By Ted Belman
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Michael, how could you? 😀
Putin is accusing Ukrainian neonazis of exterminating Poles. Excuse me, did you forget who did the Katyn Massacre? Hypocrite, but his fans won’t notice.
Russia unleashes secret weapon. Putin is going to bore us to death.
Felix,
The next thing you know, you’ll say I’ve been giving cover to Richard III and Mary, Queen of Scots! I’m quite certain that you’ve gone stark, raving mad. Don’t expect me to try to reason with you.
BTW, I just came across the posting, where I told Sebastien that Laura made you seem like a moderate (Note that I did not explicitly call you an extremist; but if the shoe fits, wear it.). Since you’ve been calling me a murderer, that doesn’t seem like a matter even worth taking up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLyB08xXoBs
@Edgar
I completely concur with your assessment about the lost princes. Henry led a successful but bloody reign with those two being the first of his many purges.
I also have a great appreciation for Costain’s books, thought it has been a bit since I read them.
SEB
Interesting that you got around to THAT.
Yes Richard 3rd was framed. But the Josephine Tey book’s Alan Grant was just spending time in hospital with his broken leg and looked into the Richard 3rd mystery out of ennui. A brilliant idea for a book plot.
The “19th cent”. you mention to is actually the 18th cent, because I’m sure you are referring to the Doubts of Horace Walpole who died in the mid 1790s. He changed his mind after. Don’t know why.
And the “evidence’ which Shakespeare did a manful job with, must be that of The “saint” Thomas More who grew up in Archbishop Morton’s house. Morton, of course was the inventor of “Morton’s Fork”. to raise large taxes for greedy Henry 7th whose Chancellor he became.
My recollection is that More didn’t finish his “history” which has enough holes in it that a whale could swim through. And that Morton travelled through the Fens in his way to the Continent, running from a feared Richard arrest. And that the remarks in the “Croyland Chronicles” were thought to have been “information” from Morton. when he rested there for a few days.
Richard was defeated by the betrayal of the Stanley Brothers, ostensibly Richard’s friends and allies, who held back their forces until they saw their opportunity. Their redoubtable mother was “married” to Owen Tudor,.what a coincidence……??? Richard made a huge error here. A huge ERROR.
That it was Henry 7th who murdered the Little Princes is strengthened by the fact that the purported murderers. lived as usual for many years after until a few years before Henry’s own passing, he had them executed on trumped up charges.
“Clearing the books”
According to De Commines, whose books I have, the rumour was already spread even when the Little Princes were actually seen playing in the gardens at the Tower. Records show expenses for clothing bought for them ,AFTER they were supposed to be dead. Also their mother trusted Richard enough to come out of sanctuary along with her daughters, and lived comfortably at Richard’s expense with her lands and titles restored. I refer of course to the wife of Richard’s defunct brother whom he loved, Edward 4th.
By the way, I have “Daughter of Time” Tey’s last book before death, and have read it about -5 times.
I find this period a most fascinating time in English history. The ruthlessness of the kings and nobility are beyond belief. The Mary Queen of Scots period runs a close second. She reminds me of Marie Antoinette.
Thomas Costain wrote a few great books, one was “The Last Plantagenets”. Absorbing, every single word.
@Felix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3utS1wY5e8
@Felix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfXxkHrIBM
As they said back in the old country “You’re away with the fairies”meaning you’re living in a different world to me. But also I resent being talked to without any respect to me. Are you so confused you do not know Trotskyism was born in struggle against Stalinism. Stalinism represented a usurping bureaucracy but anyone who equates that with Fascism, and thereby would refuse to defend Russia against Fascism in 1941, in spite of the betrayals by Stalin, well end of the road. To furthermore not acknowledge the great struggles against Hitler and great sacrifices of the Russian youth and women soldiers , time to draw very hard conclusions.
Above all to see all this as a gigantic joke…then I know for sure you will not be a fighter for the Jewish people, and you ZORN are an insult to the suffering hostages of a present Hamas/Fatah Fascist ideology, which I am not making jokes about.
In the interests of the Jewish people someone needs to rein you in.
@Felix I can see how one might be offended at my comparing German fascism with Soviet fascism. Ok, let me re-phrase that. It’s because the German National Socialist state invaded the Soviet Socialist Great Patriotic State so there was a Great Patriotic War (which is what they called WWII over there) 😀
In logic, they call that “a distinction without a difference.”
This was truly great dark satire of Stalin’s Soviet Union. It can be rented for 4 dollars on Amazon Prime Video or free with a subscription to AMC on the same site with a seven day free trial.
