All posts by Dr. Dean Albert Ramser
7/27/2023 – Momentum is with Ukraine, despite German criticism | General Rupert Jones
7/26/2023 – War games or real threat? Poland points finger at Russia as Wagner troops move close to NATO border
7/26/2023 – Russia destroyed 180 schools in Ukraine, over 1,000 educational institutions damaged
From Euromaiden Press by BYIRYNA VOICHUK: Russian forces completely destroyed 180 schools in Ukraine and damaged more than 1,000 educational institutions.
“As of today, 180 schools have been destroyed to the ground. Over 300 educational institutions in total are destroyed, more than 1,000 educational institutions are damaged and need to be examined to determine whether they can be rebuilt or not,” Ukrinform reported, citing Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovyi.
13th Street Repertory Theatre – Greenwich Village
“The wilting three-story building in Greenwich Village that houses the 13th Street Repertory Company creaked and groaned as its artistic director, Joe Battista, gave a tour of its theater one afternoon in July. The Repertory opened in 1972 and is one of the oldest Off Off Broadway theaters in New York. Mr. Battista walked past its 65 tattered seats and onto its stage. … According to theater lore, Williams stood downstage right shortly before his death and proclaimed that the future of American theater was not on Broadway, but in small playhouses like 13th Street. The building’s cellar is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Mr. Battista, 63, then pointed to the stage lights and made a dramatic gesture with his hands. ‘Theater is dangerous,’ he said. In the Repertory’s musty lobby, the building creaked loudly. A man in his 60s with white hair…
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Rock, Pop, and the Development of Avant Garde Music After World War II
Henry Cow
“Clive Bell, an early friend of Henry Cow in Cambridge who would develop into a gifted improviser in his own right, recalls the presentation of a new work for piano by Roger Smalley, the composer-in-residence at King’s College, Cambridge, during their time there in the late 1960s. It began with the composer drawing complex mathematical diagrams on a blackboard for several minutes. ‘And then he went over to the piano and played this completely wild piece that might as well have been totally improvised, as far as I was concerned,’ Bell recalls. ‘I just thought it was kind of hilarious, that all these diagrams led to this flailing, Cecil Taylor freak-out.’ Bell’s experience represents an increasingly common one for listeners of his generation, especially those rooted in the recording-intensive traditions of African American music such as jazz and rock ’n’ roll. His ears moved transversally across relatively distinct…
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7/25/2023 – UPROOTED | An investigation into Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children
7/25/2023 – Russia is trying to ‘fund its war machine at the expense of Africa’, Ukraine’s FM says
7/25/2023 – Ruzzians are not only destroying ports of Odesa, but they are also sentencing people worldwide to hunger and starvation…
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (516th day): Grown under air raids, harvested under shelling on the fields that often explode with landmines, grain of 2023 is systematically being burned by ruzzian missile and drone attacks on Odesa.
Odesa has been under massive missile strikes for 6 days and nights now. Ruzzian terrorists are systematically destroying our infrastructure for storing and transporting agricultural products. According to United Nations, 400,000,000 people worldwide depend on Ukrainian grain, most of which has been transported out of Odesa ports. Ruzzians are not only destroying ports of Odesa, but they are also sentencing people worldwide to hunger and starvation.
7/25/2023 – The “Stolen Generation”
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 516):
Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
I cried to him with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:16-17
Today, I came across an article in “The Kyiv Independent” (https://cutt.ly/jwafs7FN), and it was a very somber read based on their documentary “Uprooted: An investigation into Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children” (https://youtu.be/cq2gEMhuDps).
Deporting children from the occupied territories against their will constitutes genocide according to one of the five definitions of the United Nations Genocide Convention. However, when you look deeper into the specific stories, you see how horrible and inhumane it really is.
The abducted children are held incommunicado, brainwashed with pro-Russian propaganda, and adopted by Russian families despite having living relatives in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities have…
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