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Feb 07 2025 
My journey through music
My journey through music
I like to share my experiences with others, so also my musical experience with you. Please feel free to comment with your experiences and share what may connect nicely with what I write and share in terms of music.
Part 1: Personal life phases
Part 2: Unexpected Wonders
Part 3: Enthusiasm is Contagious
Music is wonderful… Continue reading
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Feb 07 2025 
Dmitry Polyanski : Gaza, Middle East & Ukraine
Dmitry Polyanskiy is the First Deputy Permanent Representative to the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
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Feb 05 2025 
President Trump’s Obsession with Tariffs Economic Ruse, or Political Blackmail?
By Peter Koenig
It would be fair to call President Trump as obsessed with tariffs. Import tariffs on every country that does not conform to his foreign policy ideas, is the “rules-bases order” converted into the Trump-based order.
Punishment by imposing tariffs is an ill-advised obsession of Donald Trump’s. He played this card already… Continue reading
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Jan 24 2025 
From Jeff J Brown – a new library and comments on terrorist designations
Jeff says: One hour after posting this, my website was attacked and shut down for 12 hours. Coincidence? You decide. What are they trying to hide from you? It’s an insult to all free-thinking adults!
Another website that posted this new library was shut down as well. As far as I can see both… Continue reading
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Jan 22 2025 
Global Exports Brink of Collapse, Ultimatum to China’s Economy
Sean Foo on tariffs
The video title is perhaps a bit overstated but nevertheless, this is the situation. We are staring into a trade war. My expectation is that selling into the US is going to reduce as I cannot see the BRICS countries continue with trade.
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Jan 22 2025
Differences of opinion are the brake on the multipolar world
The unipolar world has a great advantage over the multipolar world because in a unipolar world all noses are in the same direction and in a multipolar world there is always difference of opinion. This is the big picture, because of course reality is much more complex. My concern is to understand why it is… Continue reading
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Jan 20 2025
The soulless civilization
It is up to the reader to determine whether the title of this essay is a contradiction or not. Can a civilization exist without a soul? It is not difficult to determine what a civilization is, but what a soul can have to do with it is all the more difficult. The funny thing is… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2025 
Trump, Iran and the Obama strategic blueprint
In acts of wanton destruction, Netanyahu destroyed the prevailing status quo, which he saw as an American straitjacket
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2025 
Chinese, Trolling and TikTok
A moment to smell the social media roses.
This will not change the world. So, TikTok will probably be banned in the US (I don’t keep up with this and do not know the details). The Chinese starts trolling as another app, similar to TikTok is being furiously downloaded in the US.… Continue reading
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Jan 12 2025 
Syrian Post-Colonial history (1945) until 2011 war
Syria’s post-colonial history from 1945 to the beginning of the regime change war of 2011 has some very instructive lessons for today. Reading Chapter 1 of A.B. Abrams’s 2021 book, World War in Syria: Global Conflict on Middle Eastern Battlefields. (From AHH)
Featured Image from Pepe Escobar’s files.
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Jan 07 2025 
China – Positive Looking Forward – 2025 and Beyond
The Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY) has successfully completed several studies in 2024 which contributed to China’s success story for 2024, and, in addition had an international flair.
Main studies included,
– Policy briefs for key decision-makers;– Hosting,
(i) the Tongzhou Global Development Forum, drawing over 1000 participants, to discuss… Continue reading -
Jan 04 2025 
Chinese Tech
It is now a different world. It is almost an impossible task to select main technology advances in China as they roll out so fast and cover the spectrum, medical, manufacturing, space (thousand sails project which will be bye bye Starlink), electric vehicles, electric flying vehicles, high speed trains, aviation, construction methodologies at an unbelievable… Continue reading
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Jan 04 2025 
China Writers: 2025 crystal ball discussion
China Writers Frans Vandenbosch, Irene Eckert, Jeff JBrown Patrice Greanville and Quan Le gather for a 2025 crystal ball discussion. Video, audio, transcript.
I have already used some of Dr Quan Le’s material in this post: China and Japan: Careful de-icing of relationships? Raprochement?. I saw the process, but could not figure out why, so… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2024 
Russians have more media freedom on Telegram than EU citizens – Pavel Durov
Western outlets remain “freely accessible” on the platform in Russia, CEO Pavel Durov has said
From RT
The EU imposes more media restrictions on Telegram than Russia does, the platform’s founder, Pavel Durov, has noted in a New Year’s message.
“Access to certain Russian media has been restricted in the EU under DSA/sanctions laws. Meanwhile, all Western media… Continue reading
