Neocons and Armenia

By stoking a visceral hatred of Armenians – because that is how modern Azerbaijani nationalism expresses itself – these Washington neocons would endanger one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East. https://t.co/AtMNNrMcvC

— Eurasianet (@EurasiaNet) October 31, 2020

American Empire vs. Iran

Iran: Don't Trust the Mainstream Mediahttps://t.co/nfl6q8RRzn

— 🏛️Kelvin Bishop🏛️ (@KelvinBSP) October 18, 2020

Believe It or Not

11-year old Iranian girl scores highest possible mark in Mensa IQ test

She still isn't a man.

If he's a neocon...

does he advocate that the US take a "hard line" towards Iran?

Would he consider "returning home" to the Chaldean/Assyrian Church?

From atheism and Marxism to Catholicism: The conversion of Sohrab Ahmari by Jim Graves

War with Russia in the works?

Bring Back the Cold War by Paul Craig Roberts (Unz)

Iranian Delegation Visits Pontifical Council for Culture

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Odd

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Items of Interest, 31 March 2012

Srdja Trifkovic, Sarkozy the Demagogue

Patrick Buchanan, It's All About Race Now

GARETH PORTER, Israel Shields Public from Risks of War with Iran

Classical Greek Philosophy and American Democratic Thought


Solzhenitsyn, Russell Kirk, and the Moral Imagination by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
How Reading Josef Pieper Can Help You Stay Sane by Robert M. Woods
The Meaning of Liberty During the American Revolution
by Bradley J. Birzer

Jack Donovan:
interview

There are a lot of ways I could define that group. In an ideological sense, I want to live around people who have the same ideas about how the world should be, because that means we are all working in some harmony and chugging along in the same general direction, rather than working against one another. People “like myself” would also be people who share a similar frame of reference, so that we can speak in a cultural shorthand, understand each other, and trust each other to some degree. I grew up in a white American middle class family with solid working class roots. I am not from millionaires or French aristocrats, and I don’t know ‘bout no ghetto. My pap worked on the railroad and my dad plays horseshoes. I’ve never worked on a train and I suck at horseshoes, but I have a connection with folks like that. Those are my people.

Believing in the same order as a foundation for [civic] friendship. Not just agreeinment upon common goods, but upon the means to those goods.

Feminism leads to an attempt at matriarchy:  "Women do not want men in isolated groups together without female supervision, because women know that brother-bonded men set their own values and stop looking to women for guidance or approval."
Andy Nowicki, In Defense of Squares: A Response to Jack Donovan

Economics:
David Rosen, We Are All Luddites
Tired of waiting for the barbarians by Erik Curren (EB)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (review) by Akshay Ahuja (EB)

Christianity:
An Atheist Argues for Europe's Christianity

Gardening:
The Beauty of Dirty Hands

Feminism:
Q & A with Gov. Madeleine Kunin on “the new feminist agenda”
A true believer who can get by being a true believer because of her material advantages.

Movies:
Roger Ebert's review of October Baby. (The Deep Blue Sea)

Music:
Ron Stewart and Earl Scruggs

Wendy MacIsaac:


Fashion:
The Arrogant Aggression of Scruffy Jeans

Items of Interest, 12 March 2012

Egalitarian Elites and the Academic Dilemma by Darryl Hart

Ryan Grant, Navigating the Republican Milieu, Part I

The Chapelstone Foundation

Robert George, Why Study the West? (National Association of Scholars - Academic Questions)

Rebellion: Country music and the culture wars

Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski, We’re All Traditionalists Now

Russell Kirk, The Conservative Purpose of a Liberal Education
Conservatism and the Western Tradition
Obedience to What is Noble


VDare: Deport Keish Kim! Impeach John Morton! (And Obama!)

Patrick Buchanan on Japan: Land of the Setting Sun


The European Union's Racist and Unintentionally Revealing TV Ad

Counterpunch:
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Land of the Mega-Rich
URI AVNERY, Attacking Iran
TOM ENGELHARDT, The Zero Percent Doctrine

Farming:
Shannon Hayes, A Farmers' Daughter
Rodale: The Girl Next Door Is the Future of Food
How can organic farming feed the world?
Why Monsanto Thought Weeds Would Never Defeat Roundup

Peak Oil:
Kurt Cobb, The narrowing window for a transition to a sustainable industrial society (EB)

Diet and Health:
Still a Fast-Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later
10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Sleep
Karen De Coster, Burzynski: The Movie (the movie)
Dominicans - Complicated Compline

History:
Why Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095
The Templar Trials: Did the System Work?

