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July 31, 2020

Operation Barbarossa – How much Intelligence do you need? – WW2 Special

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 30 Jul 2020

Josef Stalin was warned time and again from a variety of sources of the German plans for invading the Soviet Union, and yet, he did NOT heed those warnings.

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Max Anson – “Maze Heist”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Fabien Tell – “Last Point of Safe Return”
Jon Bjork – “For the Many”
Philip Ayers – “Trapped in a Maze”
Skrya – “First Responders”
Trabant 33 – “When in Bavaria”
Howard Harper-Barnes – “London”
Mythical Score Society – “Infinity Pool & Pool Tables”
The Fly Guy Five – “Cocktail Hour”

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“Coat Of Arms” – The Greco-Italian War – Sabaton History 078 [Official]

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Italy, Media, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Sabaton History
Published 30 Jul 2020

Morning of October 28th, 1940.

The Italian ambassador to Greece had entered the house of Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. An unacceptable ultimatum in hand, he demanded subjugation under Italian rule. Refusal would mean war. An ardent Ochi! was the answer. No, the Greek would not bow to fascist demands, but instead fight for the defense of their country and their honor. What followed were months of bitter fighting in the harsh environment of Epirus and the Macedonian mountains.

The Greco-Italian War.

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Xi Jinping and the “Chinese dream”

Filed under: China, Economics, Government, Health, Religion, USA — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 03:00

Zineb Riboua outlines possible ways for the West to counter ongoing Chinese economic espionage:

President Donald Trump and PRC President Xi Jinping at the G20 Japan Summit in Osaka, 29 June, 2019.
Cropped from an official White House photo by Shealah Craighead via Wikimedia Commons.

Since 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s favourite catchphrase has been “the Chinese dream”. In stark contrast to the evil, capitalistic American dream, Xi’s alternative vision of progress teaches that the only route to prosperity is through rigid adherence to collectivist ideology.

The Chinese state embodies a very particular ideology. Over the last few decades, it has aggressively ramped up its economic and political capital through business and enterprise, inextricably tying itself to the economic fortunes of both developed and developing countries. It is now seeking to use the economic capital it has accumulated to force its political agenda into reality.

That is why the role of private companies in China is unparalleled. Milton Friedman defined corporate social responsibility in terms of private companies’ sole duty to make a profit, and then increase that profit. Chinese companies appear to be exempt from this rule because they interact with the state in a unique and troubling way.

The current state of the Chinese political and economic landscape is no accident. When Deng Xiaoping spoke in the 1980s of building a “socialism with Chinese characteristics”, this is probably exactly what he had in mind. The Chinese Communist party has succeeded in weaponising local market forces in such a way that it now holds all the cards in its nation’s dealings with the outside world, both political and economic, because the line between the public and the private is non-existent.

This strategy has not gone unnoticed. Thanks to the Chinese Communist party’s recent conduct – unprecedented aggression in Hong Kong, the appalling genocide of the Uyghur people and a costly unwillingness to share information relating to the coronavirus outbreak – the state of its internal affairs has come into sharp focus on the international stage.

Unsurprisingly, the hawkish US has placed itself at the forefront of counter-Chinese rhetoric. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said recently: “We gave the Chinese Communist party and the regime itself special economic treatment, only to see the CCP insist on silence over its human rights abuses as the price of admission for Western companies entering China.”

Herodotus on the Ancient Egyptians: An Introduction to Herodotus

Filed under: Africa, Europe, Greece, History — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Published 1 Mar 2020

This is the first episode of a six part series by Herodotus on the Ancient Egyptians. This first episode is merely a brief overview and introduction to Herodotus himself and why his histories are important.

AN ACCOUNT OF EGYPT By Herodotus, translated By G. C. Macaulay
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QotD: Princess may have to wait to be rescued

Filed under: Humour, Media, Politics, Quotations, USA — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 01:00

I drove my daughter’s car this morning and the radio was tuned to whatever Sirius current pop station she listens to. I changed the lyrics of every single song to,

    “I cry myself to sleep,
    And I wear skinny jeans.
    I have a lumberjack beard,
    and I cry when I wake up.”

What’s amazing was that my lyrics fit every single whiny soy-boy vanilla song.

Someday all the princesses are going to look around and wonder why the princes are all married to homosexual exotic animal dealers or are simply not interested. The girlzz will be friend-zoned and will answer their biological urge to be a mother with the sperm banked by a stranger.

Paul Piatt, responding to a post on Mewe, 2020-04-29. (Reposted by permission.)

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