It has become an important part of Right-wing lore to mock liberals for framing current events in terms of Harry Potter. Donald Trump restricts entry to persons from a number of Muslim countries? That’s just like Voldemort persecuting Muggles! A court refuses to convict a white person for defending himself against black crime? (more…)
Tag: Charles Jansen
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Harry Potter needs no introduction. It would be hard to find someone who has not heard about him. When J. K. Rowling’s first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the US), was published in 1997, the entertainment industry immediately “smelled” potential success and invested in the books. Not famous yet, Rowling received $105,000 from the publishing house Scholastic for the American rights of the first book, (more…)
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Emmanuel Ratier (on the left) with Paul-Éric Blanrue, who authored books and documentaries on Jewish power and revisionism.
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Nul n’est prophète en son pays, dit-on.
Dans le monde anglophone, le nom d’Emmanuel Ratier est globalement inconnu. La version anglophone de Wikipédia n’a pas d’article à son nom. Tout juste trouve-t-on une mention d’un de ses livres dans la bibliographie d’un article sur un club de la haute société, Le Siècle. (more…)
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Emmanuel Ratier (on the left) with Paul-Éric Blanrue, who authored books and documentaries on Jewish power and revisionism.
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French version here
They say no man is a prophet in his own land.
Emmanuel Ratier was unknown in the English-speaking world. The English version of Wikipedia has no page about him. In France, the country he was born in and always had at heart, Ratier was barely known in the mainstream. Only recently had he started to become well-known, (more…)
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In the popular video game Half-Life 2 and its sequels, the players fight against the Combine Empire. This empire may be fictional, but it has many aspects that are all too real. The universe of Half-Life 2 has been created with patience and a lot of work, as one can guess from the number of tryouts for designing one of the game’s most important buildings. The result is a very well-thought, sometimes subtle universe that goes often unseen because players are more concerned with solving a particular riddle or fighting a particular battle. (more…)