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		By: Barry Meislin		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Meislin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BBC goes full BB. 

“…Woman recognized as ‘first black Briton’ by BBC was actually white”—
https://instapundit.com/763296/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BBC goes full BB. </p>
<p>“…Woman recognized as ‘first black Briton’ by BBC was actually white”—<br />
<a href="https://instapundit.com/763296/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://instapundit.com/763296/</a></p>
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		By: Selfy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selfy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Did Brown University acquiesce under pressure from far-left human rights groups to disable their CCTV systems, in advance of the mass shooting on campus?&quot;
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/17/brown-university-received-a-letter-from-34-human-rights-groups-in-august-requesting-they-disable-their-cctv-system/#more-278883]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Did Brown University acquiesce under pressure from far-left human rights groups to disable their CCTV systems, in advance of the mass shooting on campus?&#8221;<br />
<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/17/brown-university-received-a-letter-from-34-human-rights-groups-in-august-requesting-they-disable-their-cctv-system/#more-278883" rel="nofollow ugc">https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/17/brown-university-received-a-letter-from-34-human-rights-groups-in-august-requesting-they-disable-their-cctv-system/#more-278883</a></p>
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		By: TJ		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TJ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hate that I haven’t the energy or time to do justice to this finest talk. So, I’ll just share my raw notes.

Rudyard Lynch and Tate Brown discuss what REALLY  ails us — the suicidal character of the Left throughout the English speaking West. (less than 30m)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg7bk40C1zQ

THIS is the single most incisive and in depth explanation of what’s going on with murder-suicide like in Australia, pace Canada, Britain, today — and us and our Anglospheric past. The decline of the West was always the goal of the Left . This entirely marks the US angst on the Right ever since Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Rudyard Lynch, (9:37) says: James Burnham wrote a book in 1961 called ‘The Suicide of the West’. And it&#039;s a really horrifying book that an intelligent conservative author writing in the 1950s could predict the end point of this which was the suicide of the West. 

He said at the time, Liberals were America&#039;s dominant ruling class. That didn&#039;t become the party consensus until COVID. The Left was able to lie that WASP reactionary Christian fundamentalists were in charge of America. But going back to World War I, the Progressives took over authority. 

What James Burnham said is that the Liberals [the Left] don&#039;t have a coherent moral code. They just support whatever policy makes the West hurt. And they will adjust their own moral code [downward] so that the West hurts. 

[Burnham] said if you establish a society where these are the incentives over the course of decades, you&#039;ll have the suicide of the West. And that&#039;s their ultimate goal. They will look at whatever the west was 500 years ago and do the opposite. 

500 years ago, Muslims were the enemy, it was a patriarchal society, the nobility ran society, it was Christian. So what the Left does, because their aim is the suicide of the West, is just take a traditional Western society and then do its opposite.

—Rudyard Lynch

SOLUTIONS
First, call out the Marxists wherever you find them. Always reject their premises. Undermine the enemy.

Second, fortify yourself with pre-world War I Western Cultural self-confidence! By visiting and living inside it for positive succour and  lesson learning.

WASP culture, especially since WWI, has been replaced by Marxist ideas embraced by the Ruling Class.

The prolific writings of GK Chesterton is the direction I’m going with for this reason:

