"Guerrillas must not depend too much on an armory. The enemy is the principal source of their supply." -Mao Zedong
"A pearl lights the darkest night." 珠称夜光 MAGIC LANTERN
“All governing rights and powers come from the barrel of a gun.” —Mao Zedong (“所有的政治权力都来自枪杆子。”)
Free eBooks at the end of the post, word of the day and news in English French German Russian Spanish Chinese follows
Word of the Day: Gun, das Gewehr, le Fusil, ружье, 枪杆子
“This is why we do not permit a man to rule, but the law, because a man rules in his own interest, and becomes a tyrant” Aristotle, Ethics
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3821075-we-need-an-open-source-intelligence-center/
FRANCE
DEUTSCH
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/russland-ukraine-krieg-im-news-ticker-kw-03,TT52hfk
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article243356889/Ukraine-News-Baerbock-Deutschland-wuerde-Leopard-Lieferungen-anderer-Laender-nicht-blockieren.html
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/armee-personal-london-ukraine-krieg-russland-100.html
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/russland-ukraine-krieg-im-news-ticker-kw-03,TT52hfk
Prediction: Russian civil war will start as a battle between Wagner, Patriot, Russian Army, Kadyrovites, and/or Syrians for supplies and weapons and for position in the post-Putin Russia; Russia will end up fragmented and reduced to Muscovy TT EMDEN
https://www.redglobe.de/2023/01/vor-100-jahren-wurde-markus-wolf-geboren/
"We are not men disguised as mere dogs. We are wolves, disguised as men."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_mystery_fires
https://thetimeshub.in/fuel-tanks-for-the-army-are-on-fire-in-russia-video/
ukraine-war-partisans-launch-new-attacks-melitopol-berdyansk-putin-russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/politics/russia-spain-letter-bombs.html
Is “let’s return the favor” so difficult?
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/10/26/russias-elite-begins-to-ponder-a-putinless-future
РУССКИЙ
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5783284
https://ura.news/news/1052620356
https://www.interfax.ru/world/881749
This is what we do to criminal regimes.
https://news.yahoo.com/breakthrough-ukrainian-tank-crews-start-215755207.html
ESPANOL
CHINA
Analysis: from “zero covid” to infinite covid. 1) CCP reigned in virus for nearly three years. Result: fewer deaths, ruined economy. 2) Popular protests and factional infighting resulted in abrupt end to policy 3) Chinese vaccines largely ineffective, whether due to failure to inactivate the virus, bribery resulting in fake vaccines, or inadequate scientific foundation 4) China’s refusal to accept MRNA vaccines resulted in excess deaths 5) Chinese elderly will die in large numbers. Survivors will have natural immunity. 6) Xi Jinping will declare “victory” over its virus on May 1. He will also use that speech for “I told you so” in exactly this way. “The party enacted strict successful zero covid policies. After nearly three years of heroic struggle the broad masses finally broadly rejected this. The party heard your wishes and complied.”
Mao Zedong, On Guerilla Warfare this is a “must read” it’s obligatory, not optional.
中文
新华社记者说 | 中国如何为战“疫”新阶段做准备?听外国人怎么说
This can be a world of nightmares or dreams, and the choice is Yours.
剑号巨阙 - A Magic Weapon Named “Grand Watchtower” …
Free eBooks Today
https://amazon.com/author/quizmaster
sort by price, descending.
Watergate 2.0: The Manchurian President
Peter Zeihan is Wrong: Here’s Why
Niall Ferguson Is Wrong about Empire, Ukraine, and a New Cold War: Here’s Why
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4312895
Sleepwalking To War? Stephen Walt Is Wrong. Here’s Why
NOT FREE BUT PERHAPS OF INTEREST TO YOU! All books have free preview of at least 20% of the content. eMail me if you have questions. eric.engle@yahoo.com
Quizmaster Common Law for German and European Jurists (8 books)
by Eric Engle (Author) , Eric Engle (Author) , Engle (Author)
Diese Buecher beschreiben US Recht bzw. Common Law mit Hinsicht auf Deutsche Gesetze, Wortschatz, und Fallrecht.
This series of books presents US and Common Law rules and concepts and relates them to continental civil law using terms and concepts from German and French law. The books are written in English but include equivalent terms and concepts from German and French law.
Le droit Anglo-Americain, en comparaison avec des idees et terminologie du droit civil.
Quizmaster Learn Chinese 学中文 (10 book series)
by Eric Engle (Author) , Eric Engle (Author)
Remember how proud and happy you were when you learned to read?
It's time to feel that good again!
YOU are gonna learn to read Chinese!
Here’s why…
Quizmaster China: Political Economy (8 books)
by Eric Engle (Author) , Eric Engle (Author)
The Red Dragon awakens! This book series describes economic and political aspects of Chinese domestic politics and foreign relations. The author speaks and reads Mandarin and has spent many years studying Marxism Leninism. Deeply in love with China's culture, the wisdom of a 文明礼貌的社会 and ambivalent about liberalism the author brings unique, well informed, and well-grounded analysis of Chinese political economy.
Cheap. Informed. Accurate. Quizmaster China: Political Economy brings Yankees (阳气) insights and ideas about "the all around dictatorship of the proletariat", "Wang-Ming opportunism", "the revolution in the revolution" and many ideas you probably haven't heard about and that the Chinese Communist Party might suppress OR revive allowing you two "evade the dragon's eye by watching the twitch of it's tale".
US Staatsexamen, CAPA, CRFPA equivalent is the bar exam.
Quizmaster Point of Law Uniform Bar Examination Multistate Bar Review Exam (6 books) will help You Pass!
Multistate Bar Exam Review Materials: Detailed explanatory answers to released questions from the MBE. Explains WHY the right answer is right, WHY the wrong answers are wrong. Most importantly, explains HOW to prepare for and answer MBE law exam questions. Teaches test taking tactics. How to answer multiple choices questions quickly and well. How to write law exam essays.