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Today I was being paid a lot of compliments at work, which I refused. And that maxim came to my mind, by La Rochefoucauld:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/François_de_La_Rochefoucauld
I was reading his maxims in the nineties, without internet available, and I always wondered if you pronounce that last "L" or not. And here's the answer:
http://www.forvo.com/word/françois_de_la_rochefoucauld/#fr
This time I could investigate it further and find out.
In the meanwhile, taking a beating in the markets: gold, silver, JPY, corn... everywhere. Capital is half what it was a month ago. I can't believe everything can go against me for so long, and things can go this way when I am so right about everything. Yeah, I guess I really really suck.
In other words, you do not hear that final "LD". It's as if it were written "la Rochefoucau".
Gold is going a bit better now actually, and I may avoid a margin call and a liquidation on some contract (I selected Oil to be liquidated first).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/François_de_La_Rochefoucauld
I was reading his maxims in the nineties, without internet available, and I always wondered if you pronounce that last "L" or not. And here's the answer:
http://www.forvo.com/word/françois_de_la_rochefoucauld/#fr
This time I could investigate it further and find out.
In the meanwhile, taking a beating in the markets: gold, silver, JPY, corn... everywhere. Capital is half what it was a month ago. I can't believe everything can go against me for so long, and things can go this way when I am so right about everything. Yeah, I guess I really really suck.
In other words, you do not hear that final "LD". It's as if it were written "la Rochefoucau".
Gold is going a bit better now actually, and I may avoid a margin call and a liquidation on some contract (I selected Oil to be liquidated first).
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Am adolf hitler platz steht eine junge eiche...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor-Heuss-Platz#History
Not much has changed in these two subway maps, between 1936 and now:
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These songs, I mean these songs:
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI.2
These songs are all the same. Not that they aren't interesting, but they're all talking about loyalty, motherland (or fatherland), fighting till the death, being young, and quite a bit against the pacifists, the Reds, and even more against the Jews. I've selected about half of them which I consider to be excellent for their music and/or words, and worth studying more (I've already translated them all at any rate):
01_Die_Fahnen_Hoch_Horst_Wessel_Lied_64kb.mp3
02_Wir_Sind_Die_Braunen_Soldaten_64kb.mp3
07_Deutschland_Du_Land_Der_Treue_64kb.mp3
09_Bruder_In_Zechen_Und_Gruben_64kb.mp3
10_Durch_Deutsches_Land_Marschieren_64kb.mp3
12_Deutschland_Erwache_64kb.mp3
17_Die_Braune_Kompanie_64kb.mp3
Nowadays it amazes us to hear such anger against the "pazifisten". But even then Hitler had to make up some false flag attacks to justify his wars. Just as Bush did today (911 and similar).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor-Heuss-Platz#History
Not much has changed in these two subway maps, between 1936 and now:
...
These songs, I mean these songs:
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI.2
These songs are all the same. Not that they aren't interesting, but they're all talking about loyalty, motherland (or fatherland), fighting till the death, being young, and quite a bit against the pacifists, the Reds, and even more against the Jews. I've selected about half of them which I consider to be excellent for their music and/or words, and worth studying more (I've already translated them all at any rate):
01_Die_Fahnen_Hoch_Horst_Wessel_Lied_64kb.mp3
02_Wir_Sind_Die_Braunen_Soldaten_64kb.mp3
07_Deutschland_Du_Land_Der_Treue_64kb.mp3
09_Bruder_In_Zechen_Und_Gruben_64kb.mp3
10_Durch_Deutsches_Land_Marschieren_64kb.mp3
12_Deutschland_Erwache_64kb.mp3
17_Die_Braune_Kompanie_64kb.mp3
Nowadays it amazes us to hear such anger against the "pazifisten". But even then Hitler had to make up some false flag attacks to justify his wars. Just as Bush did today (911 and similar).
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Watching another episode of this fascinating documentary:
Alltag unterm Hakenkreuz (2012– )
It was just 12 years of nazism, and just 9 years of triumph (from 1933 till 1942), and yet they left the mark in history like few other periods in time. Maybe, like my father, you'll say: they left the mark because he was a very bad person. Correct. And we don't remember good people as much. Correct, also. However, it is a period worth studying. I am not saying I am glorifying this period. I am just studying it with great curiosity. It is definitely an interesting period for Germany, and since I am studying German, this is a perfect combination. In the history of the last 100 years, this is the most discussed period, the nazi years.
