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Aug. 29, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to this special edition of Radio Renaissance.
I have a special guest with me and his name is Frodie Midyard and he's going to be talking about the Skanza Forum.
This is an organization of identitarians or at least it's a meeting for identitarians that Frodie has been putting on for some time now and there are two important conferences coming up One in Copenhagen on October 12th and another in Oslo November 2nd.
And I thought that it would be great if Frode could explain what these conferences are going to cover and who's going to be invited.
But first of all, welcome Frode Midyard to Radio Renaissance.
Thank you, Jared.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for inviting me.
You know, I've been following your work and American Renaissance, not since the beginning, but at least for around 20 years.
So I think it's fair to say that you guys have been a part of my education, so to speak.
And so it's a great pleasure to be on your show.
Well, it's gratifying to hear that, and I'm delighted to have this opportunity to tell our listeners about the great work that you've been doing for the last several years.
Anyway, I'd like to talk, first of all, just a little bit about your background, because you may not be a familiar personage to some of our listeners.
You were born on the Faroe Islands, is that correct?
That is correct.
Yes, I was born on the Faroe Islands.
The Faroe Islands, for those listeners who might not be familiar with what it is or where it is, is a small collection of islands.
It's actually 18 islands that belong to the Danish kingdom.
It's located in the Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland.
It has a population of about 50,000 people and it was populated, it was empty during the early Viking ages and was populated by Norwegian Vikings basically in the 800s and since then it has for historical reasons gone over to be a part of the Danish kingdom because at one point Denmark, Sweden and Norway were part of the same kingdom and when Norway broke apart, or broke away rather, from that union.
The colonies remained with Denmark under the Danish kingdom.
So that's why the Faroe Islands belongs to Denmark in a sort of semi-autonomous country, so to speak.
The domestic policies are independent, but the foreign policies are part of Denmark, one could say.
I understand the Faroe Islands even has international sporting teams that compete under their own flag under certain circumstances.
Yeah, the soccer team has been somewhat successful, at least with regard to the size of the population, of course.
I mean, the Faroe Islands has beaten countries like Greece, two times and Greece was the European champion at one point
and so on.
So this was, yeah, it is a popular sport there and it is a very high interest in soccer on
the Faroe Islands.
Did you live there for some time or did you leave the islands when you were small?
Yes, so I left the Faroe Islands when I was seven and I moved to Sweden and I basically
grew up most of my life in Sweden.
So that is basically the country that I'm most familiar with, although I've always gone back a whole lot to the Faroe Islands and visited my family there and so on.
So I'm familiar with both places.
I understand the Faroes have not yet benefited from the joys of diversity.
Not yet.
And that is one of the reasons why I came to see this situation we have in the world so clearly, because I saw the contrasts between what I saw as a kid in a homogeneous society and what I experienced later in Sweden.
Basically, I saw that an alternative to what we have in modern globalism is possible.
I saw it with my own eyes, so to speak, so it became very clear to me.
Well, that's excellent.
What part of Sweden did you grow up in?
Well, I moved around a bit, but I grew up mostly in South Sweden.
So, I saw a lot of the things that are going on now and for which Sweden is well known throughout the world.
In very unflattering terms, Sweden is Rightfully so, talked about as an example of how disastrous this sort of political correctness can be in some circumstances.
Well, it sounds as though you did not require very much instruction from anyone outside.
You saw this with your own eyes and you had the wisdom and the maturity, even at a young age, to see that this displacement and mixing of populations is a terrible thing.
Yeah, the Faroe Islands is, like I said, a very small place.
So the population is small, and I grew up on an island with just a couple of thousand people.
And, of course, the combination of it being ethnically homogeneous completely and a small population makes it a high-trust society.
You know, you don't have to lock your car, you don't have to lock your house, really.
And there is basically no crime.
And, yeah, go ahead.
Well, so you discovered a remarkable contrast to the place where you were born when you moved to multicultural Sweden.
