Argentina's Bicentennial

What Bicentennial? Are we talking about national independence? We (Trans. note: the argentinians) have been independent very few times in our history. Those times are counted with the fingers of one hand. At some point our nation was independent during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas; the Anglo-French blockade in 1848; with President Julio Argentino Roca and his highly controversial "Conquest of the Desert"; with Roque Saenz Peña, the only argentinian President wounded in combat; for a brief period during the government of Hipolito Irigoyen and, during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. In other words, we've reached some platitudes in our history with few unfinished projects of national independence, but never a real and permanent one.

From Buela, Alberto "Bicentennial a Politically Correct Idea" see here

The Real Kirchner's Argentina

Argentina is in the grip of a classic wage-price spiral, with unions holding the country to ransom and inflation at 30%, members of the opposition and critics are routinely described as anti-patriotic coup-plotting "golpistas", corruption is rife as huge public projects and concessions are handed to cronies with no real competetive tendering and a complete absence of anti-monopoly legislation to keep them in check, the kirchner's estimated personal swiss-held wealth is now in the tens of millions and of extremely dubious provenance, the Malvinas are invoked just as they were by Galtieri to induce patriotic sentimen while the nation's wealth is robbed, sold and pawned in what the Economist has described as "a serial asset-grab" in order to fill the coffers of what Cristina has described with Orwellian cynicism as the "bicentennial fund", which will be used as her campaign fund, as the poor are bribed with hand-puts and freebies (including free laptops no less!) into voting the Kirchner's back into power at the elections next year.


* The picture depicts a massive metal replica of Argentina's Constitution – in flames

Dr. Martin Lings

On Shakespeare and the English Language:

Seyyed Hossein Nasr once asked Dr. Lings why he continued to be so much concerned with Shakespeare.

Dr. Nasr recalled,

“He (Lings) said that since the English language was now becoming
global, the time of Shakespeare had arrived and that it was most important to preserve this language at its peak and in expressions impregnated with the deepest wisdom and traditional teachings. In this way the spread of English would not contribute simply to the impoverishment of various cultures.”

On Frithjof Schuon:

“I knew when I was in his (Schuon’s) presence that I was in the presence of a true saint and also the spiritual master that I was seeking. When I say ‘true saint,’ I don’t mean just a saintly man but a true saint of the first magnitude, such as one cannot expect to meet in the twentieth century…. I knew this with a certainty.”

Padre Abraham a Sancta Clara

The Prodigal Son

Of what country the prodigal son was is not precisely known, but I believe he was an Irishman. What his name was, is not generally understood; but I believe it was Malefacius. From what place he took his title (seeing he was a nobleman) has not yet been discovered; but I believe it was Maidsberg or Womenham. What was the device in his coat of arms, no one has described; but I believe it was a sow's stomach in a field verd.

This chap travelled with well-larded purse through various countries and provinces, and returned no better, but rather worse. So it often happens still, that many a noble youth has his travels changed to travails.

Not seldom, also, he goes forth a good German, and returns a bad Herman. What honour or credit is it to the noble river Danube that it travels through different lands, through Suabia, Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, and at last unites with a sow ! The pious Jacob saw, in his journey, a ladder to heaven; but, alas! many of our quality find, in their journeys, a ladder into hell. If, now-a-days, a man travel not, he is called a Jack-in-the-corner, and one who has set up his rest behind the stove. But tell me, dear half-Germans, (for whole Germans ye have long ceased to be,) Is it not true 1 Ye send your sons out that they may learn strange vices at great cost in strangerlands, when, with far less expense, they might be acquiring His Pulfit Drolleries virtues at home. They return with no more point to them than they went out, except that they bring home some new fashion of point. They return no more gallant, unless it be that gallant comes from the French galant. They return more splendidly clad, but good habits were better than to be finely habited. New-fashioned hats, newfashioned periwigs, new-fashioned collars, new-fashioned coats, new-fashioned breeches, new-fashioned hose, newfashioned shoes, new-fashioned ribbons, new-fashioned buttons—also new-fashioned consciences creep into our beloved Germany through your travels. Your fool's frocks change too with every moon; and soon the tailors will have to establish a university, and take doctor's degrees, and afterwards bear the title of right reverend doctors of fashion.

If I had all the new fashions of coats for four-and-twenty years, I would almost make a curtain before the sun with them, so that men should go about with lanterns in the day-time. At least, I would undertake to hide all Turkey •with them, so that the Constantinopolitans should think their Mohammed was playing blind-the-cat with them. An old witch, at the request of king Saul, called the prophet Samuel from the dead, that he might know the result of his arms. It will soon come to pass, that people will want to call from the dead the identical tailor and master who made the beautiful Esther's garment, when she was so well-pleasing in the eyes of Ahasuerus

... So the prodigal son learned but little good in foreign lands. His doing was wooing; his thinking was drinking; his Latin was Prqfidat, his Italian Brindisi, his Bohemian Sasdravi, his German Gesegnets Gott. In one word, he was a goodly fellow always mellow, a vagrant, a bacchant.

Por un 2010 sin Cristina y sin Nestor

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Alexander Dugin sobre el postmodernismo

"Y es, en efecto, una especie de sociedad anticristiana que occidente esta construyendo"

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Aplastando a los medios

Del New York Post de hoy:

"In Argentina, the Kirchner mini-dynasty, faced with the disastrous effects of its pseudo-populist looting, assaults the media through bogus tax investigations (a Putin technique), the manipulation of paper supplies and monopoly charges. The key Clarin media group -- which supported the Kirchners before they wrecked the economy -- is now under attack."

Crushing the media

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Intelectuales K

El último documento de Carta Abierta no difiere de una payada, ni ideas ni proyectos, ni principios comprensibles, apenas palabras que repiten abusivamente la misma precariedad.

Así, sobre la pobreza: "Nos compete, nos atraviesa. Por eso podemos decir: no nos escandaliza. El escándalo es gesto espectacular y ademán avieso. El rostro de los pobres se vuelve superficie de inscripción de llamados evangélicos, sacralidades disponibles, obsceno plano televisivo y objeto de malversación política. Nos atañen tanto las vidas dañadas por la miseria como su circulación en un imaginario que las despoja de creación, potencia y libertad”.

Densa articulación de gansadas para cubrir lo que en seis años no fueron capaces de solucionar, apenas de agravar.

Como no pueden responder, divagan fiero, sobre si escándalo es la palabra adecuada. De todos modos, en este punto y como lo dicen con todas las letras, los entendimos bien: “no los escandaliza la pobreza”. Está claro, los intelectuales de carta abierta no se escandalizan fácilmente, ni siquiera ante la riqueza K.


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