Anyway, in the meanwhile the markets are going a lot better for me. The margin call is a distant memory (yesterday), and this thanks to gold, silver, corn and oil. GBL stood still, JPY lost a little, but overall my account increased. Hopefully all this suffering is behind me once and for all. I've been waiting for about 4 months now.
Alltag unterm Hakenkreuz (2012– )
It was just 12 years of nazism, and just 9 years of triumph (from 1933 till 1942), and yet they left the mark in history like few other periods in time. Maybe, like my father, you'll say: they left the mark because he was a very bad person. Correct. And we don't remember good people as much. Correct, also. However, it is a period worth studying. I am not saying I am glorifying this period. I am just studying it with great curiosity. It is definitely an interesting period for Germany, and since I am studying German, this is a perfect combination. In the history of the last 100 years, this is the most discussed period, the nazi years.
Anyway, in the meanwhile the markets are going a lot better for me. The margin call is a distant memory (yesterday), and this thanks to gold, silver, corn and oil. GBL stood still, JPY lost a little, but overall my account increased. Hopefully all this suffering is behind me once and for all. I've been waiting for about 4 months now.
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Good documentary, here below it is in English but worth watching -- the original title was:
"Hitler - Eine Karriere"
It shows that Hitler was loved by his people, whether they were wrong or not, whether crazy or not. They weren't just afraid of him. Of course some people felt one way and other people felt another. But there was quite a few Germans who loved him.
I'll need to get into statistics on hitler's real popularity some time, with specific data.
The author of the documentary (director and writer) is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Fest
Here's the German version, but I am too curious to know everything it says that I can't try understanding it in German now:
...
At about half of this documentary I came across Mussolini speaking in German. Here's another video where he speaks for almost 10 minutes:
Quite surprising, although I knew that he did spend some time in Switzerland when he was 20 years old.
This is the opposite, Hitler in Italy with Mussolini:
Quite impressive.
...
The main documentary in the second half wasn't that interesting... I mean, Hitler - Eine Karriere. Maybe because I only saw it today, after dozens of other documentaries, and it seemed like it was saying nothing new. But in the first part it was interesting, because I ignored the material.
"Hitler - Eine Karriere"
It shows that Hitler was loved by his people, whether they were wrong or not, whether crazy or not. They weren't just afraid of him. Of course some people felt one way and other people felt another. But there was quite a few Germans who loved him.
I'll need to get into statistics on hitler's real popularity some time, with specific data.
The author of the documentary (director and writer) is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Fest
Here's the German version, but I am too curious to know everything it says that I can't try understanding it in German now:
...
At about half of this documentary I came across Mussolini speaking in German. Here's another video where he speaks for almost 10 minutes:
Quite surprising, although I knew that he did spend some time in Switzerland when he was 20 years old.
This is the opposite, Hitler in Italy with Mussolini:
Quite impressive.
...
The main documentary in the second half wasn't that interesting... I mean, Hitler - Eine Karriere. Maybe because I only saw it today, after dozens of other documentaries, and it seemed like it was saying nothing new. But in the first part it was interesting, because I ignored the material.
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I'll watch this next:
Doku Erwin Leiser „Mein Kampf" (Den Blodiga tiden) 1/12
It was made in 1960. A precious German perspective on what had just happened 15 years earlier:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_(Dokumentarfilm)
On the director:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Leiser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#World_Wars
So far I've watched two documentaries and they're both by opposers of nazism. I'd be curious to watch one by someone who was for it, but after the defeat.
Doku Erwin Leiser „Mein Kampf" (Den Blodiga tiden) 1/12
It was made in 1960. A precious German perspective on what had just happened 15 years earlier:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_(Dokumentarfilm)
On the director:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Leiser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#World_Wars
So far I've watched two documentaries and they're both by opposers of nazism. I'd be curious to watch one by someone who was for it, but after the defeat.
