thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-20--Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Proves the Universality of the Human Family

HELP ENLIGHTEN YOUR FELLOWS .
BE SURE TO PASS THIS ON .
SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON IT .
§ The world 's biggest choir ( more than 10,000 ) interpreting Beethoven 's Ninth is in Osaka Japan .
§ Singing Ode to Joy has been a tradition since 1918 , when a choir of German/Austro-Hungarian prisoners in the POW camp Bando , in Japan , first performed it .
§ Many of the comments to the YT video capture the emotion that people feel across the globe : • `` Beethoven would 've cried some tears of joy after seeing this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how disparate cultures can enjoy and respect each others ' culture in a positive way . ''
• `` This is the best side of humanity . ''
Participation in the concert is regarded as a great honor in Japan Enthusiasm for Beethoven is particularly strong in Japan .
Every year in December , 10,000 choir singers gather in a concert hall in Osaka to sing `` Ode to Joy , '' the final chorus from Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony .
At the podium for the 20th time is conductor Yutaka Sado , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ van Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony is performed more often in Japan than in other country in the world .
The Japanese simply refer to Beethoven 's Ninth as `` Daiku '' — the `` Great . ''
Participation in the concert is highly sought-after : The singers have to pay the equivalent of 700 euros to sing `` Freude , schöner Götterfunken '' in German .
And there are far more than 10,000 applicants .
The enthusiasm for Beethoven 's most famous symphony goes back to the first performance of the work by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bando in 1918 .
There were 950 German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers interned there from April 1917 to December 1919 .
Conductor Yutaka Sado went to visit the camp before the concert .
The rehearsals and the performance of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony are told through the eyes of a young chorister : Chizuru Komatsu is participating in the event for the first time .
Would you like to sing the `` Ode to Joy '' from Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony together with 10,000 people ?
Listen and watch – your personal concert hall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Japan .
Every year in December , 10,000 choir singers gather in a concert hall in Osaka to sing `` Ode to Joy , '' the final chorus from Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony .
At the podium for the 20th time is conductor Yutaka Sado , a pupil of Leonard Bernstein .
Ludwig van Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony is performed more often in Japan than in other country in the world .
The Japanese simply refer to Beethoven 's Ninth as `` Daiku '' — the `` Great . ''
Participation in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ singers have to pay the equivalent of 700 euros to sing `` Freude , schöner Götterfunken '' in German .
And there are far more than 10,000 applicants .
The enthusiasm for Beethoven 's most famous symphony goes back to the first performance of the work by German soldiers in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp Bando in 1918 .
There were 950 German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers interned there from April 1917 to December 1919 .
Conductor Yutaka Sado went to visit the camp before the concert .
The rehearsals and the performance of Beethoven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eyes of a young chorister : Chizuru Komatsu is participating in the event for the first time .
Would you like to sing the `` Ode to Joy '' from Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony together with 10,000 people ?
Listen and watch – your personal concert hall : https : //www.youtube.com/playlist ?
list ... All great orchestras and choirs are works of human collective effort , expressing mutual solidarity and love through art .
Flash mob “ Beethoven ’ s Symphony No .
9 ” was performed at Omotesando Hills , Shibuya , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2016 Tokushima Prefecture is where Beethoven ’ s Symphony No .
9 was performed for the first time in Asia .
The flash mob orchestra is an event for publicizing the 100th anniversary of this first performance to be commemorated in 2018 .
Conductor : Keita Matsui Solo singers : Shoko Kumada , Naoko Fujii , Aigaku Kishinami , and Takahito Asai Performer : Tokushima Kin '' This famous hymnal theme to Symphony No .
9 finale has symbolized hope , unity and fellowship – across borders and through conflicts .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human race and a massive work that makes all who hear it feel better about life .
And yet , Beethoven himself never actually heard it . ''
Yes , the Japanese are simply peerless in their embrace of Beethoven 's masterpiece , and we are all indebted to them for their generous efforts .
See below other tributes by people from other parts of our world .
Terribly touching because of its locale—Nuremberg !
—and the way the old city is shown being used by its human and animal inhabitants , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a child who starts the musical dialog .
Für Zuversicht in schwierigen Zeiten .
Behalten Sie Ihren Mut !
For confidence in challenging times .
Keep your courage !
Per la fiducia nei momenti difficili .
Mantieni il tuo coraggio !
Por la confianza en tiempos difíciles .
¡Mantén tu coraje !
Pour la confiance dans les moments difficiles .
Gardez votre courage !
Для уверенности в тяжёлые времена .
сохраняете вы надежду !
Zor zamanlarda özgüven için .
Cesaretini koru !
And finally , here , the whole symphony— Watch the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ludwig van Beethoven 's Symphony No .
9 in Oslo Concert Hall on 4th January 2019 .
Soloists : Lauren Fagan , soprano Hanna Hipp , mezzo soprano Tuomas Katajala , tenor Shenyang , bass-baritone Oslo Philharmonic Choir ( conductor : Øystein Fevang )

HELP ENLIGHTEN YOUR FELLOWS. BE SURE TO PASS THIS ON. SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON IT.
§ The world's biggest choir (more than 10,000) interpreting Beethoven's Ninth is in Osaka Japan.
§ Singing Ode to Joy has been a tradition since 1918, when a choir of German/Austro-Hungarian prisoners in the POW camp Bando, in Japan, first performed it.
§ Japan reveres Beethoven.
§ Many of the comments to the YT video capture the emotion that people feel across the globe:
• "Beethoven would've cried some tears of joy after seeing this..."
• "...this shows how disparate cultures can enjoy and respect each others' culture in a positive way."
• "This is the best side of humanity."
Prelude to the Concert: the people arrive
Participation in the concert is regarded as a great honor in Japan
Ode to Joy: 10,000 Japanese sing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Enthusiasm for Beethoven is particularly strong in Japan. Every year in December, 10,000 choir singers gather in a concert hall in Osaka to sing "Ode to Joy," the final chorus from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. At the podium for the 20th time is conductor Yutaka Sado, a pupil of Leonard Bernstein. Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is performed more often in Japan than in other country in the world. The Japanese simply refer to Beethoven's Ninth as "Daiku" — the "Great." Participation in the concert is highly sought-after: The singers have to pay the equivalent of 700 euros to sing "Freude, schöner Götterfunken" in German. And there are far more than 10,000 applicants. The enthusiasm for Beethoven's most famous symphony goes back to the first performance of the work by German soldiers in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp Bando in 1918. There were 950 German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers interned there from April 1917 to December 1919. Conductor Yutaka Sado went to visit the camp before the concert. The rehearsals and the performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are told through the eyes of a young chorister: Chizuru Komatsu is participating in the event for the first time. Would you like to sing the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony together with 10,000 people? Listen and watch – your personal concert hall: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
All great orchestras and choirs are works of human collective effort, expressing mutual solidarity and love through art.
An unusual rendition—in a Mall, near Tokyo
Flash mob “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9” Flash mob “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9” was performed at Omotesando Hills, Shibuya, Tokyo, on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Tokushima Prefecture is where Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was performed for the first time in Asia. The flash mob orchestra is an event for publicizing the 100th anniversary of this first performance to be commemorated in 2018. Conductor: Keita Matsui Solo singers: Shoko Kumada, Naoko Fujii, Aigaku Kishinami, and Takahito Asai Performer: Tokushima Kin
"This famous hymnal theme to Symphony No. 9 finale has symbolized hope, unity and fellowship – across borders and through conflicts. It is a masterful musical celebration of the human race and a massive work that makes all who hear it feel better about life. And yet, Beethoven himself never actually heard it."
Yes, the Japanese are simply peerless in their embrace of Beethoven's masterpiece, and we are all indebted to them for their generous efforts. See below other tributes by people from other parts of our world.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-22--Clash of civilizations, revisited

Clash of civilizations, revisited

It ’ s unlikely that Sultan Mehmet would be sparing a thought for Emperor Justinian , the last of quite a breed : a true Roman Emperor in the throne of Byzantium , a speaker of “ barbarous ” Greek ( he was born in Macedonia ) but with a Latin mind .
Much like Sultan Mehmet , Justinian was quite the geopolitician .
Byzantium trade was geared towards Cathay and the Indies : silk , spices , precious stones .
Yet Persia controlled all the caravan routes on the Ancient Silk Road .
The sea route was also a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the Persian Gulf .
So Justinian had to bypass Persia .
