Laura Richardson se reunió con el ministro de Defensa argentino, Jorge Taiana, mientras grupos de izquierda denunciaron que están en riesgo los recursos naturales de la llamada ‘patria grande’.
La general Laura Richardson, jefa del Comando Sur de EE.UU., visitó el domingo por segunda vez Argentina y mantuvo reuniones con el ministro de Defensa en ese país, Jorge Taiana, y con autoridades militares.
Según informó Taiana, en el encuentro que mantuvo con Richardson el lunes conversaron sobre “varios temas en materia de Defensa”, así como los acuerdos bilaterales vigentes y la “jerarquización de las Fuerzas Armadas”.
También se abordaron temas como el equipamiento militar y la “prioridad estratégica que la Argentina le asigna al Atlántico Sur”, informó el propio funcionario desde su cuenta de Twitter.
La Gen. Laura Richardson se reunió con el ministro @JorgeTaiana para dialogar sobre estrategias de cooperación en áreas de interés común, tales como operaciones internacionales de mantenimiento de paz y asistencia en casos de desastres. pic.twitter.com/l9ViOR3vrh
Richardson arribó a Buenos Aires el domingo en medio de especulaciones por las razones de su llegada. El lunes 17 de abril, grupos de izquierda rechazaron la presencia de la funcionaria en una protesta contra el “injerencismo” de EE.UU. y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) en el país.
Además, protestantes afirmaron que Richardson y su comitiva vienen “por los recursos naturales de la ‘patria grande’”.
En enero pasado, al hablar sobre la importancia de Latinoamérica para EE.UU., Richardson destacó “sus ricos recursos y elementos de tierras raras”, y mencionó “el ‘Triángulo de litio‘, que hoy en día es necesario para la tecnología”.
“El 60 % del litio del mundo está en el ‘Triángulo de litio’: (en) Argentina, Bolivia y Chile”, expresó la general, que ya se encuentra de visita en Santiago, capital de ese país.
En la convocatoria a la movilización de repudio, la organización Encuentro Patriótico señaló: “Laura Richardson es quien ha desnudado en múltiples discursos la estrategia neocolonialista de EE.UU. para apropiarse de los bienes comunes de nuestra ‘patria grande’ para ponerlos al servicio de sus cadenas de suministro y frenar el derrumbe de su prepotencia imperial”.
FUERA YANQUIS DE ARGENTINA
PATRIA SI, COLONIA NO
«Nuestra Patria dejará de ser colonia, o la bandera flameará sobre sus ruinas»
Los manifestantes también cuestionaron “la agenda de miseria planificada” que desnuda el acuerdo por la deuda con el FMI, y la “subordinación” del Gobierno argentino a su “programa económico”, con “gestos de obediencia de parte de funcionarios de toda índole y jerarquía”.
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La llegada de Richardson a Buenos Aires también se enmarca en las presiones de la Casa Blanca para dinamitar las relaciones de Argentina con China.
A principios de marzo de este año, desde la Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. se lanzaron amenazas contra el Gobierno de Alberto Fernández ante la compra eventual de aviones de combate fabricados en China.
Además, la congresista republicana María Elvira Salazar le llamó la atención al Pentágono acerca de la presencia de satélites chinos ubicados en la provincia de Neuquén, en la Patagonia argentina. “No están mirando las estrellas”, dijo Salazar al secretario de Estado estadounidense, Antony Blinken, quien prometió “investigar” el tema.
The Israeli government may demolish a school donated to a small Palestinian community, leaving more than 20 children without education.Video: The struggle for Masafer Yatta
Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism for fascism. And the charade is finally coming to an end.
Austerity is not some recent policy under neoliberal capitalism. It was born out of the historic crisis in the Western system following the First World War and during the 1930s when fascism became a way to curtail any democratic challenge to the prevailing capitalist system.
That political instrument of repression is wielded today across all Western states. Quite amazingly, for a long time, few people recognized their captive, repressive state as fascism. We generally lived under the illusion that we were free citizens in “liberal democracies”.
In this interview, Clara E Mattei explains how the technocratic-sounding “austerity” is used to hide the brutal reality of dictatorship and repression against the vast majority of citizen workers in Western states.
Clara Mattei is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research, New York. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
Her book investigates the origins of austerity as an economic policy after the crisis of World War One. Crucially, she argues that austerity is not merely about governments balancing financial budgets. Professor Mattei contends that austerity policy implemented by all Western governments is a political instrument of mass repression to prevent any challenge to the prevailing capitalist order.
Austerity forces the vast majority to accept unacceptable conditions that are otherwise shockingly anti-democratic. The precariousness and insecurity of employment, the widespread denial of social services, deprivation and poverty, and the relentless abuse of taxes and resources that are fueling insane militarism and war.
If we really did live in free, democratic societies why are such deformities enforced without any alternative? Austerity is used to crush the political imagination for any reasonable, more humane, more peaceful alternative.
However, as Clara Mattei points out in this interview, the extreme anti-democratic conditions in Western societies are inevitably forcing greater numbers of people to question the injustices and hideous anomalies of the prevailing capitalist order.
People are realizing that Western governments are in reality regimes of repression in service for the enrichment of a minority. That fundamental deformity is why Western societies are collapsing and why the United States and its Western lackeys are driven to increasing conflict against Russia and China.
The charade of “Western democracy” is coming to an end. The rulers and their pantomime political parties are losing the moral authority to hold power over the masses.
As people necessarily seek ways to reinvent societies that are fit for meeting their democratic needs, socialist solutions are beckoning. We have to throw off the mental shackles imposed by our dictators, and realize, as Karl Marx once eloquently said, that we have got nothing to lose except our chains.
