Saturday, August 18, 2007

Rebel Yells!!! or Reactionary Squeals???

I am a bit in a rush now, to get ready to take my annual holiday in the Land of the Yellow Cross, no not Pays de Galles but Gwlad Cathar, visiting my favourite haunts up and around Monsegur and in the VILLE de FOIX (wait for it, pronounced 'fwa', wonderful!). So, after I complete this post and mail the link out to you, just lay back and enjoy! or maybe it will really rattle your cage and get you gagging for some grumble and grunt in your blogs or in forums? Whatever. I hope it contributes to some real ''Storm and Stress'' HARD CORE DEBATE ABOUT NATIONALISM, as all this SOFT CORE DISCUSSION ABOUT INDEPENDENCE in 'Gwlad Blogger Cymru'' is really boring the pants of everyone (put up or shut up, I say!), plus all this ''LOVE IN COALITION WITH COLONIALISM DOWN IN THE BAY IS GETTING TO BE PAINFULLY PALE RED (I have been chastised for useing the word PINK as in ''PINK PACT'' but lets not go down that road again please). I guess Dr Hunter ''Child of Lincoln'' and Roy 'Jac' Jones ''Son of Jefferson'' got this started but I butted in with comments in this blog and in my 'I'r Gad Blog http://brwydr.blogspot.com . Since, Cambrians Confedrate sympathizers have piled in to prove there was/is such a good thing as a Yankee hating ''Cambrian Confederates'' out there in the ''Old & New South''. I was reminded of an erstwhile turncoat ''Welsh Confederate'', Sir Henry Morton Stanley perhaps keeping up a good Welsh Tradition of Changing sides, as the fortunes of War shift. Much like the politics of our bright sparking Assembly inspired ''New Wales'' Politics. See:
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Sir Henry Stanley - Biography
Though his sympathies were with the Union, he enlisted as a Confederate, ... In 1897 he made his last journey, to South Africa, just before the Boer War. ...www.imdb.com/name/nm1197506/bio - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
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In course of commenting on these matters, I mentioned Welsh Sympathies for the Boer in the battle with the Brits, as result of this I was sent information on a contemporary Afrikaaner song that has been really causing a controversy since 2006 when an Afrikaaner folk musician brought out an hoped for Afrikanner version of the 'Flower of Scotland'. This song about Boer ''Bitter Ender'' die hard De la Rey completed with an immensely powerful video has been to the fore front of a revival in the fortunes of a new Afrikaaner Nationalism. Much advanced with renewed interest in Afrikaaner Language, Culture, Religion and Folk Music. Evidently, this has become an issue this year, due to fourth coming Rugby World Cup as fear grows the song might become a Rugby Anthem for ''White South Africans''.
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The De la Rey uprising : Mail & Guardian Online
The long-dead South African Anglo-Boer War hero, General Koos de la Rey, has become a new cult figure for many Afrikaners as the result of a song by...www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=299200&area=/insight/insight__national/ - 100k - Cached - Similar pages
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YouTube - DelareySouth Africa Afrikaans Bok Van Blerk - Delarey. ... New De la ...5 min - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGh4lA1S7yc NB THIS IS THE AFRIKAAN VERSION BUT FOLLOW THRU AND THERE IS AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUBTITLE VERSION.
