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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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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 1870: German Establishment Moves To Ban AfD

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the designation by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, of the Alternativ für Deutschland party as a "confirmed right-wing extremist group," and speculate as to where this action will take Europe's leading power.

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TG 1869: The Gaggle Talks To Hans Mahncke

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for a long conversation with legal and political analyst Hans Mahncke about the lawfare that has been unleashed against the Trump administration.

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

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, May 5, 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 runner-up of The Gaggle's "Vietnam in the movies" poll: the powerful 1978 masterpiece, "Go Tell the Spartans,"starring Burt Lancaster.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_go%2520tell%2520the%2520spartans
The film will starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.

See you at the movies.

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I will be voting NO.

It is my job to defend American’s rights to buy or boycott whomever they choose without the government harshly fining them or imprisoning them. https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1919072427931259148

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🇰🇵⚡- North Korea's outlet, KCNA, says the country is 'undergoing massive rearmament' by 'giving Russia' all the 'old equipment' and 'producing new ones' for its military.
Ahahaha man, oh, man, how does it feel to be the dumping ground of North Korean junk? Where is that piece of shit martyanon to tell us on his superior tone how Russia has won the arms race to military superiority? :))))

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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