Actuality | Non-fiction

Populism, sovereignism and billions to poverty... one can give oneself courage
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Of Rosanna Spadini
Populism, sovereignism and billions to poverty... one can give oneself courage
Source: Comedonchisciotte
At the beginning of the eighth chapter of “The Betrothed”, our Don Abbondio, what one cannot give oneself "courage", while he was casually reading a book, he happens to read the name of a philosopher by chance “Carneades who was he?”, which he knew nothing about, except that perhaps he had heard of it at least once along the way, useless course of his life.
Now we could say the same thing... what kind of animal is "politics".? A weeder that is disturbing just to mention, or a unicorn straight out of some sort of contemporary bestiary. If politics cannot be given courage, what is it for? Now it seems that the yellow/green government has plenty of courage, determined to free himself from the financial pockets he has been thrust into.
Demagogic maneuver said some barn owl on a media tour, forgetting that the DEF finally represented the affirmation of politics on finance, challenging the mesh of European vetoes and constraints, which have contributed to increasing the level of poverty in Italy, reduced to the bottom of the EU.
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The United States is a dead man walking
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Of Paul Craig Roberts
The United States is a dead man walking
Source: Comedonchisciotte
There is a ferocious attack on the truth. If we do not use our website well, we will find ourselves in total darkness.
Yesterday while I was driving, I turned on the radio in the car to hear if the Russians/Syrians had started the liberation of Idlib, in Syria by Washington-backed terrorists. Everything I heard instead, were radio NPR, they were two white women deploring white racism. They felt so guilty for having indirectly benefited from white racism that, Me too, it felt like drowning in the guilt of one of those females, before he had even finished speaking.
You won't be able to believe what an "indirect benefit" was that produced a severe form of guilt in the white female., but maybe it's good to try. She had bought a brick bungalow identical to the one next door, where a black American lived, with the difference that the attic of his house had been completely renovated, while his black neighbor's attic had not been renovated. His racial guilt stemmed from the fact that the white person from whom he bought the house could have made his attic nicer, while his black neighbor had not been able to do so, It seems like it's because of racism. Read More

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Schools and universities are the liberal Trojan horses for New World Order indoctrination
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Of Robert Bridge
Schools and universities are the liberal Trojan horses for New World Order indoctrination
Source: Comedonchisciotte
From NFL players who yes “bring them to their knees” [1] during the national anthem, right down to preschoolers who are brainwashed with the ideology of transgenderism, all these leftist movements have one goal in mind: subvert and destroy the very roots of the Western nation-state.
This month, the liberal propaganda machine kicked into high gear, advertising another, controversial, indecent story, all to advance the agenda of the New World Order.
Lara Zelski , the principal of a school in Atlanta, did not think clearly about the interests of his local community when he informed parents and faculty that the morning flag pledge would be eliminated and replaced with a pledge to “the school, the family, the community, the nation and our global society”.
“Over the past two years it has become apparent that an ever-increasing number of members of our community have chosen not to stand and/or recite the pledge.”, Zelski said. “This is a very heartfelt topic and we want everyone to, in our school community, can start their day in a positive way”.
Zelski does not provide any figures to make it clear what she means by “an ever-increasing number of members of our community” That, presumably, they would despise the flag. This is the way in which the proponents of “global society” they carry out their destructive agenda. Using Hegelian dialectics, stimulate discussion on some topic "heat" (homosexual marriages, latrine unisex, rights of transsexuals, statues of the protagonists of the Civil War in the public gardens, use of marijuana and so on), which could certainly cause the two main American political ideologies to clash ferociously. They then step back and admire the pandemonium they have created. Read More

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Cow, you know one thing? They lied to you about Iran!
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Of Andre Vltchek
Cow, you know one thing? They lied to you about Iran!
Source: Comedonchisciotte
You have already considered the possibility that everything the Western media has told you about how the world is going, is nothing but a lie and pure invention?
I'm sure you did, at least in recent times, in which the madness of Western propaganda becomes so clear and evident. But how vast is the indoctrination to which you have been subjected?
If you live in Europe or North America, to what extent you have been poisoned by lies regarding Cuba and Venezuela, regarding Russia and China, North Korea and – without a doubt – regarding Iran?
You believe you are still recoverable?
If you could see the truth, and confront yourself with reality, you would still be able to recognize it, or you would perceive it as propaganda and lies?
I just left Tehran, city ​​with a formidable history and culture, overflowing with museums, of theatres, of beautifully maintained parks dotted with modern art sculptures. It is a city with modern and fully subsidized public transport, composed of a highly technological underground, ecological buses and trains connecting the suburbs. A city with big trees, quiet corners, elegant cafes and extremely polite and lovely people. Read More

