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Dustin Du Cane

27 Mar 2024 — 3 min read

I’m watching Shogun.

Its quite good though I hate the blue color scheme.

Japanese armies were vibrantly colored, so were Japanese cities and many villages.

More like this technicolor from Shogun 1980 than the tiresome Nolan blue. War is rarely blue.

Of course this is black and white but I can feel the color here…

I don’t like the main actress for a variety of reasons, mainly because her only expression is something like bemused constipated pouting.

Fugiko’s actress is a lot more expressive and has a range of expressions apart from her stunning aethereal beauty.

Anyway this week we had a huge terrorist attack in Moscow.

I said on Bluesky I thought it was Putin, another staged attack on his own people, to justify crackdowns at home and genocide war abroad.

I admitted I was wrong after ISIS provided proof that the terrorists were their own.

I’m not going to tinfoil say that Putin had infiltrated ISIS. I will however say that I doubt the terrorists were caught at Bryansk, especially that they were on their way to Ukraine.

Here’s a good piece:

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On this edition of Parallax Views, Middle East scholar Prof. James Dorsey, the man behind The Turbulent World w/ James M. Dorsey blog and Substakc, returns for a Gaza War update. We discuss the clans in Gaza that may or may not end up collaborating with Israel against Hamas and their own unsavory nature, the bombing of Gaza and its infrastructure like hospitals, Israel's information war, Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden's vision for the Middle East and the political obstacles he faces, the 1948 war and what came after it, the two-state vs. one-state solution, and much, much more.

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