Category: Blogs and Blessays
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This interview feels like we’re in a war without bullets
Allot to take in. And, whenever I listen to these interviews, to these guys from the CIA, the National Security State, etc – whenever I hear them talk truth I wonder, “and when did ‘you’ first realise you were working with Satin” But I do appreciate the truth tellers. Many of us are curious and…
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calm with a soupçon of warmth
meanwhile on Garda; calm with a soupçon of warmth
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Putin’s Rasputin and Pepe Escobar
Alexander Dugin has been called ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ and Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. This conversation is worth a listen as Pepe is perpetually traveling the globe, including Russia, Euroasia and the Middle East. He’s attending all the meetings, not the think tanks. Dugan’s ideological slant is obvious, but he’s also there…
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Re-visiting Joan Didion’s “Slouching towards Bethlehem”
As a teenager, growing up in Seattle, I wanted nothing more than to go to college in California. My mother supported everything, almost anything I wanted to go after – except for that. Reading Didion, I’m reminded precisely why. My mother’s San Fran, full of luncheons at the St. Francis Yacht Club and high tea…
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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Don’t know about you but I miss watching the world go by when nothing seemed to happen at all….halcyon days.
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writing about cultural realities; I agree
Scott Ritter just got back from another month spent in Russia exploring their cultural realities, exploring the Russian soul. And he thinks the value of the interview is that Putin helped create a map into the cultural realities of Russians, what makes them tick. For the first 30 minutes Putin covered the last 1,000 years…
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Maybe I’ve had too many Russians over for dinner…
I’ve had the French over for dinner. But then I was living in Paris so that made sense. Here’s a photo of Godot on the table after all the French guests had left. I gave a great luncheon on that day, as we used to say. And here’s a pre dinner shot in Paris, in…
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feeling february
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Farmer protest spreading across Europe, and the world.
French farmers have announced they will intensify their protests throughout Paris. They say the latest aid given to Ukraine is money taken away from them, along with other items on the globalist agenda. The people of France are turning up on the streets to support the famers; 89% support them. Scottish farmers joined the protest…
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Elon Musk is visiting Auschwitz today
When I was experiencing pathological grief I went to Auschwitz. Here’s a reading from my book, “A European Odyssey; how a boxer’s daughter found grace”