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E' moro Uri Avnery, l'israelita ottimista che aveva giocato a scacchi con Arafat
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Of ROBERT FISH
www.independent.co.uk
It seemed somehow fitting that the first news of Uri Avnery's passing came to me from one of Israel's staunchest enemies, the leader of the Lebanese Druze Walid Jumblatt. A legend that brings sad news of another legend, a socialist preparing to mourn a fellow socialist, which expresses its condolences for the ninety-four-year-old Israeli political philosopher. The same philosopher who, a time, he had been a German Jewish schoolboy, Helmut Ostermann, who refused to give the Nazi salute to Hitler at school, but what it had become, according to the message I had received from Jumblatt, “a mind absolutely indispensable for the understanding of fascism, the greatest destructive factor of the 20th century.” Words by Jumblatt. “Avnery,” he then added [Jumblatt], “he also understood the meaning of Zionism, another ignoble theory based on apartheid, nothing more than an offshoot of fascism.”
Uri Avnery he had a very serious heart attack over the weekend and died on Monday morning. He considered himself a Zionist, or at least a believer in a left-wing Israel, courageous but humble “beacon of light among the nations,” a type of nation to which, in our hearts, I'd like to believe. He was among those Israelis who we, liberals with a tender heart, we hurried to visit as soon as we got in Israel, because they said what we wanted to hear. Read More

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The secrets of Helsinki
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Of Israel Shamir
The secrets of Helsinki
Source: Comedonchisciotte
Like an orange hurricane, President Trump has overwhelmed the Old World. Visits by American presidents to Europe are usually a cosmetic operation. Not this time. Since the time of the Mongol invasion, not many visitors from outside have shaken Europe like he has. The president of the United States has finally freed himself from the cage built by his political opponents and started saying things that his voters wanted to hear.
His bold statements were, however, quickly undermined and disavowed by his minister advisors, creating the feeling that Trump speaks only for himself. Him too, in the end, he repudiated his own claims, saying he was misunderstood.
Trump increasingly seems like the protagonist of “The Prince and the Pauper”, the poor boy who happens to become king – and starts behaving unregally, showing mercy and caring for people. His own court ignores his commands. Trump says what people want to hear, but his administration sticks to its line.
During the first part of his journey he played the part of the rebel, in a world of weak men and formidable women. The West is in fact governed by powerful aunts and older sisters. Aunt Angela in Germany, Aunt Teresa in England, Aunt Brigitte in France. All that was missing was Aunt Hillary to complete the puzzle and establish complete dominion over her subjugated nephews. Read More

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The last hour! World War III is finally over!
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Of DMITRY ORLOV
cluborlov.blogspot.com
Unknown to most, World War III raged, until now, for almost thirty years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It was preceded by the Cold War, which ended when Mikhail Gorbachev surrendered to the West, with the consequent, confused, dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Despite this capitulation, the West had never abandoned its plan to destroy the Warsaw Pact, along with what remained of the former Soviet Union, and then conquer and dismember Russia itself. In the absence of military threats from the east, NATO, along with its parasitic twin, the European Union, it had incessantly expanded eastward, swallowing one nation after another. So far it has conquered the entire Warsaw Pact, plus Moldova and the three Baltic States and is hunting for the last crumbs of the former Soviet Union: Ukraine, Georgia ed Armenia. The reason why no one in the West realized that, all this time, there was World War III is that the West suffered a profound mental collapse, as serious as the physical collapse of the URRS. Russia has recovered from its collapse, the West, probably, he never will.
Even if the West pretends to fight Russia, this is pure fantasy. Russia's defensive capabilities are such that a military strategy against it is not even plannable. Russian military doctrine states that no war will ever be fought on Russian soil again: if it were to be invaded, it would immediately transfer the fighting to enemy territory using its long-range weapons, equipped with a radius of action that includes the entire world. He also specifies that he will respond to any existential threat using atomic weapons, if necessary. And so does the Pentagon, with NATO in tow, he no longer even dreams of attacking Russia. This hope, at some point, had returned to life when the US believed it was possible to eliminate Russia's nuclear deterrent capability using a nuclear "first strike", ma, Since then Russia has rearmed itself with more advanced weapons than it possesses, current or future, of the United States and so that dream is now dead. Read More

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These are the questions any journalist should ask the Israeli army
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Of Tossi Gurvitz
These are the questions any journalist should ask the Israeli army
Source: Comedonchisciotte
As these lines are written IDF snipers have killed more than 40 Palestinians near the Gaza barrier and injured others 2,200, a dozen are believed to have been mortally wounded. At the same time you read these words, the numbers have probably already gone up. IDF spokesman used to claim his snipers were 'in danger'. When you hear these words, think aboutoperazione Speedy Express.
Speedy Express was flown by the US Army's 9th Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta in 1969. The US military claimed to have killed 10,899 opposing fighters. He just suffered 244 losses. Being in Saigon, a young genius called Alexander Demitri Shimkin, a veteran of civil rights marches, he perplexed his fellow journalists with a strange pastime: he took the trouble to actually read the official press releases and tabulated what was written.
After a few months, Shimkin put together a strange statistic: the 9th Division claimed to have killed 10,899 fighters but had only captured 748 weapons. Shimkin's conclusion was simple: the disparity between deaths and captured weapons means that the majority of those killed in Speedy Express were not combatants but civilians. It was problematic for Shimkin to find a publisher willing to publish this first example of data journalism and Newsweek published it only in 1972. Nonetheless, the publication caused a political firestorm, with the US military forced to take refuge in the desperate claim that “many guerrilla units were not armed with weapons”. Read More

