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Illustration from the Book of Kells, as suggested by Geoff.  This one is The Four Apostles.

It’s a small, overcrowded world. While browsing through back issues of the monthly newsletter of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), I came across a reference to an article by Colin Campbell (the eminence grise of the peak oil community) entitled ‘Petroleum and People’ and published in ‘Population and Environment’ v. 24/2 (November 2002). The former editor of ‘Population and Environment’ was Professor Kevin MacDonald, author of a trilogy on Judaism as a collective evolutionary strategy. 

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At the weekend two extraordinary reports of the discovery of very ancient timber and earth temples in the heart of continental Europe appeared in the Independent.  One set the scene thus:-

Archaeologists have discovered Europe’s oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia. They were built 7,000 years ago, between 4800BC and 4600BC. Their discovery, revealed today by The Independent, will revolutionise the study of prehistoric Europe, where an appetite for monumental architecture was thought to have developed later than in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

... Excavations have been taking place over the past few years - and have triggered a re-evaluation of similar, though hitherto mostly undated, complexes identified from aerial photographs throughout central Europe.

Archaeologists are now beginning to suspect that hundreds of these very early monumental religious centres, each up to 150 metres across, were constructed across a 400-mile swath of land.

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For around six hours today MR was offline again.  Last time a “server issue” was reported to be the cause.  It is, of course, true that you can’t get good servers today.  But if I am given a proper explanation for this latest annoyance I will post it on the thread below.

Apologies to all our readers for the several hours today during which the blog was down.  No explanation has been forthcoming from our web hoster as yet, but it appears to have been a simple tech failure.  As if it could possibly be anything else!

Occasionally, one comes across a stunningly original website into which some loving soul has poured hundreds of hours of labour.  One such I found by chance yesterday.  It is Luminarium - the work, apparently, of Anniina Jokinen.  I commend it to one and all.

Like many, I am aware of Fred Ross’s visually ravishing Art Renewal Centre, and agree wholeheartedly with its stand against “flat art”.  There must be many other, equally arresting and informative art and culture sites out there.  A pointer in the right direction would always be welcome.

Suleymann Kufr, London
Guardian staff reporter

Michael Howard today resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, after leading the Tories to a third successive defeat.

Speaking outside Conservative Central Office in London, Mr Howard said, “It is vital for the party to reflect fully on the decision of the electorate and on the direction the Conservative Party must now take.  That direction should be the responsibility of a new leader who can build on the very substantial progress we, as a party, have made in the past eighteen months.”

It is eighteen months to the day since Mr Howard replaced Mr Ian Duncan Smith as Tory leader in what was a one horse race.

Mr Howard claimed that his party was “back in business” but he also spoke of the electoral mountain which it still has to climb.

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Phil drew my attention to these three politically offensive but ideologically consistent articles all from the May 10th edition of the Economist.  We can look at each and see there the face of the enemy, or enemies: the neocon, the open-borders psycho, the denier of human difference.

I guess that unabashed liberalism arises in a once great publication because, like all reader-aware periodicals, it knows its market and isn’t in the business of telling it things it doesn’t like to hear.  Of course, that interpretation assumes the Economist to be a mere business rather than an organ of change, but I think that’s a fair assumption.

The article on failing black males in UK schools has a particularly nasty little diagram showing that among the lowest of the underclass white British boys perform far worse than the rest.  Oh how much the transnational progressives who read the Economist these days will have salivated over that small lie, “proving” as it does that environment is the blacks’ sole (soul) drawback.

Here are the three Economist articles.  Enjoy.  Intellectually dismember, too, as you reflect upon the duplicity of modern journalism.  But always enjoy …

Bad attitudes
Back in their pomp
Dreaming of the other side of the wire