Ethno-Religious Animosity

Hating Russia Is a Full-Time Job Neocons resurrect tribal memories to fan the flames by Philip Giraldi

Bill Lind & Philip Giraldi Fourth Generation Warfare & The Deep State

P. Giraldi Interview

P. Giraldi Fired from The American Cuckservative

How I Got Fired

Whose Interests Do They Serve?

Deep State America by Philip Giraldi
One explanation why U.S. policies serve no national interests

Related:
The Oligarchy is Losing Its Grip, But Its Death Throes May Prove Fatal – to Us by Jim Jatras

Philip Giraldi's Suggestions

Unz: Towards a Sensible Immigration Policy by Philip Giraldi
National culture and identity must be respected

Pope Francis and the Vatican’s ‘Gay Lobby’ by Philip Giraldi

Vatican Insider:
100 days of Francis: Reality and expectations
A summary of what’s new in Francis’ papacy, his most important messages and the changes introduced

Pope Francis proposes a multipolar vision of Christianity
According to the Argentinian theologian, Mgr. Sanchez Sorondo, Bergoglio has always tried to put the Lord’s Word into practice in social structures

Items of Interest, 12 April 2012

Daniel Larison, Subsidiarity and Rerum Novarum

Mary Ann Glendon, What's Wrong With Rights

Peter Hitchens, An Argument for Punishment

Paul Gottfried, Derb's National Rebuke

PJB, Obama's Zimmerman Problem

Juan Cole, The Iran Conundrum
Gary Leupp, The Irrationality of the Case against Iran’s Nuclear Program
Philip Giraldi, The Babylonian Captivity of Washington

Judge Napolitan, What If the Government Rejects the Constitution?

Liberty Classroom

Matthew Feeney, A New Grassroots Currency Hits the Market in Greece

John Michael Greer, America: The Gasoline War



Farming:
How to design more resilient, food producing systems (without money and fossil fuels)

Why Don't Farmers Just Do It?

Diet and Health:
On 'Exercising Like a Caveman': Commentary by Erwan Le Corre

Catholic:
Something on Cardinal Manning.

Brian O'Neel, author of 39 New Saints You Should Know on Morning Air, talking about depression. (mp3)
A Priest Who Had Depression

Bishops Issue Statement on Religious Liberty
Our First Most Cherished Liberty

Is SSPX homecoming imminent?

History:
Skeletons found at mass burial site in Oxford could be ’10th-century Viking raiders’

Feminism:
Women’s Unrealistic Online Standards Are Like Ice Cream
The Feminism Sh*t Test


More footage of the Mike Wallace interview of Margaret Sanger.

Author sees sexual revolution at root of women’s discontent
Feminism was the problem, the sexual revolution was just one moment in its history.

Minimalist Shoes:
Vibram FiveFingers Trek Flip Preview

Music:
Mark O'Connor, The Violin is So Cool It Has Two Names
Dec. 2010: Rachel Podger: Between baroque and a hard place

Misc:
Best Ranger TV
MALAYSIAN PARANGS
Brazilian Special Ops

Chris Costa: First Spear Tubes, 6/12 spotted in the wild…

Items of Interest, 1 March 2012

Fabius Maximus: Ask the mineshaft: what’s gone wrong with America? The decay spreads faster than I imagined possible.
Mumbo Jumble: The underwhelming response of the American economics profession to the crisis by Philip Mirowski (EB)

Philip Giraldi, Corruption and the Citizen, American Style

Paul Gottfried, How England Helped Start the Great War

Counterpunch:
How Empires Fall by Andy Kroll
How The Media Got The Parchin Access Story Wrong by Gareth Porter
Our Gang of War Criminals by Dave Lindorff
Why Raising the Minimum Wage is a Winning Issue by Ralph Nader

“The Gray”: A Man’s Movie by Jon Basil Utley
The Private Man on hats.

Darian Worden, Preventing a Syria Scenario

Alternative Right:
The Once-Weres and the Could-Have-Beens by Derek Turner
Why Conservatives Always Lose by Alex Kurtagic
The Soul of Western Man: Making Our Appeal by Paul Deussen
Good luck, as Alternative Right may be perceived as a WN website.

