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The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace Of The Under Man
$27.95
This is a deeply conservative book in that it demonstrates the tension between Freedom and Equality. However, Stoddard's prescription, Eugenics, may strike some as radical.But, from Stoddard's point-of-view, the alternative, the collapse of Civilization, would be even more unpleasant.

I would like to see a synthesis of this book and Murray's "The Bell Curve" to discuss the effects of the increase in the low- IQ population to America, and whether it will be possible to maintain our free society.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
$24.00
Against the Grain discusses the connections between agriculture and poverty in our species.

"The assumption is that nomads and hunter-gatherers, who usually traded with civilized folk, knew a good thing when they saw it and so simply adopted the farming technology. In other words, a bunch of guys who spent their time running around the woods, hunting and fishing and trading meat for sex, one day saw someone hoeing weeds and said to themselves, 'What a fine idea! Let's go do that instead.' Is it possible that the technology did not spread entirely by adoption, that hunter-gatherers were wiped out or displaced by an advancing agricultural imperialism? The record suggests that although some adoption did occur, by and large farming spread by genocide." p45

His description of the modern world is not any sunnier.

Against the Grain is much easier to read than Manning's Grassland which was thick with Pirsig-esque tangents. (I am very impressed with both works.)

World Revolution The Plot Against Civilization (new edition)
$18.45
Without a doubt, Ms. Webster, an accomplished woman in times when not many did it, is of an excellent breed, the old type, the one that we, at these times, don't meet anymore, not in high frequency, anyway. Erudite, eloquent and wise, not just intelligent, she makes her point pointedly and in an elaborate manner, supported amply by a broad bibliography. I certainly recommend it.

One point which I am set to emphasize, is the Jewish question as to their participation and initialization of the World Revolution, an issue that continues to be a thorn in their side stuck there by their vilifiers, those of all kinds, but especially the antisemites and the extreme right, in short their haters, the ones that will use any kind of argument, even the worst or, worse yet, the false, to do that.

I would like to bring here a note about this book, written by the American Opinion Bookstore, which is carrying conservative, constitutional and libertarian materials, so no stoogery here. The note is attached to each copy of the book purchased.

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"OBITER DICTUM

Before her death in 1960, Nesta Webster corrected errors she had made in earlier
editions - mostly due to the limited information then available. In those editions, she had been led to overemphasize the involvement of conspirators of German and Jewish extraction.

In the 1971 hardback edition of World revolution, published in London , we find these corrections: on page 10, she states "... I devoted some pages to the Protocols. Today, however, both the German and Jewish questions have undergone changes which necessitate a different viewpoint." Again, on page 300, "... To regard World Revolution therefore as merely a Jewish conspiracy seems contrary to the facts of history..."

These corrections are consistently ignored by both her critics and those who wish to perpetuate these errors."

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This should tell anyone who is of the opinion that it's wise to do so, that this is not so, and to just stop the perpetuated vilification of the Jews, and the deliberate falsification of history.

Cold River
$39.95
This independent film did well in Sundance and started off the (unfortunately) short-lived career of Fred G. Sullivan of Saranac Lake, N.Y. Taken from the novel by William Judson, it contains the mild but rich story of a brother and a sister stranded in the 1920 wilderness of the Adirondacks to survive. On a shoe-string budget, Sullivan manages to capture the heart and spirit of the Adirondack Mountains as well as the characters of the young siblings as they struggle through a winter of turmoil in the mountains. It si no small feat that James Earl Jones plays the kind-hearted hermit who takes the children in for a while and the ending is a surprise for all when the small boy is pitted against a criminally minded convict who will stop at nothing. It is the kind of family film you would see on PBS; it is that rewarding.

Fred G. Sullivan went on to receive accolades at the Sundance Film Festival with his follow-up, "Sullivan's Pavilion", a story of his life and family in Saranac Lake, N.Y. If you can find this rare treasure, it is truly worth the effort.