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Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust

Chris Hedges •�December 31, 2023

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Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a... Read More

Why Biden's Red Sea Strategy Will Blow Up in His Face

Mike Whitney •�December 31, 2023

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Over the weekend, Houthi fighters launched attacks on two more commercial ships despite the presence of US warships patrolling the area. The primary target was the Maersk Hangzhou that was swarmed by small boats filled with Houthi militants who fired small arms weapons at the sailors on board. US Naval helicopters were sent to the... Read More

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The Implications of MAGA Normalizing White Identity Politics

Contrasting MAGA and Rightwing Multiculturalism

Robert Stark •�December 31, 2023

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During a rally in New Hampshire, Trump proclaimed about migrants that, “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and... Read More

Setting Up White Gentiles for Genocide

Paul Craig Roberts •�December 31, 2023

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Taki Points Out that the Jews in Hollywood Are Doing the Same Work on White People that the Nazi Filmmakers Did on Jews “Hollywood is hard at work in maintaining the myth that everything that the West has achieved since the Greeks was due to the white man’s cruelty and ability to steal from the... Read More

Trickery, Humiliation, Death – and the Timeless Hunger for 'Honour and Glory'

Alastair Crooke •�December 30, 2023

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One major theme of Homer’s Iliad – which somehow seems as fresh and as vivid today as when first written – is its description of how even the greatest of states in Western civilization fail to reclaim what they lose. “Attempts to repair one loss lead only to more losses”, Emily Wilson writes in her... Read More

Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt

Michael Hudson •�December 30, 2023

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Robinson: I’m from Chicago, and when I saw that you went to the University of Chicago Lab School, which I know quite well, and then the University of Chicago, which I also know quite well—and when the Chicago School of Economics was promoting the free market and probably in its heyday….I immediately found myself wondering:... Read More

World Predictions for 2024 (USA, UN, Palestine, Russia and BRICS)

Michael Hudson •�December 29, 2023

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ANIA: Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. It looks like we are live and we are a few seconds before time, so a little bit better than Swiss precision. Today I have for the second time a very, very special guest. Many of you have been anticipating this conversation with Professor Michael Hudson, who... Read More

The Tragedy of Hannah Payne, Part II

Anastasia Katz •�December 29, 2023

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Continued from Part I. Prosecution witnesses The prosecution’s first witness was Vickie Lynn Herring, Kenneth Herring’s sister. She said her brother was a diabetic and he needed to inject himself with insulin. Nigel Hunter next questioned Terry Robinson, the black prison guard. He said he worked in the prison infirmary, taking care of sick inmates,... Read More

Victimhood or Vengeance? Israel Wants Both

Ted Rall •�December 29, 2023

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Victimhood or vengeance: choose one. You can't have both. Israel is about to learn that. Supporters of Israel's government (as opposed to Israel writ large, which includes millions of Israelis who distrust their government) ask: Why are so few people still talking about Oct. 7? "It is striking and in some ways shocking that the... Read More

Who’s on the Take?

You pay for a shocking number of immigrants on welfare

Jared Taylor •�December 29, 2023

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Thumbnail credit: © Dejan Smaic/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, and Odysee. Sometimes you have to ask yourself: Are our rulers fools, ignoramuses, or traitors? I can’t think of any other explanation for some of the things they do. The Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington thinktank, never asks that question directly.... Read More

Democrats Facing Election Wipeout Resort to Desperate Actions

Paul Craig Roberts •�December 29, 2023

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Civil rights groups are suing under US law in behalf of immigrant-invaders who are not US citizens and have no protection of US civil right laws. The issue is a Texas state law that permits Texas authorities to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. The claim is that illegal immigrant-invaders are protected from Texas law by... Read More

Why Are Israelis Obsessed with Killing Palestinian Children?

Kevin Barrett •�December 29, 2023

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Kevin Barrett is editor at Veterans Today who joins us. Welcome to the program, Kevin Barrett. I'm not too sure whether I should talk about the reference that the Osama Hamdan, the senior Hamas leader there, made to the Israeli regime force who wanted to kill children or to the other aspect of this war.... Read More

How Yemen Changed Everything

In a single move, Yemen's Ansarallah has checkmated the west and its rules-based order.

