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Yesterday, the Freedom Celebration 2024 ended in Pilsen with a commemoration at the Thanks America monument.
The highest representative of the Czech Republic was the President of the Senate (compare with the participation of high representatives of the Czech Republic in front of Czech Radio in Prague or in Lidice). The representative of the Castle was not named, as well as the Bishop of Plzeň. There were considerably fewer flags on the streets (they are diminishing every year). Only Belgian flags were distributed (US flags apparently ran out, but were not visible). Airplanes did not arrive because of bad weather at the Airport base in Čáslav (?). Not even a mention in the Czech Television Events (but a report on the Nazi flag provocation).
For the first time no veterans arrived (they are no longer with us or have health problems). Their relatives were no longer sitting at the podium, but at the Thanks America monument. It was more dignified than sitting at the bleachers and doing "staph" for the politicians.
I left early. The same, mindless, formal, long, tedious, uninviting "blathering" of Czech politicians was no longer listenable compared to how well and brilliantly the veterans had spoken for years - with few words they said it all!
Let us hope that the 80th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in Europe and Africa (the Allies were still fighting in the Pacific until September) will be more dignified, directed by the real right, real personalities and professionals, when modern military fighters will not be deterred by bad weather, as our RAF pilots were not deterred by the Battle of Britain!
Russia has "liberated" us into unfreedom and imposed its "customs" on us. The US brought us freedom and left it up to us how we dispose of it. Again, we let the communists take it without a fight in 1948 and their gravediggers after 1989. Let us not be surprised when the Czechoslovakia army has never defended its territory against aggressors in the last 100 years. Even today it is afraid to take off when it rains a little, even in honour of the real soldiers and commanders who gave their lives for the freedom of our country and other countries! JŠ
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General Alexander Hess speaks to us today
105 years since the tragic death of Gen. M. R. Štefánik
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Czechoslovakia. The army was determined to make extreme sacrifices in the event of war, but the politicians decided otherwise. The airmen were not given the opportunity to engage the enemy in direct combat and, like all Czechoslovak soldiers, had to submit to the Munich decision. To fight the decision the airmen could only resort to helpless rage.
To the most difficult order of his life, Maj. Hess, as a disciplined soldier, submitted with great self-denial, but as a Czech patriot he took a completely irreconcilable position towards the occupation. It was not a reason for him to break his oath of office, since its fulfilment could not be enforced in any way at that time: ,, ...March 1939... We boarded in the corridor of the barracks building for the last time," recalls one of his subordinates, who, like Hess, soon found his way into the foreign resistance.
"We were standing like stone statues when the squadron commander, Maj. Hess took over the reports. He stepped forward and his words faded into the distance, and we all came to life as he said with a stir: " ...and I believe, knowing you as I do and seeing you here before me, that we will all soon come together again to fight our enemy - as we swore to do. I believe that, we, the airmen, have not yet lost our fight... '"
"The participation of Czechoslovak airmen in the battle for England... will one day be a most precious boast for England and for us, which we shall carry confidently in our memory and of which we can be ever and justly proud," Hess himself would later write.
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Josef Škvorecký's text on a topic that is more topical today than ever. When you read it, you think: they would have driven him away today too, but where to? To Madagascar? Editor's note...
In the new ideology of lesbian feminism, coitus may very well be a crime even in marriage.
This description of sex play is already known from the oldest literature and from very contemporary practice, but before the advent of the new sexual ideology it was called "seduction", and from the point of view of that ideology it has the disadvantage that women have the initiative in that interesting sport as often, if not more often, than men: but according to feminist dogmatism this is never the case, and the initiator is always the man.
The key issue here is the semantic dispute over whether the partner's " No!" isn't really a "No..." if you understand me, which you probably do; that is, whether the famous "No..." doesn't actually mean "Yes!" .
To copulate in such difficult circumstances means, as Norman Podhoretz writes, " to request from the partner, regardless of previous copulations, each time again, a written consent bearing a notarized signature." This is not as far-fetched as it may seem to naive Czech readers/readers: it is the only tangible evidence that this was not rape.
It is very dangerous to live sexually in North America today, and not only because of the AIDS epidemic, so it is not surprising that more and more young men here in America are going out for beer rather than on dates, and that the male bonding known from classic American literature is flourishing (probably "male bonding": Pym and Dirk Peters in Poe, Ishmael and Queeqeg in Melville, Huck and Negro Jim in Twain, etc.). No wonder the sigh is heard more and more often among us girls, "Why is it that all the men I come in contact with are either wimps or wives or hosers?"
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There is 100% scientific consensus in the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic on the physically and ecologically flawed Expert Opinion on Climate Change.
As of October 2020, the website of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic hosts the Expert Opinion AVex 4/2020 on climate change, whose expert guarantor is the Institute of Climate Change Research (ÚVGZ, CzechGlobe). However, this opinion, which is intended for the government and parliament as expert guidance for the implementation of practical climate policy in the Czech Republic, is based on a physically false basis, claiming that "About one third of this energy comes in the form of solar radiation and the remaining two thirds in the form of radiation (radiation) of the atmosphere towards the surface of the Earth, i.e. the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere" (AVex 4/2020, p. 2). By making this physically false claim, the experts of the IWGZ are trying to convince the government and parliament that the increasing atmospheric concentration of CO2 and its amplifying greenhouse effect are the main cause of global warming on Earth.
We have been trying to generate expert debate on this crucial topic for a number of years. That is why we chose the form of an open letter in the autumn of 2022, repeatedly wrote to the leadership of the CAS, and spoke at seminars in Parliament. The arguments we have presented are published. No response. Our society is decarbonising, calling it climate neutrality and does not know what it is. We are letting our forests dry out, we are losing 10 hectares of farmland a day, which ends up partly under concrete and sheds. Young people blame themselves for breathing because they are increasing CO2 concentrations and endangering the planet.
The solution is simple in principle: offer solar energy over as large an area as possible to water and life, which starts with primary production - plants.
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"Tomas Bata introduced an almost revolutionary new way of organising work, introduced a groundbreaking school system and, last but not least, developed the spirit and culture of his employees."
Zdeněk Pokluda
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"People will never handle with caution things for which they are not also materially responsible." - "One feels satisfied in life when one is aware of one's own worth, can rely on oneself, knows one's strengths, can face one's fears and can work on them." - "The most precious thing any individual has is time and life energy."
Tomas Bata
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Let's just not divide society with counterproductive actions and attacks on others. Let's bring it together through quality, positive work and personal example. Let us not judge others, that is what the judge and God are for. Truth on earth is necessarily relative, determined by the imperfection of man. All will be accounted for in the end - "to give is to give". Bata shows us the way. JŠ
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