Japanese Imperial Army Victory March Nanking 1937 日本軍の勝利は1937年南京行進


Music:
The Cranberries in Studio


For Sarge -


Chiara Luce Badano Movie Trailer

Items of Interest, 7 March 2012

Fabius Maximus: Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. Our role: to obey. Rebel sheep will be imprisoned or destroyed.

Book Review: Afghanistan: A Military History

Just War and the Iran Crisis by Robert C. Koons

Marx Contra Marx: A Traditionalist Conservative Critique of The Communist Manifesto by K.R. Bolton

Tom Woods reviews The Founding Fatherers' Guide to the Constitution by Brion McClanahan: How To Read the Constitution
Our founding document can speak through the people who wrote it.

VIDEO: SAF’s Alan Gottlieb on PolitiChicks TV
Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation recently did an interview on PolitiChicks TV. Subjects discussed span from why liberals don’t like guns, the Fast & Furious case, and self-defense.

Economics and Relocalization:
Forget the ‘golden age’ of capitalism: there’s no return, and our future can be better by Aaron Peters (EB)

Peer to peer food growing takes root [Interview] by Mira Luna (EB)

The Extraenvironmentalist: Episode #37 Techno-Fix (mp3)
In Extraenvironmentalist #37 we discuss technological optimism with Dr. Michael Huesemann. Michael explains his fifteen year study into environmental science and philosophies of technology as outlined in his recent book Techno-Fix, co-written with his wife Joyce Huesemann. Is there an inherent reason that the United States is the most technologically optimistic culture in the world? We ask if he has advice for students who are thinking about careers in advanced science and about the value systems embedded in technological systems.

Farming and energy: lessons from collapsed civilisations

How to Find Meaning and Money in Your Work by Billy Parish

Stage 3: The Kin
Study after study shows that we’re happier when we’re together, but sometimes it can be hard to find your people, your tribe, your community. Maybe your family and the community you grew up in don’t seem to support the values or passion you hold dear. Schools and work environments are too often designed for competition, not connection and collaboration, breeding a cliquish and alienating environment.


Most of us start off into the Wilderness with just one or a few friends who understand what we’re going through. We have late-night conversations and long walks to make sense of all the confusing things. We become stronger as we accumulate more friends. So the question is: How do we find our people?


There are hundreds of ways to find larger groups of people with shared values and purpose. Here’s a starter list of two quick ways to get you into your community:


1.Take the online offline. There are online networks and organizations for almost every interest. It’s great to be involved in these sites and networks, but look for opportunities to take the online networking offline as fast as you can. Go to bar nights, potlucks, film screenings, conferences, community association meetings, or open houses of these networks with the goal of finding just one other simpatico person to come to future events with you.
2.Bring it to your town. Look for events that are going on in other towns or cities that attract the people that you want to be hanging out with. Contact the organizer or host organization and sign up to be a local organizer or part of the team that is bringing it to your community. You now have permission to get in touch with as many people as you can and have an organization offering you some support to get started. Whether it is a TEDx event, ChangeCamp, or a Meetup event, there are great opportunities to get to know people.
When you do find true community, it can feel like a homecoming, like the discovery of a new family you didn’t know but was there all along. In these communities, you will find friendship, comradeship, and a kind of unity of purpose. These are the people who will drop everything to help when you’re in need, with whom you can share some laughs and commiseration when choices seem unknown. Your community is made up of those who will help you land a job when you’re broke, partner with you when you want to launch a new company, or at least have a drink with you on a patio.


Before long, if you’re not there already, you’ll end up being a part of multiple communities based around workplaces, conferences, Listservs, and who knows what else. For now, consider that you are already part of a broad movement of Rebuilders, and you aren’t doing it alone. Your community is actually everywhere. There’s a growing acceptance of this trackless track and more and more people that can help you bridge between the different steps on our nonlinear paths.

