By Ted Belman
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Jerusalem Music Centre 2024 concert schedule
https://www.jmc.org.il/
in English
https://www.jmc.org.il/en/
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/jerusalem.music.centre
posted (2019)
https://youtu.be/AYYlGth486E?si=u9nawU2ZLjkFGDaT
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Of course, this was all too obvious to be much of a surprise to anyone, except perhaps the clueless Monists in Ukraine. Meanwhile, during a live Twitter Space conversation, this report was explained to not be a rebuke of the overly corrupt and despotic rumpdom of Ukraine, but rather that this was the way in which the US could help guide Ukraine to its ultimate destination inside NATO.
The reality is that this report demonstrates what has been true since 2008 when the promise of NATO membership was first dangled before Ukraine – that this was a ship which was never intended to come to port. Ukraine will never be made a member of the alliance for the very reason that Europe and the US have only one use for Ukraine and that is that NATO should fight a war for Ukraine, even if they lose it, and not that they should fight a war for Ukraine. This cynical shell game has baited the Ukrainian Monists over and over again, and today they stand no closer to being a NATO member than they were a decade ago, or a decade before that.
So fight on Ukraine because the carrot of NATO membership is ever just beyond your grasp, as is the recognition that NATO is continuing to play you for the dupes which you have made yourselves to be. Not to worry, though, there is another vote on your membership coming up again next year where your chances of being given a real commitment from NATO will be as promising and disappointing as the last.
The ultimate goal of this war is to see millions of Slavs murdered due to their own factional tribalisms and leave the benefits of the war, whatever form those benefits might ultimately take, for the West. Do recall what the West might describe a million dead Slavs…a good start. Very cynical, but very true.
All of the above universally recognized as among the greatest in the world, then and now
https://youtu.be/ERazfwxBeC0?si=0Xgf-Ic_SD-3sF7v
Beethoven Triple concert for Violin, piano and orch. – Israeli phil
https://youtu.be/qur93kzk5X4?si=wAgUQAM7vPyl1iZK
https://youtu.be/tLjucRUyd4Y?si=cJJ7iM7-vt_MSgVy
“The Carnival of the Animals” – Saent Saints – Lahav Shani – Conductor and Pianist – Israel philharmonic”
https://youtu.be/cIyex97eBNU?si=jZ6nUByTI9y3MmBx
My comment: It’s true, what George Burns said: There are 3 kinds of funny: “People who say funny things, people who do funny things, and people who are just funny.” Here we have all three. Or 4. People who play funny things.
Or 5. Honestly, I don’t know what I would do without the Hebrew subtitles for people who only understand Hebrew – watching this concert on Youtube for half an hour – who can’t hear.
I’m reminded of the old joke about one of the new millionaires in newly post-Communist Poland who built a mansion with 3 swimming pools, to accomodate each and every possible swimming taste of his future guests he could predict: one with cold water for people who like to swim in cold water, one with warm water for people who like to swim in warm water, and one with no water for people who don’t like to swim.
Luna al-Shabal, Assad’s closest confident, has been involved in what is expected will come to be a fatal car collision. This ‘accident’ comes days after her brother was arrested for on charges of treason, and al-Shabal is believed to have given the Americans important details regarding the IRGC.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/giuliani-disbarred-in-ny-as-court-finds-he-repeatedly-lied-about-trumps-2020-election-loss/
In other words, one of our best lawyers was disbarred for telling the truth. I thought the rabbis said these were the sort of times in which Messiah would come: Good is called bad, bad is called good; everything is the way it shouldn’t be.
@Edgar
Yes, and with Biden, there is plenty of criminal pre-office acts to send him and his entire mafia family to jail for the rest of their natural lives, let alone the treason charges. This being stated, I am not terribly convinced whether Trump would bring such charges against them. Hopefully I am wrong on this point.
PELONI-
Enormous for Trump under his peculiar circumstances…..
But also good for Biden……although not for Pre office crimes which can still be acted on, if the Statute of Limitations has not arrived or applicable.
@ Bear
I want to apologioze for saying and believing that Abdullah had left the country. I was wrong and Mudar corrected me.
