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08 Jul 2024 20:38

David M. Zsutty on why Donald Trump's disavowal of Project 2025 doesn't bode well for a second Trump presidency. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/trumps-betrayal-of-project-2025/

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08 Jul 2024 18:34

Jim Goad on a Grindr date gone horribly wrong when a black man dismembers a transsexual in Pennsylvania, Chet Hanks going on a crusade against the "racists" who he claims have misappropriated White Boy Summer, and Coeur d’Alene in Idaho passing "hate crime" legislation. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-worst-week-yet-182/

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08 Jul 2024 14:24

Paroled from the Paywall: The woke Left loves to boast about an African Queen who allegedly bested the evil white Romans in a war in the first century BC. Beau Albrecht investigates how much truth there is to this claim. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/queen-amanirenas-part-1/

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08 Jul 2024 13:08

FRENCH ELECTIONS: LE PEN’S RN WON MOST VOTES

The final results of the French Second-Round elections have shown that Marine Le Pen’s RN party won the single largest bloc of votes but, because of the distortions of the “first past the post” system used in France, ended up with a minority of seats.

As reported in the final results published in Le Monde (https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/07/08/la-carte-des-resultats-des-legislatives-2024-au-second-tour-l-hemicycle-et-le-tableau-des-candidats-elus_6247510_4355771.html), the final vote tallies were as follows:

Rassemblement National (“National Rally,” RN): 10,110,013 votes

Nouveau Front populaire (“New Popular Front,” NPF leftist coalition): 7,040,232

Ensemble ("Together," Macron centrist alliance): 6,820,446 votes

Les Republicains (“The Republicans,” LR, Gaullists): 1,474,723 votes.

If France had a proportional representation system:

- the RN would have 38% of the seats (219 seats)

- the NPF would have 25% of the seats (144 seats)

-the Ensemble would have 14% of the seats (80 seats)

- the LR would have 5% of seats (28 seats).

However, the actual seat breakdown as a result of the first past the post election is as follows:

RN : 142

NPF: 180

Ensemble: 159

LR: 39

Of significance to note is that briefly, before 1986, France DID have a proportional representation system.

This was, however, changed back to the first past the post system in 1986, precisely to stop Jean Marie Le Pen’s Front National from entering the French parliament, as he would have at that stage already under a PR system. (In 1986, the FN polled 2.7 million votes, or 9.6% of the vote).

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08 Jul 2024 11:17

The wages of tolerance are treachery and betrayal. I see no reason why Islam would abandon its perennial policy of trying to conquer Europe just because we have a mutual enemy in the Jews. The Muslims see Jewish control of the West as a weakness to exploit, not as an opportunity for friendship.

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07 Jul 2024 15:06

Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul,” on the fact that although he’s widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can’t get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/reggie-jacksons-tortured-negro-soul-video/

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07 Jul 2024 14:48

Greg Johnson's "The Christian Question in White Nationalism" is now in Polish. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/nowa-prawica-przeciw-starej-prawicy-rozdzial-13/

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05 Jul 2024 20:13

Ondrej Mann interviews long-time Counter-Currents writer Margot Metroland about all the movement figures she's known, her favorite films, whether women have a place at CC, writing, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-rose-from-pennsylvania/

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05 Jul 2024 16:38

Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Socrates explains the difference between doing injustice and suffering it, and why the latter is preferable. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-7/

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05 Jul 2024 14:20

Paroled from the Paywall: Mark Gullick on Alan Clarke, a British filmmaker who made a slew of works dealing with taboo social themes during the 1970s and '80s. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/the-man-who-wasnt-there-the-films-of-alan-clarke/

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05 Jul 2024 09:50

Turnout in this election is estimated to be around 60 percent - the second lowest in 140 years. The only election with lower turnout since 1885 was in 2001, and only just (59%).

Despite this being the Conservatives' worst ever electoral performance, Labour - the winning party - gained barely one third (33.9%) of that 60 percent turnout.

Again: It's the worst election in the Tories history, and yet despite that, and despite winning by a landslide, the other big party only got a third of the votes.

