Happy Birthday, Your Britannic Majesty

Photo courtesy of The Monarchist.

New Nepali National Anthem

The April Fools' Day Cabinet of Nepal has approved a new national anthem for the new Nepalese order. Google News informs us of the news.

Leap of Faith

Gil Guillory recommends Leap of Faith, autobiography by Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, after having listened to an audiobook version.

Another Anti-Wilsonian Blog on the Radar

Another anti-Wilsonian blog has appeared on the radar – or at least on my radar. We have Conservative Swede by someone who apparently is a fellow Scandinavian, namely "Conservative Swede". I've added this newly created blog to my blog roll.

Conservative Swede's first post, dated April 16, on the day 90 years after Woodrow Wilson's address after the declaration of war against Imperial Germany, is The power configuration of the Wilsonian West. The most recent blog post, dated today, is Is America the EU’s Enforcer?, a comment to a post at the Brussels Journal, to which I owe the discovery of this promising blog. "Conservative Swede" says:

He puts the focus on the "EU tyranny", as the blind man's description of the elephant, if I may say so. But the elephant is much bigger: it's the "Wilsonian world order".

Conservative Swede and "Conservative Swede" are very much welcome to the blogosphere. I especially appreciate the timing of the blog launch.

The Theory from Princeton As Well

The limbic system was essential for our professor from Princeton. Now also some related academic work comes from Princeton. Rationality did not bring those United States to war. So Bill Bonner writes.

King Still at Center

The King of Nepal is still at the center now a year after the uprisings. So says Sanjay Upadhya.

Persona Non Grata Addressed the Nation

On this day 90 years ago the Persona Non Grata of this blog addressed his fellow Americans. Two weeks earlier the 28^th President of those United States had asked COTUS for a declaration of war to "make the world safe for democracy." Never mind making the world safe from democracy!

COTUS gave POTUS what he wanted, and the declaration of war was signed on April 6, 1917.

That declaration of war – together with the previous "neutrality" – was a major contributor to bringing the Old European Order to a sad final end. Not to speak of how it helped the April Theses.

Opposition to the declaration came from, amongst others, United States Senators Norris and La Follette. According to Wikipedia, both were progressives. Considering when Norris and La Follette first came to the U.S. Senate, they must have been yet to stand for their first elections under Amendment XVII.

While the intervention certainly affected Europe, the effects weren't exactly absent on the other side of the big pond either. In Joseph R. Stromberg's Remembering With Astonishment Woodrow Wilson’s Reign of Terror in Defense of "Freedom" the late Robert Nisbet is quoted:

The blunt fact is that when [under Wilson] America was introduced to the War State in 1917, it was introduced also to what would later be known as the total, or totalitarian, state.

The Allied position, and what now – with Wilson – had become the war to make the world safe for ochlocracy, kleptocracy, and mobocracy, cemented the fall of the Russian monarchy, adding Communism, brought egalitarian democratic republicanism to even more of Europe, and wasted additional millions of human lives.

April Fools' Government

Scoop has recent, interesting, and quite sensible pieces on Nepal here, here, and here.

BTW, Scoop has a record for having run interesting and quite sensible articles on Nepal. A Google search may thus be worthwhile. The same goes for News Blaze, which today – as has also occurred in the past – has an appeal from Nepali residing in those United States. No guarantee against SPA, Maoist, or SPAM loving articles can be given though.

Nepali New Year 2064

King Gyanendra is still King. His Majesty spoke today to the nation. eKantipur and the Malaysia Sun report on the speech.

eKantipur also reports on the Nepali PM's speech. The Nepali PM reportedly said that Nepal has entered a "new, democratic age." With all those broken promises about the new democratic age since the French Revolution, is there reason to be an optimist?

Nepalese politicians should take the lessons of history and not make any promises they aren't able to keep. But I guess it is in vain to give such advice to politicians?

One of the already broken promises is the postponing of elections for the "Constituent Assembly" (The Hindu News Update Service). If it is correct that elections may be held May thru June or October thru November only – and politicians don't try to drag electors to the polls outside of those windows, which I wouldn't trust they wouldn't – we might not see elections before October. Any bets against further postponing?

It's now been about a year since the "April Revolution." My views on the case of Nepal have basically not changed since then. My views are expressed in an article published last July.

Back in February Nepalese in America welcomed the King's address, which was so fiercely attacked.

The work going on for making Nepal safe for democracy – or was it Maoist rule? – needs to be balanced. Nepal must be made safe from unchecked democracy, conning Maoists, and those politicos running the show.

Hawaiian Language on the Rise

The Hawaiian language is making a strong comeback. So the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Hawaiian culture is not dead five score and fourteen years after the overthrow of the monarchy, of which President Grover Cleveland was so ashamed. See also the initiative to create a "brick and mortar" Grover Cleveland Library and Museum in Buffalo, New York.

Fukuyama Still Believes

Professor Francis Fukuyama still believes in the end of history. He further explains his position. The end of history is more the European Union than those United States.

Link via the Brussels Journal.

Prince Wilhelm-Karl, RIP

The last grandson of German Emperor Wilhelm II has passed on. So the International Herald Tribune reports.