Pepe Escobar •�December 28, 2023

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Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able to upset the whole chessboard, usually via a move in the back rank whose effect simply cannot be calculated. Yes, a... Read More

Biden’s America Surrenders to War Criminal Netanyahu

Vital US interests are sacrificed to avoid offending Israel and its Lobby

Philip Giraldi •�December 28, 2023

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I don’t have anyone whom I would consider a friend who supports the genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. But my occasional interaction with the psychopaths who infest the US government and media and who are intimately connected by virtue of their political instincts as well as their personal interests in campaign donations... Read More

Review of “the Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer

Bernard M. Smith •�December 28, 2023

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The Forgotten Soldier Guy Sajer Editions Robert Laffont, 1967; translation copyright 1971 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Audible edition The other side was bitter beyond belief. * * * * By the spring of 1945, Germany was reduced to a smoldering ruin. One of the most advanced countries in the world saw every one... Read More

'Are We the Baddies?' Western Support for Genocide in Gaza Means the Answer Is Yes

Jonathan Cook •�December 27, 2023

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The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades In a popular British comedy sketch set during the Second World War, a Nazi officer near the front lines turns to a fellow officer and, in a moment of sudden – and... Read More

Decrepit Biden Props Up Decrepit Abbas

The "PA will run Gaza solution" is a non-starter

Kevin Barrett •�December 27, 2023

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Interview for IRIB 1) Despite Gazans' demand and desire, the USA is trying to impose the Palestinian authority to rule over Gaza in substitution for Hamas. How do you assess this policy? The Palestinian Authority (PA) is universally despised. Palestinians hate it because it’s a tool of the Occupation. Netanyahu’s government also hates it because... Read More

Because of Israel's War Against Palestine, There Are No Innocent Ships at Sea

John Helmer •�December 27, 2023

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Since the start of Israel’s genocide of Gaza, it has been the claim of the Israelis, their lawyers, and allies that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, so they say that killing them all is neither a genocide nor a war crime. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said it in India in October. US Congressman... Read More

Will Biden Will be Forced to Send Ground Troops to Yemen?

Mike Whitney •�December 26, 2023

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The Biden administration is blaming Iran for drone attacks on a commercial tanker in the Indian Ocean. The claims are being used as leverage on Iran to pressure the Houthis to abandon their blockade in the Red Sea and allow maritime traffic to return to normal. But the Houthis have no intention of caving in... Read More

US-Israel Genocide in Gaza Is Bad for French Shipping and Ports, So Macron Fires Intelligence Chief

John Helmer •�December 26, 2023

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The message delivered last week to French President Emanuel Macron was a dramatic one: Never mind Israel throttling the Palestinians, Macron was told, the Houthis and their Arab and Iranian allies are capable of throttling France. Macron shot the messenger. Bernard Émié was fired last Wednesday, December 20, and Nicolas Lerner put in his place.... Read More

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Russia – China Are on a Roll

Pepe Escobar •�December 26, 2023

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While the dogs of war bark, lie and steal, the Russia-China caravan strolls on. 2023 may be defined for posterity as The Year of the Russia-China Strategic Partnership. This wonder of wonders could easily sway under a groove by – who else – Stevie Wonder: “Here I am baby/ signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours.” In... Read More

The (Formally Law-Abiding) Citizen’s Guide to Navigating the US Prison System

Richard Solomon •�December 26, 2023

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The owners shredded the Constitution. Legal protections, or even their simulation of a simulation, no longer exist. In Florida, questioning a historical event or the policies of a Middle East country risks ten years in prison. Taking selfies at a legal demonstration endorsed by a sitting President of the United States can get you almost... Read More

Schwarzenegger’s Neoliberal Mantra: Bigots Are Losers So Pull Yourself Up from Your Bootstraps

Robert Stark •�December 26, 2023

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Earlier this year, Arnold Schwarzenegger put out a video, calling out hate and antisemitism, which he denounced as a horrible loser ideology. This was probably in response to Kanye West and Nick Fuentas meeting with Trump, though it was reposted after the Hamas terror attack. Schwarzenegger made a similar video in response to Charlottesville, that... Read More

Jesse Kelly’s the ANTI-COMMUNIST MANIFESTO—A Start, But Not Nearly Enough

James Kirkpatrick •�December 26, 2023

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See also: Trump’s Indictment—Like I Said, This Is A Communist Coup Can a movement win if it has the right tactics but the wrong target? The story of the American Conservative Movement after the Cold War suggests that it can’t. The American Right has chased tangential issues, acted as controlled opposition, and operated more like... Read More

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES as a Christmas Movie

Jung-Freud •�December 25, 2023

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If the Christmas Movie could be construed as a genre, its catalog is underwhelming to say the least. Stories draw strength from conflict, but most Christmas movies keep tensions to a minimum lest holiday cheers be dampened. The assumption is people watch Holiday Movies for uplift; they want to be blissed out, not pissed on.... Read More

Church Going

James Thompson •�December 25, 2023

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To Church of St James’s of the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, as is my custom, to celebrate the habits of my tribe, as they have done since 1211. In King John’s time, Walter de Turberville gave the manor to the Knights, who formed a small Commandery and with local helpers built the church. Thomas Hardy... Read More

