Author: Dominique Johnson
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J. Hector St. John on What Is An American, 1782
EXCERPT FROM LETTER III FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER PUBL. 1782 “In this great American asylum [haven], the poor of Europe have by some means met together, and in consequence of various causes.” (J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVEŒUR, LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER) “What then is the American, this new man? . . . He…
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Kyrie and Ave Maria (arranged from “Intermezzo sinfonico”) | Plácido Domingo and Sissel
Kyrie Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
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Recondita Armonia | Plácido Domingo
The supreme tranquility of Plácido, when Plácido Domingo sings Recondita armonia. Romanticism never dies in us. . . But our Floria is Sophia. English What subtle harmony of different beauties!Floria, my passionate lover is a brunetteAnd you, unknown beauty,Are framed by fair hairYou have blue eyesTosca has dark eyesThe mysterious artMixes the different beauties together:But…
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“Ain’t That Peculiar,” Marvin Gaye Expresses How I Feel About America
THE MESSAGES AND MUSIC IN SOUL HAD AND STILL HAVE THE POWER TO HEAL GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES, CULTURE, AND REANIMATE THE NATION. . .
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Abraham Lincoln Letter to Joshua F. Speed lays into Anti-Immigrant Nativist Party ‘Know-Nothing’
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that “all men are created equal. We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1855 ABRAHAM LINCOLN LETTER TO JOSHUA F. SPEED AUGUST 24, 1855 “I am not a Know-Nothing. That…
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Fox News and El Paso Gunman are on same Page: Fox Repeats Shooter’s Manifesto Verbatim
Fox News has echoed talking points from the El Paso shooter’s manifesto regarding a Hispanic “invasion” for some time. The attempt of Trump to relate the Dayton’s shooter’s left-wing sentiments to Elizabeth Warren is a cunning distraction and a deceitful comparison. “Will leaders sit back as invasion happens?” TUCKER CARLSON, COMING TO AMERICA SEGMENT Perhaps,…
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Jean Varenne on the Reactions to Julius Evola on Buddhism
“Let us leave modern men to their ‘truths’ and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.” JULIUS EVOLA Evola’s writings on Buddhism may help to dispel some misunderstanding about Buddhism. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad provides the same approach we will take here with Julius Evola. JEAN…
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Blood, the Universal Proteus: Significance of Blood in Ancient Magic and Religion
“…it was then that I understood for the first time a little of that message proclaimed by my ancestors on the banks of the Ganges thirty centuries ago–‘They who see but One in all the changing manifoldness of this universe, unto them belongs Eternal Truth, unto none else!’” (MODERN SCIENCE AND THE VEDANTA, THE BRAHMAVADIN,…
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Mario Palmieri on the True Goal of Fascism in relation to the Spiritual: Four Cardinal Points and National Heroism
THE FOUR CARDINAL POINTS OF FASCISM “Never before, to be sure, had a social and political system advanced such claims upon the inner world of man as this claim of Fascism to determine for him the form of conduct…” MARIO PALMIERI, THE PHILOSOPHY OF FASCISM Darkness is upon the land, and there is no hero…
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Solace, Strength and Enlightenment in Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”
The wise say, we shall once return from whence we came. You carry a fearsome strength in you. It is courage. Use it. It is the source of your magic. It is the source of your regeneration, of the resurrection within you. “Rise again, yes, rise again…” (MAHLER, FROM DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN, OF URLICHT OR…
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Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 2, Op. 31: “Copernican”
First, it sounds as if war has begun against the gods. Then, like the laboring of a soul in profound melancholic sorrow, among the bones and bloody river of the slain. . . .a heart-wrenching saudade. . . .severed in pieces. . . .and far from one’s god. Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op.…
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The Transcendental in the Nazi Volkishe and Fascist Ideal
NAZISM EXISTED BEFORE HITLER. HITLER JUST JOINED IN. The foundational National Socialists (pre-Hitler) were in-fact a league of ex-Social Democrats and Trade Unionists. Benito Mussolini found inspiration in Sorel, the Syndicalists, and Anarchists, and sought a balance in his own at first, new revolutionary socialism, which develops into “Fascism” in stark contrast to Marx, Trotsky…
The American Minervan 