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Freedom is always the freedom of others!
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How many dicks does it take to fuck Ted Cruz, honey?
One, darling!
Really honey, which one?
The one from Trump, darling.
Sad but true, honey. that one old creepy cock is enough.
Satan and his bad girl friend
Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix examines conflicts and other developments after World War II. He finds that new restraints on uses of force have emerged from fears about nuclear war, economic interdependence and UN Charter rules. With less interest in the conquest of land, states increasingly use economic or cyber means to battle their adversaries. Such a turn is not free from perils but should perhaps be welcomed as an alternative to previous methods of war. By analysing these new restraints, Blix rejects the fatalistic assumption that there will always be war. He submits that today leading powers are saying farewell to previous patterns of war, instead choosing to continue their competition for power and influence on the battlefields of economy and information.
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Let's talk about the good man who always assumed that crises could be solved with diplomacy.
The competition between states without war is the counter-model to the eternal repetition of escalation which has always led to war and conflict.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
Hans Blix
Nobody wants to be humiliated. Humiliation leads to bad things.
Hans Blix
The consequences of the Iraq war have changed the whole course of history. Based on a lie by the US to take revenge for 9/11, the entire world's history was changed and we are still feeling the effects.
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Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction but the hawks in the white house wanted war and ultimately did not change the entire world's history for the better and that's putting it nicely.
In an in-depth interview with director Greta Stocklassa, retired politician and diplomat Hans Blix reflects on his career as head of the UN Arms Control Commission and the legacy he will leave behind for future generations. The 94-year-old Swede held the post during the war on terror between 2000 and 2003, becoming a key player in a global crisis.
While one war fades from history, another has begun.
Humanity is doomed to repeat its patterns and mistakes.
The greatest threat to humanity is the use of weapons of mass destruction, overpopulation with not enough resources, climate change.
Hans Blix
Anyone who only spreads the differences in the world, regardless of the political context, ultimately only has division in mind. You can recognize the intention by the shift in topics to scapegoat issues which are brought into focus in order to divide.
Yes it is a beautiful world and it is in the hands of the good to stand up for the most important issues to be brought into focus.
climate change, species extinction, drinking water supply, pollution, resource scarcity, overpopulation, global warming..... Climate migration,..... AI further development and the resulting abolition of jobs, social grievances in the context of simple fascist solution models with fatal consequences for human history.
Only the cooperation of everyone on this planet can save humanity in the long term.
We are human beings and we all have the same requirements.
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Participation, social justice, freedom and equality... are the basis for creating a better world together.
Nationalism is completely out of place in a globalized world with global challenges.
Solution concepts of the past from the so-called good old days are concepts of doom with creeping no return points.
Simple solution concepts in a complex system of dependency are doomed to failure.
Anyone who says otherwise should take a look at the successful brexit model.
Which was sold to the people as a lie based on disinformation and false promises. The complex interrelationships and dependencies were deliberately ignored in order to get brexit. Today, Great Britain is worse off economically and socially than it was forty years ago.
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (1967).
A simple question: How could it come to the point that considerate living together on the basis of friendliness and understanding by people always discussing all topics in dialogue together in order to find the best possible compromise is no longer possible?
How can it be that for some social groups insults, open hatred, violence, so-called political incorrectness in the form of open verbal violence is part of the accepted norm?
Characteristics of the political system that lead to regression and ultimately to a dictatorship of the so-called good. Because only they know what is good for everyone, i.e. for themselves, here every individual in a society does not really play a role.
Parents and schools have a responsibility to turn children into responsible social adults who realise that the world is complex and that everyone should find a place in society that makes them happy. However, this is only possible if everyone in a society works together to shape it in such a way that the best opportunities are created for everyone, regardless of religion, educational level, skin colour or sexual orientation.
In order to then advance civil society as a whole and ensure the happiness of all. And not just the interests of a few.
To meet the challenge of the future, societies need every head on their shoulders - this is the only way to avoid a creeping catastrophe.
The eternal preoccupation with ourselves as humanity in the form of wars, conflicts and any irresponsible behaviour for individual interest groups is fatal for the next generation.
What if we concentrated on the really important issues?
If your house is on fire, you should put it out and not get angry about your woke neighbour.
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The most important thing is not that the truth dies in war, but the battle for the sovereignty of interpretation of words.
To put it bluntly, what happened on 7 October cannot be legitimised by the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom, which had its final outcome in this event, as some would have the world believe.
Terrorism differs from resistance movements, guerrillas or national liberation movements less in its choice of weapons than in its choice of objectives: A national liberation or resistance movement is usually militarily expansive, whereas terrorism attempts to attract as much attention as possible with its acts of violence in order to undermine closed power structures and to exemplify the vulnerability of such structures and make them publicly accessible to the population.
Women, children and peaceful people who are unsuspectingly and bestially murdered, raped or cruelly abducted are only the targets of butchers and never the target of a freedom fight, no matter where in the world it takes place.
