#3rd epoch part 4

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Back in early January, I read another of Collins's novels, The Dead Secret. It predates The Woman In White but uses quite a few of the same ideas, including characters of similar types or who play similar roles in the story. Overall, I would say that The Woman In White is definitely better and makes better use of the elements that are in both books... but the character in The Dead Secret who I interpret as the counterpart of Mrs Clements is truly truly delightful and tbh I think I will read The Dead Secret again in the future just for his sake.

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Greece: A historical essay - Part 1/4

On the 25th of March 2021, the people of Greece celebrate their independence day. This year is especially important because it is exactly 200 years since the outbreak of the revolution (1821). I decided to honor my country and its history with a (relatively) detailed post.

Most people around the world already have knowledge regarding ancient Greece, so I will be brief here.

                      ANCIENT AND ARCHAIC GREECE:

between 3000 and 1100 B.C. roughly, there existed the Minoan civilization of Crete. We know little about them besides their elaborate palaces (anaktora), intricate plumbing systems and wonderful frescoes. They used the linear A in their writing, which remains undeciphered to this day. This civilization was one which traded with the outside world. Being an island, they also did not have many fortifications, which might have contributed to their downfall. There are 2 main theories as to their decline: Invasions from the mainland Mycenaeans or the major volcanic eruption of Santorini around that time.

Pictured above: 1) a partially destroyed room, allowing a peek inside 2) some restored frescoes 3) an outer room 4) A showcase of the simple and geometric, yet elaborate and colorful, structure of the building. All of these pictures are from the Palace of Knossos.

The next civilization to succeed them were the aforementioned Mycenaeans, who thrived between 1650 and 1200 B.C. They originally lived in the Peloponnese peninsula, on the southern tips of mainland Greece. It appears that they invaded and subjugated the Minoans at some point. They used linear B for their alphabet, which has successfully been deciphered and is our first indication of archaic or proto-Greek. The later tales of Homer (Odyssey and Iliad) are set in the 1200s and involve Mycenaean legendary heroes and rulers. 

They were organized in independent and semi-independent city-state kingdoms, crafted bronze weapons and were a war-like people. Around 1200, we see an increase in fortifications around their settlements and the remains of their palaces carry signs of having been burned. This implies that they, too, fell to an invading force which had been threatening them.

The Minoans and Mycenaeans appear to have both used a centralized “manorial” or palatial economic system, which revolved around their grand palaces.

After their fall came the dark age of ancient Greece, which lasted from 1100 to 750 B.C. As implied by the name, we have very little information about this time. Pottery lost its elaborate design and became merely geometric, the linear B alphabet stopped being used, settlements were much smaller and fewer in population.

One other notable involvement is the arrival of the Doric tribes to the Greek mainland, displacing and possibly mixing with the Mycenaeans.

                                        CLASSICAL GREECE:

This is the ancient Greece everyone knows and loves. The Dorians were not the only ethnic group of that time, with them appeared the Ionians, Achaeans, and Aeolians. In myth, these are all relatives who came from the same ancestor, Hellen (not the famous Helen of Troy, but instead a male patriarch from Thessaly). 

The Achaeans might have had a relation to the Myceneans or have existed alongside them to some degree, This is only a hypothesis though. 

The Dorians were the direct ancestors of the Spartans and Corinthians, among other smaller states of the Peloponnese.

The Ionians are best remembered as the ancestors of the the Athenians but also their many coastal and islander allies, including the region of Ionia (modern Smyrna/Izmir region) in Asia Minor.

The Aeolians lived in modern-day Thessaly and were the most numerous of the Greek groups. During the Doric invasion, some of them fled to the island of Lesbos and the region of Aeolis (which they named) in Asia Minor.

During this period we see the early foundations of what would evolve into the ancient Greek city-state model, as most imagine it, as well as the government forms of Classical Greece - Oligarchy, Democracy, Tyranny. These forms of government acted as ancient ideologies of sorts, to a degree.

In Sparta, Lycurgus implemented the reforms which led to the highly militarized, disciplined, regimented and isolationist Spartans of the Classical period.

In Athens, there was a succession of reformers who led to the establishment of Democracy. First was Dracon, the least democratic of all and whose laws give us the modern definition of the word “Draconic”, afterwards we have the moderate Solon, who can be credited with the foundations of Democracy and maintaining a balance between the aristocratic wealthy and the common poor. There was a brief interruption to democracy between 561 - 510 B.C. as the leader of the Democratic faction, Peisistratus, took the reins of power as a Tyrant (back then, the word had a neutral or even slightly positive connotation, along the lines of “benevolent dictator/enlightened autocrat). The laws and customs of Athenian Democracy were kept in place during those years and were able to blossom after the end of the tyranny. Cleisthenes was the next in the line of reformers. A radical democrat, he greatly expanded the power of the poorer citizens. All of these reforms led directly to the Athenian Democracy inherited by Pericles right before the Peloponnesian war and during the zenith of Athenian power, wealth and culture through its leadership of the Delian League.

Before that though, there were the Persian wars, which started when the coastal city-states and former colonies of Asia Minor cried for help to the Greek mainland, in an effort to avoid complete annexation by the Persian empire.

This led Greece to band together against the threat of the Persians and beat them back, after many losses and much hardship. This is considered the main grand epoch of the classical era and bound them all together as “Hellenes” for the first time.

Greece was not a place of long-lasting peace and alliances though. Soon after, the Athenian populist democratic politicians promised their people great opulence, which they could only ensure by taking from the common fund of the Delian League and using that money on their city. Thus Athens prospered at the expense of its supposed allies, leading to the era of Athenian Hegemony around the 5th century B.C. (Sparta used to be the hegemon before them, around 650 B.C.). This all lead directly to the Peloponnesian war of 431 - 404, where the Spartans emerged victorious after protracted campaigns and battles, gaining the title of “liberators” for dismantling the Athenian hegemony and liberating their tributaries. 

During this period we also have the beginning of Greek philosophy as we know it, with the activity of Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were generally natural scientists and cosmologists, he was the first to deal with moral and political philosophy, changing the term forever. Plato was his student, who famously wrote his own political system in “The republic” and unsuccessfully tried to implement it in Syracuse. Aristotle was the student of Plato and became the founder of Mixed government and Classical republicanism (as it was later known and developed later in the renaissance), he was also the teacher of Alexander the Great, the famous Greek-Macedonian king who created an empire.

Sparta’s attempt at aiding oligarchic tyranny in Athens, with the conclusion of the war, failed and Athens returned back, somewhat weak but still great, after only a few years. The next hegemon to take the title were the Thebans, the third most powerful city-state of the era. They held it for a short while in the 3rd century, until Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II, took that title from them, laying the groundwork for the later conquests of his son.

Alexander defeated the Persians, conquered Egypt, Babylon, Asia minor, Persia itself and finally modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, reaching the Indus river, where he finally met his equal at the hands an Indian kingdom and was forced to return back to Babylon, where he died. 

His empire fractured into four successor states and Rome met little resistance, fighting only Epirus and a weakened Macedon, in their conquest of Greece.

Pictured above: Greek states around 200 B.C. 

Bright yellow: Seleucids 

other Yellow: Achaean League, Epirus and states under Macedonian influence

Dark Blue: Aetolian League and Independent states

Orange: Macedon

Dark Green: early Roman conquests

Light Green: Kingdom of Pergamum

Purple: Ptolemaic (Egyptian) holdings

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12 Vast Facts About The Patagonian Desert

One of the vastest landscapes in the world is a fascinating desert located in the utmost southern part of South America. Let's take a closer look at some of the most interesting facts about the Patagonian Deserts, a desolate, yet intriguing area in the world.

1. It's located within the borders of 3 countries

The Patagonian Desert is also referred to as the Patagonian Steppe and is a huge arid region located in the southern part of South America. Most of the desert is located in the Patagonia Region of Argentina and Chile, but the Falkland Islands, which are part of the United Kingdom, are also included. These islands are located on the so-called "Patagonian Shelf" in the South Atlantic Ocean. The desert is bounded on the west by the southern part of the Andes Mountains and the east by the Atlantic Ocean. The northern part of the desert transforms into Argentine Monte, one of the driest areas in the country, and the Cuyo, a mountainous area in Argentina famous for its wine production.

View of the desert / Jason Hollinger / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

2. This huge desert is the 8th-largest in the world

The desert is an enormously vast region that covers a total area of 673,000 square kilometers (260,000 square miles). This makes it the 8th-largest desert in the world (with the Antarctic and Arctic Deserts included). To give some reference to this number, the Sahara Desert (3rd in the world) covers an area of 9,200,000 square kilometers (3,552,140 square miles), and the Kalahari Desert (7th) an area of 900,000 square kilometers (347,492 square miles).

3. It features multiple natural wonders and a varied landscape

Even though some deserts are much larger, the landscape inside the Patagonian Desert appears to be extremely vast. That's mainly because most of the central part of the desert is a steppe consisting of apparently endless bushes, shrubs, and grasslands. The bushes and shrubs are located in the aridest areas of the desert. These are replaced by vast grasslands in places that the precipitation is slightly higher. Regardless of this notion, the desert features a varied landscape of plateaus, valleys, river canyons, and fascinating lakes of glacial origin, and massive mountains in the western part while approaching the Andes.

Road inside the desert / Deensel / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

4. It's a very cold place due to its southern location

When you hear the word "desert," you instantly get a mental image of sand and excruciating temperatures. This is not the case at all here because the Patagonian Desert is actually a cold winter desert. Especially the southern parts near Tierra del Fuego, the utmost southern tip of South America, are extremely cold with temperatures ranging from -3 °C to 3 °C (26.6°F to 37.4°F). This doesn't mean that every region inside the desert is this cold, though. The northern sections can have pretty enjoyable temperatures during the summer, especially in the Rio Colorado region. Here, temperatures between 26 °C to 29 °C (78.8°F to 84.2°F) are pretty common during the summer months.

5. The animals that live here mostly reside on the outskirts of the desert

Deserts are some of the harshest regions in the world for any type of life. That's why most animals and plants living and growing here have adapted very well to the arid conditions. Regardless, there aren't that many animals living here, and the ones that do live in the somewhat friendlier outskirts of the deserts, except on the farms built here for cattle. Some of these animals are native to the Patagonia Region such as the Patagonian weasel and the Patagonian gray fox. Others are common in other areas as well such as the burrowing owl, lesser rhea, pygmy armadillo, puma, and desert iguana. The desert iguana is also common in deserts in North America such as the Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert.

Some parts of the desert are suited for cattle / Wiki Commons

More interesting facts about the Patagonian Desert

6. The formation of the Patagonian Desert started about 14 to 12 million years ago during a geological epoch known as the Middle Miocene (23.03 and 5.333 million years ago). Before this period, it's very probably that the region was covered with an abundance of temperate forests, but because the Andes was lifted, the region became too arid and turned into the desolate desert landscape we see today. 7. One of the most fascinating features inside the desert is the so-called "petrified forest." These are fossils of a forest that existed here millions of years ago. The trees that grew here back then were primitive forms of conifers and palm trees. It's one of the best-preserved of its kind in the world and is located in the central part of the desert, just south of the town of Sarmiento. It has been preserved so well because of ashes from nearby volcanoes that emerged when the Andes rose.

Part of the petrified forest / Eassi / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 8. Around the year 1900, European settlers started inhabiting the less arid regions of the Patagonian Desert. These replaced the pre-hispanic hunter-gatherers that had lived here for thousands of years. Because of the large number of pre-dominantly Welsh, Argenitne, and European farmers migrating here, the area transformed into the most productive export regions related to sheep products. 9. Many parts of the region look extremely dusty, and that's because they are. The arid conditions in combination with the cool mountain air from the Andes create a fascinating phenomenon. The desert winds transports massive amounts of dust over the South Atlantic Ocean. A similar effect is created by winds coming from the Sahara Desert which transports dust all the way to countries in Europe. 10. The mountainous areas inside the desert mostly consist of volcanic rocks. These cover an estimated 120,000 square kilometers (46,332 square kilometers) of the desert. Most of these can be found in the Somún Cura Massif (North Patagnian Massif) and the Deseado Massif.

Mountains inside the desert / Wiki Commons 11. The protected area inside the desert covers about 70,970 square kilometers (27,401 square miles). The most important are located within preserves such as the Perito Moreno National Park, Patagonia Azul Biosphere Reserve, and Valdes Biosphere Reserve. 12. Even though the Desert itself isn't exactly a popular tourist attraction, there are several towns on the eastern side of the desert that have become popular tourist destinations. That's mainly because of the huge beaches with fine sand that are perfect for sunbathing and water sports. One of the most popular tourist destinations here is called "Rada Tilly," a coastal town with a beach that extends 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) along the Atlantic Ocean.

Rada Tilly Beach / Nestor Galina / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en Read the full article

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Just finished reading all of Justice League Odyssey and I have thoughts...

(This is more for me to get thoughts out of my head, but if you do have a read of the below I’ll warn you it’s not very coherent.)

So at the premise I was really hopeful, I liked the core four of Cyborg, Jessica Cruz, Starfire, and Azrael, and I liked this story would encompass very little of the A-list heroes, because I thought that would mean these guys get some genuine character development and a new classic story for us to dissect. Overall, it wasn’t a complete flop, but I certainly did not see all of the core 4 getting the same opportunity for growth. In fact both Azrael and Starfire kinda got shat on most of the time....

General Plot:

The basic plot is that Darkseid is trying grab power blah blah blah, and is manipulating Cyborg, Azrael, and Starfire into getting the objects of power he needs from within the ghost sector....

The first 10 issues of plot I liked (on the whole), there was tension and looming fear of what Darkseid was up to... I enjoyed meeting species who worshipped the others as gods, and the hijinks they got up to getting used to one another. However by issue 12 (SPOILERS) Azrael, Starfire, and Cyborg are turned into Darkseids new (new) gods, then the plot takes a whole new turn (and yes it is a new volume but hear me out...)

Basically jess gets killed by Darkseid, only for her corpse to be transported to a ship on the edge of the universe along with Queen Blackfire, and a black cube (it’s an Eskaton, a creature that’s aim is to kill Darkseid FYI). Basically from this point forward it becomes a time travel story and we see nothing of Azrael and Starfire for multiple issues, and only see Cyborg like once an issue... only to prop up jess.

We then see Jess lead a new team of Her, Blackfire, Dex Starr, Orion, Hax, Gamma Knife, and Epoch. Now, I actually like this group together, they grate on each other, but all pull together, they have interesting interactions and honestly were fun to read. 

Long story short Epoch was basically building a time machine to try and stop Darkseid from ending the universe. He recruits the others to help finish it while holding Darkseid off. But it turns out this is too much for Epoch, as he has not thought of every possible thing that might go wrong with his changes, and Jess calls him out. He gets annoyed, sends Jess back in time, then dies at Darkseids hand anyway (Don’t worry, Jess comes back within an issue lol).

I can’t be arsed to go into every detail but the team use some time travel to bring back the core 4 from the past prior to their turning into new gods, and they fight Darkseid who retreats... (I’m positive this is to set up his use in a next major multi-issue release). Jess goes to see the Green Lanterns, Orion and Azrael takes the newbies to Darkseid, and Cyborg and Starfire go to warn the justice league on Earth.

So this summary leaves absolutely loads out, but I don’t want to make this longer than it already is. A lot of plot happens in very few issues. But overall, the last 3rd compacted loads in a very short amount of time. They obviously had loads of ends to tie but not enough issues to do it justice as they had been cancelled.

For example, we never go back to those planets to see them freed from the beginning. Never see how Tamaran fares (what’s up with Kory no longer being bothered by #25 about going to Tamaran lol. That was her whole reason for going to the ghost sector in the first place). 

But to be honest, I can live with this, they had a limited time to tell a story and they did their best. The biggest gripe for me was the characters...

Jess:

Basically this story became about her. Justice League Odyssey became Jessica Cruz Odyssey. I do like her a lot, and I liked seeing the progression of her character, but it saddens me they writers obviously favoured her at the expense of the other 3. Why can’t we lift her and the others up. A lot of the comic became “I’m right because the protagonist to progress the plot” and often was right over other characters. Also the whole omega power thing was funny and weird. “The ring was crushed into my hand and absorbed the omega blast from Darkseid so now I absorbed the residual energy which brought me back to life...”

Cyborg:

He got the 2nd best development in the story. Like he does fall for Darkseids plan, but somehow because he is able to have this internal struggle with himself when changed he can communicate with Jess and switch sides. Him and Jess apparently connect a lot, which is nice I guess, but also a bit weird. Like we only saw you working together for a 3rd of the issues so their bond sort of feels unearned to me (Yes they had that mind message for a bit but Jess couldn’t have been 100% sure that was really him and not her own thought, she can’t use that to get close to him). In my opinion that bond should have been shown with Kory more (they do this at the beginning, then it falls off teh radar.)

But yet again we barely see him after his transformation, I would have liked to have seen more of him (and maybe we would have if it weren’t for the cancellation). There is very little character arc apart from him fighting through his godly body.

Starfire:

Oh my sweet summer child. WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU. Okay, advantages are that she wasn’t sexualised (I can’t believe I had to note that down as a positive). She had some of her characteristic emotional beliefs and that she can be hot headed. That was great! However, they also kept referring to her as a mess. Like towards the end of act 1 I can see that because she was succumbing to the power. But they say she’s been a mess since the beginning and it didn’t feel seen through her actions. 

She gets supposedly healed in I think #3, but that was Darkseid, so she wasn’t healed at all, just negative symptoms subsided. They never revisit this dodgy old man who evidently doesn’t take the power away from her... Like lets have a convo on that.

I don’t know, they just make her out to be completely non-functional for most of this, even before she succumbs to her new powers, and I didn’t like it. Especially because she yet again had exactly 0 arc to get over this supposed negative and become a better person from the experience. Also... her and Blackfire trying to kill each other, then the other being horrified when they both do it was just badly written. They’ve been at this tug of war for a long time now guys... They should have spats but not keep trying to kill each other. 

Also, where was her struggle against the control of Darkseid? Why is she not strong enough? Nope instead we saw New God Starfire for one issue, ad Blackfire killed her immediately. 

Tldr: WHERE WAS THE CHARATER DEVELOPMENT? She was just a plot device...

Azrael:

Basically similar stuff to Starfire. He was an interesting character that was reduced to a plot device that got killed off for most of the latter part of the series. He did not get a decent character progression (the more he was under control by Darkseid the nicer of a guy he became lol).

He nearly had this good b-plot of him and Rapture (somebody who kinda got underused), but then after act 1 that was thrown out for Jess and the time travellers lol.

He also in my mind got no character development and really didn’t need to be there.

Basically Starfire and Azrael could have been replaced by 2 other heroes, and it would have very little impact on the plot. Which is really my biggest grievance. I can handle dodgy plots if the characters go through an experience that makes them better heroes. But we saw none of that. Overall it was a shame. There was some great potential, but the core characters were plot devices to prop Jess up (and I do like Jess), which sucked. I’m hoping wherever the characters go next they underused ones get some proper time to shine.

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Across 5 Aprils – Wargaming the American Civil War.

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One hundred sixty years ago this month, one of the most terrible conflicts in American history began with a cannonade aimed at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. One hundred fifty-six years ago, after some of the worst bloodletting in American history, the conflict came to a merciful end at Appomattox Court House with the surrender of the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia. 

During those years, a war raged that was unlike many wars past, yet had elements of wars that had gone before it. Linear tactics were still used throughout the war, but small arms fire, once a prelude to shock action, had now become effective with every soldier having in his hands a percussion cap rifled musket. Add in rifled artillery able to shoot over the horizon, and you had a recipe for carnage. And carnage was one thing to describe the Civil War from a tactical and operational standpoint, at least in the East. In the west, the armies moved, fought battles, then moved and fought again. Railroads became the lifeblood of armies, both in strategic movement and in supporting armies in ways they had never been before. Add in the telegraph, and these armies could be, to some extent, controlled far from home. It was, as many described, the first modern war. 

But wargaming this war has its own challenges. In this war, the defender often has an advantage, especially if he has rifled muskets, more so if he has repeating rifles and is mobile. A good example is Buford at Gettysburg and the delaying action he fought against the leading elements on the first day of Gettysburg. The fact his command had Sharps rifles played a huge part in his ability to fight that delaying action. 

Confessedly, most of my own experience gaming the Civil War is on the miniatures side, but as a period, the American Civil War (ACW) is third only to World War II and Napoleonics. There are dozens of games and rules sets out there for aficionados of the period. I am just taking the time to recommend my personal favorites.

So, without further ado:

Board Wargames

Board Game Geek 

Personally, I think this is one of the best strategic treatments out there on the Civil War. It’s since taken a back seat to GMT’s For the People (an outgrowth of the original AH design), which I have also played and enjoyed the hell out of. I don’t think you could go wrong with either game if you want to play out the strategic level of the war. I think For the People is a better game, having played both, but A House Divided came out first (from GDW), so I played it a lot more. Happily, A House Divided is fairly affordable on-Board Game Geek as is For The People. Neither one is a bad investment of your time and money.

Board Game Geek

I’ve played a lot of Gettysburg games, but this one was my fave. I had a subscription to Command Magazine back in the day, and this was one of the games I received. I really liked it, and having seen the movie Gettysburg at the same time, it was a great chance to learn more about the engagement (Not to mention I was working my way through Bruce Catton’s three-volume series on the Army of the Potomac at the time). I liked the unique system and the way it handled the battle at the brigade level, which kept the counter density low (you don’t need 500+ counters to make a good game, in my opinion). This was one of Command’s better efforts, and it’s also affordable on Board Game Geek if you want to give it a try.

Board Game Geek 

I played this little game with some friends in NYC and also enjoyed the hell out of it. It was a pivotal battle in the West that I’d never heard of. (Yes, the Civil War isn’t my wargaming period, ok?) But that said, it was a solid game about a unique but pivotal subject. (The Union victory here historically kept Missouri in the Union!) Gameplay itself was bog-standard SPI in the 70s, but again, it was a small, fun game that did a fine job of portraying the Civil War at the brigade/regimental level. It was part of a series put out by SPI and later TSR (yes, that TSR) called the Great Battles of the American Civil War series, which eventually the following battles:

1st Bull Run - July 21, 1861, First Blood: The 1st and 2nd Battles of Manassas / Red Badge of Courage

Wilson’s Creek - August 10, 1861, Wilson’s Creek: The West’s First Fight, August 10, 1861

Pea Ridge - March 7-8, 1862, Pea Ridge: The Gettysburg of the West March 7-8 1862

Kernstown - March 23, 1862, Stonewall: The Battle of Kernstown / Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Shiloh - April 6-7, 1862, Bloody April: The Battle of Shiloh, 1862     / Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh

Winchester - May 25, 1862, Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Cross Keys - June 8, 1862, Jackson at the Crossroads: Cross Keys & Port     Republic, June 8-9, 1862 / Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Port Republic - June 9, 1862, Jackson at the Crossroads: Cross Keys & Port Republic, June 8-9, 1862 / Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Cedar Mountain - August 9, 1862,     Twin Peaks / Cedar Mountain

2nd Bull Run - August 28–30, 1862, First Blood: The 1st and 2nd Battles of Manassas  / Red Badge of Courage

South Mountain - September 14, 1862, Twin Peaks

Antietam/Sharpsburg - September 17, 1862, A Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam

Corinth - October 3-4, 1862, The Battle of Corinth: Standoff at the Tennessee, October 3-4, 1862

Stones river - December 31, 1862, to January 3, 1863, Dead of Winter: The Battle of Stones River / Dead of Winter: The Battle of Stones River (Second Edition)

Kelly’s Ford - March 17, 1863, Rebel Sabers: Civil War Cavalry Battles

Brandy Station - June 9, 1863, Rebel Sabers: Civil War Cavalry Battles

Trevillians Station - June 11-12, 1863, Rebel Sabers: Civil War Cavalry Battles

Dutch Roads (side Battle during  Gettysburg) - July 3, 1863, Rebel Sabers: Civil War Cavalry Battles

Gettysburg - July 1–3, 1863, Terrible Swift Sword: Battle of Gettysburg Game / The Three Days Of Gettysburg / The Three Days of Gettysburg (Second Edition)  / Three Days of Gettysburg (Third Edition)

 Chickamauga - September  19-20, 1863, River of Death: Battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863

Pleasant Hill - April 9, 1864, Pleasant Hill: The Red River Campaign

New Market - May 15, 1864, Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Brice’s Crossroads - June 10, 1864, The Horse Soldiers: Forrest at Bay

Tupelo - July 14, 1864, The Horse Soldiers: Forrest at Bay

Monocacy Junction - July 9, 1864, Drive on Washington: The Battle of Monocacy Junction, July 9, 1864

2nd Kernstown - July 24, 1864, Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

3rd Winchester - September 19, 1864, Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Fisher’s Hill - September 22, 1864, Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

Cedar Creek - October 19, 1864, The Guns of Cedar Creek / Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

The series also covered some of the Mexican American War, which was fought with similar weapons and tactics, If with some Napoleonic set-dressing. In fact, GMT is taking many of the games in the series and is republishing them after sprucing up the rules a bit. I’ve played Three Days at Gettysburg, and I liked it, though be warned, it’s a huge game! As for Wilson’s Creek? It’s available from Board Game Geek for a pretty reasonable price, and I, for one, recommend it as a way to get your feet wet in the series.

Miniatures Games

Board Game Geek

I’ve played just about every incarnation of these rules you can imagine. I’ve played them for Civil War, Napoleonic, Mexican-American War, yep. I’ve done it. To me, these are the best Brigade/Regimental 19th Century rules on the market. These rules handle the subject matter well, are easy to learn, and reflect the realities of command at the level portrayed very well. I’ve played these rules dozens of times and been in games with up to a corps in contact (in the Brigade version) and actually finished the game in four hours. Yep, not a lot of rules sets that can say that. Some aren’t nuts about the command system and don’t like its unpredictability, but it forces leaders to be active on the table and not to force march your troops all over the place (like some games allow you to do with near-impunity). And, the rules are perfect for the new 15mm plastics coming from Warlord!  The rules are still available for a pretty reasonable price from Fire and Fury Games.com.

To me, Sharp Practice is one of the best 19th Century Skirmish rules there. I’ve played Civil War, Napoleonic, and even medievals, and a western gunfight with these rules. The command system and turn sequence take some getting used to, but once you do, you’ll find a good set of skirmish rules with a roleplaying element that can handle any part of the 18th and 19th Centuries with little modification no matter what the book says. In fact, Too Fat Lardies published a supplement just for the Civil War:

To me, these are some great skirmish rules for the period. If you want to wargame Civil War at this level, these are the rules set to get. Trust me. You’ll get a great game out of it.

Conclusion

This has been just a survey course about wargaming the American Civil War, and I’ll be writing more articles about the period as time goes on (and my wargaming knowledge improves!) But that said, I hope this has inspired you to take your own trip “across 5 Aprils” and explore the wargaming possibilities.

Good Gaming out there everyone!

Further Reading

The Army of the  Potomac Trilogy by Bruce Catton – If you can only read one trilogy on the Civil War, read this one. It’s a great series that stands     up well today. It’s formed much of the basis of my limited understanding     of the ACW as a conflict.

A Savage War by Williamson Murray – This is more a study of how the     Industrial Revolution influenced the war and was a surprisingly easy     ready, considering the breadth of the material covered.

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Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus

I watch CNN, i watch fox, i watch CBS and in this case there's a lot of things not being said about covid 19 origin. This is just the essential nature of Chinese communism Chinese communism is evil. Every person at arms is directly attributable to the Chinese Communist Party. I began looking into the origin that now widely known corona virus in early February. That's timing amid the Hong Kong protests the Taiwan elections the us-china trade. My name is Joshua Philip. I'm an investigative reporter at The Epoch Times in New York writing about the Chinese Communist Party's programs of espionage and unconventional warfare for well over a decade. Videos and messages from Chinese citizens leaking through the censorship suggested the situation was much worse than what the regime was reporting. As my research progressed initial answers turned into more questions. I soon realized there was much more to the story than we were being told. Today the corona virus is impacting over a hundred countries around the world, billions of lives worthless and from what is said by the Chinese Communist Party this allegedly started spontaneously in the seafood market in Wuhan China.