He came up with a two-pronged strategy : a new northern route via Crimea and the Caucasus , and a new southern route via the Red Sea , bypassing the Persian Gulf .
The first was a relative success ; the second a mess .
But Justinian finally got his break when a bunch of Orthodox monks offered him to bring back from Asia some precious few silkworm eggs .
Soon there were factories not only in Constantinople but in Antioch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silk industry – a state monopoly , of course – was up and running .
A fantastic mosaic in Ravenna from the year 546 depicts a Justinian much younger than 64 , his age at the time .
He was a prodigy of energy – and embellished Constantinople non-stop .
The apex was the Church of St. Sophia – the largest building in the world for centuries .
So here we have Sultan Mehmet silently proceeding with his slow ride all the way to the central bronze doors of St Sophia .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dust and in a gesture of humility , sprinkles it over his turban .
Then he enters the Great Church .
He walks towards the altar .
A barely perceptible command leads his top imam to escalate the pulpit and proclaim in the name of Allah , the All Merciful and Compassionate , there is no God but God and Muhammad is his Prophet .
The Sultan then touches the ground with his turbaned head – in a silent prayer .
St Sophia was now a mosque .
Sultan Mehmet leaves the mosque @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Palace of the Emperors , in ruins , founded by Constantine The Great 11 and ½ centuries before .
He slowly wanders the ancient halls , his fine velvet slippers brushing the dust from the fabulous pebbled floor mosaics .
Then he murmurs two verses of a Persian poet : “ As the spider weaves the curtain over the palace of the Roman Caesars The owl sings the time of the house of Afrasiab ” The Byzantine empire , founded by Constantine The Great on Monday , May 11 , 330 , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1453 .
Sultan Mehmet is now the Lord of Constantinople and the Lord of the Ottoman Empire .
He ’ s only 21 years old .
Last week , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-christened Hagia Sophia from a museum back into a mosque .
He may have done it because his popularity is waning ; his proxy wars are a disaster ; his AKP party is shattered ; and the economy is bleeding badly .
But what ’ s striking is that right at the beginning of his official televised speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Persian poet murmured by Sultan Mehmet in that fateful afternoon in 1453 .
Erdogan ’ s latest move – which is part of his perennial master plan to claim leadership of global Islam over the decrepit House of Saud – was widely interpreted in myriad latitudes as yet another instance of clash of civilizations : not only Orthodox Christianity vs. Islam but once again East vs. West .
That reminded me of another East vs. West recent derivation : a revival of the Settembrini vs. Naphta debate in Thomas Mann ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Dutch think tank , the Nexus Institute , which aims to “ keep the spirit of European humanism alive ” .
The debate pitted Aleksander Dugin against Bernard-Henri Levy ( widely known in France as BHL ) .
The full transcript of the debate is here .
Dugin is a leading Eurasianist and the conceptualizer of the – largely banned in the West – Fourth Political Theory .
As a philosopher and political theorist , Dugin is cartoonishly demonized across the West as “ Putin ’ s brain ” , a closet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the world ” .
BHL , hailed as “ one of the West ’ s leading intellectuals ” , is a vain poseur who emerged as a “ nouveau philosophe ” in the mid-1970s and ritually regurgitates the usual Atlanticist mantras enveloped in flowery quotes .
He managed , among other feats , to write a book about Pakistan without knowing anything whatsoever about Pakistan , as I thrashed it on Asia Times back in 2002 .
Here are a few interesting talking points throughout the debate .
Dugin stresses the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He asks BHL , directly , how , “ interestingly , in your book , you define the American empire or the global liberal system as a system of nihilism , based on nothing.
” Dugin does define himself as a nihilist “ in the sense that I refuse the universality of modern Western values ( … ) I just challenge that the only way to interpret democracy is as the rule of minorities against the majority , that the only way to interpret freedom is as individual freedom , and that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by projecting a modern , Western , individualistic version of what it means to be human on other cultures.
” BHL , which seems not to have read his own , dreary , book – this is something Dugin told me in person last year in Beirut , after the debate – prefers to resort to proverbial , infantile Putin bashing , picked up over and over again , stressing “ there is a bad , dark wind of nihilism in its proper sense , which is a Nazi and a fascist sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia.
” Later on in the debate , BHL adds , “ I really believe that there is a link between , on the one side , your and Huntington ’ s way of thinking ; and , on the other side , the occupation of Crimea , the 30,000 deaths in Ukraine and the war in Syria with its bloodbath , tragic and horrible.
” ( Talk of Olympian hypocrisy !
. )
On racism , Dugin is adamant : he does not defend it .
For him , “ Racism is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hierarchy between peoples .
I think this is criminal.
” Then he defines “ a new Manichean division , a new racism .
Those who are in favor of Western values , they are good .
Everybody who challenges that , in the Islamic tradition , in the Russian tradition , in the Chinese tradition , in the Indian tradition , everywhere , they are populists , and they are classified as fascism .
I think that is a new kind of racism.
” BHL prefers to concentrate on “ the civilization of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and so on .
This deserves to be universalized .
This should be conceived , except if you are a racist , as profitable for the entire humanity.
” And then it ’ s Anti-Semitism all over again : “ All the men who you quoted and from whom you draw your inspiration – Spengler , Heidegger , who is also a great philosopher of course , and others – are contaminated , corrupted , infected by this plague which is antisemitism .
And alas – you too.
” In Paris circles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing BHL cares about is the promotion of BHL .
And everyone who does not agree with one of the “ leading Western intellectuals ” is Anti-Semitic .
BHL insists he ’ s interested in building bridges .
But it ’ s Dugin who frames the real heart of the matter : “ When we try to build bridges too early , without knowing the structure of the Other – the problem is the Other .
The West doesn ’ t understand the Other as something positive .
It is all the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bridges – they are illusions , and not bridges , because we are projecting ourselves .
The Other is the same , the ideology of the same .
We first need to understand otherness.
” BHL totally ignores Levi-Strauss .
It ’ s Dugin who refers to Levi-Strauss when talking about The Other , describing him as one of his teachers : “ This anthropological pluralism , I agree , is precisely the American and French tradition .
But it is not reflected in politics , or it is reflected in a very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a big contradiction between this anthropological thought in American universities and French universities , and a kind of very aggressive colonial neo-imperialist form to promote American interests on the world scale with weapons.
” BHL is left with – what else – Putin demonization : “ The real imperialism , the real one who is interfering and sowing disorder and interfering in the affairs of others , alas , is Putin .
And I need not speak of America , where it is now proved that there has been a huge , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the electoral process of the last election.
” BHL , who does not even qualify as a neophyte in geopolitics , is oblivious to the absolute debunking of Russiagate .
BHL is adamant “ there is today a real clash of civilizations .
But not the one you mention in your books , between the north and the east and the west and the south and all of that ; there is a clash of civilizations all over the planet between those who believe in human rights , in liberty , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tortured and martyred , and those who are happy with illiberalism and the revival of authoritarianism and slavery.
” Dugin ’ s challenge for years has been to try to conceptualize what may come next , after the failure of Marxism ( sic ) , fascism and liberal democracy .
As much as he thinks Eurasian , he ’ s inclusive – incorporating “ Euro ” with “ Asia ” .
BHL for his part simplistically reduces every “ evil ” to “ illiberalism ” , where Russia , China , Iran and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the same dustbin alongside the vacuous and actually murderous House of Saud .
Now let ’ s attempt a light-hearted ending to our mini-triptych on the clash of civilizations .
Inevitably , that has to do with the ongoing US-China Hybrid War .
Around two years ago , the following dialogue was a smash hit on Chinese Weibo .
The Great Helmsman Mao Zedong – or his ghost – was back in town , and he wanted to know about everything that was goin ’ on .
Call it a – revisionist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of civilizations .
Mao : “ Can the people eat their fill ?
” Answer : “ There ’ s so much to eat they ’ re dieting.
” Mao : “ Are there still any capitalists ?
” Answer : “ They ’ re all doing business overseas now !
” Mao : “ Do we produce more steel than England ?
” Answer : “ Tangshan alone produces more than America.
” Mao : “ Did we beat social imperialism ( as in the former USSR ) ?
” Answer : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mao : “ Did we smash imperialism ?
” Answer : “ We ’ re the imperialists now !
” Mao : “ And what about my Cultural Revolution ?
” Answer : “ It ’ s in America now !
