"The Confessions of Winifred Wagner" (1975)
A film
by
Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
PART I (with English subs)
"I`ll build myself a religion out of Parsifal"
Adolf Hitler
PART II (with English subs)
"In the Eastern Empire the Mediterranneans were the predominant factor under guise of Byzantine Greeks. Owing to the fact that our histories have been written under the influence of Roman orthodoxy and because in the eyes of the Frankish Crusaders the Byzantine Greeks were heretics, they have been regarded by us as degenerate cowards.
But throughout the Middle ages Byzantium represented in unbroken sequence the Empire of Rome in the East and as the capital of that Empire it held Mohammedan Asia in check for nearly a thousand years. When at last in 1453 the imperial city deserted by western Christendom was stormed by Ottoman Turks and Constantine, last of Roman Emperors, fell sword in hand there was enacted one of the greatest tragedies of all time.
With the Fall of Constantinople the Empire of Rome passes finally from the scene of history and developement of civilization is transferred from the Mediterranean lands and from the Mediterranean race to the North Sea and to the Nordic race."
MADISON GRANT - The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
Omaimon Paradosis recommends "EUROPE RENAISSANCE" news site
Link to the site here:
https://europerenaissance.com/
Vienna, Austria 1913
"As a rule he did one painting a day. In the morning he sketched it out; after lunch he coloured it. Most pictures were roughly 35 x 45 cm (14in. x 16in.) and were almost invariably Viennese scenes. Most often it was the Charles Church that he draw or scenes from Old Vienna and the old Vienna Naschmarkt. I recall that he would often do especially seleable sudjects a dozen times, one after the other.
Whether these pictures can be regarded as works of art, I do not know... When a picture was finished and we all said how much we admired it, he would often say disparagingly that he was only a dilettante and that he had yet to learn to paint. But his works could not have been bad because otherwise they would never have sold as well as they did since dealers were even then not in the charity business. "
Karl Honisch - About Adolf Hitler
(Source : Hauptarchiv der NSDAP)
Cold & Desolate Ambient soundcscapes influenced by the Norwegians mountains.
"Hardangervidda is a mountain plateau (Norwegian: vidde) in central southern Norway, covering parts of Vestland, Vestfold og Telemark, and Viken counties. It is the largest plateau of its kind in Europe, with a cold year-round alpine climate, and one of Norway's largest glaciers, Hardangerjøkulen, is situated here."
For further info see here
"Hardangervidda" created in 1997 and released in 2002
by
ILDJARN & NIDHOGG
"Leonidas"
By
Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (1780-1850)
A highly symbolical painting by French painter Alexandre Evariste Fragonard (more info about him here ).
At the cenotaph of King Leonidas of Sparta at Thermopylae, a Greek warrior (dressing as the classic 1821 Greeks revolutionaries who fought against the Turks) preparing his arms. A spear, a bow and the sword. At the same time his layed his sleeping child upon the cenotaph.
Three ages in one painting:
The past, the present , the future.
I saw the last days in the news, the taliban marching to the Afghan capital of Cabul. Before that, one town after the other were falling without resistance under their control and now even USA, RUSSIA, CHINA etc are negotiating with them.
As it seems, after 20 years and the waste of billions of dollars, about 2500 soldiers dead and plenty of civilians wounded etc The modern rainbow "west" failed again to control the territory and eliminitate (or at hold back) one of its enemies. What did it gone wrong? Simply, the West as we know from history is not west anymore. Since decades now she had abandonded the values found upon.
Speaking of the real West, it bringed to my mind the book "The Afghan Campaign"
The Afghan Campaign is a historic novel written by Steven Pressfield (Also writter of other succesful historic novel such as The Gates of Fire, The Tides of War etc).
The story takes place in the same lands of Aghanistan but in 330 bc. In the times of Alexander The Great. Its a story narrated by soldier of Macedonian army.
As it based upon real historical facts but the major difference is that here we are talking about the real western army and imperialist values of the Ancient world and not the modern these degenerates lead by traitors and puppets of their shadow masters.
As it seems, not much have changed since the days of Alexander The Great's passing through this regions. So for anyone intrested, the book gives good insight of how war is done there and also various conflicts with different tribes, warlords, leaders etc
For more info on the Novel's plot see HERE and HERE
As for the future in the modern Afghanistan,this gonna bring a change in global geopolitics or a new day for the country that will control amongst other the rare metals, production of opium etc
Things will be more clear in the next months....
