Happy 100th Birthday Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger meeting Chairman Mao Zedong
Henry Kissinger is a political heavyweight. Of that there can be no doubt. Even the harshest of this US politician-come-guru, Henry Kissinger’s critics will have to admit that he is just that – a veteran in the ring of international geopolitics. Today, 27th May 2023, Henry Kissinger celebrates his 100th birthday. He is the only surviving member of the…
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Review: The Origins of Totalitariansm - by Hannah Arendt
This book is quite old, first published in 1951, it dates from a period when the totalitarian reality of Hitler and Stalin were very much fresh in the mind. Hannah Arendt was a German Jew and this work is both philosophical, enlightening and gives a valuable educated insight into the dark political reality of totalitarianism. It’s a relatively modern political phenomenon and the in depth analysis…
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broke: white ashkenazim and sephardim are conditionally white
woke: goyische white germans are conditionally white
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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1144
first posted in facebook january 15, 2023
käthe kollwitz -- "woman with dead child" (1903)
"look at life with the eyes of a child" ... käthe kollwitz
"are you familiar with the artist kathé kollwitz? her work is outstanding! i recently went to a museum dedicated to her work.
i had to perform that evening, and her work touched me SO MUCH, that it was difficult to sing.
she was a german jew, who lived through the peasants revolt, the weaver's revolt and lost her son in WW1. sometime during WW2, her home in berlin was destroyed. she was banned from presenting and teaching, etc.
fascinating artist" ... gabrielle agachiko
"i do not want to die... until i have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown" ... käthe kollwitz
"this 'masterpiece' post is dedicated to my dear friend gabrielle agachiko--who enthusiastically supported this little series, and recommended käthe kollwitz (and other artists as well) to me ... gaby passed away january 5, 2023 “ ... al janik
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In April 1933, Einstein discovered that the new German government had passed laws barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at universities.[129] Historian Gerald Holton describes how, with "virtually no audible protest being raised by their colleagues", thousands of Jewish scientists were suddenly forced to give up their university positions and their names were removed from the rolls of institutions where they were employed.[131]
A month later, Einstein's works were among those targeted by the German Student Union in the Nazi book burnings, with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels proclaiming, "Jewish intellectualism is dead."[129] One German magazine included him in a list of enemies of the German regime with the phrase, "not yet hanged", offering a $5,000 bounty on his head.[129][132] In a subsequent letter to physicist and friend Max Born, who had already emigrated from Germany to England, Einstein wrote, "... I must confess that the degree of their brutality and cowardice came as something of a surprise."[129] After moving to the US, he described the book burnings as a "spontaneous emotional outburst" by those who "shun popular enlightenment", and "more than anything else in the world, fear the influence of men of intellectual independence".[133]
A quote from the Wikipedia page of German-American Jewish scientist, Albert Einstein.
What's notable here is how academics and intellectuals raised almost no protest to the systematic purging of Jews from universities in Germany. This is because, as historian Niall Ferguson has noted, that German academics had been promulgating the intellectual basis of Nazism during the 1920's (and probably beforehand).
What we can see here is that rather than defending the dignity and liberty of the individual, academics and intellectuals were the first in line to accept, permit, and collaborate with tyranny. They believed and invented lies. They turned a blind eye to mounting crimes against humanity.
When we look at today's college campuses and see a rising sea of hatred against Jewish students; when we see thousands of non-Jewish students showing little to no concern whatsoever for the rise in antisemitic hatred; when we see academics who glorify Jew-hating mass murderers, we should not be surprised.
What has been is what will be.
The academics who have promulgated anti-Jewish hatred (or stood by and allowed it to spread) today are betraying the same spirit as the German academics who allowed German Jews to be purged and threatened with death by the Nazi regime. And, like the German academics of the 20's and 30's, they believe that their betrayal of justice and liberty are all in the public's best interests.
Of course, they have been wise enough to change their official scapegoat from the Jews to "Israel".
But the net result is the same: Jews-- no matter how great their achievements, like those of Einstein-- are being purged from academic spaces and polite society, once again, to virtually no protest from their peers.
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Fragment of Ghetto wall, Sienna street, Warsaw, Poland
"In the period from Nov 15, 1940 to Nov 30, 1941 this wall marked the limit of The Ghetto"
"A brick from this place is in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem"
Ghetto Enlave
"A place dedicated to the memory of Jews tortured and murdered in 1940-1943 by the German occupant"
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The Heinrich Böll Foundation is now trying to furiously backpedal and say they didn’t think Masha Gessen didn’t deserve the Hannah Arendt prize, actually, they just thought their essay caused “controversy.” It’s mealy-mouthed weasel behavior, but maybe an indication that German liberals are not immune to criticism from abroad. I hope people continue to call out this bullshit.
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