The West, with its decadence, its Democrats and Republicans, still lives in Rome’s savage shadow, where we are always at war with Eastasiaand, thus, with ourselves.
This article expands upon elements of Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova’s recent comment that “the Germans are rewarding the non-Nazi Zelensky for the fratricidal massacre, the abolition of everything Russian, the demolition of monuments to the winners of the Third Reich, the glorification of Nazi collaborators, the annihilation of Orthodoxy, the implementation of the thousand-year-old drang – the liberation of living space in the East [to build] a new Europe – not Judenfrei, but Russenfrei. And this concept includes all nationalities of multinational Russia”.
Although our focus is almost exclusively on the present, we must first acknowledge that Hitler’s ideological roots were very many, very varied, very intertwined and very deep-rooted. At the Nuremberg Trials, for example, Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher argued that his Der Stürmer paper had never alleged anything against the Jews which Martin Luther, the founder of German nationalism, had not already said at the time of the Reformation. German Romanticism, British Darwinism and America’s eugenics policy all played their parts in bringing us The Final Solution, where the collaboration of the Seventh day Adventists and the unspeakable sufferings and persecution of the Jehovah Witnesses by the Nazis must also be put into the frame, just as Zakharova is putting all Russians, including the Pope’s Buddhist and Muslim scapegoats. These two relatively minor German groups are mentioned to make the point that the Jews were not the only target of Herr Hitler, who was of the Austrian School, which saw the Reich’s main enemies as the Slavs, Europe’s largest ethno-linguistic group, who stretch from the German border all the way to Vladivostok.
Although Russians comprise a core part of the Slavs, they are of the Slavs and cannot be divorced from the Slavs, their wider family. They, their names, their language, their customs and mannerisms are not something separate but are simply Russian manifestations of the greater Slavic culture, of which Russia and Russianness are integral, not separate parts. Thus, Zakharova’s Christian name is Syro-Aramaic, Lavrov’s is Roman and Putin’s can be traced back to Bulgaria.
Although Slavic children should not have to live in fear of their lives because of the names they were assigned at birth, that is where we are. And where we have been. Because my own name is decidedly Irish, it remains a death sentence in parts of North Belfast, as do Roman names like Patrick, Hebrew ones like Michael or Greek ones like Timothy.
I mention North Belfast as it was the scene of the Holy Cross Kindergarten outrage, where hordes of adult Protestant scum, for weeks on end, threw urine and human shit over Catholic kindergarten kids as they made their way to and from school. This same North Belfast area was the hunting grounds for Johnny Adair’s C Company, whose Any Taig Will Do maxim meant that all Catholics (Taigs) were legitimate targets for summary murder. The relevance of Adair, The Jackal, King Rat,the Glenanne gang and MI5’s other most notorious killers is that they gave MI5 the template they used in Iraq and that they are now using in Ukraine to hunt down Russian speakers and shoot them like pigs. Just as their 17 May 1974 bombings of Dublin and Monaghan still cannot be investigated lest MI5 feathers be ruffled, so also can the perpetrators of the more recent Nordstream terrorist outrage not be investigated for broadly similar reasons.
Just think about that for a second. The British exploded bombs outside Vichy Ireland’s Dublin Parliament and we cannot even point the finger at the obvious MI5 mass murderers, lest we damage the Sopranos’ precious Peace Process (sic). The Norwegians and their American masters cause major ecological, economic and political damage in the North Sea and we are supposed to think that Joe and Hunter Biden are heroes, not sexual deviants and war criminals, who wallow in the destruction of Germany as much as they do in their Ukrainian war crimes.
As for Holy Cross, the little girls the Protestants terrorised have now grown up and have their own children attending Holy Cross. But what of those mad savages attacking old women and infants attending Church in the heart of Zelensky’s rump Reich? Why should it be left to Zakharova and our own Stephen Karganovic to draw attention to this savagery? What is wrong with us?
Here are these cretins turning a Church into a night club. And here is a petition asking the German regime to allow Pink Floyd founder and all round hero Roger Waters perform in Germany. What is wrong with the Germans that they will fund the one and ban the other? Have today’s Germans never heard of Jesus and Barabbas?
And what is wrong with Pope Francis in Rome? In his (Latin) Easter message, the Pontiff asked Russians to reflect on their role in Ukraine. First off, Darya Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky are no longer in a position to muse on that as they have been murdered. Next off, Russians are thinking a lot about Kiev’s Kristallnacht because several hundred thousand of their fathers, sons, brothers and husbands stand ready to die for the right of Ukrainian grandmothers to go to Church without Nazi saluting scum berating them. Next off, and get this Your Holiness, Patriarch Kirill has spoken about Russia’s role in Ukraine and, as most Russians are Orthodox Christians, they should look to him, rather than to your good office which was complicit in the destruction of Yugoslavia, the land of the Southern Serbs, for pastoral guidance and reflection.
And what is all this about Easter messages in any event? Today’s important Christian message, today’s practical, applied Christian message is Pentecost when, thanks to the intercession of no less a figure than the Holy Spirit himself, the Apostles got off their rumps, vacated their safe house, talked the talk, walked the walk and, like so many of today’s Russian, Serbian, Syrian and Palestinian Orthodox Christians, were martyred for their efforts. Blood of the martyrs and all that.
If the Pope is to have any credibility in any of this, he should salute and support Zakharova, who can be seen here castigating Americans’ silence regarding this ongoing holocaust. Pope Peter’s three denials and the cock crowing cock a doodle doo, Your Holiness?
