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Throwback Thursday: I predicted the collapse of the #SovietUnion but no one knows this:
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#AlexanderNevsky was born #OnThisDay in 1221; the prince of #Novgorod led #KievanRus to victory over German knights in the Battle of the Ice (5.4.1242), dramatized by #SergeiEisenstein in his 1938 #film with #music by Sergei Prokofiev:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsOy...
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#ApartheidIsrael has carried out 3,222 massacres in the last 235 days — prompting an unprecedented number of #Refuseniks to refuse to participate in the #GazaGenocide — according to @YeshGvul1982:
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240529-unp...
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#CharlesIX died of tuberculosis at the age of 23 #OnThisDay in 1574 — going down in #history as the king who ordered the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre — succeeded by his younger brother #HenriIII — the last of the #Valois kings of #France & the worst...
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Angela Merkel notoriously declared that the sole purpose of the #Bundesrepublik was to aid #ApartheidIsrael in committing genocide but the #GazaGenocide is raising questions about #Germany's Staatsräson as #Deutschland makes itself complicit in #Völkermord:
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240530-is-...
Is Germany changing course on Israel after its Rafah offensive?
Recent remarks from German officials backing the independence of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and showing concern about Palestinian casualties in...
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"Another one of my sons was KILLED in #Israeli_bombing near the refugee shelter where we are staying in Al Zaytoun neighbourhood of #Gaza_City!"~Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza): #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide claims another victim with arms supplied by #GenocideJoeBiden...
#DianeAbbott is standing up to #KeirStarmer's #bullying & #LabourRacism as the #LabourParty leader tries to exclude progressive candidates from running in the British general election; he's a #Zionist supporter of #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide, BTW...
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#NikkiHaley is simply making explicit what #GenocideJoeBiden & most #Democrats & Republicans feel: #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide must liquidate Gaza's entire civilian population despite a majority of Americans supporting a ceasefire to end the genocide:
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Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake #OnThisDay in 1431. Leslie Feinberg called Joan of Arc a 'transgender warrior' ("Transgender Warriors," 1996) — failing to acknowledge that she was executed by the English for her military leadership
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#FredKorematsu was arrested #OnThisDay in 1942 for evading #FDR's imprisonment of #JapaneseAmericans; the US #SupremeCourt has never overturned its 1944 #Korematsu ruling effectively declaring that #AAPI citizens aren't entitled to the rights of US citizenship...
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Alexander Nevsky (1220), Peter Carl Fabergé (1846), Giovanni Gentile (1875), Howard Hawks (1896), Benny Goodman (1909), George London (1920), Christine Jorgensen (1926), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Keir Dullea (1936), Bertrand Delanoë (1950) & #IdinaMenzel (1971) were born #OnThisDay
Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay reached Everest's summit #OnThisDay in 1953 — the first ever to do so — but Sir Edmund got all the credit. #HillaryClinton was born in 1947 but claimed she was named for him even though he wasn't known outside New Zealand before 1953...
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Laverne Cox was born #OnThisDay in 1972, rising to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset in "Orange Is the New Black"; on this day in 2014, she became the first openly transgendered person to appear on the cover of Time magazine:
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"The Madness of King George" is streaming now & I'm enjoying this film (again) but also thinking of the senility of King Joe & the impossibility of a regency for the most powerful man on earth as he incompetently directs #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide...
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#IsaacAlbéniz was born #OnThisDay in 1860; one of the leading figures in 20th c. Spanish music, he captured the delights of #Spain in his masterpiece, #Iberia; this is Alicia de Larrocha performing "Triana":
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#MinoucheShafik is imposing new rules that will lead to the dismissal of #ColumbiaUniversity faculty, staff & students who criticize #ApartheidIsrael & its #GazaGenocide as the new #Zionist #McCarthyism takes over US universities & ends #academicfreedom:
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"L'Après-Midi d'un Faune" premiered in Paris #OnThisDay in 1912; the #ballet was choreographed by #VaslavNijinsky for the #BalletsRusses with #music by #ClaudeDebussy — one of the great moments in the history of music & dance:
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I saw "The Civility of Albert Cashier" two years ago & wrote this review for Gay City News:
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#NikkiHaley has taken $1,550,101 from #Zionist donors & PACs; could that explain her enthusiasm for #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide & unconditional support for the mass murder of innocent men, women & children...? If only women ruled the world~!
www.huffpost.com/entry/nikki-...
I just sautéed organic Indonesian #tempeh in Korean gochujang #고추장 sauce with organic raw cashews, shallots & steamed wild rice, organic black rice & broccoli for a high-protein meatless dinner; eat less meat to help #savetheplanet before it's too late~!
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I just sautéed organic Indonesian #tempeh in Korean gochujang #고추장 sauce with organic raw cashews & steamed wild rice, organic black rice & broccoli for a high-protein meatless dinner; eat less meat to help #savetheplanet before it's too late~!
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#JillBiden was on #TheView this morning but said not a word about #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide that her husband is funding & supporting & that is one of the big factors in #GenocideJoeBiden's slide in the polls; what a joke~! 🇮🇱 🇵🇸
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Mehmet the Conqueror breached the walls of Constantinople #OnThisDay in 1453 & seized the last remnant of Byzantium, turning the capital of the #Byzantine empire into #Istanbul & making it the capital of the Ottoman empire...