PART I

The Story of The Wuhan Seafood Market Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province. The largest city in central China. Wonton seafood market is located in Zhang Han district of Wuhan City. It is a large comprehensive market that includes pork and a variety of frozen seafood flavored spices as well as some game meats. The first thing that received public attention about the epidemic was an internal notice from the Wuhan Health Commission. There has been a continuous occurrence of pneumonia cases of unknown cause. The notice issued on December 30 2019 clearly required all medical units to report similar cases of unknown pneumonia. The notice started spreading online and on December 31st 2019 the Wuhan Health Commission issued a public notice for the first time saying that some medical institutions found a link between the pneumonia cases and the one on seafood market. However, the notice pointed out that there was no evidence of obvious human to human transmission and no infection among medical personnel. On January 1st 2020 the Hunan seafood market posted a notice of closure. This was followed by a thorough cleanup of the market which as an investigative reporter seemed rushed. Wonhee a well-known Hong Kong expert echoed my concern that the move was like destroying the crime scene. Since then Wuhan officials have repeatedly said that most cases of pneumonia in Wuhan have a history of exposure to the Hunan seafood market. On January 26 the Institute of biology of China CDC announced that 33 of the 585 environmental samples from the WHO and on seafood market were found to contain the novel coronavirus nucleic acid and the virus was successfully isolated from the positive culture samples suggesting that the virus originated from wild animals sold at the market. At this point who a non-seafood market being the source of the epidemic became an official conclusion. A few days later however a report from the journal science published online challenged that story. The report cited a paper in The Lancet one of the world's top medical journals and questioned whether Wu Hans novel coronavirus pneumonia did not have originated at the market. The paper titled clinical features of patients infected a 20-19 novel coronavirus a new Han China was published in The Lancet on January 24. The first author of the paper is pong shaolin deputy director of Jin linton hospital. The first designated hospital for treatment of unknown pneumonia in Wuhan. Why would this come as a challenge the official narrative? Dr. SEAN LIN I think these journal articles very importantly reveal a lot of important information toed on police paper talk about the first patient onset was edgy on December 1st. These patients not related to one I see from market and also no epidemiology or association was formed between the first patient and subsequent patient and then also on this paper I talked about on December 10th there were three more Unser cases. Two of which were not related to one and civil market wholesale. Major discoveries there a total of 41 patients were counted in his paper and for ting up them proved to be unrelated to the seafood market. Accounting for more than one third no one sells bet at a civil market - and official from CDC's the dimension they find any pets in a thief market tip. JUDY A MIKOVITS PhD Certainly, The Lancet paper showing that supposed patient zero was nowhere near the market, secondly that there are no bats in the seafood market or anywhere close. The idea of the spread so fast through a population just the way it was said through the seafood market is highly unlikely and improbable. Numbers On January 29th and Lancet Rhee published an analysis of 99 confirmed cases at Jinyoung thanh Hospital of which 50 had no history of exposure to the seafood market. According to the New England Journal of the 425 cases confirmed 45 cases onset before January 1st had no history of exposure to the seafood market. Notably the authors of the two lands at papers in the new in Journal of Medicine our doctors and medical experts in mainland China. Annual Lucy an epidemiologist at the University of Georgetown said in response to the Lancet paper that if the data were accurate. The first case would have been infected by the virus already in November 2019 because of the incubation period between infection and symptoms. This would mean the virus is quietly spreading between people in some parts of Wuhan before the cluster of cases with a history of exposure. The who and on seafood market began on December 15. The first expert group from the National Health Commission arrived in Wuhan as early as December 31st 2019. The expert panel established a set of diagnostic criteria after investigating Ginny and Thanh Hospital of Wuhan that stipulated a history of contact with Hunan seafood market. The person having a fever and displaying the whole genome sequence all three standards have to be met to confirm case. The standard was used until a second group of experts including John Nanchang arrived in Wuhan and January 18th and made a revision why did the panel impose a history of seafood market exposure as a criterion of diagnosis knowing that at least a third of the cases were unrelated with the seafood market. Today's clearly known about 14 patients not related to one achieve market at all that clearly means another source of outbreak I think somehow this could be of malfeasance or somewhat intentionally cavil of some important source of infection. It can go a long way to covering up the actual source by imposing a false place and you're not looking at the actual victims then you're only allowed to find your keys under the light post. GORDON CHANG The numbers that we're getting from China about new infections and deaths are highly suspicious we know that Beijing for six weeks in December and January suppressed information of the epidemic and then when they officially acknowledged it on January 20. They then started a campaign of suppression of information we know that because the central leading group that was announced on January 26 has a nine-person roster and it's very heavy with propaganda officials. Indeed, the vice-chairman of the group is the Communist party's propaganda czar. It appears that the party's main goal here is suppression of information controlling the narrative that's more important to them than actually ending the epidemic. GEN ROBERT SPALDING I was in China when SARS happened and we were evacuated and it's the same it was exact same thing there's no transparency. They tried as long as they could to cover it up until finally it was just like with the krona by which they could no longer cover it up and then they proceeded to act, I mean I think from my perception back then their response to is exactly the same.

PART II

The Mysterious Gene Sequence On January 10 China disclosed the full genome sequence of the Wuhan novel coronavirus and many of the world's top biologists began analyzing it. As early as January 7th an academic jungle Jen from the National Institute of communicable disease control intervention along with the School of Public Health of food on University submitted a joint paper to nature. The paper was published on February 3rd and pointed out that the Wuhan corona virus is closely related to cov zc 4 5 and co v ZX c 2 1 2 viruses sampled from bats in jus Shan but a People's Liberation Army. The Wuhan corona virus has an 80 9.1%. Nucleotide similarity to the cov zc4 five virus and even exhibits 100% amino acid similarity than the NSP 7 e proteins. Shortly after the paper was published other scientists used blast. A program developed by the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Biotechnology information to compare the viral sequence based on the data submitted by Chinese authorities On January 12th. The results matched with John's findings. Another scientist Lu Rajan from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and their team also published a paper in The Lancet on January 30. The paper stated that the Wuhan virus has an 88% similarity to two bat derived SARS like coronaviruses collected in jus sham Jade young Province of China. The earliest discovery this bat derived viruses by an expert from the Research Institute for medicine of Nanjing Command. A paper published in 2018 States at scientists from this Institute detected many SARS like corona viruses and bats from Juche and city also known as bat like corona virus josh and virus. In short scientists found the Wuhan coronavirus the current pandemic is highly similar to a bat SARS like coronavirus previously discovered by the Nanjing military Research Institute showing 100% amino acid similarity in NS p7 and envelope protein the e protein. What does this high similarity reveal? How to see proteins 100% identical and virus jump species and so they're suggesting maybe the virus could be generated with reverse-engineer process. JUDY A MIKOVITS PhD I certainly believe that the 100% amino acid some similarity says it can't possibly it be a natural mutation. On January 21st researchers from the Institute Pasdar Shanghai Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in science China Life Sciences that mentioned an important phenomenon. The sequence of a key part of s protein of Wuhan virus has high homology with the SARS virus. What are s proteins and the well-known coronavirus picture their little mushrooms attached to the surface of the virus. These s proteins also known as spine proteins or spike proteins are the most important tool for the corona virus to invade human cells. If we compare the receptor a ce2 on the cell surface of human bodies to a lock. This s protein is the key which can unlock this lock on the cell surface and then invade into the cell to propagate and destroy it. Dr. SEAN LIN That means virus now can infect human cell much easier and that's probably also one our important reason the contributing to my album failure when people have a severe disease. They can spread out in the human body much faster. Well the S proteins that the high similarity of the S proteins from SARS one to now SARS - that's your spike protein, that's the lock and key, that's going to be what drives it right through human cells and so we know that's the pathogenic spike protein that for the original SARS so now you're allowing that access to human tissues because the spike proteins of the natural evolutionary strains don't infect human cells at all so that research has been going on at Wuhan and published since 2007 and clearly if that spike protein from SARS weren't on the kovat the new Koba 19 or SARS - it wouldn't be able to in enter human cells so again this is again evidence that it couldn't go through the Luhan seafood market. Research into the virus genome sequence revealed many essential data points. According to a February 28 report in the South China Morning Post the shanghai p3 laboratory which first shared the Wuhan coronavirus genome with the world was ordered to close by authorities. Impeding further research on the virus professor jeongyeon Zhen and his team who published the genome sequence on January 11 worked at this laboratory. According to a February 26 report on choice Shin Dong young Jen's team isolated and completed the genome sequence of the previously unknown virus on January 5th. On the same day the Shanghai Public Health clinical center reported the discovery to the National Health Commission and recommended prevention measures no response was received as of January 11th and it was then that the team decided to publicize the virus genome sequence on viral aaja co.org becoming the first team to do so in the world which I seen also reported that a hoob a Health Committee already notified genome sequencing organizations on January 1st. Regarding the cessation of analysis of Wuhan virus samples, existing virus samples must be destroyed. Information on the samples related to papers and related data are all prohibited from release. On January 3rd China's National Health Commission distributed notification letter 2020 number 3 in which a similar directed was presented. Afterwards the ones active Chinese scientific community suddenly fell into an eerie silence. What was the Chinese Communist Party trying to hide? Lisa Rinna's the Chinese government is censoring this information. They do not allow the symbols to be sequence or do not allow the sequence to be published or submitted to the gene bank. GORDON CHANG Its response to this virus is extremely troubling. It ignored it for six weeks. It allowed it to spread around China it tried to get other countries to not protect themselves. This is dangerous irresponsible behavior and it's endangered not only the Chinese people but people around the world. GEN ROBERT SPALDING There is no other way of looking at it they are responsible for the continuation of this corona virus and every time it comes back because it will come back because it's going to be with us now permanently. It will come back and every person that it killed, every person that harms is directly attributable to the Chinese Communist Party.

PART III

The discoveries of Dr. Shi Zhengli Through investigating the genome sequence, I found it's significant that the s protein of the Wuhan coronavirus was critical in its cross-species ability to infect humans. While I was searching for related studies online one Chinese viral gist in particular got my attention, she spent many years researching bats and coronaviruses. She was the first to locate the key to how coronaviruses can overcome cross species barriers in order to directly infect human bodies and she was the first to discover that the SARS virus was the result of a restructuring of multiple SARS like corona viruses found in bats. Her name is Shi Cheng Li and she may be an important link to the origin of the virus. Wikipedia describes Shi Cheng Li as a quote Chinese virologist and researcher the Wuhan Institute of biology which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Further investigations show that she Cheng Li has been a figure of controversy since the Wuhan virus outbreak. This is due to paper she published in 2015 discussing her own research into synthetic viruses. Choi Jin a media company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party interviewed. She gently in an attempt to refute these rumors. Dr. SEAN LIN Doctor generally she is one of the top experts in China starting about Coronel virus in Wuhan HTT virology share so many publications from collecting identify bed current water from bat caves. Her lab had these capacities and very sophisticated capacity to generate mutations to make it best feed in human expression as well. Delving further into related information. I discovered that she jangly published not one but four papers in total each of which contains important information. Since the SARS outbreak in 2003. She gently has been conducting research on coronaviruses from 2010 onward. The focus of she and her team was redirected to identifying the capacity for corona virus transmission across species. Specifically putting the spotlight on the s protein of the corona viruses in other words her team's research in the Wuhan lab has been looking into the part that can make corona viruses transmittable to humans. In June 2010 a team including shi jangly published a paper. It describes research to understand the susceptibility of angiotensin-converting enzyme to AC ET proteins of different bat species to the S protein of the SARS virus. In the experiments they also modified key amino acid condoms to mutate the bats AC e2 to examine compatibility with the SARS s protein. This paper demonstrated their awareness of the special relationship between the S protein and the AC e to receptor. It also signified that she had unearthed the passageway for corona viruses into human bodies. In October 2013 she and her team published a paper in the authoritative science journal Nature. They claimed a breakthrough in corona virus research. What was their breakthrough! They successfully isolated three viruses from bats. One of which had an S protein that integrated with human AC ET receptors. This effectively demonstrated the human infection of SARS like viruses to humans without the need of an intermediary host. Then in November 2015 she and her team at the Wuhan lab once again published a paper this time in the British journal Nature Medicine they discussed the creation of a synthetic virus a self-replicating time Eric virus. This virus had the SARS virus as the framework with the key s protein replaced by the one, they had found in a bat coronavirus she mentioned in her 2013 paper. This new virus demonstrated a powerful ability for cross-species infection. The mice infected with the synthetic virus revealed severe lung damage with no cure. This symbolized that she's successful splicing of the SARS virus was a key to open the door to the cross-species transmission what is startling is that these successful experiments on mice were only the tip of the iceberg. They planned to further experiment on primates. Although she generally did not indicate any conclusion from this research. Her move to research on primates suggests. This was to more closely simulate the infection of humans with this new synthetic virus. This wasn't done without controversy however. She's experiments quickly triggered widespread debates from the academic community. Simon Wayne Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in France expressed deep concerns. He told nature if the new virus escaped nobody could predict the trajectory. Propagation could happen anyway. JUDY A MIKOVIT His statement is exactly what's happening that the virus is everywhere additional studies very strongly support the idea that this new corona virus came from a recombination event. However, this did not terminate cheese research. On November 14 2018 she gently spoke at the School of Life Sciences and biotechnology at Shanghai Jiaotong University. The topic was bat coronavirus and it's cross-species infection. Reports of this event have since been deleted from the University website. I discovered two more significant pieces of information. Regarding the dangers of the research conducted by shi-gen Lee's team. First on October 16 2014 the Obama administration wary of the potential threats to public health from the gain-of-function goof research into SARS MERS or influenza announced through the National Institute of Health that it was suspending funding into similar research. The funding paws included shi jing lee's research project. Genetic engineering of SARS like corona virus and bats. A collaborative effort with dr. Ralph barek a VY Rolla gist at the University of North Carolina. Second after the Wuhan outbreak, Indian researchers compared the s protein sequence between 2019 and cov and SARS. They discovered that 2019 n cov had four new sequences inserted. All of which can be found in HIV sequences through a search on genbank. She gently discredited those observations. Although she never denied the existence of the four inserted sequences. However, scientists probing genbank found that there were only three viruses containing all sequences. The first is the HIV virus itself the second is a bat coronavirus discovered by she and the third is this new rule han coronavirus. We've done this kind of work for now 40 years for me. There's the sequence analysis and comparison of the virus of the SARS to Covid 19 apparently has genes that come from other human and other species including some envelope that gp41 from HIV. What is the H ivs gp41 the answer I found the line describes gp41 as a protein of HIV that acts as the key to infecting human bodies? Resulting in the functional failure of the immune system. If the discovery by Judy and her colleagues are established. It would mean the infectious part of the Wuhan virus the s protein. Incorporated the sequence of the HIV key protein. This made me think of the immunodeficiency symptoms and people infected. GEN ROBERT SPALDING They were doing a research on a human transmittable corona virus that was actually published in a paper so this is research that they actually published. They were working on developing a corona virus for the human host which you know leads he's a question why would you be created in the corona virus that can infect humans. What will be the purpose of that research? Is it for a weapon? Is it so that you can then create a vaccine? That you are the sole recipient of the profits from. The Chinese have full access to our databases. They have full access to all that research that comes out. They have full access to all our reading of verses to train their scientists and they have full access to our scientists like was you know with the recent indictment of the head of the chemistry department at Harvard. I mean this is a thousand talents program tens of thousands of the most of the world's brightest people in all of these different areas that are going to China to help them with their programs and all of these programs as you know have a dual use capability. GORDON CHANG Beijing's attacks on the United States which have occurred for weeks and weeks really worry what it shows is that China is desperate and the United States needs to defend itself because China is propagating this narrative that we spread the corona virus to China so the United States needs to just come out with the facts about how China took coronavirus samples from Canada and the United States’. They sent them to Wuhan we don't know exactly what went on in that lab there at the Wuhan Institute of virology but it's time for the United States to defend itself.

PART IV

The Secret of The Wuhan P4 Laboratory January 23rd 2020, the Wuhan virus exploded while Wuhan announced the lockdown to the city Shi Jing Lee and her team released a paper stating the Wuhan corona virus was a probable that origin. This was published in nature on February 3rd. The paper indicated that the Wuhan virus utilized the same key as SARS to gain entry into the human body. She also announced the 2019 n cov genome sequencer was 96.2% consistent with a bat coronavirus originating in Hunan China called our ATG 13 signaling a natural source the Wuhan virus. However, she Gentiles natural origin assertion is doubtful. The outbreak occurred in Wuhan. The same location as the p4 laboratory where she was based and which housed highly similar viruses. Common sense would leave the government to first inspect the p4 laboratory for any leakage incident and potential safety concerns. Instead they shifted public attention from the p4 laboratory to the South China Sea through wholesale market that sold no bats and designated it as the origin of the disease. At the same time authorities sealed off all virus samples prevented international experts from joining the investigation and used national television to slander doctors such as Li Ren Liang who disclosed the outbreak for spreading rumors. If the Wuhan virus indeed emerged naturally. Why would the CCP need to censor relevant news or block investigations. Could the Wuhan p4 laboratory have it secrets? Virus samples and genome sequences may be the exact ingredients we'll need to find our answers. GORDON CHANG When I first heard of the corona virus I was deeply concerned. Almost every disease that starts in China begins in Guangdong province the province that surrounds Hong Kong in the South but Wuhan is in the central portion of the country and so this was extremely unusual. It's not a conspiracy theory to think that the corona virus came from the Wuhan lab. We don't know at this point and until we know the theory about the lab origin is certainly something that we should consider. I noticed that after the outbreak the Wuhan Institute of biology kept strangely quiet. Under normal circumstances as the nation's highest level of AI Rolla G Research Institute. It should be the first one to actively respond when the entire country is working around the clock attempting to control the disease like. This one that so closely fits the type of viruses its scientists were researching. In contrast the Institute had a highly visible demonstration on CCTV other efforts to detect and prevent the outbreak of virus vien pigs of Guangdong in 2018. It should be noted that the Wuhan Institute displayed a series of abnormal events since the start of 2020. January 2nd an email from the director-general of the Institute to all internal staff was circulated. The subject was notice regarding the strict prohibition of disclosure of any information related to the Wuhan unknown the moment. National Health Commission clearly mandates that all detection empirical data results and conclusions related to this outbreak cannot be published on self-media or social media nor disclosed to any media including state media or collaborative organizations including any technical services companies. January 21st a new drug Ramba severe provided for free by the United States to China for Wuhan coronavirus treatment was preemptively patented by the Institute. February 3rd dr. Wu Xiaohua blew the whistle using his real name that Shi Jing Lee's haphazard laboratory management may have led the Wuhan virus to leak from the lab. February 4th chairman of doii shubo blew the whistle using his real name that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was suspected of manufacturing and leaking the Wuhan virus. February 7th top biochemical weapon expert of the People's Liberation Army Chen Wei officially assumed control over Wuhan Institute of biology z-- p for laboratory. February 14 Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for the inclusion of biosecurity into China's national security framework and to accelerate the introduction of a biosecurity Law. February 15th the Institute refuted widely spread rumors on Chinese social media that a female graduate kwangyeon Ling was patient zero and had perished. However, huang's photo CV and thesis were all removed from the Institute's official website leaving only her name. February 17 Institute researcher Chen chuan Xiao Liu the whistle using her real name that director-general of the Institute Wang Yong Yi was suspected of leaking the virus. JUDY A MIKOVITS I graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980. My first job was to go to the National Cancer Institute which was housed at Fort Detrick Maryland the same place that houses the you Sam red US Army Research Institute on infectious disease the biosafety level 4 facility equivalent of the Wuhan facility and so at these facilities it's where investigators who I went in there myself you can see the breakdowns and safety and it's everywhere. That's why I have no doubt the Chinese biosafety level 4 it was just as lacking in safety in rigor you can argue that they don't care. Faceted of leaking the virus military biochemical weapons expert assumes control biosecurity law. Now when these sensitive keywords are connected together. It tells me that the p4 laboratory is not an ordinary academic research institute. I decided to start from the beginning of the Wuhan p4 lab. On January 23rd the day Wuhan was locked down, French website challenges F are published an article that revealed many details of the collaboration between France and China to establish the p4 laboratory in Wuhan. In 2003 after the SARS outbreak in China the Chinese Academy of Sciences requested assistance from the French government to build a fire ology Research Center of the highest level.  With the support of then French Prime Minister Raffa in the two countries signed a contract to jointly construct the p4 laboratory under a wave of contention. According to the contract French architect RVT and Leon was responsible for the engineering of the laboratory. However Chinese authorities switched the work to a local Wuhan architect IP ER based on research conducted by the General Directorate of external security. IPPR had close ties to subsidies of the Chinese military. Some of which were already targets of concern by the American CIA within the 12 subsidiary departments. There was even a specific military management office. The French delayed repeatedly given security concerns. It wasn't until 2017 before the Wuhan p4 laboratory is operational and French security continued to suspect that the Chinese regime was conducting biochemical weapons experiments. Who is the real boss of the p4 laboratory? The Wuhan p4 laboratory was a subsidiary of the Wuhan Institute of biology which is managed by China Academy of Sciences. The director of the laboratory was Yuan Zhinming, who was also the head of Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan chapter, design and funding for construction where the responsibilities of the X vice presidents of the Academy. Jiang Mianheng from 1999 to 2011 and Chen Jew from 2000 to 2007. Yuan Zhinming was the eldest son of X CCP leader Johnson. After Jiang Zemin ascended to power after the Tiananmen Square massacre his son entered the Academy and led the Institute of high technologies research and develop. Yuan Zhinming created the shanghai institute of life sciences and together with china academy of sciences shanghai colleges and universities, shanghai hospitals, military hospitals and research institutions form a profit group of life sciences organizations. They controlled China's major life sciences research projects and allocation of massive funding. Jiang Zhengheng son of ji young nian hang is the controlling shareholder of Wu Shi Aptech. Which in turn is controlling for soon pharmaceutical. China's agent for REM disappear. Effectively young ji Chang is the kingdom behind the specific medicine for the outbreak. Meanwhile chen zhu is the current president of the Red Cross Society of China. Which had faced numerous scandals since the outbreak. In 1999 while Jiang Zemin was in power the People's Liberation Army published a book unrestricted warfare. In which strategies for a weaker nation to combat a stronger nation are discussed in the context of modern warfare. One of the authors Xiao Liang wrote after the first Taiwan Strait crisis we realized that if the Chinese and American military fought head-on. We are at a disadvantage therefore we need a new strategy to help our military tilt the balance of power. This new strategy is called unrestricted or a variety of means beyond all limits without any restrictions. It could be military related including guerrilla warfare, terrorism biochemical warfare or it could be non-military related, such as drug trafficking poisoning environmental destruction and computer virus dissemination. Israeli expert in biological warfare and former intelligence officer Danny shoham published a paper in 2015 in India's Journal of Defense studies. He pointed out that China will not miss skip or abandon any highly advanced technology. Especially military related technology. The article noted that China had 12 facilities related to the Ministry of National Defense and 30 subsidiary facilities of the PLA participating in the research, development, manufacturing, testing or storage of biological weapons. Federation of American scientists indicated similar concerns in an evaluation report. The organization believed that the CCP possessed advanced chemical warfare projects. Including research development manufacturing and weaponizing capabilities. The CCP is usually known to have a proactive biological warfare portfolio including state funded and sponsored research activities. GEN ROBERT SPALDING I believe they happen. I believe they're developing and I think they want to be the most advanced nation on earth when it comes to biological weapons. The same as I believe that they do forced organ harvesting. The way I say the same as I believe that they have concentration camps for we Gers. The way I believe that they have systematically killed millions of Falun Gong. It is the same thing this regime you can count on it. ANTHONY SHAFER So Wuhan is an area I think is critical by the fact that there's a lot of concern about what China's ambitions are during long term global domination how'd you say it that their military doctrine has indicated that they intend to be the dominant political and military force to Pacific Rim. I've talked to senior members of the Trump administration who've had conversations with the senior Chinese generals and that's what they basically say it's in their doctrine too so we have to examine this new clue that's so this is one piece of the you know Wuhan biological warfare is that does this mean something to these other things were already seeing because the Chinese have already kind of stated this is their objective so I think we have to analyze it through that lens what does this mean to the larger political narrative of what China wants to do to dominate the region and potentially the world. We don't have to speculate about being at war last May the Communist Party through people's daily carried a peace which said that there was a quote-unquote people's war against the United States. They've declared war on us we have to respond. There is a war China's told us there's one.

PART V

Facing the Pandemic At present the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has spread to about 190 countries with no signs of slowing down. The united states announced a state of national emergency. Europe became the new center of the outbreak. The world's largest art museum the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower closed to the public. Tragic scenes previously only found in Hollywood films are now playing out live on the world stage and given how closely it seemed to align with the Chinese regime’s narratives. I can't help but question the role the w-h-o had in this catastrophic then demo. GEN ROBERT SPALDING Well I think all you have to do is look at the photo of tigress and she shaking hands. She standing their tea juice going up to there and it really is indicative of how China controls many of these international institutions. You can see that the w-h-o is essentially following Chinese Communist Party's guidelines you can see that the UN Human Rights Council is similarly falling what China does. GORDON CHANG From the very beginning of the corona virus outbreak. The Communist Party has done its best to prevent the CDC and others from studying the origin of this disease. We don't know what's there but the fact that the Communist Party is covering this up. It should trouble us deeply. JAMES GRUNDVIG Then you see the World Health Organization take over YouTube and what's amazing is now at the bottom of every YouTube video even from Chris Martenson with his with his daily updates. He's just reading facts. Now it's the World Health Organization is a forced link to go to the site so for any person doesn't know but who the World Health is a J go there to get the propaganda. Not the facts, not the truth, they get the propaganda. Get the talking points from the World Health Organization and that is also very it's a shame that American corporations especially social media like Google like Facebook and Twitter. They're trying to sense or banner shadow ban or manipulate algorithms so no so forth to prevent an actual honest conversation. The best way this is going to be answered all this we want the truth. JUDY A MIKOVITS The biggest issue I’ve learned over my 40-year career it's not really fighting the viruses and learning how to treat the viruses. It's fighting a system that is determined to cover up and persecute anyone who reveals the truth behind. Today the World Bank many of the international institutions have essentially adopted a posture whereby if the Chinese Communist Party tells them to do what they're going to do it. I'm not surprised at all by what the WH so says I'm not surprised at all by ICAO which basically has been blocking people from that tweet about Taiwan. I mean the whole system and this is why by the way the national security strategy it came out in December 2017 says what it says which is we need to protect our societies not just the United States but all democracies. We need to rebuild them. Not invest Chinese Communist Party regime and the Belton road and they should have been made in China 2025 and we need to inspire people again to believe in democracy. Every country has diseases but in China they become national emergencies and global emergencies. Because the real disease here is communism. A sprawling and aggressive disinformation campaign at least globally by the Chinese Communist Party. The propaganda push which has escalated in recent weeks. Aims primarily to deflect the blame over the Chinese regime's botched handling of the Wuhan coronavirus. To sow discord internationally and to portray the image that the regime has contained the outbreak. During the investigative interview process well-known scientists who once suggested a laboratory origin of the virus declined to be interviewed one after another. Some avoided the topic of virus origin completely. Some had already composed scientific arguments but abruptly retracted the haters. I felt as if a giant net of censorship was cast by the CCP over virologists around the world. Silence at this time could have consequences for the health and lives of billions of people. ANTHONY SHAFER I watched CNN I watched Fox I watched CBS and I try to make my own assessment and a lot of the time you could figure out what's really going on by what they're not saying and in this case there's a lot of things not being said. Bottom line they want to make money from China. They fear the Chinese repercussions if they air this stuff it just gives you an indication of how powerful the Chinese Communist Party is. Chinese Communist Party suppressing speech in the West. Because these companies make money from China and they're afraid through the 91 week the Chinese comes as parties going to punish them if they essentially publish this stuff or allow it to be aired. There is no other movement. I think we have to recognize your audience who haven't seen it. I highly recommend your noble because the same basic governance model that screwed up Chernobyl. I would argue is now in charge of the response of the coronavirus. So, whatever you saw go wrong in Chernobyl you could still see that potential here. I'm not saying it's going to be that bad. I'm just saying that the party the central party is the thing which they want to protect their power and people and nation issues are secondary to the continuation of power. Communist Party is malign and it is grossly irresponsible. It is pressured governments to keep their borders open and it had to know that that would result in the fast bread of coronavirus to other countries. This is the worst sort of behavior and the world's got to understand that there will not be peace there will not be good order and stability in the world as long as the communist party rules China. The Wall Street Journal writes a piece is China's a sick man of Asia. It needs to be corrected. It's not Chinese a sick man of Asia. It is a communist Chinese party. That's a sick man of Asia. The communist party has policies that people abhor and it's not just its reaction to the coronavirus we see this the suppression of Rights also with the holding perhaps a million people maybe even three million people in concentration camps. So, this is just the essential nature of Chinese communism. Chinese communism is evil. While China pretends to be a responsible member of the international community. In reality they are doing much to undermine the rule of law and human rights. We at the epoch times refer to the Wuhan coronavirus or Covid 19 as a ccp virus. Because a Chinese Communist Party's cover-up in Miss handling allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic. On March 24th Texas lawyer Larry claimed and filed a complaint in Texas federal court seeking at least 20 trillion dollars from the Chinese government. Clay man said in a statement quote the Chinese people are a good people but their government is not and it must be made to pay dearly. On April 4th the British think-tank Henry Jackson Society advocated for compensation of 351 billion pounds from the CCP to the UK and that the government should pursue it through international courts the same report called for a total compensation of 3.2 trillion pounds to the g7 for the damages caused by the cover-up of the outbreak. On the same day the All India Bar Association filed a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Seeking an unspecified amount as reparations from China over the global spread of the coronavirus. Evidently the CCP violated the international health regulations. The United States and the international community must regain their senses and take action. Reveal the truth two investigations. Initiate sanctions against the CCP and seek massive restitution for the worldwide public health emergency resulting in tremendous health and economic loss. As the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong are insisting only by trying to stay away from the CCP's invasion. Can we protect ourselves in this global disaster? Let's start protecting ourselves. Let's start rebuilding our country. Let's start investing in our people. Let's start inspiring people to love democracy and transparency and open markets. Not what the Chinese have which is essentially if you read document number nine counter to every single one of those things. So, I mean it gives us a real opportunity to kind of real value eight the kind of world we want to live in and fight for the right side of that world. I want them to see the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party because when they do, they're going to wake up and when that happens democracies will begin to flourish again and when that happens. Perhaps just perhaps the people of China will have a chance. Conclusion This virus must have a message for all of us as people of this earth. We need to take a break from our busy schedules and seriously consider the repercussions of our ever-expanding scientific research and development. If we go too far do our desires and inhibitions go against the laws of nature and pull us further from the direction given by heaven. Maybe when this virus lifts, we can again find our traditional values. Rediscover kindness and virtue family. I believe that viruses can't survive where hearts have compassion.   Read the full article

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Random Event Generator (REG) Outcomes in Frederick County/Brunswick Heritage Museum Ghost Expedition 2017: Evidence of Psi Functioning?

