Absolutely a terrible period in mankind's quest for war and domination. The Japanese brain washing of their soldiers was well done as they seemed to have little or no remorse for the brutality they inflicted upon the conquered or captured. Some may not be able to view this video either from their location or the grossness of the acts the Japanese committed and this is but the tip of the atrocities.

"Munich Man" by Karl Arnold (1883-1953) published Dec 3, 1923.
In the aftermath of Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch, the "Munich man" gets drunk on Fascism and monarchism on the cover of satirical German magazine Simplicissimus.


Simplicissimus was a satirical German weekly magazine, headquartered in Munich, and founded by Albert Langen in April 1896. Due to its subject matter the magazine was officially viewed as immoral, revolutionary and socialistic. It continued publishing until 1967, interrupted by a hiatus from 1944–1954, and became a biweekly in 1964.


It took its name from the character in the 1668 novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) by German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676). Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War in Holy Roman Empire which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece. Grimmelshausen at the age of ten, was kidnapped by Hessian soldiers, and in their midst experienced military life in the Thirty Years' War.

The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius, a rogue typical of the picaresque novel, as he traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War and comes to symbolize sanity in a depraved, degenerate Europe torn apart by the War.







Simplicius Simplicissimus Wiki


English translations:
Project Gutenberg copy (The first English Edition of Simplicissimus is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 11.)



Later edition with new intro published in 1912




Although the magazine's satirical nature was largely indulged by the German government, an 1898 cover mocking Kaiser Wilhelm's pilgrimage to Palestine resulted in the issue being confiscated. Langen, the publisher, spent five years in exile to Switzerland and was fined 30,000 German gold marks. A six-month prison sentence was given to the cartoonist Thomas Theodor Heine, and seven months to the writer Frank Wedekind. All the defendants were charged with "insulting a royal majesty".


Cover: Emperor in the firing line: the cover of the "Palestine issue" shows a caricature by Thomas Theodor Heine, with Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa doubled over in laughter, clutching a Prussian military helmet, while the crusader Gottfried von Boullion rebukes him with the words "Don′t laugh like that, Barbarossa! There was no point to our crusades either."

″Simplicissimus″ and the Palestine issue - contrary to the 2016 article, with the abdication of the German emperor and the German princes following World War I, the law became invalid. It did not penalize the insult of the German head of state, but the defamation of organs and representatives of foreign states; it was abolished in 2017.

You can view the many Simplicissimus covers here or Digital archive of back issues from 1896–1944 (in German) at Simplicissimus.info

The May 28, 1923 issue from the digital archive has a satirical gallery mugshot poster titled, "What Does Hitler Look Like?" when there were no publicly available photographs, very possibly the first satire of the then Nazi politician.


Simplicissimus (magazine) (Wiki)

Simplicissimus 1898 April-June 3 months Art Nouveau magazine color Jugendstil lithographs:

Quote:Simplicissimus Album: Neuntes Heft (April-June 1898).
Published 1898, Munich by Langen.
105 pages. Text in German as always (and only). Profusely illustrated throughout with color lithographs.

12 complete issues from April - June, 1898.

New trailer for "DUNE 2" has been released. In theaters on March 1.




Official poster for "FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA". In theaters on May 24.




New poster for Matthew Vaughn’s "ARGYLLE".




First look at Nicolas Cage in ‘THE SURFER’. The psychological thriller follows an Australian ex-pat who buys his family’s beach home but must go to war with a group of surfers who claim the beach for their own.


The first trailer for "BEVERLY HILLS COP 4" has been released. Releasing this Summer on Netflix.




The first trailer for John Krasinski’s "IF" has been released. Starring Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Matt Damon, Alan S Kim and Emily Blunt. In theaters on May 17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2KvK-w6w8



"ORPHAN 3" is in the works.




Zack Snyder’s "REBEL MOON" has ambitious plans for building out this world into its own major franchise.



Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire IMDB  | Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) IMDB


A live-action "AMERICAN GIRL" movie is in the works at Mattel and Paramount.
Attempting to bank woke off of Barbie.





Sony will release Jon Watts "WOLFS" theatrically for Apple. Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. No release date yet. IMDB


Most anticipated movies of 2024, according to a Fandango survey of over 8,000 people.

