In this, his fourth in a series of six essays, Peter Carl examines the urgency of the situation of the West and the reasons why Churchill’s Principle says indisputably that there is no longer time for ideological polemics. The future is now, says Peter Carl, and it’s not pretty. He peers into post-Breivik electoral politics across Northern and Central Europe as well as at the realities of the “Left”/”Right” situation, offering a glimpse into some of the changes that have occurred due to Breivik’s massacres. He also considers how a poorly crafted message on the part of the Movement has, for many outside of it, now made the use of the “Nazi” label seem ever more justified. Looking back to World War II and the Nazi collaboration with Islam then, the author considers the polemics and realities of the word Nazi then and now, which both history and present politics show has left the general public, the media, and governmental authorities terribly misguided – and the Movement itself sorely damaged.

Will Russia resist the temptations of imperial glory?

Since the 18th century, regardless of the doctrine of her managers, Russia is a major power. Expressed on a dial, the indicator oscillates between “dominant” and “major”. Accordingly, world affairs are co-determined by Moscow while our liberty and Russia’s internal order are interrelated. 

Yesterday, December 6th, children in Flanders received gifts. These gifts ostensibly come from Sinterklaas with the aid of his Moor assistant, "Swarte Piet". This tradition had strong Catholic origins, which of course made it anathema to 17th century convicted Calvinists. Thankfully, key members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Nieuw Nederland who had roots in officially Catholic Flanders, were unwilling to give up their cultural traditions.

In this, the third in his series of six essays, Peter Carl peers into the troubling mind and beliefs of the Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, both from the point of view of religion and politics. Breivik’s disturbing ideas are held up for comparison against the likes of those of Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexander Tille, Adolf Hitler, and Hanns Kerrl. The author asserts that if the Counter-Jihad Movement can pro-actively begin to take steps to modify and control its message and perception internationally and to genuinely seek insight from these and other past events in history, further long-term damage posed to the Counter-Jihad Movement by Anders Breivik’s ideas and horrendous murders may be preventable.

In Fall 2011, I taught Plato’s dialog, the Meno, to my upper-level Ethics class. What is relevant for our purposes is that the dialog addresses the question of the nature of justice and virtue. The character of Socrates suggests that if virtue can be taught, there must be teachers and students of this important topic. Since there are none, Socrates argues that virtue must be more like right opinion than knowledge, but that right opinion can be just as useful a guide to action as actual knowledge, though more unstable. But if this right opinion can’t be taught, how is it acquired? Socrates proposes that excellent rulers, prophets and soothsayers often speak the truth under divine inspiration. This means that though what they say is correct, they don’t really know what they are saying, or at least how they are managing to say it. Similarly, the virtuous are not able to articulate from where their right opinion stems because it too is divinely inspired and a gift from the gods.

A self-defense that sacrifices the protected self.

After a turbulent life, you will surmise that nothing that could surprise you could happen. A piece of stunning information that the writer picked up lately proves that, the theory of having seen it all, is wrong.

The reader is likely to have two meanings for the term “Liberal”. In the USA, the term’s usual definition is that, the liberal is left-of-center but claims that he is the center. Most liberals will resent the leftist tag. In their view, their education, intelligence and the sensitivity derived from their philosophy, puts them above party politics. Due to their cerebral qualities and ethics, liberals claim to be able to see merits in any position. This enables them to discover a value in what the left advocates. Therefore, they support these against the reactionaries located on their right of the political spectrum.

In this, his second in his series of six essays, Peter Carl looks into some research that suggests why continued “Left”/”Right” polemical infighting is highly unlikely to create greater acceptance or success for the Counter-Jihad Movement. Instead, he argues, it is far more likely to contribute to greater damage and increased resistance to the Movement in an ever worsening future. He then delves into a discussion of a few concrete examples of areas and situations where a few small changes in tactics and words could mean far greater gains for both its message and the world’s perception of the Counter-Jihad Movement.    

In this series of six essays, Peter Carl guides us through a thought-provoking analysis of the Counter-Jihad Movement and what he sees may be its own greatest obstacles: itself and its message. Based upon thoughts arising from his intermittent exchanges over the past three years with opinion-leaders and politicians within the Counter-Jihad Movement, these essays will cause all who care about the survival of Europe and the West to step back and think. In this, his first in this series of essays, he begins by looking at a number of commonly accepted myths that are not only holding the Movement back – but which are actually giving a free and open road to the Islamization of the West. He concludes with a defense of a few of the Movements best known voices and our right, individually and as groups, to “hate” ideas.

A forged-by-the-events pessimist, one who hopes that you are able to remain an optimist, writes this. In that condition, it is easier to withstand the storm that rages around us. Come to think of it, wide-ranging and solidly founded ignorance will have the same effect. If you are able to combine these two layers of protection then you will be safe from worries. Only sedation can treat you any better.

The tongue-in-cheek preamble has a purpose. It is to serve as an approach to the current state of the economic crisis. This sentence contains two errors. The “current state” is an illusion. Furthermore, the crisis is not necessarily that of the economy. 

As a Flemish American, I'm proud of what the people and the values of Flanders have contributed to the foundation of the United States of America.  Time has come to recognize this unknown contribution.  Sign my petition at whitehouse.gov.

November 7th was the date in the year 1609 that the rascal Henry Hudson - after accepting money, men, maps, and materiel from the Flemings Dirck Van Os, Petrus Plancius, and Judocus Hondius (and after being recruited by Emanuel Van Meteren) docked into Dartmouth, England. He had just "discovered" the Hudson river valley, an abundantly rich region. Although Hudson never returned, within one year (July 26th, 1610) the Antwerp emigre Arnout Vogels dispatched a ship (de Hoope) to trade for beaver pelts with the Amerindians.