After the cock crows, Pope Francis might like to sit down on equal terms with senior Orthodox clerics like Patriarch Kirill and put this filoque nonsense to bed once and for all so that NATO will not destroy European Christianity the way they and their Anglican side kicks destroyed the Chaldean and Assyrian Churches of Iraq. As Latin and allied Churches do not include the filoque when using Greek, this greatest of all theological fences should be done away with.
But then, as many of the Holy Father’s Slavic brothers in Christ could attest, all of that has more to do with the supposed primacy of Rome over Byzantium, a fallacy embedded in sectarian bigot Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire where he downplays Rome’s eastern provinces, where its true power, wealth land prestige always lay.
The West, with its decadence, its Democrats and Republicans, still lives in Rome’s savage shadow, where we are always at war with Eastasia and, thus, with ourselves. We have a situation where young Ukrainian Frankensteins, who are too cowardly to take on the Wagner Group, get their rocks off, Holy Cross style, by intimidating elderly Christians, priests and bishops, all while thinking they are tough and superior because these cretins imagine their apish grunts resemble the war cries the Vikings made a millennium and more ago.
Like their einsatzgruppen heroes of 80 years ago, these lobotomised apes are too stupid to have a game plan or even to begin to understand the NATO one they are serving. That plan is to make everything between Moscow and the North Sea an economic and cultural wasteland, a place where only opiated apes can feel at home. Though Germany’s economic hara-kiri is evidence enough of that, just recall that one of the West’s biggest concerns over the Ukrainian war is that their supply chain for surrogate babies is being disrupted. God help those poor Ukrainian women, who must rent their wombs to decadent Westerners as their fathers, brothers and husbands are swallowed whole in the meat grinders of the Zelensky Reich’s Eastern Front. And God curse every Westerner and two bit fascist preacher who helped bring this calamity to Ukraine.
I feel like Serenus Zeitblom, the liberal German narrator in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus, who laments the Faustian pact and consequent loss of humanity Germany’s intellectuals made in the years of Hitler’s Reich. Or perhaps the composer Adrian Leverkühn, who is at the centre of this classic work and who becomes increasingly obsessed by the Reich’s blind adherence to Apocalypse and the duality of the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses, where brain dead Banderite Man plays at being both Brahma and Shiva.
But then Socrates, Joseph Heller’s Picture This tells us, was also a great man for the navel gazing, except when it came to war, where he concentrated on killing and not being killed. Zakharova and all of Russia’s spokespeople know that is where they are, that every last one of them has a NATO target pinned to their backs and that so too do all things, including their Syro-Aramaic, Roman and Bulgarian names that can be even remotely associated with Russia.
But none of this is in or of itself Russophobic as these human apes are too dumb to be able to differentiate between what is or what is not Russian. NATO’s objective is to destroy all resistance to its profit making schemes and, as Zakharova alludes, Russianness is a major hurdle in NATO’s way.
Take ballet, where Slavic stars like Kamila Valieva and Olga Korbut first cut their baby teeth. Then check out the webpage for the soloists of the Bolshoi Ballet after first checking out the webpage of the Butler School of Dancing to see what an arduous road it is to make the cut as a dancer. Ignore their French, Syro-Aramaic, Hebrew and Slavic Christian names but wonder for even a millisecond at the sacrifices the Bolshoi soloists and their families have made to reach the global pinnacle of their chosen profession; if you need a comparator, you must go to Japan and think of the masters of ninja, samurai and a thousand other Japanese crafts that take a lifetime and more to master. Sacrifices like theirs are why music is rightly called the brandy of the damned; to paraphrase the Bible, which Kiev’s apes are probably busily burning along with the churches that house them, though the Bolshoi’s maestros have chosen the narrow path, millions of aspirants in both the civilised world and Europe would metaphorically give their right arms to see them perform and learn, if not at their feet, by watching their feet.
Now meet Sophie Rebecca, who is 6’3” (191 cm), a transgender ballet aficionado, who was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance, one of the world’s top ballet schools, back in 2017. Here is Sophia Rebecca going through his, er, paces. Here is a ten year old going through her paces. Here is Sophia Rebecca’s, er, paces juxtaposed with that of a genetic woman.
Sophia Rebecca admits he is not trying to emulate Baryshnikov, Fonteyn, Nureyev or Tallchief. However, he is part of the same game as Mulvaney, of entrepreneurial men Blackfacing the role of women and, in the process, making a mockery of all that is good and holy.
God help anyone who has to do the Bluebird pas de deux with him as a slipped disk will be the least of their problems. But then individual members of the Bolshoi are not the primary targets here, just as they are not the primary targets in NATO’s Russenfrei campaign. Slavic culture, European culture, of which the Bolshoi and Russianness are integral and inseparable parts, is the real target and stock market diversity rules, as well as sponsorship deals for Sophia Rebecca and that Mulvaney oaf are, along with Kiev’s Adolf Eichmanns, the hammers to smash it beyond salvation. As the Bolshoi and the Butler School both equate to exacting standards, to blood, sweat and countless tears, there is no big, quick money in that for Nike and NATO’s other jackals. Best to remove all standards and turn us all into unthinking, unknowing, uncaring zombies, slobs who believe the Bolshoi dancers should gorge on fast food, knock back Mulvaney’s Bud Lite by the gallon, wear Mulvaney’s Nike and turn their theatre into Kensington Avenue by the Moskva. You don’t have to be Maria Zakharova to tell NATO where to go with that scenario.
And nor do you have to be Clausewitz to see that Zelensky’s threats to “liberate” Crimea is the talk of a coked up madman, who is going to sacrifice tens of thousands more Ukrainians storming one of the world’s most heavily fortified regions. But, even though Zelensky was elected on a platform of making peace with Russia, it seems he and his inner circle cannot talk for five minutes without mimicking the Nazis and their Judenfrei policies. If you ever wondered what living in the Third Reich entailed, that is today’s reality for millions of Zelensky’s cowed citizens.
