Pox Populi and friends review the year that was and talk about Christmas traditions.

Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Barbarians Are Here, But There’s No Gate,” on the fact that Title 42, the law invoked by Donald Trump in 2020 to reduce immigration across the US-Mexico border in response to COVID, expired last week — and no one seems to have a plan to replace it.

SnorkelBlot of the SnorkelBlog was host Nick Jeelvy‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc where they took a look inside Japan, with a special view of the Shinzo Abe situation and the developing security situation in the far east, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:06:00 Who is SnorkelBlog? 00:10:00 People who support the movement from the human, lifestyle, and aesthetic side 00:11:30 The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and how Japan reacted 00:15:30 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and its rule since the end of the Second World War 00:17:00 Politics in rural areas versus the cities in Japan 00:19:30 The Chinese versus the Japanese attitude towards politics 00:21:00 The National Democratic Party of Japan, and Hapaperspective and Ricardo Duchesne discuss the difference between Chinese & European minds on The Writers’ Bloc 00:25:00 Politics in Japanese cities, and how political messaging intensifies in cities 00:28:30 The Japanese nationalist perspective on Shinzo Abe and his tenure 00:33:00 The expanding role of women under Shinzo Abe 00:35:00 The decline of Japanese farming and the influx of foreign farmers; Nick and SnorkelBlog discuss the content of two articles here and here 00:38:00 Koreans in Japan and the Japanese view of Korea 00:40:00 Norwegians versus Swedes compared to Koreans versus Japanese 00:42:30 The ethic composition of foreigners currently in Japan 00:47:30 How open can you be about nationalism in Japan? 00:51:00 White people and white people diseases versus Asian respect for borders 00:54:00 How Asians, on average, agree more with our positions than modern whites 00:55:00 Shinzo Abe was horrible on immigration, nationalism, industry, and farming 00:59:00 The decline of Japanese video games and electronics 01:02:00 Was Shinzo Abe the Tony Blair of Japan? 01:04:30 Shinzo Abe as part of a string of really bad Japanese leaders since the Second World War 01:07:00 Shinzo Abe, the Meiji Emperor, and Henry XIII 01:08:00 Covid and vaccines in Japan 01:15:00 Japanese government policy versus the social pressure to conform to Covid tyranny 01:18:30 Did SnorkelBlog face any racism in Japan? 01:22:00 Japanese populism and the Right-wing populist party Sanseitō 01:25:00 Japanese populism versus populism in the West and Hungary 01:29:00 Shinzo Abe’s position on the Japanese military 01:32:30 The loss of Japanese masculinity and martial spirit 01:33:30 What post-war Germany and Japan now have in common 01:39:30 The attitude of modern Japanese towards the ongoing American military occupation and the atomic bomb 01:45:00 The Holocaust and the atomic bomb attacks on Japan 01:47:30 Jews in Japan writing for the Japanese media and Jewish ownership of Japanese media 01:51:00 What are the economy, inflation, food, and energy prices like now in Japan ? 01:58:30 Closing remarks

Originally published Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, with Greg Johnson on Counter-Currents/North American New Right. Re-published September 7, 2019 on Counter-Currents TV (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/counter-currentstv/). Related article, discussion, and/or transcript at: https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/01/counter-currents-radio-weekly-john-morgan-on-colin-wilson/ More from Counter-Currents: https://www.counter-currents.com/ Support us: https://www.counter-currents.com/donations/support-counter-currents/ This video was previously published on the original CounterCurrentsTV YouTube channel, which was banned in June 2019. Fortunately, a viewer had made a backup using youtube-dl (https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html), and the channel contents were later restored to BitChute using https://gitlab.com/l-hex/bitchute-cli.