That tells you how little enthusiasm there is for what either of the two biggest parties are offering - or at least, what the electorate believe they would deliver once in power. And of course, millions upon millions of the votes for both of those parties were cast not because the voters in question have any faith or affinity whatsoever with the party they're very reluctantly voting for, but because they think the other party would be even worse.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems win 71 seats and counting with 12.3 percent of the vote, while Reform win 14.3 percent of the vote and are rewarded with just four seats. Or to put it another way, a party gaining 33.9 percent of the vote wins by landslide with 410 seats and counting, while a party that isn't far off half of that vote share gets only four seats. That shows how ridiculous and unrepresentative the British electoral system is.

The whole thing is totally illegitimate.

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05 Jul 2024 09:22

What can we take away from yesterday’s elections?

- Labour win, but don’t have the number of seats many thought (including myself)
- Conservatives win more than people thought and survive as the opposition
- Reform do very well in terms of share of the vote but that isn’t reflected in the number of seats they gain
- Farage himself finally gets elected – this is a major breakthrough
- Galloway loses his seat
- The SNP were crushed in Scotland
- The Lib Dems made major gains

The take away from all this is sadly the Conservatives have survived as the opposition and remain a major parliamentary party. The flaws in the voting system have also been exposed, as Reform (at time of writing) have taken more votes (14% national share) than the Lib Dems (12% national share), yet the Lib Dems have 64 seats, as opposed to Reform’s four.

Conclusion: Britain’s parliamentary democracy and first past the post system of voting are completely broken producing minority governments and denying millions of people any representation. But I believe that is by design.

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04 Jul 2024 21:17

Richard Parker on why the tolerance of transgenderism encouraged by many conservatives is a dangerous delusion. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/leaping-into-delusion-death-and-personal-destruction/

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04 Jul 2024 19:03

Mark Gullick introduces Plato's Timaeus, a text which summarizes Platonic cosmology and is one of his most opaque dialogues. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/in-the-beginning-platos-timaeus/

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04 Jul 2024 18:02

Jim Goad on the fact that although he's widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can't get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/reggie-jacksons-tortured-negro-soul/

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08 Jul 2024 20:26

Whadda ya afraid of? A little meritocracy?

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08 Jul 2024 15:52

Spencer J. Quinn on his reaction to being asked to give an interview about his work by a mainstream academic. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/im-on-team-normal/

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08 Jul 2024 14:19

Hey folks! I have some really good news.

Sam met with his probation team today and the visit restrictions for our children have now been lifted. We passed the assessment with Children’s Services who have recommended full contact, and couldn’t highlight any issues. We can now book in a visit for Sam to see his girls this weekend, which will be the first time he’s seen them in nearly two months. The PPRC (person posing risk to children) tag has been completely removed from Sam’s file.

Once again I’d like to thank everybody who wrote to the prison, getting the initial restrictions lifted and moving things along. It means so much to our family that this chapter is now over.

Additionally, we were supposed to find out Sam’s licence conditions (rules he has to follow when released) today but they still haven’t decided. I genuinely don’t think they know what to do with him as he’s a non-violent criminal in prison for his thoughts. We’ll have to wait a little longer to get more info on this.

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08 Jul 2024 12:35

Percy Grainger, the Australian composer who was also a racialist and Nordicist, was born on this day in 1882. Alex Graham introduces his life and work. https://counter-currents.com/2017/12/percy-grainger-artist-of-the-right/

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08 Jul 2024 00:32

https://open.spotify.com/show/355M8cFyqD3oipnMMJ47NM

The New Nationalism Podcast is now on Spotify.

If you’ve got a Spotify account, head on over there and give TNNP a listen, and a 5 star rating!

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07 Jul 2024 14:58

The classicist and man of the Right Revilo Oliver was born on this day in 1908. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents, where we have reprinted a considerable number of his essays. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/remembering-revilo-oliver-7/

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05 Jul 2024 23:32

Behold, British "democracy": Labour receives ~2.4 times more votes than Reform but wins 103 times more seats. Reform, the third largest party by vote share, has fewer seats than the eleventh largest party.

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05 Jul 2024 17:37

Some thoughts on the election...

Four seats for Reform is outrageous. This is exactly what happened with UKIP years ago. Now that Farage is an elected MP, maybe he (and others) will campaign for a change to the voting system. I think this election is, more than anything else, an indictment of FPTP.

The Conservative Party didn't receive nearly as much damage as was predicted (including by the mainstream media). Thus, the blue cheek remains and will duly support the red cheek. This is a huge disappointment. It is tempting to blame Peter Hitchens, but realistically he doesn't have that much influence. The real culprit is just the perennial cowardice of conservatives to break from the norm. It seems that what most of them did in this election was, not vote for some other party, but simply stay home and not vote at all, which handed victory to Labour by default.