”

L
ate afternoon in May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet (Mehmed II), the third son of Murad, born of a slave-girl – probably Christian – in the harem, fluent in Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Persian and Hebrew, followed by his top ministers, his imams and his bodyguard of Janissaries, rides slowly towards the Great Church of St Sophia in Constantinople.
It’s unlikely that Sultan Mehmet would be sparing a thought for Emperor Justinian, the last of quite a breed: a true Roman Emperor in the throne of Byzantium, a speaker of “barbarous” Greek (he was born in Macedonia) but with a Latin mind.
Much like Sultan Mehmet, Justinian was quite the geopolitician. Byzantium trade was geared towards Cathay and the Indies: silk, spices, precious stones. Yet Persia controlled all the caravan routes on the Ancient Silk Road. The sea route was also a problem; all cargo had to depart from the Persian Gulf.
So Justinian had to bypass Persia.
He came up with a two-pronged strategy: a new northern route via Crimea and the Caucasus, and a new southern route via the Red Sea, bypassing the Persian Gulf.
The first was a relative success; the second a mess. But Justinian finally got his break when a bunch of Orthodox monks offered him to bring back from Asia some precious few silkworm eggs. Soon there were factories not only in Constantinople but in Antioch, Tyre and Beirut. The imperial silk industry – a state monopoly, of course – was up and running.
A fantastic mosaic in Ravenna from the year 546 depicts a Justinian much younger than 64, his age at the time. He was a prodigy of energy – and embellished Constantinople non-stop. The apex was the Church of St. Sophia – the largest building in the world for centuries.
So here we have Sultan Mehmet silently proceeding with his slow ride all the way to the central bronze doors of St Sophia.
He dismounts and picks up a handful of dust and in a gesture of humility, sprinkles it over his turban.
Then he enters the Great Church. He walks towards the altar.
A barely perceptible command leads his top imam to escalate the pulpit and proclaim in the name of Allah, the All Merciful and Compassionate, there is no God but God and Muhammad is his Prophet.
The Sultan then touches the ground with his turbaned head – in a silent prayer. St Sophia was now a mosque.
Sultan Mehmet leaves the mosque and crosses the square to the old Palace of the Emperors, in ruins, founded by Constantine The Great 11 and ½ centuries before. He slowly wanders the ancient halls, his fine velvet slippers brushing the dust from the fabulous pebbled floor mosaics.
Then he murmurs two verses of a Persian poet:
“As the spider weaves the curtain over the palace of the Roman Caesars
The owl sings the time of the house of Afrasiab”
The Byzantine empire, founded by Constantine The Great on Monday, May 11, 330, was over on a Tuesday, May 29, 1453.
Sultan Mehmet is now the Lord of Constantinople and the Lord of the Ottoman Empire. He’s only 21 years old.
Back to the Magic Mountain
Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-christened Hagia Sophia from a museum back into a mosque. He may have done it because his popularity is waning; his proxy wars are a disaster; his AKP party is shattered; and the economy is bleeding badly.
But what’s striking is that right at the beginning of his official televised speech, Erdogan quoted exactly the same verses by the Persian poet murmured by Sultan Mehmet in that fateful afternoon in 1453.
Erdogan’s latest move – which is part of his perennial master plan to claim leadership of global Islam over the decrepit House of Saud – was widely interpreted in myriad latitudes as yet another instance of clash of civilizations: not only Orthodox Christianity vs. Islam but once again East vs. West.
That reminded me of another East vs. West recent derivation: a revival of the Settembrini vs. Naphta debate in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, promoted by a Dutch think tank, the Nexus Institute, which aims to “keep the spirit of European humanism alive”. The debate pitted Aleksander Dugin against Bernard-Henri Levy (widely known in France as BHL). The full transcript of the debate is here.
Dugin is a leading Eurasianist and the conceptualizer of the – largely banned in the West – Fourth Political Theory. As a philosopher and political theorist, Dugin is cartoonishly demonized across the West as “Putin’s brain”, a closet fascist and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world”.
BHL, hailed as “one of the West’s leading intellectuals”, is a vain poseur who emerged as a “nouveau philosophe” in the mid-1970s and ritually regurgitates the usual Atlanticist mantras enveloped in flowery quotes. He managed, among other feats, to write a book about Pakistan without knowing anything whatsoever about Pakistan, as I thrashed it on Asia Times back in 2002.
Here are a few interesting talking points throughout the debate.
Dugin stresses the end of Western hegemony and global liberalism. He asks BHL, directly, how, “interestingly, in your book, you define the American empire or the global liberal system as a system of nihilism, based on nothing.” Dugin does define himself as a nihilist “in the sense that I refuse the universality of modern Western values (…) I just challenge that the only way to interpret democracy is as the rule of minorities against the majority, that the only way to interpret freedom is as individual freedom, and that the only way to interpret human rights is by projecting a modern, Western, individualistic version of what it means to be human on other cultures.”
BHL, which seems not to have read his own, dreary, book – this is something Dugin told me in person last year in Beirut, after the debate – prefers to resort to proverbial, infantile Putin bashing, picked up over and over again, stressing “there is a bad, dark wind of nihilism in its proper sense, which is a Nazi and a fascist sense, which is blowing in the great Russia.”
Later on in the debate, BHL adds, “I really believe that there is a link between, on the one side, your and Huntington’s way of thinking; and, on the other side, the occupation of Crimea, the 30,000 deaths in Ukraine and the war in Syria with its bloodbath, tragic and horrible.” (Talk of Olympian hypocrisy!.)
On racism, Dugin is adamant: he does not defend it. For him, “Racism is an Anglo-Saxon liberal construction based on a hierarchy between peoples. I think this is criminal.” Then he defines “a new Manichean division, a new racism. Those who are in favor of Western values, they are good. Everybody who challenges that, in the Islamic tradition, in the Russian tradition, in the Chinese tradition, in the Indian tradition, everywhere, they are populists, and they are classified as fascism. I think that is a new kind of racism.”
BHL prefers to concentrate on “the civilization of human rights, freedom, individual dignity, and so on. This deserves to be universalized. This should be conceived, except if you are a racist, as profitable for the entire humanity.” And then it’s Anti-Semitism all over again: “All the men who you quoted and from whom you draw your inspiration – Spengler, Heidegger, who is also a great philosopher of course, and others – are contaminated, corrupted, infected by this plague which is antisemitism. And alas – you too.”
In Paris circles, the joke is that the only thing BHL cares about is the promotion of BHL. And everyone who does not agree with one of the “leading Western intellectuals” is Anti-Semitic.
BHL insists he’s interested in building bridges. But it’s Dugin who frames the real heart of the matter: “When we try to build bridges too early, without knowing the structure of the Other – the problem is the Other. The West doesn’t understand the Other as something positive. It is all the same, and we immediately try to find bridges – they are illusions, and not bridges, because we are projecting ourselves. The Other is the same, the ideology of the same. We first need to understand otherness.”
BHL totally ignores Levi-Strauss. It’s Dugin who refers to Levi-Strauss when talking about The Other, describing him as one of his teachers:
“This anthropological pluralism, I agree, is precisely the American and French tradition. But it is not reflected in politics, or it is reflected in a very perverted way. So I think there is a big contradiction between this anthropological thought in American universities and French universities, and a kind of very aggressive colonial neo-imperialist form to promote American interests on the world scale with weapons.”
BHL is left with – what else – Putin demonization: “The real imperialism, the real one who is interfering and sowing disorder and interfering in the affairs of others, alas, is Putin. And I need not speak of America, where it is now proved that there has been a huge, crude, and evident Russian intervention in the electoral process of the last election.” BHL, who does not even qualify as a neophyte in geopolitics, is oblivious to the absolute debunking of Russiagate.
BHL is adamant “there is today a real clash of civilizations. But not the one you mention in your books, between the north and the east and the west and the south and all of that; there is a clash of civilizations all over the planet between those who believe in human rights, in liberty, in the right for a body not to be tortured and martyred, and those who are happy with illiberalism and the revival of authoritarianism and slavery.”
Dugin’s challenge for years has been to try to conceptualize what may come next, after the failure of Marxism (sic), fascism and liberal democracy. As much as he thinks Eurasian, he’s inclusive – incorporating “Euro” with “Asia”. BHL for his part simplistically reduces every “evil” to “illiberalism”, where Russia, China, Iran and Turkey – no nuances – are thrown in the same dustbin alongside the vacuous and actually murderous House of Saud.
Mao returns
Now let’s attempt a light-hearted ending to our mini-triptych on the clash of civilizations. Inevitably, that has to do with the ongoing US-China Hybrid War.