“Chesterton debated many of the celebrated intellectuals of his time: George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Clarence Darrow. According to contemporary accounts, Chesterton usually emerged as the winner of these contests, however, the world has immortalized his opponents and forgotten Chesterton, and now we hear only one side of the argument, and we are enduring the legacies of socialism, relativism, materialism, and skepticism. Ironically, all of his opponents regarded Chesterton with the greatest affection. And George Bernard Shaw said: “The world is not thankful enough for Chesterton.”
—chesterton.org]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate that I haven’t the energy or time to do justice to this finest talk. So, I’ll just share my raw notes.</p>
<p>Rudyard Lynch and Tate Brown discuss what REALLY  ails us — the suicidal character of the Left throughout the English speaking West. (less than 30m)<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg7bk40C1zQ" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg7bk40C1zQ</a></p>
<p>THIS is the single most incisive and in depth explanation of what’s going on with murder-suicide like in Australia, pace Canada, Britain, today — and us and our Anglospheric past. The decline of the West was always the goal of the Left . This entirely marks the US angst on the Right ever since Charlie Kirk’s assassination.</p>
<p>Rudyard Lynch, (9:37) says: James Burnham wrote a book in 1961 called ‘The Suicide of the West’. And it&#8217;s a really horrifying book that an intelligent conservative author writing in the 1950s could predict the end point of this which was the suicide of the West. </p>
<p>He said at the time, Liberals were America&#8217;s dominant ruling class. That didn&#8217;t become the party consensus until COVID. The Left was able to lie that WASP reactionary Christian fundamentalists were in charge of America. But going back to World War I, the Progressives took over authority. </p>
<p>What James Burnham said is that the Liberals [the Left] don&#8217;t have a coherent moral code. They just support whatever policy makes the West hurt. And they will adjust their own moral code [downward] so that the West hurts. </p>
<p>[Burnham] said if you establish a society where these are the incentives over the course of decades, you&#8217;ll have the suicide of the West. And that&#8217;s their ultimate goal. They will look at whatever the west was 500 years ago and do the opposite. </p>
<p>500 years ago, Muslims were the enemy, it was a patriarchal society, the nobility ran society, it was Christian. So what the Left does, because their aim is the suicide of the West, is just take a traditional Western society and then do its opposite.</p>
<p>—Rudyard Lynch</p>
<p>SOLUTIONS<br />
First, call out the Marxists wherever you find them. Always reject their premises. Undermine the enemy.</p>
<p>Second, fortify yourself with pre-world War I Western Cultural self-confidence! By visiting and living inside it for positive succour and  lesson learning.</p>
<p>WASP culture, especially since WWI, has been replaced by Marxist ideas embraced by the Ruling Class.</p>
<p>The prolific writings of GK Chesterton is the direction I’m going with for this reason:</p>
<p>“Chesterton debated many of the celebrated intellectuals of his time: George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Clarence Darrow. According to contemporary accounts, Chesterton usually emerged as the winner of these contests, however, the world has immortalized his opponents and forgotten Chesterton, and now we hear only one side of the argument, and we are enduring the legacies of socialism, relativism, materialism, and skepticism. Ironically, all of his opponents regarded Chesterton with the greatest affection. And George Bernard Shaw said: “The world is not thankful enough for Chesterton.”<br />
—chesterton.org</p>
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		By: Marlene		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bob -- the rinos, re:  allowing  a vote on obamacare subsidies.  
  That&#039;s truly awful. Especially because the plan to be voted  on is to extend subsidies for 3 years!!!  
WTH???   
I&#039;m anxious to see how many rinos will step up to allow THAT mistake!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bob &#8212; the rinos, re:  allowing  a vote on obamacare subsidies.<br />
  That&#8217;s truly awful. Especially because the plan to be voted  on is to extend subsidies for 3 years!!!<br />
WTH???<br />
I&#8217;m anxious to see how many rinos will step up to allow THAT mistake!</p>
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		By: Bob Wilson		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Wilson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The four rinos who voted with the Democrats on the Obamacare subsidy. 

Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., and Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The four rinos who voted with the Democrats on the Obamacare subsidy. </p>
<p>Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., and Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa.</p>
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		By: Mike Plaiss		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Plaiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For what it’s worth, I had a very similar reaction to this article.

https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/why-the-lost-generation-is-a-lost]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For what it’s worth, I had a very similar reaction to this article.</p>
<p><a href="https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/why-the-lost-generation-is-a-lost" rel="nofollow ugc">https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/why-the-lost-generation-is-a-lost</a></p>
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		By: Eeyore (Is, Eum)		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/17/open-thread-12-17-2025/#comment-2834350</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eeyore (Is, Eum)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norman Podhoretz was always the first name I&#039;d mention when defending neocons.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Norman Podhoretz was always the first name I&#8217;d mention when defending neocons.</p>
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		By: sdferr		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdferr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norman Podhoretz, Tikvah interview -- &quot;Reflections of a Jewish Neoconservative&quot; (58:09): 
https://youtu.be/6opEhahujaI

RIP at 95 yrs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Norman Podhoretz, Tikvah interview &#8212; &#8220;Reflections of a Jewish Neoconservative&#8221; (58:09):<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/6opEhahujaI" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/6opEhahujaI</a></p>
<p>RIP at 95 yrs.</p>
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		By: om		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[om]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Barry:

Missed or dismissed?  Burns must keep the narrative alive, arc of history and all that (red rubbish).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barry:</p>
<p>Missed or dismissed?  Burns must keep the narrative alive, arc of history and all that (red rubbish).</p>
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		By: Barry Meislin		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/17/open-thread-12-17-2025/#comment-2834344</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Meislin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Speaking about “making friends”…

An interesting and judicious response to Ken Burns’s latest effort to work his “magic” on the American Revolution…

“The Military Story Ken Burns Missed In The Revolution”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/military-story-ken-burns-missed-revolution

Short version: Burns misses the key point.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking about “making friends”…</p>
<p>An interesting and judicious response to Ken Burns’s latest effort to work his “magic” on the American Revolution…</p>
<p>“The Military Story Ken Burns Missed In The Revolution”—<br />
<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/military-story-ken-burns-missed-revolution" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/military-story-ken-burns-missed-revolution</a></p>
<p>Short version: Burns misses the key point.</p>
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