Jaak Pastinaak

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

In 1824, the last surviving general of the Revolution came back to America, and the entire country stopped for a year to thank him.

Marquis de Lafayette was 67 years old. Nearly half a century earlier, he had crossed an ocean to fight for American independence, bled for it and poured his own fortune into it.

Now President Monroe and Congress invited him back as "the Nation's Guest."

He planned to visit the original 13 states and stay a few months. Instead he stayed 13 months and visited all 24 states, traveling more than 6,000 miles.

Everywhere he went, America turned out in droves to show their appreciation. When he landed in New York, 80,000 people turned out, two-thirds of the entire city.

In Boston, crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands lined the streets. Towns built triumphal arches. Church bells rang. Artillery roared.

Parents named their children, their towns, and their streets after him. The young country was caught up in "Lafayette Mania."

When he finally left in September 1825, he said goodbye at the White House:

"God bless the American people, each of their states, and the federal government. Accept this patriotic farewell of an overflowing heart; such will be its last throb when it ceases to beat."

He had crossed an ocean as a boy to fight for a country that wasn't his. He left it an old man, beloved by every corner of it.

[Rauda Altenaiji @FormulaRauda]

The UAE stopped funding its students to study in Britain for one reason. Fear of radicalization. We refused to hand our children to campuses that have become recruitment centers for the Brotherhood and extremists, all protected by Western terror apologists so crippled by centuries of colonial guilt that they would rather excuse a terrorist than offend one. They call it tolerance. We call it cowardice. Point proven.

Radicals don't announce themselves. They wear the uniform, smile at their colleagues, sit in the seat next to you, and wait. Indoctrination turns a trusted man into a weapon pointed at everyone around him. That is how they destroy societies from within.

So spare us the lectures. We have around 40 churches. We have the synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House and synagogues all over the country. We built the largest Hindu temple in the Middle East. Every faith prays here in peace, and we will keep it that way.

Let me be very clear. An attack on any one of them is an attack on all of us. The UAE does not negotiate with extremists, does not forgive them, and does not forget. You shouldn’t either.

[Forces Spéciales Françaises 🌟 @Fs_francaises_]

C’est avec une profonde tristesse que nous avons appris le décès de Fred, Tireur de haute précision au 1er RPIMa, qui a mis fin à ses jours après avoir souffert d’un trouble de stress post-traumatique.

Un homme qui avait connu les opérations, les responsabilités et les exigences particulières liées à son engagement au sein des Forces spéciales françaises.

Ne jamais oublier. 🖤

[Jaak Pastinaak @JWKEWII]

@Dr_TheHistories @archeohistories The Etruscan women are suspected of having their hair dyed blonde…

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

[Pieter Bauwens ن @PieterBauwens]

Een spoeddecreet stemmen speciaal om Jinnih Beels aan de kant te kunnen schuiven? Zo ziek is de Vlaamse politiek. Hendrik Vuye https://t.co/QAqgyknsRh

[Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost @Ne_pas_couvrir]

Demoralized media here, trying to convince the public that they are not at war, that nobody is trying to abolish their civilization, and that they only want “equality.” It is a classic motte-and-bailey.

The trick works because “equality” can mean two very different things while sounding like the same claim. To a normie, equality means equal rights, fair treatment, and protection from discrimination. That’s the safe, non-activist meaning. It asks for changes within the existing order without challenging the order itself.

In the revolutionary grammar, “equality” means activism. It is a mandate to find inequality, identify the structures said to produce it, and act against them. Unequal outcomes, inherited institutions, traditional roles, social hierarchies, cultural norms, and other distinctions become evidence that domination still exists. Carried to its endpoint, the project is to sublate Western civilization itself: dismantle its inherited forms while preserving and reappropriating the achievements worth carrying into a higher social order. Equality becomes the standard by which the existing order is judged, dissolved, and rebuilt.

Thats why equality can function as a solvent. The argument begins with an obvious injustice most people agree should be corrected, then moves outward. First a rule is unequal, then an institution, then the surrounding culture, and eventually the civilization that produced them becomes the deeper problem.

The motte-and-bailey works by sliding between those meanings. When challenged, it retreats to the safe version: we only mean equal treatment, equal rights, basic fairness. Who could object to that? Once the challenge passes, the broader meaning returns, and “equality” again becomes a reason to dismantle inherited distinctions and institutions.

So the public hears equality as a promise to make the existing order fairer. The revolutionary can use the same word as a mandate to put the existing order itself on trial.

That double meaning is what makes the deception work. The moderate meaning reassures the public that nothing fundamental is happening. The radical meaning allows a much more fundamental transformation to proceed under the same word.

[Bleu Blanc Rouge ! 🇫🇷 @LBleuBlancRouge]

🌹🇫🇷 Il y a sept ans jour pour jour, le 3 octobre 2019, quatre agents de la Préfecture de police de Paris ont été assassinés au cœur même de l’institution, dans l’enceinte de l’île de la Cité.