Well, you actually, you've spent a fair amount of time, at least in the context of organizing Conferences in Denmark as well.
And tell us about the Copenhagen conference that is scheduled for October 12th.
But before we get into the details of the speakers lineup and the conference itself, can you tell our listeners how they should go about contacting you or registering?
What is it one does to attend the Skansa Forum?
Right.
I don't know if you have the possibility to provide a link to an announcement we have.
It's posted at CounterCurrents.
And what you do is basically you send me an email.
And there are three ways that you can be approved for registration.
For security reasons, we have a vetting procedure.
And the three ways are, one, if you've been at our events before, you just make a note of that in the email you send me.
The second option is if you have someone who can vouch for you.
Someone we know, someone who has been at our events earlier, or some other person we trust who can vouch that you want to come with.
Honest intentions.
And the third option, if you don't know anyone, you can send us a photo ID.
So we don't want anonymous registrations.
That's the bottom line, basically, because for security reasons, we need to know who comes to our events.
And it's for the security of both the guests and the speakers and for the integrity of the event.
And you send me an email to info at scansaforum.com.
And Skanza is spelled S-C-A-N-D-Z-A F-O-R-U-M dot com.
Right?
Yes, correct.
By the way, where does the name Skanza come from?
So we are an organization that operates in Scandinavia, so that is Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
And Skansa is the oldest name for Scandinavia that we have on record.
It's used by an East Roman historian called Jordanus.
who wrote in the 500s, in a book of his called Getica, about the gothic peoples, the history of the gothic peoples.
And he mentions the island Skansa, which refers to the Scandinavian peninsula, basically.
And that is the oldest version of Scandinavia we have.
And the reason we use it is because Scandinavia is very interconnected.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark share, I would say, basically the same language.
Some might argue with that, but we share the same history, the same destiny in the future as well.
And our destinies are intertwined.
We have the same language, the same culture, the same mentalities, the same spiritual history and so on.
So that's why we use the term.
Well, that sounds like a very inspiring and traditionalist term.
It sounds like a marvelous selection and also it is a word that is not difficult for us English speakers to pronounce either.
But then, all right, we'll give out this information again as to the email message or email address at which people can contact you.
I'm not sure it's possible to put in a link to the registration page at CounterCurrents, but we'll see what we can do about that.
But we'll be sure to repeat the email address several times.
Well, first of all, tell us about the October 12th meeting that's scheduled in Copenhagen.
Sure.
So what we're going to do in Copenhagen, October 12th, we're returning to Denmark for the second time for our second Skanza Forum in Copenhagen.
And you were actually a speaker at the first conference we had in Copenhagen in last September.
Yes, yes.
And I should say to all of our listeners that Skanza Forum conferences are really delightful events.
And I would not have invited Frodian to talk about these events unless I'd had firsthand experience about them.
And I know how quality, how high quality the speakers are, how inspiring the attendees are, and what a wonderful time is to be had at a Skanza Forum conference.
Thank you, thank you for that.
Yeah, we do get a lot of good people and we do get a lot of new people as well.
So it's always exciting to do these conferences.
On October 12th, we're going to talk about national populism.
A little bit more about that later.
First, I want to just run through the list of speakers.
Our first speaker is Tom Sunich, Dr. Tom Sunich.
He used to be a professor of political science at the university.
California, Santa Barbara, and he used to be a former diplomat from Croatia, his native country.
And he's the author of several books in English and French.
Among other things, his doctoral dissertation, if I'm correct, was called Against Democracy and Equality, which was I think the first English language research on the French New Right.
And that is one of the things he's famous for.
But he's also been a speaker at many events.
He's written several books and many articles.
He's a regular contributor to the Occidental Observer and he's on the advisory board of the Occidental Quarterly.
He's a member of the American Freedom Party, and this will be his first speech at the Skanza Forum.
Yes, he's been active in our circles for quite a long time, and the book you just mentioned is a very, very valuable introduction to English speakers to the ideas of the French New Right.