“The Death of Stalin”
The Boston Globe said:
‘The Death of Stalin’ (2018 movie) is brilliant satire”
“Set in Moscow in March of 1953, “The Death of Stalin” is about that particular title event, but it has been cast and is played as if it were British music-hall comedy or Hollywood screwball — it’s equal parts Monty Python and Preston Sturges.Mar 14, 2018”
@Felix You know Trotsky was incorrect about the Soviet Union being a “deformed workers’ state” because the rumors of Stalin having a hump were wrong; he just had one shoulder a little higher than the other like Richard the Third.
What was it Stalin said again from one of his many dachas after Germany attacked an unprepared Soviet Union, unprepared because Stalin had purged the armed forces, especially of Jews [1], and ignored the reports of all of his spies, preferring wishful thinking?
Oh, Yes.
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” [2] 😀
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[1] Vaksberg, Arkady. “Stalin Against the Jews.” Translated by Antonina W Bouis. Alfred A.. Knopf, inc . New York. 1994.
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[2] Actually Richard was framed* but Stalin turned out to be even worse than his rep.
But Shakespeare’s account which he got from an author who had grown up in the house of one of the chief conspirators makes a better story. [3]
Now, where have we heard that before? Hmmmm?
“So many questions. so many reports.”
– last line of Brecht’s poem, “Questions from a worker who reads.” ( from back when I was still a commis, I mean Commie 😀 , still a great poem.)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm
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[3] See mystery novel, “Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey (1951) which had was based on actual 19th century research nobody had bothered to read. A society to vindicate him was revived after its publication and a few years ago, his bones were re-interred with honors in recognition of the injustice and because they found them.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_and_reburial_of_Richard_III_of_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardian_(Richard_III)#Richard_III_Society
@Felix It’s because German fascism broke it’s pact with Soviet fascism and invaded the Soviet Union.
@sebastien
And if I take your drift the Red Army appeared at the gates of Auschwitz as if my magic, but it was not magic, it was because Fascism I’d the enemy of Fascism and the Red Army was founded in 1918, and Hitler showed in his writing his hatred for Jews and his hatred for Marxism.
But thanks for the long lecture anyway. I have been fighting for a Jewish state for coming up to 40 years so really no need to send me lectures.
https://www.jta.org/2024/02/07/ny/with-jewish-vote-up-for-grabs-ny-congressional-candidates-suozzi-pilip-hold-sole-debate-ahead-of-special-election
(New York Jewish Week) — One candidate is an Israeli-American Orthodox Jew born in Ethiopia. The other has highlighted his support for Israel — and accused his opponent of endangering it.
On Tuesday, Feb. 13, they will vie for the support of New York’s third congressional district — one of the most Jewish areas of the country — in a highly anticipated special election.
The race between Democrat Tom Suozzi and Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip kicked off when Rep. George Santos, who represented the district, was expelled from Congress last year after allegedly lying about large portions of his biography. The two candidates will face off Thursday in their only debate.
The vote — in a swing district spanning Queens and Long Island that flipped Republican in 2022 after a decade in Democratic hands — is drawing national attention for its implications ahead of the November election. A Democratic victory would also narrow Republicans’ already slim majority in the House. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the candidates’ support for Israel has emerged as a major focus of the campaign.
Pilip, a legislator in Long Island’s Nassau County who was elected in 2021, entered the race with a compelling backstory: She was born in Ethiopia and evacuated to Israel at age 12 during Operation Solomon, Israel’s 1991 mass airlift of Ethiopian Jews. She later served in a non-combat role in the Israeli military’s paratroopers brigade before moving to New York. Pilip married a Ukrainian-born Jewish American and gained U.S. citizenship in 2009. She is Orthodox and a mother of seven.
Pilip ran for her seat on the Nassau County legislature in part because of the antisemitism she said her son faced in middle school, ousting a Democrat to win her seat.
After Long Island Republicans selected Pilip as their candidate for the special election, questions surfaced about her voting record in the county legislature, history as a registered Democrat and support for former President Donald Trump.
In an interview with CNN this week, Pilip defended her past voter registration, saying many immigrants had registered as Democrats, but that the party had “left me and many others.”
She said she would back Trump in the likely event that he wins the presidential nomination. But she refused to say whether she would support him if he were convicted of a crime, offering only that prosecutions of the former president were “politically motivated.”
“I know that he didn’t commit any crime,” she said.
She also refused to say if she had voted for Trump in 2016 or 2020. “He was a great president, he did great things,” she said.
Suozzi is more of a known quantity. He represented the district for three terms before leaving office to launch an unsuccessful run for governor in 2021.
Despite Pilip’s Israel bonafides, Suozzi has pitched himself as the more reliable defender of Israel in the race. He visited Israel in a show of solidarity in December, and has repeatedly stressed his support for Israel in recent campaign emails: He called for the chief of UNRWA, the aid agency for Palestinians, to resign due to some staffers’ alleged links to Hamas and participation in the Oct. 7 attack. And he spotlighted his support for a bipartisan Senate deal that coupled aid for Israel and Ukraine with a clampdown on illegal border crossings. The bill failed the Senate on Wednesday.