1- Deadpool 3
2- Beetlejuice 2
3- Ghostbusters 4
4- Dune 2
5- Venom 3
6- Despicable Me 4
7- Inside Out 2
8- LOTR: The War of Rohirrim
9- Gladiator 2
10- A Quiet Place: Day One

Not a single original.


Adventure/Sci-fi...in theaters on February 14.


Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead.


GOOD OMENS has been renewed for a third & final season at Prime Video.




Over 90 new films and shows just got added to Prime Video and Freevee this month. Full list

Reacher Season 2 premieres on Prime Video on December 15, 2023!


The final season of ‘STRANGER THINGS’ is like "season 1 on steroids." "Everyone’s back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in season 1."

Mark Wahlberg says the "UNCHARTED 2" script is written.

Movies joining the National Film Registry this year include:

- "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
- "Fame" (1980)
- "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985)
- "Home Alone" (1990)
- "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991)
- "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
- "Apollo 13" (1995)
- "Love & Basketball" (2000)
- "12 Years a Slave" (2013)
Variety


Disney is licensing "LOST" and "PRISON BREAK" to release on Netflix in July 2024.

1 in 5 voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 election admit to participating in at least one kind of voter fraud.

Mail-In ballots are "normally" rejected at an astounding rate. In recent primary elections in New York and Pennsylvania, over 20% of ballots are rejected due to errors but somehow, in the National election, only 0.8% were rejected (who would have thought right?).

New poll finds rampant mail-in voting fraud in the 2020 election

Using a conservative estimate, it appears likely that more than 14 million ballots cast in 2020 were fraudulent.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion...0-election

Quote:The national poll of 1,085 likely voters was conducted between November 30 and December 6, with a margin of error of +/-3 percentage points and a 95% level of confidence

Using only the most conservative estimate (21%), the number of fraudulent ballots is still astronomical. According to election data, 43% of 2020 voters cast ballots by mail — by far the largest percentage in U.S. history. Twenty-one percent of that 43% mail-in figure yields approximately 9%.

Moreover, the survey reveals that fraudulent voting may not have been purely limited to mail-in ballots. Eight percent of all survey respondents — not only those who cast mail-in ballots — admitted that a friend, family member, or organization (such as a political party) offered to pay or reward them for voting.

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The Salsoul Orchestra - Christmas Medley (1976)




2022 Christmas Light, Drone, and Special FX Show Featuring Call of Duty!
This one is over the top!

Some may say Karma, others may say "act of God"

https://twitter.com/WarWatchs/status/173...3760786675

https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-mp...ahs-wrath/

Quote:A Turkish lawmaker collapsed in parliament Tuesday, suffering a heart attack at the end of a livestreamed parliamentary speech in which he slammed Israel and said it wouldn’t be able to “escape the wrath of Allah.”



Hasan Bitmez, 53, of the conservative Felicity Party, delivered an address at the General Assembly of the Turkish parliament, ending it by saying that “we can perhaps hide from our conscience but not from history,” and by addressing the Jewish state: “You will not escape the wrath of Allah.”


He then said, “I salute you all,” immediately before collapsing to the ground at the podium, with his head hitting the floor.

Fellow members of the assembly rushed to his side.


According to Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, Bitmez was hospitalized and his condition was “extremely critical and serious.”

What happens when the Leftist Crazies come for your company because you don't agree 100% with them? They have told Musk that they will destroy Twitter by pulling all advertising so....if you are ultra-rich and they are going to attempt to destroy you no matter what... then why not?

A vote was cast and overwhelmingly won.

Alex Jones RETURNS to X, THANKS Elon Musk for ENDING CENSORSHIP on Twitter

Quote:If you haven’t discerned this yet, the Party of Chaos — Globalism’s “fifth column” in America — lost ground badly in early December even as the country supposedly enters its annual Christmastime coma. You know what a fifth column is? I will explain: it is a subversive enemy force operating inside a nation to sabotage its interests. The Party of Chaos, of course, is the party of “Joe Biden” the fictitious “president” euchered in plain sight to that position via flagrant chicanery in the 2020 Super Tuesday primary and then the free-for-all fraud-o-rama of the general election that year.

