year-old at her residence in Seoul after […]
The folks at Spiked weigh in on the Rochdale sex slavers. First, Brendan O’Neill… Indeed, it seems it is now virtually impossible to have a serious discussion about problematic cultural attitudes, because to do so would apparently offend minorities and, even worse, stir up the passions of the […]
From WPFP. Gotta catch ‘em young! ____________________________ Eighteen-month-old Riyanna has been called a lot of things: cute, adorable and now … a suspected terrorist. She was called that on Tuesday night at the Ft Lauderdale Airport. She and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight when an […]
…and she only had to kill 500,000 children to get it—you go, girl! Read all about it at Antiwar.com.
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From the UK Huffington Post. No surprise to hear that Theresa May’s behind this ban: it seems a surveillance state “ is conducive to the public good”, yet learning how to fight off predation isn’t. She’s consistent, if nothing else. __________________________________ An American self-defence instructor has been banned […]
From the Daily Mail. All hail the therapeutic police state of Slave Britannia! ___________________________ Police fired Tasers at a terrified Alzheimer’s sufferer in a troubling incident that reopens the debate on the controversial weapon. Six officers were called to take the unarmed 58-year-old man to hospital but he […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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