I read it to considerable profit myself when it was first released.
Yeah, I think that was in 88, I think, he published that as his dissertation.
I think his professor who advised him on that dissertation was Paul Gottfried, who is also well-known in our circles, and he wrote the foreword as well.
And Rasmus Paludan is the second speaker and this is the first time he speaks at the Skanza Forum.
He is a Dane.
We always like to have a local person, at least one local person to speak.
So since we're in Denmark, we want to have one person from Denmark.
Paludan is an interesting person.
He is a defense attorney and if I am correct he used to work with immigration cases as a lawyer and from his experience in that field he knows immigration policies very well and he runs a political party called Stramkos which means hard line and it's basically it runs on the issue of a very hard line on Mass immigration to Denmark and he wants repatriation basically.
And in the elections in early June 2019, he barely missed the 2% cutoff to get into parliament.
He received 1.8% of the vote, and you have to have 2% to get into parliament.
But what the listener should be aware of is that already there are two national populist parties in parliament in Denmark.
So it is a bigger thing in Denmark.
It is more, shall we say, mainstream acceptable in Denmark than it is in Sweden and Norway, comparatively.
Yeah, go ahead.
Well, yes.
I was just going to say, he, of all your speakers, he's the one of whom I had never heard anything at all.
It sounds like a very interesting fellow.
Have you met him personally?
I have met him personally, yeah.
The thing he's most, he's best known for is rather spectacular YouTube videos.
Where he is a bit of a showman and he goes into these immigrant areas that are completely dominated by immigrants, primarily Muslims, in the suburbs of Copenhagen and Denmark.
And he takes direct discussions with them.
And what happens is, inevitably, there is like a mob that rises against him and starts attacking him.
So he has massive police surveillance.
He actually has the security service That has.
I'll just read here from the announcement.
Two former Danish intelligence service chiefs have reported that during the election, Paludan received the same level of protection that has only been previously offered to American presidents on state visit.
So he has a lot of protection because of these threats from people who want him harmed.
And he posts these videos on YouTube.
They're a massive success.
Some of his videos have over a million views, and that should be considered in the context of Denmark only having five million inhabitants.
So that's a huge portion, you know.
So he's a very big name in that country.
Well, great.
Can you spell his name for us, for those of us who are not really familiar with that name?
Yeah, so his first name is Rasmus, R-A-S-M-U-S, and his last name is Paludan, which is P-A-L-U-D-A-N.
He sounds almost like a Danish Tommy Robinson, at least in his willingness to confront Muslims.
Sounds like a fascinating guy.
I'm very sorry I won't be there and won't be able to hear his talk.
Yeah, he is a fascinating guy and he is a very verbal, very intelligent guy and he's going to be a great asset to the event and it's going to be good to have him on stage there.
I'm sure he'll pull a lot of people, a large crowd from the Danish audience.
Wonderful.
And the next speaker is Greg Johnson.
Many of your listeners will probably be familiar with him.
He has a PhD in philosophy and he is the founder and editor of Countercurrents.
And he used to be the editor of the Occidental Quarterly some ten years back.
And he's written several books and probably the most important of them is the White Nationalist Manifesto, which came out last year.
Yes, I think our listeners are probably a very, it'd be a very small number who have not heard of Greg Johnson and who admire and respect his work.
He has spoken at American Renaissance conferences as well.
A very fine fellow doing a lot of important work.
Yes, and he has actually spoken at every Skanzer Forum.
I organized conferences even before I started the Skanzer Forum and he spoke at them as well.
So he goes way back as a speaker at my events.
Good.
The next speaker is Mark Collett.
Many of your listeners will also be familiar with him.
He's from Great Britain.
He has been involved in nationalism for more than two decades.
He used to be a member of the British National Party and he was a public representative for them even many years ago.
And now he's probably best known for his YouTube channel which has Around 100,000 subscribers, so it's a very large YouTube channel and he's very successful and very professional with that.
