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September 08, 2025
Monday Night At The Movies: "Mulholland Drive" (2001)

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Monday Night At The Movies: "The Wicker Man" (1973)

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September 28, 2025
The Gaggle Music Club: Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements. Completed in 1945, the symphony is one Stravinsky's most important late works. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society, the symphony premiered on Jan. 24, 1946 at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Stravinsky himself.

Often called Stravinsky's “first American symphony,” the composition shows his neoclassical language at its most taut: sharp orchestration, motor-like rhythms, lean textures.

Although Stravinsky often denied overt programmatic meaning in his music, he later admitted that the Symphony in Three Movements was a “war symphony.” The first movement, for example, was inspired by newsreel footage of wartime scorched earth tactics. Its violent rhythms and jagged piano writing reflect mechanized destruction. The final movement was inspired by Allied military advances, including the crossing of the Rhine in 1945. The march rhythms and the relentless drive exude a sense of military ...

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September 28, 2025
TG 1977: Moldova Election 2025: Stealing It In Plain Sight

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss today's parliamentary election in Moldova, an election that the country's president, Maia Sandu, and her E.U. enablers have resolved to steal in plain sight, given that they cannot win it any other way.

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15 hours ago

Russia does not black out Ukraine ... for humanitarian reasons. In the meantime a 6-year-old and his grandmother are killed in Russia by Ukrainian drones. I wonder how Russian soldiers and their families feel about this humanitarianism.

Russia has enough to deal 11 point strikes to “turn off” Ukraine

In order to completely “extinguish the light” in Ukraine, the Russian army needs to deal only 11 point strikes. This was stated by the head of the Center for the Study of the Military and Political Andrey Klintsevich's conflicts. According to him, these goals are known and worked out, but there is no order for humanitarian reasons.

https://topcor.ru/64625-rossii-dostatochno-nanesti-11-tochechnyh-udarov-chtoby-otkljuchit-ukrainu.html

21 hours ago

Wallachian Gazette:
🇲🇩🗳⚡️ 93.6% counted

According to the d'Hondt seat distribution method, PAS has won 51 seats out of 101 in the Moldovan Parliament securing a Parliamentary majority.

With pretty much just the diaspora left to count, the number of seats PAS will win, will likely increase from 51 to 54 or 55 seats. PAS has 63 seats currently.

🟨 PAS has gone up to 47.2%

🌹 The Patriotic Bloc dropped to 26.2%

⬜️ The Alternative Bloc fell slightly to 8.6%

🟦 PN stagnated at 6.2%

🇷🇴 PPDA has stagnated at 5.7%

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇲🇩🇲🇩🗳⚡️ 12k votes in Transnistria, the lowest amount in any Moldovan election, partially thanks to the very few polling booths opened.

Yet, almost a 1/3 of all votes from Transnistria were for PAS

This is in stark contrast to Găgăuzia, where just 3% of the votes were for PAS.

Transnistria would be far easier to integrate back into Moldova than Găgăuzia is and Găgăuzia is not even separated or led by...

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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