France’s Distinctive Cheeses Are Disappearing

Energy:
Pilot lights are evil by Tom Murphy (EB)

Catholic:
Liturgical Developments in the Anglican Ordinariate
Cardinal Cañizares on Moderating the Use of Concelebration (Once I Was a Clever Boy)
“The Church will become small and will have to start afresh …”
God and Liberal Modernity by James Kalb (via Insight Scoop)
The Irrational Beauty of Conversion by Christian Tappe

Education:
Classical Education and the Digital Revolution, Part 2 of 3
The Value of Useless Knowledge by Albert Jay Nock

Feminism:
Beyond "Slut" and Shopaholic: What Being a Gen-Y Woman Is Really All About
One woman's experience posing as a man in the world of online dating: (via Alpha Game Plan)

GL Piggy on furthering Title IX legislation: Pushing the Ball
There is a short mention of equality of opportunity versus equality of results, but as opposed to equality of opportunity should we not focus instead on equality of funding? In that case, for whom is physical activity a more integral part of their education, men or women? But it isn't just a question of exercise but also learning how to cooperate on a team, and who is more suited to this and more likely to benefit, men or women? It's a question of equality as it pertains to distributive justice. But a proper account of distributive justice will not work on those who are emotionally invested
in the modern dogma of radical equality of the sexes, since they deny that these sex differences exist or are morally relevant.

NPR: Upset Men and the Women Who Love Them
Marrying Babies
What do Men Want in a Wife, and Why Won’t Wives Oblige?

The return of tights for men?
'Brosiery' and 'mantyhose' take off as men seek the warmth, comfort... and 'fashion statement' of patterned tights

Diet and Health:
LLVLC: Paleo Blogger Richard Nikoley Addresses The Low-Carb vs. Paleo Controversy (mp3)
Free the Animal: My Podcast with The Delightful Jimmy Moore
A vegan returns to eating meat: The Blog Post I Didn't Want To Write

The Paleo Declaration of Independence


Reputation and Economic Performance: The Competitive Strategies of Medieval English Town

Items of Interest, 5 January 2012

Thomas Fleming, Newt Gingrich, RIP and For the Last Time and Gaffes

Daniel Larison, Why Haven't Republicans Repudiated Bush on Iraq?

Clark Stooksbury, Pink Buckets of Chicken

Refuted Congressional Lies about NDAA Kidnapping

Peter Hitchens, Don't forget, it takes a cynical knave to create a dodgy knight and Einstein Versus the Atheists

Intellectual Conservative, No Evidence for God?

Prophet of Conservatism, Russell Kirk

Mike Church: Interview with Kevin Gutzman on the state of conservatism

Mike Church & Winston Elliott discuss Conservatism, Russell Kirk and the Humane Economy

Paul Gottfried, Enough with Family Values and When Democracy Murders Liberty

America: Christian or Jacobin? by John Zmirak

End the Violence, End the War on Drugs

Srdja Trifkovic, Obama's Strategic Doctrine: W Lite
Daniel Larison, Syria and Interventionism Run Amok

Peter Hitchens, The Tory Party, Who Needs It?

Rebellion: Abbeville Institute Conference

Ron Paul:
Scott McConnell, Ron Paul and His Enemies
Patrick Buchanan: Ron Paul: Reactionary or Visionary ?

Iran:
Philip Giraldi, Another War on the Cheap
Chairman of Joint Chiefs to Israelis: U.S. Won’t Join Your War on Iran by Gareth Porter
US Frets Israeli Attack on Iran
Daniel Larison, Israel Is Not Going to Attack Iran

On Recent Economic Figures:
Auomatic Earth has a new url. Who Killed the Money Printer?
Paul Craig Roberts: Economics 101 and The Real Economic Picture
Fabius Maximus: About the January jobs report – mildly good news, but bought at great cost

Economics:
John Médaille, There is No Such Thing as a Bank Loan
Ralph Nader, The Health Care Racket

Peak Oil and Energy:
Janet Napolitano Personifies US Myopia
Peak Oil Crisis Election 2012