Enormous ruling from SCOTUS!!@!!
The president has legal immunity for official acts carried out in the duties of the president! Good bye Lawfare leveraged against the president, or most of it in any event.
CHEVRON DOCTRINE IS OVERTURNED!!@!!
This strips the power from the US agencies to interpret regulations associated with passed laws. This will require such regulations be established by either the Congress or the Court, radically diminishing the power of the executive and most specifically the unelected govt bureaucrats, better known as the Deep State.
Before gloating, this might not necessarily be a good thing for the GOP and Trump. Democrats are now openly calling for Biden’s replacement. Should that happen, it will not be so easy for Trump to win, especially if its Michelle Obama. Biden gave the performance that Republicans were hoping. Be careful what you wish for.
I agree with Ted and also Michael S about the debate. However, none of the American commentators say that Biden’s “handlers” expected or wanted him to lose the debate. Instead, they say that his handlers believed they had prepared him sufficiently for the debate, and that they expected him to do OK. However, all the U.S. commentators also claim that Biden the Democrat campaign managers, including those in the Democratic National Committe, are now in ‘panic mode” because Biden made a public desplay of his dementia in a situation where his handlers could not easily send the press away when he was having a bad moment, which is what they usually do. I don’t know where the truth lies. There is some talk of “drafting” Republican governor of California , Gavin Newsome, as replacement candidate for Biden. Other Democratic “operatives” have been talking about a possible “open convention” (??? this I find hard to believe.).
More thoughts on the election;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK13TpqyUw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8GFtspk9U
I was dumbfounded when I heard that the terms of the debate had been agreed upon.
How could the Biden handlers every think that Biden could handle the debate.
How could they ever think Biden would win.
Perhaps they expected him to lose and the debate was intended to make it easier to get him off the ticket.
Biden aces the debate… sort of (Remember, the ace can be the highest or lowest card in the deck)
https://x.com/i/status/1806505954558501184
@Felix
Yes, well while raising animals in squalid conditions is pretty gross, it is nothing new. Have you ever heard of a puppy mill? Such things are not that uncommon. Also, when you asserted that the unfortunate creatures had symptoms similar to Covid, what do you think this means? So the bat developed a cold with respiratory distress, almost exclusively among the elderly and most everyone survived? Is that what you mean? The symptoms of Covid are nonspecific and there is in fact no pathognomonic identifying symptom of Covid. This is why it was so easy for anyone have the common cold came to be corralled in with those poor people who were subjected to inappropriate ventilation, withdrawal of food and water and overdosed with Medazolam. All that it took was to have a faulty test which tested positive regardless of the patient having Covid, which is how Covid was tested, using a test wit a 94% false positive rate. But let us stay on topic.
For any scientist to suggest that a sick puppy/bat/pangolin might be the source of a plague because he had a drippy nose or respiratory distress should be seen for what it is, a very very great stretch to support a hypothesis which has no significant support.
I would be happy to continue this conversation further, so please do respond to what I have thus far commented.
@Felix
Such personal characterizations are irrelevant to the conversation. Please speak to the issues and not to the competence or personal qualifications of those you are addressing, something which you are hardly in a position to have any honest appreciation.
Wrong
This is a hypothesis, nothing more. Science is based on the formation of hypotheses which are proven or disproven based on the preponderance of collected evidence, and the word proven here is never entirely beyond the need to withstand challenge. I could go further into this discussion and provide you examples but this should be understood by anyone having any knowledge of or respect for scientific inquiries, for which you seem to claim some aptitude.
You conjecture that a virus just happened to jump species from a bat to a pengulin which allowed the resulting hybrid virus to cross-infect humans, all while having less ability to infect either of the original animals than humans which, if your hypothesis were accurate, should not be the case. To restate this more clearly, the virus is specifically designed to specifically attach to human cells at the ACE2 receptor with far greater precision than the ACE2 receptor of either of the ‘original species’. Are you aware of the steriochemical interactions which take place at the level of the receptor? I am going to assume you do not and try my best to explain it for you. It is complicated, so let me know if I am not being clear.,
For those who are unaware, every binding sight on a cellular receptor has a set of charges, positive, negative and neutral charges, dispersed in a three dimentional arrangement which will either match up with corresponding charges on the binding site on a given receptor or not. ie opposite charges attracting while similar charges repell. If the 3-D arrangement of charges match perfectly, the bond will be stronger, and will hold together for a longer period of time than if the match is less perfect, and the more imperfect the matching the less likely that any bond will occur at all.
