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Aug 2, 2022·edited Aug 2, 2022

Hi Linh

What a pleasant surprise - to find that you enjoy Rammstein. And not for the fabulous pyrotechnics, which you didn't bother to mention, but for the deep irony with which they lace so many of their songs such as Du Hast. I have several German friends and, rather sadly to me, they're not so keen on the group. Rather than taking pleasure in the poetry and sarcasm they (perhaps because of the Teutonic nature) view them more literally - seeing them as neo Nazis (whatever that might be) with their iconography and industrial sound.

Following Nancy Pelosi (along with over 300,000 others on Flight Radar24) after her plane left KL has been thought provoking. Why has there been such a big deal made of a trip that is ostensibly unnecessary and which, apparently, left Pelosi and the US with egg on its face for supposedly backing down in the face of Chinese assertiveness?

The initial track showed the plane making a beeline for the USA before it turned sharply north and headed for Manila. However it now appears to be flying past Manila en route to what might be Taipei. I'm trying to determine why this Taiwan exercise/ fake out is happening and think there's a good chance Pelosi will try to land there, despite Chinese warnings not to.

If she succeeds in visiting Taiwan then this little wrinkled old lady will have faced down the mighty dragon, which will lead to endless kudos from the media which, in turn will be hugely helpful to her and the Democrats in the mid terms. More importantly China will have been shown up to be a blow hard.

On the other hand if she tries to enter Taiwanese air space and (albeit highly unlikely) gets shot down by the Chinese, team USA still wins. Adam Schiff is already being touted to take over from Pelosi as speaker at the mid terms and whilst going down in a blaze of glory might not be an old woman's idea of the ideal death there may have been some deal by which her family gets to keep the ill-gotten gains of her insider trading after she dies. Most importantly the USA will have valuable insight into just how far China is prepared to go to safeguard its sovereignty over Taiwan.

It's going to be an interesting few hours.

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Rammstein's video and song "Amerika" is great. But I'm not so familiar with their other work. They do have a video in which a black woman represents pagan Germany fighting against the Romans, and I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean...

Anyway, most young people in Germany today listen to awful German rap, and it's not created by Blacks (or Arabs), but by Germans themselves. As for "Sacrifice"... There's lots of satanism and sex and vulgarity in music videos and pop music, and of course it's all planned. Ariana Grande is another one, with lyrics and videos trying to turn pre-teens into sluts. One could write a whole book about the decadence and growing vulgarity in current popular music. Italy and France, which even until the late 1970s produced very nice popular music, now are able to create only awful, vulgar, degenerate music, with no identity, but similar to the American hip-hop auto-tunes.

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Thanks Linh No this is not a love song. Putin has a point about the corruption of the west. I opened this letter and read it right after finishing https://www.newbraveworld.org/edward-bernays-propaganda/ an article about Bernays and the massive propaganda effort that brought Amerika into the First World War. When you have had you minds so massively played with over one hundred years ago who would be surprised that your children's children are so, so corrupted and willingly corrupt the world. Good for Rammstein. I am so surprised that a writer who I started following during your letters from South Africa/Namibia (and I thought was a young Vietnamese American backpacker) turns out to be another leaf in the wind from my generation with so many of the same concerns. Bravo.

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Couldn't watch the satanic videos but the Rammstein video Amerika was fantastic! Such a sick country. I read this am that Pelosi made 100 million on a stock deal Nvidia Corporation, which has its largest manufacturing plant in Taiwan.

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A lot of heartfelt music has come out of America's cities, fields, backwoods and barrooms.

Crazy and stoned among the cornfields listening to the Stooges or Van Halen it can all melt away sometimes.

"...o.k. War across the U.S.A. It was another year for me and you. Another year with nothing to do."

-1969, some dudes from Ann Arbor

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If you want a very detailed look at why the moonwalk was a fraud I suggest Wag the Moondoggie:

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/

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Aug 4, 2022·edited Aug 4, 2022

Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" is worth watching. There's a lengthy, profanity laden prelude with two black men sitting in a sports car trying to woo some shorties, only to be literally pushed out of the way by a ten block long limousine. Apparently, window licking is French slang for covetous, consumerist behavior -a variation of the American "window shopping". https://youtu.be/UBS4Gi1y_nc

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As an antidote to researching this Vigilant Citizen type stuff, I watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOhO7FfVQlE

It adjusts my mood and reminds me that old fashioned normalcy still exists. I actually play the game, starting in my late 40's. It's very much like golf except it is usually free. Most of these guys can toss a disc for the length of a football field and a half. An intermediate player throws over 200 ft. Notice the arms and legs of the players and audience. See any green skulls, dragons or daggers?

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amazing insight as usual from Linh. Rammstein has a song about a cannibalism incident, the lyrics repeat “mein tein” or my body. they were decades ahead of the covid nonsense and governments making orders on your flesh.

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