It was an election against the Conservatives, not for Labour, but it will be interpreted as the latter. As a result Labour will do what they always do - but that is also what the Conservatives did for the last 14 years. Whether Labour will be any worse, I'm unsure.

Given the way our system works, it seems highly unlikely to me that Labour will get only five years. Realistically we are looking at ten years, maybe even fifteen. To put that in perspective, by the time this new government ends, Tony Blair will either be 81 or 86.

After that, will it finally be time for Reform? Farage will be 70 in 2034, and possibly Reform will have been taken over by someone younger and more ballsy. But, by that time, memories of the appalling 2010-2024 Conservative government will have faded, and I can see the public voting the Conservative Party right back in.

But that assumes that nothing happens between now and then to shift things - and, of course, things will happen. This new Labour government will be operating alongside a European Continent that is far to the right of where it was in 1997-2010, or indeed 2010-2020. In addition the geopolitical situation means that Britain is not going to be as prosperous as it was under New Labour. Even today, as Starmer celebrates his victory, the media are not attempting any remixed "Cool Britannia" feel-good nonsense. Everyone knows we're in for a rough ride, includes the lefties. Labour inheriting this mess from the Conservatives will probably turn out to be a poisoned chalice.

Good.

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05 Jul 2024 16:18

Today is the 99th birthday of Jean Raspail, author of the prophetic anti-immigration novel from 1973, The Camp of the Saints. But Raspail achieved many more things than just the writing of this one novel, as important as it is. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/remembering-jean-raspail-1/

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05 Jul 2024 14:20

New from Angelo Plume/Pox Populi:

Friends and followers, I'm excited to present to you The New Nationalism Podcast. It has been months in the making, and I think it will be unlike anything you've heard from the Nationalist Right. This is not your ordinary podcast. This is more like an episodic series of conversations and stories, each one focused on a theme, presented as an intellectual journey. It's a back-to-basics, Nationalism 101 course that has been made with the ''normie'' in mind. What would it be like if there were a single destination where a newborn nationalist could find answers to all his doubts and questions? More importantly, this project presents a truly nationalist vision for the future, from the minds of some of our movement's most esteemed and passionate voices.

https://newnationalism.substack.com/p/the-new-nationalism-podcast

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05 Jul 2024 09:48

The two biggest observations from this election are as follows:

1. Labour has a huge majority - one of the largest post war parliamentary majorities on record, yet only 33.8 per cent of people voted for them.

2. Reform took 14.3 per cent of the vote, taking four seats, the Liberal Democrats took 12.2 per cent of the vote and took 71 seats.

The conclusion is obvious: first past the post voting and the current 'parliamentary democracy' we have here in the UK is totally broken and produces results that are not representative of views of the population.

I explained this all in great detail (and how it occurs with real world examples) in a long form stream about a month ago. It's linked below.

Taking all of this into account, it's clear to anyone that electoral success at parliamentary level for nationalists is unlikely to the say the least. Nationalists must find ways to come together and advocate for our collective rights without relying on a broken electoral system for change.

Is the Electoral Route a Dead End?
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05 Jul 2024 09:21

Reform
4 million votes
4 seats

Liberal Democrats
3.4 million votes
71 seats

Reform came second in 98 seats.

If you ever needed an argument that our system needs overhauling, this is it. Millions of our people have no representation. I’ve always argued that the system is set up in order to leave us ineffective and that simply playing the establishment’s election game while expecting to make major change isn’t going to work. Nationalists have to think in more revolutionary ways. The stuffy, old, boring methods are finished.

Anyway, bye bye Tories 👋🏻
Hello Labour …now is the time for real nationalism to rise

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04 Jul 2024 19:10

Gregory Hood's "The Meaning of July 4th for the White Man" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2014/07/the-meaning-of-july-4th-for-the-white-man/

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04 Jul 2024 18:43

Paroled from the Paywall: Thomas Steuben reviews John Michael Greer's The King in Orange, a book which looks at the role that magic plays in politics, especially in regard to the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/good-and-bad-magic-in-politics/

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04 Jul 2024 15:34

Free your mind and your nation will follow! Celebrate Independence Day at Counter-Currents by learning about the true meaning of the American Revolution. It wasn't to make people equal. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/celebrate-july-fourth-with-counter-currents-3/