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The Poor Man's Blues

By Orion on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 5:38am |

We are stardust makes some strong points on attitudes toward wealth redistribution:

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Christmas Songs

By Orion on Sat, 12/25/2010 - 8:46am |

Merry Christmas from this Seattle-based eclectic writer.

 

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Bay Area National Anarchist Andrew Yeoman on the CCC Thor Protest

By Orion on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 5:39am |

Andrew Yeoman is a Bay Area based nationalist and founder of the group Bay Area National Anarchists. I talked with him for an article I wrote previously on his movement. Building off of the last post I did on the subject of Thor and Heimdall, I figured he could provide an untapped viewpoint: 

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The Next Generation of Hate

By Orion on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 6:00am |

What started out as a comment in response to seashell over the Thor controversy quickly became a post unto itself. Here is the original comment:

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The Inequality Is Worse Than You Think

By Orion on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 11:00am |

This is ridiculous: 

Now for some really scary breaking news, from the latest payroll tax data. Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without earning a single dollar, new data from the Social Security Administration show. Total wages, median wages, and average wages all declined, but at the very top, salaries grew more than fivefold.

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Marvel "Thor" Movie Triggers New Heights Of Right Wing Racism

By Orion on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 4:31pm |

If you have ever read into the history of the German Nazi Party and following white supremacist splinter groups throughout the world, you'll know that these sociopaths have a special place of reverence for Nordic mythology. So, in daring to produce a high budget adaptation of Thor and including a cast that looks like America, writers like Richard Spencer (also a contributor at Pat Buchanan's lovely The American Conservative magazine) are aghast:

There’s a new Thor movie coming out soon. It’s based on a comic book that’s roughly based on Norse mythology (which means that it will feature bearded men wearing helmets and carrying spears and mead horns; don’t expect Asatru). Predictably, after Black Muslims have been brought into Sherwood forest and a Hollywood casting director was fired for refusing to cast non-White hobbits, Odin’s pantheon is thoroughly multiculti.

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Race and America: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

By Orion on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 11:38pm |

Cross-posted here and at Little Green Footballs.

In a post I made a while back at Little Green Footballs called "The Roots of Scaring White People," Sergey Romanov left this interesting comment:

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Huey Long and Old School Populism

By Orion on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 1:45am |

There's a lot of value in reading and absorbing material from across the political spectrum, as it gives you a clear idea of what on earth is actually going on. After going through books by Saul Alinsky and Christopher Hitchens (the latter of which still describes himself as a Marxist), a few things have struck me.

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