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December 09, 2024
Monday Night At The Movies: "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)

"A Clockwork Orange" starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.
Share all of your thoughts, comments and criticisms on the Live Chat.

02:16:37
December 08, 2024
The Gaggle Music Club

Today is a very sad day. Damascus has fallen, and some very bad people are crowing and relishing further such successes. The Gaggle Music Club has therefore chosen a suitably sad piece of music. It is Maurice Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess).

Composed in 1899 and dedicated to Ravel’s patron, Princess Edmond de Polignac, Pavane is known for its hauntingly beautiful melody and understated elegance. The work was initially written for solo piano, but Ravel orchestrated it in 1910.

Despite its evocative title, Ravel claimed that the piece wasn’t meant to mourn any specific princess, and that the title was chosen primarily for its charm and alliteration. He described it as a nostalgic evocation of a slow Spanish court dance (pavane) as it might have been performed by an imaginary princess from the Renaissance.

The Pavane is simple and lyrical, with a gently flowing main theme that develops gradually. Marked "Très lent" (very slow), the piece has a ...

00:07:25
December 08, 2024
TG 1754: Damascus Falls; Assad Leaves Syria For Moscow

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the stunning collapse of the government of Bashar al-Assad, culminating in his flight to Moscow, and speculate as to what comes next in the Middle East.

01:01:34

If anyone wants a laugh, Owen Jones (cockahoop at Assad leaving) latest interview lapping up the rhetoric of a 'Syrian' (never lived there) extolling the virtues of ISIS , Al Quaeda, HTS.

December 08, 2024
Monday Night At The Movies: "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)

Dear Gagglers:

Monday is, and has always been, a profoundly depressing day. That's why we have decided to add a little bit of fun to it.

On Monday, Dec. 9, we are holding another film screening. Gagglers can watch a movie and, as they do so, offer comments, random thoughts, aesthetic observations and critical insights in the Live Chat.

We will be screening the winner of The Gaggle's "cinema and psychoanalysis" movie poll: Stanley Kubrick's 1971 sensation "A Clockwork Orange," starring Malcolm McDowell.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_a%2520cloc

The film will starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.

Please continue to vote in the poll. We will be screening the runner-up on Dec. 16.

See you at the movies.

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12 hours ago

Yep, the cope machine is in full swing:

Did Russia Just Set a HUGE Trap in Syria? Alex Krainer on CapitalCosm
Cynthia Chung
Dec 10

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I have just finished watching an insightful interview by Alex Krainer on his thoughts as to how Syria could have fallen in a matter of days without what appears to be any significant resistance. Alex makes some interesting points as to how things may not appear to be as they seem and that this could all very well have been a trap with the plan to attrition the enemy, a new Afghanistan scenario except this time it is the Zionist/Anglo-American forces who have walked into the sinking sand rather than the Russians et al. Only time will tell, but I think Alex’s points are important since, if he is correct, it shows that things are not as insane or incompetent as they seem to be right now, at least concerning the Shanghai Corporation Organization, and thus all of this strategizing to be free from the Zionist/Anglo-American stranglehold ...

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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