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Silvio’s Gamble
“I’m a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.” (Silvio Berlusconi, quoted in La Repubblica, July 13, 2003) The above statement must be taken with a grain of salt, of course. You don’t become a billionaire and owner of a vast media empire by trying to be everyone’s sweetheart. Yet it doesn’t [...]
Protest Farce
The Passion for Destruction is also a creative Passion. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814 – 1876) The last decade has spawned a number of revolutions that were anything but that. Some passed by unnoticed, like the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon (2004) or Tulip Revolution in Kirgisiya (2005). Others effected a bit of noise before [...]
Age of the Psychopaths
The very same corporate psychopaths who caused the crisis by their greed and avarice, are now advising governments on how to get out of it. Clive R. Boddy When in my early teens, someone gave me a chessboard with pieces and someone else taught me the basic moves. After believing to have mastered [...]
The Proud and Lonely Road
An Eagle soars alone, a Crow prefers the Flock Friedrich Rückert (1788 – 1866) If measured with a Christian yardstick, Pride isn’t a virtue but an affliction. It persuades people to despise lesser folks. It is strictly egoistic. It usually augurs a cold, cold heart. And it is a serious obstacle on the way to [...]
Green Mould
The Greens are like Tomatoes: First green, then red. Franz Josef Strauss (1915 – 1988 ) Bavarian Prime minister and Germany’s last Politician with a Backbone The old city of Hamburg is nomenclator to the world’s most widely known junk food item, though nobody knows for sure how it came to this dubious honour. Particularly [...]
Of Russian Gangstas, Global Mobsters and Undersized Suckers
Recently a London acquaintance sent me the link to a piece in Takimag. Putin: KGB Gang$ta for Life. And wow! I thought. What a marvellously meaningful heading! Particularly the US Dollar in Gangsta is so amazingly original, elegantly emphasized by a subdued touch of irony since Mr. Putin would most likely prefer Russian roubles as [...]
Romantic Commitments, Part 3
He which has no stomach to this fight Let him depart, his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man’s company That fears his fellowship, to die with us… Shakespeare Henry V The Magnificent Millennium came to an abrupt end when Duchamp’s Pissoir was [...]
Romantic Commitments, Part 2
Tonight the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day The rooks are blown out of the skies The last red leaf is whirl’d away. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Ah, the rooks! The red leaves too! And the rising winds… But I mustn’t fall over my own feet to get where [...]
Romantic Commitments, Part 1
Thou art my life, my love, my heart The very eyes of me And hast command of every part To live and die for Thee. His Queen who may Command him Anything Robert Herrick (1591 – 1674) Imagine you had an Ideal! A vision of allegiance, an indissoluble covenant, and with it the profound satisfaction [...]
WikiLeaks Leaks
… when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It might not come as a surprise if I tell you that this Journal, due perhaps to its growing importance as an outspoken defender of our great Christian European culture, and particularly with regard to [...]
The Milan Dome
There is much earnest talk about saving the great Christian-European culture from destruction and extinction. Many facts are brought to our attention, some indeed frightening, and all ask for urgent consideration. Yet there is one that seems to me of particular importance. Namely our care for the future pallbearers of our great Western civilization. Because [...]
In Defence of the Defenders (Part 2)
PECUNIA NERVUS BELLORUM Roman Proverb As the years went by and turned into decades, my perception sharpened and my illusions diminished accordingly. I became a silent but keen observer of present and past historical events, the difference between their official interpretation and, if one looked long enough, their objective and provable truth. Which were more [...]
In Defence of the Defenders (Part 1)
Wanderer, if you come to Sparta, tell them that you saw us lying here, just as the law had ordered it. Simonides of Cheos (556 – 468 BC) Whenever I read these lines, my throat constricts and I have to swallow hard. Seen out of context, it’s just a few words without any meaning. But [...]
Letter from Camp Croc
Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world — only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plough, they will reap. We will sit like an Effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created! Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head [...]
To Feel, Or Not to Feel
Love the animals! God has given them the rudiments of thought, and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness. Don’t work against God’s intent! Fyodor Dostoyewsky The Brothers Karamasov As to the Origin of Man, there abound a surprisingly large number of ideas, conclusions, convictions, doctrines or inklings, [...]
Lords of the Ring
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. JRR Tolkien Many moons ago and for a few years only, I wore my locks long and sported colourful garb and roamed the [...]
Spirit vs. Profit
The day when a sportsman lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of Modern Olympics We Germans are known to be weird but good car makers, which is the reason why it shouldn’t come as a surprise when I tell you that we own [...]
Of Eggs and Zeros
Editor’s note: Anyone who has read Michael’s “The Abominable Snowman” knows that he can distort matters into a bit of ridicule. The following piece seems at first glance somewhat far-fetched, but is in fact a discourse on our great humanist inheritance and the cold-hearted tyranny of Mammon pitted against it. Whereby he comes to the conclusion that the latter might have overstretched [...]
To be a German (Part 3)
Albrecht Duerer Knight, Death & Devil Etching AD 1513 Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and “chief witness” to the Holocaust And the Truth will see the Light of Day [...]
To be a German (Part 2)
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and “chief witness” to the Holocaust Those who sow wind will harvest a Tempest. Hosea 8,7 It did not take long and [...]
To be a German (Part 1)
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and “chief witness” to the Holocaust Those who sow wind will harvest a Tempest. Hosea 8,7 To be a German is not [...]
Beyond the Alamo: A Christian View on Immigration
When small men cast long shadows, the sun will settle soon. Proverb And then there was that dear old lass Who loved to shelter cats en mass. She took in one, she took in two And welcomed many others too. But on the day they buried her It was a rather sad affair There was [...]
The Abominable Snowman
Editor’s note: Being terminally gullible or perhaps having witnessed too many events where indeed truth is stranger than fiction, I wondered what about this story was true and what not. It is a satire — based on a recent Mossad operation that went awry. And though it is a satire, and hilariously exaggerated, many of the underlying [...]
Nietzsche and No End
O my dear soul, I am teaching you contempt, the one that doesn’t come along like a gnawing worm, but the great and loving Spite, the one that loves most when it despises most. Zarathustra: The Great Yearning The Forces of Light, bound by divine obligation, must offer battle to the Hosts of Darkness until they [...]
The Fifth Column
How must it feel to pimp for a slovenly whore, doped and ravaged and destroyed by her abductors, who was once the happiest, most innocent, most beautiful girl in town? He is Baselitz, a name tuberose, not only acoustically, with dirty connotations. He is Germany’s foremost Modern artist. He is one of those who accepted the [...]
Benzion Netanyahu: Jewish Activist and Intellectual Apologist
Keep the Beltane Fires Burning!
Synagogue of Satan? The Theological Significance of the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70, Part 2
Synagogue of Satan? The Theological Significance of the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70, Part 1
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