Journal of Neo-Mediaevalism and Popular Mediaevalism
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Entries from March 2004
Oriflamme
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Tags: History - Culture
“We’ll burn your f****** homes”
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The threat that “we’ll burn your f****** homes” was made this evening to the committee members of a working men’s social club in the Tyneside town of Gateshead by a senior figure in the so-called “United Against Fascism”, formerly the extreme left Anti-Nazi League.
The social club has been a popular venue for BNP meetings over [...]
Tags: Politics
Commission denies deer cull will cost stalkers’ jobs
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GAMEKEEPERS who claim that a deer cull could harm their livelihood have been told the action should create more jobs, not fewer.
More than 100 keepers from all over Scotland staged a major demonstration on the Glenfeshie Estate in Speyside on Monday evening in protest at a cull of red deer.
The Deer Commission for [...]
Tags: Environement
Socialist snouts in troughs and we’re paying!
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The Euro fraud continues and British taxpayers are footing the bill. Members of the European Parliament from different member states are involved in expenses scams which run into millions of pounds. An independent Austrian MEP has blown the whistle on the scam and for his pains he was kicked out of the Socialist Group in [...]
Tags: Politics
REGARD EXTREME
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Résurgence
2001
CD
PERS 04, CYN 012 CD
This is a re-edition of a 1996 album with re-orchestrated, re-recorded and previously unreleased tracks. The work of Fabien Nicault, Regard Extreme presents a dark orchestral sound with a brooding martial quality. Regard Extreme is well known through its World Serpent releases Vague a l’Ame and Die Weisse Rose, the latter [...]
Tags: History - Culture
Explosive ingredients found in terror raids
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LONDON (Reuters) - Police have seized a large amount of explosive material and arrested eight men across London and the southeast in the country’s largest anti-terror operation for years.
Peter Clarke, head of the anti-terror branch, told a news conference more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was discovered in a six-foot (two-metre) high [...]
Tags: General
JACK LONDON: THE INTERSECTION OF LIFE AND FICTION
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This new biography of Jack London uses docudrama technique to bring to life the history of America’s most famous popular writer. But perhaps that should be larger than life, for London’s career was every bit as adventurous as his works of fiction.
Alex Kershaw may be right in attributing London’s central motivation to a feeling of [...]
Tags: History - Culture
Deafening silence from the Church
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Let us make it clear at the beginning of this commentary about one thing, the BNP is not “anti-church”. Far from it - Britain’s fastest growing political party has many members; including many long standing, senior members, prospective candidates and officials who are devout believers and advocates of the many different Christian faiths and denominations. [...]
Tags: Politics
Rebels issue receipt after robbing Scots at gunpoint
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TWO Scottish trekkers robbed at gunpoint while hiking in the Himalayas have described how a potentially fatal attack turned into farce when Maoist rebels handed them a receipt so they wouldn’t have to pay up again if targeted by other rebels further up the trail.
John McNicoll and Ewen Ferguson, from Stirlingshire, were on a [...]
Tags: International
Highland GM battle inspires Indians
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ONE of the world’s leading opponents of genetically modified crops has backed the campaign to keep Scotland GM-free.
Devinder Sharma, an award-winning journalist, writer and researcher on food and trade policy, said campaigners in other parts of the world had been inspired by protesters in the Highlands who fought GM field trials in the Black [...]
Tags: Environement
FIGHT CLUB (1999)
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Director: David Fincher
From novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter
David Fincher’s dark, sophisticated and thought-provoking film is a masterpiece of postmodern surrealism. Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, it traces the revolt of the narrator, Jack (Edward Norton), against the corporate conformity and consumerism of contemporary life.
Bored and listless, [...]
Tags: History - Culture
Forced marriages ‘may damage race relations’
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Key points• Arranged marriages may be damaging people’s perceptions of Asian women• 90% of Scottish Asian arranged marriages involve one party from abroad• In a survey, 79% had “incompatible” marriages and 21% “forced” marriages• Men “almost ignored” although 38% were in an “incompatible” marriage
Key quote: “The question of incompatible and forced marriages has a [...]
Tags: General
British cleric ruled ‘truly dangerous’ to stay in jail
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Key points• Evidence to conclude that muslim cleric Abu Qatada involved in terrorism• Special Immigrations Appeals Commission turns down his bid for freedom• In the mid-90s, Qatada met MI5 saying he would help keep Islamic terrorism off the streets of London.
Key quote: “[Abu Qatada] was heavily involved, indeed was at the centre in the [...]
Tags: Insecurity - ethnic mixing
KRAFTWERK - Expo Remix
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This is basically a remix EP of last years Expo 2000 but this time five different artists have contributed to it rather than Kraftwerk themselves (Too busy working on new material I suspect!!!). I’m not a massive fan of remixes and usually avoid EP’s which just have them on but there are exceptions and the [...]
Tags: History - Culture
Islamic terror - number one concern
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Webeditor Steve Blake reports on the growing fear of terrorist attacks in the UK.
Our canvassing teams around Britain are reporting a surprising response from householders when asked of them “what is your number one concern about the state of the country?” Just a few weeks ago the main answers were the obvious; the asylum chaos, [...]
Tags: Insecurity - ethnic mixing
Indian man marries his grandmother
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PANCHPARA, India (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Indian man has married his 80-year-old grandmother because he wants to take care of her.
“I felt she needed extra care as she is old. I can look after her better as a husband than as a grandson,” Narayan Biswas told Reuters on Friday.
“As a husband, I am with her [...]
Tags: International
Watchdog scotches fears on shortage of classics teachers
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FEARS that Scottish schools may have to remove classics from the curriculum because of difficulties in recruiting qualified teachers, have been scotched by the teaching profession’s regulatory body.
The decision of Strathclyde University to suspend the only training course in Scotland for classics teachers has provoked concern that Latin, Greek and classical studies may eventually [...]
Tags: General
Glasgow race murder - guilty named
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The BNP Glasgow branch and indeed other units throughout Scotland have been fielding scores of enquiries in the past 36hrs from terrified and anxious Glaswegians, some sobbing trying to convey their unbelievable grief and shock following the senseless racial killing of a 15 year schoolboy at the hands of an Asian lynch mob.
Eleven different interviews [...]
Tags: General
WARRIOR, WALDGAENGER, ANARCH
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An essay on Ernst Jünger’s concept of the sovereign individual
Ernst Jünger says in his acceptance speech for the prestigious Goethe prize in 1982, “I’ve had the experience that one meets the best comrades in no-man’s-land. I’ve always been pleased with my troops (Mannschaft) in war and my readership in peace. A hand that holds a [...]
Tags: History - Culture
Scotland gearing up for homecoming of Tartan Day
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TARTAN Day is coming home this year. For the first time Scots will no longer have to travel to New York to celebrate on 6 April but can take part in a week of activities in Angus, culminating in a re-enactment of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1320 at Arbroath Abbey.
The [...]
Tags: General