What took place on 7 October was a massacre of civilians like the Nazis started in the Second World War and cannot be weighed against the injustice that preceded the massacre.
But the strike against hamas, which was initially justified on the basis of reasons of state, has become a punishment of the entire Palestinian people and can no longer be legitimised.
Israel's legitimate self-defence has turned into a campaign of annihilation.
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Driving people from one side to the other in order to get a free field of fire and then in a kind of continuous loop where ultimately there are only temporary protected spaces for civilians contradicts every rule of civil defence. And can be regarded without reservation as an act against humanity.
However, the comparison with the genocide caused by the systematic extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis is not accurate. That would simply be wrong, even if the injustice being done to the Palestinian people is inhumane.
Yes, it is a crime, but it is not genocide. The systematic extermination of people is not the case here, no matter how much you want to make the comparison, it does not reflect the past.
On behalf of all those murdered, I stand here only as the face of a person whose life was far too short.
Life is a human right that was denied to me.
In memory of the innocent victims
What happened on 7 October stands alone and is a crime against humanity.
Stop relativising it and comparing it with the consequences it has triggered.
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China wants to phase out government computers with Western chips
Beijing wants to oust key technologies from abroad from its internal systems. According to a report, computers with Western components are now being replaced en masse.
The timing of the publication in the "Financial Times" is embarrassing for China: a major international economic conference called the "China Development Forum" is currently taking place in Beijing, at which Prime Minister Li Qiang and Finance Minister Lan Fo'an, among others, appeared on Sunday. Their message was that despite the current economic downturn, China is an irresistible market and a worthwhile destination for investment. This is how they want to attract international companies to China.
China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with AMD CEO Lisa Su on Sunday. The two sides discussed the China-US business and trade relationship, as well as AMD's business development in the Chinese market. Wang wished for the US to work with China in providing clear safety.
China is XI and its agenda is being implemented unstoppably.
We Europeans and Americans should not be under the illusion that China is a reliable partner.
China is only acting in the interests of China, all China and therefore XI wants is influence and control.
We in the West should never forget that China has a dictator who holds all the power and considers democracy to be weak.
China will go along with everything as long as it benefits China, even if agreements have been concluded with China, these will only be honoured as long as they are considered necessary .
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China is ruled by a surprise dictatorship that tolerates no dissent and has developed its infrastructure so that it can completely control all its citizens. They are then disciplined like a herd of sheep, and any violation of the Chinese Communist Party's rules is punished so that the herd is frugal.
The social score system is one of the greatest perversions of IT development and, with the much-vaunted AI, will become the horror of a free and open society.
Karl Marx once said that religion is opium for the people. In China, the statement needs to be redefined: connsum is opium for the Chinese people.
Morally reprehensible.
This is just a small selection of members of mankind who are morally reprehensible. They live in their own value system which does not correspond to a concept of human rights.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell
It is never ok for politicians to abuse their power for self enrichment, and even for has-beens and also-rans there has to be some brand of justice so present and future presidents don't get lured into taking crafty, well disguised bribes pretending it's 'charity.'
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
It's time for a last second Easter miracle Dad..... Just strike them down with a lightning bolt so that they go up in flames and with them all the following ones with the same problem.
Jesus Christus more or less
Of course we are in favour of complete non-violence, but we cannot question the catastrophic nature of God.
We are only fallible humans.
The worst thing is that they ruin the lives of many people in the long term or even end them prematurely on purpose. The good thing is that death will take them all sooner or later! And since they are so attached to life, they will do anything to prolong it, even in a state of absolute decay. Not a nice thing.... kind of payback.
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This is what equality looks like!
Taiwan has nothing to do with China, it is not China because it is a democracy.
No matter what XI pulls out of its hair as a historical justification on the basis of such claims, Europe would still be Roman.
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For a free and democratic Taiwan, let the other democracies realize that they can only stand together against the dictatorships.
China is overestimated and overestimates itself and that is exactly the point where it will tip over without outside influences. The Chinese youth have been given the promise that if they study they can practice what they have studied. Somehow apolitical, but not if the promise cannot be kept by the Communist Party XI. There are already measures on the part of the CP to bring all these unemployed academics who are supported by their parents to the countryside to work in inadequate jobs. These are still only measures and not coercive measures, but that can change at any time.
If parents are no longer able to support their children, dissatisfaction will increase, to the detriment of the CP. Many young people in China are seeking internal migration and thus a new sense of purpose, as the Communist Party's promise of prosperity and a future has not been fulfilled for them. The party is currently allowing this to happen without intervention, but if they realize the potential and impact it may have on the future of the CP's existence, violence will follow. What they do to other parts of the population, they will do to the youth and put them in re-education camps. So China has a huge problem because their promise that the fate of the party is linked to the prosperity of the people will be broken.
In addition, government spending is immense, not only for the gigantic army but also for all the infrastructure projects that were not necessary. In addition to the environmental problems such as clean air or water.