Hold the Genocide, Please By Andy Nowicki
Boer Self-Determination as a Just Cause
I am reminded of the movie Safe House; there's a scene involving a street demonstration by blacks and whites. I suppose there may still be some liberal whites in South Africa who believe in multiracial harmony, especially among the youth. Once they decided to share power was the black-on-white violence inevitable? How do you protect yourself against a numerically superior group in a "democracy"? If the whites couldn't partition a separate state for themselves, they should have just left (as many are doing now).

His evaluation of the greatest hits of Whitney Houston.

Spengler on demographic decline: The fifth horseman of the apocalypse.

Relocalization:


Book Review: Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter: Scaling Back In The 21st Century

Peak Oil and Energy:
$5 Gas = Long, Hot, Crazy Summer by Richard Heinberg (EB)

Great Decisions: Energy Geopolitics by Daniel Lerch (EB)

Great Decisions - February 3, 2012 - Energy Geopolitics: Daniel Lerch from World Affairs Council of Oregon on Vimeo.

The Peak Oil Crisis: A Breakthrough? by Tom Whipple (EB)

Future of food in Japan by Brendan Barrett and Mark Notaras (EB)

Diet and Health:
The Paleo Eating Basics: An Interview with Free the Animal Creator Richard Nikoley



Catholic:
Johnny Cash vs. MTD

Fr. Z: Benedictine Monks at Norcia have a new video on their way of life: Quaerere Deum… To Seek God.


Feminism:
Lila Rose posts the following on FB - Celebrate Women’s History Month with America’s Original Feminists

Alas, there is very little to admire in the first feminists not much to praise in the positions, given how radical they truly were. Self-proclaimed Catholic feminists do not understand this, believing that they are acceptable merely because they are against abortion and endorse true equality. See Full of Grace, Seasoned with Salt.

Bargaining in the shadow of the law.
Raising Conservative Daughters (What if Your Daughter Divorces)
The Celebrity of Female

History:
Chuck Baldwin, Remembering the Alamo
The Cost of Capital and Medieval Agricultural Technique
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: The Culture and Practice of Crusading in Medieval Iberia



Music:
The Bit That I Don't Get - Katie Melua - LIVE - ARD Morgenmagazin - DAS ERSTE


The passing of Davy Jones...
The Grascals - Last Train To Clarksville


They used to air the show on one of the local channels when I was a child, but I never was absorbed into it. A bit too foreign, the music and everything.

Items of Interest, 26 January 2012

Patrick Buchanan, Who Gave Us the Right to Remake the World?
Daniel Larison, Is It Possible to Reclaim American Exceptionalism From Its Distortions?
Vermont Commons: Obama's Failed State of the Union

Philip Gilradi, Avoiding a Dumb War with Iran

Hawaiian Libertarian: Finding Your Freedom
Is the book too Liberal, that is does it endorse autonomy as self-fulfillment? Still, even traditionalists need a wake-up call and realize that our understanding of social realities may be false, judging things to be more continuous with traditional societies than they really are. And men should aspire to some measure of excellence and mastery.

Fabius Maximus: The key to building an effective military that we can afford: bring back the militia!

Peak Oil and Energy:
Dmitry Orlov, Perfectly Comfortable

Farming:
UN expert makes case for ecological farming practices to boost food production

Relocalization:
Erika Block's Local Orbit

Education:
Shannon Hayes, Love Trumps Math


Dieet and Health:
Fried food heart risk a myth

Dawn Landes: Southern Accents

Dawn Landes - Southern Accents from Live & Breathing on Vimeo.

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, 8 December 2011

Jack Donovan, Violence is Golden

Pearl Harbor:
Thomas Fleming, Pearl Harbor: Someone Had Blundered

Wilfred Owen was quite wrong. Though it is a hard thing for young men to die, it can be dulce et decorum pro patria mori, so long as the war is just and the leaders something better than the cynical butchers that lead their countries unnecessarily into war.

It is natural for a man to value the polity above himself. But what if the polity itself is an illusion and just an aggregate of individuals and their families, nothing more?

Mere Comments: Pearl Harbor, the Dust of Time
FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N. by John V. Denson

Empire:
Reading Cicero's "On Old Age" At Any and Every Age by Robert M. Woods
Iran War Already Begun
Justin Raimondo, The Untouchables

Washington’s Secret Wars by Philip Giraldi (The Changing Face of War)

The Remoteness of 1% Wars by William J. Astore
Why our wars of choice may prove fatal

Freedom Means War by Leon Hadar
Why libertarians can’t do foreign policy.