History:
Romance of the Middle Ages
Kathryn Boughton, A Book on James Madison by Dr. Kevin Gutzman

Christianity:
Thomas Fleming, Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites
Ethiopian Iconography
Christian Jihad
The Christianity of Modernism by Cleanth Brooks

Feminism:
The Feminist Mystique

Diet and Health
What happens when you eat Ramen.
Regrowing Your Own Teeth

Misc:
Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family for only 3000 Pounds

Items of Interest, 31 January 2012

Patrick Buchanan, Obama Sandbags the Archbishop
Tom Piatak, The Evil Party Rides Again
Vox Populi: Selective and belated protest

Karen De Coster: Amy Alkon on Homo Barbarus and A Book About Flinching and Fear

Pillars of Agrarianism

Jeffersonian Exceptionalism by Paul Pillar

Brad Birzer's series of interviews with Catholic "conservatives," "Bearers of the Word," can be found here. His interview with Daniel McCarthy. (via Daniel McCarthy; Rod Dreher's post)

Fabius Maximus: Martin van Creveld explains the essence of Airpower Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow and Some foes of the Republic revealed themselves by sponsoring the Enemy Expatriation Act

NDAA Taking You Back to the 19th Century

State Governments check Federal power

Daniel Larison, What Santorum Learned from Bush-era Foreign Policy Failures, Santorum Still Stuck in 2002: They Hate Us Because of Our Freedom, The Dangerous Idea of NATO Expansion Will Not Die

James Antle on the Republicans behind Obamacare: Now what the doctor ordered.

"The Conservative Believes..." by Russell Kirk

What is a Conservative?

Mark T. Mitchell, Monstanto vs. Family Farmers

Franklin C. Spinney, The On-going Scandal of the F-35

Iran:
The Ongoing War on Iran by PATRICK COCKBURN
Where to go for information about our conflict with Iran, and why you should understand what’s happening
Iranian aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Mexico
Israeli Officials: Attack on Iran Must Come ‘By Summer’
Daniel Larison, Nasr: Iran Sanctions Leading to War
Hormuz-Mania: Why closure of the Straits of Hormuz could ignite a war and a global depression by Michael Klare

Economics:
The Crisis of Civilization reviewed (EB)


Kevin Carson, Why the State Will Fail
Interview with Richard Heinberg on Occupy Educated
Beyond GDP: New Measures for a New Economy by Lew Daly, Stephen Posner (EB)
Capitalism only creates misery – we need a system that puts human wellbeing first
The Price of Growth by Gregor Macdonald
Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
More reasons why we are reaching limits to growth by Gail Tverberg (EB)
The fallacy of the tragedy of the commons by Marq de Villiers (EB)

Sustainability:
A guide for sustainability advocates by Niki Harré (EB)

Relocalization:
Education and the Way Home by Jeffrey Polet
For Farmers Everywhere, Small is (Still) Beautiful by Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
Meet the New Boss: You
5 Big Ideas For A New Economy
Sharing a Skilled Future (EB)
Is Valpo Ready for Citizen Finance?
My prices are not too high: A farmer fires back by Shannon Hayes (EB)
Brewing Better Local Economies with American Craft Beer

Peak Oil and Energy:
Peak Oil: Yes, Still a Serious Issue (EB)
The Hydrogen Dream (EB)
Oil prices, exhaustible resources, and economic growth: report extract
by James D. Hamilton (EB)

Items of Interest, 21 January 2012

Leon Hadar, Another War That Nobody Wants
Patrick J. Buchanan, Who Wants War with Iran
Daniel Larison, The Complete Folly of an Iranian War

Playing Our Strength - Why COIN Doesn't Work
Foreign Internal Defense in Iraq


Philip Giraldi, Creating American Terrorists

Defending corpse urination begs the question: who’s the racist? by Kelley Vlahos

The Military-Industrial Complex: The Enemy from Within by John W. Whitehead

Daniel Larison, Murray’s Proposal for Reducing Cultural Inequality

Elite and Underclass
A review by F. Roger Devlin of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 by Charles Murray

Globalize or Localize? Beyond the Post-American World by Carl L. Bankston III

Tradition and Critique: On Wanting to Know by R. J. Snell

Decline and Fall by Thomas F. Bertonneau

(A review of At the End of an Age by John Lukacs. Another review)