Ils s’appelaient Damien Ernest, Anthony Lancelot, Brice Le Mescam et Aurélia Trifiro.
Damien Ernest, major de police, avait vingt-huit ans de service et deux enfants. Anthony Lancelot, gardien de la paix, en avait onze et était lui aussi père de deux enfants. Brice Le Mescam, adjoint administratif, servait depuis six ans. Aurélia Trifiro, gardienne de la paix, comptait dix-sept années d’ancienneté. Tous quatre ont été tués en quelques minutes, à l’heure du déjeuner, par un collègue qui travaillait dans le même bâtiment.

Mickaël Harpon, informaticien à la direction du renseignement, converti à l’islam et radicalisé, a frappé avec un couteau en céramique. Il a d’abord tué Damien Ernest et Anthony Lancelot dans un bureau, puis Brice Le Mescam, avant de croiser Aurélia Trifiro dans un escalier et de l’abattre à son tour. Une autre agente a été grièvement blessée. L’assaillant a été neutralisé dans la cour d’honneur. L’enquête a établi le caractère terroriste de l’acte, lié à une entreprise islamiste.

Je suis sûr que vous ne vous en souveniez même plus, ou plutôt que vous l’aviez oublié, tant le terrorisme islamiste a fait couler le sang, tué des innocents et brisé des familles dans ce pays.

Ne les oublions pas ! Jamais ! 🫵🏻

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

They will not try to understand

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The major historical massacres of Assyrian Christians include the Sayfo (Assyrian Genocide) during WWI and the Simele Massacre in Iraq in 1933. For three days, the Assyrian Christians of Simele had gathered beneath the Iraqi flag. Historians estimate that 150,000 to 300,000 Assyrians died, wiping out entire communities, displacing tens of thousands of Assyrians. August 7 is now observed globally by Assyrians as Martyrs' Day.. ..

Government officials had ordered them to surrender their weapons and promised that the flag flying above the police post would protect them. Refugees arrived from surrounding villages carrying children, bedding, and whatever food they could save.

Beyond the village, Arab and Kurdish tribesmen looted Assyrian homes and drove away their livestock. The police watched.

Then, before dawn on August 11, 1933, Simele’s Arab residents began quietly leaving with their animals.

The Assyrians understood. They had been brought into a trap.

. . .

The Assyrians were among the oldest Christian peoples in the world. Their ancestors had worshipped Christ in Mesopotamia long before the coming of Islam, preserving their faith and the Syriac language through centuries of invasion and persecution.

During the First World War, Assyrian communities were devastated alongside the Armenians and other Christians of the Ottoman Empire. Many survivors eventually settled in the new Kingdom of Iraq, created under British influence from the ruins of the Ottoman world. But their position remained precarious.

Some Assyrians had served in military units organized by the British. Their patriarch, Mar Shimun XXI Eshai, sought guarantees of Assyrian rights and some measure of autonomy. To Iraqi nationalists, these ancient Christians were increasingly portrayed as foreign agents standing in the way of national unity. And in 1933, the crisis erupted.

Several hundred armed Assyrians attempted to cross into French-controlled Syria but were refused permanent entry. When they returned, fighting broke out with the Iraqi army near the border. Historians still dispute who fired first. Approximately thirty Iraqi soldiers were killed.

This clash was real. But what followed was not another battle.

Newspapers spread lurid stories claiming that the Assyrians had mutilated Iraqi bodies and were preparing a Christian uprising. Anti-Christian anger swept through the country. General Bakr Sidqi moved troops north while Assyrian men were captured and executed and tribal fighters descended upon their villages.

Families fled toward Simele. There, an Iraqi official told them to surrender their rifles. They would be safe, he promised, beneath the flag of Iraq.

They believed him.

On the morning of August 11, the refugees were ordered away from the police post. As they moved toward the houses below, military trucks and armored cars entered the village.

A policeman climbed onto the roof. Then he pulled down the Iraqi flag. The soldiers opened fire.

Unarmed men, women, and children ran into the houses. Machine guns were positioned outside the windows and fired into the crowded rooms. Men who survived were dragged outside and shot or beaten to death.

One villager named Gavriel approached the soldiers and attempted to explain that he was a loyal Iraqi citizen. He showed them his nationality papers. The soldiers tore the papers apart and shot him.

A priest named Ismail sought protection inside the police post. He was driven out, dragged down the steps with a rope around his neck, and murdered.

The bodies accumulated through the morning.

Near the police station, Assyrian women were ordered to wash away the blood. After obeying for a time, they refused and told the police to turn the machine guns upon them as well.

The killing continued until the afternoon. Soldiers later returned when they learned that additional Assyrian men had taken refuge near the police post. By sunset, almost none remained alive.