The importance of this is that the 3-D arrangement of charges on SARS2 significantly corresponds to the arrangement of charges on the human ACE2 receptor binding sites, while they are far less corresponding to the binding sites of either the bat or the Pangulin. Notably, the charges are even better arranged to complement the ACE2 receptor of the ferret, which should be irrelevant to either the bat or the pangulin. So, if your hypothesis is accurate, we should have the virus being better associated to infect either the bat or the pangulin, but instead it infects humans better than either of these while it infects ferrets better than even humans.
Your hypothesis fails to explain this. But here is a hypothesis which does explain it: The biochemical agent was developed in a lab using ferrets as the animal in which to develop a strain which might infect humans as was precisely described to be the intention of a grant proposal for the research being done at the Wuhan lab. This would explain why lab designed virus would infect the ferret more readily than humans and why it would infect both the bat and pangulin more poorly than either.
The fact that the Wuhan lab was working on such research can not be ignored, nor can we ignore the fact that there is no local reservoir from which this might take place. Also, there is no phylogenetic progression from anything in the bats/pangulins which slowly progressed to become SARS 2. It is as if it just appeared one day and the subset of animals in which it was transformed simply disappeared without leaving a trace. This too fails to be answered by the natural evolution, but is consistent with it being developed in a lab.
The interview with Ed Holmes that I previously referenced has Holmes describing the smuggling of pangolins through Malaysia.
It is a disgusting trade. And these unfortunate creatures were in many cases sick with symptoms very like Covid.
I came across an article about the sentencing of a trafficker in America with good information of how horrible this whole thing is.
After Sars 1 in 2002 the Chinese Stalinist rulers tried to make it illegal but eventually failed
According to Holmes the wet market industry is massive – the equivalent of the American beef industry.
Animals trapped then bred and reared in captivity
These illegal farms eventually being hugely transmitting the full virus.
Holmes is describing the perfect conditions for this virus to grow but on being brought into Wuhan the virus meets a very concentrated population…and you have a Pandemic.
This explanation by Ed Holmes who is a famous and very respected epidemiologist is an examination of reality. It is the opposite of the sick conspiracy manoeuvres of Rand Paul.
I did not say you were an ignorant person. I said that you demonstrate ignorance in certain fields. It is not my opinion it is something that facts demonstrate.
At no time that is NOT ONE TIME, not even on one single occasion, have you dealt with the massive trade in wild animals in south east Asia, and you have said nothing about the prevalence of viruses inside of the wild animal pool precisely there.
Recognition that this was the case led to scientists visiting there to study this very phenomenon.
This is an aspect of science.
You have sadly never referred to this.
@Felix
Well, thank you Professor Felix.
To call a man ignorant once is to demonstrate your rudeness and abusive nature all in the same moment, but to do so three times within the span of just two sentences does suggest you might be compensating for something lacking in your own knowledgebase. You might think you will use such dull tactics to push me towards responding in kind, but instead I will simply note what I have already mentioned and state the following facts for you:
If these toxic shots were not toxic, why has there been no investigation into the toxicities which were demonstrated by Phizer’s own data which showed thousands of toxicities of every variety and nature imaginable, and which the govt and Phizer attempted to hide for a period of 75yrs from public view.
You say I rebuffed your offer of discussion, but I have discussed this matter quite a many times with you, only to earn your ascorbic temperament. Yet, if you want to open a dialogue, the above statement is as good a place as any to begin, so let us hear your explanation for what is stated above, Professor Felix.
Peloni,
I think Laura is closest to the truth here: Peloni has come closest to openly threatening a nuke war (I don’t think he’s explicitly said so). Biden, on the other hand, makes nuclear war plausible, every time he opens his mouth (or fumbles the nuclear football?)
I don’t think it matters, either way. When the bombs land in a neighborhood near you, who cares?