Economics:
John Médaille, The Content of ‘Business Ethics’ Isn’t Ethics, or, The Hangman and the State

Link to a Nicole Foss interview at Automatic Earth: Infinite Rehypothecation

Allan Carlson, Röpke’s Conundrums Over the Natural Family

From last November, Richard Heinberg's appearance at the Commonwealth Club: The Great Disruption

Peak Oil:
Why Oil Prices Will Stay High
The Happy Hoarder: Fire in the belly

MRA:
Men's Earnings Haven't Just Stagnated Over Past 40 Years--They've Fallen

Jack Donovan interview (Dunbar's Number)

Dunbar's Number:
The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
NPR: Don't Believe Facebook; You Have Only 150 Friends
Why Dunbar's Number is Irrelevant
Robin Dunbar: we can only ever have 150 friends at most…

Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need? from The RSA on FORA.tv

Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

Feminism:
Is Feminism a Heresy? by Donna Steichen

Diet and Health:
Understand the calcium myth; here's what really makes healthy bones
Aloe Vera Gel
All Things Leptin - Leptin 101

Office Hours with Eric Westman:


A Gut Check for Many Ailments

The Daily Lipid: My Interview with Dave Asprey and Armi Legge

Catholic:
The Other Successors of Peter: The Patriarchs of Antioch

Père Abbé du Barroux sur Direct8/Dieu merci !


Fontgombault: Claude Pateau interviewé par l’Homme nouveau

John Hunwicke preaching in Latin - Anniversary Sermon in Newman's Pulpit

Music:
Something recent with Jero.

Misc:
Chris Costa!

Items of Interest, 18 January 2012

The Archdruid Report: Waking Up, Walking Away

It so happens that I don’t own or drive a car, and indeed I never have. Among its other benefits, that’s a good way to see the limits on the alleged freedom of choice that the consumer economy provides its inmates. In today’s America, you can live without a car, but most other choices you make are going to be sharply curtailed by that decision. When my wife and I decided a few years back to leave the west coast and settle in the Rust Belt, scores of pleasant towns we might otherwise have chosen were ruled out in advance because the only way to go from there to anywhere else was to drive a car, and our options for buying a house were just as tightly constrained by the need to be within walking distance of groceries and other necessary services. All those choices the propagandists of the consumer economy prattle about? They exist, but only if you give up your right to make any of the decisions that matter.

Peter Hitchens, One Reason Why I hate Cars, and a brief note on Lifestyle Choices

Ron Paul only GOP candidate to publicly denounce SOPA; What is SOPA and Why Won't it Work?

Fabius Maximus: Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?

Ron Paul: Killing of Iranian nuke scientist "an act of terrorism"
Ron Paul may have gone to an extreme claiming Michele Bachmann "hates Muslims," but those who are leaving comments at JW (and the one who operates the website?) may be irrational in their fear of them. How much of a threat do they really pose to the West, when we are armed with nuclear weapons?

Patent Nonsense
Intellectual property enforces a monopoly over the mind.

Are Intellectual Property Rights Bad for Innovation?
By Jordan Bloom

BRIAN J. TRAUTMAN, Why the NDAA is Unconstitutional

Taking Action to Fix our Debt

The High Achievement of Christopher Dawson

Economics:
Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics
What Happens When a City Girl Reads Wendell Berry

Farming:
Gene Logsdon, Can a godless farmer be a good steward of the soil? (EB)

Energy:
Basking in the sun by Tom Murphy (EB)
Why Biofuels Are Not a Good Idea (EB)
Technological Progress for Dummies Part II (EB)

Catholic:
Training Leaders in Christian Virtue
Franciscan University’s Center for Leadership Has Global Outlook but Focuses on the Local

According to the director, the center’s program will promote authentic Catholic social teaching as well as an understanding of the principles of America’s founding: “The goal is toward a healthy patriotism with gratitude for all the gifts we enjoy in this country, but also with the idea to build upon what’s good in our nation and work to improve where we need to improve.”

Emm... I'd need more information to attempt an evaluation...