Graphical displays of Random Event Generator (REG) experiment results captured by Maryland Paranormal Research ® at the Brunswick Heritage Museum Oct 13 - 14 2017.

Random Event Generators (REGs) are statistical devices commonly employed in parapsychology to test mind-matter interactions, specifically microscopic psychokinesis (micro-pk) activity.

REGs generate a random walk from a sequence of 200-bit trials per second of binary [0,1] events. [The device flips a coin 200 times per second.] 

The bits are generated by random or unpredictable fluctuations in voltages as electrons tunnel through a barrier in a diode.  High and low voltage samples are converted into 1 and 0 bits

The expected average from 200-bit trials having 0 or 1 outcomes is 100. Actual averages will be higher (or lower) than 100.  The difference between an actual and the expected average is termed an “error”

A simple random walk is obtained by cumulating the errors (or normalized errors) from each series of bit trials. For some purposes, e.g. “goodness of fit” statistics, it is convenient to compute the cumulative error squared

REGs also display a parabolic boundary at the 95% confidence level.  Hence random walks have a 1 in 20 chance of ending outside parabola bounds

At Princeton University, REGs were used to study global consciousness fields as part of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program spanning nearly three decades.  This global network of REGs is now managed by the Global Consciousness Project (GCP).

For Brunswick Heritage Museum Ghost Expedition 2017, REG experiment epochs were conducted during and after extended direct radio voice (DRV) sessions.  

The first epoch commenced 9:06 pm and ended 10:23 pm on Oct 13 2017. This epoch generated a random walk trending well below baseline levels.  The epoch was characterized by a high Z score, statistically significant at the 10% level (in two-tailed tests) and at the 5% level (in a one tailed test), suggesting high levels of psi functioning

The second epoch commenced 10:57 pm on Oct 13 and ended 1:26 am on Oct 14 2017. This epoch generated a random walk generally trending above baseline levels and sharply uptrending in the final stages. The epoch was characterized by a medium-high Z score, statistically significant at the 15% level (in two-tailed tests) and at the 10% level (in a one tailed test), suggesting medium-high levels of psi functioning

Communication engagement either through microphone or direct radio voice methods was fairly regular even in the final stages of the expedition

These outcomes lend support for indications of implicit psi during the Brunswick Heritage Museum Ghost Expedition 2017.  The psi functioning is implicit, working on subliminal or unconscious levels. The conscious focus of participants is on the engagement itself

It is  not possible to precisely know the sources of psi functioning (or field effects) on the REG, whether it is from post-mortem or living agencies (e.g. experiment participants and/or experimenters themselves).

REG results in isolation can’t provide evidence of a haunting. A haunting involves recurring activity experienced in varied physical forms seemingly sourced to post-mortem agencies, appearing to have an affinity for a location or parts of a location

Instead REG results may be conservatively interpreted as a consciousness effect that at least bears some relation to efforts to communicate with post-mortem agencies, the attention and focus given to that communication, and perhaps from the communications themselves

The outcomes seen here are not unlike those encountered when REGs are positioned near sporting and concert events, where implicit psi from crowd engagement and attention appears to drive REG trending

The direction of bit scoring or trending in REGs is not fully understood and requires continuing experimentation  

Various studies suggest it may be correlated with: goal orientation or intention; emotional states; the (psychological) valence of events; the extent of attention and focus; and innate psi ability

In linguistics and the semantic framing around graphs, "up" is considered "good" and "down" is considered "bad." This kind of meaning, while natural, may not fit all circumstances affecting above or below baseline REG trending

If sustained REG downtrends were a signature for post-mortem agency (ghosts), this would imply that low-voltage sampling/scoring is somehow easier for this form of agency.  However that is an unknown

Until more is known, the statistical significance of a trend perhaps matters more than its direction

REFERENCES:

Comparison of Random Event Generator (REG) Outcomes In Sequential Paranormal Investigations of Haunted Locations. (2016, Jun 4). Maryland Paranormal Research ®

Maryland Paranormal Research ®. (2017, Sep 30). Ghost Expedition Frederick County/Brunswick Heritage Museum.  Maryland Paranormal Research ®

Nelson, R. (1998). The Global Consciousness Project: How the Measurement Works. Global Mind. 

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research. (2010).  Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena. Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Psyleron Inc., (2008). Random Event Generators: What is a Random Event Generator?  Psyleron Inc., Consciousness Technologies and Research.

IMAGES:

Maryland Paranormal Research ®. (2017, Oct 13). Brunswick Heritage Museum: Random Event Generator Experiment at 2106 EST on Oct 13 2017. ©  Maryland Paranormal Research ®. All rights reserved.

Maryland Paranormal Research ®. (2017, Oct 13). Brunswick Heritage Museum: Random Event Generator Experiment at 2257 EST on Oct 13 2017. ©  Maryland Paranormal Research ®. All rights reserved.

Maryland Paranormal Research ®. (2017, Oct 13). Brunswick Heritage Museum: 3rd Floor at 2357 EST on Oct 13 2017. ©  Maryland Paranormal Research ®. All rights reserved.

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September 15-22 2019 Week Ahead Forecast

September 15-22 2019 Week Ahead Forecast

By Hare in the Moon Astrology

“Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write down the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent.” Jeanette LeBlanc

The 2020 Gateway is now wide open – a rising tide of unstoppable momentum which will double the acceleration of the Freedom Codes every month for the next 3.5 months as we approach the December 26 Capricorn eclipse. Notice an unsettling feeling of time-collapse; of weirdly stepping outside of it all yet still being engaged as things further exit/enter/shift/transition more fully at this latest level of the embodiment process.

Yesterday’s Pisces Full Moon heralded a new phase of intense Evolutionary Burn.Make a note of these dates:

Saturn Lord of Time and Karma stations to turn Direct on Wednesday September 18th making one last conjunction with the karmic South Node of Fate- a doorway between 3D and 5D

The Node of Fate at 13 Cancer conjuncts Great Central Sun Sirius for the first time since 2000 on September 24

The 3rd (!) Super New Moon in a row presses fast forward on September 28 – a Stealth Super Moon with a longer than usual seismic storm window disrupting the frequencies and sending your nervous system haywire.

As Saturn turns direct to catch up with Pluto, the single most important thing you can do in the 15 weeks between now and the epochal January 12 2020 Saturn/Pluto Conjunction, is to re-set to your own True North and give form to whatever you are developing or creating. If you can’t, then it’s time to throw away the old blueprint and start again, conserving and concentrating your resources.

This is a not to be repeated opportunity to build a permanent platform for growth. Frame pragmatic, grounded Saturn as your leverage point in the intensifying Saturn/Pluto Conjunction where the part of your life symbolised by 13-25 degrees Capricorn is undergoing complete renovation from the ground up. Building strong foundations to support your radically re-purposed direction of travel has never been so important.

As Saturn turns Direct, ideas, projects, dreams and visions you left by the wayside will remind you of their existence. New connections, synchronicities and opportunities will appear seemingly out of nowhere that in reality you’ve been creating from the deep structure causative level since December 2017.

Step 1: take responsibility for where you are. Step 2: clarify your values. Step 3: write down what you want and how you want to feel. Step 4: clean up any past memories not consistent with what you want. Step 5: create your future by dropping new memories into your future time-line. Step 6: align your thoughts with your intentions. Step 7: play everything at a 100%.

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Nevinson in New York

Nevinson caused a sensation with his one man exhibition of war paintings in 1916. The images presented the modern age’s first industrialized war, often in bold modernistic style derived from Futurism, and the pictures all sold. †

Nevinson’s artistic legacy in Britain had been established by his two exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries in 1916 and 1918. It was his work during this time, documenting the First World War that gave him some fame. The works at this time being a mixture of abstraction and futurism. When he first went to New York, it was as a war hero, a survivor and documenter of war in a bold new ‘futurist’ way. 

Nevinson was invited to New York in 1919 by David Keppel of the print publishers Frederick Keppel and Co, to exhibit his War prints. Manhattan’s architecture inspired him, not only by the sheer beauty of its skyscrapers. ♣

Nevinson made two trips to New York, the first in 1919 and again the following year. His first visit was to attend the exhibition of his war etchings and lithographs. This first exhibition held at Keppel and Co was a great success and the catalogue came with an introduction by the well known American critic and connoisseur Albert Gallatin.

It would have been during this first trip that Nevinson started a whole series of new works based on New York City. Many of these works were made from sketches and studies he made from the first trip, but were sold during his second. Many of the works are harder to date, a lot of the works are considered 1919/1920 but many of the dates rely on the year they were sold, not the year they were made. The process of lithography and etchings needed to be made in the studio later, some were sold at an exhibition in 1921. It is likely that many of the works that are etchings where also made into oil paintings(The Great White Way, Three AM), but their location is currently a mystery.

 C.R.W Nevinson - Temples of New York, 1919 (Etching)

 C.R.W Nevinson - The Statue of Liberty from the Railroad Club, 1919 (Oil)

 C.R.W Nevinson - New York, Night, 1919 (Oil)

The print below ‘Looking down Wall Street’ has a view of the Brooklyn Bridge in the top left corner, though only 30 something years old at the time, the bridge and its size were still a marvel of engineering. 

 C.R.W Nevinson - Looking Down into Wall Street, 1919 (Lithograph)

He was clearly captivated by the city, compared to the London of the 1920s it must have been something, the skyscrapers of the time in New York would have been the Woolworth Building (60 stories) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (50 stories), but most of the ‘skyscrapers’ of the early 1920s peaked around 30 stories tall. London didn’t start building above 20 stories until the 1960s. Nevinson is quoted below:

'New York, being the Venice of this epoch, has triumphed, thanks to its engineers and architects, as successfully as the Venetians did in their time.. Where the Venetian drove stakes into his sandbanks to overcome nature, the American has pegged his city to the sky. No sight can be more exhilarating and beautiful than this triumph of man. ♥

 C.R.W Nevinson - The Great White Way, 1920 (Lithograph)

Between the New York exhibitions of 1919 and October 1920 Nevinson exhibited in the Senefelder Club - Leicester Galleries in February 1920 and also at the Manchester City Art Gallery in July 1920. The Great White Way was shown first at the Senefelder Club and Three AM shown first at Manchester.

 C.R.W Nevinson - Three A.M. - A Corner by Madison Square at Night. 1920 (Etching)

 C.R.W Nevinson - Looking through Brooklyn Bridge, 1920 (Etching)

His second exhibition held at the Bourgeois Gallery was much larger, with a series of paintings and etchings of New York that failed to capture the attention of the public. The press were kind but the works did not sell well and there is little reporting of the second exhibition in comparison to the first. Nevinson hired a cuttings agency to collect all items about him that featured in the press.   

 Below is an extract from the New York Herald, 24th October, 1920. 

“Art,” says Mr. Nevinson, “triumphs in utility, and the most beautiful products of the modern world are a Rolls-Royce car and a skyscraper. They have been built for strict utility; their lines are perfect and they must appeal to the genuine artist. New York will be remembered for its introduction of the architecture of the skyscraper long after its people have been forgotten for other things." ◊

New York should like Mr. Nevinson and his work, for surely he is her friend. No native could ever idealize America’s greatest city more than this foreigner. ◊

 C.R.W Nevinson - Under Brooklyn Bridge, 1920 (Etching)

Here I start to look at the station and railway pictures. Here is a photograph of the Fulton Street Station and the Elevated railway. Railways like this started in London but were built of bricks with viaduct structures. In New York, the buildings were made of iron girders and so the railways were bridged with  girders. 

In a wonderful bit of research I found a photograph of the station at the intersection of Greenwich Street in Manhattan. When the railway line was taken down the World Trade Centre was built just to the left of this photograph.

 Greenwich and Fulton Streets, 1914

The photograph shows the same view only 4 years before Nevinson stood in the same spot. Being able to pinpoint the location of the station has helped with the location of other works too.

 C.R.W Nevinson - Third Avenue, Elevated Railway, 1920 (Drawing)

 C.R.W Nevinson - Third Avenue, Elevated Railway, 1920 (Oil)

Critics have suggested that the almost Monet style of the oil painting Third Avenue, Elevated Railway is down to it being painted on the spot and not in Nevinson’s studio. The etching that would  have been made later still has some of the free feeling that the painting has and is more pictorial and more photo accurate than many of his pictures are. 

 C.R.W Nevinson - Under the Elevated, 1921 (Etching)

 C.R.W Nevinson - New York: An Abstraction, 1921 (Etching)

 C.R.W Nevinson - Fulton Station of 3rd Ave El, c1950

With the help of the drawing above and finding the location we can see that Nevinson was working in this part of New York on many views. The photo above is the same view as the etching above and the painting below. You can look at the metal fire escapes on either side of the buildings and find they match up. It is the view from the very end of the platform of the Fulton station. The skyscrapers become a theatrical fantasy. 

 C.R.W Nevinson - The Soul of the Soulless City, Previously known as New York - an Abstraction ,1920 (Oil)

The poor reception of this exhibition may have accelerated Nevinson’s disaffection with the city. His growing embitterment is perhaps reflected by the change of title. Originally exhibited in 1920 at the Bourgeois Galleries, ‘New York, as New York - an Abstraction’, it was re-titled ‘The Soul of the Soulless City’ in the Faculty of Arts Exhibition, Grosvenor House, London, in 1925 probably at Nevinson’s instigation. ♦

 C.R.W Nevinson - Looking Down on Downtown, 1920 (Oil)

 C.R.W Nevinson - New York, Night, 1920 (Mezzotint)

† Michael Walsh - A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946), 2007  ♣ C.R.W. Nevinson 1889 - 1946 Retrospective Exhibition Of Paintings, Drawings And Prints: Kettle’s Yard Gallery 1988 ♥ David Cohen - C.R.W. Nevinson, The Twentieth Century, p46, 1999. ◊ New York Herald, 24th October, 1920. ♦ Tate, London, T07448.

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IF WE ARE TO DEFEAT COMMUNISM WE MUST KNOW WHO THE ENEMY IS!

THE SECRET DRIVING FORCE OF COMMUNISM

CHAPTER ONE

COMMUNISM AS DESTROYER

Of all revolutionary systems, which throughout human history have been devised for the destruction of our civilized values, Communism is, without doubt, the most perfected, most efficient and most merciless. In fact, it represents the most advanced epoch of the world revolution, in whose postulates it therefore not only acts to destroy a definite political, social, economic or moral institution but also simultaneously to declare null and void as well as all cultural and Christian manifestations which represent our civilization.

All revolutionary currents of Jewish origin have attacked Christianity in its different aspects with particular one-mindedness. Communism, spawned from this same revolutionary stream of thought, seeks to banish Christianity for the purpose of causing it to vanish from the face of the earth, without even the slightest trace remaining. The destructive fury of this satanic striving, which brings before the eyes of the world the most terrible pictures of terror and destruction which are possible to imagine, can only be based on the essence of Nihilism and the most evil, hate-filled rejection of everything hitherto existing. For otherwise, one would not be able to understand the indescribable insanity of its criminal acts and the spirit of destruction, of annihilation, of insult, of contradiction and of resistance by its leading personalities against everything, which represents fundamental features not only of Catholicism but of religion in general.

The purpose of Communism is, as we have indeed seen in Russia and in the other lands where it has been introduced, none other than to enslave the people in the economic, political, social, human and super-human sense, in order to make possible a minority rule through violence. From an international aspect, the goal cannot be clearer:

“To attain through violence world domination by an insignificant minority, which destroys the rest of humanity by means of materialism, terror and, if necessary, by death, completely indifferent to whether in the process the enormous majority of the population must be murdered.”

The urge to murder, which has characterised the leading Soviet personages, is known well throughout the world. There are few, who upon learning of the bloody purges, which have been undertaken by the Marxists in Russia, will not be seized by shudders of horror. One needs only to recall a few details to fill the most stout hearts with fear and alarm.

“In its beginnings the Red Terror strove above all to exterminate the Russian Intelligentsia.”1 As proof of this assertion S.P. Melgunow affirms the following, in which he refers to the “Special Committees”, which appeared in Russia in the first period of the Social revolution:

“The special committees are not organs of law, but of merciless extermination according to the decisions of the Communist Central Committee. The special committee is neither a commission of investigation nor a court of justice, but itself determines its own powers. It is an instrument of battle, which acts on the internal front of the civil war. It does not pardon whoever stands on the other side of the barricades, but kills them.

“It is not difficult to form ideas of how in reality this extermination proceeds, when in place of the nullified legal code only the revolutionary experience and conscience command. This conscience is subjective and experience allows complete free play to the will, which always, according to the position of the judge, takes on more or less furious forms.”2

“Let us not carry on war against individual persons” – wrote Latsis – “but let us exterminate the Bourgeoisie as a class. Do not investigate, through study of documents and proofs, what the accused has done in words and deeds against the Soviet authority. The first question to be placed before him runs as to what class he belongs to, what is his origin, his education, his training and his profession.”3

During the bloody dictatorship of Lenin, the Committee of Investigation under Rohrberg (Rohrberg, C.), which after the capture of Kiev entered this city with the White volunteers in August 1919, reported the following:

“The entire concrete floor of the large garage (this was the place where the provincial Cheka of Kiev had carried out executions) was swimming in blood, which did not flow but formed a layer of several inches; it was a grisly mixture of blood with brain and skull fragments, as well as strands of hair and other human remains. The entire walls, holed by thousands of bullets, were spattered with blood, and fragments of brain as well as head skin adhered to them.

“A drain ditch of 25 cm width and 25 cm deep and about 10 m long ran from the middle of the garage to a nearby room, where there was a subterranean outlet pipe. This drain ditch was filled to the top with blood.

“Usually, immediately after the massacre, the corpses were removed in lorries or horse-drawn wagons from the city and buried in a mass grave. In the corner of a garden we came upon an older mass grave, which contained about 80 corpses, in which we discovered signs of the most varied and unimaginable cruelties and mutilation. There were corpses from which the entrails had been removed; others had different limbs amputated and others again were cut into pieces. Some had had the eyes poked out, while the head, the face, the neck and the torso were covered with deep wounds. Further on we found a corpse with an axe in the breast, while others had no tongues. In a corner of the mass grave we discovered many legs and arms severed from the trunk.”4

The enormous number of corpses, which have already been laid to the account of Communist Socialism and which increase terrifyingly all the while, will perhaps never be exactly known, but it exceeds everything imaginable. It is not possible to learn the exact number of the victims. All estimates lie below the real figure.”

In the Edinburgh newspaper “The Scotsman” of 7th November, 1923, Professor Sarolea gave the following figures:

“28 Bishops; 1,219 priests; 6,000 Professors and teachers; 9,000 doctors; 54,000 Officers; 260,000 soldiers; 70,000 Policemen; 12,950 estate owners; 355,250 intellectuals and of the free professions; 193,290 workers and 215,000 peasants.”

The Information Committee of Denikin on the Bolshevistic intrigue during the years 1918-1919 records in a treatise about the Red Terror in these two years “one million, seven hundred thousand victims.”5 In the “Roul” of 3rd August 1923, Kommin makes the following observation:

“During the winter of 1920 there existed in the USSR, 52 governments with 52 Special Committees (Chekas), 52 Special Departments and 52 revolutionary courts. Besides countless subsidiary Chekas, transport-networks, courts on the railways as well as troops for internal security, there were mobile courts, which were dispatched to mass executions in the places concerned.”

To this list of courts of torture must be added the special departments, i.e., 16 army and divisional courts. All in all one must estimate 1000 torture chambers. If it is borne in mind that at that time district committees also existed in addition, then the number rises further. In addition the number of governments of the USSR increased. Siberia, the Crimea and the Far East were conquered. The number of Chekas grew in geometrical ratio.

According to Soviet data (in the year 1920 when the terror had still not ebbed and the reporting of news was not restricted) it is possible to establish an average figure for every court; the curve of executions rises from one to fifty (in the great cities) and up to one hundred in the regions recently conquered by the Red Army. The crisis of terror was periodic and then ceased; in this manner one can daily estimate the (modest) figure of five victims..., which, multiplied with the thousand courts, gives a result of five thousand, and thus for the year roughly one and a half million. We recall this indescribable slaughter, not because in its totality it was either the most numerous or the most merciless to arise from the special situation and inflamed passions consequent on the first victories of the Bolshevist revolution, but because today, forty-five years after these mass executions took place, all this might otherwise be obliterated from the present Communist picture, even for the persons who were contemporaries of the events and who today, still alive, have forgotten those tragedies with the ease with which people forget not only unpleasant events which do not directly concern them, but even those to which they fell victim.

Unhappily, time has shown us a truly demonic excess of Communism in its murderous activity, about which we give no details and do not present the monstrous statistics because all this is known to us. Several of these cruel bloodbaths have only taken place recently, so that one still seems to hear the lament of the persecuted, the death-rattle of the dying and the dumb, the terrible and haunting complaint of the corpses.6

It may suffice to recall the recent giant bloodbaths in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Cuba as well as the earlier mass killings by Stalin and the annihilation of millions of Chinese through the Communist regime of Mao-Tse-Tung. But also the Communist attempts at revolution, which failed to achieve lasting permanence, such as that of Bela Kun who occupied Hungary in such a brutal way in the middle of 1919; of Spain in 1936, where the Bolsheviks gained control of Madrid and parts of the Spanish provinces and murdered more than 16,000 priests, monks and nuns, as well as 12 Bishops; further the happily unsuccessful attempt in Germany, its most successful realisation in the Red Republic of Bavaria in the year 1919. All these attempts were in fact orgies of 1918, which was directed by Hugo Haase, and which had blood and unrestrained bestiality.

One must also not forget that this Apocalyptic storm, which brings a flood of corpses, blood and tears, falls upon the world with the sole goal: to destroy not only the Catholic Church but the entire Christian civilisation.7 Before this shattering picture the world asks itself with heavy heart: who can hate our Christian features in such a form and try to destroy them with such Godless fury? Who has become capable of instigating this bloody mechanics of annihilation? Who can with such insensitivity direct and order this monstrous criminal process? And reality answers us completely without doubt that the [Bolshevik] Jews are those responsible, as will later be proved.

CHAPTER TWO

THE CREATORS OF THE SYSTEM

There is absolutely no doubt, that the Jews are the inventors of Communism; for they have been the instigators of the dogma, upon which that monstrous system is built, which at present with absolute power rules the greatest part of Europe and Asia, which stirs up the lands of America and with progressive certainty floods over all Christian peoples of the world like a deadly cancerous growth, like a tumour, which steadily devours the core of the free nations, without apparently an effective means of cure being found against this disease.

But the Jews are also the inventors and directors of the Communist methods, of effective tactics of struggle, of the insensitive and totally inhuman government policy and of aggressive international strategy. It is a completely proven fact that the Communist theoreticians were all Jews, unheeded of what system the Jews lastingly use, as well as the theoreticians and the experienced revolutionaries, which has veiled from the eyes of the people, where they lived, their true origin.

1. Karl Heinrich Marx was a German Jew, whose real name was Kissel Mordekay, born in Trier, Rhineland, son of a Jewish lawyer. Before his famous work “Das Kapital” which contains the fundamental idea of theoretical Communism, whose concepts he strove with inexhaustible activity up to his death in the year 1887 to spread over the world, he had written and published with the Jew Engels in the year 1848 the Communist Manifesto in London; between 1843 and 1847 he had formulated in England the first modern interpretation of Hebrew Nationalism in his articles, as in the publication in the year 1844 in the periodical “Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbücher” (German-French Year Books) under the title “Concerning the Jewish question”, which shows an ultra-national tendency.

2. Friedrich Engels, creator of the “First International”, and close collaborator of Marx, was a Jew and born in Bremen (Germany). His father was a Jewish cotton merchant of the city. Engels died in the year 1894.

3. Karl Kautski, whose real name was Kraus, was the author of the book “The Beginnings of Christianity”, in which he mainly combats the principles of Christianity. He was the most important interpreter of Karl Marx and in 1887 published “The Economic Doctrine of Karl Marx Made Intelligible for All.” “The Bloodbath of Chisinaw and the Jewish Question”, in the year 1903, “The Class Struggle”, which for Mao-Tse-Tung in China was the fundamental book for Communist instruction; and the work with the title “The Vanguard of Socialism”, in the year 1921. He was also the author of the “Socialist Programme” from Erfurt/Germany. This Jew was born in the year 1854 in Prague and died in 1938 in the Hague (Holland).

4. Ferdinand Lassalle, Jew, born in the year 1825 in Breslau. He had interfered in the democratic revolution of 1848. In the year 1863 he published his work entitled “Open Answers”, in which he outlined a plan of revolution for the German workers. Since then he worked tirelessly for a “Socialist” crusade, which was directed at the rebellion of the workers. For this purpose he published a further work under the title “Capital and Labour.”

5. Eduard Bernstein. A Jew born in Berlin in the year 1850. His principal works are “Assumptions concerning Socialism”, “Forward, Socialism”, “Documents of Socialism”, “History and Theory of Socialism”, “Social Democracy of Today in Theory and Practice”, “The Duties of Social Democracy”, and “German Revolution”. In all his writings he expounds the Communist teaching and bases it on the views of Marx. In the year 1918 he became Finance minister of the German Socialist state, which, however, could fortunately only maintain itself a few months.