During a virtual press conference on Wednesday, Suozzi talked up his support for Israel while joined by some of the most staunchly pro-Israel Democrats in Congress: Reps. Ritchie Torres of New York, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Brad Schneider of Illinois.
“The bottom line is I’m unequivocally supportive of Israel and always have been,” Suozzi said.
Torres, who is known for his unstinting support of Israel, said, “We’re supporting Tom because he is one of us, because he’s going to fight for the Jewish community and the Jewish state.”
During the briefing, Suozzi repeatedly attacked Pilip and the Republican party for holding up the Israel aid package, pitching himself as a more experienced politician capable of passing legislation to help Israel. He also decried Pilip and her fellow Republicans for “extremist” positions.
“My opponent is taking the position, ‘It’s my way or the highway,’” he said. “It’s not only a bad game, it’s endangering Israel.”
Suozzi added, “She’s unvetted, she’s unprepared and she’ll make things worse.”
Pilip has attacked Suozzi over the other component of the bill, immigration, dubbing her opponent “Sanctuary Suozzi” on social media. She decried the bipartisan aid package, alleging that it “basically legalizes the invasion of our country at the southern border” — an echo of Trump’s opposition to the bill. That post was accompanied by a photo of Suozzi and Biden.
As it happens, while they may disagree on immigration, both candidates hold similar policy positions toward Israel: Both are against an immediate ceasefire or placing conditions on aid to Israel, and both have stressed their support for freeing hostages held by the Hamas terror group. The two candidates appeared together at a rally last month with the family of Omer Neutra, a Long Island native taken captive by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack. Both Suozzi and Pilip wore dog tags in support of the hostages, part of a broader advocacy campaign, while standing alongside the Neutra family.
Suozzi has sought to lean away from Biden, who won the district in 2020 but is polling poorly with voters there this year. The president is visiting New York on Wednesday, but will not make any appearances in support of Suozzi’s campaign.
Suozzi told CNN, “I don’t think it would be helpful, just as I don’t think Donald Trump would be helpful to my opponent.”
The area has drifted Republican in recent years, as evidenced by Santos’ 2022 victory. Suozzi defeated Santos in the 2020 election, when the Republican, like Pilip, was also a lesser-known challenger of color.
During the Wednesday briefing, Suozzi acknowledged that “the Democratic brand has been decimated over the past three years,” citing crime in New York City, bail reform policies and the surge of migrants.
The candidates will face off at a debate hosted by News 12 on Long Island on Thursday. Early voting started on Saturday in the district — so far, more Democrats than Republicans have turned out, according to Politico.
As the election nears, Suozzi has campaigned more aggressively — his campaign said he held nine rallies over last weekend, while Pilip did not appear to have held any public events. Pilip observes Shabbat, limiting her activities on Fridays and Saturdays. Her campaign did not make her available for an interview with the New York Jewish Week.
Suozzi’s campaign has amassed far more funds than Pilip, with more than $4.5 million raised through Jan. 24, compared to Pilip’s $1.3 million, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.”
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My comment: Article doesn’t mention their positions on Ukraine. It also doesn’t mention that her husband is also Israeli. She was born in Ethiopia and he was born in Ukraine but they both made aliya and then they both emigrated to the U.S. The article is wrong on that point, when it refers to him as a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American. I’m curious what her position is on Ukraine. Elsewhere, I have read that though she is pro-life, personally, she has seven children, she is opposed to a national ban on abortion. She was, until recently, a Democrat, herself.
It will be fantastic if she is elected, not only for her defence of Trump and securing the border but because she is black, Israeli, and pro-Israel, she will completely upend the Squad’s narrative.
@Felix
@Michael
Oh, lighten up. Nobody here has blood on their hands for expressing an opinion, and Felix, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union liberated death camps because they happened to be on their route to Berlin and the British army – with the indispensable assistance of the embedded Jewish legion based in the Yishuv stopped Rommel’s army before it could get to Palestine but nobody, nobody, nobody would bomb the tracks to the death camps or the gas chamber or the crematoria or the Nazi officer’s quarters or anything even though their planes were flying over head and so low that survivors said that the windows had rattled.
For me, one of the most profound pieces of evidence that the Jewish state is absolutely crucial for the survival of the Jewish people world wide was this:
FDR notified Nazi Germany that if it used chemical weapons on the battlefield against the U.S. or any of its allies, the U.S. would carpet bomb German towns and cities with same.
An offshoot Zionist lobbying group of the Bergson Group in the U.S., the Hebrew Army of Liberation, petitioned FDR to extend the same threat on behalf of the Jews being murdered by chemical weapons in death camps and before that in mobile trucks.