Around two years ago, the following dialogue was a smash hit on Chinese Weibo. The Great Helmsman Mao Zedong – or his ghost – was back in town, and he wanted to know about everything that was goin’ on. Call it a – revisionist? – realpolitik version of the clash of civilizations.
Mao: “Can the people eat their fill?”
Answer: “There’s so much to eat they’re dieting.”
Mao: “Are there still any capitalists?”
Answer: “They’re all doing business overseas now!”
Mao: “Do we produce more steel than England?”
Answer: “Tangshan alone produces more than America.”
Mao: “Did we beat social imperialism (as in the former USSR)?”
Answer: “They dissolved it themselves!”
Mao: “Did we smash imperialism?”
Answer: “We’re the imperialists now!”
Mao: “And what about my Cultural Revolution?”
Answer: “It’s in America now!”


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-21--Israeli strikes in Syria: Iran reveals extent of losses & warns Tel Aviv

Brigadier Shikarji added that only 8 Iranian advisers have found martyrdom under Israeli strikes during the 9 years of their legal presence in Syria , while stressing that Iranian forces have retaliated to Zionist attacks : he pointed out that when an Iranian adviser found martyrdom under Zionist fire 6 years ago , the Resistance retaliated by killing 5 Zionist soldiers in Palestine .
See Nasrallah : Syria triumphs , Israel is waging an imaginary war Brigadier Shikarji added that when the Zionists targeted the T-4 base in Syria , the Resistance responded by targeting their bases in the Golan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the Zionists have used the media in psychological warfare to present themselves under an apperance of strength in Syria , he warned them not to continue their lies about targeting Iranian sites in Syria and said : “ If the Zionists continue their criminal behavior , we will make it clear that Iran has the upper hand.
” See Nasrallah : Syrian response shook Israel and shattered its prestige Brigadier Shikarji revealed the names of Iranian martyrs in Syria killed by Zionist attacks : He pointed out that the Zionist media empire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for some time been trying to paint a fictitious and misleading picture of the capabilities of the occupying Zionist entity , child murderer and enemy of humanity , resorting to psychological warfare to spread lies and slander , suggesting falsely that Israel killed hundreds if not thousands of Iranians in Syria .
See Syria imposes new confrontation rules on Israel Brigadier Shikarji stressed that the Zionist entity knows very well that when it targeted the car of the martyr Muhammad Ali Allah Dadi on January 18 , 2015 in the Syrian region of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directly crossed the Palestinian borders and destroyed 3 vehicles of Zionist forces , killing 5 of their soldiers and wounding others .
He also recalled the response of the Resistance forces to the Zionist attacks , noting that in response to the martyrdom of 7 Iranian defenders by Zionist strikes of the T-4 base on April 9 , 2018 , the Resistance forces bombed Zionist military positions in the Golan Heights with 50 missiles , killing and wounding large numbers of Zionist soldiers .

Iran warns Zionists to stop lying
Source: Al-Alam, July 17, 2020 • Translation: resistancenews.org
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ranian Armed Forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Abu Al-Fadl Shukarji has warned Zionists against continuing their lies about targeting Iranian sites in Syria.
Brigadier Shikarji added that only 8 Iranian advisers have found martyrdom under Israeli strikes during the 9 years of their legal presence in Syria, while stressing that Iranian forces have retaliated to Zionist attacks: he pointed out that when an Iranian adviser found martyrdom under Zionist fire 6 years ago, the Resistance retaliated by killing 5 Zionist soldiers in Palestine.
See Nasrallah: Syria triumphs, Israel is waging an imaginary war
Brigadier Shikarji added that when the Zionists targeted the T-4 base in Syria, the Resistance responded by targeting their bases in the Golan with 50 missiles and shells.
Claiming that the Zionists have used the media in psychological warfare to present themselves under an apperance of strength in Syria, he warned them not to continue their lies about targeting Iranian sites in Syria and said: “If the Zionists continue their criminal behavior, we will make it clear that Iran has the upper hand.”
See Nasrallah: Syrian response shook Israel and shattered its prestige
Brigadier Shikarji revealed the names of Iranian martyrs in Syria killed by Zionist attacks:
1 – Martyr HujjatAllah Nujmani
2 – Martyr Mortadha Basiri Bour
3 – Martyr Muhammad Mahdi Lutfi Nyaser
4 – Martyr Ammar Mousawi
5 – Martyr Akbar Zouwar Jannati.
6 – Martyr Muhammad Ali Allah Dadi
7 – Martyr Hamid Rezai
8 – Martyr Mahdi Dahqan Yazdali
He pointed out that the Zionist media empire and its mouthpieces in the region have for some time been trying to paint a fictitious and misleading picture of the capabilities of the occupying Zionist entity, child murderer and enemy of humanity, resorting to psychological warfare to spread lies and slander, suggesting falsely that Israel killed hundreds if not thousands of Iranians in Syria.
See Syria imposes new confrontation rules on Israel
Brigadier Shikarji stressed that the Zionist entity knows very well that when it targeted the car of the martyr Muhammad Ali Allah Dadi on January 18, 2015 in the Syrian region of Quneitra, the Lebanese guerrillas of Hezbollah directly crossed the Palestinian borders and destroyed 3 vehicles of Zionist forces, killing 5 of their soldiers and wounding others.
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He also recalled the response of the Resistance forces to the Zionist attacks, noting that in response to the martyrdom of 7 Iranian defenders by Zionist strikes of the T-4 base on April 9, 2018, the Resistance forces bombed Zionist military positions in the Golan Heights with 50 missiles, killing and wounding large numbers of Zionist soldiers.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-21--Naive Millennials: it’s the man (Trump) & not ‘The Man’ (the US system)

Firstly : who is “ The Man ” ?
“ The Man ” was a term which was so ubiquitous in the US until the 1980s that I find it hard to believe that anyone reading this doesn ’ t know what I ’ m talking about – such a person would have to be quite young and rather unusually culturally illiterate .
So I turn to a youth-oriented website – UrbanDictionary.com , where one can find the meaning of any slang word : 1. n. ( derogatory , semi-proper ) Term used to describe any class of people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
See also whitey , big brother , corporate America , the establishment ( Please note , these synonyms are used as examples of groups who have been called “ The Man , ” and should not be construed as a racist attack ) .
It is definitely not a racist term but entirely a class term : 1970s Blaxploitation movies were filled with Black-to-Black admonishments not to join “ The Man ” in his nefarious schemes of exploitation against all colors ( excepting green ) .
In many ways it was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % ” – you were either for against “ The Man ” just like today you are either against the “ 1 % ” or aspire to join them .
It ’ s not like The Man was ever routed , but what ever happened to “ The Man ” … ?
Algeria has “ le pouvoir ” ( the power ) and Turkey has derin devlet ( deep state ) but in America “ The Man ” has lost its power , which only proves how much stronger “ The Man ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was 40 years ago .
Hey – I ’ m still using it and am against “ The Man ” .
Don ’ t let Him get you down .
Unfortunately the total uniqueness of the Trump phenomenon in American history has allowed the Mainstream Media to focus entirely on the man ( Trump ) instead of “ The Man ” even though any intelligent reading of recent history leaves no doubt : Trump is in office because half the country was fed up with “ The Man ” , i.e .
the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few young voters in 2016 supported Trump – they simply could not see that he was the “ protest vote ” against a corrupt and aristocrat-protecting system .
The reason for that is because their youth necessarily makes them inexperienced regarding “ The Man ” , and also because they are so very , very indoctrinated : they believe in the US system because that is what has been forced down their throat since birth ; what has been reinforced by a global media dominated by the US , which never broadcasts its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what has been reinforced by a post 9/11 jingoism unseen since WWII .
Pull the sheet off Biden and you ’ ll find an establishment creation down to the whiteness of his human bones .
He ’ s “ The Man ” all right – will America ’ s youth get hip by November ?
The youth class has to overcome all of those obstacles to see Trump ’ s “ virtues ” … and then they also have every right to dismiss Trump anyway because he has been such a letdown ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political ideology at all ) .
But , despite his failures , how hard is it for a 20-year old to realise that Trump is not at all “ The Man ” ?
Trump pulled out of NAFTA , still talks about leaving NATO , wanted detente with Putin-led Russia – these anti-free trade and anti-war stances are exactly why “ The Man ” has done everything to demolish Trump and to smother support for such “ anti-The Man ” stances .
