Birds of the air

Birds of the air will tell of murders past? I am ashamed to hear such fooleries.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHkG0GxA0E)

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“A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage, and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed, But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm  is what we call progress.”

-- Walter Benjamin, IX, Theses on the Philosophy of History

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Fritz Stern, a Leading Historian on Modern Germany, Dies at 90

German-born and a longtime professor at Columbia University, Mr. Stern identified themes and intellectual currents that led to Germany’s drift toward totalitarianism.

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“You know perfectly well it was the wealthy men of the south who dragooned the people into secession.”

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“...I don’t give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the fifth amendment, cover up, or anything else, if it’ll save it -- save the plan. That’s the whole point.”

-President Nixon on Watergate scandal, March 22, 1973

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“We all know what it is. Embarrassing goddamn thing the way it went, and so forth. But, in my view, some of it will come out. We will survive it. That’s the way it is. That’s the way you’ve got to look at it.”

President Nixon, discussing the Watergate scandal, March 22, 1973

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“He gazed around as if to engrave the landmark on his memory and must have seen the rock in the shadow of which I crouched like Belaqua, or Sordello, I forget. But a man, a fortiori myself, isn’t exactly a landmark, because. I mean if by some strange chance he were to pass that way again, after a long lapse of time, vanquished, or to look for some lost thing, or to destroy something, his eyes would search out the rock, not the haphazard in its shadow of that unstable fugitive thing, still living flesh. No, he certainly didn’t see me, for the reasons I’ve given and then because he was in no humour for that, that evening, no humour for the living, but rather for all that doesn’t stir, or stirs so slowly that a child would scorn it, let alone an old man.” 

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“We all actually knew, but didn’t know at the same time, that the age was heading not toward a lasting peace but toward war. It was a kind of floating feeling like a soap bubble that suddenly burst and disappeared without a trace when the hellish forces, which were fermenting in its lap, were ripe.”

Count Harry Kessler, German, 1868-1937

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John Foster Dulles, foreign policy “pietist”

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vgT7Wr7Nkc)

“... the pietisms of John Foster Dulles, who really did believe at least as far as we can tell that we were indeed the forces of light and they were night. that we began forcing our way into the world and forever setting up this pietistic view that governments we disapproved of should be dealt with harshly.”

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Trump Supporter To Jorge Ramos: 'Get Out Of My Country'

Even after Univision host Jorge Ramos was kicked out of a Donald Trump press conference for challenging the GOP 2016 frontrunner, the angry language didn't stop once Ramos had been escorted to the hallway. "Get out of my country. Get out," a Trump supporter told Ramos after he had been escorted from the press conference in a video posted by Fusion. In the video, Ramos calmly responds to the supporter that he is, in fact, a U.S. citizen. "Well, whatever ... it's not about you," the supporter said, aggressively gesturing at the Univision host.

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WATCH: Trump Attack Video Uses The Words Of Jeb's Mom Against Him

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a video on Monday that attacked Jeb Bush by using the words of his mother and former first lady, Barbara Bush, against him.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2g1yhntWgc)

http://iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/1926-lenin-predicted-bitter-leadership-struggle-for-his-country/?_r=0

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttmcSmk8yRg)

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Trump on lawsuit

'I want that money... I want that money'

Trump tells audience in Mobile, Alabama, about his pending litigation against media conglomerates. Suit worth $500 million, according to GOP frontrunner

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Trump: Smarter, Tougher, Meaner

Donald Trump says he will appoint some of the 'most horrible human beings on earth' to work in his administration

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“... and the flood was let loose, sweeping away the present and the future, submerging everything under the waters of the past, covering his mind with a greater expanse of melancholy, on the surface of which there drifted, like ridiculous bits of flotsam, trivial episodes of his existence, absurdly insignificant incidents.”