6. Jacob Lastrow, Max Hirsch, Edgar Loening, Wirschauer, Babe, Schatz, David Ricardo and many other writers of theoretical Communism were Jews. In all lands are found writers, almost exclusively Jewish, who preach Communism to the masses, although with many opportunities they strive to give the appearance in their writings of a feeling of humanity and brotherhood. We have indeed already seen in practice what this means.8

However theoretical all Jews mentioned may have been, they were not satisfied with setting up the doctrinaire bases, but each one of them was an experienced revolutionary, who busied himself in whatever particular land he found himself, to factually prepare the upheaval, to direct or to give it support. As leaders or members of revolutionary associations known only to one another, they took more and more active part in the development or Bolshevism. But apart from these Jews, who in the main were regarded as theoreticians, we find that almost all materialist leaders, who develop Communist tactics, also belong to the same race and carry out their task with the greatest efficacy.

As indisputable examples two movements of this type can be recorded:

A) In the year 1918 Germany was showpiece of a Communist, Jew directed revolution. The Red Councils of the republic of Munich was Jewish, as its instigators prove: Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Kurt Eisner and many others. With the fall of the monarchy the Jews gained control of the country and the German government. With Ministers of State Haase and Landsberg appear Kautsky, Kohn and Herzfeld. The Finance minister was likewise a Jew, had his racial fellow Bernstein as assistant and the minister of the Interior, likewise a Jew, and sought the collaboration of his racial brother, Doctor Freund, who helped him in his work.

Kurt Eisner, the President of the Bavarian Councils Republic, was the instigator of the Bolshevist revolution in Munich.

“Eleven little men made the revolution”, said Kurt Eisner in the intoxication of triumph to his colleague, the Minister Auer. It is no more than right to preserve the unforgettable memory of these little men, who were, in fact, the Jews Max Lowenberg, Doctor Kurt Rosenfeld, Caspar Wollheim, Max Rothschild, Carl Arnold, Kranold, Rosenhek, Birnbaum, Reis and Kaisser. These ten with Kurt Eisner van Israelowitsch led the presidency of the Revolutionary court of Germany. All eleven were Freemasons and belonged to the secret lodge N.° which had its seat in Munich at No. 51 Briennerstrasse.9

The first cabinet of Germany in the year 1918 was composed of Jews.

1. Preuss, Minister of the Interior. 2. Freund, Minister of the Interior. 3. Landsberg, Finance Minister. 4. Karl Kautski, Finance Minister. 5. Schiffer, Finance Minister. 6. Eduard Bernstein, secretary of the State Treasury. 7. Fritz Max Cohen, director of the official information service. (This Jew was earlier correspondent of the Jewish “Frankfurter Zeitung”).

The second “German Socialist government” of 1918 was formed of the following Jews:

1. Hirsch, Minister of the Interior. 2. Rosenfeld, Justice Minister. 3. Futran, Minister of education. 4. Arndt, Minister of education. 5. Simon, State secretary of finances. 6. Kastenberg, director of the department of science and art. 7. Strathgen, director of colonial department. 9. Wurm, secretary of food. 10. Merz, Weil, Katzenstein, Stern, Lowenberg, Frankel, Schlesinger, Israelowitz, Selingsohn, Laubenheim, etc., took up high posts in the ministries.

Among the remaining Jews who controlled the sectors vital to life of the German state, which had been defeated through the American intervention in the war, were found in the year 1918, and later:

1. Kohen, President of the German workers and soldiers councils (similar to the Soviet council of soldiers and workers of Moscow in the same year). 2. Ernst, police president of Berlin. 3. Sinzheimer, police president of Frankfurt. 4. Lewy, police president of Hessen. 5. Kurt Eisner, Bavarian state president. 6. Jaffe Bavarian finance minister. 7. Brentano, Industry, trade and transport minister. 8. Talheimer, minister in Württemberg. 9. Heimann, another minister in Württemberg. 10. Fulda, in the government of Hesse. 11. Theodor Wolf, chief editor of the newspaper “Berliner Tageblatt.” 12. Gwiner, director of the “Deutsche Bank”.10

B) Hungary in the year 1919. On 20th March 1919 the Jew Bela Kun (Cohn) took over power in Hungary and proclaimed the Hungarian Soviet republic, which from that moment on was submerged in a hair-raising sea of blood. Twenty-eight (28) Commissars formed with him the new government and of these 18 were Israelites. That is an unheard of proportion, when one bears in mind that in Hungary lived one and a half million Israelites compared to 22 million inhabitants. The 18 Commissars held the actual control of rulership in their hands and the eight Gentile Commissars could do nothing against them.11

“More than 90% of the members of the government and the confidence men of Bela Kun were also Jews. Here follows a list of members of the Bela Kun government:

1. Bela Kun, general secretary of the Jewish government. 2. Sandor Garbai, “official” president of the government, who was used by the Jews as a Hungarian man of straw. 3. Peter Agoston, deputy of the general secretary; Jew. 4. Dr. E. Landler, Peoples commissar for internal affairs; Jew. 5. Bela Vago, deputy of Landler, a Jew with the name Weiss. 6. E. Hamburger, Agriculture Commissar; Jew. 7. Vantus, deputy of Hamburger; Jew. 8. Csizmadia, deputy of Hamburger; Hungarian. 9. Nyisztor, deputy of Hamburger; Hungarian. 10 Varga, Commissar for financial affairs; Jew by name Weichselbaum. 11. Szkely, deputy of Varga; Jew by name Schlesinger. 12. Kunftz, Education minister; Jew by name Kunstater. 13. Kukacs, deputy of Kunfi; a Jew, who in reality was chilled Lowinger and was the son of the director-general of a banking house in Budapest. 14. D. Bokanyi, Minister of labour; Hungarian. 15. Fiedler, deputy of Bokanyi; Jew. 16. Jozsef Pogany, War Commissar; a Jew, who in reality was called Schwartz. 17. Szanto, deputy of Pogany; a Jew named Schreiber. 18. Tibor Szamuelly, deputy of Pogany, a Jew named Samuel. 19. Matyas Rakosi, trade Minister; a Jew, who in reality was called Matthew Roth Rosenkrantz, present Communist dictator. 20. Ronai, Commissar of law; a Jew named Rosentstegl. 21. Ladai, deputy of Ronai; Jew. 22. Erdelyi, Commissar of supply; a Jew named Eisenstein. 23. Vilmas Boehm, Socialisation Commissar; Jew. 24. Hevesi, deputy of Boehm; a Jew named Honig. 25. Dovsak, second deputy of Boehm; Jew. 26. Oszkar Jaszai, Commissar of nationalities; a Jew named Jakubovits. 27. Otto Korvin, political examining Commissar; a Jew named Klein. 28. Kerekes, state lawyer; a Jew named Krauss. 29. Biro, chief of the political police; a Jew named Blau. 30. Seidem, adjutant of Biro; Jew. 31. Oszkar Faber, Commissar for liquidation of Church property; Jew. 32. J. Czerni, commander of the terrorist bands, which were known by the name “Lenin youth”; Hungarain. 33. Illes, supreme police Commissar; Jew. 34. Szabados, supreme police Commissar; a Jew named Singer. 35. Kalmar, supreme police Commissar; German Jew. 36. Szabo, supreme police Commissar; Ruthenian Jew, who in reality was called Schwarz. 37. Vince, Peoples Commissar of the city of Budapest, who in reality was called Weinstein. 38. M. Kraus, Peoples Commissar of Budapest; Jew. 39. A. Dienes, Peoples Commissar of Budapest; Jew. 40. Lengyel, President of the Austro-Hungarian bank; a Jew named Levkovits. 41. Laszlo, President of the Communist revolutionary court; a Jew, who in reality was called Lowy.12

In this government which for a time held Hungary in thrall, the chief of the Hungarian Cheka Szamuelly, besides Bela Kun, distinguished himself through countless crimes and plunderings. While the latter rode through the land in his luxury automobile (with the symbol of a large gallows mounted on the vehicle, and accompanied by his capable Jewish woman secretary R. S. Salkind, alias Semliachkay), the former travelled through Hungary in his special train and sowed terror and death, as a contemporary witness describes:

“That train of death travelled snorting through the black Hungarian nights; where it stopped, one saw people hanging from trees and blood which ran on the ground. Along the railway line naked and mutilated corpses were to be seen. Szamuelly dictated his judgements in his train, and whoever was forced to enter never lived to tell the tale of what he saw. Szamuelly lived constantly in this train. Thirty selected terrorists ensured his security. Selected executioners accompanied him. The train consisted of two saloon wagons, two first-class wagons, which were occupied by the terrorists, and two third-class wagons for the victims. In the latter executions were carried out. The floor of this wagon was stiff with blood. The corpses were thrown out of the windows, while Szamuelly sat comfortably in the elegant workroom of his compartment which was upholstered in rose-coloured damask and decorated with polished mirrors. With a movement of the hand he decided over life or death.”13

CHAPTER THREE

THE HEAD OF COMMUNISM

There exists therefore not the slightest doubt, that the Marxist theory (Communism) is a Jewish work, just as is also its every action, which aims at putting this doctrine into practice.

Before the final establishing of Bolshevism in Russia the directors and organisers of all Communist movements in their entirety were almost solely Jews, just as the great majority of the true organisers of the revolutions were to which they gave the impetus. But in Russia, as the first land where Bolshevism finally triumphed, and where it was and still is the fulcrum or driving force for the Communising of the world, the Jewish paternity of the system of organisation and of Soviet praxis also allows no doubt or error. According to the irrefutable data, which has been fully and completely proved and recognised by all impartial writers who have dealt with this theme, the Communist work of the Jews in the land of the Czars is so powerful that it would be useless to deny this disastrous triumph as their monopoly.

It suffices to recall the names of those who have formed the governments and the principal leading organs in the Soviet Union, in order to know what one has immediately to think of the clear and categorical proof of the evidence.

I - MEMBERS OF THE FIRST COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF MOSCOW (1918) (Council of Peoples Commissars)

1. Ilich Ulin (Vladimir Ilich Ulianov or Nikolaus Lenin). President of the Supreme Soviet, Jew on mother’s side. His mother was called Blank, a Jewess of German origin. 2. Lew Davinovich Bronstein (Leo Trotsky), Commissar for the Red Army and the Navy; Jew. 3. Iosiph David Vissarionovich Djugashvili-Kochba (Joseph Vissarianovich Stalin), Nationalities Commissar; descendant of Jews from Georgia. 4. Chicherin; Commissar for foreign affairs; Russian. 5. Apfelbaum (Grigore Zinoviev), Commissar for internal affairs; Jew. 6. Kohen (Volodarsky), Commissar for press and propaganda; Jew. 7. Samuel Kaufmann, Commissar for the landed property of the State; Jew. 8. Steinberg, law Commissar; Jew. 9. Schmidt, Commissar for public works; Jew. 10. Ethel Knigkisen (Liliana), Commissar for supply, Jewess. 11. Pfenigstein, Commissar for the settlement of refugees; Jew. 12. Schlichter (Vostanoleinin) Commissar for billetings (confiscation of private houses for the Reds); Jew. 13. Lurie (Larin), President of the supreme economic council; Jew. 14. Kukor (Kukorsky), Trade Commissar; Jew. 15. Spitzberg, Culture Commissar; Jew. 16. Urisky (Radomilsky), Commissar for “elections”; Jew. 17. Lunacharsky, Commissar for public schools. Russian. 18. Simasko, Commissar for health; Jew. 19. Protzian, Agriculture Commissar; Armenian.

In the Appendix at the end of this volume can be found the interesting and illustrative lists of the Jewish officials in all the government bodies of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party, the Red Army, the Secret Police, the trade unions, etc.

Of a total of 502 offices of first rank in the organisation and direction of the Communist revolution in Russia and in the direction of the Soviet State during the first years of its existence, no less than 459 posts are occupied by Jews, while only 43 of these offices have been occupied by Gentiles of different origin. Who then has accordingly carried out this terrible revolution? The Gentiles perhaps? Another statistic, which was published in Paris by the counter-revolutionary newspaper “Le Russe Nationaliste”, after the victory of the Jewish Communists in Russia, reveals that of 554 Communist leaders of first rank in different offices the racial composition was as follows:

Jews447

Lithuanians43

Russians30

Armenians13

Germans12

Finns3

Poles2

Georgians2

Czechs1

Hungarians1

During the Second World War, and from then on up to our present time, the Jewish clique which rules the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, continues to be very numerous, for at the head of the names stands Stalin himself, who for a long time was regarded as a Georgian of pure descent. But it has been revealed that he belongs to the Jewish race; for Djougachvili, which is his surname, means “Son of Djou”, and Djou is a small island in Persia, whither many banished Portuguese “Gypsies” migrated, who later settled in Georgia.

Today it is almost completely proved that Stalin had Jewish blood, although he neither confirmed nor denied the rumours, about which mutterings began in this direction.14

Let us look at a list of the Soviet officials in the government of Stalin:

1. Zdanov (Yadanov), who in reality was called Liphshitz, foriner commander in the defence of Leningrad during the 2nd world war. Member of the Politbüro up to 1945 and one of the instigators of the decision which excluded Tito from the Cominform in the year 1948 and who shortly afterwards died.

2. Lavrenty Beria, Chief of the M.V.D. Police and of Soviet heavy industry, member of the Soviet Atom industry, who was executed upon orders of Malenkov, and in fact for the same reason for which Stalin liquidated Yagoda.

3. Lazar Kaganovich, director of Soviet heavy industry, member of the Politburo from 1944 to 1952, then member of the Presidium and at present President of the Supreme Presidium of the USSR.

4. Malenkov (Georgi Maximilianovich Molenk), member of the Politburo and Orgburo until 1952, then member of the Supreme Presidium, President of the Ministerial Council after the death of Stalin; Minister in the government of Bulganin since 1955. He is a Jew from Ornsenburg, not a Cossack, as is asserted. The name of his father, Maximilian Malenk, is typical for a Russian Jew. In addition there is a very important detail, which reveals the true origin of Malenkov and also of Khrushchev. The present wife of Malenkov is the Jewess Pearlmutter, known as “Comrade Schans chuschne” who was Minister (Commissar) for the fish industry in the Soviet government in the year 1938. If Malenkov had not been a Jew, it is extremely unlikely that he would have married a Jewess, and the latter would also not have married him. There exists no official description of the life of Malenkov. This is certainly to be attributed to the fact that he does not want his Jewish origin to be discovered.

5. Nikolaus Salomon Khrushchev, present chief (1963) of the Soviet Communist party, member of the Politburo since 1939, i.e. since the year when Malenkov was chosen member of the Orgburo. He is the brother of Madame Malenkov, i.e. of the Jewess Pearlmutter. Khrushchev is a Jew and his real name is Pearlmutter. Also, the present wife of Khrushchev, Nina, as well as the wives of Mikoyan, Voroshilov, Molotov, etc., are Jewesses.

6. Marshal Nikolaus Bulganin, at present first Soviet minister, former bank official, was one of the ten Jewish members of the Commissariat for the liquidation of private banks in the year 1919.

7. Anastasio Josifovich Mikoyan, member of the Politburo since 1935, member of the Supreme Presidium since 1952, Trade Minister and Vice-president in the Malenkov government. He is an Armenian Jew and not a true Armenian as is believed.

8. Kruglov, chief of the M.V.D. after Beria. Upon command of Kruglov the imprisoned Jewish doctors were released who had been imprisoned by Riumin, sub-chief of the police, during the rulership of Beria, in the year 1953. Likewise Jew.

9. Alexander Kosygin, member of the Politburo up to 1952, afterwards deputy in the Supreme Presidium and Minister for light industry and food in the Malenkov government.

10. Nikolaus Schvernik, member of the Politburo up to 1952, then member of the Supreme Presidium and member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist party; Jew.

11. Andreas Andreievich Andreiev, who was known as the “Politbureaucrat” of 3 A, member of the Politburo between 1931 and 1952, Jew from Galicia (Poland). He writes under a Russian pseudonym.

12. P. K. Ponomareno, member of the Orgburo in the year 1952; afterwards member of the highest Presidium and culture minister in the Malenkov government.

13. P. F. Yudin (Jew), deputy member of the highest Presidium and titulary of the Ministry for building material in the Malenkov government in the year 1953.

14. Mihail Pervukin, member of the Presidium of the central committee of the Communist party since 1953.

15. N. Schatalin, official in the sub-secretariat of the Central Committee of the Community Party.

16. K. P. Gorschenin, Justice minister in the government of Malenkov.

17. D. Ustinov (Zambinovich), Soviet ambassador in Athens (Greece) up to the second world war; defence minister in the Malenkov government.

18. V. Merkulov, Minister for state control at the time of Malenkov.

19. A. Zasyadko, Minister for the coal industry under Malenkov.

20. Cherburg, Soviet propaganda chief.

21. Milstein. one of the Soviet espionage chiefs.

22. Ferentz Kiss, Chief of the Soviet espionage service in Europe.

23. Postschreibitscher (Poschebicheve), former private secretary of Stalin, at present chief of the secret archives of the Kremlin.

24. Ilya Ehrenburg, delegate for Moscow in the Supreme Soviet, Communist writer; likewise Jew.

25. Mark Spivak, delegate from Stalino (Ukraine) in the Supreme Soviet of Moscow.

26. Rosalia Goldenberg, delegate from Birobudjan in the Supreme Soviet.

27. Anna E. Kaluger, delegate of Bessarabia in the Supreme Soviet, Her brother, not Koluger, but Calugaru in Rumanian, is a Communist official in the government of Rumania.

Also Kalinin, one of the great Soviet officials under Stalin who died some time ago, was a Jew.15

It is only too well known, that the Anti-Semitism of Stalin was a misrepresentation of the facts, and that the blood bath among the Jews (Trotskyists) which he carried out in order to assert his power, was performed by other Jews. In the last instance the struggle between the Jew Trotsky and the Jew Stalin was a struggle between parties for control over the Communist government, which they created, it was purely a family dispute. As proof, the following list of Commissars for Foreign Affairs, during the period when Stalin got rid of some certain Jews, who had become dangerous for his personal power.

1. Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Minister for Foreign Affairs up to 1939, when he was replaced by Molotov. He afterwards occupied high offices in the same ministry up to his death in February 1952. He was born in Poland as son of the Jew Meer Genokh Moiseevich Vallakh, a bank clerk. In order to conceal his real name Maxim Moiseevich Vallakh, Litvinoff used various pseudonyms during his real career, among them Finkelstein, Ludwig Nietz, Maxim Harryson, David Mordecay, Felix, and finally, when he became an official in the Communist regime of Russia, he took on the name of Litvinoff or Litvinov. When this Jew was replaced by Molotov in the Year 1939, the Jews of the western world and the entire Jewish-Freemasonic press began to cry out that he had been removed by Stalin because he was a “Jew”, but they kept quiet afterwards concerning the fact that up to his death Litvinov remained in the ministry. Why also say this, if it was not of interest for the conspiracy? In the Memoirs of Litvinov, which were published after his death, he wrote that in his opinion nothing would alter in Soviet Russia after the death of Stalin. In fact, Stalin died a year after Litvinov and nothing was altered in the Soviet’s internal and external policies.

What the West calls change in the policy of the USSR, is simply nothing further than a skilled propaganda for the necessities of the plan for world rule through the Jews. Nothing has altered since the death of Stalin. A certain unrest may have arisen on account of the lack of a new leader of the stature of Stalin or Lenin, that is all. For this reason the Jewish-Freemasonic conspirators of the West wish to paint the Soviet-Communist black raven over with the glittering colours of “Pacifism”, “Coexistence”, “Human friendliness”, etc., in order to introduce it to the world as something harmless, until a dictator with the same lusts of his predecessors arises.

When Litvinov asserted that nothing would alter with the death or Stalin, he knew very well, that this would be so, because Stalin was nothing more than one of the handymen of the Jewish band, which rules the USSR, and because after him other Jews would be at hand, to carry on the plan of world domination, for which Bulganin, Baruch, Reading, Thorez, Mendes France, David Ben Gurion and many others are cooperating.

In continuing the list of Jews in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, we mention:

2. Andreas Januarevich Vishinsky, now dead, who was foreign minister of the USSR before the death of Stalin and afterwards permanent representative of the Soviet Union in the UNO. There he missed no opportunity to sling his obscenities against the non-Communist lands, exactly as in the times when he was “Peoples Judge.” His Jewish name was Abraham Januarevin.

3. Jakob Malik, Soviet representative in the UNO and a great personality in the Soviet diplomatic hierarchy; Jew.

4. Valerian Zorin, for a time ambassador in London and likewise a great figure of Soviet diplomacy, who changes his post according to necessity.

5. Andrei Gromyko, diplomat, Minister for foreign affairs since 1958.

6. Alexander Panyushkin, former Soviet ambassador in Washington, ambassador in Peking during the year 1955, who is regarded as the actual dictator of Red China.

7. Zambinovich (Ustinov), ambassador in Athens up to 1940.

8. Admiral Radionovich, ambassador in Athens between 1945 and 1946, i.e., as the Communist coup d’état in Greece was prepared; Jew.

9. Constantin Umansky, ambassador in Washington during the Second World War and afterwards official in the Ministry for foreign affairs in Moscow.

10. Manuilsky, former representative in the Ukraine and in the UNO, at present President of the Ukraine; likewise Jew.

11. Ivan Maisky, ambassador in London during the war, afterwards high official of the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.

12. Madame Kolontay, ambassador in Stockholm until her death in March 1952; Jewess.

13. Daniel Solod, ambassador in Cairo in the year 1955. The latter, supported by a Jewish group which belongs to the diplomatic corps in Cairo, directs the Israelite conspiracy inside the Arab world under Soviet diplomatic protection, without the Egyptian government noticing this. This government should not forget that David Ben Gurion, first minister of Israel, as well as Golda Meyerson, Israel’s Minister in Moscow, are Russian Jews like David Solod.

At present, according to confirmed data, 80% to 90% of the key positions in all ministries in Moscow and the remaining Soviet republics are occupied by Jews.

“I do not believe that there can be any doubt of the origin of all those who occupy the highest posts in Moscow since the first moment of the revolution; for the Russians it is a lamentable fact that after all this course of time things are much worse, for the number of Jews who live in Russia has increased in frightening degree. All important leading positions are in their hands...”16

As in Russia the countries of Europe where Bolshevism has gained control, are also completely ruled by a Jewish minority; the latter always appears in the direction of the Communist government with an iron, criminal and merciless hand, so as to attain the utter enslaving of the native citizens through an insignificant group of Jews.

More convincing than any other proof is an exact surveying of the most principal leaders of the Bolshevist governments of Europe, which are always found in the hands of the Israelites. We will quote the most principal ones:

A - HUNGARY

1. The most important Communist leader since the occupation of this land by Soviet troops is Mathias Rakosi, an Israelite, whose real name is Mathew Roth Rosenkranz, and who was born in the year 1892 in Szabadka.

2. Ferenk Münnich, First Minister in Hungary in the year 1959 after Janos Kadar.

3. Erno Gero, Minister of the Interior until 1954.

4. Szebeni, Minister of the Interior before the Jew Gero.

5. General Laszlo Kiros, Jew, Minister of Interior since July 1954, simultaneously chief of the A.V.O., i.e. the Hungarian police, which corresponds to the Soviet M.V.D.

6. General Peter Gabor, chief of the Communist political police of Hungary up to 1953, a Jew, who in reality was called Benjamin Ausspitz and was earlier a tailor in Satorai-Jeujhely, Hungary.

7. Varga, State secretary for economic planning; a Jew, who in reality is called Weichselbaum; former Minister of the Bela Kun government. He was also President of the supreme economic council.

8. Beregi, Minister for foreign affairs.

9. Julius Egry, Agriculture minister of the Hungarian Peoples Republic.

10. Zoltan Vas, President of the supreme economic council; a Jew, who in reality was called Weinberger.

11. Josef Reval, the editor of the Hungarian press and director of the Red newspaper “Szabad Nep” (The Free People); a Jew; who is really called Moses Kahana.

12. Revai (another), Minister for national education; a Jew named Rabinovits.

13. Josef Gero, transport minister; a Jew named Singer.

14. Mihaly Farkas, Minister for national defence; a Jew named Freedman.

15. Veres, Minister of State.

16. Vajda, Minister of State.

17. Szanto, Commissar for purging of enemies of the State, in the year 1951 sent by Moscow; a Jew named Schreiber; former member of the Bela Kun government.

18. Guyla Dessi, Justice Minister up to 1955; today chief of the secret police.

19. Emil Weil, Hungarian ambassador in Washington; he is the Jewish doctor who tortured Cardinal Mindszenty.

Among other important Jewish officials to be mentioned are:

1. Imre Szirmay, director of the Hungarian radio company.

2. Gyula Garay, judge of the Communist “Peoples court of Budapest.”

3. Colonel Caspo, Sub-chief of the secret police.

4. Professor Laszlo Benedek, Jewish dictator for educational questions.

The sole important Communist of Gentile origin was the Freemason Laszlo Rajk, former minister for foreign affairs, who was sentenced and executed by his Jewish “brothers” for his “betrayal.”

B - CZECHOSLOVAKIA

1. Clemens Gottwald, one of the founders of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia and president of the country between 1948 and 1953; a Jew, who died shortly after Stalin.

2. Vladimir Clementis, former Communist minister of Czechoslovakia for foreign affairs, “sentenced and executed” in the year 1952; Jew.

3. Vaclav David, present foreign minister of Czechoslovakia (1955); Jew.

4. Rudolf Slaski, former general secretary of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia, “sentenced” in the year 1952; a Jew by name of Rudolf Salzmann.

5. Firi Hendrich, present general secretary of the Communist party; Jew.

6. Andreas Simon, sentenced in the year 1952; a Jew named Otto Katz.

7. Gustav Bares, assistant of the general secretary of the Communist party; Jew.

8. Josef Frank, former assistant of the general secretary of the Communist party, “sentenced” in the year 1952; Jew.

C - POLAND

1. Boleislaw Bierut, President of Poland up to 1954; Jew.

2. Jakob Berman, general secretary of the Communist party of Poland; Jew.

3. Julius Kazuky (Katz), minister for foreign affairs of Poland, who is well known for his violent speeches in the UNO; Jew.

4. Karl Swierezewskv, former vice-minister for national defence, who was murdered by the Anti-Communist Ukrainian country population in south Poland (the mass of the people is not always amorphous); Jew.

5. Josef Cyrankiewicz, first minister of Poland since 1954, after Bierut; Jew.

6. Hillary Mink, Vice-prime minister of Poland since 1954; Jew.

7. Zenon Kliszko, minister of justice; Jew.

8. Tadaus Kochcanowiecz, minister of labour; Jew.

The sole important Polish Communist of Gentile origin is Wladislaw Gomulka who was removed from political leadership since 1949, when he lost his post as first minister. Sooner or later he will share the same fate as Rajk in Hungary.

D - RUMANIA

1. Anna Pauker, Jewess, former minister for foreign affairs of the “Rumanian Peoples Republic”, and spy No. 1 of the Kremlin in Rumania up to the month of June 1952. Since then she has remained in the shadows in Bucharest up to the present day, naturally in freedom. This Jewish hyena, who was originally called Anna Rabinsohn, is the daughter of a rabbi, who came to Rumania from Poland. She was born in the province of Moldau (Rumania) in the year 1892.

2. Ilka Wassermann, former private secretary of Anna Pauker, at present the real directress of the ministry for foreign affairs.

3. Josef Kisinevski, the present agent No. 1 of the Kremlin in Rumania, member of the central Committee of the Communist party and vice-president of the council of ministers. He is a Jew and comes from Bessarabia; his correct name is Jakob Broitman. Also he is the real chief of the Communist party of Rumania, although “officially” the general secretary of the party is the Rumanian locksmith Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dez, who, however, only plays the simple role of a political front. Kisinevski took his present pseudonym from the name of the city of Kisinau in Bessarabia, where before the arrival of the Red Army he owned a tailor’s workshop.

4. Teohari Georgescu, minister for internal affairs in the Communist government of Bucharest between 1945 and 1952; at the present time he has been reduced to a second-rank post, although he was “officially” “expelled” from the Communist party. He finds himself in the same position as Anna Pauker. His real name is Baruch Tescovich. He is a Jew from the Rumanian Danube harbour of Galatz.

