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Andy Nowicki on the air!On
February 20, Andy Nowicki once again appeared on the "Political Cesspool" radio program, in its third hour, and the segment is now archived for on-demand listening. Mr. Nowicki discussed his recent novel Considering Suicide and its thematic implications for the decline of the West.(The attack on the 2010 American Renaissance Conference comes in for some comment during the first hour of the program.) Ω
Amazon.com page for Mr. Nowicki's book.
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"What Is Austrian Economics?" (Mises Institute)
"I, Pencil," by Leonard E. Read (The Freeman)
"The Epistemological Basis of Anarchism,"
by Roy A. Childs, Jr. (TLD)
"Polite totalitarianism," by Ronald N. Neff (TLD)
Posted February 23, 2010.
In the Catacombs. As you may know by now, Jared Taylor and American Renaissance managed to hold an abbreviated conference after all, on Saturday afternoon, despite the best efforts of our common enemies. Mr. Taylor has posted a report at the AR site: "2010 AR Conference Held Against All Odds."
The list of speakers was of course shorter than originally planned, but it included Sam Dickson, who according to Mr. Taylor
elaborated a theory of how schizophrenia on race contributes to the rise of white sociopaths to elite positions. He argued that unlike non-whites, who need not strike foolish poses about race — who are free to make healthy demands in the names of their people — prominent whites are so accustomed to lying about the most basic aspects of society that only the most practiced liars ever rise to positions of power.A correspondent of mine who was there paraphrased Mr. Dickson's formulation in this way: The United States is the first country in history to be ruled at all levels by sociopaths. Veteran TLD readers may recall that I, too, have detected widespread sociopathy among the officials who rule us and among the candidates who seek to rule us. I hope the text of Mr. Dickson's address will be published, as well as Mr. Taylor's own speech, titled "What Is at Stake for Our People."
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My correspondent reports a startling exchange that came to light at the conference. After Jeffrey Imm and his communist allies began their assault on the conference, Mr. Taylor challenged Imm to debate him at the National Press Club. Imm countered with an offer to "debate" Mr. Taylor at a protest meeting he had planned! Mr. Taylor declined that gracious invitation, but one conference attender revealed that he himself was curious enough to go to the location specified by Imm, to find a lonely Imm mysteriously unsurrounded by any throng of admirers. Seizing the opportunity, the AR sympathizer asked Imm, "Why'd you call in death threats to the Manassas Four Points Sheraton?" (That was the third hotel to abrogate its contract with AR.) And Imm is said to have replied: "Yeah, we're sorry about that."
Oh, "we" are, are "we"? I will be interested to see whether Imm will repeat that on the witness stand, under oath.
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The first hotel to renege on AR was the Dulles Marriott, and it apparently did so without receiving any death threats. Earlier this month, the Marriott chain hosted a different kind of conference at its Warner Center Marriott, in Woodland Hills, Calif. The name of the gathering was the "XBIZ State of the Industry Conference." What industry? The porn industry, that's what. Larry Flynt was one of the speakers. A report on the proceedings posted at The Wrap makes no reference to any controversy or protest directed at the Marriott, or any tortured soul-searching by the management over whether to host the conference.
At one time, Marriott was considered a "Mormon chain." How quaint that sounds now. [Nicholas Strakon] Ω
Posted February 23-25, 2010.
A radio interview with Jared Taylor from
Dept. of Know Your Enemy. Listening to Mr. Taylor in the above interview, I learned of the existence of a third leftist group that joined the attack on AR: The Self-Described Anarchist Collective [sic]. On its home page I find this report: "AmRen Canceled — This Time We Really Mean It" (February 18). Following that post is the text of the group's
"Self-described," indeed. You can imagine how I, as a genuine anarchist and anti-fascist, react to the hijacking of those terms by chaotic-minded frauds and would-be tyrants.
Senior editor Ronn Neff comments: "Always good to know that there are anarchists out there doing the state's work and saving the taxpayers money."
John Derbyshire, author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, has posted his take on AR and the cancellation of the AR Conference, at Secular Right:
"How Liberty Dies"Though he has committed more than enough crimethink on matters ethnic to get himself popped behind the wire when the time comes, Derbyshire writes that "I don't really think of myself as an American Renaissance type." But that makes his reaction to the initial news of the attack on AR all the more interesting: he signed up for the conference "in a fit of righteous indignation." Very refreshing. Righteous indignation in support of white people's freedom of expression and freedom of association is in grievously short supply.
Meanwhile, South African Dan Roodt, who was due to appear once again as an AR speaker, has written an open letter to Jeffrey Imm, posted at praag.co.uk, "South Africa's premier news site":
"Jeffrey Imm's Race Fundamentalism"A taste:
Your intolerant, left-fascist attitude affects not only the free discussion of political ideas, but also science, morality, history, and international relations. If it were to become universal, humanity would go back to the Dark Ages where anyone voicing dissent from opinions held by the masses — or the mass media — would be persecuted.
Efforts had been made to conceal the venue of the mini-conference in hopes of sparing its operators any reprisals from the Red thugs. But it doesn't help that a photograph was taken of apparent AR supporters, with the restaurant's name in full view behind them. How the Reds got a copy is another question. I've looked at the source code of the page, and the image is not linked from another site, although the Reds may well have copied it from elsewhere. Unfortunately, the names of the two attenders seem to be revealed in the title of the jpeg.
