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I took to Charles Krafft right away. Our introduction came the week before I was due to set off for the second Counter-Currents retreat. The phone rang and I was asked if on my way down through Seattle I could pick up a stranded attendee.
While I readily agreed — anything to help out, you know — I had reservations, as patriotic conferences can attract ahem, “eccentrics,” (more…)
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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The strange sight of the Pope, on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, welcoming eight North African children sporting T-shirts boasting, “welcome, protect, promote, and integrate” rather summed up the dismal state of the leadership of the faith that some say was once the embodiment of Europe. (more…)
Douglas Reed
Douglas Reed
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The long-awaited prosperity promised by the Industrial Revolution finally arrived with the Edwardian Age of productive leisure. But, alas, it was not to be for long. The freedom it granted was fleeting. Today, as the fabled American middle class fades like the morning dew, those who are running just to stand still, as the Red Queen prophesied, are the lucky ones.
Lopsided money distribution was one of the factors which encouraged C. H. Douglas to devise the yet-to-be implemented Social Credit Dividend, which was to be based on the inheritance of natural resources and inventions from previous generations. (more…)
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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There is something about a royal wedding which tugs at the heartstrings of this old Brit. I’m too young to remember the wedding of the Queen, but the pageantry of Diana’s brought tears to my eyes while, sadly, the wedding of Prince Harry to his divorcee only brings to mind Richard Kelly Hoskins’ Vigilantes of Christendom, an obscure book on the perils of interracial marriage. (more…)
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“Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”
– Mark Twain
Michael Hoffman
The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome
Coeur d’Alene: Independent History and Research, 2017
Not many people would disagree with the claim that the old grey mare of Christianity is not what it used to be, but few could tell with any accuracy what exactly went wrong. Michael Hoffman is one of those few. (more…)
C. H. Douglas, founder of Social Credit
C. H. Douglas, founder of Social Credit
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When, during World War I, C. H. Douglas was sent to sort out the accounting muddle in an aircraft factory in Farnborough, England he noticed that the factory was generating costs faster than it was distributing incomes. Replicating the process at a hundred other large British firms he found that the total costs were always more than the money distributed in dividends, wages, and salaries.[1]
Douglas became concerned that the men who labored in the factories producing the necessities of life could not always afford to purchase the items they had worked to produce, (more…)
C. H. Douglas, the British Social Credit pioneer.
C. H. Douglas, the British Social Credit pioneer.
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There is drawn no boundary,
No hard, wretched earth-clod bars our way,
And we sail across the sea,
And we wander countries far away.
–“Human Pride,” Karl Marx
When President Trump issued an executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven countries, he quickly found out that the ability to associate with people of one’s choice was not so easy – even for the denizens of a superpower. His order was quickly challenged in court and worldwide demonstrations demanded the right of entry to America for all, even if the Americans don’t want to associate with particular people. (more…)
Frans Francken II (1581–1642), The Miser Haunted by Death Playing Violin
Frans Francken II (1581–1642), The Miser Haunted by Death Playing Violin
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Usura slayeth the child in the womb
Usura stayeth the young man’s courting
It hath brought the young bride and her bridegroom
CONTRA NATURAM
They have brought whores for Eleusis
Corpses are set to banquet
at behest of usura. — Ezra Pound
Clifford Hugh Douglas of Social Credit fame tried to reform a system that was born in 1694 with the creation of the Bank of England. (more…)
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As the drought intensifies in California an old idea comes to mind.
Donald Baker, an engineer with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dreamed up the idea of shipping surplus northern water south and in 1964 took his idea to the Parsons Corporation where the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) was born.
Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, 1879–1952
Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, 1879–1952
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“Salvation by history” — H. G. Wells, The Undying Fire
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
H. G. Wells described the devil and the adversary of all that is good as “the Unexpected,”[1] a condition suitable for any discussion concerning economics and C. H. Douglas. (more…)
Carroll Quigley, 1910–1977
Carroll Quigley, 1910–1977
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Where do you come from white boy, what is your land
Everybody else knows where they come from
You don’t know your place, you never did, you never can
You can’t find a place in this land
–“White Boy,” Paul Kanter and Grace Slick
The Dilemma (more…)
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