Greece is the way we are feeling!
By Max Musson: According to those who promote European union as an idealistic aim and those who promote the EU as the embodiment of that ideal, such a union is intended to be beneficial for all concerned – a state of affairs in which each member state is stronger and more secure because of the fraternal support provided by the others. However this does not seem to be working out too well for Greece in…
National Life – From the Standpoint of Science
This is a slightly abridged transcript of a lecture delivered in Newcastle on 19th November, 1900, to the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society by Karl Pearson, F.R.S., Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College, London. Karl Pearson was a polymath, born in Islington in 1857, he studied Mathematics at Cambridge University, later Physics at the University of Heidelberg, and at various other seats of learning; he studied metaphysics, physiology, Roman Law, 16th Century German Literature, English Law and Socialism and became…
Bush, Obama, NINJA Loans and the Greek Debt Crisis
By Max Musson: It appears that Greece is teetering in the brink of bankruptcy and if we were to listen to the usual financial pundits of the mass media, it would appear that ‘those Greeks’, those ‘lazy, hot-headed’ Mediterranean types — the kind of people who like to spend all day in the sun, eating olives and kebabs and drinking cheap red wine and ouzo — have gotten themselves in one hell of a financial…
Golden Dawn – The Struggle Continues
By Max Musson: It is now more than two years since the Greek nationalist party Golden Dawn caused a sensation when they secured almost 7% of the popular vote in national parliamentary elections and twenty-one of their candidates were elected as members of the Greek parliament. Since then the party has had a torrid time, engulfed as it has been by one controversy after another. The Greek establishment and the mass media have routinely demonised…
War and the Breed
By Max Musson: On this 100th Anniversary of the start of World War One, the ‘Great War’, I am reminded of a very moving book that I have in my possession written in 1915 by David Starr Jordan, then Chancellor of Leland Stanford University, in which he documents prophetically the tragically dysgenic effects of modern warfare on the populations of Europe. Below, I reproduce adapted slightly, the Foreword to Jordan’s book, written by J.W. Jamieson, which most succinctly summarises…
“Useful” Nationalists
By Nick Grifford: The 2006 film entitled 300 was the brainchild of graphic novelist Frank Miller and director, Zackery “Zack” Snyder. The story charts the military exploits of a small Spartan army (the eponymous 300) during the campaign against Persian invasion, circa 480 BC. The film is suitably emotive and clearly provides an allusion to invasive Muslim incursions into Europe during the the past few decades, which, in itself, is not unwelcome. However, being Hollywood, there…
Nikos Michaloliakos Jailed
By Max Musson: In an Athens court early yesterday morning, after overnight testimony that lasted for more than six hours, Nikos Michaloliakos the leader of Greek nationalist party Golden Dawn, was jailed pending trial on charges of running a criminal organisation. This follows the wave of arrests carried out by the Greek government last Saturday, which saw Mr Michaloliakos and five other Golden Dawn MPs among twenty people arrested, ostensibly following the fatal stabbing of singer…
Sparta – or a cautionary tale.
By Frederick Dixon: As the traveller in southern Greece descends from the uplands of Arcadia into the country of Laconia – the far south-eastern corner of the Greek mainland – he encounters a scene of extraordinary beauty. There, before him in the sun, lies a broad and smiling valley whose pastures and fields lie among vineyards and olive groves, citrus and almond orchards. This is the valley of the slow, green, River Eurotas, a valley…
Greece’s Golden Dawn Gives “Free Toll Road Day” to Motorists
Greece’s Golden Dawn continues to go from strength to strength by capitalizing upon inherent weaknesses in plutocratic capitalism—this time by seizing control of major toll road booths in Greece
Golden Dawns targets Second place in Greece
The only party shown to have risen in popularity over the summer is the, staunch nationalist party, Golden Dawn. The party are regularly attacked by the controlled media for their commitment to restoring the interests of Greek people to prime position, ahead of the interests of international bankers and foreign economic immigrants. The poll indicates that Golden Dawn are up from 6%to 8% support amongst voters while the current second largest party, Pasok (Socialists), have…