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Category Archives: France
Annie Ernaux – The Latest Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literature (11-16-22)
This low streaming quality video was shot on my Oppo A15 on my cheap Aussie phone plan (80GBs of data for $40 a month).
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Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
Peter Zeihan writes in this 2020 book: * The United States’ Report Card BORDERS: Lakes, mountains, forests, deserts, and vast ocean moats surrounding the best agricultural lands and largest waterway network on the planet. Nowhere else on Earth does a … Continue reading
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Theater Thursday: Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
Shimon emails: Some people seek escapism, others seek exploration. Entertainment is usually about escapism into idealized fantasy, art is about honest delving into difficult truths. And truth isn’t about simple good guys vs bad guys. Even good guys can be … Continue reading
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The West Changes Direction On Immigration
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I’m quite impressed with the dramatic change in direction pretty much everywhere in the West on the immigration issue. First Brexit, then Trump, freed up discussion of immigration. What they exposed is the bankruptcy of … Continue reading
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Ode To The Moral Leader
In 2008, during the summer of my discontent, I opened up a live video chat room, the Moral Leader room. In the process, I met French classical music composer Pascal Dupin who composed “Ode to the Moral Leader” in my … Continue reading
Is the National Front Still the “Far Right” in France?
Steve Sailer writes: French politics are important in a symbolic sense because French political history probably ranks with American and British political history as the best known in the world, and perhaps the best known for ideological purposes. The current … Continue reading
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France’s Multicultural Dystopia
Leon Hadar writes: If you think this is a farfetched nightmare scenario concocted by an Islamophobic mind, consider the way that members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community or Haredi in Israel have been winning the demographic wars, strengthening their political … Continue reading
A Brief Survey of the Various Foreigners, Their Chief Characteristics, Customs, and Manners by P.J. O’Rourke
P.J. O’Rourke writes in National Lampoon in 1977: AFRICANS Racial Characteristics: Probably not people at all. Probably some kind of monkey. They eat each other and worship bundles of sticks and mud. You can never remember the names of their … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Another Day in Europe: 84-year-old Priest Beheaded in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Church
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Ironically, Pope Francis is the biggest cheerleader for massive, uncontrolled Muslim immigration into Europe. * Muslim extremists love to bomb and attack the houses of worship of those they don’t like. It’s a worldwide pattern. … Continue reading
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‘NYT: France needs to stop being France so Muslim immigrants won’ feel bad, kill French people.’
Source. New York Times: France’s distinctiveness arises in part from the ideological strength of the idea the nation has had of itself since the French Revolution, including an assertive form of republicanism and an open distrust of all religions, beginning, … Continue reading
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