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When Zionism collides with reality
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Of Stanley L. Cohen*
When Zionism collides with reality
Source: Comedonchisciotte
“The wrongs we seek to condemn and punish were thus premeditated, so evil and so devastating, that a civilization cannot tolerate them being ignored, because it could not survive their reiteration"
With these authoritative words, Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Attorney, had opened the work of the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War.
In charge of ascertaining the guilt of prominent members of the army, of politics and the judicial apparatus for violations of international laws... including war crimes, crimes against humanityand against them laws of war…the court had validated the principle of personal responsibility for the genocide against Jews and other ethnic groups, that had been considered, from the German state, a threat to one's own, declared, racial supremacy, religious and political.
Although these crimes had manifested themselves in different forms, their savagery resulted, actually, from a shared collective thought, who considered all those destined to be suppressed by the state not only (beings) inferior, but unworthy of life itself… men, women and children, young and old, reduced to little more than objects of grotesque derision, whose very existence contaminated the national concept of racial supremacy.
There are no more secrets about the terror campaign unleashed from the Third Reich, as he invaded nations and unleashed international violence never seen before. Nor have its methods of total war ever been subject to serious debate, both towards the military, than against civilians. Even if someone has chosen to dispute the number of victims or to rework the exact instruments of persecution, no serious historian doubts the role played by cattle trucks, from the ghettos and crematoriums in a conscious effort to silence the diversity of life, while most of the world looked elsewhere. Read More

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Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations
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Of Saeed Jalili
Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.
Source: Comedonchisciotte

Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.

In the midst of the currency crisis, with this change we attempt to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the US dollar and prevent market instability.

The Iranian Riyal has lost nearly two-thirds of its US dollar value over the past three years [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters]

Friday's move (ndt 13 apr.) is considered part of efforts to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the dollar currency, as a result of tensions with Washington, as well as preventing general instability on the markets generated by fluctuations of the Iranian Rial against the dollar.

In a cabinet meeting, the government has decided that all ministries, State organizations and companies should refer to the exchange rate with the euro, which the Central Bank of Iran will have the task of communicating frequently, the IRNA news agency reported.
It is unclear when this decision will take effect, but the entrepreneurs have said that they will wait to know the implementation methods before these new conditions can take effect.
“I suppose if they use the euro as their official currency, this will reduce the psychological impact of the rial fluctuations on the dollar”, he said, ad Al Jazeera, Newsha Sheikh Soleimani, which imports raw materials for the processing of bricks and ceramics in Tehran.
“Our company operates mainly in euros, but some invoices are issued based on the rial-dollar exchange rate” but his company recently had to suspend all transactions due to uncertainty over the value of the foreign currency.
“I welcome any move that can bring stability to the foreign exchange market”.
The loss of value
Valiollah Seif, head of the Central Bank, he had already said that the use of the dollar in financial transactions is not "logical"..
Iran's trade revenue is mainly in euros due to sanctions on the US dollar, he stated. Therefore, Seif added, the country's financial reporting should use a more stable and widely used reference currency in trade.
As part of the agreement Iranian nuclear power of the 2015 with world powers, all sanctions related to Iran's controversial nuclear program have been lifted.
Despite this, due above all to persistent tensions with the United States, There are still limitations on Iran's accessibility to US currency.
These restrictions have contributed to the fall in the value of the rial against the dollar in recent months.
The dollar traded at an all-time high of 60.000 Rial last week, teasing, among Iranians, serious concerns about the stability that the President Hassan Rouhani had brought about the economy by controlling exchange rates.
Since last year, the rial lost approximately 50% of its value compared to the US currency, which some Iranians buy in large quantities as an investment in times of great economic uncertainty.
A sudden drop in the value of the Rial is expected to cause an increase in the price of imported goods and increase the inflation rate.
To control the currency crisis, the government last week froze free trade in the us currency by introducing an official rate of 42.000 rials for every dollar.
The Central Bank said it would provide dollars only to those registered to use them for specific purposes, while the free exchange of foreign currency will be deemed illegal.

Seif, Head of the Central Bank, faced lawmakers' fury last week, when he took the parliamentary podium to explain the new forex policies. He suggested to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the use of the euro in foreign trade to replace the US dollar.
A short term fix?

In the meantime, a currency trader told Al Jazeera that these new policies are “good news for importers and exporters”, but which have generated confusion for its business.
“Even if the government replaces the dollar with the euro, the dollar is still traded and used as an investment by many in the free market.", he said, preferring to remain anonymous.
“I hope these decisions are not just temporary measures – like a fever-reducing pill – because international restrictions on the dollar affect our economic stability”.
There have been growing concerns among Iranian businesses about a possible US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
US President Donald Trump should decide the 12 May if his administration confirms sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal.
He believes the deal isn't working because it doesn't address Iran's missile program, as well as its military presence in the region.
Iran says its missiles are for defensive purposes.
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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2018/04/iran-replace-dollar-euro-financial-reports-180418183855096.html
18.04.2018
The text of this article can be freely used for non-commercial purposes, citing the source comedonchisciotte.org and the author of the translation Primary Forest

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