The reply, which came from the General staff was an unqualified no because:
a) they would probably have to follow through.
and
b) Not having a state, Jews weren’t an ally.
Let me repeat that:
Not having a state, Jews weren’t an ally.
And, Felix, for nearly all of its history, Zionism in the Soviet Union was a punishable crime and Jews were oppressed, genuinely oppressed but not allowed to leave. At least in the Russian Empire, they were allowed to leave and most left for the U.S. Most American Jews are the descendants of Jews who fled Russia at the end of the 19th century. And over a million Soviet Jews fled the Soviet Union for Israel at the end of the 20th. Egyptian terrorist, Yassir Arafat, became a Soviet Agent, as his uncle, the Grand Poobah, had been for Nazi Germany. Except for a brief moment in 1948-9, it was the Soviet Union who weaponized the UN against Israel in alliance with the Arab bloc and the non-aligned states. And today, Russia is allied with Israel’s nemesis, Iran, though, it is a limited alliance, so far. I hope Trump is able to take office next year and work out some compromise that will defang Russia as an enemy. Russia doesn’t have to be an enemy. But, its not a friend.
The Soviets, enemies of Israel, designed and promulgated the “Zionism is Racism” blood libel in the U.N.
But, it was Israel’s frenemy, U.S. President George H.W. Bush who spoke, and spoke passionately, before the U.N. and got it repealed. It’s a great speech.
“President George H.W. Bush Calls for Repeal of UN ‘Zionism is Racism’ Resolution” – UN Watch
https://youtu.be/7chKW7H6s8M?si=slq2xkvTTp79OB6T
So, lets not get all dewy eyed here.
Michael
Don’t even suggest it or infer it jokingly.
You are a person who has a lot of blood on your hands as you have given cover to Banderaists who went on to cause a war that left 500,000 Ukrainian youth DEAD
Felix,
I don’t believe I ever called you an extremist. You must be confusing me with someone else.
I watched all of the interview to which Laura responds
I noticed that Bannon was impatient with Caroline and he needed to have a kind of surrender of Caroline to the concept of MAGA
Which I think she gave
But this is a problem because this Fascism represented by Hamas/Fatah was created by British and American power in the world
Caroline should not have been treated thusly by Bannon
The other thing I will add about this MAGA concept is it contains an attack on the planet in its saying of Donald Trump “Drill baby drill”. As centre of Africa is burning up.
Biden in practice is similarly destroying the climate of earth.
Update: McDaniels is not resigning.
@Laura
Trump didn’t have the support in the party to defeat her, specifically because of the funding coming into the party. That however has changed which is why she is resigning.
Yes, well I don’t believe you, which is the problem. While you certainly do have the conviction of your beliefs, but your beliefs are based on a false characterization of the greatest friend Israel has ever had, bar none.
And once again, I know just the opposite is true. I have no need to convince you that you are wrong, just as I have no need to convince the majority of voters, who also disagree with you, that they are right. As you say time will tell the truth, but I am gripped with anticipation of living out your perceived nightmare of having Trump safely back in the White House again.
As to Trump being an isolationist, you are once again quite misguided. Trump has never been an isolationist, which is why he kept the oil in Syria and did not pull out of NATO, to the consternation of many. This is also why Trump envisioned a strong and independent Israel to support America in the region – again the Trump doctrine is about having strong allies who will support America’s interests around the world, which is a decidedly internationalist perspective for anyone being labeled as an isolationist. His banner is Make America Great Again, not Make America Isolated Again. This is just another Neocon narrative which again I guess you support. Such things can be a nasty habit to break.
Michael
You call me an “extremist’ and you are far more so because you have misled about the Fascists in Ukraine
Always my aim was to get to the truth.
My politics are separate from Putin but I do not overlook Russia did fight the Fascists. The Red Army did liberate Auschwitz.
But you joined with Fascists.
Your taunt of extremist was quite empty.
Believe me, Trump will throw Israel under the bus at the behest of isolationist kooks like that disgusting pig Steve Bannon. Mark my words.
The thing is, party chairs don’t normally endorse a primary candidate, but Rona endorsed Trump. Now he’s throwing her under the bus. She’s not the only one who humiliated herself in fealty to Trump but still got screwed over. That Trump is a backstabbing slime is undeniable. When will these fools who fall all over themselves to get in Trump’s good graces ever learn?
Peloni, once the SOB got McDaniel’s endorsement and now that the primaries are all but over since his anointment, he turned against her. Whether or not she’s the right leader is beside the point. He used her and then threw her under the bus. This coming from a guy who demands loyalty but gives none. If she was so terrible, why did he previously praise her and keep her on up until the point where his nomination is all but assured? The guy is a sleeze and you know it.