And he gave a speech in Stockholm earlier this year, in April, actually at an event where you were scheduled to speak but you were prevented from coming.
And he made a very good impression there and he got standing ovations and many people came up to me afterwards and said that that was one of the best speeches they'd ever heard.
Excellent, excellent.
Is his YouTube channel, it is still broadcasting so far as you know?
Because I'm sure you're aware of the recent purges that have swept away a number of excellent YouTube channels.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm well aware of that.
As far as I know, he hasn't been shut down yet.
But he is migrating, as far as I understand, to BitChute.
Because there is still more of free speech going on at BitChute.
So he's moving many of his videos over to BitChute because they are sort of at risk from being banned.
But as far as I know, his channel is still active.
Well, many of us are taking similar precautions.
We have a channel at Bitchute as well, American Renaissance Videos, and we already have quite a collection of YouTube videos that have been banned individually from YouTube, as well as those that have been put on restriction, as they call it, quarantined in a way.
So we have a special collection of them at BitChute and also all of our new videos we upload at BitChute as well.
So I suspect that we're going to be seeing a lot of old friends in BitChute as the Grim Reaper continues to reap at YouTube.
Yeah, when we had our conference in Copenhagen the previous time, your speech when it was uploaded was put on some sort of restriction even a couple of hours after it went up.
So it was some sort of automatic procedure, and that's very unfortunate.
It was a great speech, but unfortunately it's been restricted.
Yeah, I don't think we can assume that freedom on the internet will go on indefinitely.
We will have to find solutions to that somehow, because that is where the political debates happen these days, and that is the public square.
That's Mark Collett, C-O-L-L-E-T-T.
Yes, an excellent speaker.
Who will be after him?
Next up is Millennial Woes.
He also has a very large YouTube channel and that's basically where he's best known for as well.
He has spoken at three previous Skanza forums, so this will be the fourth time.
The first time was in Oslo in the summer of 2017 and he has a YouTube channel called Millennial Woes.
I like him because he has talked about so many different topics that are relatable to people basically feeling alienated from the modern world.
So I think he's relatable to a different section of the population and a different section of the audience basically than many other speakers.
So that's why I think it's very interesting to have him on board as well.
Yes, I've been a guest on his program a time or two myself.
A very interesting fellow and I'm sure he too will give a great talk.
And of course you will be speaking as well.
Yeah, yeah.
Of course, I speak at all my events.
And rightly so.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
And so, once again, for registration information, people should send an email message to what address, please?
So it's info at scanzaforum.com.
And scanzaforum is S-C-A-N-D-Z-A forum dot com.
Excellent.
Well then, tell us about the meeting in Oslo, November 2nd.
Sure.
Shall we go over the topics later?
You mean, as you wish.
The themes for the event.
I believe you said that the theme for the Copenhagen meeting is national populism, is it not?
You're right, maybe I already said that.
Okay, let's go over to the November 2nd event in Oslo.
So this will also be our second event in Oslo.
We had our first event there in the summer of 2017 and the theme for this event will be human biodiversity.
Yes, one of those obviously important and vital fields that is calumnied and suppressed in the most vigorous way by the current egalitarian orthodoxies.
A very important subject.
It is, it is.
I mean, we're supposed to believe or at least pretend that we believe that.
that differences between humans are only very superficial and very trivial and that underneath we're all identical and we can choose our identities and so on and that basically there are no heritable differences of significance between individuals or populations for that matter even between men and women and there is a great dishonesty here because we are led to believe if we believe journalists That this field of research has been discredited over the last, say, half century.
But it really hasn't.
Research keeps going on.
It's just that the journalists don't really cover it that much.
No, it's quite astonishing the concerted effort that the mainstream media have made to pretend, as you say, that we are all identical, interchangeable.
And when it came to race, It was conceivable for those who had never spent time around people of different races that, well, really it was only environment that made them different.
But when it comes to men and women, for heaven's sake, everyone has a mother and you'd like to think they have a father.
They've at least met men and women.
