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In closing, I would like to leave a message to all the business people here and to those who are not here in person but are watching us from around the world. Don't be intimidated by the political caste or the parasites who live off the state. Don't surrender to the political class who only want to stay in power and maintain their privileges. You are social benefactors. You are heroes. You are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we have ever seen. Let no one tell you that your ambitions are immoral. If you are making money, it is because you are offering a better product at a better price, thereby contributing to the general welfare. Don't give in to state support. The state is not the solution. The state is the problem. You are the real protagonists of this story, and rest assured that from now on Argentina is your loyal and unconditional ally.
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Unofficial translation of Argentine President Javier Milei's Davos speech from English with simultaneous interpretation from Spanish.
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Good afternoon. Thank you very much. I am here today to tell you that the Western world is in danger. And it is in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the West are infected with a vision of a world that leads inexorably to socialism and thus to poverty.
Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others and others motivated by a desire to belong to a privileged caste, the major leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom in favor of various versions of what we call collectivism. We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that plague the world's citizens. Rather, they are the root cause.
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Jan Palach: "There comes a moment in history when something has to happen" - "Something must be done against evil, fought by whatever means are possible" - "Even the fire that ended the life of a young Czech student in those difficult days came from the spark of Kostnitz." (unknown author)
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The Union of University Students of Bohemia and Moravia issued a message: 'Jan Palach did not utter a single word, and yet he addressed perhaps 14 million of this republic, each and every individual. And everyone must answer him. Actions can only be answered by actions."
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When evil comes to you, no one will protect you, Zelensky told the Russians
"I want to say to all (people) in Russia and from Russia who even now have not been able to utter even a few words of condemnation of this terror, although they see and know everything perfectly. Your cowardly silence, your attempt to wait out what is happening, will only end in the fact that one day these terrorists will come for you too. Evil is very sensitive to cowardice, evil will forever remember those who fear it and try to appease it. When it comes for you one day, there will be no one to protect you. All will be held accountable for terror: both those who kill and those who help to kill. Every day of Ukraine's resistance in the Donbas and every success of our defense are essential successes for the protection of our entire state."
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Traditional commemorative events without subsequent, concrete, resolving actions are somewhat lacking, an insult to the legacy of Jan Palach, a demonstration of our incompetence, helplessness and weakness. JŠ
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Updated 19.1.2024: European Parliament resolution (18.1.2024). JŠ
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(Berlin/Germany) As of January 14th, 2024, my father, Mr. Ding Yuande, has been illegally detained for more than 8 months in the Rizhao City Detention Center in China’s Shandong Province. The European Parliament is addressing the fate and safety of my father by setting an urgency resolution titled “The Ongoing Persecution of Falun Gong in China – Notably the Case of Mr. Ding Yuande” on the agenda of the next plenary session in Strasbourg. After a planned debate on January 17th, the resolution will be proposed for a vote on January 18th, 2024.
As his son and a victim of the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China, I would very much appreciate if the members of the different political groups in the European Parliament would vote “Yes” to pass the EU Resolution. This will not only help free my father, but also contribute to ending the ongoing crimes of China’s communist regime against Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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"Man is created by natural and social forces, and can be "uncreated" by them." - "I can, therefore I am." - "When we are in its power, we do not experience evil as evil, but as a necessity, even as a duty." - "A right that no one recognizes does not mean much."
Simone Weil
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There are not many, but there are among us. We call them "fools" and either shake our heads at them or silently admire them. People for whom responsibility is their own example more than life. Such as Václav Havel or the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil.
"The greatest human error is thinking instead of finding out," Weil declared, which is why she interrupted her career as a teacher in 1934 and instead claimed factory drudgery at machines that provided no respite. In short, one has to find out what it is really like, that relentless repetitive robotic process in which man himself eventually becomes a mechanically functioning tool as well. One can theorize without actually experiencing it, but not "really understand" it.
In The Plague, Camus teaches us - and rarely without the exaggerated pathos that might very well be on offer - that, absurd as human suffering is, personal identification with it leads to a greatness that is ultimately as futile as the suffering itself, yet represents the only meaningful path left to the man "surrounded by non-sense."
Once one is...
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The cover of the book seemed to be particularly problematic. The new edition was adorned with a noose wrapped around the first character of the emperor's name, with a large inscription underneath reading "the ruler whose actions brought the dynasty to ruin: he blindly made mistake after mistake, and the harder he tried, the closer the empire came to extinction." (NTD Television / Profimedia)
The analogy between Xi Jinping and an emperor with a tragic fate has multiple dimensions and has been debated among Chinese intellectuals for several years. History has a tendency to repeat itself in various permutations, and the archetypes of the ruler who refuses to listen to legitimate criticism and leads the empire to ruin, or the rejected loyal minister, are among the most common in Chinese dynastic chronicles.
This article originally appeared on the Sinopsis Project website.
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Of course, the public media was not present (the media silence on the case continues). I sat alone in the public seats with former diplomat Miroslav Belica, PhD, who came to support the prosecutor, Ms Lenka Dubovcova. The young judge, JUDr. David Štamberk PhD, arrived smiling 15 minutes late without apologizing for his late arrival. It was the third hearing in the case. The MFA was represented by a young lawyer Mgr. David Syka. He refused to introduce himself to me in the corridor (see photo on the right), saying that he did not know me (I mention him in Marocco Gate IX - see link below). In the course of further conversation it became clear that he knows me too well. He was quite arrogant at the beginning (he refused to shake my hand during the introduction). After the court hearing was over, he was calmer and did not oppose my arguments anymore.
