So, what is real peace for the people in Europe and North America? The answer is simple: It is a state of things in which as few Western people as possible are killed or injured. A state of things in which the flow of resources from the poor, plundered and colonized countries is pouring, uninterrupted, predominantly to Europe and North America.
The price for such peace? How many African, Latin American or Asian people die as a result of such arrangement of the world, is thoroughly irrelevant.
Peace is when the business interests of the West are not endangered, even if tens of millions of non-white human beings would vanish in the process.
Státní zástupce je mladej týpek. První věty odhuhlá, asi mu došlo, co se kolem odehrává a že je tenhle vykonstruovanej případ větší než on. Během čtení naprostejch hovadin jako že “Petr sova a spol. dělali věci pod hlavičkou revolučních buněk, což je celosvětová teroristická organizace…” získá, poprvý od základní školy, sebevědomí. A tak sousloví “polystyren a stolní olej” vyslovuje jako “vybombardování Prahy”. Když vyřkne celou definici Sítě revolučních buněk, smějeme se. Narozdíl od mladíka v taláru si uvědomujeme, jakej je to blábol.
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S lidma u soudu je to jako s fízlama. Ráno si daj chleba se šunkou a odpoledne pod mantrou zákona a spravedlnosti rozhodujou o našich životech. Večer si pročtou zpravodajský weby a pochválí se, jak dobře to dneska zvládli. Co je to za charakter, když chce někdo rozhodovat o životě jinejch lidí. Je jedno pod jakým zaklínadlem. Mít moc. Mít moc říkat “terorismus”. Mít moc vymyslet si případ a dotáhnout ho do konce.
What Putin’s Russia teaches us is that the mere fact that elections take place and formally elected governments are in power does not mean that the electorate’s voice is heard. Could it be that competitive elections in the west – shaped by the manipulative power of money, disfigured by growing political polarisation and emptied of meaning by a lack of genuine political alternatives – resemble Kremlin-engineered elections more than we like to think? Could it be that the global spread of democracy signals not the liberation of the masses but the liberation of elites from the electorate?
One of the most bizarre aspects of Russiagate is the magical transformation of intelligence agency heads into paragons of truth-telling – a trick performed not by reactionary apologists for domestic spying, as one would expect, but by people who consider themselves liberals. There is something genuinely absurd about a former director of the FBI – which along with the CIA and NSA has long been one of the gravest threats to democracy in America – solemnly warning of the threat to democracy posed by Russian meddling in the election.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
If Afghanistan is to have any hope for peace and stabilization, now is the time to expand international peacekeepers to key cities and transport routes outside of Kabul. ISAF can accomplish this task, but to do so it requires the mandate and resources. In August 2003, NATO will assume control of ISAF. An expanded ISAF presence requires time for force generation and deployment. The order must be given now for NATO to have impact in August.
We call on the international community to expand the ISAF mandate and provide the resources needed to secure Afghanistan so that democracy can flourish. Doing so will improve the prospect for peace and stability for the Afghan people and the world.
We are pleased to inform you that your application for admission has been accepted. It turns out that you happen to have the traits that society needs at the moment, so we propose to exploit your assets for society’s advantage by admitting you to the study of law.
You are to be congratulated, not in the sense that you deserve credit for having the qualities that led to your admission—you do not—but only in the sense that the winner of a lottery is to be congratulated. You are lucky to have come along with the right traits at the right moment. If you choose to accept our offer, you will ultimately be entitled to the benefits that attach to being used in this way. For this, you may properly celebrate.
You, or more likely your parents, may be tempted to celebrate in the further sense that you take this admission to reflect favorably, if not on your native endowments, then at least on the conscientious effort you have made to cultivate your abilities.
But the notion that you deserve even the superior character necessary to your effort is equally problematic, for your character depends on fortunate circumstances of various kinds for which you can claim no credit. The notion of desert does not apply here.
We look forward nonetheless to seeing you in the fall.
With the complete range of cybernetic discoveries to hand, it is always possible to analyze a situation from the point of view of its regulatory phenomena. According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for a bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intentions, prejudices about expectations, moral judgments, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.
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What the system inaugurated on September 11th has actually done is to provoke retaliation against yet another poor country, Afghanistan, on the principle that might is right. In doing so, the United States may well seem to have abandoned the principles of justice that it has proclaimed. The outcome, which was predictable, is that the opponents of the United States are in the position to proclaim a jihad, a holy war. It is safest to assume that this was the objective from the beginning. The purpose of the system is what it does.
It is time that the imposition of economic sanctions should be seen as a war crime, since it involves the collective punishment of millions of innocent civilians who die, sicken or are reduced to living off scraps from the garbage dumps.
There is nothing very new in this. Economic sanctions are like a medieval siege but with a modern PR apparatus attached to justify what is being done. A difference is that such sieges used to be directed at starving out a single town or city while now they are aimed at squeezing whole countries into submission.
Před dvěma stoletími si jedna z někdejších evropských kolonií vzala do hlavy, že dožene Evropu. Ve svém úsilí byla natolik úspěšná, že Spojené státy americké se za tu dobu staly monstrem, v němž nabyly všechny evropské nedostatky, choroby a všechna evropská nelidskost naprosto otřesných rozměrů.
Přátelé, copak nemáme nic jiného na práci, než se pokoušet vytvořit třetí Evropu? Západ chtěl být hájemstvím Ducha. A ve jménu tohoto Ducha, rozumí se evropského ducha, pak Evropa obhajovala své zločiny a legitimizovala existenci otroctví, v němž udržovala čtyři pětiny obyvatelstva.
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Tedy, přátelé, neplaťme Evropě hořký tribut tím, že vytvoříme státy, instituce a uspořádáme společnost podle jejího vzoru. Lidstvo od nás očekává cokoliv, jenom ne to, že vytvoříme karikaturu tohoto zvráceného světa.