Although Vadym Prystaiko, the rump Reich’s Ambassador to the Court of St James, has stressed the need to “fight to the last Ukrainian”, he has made sure that he and his sons, one of whom lives the good life in England and the other of whom is in the lap of luxury in Belgium, don’t have to risk a thing. As with Dick Cheney and other well-connected American parasites, dying is for others.
Here is celebrity Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon explaining why his three sons are also not in the firing line. No Pat Tilman in their ranks, it seems. But then, why should they die for what is only a money making exercise for Zelensky’s Ukrainian and NATO backers? Dying is, after all, for those they can conscript into being lemmings and those brave Ukrainian Orthodox Christians, whose only hope of deliverance lies in Gerasimov’s legions.
Erudite though Zakharova undoubtedly is, given that Ukraine murders her own negotiators, one wonders if NATO is capable of listening and if that is why she and Lavrov, together with Russia Today, are conveniently brushed aside as Russian mis-information or some such rot. Here, for example, is Zakharova calling out NATO for their criminal silence over their Russenfrei pogroms in Ukraine. Yeah, yeah, Russian mis-information, Zakharova and all that. Which is why they had to ban Russia Today and give us their own state-controlled media instead.
Though Lent is over for another year, you can self-flagellate by watching the BBC or any other NATO media outlet, whose reportage consists of uncontested statements from Zelensky and Ukraine’s other coke heads. The Kiev arrest of Victoria Kokhanovskaya, the leader of the supporters of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery by the SBU (Ukraine’s version of the Gestapo) is of no interest to them, despite Kokhanovskaya hailing from the west of Ukraine and that she speaks exclusively in Ukrainian. One wonders what Pope Francis’ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has to say about that or if the Holy Spirit has them tongue-tied, rather than talking in tongues, Ukrainian and Russian included. We might never know as, outside of Zakharova and Karganovic, few will comment on these crimes, which implicate us all.
Living, as I do, on NATO’s sufferance, I should really get with the programme and blame Putin, that Russian with the Bulgarian name, for all of this. Why, as Masha Gessen, writing in The New Yorker, tells us, Putin locks up journalists who get caught spying in Russia, folk like CIA spook and Wall Street Journal hack Evan Gershkovich, who was caught with a smoking gun in the form of confidential documents, in a military zone that was strictly off limits to civilians, CIA spooks moonlighting as saboteurs included. But, as Gessen is a transexual with a range of very serious medical problems and as he was for long “Russia’s leading LGBT rights activist”, as well as a long-standing ardent critic of Putin, to whom he seems to have an almost pathological hatred, neither he nor the New Yorker are reputable sources for any light into any or all things Russian.
And neither is MI5’s state funded BBC, which is in hock to the tune of millions of pounds a year to The Foreign Office and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and whose BBC World Service is exempt from Ofcom oversight and regulation. The BBC can, in other words, safely parrot whatever MI5 commands them to prattle about Ukraine and Russia, all without suffering any consequences for lying through their teeth.
Although Zakharova is likewise free to say whatever she likes about NATO making Europe Russenfrei, there is one huge, crucial difference between Zakharova and Ukraine’s Christians on the one hand and NATO outlets like the New Yorker, the BBC, the Guardian and the rest of them on the other, and it is this. NATO control the common discourse not only in NATOstan itself but also in countries like South Africa where shady NGOs like the Oppenheimer’s Brenthurst Foundation preach the benefits of being a NATO toady and not falling prey to the wiles of Russian-inspired populism, the modern equivalent of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Before Zakharova starts wasting her time on arguing with a klutz like Oppenheimer, she might like to recall that NATO’s umbrella shelters a lot of coke heads, apologists and outright morons and that one cannot argue with every child in every one of the world’s kindergartens. As Elon Musk’s take down of this BBC cretin shows, there just ain’t enough time to bother with Oppenheimer’s hirelings.
There is a saying in Gaelic games that one should take the points and the goals will come, that, if one keeps taking minor scores, the chances for bigger scores will arrive of their own volition. In the case of Ukraine, that means this unconscionable war will end in one of two ways. Either civilisation and the cold steel of the Russian Armed Forces, augmented by spokespersons like Zakharova, will prevail, in which case Ukraine’s talking apes, like Emperor Hirohito before them, will have to embrace defeat or, as in Downfall, Der Untergang, the great 2004 German film, the rump Reich will collapse and the Azovs, who are not in Belgium or England, will implode along with it.
And yes, those two scenarios amount to the same dismal end for the rump Reich because it has the same fatal flaw Hitler’s original prototype possessed. That is, that their entire way of life is totally incompatible with any concept of Slavic, European or Asian civilisation. They don’t have to take my word for it. They can show the Bolshoi’s soloists a video of Sophia Rebecca in action. They can put their case to these 10,000 Japanese singing Beethoven’s Freude schöner Götterfunken. Or how about the Great Chinese State Circus performing Swan Lake? Or, if that is not to the liking of these muck savages, here is Swan Lake by the Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe and, for good measure, by the National Ballet of China, which can be compared and contrasted with that of the National Ballet of Japan, who also do justice to Russia’s The Nutcracker.
