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Also in Media: Excerpt: “Mikhail Khodorkovsky Lantos Rule of Law Speech”, October 10, 2017

11 Wednesday Oct 2017

Posted by commart in Russia, Political Psychology, 21st Century Feudal, Also in Media

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democracy, speech, mafia state, Putinism, rule of law, political criminality, Lantos, feudal political absolutism, Mikhail Khodorkovsky

It is a great honour for me to give the first Tom Lantos Rule of Law Lecture. I would like to thank Annette Lantos, Katrina Lantos, and their whole large family for all their support over these 10 long years.

Today, the outside world is seeing Russia more and more as an aggressive country with an outmoded economy…

Against the background of the latest scandals about interference in elections, military adventurism in Syria and the Donbass, and the seizure of territories in Crimea, my country is more and more often being mentioned in the same breath as places like Iran and North Korea.

Of course, I don’t agree with this, but I cannot help but notice that we are regularly starting out from the position of an aggressor. Of a country that disrupts the world order, an exporter of tension and corruption. And the fact that we are not the only country like this gives me no comfort whatsoever.

I can’t help but notice that my country’s ambition to be a world leader is not supported by the viability of its economic system and the results it produces.These are becoming ever more dismal as the country has stalled its way into stagnation.

Source: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Lantos Rule of Law Speech

 

No Filters – Netanyahu’s Speech to the United States Congress, March 3, 2015

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Iran, Islamic Small Wars, Israel, Middle East

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feudalism, Iran, Netanyahu, nuclear war, politics, speech

Posted to YouTube (by NYT) March 3, 2015


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Suffice the clip to post as a matter of record and on this site an emblem of the themes often brought up here: “Red Brown Green”; now “The Newest Nobility” (has Obama attached to “Red Brown Green”?  Do the world’s wealthiest live by different rules?  Are the piratical in business and politics free to act as 21st Century feudal lords?  Is the west and much of the aspiring world to be dragged backward into the medieval mode and therefore enslaved by the most “mafia”, the most ruthless and sadistic among autocrats?

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FTAC – Just a Word On Imperial Russia v.2.0

14 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Philology, Political Psychology

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freedom, political, politics, propaganda, speech

The Kremlin has returned to the criminal abuse of language in its effort to renew animus with the west and line its oligarch’s pockets with the proceeds attending conflict and contemplated conquest. Basically, the “Vertical of Power” has resuscitated Russian Imperialism.

Inspiration for the comment: an article on Chinese-Russian energy cooperation, which would seem out of left field given plenty of motivation by way of news out of Ukraine and Syria; however, in the back channel behind the back channel (are back channels recursive?), stands the unexplored thesis that the two great superpower dictatorships, Russia and China, understand one another better than they do their treacherous democratic open society partner on the Security Council.

Of course, the two mobsters are going to cut deals to cut out the nice guy.

This BackChannels blog signal travels to at least 112 nations, which provides me with a unique opportunity to pose a challenging question in development and with interest in improvement in the qualities of living across geopolitical space: choose, oh distant reader, how you wish to live: subjugated to economic and political elites whose judgment is capricious and powers strong enough to bend laws to suit their acquisitive, controlling, and unhealthily narcissistic wills?  Or as constituent participants in governments possessed of greater integrity and capable of open public policy and law formulation subject to public or citizen’s audit?

With now state-controlled media and lots of propaganda money spread through the New Old Now Old and Far Out Left, Putin’s Russia will attempt to exploit language to produce renewed anti-American, anti-“western” (i.e., specifically pro-dictatorship) animus and xenophobia.

For the record here, the author of this blog enjoys zero (zilch, nada) political funding, and the only funding I may really want — not that I don’t need money — would be open online journalism or research grant money.  In the universe of institutions, genuinely independent writers, research analysts, and scholars may be made to suffer — I know of no roof today beneath which to seek shelter — but the charm that comes with that fragility is intellectual freedom, a prize without price considering what media mercenaries have demonstrated do for the most tainted of paychecks.

I’ll go a little further to note than I am not the happiest of Americans in acknowledging the role Big Money plays in lobbying for laws and influencing Federal policy, but if, when, and where I may have specific complaint, I have confidence in my being able to research and write about the matter beholden to none and otherwise unfettered.

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Syria – Obama’s Speech – Words from the Wise

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Islamic Small Wars, Politics, Syria

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“We cannot resolve someone else’s civil war by force.”

“On that terrible night, the world saw the terrible nature of chemical weapons . . . a violation of the rules of war.”

In 1997, the U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention . . . 189 participating governments . . . representing 98 percent of humanity . . . .

“We know the Assad regime was responsible . . . fired rockets into 11 neighborhoods . . . .  Senior figures in the Assad regime reviewed the results of the attacks . . . .”

“When dictators commit atrocities, they depend on the world to look the other way . . . and forget . . . .”

” . . . not only a violation of international law, also a threat to our security.”

“I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria.”

” . . . targeted strikes to deter the use of chemical weapons . . . .”

” . . . over the last two years . . . diplomacy, sanctions . . .  credible threat (to get) Putin to urge Assad to join the international community . . . give up chemical weapons . . . .’

“I have asked the members of Congress to postpone the vote on whether to (strike Syria).”

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That’s less how I heard it and more how I scribbled it (with really bad handwriting).

Nonetheless, Obama made clear that eleven neighborhoods suffered chemical weapons attacks, that senior figures in the Assad regime reviewed the results of those attacks, and that the Administration was considering a limited, targeted strike specifically to deter the regime’s use of chemical weapons in the future.

