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TG 1111: Fox News And Tucker Carlson Part Company

George Szamuely provides an update on today's sensational news about the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, and speculates as to what might have precipitated it.

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Monday Night At The Movies: "Go Tell The Spartans" (1978)

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The Gaggle Music Club: Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1

This week's selection for The Gaggle is Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39.

Composed between 1898 and 1899, Sibelius’s First Symphony was written in the political and cultural context of growing Finnish nationalism. Sibelius had already garnered fame with works like Kullervo (1892) and the Lemminkäinen Suite (1895), both based on Finnish mythology.

Kullervo, composed in 1892, was a massive choral symphony based on the Kalevala (Finland’s national epic). It consists of five movements, featuring baritone and soprano soloists, male chorus and large orchestra. Though labeled a "symphony," it is closer in spirit to Wagnerian music drama than to a traditional symphony.

Lemminkäinen Suite, composed in 1895, consisted of a cycle of four symphonic tone poems, including the famous The Swan of Tuonela. Like Kullervo, it was based on the Kalevala legends, centered on the roguish figure of Lemminkäinen. The work is rich in exotic orchestration and mood-painting, but episodic in structure. ...

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TG 1871: Trump's First 100 Days: A Fair And Balanced Assessment

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle offer a fair and balanced assessment of President Trump's first 100 days in the office.

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Dear George and Peter,

Trump’s turning a blind eye to the carnage in Gaza is unbearable. It breaks my heart to hear you dismiss it as “he has no interest in what happens to Gazans”! His ridiculous stupid offer to move them to a better place shows utter ignorance of history. Has he never heard of the Nakba? Ethnic cleansing was what started the “conflict” in the first place. Gazans are human beings. How can any human being see their bodies blown to pieces, hear their agonising screams, and not be horrified? As a human being, if not as the world’s most powerful politician, he ought to feel something! Especially as he knows that he is the only person in the world able to stop it. Does he feel no guilt? He waxed sentimental about young men dying in Ukraine so how can he remain unmoved by the massacres and the starvation of children in Gaza?

If only I could make him listen to the harrowing accounts by doctors in the weekly Sunday Webinar of DAG (Doctors Against Genocide) and make him ...

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Such a fucking scam artist
JUST IN: President Trump says the crypto market was "much stronger" than the stock market during the recent crash.

"It's very popular, it's very hot." https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1919120401604477095

This is a pretty accurate explanation of CBDC's and how they plan to deploy The Great Reset.

The problem is, she doesn't explain the reason it is being rolled out is due to AI & automation. https://x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1919520709233029454

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World War Now:
🇷🇺 🏴‍☠️ - Three police officers killed by Daesh terrorists in Russia's Dagestan region. Two of the terrorists have since been shot.

Follow: @ThermopylaeNews

#Russia 🇷🇺: Four Militants (likely affiliated with the "Islamic State" - #ISIS) carried out an attack and killed 3 Police officers in #Makhachkala (#Dagestan).

Two of the militants, who were later killed by the Security Forces, seemingly armed with at least one AKS-74U carbine.

https://x.com/war_noir/status/1919365743054848325

🇷🇺🇷🇺📝 — Russian Authorities cancels Victory Day parade in Sevastopol, in Russian-controlled Crimea due to security concerns.
https://t.me/rian_ru/292254

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸❗️ — Axios reports Israel has set US President Trump's visit to the Middle East next week as a deadline for a new hostage and ceasefire deal, with a massive ground operation to commence if no deal is reached, Israeli officials say.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸❗️ — Israeli Plans ...

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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