So, go head, you Church burning bishop bashers. Raze all that is good in Ukraine to the ground, curse Pushkin, Putin and the Bolshoi Ballet to your heart’s content. But know, that far beyond the Urals in the Land of the Rising Sun and continental China contiguous to it, and much further still beyond the limits of your stilted minds, in the hearts and souls of billions of souls across the world’s great land masses, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and all they inspire shine more brightly than a thousand suns and, no matter what damage you contemptible knuckle draggers do, you and your nihilistic church-burning will never be a part of that. But don’t take my word for it as General Gerasimov’s troops will soon explain it in short, shrill syllables even you dipsticks will understand.
Freddie Scappaticci, the former deputy chief of the IRA’s spy catcher unit, was under MI5 protection when he died and so far the British spy organisation has failed to explain what was the cause of his death, which was revealed last week by the police team headed by former Bedfordshire Chief Constable, Jon Boutcher, whose detectives are, inter alia, investigating his activities and the role played by British state agencies during the Troubles.
It is understood that the Boutcher team was not told of his death until a week afterwards, by which time Scappaticci’s funeral had been held. No explanation of Scappaticci’s death has so far been given by MI5, or his former employers in the British Army.
Scappaticci was an agent of the British Army’s intelligence outfit during the Troubles, a group known as the Force Research Unit (FRU) which ran spies in both Loyalist and Republican paramilitary groups. Regarded as the most damaging spy to betray the modern IRA he was the number two in the IRA’s spycatching outfit, the Internal Security Unit (ISU), whose access to personnel and departments in the IRA was absolute and, with one exception, beyond challenge.
Ironically, Scappaticci and his boss in the ISU, a former British soldier, lost their jobs, and the British lost their most valuable IRA spy ever when, in a classic case of overreach, they asked the Chief of Staff for permission to investigate the Army Council. The Chief of Staff was outraged, sacked Scap and his boss and appointed a new leadership. The top IRA spycatcher who took over was a graduate of one of Oxford University’s more prestigious colleges but the British lost a priceless spy at the heart of the IRA.
Scap was being held under MI5 protection ostensibly because the military does not have facilities to hold someone of Scappaticci’s status and ill health, the latter being a matter of some mystery. As in life, Scappaticci’s death is likely to be a matter of great controversy. But one thing is sure: the families of his many victims are not now going to have their day in court.
Read on. The whole essence of the abomination of the Anglo-Saxons is shown.
und dass wahre Gerechtigkeit nur von Philosophenkönigen geschaffen werden könne, die mit Weisheit und Tugend regierten. In seinem Buch „The Republic“ argumentierte er, dass der Schlüssel zur Schaffung einer friedlichen Gesellschaft darin bestehe, sicherzustellen, dass jeder Einzelne seine angemessene Rolle in der Gesellschaft erfüllt und fair und gerecht behandelt wird. Er glaubte auch, dass Bildung und das Streben nach Wissen wesentlich für die Schaffung einer friedlichen und harmonischen Gesellschaft seien. Letztendlich glaubte Platon, dass die Schaffung von Frieden nicht nur externe Maßnahmen wie Diplomatie und Konfliktlösung erforderte, sondern auch eine interne Transformation des Einzelnen und der Gesellschaft als Ganzes.
Lebe, als wie wenn du morgen sterben müßtest. Lerne, als wie wenn du ewig lebtest.
Mahatma Gandhi, ein indischer Unabhängigkeitsaktivist und spiritueller Führer, glaubte, dass Frieden nur durch Gewaltlosigkeit, gegenseitigen Respekt und Verständnis zwischen Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft und Religion erreicht werden kann. Gandhi glaubte an die Kraft friedlicher Kommunikation und Verhandlungen, um Konflikte zu lösen, anstatt auf Gewalt oder Aggression zurückgreifen. Er betonte die Bedeutung der Förderung sozialer Harmonie durch Mitgefühl, Empathie und Respekt für Vielfalt. Um den Frieden in einem Land zu gewährleisten, schlug Gandhi vor:
1. Förderung der Einheit und des Verständnisses zwischen Menschen unterschiedlicher Religionen und Ethnien. 2. Förderung des Dialogs und der Diskussion zwischen Konfliktparteien, um eine gemeinsame Basis zu finden und friedlich Einigungen zu erzielen. 3. Aufrechterhaltung eines starken Engagements für Gewaltlosigkeit und friedliche Lösung von Konflikten. 4. Bereitstellung von Bildung und Training in Konfliktlösung, Empathie und emotionaler Intelligenz. 5. Förderung wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung und sozialer Gerechtigkeit, um Ungleichheit zu verringern und die Lebensbedingungen aller Menschen zu verbessern. Gandhis Philosophie des friedlichen Widerstands und gewaltfreien Handelns inspirierte viele Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt …
Jesus Christus sprach in seinen Lehren zahlreiche Male über Frieden auf Erden. Im Johannes-Evangelium 14,27 sagte er: „Frieden hinterlasse ich euch; meinen Frieden gebe ich euch. Ich gebe euch nicht, wie die Welt gibt. Im Matthäus-Evangelium 5,9 sagte er auch:
Außerdem verkündeten die Engel im Evangelium von Lukas 2,14 bei Jesu Geburt: „Ehre sei Gott in den höchsten Himmeln und Friede auf Erden denen, auf denen seine Gunst ruht.“ Jesus kam, um der Welt durch seine Lehren der Liebe, des Mitgefühls, der Vergebung und der Versöhnung mit Gott Frieden zu bringen.
A United Nations-backed report published last month suggests global leaders normalize pedophilia by allowing children to legally decide on engaging in sexual activities with adults.
Wrapped inside a human-rights-based analysis on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health rights, consensual sexual activity, and gender ideology the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report — which calls for offenses related to “sex, drug use, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, homelessness and poverty” to be decriminalized.
“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,” the Geneva-based ICJ wrote.
Authors of the report further advise lawyers, judges, and law enforcement to consider “the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.”
“Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.”
The report took over five years to develop and based its findings on feedback and reviews from jurists, academics, legal practitioners, human rights defenders, and various civil society organizations. Such results primarily focused on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health and rights, consensual sexual activity, gender identity, gender expression, HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission, drug use, and the possession of drugs for personal use, according to the report.
According to the UNAIDS, 20 countries criminalize or otherwise prosecute transgender people, 67 countries still criminalize same-sex sexual activity (with 10 imposing the death penalty for it), 115 countries criminalize drug use, more than 130 criminalize HIV exposure, non-disclosure, and transmission, and over 150 countries criminalize some aspects of prostitution.
“Criminal law is among the harshest of tools at the disposal of the State to exert control over individuals … as such, it ought to be a measure of last resort however, globally, there has been a growing trend towards overcriminalization,” Ian Seiderman, Law and Policy Director at ICJ, said in a news release. “We must acknowledge that these laws not only violate human rights, but the fundamental principles of criminal law themselves.”
Retired Judge Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa argues criminal law deems some groups protected and others condemned and ostracized.
“In this way, the criminal law performs an expressive function — and it has dramatic consequences on people’s lives,” Edwin wrote. “It sometimes entails a harshly discriminatory impact on groups identified with the disapproved or stigmatized conduct.”
The report also argues killing unborn children in elective abortions is a human right, calling for decriminalizing the procedure and removing punishment for pregnant mothers who consume drugs or alcohol during pregnancy.
“Abortion must be taken entirely out of the purview of the criminal law, including for having, aiding, assisting with or providing an abortion …” the report states.
Officials published the report on March 8 in recognition of International Women’s Day, alleging a connection between women’s rights and the age of sexual consent.
Women’s rights activist Michelle Uriarau of Melbourne, Australia, tweeted that publishing the report on International Women’s Day succeeded in “gaslighting women everywhere.”
“This hideous UN report … seeks to decriminalize sex — even between children and minors. Evil,” Uriarau said.
Un fait historique dont les Français devraient mieux se souvenir : la Police nationale, celle que dirige aujourd’hui un certain Gérard Darmanin, une grenouille de bénitier qui à l’occasion, se fait faire des fellations par des administrées, contre récompense, a été fondée par Vichy le 14 août 1941. Ici le 21 janvier 1942, les policiers français prêtèrent allégeance à Paris au chef de l’État fasciste, Philippe Pétain (Roger-Viollet)
J’en ai lu l’évocation sommaire en cette journée du 18 avril, ai d’abord eu du mal à y croire, jusqu’à lire ce soir un article plus détaillé de Libération.
Dans la théorie de l’État de droit, où le Droit prévaut sur le pouvoir politique, nul ne peut être arrêté sans avoir commis d’infraction à la loi et la légalité de l’enquête est garantie par une procédure, dont le récit détaillé est transmis à une autorité judiciaire, dans la perspective d’un éventuel jugement ou classement. Différents moyens légaux existent pour porter une enquête judiciaire à l’étranger. Un mandat international peut être délivré pour faire arrêter un sujet qui sera ensuite extradé. Un juge français peut aussi délivrer une commission rogatoire internationale (CRI) pour enquêter à l’étranger, où les investigations seront conduites par des enquêteurs locaux, dans le respect de leur propre Droit, en la présence de Français. Rien de tel ne s’est passé à Londres le soir du 17 avril. Voici des extraits de l’article
[…] La Foire du livre de Londres représente un des plus grands rendez-vous de l’édition en Europe. Comme beaucoup de ses collègues, Ernest Moret, 29 ans, qui représente les droits étrangers pour les deux maisons indépendantes la Fabrique et la Volte (éditeur d’Alain Damasio), avait prévu d’être présent à cette manifestation qui se tient jusqu’à 20 avril au palais des expositions d’Olympia, dans la capitale britannique […] Mais à son arrivée à la gare de Saint-Pancras dans la capitale britannique, lundi 17 avril au soir par l’Eurostar, aux côtés de Stella Magliani-Belkacem, la directrice éditoriale de la maison La Fabrique, il a été interpellé par des policiers. Il «est maintenant détenu sans avocat pour être interrogé en vertu du Schedule 7 du Terrorism Act 2000 – sous prétexte de vérifier qu’il n’est pas sur le point de commettre des actes terroristes ou en possession de matériel destiné à une entreprise terroriste», a indiqué mardi sa maison d’édition. […] Mardi vers 18h30 locales (19h30 à Paris), son avocate française Maître Marie Dosé a indiqué qu’il avait été relâché, sans poursuites à ce stade mais dans l’attente d’investigations supplémentaires. «Il sort et n’est pas poursuivi pour l’instant. Les investigations continuent, ils gardent son ordinateur et son téléphone pour l’exploiter. Le confrère britannique pense que s’ils arrivent à en exploiter les contenus, ils seront transmis aux autorités françaises», a-t-elle indiqué à Libération […] Selon la maison d’édition, les policiers britanniques auraient justifié son interpellation par le fait qu’il aurait participé à des manifestations en France. «Une telle déclaration de la part d’un policier britannique est tout à fait insensée et semble clairement indiquer une complicité avec les autorités françaises sur ce dossier», poursuit le communiqué. L’arrestation n’a pas de motif clair, mais un des policiers aurait mentionné «le fait qu’Ernest aurait participé à des manifestations» en France, contre la réforme des retraites, a expliqué Sebastian Budgen, éditeur chez Verso Books, chez qui Ernest Moret et Stella Magliani-Belkacem devaient séjourner […]La police a saisi le téléphone et l’ordinateur portable d’Ernest Moret qui a refusé de leur communiquer ses codes d’accès […] Pendant son audition, les policiers britanniques ont posé à Ernest Moret des questions comme «Soutenez-vous le président Macron ? Avez-vous participé aux récentes manifestations ? Quels livres vont être publiés par la fabrique ?… Bref. C’est scandaleux», s’est indigné Maître Marie Dosé […]
Ma compréhension du mécanisme à ce stade : les enquêteurs britanniques ne trouveront rien à reprocher de terroriste à Ernest Moret, mais si le processus actuel n’est pas interrompu, ses données personnelles risquent d’être transmises à leurs homologues français, qui n’auraient pu les obtenir autrement. Elle n’est pas belle, la vie ? Je résume : en Droit français, aucun motif légal ne permettait l’arrestation, la fouille ou la saisie de données personnelles d’Ernest Moret. Aucun mandat international, ni commission rogatoire, qui devraient viser une infraction de Droit français et être délivrés par un magistrat français. Particularité du système britannique, elle est bien pratique : le juge d’instruction n’existe pas. En cas d’infraction suffisamment caractérisée, les policiers vous livrent directement au tribunal. Ce qui ne sera pas le cas ici, mais pas non plus de contrôle de la procédure par une autorité judiciaire. En revanche, si le Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), qui ne tire pas dans la même catégorie que la très servile IGPN (Inspection générale de la Police nationale), s’en mêle, cela peut faire très mal. Une autre culture, celle de la responsabilité.
