Unity Descends From Above

Zombies, we all secretly (or not so secretly) love them -- but why? With Night of the Living Dead, Zombies became America's Godzilla, a cautionary tale of what could happen when Science runs amok. Unlike with Godzilla, however, they are also a reassurance that no matter what those pointy headed scientists get up to, a shotgun and machete are all that is required to set things right. (article)

Evidently, the Kanji character known as Fenrir means "Ice Wolf." I haven't been able to verify this using google and I cannot really use a Kanji dictionary yet, however if this is correct a little part of me thinks it is really cool. Hail the universal proto-language...

I've been really enjoying Wakashima Kanon (分島 花音). Imagine a ethereal goth style with a cello and you are in the ballpark for her sound. Evidently, she works with Mana (Malice Mizer, Moi dix Mois) who has a more Death Rock/Metal edge. When I saw this ending for Vampire Knight, I had to find the artist.

Search at Nipponsei for Vampire Knight ending will get you the torrent for this track.

As many of you know, I was once an "employee" of the Church of Scientology. It was short lived, but it has left me with a dislike for the organization. They were charged and convicted of fraud in France. It also appears that Nightline is covering the problem of Scientology.

Sexing the Ape Men. Scientist convinced Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens had sex. He's trying to figure out if they had children...

HP is taking the University of Michigan's scanned book collections and making them available via a print on demand. This may be the only way to get Crowley's works in the future....

Tesla sets new record for electronic car distance.

Panel proposes more realistic goals for NASA.

Politically speaking, the crisis of the principle of authority seems to us to constitute the most serious difficulty. Let us repeat that we speak of authority in the true sense, which is such as to determine not only obedience, but also natural adherence and direct recognition. - Evola [cited by keith418]

  Lind discusses how "La Familia" in Mexico has replaced the state in its region. It reminds me of Hamas...

Moments in History: Hobbes: The First Counter Revolutionary.

Find out more regarding the PsyOp program aimed at the American Public by the Bush Administration era Pentagon. Read and wonder if Obama really dismantled the program. After all, his first move was to end the War on Terror, aka the Long War, by renaming it to something else. Add to this the article on whether the US counts as a "Failed State." [both viakeith418]

 Cracked Magazine brings us "The Five Most Popular Safety Laws that don't work." See if your favorites stupid safety laws made it, mine did.

 Also from Cracked,throwingstardna provides us with the results from their contest on "The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)"

Home of the Moon Men Found? Possible entrance to interior of moon found. To prevent full-scale panic, the government is referring to them as "Lava Tubes" rather than "Entrances to Hostile Moon Men Secret Lunar Base."

The Oracle that is Steven Stapleton. On Automating Two, in "Human Human Human" Steven discussed the necessity of eliminating the drain caused by Animals on this planet. The resultant transference of affection, once wasted on lower plane beings, was felt on several astral planes. Following in these footsteps, the Vales have analysed the eco-footprint of the common dog and cat. The results aren't too good for Fido.

 Keith418 knows what we want to know. Here are some fabulous pictures from the recent Chinese Celebration. 

Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives - Andrea Dworkin

What is meant by the Method of Science? Charles Maurras states "What our fathers did through custom and feeling, we ourselves pursue it through reason and will, with the assurance and clarity of science." Gornahoor (briefly) discusses this quote as contrasted with Marx (the winning view) and science's subordination to a Materialistic Ideology.

I must say, listening to Last.FM's Shonen Knife radio is exposing me to a lot of pretty fun Japanese Girl "punk" bands -- many of which seem to have a strong "surf" music undercurrent (e.g. GitoGito Hustler). Whoo hooo! 

If we consider the Western world as a whole (Europe and its background), and not only the small portion of it which one generally has in mind when speaking of “the West”, then we have to include in it the countries of the Bible—Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Iraq—no less than Greece; for they are the geographical and cultural background of Christianity, the religion of Europe for centuries. -- Savitri Devi. Son of the Sun

Keith418 has provided these items on the Apocrypha of John.

When did iao131 become our resident spokesperson for Thelema? Is he blowing the professor of this class or what (check out the syllabus)? I don't recall anything ever coming from him that was worthwhile, though I am willing to be mistaken on that point. The real question is: will he be struck down by RHK as was Tim, or will he become unable to hide from the reality that is Thelema and run away as did Ash. [via Keith418]

Quite naturally, White Nationalists want to cut loose that "huge anchor" pulling America in an anti-racist direction, eject the people who are "urinating" in our discursive pool, and cast off the "70 lb. backpack" holding down our movement. As Spock would say, it is only logical. I emphasize: this is not to say the Jews should be rounded up in concentration camps and exterminated. Rather, we believe they should seek refuge elsewhere, maybe in Israel where they already have a state of their own.

http://xkcd.com/647/

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I fondly remember "The Parking Lot is Full," a web comic dealing with angst, perversion, sex and the like. It ran from 1993 to 2002. I often refer to two of the strips. This is one of them. There is now an  archive containing most of the entire run.

