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Pulse
(Frontiers/Now&Then)
Pulse, a new band feauturing members of Bob Catley’s touring band, Hard Rain and No Sweat, are said to be the great new hope for British melodic rock. Pulse are a competent bunch of guys who produce decent AOR, alas that is the problem. Not many of the twelve tracks have anything like that “hook” you look for a rock song. Most of the stuff on here pleasantly washes over you like a fresh breeze. There is, however, a great deal of promise on the self-titled debut. Both the opening and closing tracks (‘Talk about Love’ & the sparse acoustic track ‘Without You’) show some great potential. ‘Inspiration’ has that catchiness that is so lacking in many of the rest of the tracks here. Pulse needs to work on their songwriting, now that they have the muscianship down pat. Melodic fans everywhere will be waiting to see what they do with album number two.
Marty: 5
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Recently there have been some who have claimed that the anglospherist movement or �cult�, is fundamentally a racist construct. Chief purveyors of this daft line on the movement is Emmanuel Goldstein of AirstripOne. It is tempting as an anglospherist to discount this line as the idiotic ranting of a moron.
This would be a mistake, it is much more interesting to examine this belief in full. Most of the time the left tends to use the term �racist� as a weapon to shut down discussion on a subject which they do not wish to discuss. It is a sort of verbal blackmail, where the person using naturally expects no response to such a jibe. In fact the term �racist� has been demeaned and lessened by the overuse and abuse. It takes a great deal of effort to actually convince someone of the smallest modicum of intellectual nouse that something is actually racist as a direct result of this trend.
I am in no doubt that those who are anglospherist will face the accusation of racism in their evangelism. What possible reason could any sane person think we are racists? Surely a group of people with a common background can group themselves together to discuss issues that are of mutual benefit? What is wrong with those of us who come from countries that are historically, ethnically and linguistically linked to Britain grouping ourselves together to help each other? The French have had such and organisation for years, the Forum Francophone D�Affaires (). It has chapters in most if not all countries with a French speaking population. The organisation fellow �Francos� with conferences, trade fairs and cultural exchanges.
What is wrong is that ethnic whites (or Caucasians in the US) have no right to do this. Any time more than 5 us get together to discuss anything, without the requisite minority present. Unlike every other grouping of people, we have no right to free association without an ethnic minder of some sort to make sure we don�t try to do down non-anglos. White people are naturally racist and can�t be trusted, right?
Libertarians at times suffer from a similar accusation. This is simple to explain, libertarians believe in equality and a level playing field for all. We are against things like affirmative action/positive descrimination, foreign aid/entanglements and a large state. It could be argued that most if not all of the big government and interventionist programs, whether domestic or abroad, help non-anglos. We need to ignore the fact that there are more poor whites than non-whites in both the US and UK, for a moment as that would ruin this theory. The left believes that big government helps the poor, the underprivileged and their much vaunted minorities (which includes women who are of course in the majority in the US and the UK). Any move against statism is naturally racist if you believe passionately in big government.
It would be interesting to read Goldstein�s reasoning for calling the �cult� of the Anglosphere, racist (Anglospheracist). I wonder if Goldstein thinks the FFA is a racist grouping.
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