5. Avram Bunaciu, likewise a Jew, is the present (1955) general secretary of the Presidium of the great national assembly of the “Rumanian peoples republic”, i.e. the real leader of this assembly, for the “official” president Petru Groza is only an old Freemasonic marionette, who is married to a Jewess and plays only a purely static role. Avram Bunaciu is called in reality Abraham Gutman (Gutman translated into Rumanian is the corresponding name for “Bunaciu”, i.e. the pseudonym taken on by this Jew).

6. Lotar Radaceanu, another Minister of the Communist government of Bucharest “deposed” in the year 1952, but who in 1955 reappeared on the honorary tribune. He is a Jew from Siebenbürgen and is called Lothar Würtzel. Since the “Würtzel” in Rumanian translates “Radicinu”, this Jew has simply transferred his Hebraic name into Rumanian and is now called “Radaceanu”.

7. Miron Constantinescu, member of the central Committee of the Communist party and minister for mining and petroleum. Now and then he changes his ministerial posts. He is a Jew from Galatzi (Rumania), who in truth is called Mehr Kohn, and as is customary among them, uses a Rumanian pseudonym.

8. Lieutenant General Moises Haupt, commander of the military district of Bucharest; Jew.

9. Colonel General Zamfir, Communist “security chief” in Rumania and responsible for thousands of murders, which this secret police has perpetrated. He is a Jew and comes from the Danube harbour of Braila. He is called Laurian Rechler.

10. Heim Gutman, chief of the civil secret service of the Rumanian Peoples republic; Jew.

11. Major-General William Suder, chief of the information service and of counter-espionage of the Rumanian Communist army. He is a Jew, by name Wilman Süder and former officer of the Soviet Army.

12. Colonel Roman, former director of the E.K.P. service (education, culture and propaganda) of the Rumanian army up to 1949, and at the present time Minister in the Communist government. His name as Jew is Walter.

13. Alexander Moghiorosh, minister for Nationalities in the Red government; Jew from Hungary.

14. Alexander Badau, chief of the Control Commission for foreigners in Rumania. He is a Jew who originates from the city of Targoviste whose real name is Braustein. Before 1940 his family in Targoviste possessed a large trading firm.

15. Major Lewin, chief of press censorship, Jew and former officer of the Red Army.

16. Colonel Holban, chief of the Communist “Security” of Bucharest, a Jew named Moscovich, former Syndicate (Union) chief.

17. George Silviu, general governmental secretary of the ministry for internal affairs; a Jew named Gersh Golinger.

18. Erwin Voiculescu, chief of the pass department in the ministry for foreign affairs. He is a Jew and is called Erwin Weinberg.

19. Gheorghe Apostol, chief of the general labour union of Rumania; he is a Jew named Gerschwin.

20. Stupineanu, chief of economic espionage; Jew by name Stappnau.

21. Emmerick Stoffel, Ambassador of the Rumanian Peoples Republic in Switzerland; a Jew from Hungary and specialist in bank questions.

22. Harry Fainaru, former legation chief of the Rumanian Communist embassy in Washington up to 1954 and at present official in the ministry for foreign affairs in Bucharest. He is a Jew named Hersch Feiner. Before the year 1940 his family possessed a grain business in Galatzi.

23. Ida Szillagy, the real directress of the Rumanian embassy in London; Jewess; friend of Anna Pauker.

24. Lazarescu, the “Chargé d’Affaires” of the Rumanian government in Paris. He is a Jew and is really called Baruch Lazarovich, the son of a Jewish trader from Bucharest.

25. Simon Oieru, State under-secretary of the Rumanian state; Jew with name of Schaffer.

26. Aurel Baranga, inspector general of arts. He is a Jew; Ariel Leibovich is his real name.

27. Liuba Kisinevski, president of the U.F.A.R. (Association of anti-Fascist Rumanian women); she is a Jewess from Cernautzi/ Bukowina, and is called in reality Liuba Broitman, wife of Josif Kisinevski of the central Committee of the party.

28. Lew Zeiger, director of the ministry for national economy; Jew.

29. Doctor Zeider, jurist of the ministry for foreign affairs; Jew.

30. Marcel Breslasu, director general of arts; a Jew by name Mark Breslau.

31. Silviu Brucan, chief editor of the newspaper “Scanteia”, official party organ. He is a Jew and is called Brükker. He directs the entire campaign of lies that attempts to deceive the Rumanian people concerning the true situation created by Communism. At the same time the Jew Brükker directs the fake “Antisemitic” campaign of the Communist press of Rumania.

32. Samoila, governing director of the newspaper ‘‘Scanteia”; he is a Jew; Samuel Rubenstein.

33. Horia Liman, second editor of the Communist newspaper “Scanteia”; Jew with the name of Lehman.

34. Engineer Schnapp, governing director of the Communist newspaper “Romania Libera” (Free Rumania), the second Communist newspaper on the basis of its circulation; likewise a Jew.

35. Jehan Mihai, chief of the Rumanian film industry, Communist propaganda by means of films; a Jew, whose name is Jakob Michael.

36. Alexander Graur, director general of the Rumanian radio corporation, which stands completely and solely in the service of the Communist party. He is a Jewish professor and is called Alter Biauer, born in Bucharest.

37. Mihail Roller, at present President of the Rumanian academy, is a sinister professor, a Jew, unknown before the arrival of the Soviets in Rumania. Today he is “President” of the Academy and in addition he has written a “new history” of the Rumanian people, in which he falsifies the historical truth.

38. Professor Weigel, one of the tyrants of the university of Bucharest, who directs the constant “purging actions” among Rumanian students who are hostile to the Jewish-Communist regime.

39. Professor Lewin Bercovich, another tyrant of the Bucharest university, who with his spies controls the activity of Rumanian professors and their social connections; an immigrant Jew from Russia.

40. Silviu Josifescu, the official “literary critic”, who censures the poems of the best poets like Eminescu Alecsandri, Vlahutza, Carlova, etc., who all died centuries ago or more than half a century ago, and alters form and content, because these poems are “not in harmony” with the Communist Marxist ideas. This literary murderer is a Jew, who in truth is called Samoson Iosifovich.

41. Joan Vinter, the second Marxist “literary critic” of the regime and author of a book with the title “The problem of literary legacy” is likewise a Jew and is called Jakob Winter.

The three former secretaries of the General Labour League up to 1950, Alexander Sencovich, Mischa Levin and Sam Asriel (Serban), were all Jews.

E - YUGOSLAVIA

1. Marshal Tito, who with his real Jewish name is called Josif Walter Weiss, originates from Poland. He was an agent of the Soviet secret service in Kabul, Teheran and Ankara up to 1935. The true Brozovich Tito, in origin a Croat, died during the Spanis civil war in Barcelona.

2. Moses Pijade, general secretary of the Communist party and in reality the “grey eminence” of the regime, is a Jew of Spanish origin (Sefardit).

3. Kardelj, member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist party and minister for foreign affairs; is a Jew of Hungarian origin and is called in reality Kardayl.

4. Rankovic, member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist party and minister for internal affairs, is an Austrian Jew and was earlier called Rankau.

5. Alexander Bebler, member of the Central Committee of the Communist party and permanent representative of Yugoslavia in the UNO, is an Austrian Jew.

6. Ioza Vilfan (Joseph Wilfan), economic advisor of Tito, in reality the economic dictator of Yugoslavia, is a Jew from Sarajevo.

Since not so many Jews live in Yugoslavia as in other lands, we find a greater number of natives in the Communist government of this land, always however in posts of the second rank; for the abovementioned principal leaders in reality control the Yugoslav government completely and absolutely.17

CHAPTER FOUR

THE FINANCIERS OF COMMUNISM

International Jewry strives in its entirety towards Communistic socialism in accordance with the doctrine of Marx, which has at present been realised by it in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and all its satellites. The direct goal of Communism is the striving for world domination and complete power over all peoples of the earth. This standpoint it has always manifested and from the beginning onwards striven for this goal. This Communist aim is understood with absolute unanimity by all Jews as their own goal, although many non-Jewish persons, who are lacking in knowledge and who are intentionally deceived, think that the great number of Jewish multi-millionaires which there are in the world and who even control world finance, must necessarily oppose this current, which attempts to snatch their wealth away from them.

At first sight there is nothing more self-evident than to see in a rich financier, a well-to-do trader or an important industrialist, the natural and keenest enemy of Communism. But if the industrialists, traders or financiers are Jews, there is not the slightest doubt that they are also Communists; for the Communistic Socialism of Marx has been created and carried out by them, and in fact not in order to lose their goods and chattels which they possess, but to steal everything which does not belong to them and to hoard together in their own hands the entire wealth of the world, which according to their assertion is unlawfully withheld from them by all who do not belong to the Jewish race.

The well-known Jewish (?) writer Werner Sombart says: “The fundamental characteristic feature of the Jewish religion consists in the fact that it is a religion which has nothing to do with the other world, but, as one might say, is solely materialistic. Man can experience good or evil only in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward, then he can do this only in the lifetime of man. Therefore the just man ( righteous) must attain well-being here on earth and the Godless suffer.”18

“It is useless to dwell upon the difference which derives from this contrast of two outlooks, relating to the attitude of the devout Jew and of the devout Christian, with regard to the acquisition of wealth. The devout Christian who has got into debt with the usurer, was tortured on his deathbed by pangs of regret (repentance) and was ready to abandon everything which he possessed; for the knowledge of the unjustly acquired goods consumed him. On the other hand the devout Jew, when the end of his life approached, regarded with contentment the trunks and cases filled to bursting-point, in which the profits were accumulated, which during his long life he had taken off the wretched Christians and also the poor Musulmans. It was a spectacle on which his devout heart could feast, for every roll of money which lay locked up there, he saw as a sacrifice brought to his God.”19

Simultaneously, Jewish money (which at present represents the greatest part of the money in the world ) is the most powerful tool of all, which in vast extent has made possible the financing of revolutionary movements without the help of which the latter would never have been able to triumph and be able in such manner to destroy Christian civilisation in all its appearances; be it whether the individual is materialistically influenced by it being taught that money is to be preferred to other-worldly values, or be it through the direct methods, which they know how to use so energetically, like bribery and embezzlement in public offices and taxation swindling as well as the general buying of consciences.

The Jewish idea of accumulating all the money in the world through Communism appears in all transparency with many famous Jewish writers like Edmond Fleg, Barbusse, Andre Spire and others; in particular most expressly in the well-known letter that the famous new Messianer Baruch Levy sent to Karl Marx, which was discovered in the year 1888 and published for the first time in the same year. The text is as follows:

“The Jewish people as a whole is its own Messiah. Its kingdom over the universe is obtained through the uniting of the other human races, through the suppression of frontiers and of monarchies, which are bulwarks for particularism and hinder the erection of a world republic where citizenship is everywhere recognised to the Jew. In this new organisation of mankind, the sons of Israel, who at present are scattered over the entire earth surface, will all be of the same race and of the same traditional culture, without, however, forming another nationality, and will be without contradiction the leading element in all parts, particularly if it is successful in laying upon the masses of workers a permanent leadership by some Jews. The governments of peoples all pass with the formation of the universal republic effortlessly into the hands of the Israelites in favour of the victory of the proletariat. Then the personal property of the rulers will be able to be suppressed by the rulers of the Jewish race who will everywhere govern over the property of the Peoples. Then the promise of the Talmud will be fulfilled, that when the time of the Messiah has come, the Jews will have the goods of all peoples of the world in their possession.”20

If one follows these tactics of economic accumulation, then it is completely natural that we see how the richest financiers and the most important bankers of the world finance the Communist revolutions; it is also not difficult, bearing in mind the data mentioned, to explain a situation, which superficially studied appears senseless and absurd, namely that one always sees the richest Jews of the world united with the Israelite leaders of the Communist movements. If the explanations of the most well-known Jews suffice to show us this close connection with clarity, then the evident facts are still all the clearer, so that they wipe away even the slightest trace of doubt.

After the French defeat of 1870 and the fall of the Emperor Napoleon III, the Marxists, led by Karl Marx from London, formed the Commune from the 18th March 1871 onwards. During this period of more than two months, in Paris the National Guard, which had been transformed into an armed organisation, was through and through dependent on the Marxist International.

When the Commune could not resist the attack of the troops of the government, with its seat at Versailles, and the Communists saw their defeat as unavoidable, they devoted themselves to robbery, murder and incendiarism, in order to destroy the capital, in accordance with the plan already proposed by Clauserets in the year 1869:

“Ourselves or nothing! I promise you, Paris will belong to us or cease to exist.”

Upon this occasion was clearly revealed the joint guilt of the French Jewish bankers together with the Communists, when it is established how Salluste in his book “Les origines sécrètes du bolchevisme” alludes to the fact that Rothschild exercised pressure on one side in Versailles with Thiers, the President of the republic, in order to prevent a decisive fight against the Marxist Communists, by his talking of a possible understanding and agreements with the central committee of the Federals (Marxists), and on the other side enjoyed a total protection of his person as also of his property in the city of Paris, which was thrown into a horrible and bloody chaos.

In this respect Salluste tells us in his afore-mentioned work, page 137:

“It is certain that M. Rothschild had good reasons to hold a conciliation possible: his villa in the Rue Saint-Florentin was protected day and night by a guard troop of the Federals (Marxists), who had the task of preventing any plundering. This protective troop was maintained for two months, up to the moment when the great barricade, which was only a few paces away, was taken by the Versailles troops.

“While hostages were shot, the most beautiful palaces of Paris went up in flames and thousands of Frenchmen died as victims of the civil war, it is worth mentioning that the protection granted by the Communists to the great Jewish banker did not cease for a moment.”

In the year 1916, the Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Russian Army, A. Nechvolodof, described secret information which had been received from one of his agents, which on the 15th February of the same year reached the supreme command of the Russian General Staff and read as follows:

“The first secret assembly, which reveals the beginning of the acts of violence, took place on Monday, the 14th February, in the East Side of New York. Of the 62 representatives gathered, 50 were veterans of the revolution of 1905, and the others new members. The greater part of those present were Jews and among them many educated people, as for example, doctors, writers, etc... Some professional revolutionaries were also found amongst them...

“The first hours of this assembly were almost exclusively devoted to testing the methods and the possibilities of carrying out a great revolution in Russia. It was one of the most favourable moments for this.

“It was stated that the party had just received information from Russia, according to which the situation was completely and absolutely favourable; for all previously agreed conditions for a favourable rising were present. The one serious hindrance was the question of money; but scarcely was this remark made, when several members at once answered that this circumstance should cause no reflection, for, at the moment when it was necessary, substantial sums would be given by persons who sympathised with the movement for freedom. In this connection the name of Jakob Schiff was repeatedly mentioned.”21

At the beginning of the year 1919, the secret service of the United States of America provided high officials of the French republic who visited America with a memorandum, in which the participation of the most principal bankers in the preparation of the Russian Communist revolution was categorically revealed:

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In February 1916 it became known for the first time that a revolution was being promoted in Russia. It was discovered that the following named persons and firms were involved in this work of destruction:

1. Jakob Schiff; Jew. 2. Kuhn, Loeb & Co; Jewish firm.        Directors:    Jakob Schiff; Jew.    Felix Warburg; Jew.    Otto Kahn; Jew.    Mortimer Schiff; Jew.    Hieronymus H. Hanauer; Jew. 3. Guggenheim; Jew. 4. Max Breitung; Jew.

At the beginning of the year 1917, Jakob Schiff began to protect the Jew and Freemason Trotsky, whose real name is Bronstein; the mission given to him consisted in the directing of the social revolution in Russia. The New York paper “Forward”, a Jewish-Bolshevist daily paper, likewise protected him for the same purpose. Also he was aided financially by the Jewish firm of Max Warburg, Stockholm, the Rheinisch-Westfalische Syndicate, the Jew Olaf Aschberg of the Nye Banks, Stockholm, and the Jew Jovotovsky, whose daughter Trotsky married. In this manner relations were established between the Jewish multi-millionaires and the proletarian Jew.

“The Jewish firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has links with the Rheinisch-Westphalian Syndicate, a Jewish firm in Germany; just as it has links with Lazard-Freres, a Jewish house in Paris, and also with the Jewish firm of Gunzbourg of Paris, and with the same Jewish firm of Gunzbourg of Petrograd, Tokyo and Paris; if we observe in addition that all affairs are likewise handled with the Jewish firms of Speyer & Co., London, New York and Frankfurt/Main, exactly as with the firms of Nye-Banks, who are the agents for Jewish-Bolshevist business affairs in Stockholm, then we can draw the inference from this that the banking firm has relations with all Bolshevist movements; one can see that in praxis it represents the true expression of a general Jewish movement, and that certain Jewish banking houses are interested in the organisation of these movements.”22

In the pamphlet of S. de Baamonde we again find something new about the banking house of Kuhn & Co. Jakob Schiff was an Israelite of German origin. His father, who lived in Frankfurt, was in that city a modest local agent of the firm of Rothschild. The son emigrated to the United States. There he rapidly made a career which soon made him chief of the large firm of Kuhn, Loch & Co., the most important Israelite bank of America.

“In the Jewish banking world Jakob Schiff not only distinguished himself through his knowledge of business and the dare-devilry of his inventive power, but he also occasioned very resolute plans and intentions, even if neither new nor original, concerning the leading political activity that each banking System should exert over the fates of the world: ‘The spiritual direction of human affairs.’ ”

Another of the constant concerns of this plutocrat was mixing at all cost in the political affairs of Russia, in order to bring about a change of regime in that land. The political conquest of Russia, which up to then had evaded the influence of Freemasonry thanks to its regime of reason, should be the best circle of effect to secure the power of Israel over the entire universe.23

In the spring of 1917, Jakob Schiff began to instruct Trotsky, a Jew, how he should carry out the social revolution in Russia. The Jewish-Bolshevistic newspaper of New York, “Forward”, also concerned itself with the same theme:

“From Stockholm as centre, the Jew Max Warburg authorized Trotsky & Co., as did Rheinisch-Westphalian Syndicate, an important Jewish Company, as well as Olaf Aschberg of the Nye Bank of Stockholm, and Yivotousky, a Jew, whose daughter married Trotsky.”24

“At the same time a Jew, Paul Warburg, was found to have such a close connection with the Bolshevists that he was not selected again to the ‘Federal Reserve Board’.”25

The “Times” of London of 9th February 1918 and the “New York Times” alluded in two articles by Samuel Gompers, which were published in the issues of 10th May 1922 and 31st December 1923, to the following:

“If we bear in mind that the Jewish firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. is connected with the Rheinisch-Westphalian Syndicate, a Jewish firm in Germany, with Lazard Freres, a Jewish firm of Paris, and also with the banking house of Gunzbourg, a Jewish firm in Petrograd, Tokyo and Paris, and if we in addition point out that the aforementioned Jewish trading firms maintain close relations to the Jewish firm of Speyer & Co. in London, New York and Frankfurt/Main, as likewise with Nye Banks, a Jewish-Bolshevist firm in Stockholm, then we can establish that the Bolshevist movement in itself is to a certain degree the expression of a universal Jewish movement, and that certain Jewish banking houses are interested in the organisation of this movement.”26

General Nechvolodof alludes in his work “L’Empereur Nicholas II et Les Juifs” (1924) to the strong Jewish financing of the Communist revolution in Russia:

“During the years which preceded the revolution, Jakob Schiff had supplied the Russian revolutionaries with twelve million dollars. On their side the triumphant Bolshevists, according to M. Bakmetieff, the ambassador of the Russian Imperial government in the United States, who died some time ago in Paris, transferred six hundred million gold roubles between 1918 and 1922 to the firm of Loeb & Co.”

According to these convincing proofs I do not believe that it occurs to anyone to arrive at the optimistic conclusion that there exist wicked Jews (the Communists) and good Jews (the Capitalists); further, that, while the ones strive to cut off the wealth of private persons and to cause private property to vanish, the others strive for the defence of both things, so as not to lose their enormous riches. To the misfortune of our civilisation the Jewish conspiracy shows features of unconditional unity. Judaism forms a monolithic power, which is directed at forcing together all riches of the world without exception, by means of Communist Socialism according to Marx.

At the present time one sees in our civilised world the admission of racial discrimination as the greatest sin into which man could fall. It is alleged to be a fault that leaves behind an eternal and ugly world of barbarity and animal nature, always presupposing that the Jewish people does not in practice commit this fault. Thanks to Jewish propaganda, which is controlled almost exclusively in the world by the Israelites (cinema, radio, press, television, publishing, etc.), anti-Semitism is the most disgraceful of all racial manifestations; for the Jews have made out of anti-Semitism a truly destructive weapon, which serves to nullify the efforts of countless persons and organisations who have clearly recognised who the real head of Communism is, in spite of the camouflage and cunning that this race uses to conceal its true activity. Particularly such persons and organisations that have tried to sound the alarm, since they were filled with horror at the fatal end which draws nearer and nearer.

This network of lies is so successful that the majority of anti-Communists who wish to make an end of the Marxist monster, direct their energetic and courageous attacks against the tentacles of the octopus and know nothing of the existence of the terrible head which renews the destroyed limbs, conducts its movements and brings the activities in all parts of its system into harmony. The sole possibility or destroying the Communist Socialism of Marx consists in attacking the head of the same, which at present is Jewry as the undeniable facts and irrefutable evidence of the Jews themselves allow to be discerned.

While the Christian lands are anti-racialist, because they build up their ideas on the concept of loving one’s neighbour, the Jews were and are at present the most fanatical representatives of racial discrimination, which they base on ideas from the Talmud, because they proceed from the principle that the non-Jew is not even a human being.

However, this Christian opposition to racial discrimination is very skilfully utilised by the Jews; and in the shadow of the same they weld their devilish intrigues against the Catholic Church and all Christian order, by their forming the Communist system, where there is neither God nor church nor supersensual norms of any kind. As soon as they are attacked, they protest with crying lamentation and show themselves as victims of inhuman racial discrimination, only for the purpose of crippling that work of defence which opposes their destructive attacks.

In spite of this, one can regard the real defence against Communism, which must be forcefully directed against the Jews (against the head), in no manner as a sinful manifestation of a feeling of revulsion towards a definite race; for the characteristic of racial discrimination is completely alien to our culture and our Christian principles; however, one cannot avoid a problem of such weight and range out of fear of being described as an “Antisemite”, which doubtless occurs with those who do not understand the present situation of the world.

Thus it is not a question of combating a race out of considerations of racial order. If one at present brings the problem under close inspection, the Jews alone must bear the responsibility of leaving us no other choice because of their racial discrimination in life and death, with their absolute disregard of all who are not of their race and with their greed for world domination.

For Catholics in particular, and for the civilised world in general, who still firmly believe in their established principles and other-worldly values, the confirmation cannot be simpler; for it is a problem of self-defence, which is accepted completely in the moral and just order, if the pure dilemma, which Judaism shows us, is the following: “Either Jewish-Communist domination or extermination.”

CHAPTER FIVE

JEWISH TESTIMONY

In spite of their accustomed seclusion, and even in spite of their deceptive and clandestine manoeuvres, by which they have been successful in remaining concealed, so as not to reveal their Communist plan for world conquest, the Jews have had several weak moments, to which they have been induced either through optimism or excessive jubilation in the studying of their successes and which upon different occasions have called forth impetuous but highly factual declarations. Kadmi-Cohen, a highly regarded Jewish writer, affirms that:

“As far as the Jews are concerned, then, their role in world socialism is so important that one cannot pass quietly over it. Does it not suffice to recall the names of the great Jewish revolutionaries of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Karl Marx, Lasalle, Kurt Eisner, Bela Kun, Trotsky and Leon Blum, so that in this manner it is clear who are the theoreticians of modern Socialism?”27

“What a brilliant confirmation do the strivings of the Jews find in Communism, apart from the material cooperation in party organisations, in the deep revulsion which a great Jew and great poet, Heinrich Heine, felt against Roman law! And the personal and passionate motives for the anger of Rabbi Aquila and Bar Kocheba of the years 70 and 132 after Jesus Christ, against the Roman peace and the Roman law which was understood personally and passionately and felt by a Jew of the 19th century, who had apparently preserved no bond with his own race.”

“The Jewish revolutionaries and Jewish Communists, who dispute the basic principle of private property whose firmly established foundation is the civil law book of Justinian, of Ulpian, etc., only imitate their forefathers who opposed Vespasian and Titus. In reality it is the ‘dead who speak’.”28

The blasphemous Jewish writer Alfred Nossig tells us:

“Socialism and the Mosaic law in no way oppose one another, but there exists on the contrary a surprising similarity between the basic ideas of both teachings. Jewish nationalism may not remove itself, as a danger that threatens the ideal, further from Socialism than the Jew from the Mosaic Law; for both parallel-running ideals must arrive in the same way at execution.”29

“From the examination of the facts of the case it is revealed in a completely irrefutable manner that the modern Jews have cooperated in a decisive way and manner in the creation of Socialism; their own fathers were already the founders of the Mosaic Law. The seed of the Mosaic Law took effect over the centuries upon doctrine and command, in conscious manner for the one and unconsciously for the other. The modern Socialist movement is for the great majority a work of the Jews; the Jews gave it the stamp of their understanding; it was also Jews who had a striking share in the leadership of the first Socialist republics. In spite of this, the enormous majority of Jewish Socialist leaders were divorced from the Mosaic Law; for in an unconscious manner there took effect within them the racial principle of the Mosaic Law, and the race of the old apostolic peoples lived in their brain and in their social character. Present world socialism forms the first State in fulfilment of the Mosaic Law, the beginning of the realisation of the future World State, which was announced by the prophets.”30

In his book “Integral Jews” he confirms this idea of Socialism as Jewish teaching, when he writes the following:

“If the peoples really wish to make progress, they must lay aside the Mediaeval fear of the Jews and the retrogressive prejudices which they have against the latter. They must recognise what they really are, namely the most upright forerunners of human development. At the present day the salvation of Jewry demands that we openly recognise the programme facing the world; and the salvation of mankind in the coming centuries depends upon the victory of this programme.”31

The reason for this Jewish revolutionary conduct is clearly explained by the well-known Jewish writer E. Eberlin in the following excerpt:

“The more radical the revolution is, all the more freedom and equality for the Jews comes about as a result. Every current of progress strengthens further the position of the Jews. In the same manner, every setback and every reaction attacks it in first place. Often, only a simple orientation towards the Right will expose the Jews to boycott. From this aspect the Jew is the pressure-valve for the social (steam) boiler. As a body the Jewish people cannot stand on the side of reaction; for reaction is the return to the past and means for the Jews the continuation of their abnormal conditions of existence.”32

The ill-reputed Jew, Jakob von Haas, says to us in “The Maccabean” quite clearly that “the Russian revolution that we experienced is a revolution of Jewry. It signifies a change in the history of the Jewish people. If we speak openly, it was a Jewish revolution; for the Jews were the most energetic revolutionaries in Russia.”

In the Jewish-French newspaper entitled “Le Peuple Juif” of February 1919, one can read the following: “The Russian Revolution, which we see at present, will be the exclusive work of our hands.”

One finds the following passage in a book by the famous Jewish writer Samuel Schwartz with a foreword by Ricardo Jorge: “When we ascend from the heights of pure science to the place of battle, which the passions and the interests of men clash against each other, there rises before us the oracle of the new social-political religion, the Jew Karl Marx, the dogmatic leader of war for life and death. He finds in the head and in the arm of Lenin the realisation of his confession of belief and sees in him the forefighter for the Soviet State that threatens to overthrow the firm foundations of the traditional institutions of society.”33

In the same way another Jew, Hans Cohen, confirms in the “Political Idea” that “the Socialism of Marx is the purpose of our striving and efforts.”

In Number 12 of the newspaper “The Communist” which was published in Kharkov on the 12th April 1919, the Jew M. Cohen writes:

“Without exaggeration one can make the assurance that the great social revolution in Russia was carried out by the Jews. It is true that in the ranks of the Red Army there are soldiers who are not Jews. But in the committees and in the Society organisations, just as with the Commissars, the Jews lead the masses of the Russian proletariat to victory with courage.”

“At the head of the Russian revolutionaries marched the pupils of the Rabbinic school of Lidia.” Jewry triumphed over fire and sword, with our brother Marx, who had the mandate for the fulfilment of all that our prophets have commanded, and who worked out the suitable plan for the demands of the proletariat.” All these sentences appeared in the Jewish newspaper “Haijut”of Warsaw of 3rd August 1928.

