North Korea Does Freedom of Expression

04 Tuesday Jun 2024

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The Un family is starting to deeply endear themselves, even as they “embrace” Enlightenment values.

The full suspension of the agreement comes as relations further deteriorate amid a series of tit-for-tat balloon “attacks” across the heavily fortified border.

Since last week, North Korea has been sending hundreds of balloons carrying trash and animal faeces – branded as “gifts of sincerity” – to its southern neighbour.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, who has emerged as a key spokesperson for Pyongyang, mocked South Korea for complaining about the balloons this week. North Koreans were simply exercising their freedom of expression, she declared.

If square, unhip South Koreans don’t like these balloons, they can simply avert their eyes. Remember that? Free trash and animal shit is just another form of free speech. They’re putting the “Un” back in fun!

They’re Lowering The Iron Curtain

03 Monday Jun 2024

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…on Americans. Citizens of the free and democratic free democracy of the GAE are no longer free to travel.

The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday.

Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.

“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department’. They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT. “They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”

While he did not explain, other than to say it wasn’t personal, Judge Napolitano was also unable to travel to Saint Petersburg.

Congratulations! They, indeed, built the wall – around Americans. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.

UPDATE: Posted something similar on SG and I had the realization that the “Iron” curtain is too masculine for ‘Murica. Welcome behind the Lavender Curtain??

Creating New Growth Centers

03 Monday Jun 2024

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The better parts of the world will keep moving forward this week at SPIEF 2024:

Medzinárodné ekonomické fórum sa bude konať v Petrohrade od 5. do 8. júna. Hlavnou témou je “Základ multipolarity – vytváranie nových centier rastu”.

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The International Economic Forum will be act in St. Petersburg from 5 to 8 June. The main theme is “The basis of multipolarity – creating new growth centers”.

While the mere theme absolutely excludes the presence of those who still think it’s 1607, and the circumstances exclude most of the dead faux West, more than a few good unofficial Western representatives will be present. I will not be one of them. This year. It is my understanding Scott Ritter and Andrew Napolitano, among others, will be there, so here’s looking forward to their reports along with all the great news we’ll be getting from local sources. Party on!

Vivida Vis Animi

01 Saturday Jun 2024

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A few days ago, I emailed one of the subject authors from my recent triple Palestinian book review. Among other things, I apologized for such a combined review; my feeling, and maybe it’s just me, is that in covering two or more books at once, I give short shrift to each. In my defense, time is somewhat limited and sometimes these things just flow together. Of course, with such matters, it’s not about me; rather, it’s about getting messages across. So it was that I was very happy to learn that the review, short or otherwise, received a rather positive international reception with thousands of views. Many thanks to various friends for promoting it! I’ve recently learned, perhaps without much surprise, that I am considerably more popular without the CWA than within it. Go figure.

Today, I am pleased to announce that my review of Dr. Blake Alcott’s titanic book, The Rape Of Palestine, debuted at the Postil magazine, home of “Uniting Wisdom With The Soul“. Thank you, to the excellent editorial staff, and welcome, to any Postil readers who may have drifted here from there. (As always, quality will improve … tomorrow!)

Also, happy International Day of the Child. June is here, and, a little later this month, this little blog, growing like a child, turns twelve years old. Thank you, all, and stay tuned.

“COLUMN:” A Palestinian Library

31 Friday May 2024

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A Palestinian Library

 

This week, being a little pressed for time, I’m just listing out the Palestine-related books I’ve reviewed this year – with a few more.

The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope by Rev. Munther Isaac

Normalize or Resist?: Palestinian Christians Respond to Oppression by Rev. Isaac, et al.

Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm by Jamie Stern-Weiner, et al. 

The Rape of Palestine: A Mandate Chronology (Vol. 1) by Blake Alcott

The Rape of Palestine: A Mandate Chronology (Vol. 2) by Blake Alcott

The Stone House by Yara Hawari

I have not read or looked at this picture book, but it comes highly recommended:

Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Teresa Aranguren, et al.

It has been some time since I’ve read it, and, alarmingly, no longer have my copy, but a good man from Georgia wrote a great book in 2007 on the subject of peace:

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Hon. Jimmy Carter

The first book I read about Palestine, likely the first book any one of you read, was: The Holy Bible. Consult it as needed – and it is needed.

Those nine books should keep one busy for a while. For my part, I’ve currently got a copy of collected E.A. Poe works (на русском). Also, Andrei Martyanov’s new book, America’s Final War, is out, as a PDF from Clarity. My next book review article, here and elsewhere, will most likely be a cursory look at five(!) works by Professor Alexander Dugin, along with at least one Dugin critique comparison book. That’s coming before too long. And we’ll also have some additional geopolitical fun and perhaps a few short stories. Fiction writing is kind of where my mind is at right now. Stay tuned.

A rather short “column,” eh? And if your bow tie was ruffled, then good.

Deo vindice.

Distrust Sicence

30 Thursday May 2024

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Tyler Durden has more reasons to discount all the fake, gay nonsense peddled as “science,” a racket where most experiments can’t be replicated and joke articles are cobbled by AI with fake review.

It’s yet another reminder of why blindly ‘trusting the science’ may not always be the best go-to move in the future.

217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly “peer reviewed” more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing. The papers were referred to as “naked gobbledygook sandwiches”, Australian blogger Jo Nova wrote on her blog last week.

Of course, if “naked gobbeedygook sandwiches” count as “tasty ethnic food”, then they could kill two bats with one vaxx.

Sign of the Times

29 Wednesday May 2024

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As America and the faux West fade into irrelevance, the rest of the world is moving forward. This news isn’t as radical as it might appear:

Russia has invited the Taliban to take part in the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June, the TASS news agency reported on Monday, citing the foreign ministry.

TASS reported on Monday that Russian ministries advised President Putin that Moscow could remove the Taliban from its list of banned organizations.

The Taliban defeated the GAE as part of its defense and reconquest of Afghanistan in 2021, and Russia is comprehensively defeating the GAE now. It makes sense the two would put aside past problems and build a better future. Literally the whole world is beginning to think that way, the dumbasses in ‘Murica and a few other fading places notwithstanding.

 

Pictures of What was Stolen

28 Tuesday May 2024

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Americans increasingly cannot read. The dwindling few who can generally don’t. This is mildly frustrating for a writer who also reviews books. But as for conveying information about a very important subject, there still might be a way to reach the masses with a book. A picture book. Please take a look at the following work about Palestine before the Zionists turned it into a genocidal hell:

Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

Also take a look at Azad Essa’s review at the Middle East Eye.

Obrigada, Brasil!

27 Monday May 2024

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My essay on Edgar Allan Poe has landed at the fantastic Nova Resistência magazine!

Recentemente, tive o prazer de ler Otimismo Escatológico, de Daria Platonova Dugina. Nesse livro surpreendente, entre os muitos pontos que ficaram na minha cabeça estava uma pergunta sobre uma das minhas figuras literárias favoritas, o autor e poeta americano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Por alguma razão, achei que valia a pena investigar o assunto mais a fundo.

Muito obrigado, meus amigos Brasileiros! Tenho a honra de ser incluído! (E, graças a conhecer um pouco de Espanhol, e um pouco mais de Francês, posso dar um sentido grosseiro ao Português!) Excelente, e espero que todos tenham gostado dos pensamentos.

Also, happy Decoration Day, Americans.