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IOL: De la Rey song is music to Bulls fans' ears
The ballad, which has taken the Afrikaans music scene by storm and has already ... De la Rey battle: Loftus conquered · Ignore De la Ray's Loftus ban - ...www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=vn20070223011341466C577996&set_id=1 - 69k - Cached - Similar pages
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It seems since 2006, the song has become immensely popular with White South African Rugby Supporters and is often sung in their Rugby Clubs, here the comparison with Scotland is obvious but not I imagine in any other ''Boer/Afrikaaner'' sympathies. Although it is quite interesting that whilst many in Wales in times of the Boer and later South African War were passively sympathetic to the Boer struggle against the English/British Imperialism, the Irish and Cornish were really radically supportive, don't know about the Scots though? have no time left to check that out. interestingly some Welsh, or rather Englishman but so called ''Welsh Patriot/Welsh Remembrancer'' Owen Rhoscomyl, as a great Liberal Nationalist/Empire Loyalist went off to fight against the Boer to help save the British Empire. Oh! the complexities of so called ''Welsh Nationalism'' (also see Cultural Nationalist O.M.Edwards, another Liberal Brit). On the other hand, the Irish so things very differently. Much info on much to do with this subject can be found via links below:
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Second Boer War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was followed by some early Boer military successes against the ..... Lloyd George and Keir Hardie were members of the Stop the War Committee (See the ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War - 111k - Cached - Similar pages
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The Boer War Remembered
Source: Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert, David Lloyd George: A Political Life (Ohio State Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 183, 191. 31. T. Pakenham, The Boer War, pp. ...www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p14_Weber.html - 58k - Cached - Similar pages
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David Lloyd George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England and therefore a Mancunian by birth, Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking man and Welsh by descent and ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_George - 145k - Cached - Similar pages
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Beriah Gwynfe Evans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... Evans would join the infant Plaid Cymru. Evans broke with Lloyd George on the subject of the Boer War, being a Liberal Imperialist in his sympathies. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriah_Gwynfe_Evans - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
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File Format: Rich Text Format - View as HTMLOne of the key purveyors of the delights of imperialism was Owen Rhoscomyl alias Robert Scourfield Mills alias Captain Owen Vaughan, a Southport-born ...www.bretagnenet.com/celtcong/bloaz/kembre%202001.rtf - Similar pages
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1998/payton
19 Significantly, the pro-Boer sympathies of the Cornish were not reciprocated by the Boers themselves, the Cornish not only despised as 'Uitlanders' but ...www.psa.ac.uk/publications/psd/1998/payton.htm - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
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So there you go stacks to read, study, think on, discuss and then DEBATE NATIONALISM/Welsh Nationalism, THEN AND NOW! NOT LEAST OF COURSE THE MATTER OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL NATIONALISM COMES INTO ALL THIS BIG TIME, SO RAGE! RAGE! RAGE ON, TIME FOR SOME ROCK AND ROLL NOT TWMPATH DANCE! Me, I have lit the fuse and now retire far away for a bit of R&R. While you can give serious thought to all the above and that other controversial Rugby World Campaign promoted by Embassy Glyndwr, to get patriots to cover up the 'Three Brit Feathers' with a specially made cloth 'Bathodyn Glyndwr', for info on this, check out their blog: OWAIN GLYNDWR COMMUNICATES. Plus whilst your over in 'Byd Glyndwr' consider if your up to GALWAD GLYNDWR and the call for a great rally to SAVE OUR SOVERIEGNTY on 15 Medi 2007 in Corwen/Caerdrewyn, IT's UP TO YOU OK!
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PS: Where do I stand on the great Boer Question? HHHhhhmmm!!! then, in those old times of their armed struggle against the Brits, and in the 60's with the Boer historically still. However, poiltically in the Sixties, as my own ''Knee Jerk Patriotism'' disappeared I started to look towards the Black Consciousness Struggle of Steve Biko and more and more towards the BLACK MUSLIMS and later towards the BLACK PANTHERS. So before you get too overwealmed with this Afrikaaner ''Flower of Scotland'', look into the struggles of the native peoples in these times, not least of course the ZULU.
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PPS: One last hot pointed barb, for you to D&D, consider this question: ARE THERE ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN OUR 'CRACHACH' and the below:
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Afrikaner Broederbond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page refers to the Afrikaner Broederbond. For its later incarnation see .... "The Rise of the South African Reich" (html). African National Congress. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Broederbond - 45k - Cached - Similar pages
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Yes! I guess I will hear the outraged sqeals all the way to the top of Montsegur?
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See some of you in September, but must now take a break, refresh myself for much more Patriotic Work and a bit of Autumn VKC with some ''Cracker'' called John Roberts aka ''SION'' and his Macywiaid aka ''Hornets'', sigh!!! Have had a few hysterical emails off him accusing me of undermining nationalist struggle, attacking good nationalists and he and his ''Welsh Republican'' mates are going to get me? I hope by post 'Dydd Glyndwr' this character has got a bit less hysterical and actually sends me details reagards what and who he is talking about? If he thinks, I am undermining the nationalist struggle, then obviously over the latter few years he's had his head stuck where the Sun does not shine. As for attacking ''Good Nationalists'', well there must be 100's, if not 1000's I do not attack or criticize, those I do - DESERVE IT, as I will have to clarify in greater detail as from SAMHAIN 2007, when I will have more time to deal and dump the debris of ''Welsh Nationalist Republicanism'' aka ''Good Ole Boys'' et al. For further illumination do visit my other blogs:
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* Adfywiad Gwladgarol http://adfywiad.blogspot.com/
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No use emailing me until after 1 Medi 2007 ok!
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For now Ta! Ta! Hwyl!
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Gethin.
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PPS: Personally, I do not support the Welsh Rugby Team any more, as long as they wear that ''feather duster''. nor do I watch them play any more. Actually I think we should revive Bando or C'napan as the true National Game.
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