After my announcement of making an audio recording, the judge paused for a minute, studied the papers (as if looking for the appropriate law) and then asked me to identify myself. A visit was not enough for him, he demanded an ID card (I preferred not to ask for permission to take an illustrative photo). He took over the case, recapitulated the prosecution, and quite quickly, formally, gave his verdict. After receiving it, the plaintiff will, of course, appeal. It was amusing how the judge conferred with one of the jurors, who, upon being addressed, immediately began nodding her head very actively in agreement, while the other nodded only after being heard. The judge never once looked at the applicant during the hearing, or averted his eyes or looked at the papers. It will probably go a long way in the current Czech justice system if it "solves" sensitive cases in this way, reaching too high and where justice comes last.
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We were surprised by the news that foreign police detained Yevgeny Gerasimenko, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Russian Federation, at Prague's Václav Havel Airport on Sunday, January 7. Gerasimenko was travelling from the Latvian capital Riga via Prague to Paris. In France, he intended to apply for political asylum. While Latvia allowed him to travel without any problems, he was arrested and imprisoned in Prague.
In his own words, Yevgeny Gerasimenko is being persecuted in Russia for his views and opposition to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. The Russian Federation has issued an international arrest warrant for him for alleged serious economic offences. It is a well-known fact that Moscow abuses the institution of arrest warrants to persecute opponents of its views. To put it bluntly, in many cases, Russian international arrest warrants are falsified so that Russia can get back at opponents of the Putin regime and try them for fabricated acts. This is a common Kremlin tactic.
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Roma also have a great relationship with music, tradition and family. We have deprived them of their freedom, forcibly domesticated them, they have stopped "stealing chickens" and are now collecting social benefits. Everything has its causes and consequences. "Whites" steal from the common invisibly and much more.
Maintaining sanity in our country is becoming increasingly difficult. It's no wonder when 46% of drug users take them to escape reality - the country can go crazy too. JŠ
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Dr. Damjan Prelovšek - art historian and expert on modern architecture, specialized in the work of architect Jože Plečnik, Ambassador of Slovenia to the Czech Republic 1998-2002, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, writer and photographer. On the right New Year's card of Jože Plečnik.
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"The ongoing discrimination lawsuit is so disappointing and such a shame to put you through that": an excerpt from a foreign diplomat's Christmas wish to Dr. Jana Chaloupková, I fully identify with it.
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"You will die like a dog" was the response of a Czech politician to Dr. Chaloupková's question about what will happen if she does not stop fighting for her job and for justice. The various warnings and threats began slowly in 2020. Today, I am giving space to one of the other witnesses to describe a phone call he himself heard in the spring of 2021:
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"It was March 2021 and we were just getting dressed in the hallway of a friend's house in Prague. Miss Jana was trying to reach a colleague from the personnel department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because she needed to email a document. He didn't answer the phone, it was already approaching five o'clock, so we decided to go home. Suddenly the phone rang and sl. Jana put it on the microphone so that she could put on her boots at the same time. A pleasant voice came on the other side. I paid no attention to it, but soon I had to turn a deaf ear. The usual communication about a paper was followed by some shocking words:
"Do you have any money? And any work to do?´ Miss Jana did not react, and stared in surprise. "Well, I told you when I called you in Morocco. The Secretary of State is behind everything. There are meetings between him and the Ministry's close leadership. It was decided then that you would never get a job. I mean well. Anyway, you can be glad you're still alive. You stepped on somebody's business with the visa. And that's unforgivable.''
The MFA does not work according to moral criteria and not only it. What works according to them, or is governed by them, in today's world? That is why the world is inevitably plunging into another deep economic crisis. Without the foundations of morality, sooner or later, everything will inevitably collapse, and in the end it will lawfully collapse. J. A. Comenius: "It is such an animal that embraces the whole world and does what it wants with it."
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On 5 January 2024, the Oživení (Revival Society) invited us to a "breakfast with journalists" at the "Kavárna na Boršové" in Prague on the topic of the Whistleblowing Act. Moderated by chairwoman Šárka Zvěřina Trunkátová. The guests were Pavel Kodym (whistleblower, Office for Access to Transport Structure) and Jiří Kapras (Director of the MSp Conflict of Interest and Anti-Corruption Department - my entry from 26:45 min.). I took a PHOTOGALLERY and audio recordings (see names). About 6 journalists were present (CTK, probably also CRo, Seznam.cz and Transparency International). Basically no output. The public broadcaster CT was, of course, absent. The testimony of Pavel Kodyma was great and the whole country should listen to it! Below is an extract of the essentials from his speech.
Ten billion in subsidies, challenged by 3 billion that would last at the Authority's expense for 33 years. Czech Railways has increased its debt by 20 billion for the years 2020-2022. The misuse of subsidies is a distortion of the free market, illegal subsidies and not time-barred, according to the latest case law of the EU Court of Justice of December 2023. It also opens up the unauthorised subsidy of 12bn from 2008. 10 min after Minister Kupka learned of Pavel Kodyma's letter to the EU, he cancelled his appointment.
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