From last year: Center for Leadership Launched

Items of Interest, 12 January 2012

Peter Hitchens, Reflections on the Rule of Law, on Scotland and on an astonishingly cruel portrayal of Lady Thatcher
Daniel Larison, Thoughts on Scottish Independence

Recessing the Constitution By W. James Antle, III

Bring Order to the Commonwealth by Ordering the Soul

Virginia’s New Ecclesiasticism

Afghanistan:
Obama's Mission Accomplished Moment?
And a military-first policy on a destabilizing planet
Don’t Count on Obama’s Defense Cuts by Ivan Eland
Marine Corps Manual Offers a Blunt, Revealing Portrait of Afghan War
New National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan: War Still a Stalemate

Iran:
RALPH NADER, Iran: the Neocons Are At It Again
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Next War on Washington’s Agenda
GARETH PORTER, Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Covert” Iranian Nuclear Site

What War With Iran Might Look Like by Philip Giraldi

Fabius Maximus, Status report on the war with Iran (we’re ignorantly drifting into yet another illegal war)
What happens if Iran gets nukes? Not what we’ve been told.
What happens when a nation gets nukes? Sixty years of history suggests an answer.
What does the IAEA know about Iran’s nuclear program? Enough to start a war?

Farming and Relocalization:
Greener Pastures with Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin (EB)
If you want more local food, stop criminalizing family farmers (EB)
How resilient is the food system? by Adam Streed (EB)

The Happy Hoarder: Put a cork in it

Gene Logsdon, Hail, The Mighty Pocketknife (EB)

Economics:
The Faustian bargain that modern economists never mention (EB)
Dr. Gary Peters, Our Finite World
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money by John Médaille
Peter Hitchens, Does Immigration cause Unemployment? And other matters
The return of "The Limits to Growth" by Ugo Bardi (EB)
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Peak Oil and Energy:
Warm and fuzzy on geothermal? by Tom Murphy (EB)
What do triple digit oil prices mean for growth? by Jeff Rubin
The peak oil crisis: gasoline in 2012 by Tom Whipple (EB)
Richard Heinberg, Geopolitical Implications of Peak Everything
The End of Growth

The Crisis of Civilization

The Crisis of Civilization: Trailer from thecrisisofcivilization on Vimeo.

Catholic:
British Jesuit welcomes Scorsese's latest film project (via First Thoughts)
Dominican friars appointed to the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Music:
Shelby Lynne: A Murder Ballad Hits Close To Home by Lynne Margolis

Documentary with Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart


California Pickers: Butch Waller

TV:
‘Justified’ Star Timothy Olyphant On Violence And Villain, Neal McDonough

Items of Interews, 23 December 2011

Three Myths about the Detention Bill
If America is a Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights
“Lawfare” – using the law to undermine the Constitution (a powerful tool in the quiet coup now in progress)

PATRICK COCKBURN, Iraq Trembles Amid Renewed Sectarian Violence

PJB, War with Iran? Make Congress Vote on It

John Robb, The Future of Drone Warfare

Economics:
Rob Hopkins, Can We Manage Without Growth, An Interview with Peter Victor Part Two
The power of sovereign economics: myth vs reality

Energy:
Occupying science: technology for the 99 percent by Erik Curren (EB)
The peak oil crisis: 2012 – apocalypse now? by Tom Whipple (EB)
John Michael Greer, Tweedledoom and Tweedledee

Farming:
Wes Jackson: A perennial revolution in agriculture by Ken Meter (EB)

Relocalization and the Simple Life:
Lindsay Curren, When down is up: Review of “The Power of Community”
Shannon Hayes, Reclaiming Christmas, Radical Homemaker-Style

Catholic:
Dom Alcuin Reid on Praying the Christmas Liturgy
Dominican Chant for Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Tea at Trianon, New Book About Philip of Spain
Heavenly Music From Hildegard Of Bingen, A Soon-To-Be Actual Saint
St. Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor, and the Second Apostle of Germany

Marianne Cope and ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ to be canonised
Pope Benedict XVI advances Causes of 20 men and women and recognises 64 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