Speaking of comics, I just found "Cat and Girl" and I am reading through the archives. I found this one particularly funny as it occurred 6 days after the attack on the World Trade Center in NY. The one after it pretty much summed up my opinion in September of 2001.

This entries featured music video comes (no pun intended) thanks to rhonan who provided this link to the very Not Safe For Work video by Rammstein: German Pussy

It is necessary to distinguish between nationality and nationalism. The Middle Ages knew nationalities but not nationalisms. Nationality is a natural factor that encompasses a certain group of common elementary characteristics that are retained both in the hierarchical differentiation and in the hierarchical participation, which they do not oppose. Therefore, during the Middle Ages, castes, social bodies, and orders were articulated within various nationalities, and while the types of the warrior, noble, merchant, and artisan conformed to the characteristics of this or of that nation, these articulations represented at the same time wider, international units. Hence, the possibility for the members of the same caste who came from different nations to understand each other better than the members of different castes within the same nation.
 
Modem nationalism represents, with regard to this, a movement in the opposite direction. Modem nationalism is not based on a natural unity, but on an artificial and centralizing one. The need for this type of unity was increasingly felt at the same time as the natural and healthy sense of nationality was lost and as individuals approached the state of pure quantity, of being merely the masses, after every authentic tradition and qualitative articulation was destroyed. Nationalism acts upon these masses through myths and suggestions that are likely to galvanize them, awaken elementary instincts in them, flatter them with the perspectives and fancies of supremacy, exclusivism, and power. Regardless of its myths, the substance of modem nationalism is not an ethnos but a demos, and its prototype always remains the plebeian one produced by the French Revolution.
  -- Evola. Excerpt from Revolt Against the Modern World

From the Deja Vu all over again department: Those who criticized Bush were unpatriotic terrorist supporters, those who criticize Obama are racists. I am still waiting for the "Change."

Five things people often do not realize about evolution.
If the public doesn't get evolution, part of the reason may be because many don't fully appreciate some of the ideas behind the theory. Here's a rundown of five things about evolution that many people don't fully understand.

Any environmentalist who supports open immigration is simply deluded. Resources are finite, the number of people present to utilize these resources must be limited. Hmm, I wonder if anyone will tie the connection between increased resource consumption due, in large part, to lax immigration laws, and the need for an American empire?

The Hollywood branch of the Multnomah County Library, near where she lived as a child, commissioned a map that is on its lobby wall of Henry Huggins's Klickitat Street neighborhood. Statues of her beloved characters Henry Huggins; the Huggins's dog, Ribsy; and Ramona Quimby can be found in Grant Park in Portland, Oregon. In June 2008, the two-campus K–8 school of the same neighborhood, Hollyrood-Fernwood, itself the product of a merger of two schools the previous year, was officially renamed Beverly Cleary School. As a child, Cleary attended the former Fernwood Grammar School, one of the two buildings that make up the school that now bear her namesake.

This seems kind of odd to me... Facebook & MySpace are giving birth to "Retrosexuals" -- continuing romances from when you were still a teen.

Finally, my other favorite cartoon from The Parking Lot is Full:

Hey, what are the odds -- five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention.
http://xkcd.com/610/

Remember Specimen? Any of the other Goth-Punk/Deathrock/New Wave hybrids from the 80's? Spin them forward 20 years and run them through Japanese sensibilities, and viola, you have Hangry & Angry. The Japanese cannot sell out, as it was sold to begin with. We can thus bypass all the normal musical purist sensibilities of the consumerist-culture addict pretending that he is counter-cultural. We could, if we dare, pretend that such a distinction is meaningless, that the counter-culture is nothing more than the loyal opposition which supports and defines the greater hegemonic principles that governs this decaying morass indicated by the phrase "Modern Culture."

Anyway, the EP is your typical energetic JRock fare, the lyrics mixing in and out of English to Japanese and back again. The video is amusing as well. Evidently, they will be at Sakuracon, but I am not sure if I will be able to go. The text below is from the JapanFiles website.

What is Hangry & Angry?
Hangry & Angry is a brand of popular Japanese designer h.NAOTO. Illustrator GASHICON (in Japanese, sorry) draws the gurokawa (grotesque-cute)-style characters "Hangry" and "Angry" who came from the H44 Star Nebula in order to save the world from global warming. They arrived in the present in their time machine dubbed "LOVE MACHINE."

Name: HANGRY (who might be Hitomi Yoshizawa)
Sex: Female cat
Height: 164 cm (not including hair)
Birthplace: H44 Star Nebula
* A very punk girl. Even though she looks wild and untamed, she is actually delicate and hates things that are out of order.

Name: ANGRY (who might be Rika Ishikawa)
Sex: Female cat
Height: 156 cm (not including hair)
Birthplace: H44 Star Nebula
* A girl who loves goth and appears to be very cute, but in reality, she has a secret devilish side. She believes that people will feel the true power of her music.

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Students who perform at this level demonstrate a healthy level of fitness-related skills for their age. Generally, students who score in this range engage in physical activities two or more times each week and may be at a reduced risk for certain injuries and diseases that are related to a sedentary lifestyle. The Health Level for each task is considered to be a challenging, yet attainable, standard for most students.