I am indebted to Troy Southgate’s New Right Forum where a member has posted a fascinating commentary on the IDF’s new methods of urban warfare.  The Israelis have applied a postmodernist archetectural analysis to the problem of combatting an urban guerilla force.  The result, complete with all the familiar postmodern linguistics, is the (literally) devastating concept of fighting under and through a dense architectural battlefield.

It is an astounding and disturbing commentary on semitic analysis, and on the - one imagines - extraordinary Ashkenazic capacity to invent new modes of attack.

The Art of War

The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools by Eyal Weizman
The attack conducted by units of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) on the city of Nablus in April 2002 was described by its commander, Brigadier-General Aviv Kokhavi, as ‘inverse geometry’, which he explained as ‘the reorganization of the urban syntax by means of a series of micro-tactical actions’.1 During the battle soldiers moved within the city across hundreds of metres of ‘overground tunnels’ carved out through a dense and contiguous urban structure. Although several thousand soldiers and Palestinian guerrillas were manoeuvring simultaneously in the city, they were so ‘saturated’ into the urban fabric that very few would have been visible from the air. Furthermore, they used none of the city’s streets, roads, alleys or courtyards, or any of the external doors, internal stairwells and windows, but moved horizontally through walls and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors. This form of movement, described by the military as ‘infestation’, seeks to redefine inside as outside, and domestic interiors as thoroughfares. The IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux.

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As usual, my thanks to the crack wranglers for rounding up these nows, particularly during my recent wedding vows:  Autonomous urban assault vehicles… 3 tons food / .1 acre / year… Migrant workers spread extreme drug resistant TB… A tourista’s guide to getting AIDS from Hatian men… Chinese economy consuming more growing less… Multiculturalism making young Muslims more radical… Silicon Valley “recovers” by gutting life support…  Polar and space inflatables… Cohen’s postmortum sperm impregnates woman he never met… Water from air… EU Parliament “Far Right” faction would have been banned in Austria… Stonehenge discovery… Multitudes of virus engineers by 2020… Second largest oil field collapsing faster than anticipated…

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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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Oh, tell me the pale Moon

Where has the joyous beat of the heart gone?

In the veinless, bloodless, joyless machine,

Illusion of our time.

Like a sunless gothic cathedral among the skyscrapers,

Without its chime - lost in the yawning heights of time.

Divine heart, you have slept too long in your primeval grave,

Waiting for the thunder to wake you up in your deep sleep!

But all that clamour couldn’t move you

You were falling deeper in your dream.

Until in the darkest darkness of my human heart,

I dreamt of the mysterious sun-ray that has come to wake you up,

Before the delightful dawn of time –from the coldest depths of

Unknown Life; from forgotten timeless spheres,

As soft as the white flower petals in warm summer nights

Comes the unknown delight!

The lost feeling - the old Eros; reborn out of time immemorial,

Deeper and warmer than all those passionate fires of cold modernity.

by Xenia Sunic, wife of Tom and a Croatian poet dedicated to the Promethean spirit.  She lives and works in Zagreb.

Legally recognized as married January 30, my wife and I are pictured below:

You might wonder why I married this woman, other than her manifest beauty since beauty, especially these days, really may conceal a heart of darkness.  The reasons, in no particular order, have to do with:

• Our shared heritage as pioneer Americans—she of Palatine German ancestry coming through Lancaster County, PA as did my Quaker ancestors.
• Her recent escape from the abuse of women by the female-saturated ghetto New York City where she was in classical music for over a decade, which mirrors in some ways my escape from the abuse of men by the male-saturated ghetto of Silicon Valley, where I was in engineering for over a decade.
• Her resulting first-hand knowledge of the hypocritical elites.  I could relay stories about what is required of women to advance their careers around NYC and what is done with them when no longer nubile but it would be redundant.  Suffice to say, she has what the naive think it takes to “make it anywhere” but definitely not what it takes to make it in “New York, New York” which is why she had what it took for me.
• She wants to raise children with me so much she is willing to put up everything she has for egg donation and surrogacy.
• She moved into the neighboring house where she maintained a vegetable garden thereby letting us get together naturally midst the kind of subsistence activities we both so respect.

We’ll have trouble given the destruction of my profession by immigration but this discarded engineer considers himself smiled upon by fate.

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Over 3 years ago on VDARE, Kevin MacDonald convincingly labeled neoconservatism “Jewish”.  The long wait for KMac’s next VDARE is over.  This time he has hope for us:  The long suppression of open discussion of the Jewish foundation of the immigration disaster may soon dissipate.  I hope he is right but the problem with new openness about immigration is the fact that, just as they intended, Jews have complicated the politics of identity to the point that it may be difficult to openly discuss immigration as honestly as middle eastern policies.  KMac does, however, true to form, make a convincing case.

After much Hiltonian leaking yesterday Da’ud al-Khamouron, leader of the Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) Loyal Opposition, has spoken of his vision for our not very British future.  It surpasses the obvious to say that he really is not, not a Conservative.  He is a thorough-going Guardianista.

David Cameron has called on the people of Britain to resist extremism, and work flat out to tackle the ‘five barriers’ dividing society and blocking cohesion in the community

And these five pillars of Islamo-British disunity are:-

1. Extremism: Here the Tough-Love Kid gets to conflate Muslims who don’t like Western decadence with the BNP, who don’t like Islam.  I bet he enjoyed that poke at “the Far Right” (who simply never read the Guardian and wouldn’t know polenta from that Polish teagirl at the Reform).  Of course, David believes that there is a moderate centre hanging around out there, waiting to be fashioned out of Muslims who hanker after a bit of Western decadence and Brits who admire the noble, manly life of the Bedouin and often holiday in the Rub’ al Khali.  But does anyone who isn’t a liberal politician believe that?

2. Multiculturalism: David says:-

“multiculturalism has been manipulated to favour a divisive idea - the right to difference”

But that’s just not right.  Multiculturalism didn’t need to be manipulated.  It was simply never intended to produce a cohesive society.  Its supporters didn’t care if the end-result was a train-wreck.  The point was to destroy the cultural hegemony of the native English, Scots and Welsh.

David doesn’t see that stopping this process will necessarily provide native hegemony with a certain isostatic recovery.  That alone will make it more difficult, not less, for aliens to integrate.  Put another way, if multiculturalism required us natives to “celebrate diversity”, ending it will cause us to celebrate ourselves, won’t it?

3. Uncontrolled immigration: David says:-

“We can only live together if there is proper integration. You can’t have proper integration if people are coming into Britain at a faster rate than we can cope with”

But immigration in Britain has always been at a faster rate than we can cope with.  That’s why it was called mass immigration.  And, then, any genetically-distant mass immigration is by definition impossible to cope with.  That’s why it was called Commonwealth immigration, and why all those blacks and browns squeezed together in their own little - now quite big - corners of the country.  They did not want to integrate with us, and we did not want to integrate with them.  White flight mean anything to you, David?  Probably not part of your aristocratic experience.

4. Poverty: Well, the mean IQ of Pakistan is 81.  What can one expect?  But David, who cannot be unaware that his ideas have all been tested up to and beyond destruction in America, Holland or France, blithely asserts that:-

“the most effective way of beating poverty in the long run is to give people in deprived areas decent schools”

5. Poor educational standards: The mean IQ in Pakistan is 81.  What can one expect?

So much for the young hero’s prescription for a less British, more exotic life of colour-blind togetherness.  The “extremist” BNP, unwilling to consign us into the tender care of the muezzin, passes it’s judgement on Cameron here.  I suppose it won’t be long before we receive a reply from the extremist Muslims.

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.