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🇺🇸🏢🇷🇴 U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal real estate company, Trump Organisation, is partnering SDC Properties SRL to build a Trump Tower skyscraper in Bucharest!

SDC Properties SRL is a Romanian real estate developer who has built previously in the city of Cluj-Napoca and nearby towns such as Florești.

The Trump Tower will have luxury residential apartments. No other details have been offered such as the location of the tower (old city, or opening date).

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The Gaggle Music Club: Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite, Op. 40.

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) was Norway’s most celebrated Romantic composer. Drawing on native folk melodies and dances, he merged them with European Romantic idioms (especially Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin).

Grieg was not a prolific composer of large-scale works. Instead, his gift lay in the miniature: lyric pieces, songs, chamber music and works with an intimate, poetic tone. However, Grieg could also do character and color, as shown in orchestral works such as the Peer Gynt suites.

Composed in 1884, the Holberg Suite was commissioned to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), a Danish-Norwegian playwright and satirist often called “the Molière of the North.”

Grieg decided to pay homage to the era of Holberg rather than to illustrate his life or works. The result is a Neoclassical suite, adopting the stylized forms and gestures of Baroque dance ...

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TG 1925: U.K. And France's Military Leaders Are Increasingly Unhinged

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the increasingly certifiable pronouncements of France and U.K.'s military leaders as they demand that Europe's peoples prepare for war with Russia.

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TG 1924: Trump Assassination Attempt--One Year On

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the assassination attempts on President Trump, and reflect on the strange circumstance that we know nothing more about the would-be assassins than we knew one year ago.

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The Gaggle Book Club: “The Trial of the Kaiser” By William A. Schabas

Each 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 of undoubted interest and intellectual importance.

Today's book club selection is William A. Schabas’s “The Trial of the Kaiser.” Published in 2018, Schabas's book recounts how, after World War I, the victorious Allies began seriously to plan putting Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial for responsibility for the Great War. This was envisaged by Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles, which declared

"The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties. A special tribunal will be constituted to try the accused, thereby assuring him the...

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TG 1591: U.N. General Assembly Prepares To Create Srebrenica Remembrance Day 2024

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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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