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Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1935)
Triumph of the Will (1935) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
Minutes 24 to 31, speeches by Nazi leaders:
1) alveolar trill: Adolf Wagner, Alfred Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Hans Frank, Konstantin Hierl
2) uvular trill: Rudolf Hess, Otto Dietrich, Fritz Todt, Fritz Reinhardt, Walter Darré, Robert Ley, Josef Goebbels
Let's now rate them by city of birth, year of birth and see if there are any correlations:
View attachment alveolar_vs_uvular_trill.xls
Yes, very interesting. It seems that the alveolar trill is correlated with being from the SOUTH EAST and the uvular trill is correlated with being from the NORTH WEST. I can't say anything else from this data. I also could not study the education, because it seems that the Nazi leaders were all pretty much very educated. Also the age is meaningless, because they were almost all born in the 1890s. A probably meaningless correlation is execution vs suicide, whereby it would seem that people with the alveolar trill get executed and people with the uvular trill commit suicide. But maybe it is not meaningless.
...
At the end of the film, in the last 10 minutes, Hitler says some very interesting, original things, not like the usual "loyalty and love for deutschland" speeches.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sieg_des_Glaubens
Victory of the Faith (1933) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
Not as artistically good as Triumph of the Will, but just as interesting, maybe more interesting.
Victory of the Faith (1933) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
Not as artistically good as Triumph of the Will, but just as interesting, maybe more interesting.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Germany
fascinating one... regular television broadcasts in nazi germany 20 years before it happened in italy
fascinating one... regular television broadcasts in nazi germany 20 years before it happened in italy
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Wow, I've come to admit that all my trades, all the trades I recommended 4 months ago are going really really badly:
Gold, back at the levels where I bought it
Silver, same thing
Corn, much lower than where I bought it, about 1500 dollars per contract, and now I have 4 contracts on my back.
JPY, thousands of dollars lower than where I bought it (after having gone 4k into profit)
GBL, at breakeven (only short position)
Total disaster. It almost feels as if the markets were plotting against me to kick me out of these trades.
I've had margin calls, but no liquidations yet, as I am gradually dropping all the positions that made money: last week I dropped Natural Gas, and it went higher. Just now I dropped my CL (oil) contract, and hopefully it won't do the same thing that natural gas did.
I cannot believe how low all my remaining positions have been falling. There is definitely a plot against me.
Gold, back at the levels where I bought it
Silver, same thing
Corn, much lower than where I bought it, about 1500 dollars per contract, and now I have 4 contracts on my back.
JPY, thousands of dollars lower than where I bought it (after having gone 4k into profit)
GBL, at breakeven (only short position)
Total disaster. It almost feels as if the markets were plotting against me to kick me out of these trades.
I've had margin calls, but no liquidations yet, as I am gradually dropping all the positions that made money: last week I dropped Natural Gas, and it went higher. Just now I dropped my CL (oil) contract, and hopefully it won't do the same thing that natural gas did.
I cannot believe how low all my remaining positions have been falling. There is definitely a plot against me.
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harsh measures: death sentence, reprisals... shelling the villages... 13 soldiers shot in reprisal for one US dead... even worse than what the germans had done.
Yet no one is told this history, because the winners are always right.
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Generally not a good idea to hold the losers. Especially not when youre liquidating the winners after a margin call
.I think it might be time to seriously reevaluate what youre doing.
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Yes, I see your points. Thanks for the feedback.
...
Die Deutsche Wochenschau 18.Januar 1945
it would seem that everything is going fine...
...instead this is the situation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1945-02-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1945)#February_1945
...
Die Deutsche Wochenschau 18.Januar 1945
it would seem that everything is going fine...
...instead this is the situation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1945-02-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1945)#February_1945
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more on Siegfried Kabus (interesting how there's nothing on him on wikipedia):
http://es.metapedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Kabus
related search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf
http://es.metapedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Kabus
related search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf
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little research on nazi songs
See attachment:
View attachment Book1.xls
The original songs can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI.2
This was very hard and frustrating work, because of course these songs, that were famous in the 1930s in Germany, are almost banned now (and related youtube videos are indeed banned in some countries).
It was hard but useful work. For one thing, this is a useful tool to learn a foreign language. Just as I started learning English by singing the Beatles, I am now learning German by singing these stormtrooper marches.
