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On 2024’s April Fool’s Day, fighter-bombers from modern Israel’s American-funded and American-equipped air force bombed the Embassy of Iran in Damascus, Syria. A fortnight later, the Iranians responded with a drone and missile attack that was mostly thwarted. Then came the appearance of calm between the two hostile nations for several months. (more…)
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Omnibus Productions was founded in the sixties because it was felt there was a need for classical films. It made four films with predominantly English casts and production and released on American television. Heidi (1968), David Copperfield (1970), Jane Eyre (1971). Heidi was the most famous because in 1968, as the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders game was still continuing, NBC immediately pre-empted the last quarter to begin Heidi, and the field of gridiron battle switched to a blonde, cheerful Heidi. (more…)
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History is important, American history particularly so. For better or worse — and I still don’t know if it’s for better or worse — everything America does and fails to do affects the world. President Clinton was very cautious about getting involved in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s because he was thinking of the Vietnam War. George W. Bush went on to attack Iraq because he was thinking of the “lessons” of the Second World War. (more…)
Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, Massachusetts (Bronze, 1925)
Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, Massachusetts (Bronze, 1925)
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The defining characteristic of WASPs is that they are much less ethnocentric than other peoples; indeed for all practical purposes Anglo-Saxon Protestants appear to be all but completely bereft of in-group solidarity. They are therefore open to exploitation by free-riders from other, more ethnocentric, groups. [1]
There is a woeful lack of ethnic consciousness and cohesion among Anglo-Saxons worldwide. (more…)