@Laura
You don’t believe that the US proxy force in Ukraine striking Russia’s nuclear defenses should be construed to be threatening nuclear war?
Notably, the US construed the placement of missiles in Cuba as a threat of nuclear war, but attacking Russia’s nuclear defenses should not be similarly construed?
Only Russia is threatening nuclear war. Ukraine gave up its nukes.
Great news!
Peloni
You obviously have some knowledge of the crisis facing Zionism. And fair play to you.
On matters of science I fear you are mostly ignorant.
The true story of the COVID Pandemic and the long story of Global Warming you do not demonstrate any learning at all. And since you demonstrate only ignorance then I conclude, I think fairly, you ARE ignorant indeed. Israpundit was founded in hope it is sad that it has ended like this. Israpundit keep right on cussing those scientific realities as Peloni scolds those lethal “shots”. I offered to discuss but was rebuffed as you know everything – especially when you do not.
I do not think that a single person has had a single word to say about the absolutely key messages about dangers of world nuclear war flowing out of extended Ukrainian crisis. I gave the URL. This failure is nothing less than bankruptcy. This may come back to haunt you on this site and I do hope I am very wrong.
Conservatives take Liberal stronghold in last-minute Toronto byelection victory
Thanks Peloni and Ted.
@Sebastien
I rescued your reposted comments from the trash. Thank you for reposting them under the relative article. Very insightful comments.
@Ted I thought maybe the drama/movie links might have made it Chit Chat. Anyway, I just tried to copy and paste the comment to your post, twice, and they dutifully disappeared as soon as I hit enter.
@Seb
These comments ragrding Rand should have been made under the article I posted.
re Ayn Rand:
she was not a businesswoman and did not know which businesses would make good investiments.
Reminds me of a fun Korean Drama from 2022.
Synopsis
The series tells the story of Yoon Hyun-woo (Song Joong-ki), a loyal higher-up employee working for chaebol Soonyang Group, who was betrayed and murdered by a member of the Soonyang family to cover up a tax evasion scheme. Hyun-woo later wakes up in 1987 discovering that he has been reincarnated into the body of Jin Do-jun, youngest grandson of the Soonyang family. Using these circumstances to his advantage, he starts his revenge by plotting a hostile takeover of Soonyang Group. The background to the story is the power of the chaebols and the 1997 Asian Financial crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_Rich
Marry My Husband is 2024, Twinkling Watermelon is 2023 and Reborn Rich is 2022. I think they all are or were on Netflix among other platforms. With English subtitles, of course. All have time travel knowing future events and trying to take advantage of that knowledge.
In real life, I’ll take the safety net that every democracy and every developed country has in place, thank you very much, including Israel, Russia, and Hungary, every European country, Canada, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, Japan,Taiwan, except the U.S. and Belgium ? the capital of the EU. Ironically, the Communist countries don’t provide universal health care either. So much for the slippery slope argument. ? Some do it better than others but they all have it. And vicious radicals like the Squad take at advantage of the fact that we don’t to win constituencies that otherwise wouldn’t give them the time of day. And that’s socialism then “I’m not a cab driver, I’m a coffee pot.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In_UKcRXzHs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)
re Ayn Rand:
Reminds me of a fun Korean Drama from 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_Rich
Marry My Husband is 2024, Twinkling Watermelon is 2023 and Reborn Rich is 2022. I think they all are or were on Netflix among other platforms. With English subtitles, of course. All have time travel knowing future events and trying to take advantage of that knowledge.
In real life, I’ll take the safety net that every democracy and every developed country has in place, thank you very much, including Israel, Russia, and Hungary, every European country, Canada, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, Japan,Taiwan, except the U.S. and Belgium
the capital of the EU. Ironically, the Communist countries don’t provide universal health care either. So much for the slippery slope argument.
Some do it better than others but they all have it. And vicious radicals like the Squad take advantage of the fact that we don’t to win constituencies that otherwise wouldn’t give them the tme of day. if that’s socialism, then “I’m a coffee pot.”