Trump may be the US president , but bringing these totally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mainstream make him not really “ The Man ” , and I ’ m sure the older US class will agree with me .
And yet many young people , who are just a few years from the correct test answer being “ the Protestant work ethic ” , “ Manifest Destiny ” , “ to end the war with Japan ” , etc.
, foolishly believe that the Western liberal democratic system is good , just , egalitarian and functioning at a high level .
They fear that Trump is threatening all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voted Trump expressly to stick it to “ The Man ” for His failures , lies and unpatriotic betrayals .
Compare the US youth class with their French peers : in 2017 20 % of the country voted for a candidate ( Jean-Luc Melenchon ) whose campaign rested upon abolishing the 5th Republic – a good chunk of France clearly realises that Western liberal democracy ( whose socio-intellectual-economic progress remains permanently frozen in 1916 ) is totally outdated and rigged in favour of the aristocratic/privileged class .
If just 1.72 % more of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the idea of a new , modern 6th Republic then Melenchon would have faced Emmanuel Macron in the 2nd round instead of Marine Le Pen and France might not be the cynical , resentful , Yellow Vest mess it is today .
So France may have fallen short , but do 20 % of US voters un-believe enough in the 18th-century US system to vote for a 2nd US Republic ?
Not hardly… .
such a program would likely lead to jail for its proponents , certainly government surveillance and intimidation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Man ” is still stronger than omnipresent , if not ever-more omnipotent , in the US , and this certainly pre-dates Trump .
Of course , to the US MSM all the problems in the US today are attributable to Trump – a naive US youth class often swallows that stinking tripe whole .
“ The Man ” has turned the threat into the scapegoat .
You have to admit : He is good at what he does… .
Biden is ‘ Da Man ” to save us all from ‘ The Man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At some point in the 1980s being called “ The Man ” become “ ( you ) Da Man ” , and being “ Da Man ” meant you were exceptional and superlative .
But how on earth can “ Corporate ” Joe Biden ever be “ Da Man ” ?
At best he is – essentially by his own admission – a placeholder , and at worst he is a senile train wreck which will force the Democratic Party to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of certain victory .
Corporate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Man ” infinitely more than Trump is .
Trump is a lowlife slum lord with cubic zirconia plating and a trophy wife , whereas Biden has the scope and reach to gut the resources of Third World nations populated by scores of millions of people just to give his son a phony job .
A vote for Biden is a vote for the establishment , and that is so obvious that anyone who disagrees can only disagree by changing the subject away from the problems caused by “ the establishment ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Here ’ s a rare barometer : one of the Secret Service agents who took a bullet for Ronald Reagan in 1981 just retired , and it got me wondering – who on earth would take a bullet to save Joe Biden ?
Absolutely nobody outside of the Secret Service – any common citizen would hesitate , due to Biden ’ s “ The Man ” -ness , and that ’ s all the time a bullet needs .
Contrarily , some Americans would – I imagine – actually take a bullet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seem to many .
I know a ton of people will take a bullet for Khamenei , Ahmadinejad and Rouhani , and we can ’ t just chalk that up to religion – China ’ s Xi and Cuba ’ s Diaz-Canel are two guys who worked their way up the civil service ranks via their ability and character , gaining more and more faithful comrades along the way , and for sure the only people who think they are in league with “ The Man ” live in Hong Kong or Miami @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new , but it finally got taken seriously last week – may I please suggest reading my books on China and Iran to discover the basis of this match , and for discussion of the 25-year plan ?
And yet the youth class bats their big eyes at Biden , pleads about the need to get out the vote , and dutifully repeats that Biden is the second Messiah to save us all from the anti-Christ… no way that they actually believe it , but they say it .
In my opinion the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the establishment as a problem only in how they throw up road blocks against Blacks , non-heterosexuals and other minorities even though “ The Man ” is not all White .
Didn ’ t Obama prove that emphatically ?
( With that crowd it ’ s , “ To hell with poor Whites ” , I guess .
“ How dare they be just White in 2020 ?
!
” A very progressive and egalitarian crowd , indeed… . )
Bernie Sanders is , despite everyone ’ s wishes to the contrary , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repeatedly does whatever the Democratic Party establishment wants no matter how bad it is for the average person .
Bernie is no socialist – it can ’ t be said enough because he keeps lying about it – but what a very , very different July 2020 it would be if the US had him to look forward to in November instead of Biden ?
“ The Man ” won yet again there… .
Undoubtedly Hillary Clinton was more “ The Man ” than either Biden or Obama , proving that “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ race or gender but , again , class .
( What do you want : “ The Person ” ?
That sounds totally unhip and would never catch on as slang – “ The Person ” would be totally ineffective class warfare propaganda . )
Politics without “ class ” – “ The Man ” certainly did pull a fast one in the West there… thank God the whole world is not “ the West ” , even though many Westerners assume that it is .
The obfuscation of the class struggle makes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ member even though it ’ s not 1916 anymore , even though the KKK is powerless , and even though the KKK is not the group which has caused the government/bankocracy to abandon Black neighborhoods via disinvestment .
It ’ s absurd beyond belief , outdated , economically-neutered , not even close to the biggest problem facing all citizens in July 2020 , and also on the brink of failure : it depends on if Biden ’ s dementia hasn ’ t grown during the Great Lockdown ’ s isolation , as it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sadly .
To get that answer we ’ ll have to wait until the debates – it ’ s a pretty bad system when the assumed future president can be hidden away for so long… .
The failure to properly locate “ The Man ” isn ’ t confined to the youth class of the US , of course – but they are the only age group which has a decent excuse ( inexperience and poor guides ) for such a mistake .
I ’ m humbly hoping to show them an alternative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Derangement Syndrome sufferers of the older age groups .
Those people are long gone , sadly – many of them are “ The Man ” and they don ’ t even know it .
Pull the sheet off Biden and you ’ ll find an establishment creation down to the whiteness of his human bones .
He ’ s “ The Man ” all right – will America ’ s youth get hip by November ?
Of course , given Trump ’ s failure to deliver – where is hip ?
Corona contrarianism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Here is my list of articles published regarding the corona crisis .
Check the archive below , click on orange button .
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for PressTV and has lived in France since 2009 .
He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US , and has reported from Iran , Cuba , Egypt , Tunisia , South Korea and elsewhere .
He is the author of the books ‘ Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for PressTV and has lived in France since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newspaper reporter in the US , and has reported from Iran , Cuba , Egypt , Tunisia , South Korea and elsewhere .
He is the author of the books ‘ I ’ ll Ruin Everything You Are : Ending Western Propaganda on Red China ’ and the NEW ‘ Socialism ’ s Ignored Success : Iranian Islamic Socialism ’ .

This is part of a series of dispatches by correspondent Ramin Mazaheri
How many years, or decades, does it take to unlearn national propaganda? In any country it’s not easy because it starts in the cradle, or at least at preschool. Despite the false claims of moral relativists, not all national worldviews are equal – some propaganda is good and furthers modern ideas, while some are as repugnant as yesterday’s bathwater.
Firstly: who is “The Man”? “The Man” was a term which was so ubiquitous in the US until the 1980s that I find it hard to believe that anyone reading this doesn’t know what I’m talking about – such a person would have to be quite young and rather unusually culturally illiterate.
So I turn to a youth-oriented website – UrbanDictionary.com, where one can find the meaning of any slang word: 1. n. (derogatory, semi-proper) Term used to describe any class of people who wield power and are seen as oppressive. See also whitey, big brother, corporate America, the establishment (Please note, these synonyms are used as examples of groups who have been called “The Man,” and should not be construed as a racist attack).
It is definitely not a racist term but entirely a class term: 1970s Blaxploitation movies were filled with Black-to-Black admonishments not to join “The Man” in his nefarious schemes of exploitation against all colors (excepting green). In many ways it was the equivalent of today’s “1%” – you were either for against “The Man” just like today you are either against the “1%” or aspire to join them.
It’s not like The Man was ever routed, but what ever happened to “The Man”…? Algeria has “le pouvoir” (the power) and Turkey has derin devlet (deep state) but in America “The Man” has lost its power, which only proves how much stronger “The Man” is today in the US than He was 40 years ago.
Hey – I’m still using it and am against “The Man”. Don’t let Him get you down.
Unfortunately the total uniqueness of the Trump phenomenon in American history has allowed the Mainstream Media to focus entirely on the man (Trump) instead of “The Man” even though any intelligent reading of recent history leaves no doubt: Trump is in office because half the country was fed up with “The Man”, i.e. the US establishment.