@Michael
@Laura Would you like a napkin? I still see a few flecks of foam.
@Laura
Trump didn’t throw McDaniels off the bus, as she is the bus which ran over every interest which her party had in maintaining power or reclaiming power after it had been stolen from her and her colleagues.
Indeed, McDaniel failed every aspect of her duty as head of the party which resulted in election losses over and over again. Notably, you have charged Trump with the loss of election after election (only by ignoring the fraud upon which elections are now won), while selectively forgetting the fact that it was McDaniels who was the head of the party during those elections. Not only did she fail to overturn election results in elections which were clearly characterized by fraud, she failed to put a single dollar towards such challenges. She also failed to make any effort to prevent such fraud in any election. She also failed to promote any grass roots campaign to provide the dominance of Republican registered supporters, even while people such as Scott Priesler has done that work in her place while McDaniels withheld a single penny in support of Priesler’s efforts.
In fact, McDaniels isn’t resigning because of Trump, she is resigning because of the people. She only maintained her position as head of the party because of her ability to scam the public into sending donations to the Rep party rather than to the candidates of their choice. Fortunately, the public has finally connected the dots and withheld their financial support from the Rep Party, thus undermining McDaniels in the only achievement which she can boast of her time at the head of the party – bringing in the money. Indeed, while routinely failing to win elections is not a fatal flaw, it would appear that not filling the party coffers is a fatal flaw.
It may not be to your liking, but the people are taking control of the party, and the choice to ignore the establishment candidates in the primary and defunding the party leadership are but the beginning of this process.
Another one of Trump’s lackeys he’s thrown under the bus. He uses people, then throws them away. Nice guy! You’d have to be crazy to work for Trump in any way.
Hi, Sebastien
Of course, she’s serious! 😀 And considering that you’re talking about Laura, she’s F$#*^$ ?%$$$! serious! She’s making Felix look like a moderate!
I don’t give Tucker much credit, for what is (to me) obviously a publicity stunt. For “factual” information about Putin, the closest I can come is GZERO
https://youtu.be/rLYmT93QNlM
@Laura investigated for treason just for interviewing Putin? Seriously? Should he be like Anna Louise Strong and just repeat U.S. government (in her case Soviet and Chinese Communist) or Ukrainian press statements like everybody else? We don’t know what kind of an interview it will be. Hold your fire. At least “wait until you see the whites of their eyes”, as the saying goes.
“Americans have a right to know about a war they are implicated in and journalists (like Tucker) have a right to tell Americans about it”
From a Hollywood Report (placing it above a Taylor Swift report) and very justified in doing so.
Only people who want to squash the Great American Revolution and the historical First Amendment (Biden Democrats and RINOs) would oppose the Tucker Putin interview.
Given the context Jews have a big interest here and especially in the Free Speech angle.
“Americans have a right to know about a war they are implicated in and journalists (like Tucker) have a right to tell Americans about it”
From a Hollywood Report (placing it above a Taylor Swift report) and very justified in doing so.
Only people who want to squash the Great American Revolution and the historical First Amendment (Biden Democrats and RINOs) would oppose the Tucker Putin interview.
Given the context Jews have a big interest here and especially in the Free Speech angle.
https://youtu.be/WZL5B2lR5Is?si=aLR-q15MFWgAQo7L
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Resigning
Glad to finally see you go! You have done so much damage to the country which you failed to serve.
I wonder what kind of financial interests that anti-American pig fucker Carlson has in Russia or whether he is being bought and paid for outright by the Kremlin. There’s your real Russia collusion scandal. He ought to be investigated for treason. He’s no better than Hunter Biden. In fact, he probably learned from him since they were buddies at one time.
(subliminal message)
https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Hot-Buttered-Popcorn-Metal-Sign-Retro-Movie-Theater-Concessions-Stand-Wall-Art-Man-Cave-Home-Bar-Decor_1d299645-70bb-4750-8ca2-35290fdde32b.56a61e769094beec7949355232d66370.jpeg?odnHeight=640&odnWidth=640&odnBg=FFFFFF
@Ketzel2 You sat through 3 out of 4 minutes and 27 seconds? What? do you want a medal? 😀
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/police-find-no-evidence-of-anti-semitic-chants-used-at-sydney-opera-house-5578916
“…But the Deputy Commissioner said there was evidence that other “offensive phrases” were chanted during the protest, including “[expletive] the Jews.”
‘…On Nov. 21, 2023, the NSW Minns government proposed changes to Section 93Z of the NSW Crimes Act which would remove the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from approving a prosecution before it was commenced by police.
This would “improve the prosecution process” for an offence of publicly threatening or inciting violence against a person or group based on race and religion.The phrase “gas the Jews” would likely meet the threshold for criminal prosecution under the proposal…”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/police-find-no-evidence-of-anti-semitic-chants-used-at-sydney-opera-house-5578916
Gee, ya think?
