hevidevi wrote:

The Gulag Archipelago By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Writing nonsense is your vocation? Or you are you simply a fan of Mein Kampf?

Solzenitsyn was a paid propagandist so he (mis)interpreted factual evidence to get the job done properly (in order to get paid timely and awesomely by his sponsors). I can tell you the whole Gospel narrative in any mode that will suit your personal taste, just make an advance payment please. His interpretation of the Soviet history was +/- 95% fake. He was a liar and a political prostitute.

The author is treated politely (most of the time), has bread and bunk, warm clothes. He is not forced into hard physical labor, he reads books and has plenty of time to chat, ramble, gossip and spew out all his hatred for Stalin. He is an informant under the nickname of Vetrov, reporting his prison mates to the most hated NKVD/MGB officers. He plays chess, attends theatrical performances, listens to the radio, reads newspapers.

No one ever did beat or torture him. Nothing even remotely resembling the Auschwitz concentration camp experience.

When Solzhenitsyn gets terminally ill he is operated against cancer - absolutely free of charge (hello, America!). He is given expensive medications, well fed (although he complains a lot about poor quality food - no lobsters or caviar, sorry dude), well taken care of.

So all in all, if you read carefully and sift down what the guy is telling us about his own experience in the Soviet Gulag (penitentiary system) - it was that bad at all. By the way, the biggest Gulag ever is in the USA, with over 2 million prisoners (with private jails, too).

O yeah, almost forgot to mention - he also hates NKVD/MGB/KGB so much!

Cheap prostitutka.

hevidevi wrote:

Jewish Bolshevism

Walter Laqueur traces the Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy theory to Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, for whom Bolshevism was "the revolt of the Jewish, Slavic and Mongolian races against the German (Aryan) element in Russia". Germans, according to Rosenberg, had been responsible for Russia's historic achievements and had been sidelined by the Bolsheviks, who did not represent the interests of the Russian people, but instead those of its ethnic Jewish and Chinese population.

Fascists pretending to Democrats are very predictable ...

I'm reading at the moment Antonio Gramsci "The ape people" L'ordine nuovo, 2 January 1921

Psychotherapist David Richo examines the science of triggers and our reactions of fear, anger, and sadness. He helps us understand why our bodies respond before our minds have a chance to make sense of a situation. By looking deeply at the roots of what provokes us--the words, actions, and even sensory elements like smell--we find opportunities to understand the origins of our triggers and train our bodies to remain calm in the face of painful memories.

The book offers in-the-moment exercises on how to process difficult emotions and physical manifestations in order to to cultivate the inner resources necessary to deal with recurring memories of trauma. When we are triggered, Richo writes, "we are being bullied by our own unfinished business." Explore what your body's knee-jerk reactions can teach you. Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing acts as a guide to your body's powerful responses, helping you to remain calm under pressure and discover the key to emotional healing.

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn’s attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Jewish Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulag’s victims by Bolshevik Alexander-Solzhenitsyn in Gulagauthorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyn’s own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment. Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet Jewish press. He was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.

hevidevi wrote:

anticapitalista wrote:

The Man who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura

Trotsky was a mass murderer from what i have read, what it is the story behind this book?

I'll ignore the first part of your comment.

The book is basically about the 3 lives of men who loved dogs; the narrator, Trotsky and his assassin.

Once I finish it, I'm going to re-read The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge.

hevidevi wrote:

You must be a bit unhinged for a reply like this

No **** Sherlock

EDIT for clarity: yes, I suffer from mental health problems.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The evidence is pretty clear in respect of macrobiotic diets: they are not healthy. And remember: the plural of anecdote is not evidence

LOL . . . I didn't get that memo.  Of course the US gov doesn't want it's citizens to be healthy.  They want the population to be sick because it is a cash cow for the MIC. I figured that out in the 70s and choose a different path that has served me well.

Been doing somewhat modified macro for over 40 years. There have been a few bumps in the road but I'm gonna be 80 this year, take no pharma or even OTC and have no chronic conditions so I must be doing something right. I opted out of Medicare because I only see a doctor friend for blood testing every couple of years and all the boxes check OK when I do.  If something comes up and I can't heal myself, I call my acupuncturist/herbalist for advice.  Works for me . . .

I prefer my anecdote to the misery that I see around me, thank you. 

that's totally fine. On those GPUs you have to extract the firmware from Nvidias drivers in order to get video acceleration. Sometimes there are firmware packages available for your distribution, sometimes you have to follow the nouveau wiki: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAc … l#firmware