History:
Hong Kong's unwanted Christmas present By Ronan Thomas

Items of Interest, 1 December 2011

Proxy War With Iran by Philip Giraldi
Rod Dreher, Attention, Copts: Time to pack
William Lind, Reshaping the Pentagon for an Age of Austerity
Alexander Boot — Author, Critic, Polemicist, and Blogger
Daniel Larison, The Useless Moralizing of Hawkish Interventionists

Economics:
Thaddeus Kozinski, Ivory Tower Capitalism (via Patrick Deneen)
Pre-order Hound of Distributism Today
Two New Books for Distributists

How Rising Education Costs Can Lead to Incest

Counterpunch:
DIANA JOHNSTONE, Here’s the Key Question in the Libyan War
RALPH NADER, L. L. Bean and the Myth of “Made in America”
GARETH PORTER, Pak Border Post Attack a Big Loss for U.S. War Policy

Diet and Health:
Rod Dreher, Medicare fatheads
More promotion of the CW by the government, I suspect.

Low Carb Explained
Kitchen table talk. Review: Farmstead Chef
Are You Part of the Global Middle Class? Let me see your Smile......
MDA: How to Eat More Fat

Education:
Towards ecological literacy: A Permaculture approach for junior secondary science
The Thinking Housewife: Do impersonal settings prepare children for real life
"Impersonal care impedes self-restraint and the ability to form healthy relationships."
Rod Dreher, How fantasy helps us think historically

Catholic:
Holy Resurrection Monastery: Eastern rite monastery opens doors
The Family Celebration of the Divine Office by Shawn Tribe
Rorate Caeli: The Roman Rite: Old and New - VIII
The New Mass destroyed centuries of propers
Captivated by Death by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Feminism:
The Pedestal Breaks

History:
Medievalists.net: Customary law before the conquest (pdf)

Movies:
First Image From Chilean Abortion Social Horror Movie APIO VERDE (AITH)
I can't tell if the filmmaker supports the ban or opposes it.

Items of Interest, 30 November 2011

Gene Logsdon, Sanctuary (EB)

Thomas Fleming, Celebrity Politics and Home of the Free, Land of the Jerk

Rod Dreher, Senate smacks civil liberties. Hard.

Peter Hitchens, Time to leave the EU – the debate

(source)

John Robb, WAR with IRAN? It's closer than you think....
Fabius Maximus, We can only watch as the nation of Israel slowly commits suicide


Economics:
JMG, Pepperspraying the Future

An article by Richard Heinberg in the Guardian.

Alas, if only it were so: EF Schumacher: Cameron's choice

Death of Sprawl: Past and Future by Warren Karlenzig (EB)

The Localizer: If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy

Making Local Food Real By MARK BITTMAN

OWS:
Adrian Pabst, The Resurgence of the Civic

Energy:
96 hours to the stone age: How quickly our connected lives crumble when the power goes out via collapse.net

MPG of a human by Tom Murphy (EB)

Counterpunch:
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Man, God and Secession at Yale
DAVID MACARAY, We Need to Hire George Clooney


Feminism:
Oz Conservative: The unhappiest award goes to...

Welmer, Why is Anglo Feminism so Virulent?

Should it matter if a female fighter is hot?
It turns out that female MMA fighters are like other female athletes - not interesting enough for men to watch. Boo hoo, life is so unfair!

SSPX:
Fellay: “We cannot accept the Preamble as it is”
Rorate Caeli
Pertinacious Papist

Items of Interest, 21 November 2011

Peter Hitchens, The Hidden Persuaders and the Menace of TV
Gareth Porter, Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim
Patrick Cockburn, Huge Stakes in Syria
Spanish Conservatives Win Majority
Richard Heinberg: Islands in an Expanding Sea

Economics:
Rupert Ederer, Oinkonomics

I think his objection to distributism is rather flimsy, and partly a strawman argument in so far as he identifies distributism solely with agrarianism.

Catholic neo-liberalism under the guise of "personalism"? The Need for Economic Personalism (archive) - the Acton Institute, of course.