Pour faire simple, la police antiterroriste britannique a d’autres chats à fouetter qu’Ernest Moret, dont elle ignorait complètement l’existence avant que quelqu’un ne lui en parle. Le sujet ne semblait pas menacer la Grande-Bretagne et les enquêteurs ne l’ont interrogé que sur des questions politiques françaises. Ils n’ont pas agi au pifomètre, qui devrait alors être révisé, mais certainement à la demande de leurs homologues français. Lesquels ? Des contacts directs à l’étranger, dans une affaire présumée de terrorisme, désignent la DGSI, directement subordonnée au ministre de l’intérieur. Mais qu’a t il pu leur passer par la tête ? Hallucinant.
Le sang des démocrates britanniques n’a fait qu’un tour et le Guardian prend moins de pincettes que Libération quand il relate aussi l’affaire, c’est culturel
French publisher arrested in London on terrorism charge [Un éditeur français arrêté à Londre pour terrorisme] Ernest Moret was stopped at rail station and taken into custody, where he was questioned about his participation in French protests [Ernest Moret a été intercepté à la gare et placé en gardé à vue, où il a été interrogé au sujet de sa participation aux manifestations françaises] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer [Il a été interrogé pendant six heures et ensuite arrêté pour avoir refusé de révéler les mots de passe de ses téléphone et ordinateur] Magliani-Belkacem told the Guardian: “When we were on the platform, two people, a woman and a guy, told us they were counter-terrorist police. They showed a paper called section 7 of the Terrorism Act of 2000 and said they had the right to ask him about demonstrations in France” [Magliani-Belkacem a raconté au Guardian: “Quand nous étions sur le quai, deux personnes, une femme et un homme, nous ont dit qu’ils étaient de la police antiterroriste. Ils nous ont montré un papier intitulé section 7 du Terrorism Act 2000 et dit qu’ils avaient le droit de le questionner sur les manifestations en France«] Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors [Les éditions de la Fabrique sont connues pour publier des auteurs d’extrême-gauche] Pamela Morton, senior books and magazines organiser for the National Union of Journalists, also expressed concern. She said it seemed “extraordinary that the British police have acted this way” in arresting a publisher on the way to the London book fair. “We will be taking this up with the police,” she added [Pamela Morton, du Syndicat national des journalistes, a aussi exprimé ses inquiétudes. Il lui a semblé “extraordinaire que la police britannique agisse de cette façon” en arrêtant un éditeur sur son chemin vers la Foire du livre de Londres. “Nous allons en parler avec la police” a t elle ajouté]
Left-wing French publisher arrested by Scotland Yard ‘over anti-Macron protests’ [Un éditeur français de gauche arrêté par Scotland Yard “en raison des manifestations contre Macron”]
J’ai le sentiment agréable que les Britanniques sont bien partis pour tirer l’affaire au clair, quant à ce qui leur parait être un usage abusif de leur loi antiterroriste. Je regretterais infiniment que Gérald Darmanin s’en tire à bon compte.
So sollte eine zivilisierte Gesellschaft nicht aussehen. Wir sollten keine riesigen Massen von sehr wütenden jungen Menschen haben, die im ganzen Land randalieren, plündern und allgemein verrückt werden. Aber das ist es, was unsere Nation geworden ist.
Unsere Großstädte sind zu Kloaken der Gesetzlosigkeit geworden, in denen Gewalt buchstäblich jeden Moment ausbrechen kann. Aber wenn die Amerikaner jetzt so bereit sind, zu randalieren und zu plündern, was wird dann passieren, wenn wir uns inmitten einer schweren wirtschaftlichen Rezession befinden? Natürlich werden wirtschaftlich schwierige Zeiten die Stimmung hierzulande definitiv nicht verbessern.
In Kansas City, Missouri, brachen Proteste aus, nachdem ein weißer Hausbesitzer Ende letzter Woche einem schwarzen Teenager in Kopf und Arm geschossen hatte, nachdem er versehentlich an der falschen Tür geklingelt hatte.
Der 16-jährige Ralph Jarl wurde mit lebensgefährlichen Verletzungen ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert. Laut Polizei wurde er erschossen, nachdem er am Donnerstag nach 22 Uhr gekommen war, um seine beiden jüngeren Brüder abzuholen. Laut Polizei verwechselte Jarl die 115. Terrasse mit der 115. Straße, wo er erschossen wurde.