“The Jewish World”, of 10th January 1929, expressed this blaspheming view: “Bolshevism, the very fact of its existence, and that so many Jews are Bolsheviks, further – that the ideal of Bolshevism is in harmony with the most sublime ideal of Jewry, which in part formed the foundation for the best teachings of the founder of Christianity, all this has a deep significance, which the thoughtful Jew carefully examines.”

In order not to range too widely at this point, we quote in conclusion the allusions which the Israelite Paul Sokolowsky makes in his work, entitled “The Mission of Europe”, where he boasts of the predominant role which the Jews played in the Russian Revolution and reveals details concerning the secret codes which they used to reach understanding with each other, even by means of the press, without the attention of the authorities being drawn to themselves, and how they distributed the Communist propaganda that they prepared through the Jewish children, whom they carefully schooled for these services in their settlements.34

The hellish, Jewish-Communist hate, which is chiefly revealed against Christian civilisation, is not unfounded, but it has its very deep causes, which can be judged with full clarity in this following excerpt from the “Sepher-Ha-Zohar”, the holy book of modern Jewry, which represents the feelings of all Jews:

“Jesu (Jesus), the Nazarene, who has brought the world away from belief in Jehovah, who be praised, will each Friday be again restored. At daybreak of Saturday, he will be thrown into boiling oil. Hell will pass, but his punishment and his tortures will never end. Jesus and Mohammed are those unclean bones of offal of which the Scripture says: ‘Ye shall cast before the dogs. They are the dirt of the dog, the unclean, and because they have misled men, they are cast into Hell, from which they never again come out.’ 

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I do feel sorry for Mrs Clements. She cares for Anne so much and does what she thinks is for the best, but walks right into all the traps set for her. I can't even begin to think how horrified she must be when / if she finally finds out the truth of what happened to poor Anne.

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Cutie Reviews: Gacha Gacha crate July 19

Lately I’ve been wondering if I’m either being overly critical of boxes, or not critical enough. Am I just in the middle? It’s where I would like to be if anything, but I’m not sure. If you read the blog and feel like leaving a comment please do and let me know what you think.

In other news, it seems I might be missing a box. I don’t believe I ever got my June Tokyo Treat just yet, and tomorrow it’ll have been 60 days since it shipped and I can message them on it. I’m going to double-check first though, just to make sure before I do anything.

Wood Puzzles

First up is this sorta common gachapon I tend to see when browsing, I can’t say I was ever tempted to get it though. I’m not a big fan of puzzles unless they are flattened cardboard pieces making a big picture- or those really pretty crystal puzzles of characters and various items. I got a handful of those that I love to admire in passing.

Anyhoozles, there are 5 different types featuring their own difficulties, and the brand is Koro Koro. Mine is “mystery difficulty“, which I found to be quite strange since as a pyramid it looks super easy to put together. In fact it came together already.

But... as it turns out, it’s not easy. I can see how it’s supposed to look, but the pieces want to keep sliding and won’t hold still. So I’m not really sure what I’m not getting...

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

I’m not a big fan of this one- but I do know that there are people who like mental puzzles like these and would probably love this set. The pieces are clean and perfectly shaped, and I could see maybe coming to enjoy it for what it is if I played with it a few more times. I kinda lost interest after the first few <3<

Hungry Kirby

Kirby must be trending right now because he’s been appearing a lot in these boxes; not that I’m complaining. I love Kirby. If only they would start giving us some Mario Brothers now~

This series is by Takara Tomy Arts and there are 5 possible variations you can get: 2 kirby, 2 waddle dee, and 1 chef kawasaki serving as the rare piece in the collection. The figure was assembled, although you do get to put the little fork in his hand and I assume the other figures share that feature. 

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Besides the collection being ultra-cute, this would be perfect for re-ment. The details are really nice. The fork seems a teensy bit flimsy but I don’t think it’s really a problem or anything. This is also a minor detail but there are visible seam lines in various spots but some figures are just made that way. It’s not extremely noticeable to be an annoyance.

Kingdom Hearts Figure

I was extremely excited when I saw this one :3 who doesn’t love Kingdom Hearts? I have the games and manga, and I LOVE this series!

This is another collection of small, but detailed figurines. This series is by Bandai and includes 6 characters: Sora, King Mickey, Maleficent, a Shadow heartless, Donald, and Goofy. The included little sheet lacks detail and images and is full of some Disney information, so I suppose it’s from there, or is a collab or something?

Anyway I can’t say my favorite Kingdom Hearts character is included in this line (but we’d be here for like 10 minutes if I wrote down everyone I liked), but I always had a soft spot for Sora and he is who I would have wanted to get out of the options here. 

The figures feature a chibi anime style and a few of them include an item and a small base with their name and series logo on it.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I love this little figure, but it leaves me with some confusion. From the top to the mid-section is extremely detailed, including the metallic keyblade. But from the mid-section down (I know its probably hard to see in the picture) I feel like they started neglecting detail; but with a small figure it’s probably expected right? The rest of it is very impressive.

Cat Wind Chime

(Sorry for the blur, I couldn’t get it to stop moving)

As a lover of both cats and wind chimes, this is the purrfect combination :3 Wind chimes are popular in Japan during summer, when people put them outside to listen to the jingle of the bells and feel the cooling breeze as it blows through them.

This series is by Epoch, and there are 5 kitties available; and all but 1 of them seems to have a gold bell. The 1 has silver. The dangle part, as you can probably see is the kitties tail, and each kitty has a clear bead on top to keep the string from falling through the hole.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

The detailing is really nice and simple, it looks a lot cuter than my horrible picture makes it out to be. The bell has a sweet little chime, but I did notice that when it’s hung up the tail piece becomes stiff? But when holding it, it moves fine in the breeze so I feel like it should still work fine.

Pokemon Paint

These paint palette gachapon have been pretty popular as of late I noticed. They either feature a variety of characters with art supplies, or a specific color theme- or in this case both. This series is by Kitan Club and each costs 300 yen, which I feel like is a bit expensive for such a tiny figure...

There are 5 pink adorable Pokemon to get in this collection, and if I had to choose I think I would have liked Mew or Clefairy the most. But they’re all very cute, and as you can see I got Chancy (whose Japanese name is “Lucky”).

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥

As cute as this is, as I stated above the price has me a little iffy. I mean I can see why it’s that because it’s Pokemon- but I’ve gotten cheaper gachapon with more detail/bigger size. I noticed mine has a fair amount of color issues (there not visible in the pic at all), but at the same time it doesn’t detract from the general cuteness of the concept. The seams are fine and the figure is overall smooth, and while the colors are right, they could have been applied a little better.

Dragonball Z Figurine

Our last item.... is in pieces!

That’s right, our final item is a Dragonball Z figurine that you get to semi-assemble.

Yes that is a cat next to Frieza. He wanted some attention and wouldn’t leave me alone so at this point I decided to hurry up and finish to focus on him.

Anyway, this series includes very detailed figurines from Dragonball Z and is the 3rd series/wave of the collection and includes Frieza, Super Saiyan Goku, Vegeta, and Bulma. I definitely wish I got Bulma or Vegeta, or even Goku would have sufficed, I wasn’t a Frieza fan. There is also another sheet in the gachapon, I think hinting at another possible set of characters you can get for this series. 

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

The detail is obviously there, which is why I’m giving this a high rating. I also like the little put together detail and how it includes a small base piece. I’m not sure if I used it right though cause it looked like it could fit on a few places...

♥ Cutie Ranking ♥

Quality: 4 out of 5. I feel like it was very easy to see in each and every piece. There was no major complaints other than the color touch-ups I feel like my Pokemon needed.

Items: 2.5 out of 5. Don’t get me wrong, I did like them; especially the Kingdom Hearts figure, my cute little Waddle Dee, and the kitty wind chime. But in comparison to our previous box I feel like this one was a little bit of a letdown and pretty much was full of figurines that are just set for display. There isn’t too much to do with them and I feel no sense of practicality in this box (which isn’t you would think isn’t normally a thing with gacha, but so far our boxes have been including it and there are actually a lot of practical ones you can collect) other than the wind chime. Plus a lot of the items were on the tiny-small side and for the price we pay...

Total Rank: 6 out of 10 cuties. Detail was there, as was the cuteness with the exception of 2 capsules. I feel underwhelmed by this box though and I can’t say it’s the best representative of gachapon or Gacha Gacha Crate.

♥ Cutie Scale ♥

1. Cat Wind Chime - I mean come on, this should be obvious :P

2. Kingdom Hearts Figurine  - I love my little Sora~ I’m very happy I got him. The tiny keyblade is even cuter.

3. Hungry Kirby - Pretty simple, but very adorable. The whole collection would be great for a Re-ment display! Or to add to the other Kirby re-ment series.

4. Pokemon Paint - It’s cute and I like the metallic paint tube. I just wish the base looked more like actual paint, like I’ve seen the other paint series do.

5. Frieza - Even if he isn’t my favorite, I really appreciate the detailing put into him. The tail part is even missing its tip like in the actual anime. I remember that part, but I can’t say I remember it extremely well, I saw this series when I was like 6 or 7. I’m thinking of giving it to old babysitter, he was the one to introduce the series to me.

6. Wood Puzzle - It’s okay, but I just don’t feel any sort of desire to do anything with it.

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Anime Winter 2019 Final Impressions + Plans for Spring 2019

(I’ve seen Screen Rant and Crunchyroll using this shot as a thumbnail for news posts when the second trailer dropped, so I might as well use it too 😂)

The very first anime season of the year ends and we’re moving on to the next one, and it appears that this season is going to be the best one yet, before I discuss why with what shows I’m going to watch, let’s go back to the Winter season to rank every show I watched this season!

(Just don’t expect to see Kaguya-sama on this post, I haven’t really watched it at all, sorry. (but I will binge it eventually))

1.- Mob Psycho 100 II: Mob Psycho 100 continues to be a sakuga wonder and powerful storylines, I always thought the first season would be much more memorable for me, but I think this season definitely tops the character development and plotlines.

As for the sakuga wonder, this proves why Mob Psycho 100 is being held at better hands unlike One Punch Man, it went from Madhouse to JC Staff which is utterly disappointing, but Mob Psycho 100 being adapted by Bones and continuing to work on it is the best thing the series ever has.

I still haven’t read the manga but I can probably tell this is not the series finale, I wonder if there could still be a third and final season so it can adapt the final volumes of the manga, since it has ended recently, that third season would come in a quicker time, maybe like a year, a year and a half, or two, I don’t know, but it’s not impossible for that to happen anytime soon.

10/10 - Rank: S++ - 100% - AOTS #1.

2.- Kemurikusa: This all-new reboot has completely lived up to my expectations and it delivered some neat changes to the original and some big surprises.

Part of my experience was a bit dragged by the uncultured assholes that is 4chan with “Kemono Friends 2″ is better and such (Since it’s 4chan, some of them could be trolls, some of them could tell the truth, can’t really tell for sure), but it didn’t completely ruin my enjoyment of Kemurikusa, this is no big deal. And then there’s also the janky animation, but it’s Tatsuki’s quirk, so I’m not completely bothered by that and let him have it.

There are still some plot holes around the universe and everything else that raises questions after witnessing certain moments, but I think it’s best to leave things as it is, I wouldn’t expect Tatsuki to answer every single question, or even touch the world again.

I wonder what's next for Tatsuki now that Kemurikusa is finished when it comes to a new TV project, another remake of his classics or a completely original series? He would probably continue doing shorts for now. Either way, I totally need more Tatsuki TV projects since Kemono Friends. But for now, I would expect to see shorts being posted by parts on Twitter and then the full compilation on YouTube and NicoNico.

I almost forgot, I needed to address something: For the longest time I’ve been hyping up to watch the original 30 minute series before watching this reboot, I realized that you don’t really need to watch the original, but you should at least acknowledge its existence. But if you want to compare this to the original that badly, then you do need to watch the original. (We’re back in square one lol)

And for all the haters, please read this thread, and when you finish doing so, apologize and go take the L, conche tu madre, thank you.

10/10 - Rank: S++ - 100% - AOTS #2.

UPDATE - April 4th: Okay, a week after the finale’s release (Wednesday), Tatsuki out of the blue released a brand new 12.1 short video! (So far it raises so many questions)

I genuinely did not expect to see more Kemurikusa content, sequels even, but this is quite a surprise. I don’t know how long this is going to be but I’m sure it could be a weekly release. Anyways, this is really neat.

Smiley Riku is best Riku.

3.- The Promised Neverland: This was a pretty solid adaptation and the suspense has kept me on the edge of my seat constantly.

I’m so happy to see that a second season got announced for 2020. I wonder if it’s going to be a My Hero Academia situation, where it started with 13 episodes (in TPN’s case, it was 12 episodes long) and later seasons have two-cours.

9/10 - Rank: S - 95%

4.- BanG Dream! season 2: The first season heavily focused on building Poppin’ Party, this season features all of the bands and some episodes were focused on each band, which I was really interested, definitely looking forward to the 3rd season in Fall. (which I genuinely forgot it was coming out too)

Speaking of season 3, I recently researched that Rokka is a member of RAISE A SUILEN, and I wonder if S3 might get a storyline with Rokka becoming a member of RAS.

This looks way better than Monster Strike, I like that the characters have more like shading/lighting than being pure cell-shaded anime-like, but my common complaint with Sanzigen, or maybe even CG anime in general, is that they tend to make some background characters completely hand drawn which doesn’t blend well with the CG characters, it’s just horribly noticeably bad and inconsistent. You can add hand drawn effects and such, but for the love of god, never do hand drawn background characters and even main characters in flashbacks. (like Lay and Tae)

The third season was originaly going to come out on Fall but it got delayed to Winter 2020, which is a bummer, it could have been like BBK/BRNK three years ago but time is always needed.

9/10 - Rank: S - 96% - AOTS #4

5.- Ikki Tousen: Western Wolves: After spending an entire week binging everything Ikki Tousen, I couldn’t wait to see what Western Wolves had in store given on what I last saw with Extravaganza Epoch (even though I kind of forgot already), with 3 episodes for 3 months, this was a solid series with good fan service.

I hope I won’t wait for another 5 years or so for another series.

8.5/10 - Rank: A+ - 88%

6.- Kakegurui XX: Now I’m worried if this was a worthy follow-up given MAPPA’s track record of making crappy second seasons, best example being Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul.

Occasionally I was less motivated to watch an episode when it came out raw and rewatch that episode with subtitles by whatever group and sometimes I also felt like this series was way over-the-top than I previously felt like the first season

Anyways, I thought it was a decent follow-up.

7.5/10 - Rank: A- - 76%

7.- Manaria Friends: Decent series, but the most important thing I want to talk about is, this was supposed to come out on April 1st, 2016, but it got on hold a month prior its release. Since CygamesPictures was founded in 2016, perhaps they took the series and reworked into what it is now, after 3 years of reproduction and release, I wonder if it was even worth the wait. I’m also surprised the show is 15 minutes long, I’m not sure if this was part of the original version, but it’s that kind of short.

For some strange reason, I wish any footage of the original version of Manaria Friends would be leaked somewhere. 😁

Now with Manaria Friends released, and with the upcoming Princess Connect! Re:Dive anime series (and maybe they even took Granblue Fantasy: The Animation (that’s right, it’s confirmed that it’ll get a second season) away from A-1, that’s my theory), let’s see what does CygamesPictures have in store when it comes to anime based on their IP and maybe even original projects of their own (which has gotten me more curious since I’m an original anime fanboy).

Also, the show’s English title is called “Mysteria Friends” for some reason. (Well, not really “for some reason”, there’s definitely a reason why, but I’m not that big of a Rage of Bahamut person)

I never knew the show was going to be 10 episodes long, since it premiered late in January, I thought it would run for 12 episodes which it could be in April, which is way late to the Anime Winter 2019 closing party, but closing the series at episode 10 feels like a good time.

7/10 - Rank: A- - 74%

8.- Boogiepop wa Waranai: Not much to comment on this one, and I haven’t really read the LNs, but this one seems interesting. The only thing I’m not a fan of is its own style of character designs, it just looks weird and doesn’t really respect much to the original artist’s style, which lead to this whole thing with this Twitter rants and Kadokawa apologizing for the miscommunication (Can’t stop talking about this), so I guess the damage control wasn’t worth it to get used to the anime’s designs. At least the animation and visuals look good, though.

7/10 - Rank: B - 70%

9.- Lupin the 3rd: Goodbye Partner: After Part 5, I didn’t expect a new OVA special would appear right away, it’s a self-contained OVA special, it doesn’t have anything to do with Part 5 at all, though.

The only thing I’m super dissatisfied is that in 37 minutes, it seems like there was a huge skip, we jump to a crazy situation right away, after a conflict Lupin and Goemon had with Jigen minutes prior, we see that they’re working together again, like, what? It’s just feels so random...

7/10 - Rank: B+ - 72%

10.- Mini Toji: This franchise continues to give less of an impact in my life and to consider it to be on the range that of Kancolle and Touken Ranbu (you know, those games I always joke about that Toji no Miko is their baby), one year later after the base anime series, they decided to make a short spin-off series, I couldn’t turn down the offer to watch it, I was curious on what’s it going to be, and the show overall is alright, it is funny at times and I had some laughs but it’s not too hilarious.

As for the chibi style, it just looks so weird. Seeing the image below which I found in 4chan when episode 8 came out just makes me wish they could have chose this style instead of the one from Mini Toji because the current style just looks so wrong.

And there’s also the most painful, if not, the worst running gag ever, Kaoru is always getting mission jobs from her boss, every episode we see her tired and it makes me feel super bad for her, let her rest, let her suffering end. ;_;

Not to mention the show has a very sluggish pace, everything happens so fast I don’t even have time to understand or even laugh at what the fuck is going on. For a 3 minute short series, the best thing they could have gone is make a shorter opening or don’t feature an OP at all, just feature a title card to open the show and that’s it. Or maybe they could have extended the run time to 7 minutes (a la Sugoiyo!! Masaru-san) so I can enjoy the pace better.

Unlike Manaria Friends, I did know but then I forgot this series was 11 episodes long, but at the same time it threw me off thinking there could be an 11th episode but then I realized episode 0 counts.

6/10 - 60% - Rank: C-

And now... time for the top 3 worst anime of the season!

11.- W’z: I’ve probably never paid a lot of attention to the trailers (and even vaguely remember it), I thought it would be a stand-alone and different kind of series with a lot more music themed or something, but when the series premiered, it revealed itself as a sequel to Hand Shakers... THAT’S RIGHT, A SEQUEL TO HAND SHAKERS NOBODY ASKED FOR.

Despite being surprised that W’z is a sequel to Hand Shakers, I’ve grown to really like the series overall in a short amount of time, it makes me like Hand Shakers more than I previously could.

In like 3 or even 4 episodes, I couldn’t stop fanboying out constantly seeing the characters from Hand Shakers who look so grown up after the 10 year time jump after the series happened.

I mentioned that I thought that W’z was self contained, there are some moments and characters that are barely self-contained because the plot is all heavily linked to Hand Shakers (not that I’m complaining, though). I genuinely didn’t care much for the new characters, except Yukiya because he’s the adopted son of Break and Bind (Real names: Reijiro and Yukine Araki, respectively) , and he’s the McGuffin for accessibility to the Ziggurat to find Nagaoka and Mayumi. The one character I was the least satisfied for their lack of development was Midori, at first he’s had a couple of interesting moments, but the rest he barely appeared in the series and only in the previews, but in episode 9, they finally gave him plenty of screentime and even dropped some good info bombs on what the Ziggurat can do and stuff, so that redeemed my feelings on the character.

Another complaint would be the DJ Nielsen character, he’s got interesting motives and he’s the one who gave Reijiro baby Yukiya in a flashback, but his rapper-kind of voice can be so annoying. He and CHU2 from BanG Dream S2 would make a great team, or maybe a contest on who speaks the worst. (SPOILER ALERT: It’s a draw, they’re both so bad in different levels)

Then we get to episode 10 where the most important thing is that NAGAOKA AND MAYUMI FINALLY SHOWED UP. It actually took so long for them to appear because there was like a lot of stuff in the way, but whatever, I was so happy to see them... albeit with a caveat. Since the goal was to get Nagaoka and Mayumi out of the Ziggurat, it turns out that the duo themselves can’t get out because they want to live a normal life and Nagaoka was sick, as Mayumi said. It’s a little sad and it sucks that they can’t get out, but at least Mayumi had a phone call with Koyori after all.

I thought episode 12 with a Midori/Seba episode (it wasn’t an episode dedicated to those two) and to be on par with Hand Shakers with the 12 episode total, but I’m glad there was a 13th episode to have a good conclusion, and boy, this episode delivered some good surprises: The biggest moment is where Nagaoka told Yukiya how much he has grown and then Yukiya himself straight-up called him “Dad”, like three episodes prior, I had theorized that Yukiya would be Nagaoka and Mayumi’s true biological son but I backed off because I thought it would be disturbing (maybe not really, Mayumi must be old after the 10 year gap and she and Koyori don’t look like they have aged at all), BUT IN REALITY, HE REALLY IS, GOHANDS THE FUCKING MADMEN. The second thing I was happy to see was Makihara, at long last the man finally shows up, he always narrated the first few episodes and I couldn’t stop saying “Show yourself, Makihara!” or something and then there were a couple of namedrops, they took so long but maybe they wanted to save Makihara’s appearance in the flesh for last.

This may not be the biggest deal, but since every single character from Hand Shakers appeared in W’z all grown up and such, the one thing I really wasn’t happy with is the absence of Hibiki and Kodama. Sure, they both got namedropped once (though Kodama was namedropped twice) and mentioned their current careers (Kodama being a singer and actress and Hibiki being a costume designer) but I never got to see them at all, maybe they weren’t the most popular amongst GoHands’ staff. They weren’t my bigger favorites of the Hand Shakers cast (and I don’t mean it in a negative way) but seeing them how they have aged would have been really worth it, come on, GoHands!

Despite the hideous visuals GoHands has grown to have in recent years, I really liked W’z, it makes me like Hand Shakers more than I previously could. If I really liked the show so much, then why it’s in the top 3 of my worst anime of the season? Well, mainly for the aforementioned hideous visuals, while they don’t bother me much, it’s for the sake of people who can’t stomatch it. (Says the guy who put Kemurikusa on second place and gave it a 10/10, Rank: S++, 100%).

Like Kemurikusa, W’z also has a couple of plot holes, which I don’t really expect they could get answered that much, but some parts certainly raise a lot of questions, most notable, this Composer character, we never got to see who was this Composer Senri and Hana worked with. (They both don’t have in common, but they both made me ask questions about the plot and lore.)

Regardless on how you feel about the visuals nowadays, I still want GoHands to continue doing projects, one day they’ll return to their former glory with good visuals like the K franchise and they’ll win their old fans back, but the more important thing is that I still want to see them creating interesting stories.

I’d like to see more stuff taken place in the Hand Shakers universe, just don’t make sequels with every 10 year gap because I don’t want to see all the characters from Hand Shakers and W’z grow really old and die, prequels would be fine to explore more on the Akutagawa/Okuike families and/or fill the 10 year gap between said series. If GoHands decides to make completely different IP that’s not set in the Hand Shakers universe, being its own self-contained universe, I would be totalyl fine too. (I previously thought W’z was a self-contained series before it premiered after all.)

You can call me a lunatic or tell me I’m high, and say whatever you want about Hand Shakers/W’z, I’ve grown to like the franchise and I got the balls to tolerate the visuals unlike you. Besides, It’s not about the visuals anymore, it’s about enjoying the story a lot more.

By the way, I made this meme ages ago and I’m so proud of it. 😂

5/10 - Rank: C - 52% - (AOTS #5 :^) ).

12.- Virtualsan - Looking: This got announced and released a trailer simultaneously out of nowhere, but when I saw the trailer (though it was focused at introducing the main VTubers) and the opening preview, I always thought the show was going to look half-assed, and indeed it did. And speaking of the opening, this series should have been hand-drawn so it would have been cooler to see the VTubers that way.

The bigger problem is that there’s no Kizuna AI at all, which many people aren’t happy with, I’m not worried too much since I like seeing the other VTubers (people should at least watch other kinds of VTubers, not just Kizuna AI alone). Even if Kizuna AI sings the first opening theme, it won’t make up for the fact that she’s completely absent. (At least try to learn to like other VTubers the same way you have your many normal YouTubers/Let’s Players you like, you dumb fucks)

The weirdest selling point of this show, Hideaki Anno was involved in the series. Yes, you read that right, the very same guy who did Evangelion and Shin Godzilla. No wonder why there’s this one sketch where we see the main cast dressed as the girl school uniforms from EVA.

The title of the show, Virtualsan - Looking has given a lot more meaning as I kept watching, it turns out that it’s actually referred to the VTuber Baacharu always watching, he always pops up at the very start of every episode and he’s a recurring star in “Listen Sister!” (forgot the name already, oops) where he always get thrown by Tokino Sora in order to confess to Sister Claire herself [Tokino]. Then he occasionally appears at this Siro segment where some VTubers take a seat and Siro gives a lot of trivia about different topics (then Baacharu became the last guest to star in this segment). It all makes sense now, but for some reason the subtitles called Baacharu “Virtual”.

Speaking of localization, for some reason Crunchyroll decided to license the series a week after its release, but guess what? The episode release schedule was behind, they simulcast the previous episode before the new one aired in Japan, that is until with episodes 5 or 6 which made things even.

There’s no real reason for me to hate this series, I quite enjoyed it and had a lot of laughs throughout the series but the half-assed special effects and stuff are not for the faint of Western audiences’ heart.

Though, I gotta say, this has the potential to spawn more genuine VTuber anime, I’m really optimistic to see more of them in the future.

4.5/10 - Rank: D+ - 48%

13.- Kemono Friends 2: *sigh* Oh boy, trying to write a series review on this one is going to be really tough, but to make it short, it’s as expected, Kemono Friends 2 is a soulless cash grab of a show, a shadow of its former self, definitely the WORST of the season. There’s just so many problems the show has:

Recycled storyline from the first season with a new human character nobody asked for.

Boring ass opening theme song that isn’t memorable and isn’t singable like WELCOME TO YOUKOSO JAPARI PARK.

Having two characters who serve the Raccoon and Fennec-type of roles. (despite having them featured in the OP numerous times and started to appear on episode 10)

Ceruleans look like unfinished CG mess compared to every character and heck, even the Ceruleans from the first season.

Occasionally inconsistent framerate from character movements, most of the time is a bit slow but there are a few times that it goes really fast.

Completely wiped out Serval’s memories of the events from the first season

etc.

Let’s go part by part:

The biggest crime of this season is of course not following the To Be Continued teased at the end of the first season and they decided to soft-reboot the series with a totally new human character, Kyururu.

Then, enter Armadillo and Pangolin, two characters who are looking for Kyururu for reasons [that is from the beginning of the series, later it was explained why they did it, it was to bring Kyururu to Domestic Dog], sound familiar? That’s because their roles are very like Raccoon and Fennec from the first season... when Raccoon and Fennec ALWAYS appeared in the opening (and then finally appeared on episode 10).

Speaking of the opening, the theme is a boring jazz earrape and it’s certainly not memorable or even singable as the first season’s opening, WELCOME TO YOUKOSO JAPARI PARK, those days are over.

I mostly didn’t even care for literally every character in the series. However, there are characters I do care, Kaban-chan (which I’ll discuss about her in a bit) of course, I will always care for Kaban-chan, and Domestic Dog, she’s the one Friend I’d definitely protecc because she’s a doggo and I feel bad for her in episode 8. The characters I’d definitely least protecc are Kyururu, nobody asked for a brand new human to take the Kaban-chan role, and Serval, because she doesn’t remember shit about the first season, they kind of ruined her character.

Serval was the worst change that has ever happened to her, as I stated, they basically wiped out all of her memories of the first season (or so it seems). Caracal told Serval that she had traveled with a human before and there was a small flash with Kaban-chan’s silhouette, this is one of the many things this season broke my heart very badly.

