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Ernst Jünger’s War-Forged Man

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  Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) Kasey James Elliott’s recently published English translation of Ernst Jünger’s 1922 book War as an Inner Experience is so lacking in grace that it is tempting to suspect that Elliott does not even know any German, so much of the text reading like it was vomited out of Google Translate. Having said that, though, enough of the author’s communicative prowess shines through the often unsatisfactory words on the page to make this frustrating little book worth a look. Certain passages retain the power of Jünger’s expression, and particularly interesting are those portions that are impossible to read except as forecasts of National Socialism’s transformation of Germany. “The war, father of all things,” he sets out in his introduction, “has hammered, chiseled and hardened us to what we are. And always, as long as the swinging wheel of life still circles within us, this war will be the axis around which it whirls.” The Great War “has educated us to fight, and we will

Why the Black God Came White

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  Going back to the days of J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO, enemies of the Nation of Islam have attempted to discredit the organization’s truth among the black community with assertions that the NOI’s founder W.D. Fard, or Master Fard Muhammad, was a white man, with some alleging that Fard, rather than manifesting Allah in Person, was in fact a common criminal named Wallace Dodd Ford, not even born in Mecca. Fard’s white skin, however, is not only not a refutation of his status as the real Black God, but has a perfectly reasonable explanation as clarified by New Orleans life coach Brother Willie Muhammad in his very useful book, Understanding Master Fard Muhammad : Since the days in the Caves of Europe, the enemy was taught that their time to rule was not eternal and would come to an end when one with greater power and knowledge than their father would be born. They knew this one would be a Black God, literally! So once in power, they began working to counter His coming. But their arro