This explains why so few young voters in 2016 supported Trump – they simply could not see that he was the “protest vote” against a corrupt and aristocrat-protecting system. The reason for that is because their youth necessarily makes them inexperienced regarding “The Man”, and also because they are so very, very indoctrinated: they believe in the US system because that is what has been forced down their throat since birth; what has been reinforced by a global media dominated by the US, which never broadcasts its sins, shames and failures; and what has been reinforced by a post 9/11 jingoism unseen since WWII.
Pull the sheet off Biden and you’ll find an establishment creation down to the whiteness of his human bones. He’s “The Man” all right – will America’s youth get hip by November?
The youth class has to overcome all of those obstacles to see Trump’s “virtues”… and then they also have every right to dismiss Trump anyway because he has been such a letdown (mainly because he really has no coherent political ideology at all).
But, despite his failures, how hard is it for a 20-year old to realise that Trump is not at all “The Man”? Trump pulled out of NAFTA, still talks about leaving NATO, wanted detente with Putin-led Russia – these anti-free trade and anti-war stances are exactly why “The Man” has done everything to demolish Trump and to smother support for such “anti-The Man” stances. Trump may be the US president, but bringing these totally unprecedented anti-mainstream political stances into the US mainstream make him not really “The Man”, and I’m sure the older US class will agree with me.
And yet many young people, who are just a few years from the correct test answer being “the Protestant work ethic”, “Manifest Destiny”, “to end the war with Japan”, etc., foolishly believe that the Western liberal democratic system is good, just, egalitarian and functioning at a high level. They fear that Trump is threatening all this shining goodness whereas half the country voted Trump expressly to stick it to “The Man” for His failures, lies and unpatriotic betrayals.
Compare the US youth class with their French peers: in 2017 20% of the country voted for a candidate (Jean-Luc Melenchon) whose campaign rested upon abolishing the 5th Republic – a good chunk of France clearly realises that Western liberal democracy (whose socio-intellectual-economic progress remains permanently frozen in 1916) is totally outdated and rigged in favour of the aristocratic/privileged class. If just 1.72% more of French voters had not been so indoctrinated against the idea of a new, modern 6th Republic then Melenchon would have faced Emmanuel Macron in the 2nd round instead of Marine Le Pen and France might not be the cynical, resentful, Yellow Vest mess it is today.
So France may have fallen short, but do 20% of US voters un-believe enough in the 18th-century US system to vote for a 2nd US Republic? Not hardly…. such a program would likely lead to jail for its proponents, certainly government surveillance and intimidation, and widespread social ostracisation. “The Man” is still stronger than omnipresent, if not ever-more omnipotent, in the US, and this certainly pre-dates Trump.
Of course, to the US MSM all the problems in the US today are attributable to Trump – a naive US youth class often swallows that stinking tripe whole.
“The Man” has turned the threat into the scapegoat. You have to admit: He is good at what he does….
Biden is ‘Da Man” to save us all from ‘The Man’ (i.e. Trump)?
At some point in the 1980s being called “The Man” become “(you) Da Man”, and being “Da Man” meant you were exceptional and superlative.
But how on earth can “Corporate” Joe Biden ever be “Da Man”? At best he is – essentially by his own admission – a placeholder, and at worst he is a senile train wreck which will force the Democratic Party to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of certain victory.
Corporate Joe Biden is without a doubt “The Man” infinitely more than Trump is. Trump is a lowlife slum lord with cubic zirconia plating and a trophy wife, whereas Biden has the scope and reach to gut the resources of Third World nations populated by scores of millions of people just to give his son a phony job.
A vote for Biden is a vote for the establishment, and that is so obvious that anyone who disagrees can only disagree by changing the subject away from the problems caused by “the establishment” and towards the problem of Trump the individual.
Here’s a rare barometer: one of the Secret Service agents who took a bullet for Ronald Reagan in 1981 just retired, and it got me wondering – who on earth would take a bullet to save Joe Biden? Absolutely nobody outside of the Secret Service – any common citizen would hesitate, due to Biden’s “The Man”-ness, and that’s all the time a bullet needs. Contrarily, some Americans would – I imagine – actually take a bullet for Trump, strange as that may seem to many. I know a ton of people will take a bullet for Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and Rouhani, and we can’t just chalk that up to religion – China’s Xi and Cuba’s Diaz-Canel are two guys who worked their way up the civil service ranks via their ability and character, gaining more and more faithful comrades along the way, and for sure the only people who think they are in league with “The Man” live in Hong Kong or Miami. The 25-year China-Iran partnership is not new, but it finally got taken seriously last week – may I please suggest reading my books on China and Iran to discover the basis of this match, and for discussion of the 25-year plan?
And yet the youth class bats their big eyes at Biden, pleads about the need to get out the vote, and dutifully repeats that Biden is the second Messiah to save us all from the anti-Christ… no way that they actually believe it, but they say it. In my opinion the majority of the US youth class views the establishment as a problem only in how they throw up road blocks against Blacks, non-heterosexuals and other minorities even though “The Man” is not all White. Didn’t Obama prove that emphatically? (With that crowd it’s, “To hell with poor Whites”, I guess. “How dare they be just White in 2020?!” A very progressive and egalitarian crowd, indeed….)
Bernie Sanders is, despite everyone’s wishes to the contrary, also “The Man” because he repeatedly does whatever the Democratic Party establishment wants no matter how bad it is for the average person. Bernie is no socialist – it can’t be said enough because he keeps lying about it – but what a very, very different July 2020 it would be if the US had him to look forward to in November instead of Biden? “The Man” won yet again there….
Undoubtedly Hillary Clinton was more “The Man” than either Biden or Obama, proving that “The Man” is not based around either race or gender but, again, class. (What do you want: “The Person”? That sounds totally unhip and would never catch on as slang – “The Person” would be totally ineffective class warfare propaganda.) Politics without “class” – “The Man” certainly did pull a fast one in the West there… thank God the whole world is not “the West”, even though many Westerners assume that it is.
The obfuscation of the class struggle makes “The Man” today a KKK member even though it’s not 1916 anymore, even though the KKK is powerless, and even though the KKK is not the group which has caused the government/bankocracy to abandon Black neighborhoods via disinvestment. It’s absurd beyond belief, outdated, economically-neutered, not even close to the biggest problem facing all citizens in July 2020, and also on the brink of failure: it depends on if Biden’s dementia hasn’t grown during the Great Lockdown’s isolation, as it has for so many US seniors, sadly. To get that answer we’ll have to wait until the debates – it’s a pretty bad system when the assumed future president can be hidden away for so long….
The failure to properly locate “The Man” isn’t confined to the youth class of the US, of course – but they are the only age group which has a decent excuse (inexperience and poor guides) for such a mistake. I’m humbly hoping to show them an alternative logic before they turn into the Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers of the older age groups. Those people are long gone, sadly – many of them are “The Man” and they don’t even know it.
Pull the sheet off Biden and you’ll find an establishment creation down to the whiteness of his human bones. He’s “The Man” all right – will America’s youth get hip by November?
Of course, given Trump’s failure to deliver – where is hip?
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Corona contrarianism? How about some corona common sense? Here is my list of articles published regarding the corona crisis. Check the archive below, click on orange button.