Netanyahu Outsmarted by ‘Wily’ Biden? No, Biden Is the One Being Played

Alastair Crooke •�December 25, 2023

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Biden may believe that his ‘long experience’ puts him on the ‘right side’ in judging events, but his experience is drawn from another era. Biden smirked and responded, “I know”, when told by a guest that Netanyahu is drawing the U.S. into a civilisational conflict – and further that Netanyahu blames him (Biden), complaining that... Read More

Joyeux Noёl: The Beginnings of WWI and the Christmas Truce of 1914

F. Roger Devlin •�December 25, 2023

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With the hindsight offered by ninety-nine years, it is obvious that the outbreak of the World War I marked not merely the beginning of the most destructive war in history up to that time, but a fundamental civilizational watershed. While the fighting was going on, nearly all participants assumed they had been forced into the... Read More

Israel Paying a Heavy Price for Its Crimes

Kevin Barrett •�December 25, 2023

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So Netanyahu is now saying that (Israel is paying) is a heavy price. How heavy is the price? Netanyahu is not admitting how heavy the price really is. The actual number of Israeli casualties is much higher than the official count. We know that because we've actually seen that the resistance fighters have filmed themselves... Read More

The Greatest Gift of All

Paul Craig Roberts •�December 25, 2023

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The decorations and gifts of Christmas are one of our connections to a Christian culture that has held Western civilization together for 2,000 years. In our culture the individual counts. This permits an individual person to put his or her foot down, to take a stand on principle, to become a reformer and to take... Read More

Russian Identification of Houthi Tanker Target in Indian Ocean

How the Western Media Are Protecting the Israelis

John Helmer •�December 24, 2023

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From the minute after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the UK Maritime Trade Organisation (UKMT) learned that the oil tanker MV Chem Pluto had been hit by an exploding drone in the Indian Ocean 1,600 kilometres east of the Red Sea and Yemen coast (lead image, left), they also knew why. Through a joint... Read More

For Israelis, It’s Personal

Philip Kraske •�December 24, 2023

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You wouldn’t think that two colorful ceramic bowls decorated with painted flowers and leaves would inspire someone’s hate, but these are tense times for Israelis. A friend of mine who works in an NGO, flew to Jordan to meet with staff there. Having some free time, he went to the West Bank, to Hebron, this... Read More

The Crisis Caused by Washington and Israel Is Metastasizing

Paul Craig Roberts •�December 24, 2023

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This is an unhappy message for Christmas Eve. The Biden Regime’s support for Israel’s brutal Genocide of the Palestinian people seems destined, as Mike Whitney points out , to lead to the expanded conflict that I have feared from the beginning. The outcome of the conflict will be affected by whether the Houthis strike first... Read More

Genocide in Palestine: The Whole World Is Watching

And changing...

Kevin Barrett •�December 24, 2023

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As police beat protestors outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, crowds chanted: “The whole world is watching.” And they had a point. Television network news cut away from convention speeches to show snippets of violence in the streets. Despite the networks’ refusal to show the worst abuses, it was all too obvious that police... Read More

Israel Raids Hospital, Shoots Doctors, Bulldozes Bodies, Lets Dog Maul Wheelchair-Bound Man

Andrew Anglin •�December 23, 2023

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My main argument about the Holocaust has always been “come on, this is cartoonish evil – people don’t act like that.” However, insofar as Jews are “people,” they are proving wrong my assumption. The Jews are behaving in a way that is cartoonishly evil. What’s more, while they claimed the German Nazis did all that... Read More

The Houthis Have Biden By the Shorthairs

Mike Whitney •�December 23, 2023

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Yemen's Houthi militia has shown how a small army can take on the American Empire and win. They have shown how courage, resolve and commitment to principle can act as a force-multiplier allowing a much weaker military to 'punch above its weight'. They've also shown that a few well-placed missiles in key locations on the... Read More

Honey Trap for Israelis and Americans in the Red Sea

John Helmer •�December 23, 2023

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The Iranian intelligence vessel, MV Behshad, at anchor in the Red Sea, is a honey trap intended to lure both the Israelis and US Navy into an attack, according to Russian and other sources. The French and Spanish navies appear to anticipate or to know: they have announced they will not operate their warships in... Read More

Washington Regards Truth As Its Most Dangerous Enemy

Paul Craig Roberts •�December 23, 2023

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Tucker Carlson Tells Us in Less than 6 Minutes the Enormous Crime that the US & UK governments have committed, and are committing, against Julian Assange. The American media worked hand-in-glove with the CIA in framing Julian Assange who has been held for 4 years in solitary confinement in the UK’s maximum security prison without... Read More

