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This Times piece on the renaissance of the thinking Conservative right in Britain is instructive.  Perhaps.

Michael Gove, the Surrey Heath MP and housing spokesman for the Tories, is founding chairman of Policy Exchange and close to Mr Cameron. He said: “A precursor to electoral victory is victory in the battle of ideas and the battle for the agenda.”

... Most of the centre-right think-tanks are linked through a web of personal and professional connections, and many have close ties with the Conservative Party — although some fiercely defend their political independence.

They cover the entire range of issues, with Civitas — the Institute for the Study of Civil Society — wanting more family values, Reform campaigning for more market forces in public services, Open Europe opposing EU integration, the TaxPayers’ Alliance demanding lower taxes, Migrationwatch UK urging less immigration, Direct Democracy calling for more local decision making, and Policy Exchange, Mr Cameron’s favourite, establishing an agenda for compassionate Conservatism.

Research by The Times shows that five of the main new think-tanks — all formed since 2000 — are now quoted on average thirty times a week by national newspapers, three times more than two years ago.

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This staggering National Post article by Canadian journalist Joseph Brean has already been given pride of place on today’s Amren page.  So, doubtless the first of a hundred or so outraged comments will shortly be appearing on the thread.  Desmond Jones sent me the link early today (very early, actually, Desmond), and I thought I would post it for the edification of those who do not frequent Jared Taylor’s place these days.

Brean’s treatment of Taylor is the most gratuitously snidey piece of work I have ever encountered, bar none.  There is not one substantive argument deployed against Taylor in it - only a catalogue of truly unpleasant little digs and twists of a fanatic’s knife.  Too many of them to recount here, too.  But, anyway, they really need to be read in context - which I urge you to do now, notwithstanding the length of the article (six pages).  If you get to the end of it without feeling that you have been kicked around by thieving beggars in some dog-turd dark Toronto alleyway you are a better man than I.

By way of a contrast, you can read the speech Taylor would have given in the Lord Nelson Hotel here had he been permitted to.  He effortlessly compiles the argument that Canada’s diversity is not a strength after all.  Canadian press reports make it for him actually, and very difficult to disagree with it is.  Certainly, Brean does not try.  One is forced to conclude that the non-existent case for multiculturalism and the vileness of Brean’s journalism are connected, the poverty of the one being neatly reflected in the indecency of the other.  The rest is barely controllable chagrin that the enemy carried the day precisely because the noisy morality the left so likes to ascribe to itself met - and was roundly defeated by - the real thing.

Taylor remains a class act.

Back in September I posted a piece titled Why we do it … and is it enough?.  It flowed from a call from Rusty Mason for less focus on analysis and news and more action.  The post generated a long and lively thread.  Too lively in parts.

Anyhow, on Svi’s Inverted World thread the same demand for a more pro-active way forward at and beyond MR has surfaced via a couple of suggestions: one from JB, to whit:-

How about creating a ‘Activism’ section ?  Debating and talking among ourselves is alright but we have to expand and bring more of our people to the cause.

How about making a movie reviews section?  It would probably bring more traffic to the site.

Is there anything we can do to help you get that radio/podcasting station done?  Will Steven Palese be a regular?

... and the second from Lurker:-

Its been said before - do movie reviews on IMDb.com and vote for those you approve of.  Reviews that more people ‘find useful’ in imdb parlance get pushed up the ranks, just like on Amazon (who own IMDb).  They could be cross-posted here too.  If we knew they were there (on IMDb) we could then vote for them if we felt like it.

Now, Lurker is correct, the movie reviews idea has been floated before.  Much in the same vein the sturdy Calvin, he of the Vox Celtica, suggested concentrating reviews of appropriate books at Amazon .  We will fully support such suggestions.  I think that in response to the first time the movie reviews idea was floated I said something like, “OK, we will willingly open a page on that, linkable from the left column.  But we’ll need someone to step forward and take on responsibility for editing and generally nourishing it.”