“Where’s the Jews?” Seriously????
Have these Keystone cops been watching too much Woody Allen?
“Jew Eat?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPBhxXhprg
“…Both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton also voiced their support for the Jewish community.
“Our country is better than that—and our country is a better place because of you and your community, and my government is committed to keeping the community safe,” Mr. Albanese said on Oct. 11…”
Really? How? It didn’t take much to lock people in their homes during Covid and lock up anybody who complained about it but they just don’t know what to do about Jew-hating homicidal Muslim maniacs roaming free and shouting out their intentions.
Reminds me of:
Caroline Glick’s “Latma TV – “The Boston Marathon Bomber – the FBI investigates”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgTmGIXT8ow
I got through 3 minutes of Carlson’s rant and gave up. I should have started counting the number of times he insulted Americans. We only aren’t on Putin’s side because we’re clinging to our guns and bibles, or something. All I’ve ever wanted from war coverage is real information, it seems unlikely I’ll get it from Carlson. I will watch, of course. Before I watch, I’ll try to get cleaned up from the tap I share with the pigs, and I’ll ask my social worker to help me turn on this here computer. Why is his voice so squeaky, though? Stress from a bad conscience?
@Felix
Yes, Thank you.
@ Felix Thank you, Felix
TUCKER CARLSON IN MOSCOW TO INTERVIEW PUTIN
“YOU’RE PAYING FOR THIS WAR”
So you have a right to know everything you can about this war
And there will be no paywall
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1754939251257475555?t=-fggCxhPiaXo2BvYLS9Pdw&s=19
@Adam
That is an interesting question, to be certain, the answer is a bit of a long tale to be honest. Byrne has been the source of much controversy, some mystery and a great deal of good work. Byrne, who was the owner of Overstock.com was a venture capitalist who was curiously asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee to seek out corruption in the US govt and expose it for the benefit of the nation. This sounds to be a nutty claim to be made by anyone, but him being approached by the SJC was confirmed during an interview with a former US Attorney during a Sean Hannity program after Byrne reported his role in the Maria Butina scandal which the FBI weaponized against Trump. He was also involved in exposing the 2008 crash 18 months before the crash, facilitating a $15M bribe to Hillary Clinton on behalf of the FBI, publicly raising the alert that the 2020 election was going to be stolen before the election, helping to sneak Gen. Flynn and Sidney Powell into the White House on Dec. 18 2020, that the vaccines are toxic and many other very important, and revealing matters in recent events.
Here is his story:
DHS Domestic Extremist #1 Patrick Byrne Comes Clean
This is long telling, but it reads quickly to be honest – it took me a couple of hours to read as I recall. In any event, this provides the best answer to the question you raised as to who Byre might be, in which Gen. Flynn notably wrote the introduction. Byrne is a strong advocate for the restoration of the Republic in the US, and has spent billions of his own money in pursuit of doing just that. His most recent work involves having assisted, financially and in person, a whistleblower complaint against Jack Smith – one of the out of control US prosecutors/persecutors acting against Trump.
You can follow him on his Locals.com acct, his X account, his telegram acct, and his own website at DeepCapture.com. He also has TruthSocial account, but I don’t go there much so I don’t have the link handy. Do be aware that there are many many fake social accounts claiming to be Byrne, but the links I provided are the only ones which are actually associated with Byrne. His best work can be found on his site DeepCapture.com, and he provides livestreaming on his Locals.com account, and posts random comments on both Telegram and X – he has a strange fascination with people getting into street fights on which he adds his own commentary.
The one thing which I would warn you to completely distrust about Byrne is his ability to accurately report when things will take place, as I mentioned in my conversation with ketzel2. The matters which Byrne is financing and on which he is reporting are to a large part not under his control, and of course, the opposition often has a role to play as well, so his claims of when to expect a given news story breaking is almost uniformly wrong. Just FYI.
@ketzel2 @peloni1986. Who is this Byrne guy. I never heard of him. But he sounds interesting from your discussion of him. Where can I find his work on the web?
@ketzel2 @Peloni 1986
Yet another example of excellent historical research by Sebastien.
“Yevgeny Yevtushenko on ‘Babi Yar,’ Shostakovich & the birth of a symphony
February 25, 2022 — 10 min read
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Babi Yar” was one of five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (above) that Dmitri Shostakovich set to music in his Symphony No. 13, which Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded in 2018.
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The poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko inspired one of the greatest works by Dmitri Shostakovich: his Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar). This work anchors the opening program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2018-19 season, which is dedicated to the themes of peace and reflection. With Riccardo Muti on the podium, the CSO will be joined by the men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and bass Alexey Tikhomirov.