And somehow for people to believe this total nonsense that men and women are essentially by nature identical.
To have bamboozled people into, as you say, at least pretending to believe that they're interchangeable and equivalent.
It's just one of the remarkable achievements of folly in human history, it seems to me.
No primitive people could ever have been fooled into thinking something as foolish as this.
But in any case, yes, it's a vital subject and I'm delighted you're covering it.
Who are going to be your speakers?
So the first speaker is, or rather the top speaker, this is not in sort of chronological order that they will speak, but Kevin MacDonald, and many of your listeners will of course, or most of your listeners will be familiar with who he is.
He is Professor Emeritus from the California State University of Long Beach.
He's a professor of psychology and He has spoken previously at my events.
I'm very proud to say that he was a speaker at my event in 2015 when I asked him to talk about basically the psychological mechanisms behind pathological altruism.
That mentality that basically is behind, that drives us to self-destruct.
He spoke about that in 2015 and that talk is up on YouTube as well and I'm very proud of that.
That I was a part of that event.
So he's a very great speaker.
He's a great man.
And he spoke also at the first Skanza Forum in the summer of 2017 in Stockholm.
And he will talk about his upcoming book on liberalism and also this sort of totalitarian liberal mindset that is going on in northern, northwest Europe.
And that is to a large extent, I believe, behind the downfall of the West and the white world.
Yes, I wish I could be present for that talk.
I'm sure he'll give an excellent talk.
So the next speaker is Edward Dutton.
And he is a very interesting fellow.
He has a PhD in theology, but what he did research on and what he has done research on is more in line with things like sociobiology and so on.
It's basically the anthropology of religion.
So although he started out with religion, he talks more about the adaptiveness of religious groups and so on.
And he has a YouTube channel called the Jolly Heretic which is very popular and he brings up lots of scientific topics there.
So he's a British academic but he's based in Finland and he's also the current editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly which many of your listeners also will be familiar with I see.
Yes, that is a venerable journal that has published many important people.
Back in the pre-internet days, that was one of the few places that one could find dissident literature.
All the heretics found their way to the mankind quarterly, and so I'm delighted that it is continuing its important work I've never met Edward Dutton, but I understand him to be quite a fascinating fellow.
And it's good to have real academics and scientists who are going to be speaking at your conference.
And I understand Helmuth Nyborg, yet another great scientist, will be there as well.
Exactly.
So this conference is more, like you pointed out, it's more academically leaning because all these speakers are researchers in the field, so to speak.
And Helmut Niebuhr, also professor emeritus of psychology, and he is from the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
He also spoke at the first event in Copenhagen last year.
And he has done a lot of research in differences between races and intelligence and other things.
And he is going to talk about nature, nurture and bias in the academy, in academia.
And that is going to be a very interesting speech that I'm very much looking forward to.
Yes, I know that in one of his articles, he was charged with academic fraud by some government organization or perhaps a private organization.
He had to go to court to defend himself.
But he won this legal action.
Of course, there was nothing academically fraudulent about anything that he'd written, but he had written about the fact that immigration is lowering the average IQ of European countries, and specifically Denmark.
This was something that even in Denmark, which is relatively open-minded to some of these things, just couldn't tolerate at all.
But he's a very brave man.
Another thing, I believe it was in the 1956 Olympics, he won a medal as a kayaker.
So in his youth, he was a world-level competitive athlete as well.
Very impressive fellow.
So yeah, we're privileged to have him on board as well.
So that's going to be a very good talk, very interesting talk.
And it's, well, like you said, they try to silence us with claims of fraud and etc.
because really they don't have any substantial arguments to put up against us.
That's right.
And he is a fellow who has fought valiantly against all of this attempts to censor us and silence us.
I hold him in very high regard.
He has spoken at an American Renaissance conference also.
I think he's a very fine man.
I believe he's in his 80s now.
I wish he were a younger man, but he's still really pulling his weight in a remarkable way.