Thereafter, silence.  But these things don’t just happen.  If you read this and think, “Hey, that would be great” and if you can write as well as or better than the average IMDb reviewer please consider whether you have the time and energy to make it work.  We will provide the platform and welcome you, cost-free, among our number.  If you can’t commit to running the thing but would relish reviewing the movies, then that again would be a fine and, obviously, necessary way to help. 

The Contact button is right there under the header bar.

In closing, the radio facility has been a bigger build than anticipated.  We are in the “any day” phase.  There are interviewees lined up, of whom the least interesting and talented will certainly be the first.

I just did a spot of that, and came up with this - at no.4 in a list of 159,000:-

MajorityRights.com: A site for the discussion of issues affecting ...
Alon Ziv has to be insane if he believes that the broad-nosed and masculine mixed-race woman looks better. The average American white woman, shown above and ...
majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/C45/ - 60k - 20 Nov 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

“Insane” ... “broad-nosed and masculine mixed-race women” ...  You see, you can get your POV out there.  AND nullify the outrageous racism of our opponents.

Apologies, btw, to the two Alon Zivs above us who are, respectively, in the geology and computer science fields.  No apologies, obviously, to the man who encourages us to bed a Bantu.

By Sam Ross, Houston Chronicle Correspondent

In a meeting last week in Denver, one of a series of meetings on planning the future of the Euro-American people, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo took part.

Tancredo had accepted an invitation from the Euro-American Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting strategic goals for improving the situation of the Euro-American people.  Last week’s discussion centered on the Hispanic threat to the south-west.

Participants agreed that one serious problem generated by La Raza leadership’s comments and Mexico’s ability to ignore Euro-American pressure and continue its migrant program is the resurrection of a debate within the Hispanic world and in liberal America about the very existence of Euro-Americans in the south-west.

In the early 2000s, it seemed that La Raza had made peace with the Euro-Americans of the south-west, even if not all Hispanic radicals agreed with that.  But now, the idea of a south-west without Euro-Americans seems to have been rekindled.  One participant in the meeting said that Tancredo considers this very dangerous.

The participants also agreed that the broadest possible political coalition must be formed to curb La Raza’s plans.  Among other things, they discussed the idea that black Americans also concerned by La Raza might become allies on this matter.  One participant called the prevailing atmosphere “very serious, even gloomy.”

OK, it’s just a fantasy.  But then we aren’t Jewish.

Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to Israel

By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent

In a meeting last week in New York, one of a series of meetings on planning the future of the Jewish people, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger took part.

Kissinger had accepted an invitation from the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting strategic goals for improving the situation of the Jewish people. Last week’s discussion centered on the Iranian threat to Israel.

Participants agreed that one serious problem generated by the Iranian leadership’s comments and Tehran’s ability to ignore international pressure and continue its nuclear program is the resurrection of a debate within the Arab world about Israel’s very existence ...

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I posted a while back on the petition raised in support of anti-immigration marchers in Moscow.  The petitioners got their day out, and you can see five pages of pictures here.  There were a lot of police and security people about and, apparently, 500 marchers arrested.  No violence was captured on film by the photographer.

I was sent a petition this morning.  It concerns a cross-party anti-illegal immigration march that the authorities may disallow.  Not being a Russian speaker myself, I can’t advise when and where (presumably Moscow) the March is planned to take place.  But it is a repeat of one organised like year, images of which can be seen here.  It is claimed that 5,000 marched peacefully and out of love of Mother Russia.  A website for the March itself can be viewed - and read by Russian speakers - here.

The petition is calling for our signatures to demonstrate support for the marchers, and to help convince those who have the power to ban their protest that the anti-illegal immigration cause is a just and important one.

You can, if you wish, add your signature here.

My thanks to Bo Sears for unearthing this piece by James Petras, published last week at AxisOfLogic.  It lists eighteen ways, no less, to counter the Jewish Lobby, and in its conclusion is pretty upbeat - a novel discovery for some of us - about the prospects for success.

I recommend you to read the article in its entirety.  But here are those 18 points of action:-

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