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Thx. Adam - - by now your plants have alread survived, 'I'd assume. . And msutard is an interesting plant - - -as is - - - "Beggarstricks" . . . in German "Hairy Two-tooth". . .

Greetings back!

PS: Good evening, Dieter!

Thank you for the mustard picture and the quick lesson in mustard characters. I had no idea that Anfa means storm in Irish Gaelic or that it is the ancient toponym for Casablanca. (Who'd a thunk it?) I'm most happy that you're back and I hope you're doing well.

Everything is good here. It's shaping up to be our coldest night of the year. (They're saying it will be 10°F tonight.) Fortunately, this cold spell looks like it will be short lived. They say the weather will be back to normal by Monday, and 56°F on Tuesday. With a little luck, the power will stay on tonight so my poor old aloe plants don't freeze in their little aloe house. (It's not much of a house really. Just a very small shelter built out of a large but short tomato cage, some cardboard, three layers of 6 mil plastic and a pair of 17 watt heat mats to keep them warmish. Oh, and some sticks across the top so the plastic doesn't fall in on the plants when it rains. Yes, it is very high-tech and took me several minutes to build.) If the aloe plants live through the night I feel quite confident that they will make it until spring. (Which is right around the corner.)(Almost.)

So Cheers to a Wonderful Weekend and Happy Saturday! ☮️

PS: Greetings, Dieter! (This is supposed to be a mustard plant.) ☮️



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Aprops failed globalisation:

Since this system won't let me post pics - -

this one is about the book of nature, Adam, - which - in mustard-characters - reads - - A-n-f-A - - which means - storm in irish gaelic and is the old name of Casablanca in Morocco:

https://x.com/DieterKief/status/2016630534517006408?s=20

PS
SafeNow - right - - with Xi in the race for top-leader too.

Mr. Hail - welcome back from my side too!
You write:
"Several generations back, Lutnick's people were effectively barred from political power in Europe and were subject to other restrictions, sometimes legal (hard) but always social (soft)." - Ok - they always were the latecomers - but succeeded astonishingly well by siding with those in power - no matter where on the poltical spectrum. As it turned out they knew ways to be useful. As Steve Sailer said in January: Do they have speical properties/ strong incluence in lots of important fields? - Yes! And what follows from that? - You want ot have them on your side. - Noe I - I weant to say - - think of Stephen Miller.

Bismarck was maybe a tad too liberal with regard to Jews. The Swiss were - at about the same time - stricter and more willing ot restrict them (as they now do with muslims...)- and that turned out much better than the German way - for both sides.

PS: Mr. Hail, coincidentally, I had just written in a TUR comment that I was worried about what may have happened to you. (I’d meant to write you on your own site in a comment under the Michelle Malkin post.) I’m glad your around and especially back writing.

Anyway, boorish this Howard Lutnick is indeed, as is his boss Donald Trump too. Maybe sometimes you need a guy like that, as the Trump Administration and America have no need for this WEF Davos crowd. Perhaps this was not the place to give this speech and deliberately piss off the guests, but I guess it was his moment… I dunno.

I agree with you that Lutnick is a caricature, when you see the beard and hear that New York accent, and that’s just for starters. However, here I was just impressed by what he said. I didn’t yet watch the last 5 minutes…

PS

Lutnick is a boorish person who I see as playing from a kind of script, his real motivation not quite in the words but also seeping through them if you know where to look.

Lutnick seemingly takes joy in antagonizing, belittling, or mocking White-Europeans. He insulted his hosts at the Davos dinner so repeatedly and boorishly that some of those in the room began an unprecedented wave of booing him, and the heads of the dinner walked out, including the head of the European Central Bank. Lutnick was their guest and insulted them repeatedly. The worst kind of house-guest.

It's an instinct.

Europeans have characterized Jews this was for a long time, although by the very end of the 20th century you began hearing it a lot less in the USA than you once had.

Lutnick is actually a kind of a boorish Jewish caricature, a type usually found on the Left. But it's an instinctual personality type, not limited to some bounded region of someone's political spectrum.

Let's say Lutnick's act is an updated version of what ancestors of his, did not long ago, among themselves; and then began doing in the wider culture with Jewish liberation and steady entry into the mainstream positions of influence. Agitate, undermine, mock, delegitimize.

Several generations back, Lutnick's people were effectively barred from political power in Europe and were subject to other restrictions, sometimes legal (hard) but always social (soft).

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"I am no enemy to the Jews; if they are enemies to me, I forgive them... I would grant to them every right, save that of holding superior official posts in Christian countries."

-- Otto von Bismarck, June 1847 (then age 32), during debates on Jewish legal emancipation in Prussia.
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PS: First, this sounds like Trump in meaning, but I am sure that Putin, were I able to understand Russian, would sure sound more coherent than Trump on these matters. That’s kind of why I quit listening to him but for a few fun youTube clips.

Anyway, that’s what Trump is trying to do, I guess, confine our meddling to the Western Hemisphere as much as possible, so as to claim, rightly or wrongly, that that meddling is all a part of America First. That’s not quite what’s been happening though. I don’t know if it’s Trump’s idea either, the continuation of meddling in the Middle East.

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From Christopher Caldwell’s 2017 speech “How to think about Vladimir Putin” delivered at Hillsdale College:

“(Putin)..is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy. …

Yet if we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time.”

I love the sarcasm, plus sums-up the “traditional measures” of being a preeminent national leader extremely well: Defense of borders, and the flourishing of your own people. Sounds right, of course, and sounds like Trump. But can Trump’s direct and specific meddling in the affairs of other countries be fairly linked to the flourishing?