Musically speaking my favorite songs are these:
1) Deutschland, du Land der Treue (music composed 30 years earlier by an American)
2) Deutschland Erwache (it seems that, unlike most other music scores, this was composed by a nazi)
3) Brüder in Zechen und Gruben (music composed by a Russian 30 years earlier)
4) Die Fahne Hoch (music composed 60 years earlier)
Of these melodies I really like, only one was composed by a nazi. The most important themes of the lyrics (in my opinion) are as follows (cfr. excel file):
1) Loyalty to Hitler
2) Loyalty to Hitler, down with the Jews
3) Loyalty to Hitler, down with the Jews
4) Loyalty to Hitler, down with the Reds
What's interesting is that a part of the "conspiracy theorists" community is against the jews just as much as the early nazis. Of course it doesn't say it wants to kill them nor promotes any violence against jews. But it says jews are a problem, a real problem, the biggest problem and that they're behind every plot. This is about 20% of the (online) community I belong to. Another 30% believes they are a problem but not the only problem, nor the main one. There's also plenty of jews who are conspiracy theorists and 911 truthers.
I am going to end this research by posting some of the original songs when they weren't composed by nazis. I can't post one for Die Fahne Hoch (ranking fourth in my favorites) because in 1865 Peter Cornelius could not record his tune, although there is a version here, but it sucks:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Fahne_hoch#Ursprung_der_Melodie
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cornelius.mid
Here's the other three:
1) Deutschland, du Land der Treue (music composed 30 years earlier by an American)
2) Deutschland Erwache (it seems that, unlike most other music scores, this was composed by a nazi)
3) Brüder in Zechen und Gruben (music composed by a Russian 30 years earlier)
The Reds lasted much longer.
See attachment:
View attachment Book1.xls
The original songs can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI
https://archive.org/details/DasIiiReichDieSaVolumeI.2
This was very hard and frustrating work, because of course these songs, that were famous in the 1930s in Germany, are almost banned now (and related youtube videos are indeed banned in some countries).
It was hard but useful work. For one thing, this is a useful tool to learn a foreign language. Just as I started learning English by singing the Beatles, I am now learning German by singing these stormtrooper marches.
Musically speaking my favorite songs are these:
1) Deutschland, du Land der Treue (music composed 30 years earlier by an American)
2) Deutschland Erwache (it seems that, unlike most other music scores, this was composed by a nazi)
3) Brüder in Zechen und Gruben (music composed by a Russian 30 years earlier)
4) Die Fahne Hoch (music composed 60 years earlier)
Of these melodies I really like, only one was composed by a nazi. The most important themes of the lyrics (in my opinion) are as follows (cfr. excel file):
1) Loyalty to Hitler
2) Loyalty to Hitler, down with the Jews
3) Loyalty to Hitler, down with the Jews
4) Loyalty to Hitler, down with the Reds
What's interesting is that a part of the "conspiracy theorists" community is against the jews just as much as the early nazis. Of course it doesn't say it wants to kill them nor promotes any violence against jews. But it says jews are a problem, a real problem, the biggest problem and that they're behind every plot. This is about 20% of the (online) community I belong to. Another 30% believes they are a problem but not the only problem, nor the main one. There's also plenty of jews who are conspiracy theorists and 911 truthers.
I am going to end this research by posting some of the original songs when they weren't composed by nazis. I can't post one for Die Fahne Hoch (ranking fourth in my favorites) because in 1865 Peter Cornelius could not record his tune, although there is a version here, but it sucks:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Fahne_hoch#Ursprung_der_Melodie
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cornelius.mid
Here's the other three:
1) Deutschland, du Land der Treue (music composed 30 years earlier by an American)
2) Deutschland Erwache (it seems that, unlike most other music scores, this was composed by a nazi)
3) Brüder in Zechen und Gruben (music composed by a Russian 30 years earlier)
The Reds lasted much longer.
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I guess it is time to watch Germany, Year Zero:
http://vodly.to/watch-60582-Germania-anno-zero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany,_Year_Zero
Rome, Open City was definitely a masterpiece, so good that it was painful to watch, and in fact I never watch... i never watched it entirely... I never watched it in its entirety.
Take the deutsche wochenschau newsreels: documentaries can be so fake and movies (like Rossellini's Rome, Open City) can be so real, that you grow up not knowing the difference between reality and fiction any more. Are movies real? Are the newsreels real? As a rule, you cannot trust movies, and you cannot trust documentaries sponsored by any government.
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