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December 02, 2024
Monday Night At The Movies: "The Last Emperor" (1987)

"The Last Emperor" starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.
Share all of your thoughts, comments and criticisms on the Live Chat.

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December 04, 2024
TG 1751: The Gaggle Talks To Ambassador Peter Ford

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for a conversation about events in Syria with Peter Ford, former U.K. ambassador to Syria.

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December 01, 2024
The Gaggle Music Club

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast ("My Homeland" ).

The work, a cycle of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879, is an iconic works of Czech classical music, celebrating the history, legends, and landscapes of the Czech lands. The cycle reflects Smetana's desire to create music that symbolized the cultural identity of Bohemia, which now is part of the Czech Republic.

Each of the six symphonic poems in Má vlast is distinct, yet they are often performed as a complete set. The sections are:

Vyšehrad (The High Castle):

This depicts the legendary Vyšehrad castle in Prague, a symbol of Czech heritage. It features a harp motif representing the castle’s bard and transitions to grandeur as the castle's history unfolds.

Vltava (The Moldau):

This is the most famous symphonic poem of the cycle, and is frequently performed by itself as part of the standard orchestral repertoire. The music traces the course of the Vltava River as it flows through Czech ...

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22 hours ago

THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDINGS OF RICHARD M. NIXON

https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/content/nixon

December 03, 2024

Tucker Carlson is back in Russia.

We’re on the brink of a global war, but nobody in the media is talking about it. It’s time to change that.

This week, TCN returns to Moscow for a historic interview with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. Our purpose is simple: uncover how close to war Russia and the United States really are, and learn the perspective that the permanent Washington doesn’t want you to hear. https://tuckercarlson.com/lavrov?utm_campaign=20241203_dec3dailybriefnonsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=lavrovannouncement

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Reports of U.S-Coalition Airstrikes within the last few minutes, on Iranian-Backed Forces near the City of Deir ez-Zor in Eastern Syria.

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*59% OF FRENCH VOTERS WANT MACRON TO RESIGN: OXODA POLL

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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