In response to Putin’s offer, Obama requested the postponement of a Congressional decision on the matter, garnering time for diplomacy and for the UN to present its findings Syria’s chemical weapons use.

Obama noted he had ordered the military to maintain its current posture and ability to respond.

One more partial quotation: ” . . . that’s what makes America exceptional — humility with resolve.”

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With live television and “live streaming” in “webcasting” the second row seat to history becomes the front row seat, and that advance in technology fairly invites one to report a little even knowing someone else already has the complete transcript, complete and completely accurate quotations, but, nonetheless, if you haven’t read it here first, you just about could.

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FULL TRANSCRIPT: President Obama’s Sept. 10 speech on Syria – The Washington Post 9/10/2013/2144ET

Full text of Obama’s speech on Syria | The Times of Israel 9/10/2013/2308ET

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Iran Curtain Descends (Again)

23 Thursday May 2013

Posted by commart in Asia, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Iran, Middle East, Regions

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election, elections, free press, freedom, freedom of speech, Iran, speech

“By blocking websites and bringing Internet access to a crawl, Iranian authorities are saying their own citizens don’t deserve information about the election,” said Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa Coordinator. “What kind of an election is it when journalists are tossed into prison and voters are denied access to the news?”

Committee to Protect Journalists.  “In Iran, news coverage stifled amid election controversy.” May 21, 2013.

If it is as predictable as rain, is it news?

On Tuesday, that system tightened the screen once more, disqualifying the only two prominent candidates who dared to differ with the Supreme Leader. When Iranians go to the polls on June 14 to choose a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the ballot will run from Khamenei’s former policy director to the man who married his daughter.

http://world.time.com/2013/05/22/irans-supreme-leader-tightens-grip-after-disqualifying-two-presidential-candidates/#ixzz2U94RSXSK

At least the news gets out, so perhaps the regime will prove an open “despotocracy” however narrowed its existing and potential politics.

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President Obama Addresses Terrorism at National Defense University

23 Thursday May 2013

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Islamic Small Wars, Philology, Politics

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2013, Islam, May, Obama, speech, terrorism, War College

Nevertheless, this ideology persists, and in an age in which ideas and images can travel the globe in an instant, our response to terrorism cannot depend on military or law enforcement alone. We need all elements of national power to win a battle of wills and ideas. So let me discuss the components of such a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy.

First, we must finish the work of defeating al Qaeda and its associated forces.

The Huffington Post. “Obama Drone Speech Delivered at National Defense University (FULL TRANSCRIPT).” May 23, 2013.

By narrowing his war to Al Qaeda and related affiliates, Obama may claim some victories.

By seeking to integrate the Muslim Brotherhood into domestic and international governance, in essence enlarging its operating environment, he may also claim progress: the day of the dictator’s free ride, including when the dictator is ours, may be over — as a rule, the peacocks are strutting through more complex, sophisticated, and varied social environments than ever before, and whether scrutinized by such as the Committee to Protect Journalists or merely surprised by FEMEN, those who a decade ago would have capitalized on watching others are, lo and behold, finding themselves watched by an entire world.

Obama goes on to note, “Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless ‘global war on terror’ – but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America.”

Unfortunately, the attractive quality promoted in warring on the west is of a boundless quality summoned by such as Quran 9:29:

“Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.”

Nonetheless, the fronts are boundless too, from the landing zones of distant mountains to proliferation of Facebook and other forums in Intellectual Battlespace, and, frankly, the more conflict is worked around language, the more quickly language may be evolved away from the many curses of the medieval mind and its straying from humanity.

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Hillel the Elder

"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

Abraham Isaac Kook

"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.

Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).

Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."

Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.

Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Malala Yousafzai
“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

Tanit Nima Tinat
"Who could die of love?"

What I Have Said About the Jews

My people, not that I speak for them, I nonetheless describe as a "global ethnic commune with its heart in Jerusalem and soul in the Land of Israel."

We have never given up on God, nor have we ever given up on one another.

Many things we have given up, but no one misses, say, animal sacrifice, and as many things we have kept, so we have still to welcome our Sabbath on Friday at sunset and to rest all of Saturday until three stars appear in the sky.

Most of all, through 5,773 years, wherever life has taken us, through the greatest triumphs and the most awful tragedies, we have preserved our tribal identity and soul, and so shall we continue eternally.

Anti-Semitism / Anti-Zionism = Signal of Fascism

I may suggest that anti-Zionism / anti-Semitism are signal (a little bit) of fascist urges, and the Left -- I'm an old liberal: I know my heart -- has been vulnerable to manipulation by what appears to me as a "Red Brown Green Alliance" driven by a handful of powerful autocrats intent on sustaining a medieval worldview in service to their own glorification. (And there I will stop).
One hopes for knowledge to allay fear; one hopes for love to overmatch hate.

Too often, the security found in the parroting of a loyal lie outweighs the integrity to be earned in confronting and voicing an uncomfortable truth.

Those who make their followers believe absurdities may also make them commit atrocities.

Positively Orwellian: Comment Responding to Claim that the Arab Assault on Israel in 1948 Had Not Intended Annihilation

“Revisionism” is the most contemptible path that power takes to abet theft and hide shame by attempting to alter public perception of past events.

On Press Freedom, Commentary, and Journalism

In the free world, talent -- editors, graphic artists, researchers, writers -- gravitate toward the organizations that suit their interests and values. The result: high integrity and highly reliable reportage and both responsible and thoughtful reasoning.

This is not to suggest that partisan presses don't exist or that propaganda doesn't exist in the west, but any reader possessed of critical thinking ability and genuine independence -- not bought, not programmed -- is certainly free to evaluate the works of earnest reporters and scholars.

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