News Briefs Dec. 13-19/2009

• End of era for Argentina’s Afrikaners: Once they lived here in their thousands, but now only a handful of Afrikaans-speaking Boers remain in the windswept Patagonian coastal town of Comodoro Rivadavia and its hinterland.
• Hannah Arendt was apparently a critic of forced racial integration, i.e. Little Rock-style school desegregation via 101st Airborne bayonets.
• RAND Corporation calls for federal super-SWAT team for domestic and international operations.
• An explosive new book about Disney World claims the world-famous Florida theme park is a hotbed of drugs and costumed sex!
• A funny thing happened to Ted Kennedy on his way to the Culture Wars.
• German Army & American Jewish Committee expand ties.
• Brave New World – 2009: the relevance of Aldous Huxley to our current reality.
• Convergence: It was once predicted that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. would end up in the same place. Is this old idea due for an overhaul?
• Joe Lieberman  is “close to an anti-Semitic caricature… greedy, arrogant, venal, and vindictive. He recalls the New Testament’s vicious caricature of the ancient Jewish Pharisees…” Yikes, good thing a goy didn’t say this!
• New maritime security law will deputize U.S. officers “in every part of Canada” during integrated operations.
• Yahoo sells all its users private email contents to U.S. agencies for small price.
• A small reprieve: the estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.
• Why Do Rappers Hold Their Guns Sideways? Hey, now you know!
• America’s Stonehenge: A Classic Whodunit and Whydunit.
• If the Pentagon has its way anthropologists will exchange their tweed for military fatigues and leave the halls of academe for the front lines.
• Philip K. Dick: Prophet of the 21st Century.
• Homeland Security improperly spied on the Nation of Islam.
• The Hoelzer Reich controversy: a complicated story involving a clothing line’s “fascist imagery”, White Power skinhead bands, and Ultimate Fighting.
• Dockers’ “Man-ifesto”.
• After being “read out of the conservative movement” by William F. Buckley decades ago, the John Birch Society is back in from out of the cold.
• Afghanistan: $57,077.60 – Surging by the Minute.
• Karen De Coster reviews Paul Gottfried’s Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers.
• What Janitors Create, Bankers Destroy.
• Insurgents used satellite dishes and $26 software to hack US airpower video feeds. Not bad for a bunch of Stone Age cave-dwelling ‘camel jockeys’, eh? Update here.
• Who is exterminating the West and how?
• Wal-Mart screwing the troops on shipping.
• Pablo Neruda in Spain: the “reverse Schindler”?

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