As for Caracal, the chemistry between her and Serval this season didn’t absolutely work here. Her character is depicted kind of a tsundere compared to her Welcome to Japari Park version which, gotta be honest, I definitely prefer the Welcome to Japari Park version and voice way better than the Kemono Friends 2 one. Without disrespecting the VA way too much, her voice for Caracal didn’t work for the character.

Rewatched a small portion of the first season, despite Serval having the same VA, she sounds a little different in Kemono Friends 2.

Speaking of Welcome to Japari Park, there’s the finale coming up in two weeks, so I hope it has a better conclusion than Kemono Friends 2 (which I’ll talk about later).

Now... let’s talk about Kaban-chan! If Serval wasn’t that of a poorly written character enough, Kaban-chan has definitely suffered the most! At the end of episode 5, a paper plane with a flame on its tip was flying out of nowhere, just to drive the Beast away, I heard a voice and IT WAS KABAN-CHAN!!! I was so happy that she finally appeared and I was eager to see more of her in the next episode, then the next week came and... she had plenty of screentime but... SHE DIDN’T DO SHIT! SHE DIDN’T DO A LOT OF SHIT, LIKE, SHE COULD HAVE INTERACTED WITH KYURURU A LOT MORE ABOUT WHAT DOES SHE WANT AND EVERYTHING, I CANNOT FORGIVE THIS EVER!

Well, it’s not like I wanted her with Serval to be like “Hey, Serval! Do you remember me?”, I understand she had her reasons and she must have been aware on Serval’s memory or something, but at the same time, she didn’t do a lot, though later in the episode, it was more focused on Kyururu talking to the owls about the origin of the Ceruleums, Kyururu theorized that the Ceruleans must have been spawned from the sea, and they all decide to test this out, which I don’t really blame too much that it turned out that way because they need to focus more on the overarching story of Kyururu’s search for her house, but come on...

At the end of the episode, Kaban says goodbye to the main trio, but most importantly, to Serval, as she asked Caracal to take care of her, she was downright sad.This episode was completely unsatisfying that I went so far to make a review out of it.

But that’s not the end of Kaban-chan, as she did appear in the final episodes, which I’ll talk about them in a bit...

But I gotta say, I really dig Kaban-chan’s new design. She has indeed grown up given by her height and her matured voice. 👌

There’s something I haven’t discussed very often and that is the NicoNico ratings. I haven’t seen these very often but I’ve seen two screenshots of two random episodes of the ratings, and guess what? Japan definitely voted for the “I didn’t like it.” option! Here’s a screenshot of episode 6:

This is the exact same episode with the underwhelming reunion with Kaban-chan, it deserved it.

This is very funny because, two years ago, Pop Team Epic also a lot of dislike ratings, but it’s not because PTE is bad bad, I think it’s because it’s a kuso anime and people would follow the gag that it sucks or something, but in the case of Kemono Friends 2, it’s plain bad.

Moving on, episode 9 came by, the PPP episode, and there was no Crunchyroll-Hime cameo from the first season, wow, the disrespect. Then we get to see Crested Ibis again! Though she was not a main Friend of the episode (as it is a PPP-centered episode), she has become more of a minor role, just doing auditions, she even name dropped Alpaca.

Next we’ve come to the one episode where Armadillo and Pangolin finally captured Kyururu and brought to her master, the master appeared to be a Friend called Domestic Dog. She started talking to Kyururu that she has finally met a human after a long time, she brings Kyururu to her house and OH MY GOD, SHE MADE DOG SOUNDS, DEFINITELY PROTECC, I’M BEING SERIOUS, PROTECC.

Then comes the scene where Doggo was protecting Kyururu from the Beast, the moment I saw her full of scratches and dirt, my god, I cannot unsee that, that was horrifying.

(Yes, I couldn’t resist bringing John Wick jokes)

Then when doggo let go of Kyururu, to come back to her friends, I felt so bad for her. I saw a comment on Crunchyroll where someone said “Oh no, she’s Seymour from Futurama” and things couldn’t be any more painful.

Right at the end of the episode, these two Friends from a promotional poster I saw a while before the series premiered finally showed up.

They’re purpose was to give Kyururu some sort of existential crisis (well, not that much) by asking her if her house really exists, why did she made her drawings, etc.

Now we’re finally in episode 10 where Raccoon and Fennec finally appear after being in the OP literally every episode ever (Maybe I was asking for meaning or pay-off way too much), then KABAN-CHAN REAPPEARS and that time she was hella serious because she, the professor and her assistant, found out that there were Ceruleans being spawned from Kyururu’s drawings. Kyururu then made a drawing of literally every Friend she has met, including Pigeon which she just met but wanted to include her, and that immediately screamed maximum danger, as I thought there would be a huge army of Ceruleans shaped like the Friends, this is where things got interesting.

Episode 11, comes this war of Friends vs Ceruleans shaped like them, blah blah blah...

Episode 12 came and NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ENDING!

THE ENDING, I.... TAKE A LOOK AT THIS!

Then there’s the post-credits scene:

My face during the very end:

................................................................................................................................................................................................can somebody explain to me what the fuck just happened?

That Kaban-chan and Serval scene........ how could they do this to me.... and I don’t mean it in a good way.... Then that drawing with Mirai and two other Japari Park workers...................

THEY JUST MADE KABAN-CHAN SUFFER!!! ;_;

AND THEN THAT JAPARI PARK FRIENDS DRAWING, WHO ARE THE OTHER TWO WORKERS, MIRAI GETS TO CAMEO, EVERYTHING AAAAAAAAAAAAA

FUCK... THAT!!!

Sure, these moments should bring hype and I should be happy that they did this, the Kaban-chan and Serval scene and the drawing, but it won’t work for me, Kemono Friends 2 tries really hard to redeem itself with hype-worthy moments like these, they just won’t make up for this irredeemable garbage.

Now, I wasn’t a douche on watching the entire series, there are some moments that I found genuinely interesting, had some laughs and made me smile (probably out of confusion, I have problems smiling even on inappropiate shit), the models perfectly capture Mine Yoshizaki’s art style, but without disrespecting Tatsuki, at the same time the models feel lifeless compared to the first season’s.

One thing I don’t understand about the designs is that I’ve seen people in 4chan blaming Tomason for the lazy designs and stuff, or something like that because I’ve seen them use “they” and I don’t really think they’re referring to Yoshizaki, they must have been really referring to Tomason, and that’s not true, Mine Yoshizaki does all of the Friends’ designs, and please don’t call some of them lazy, don’t disservice the man.

Then there are also the next episode previews made by Kikuchi Milo featuring the characters from the first season. Because of Crested Ibis’ minor appearance in episode 9, now I kind of wish the Friends from the first season to show up in the series, not just the next episode previews.

There were also two ED themes, which I find it bizarre that a one-cour series changes theme songs.

We never got to learn more about the Beast character though, she was like an underdeveloped Friend and she behaved more like a genuine tiger animal or something, we never get to learn her origin, or even her race.

Boy, this review turned out way better than I expected, I had a lot of fun writing about this soulless pile of trash. I hope the Welcome to Japari Park finale will help me forget this shit, let’s see how it would build up to the first season of Kemono Friends given that it’s a prequel and this is really old footage, I’m sure there must be how the future of the series got set up or something.

This might have been the most brutal anime review I’ve ever written but it’s the truth.

Watch Kemono Friends 3 get announced but inb4 it could be an adaptation of the mobile/arcade game of the same name instead of following the anime’s overarching story.

Though I think if Kemono Friends 3 happens, it could still be a continuation of the anime's story and it has nothing to do with the mobile/arcade game of the same name. It could be a similar situation with Welcome to Japari Park where there's a manga and a short series and they're both totally unrelated.

To conclude this series review, let me just say this:

Kemono Friends 2 is the Pacific Rim: Uprising of anime.

0/10 - Rank: E - 0% 🔥 🔥 🔥  Hail Hydra (or in this case Hail Kadokawa) No Tatsuki, No Tanoshii

Fuck you, Kadokawa. 🖕

Fall 2018 ongoing:

At last, ongoing anime from the previous season, I wasn’t having this streak lately and it was about time I had it.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: JoJo Part 5 continues to be strong. There’s not much to add but I got some small things to say: When I’m 4chan threads, seeing screenshots of Part 4 makes me realize that Part 4 is the WORST looking and poorly produced part out of all the rest, thankfully Part 5 looks way better.

Since I was so accostumed on how the characters sound like in All Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, the new voices have definitely grown on me now.

Also, how does King Crimson work?

Ace Attorney season 2: I genuinely had this post written with JoJo as the only ongoing Fall 2018 anime alone and somehow I have forgotten about Ace Attorney despite still watching the series. I feel like I enjoyed the Bridge to the Turnabout episodes a lot more.

I felt like this second season has genuinely given me a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth unlike the first season, which it definitely lead me to drop the series, but I didn’t drop it completely, I have picked it up again around episode 10 because I felt bad.

Now, let’s start talking about the Spring season, and why is this going to be the best anime season yet? Well...

1.- Kimestu no Yaiba - April 6: I’M SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS ONE! Ahem, well, to tell you the truth, I just love being wowed by Ufotable’s fantastic visuals. I’m definitely checking this one blindly, I feel like this is something I should read the manga because I’m starting to feel like it could be an unfaithful narrative mess, and it’s already making me sad. But is Ufotable the type of studio to go off the rails and completely butcher the story? (Probably God Eater as people say but I don’t really see what’s with the hate and why is it offensively bad, I played God Eater Burst long afterwards, though. Call me an Ufotable stan if you want, but I really don’t see any problem with God Eater even when I binged it years ago, aside from a bit of animation hiccups (probably the/my first with (modern) Ufotable having a bit of hiccups) but I don’t mind it, I just enjoyed the way it is; people are gonna tell me this too and I’d be like totally disagreeing their opinions, refusing to seek the reality; I’d love to rush my ass off and read the manga like I did with One Punch Man, My Hero Academia and Monster Musume but I’m just so lazy to do it now, and I can’t read manga with over 100 chapters long.)

I always watch a lot of anime without even reading the manga first, even I don’t read JoJo (Even though I know some of the biggest spoilers from every part through the games) and Mob Psycho 100, but for some reason Kimetsu no Yaiba feels like a huge deal for me, I wish I couldn’t let the opportunity of reading the manga first go to waste, yet, I’m here about to watch the anime. I wish I could have realized this sooner.

Anyways, enough of that insane talk and wouldn’t boost hype confidence, I’m still going to enjoy it regardless how the story goes and the music might be something worth praising because the composers are fucking Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina, animation and visuals are no surprise worth of praise , I’m just ready to watch Ufotable’s next big TV project since Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu. (yes, there was 2018′s Emiya-san chi no Kyou no Gohan but it was a monthly series and each episode was 12 minutes long, so it’s not kind of a big deal; then there’s also the Heaven’s Feel movie trilogy (loved the second movie (even though I’m an anime only, I’m legit scared of Gavin and other kinds of elitists now; even though he unfollowed me)), but like I said, TV project)

As of March 27th, I read some news that Ufotable is under investigation over tax evasion and now I’ve grown way concerned than I was. It may not affect the releases of Kimetsu no Yaiba and even Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel III but I just don’t want to see Ufotable close. After Kimetsu no Yaiba come out, let’s see how Ufotable will do.

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Quick update, I HAVE read the first three chapters, it’s relatively solid and given on the scenes I’ve seen in the trailers, I do believe Ufotable is going to make a pretty good job on adapting the series faithfully narratively.

But most importantly so far, I hope Ufotable will do justice this panel! Which I had posted this on my Kemono Friends 2 series review.

Bones disappointed me with the anime version of Mina’s “NO WAY” scene from My Hero Academia, and I hope Ufotable won’t do the same, I want a perfect recreation of that Tanjiro face.

Here’s the comparison below:

Anime:

Manga:

Do you agree on this? (If you don’t, it’s fine, don’t worry about it)

UPDATE - April 13th:

UFOTABLE, YOU FUCKING BLEW IT!!! GET BANKRUPT!!!

I changed my mind about Bones with the Mina “NO WAY!” part, it actually looks faithfully recreated, UNLIKE UFOTABLE.

(Alright, I gotta stop updating this post constantly with what’s happening right now)

RELATED: What will Ufotable’s final release be?

2.- One Punch Man season 2 - April 2nd: I’ve said this before and I will say it again, I’m NOT expecting OPM S2 to be any good and I’m NOT looking forward to it, even if I say that, I’m still going to watch it, regardless, but I’m not very hopeful for the visuals (Man, all I ever care about in anime is the visuals, I don’t give a crap of the story, I just want good animation!).

Since the release date is revealed to be April 2nd, which is Tuesday, I’m going to miss the good old One Punch Man Sundays when the first season came out, but Tuesdays are a good day for anime, so it’s worth it.

Well, I wrote that sentence literally like a day or two, and a new visual got revealed, it looks clean but it’s already not gonna look like that, very S1-like, given the first teaser trailer released. That aside, Viz Media confirmed that it will be premiered on April 9th on Hulu (RIP Daisuki.net), which that’s on Saturday, so that’s close on the good old OPM Sundays 4 years ago.

Actually, I’m pretty split on that information, in one hand, the official Twitter account tweeted the visual with the April 2nd release, but in the other, Viz Media tweeted that it comes out in the 9th and calls it “the same day as Japan” and “ Details and availability regarding the April 2nd special programming in our territory are currently unavailable.”, I’m so confused.

(Sorry, this post has been in progress for the entire Winter season and I’m writing stuff I was currently experiencing at the time)

March 18th, the second trailer dropped and somehow I’m kind of alright with it, still not super impressed but at least it’s kind of something. But the biggest let-down is the new opening theme by JAM Project revealed in the trailer which it’s not as great as THE HERO. I’m a bigger fan of the way THE HERO is, I’m probably the more upbeat type of person, and with this? I don’t want something calm, I wanted a more action packed song! I hadn't payed a lot of attention to the editing of the trailer with the black screens, but yeah, it's so bad.

The more I think about the trailer and seeing people’s reactions, I’m starting to think it’s really looking like absolute ass than I previously mentioned, so I couldn’t agree more. But hey, at least I love seeing some of the jokes and memes related to the trailer.

I thought I had to wait until AnimeJapan to drop the trailer but they decided to do it now.

I now understand what’s with the April 2nd and April 9th releases. The April 2nd release is going to be more like an special of sorts and next week is when the series for real starts. It’s the same issue I had with Kemono Friends 2, but that was unpredictable at the time, so with One Punch Man, I can totally wait for next week. (At the time of posting this, the day has come)

3.- Attack on Titan season 3 second cour - April 28th: It’s seriously been like annoyingly forever after the first cour ended in Fall 2018, but I’m finally it’s going to continue.

I still don’t know what took so long, but whatever.

4.- Isekai Quartet - April 9th: From what I see now, this is going to be more like a show with different isekai projects focused as sketches or something, I randomly thought it would be a crossover but apparently it’s not the case. Regardless, I’m still going to watch and enjoy the way it is.

By the time I saw its announcement, I immediately went to binge Re:Zero, I have seen Youjo Senki, Overlord and Kono Suba, so I needed to watch Re:Zero so I can be complete or something.

Since I write this post as time goes on, the trailer for Isekai Quartet has released and indeed it is a crossover like I wanted!

5.- Girls’ Frontline comedy anime short - ???: It appears that we’re getting our first Girls’ Frontline anime and it’s a comedy which it’s even cooler.

The trailer was first revealed on a BiliBili livestream on January for Chinese audiences, then a few days later, there was another livestream taken place in VTuber Nekomiya Hinata’s channel for Japanese audiences, where they showed off the same trailer but one frame of new footage and then there’s a new trailer for another Girls’ Frontline anime, that’s right, we don’t have just one, but two different Girls’ Frontline comedy anime, this one’s focused on the AR Team and 404, and the other one has a variety of T-Dolls featured, but the former is the bigger focus here.

What I find rather surprising about this short anime is that ever since they showed the trailer on said livestreams, there’s no official upload of the trailer, not a whole lot of news sites reported about this, and not even a full release date after two months. I thought there would be more information on AnimeJapan 2019 but there was nothing in sight.

So I guess I’ll have to wait until April to see if this will indeed come out, it could be a surprise release not everyone is going to notice or it might be delayed to Summer. Nevertheless, I’m excited to see this one, and the other one too but I prefer this one with the AR Team and 404 the most.

By the way, thanks for tagging me twice on these Girls’ Frontline anime, Moetron. I’m happy that I let you know these trailers exist. Here, have this powerful image of G11 meditating.

6.- Fruits Basket remake - April 5th: I never watched the original Fruits Basket and I’ve been seeing a lot of announcements about returning English voice actors and stuff, I dunno why but I’m thinking the remake could be overhyped with all this stuff, but I’m sure it’s still going to be enjoyable for the people who read the manga, who watched the original anime series and newcomers alike.

Speaking of the manga, I wondered why is there a need for a remake now, one of my friends told me that there could be an actual ending of the series since the original anime prematuredly ended when the manga was still going at the time, so I believe the remake might add the manga’s ending or something, I don’t know anything about it but it sounds like a likely thing to happen.

7.- Miru Tights - May 11th: There isn’t much to comment on this one, but it’s interesting because it’s basically Yom the anime. Yep, the man of the thights is getting an anime. Who would knew one day this would happen? Also, it comes out on May 11th, it’s kind of an unusual date even for a web series.

8.- 四月一日さん家の (Watanuki-san Chi No) - April 19th: After Virtual-san wa Miteiru, it seems like the anime industry wouldn’t give up on start making anime with VTubers now.

Unlike Virtual-san wa Miteiru, this one’s not really classified as “anime”, it’s more like a drama as its official Twitter account says or something. Well, at least this show stars Tokino Sora as one of the three leads, so it’ll be interesting. Though I’m not sure anyone would really like to torrent this but at the same time it’d be a waste not to.

9.- Bungou Stray Dogs season 3 - April 12th: I’ve watched the first two seasons of the show in December 2017, then watched the movie in my cinema with my older sister on her birthday, I’m definitely quite a fan of the series, not completely hardcore as I need to read the manga, but I’m fine for now. Anyways, I’m glad there’s a third season happening and can’t wait to see it.

There was originally going to be a Chiitan anime this Spring but it got delayed to Summer. And yeah, you read that right, a Chiitan anime.

HONORABLE MENTION (Since that just happened): Pop Team Epic special: I genuinely forgot a special was going to occur on April 1st (being April Fools), but I’m glad I watched it and still loved it like the base series and now I want season 2.

Thanks for reading this post, this must have been the longest post I’ve ever made yet for so many reasons. What’s your most anticipated anime of the season?

Twitter: @HKomaeda.

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night i was watching hwarang and i was reading comments about the episode and ppl were saying they wished that Ah-Ro wouldn't be such a weak character. i have to agree to that, but then it got me thinking: what if i made the reader in my story more masculine than feminine? i think that'd be cool, but i also think that a character that's half and half would be better, personally, since i think there will be more aspects of the reader's personality that's relatable to others. but character (3/?)

to get killed. nu-uh, i woke to go to school, not the fucking purge. gtfo now." and that was how i stopped the beeping/siren after going to the bathroom. ahaha, it was so weird and i straight up thought, "is this what characters in movies think whenever there's some strange siren???" it was weird; i thought it was from my chinese neighbor since they do some karaoke and LOUD ASS BASS (actually idk if it's them who has the bass so damn loud). aw man this is long, sorry. i have to go so (5/?)

i guess this worked out well :)))) much love and also when it says on the side "uncharted au: hoseok" are u talking about the PS4 game orrrr....??? cuz if it is then siGN ME THE FUCK UP ok i'll leave now ^^'' byeee have a wonderful day/night (6/6) - tatertot anon

part 4 got lost BUT DW I got the most important points of your message, it seems! :D

oH funny how I answered one of your questions accidentally, and yes I think worst fears are definitely a much more interesting concept :D when it comes to society I think it would mostly be related to death (be it your own or your loved ones) or loneliness, but that’s just what I think, so dunno. this got dark very fast sorry alskjd

well, I agree with giving your character a bit of both because I think that focusing on just one trait would make her seem one-dimensional, and you want her to feel real and human, with her own contradictions :) personally I don’t really like characters that you can just go ‘the playboy’ ‘the popular girl’ ‘the tomboy’ bc that just makes them seem a little flat, but this is just my opinion!

your fifth message is so funny without a context omg, also holy crapppppp I also have a chinese neighbor that plays loud ass music everyday I’M LAUGHING WHY ARE THEY LIKE THAT. mine usually boosts electronic music at full volume during the worst times (when I try to study or take a nap) it makes me rage so much istg, and I can’t do anything about it because it’s completely legal until 9pm (and of course they turn it off then)

and yess uncharted from ps4 :)) I’m super super excited to write that even though I still don’t have a plot, and I want to play more of the game so I can get more ideas and hopefully feel that spark of inspiration. well then, have a nice day!! ^^

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Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus

I watch CNN, i watch fox, i watch CBS and in this case there's a lot of things not being said about covid 19 origin. This is just the essential nature of Chinese communism Chinese communism is evil. Every person at arms is directly attributable to the Chinese Communist Party. I began looking into the origin that now widely known corona virus in early February. That's timing amid the Hong Kong protests the Taiwan elections the us-china trade. My name is Joshua Philip. I'm an investigative reporter at The Epoch Times in New York writing about the Chinese Communist Party's programs of espionage and unconventional warfare for well over a decade. Videos and messages from Chinese citizens leaking through the censorship suggested the situation was much worse than what the regime was reporting. As my research progressed initial answers turned into more questions. I soon realized there was much more to the story than we were being told. Today the corona virus is impacting over a hundred countries around the world, billions of lives worthless and from what is said by the Chinese Communist Party this allegedly started spontaneously in the seafood market in Wuhan China.

PART I

The Story of The Wuhan Seafood Market Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province. The largest city in central China. Wonton seafood market is located in Zhang Han district of Wuhan City. It is a large comprehensive market that includes pork and a variety of frozen seafood flavored spices as well as some game meats. The first thing that received public attention about the epidemic was an internal notice from the Wuhan Health Commission. There has been a continuous occurrence of pneumonia cases of unknown cause. The notice issued on December 30 2019 clearly required all medical units to report similar cases of unknown pneumonia. The notice started spreading online and on December 31st 2019 the Wuhan Health Commission issued a public notice for the first time saying that some medical institutions found a link between the pneumonia cases and the one on seafood market. However, the notice pointed out that there was no evidence of obvious human to human transmission and no infection among medical personnel. On January 1st 2020 the Hunan seafood market posted a notice of closure. This was followed by a thorough cleanup of the market which as an investigative reporter seemed rushed. Wonhee a well-known Hong Kong expert echoed my concern that the move was like destroying the crime scene. Since then Wuhan officials have repeatedly said that most cases of pneumonia in Wuhan have a history of exposure to the Hunan seafood market. On January 26 the Institute of biology of China CDC announced that 33 of the 585 environmental samples from the WHO and on seafood market were found to contain the novel coronavirus nucleic acid and the virus was successfully isolated from the positive culture samples suggesting that the virus originated from wild animals sold at the market. At this point who a non-seafood market being the source of the epidemic became an official conclusion. A few days later however a report from the journal science published online challenged that story. The report cited a paper in The Lancet one of the world's top medical journals and questioned whether Wu Hans novel coronavirus pneumonia did not have originated at the market. The paper titled clinical features of patients infected a 20-19 novel coronavirus a new Han China was published in The Lancet on January 24. The first author of the paper is pong shaolin deputy director of Jin linton hospital. The first designated hospital for treatment of unknown pneumonia in Wuhan. Why would this come as a challenge the official narrative? Dr. SEAN LIN I think these journal articles very importantly reveal a lot of important information toed on police paper talk about the first patient onset was edgy on December 1st. These patients not related to one I see from market and also no epidemiology or association was formed between the first patient and subsequent patient and then also on this paper I talked about on December 10th there were three more Unser cases. Two of which were not related to one and civil market wholesale. Major discoveries there a total of 41 patients were counted in his paper and for ting up them proved to be unrelated to the seafood market. Accounting for more than one third no one sells bet at a civil market - and official from CDC's the dimension they find any pets in a thief market tip. JUDY A MIKOVITS PhD Certainly, The Lancet paper showing that supposed patient zero was nowhere near the market, secondly that there are no bats in the seafood market or anywhere close. The idea of the spread so fast through a population just the way it was said through the seafood market is highly unlikely and improbable. Numbers On January 29th and Lancet Rhee published an analysis of 99 confirmed cases at Jinyoung thanh Hospital of which 50 had no history of exposure to the seafood market. According to the New England Journal of the 425 cases confirmed 45 cases onset before January 1st had no history of exposure to the seafood market. Notably the authors of the two lands at papers in the new in Journal of Medicine our doctors and medical experts in mainland China. Annual Lucy an epidemiologist at the University of Georgetown said in response to the Lancet paper that if the data were accurate. The first case would have been infected by the virus already in November 2019 because of the incubation period between infection and symptoms. This would mean the virus is quietly spreading between people in some parts of Wuhan before the cluster of cases with a history of exposure. The who and on seafood market began on December 15. The first expert group from the National Health Commission arrived in Wuhan as early as December 31st 2019. The expert panel established a set of diagnostic criteria after investigating Ginny and Thanh Hospital of Wuhan that stipulated a history of contact with Hunan seafood market. The person having a fever and displaying the whole genome sequence all three standards have to be met to confirm case. The standard was used until a second group of experts including John Nanchang arrived in Wuhan and January 18th and made a revision why did the panel impose a history of seafood market exposure as a criterion of diagnosis knowing that at least a third of the cases were unrelated with the seafood market. Today's clearly known about 14 patients not related to one achieve market at all that clearly means another source of outbreak I think somehow this could be of malfeasance or somewhat intentionally cavil of some important source of infection. It can go a long way to covering up the actual source by imposing a false place and you're not looking at the actual victims then you're only allowed to find your keys under the light post. GORDON CHANG The numbers that we're getting from China about new infections and deaths are highly suspicious we know that Beijing for six weeks in December and January suppressed information of the epidemic and then when they officially acknowledged it on January 20. They then started a campaign of suppression of information we know that because the central leading group that was announced on January 26 has a nine-person roster and it's very heavy with propaganda officials. Indeed, the vice-chairman of the group is the Communist party's propaganda czar. It appears that the party's main goal here is suppression of information controlling the narrative that's more important to them than actually ending the epidemic. GEN ROBERT SPALDING I was in China when SARS happened and we were evacuated and it's the same it was exact same thing there's no transparency. They tried as long as they could to cover it up until finally it was just like with the krona by which they could no longer cover it up and then they proceeded to act, I mean I think from my perception back then their response to is exactly the same.