     This subversive Party of Chaos (with Marxist characteristics), has worked overtime for years to mindfuck Americans into destroying their own country. Just think of the absurdities you are asked to swallow daily and the punishments meted out for opposing them. It all came to an interesting inflection point lately with the three presidents of exalted universities failing spectacularly to cover their asses in congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.

     At issue was why, after years of grandstanding on the oppression of victim groups, and censoring, silencing, cancelling, and crucifying alternate opinions, they gave their students and faculty a pass in recent weeks on yelling for the extermination of Jews. Wow, did that business disorder the whole Woke cosmography! I’ll tell you why:

My people, the Jews, including a major chunk of the intellectual class, assumed leadership in the Woke crusade because the Holocaust of the 1940s established us as the world’s premier oppressed victim group. That badge of honor stuck for decades. Seventy percent of American Jews vote for the Party of Chaos, which used to be the Party of Civil Rights, which used to be synonymous with truth and justice. Thus, for decades, we American Jews were able to feel marinated in virtue.

     Incidentally, the reason American Jews went all in for the Civil Rights movement was because after the big war and all its horrors they felt a victory for expanded tolerance and acceptance in America — the defeat of “Jim Crow” in particular — could only be a good thing for Jews, who, by the way, had demonstrated that a former “out” group could succeed spectacularly in 20th century America if permitted to try, which suggested that other “out” groups could too, and ought to be allowed to try. For Jews, America turned out to be the promised land, and one can easily see how that rhetoric jibed so well with Martin Luther King and his followers in the 1960s.

But the Civil Rights crusade is history now and American intellectuals, Jews especially, appear to be secretly disillusioned and rather ashamed at the less than satisfactory results, such as intractable black poverty and crime. Successful American Jews have been out of their own ghettos for decades, and they have no desire to live adjacent to any black ghetto if they can help it — though they would never dare admit it. However, they flocked to and flourished in the ghetto of elite academia, where they could make a good living in the commerce of ideas, luxuriate in enhanced social status (especially at Ivy League schools), with the bonus of fabulously easy work requirements (two classes a week and then summers off, what a deal!).

        Life on campus has become increasingly uncomfortable in recent years as Wokery ramped up. Lately, the demonization of all white people, including most Jews, became the order of the day to account for and expiate the disappointments of the Civil Rights program. It required considerable cognitive dissonance for American Jews, especially in higher education, to go along with the growing aggressive absurdity of Woke politics. And then their remaining illusions blew up in the fall of this year after Hamas went on its savage rampage and Israel decided to bring down the wrath of Yahweh to remind the world what never again means.

      American Jews on campus — in the crucible of victimhood politics — now find themselves called out as “oppressors” and “colonizers” on the seesaw of social justice. No longer an “out” group, they are fingered as a cruel and hate-worthy “in” group of the most privileged sort. Jewish students on campus began to feel like they had targets painted on their foreheads. At some colleges, they were indeed actively harassed and menaced. And after all they’ve done, and all the money they’ve given, to assist all the other victims, have-nots, left-behinds and marginalized in this world! And finally, to see how they were sold out by those three smirking boss-girl elite college presidents at the witness table in Congress, equivocating so strenuously that it seemed to affect the oxygen content in the room. From the river to the sea. . . woe unto you!

       And now, an even bigger question looms: with Wokery unraveling on campus, will it now also unravel the Party of Chaos — and its ability to act as Globalism’s fifth column undermining our country? Personally, I think it is indeed the beginning of the end of all that, especially the disgraced intellectual class of America’s ability to play along for mere social status brownie points. Perhaps we’ll all begin to discern that the next trip to be laid on the people of this land will be the final one, the Big Enchilada, the event that will truly knock the wind out of Western Civ and leave it gasping and wheezing on the floor: blowing up the banking system. When that happens, we’ll all finally know just where things stand, and then maybe we’ll all start to sing together.

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Where Are the Good Men?

Ever hear of a guy called J.D. Haltigan? Well, here’s what he said:

“We are at an inflection point, a threshold, where weak, brittle, effete personality structures are a threat to human civilization.”

He’s right. But let’s face it, those are the very structures that are running the country these days. “Toxic masculinity” is certainly not one of their character traits.

So here we are now in a Second Civil War. Really? “Between whom?” you might ask. Between truth and untruth. Between a sociopathic bureaucratic blob steeped in lies and a citizenry obliged to live and die by the blob’s lies.