Oh yes, yes, definitely.
And also we have Greg Johnson, he speaks at all Skanzer forums, so he's going to talk as well.
I think he's going to talk about ethnic interests.
Because Greg is a PhD in philosophy, philosophy is his field, and he's going to talk about the legitimacy of ethnic interests.
That's going to be very interesting.
Yes.
Well, again, both of these sound like remarkable, fascinating conferences.
And again, I urge all of the listeners to this podcast, who have the means and the interest to travel to Europe later in the fall, to think very seriously about going.
My experiences at Skanza Forum meetings have been absolutely 100% positive.
And I look forward to attending Future Skanzaforum meetings when my ban from Europe is lifted.
I understand that that's to take place in September of 2021.
Then I may be allowed to attend one if I'm invited.
But, of course, you will be speaking as well, and I'm sure that both of these will be really, really first-rate meetings.
Now, you were talking earlier about the kind of vetting procedure that you have.
Is this because if the meeting were open to the public there might be some danger of disruption or some kind of pressure put on the meeting site?
Are these precautions that you have to take given the intellectual climate or the political climate in these countries?
Yeah, I would say so.
It is both those factors.
There have been many meetings in the past where attendees have been attacked on their way to events, to the venue.
We want to prevent that.
We want to prevent the possibility of an attack against the venue and we want to prevent Pressure being put on the owners of the venue to cancel their agreements with us.
So we don't want to be shut down.
Because all those things are very real risks.
So we have to... That's why we have to keep... I mean, I would prefer, I would like to have it open.
I want people with differing opinions and opposed opinions to come there and have debates with us.
But if I invited them, I'm sure they wouldn't come.
I have to think of the security of our guests and our speakers first of all and make sure that the conference happens if people travel from afar.
I don't want the venue to get shut down or anything like that.
No, these sounds like very sensible and necessary precautions.
Once again, it's a sign of just how perverted the intellectual and political climate is in the Western world.
Here you have people talking about very important questions about the future of nations, the future of peoples, and what the ethnic interests of all groups legitimately are.
And you have to take all of these precautions because the left Which claims to be in favor of tolerance and diversity, is exceedingly intolerant, and does not stand for any kind of diversity of opinion on certain points of view.
So this is a sad testament to the times in which we live.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
And we also know, both of us know people who have lost their job because it has become publicly known what they think politically and therefore pressure has been put on employers and they've lost their jobs.
All kinds of things.
I know people who've been forced to move out of town because they have been harassed.
in their homes their kids have been harassed so the left is really the left broadly speaking is very intolerant and and we're not even allowed to talk about things that large large portions of the population are worried about and but they're afraid to talk about them I'm I remember once when I was questioned at a When I had a job and my boss questioned me quite formally about my political opinions and one colleague responded that, well, I mean, well, you're, you're, you're just the person speaking up about this while like 80% probably agree with you, but they won't say it.
And that's not a social climate I want to live in.
I think we, we deserve a bit more of human dignity than that.
We certainly do.
And it is thanks to the indefatigable efforts of people like yourselves that our views are becoming, I'm certain, increasingly heard.
And I believe, I'm optimistic, I believe that the truth will prevail and eventually that our nations will be able to govern themselves according to the kinds of reality that are being explored and expounded at Skanza Forum.
So, once again, I'm going to give out the email address for people who wish to participate.
That's info at scandzaforum.com.
And unless you have anything in particular that you'd like to add that our listeners
might find useful, I'd like to thank you very much for joining me to talk about these important
upcoming events.
Okay.
Well, thank you very much for having me on.
And of course, I mean, our event is very much inspired by what you guys are doing over there.
So it's thanks to your efforts that have been going on for decades longer than many people have even heard of them, you know.
So it's because of that and thanks to that that we're doing our part as well.
So I want to thank you for inviting me to your show.
Oh, it's been my pleasure.
We're all part of the World Brotherhood of Europeans.
Your struggle is our struggle.
Okay, thank you.
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