In 1961, Yevtushenko polarized Soviet society with the publication of his poem “Babi Yar,” prompted by a visit to the ravine just outside Kiev where the Nazis had carried out a mass execution of Jews in 1941. The poem was a bold attack on the enduring anti-Semitism in Soviet society. “Babi Yar” was one of five Yevtushenko poems that Shostakovich (1906-1975) set to music in his Symphony No. 13, composed in 1962. Thirty years later, Yevtushenko sat for an interview with program annotator and scholar Harlow Robinson, ahead of a Babi Yar engagement in the United States. When the CSO performed Babi Yar in 1995, under Sir Georg Solti, the interview was published in the orchestra’s program book. The following is a reprint of that article.
Born in Zima Junction in the Irkutsk region of Siberia in 1933, Yevgeny Yevtushenko was one of the best-known contemporary Russian poets. (He died in Tulsa, Okla., on April 1, 2017.) Yevtushenko came of artistic age during “The Thaw,” an exciting, turbulent but short-lived period of cultural and political liberalization that followed Stalin’s death in 1953. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, Yevtushenko was a prominent spokesman for a new, more idealistic generation eager to end Russia’s long tradition of isolation and secrecy.
As the youngest member of the powerful Soviet Writers Union, Yevtushenko helped to revive the oral tradition of Russian poetry. In fact, his public readings frequently filled huge athletic stadiums, and they were surrounded by the kind of hysteria associated in the West with rock concerts. Although his work remained within the bounds of the ideologically permissible, and he never crossed the line into dissidence, Yevtushenko frequently tested the limits of censorship.
With the appearance of the poem “Babi Yar” in 1961, the controversy that had always surrounded Yevtushenko reached its height. Although many Communist Party officials were disturbed that the poem focused on Russian racism, it was approved for publication in the authoritative Literaturnaia Gazeta, becoming the first poem attacking anti-Semitism to be published in the Soviet press for decades.
The triumphant premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 occurred in Moscow on Dec. 18, 1962, in a tense and uncertain atmosphere: the volatile Nikita Khrushchev had just launched a new campaign against Formalist trends in Soviet art. Repeated two days later, the symphony was then abruptly removed from circulation upon orders from the Kremlin.
Harlow Robinson: How did you come to write “Babi Yar”? How do people react to the poem today [in 1992]?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: When I heard the word zhid (“yid”) for the first time in Moscow, I asked what it meant. No one believed me — they thought I was pretending not to know. But my mother and father detested anti-Semites, and such bigots weren’t allowed to cross the threshold of our home. My own ancestry is very mixed: Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Tartar, German, Lithuanian — but not a single drop of Jewish blood. A Jew could not have written the poem “Babi Yar” — nor a person of any other nationality. This is a poem by a Russian about the shame he feels at the history of anti-Semitism in our country and all over the world.
Anti-Semites can never understand why I so often (and not only in “Babi Yar”) attack anti-Semitism. They simply can’t fathom that a person can feel the pain of another. That’s why they have attacked me for “Babi Yar,” accusing me of glorifying the Jewish tradition while neglecting the sufferings of my own Russian people. Last winter [in 1991], they even burned my effigy, with the words “An Agent of International Zionism” written on it. During its recent 80th anniversary, the members of the anti-Semitic political organization Pamyat even insulted my mother, an elderly newspaper kiosk vendor. They came up to her and shouted: “When are you going to kick off, you old kike, along with your offspring?”
What is the history of your poem “Babi Yar”?
I read “Babi Yar” for the first time publicly in Kiev in 1961. Since then, I have read it everywhere around the world, even in Franco’s Spain and in Salazar’s Portugal. But Kiev was closed to me for 28 years afterward. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 was performed in Kiev only in 1991, on the 40th anniversary of the Nazi massacre.
After the poem was published in Literaturnaia Gazeta, I received several thousand letters, mostly from Russians who supported me. But there were also threats. For 22 years after its first publication, the Soviet censors consistently refused to allow the poem to be included in any of my subsequent collections. But everybody knew the poem, anyway, and it was translated into 72 foreign languages.
How did Shostakovich come to use your poem for his Symphony No. 13?
We were not acquainted at the time. He telephoned me and asked, as he put it, for my “kind permission” to write music to my poem “Babi Yar.” I was stunned by his call, and answered, “But of course, please.” He replied joyfully, “Wonderful. The music is already written. Come and hear it.”
The most thrilling performance was the very first one, when Shostakovich himself sang it for me, sitting at the piano. He played and sang all the parts: the soloist, the chorus and the orchestra. His eyes were filled with tears. He decided all by himself to set the text to music. The way he had done it amazed me. If I had been able to write music, this is exactly the music I would have written for this poem. For he had combined seemingly incompatible things: requiem, satire and sad lyricism.
