Zoomorphic vessel, neolithic, Linear Pottery Culture, National Archaelogical Museum, Bratislava
Zoomorphic vessel, neolithic, Linear Pottery Culture, National Archaelogical Museum, Bratislava
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In the attempt to understand who we are and where we came from, history takes us only so far. Once the written record thins and ends—not far back in time, evolutionarily speaking—we are left primarily with archaeological evidence and inferences from linguistics. (more…)
Elof Wedin, 1958
Elof Wedin, 1958
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Elof Wedin (1901–1983) enjoyed a long career as an artist from the 1920s to the mid-1970s, supporting himself as a boilermaker in industrial hot water plants, painting on nights and weekends.
Today his paintings, pastels, and sculptures are housed in 52 private collections and 19 organizations, (more…)
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My introduction to James Bond wasn’t through the movies, but through a book I checked out of the local library when I was a boy—Anglo-Scots Ian Fleming’s Gilt-Edged Bonds (1961), a collection containing Casino Royale
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "The Tower of Babel"
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "The Tower of Babel"
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The ancestral Proto-Indo-European language was spoken around 5,000 BC by a people who, according to scholarly consensus, lived somewhere north of the Black Sea in an extensive area coinciding roughly with the land of the ancient Scythians. (more…)
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Bursting into the wealthy house where the bris for baby Glick Sacks is being held, the Monster Mohel and his scowling Orthodox thugs clutching automatic weapons look just like real-life religious fanatics.
Grinning evilly, the Monster Mohel demands, “Where is the child?” (more…)
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If a criminal gang comes to power, then they will use criminal means to conduct their policies.
État Français
In May 1940 Germany invaded France and the Low Countries. Paris, the French capital, was occupied on June 14, 1940.
France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and west, a small Italian occupation zone in the southeast, and an unoccupied zone, the zone libre (free zone), in the south. (more…)
Eugene Terre’Blanche
Eugene Terre’Blanche
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French translation here
The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife and His Big White Self
The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife was filmed prior to the 1994 takeover of South Africa. Its sequel, His Big White Self, was shot fifteen years later. Both documentaries were originally broadcast over British public television station Channel 4. (more…)
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“Before they addressed themselves to the impractical task of changing men by changing laws, the justices might have pondered the words of Savigny, who wrote, ‘Law is no more made by lawyers than language by grammarians. Law is the natural moral product of a people . . . the persistent customs of a nation, springing organically from its past and present. Even statute law lives in the general consensus of the people.'” –Wilmot Robertson, The Dispossessed Majority (1981) (more…)
‘Holocaust Memorial of Miami’ – photo by Carol Highsmith
‘Holocaust Memorial of Miami’ – photo by Carol Highsmith
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Übersetzt von Deep Roots
English original here
Ein Schlüsselmerkmal des zeitgenössischen Philosemitismus ist seine seltsame und zutiefst schädliche religiöse Dimension, die durch und durch rassistisch ist. In der zeitgenössischen Mythologie ersetzen die Juden effektiv Christus (eine halbgöttliche Gottesrasse, die in einem Holocaust geopfert wurde), während Hitler Satan ist. (more…)
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German philosopher and critic Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) developed the concept of romantic or organic nationalism, a form of ethnic nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy from historic cultural or hereditary groups. The underlying assumption is that every ethnicity should be politically distinct. Herder’s ideas on the subject were expressed in his theory of the Volksgeist. (more…)
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American actress-director-producer Jodie Foster has come under fire for not throwing her friend, Academy Award-winning actor-director Mel Gibson, under the bus. The two have known each other since they met on the set of Maverick (1994).
Gibson has been systematically hounded and maligned since he made the Christian motion picture The Passion of the Christ (2004). (more…)
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“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,”
Essays: Second Series (1844)
Nationalism, as well as racial pride and consciousness, are potentially powerful unifying forces. (more…)
Abbott Handerson Thayer, Stevenson Memorial, 1903
Abbott Handerson Thayer, Stevenson Memorial, 1903
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Essential elements of modern nationalism existed in early times in the form of tribalism. In fact, modern European nationalism is often excoriated by critics as a form of tribalism or racism. According to English anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, in prehistoric times man everywhere lived in small, isolated bands. Yet by the dawn of history, small tribes had become “welded by war and conquest into bigger and bigger units.” (more…)