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#GenocideJoeBiden continues to fund & support #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide with $3.8 billion a year in US taxes + $15 billion in new funding even as Istanbul's Daily Sabah reports on tanks rolling into Rafah — but his 'red line' hasn't been crossed...?
www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-ea...
Josef von Sternberg was born in Vienna #OnThisDay in 1894, 'discovering' #MarleneDietrich & casting her in "Der blaue Engel" (The Blue Angel) (1930) & a series of other #films, including "The Scarlet Empress" (1934):
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#BarryCommoner was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn #OnThisDay in 1917, becoming a plant physiologist & the Citizens Party's presidential nominee in 1980; I was one of the 233,052 people who voted for him~!
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#PopeFrancis is being roasted for saying that "nella chiesa c'è già troppa #frociaggine": X has turned #PapaFrancesco into a meme — eccola vendetta dei #seminaristi gay~!
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"Le Sacre du Printemps" premiered in Paris #OnThisDay in 1913; Vaslav Nijinsky's radical choreography for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes & Igor Stravinsky's shocking music provoked a riot:
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Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" launched the Appeal for Amnesty #OnThisDay in 1961 — the beginning of #AmnestyInternational; Amnesty's 2022 report on #ApartheidIsrael provoked furious #Zionist denunciations:
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Pink News explains the homophobic slur that #PopeFrancis apologized for using; #PapaFrancesco needs to get with the #LGBTQ program~!
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"Süßigkeit kommt ohne zugesetzten Zucker aus" (sweetness without added sugar): Salzburger Nachrichten (5.29.24) reports on researchers in Zürich working on '#Schokolade, nur gesünder' (#chocolate but healthier); it's all about the #Kakao~! #cacao
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#RobertDeNiro is right that #DonaldTrump is a threat to democracy but hasn't mentioned his threat to deport critics of #ApartheidIsrael & its #GazaGenocide — perhaps because that would force the actor to acknowledge #GenocideJoeBiden's central role in the genocide...
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Wednesday's Irish Times has a photo on its front page of a Palestinian flag flying at Leinster House in Dublin (5.29.24). #GenocideJoeBiden takes pride in his Irish heritage; he'd do well to follow #Ireland in condemning #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide~!
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Dubai's Gulf News has a photo of Yoon Suk-yeol & the UAE president in #비원 #창덕궁 in Seoul #서울; Yoon is the most right-wing president of the ROK & the UAE is a dictatorship so there's absolutely nothing to celebrate... #한국 #조선 #윤석열 #윤석열대통령
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#GenocideJoeBiden has publicly threatened retaliation against the #ICC for attempting to hold #ApartheidIsrael accountable for the #GazaGenocide as an investigation reveals an illegal campaign to surveil, intimidate & sabotage the court: an int'l. criminal conspiracy...
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#CharlesII was born #OnThisDay in 1630, forced into exile during the English Civil War until the #Restoration of the #monarchy in 1660, ruling until his death in 1685. Charles was far from the best or the worst of the kings of #England but he did reopen the theaters:
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Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin): "FRIDAY IN DC White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre will be speaking at the Wooten High School graduation on Friday, May 31st at 10am at DAR Constitution Hall in DC, 1776 D St NW. Let's go 'greet her' and make our presence felt. Be there at 9am sharp!"
#JillBiden is on #TheView shilling for her war criminal husband & just said I believe Americans are going to choose good over evil"; so what exactly would she call #ApartheidIsrael's incineration of 45 innocent civilians (most of them women & children) in the #GazaGenocide...?
I'm breaking my fast with organic Greek yogurt, wild blueberries, organic walnuts & raw cacao nibs, eating for the first time in 16.5 hours... #IntermittentFasting #Blaubeeren #blåbær #blåbär #myrtilles #mirtilli
"#México solicitó incorporarse al caso contra Israel en la Corte Internacional de Justicia por el genocidio contra el pueblo palestino en Franja de Gaza" (Diario de Yucatán, 5.2.24) #ApartheidIsrael #GazaGenocide #CIJ
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#DietrichFischerDieskau was born #OnThisDay in 1925, one of the great Lieder singers of the 20th c.; note "Ständchen" (op. 17, no. 2) (38:41) & "Morgen" (op. 27, no. 4) (41:39) in this 1964 recital of #RichardStrauß #Lieder:
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#DietrichFischerDieskau was born #OnThisDay in 1925, becoming one of the great Lieder singers of the 20th century. "Last Words" is a documentary that includes interviews with DFD before his death in May 2012 at the age of 86:
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Glyndebourne is the most exclusive & some would say best #opera festival in the world & opened with "Le Nozze di Figaro" #OnThisDay in 1934; here's a 1973 production of Mozart's first great opera:
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#DietrichFischerDieskau was born #OnThisDay in 1925; considered the definitive interpreter of Schubert Lieder, Fischer-Dieskau was also noted for #opera; here's Don Alfonso's "Tutti accusan le donne" from Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte":
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#GenocideJoeBiden's unconditional support for #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide is risking #Michigan's electoral votes & potentially an electoral college majority; does the senile incompetent #Zionist actually want #DonaldTrump to win in November...?
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#GenocideJoeBiden supplied the weapons #ApartheidIsrael used to incinerate more than 45 innocent civilians in Rafah & he's continuing to use $3.8 billion a year in US taxes + $15 billion in new funding to bankroll the #GazaGenocide he's fully complicit in~!
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