When people heard the symphony, they cried, became indignant, and — which happens very rarely — they laughed. After we met, I began to visit him often at home. We became friends.
Could you describe your impressions of Shostakovich?
He was a great man in a badly gilded cage. Could he have loved his cage? Of course not. He hated it, and broke his teeth and fingernails on its bars. But the roaring of this big hunted beast inside his cage was worth more, much more, than the carefree twittering of many so-called free birds. Why didn’t he emigrate? Because a monument cannot emigrate. And if he had emigrated, not only the members of his family, but all of Russian music would have been taken hostage.
He was like the doctors in Camus’ novel The Plague, who remained and worked as well as they could in a city infected by an epidemic, wanting to save at least somebody. But Shostakovich paid with compromises for this victory of “non-emigration,” for the right to keep his homeland. And yet if you consider his “compromises” on the one hand and all his great music on the other, then the great obviously outweighs what he was forced to do.
Describe the controversy surrounding the premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13.
Bowing to official pressure, both the Leningrad conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky and the Ukrainian singer Boris Gmyrya had refused Shostakovich’s invitation to participate in the premiere. At the very last minute, the singer Vitaly Gromadsky agreed to fill in, and Kirill Kondrashin conducted. But the clouds that had been gathering over the Symphony before the premiere and afterward turned into a thunderstorm.
Kondrashin was summoned by the Party Secretary for Ideology and told that “the public was disturbed” because my text didn’t contain any reference to the fact that Russians and Ukrainians died together with Jews at Babi Yar. He gave us an ultimatum: if the text wasn’t altered in some way to include this information, then the symphony would not be allowed to be performed, recorded or published. Kondrashin asked me to save the symphony. I understood what he was saying. Shostakovich never asked me about this personally — he was too subtle for that.
But Kondrashin came to see me immediately after visiting Shostakovich. A great work might have been hidden away, and for how long, none of us could begin to predict. And so I wrote the additional lines. Kondrashin and I brought the lines to Shostakovich. He sighed and wrote them into his piano score. All the other rumors and inventions about how I wrote an entirely different version of “Babi Yar” are false, the product of those who like to take advantage of the frailty of human memory.
Is the message of “Babi Yar” still relevant today?
I would be happy if my poem “Babi Yar” would become irrelevant — the sooner the better. But that will happen only when anti-Semitism disappears. For the moment I don’t see that happening. But I’m hopeful that reason and kindness will in the end overcome racial hatred. At the moment, we are seeing filthy new outbreaks of anti-Semitism in both Russia and Germany. That makes it all the more appropriate and symbolic that the German conductor Kurt Masur and [I] are now going to perform together at Avery Fisher Hall, like brothers, united by the tragic shadow of Shostakovich, who summons humankind to ensure that such terrible crimes will never be repeated.
Harlow Robinson is an author, lecturer and professor emeritus of history at Northeastern University. His books include Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography and Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians. He is a frequent annotator and lecturer for the Boston Symphony, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera Guild and Aspen Music Festival. ”
https://cso.org/experience/article/8972/yevgeny-yevtushenko-on-babi-yar-shostakovich
Everything else aside, As a 2nd generation Holocaust survivor, I find this offensive beyond words and it certainly sounds echoes of the late and unlamented Soviet empire that tried to cover up the Holocaust and nearly perpetrated its own. Just because I don’t want to fund this civil war between two evil entities that were in the same country five minutes ago and which empowers Iran anymore doesn’t mean I don’t utterly loathe Russia, which I do. Especially, now that Russia is providing Iran with its own super spy plane. Fuck Russia.
“Statements that the Holocaust was the extermination of Jewish people alone contradict the resolution of the U.N. General Assembly,” the ministry said.’
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I’m not aware of any such U.N. General Assembly resolution but I wouldn’t put it past that corrupt, antisemitic cesspool of despots. Fuck the U.N.
https://www.jns.org/russia-summons-israel-envoy-over-unacceptable-public-statements/
Is General Gerasimov alive?
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If he is really in that picture, he has the biggest head in Russia! He’s been missing almost 40 days and 40 nights. Is he up on a mountain somewhere? conferring with Kim Jong Un? Nobody seems to know.
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Yes, buyer beware. Always a wise stratagem to follow, always.
Regarding Byrne, he actually does bring the goods, but he is never accurate about the timing of when the goods will actually arrive – sometimes being off by months due to the fact that much of what he telegraphs is based on legal and strategic considerations which he does not control. Nonetheless, when the revelations finally do take place, it often changes the entire nature of things, such as was the case with the Halderman Report as well as the Mesa County Forensic Report #3. Even the details surrounding those matters which turn out to be less than startling also result in identifying more of the enemies inside the wire as happened in AZ on a number of occasions. So I do share your frustration, but still follow Byrne’s reports in great detail.