The primary error of distributism lay in its understanding of the economy as a zero-sum game, where wealth was seen as a static, non-reproducible entity. Therefore the main problem was not the production of wealth but its distribution: How is the static pie of wealth most equitably sliced up? Distributism hindered the emergence of an adequate understanding of human capital and productivity. The distributivists saw economic development only in terms of the cultural dangers of industrialization and as a threat to the family unit. They did not agree that economic growth would generate wealth that would raise living conditions and be "redistributed" by market mechanisms and through charitable organizations. Such economic naivete blinded them to market realities and the basic laws of economics. By the end of the 1920s, however, distributism began to wane and was soon eclipsed by the New Deal Catholics of the Roosevelt era.

What is the author missing? Is It Really Possible to Decouple GDP Growth from Energy Growth?
He could also read John Michael Greer on the primary economy. (In a similar vein to the above, The Economic Personalism of John Paul II: Neither Right Nor Left.)

Relocalization:
How to Make Multigenerational Homes Work
A rather provocative title: Transition plans and meetings a waste of time, says Greer
Michael Shuman, HOW BAMBI BEAT GODZILLA: A response to James Surowiecki

Guest Post: A Message To The SPLC From A Montana "Extremist"

From Liberty Fellowship’s relocation program, to James Rawles’ American Redoubt, Stewart Rhodes’ Operation Sleeping Giant, and my own Safe Haven Project through Alt-Market.com, the powers-that-be are noticeably perturbed at the very idea of Americans walking away from their computers, leaving their homes, talking to each other face-to-face, and forming mutual aid groups. God forbid…

OWS:
Thomas Fleming, Otherwise Occupied
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Your Street
Jack Random, The Austerity Regime

Education:
Classical Homeschooling
In Defense of Poetry
Coleridge: The Education of Children
Respect the Classical Tradition

Diet and Health:
Chris Masterjohn: At the Intersection of Price and Paleo: My Second Interview with Cary Nosler (mp3)

Misc:
Rorate Caeli: the new SSPX seminary

Orion Design Group (ODG) ODTDM-2 Arid-Environment/Multi-Environment/Multi-Terrain/Multispectral Military Combat Camo (Camouflage) Pattern/”Individual Signature Management” Technology Makes Cover of SureFire “Combat Tactics” Magazine Fall 2011 Issue (Photo!)

Items of Interest, 3 November 2011

James Kirkpatrick, Diversity Is Strength! It's Also The End Of Southern Civility… And The South (via Rebellion)

and there is the influx of Northerners and Yankees who do not share the values, culture, or history of Southrons...

The Merchants of Death and Me by Philip Giraldi

Mother AND Teacher: The Church, Financial Reform, and Realism by John Médaille

John Robb, QUOTE: The Summum Bonum (Highest Good) of Social Capitalism

Huh?

Why the Rich are Getting Richer

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies


Transition Voice: Take shelter by Gerri Williams (on the movie Take Shelter - trailer - FB, Apple)

Something on Richard Heinberg's new book - A windfall would beat QE hands down
by Anthony Hilton

OWS:
VoxDay: Millenials vs Baby Boomers
Welcome to the Occupation

Nuclear Energy:
Sixty Years of Orwellian Nukespeak

NPR: The War Between Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple
I wish this Mexican standoff would end with all of them in the dirt.

Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER, U.S. Night Raids Killed Over 1,500 Afghan Civilians in Ten Months
URI AVNERY, Why Israel Will Not Attack Iran
RALPH NADER, The Road to the 2012 Presidential Debates

Diet and Health:
Mark Sisson, Introducing the New Primbal Blueprint Food Pyramid
Another Simple Question: The Paleo Diet is Not The Way to a Healthy Future For Whom?
And Why Are You Paleo?
(RN visits Happy Hound in Los Gatos.)


Classical Education:
Reading

Catholic:
Full Interview with Robert P. George (via Mere Comments)

Two novels by women world famous for their literary works published by Ignatius Press (Sigrid Undset)

The Introduction to "A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes"

Rorate Caeli: The Roman Rite: Old and New - VI
The New Mass and the Church: the underlying theology of the New Rite is Protestant and motivated by Ecumenism and A diocesan priest ordained according to the 1962 Pontifical

Once I Was a Clever Boy: Adjusting the Succession

Music:
A review of Secret Voices by Anonymous 4
The Sixteen: James MacMillan, Miserere
(I'm not a James MacMillan fan...)