“Arsenic and Old Lace” (1944) ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In_UKcRXzHs
re Ayn Rand:
Reminds me of a fun Korean Drama from 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_Rich
Another fun reincarnation/time travel knowing and trying to change the future one that may have been inspired by the premise the following year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marry_My_Husband
And still another, thought the last one isn’t about revenge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkling_Watermelon
SEB
That’s really precious to have met such a towering figure of early pre-jazz
I note that you spotted that he had his own style.
Felix
The Covid scam, forgive me but it is a scam, is daily revealed with greater and greater evidence of both the cover up of what was done to mislead the world in 2020 as well as the medical harms which are still coming to light. And yet you still cling to your vaccine advocacy.
I mean you no disrespect, but I find your support of this position to be quite dogmatic, something which I have made known to you in the past. In any event, I am only one of two Asst Editors here, but Ted and Eve and myself are of a single mind on this subject in particular, that Covid was a scam, that the refusal to allow adequate treatment was a crime, and that the shots are toxic. So there is no need to direct your frustration at myself alone, though I am quite happy to continue engaging your arguments as I have in the past.
You are of course free to leave your own commentary, which you are quite skilled at doing, and prove this more often than many, upto 400 words in length. You know that this is the case, and you have even posted the link to the latest video which forms the basis of your views without any punitive or editorial rescissions to your commentary. Hence your claim that I or anyone is actually censoring you or your views is both dishonest and malicious – so you might say that I am calling you out on this point, because I am.
I think that to which you more accurately object is the fact that we disagree with your advocacy of the toxic shots, that we find such advocacy hazardous, and consequently we will not support you in furthering such advocacy as you are promoting. Still, since we offer but a window into the marketplace of ideas, you are welcome to present your arguments, such as they are, as you commonly and routinely do.
PDQ Bach – New Horizons in Music Appreciation — Beethoven’s Fifth Sports Commentary
https://youtu.be/kRBdP8GepyQ?si=rk2Tt8qFs5IB1XNj
Sid Caesar & Nanette Fabray argue to Beethoven’s Fifth
https://youtu.be/U-1SBZJIrgg?si=WezmTiE_kJ_H-YAf
(Both from Mel Brooks’ History of hte World Part I. (1981) Orson Welles narrating.
P.D.Q. Bach – The Seasonings
https://youtu.be/yyZXPzlsITA?si=QL7kujGdmB2BGei_
(Both from Mel Brooks’ History of hte World Part I. (1981) Orson Welles narrating.
P.D.Q. Bach – The Seasonings
https://youtu.be/yyZXPzlsITA?si=QL7kujGdmB2BGei_
PDQ Bach – New Horizons in Music Appreciation — Beethoven’s Fifth Sports Commentary
https://youtu.be/kRBdP8GepyQ?si=rk2Tt8qFs5IB1XNj
SEB-
Far being from me “lecturing> ( bad word choice) a working classical musician like you.
I have no Idea about Blake meeting Joplin, but their paths must have crossed at some times. I didn’t introcuce them to one another anyhow.
Can anyone find out VDH ‘s email?
EDGAR –
Wikipedia. I wasn’t familiar with her but I see some videos of her performing on Youtube. Amazing.
I heard Eubie Blake live at the Central Park Band shell in the ’70s and spoke to him afterward. It’s a treasured memory.
@Edgar
Atwell, no, but I was a Eubie Blake fan as a teenager and I had the honor of meeting and speaking to him once after seeing and hearing him perform live at the Central Park band shell in NY in the ’70s. It’s a treasured memory.
@Edgar You lecture me about the musical structure of Ragtime and wonder why I reference Scott Joplin?
EdGar-
Close, but no cigar: Durum wheat. However, if it were about the Dem machine rigging the election, I might have gone with the guards of the witch’s castle which always makes me think of the song of the Bulgur (Vulgar) Vote men.
“”Oh-RE-Oles, OH-Rioles” (music from The Wizard of Oz)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqajwnKq1Ts
Russian Red Army Choir – Song of the Volga Boatmen (1965)” concert version with great nature visuals opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE
B&W 1962 concert variation Red Army Choir Alexandrov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlmO12I281A
SeB-
I’m sure you mean “Bulgur” wheat. I’m really sorry about your ailments.