PART II

The Mysterious Gene Sequence On January 10 China disclosed the full genome sequence of the Wuhan novel coronavirus and many of the world's top biologists began analyzing it. As early as January 7th an academic jungle Jen from the National Institute of communicable disease control intervention along with the School of Public Health of food on University submitted a joint paper to nature. The paper was published on February 3rd and pointed out that the Wuhan corona virus is closely related to cov zc 4 5 and co v ZX c 2 1 2 viruses sampled from bats in jus Shan but a People's Liberation Army. The Wuhan corona virus has an 80 9.1%. Nucleotide similarity to the cov zc4 five virus and even exhibits 100% amino acid similarity than the NSP 7 e proteins. Shortly after the paper was published other scientists used blast. A program developed by the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Biotechnology information to compare the viral sequence based on the data submitted by Chinese authorities On January 12th. The results matched with John's findings. Another scientist Lu Rajan from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and their team also published a paper in The Lancet on January 30. The paper stated that the Wuhan virus has an 88% similarity to two bat derived SARS like coronaviruses collected in jus sham Jade young Province of China. The earliest discovery this bat derived viruses by an expert from the Research Institute for medicine of Nanjing Command. A paper published in 2018 States at scientists from this Institute detected many SARS like corona viruses and bats from Juche and city also known as bat like corona virus josh and virus. In short scientists found the Wuhan coronavirus the current pandemic is highly similar to a bat SARS like coronavirus previously discovered by the Nanjing military Research Institute showing 100% amino acid similarity in NS p7 and envelope protein the e protein. What does this high similarity reveal? How to see proteins 100% identical and virus jump species and so they're suggesting maybe the virus could be generated with reverse-engineer process. JUDY A MIKOVITS PhD I certainly believe that the 100% amino acid some similarity says it can't possibly it be a natural mutation. On January 21st researchers from the Institute Pasdar Shanghai Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in science China Life Sciences that mentioned an important phenomenon. The sequence of a key part of s protein of Wuhan virus has high homology with the SARS virus. What are s proteins and the well-known coronavirus picture their little mushrooms attached to the surface of the virus. These s proteins also known as spine proteins or spike proteins are the most important tool for the corona virus to invade human cells. If we compare the receptor a ce2 on the cell surface of human bodies to a lock. This s protein is the key which can unlock this lock on the cell surface and then invade into the cell to propagate and destroy it. Dr. SEAN LIN That means virus now can infect human cell much easier and that's probably also one our important reason the contributing to my album failure when people have a severe disease. They can spread out in the human body much faster. Well the S proteins that the high similarity of the S proteins from SARS one to now SARS - that's your spike protein, that's the lock and key, that's going to be what drives it right through human cells and so we know that's the pathogenic spike protein that for the original SARS so now you're allowing that access to human tissues because the spike proteins of the natural evolutionary strains don't infect human cells at all so that research has been going on at Wuhan and published since 2007 and clearly if that spike protein from SARS weren't on the kovat the new Koba 19 or SARS - it wouldn't be able to in enter human cells so again this is again evidence that it couldn't go through the Luhan seafood market. Research into the virus genome sequence revealed many essential data points. According to a February 28 report in the South China Morning Post the shanghai p3 laboratory which first shared the Wuhan coronavirus genome with the world was ordered to close by authorities. Impeding further research on the virus professor jeongyeon Zhen and his team who published the genome sequence on January 11 worked at this laboratory. According to a February 26 report on choice Shin Dong young Jen's team isolated and completed the genome sequence of the previously unknown virus on January 5th. On the same day the Shanghai Public Health clinical center reported the discovery to the National Health Commission and recommended prevention measures no response was received as of January 11th and it was then that the team decided to publicize the virus genome sequence on viral aaja co.org becoming the first team to do so in the world which I seen also reported that a hoob a Health Committee already notified genome sequencing organizations on January 1st. Regarding the cessation of analysis of Wuhan virus samples, existing virus samples must be destroyed. Information on the samples related to papers and related data are all prohibited from release. On January 3rd China's National Health Commission distributed notification letter 2020 number 3 in which a similar directed was presented. Afterwards the ones active Chinese scientific community suddenly fell into an eerie silence. What was the Chinese Communist Party trying to hide? Lisa Rinna's the Chinese government is censoring this information. They do not allow the symbols to be sequence or do not allow the sequence to be published or submitted to the gene bank. GORDON CHANG Its response to this virus is extremely troubling. It ignored it for six weeks. It allowed it to spread around China it tried to get other countries to not protect themselves. This is dangerous irresponsible behavior and it's endangered not only the Chinese people but people around the world. GEN ROBERT SPALDING There is no other way of looking at it they are responsible for the continuation of this corona virus and every time it comes back because it will come back because it's going to be with us now permanently. It will come back and every person that it killed, every person that harms is directly attributable to the Chinese Communist Party.

PART III

The discoveries of Dr. Shi Zhengli Through investigating the genome sequence, I found it's significant that the s protein of the Wuhan coronavirus was critical in its cross-species ability to infect humans. While I was searching for related studies online one Chinese viral gist in particular got my attention, she spent many years researching bats and coronaviruses. She was the first to locate the key to how coronaviruses can overcome cross species barriers in order to directly infect human bodies and she was the first to discover that the SARS virus was the result of a restructuring of multiple SARS like corona viruses found in bats. Her name is Shi Cheng Li and she may be an important link to the origin of the virus. Wikipedia describes Shi Cheng Li as a quote Chinese virologist and researcher the Wuhan Institute of biology which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Further investigations show that she Cheng Li has been a figure of controversy since the Wuhan virus outbreak. This is due to paper she published in 2015 discussing her own research into synthetic viruses. Choi Jin a media company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party interviewed. She gently in an attempt to refute these rumors. Dr. SEAN LIN Doctor generally she is one of the top experts in China starting about Coronel virus in Wuhan HTT virology share so many publications from collecting identify bed current water from bat caves. Her lab had these capacities and very sophisticated capacity to generate mutations to make it best feed in human expression as well. Delving further into related information. I discovered that she jangly published not one but four papers in total each of which contains important information. Since the SARS outbreak in 2003. She gently has been conducting research on coronaviruses from 2010 onward. The focus of she and her team was redirected to identifying the capacity for corona virus transmission across species. Specifically putting the spotlight on the s protein of the corona viruses in other words her team's research in the Wuhan lab has been looking into the part that can make corona viruses transmittable to humans. In June 2010 a team including shi jangly published a paper. It describes research to understand the susceptibility of angiotensin-converting enzyme to AC ET proteins of different bat species to the S protein of the SARS virus. In the experiments they also modified key amino acid condoms to mutate the bats AC e2 to examine compatibility with the SARS s protein. This paper demonstrated their awareness of the special relationship between the S protein and the AC e to receptor. It also signified that she had unearthed the passageway for corona viruses into human bodies. In October 2013 she and her team published a paper in the authoritative science journal Nature. They claimed a breakthrough in corona virus research. What was their breakthrough! They successfully isolated three viruses from bats. One of which had an S protein that integrated with human AC ET receptors. This effectively demonstrated the human infection of SARS like viruses to humans without the need of an intermediary host. Then in November 2015 she and her team at the Wuhan lab once again published a paper this time in the British journal Nature Medicine they discussed the creation of a synthetic virus a self-replicating time Eric virus. This virus had the SARS virus as the framework with the key s protein replaced by the one, they had found in a bat coronavirus she mentioned in her 2013 paper. This new virus demonstrated a powerful ability for cross-species infection. The mice infected with the synthetic virus revealed severe lung damage with no cure. This symbolized that she's successful splicing of the SARS virus was a key to open the door to the cross-species transmission what is startling is that these successful experiments on mice were only the tip of the iceberg. They planned to further experiment on primates. Although she generally did not indicate any conclusion from this research. Her move to research on primates suggests. This was to more closely simulate the infection of humans with this new synthetic virus. This wasn't done without controversy however. She's experiments quickly triggered widespread debates from the academic community. Simon Wayne Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in France expressed deep concerns. He told nature if the new virus escaped nobody could predict the trajectory. Propagation could happen anyway. JUDY A MIKOVIT His statement is exactly what's happening that the virus is everywhere additional studies very strongly support the idea that this new corona virus came from a recombination event. However, this did not terminate cheese research. On November 14 2018 she gently spoke at the School of Life Sciences and biotechnology at Shanghai Jiaotong University. The topic was bat coronavirus and it's cross-species infection. Reports of this event have since been deleted from the University website. I discovered two more significant pieces of information. Regarding the dangers of the research conducted by shi-gen Lee's team. First on October 16 2014 the Obama administration wary of the potential threats to public health from the gain-of-function goof research into SARS MERS or influenza announced through the National Institute of Health that it was suspending funding into similar research. The funding paws included shi jing lee's research project. Genetic engineering of SARS like corona virus and bats. A collaborative effort with dr. Ralph barek a VY Rolla gist at the University of North Carolina. Second after the Wuhan outbreak, Indian researchers compared the s protein sequence between 2019 and cov and SARS. They discovered that 2019 n cov had four new sequences inserted. All of which can be found in HIV sequences through a search on genbank. She gently discredited those observations. Although she never denied the existence of the four inserted sequences. However, scientists probing genbank found that there were only three viruses containing all sequences. The first is the HIV virus itself the second is a bat coronavirus discovered by she and the third is this new rule han coronavirus. We've done this kind of work for now 40 years for me. There's the sequence analysis and comparison of the virus of the SARS to Covid 19 apparently has genes that come from other human and other species including some envelope that gp41 from HIV. What is the H ivs gp41 the answer I found the line describes gp41 as a protein of HIV that acts as the key to infecting human bodies? Resulting in the functional failure of the immune system. If the discovery by Judy and her colleagues are established. It would mean the infectious part of the Wuhan virus the s protein. Incorporated the sequence of the HIV key protein. This made me think of the immunodeficiency symptoms and people infected. GEN ROBERT SPALDING They were doing a research on a human transmittable corona virus that was actually published in a paper so this is research that they actually published. They were working on developing a corona virus for the human host which you know leads he's a question why would you be created in the corona virus that can infect humans. What will be the purpose of that research? Is it for a weapon? Is it so that you can then create a vaccine? That you are the sole recipient of the profits from. The Chinese have full access to our databases. They have full access to all that research that comes out. They have full access to all our reading of verses to train their scientists and they have full access to our scientists like was you know with the recent indictment of the head of the chemistry department at Harvard. I mean this is a thousand talents program tens of thousands of the most of the world's brightest people in all of these different areas that are going to China to help them with their programs and all of these programs as you know have a dual use capability. GORDON CHANG Beijing's attacks on the United States which have occurred for weeks and weeks really worry what it shows is that China is desperate and the United States needs to defend itself because China is propagating this narrative that we spread the corona virus to China so the United States needs to just come out with the facts about how China took coronavirus samples from Canada and the United States’. They sent them to Wuhan we don't know exactly what went on in that lab there at the Wuhan Institute of virology but it's time for the United States to defend itself.

PART IV

The Secret of The Wuhan P4 Laboratory January 23rd 2020, the Wuhan virus exploded while Wuhan announced the lockdown to the city Shi Jing Lee and her team released a paper stating the Wuhan corona virus was a probable that origin. This was published in nature on February 3rd. The paper indicated that the Wuhan virus utilized the same key as SARS to gain entry into the human body. She also announced the 2019 n cov genome sequencer was 96.2% consistent with a bat coronavirus originating in Hunan China called our ATG 13 signaling a natural source the Wuhan virus. However, she Gentiles natural origin assertion is doubtful. The outbreak occurred in Wuhan. The same location as the p4 laboratory where she was based and which housed highly similar viruses. Common sense would leave the government to first inspect the p4 laboratory for any leakage incident and potential safety concerns. Instead they shifted public attention from the p4 laboratory to the South China Sea through wholesale market that sold no bats and designated it as the origin of the disease. At the same time authorities sealed off all virus samples prevented international experts from joining the investigation and used national television to slander doctors such as Li Ren Liang who disclosed the outbreak for spreading rumors. If the Wuhan virus indeed emerged naturally. Why would the CCP need to censor relevant news or block investigations. Could the Wuhan p4 laboratory have it secrets? Virus samples and genome sequences may be the exact ingredients we'll need to find our answers. GORDON CHANG When I first heard of the corona virus I was deeply concerned. Almost every disease that starts in China begins in Guangdong province the province that surrounds Hong Kong in the South but Wuhan is in the central portion of the country and so this was extremely unusual. It's not a conspiracy theory to think that the corona virus came from the Wuhan lab. We don't know at this point and until we know the theory about the lab origin is certainly something that we should consider. I noticed that after the outbreak the Wuhan Institute of biology kept strangely quiet. Under normal circumstances as the nation's highest level of AI Rolla G Research Institute. It should be the first one to actively respond when the entire country is working around the clock attempting to control the disease like. This one that so closely fits the type of viruses its scientists were researching. In contrast the Institute had a highly visible demonstration on CCTV other efforts to detect and prevent the outbreak of virus vien pigs of Guangdong in 2018. It should be noted that the Wuhan Institute displayed a series of abnormal events since the start of 2020. January 2nd an email from the director-general of the Institute to all internal staff was circulated. The subject was notice regarding the strict prohibition of disclosure of any information related to the Wuhan unknown the moment. National Health Commission clearly mandates that all detection empirical data results and conclusions related to this outbreak cannot be published on self-media or social media nor disclosed to any media including state media or collaborative organizations including any technical services companies. January 21st a new drug Ramba severe provided for free by the United States to China for Wuhan coronavirus treatment was preemptively patented by the Institute. February 3rd dr. Wu Xiaohua blew the whistle using his real name that Shi Jing Lee's haphazard laboratory management may have led the Wuhan virus to leak from the lab. February 4th chairman of doii shubo blew the whistle using his real name that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was suspected of manufacturing and leaking the Wuhan virus. February 7th top biochemical weapon expert of the People's Liberation Army Chen Wei officially assumed control over Wuhan Institute of biology z-- p for laboratory. February 14 Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for the inclusion of biosecurity into China's national security framework and to accelerate the introduction of a biosecurity Law. February 15th the Institute refuted widely spread rumors on Chinese social media that a female graduate kwangyeon Ling was patient zero and had perished. However, huang's photo CV and thesis were all removed from the Institute's official website leaving only her name. February 17 Institute researcher Chen chuan Xiao Liu the whistle using her real name that director-general of the Institute Wang Yong Yi was suspected of leaking the virus. JUDY A MIKOVITS I graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980. My first job was to go to the National Cancer Institute which was housed at Fort Detrick Maryland the same place that houses the you Sam red US Army Research Institute on infectious disease the biosafety level 4 facility equivalent of the Wuhan facility and so at these facilities it's where investigators who I went in there myself you can see the breakdowns and safety and it's everywhere. That's why I have no doubt the Chinese biosafety level 4 it was just as lacking in safety in rigor you can argue that they don't care. Faceted of leaking the virus military biochemical weapons expert assumes control biosecurity law. Now when these sensitive keywords are connected together. It tells me that the p4 laboratory is not an ordinary academic research institute. I decided to start from the beginning of the Wuhan p4 lab. On January 23rd the day Wuhan was locked down, French website challenges F are published an article that revealed many details of the collaboration between France and China to establish the p4 laboratory in Wuhan. In 2003 after the SARS outbreak in China the Chinese Academy of Sciences requested assistance from the French government to build a fire ology Research Center of the highest level.  With the support of then French Prime Minister Raffa in the two countries signed a contract to jointly construct the p4 laboratory under a wave of contention. According to the contract French architect RVT and Leon was responsible for the engineering of the laboratory. However Chinese authorities switched the work to a local Wuhan architect IP ER based on research conducted by the General Directorate of external security. IPPR had close ties to subsidies of the Chinese military. Some of which were already targets of concern by the American CIA within the 12 subsidiary departments. There was even a specific military management office. The French delayed repeatedly given security concerns. It wasn't until 2017 before the Wuhan p4 laboratory is operational and French security continued to suspect that the Chinese regime was conducting biochemical weapons experiments. Who is the real boss of the p4 laboratory? The Wuhan p4 laboratory was a subsidiary of the Wuhan Institute of biology which is managed by China Academy of Sciences. The director of the laboratory was Yuan Zhinming, who was also the head of Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan chapter, design and funding for construction where the responsibilities of the X vice presidents of the Academy. Jiang Mianheng from 1999 to 2011 and Chen Jew from 2000 to 2007. Yuan Zhinming was the eldest son of X CCP leader Johnson. After Jiang Zemin ascended to power after the Tiananmen Square massacre his son entered the Academy and led the Institute of high technologies research and develop. Yuan Zhinming created the shanghai institute of life sciences and together with china academy of sciences shanghai colleges and universities, shanghai hospitals, military hospitals and research institutions form a profit group of life sciences organizations. They controlled China's major life sciences research projects and allocation of massive funding. Jiang Zhengheng son of ji young nian hang is the controlling shareholder of Wu Shi Aptech. Which in turn is controlling for soon pharmaceutical. China's agent for REM disappear. Effectively young ji Chang is the kingdom behind the specific medicine for the outbreak. Meanwhile chen zhu is the current president of the Red Cross Society of China. Which had faced numerous scandals since the outbreak. In 1999 while Jiang Zemin was in power the People's Liberation Army published a book unrestricted warfare. In which strategies for a weaker nation to combat a stronger nation are discussed in the context of modern warfare. One of the authors Xiao Liang wrote after the first Taiwan Strait crisis we realized that if the Chinese and American military fought head-on. We are at a disadvantage therefore we need a new strategy to help our military tilt the balance of power. This new strategy is called unrestricted or a variety of means beyond all limits without any restrictions. It could be military related including guerrilla warfare, terrorism biochemical warfare or it could be non-military related, such as drug trafficking poisoning environmental destruction and computer virus dissemination. Israeli expert in biological warfare and former intelligence officer Danny shoham published a paper in 2015 in India's Journal of Defense studies. He pointed out that China will not miss skip or abandon any highly advanced technology. Especially military related technology. The article noted that China had 12 facilities related to the Ministry of National Defense and 30 subsidiary facilities of the PLA participating in the research, development, manufacturing, testing or storage of biological weapons. Federation of American scientists indicated similar concerns in an evaluation report. The organization believed that the CCP possessed advanced chemical warfare projects. Including research development manufacturing and weaponizing capabilities. The CCP is usually known to have a proactive biological warfare portfolio including state funded and sponsored research activities. GEN ROBERT SPALDING I believe they happen. I believe they're developing and I think they want to be the most advanced nation on earth when it comes to biological weapons. The same as I believe that they do forced organ harvesting. The way I say the same as I believe that they have concentration camps for we Gers. The way I believe that they have systematically killed millions of Falun Gong. It is the same thing this regime you can count on it. ANTHONY SHAFER So Wuhan is an area I think is critical by the fact that there's a lot of concern about what China's ambitions are during long term global domination how'd you say it that their military doctrine has indicated that they intend to be the dominant political and military force to Pacific Rim. I've talked to senior members of the Trump administration who've had conversations with the senior Chinese generals and that's what they basically say it's in their doctrine too so we have to examine this new clue that's so this is one piece of the you know Wuhan biological warfare is that does this mean something to these other things were already seeing because the Chinese have already kind of stated this is their objective so I think we have to analyze it through that lens what does this mean to the larger political narrative of what China wants to do to dominate the region and potentially the world. We don't have to speculate about being at war last May the Communist Party through people's daily carried a peace which said that there was a quote-unquote people's war against the United States. They've declared war on us we have to respond. There is a war China's told us there's one.

PART V

Facing the Pandemic At present the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has spread to about 190 countries with no signs of slowing down. The united states announced a state of national emergency. Europe became the new center of the outbreak. The world's largest art museum the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower closed to the public. Tragic scenes previously only found in Hollywood films are now playing out live on the world stage and given how closely it seemed to align with the Chinese regime’s narratives. I can't help but question the role the w-h-o had in this catastrophic then demo. GEN ROBERT SPALDING Well I think all you have to do is look at the photo of tigress and she shaking hands. She standing their tea juice going up to there and it really is indicative of how China controls many of these international institutions. You can see that the w-h-o is essentially following Chinese Communist Party's guidelines you can see that the UN Human Rights Council is similarly falling what China does. GORDON CHANG From the very beginning of the corona virus outbreak. The Communist Party has done its best to prevent the CDC and others from studying the origin of this disease. We don't know what's there but the fact that the Communist Party is covering this up. It should trouble us deeply. JAMES GRUNDVIG Then you see the World Health Organization take over YouTube and what's amazing is now at the bottom of every YouTube video even from Chris Martenson with his with his daily updates. He's just reading facts. Now it's the World Health Organization is a forced link to go to the site so for any person doesn't know but who the World Health is a J go there to get the propaganda. Not the facts, not the truth, they get the propaganda. Get the talking points from the World Health Organization and that is also very it's a shame that American corporations especially social media like Google like Facebook and Twitter. They're trying to sense or banner shadow ban or manipulate algorithms so no so forth to prevent an actual honest conversation. The best way this is going to be answered all this we want the truth. JUDY A MIKOVITS The biggest issue I’ve learned over my 40-year career it's not really fighting the viruses and learning how to treat the viruses. It's fighting a system that is determined to cover up and persecute anyone who reveals the truth behind. Today the World Bank many of the international institutions have essentially adopted a posture whereby if the Chinese Communist Party tells them to do what they're going to do it. I'm not surprised at all by what the WH so says I'm not surprised at all by ICAO which basically has been blocking people from that tweet about Taiwan. I mean the whole system and this is why by the way the national security strategy it came out in December 2017 says what it says which is we need to protect our societies not just the United States but all democracies. We need to rebuild them. Not invest Chinese Communist Party regime and the Belton road and they should have been made in China 2025 and we need to inspire people again to believe in democracy. Every country has diseases but in China they become national emergencies and global emergencies. Because the real disease here is communism. A sprawling and aggressive disinformation campaign at least globally by the Chinese Communist Party. The propaganda push which has escalated in recent weeks. Aims primarily to deflect the blame over the Chinese regime's botched handling of the Wuhan coronavirus. To sow discord internationally and to portray the image that the regime has contained the outbreak. During the investigative interview process well-known scientists who once suggested a laboratory origin of the virus declined to be interviewed one after another. Some avoided the topic of virus origin completely. Some had already composed scientific arguments but abruptly retracted the haters. I felt as if a giant net of censorship was cast by the CCP over virologists around the world. Silence at this time could have consequences for the health and lives of billions of people. ANTHONY SHAFER I watched CNN I watched Fox I watched CBS and I try to make my own assessment and a lot of the time you could figure out what's really going on by what they're not saying and in this case there's a lot of things not being said. Bottom line they want to make money from China. They fear the Chinese repercussions if they air this stuff it just gives you an indication of how powerful the Chinese Communist Party is. Chinese Communist Party suppressing speech in the West. Because these companies make money from China and they're afraid through the 91 week the Chinese comes as parties going to punish them if they essentially publish this stuff or allow it to be aired. There is no other movement. I think we have to recognize your audience who haven't seen it. I highly recommend your noble because the same basic governance model that screwed up Chernobyl. I would argue is now in charge of the response of the coronavirus. So, whatever you saw go wrong in Chernobyl you could still see that potential here. I'm not saying it's going to be that bad. I'm just saying that the party the central party is the thing which they want to protect their power and people and nation issues are secondary to the continuation of power. Communist Party is malign and it is grossly irresponsible. It is pressured governments to keep their borders open and it had to know that that would result in the fast bread of coronavirus to other countries. This is the worst sort of behavior and the world's got to understand that there will not be peace there will not be good order and stability in the world as long as the communist party rules China. The Wall Street Journal writes a piece is China's a sick man of Asia. It needs to be corrected. It's not Chinese a sick man of Asia. It is a communist Chinese party. That's a sick man of Asia. The communist party has policies that people abhor and it's not just its reaction to the coronavirus we see this the suppression of Rights also with the holding perhaps a million people maybe even three million people in concentration camps. So, this is just the essential nature of Chinese communism. Chinese communism is evil. While China pretends to be a responsible member of the international community. In reality they are doing much to undermine the rule of law and human rights. We at the epoch times refer to the Wuhan coronavirus or Covid 19 as a ccp virus. Because a Chinese Communist Party's cover-up in Miss handling allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic. On March 24th Texas lawyer Larry claimed and filed a complaint in Texas federal court seeking at least 20 trillion dollars from the Chinese government. Clay man said in a statement quote the Chinese people are a good people but their government is not and it must be made to pay dearly. On April 4th the British think-tank Henry Jackson Society advocated for compensation of 351 billion pounds from the CCP to the UK and that the government should pursue it through international courts the same report called for a total compensation of 3.2 trillion pounds to the g7 for the damages caused by the cover-up of the outbreak. On the same day the All India Bar Association filed a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Seeking an unspecified amount as reparations from China over the global spread of the coronavirus. Evidently the CCP violated the international health regulations. The United States and the international community must regain their senses and take action. Reveal the truth two investigations. Initiate sanctions against the CCP and seek massive restitution for the worldwide public health emergency resulting in tremendous health and economic loss. As the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong are insisting only by trying to stay away from the CCP's invasion. Can we protect ourselves in this global disaster? Let's start protecting ourselves. Let's start rebuilding our country. Let's start investing in our people. Let's start inspiring people to love democracy and transparency and open markets. Not what the Chinese have which is essentially if you read document number nine counter to every single one of those things. So, I mean it gives us a real opportunity to kind of real value eight the kind of world we want to live in and fight for the right side of that world. I want them to see the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party because when they do, they're going to wake up and when that happens democracies will begin to flourish again and when that happens. Perhaps just perhaps the people of China will have a chance. Conclusion This virus must have a message for all of us as people of this earth. We need to take a break from our busy schedules and seriously consider the repercussions of our ever-expanding scientific research and development. If we go too far do our desires and inhibitions go against the laws of nature and pull us further from the direction given by heaven. Maybe when this virus lifts, we can again find our traditional values. Rediscover kindness and virtue family. I believe that viruses can't survive where hearts have compassion.   Read the full article

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Prepare for Tower of God with a Closer Look at the Staff Behind It

  It's hard to believe, but we're officially less than a month away from the April 1 premiere of the Tower of God anime, a Crunchyroll Original that adapts the popular WEBTOON series by SIU. We previously covered some of the key players behind the production, and now that it's right around the corner, there's no better time to take a closer look at a few of the staff members who are working hard to bring it all to life. 

    Director - Takashi Sano

  Takashi Sano may just have a few full-on director credits—including Sengoku Basara: End of Judgment and a bunch of episodes of Transformers: Energon—but this is a career that spans decades. In addition to working on a lot of Lupin, from key animation on special episodes to working as animation director on The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and storyboards for Part 4 and Part 5, Sano has had a hand in some of the biggest anime series of all time.

  Chief among them is a little series called Neon Genesis Evangelion, on which Sano is credited as a key animator. Sano also directed episodes of Gantz and Gad Guard, and recently storyboarded on MEGALOBOX, Princess Principal, and Vinland Saga, which took home Best Drama at this year's Anime Awards. 

  When quality storyboards make an award-worthy show! 

  Assistant Director - Hirokazu Hanai 

  Assisting Takashi Sano is another long-time industry animator, with key animation credits ranging from InuYasha to Fullmetal Alchemist, a couple episodes of Naruto, an episode of the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime, and many more. This is far from a first-time directing gig, though; Hanai previously helmed Dances with the Dragons at anime production house Seven Arcs Pictures. As far as assistant director credits are concerned, you can catch Hanai's stamp on Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas and Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD. 

  One of Hanai's credits is director of Dances with the Dragons.

  Series Composition - Erika Yoshida

  When it comes to taking SUI's WEBTOON series from strip to script, Erika Yoshida is in charge of Tower of God's series composition. Yoshida's résumé is a little more compact than some of the other staff members, but there's impressive range on display already. It all begins with scripts for Sunrise's 2011 superhero outing, Tiger & Bunny, which led to the same line of work for spinoff DOUBLE DECKER! DOUG & KIRILL, as well as LUPIN THE 3rd PART4, and Touken Ranbu - Hanamaru. 

  Yoshida flexed these skills even further as series composition writer for Trickster in 2016, followed by NAMUAMIDABUTSU! -UTENA- in 2019, and now… Tower of God! 

  Capturing the spirit of Lupin takes a special type of writer.

  Character Design - Masashi Kudo & Miho Tanino

  Character designer Miho Tanino may not have a lengthy list of credits, but Tower of God pairs this relatively fresh talent with a major veteran of the anime industry. Masashi Kudo has an absolutely stacked lineup to his name, and in the character design department you're likely most familiar with his take on Tite Kubo's creations for Pierrot's Bleach anime. 

  Going beyond an extensive list of character design, key animation, and animation direction credits, Kudo actually has a few director credits to add to the pile. If you want to see what the Tower of God character designer has to work with in that capacity, you can pop on anime like Kyō no Asuka Show, Re-Kan!, SANRIO BOYS, the Ikki Tousen: Extravaganza Epoch OVA, Hayate the Combat Butler! Can't Take My Eyes Off You, and the aforementioned Chain Chronicle. 

  Character designs are one of Bleach's long-running strong suits.

  Music - Kevin Penkin

  If Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! has taught us anything, even the most electrifying animation doesn't quite pack the same punch without sound and, of course, music. For Tower of God, the soundtrack is in the hands of one of the most prolific composers of late: Kevin Penkin. In just the last couple years alone you've heard his work in hit series like Made in Abyss and The Rising of the Shield Hero, and we're definitely looking forward to all the ways his soundtrack will enhance the dynamic action and drama of Tower of God.

  Strong compositions make shows like Shield Hero even more memorable.

  What about you? What aspects of the Tower of God staff have you looking forward to the adaptation? Hopefully we'll learn more about the other folks behind the series soon, and stay tuned for a closer dive into the cast announced thus far! 

    Additional credits sourced via Anime News Network's encyclopedia. 

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox. 

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