The Music of the Moon: Re-Enchantment and the Biggest Crime in History

Tobias Langdon •�December 23, 2023

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More money, more sex, more status, more possessions, more gratification. That’s how too many people in the modern world would answer one simple question: “What would you like in your life?” When I asked myself that question, I was surprised by speed and naturalness with which the answer came to me: I’d like more stars... Read More

Washington & CNN Are Setting Up Iran for Attack

Paul Craig Roberts •�December 23, 2023

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The Hypocrisy of Washington and the presstitutes is outrageous. The lie machines are content with Washington supplying the bombs, missiles, and protection for Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinians but sees evil in Iran helping the Houthis, the people on whom Washington sicced the Saudis. Don’t you just love the names Washington puts on its military... Read More

Breaking News: Chinese, Iranian and Indian Warships Are Now in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden

John Helmer •�December 22, 2023

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A Russian military blog post posted on Thursday, December 21 at 11:33 Moscow time, has revealed the hitherto secret positions of all warships in the area which the Pentagon has announced for its OPERATION PROSPERITY GUARDIAN. The fresh data and the open map (lead image) were not available when yesterday’s report was published at 09:32... Read More

The Tragedy of Hannah Payne, Part I

Anastasia Katz •�December 22, 2023

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Hannah Payne is a 21-year-old white woman who grew up in Clayton County, Georgia, and then moved to nearby Fayetteville. She loved to help others. She took her niece to afterschool activities when her aunt couldn’t leave work. When her neighbor, a black man, was suffering from cancer and couldn’t maintain his yard, Miss Payne... Read More

Home for Christmas!—and Podcasting, Against Rosie’s Advice

John Derbyshire •�December 22, 2023

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Earlier: Derb’s Disastrous December—A Sick Note For The Missing Podcast and Derb’s Disastrous December Continues [Adapted From Radio Derb, which will be posted later tonight] And Radio Derb is on the air! [And on pixel here!]. Greetings, listeners, from your domestically genial ho-ho-host John Derbyshire this Friday evening, December 22nd 2023. This week's podcast is... Read More

People Still Calling for Harvard President to be Fired

Andrew Anglin •�December 22, 2023

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Every black academic engaged in plagiarism. There is no rule system about this. The rule, insofar as there is a rule, is the MLK rule, which is if you’re black, you don’t get charged with plagiarism. The only reason Martin Luther King Jr. was not charged with plagiarism and stripped of his doctorate was that... Read More

An End to Reconciliation

Gregory Hood •�December 22, 2023

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After initially issuing an injunction halting the removal of the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, black judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. has ruled against the group Defend Arlington so that the memorial could be disassembled. Arlington National Cemetery swiftly removed the memorial, which will reportedly be relocated to New Market, Virginia, the site of... Read More

Jews Have Killed at Least 64 Journalists Since October 7…!

Andrew Anglin •�December 22, 2023

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Previously: Israel Assassinating Journalists, Al Jazeera Claims HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! THE ENTIRE WORLD NOW SEES THE JEWS AS I SEE THEM! There is no going back now, Jews! I WON. You walked straight into it…! The Guardian: The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza amid the... Read More

Afghanistan Offers Lessons in Regime Change to Israel in Gaza

Ted Rall •�December 22, 2023

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I talked to a lot of people in Afghanistan, where I reported about the fall 2001 U.S. invasion. Young or old, urban or rural, no matter their ethnicity, they all expected the victors to work miracles after the Taliban's defeat. "America will build roads, schools, buildings, everything." "Now Afghanistan will be beautiful." "We will have... Read More

Mitch McConnell, the Most Powerful Republican in America, Has a 6% Approval Rating

Andrew Anglin •�December 22, 2023

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The way the American system is set up, even a good leader can’t ever get more than a 50% approval rating. That’s been the case since George W. Bush got 90% after starting wars as revenge for 9/11. Nonetheless, 6% is still abysmally low. Fox News: No country in the world has leaders with approval... Read More

N.Y. Times Throws Black Harvard President Under the Bus

A media lynch mob aims to enforce submission to Zionist supremacy

Michael Hoffman •�December 22, 2023

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The New York Times has thrown Harvard’s Claudine Gay under the bus with a Talmudic double-standard that fails to assess acts of plagiarism by campus exponents of Israel’s mass murder of 20,000 Palestinians. The charge of intellectual “anti-Semitism” is considered a far more heinous crime than support for Israeli genocide. This is Talmudic praxis. Slights... Read More

Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization

Pepe Escobar •�December 22, 2023

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TURKISTAN – As geopolitical insanity zooms off the charts at the end of 2023, let us seek solace in a brief Silk Road magic carpet ride. This comes to you from a northern strand of the Ancient Silk Roads in Kazakhstan, from the Ili valley in Western China through the Dzungarian Gate all the way... Read More

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