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Capitalist-imperialist West stays home over corona – they grew a conscience? – March 22, 2020
Corona meds in every pot & a People’s QE: the Trumpian populism they hoped for? – March 23, 2020
A day’s diary from a US CEO during the Corona crisis (satire) March 23, 2020
– March 25, 2020
Tough times need vanguard parties – are ‘social media users’ the West’s? –
March 26, 2020
If Germany rejects Corona bonds they must quit the Eurozone – March 30,
2020
Landlord class: Waive or donate rent-profits now or fear the Cultural Revolution – March 31, 2020
Corona repeating 9/11 & Y2K hysterias? Both saw huge economic overreactions – April 1, 2020
(A Soviet?) Superman: Red Son – the new socialist film to watch on lockdown – April 2, 2020
Corona rewrites capitalist bust-chronology & proves: It’s the nation-state, stupid – April 3, 2020
Condensing the data leaves no doubt: Fear corona-economy more than the virus – April 5, 2020
‘We’re Going Wrong’: The West’s middling, middle-class corona response – April 10, 2020
Why does the UK have an ‘army’ of volunteers but the US has a shortage? – April 12, 2020
No buybacks allowed or dared? Then wave goodbye to Western stock market gains – April 13, 2020
Pity post-corona Millennials… if they don’t openly push socialism – April 14, 2020
No, the dollar will only strengthen post-corona, as usual: it’s a crisis, after all – April 16, 2020
Same 2008 QE playbook, but the Eurozone will kick off Western chaos not the US – April 18, 2020
We’re giving up our civil liberties. Fine, but to which type of state? – April 20,
2020
Coronavirus – Macron’s savior. A ‘united Europe’ – France’s murderer – April 22, 2020
Iran’s ‘resistance economy’: the post-corona wish of the West’s silent majority (1/2) – April 23, 2020
The same 12-year itch: Will banks loan down QE money this time? – April 26,
2020
The end of globalisation won’t be televised, despite the hopes of the Western 99% (2/2) – April 27, 2020
What would it take for proponents to say: ‘The Great Lockdown was wrong’? – April 28, 2020
ZeroHedge, a response to Mr. Littlejohn & the future of dollar dominance – April 30, 2020
Given Western history, is it the ‘Great Segregation’ and not the ‘Great Lockdown’? – May 2, 2020
The Western 1% colluded to start WWI – is the Great Lockdown also a conspiracy? – May 4, 2020
May 17: The date the Great Lockdown must end or Everything Bubble 2 pops – May 6, 2020
Reading Piketty: Does corona delay the Greens’ fake-leftist, sure-to-fail victory? – May 8, 2020
Picturing the media campaign needed to get the US back to work – May 11, 2020
Scarce jobs + revenue desperation = sure Western stagflation post-corona – May 13, 2020
France’s nurses march – are they now deplorable Michiganders to fake-leftists? – May 15, 2020
Why haven’t we called it ‘QE 5’ yet? And why we must call it ‘QE 2.1’ instead – May 16, 2020
‘Take your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty public servant!’ That’s Orwell? – May 17, 2021
The Great Lockdown: The political apex of US single Moms & Western matriarchy? May 21, 2021
I was wrong on corona – by not pushing for a US Cultural Revolution immediately – May 25, 2021
August 1: when the unemployment runs out and a new era of US labor battles begin – May 28, 2021
Corona proving the loser of the Cold War was both the USSR & the USA – May 30, 2021
Rebellions across the US: Why worry? Just ask Dr. Fauci to tell us what to do – June 2, 2021
Protesting, corona-conscience, a good dole: the US is doing things it can’t & it’s chaos – June 3, 2021
Why do Westerners assume all African-Americans are leftists? – June 5, 2020
The US as Sal’s Pizzeria: When to ‘Do The Right Thing’ is looting – June 6, 2020
The problem with the various ‘Fiat is all the problem!’ (FIATP) crowds – June 9, 2020
Politicisation of Great Lockdown result of ‘TINA’ economic ignorance & censorship – June 14, 2020
Trump’s only hope: buying re-election with populist jobless benefits – June, 16 2020
US national media is useless – so tell me the good local news sources? – July 4, 2020
Hamilton movie: central banker worship & proof the US has no left – July 8, 2020
News flash: Capitalism has no answer for 50 million jobless people – July 11, 2020
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-07-21--LESSONS IN US POLITICAL REALITY: Today’s U.S. Democratic Party Distrusts Republicans About Russia

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
Be sure to share it widely .
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse The “ Best ” ( or most-liked ) reader-comment to that was : Dems need to be ALL OVER THIS .
But will they be ?
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I tend to doubt it .
And what will we do when Tangerine Traitor Tot fake- '' wins '' another election ?
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WHERE ARE THE MOBS IN THE STREETS ?
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They didn ’ t believe that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible collusion between Trump ’ s campaign and the Russian Government in the 2016 U.S. Presidential contest between Republican Trump and Democrat Clinton , found no credible evidence of any such collusion .
`` In an aristocracy , truth is virtually prohibited from affecting political outcomes , because instead power determines everything , and — because it is an aristocracy — power is ultimately dependent upon a person ’ s wealth ... '' They believe that whereas the RNC ( Republican National Committee ) was traitorous ( hostile toward the interests of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DNC was not .
not actually from any segment of the public , nor from “ foreigners.
” In an aristocracy — and not in any democracy — the nation ’ s leaders of government at all .
( The most-democratic nations tend to be the most-equalitarian countries , such as One of the benefits that an aristocracy ( or “ oligarchy ” ) derives from its being known to and recognized by the public only via two or more of its segments ( or official political Parties ) , is that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever they don ’ t like to ‘ the other Party ( s ) ’ , instead of to the Party that they personally identify themselves with .
They personally identify with a faction of the aristocracy , and they think that that faction of the aristocracy cares about their welfare .
This inter-Party division prevents the aristocracy itself from being blamed , even if ( as is the case in almost all countries ) the prevailing political rot comes from itself — the nation ’ s own aristocracy — and , nor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — and not indemocracy — the nation ’ s leaders of government represent only the aristocracy , not the public , because any nation where the leaders of government represent the public is a democracy , no aristocracy .
( The most-democratic nations tend to be the most-equalitarian countries , such as .
America is one of the least-equalitarian . )
Consequently , is highly likely to have a public that is politically ( i.e.
, by party ) divided into contending factions that hate and despise and deeply distrust each other , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any effective political agreement to change the existing political status-quo or the nation ’ s laws unless the nation ’ s aristocracy itself is strongly unified about that given matter .
In such a country , stasis or equilibrium about any issue is exceedingly difficult to terminate , because first the aristocracy must effectively terminate its own internal divisions regarding that given matter , and this will require deals and concessions which are exceedingly difficult to attain because a significant percentage of the aristocracy will have to accept that it was defeated — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by its peers , who are virtually the only people whom aristocrats respect and actually care about ( consider “ us ” rather than “ them ” ) .
Duels to the death used to be the way that irreconcilable differences within an aristocracy were finally settled , but now it is more commonly done as settlements between political parties , or , actually , between the individuals who control each of the parties .
In such a country , stasis or equilibrium about any issue is exceedingly difficult to terminate , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own internal divisions regarding that given matter , and this will require deals and concessions which are exceedingly difficult to attain because a significant percentage of the aristocracy will have to accept that it was— and not only defeated , but defeated , who are virtually the only people whom aristocrats respect and actually care about ( consider “ us ” rather than “ them ” ) .
Duels to the death used to be the way that irreconcilable differences within an aristocracy were finally settled , but now it is more commonly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or , actually , between the individuals who control each of the parties .
In an aristocracy , truth is virtually prohibited from affecting political outcomes , because instead power determines everything , and — because it is an aristocracy — power is ultimately dependent upon a person ’ s wealth : it is dependent upon that individual ’ s ability to hire employees and other agents to do what he or she wants them to do .
Here is how that works , in the U.S. example : In the 2016 U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billionaire , Sheldon Adelson , spent $ 82,522,800 on Donald Trump and the Republican Party , and another billionaire , Tom Steyer , spent $ 91,069,795 , on Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party And that ’ s just the traceable money , not including “ dark money.
” And many other of America ’ s approximately 700 billionaires also contributed .
One thing that virtually all of America ’ s billionaires agree upon is the need — even after the Cold War And that ’ s just the traceable money , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other of America ’ s approximately 700 billionaires also contributed .
One thing that virtually all of America ’ s billionaires agree upon is the need — even after the Cold War ended in 1991 — to defeat Russia and Iran , conquer them ; and , so , Russia and Iran are their favorite targets of blame for the American public ( such as Democratic Party activists ) , who are the subjects ( or ‘ citizens ’ ) of those billionaires ( or of their regime , the U.S. aristocracy ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mainstream , and almost all of their non-mainstream , media spread lies against those Governments and the leaders of governments that are friendly toward those target-Governments — such as Saddam Hussein , Muammar Gaddafi , Bashar al-Assad , Viktor Yanukovych , and Xi Jinping .
America ’ s military equipment is all privatized , produced for profit , by companies that are controlled by its billionaires , and on 14 February 2020 the IISS headlined and reported that , “ European countries are increasing their defence investments as a share of their total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data , funds rose from 19.8 % in 2018 to 23.1 % in 2019 – but the equivalent category reached 29 % in the US .
The United States ’ defence investments were thus worth around four times as much as European states ’ combined.
” This enormous profitability of corporations such as Lockheed Martin couldn ’ t happen if America ’ s billionaires had not ; but , of course , their news-media constantly warn of “ the Russian threat ” and “ Iran is the top state-sponsor of terrorism ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to explain why America ’ s taxpayers have to spend 29 % of GDP on the military that ‘ defends the nation ’ but actually serves only the billionaires ’ corporations and their profits — profits from the public ’ s tax-expenditures .