#archaeohistories

[Giuliano Saldicco @realGiuliano_S]

Il y a pile 500 ans, un certain Bartolomeo Beretta recevait son premier bon de commande pour des canons d’arquebuses à destination de la République de Venise.
500 ans de précision, de robustesse et de longévité dans la même famille, ça se fête.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

On this date 10/3/1941 "The Maltese Falcon" premiered... Bogart’s weary, brilliant Sam Spade -all tough talk, tossing off wisecracks while everybody around him lies, double-crosses and chases the priceless bird. Mary Astor -the classy femme fatale as Brigid O’Shaughnessy—breathy innocence one minute, deadly deception the next. Sidney Greenstreet - making his film debut at the astonishing age of 61, as the deliciously sinister Kasper Gutman, practically stealing every scene he’s in. Peter Lorre -the nervous and duplicitous Joel Cairo. In this world, trust is for suckers, love is a liability, and the dialogue is perfect film Noir. “When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.”

[Chef d'état-major des armées @CEMA_FR]

📍Paris, Invalides | La croix de la Valeur militaire a 70 ans.

Invité par l'Association nationale des croix de guerre et de la valeur militaire, j'ai présidé aujourd'hui la prise d'armes marquant les 70 ans de la création de la croix de la Valeur militaire.

Cette décoration récompense les personnels qui se sont distingués lors d'actions d'éclat au combat. Elle honore leur courage dans l'accomplissement de leur devoir pour le succès des armes de la France. Qu’ils soient soldat, aviateur, chirurgien ou infirmière, ils ont tous participé récemment à l’évacuation de leurs frères d’armes blessés gravement en opérations dans des conditions périlleuses. Ils méritent d’être cités en exemple.

Cette médaille est autant un motif de fierté que d'humilité pour l'individu qui la reçoit. Elle renforce aussi l'esprit de corps des unités décorées collectivement.

[Doug Crown @Bellagiotime]

The invoice is for a late-1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet A, chassis and engine 169391, ordered in Lisbon and finished in factory green 02063 with genuine leather and a fabric soft top. This is that car.

[Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_]

According to Yazidi cultural tradition, the community had survived 73 massacres (historically referred to as fermans) prior to the 2014 genocide by ISIS.

In Yazidi culture, a campaign of mass violence, forced conversion, or attempted annihilation is called a ferman—a term that originally referred to an official Ottoman imperial decree or edict.

Because these historical decrees frequently authorized military campaigns against the Yazidis, the word became synonymous with massacre or genocide in their collective memory.

Consequently, there have been at least 74 campaigns of mass violence against the Yazidis since the seventh century.

This latest genocide remains ongoing in Iraq, as mass graves are still being unearthed and many Yazidi women and children abducted by ISIS remain missing.

[Rik Torfs @torfsrik]

Ik vind het Frans van Bouchez alvast eleganter dan uw Nederlands.

[Jaak Pastinaak @JWKEWII]

@Ay_Blinkin Stunning.

[The Masterpieces Archive @MasterpiecesArc]

Johannes Vermeer
View of Delft

[Wouter Duyck @wduyck]

Scholierenprotest.

[Maurits Vande Reyde @Mauritsvdr]

Conner Rousseau diende gisteren samen met N-VA en CD&V een decreet in om Jinnih Beels uit de weg te ruimen. Dit Jinnih Beels-decreet gaat veel verder dan Jinnih Beels alleen. Het toont hoe partijen veel te veel macht hebben in ons land en voorzitters die macht vervolgens actief misbruiken.

Iedereen kan hier slachtoffer van worden. Beeld je in: je hebt een grond gekocht maar Conner Rousseau of een andere partijvoorzitter wou die ook. Hij start daar een persoonlijke vete over. Niets houdt hen in ons land vervolgens tegen om een wet in te voeren, die de grond van je afneemt. Andere partijen steunen hem als ze er zelfs iets bij te winnen hebben.

Dit is niet denkbeeldig. Het gebeurde vroeg. het gebeurt vandaag en het zal in de toekomst blijven gebeuren. Een rechtstaat zou ons moeten beschermen tegen machtsmisbruik door politici.

Ze zullen er altijd wel een uitleg voor vinden. Zoals @valerievanpeel gisteren op De Afspraak pijnlijk illustreerde. Dit is de vrouw die nog niet zolang geleden "gedégouteerd was van spelletjes in de politiek". Volgens haar is dit decreet nu absoluut nodig "in het belang van de burger" en "om goed bestuur te verzekeren". Je verzint het niet.

Het is zeer hoopgevend dat partijen Vlaams Belang, PVDA, Groen en Anders zich er samen tegen verzetten.

Zoek een oplossing onder mekaar om een persoonlijke ruzie uit te klaren. Misbruik daar het parlement, je macht als partijvoorzitter en de hele rechtstaat niet voor.