If you’re troubled at all about the state of our country, and even your own small role in it, you might be asking yourself whether the people running things have any idea what they’re doing.

Some of these doings happen in the metaphysical realm of finance, for instance America’s national debt ($34 trillion and going up like mad), and the death of the U.S. dollar, along with the bonds that underwrite it.

Or the shell game with the repo and reverse repo markets played between the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury to give the broken banking system the appearance of stability when it is actually in deepening ruin.

Did you understand any of that? Probably not, but it’s not because you’re dumb. It’s because all that action is meant to be incomprehensible even to people who went to grad school. The news media only amplify the mystification. They certainly don’t understand it.

It Doesn’t Seem Real Anymore

The net effect is that increasingly nothing in the life of our nation is real. Every action taken is a swindle of one kind or another, a cavalcade of switcheroos aimed at zeroing out the consensus about reality.

What trickles down from all this cosmic activity is the dwindling possibility of a fruitful life for most Americans. You cannot make a living. You can’t fix all the machines in your life or get new ones. You can’t get married because there’s no way you can fulfill your end of the contract.

You search in vain for something purposeful to do. You are eventually faced with the choice: surrender to depression and hopelessness, or revolt against a ruling blob that is only good at one thing: depriving you of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What also trickles down from on-high is the increasing dysfunction of all the systems that evolved to serve American life on-the-ground. For instance, the supply chains that stuff the gigantic merchandise marts from sea to shining sea.

Where are the Lumpers?

The trucking industry is falling apart. The industry can’t find enough workers to load the trucks. They call them “lumpers” in the trucking biz. United Parcel Service (UPS) is hurting so badly for lumpers that they now make the drivers load and unload the brown trucks and have to pay them double overtime for it.

The fruit and vegetables that have to make a truck journey thousands of miles from the sunshine lands to the icy north sit rotting in the warehouses because there aren’t enough lumpers on the loading docks — in case you’ve noticed that the produce in your supermarket is looking wilty and gross.

All the systems that move stuff around this big country are wobbling. Many trucking and logistics companies went out of business in 2023, led by Convoy’s bankruptcy in October due to “an unprecedented freight market collapse” and inability to get financing.

UPS has not recovered from the big drop in shipping that followed the end of COVID lockdowns — 1.2 million packages per day in lost volume — nor adjusted to its new contract with the Teamsters Union, a 46% cost increase for drivers in the first year.

A CEO Takes a Pay Cut!

UPS CEO Carol Tome even took a pay cut: $19 million this year, down from $27.6 million (including stock packages) in 2021. Please donate to her GoFundMe page! FedEx also saw a sharp drop in package deliveries and in September yanked its full-year profit guidance.

The FedEx share price dropped 20% in one day. Consider, too, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations aimed at a “zero carbon emissions” goal in 2035, legislation guaranteed to first paralyze and then kill trucking in that state, including trucks delivering into and out of California.

Good luck with that.

Then there is the good ole U.S. Postal Service, a crypto-public/private corporation cobbled together back in the 1970s supposedly because mail delivery was losing money.

While our Constitution stipulates that the government “establish Post Offices and post Roads” with the implied authority to carry and deliver the mail, the Constitution never said that the post office had to show a profit any more than the Army or the Navy does.

A Scrooge-Like Christmas

These days it looks like our country is just about done with the mail business. Been to your local post office lately? Mine is looking like an old Soviet DMV… a few part-timers on duty… mail delivered when they feel like it… an odor of rot in the building.

Consider that the post office is one of the few places where we citizens actually interface directly with the government’s workings. So how does it look like it’s working to you?

Christmas 2023, will be a test of how all these crumbling services and wobbling business models are affecting the people who live in the outfit known as the USA. Initial reports of empty Walmarts and maxed-out credit cards don’t paint a pretty picture.

The Yuletide potlatch will not look like it used to. At some point, the activity on-the-ground — or eerie absence of activity — might ordinarily be expressed in the stock indexes.

But these strange days the markets seem to be hostages of some algorithm cult that operates in a mystical vacuum where nothing matters.

When it gets to the point where famished Americans start eating each other to stay alive, will we see another S&P record high?