This is how an aristocracy [ plutocracy , actually , government of the rich , not of the best ] functions .
Once it becomes entrenched , eliminating it becomes almost impossible .
And why wouldn ’ t they ?
The criminal justice system has given up all pretense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worth taking seriously .
… Jack Blum , a former staff attorney for the U.S. Senate , calls this impunity “ the most urgent issue in America.
” In Russia and Ukraine , as government capacity deteriorated during the 2000s , oligarchs increased spending on bribes , lobbying and parallel systems of power — their own private security forces , their pet media institutions .
The same thing is already happening here .
And that ’ s an America which is controlled by an aristocracy that is profoundly corrupt , on both of @ @ @

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This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
Editor's Note: In some ways, today's Democrats are more stupid and dangerous than Republicans, suggests the author. Such is the degree of impregnable imbecility successfully injected into their minds by the corrupt DNC leadership and their accomplices in the liberal media. Proves again that extreme namby-pamby, status quo-approving centrism is a worthless position when the world around is in runaway crisis. At present, Trump Derangement Syndrome rules in America, to the detriment of everyone.
O n February 14th, the reader-comments at a popular website for Democratic Party activists expressed outrage when a report was posted there that n February 14th, the reader-comments at a popular website for Democratic Party activists expressed outrage when a report was posted there that “Pompeo Secretly Met Russian Foreign Minister”
The “Best” (or most-liked) reader-comment to that was:
atterman
Fucking goddamn TRAITORS.
Dems need to be ALL OVER THIS.
But will they be???? I tend to doubt it.
And what will we do when Tangerine Traitor Tot fake-"wins" another election???
WHERE ARE THE MOBS IN THE STREETS?????
They didn’t believe that all of the investigations, into a possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian Government in the 2016 U.S. Presidential contest between Republican Trump and Democrat Clinton, found no credible evidence of any such collusion.
"In an aristocracy, truth is virtually prohibited from affecting political outcomes, because instead power determines everything, and — because it is an aristocracy — power is ultimately dependent upon a person’s wealth..."
They believe that whereas the RNC (Republican National Committee) was traitorous (hostile toward the interests of the nation’s population), the DNC was not.
not actually from any segment of the public, nor from “foreigners.” In an aristocracy — and not in any democracy — the nation’s leaders of government at all. (The most-democratic nations tend to be the most-equalitarian countries, such as One of the benefits that an aristocracy (or “oligarchy”) derives from its being known to and recognized by the public only via two or more of its segments (or official political Parties), is that the members of the public can then attribute whatever they don’t like to ‘the other Party(s)’, instead of to the Party that they personally identify themselves with. They personally identify with a faction of the aristocracy, and they think that that faction of the aristocracy cares about their welfare. This inter-Party division prevents the aristocracy itself from being blamed, even if (as is the case in almost all countries) the prevailing political rot comes from itself — the nation’s own aristocracy — and, nor from “foreigners.” In an aristocracy — and not indemocracy — the nation’s leaders of government represent only the aristocracy, not the public , because any nation where the leaders of government represent the public is a democracy, no aristocracy. (The most-democratic nations tend to be the most-equalitarian countries, such as the Scandinavian ones . America is one of the least-equalitarian .)
Consequently, a ‘democracy’ that’s actually a multi-Party dictatorship is highly likely to have a public that is politically (i.e., by party) divided into contending factions that hate and despise and deeply distrust each other, and that therefore can never come to any effective political agreement to change the existing political status-quo or the nation’s laws unless the nation’s aristocracy itself is strongly unified about that given matter. In such a country, stasis or equilibrium about any issue is exceedingly difficult to terminate, because first the aristocracy must effectively terminate its own internal divisions regarding that given matter, and this will require deals and concessions which are exceedingly difficult to attain because a significant percentage of the aristocracy will have to accept that it was defeated — and not only defeated, but defeated by its peers, who are virtually the only people whom aristocrats respect and actually care about (consider “us” rather than “them”). Duels to the death used to be the way that irreconcilable differences within an aristocracy were finally settled, but now it is more commonly done as settlements between political parties, or, actually, between the individuals who control each of the parties. In such a country, stasis or equilibrium about any issue is exceedingly difficult to terminate, because first the aristocracy must effectively terminate its own internal divisions regarding that given matter, and this will require deals and concessions which are exceedingly difficult to attain because a significant percentage of the aristocracy will have to accept that it was— and not only defeated, but defeated, who are virtually the only people whom aristocrats respect and actually care about (consider “us” rather than “them”). Duels to the death used to be the way that irreconcilable differences within an aristocracy were finally settled, but now it is more commonly done as settlements between political parties, or, actually, between the individuals who control each of the parties.
In an aristocracy, truth is virtually prohibited from affecting political outcomes, because instead power determines everything, and — because it is an aristocracy — power is ultimately dependent upon a person’s wealth: it is dependent upon that individual’s ability to hire employees and other agents to do what he or she wants them to do. Here is how that works, in the U.S. example:
In the 2016 U.S. presidential s‘elections’, one billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, spent $82,522,800 on Donald Trump and the Republican Party, and another billionaire, Tom Steyer, spent $91,069,795, on Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party And that’s just the traceable money, not including “dark money.” And many other of America’s approximately 700 billionaires also contributed. One thing that virtually all of America’s billionaires agree upon is the need — even after the Cold War supposedly ended in 1991 — to defeat Russia and Iran, conquer them; and, so, Russia and Iran are their favorite targets of blame for the American public (such as Democratic Party activists), who are the subjects (or ‘citizens’) of those billionaires (or of their regime, the U.S. aristocracy). This explains why all of their mainstream, and almost all of their non-mainstream, media spread lies against those Governments and the leaders of governments that are friendly toward those target-Governments — such as Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, Viktor Yanukovych, and Xi Jinping.
America’s military equipment is all privatized, produced for profit, by companies that are controlled by its billionaires, and on 14 February 2020 the IISS headlined “Global defence spending: the United States widens the gap” and reported that, “European countries are increasing their defence investments as a share of their total spending – for those countries with available data, funds rose from 19.8% in 2018 to 23.1% in 2019 – but the equivalent category reached 29% in the US. The United States’ defence investments were thus worth around four times as much as European states’ combined.” This enormous profitability of corporations such as Lockheed Martin couldn’t happen if America’s billionaires had not continued the Cold War after 1991 ; but, of course, their news-media constantly warn of “the Russian threat” and “Iran is the top state-sponsor of terrorism” and “China is cheating,” etc., to explain why America’s taxpayers have to spend 29% of GDP on the military that ‘defends the nation’ but actually serves only the billionaires’ corporations and their profits — profits from the public’s tax-expenditures.
This is how an aristocracy [plutocracy, actually, government of the rich, not of the best] functions. Once it becomes entrenched, eliminating it becomes almost impossible.
For example: on February 15th, a Democratic Party billionaires’ site, Huffington Post, headlined “THE GOLDEN AGE OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME” and presented a credible and reasonably well documented case that
OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot. Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness. Elite universities are selling admission spots to the highest Hollywood bidder. Silicon Valley unicorns have revealed themselves as long cons (Theranos), venture-capital cremation devices (Uber, WeWork) or straightforward comic book supervillains (Facebook). Every week unearths a cabinet-level political scandal that would have defined any other presidency. From the blackouts in California to the bloated bonuses on Wall Street to the entire biography of Jeffrey Epstein, it is impossible to look around the country and not get the feeling that elites are slowly looting it.
And why wouldn’t they? The criminal justice system has given up all pretense that the crimes of the wealthy are worth taking seriously. …
But that ‘news’-report is allowed only because the present occupant of the White House happens to be a Republican, and it totally ignores the comparably profound corruption of top-level America and by its Government under the Democrat Barack Obama . The pretense is that this intensity of corruption is new and ‘Republican’. Most of the article’s allegations aren’t documented, nor even linked to any source at all. For example, here is one that’s not:
Jack Blum, a former staff attorney for the U.S. Senate, calls this impunity “the most urgent issue in America.” In Russia and Ukraine, as government capacity deteriorated during the 2000s, oligarchs increased spending on bribes, lobbying and parallel systems of power — their own private security forces, their pet media institutions. The same thing is already happening here.
And that’s an America which is controlled by an aristocracy that is profoundly corrupt, on both of its sides.