Jedes Mal, wenn ein junger Mensch einen so tragischen Tod stirbt, sollten wir alle trauern. Leider wird ein solcher Vorfall von vielen Menschen als Vorwand für Ausschreitungen, Plünderungen und Brandstiftungen benutzt.
Die Stellvertreter des Sheriffs in Compton kehren am Montag nach einem chaotischen Wochenende, an dem eine Reihe von Straßenübernahmen und eine Menge Plünderer eine Spur der Zerstörung in den örtlichen Geschäften hinterließen, zur Patrouille zurück.
Das Video fängt eine wilde Szene ein, in der eine große Gruppe von Menschen am frühen Sonntagmorgen in eine Arco-Tankstelle in der Nähe des Alondra Boulevard und der Central Avenue einbrach und Waren im Wert von Tausenden von Dollar stahl, während sich ein Bediensteter darin versteckte.
Das Video zeigt einen Mann, der eine Glastür einschlägt, während sich Dutzende von Plünderern hinter ihm drängen. Einen Moment später sah man, wie die Gruppe alles schnappte: Getränke, Snacks, Alkohol und sogar Kondome.
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Die Mainstream-Medien geben tatsächlich zu, dass Kriminelle jetzt ganze Straßen in Los Angeles übernehmen.
Und die Polizei gibt zu, dass sie nichts gegen die Plünderungen tun konnte, weil es sehr wenige von ihnen [der Polizei] gab.
Hunderten von jungen Leuten dabei zuzusehen, wie sie gemeinsam eine Tankstelle ausrauben, sollte uns allen Gänsehaut bescheren.
Beim Spiel am Samstag kämpften die Chicago White Sox unter Beteiligung mehrerer Zuschauer mehr als zwei Minuten lang.
Fäuste flogen überall hin, bevor die Frau von hinten durch eine Sitzreihe an der Seite der ersten Basis gezogen wurde.
Ein einsamer Wärter versuchte, alle zu versöhnen, während ein paar Frauen sich gegenseitig schlugen.
Wenn wir ein solches Chaos sehen, während die wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen noch zumindest relativ stabil sind, was werden die Ereignisse sein, wenn Millionen von Amerikanern in echte Verzweiflung geraten?
Der frühere CEO von Home Depot, Bob Nardelli, hat eine eindringliche Warnung vor einer „sehr schwierigen“ US-Wirtschaft herausgegeben und die Verbraucher gewarnt, dass mittelständische Unternehmen unter „enormem Druck“ stehen.
„Ich denke, wir werden viele Insolvenzen sehen. Zum Beispiel Bett, Bad und darüber hinaus. Walmart entlässt nicht nur Mitarbeiter, sondern schließt auch Geschäfte. Accenture feuert Leute. Amazon schließt Vertriebszentren. Ich denke also, es ist ein sehr gemischtes Signal», sagte Nardelli während eines Auftritts bei Cavuto: Coast to Coast.
Der ehemalige CEO fuhr fort, indem er sagte, dass die „Komplexität“ der amerikanischen Wirtschaft „anders ist als alles, was ich in meinen 52 Jahren gesehen habe“.
Leider hat er vollkommen recht.
Viele Unternehmen werden in den kommenden Monaten bankrott gehen.
Tatsächlich haben wir gerade erfahren, dass David’s Bridal Insolvenz angemeldet hat…
David’s Bridal beantragte Tage nach der Ankündigung des Unternehmens, mehr als 9.200 Mitarbeiter im ganzen Land zu entlassen, Insolvenzschutz.
Der Brauteinzelhändler sagte in einer Pressemitteilung am Montag, dass seine Geschäfte geöffnet bleiben und Bestellungen unverzüglich ausführen werden, während das Unternehmen versucht, einige oder alle seiner Vermögenswerte zu verkaufen. Die Online-Plattformen bleiben ebenfalls verfügbar, um Kunden bei der Hochzeitsplanung zu unterstützen.
Viele junge Menschen, die unter finanziellem Stress leiden, gehen damit um, indem sie das Problem ignorieren.
Einige halten ihre Bankkonten und Kreditkarten nicht im Gleichgewicht, verlieren die Kontrolle über ihre Ausgaben und häufen Schulden an. Laut Credit Karma stieg die durchschnittliche Kreditkartenverschuldung im März gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 29 % auf 5.800 $ für Millennials und um 40 % auf 2.800 $ für Gen Zers. Laut der NerdWallet-Umfrage zahlten junge Menschen auch eher Mahngebühren oder zogen Vorschüsse von ihren Kreditkarten ab.
Leider beginnen die amerikanischen Banken, sehr vorsichtig mit ihrem Geld umzugehen, was bedeutet, dass die Kreditlinien schrumpfen und weniger Kreditkarten ausgegeben werden.
Viele Menschen werden bald feststellen, dass ihre Kreditlinien erschöpft sind und sie keine weiteren Kredite erhalten können.
Die US-Geldmenge ist den dritten Monat in Folge geschrumpft und schrumpft mit der schnellsten Rate seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise, wie neue Daten der Federal Reserve zeigen.
Und das amerikanische Volk ist definitiv weder psychologisch noch emotional auf harte Zeiten vorbereitet.
Daher können wir nur hoffen, dass unsere Führer einen Weg finden, die Wirtschaft künstlich zu stützen, denn wenn sie dies nicht tun können, werden weitere Unruhen, Plünderungen und Chaos bevorstehen.
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Der Friedensstifter 