Fast and Furious:
Confirmed: ATF Plotted to Use Fast and Furious to Demonize Second Amendment
CBS

Paul Gottfried:
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement
Cambridge University Press
How the GOP Swallowed the Conservative Movement
His review of The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes The Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue.
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy

States' Rights:
One sheriff stands up for the people he serves

Economics:
ECONOMY: Ecological Economics (EB)
Gene Logsdon, Old Tractors Never Die
A Course to Keep You From Crashing (Chris Martenson)

John Michael Greer, What Peak Oil Looks Like
A review of his The Wealth of Nature.

John Robb, Technology Shifts and Economic Depression and US Economy Breaks Bad

System, not consumers, are the big green problem by Simon Butler (EB)
Old Tractors Never Die by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Relocalization:
Durban Dollars: Tck Tck Tck Money by Albert Bates (EB)
The Beautiful, the Local, the Slow by Marta Madigan
How Transition initiatives shone in the Energyshare vote: a podcast

OWS:
Farmers Come to Wall Street
Shannon Hayes, From the Farm to the Occupation (EB)
Ralph Nader, Not made in America (same article posted at Counterpunch last week)

Energy:
‘Net Energy’ ignorance reigns on Capitol Hill by Megan Quinn Bachman (EB)

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, The Industrial Food Machine Addiction


Food Matters from LuMeL on Vimeo.
official site

Whole30 Paleo: How I Failed But Succeeded
The 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness 2011

Education:
When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids

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, 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...)

Items of Interest, 20 October 2011

Papal Address to Centesimus Annus Foundation
"The Relationship Between Family and Work"

Occupy Wall Street: Leaderless, consensus-based participatory democracy and its discontents

Which Bank Is the Worst for America? 5 Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage

It's All About Usury by John Médaille

David Korten's Message to #OccupyWallStreet


John Robb, Beyond Farmers Markets and Onto the Resilient Community

Rod Dreher, The Second Coming of Distributism
He was fit, then he went fluffy

Ralph Nader backs Ron Paul... on the growing of industrial hemp: Let It Grow

Philip Giraldi: How to Kill An Ambassador

TV:
Downton Abbey: Behind the Scenes

William Shatner Covers Bohemian Rhapsody and Yes It's Very Weird

Items of Interest, 13 October 2011

John Robb, How to Create an Occupy Tribe
Russell Arben Fox, George F. Will and the Decline of the Tory
Philip Giraldi, Republican Foreign Policy Follies
Paul Craig Roberts, Pat Buchanan’s SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER: The Suicide of Liberty

Peak Oil:
The peak oil crisis: contagion by Tom Whipple (EB)
Peak oil from the ivory tower[i] by Dan Bednarz, PhD (EB)

Mormonism:
Thomas Fleming, Christians And/Or Mormons
Rod Dreher, What is a Christian Anyway?

Catholic:
Old Solesmes vs. the Rhetorical Method (Richard Llewellyn's comment)
Putinism and the Ukrainian Catholic Church (via HRM)

Downton Abbey:
Downton Abbey Cast Interview
Food of Downton Abbey

Music:
Mi Corazoncito Esta De Luto: Melancholy New Releases From Latin America (mp3)
The Sixteen on BBC3 (6 days left)

Katherine Jenkins - Daydream Out Now

Daniel Larison on Egypt

Daniel Larison, The Egyptian Military Regime and On Pessimism Concerning Egypt

(Philip Giraldi on the Raymond Davis Affair: Perils in Pakistan.)

Philip Giraldi, Cannes Goes Covert

(A spirited discussion of Rand Paul and the Civil Rights Act at @TAC.)

Philip Giraldi, Tectonic Shifts at CIA

Last week’s surprise resignation of Stephen Kappes as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was at least partly due to disagreements over how to spy. Kappes is an experience clandestine service operator with particular expertise in operations directed against Middle Eastern and terrorist targets. He is regarded as a hard liner who endorsed many of the questionable interrogation and incarceration policies initiated by George Tenet, but he also supports maintaining the CIA’s traditional emphasis on classic espionage operations. Kappes favored using resources to build up cadres of agents inside Iran and other countries viewed as hostile that could both be a source of information and could ultimately influence developments.

Philip Giraldi recommends three Italian movies, including La Scorta. (Have to pick that one up.)