China is a giant with feet of clay.
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That is its weakness, no matter how puffed up it is in relation to the West.
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan thanks drag queen Nymphia Wind for a great performance
DW reports that Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind (妮妃雅‧瘋) and winner of the TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has performed a medley of songs for outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen, thanking her for being the island’s “mother.”
As you can see from the video, the President enjoyed the performance very much. The president is clearly a strong supporter of the queer and trans communities.
Drag queens, led by "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Nymphia Wind in yellow, perform for Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan.
Photo: Wang Yu Ching/Office of the President.
There is no place here for racism, homophobia, misogyny, agitation, propaganda and intolerance.
We are and will always stand for equality regardless of gender, skin color, creed, sexual orientation, age, handicap.
We are equal under equal all other categories we do not need.
Talk to us and then you will realize that we are only interested in the single human being without restrictions.
We don't care who you fuck or what you believe if you believe in equality.
Freedom is the freedom of others!
A true philanthropist is someone who loves people in all their diversity.
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Let's be clear: we are sick and tired of the cliché of the old white man, because it's not the form that counts, but the content. Analysis yes, cancel no. You can't simply cancel human history, you have to put it into context. Stalin already did that and then you are in the same tradition as him. Sad.
Julian Assange is finally free again!
The founder of the Wikileaks whistleblowing platform left prison in London today and is on his way to the US Mariana Islands in the Pacific. He is due to appear before a US court there on Wednesday. A deal with the US Department of Justice ensures that he will then be allowed to return to his home in Australia as a free man.
Julian Assange's release from prison is an incredibly important success for freedom of expression and freedom of the press worldwide. The following applies to media professionals all over the world: Anyone who reports on human rights violations and possible war crimes must not be penalised for doing so!
The USA should never have made the espionage allegations. Imprisoning Assange in a high-security prison for five years should never have happened. People all over the world have been protesting against this for years - on the streets and online. Without this campaign, Assange would not be on his way to freedom today.
The picture shows people holding up signs for Julian Assange and a woman speaking into a microphone
Many thanks to everyone who stood up for Julian Assange!
We need your support to continue to fight for the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the press worldwide!
It is not a crime to publicise war crimes.
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We call ourselves civilised, and we should be proud of that! But anyone who legitimises injustice in any way, for any reason, is in truth without civilisation.
The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode.
Martha C. Nussbaum
Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.
Amy Goodman
States and organizations that want to deny, hunt down, criminalize and lock away any corrective action have ultimately thrown their moral compass overboard in order to hide their ethical and moral depravity. This only goes to show that the so-called responsible parties really don't want to take responsibility.
A state or organization that creates special rights denies the principle of equality of a humanistic legal system and can therefore be considered criminal.
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Those who adhere to ethical and moral principles serve as beacons that bring the shadows of the world to light for us.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86.
Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, according to his attorney, Minna Fernan.
Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972.
Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat the disease, federal health officials ordered that the drugs be withheld. The study became an observation of how the disease ravaged the body over time.
In the mid-1960s, Buxtun was a federal public health employee working in San Francisco when he overheard a co-worker talking about the study. The research wasn’t exactly a secret — about a dozen medical journal articles about it had been published in the previous 20 years. But hardly anyone had raised any concerns about how the experiment was being conducted.
“This study was completely accepted by the American medical community,” said Ted Pestorius of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaking at a 2022 program marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the study.
Buxtun had a different reaction. After learning more about the study, he raised ethical concerns in a 1966 letter to officials at the CDC. In 1967, he was summoned to a meeting in Atlanta, where he was chewed out by agency officials for what they deemed to be impertinence. Repeatedly, agency leaders rejected his complaints and his call for the men in Tuskegee to be treated.
He left the U.S. Public Health Service and attended law school, but the study ate at him. In 1972, he provided documents about the research to Edith Lederer, an AP reporter he had met in San Francisco. Lederer passed the documents to AP investigative reporter Jean Heller, telling her colleague, “I think there might be something here.”
Heller’s story was published on July 25, 1972, leading to Congressional hearings, a class-action lawsuit that resulted in a $10 million settlement and the study’s termination about four months later. In 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized for the study, calling it “shameful.”
The leader of a group dedicated to the memory of the study participants said Monday they are grateful to Buxtun for exposing the experiment.
“We are thankful for his honesty and his courage,” said Lille Tyson Head, whose father was in the study.
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136 journalists have been killed in Gaza, since October 7. That is over 80% of journalists in the Strip.
136 journalists have been killed in Gaza, since October 7. That is over 80% of journalists in the Strip.
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title: freedom of the press 08
words: 10k
warnings: a lot of angst sorry. 09 will be happier if i can publish it in less than 2.5 years this time. addiction/substance abuse mentions, STI mentions
pairing: thomas jefferson x reader
desc: the 2020 republican presidential frontrunner is an obnoxious, morally bankrupt people-pleaser, but what happens when you become the person he’s most eager to please?
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