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View this QuickTime movie of world crop cover since 1700 for evidence that Northern European “immigrants” to North America pulled their weight by increasing the carrying capacity.  This increase in carrying capacity is something necessary (but insufficient) to justify foreign immigration and it is something no other immigrant group has approached since.  With the exception of trade in African slaves by the southern plantations—plantations best seen as a part of the Central and South American tradition of centralized land ownership where slave trade was part of the practice—the US and Canada were built by Protestants deriving their yeoman farmer tradition from pre-theocratic northern European agricultural practices.

Pity Grandpappy who didn’t have to live clean like those poor boys in Iraq.

In North London on the 4th or perhaps 5th of October 1985 a car driven by a young black male was stopped by the police.  It was immediately noticed that the road tax disc did not match the vehicle.  It was a none too clever substitute.  The driver made matters worse for himself by providing a false name, and was duly arrested.

At Tottenham police station the driver told his interviewers that his real name was Floyd Jarrett.  A decision was taken to conduct a search of his home address.  Four officers were detailed for the task.  For reasons one can only speculate the arrival of the officers caused panic among some of the occupants.  In the furore Jarrett’s mother, Mrs Cynthia Jarrett, collapsed.  She had a weak heart and this was the moment it gave out.  The police officers did everything they could to save her but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

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Thanks to Michael R for sending me this lecture (excerpt) to the Mises Institute by Ralph Raico, titled Rethinking Churchill.

Raico’s argument is that, whilst magnificent as a war-time leader, all his life Winnie was an indefatigable Welfarist/Warfarist.  Notwithstanding the inevitable anti-statist slant underlying Raico’s thinking, I think he is broadly right.  Winnie can certainly be criticised for his lack of Conservative principles (any principles at all, according to Raico).  That lack is most starkly visible in the destructive consequences of so many of his actions.

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I received the following from an Australian reader signing himself as John Moffat.  The original Moffat was a remarkable man, a founding spirit of the Australian north.  Indeed, he was known to his contemporaries as “The Wonder of the North”.  With gratitude to both Moffats I’m pleased to post this piece.  It encapsulates all that drives us to reject the course laid out by our elites, and to reach out to all those like ourselves seeking the survival of the West.
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It was a shimmering dream – a dream that was for a short time realized, and then tragically allowed to fade:  a continent for a people and a people for a continent.

In one of history’s brighter moments, the British Empire, the greatest ever known and wearing the zenith of Western civilization like a crown, cast a far flung outpost into the deeper reaches of the Pacific – an eighteenth century equivalent to a colony on the Moon.

The only previous human habitation comprised scattered bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers numbering around 300,000 in total with only the barest minimum of social organization.  The descendants of these people claim as their most impressive achievement a 40,000 year long ‘occupation’.  That indeed is a long period for time to stand still.

Whites quickly went to work taming a most inhospitable and unforgiving land.  In less than a human life span, these convicts, soldiers, free settlers, administrators and adventurers had transplanted the civilization of their former homelands so successfully it was a perfect outgrowth.  Not more than a century since the first fleet of tall ships glided into what was to become known as Sydney Harbour, the country was enjoying close to the highest standard of living in the world.  It had become in fact ‘the working man’s paradise’.  The term, ‘the lucky country’, originally coined by a bitter cynic, seemed to fit so well it came to be innocently accepted as well meant.  Luck, gold and sudden fortunes however formed a miniscule part of the story.  The remainder was written in sweat, blood, grief, despair and unconquerable spirit.

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A truly strange and fascinating story of forgery in a pro-Nazi cause - or, just possibly, an MI6 subversion - has broken this morning with the report in the Telegraph that:-

Documents from the National Archives used to substantiate claims that British intelligence agents murdered Heinrich Himmler in 1945 are forgeries, The Daily Telegraph can reveal today.

It seems certain that the bogus documents were somehow planted among genuine papers to pervert the course of historical study.

The results of investigations by forensic document experts on behalf of this newspaper have shocked historians and caused tremors at the Archives, the home of millions of historical documents, which has previously been thought immune to distortion or contamination.

The allegation that the SS leader was murdered, with the knowledge of Churchill and War Cabinet ministers, appeared in Himmler’s Secret War, published in May.

What made the claim stand out from other allegations over the years was that it referred to specific documents in the National Archives at Kew - usually an absolute guarantee of validity.

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Great Sword technique, from Fechtmeister Joachim Meyer’s Kunst des Fechten

I’d like to introduce MR readers to The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts (The ARMA):-

ARMA - the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts, is an educational non-profit organization dedicated to the study and practice of historical fencing and the exploration and promotion of our Western martial heritage.

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Late last year I chose for the inaugural Biased History Award a school textbook which described the crusaders as follows:

“They were all fanatics. Crusaders were fundamental extremists - mad warriors who were intent on causing havoc for whatever they believed. They were virtually religious terrorists.”

This year’s leading contender for the award has chosen the same theme. Film director Ridley Scott has made a $150 million feature about the crusades called Kingdom of Heaven. The New York Times pithily described the plot of the film this way:

“Muslims are portrayed as bent on coexistence until Christian extremists ruin everything.”

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