Now that race-realists are under attack from actual criminals threatening violence, we need to start refining our approach to security. Mind you, I am not calling for undignified foolishness, in the style of the Red thugs who wear masks while demonstrating against AR events. They are clowns both sinister and cowardly.
Needless to say, one doesn't take seriously these goblins' claims to be fighting hate. They are fully aware that they are in the business of producing hate. They've certainly succeeded with me.
We nuanced 'em good. Another act of what some of us thought-criminals call homicidal humanitarianism occurred in Afghanistan on
Editor's intro: "Gen. Stanley McChrystal's nuanced Afghanistan war plan took a hit on Sunday when a convoy of suspected insurgents targeted by a coalition airstrike turned out to be civilians."
In alerting Ronn Neff to the article, I commented: "Old McChrystal and his boys (and Wimmin) are really masters of nuance, aren't they?"
He replied: "I think you've misunderstood everything here: it was a nuanced airstrike and the insurgents were nuanced civilians."
Simple-minded fellow that I am, I find the Empire's nuanced approach to winning hearts and minds hard to grasp.
The alien-import machine. In this AP dispatch, reporter Russell Contreras gives us some good skinny on how things are actually done: "World's refugee orphans seeking homes in the U.S.," posted at MercuryNewscom.
The nugget: "In the U.S., states license foster homes with the help of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The federal government reimburses states for all costs of the [imported] children's schooling, health care, and related expenses."
I say, if Americans feel the urge to import and rear alien children, let them pony up their own money without asking the government to rob their neighbors.
And wouldn't it be nice if the Red Robes of Lutheran and Catholic "charities" could somehow be torn away from the government teat? It's funny how the Left's super-sensitivity to separation of church and state goes completely dead when it comes to raking in the government loot.
The lady is crazy for war. I'm linking to this one mainly on the strength of the Sarah Palin quote, which is similar to the one in the Karen Kwiatkowski piece I featured last time:
"Why Iran's dictators can be deterred," by Fareed Zakaria (Washington Post)Palin makes mainstreamer Zakaria look like a sage and the soul of imperial caution.
Monuments to Obamunism. Last time, I linked to a piece about Obama's plan to exercise Executive power unilaterally in order to steer around a not-completely-compliant Congress. At Fox News, William La Jeunesse reports: "Obama Eyes Western Land for National Monuments, Angering Some."
La Jeunesse writes: "Presidential use of the Antiquities Act is highly controversial because the White House, with the stroke of a pen, can lock up thousands of square miles of federal lands used for timber, ranching, mining, and energy development without local input or congressional approval." According to La Jeunesse, most of the land in question here — encompassing more than
He writes: "More than a dozen pristine landscapes, wildlife habitats, and scenic rivers in 11 Western states, some larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, are under consideration by the Obama administration to become America's newest National Monuments — a decision the administration can make unilaterally without local input or congressional approval."
"Monuments" — 20,300 square miles of "monuments"?! It is both impressive and dismaying what the Palace can say with a straight face. And what it can get away with.
However, La Jeunesse says it's unlikely that the Palace will lock up all 20,300 square miles. We ought to stay tuned, though, to see just what it does put into the deep-freeze, because some of the land contains oil, gas, and gold. If Obama locks up those lands, will it be despite the presence of the oil, gas, and gold — or because of the oil, gas, and gold? The man is, after all, an enemy of mankind and of human civilization.
Leviathan is again turning its microscope on us the ruled, and I highly recommend this article by Wendy McElroy, at The Freeman: "The Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering."
Forever the naïf, I gasped at this: "In preparation for the 2010 census, state employees even took GPS readings for every front door in America so that individuals can be located with computer accuracy."
But I'm not enough of a naïf to have gasped at this, though I hadn't been aware of it:
When Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made his notorious "scorched earth" march through Georgia, he used census data to locate the farms he looted for provisions. During World War I the Justice Department used census data to locate males within a certain age-range who had not registered for the draft; during World War II the data were used to locate Japanese-Americans and target them for internment. More recently, the IRS has compared census data to privately purchased lists to detect tax evaders.
Sorry, Mister Anderson (as Agent Smith of "The Matrix" might have intoned). Ignoring economics and the rest of reality is just what pols do, and that certainly goes for the new Republican hero from the Massachusetts S.S.R.: "Harry Reid snags victory on $15B jobs bill," by Lisa Lerer and Manu Raju at Politico.com (February 23). Lerer and Raju begin:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid squeezed out a victory on a $15 billion jobs bill after a whirlwind day [February 22] of frantic negotiations with Republicans.I guess it goes to show that the socialists and fascists can't lose a battle to extend their system on one front (in this case, health insurance, assuming they do lose) without winning a battle on another front.Reid closed the deal with help from the man who cost him his 60-vote Senate supermajority: Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown.
The 62-30 vote to break a GOP filibuster avoided an embarrassing loss for the embattled majority leader, who faces a tough reelection battle in a state crippled by high unemployment and foreclosure rates. Final passage of the bill could come by Wednesday.
I award another strong recommendation to this gripping essay by Jeff Riggenbach, at Mises: "Hushing Up Conspiracy Theories." In pursuing his argument, Riggenbach produces this wonderful observation: "... History is the natural enemy of the state." Ω
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