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TG 1758: What Will Trump Do On Ukraine? Deciphering The Clues

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle try to decipher from the clues President-elect Trump has strewn what his policy on Ukraine is likely to be.

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The Gaggle Music Club

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is a crowd favorite: Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70. Composed in 1884-1885, the work is one of Dvořák's most dramatic and ambitious symphonies. The influence of Brahms is clearly apparent, as is Dvořák's Czech nationalist spirit.

Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, the symphony is distinctive for its somber tone and emotional depth. Dvořák began composing it in 1884 after attending the unveiling of a statue of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.

First Movement (Allegro maestoso): The opening theme conveys a sense of urgency and sorrow, inspired partly by the political turmoil in Bohemia and by the the composer's grief over the death of his mother.

Second Movement (Poco adagio): It reflects a poignant, pastoral beauty with moments of wistfulness, evoking Czech landscapes and Dvořák’s love for his homeland.

Third Movement (Scherzo, Vivace): One of the most popular pieces of all of ...

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December 13, 2024
TG 1757: New NATO Secretary-General Calls On NATO countries To Prepare For War

George Szamuely discusses newly-appointed NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte's inaugural speech in which he called on NATO member-states to prepare for war.

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December 13, 2024
TG 1756: The Gaggle Talks To Vanessa Beeley

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss latest developments in Syria with blogger and podcaster Vanessa Beeley.

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December 14, 2024
The Gaggle Book Club

Every week, the Gaggle Book Club recommends a book for Gagglers to read and—most important—uploads a pdf version of it.

Our practice is that we do not vouch for the reliability or accuracy of any book we recommend. Still less, do we necessarily agree with a recommended book's central arguments. However, any book we recommend will be one of undoubted interest and intellectual importance.

This week's selection for the Gaggle Book Club is a book that was actually recommended by a Gaggler, @Mojo1982 : "Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace, March 1918," by John W. Wheeler-Bennett. First published in 1939, the book recounts the negotiations between the Bolsheviks (who had seized power in Russia three months earlier) and the generals of the imperial German army.

Purporting to represent the Russian Empire, V. I. Lenin's Bolsheviks, had sued for peace and, as the war's losing party, they expected their German adversaries to impose savage peace terms on them. Once the war against Imperial Germany ...

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If there really was a Jewish Plan to break down and eliminate the white race, Jewish intellectuals would convince intelligent whites not to procreate.

They would write books like Jew Paul Ehrlichs “The Population Bomb” and warn of Overpopulation… https://x.com/Uncommonsince76/status/1868124591404773412

Twitter is a data harvesting operation https://x.com/gnoticerx/status/1868353964292657285

[I don't think it's tactical nukes, but they sure ain't no ordinary bombs]
BREAKING Israel is using bunker busters, possibly tactical nuclear weapons on Syria ‘s Tartous coast. https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1868431973330653374

Just a reminder as to how things actually work. https://x.com/SamParkerSenate/status/1868432409974518137

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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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