#liberty — Public Fediverse posts
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《I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”》
#MLKJ #Freedom #Democracy #Constitution #Liberty #Equality #IHaveADream #August28th
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Casi 60.000 clientes se fueron de Kölbi hacia otros competidores debido a oferta en 5G, según Sutel
Mientras que Claro y Liberty llevan más de un año brindando el servicio, Kölbi-ICE apenas acaba de adjudicar su licitación para el desarrollo de las redes 5G.
La entrada Casi 60.000 clientes se fueron de Kölbi hacia otros competidores debido a oferta en 5G, según Sutel aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#4G #5G #Claro #ICE #Impreso #JuanManuelCampos #Kölbi #Liberty #Mercado #País #Portabilidad #Portaciones #Telecomunicaciones #TeodoroWillink
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Tecnología que Kölbi descartó para desarrollar 5G puso a Claro y Liberty al frente de la carrera
Mientras los operadores privados ya suman más de dos millones de clientes en la red 5G, la empresa estatal sigue sin ofrecer el servicio.
La entrada Tecnología que Kölbi descartó para desarrollar 5G puso a Claro y Liberty al frente de la carrera aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#4G #5G #Claro #ICE #Impreso #JuanManuelCampos #Kölbi #Liberty #Mercado #NSA #País #SA #Tecnología #Telecomunicaciones #TeodoroWillink
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Libraries hold a special place in my heart, for reasons both intellectual and sentimental.
Librarians are guardians of knowledge, champions of freedom, and friends of the people. They are community members, dedicated to helping connect poor people with relevant information, so they can improve their minds, educate themselves, and access job resources.
After I became a #whistleblower in 2023, and was made #homeless , this notion was challenged.
Librarians would block my access, call the police, and have me arrested. If you find this hard to believe, please see my whistleblower website. The PDF linked, has an appendix giving the “receipts” ( documents to corroborate my account ).
http://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
I had applied to be a board member of the libraries in Hawai’i after attending their meetings, and saw some corruption there.
Scroll to the bottom of this page, and see the photo of the board members. How many native Hawai’ian faces do you see? Any Japanese or brown folks?
https://folkhawaii.com/about-us/
Their former Director of Membership, Bobby Gebbia, lied in court, before the judge and cameras, saying I was a board member, though I was not granted a membership.
In Hawai’i, librarians appear to be part of the occupying forces, whitewashing colonialism, insidiously taking over and erasing the true history of Hawai’i, which I heard from talking to local old timers.
250 years ago, Hawai’i had not heard of Jesus, and had its own deities, ( Goddess Pele, the creator, Kaneloa, etc. )
Then Captain James Cook invaded, and 90% of the natives were wiped out.Then Samson Dole attacked with soldiers, threw out the natives, turned their land into plantations, and turned the natives into day laborers on the plantation, on their own land.
Contrary to popular belief, Hawai’i is not a part of the USA, but a belligerently occupied territory,
1887-1897: Hawaiʻi Rebelled against the USA.
Hawaiʻian people did not choose to be part of the USA.
King David Kalākaua was forced to sign what is called the "Bayonet Constitution". Queen Liliuokalani asserted that Kalākaua's life was threatened: "He signed that constitution under absolute compulsion."Now Hawai’i is full of churches, their own gods are vanishing from memory, thanks to the “librarians”. There’s poverty, a drug epidemic, and seething discontent on the streets. Hawai’ian people are heavily overpoliced, thrown into jail without cause, and denied #justice in the #courts of the occupiers ( #USA ).
All this is hidden from the casual tourist, content to visit a golf course on the sacred land, that has been bulldozed, and be served drinks by little brown people ( usually from the Marshall Islands, Hawai’i locals have mostly left for minimum wage jobs in mainland America ).
Billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey, “own” huge chunks of the land.
Chinese billionaire, Eva Liu, has controlled the Punalu’u Black Sand beach, with a sweetheart deal ( $1 ), and is proposing erasing this natural landmark, spawning site of the endangered Saddleback Turtles, and building resorts there, in the name of “development”.
In 2022, the Hawai’ian people had a setback in court.
( Hawaiian Kingdom v. #Biden ; December 14, 2022 )Librarians have been instrumental, in manipulating minds, and pushing through these insidious #imperialist agendas, and disenfranchising and displacing the local people.
#Earth #environment
#library #libraries #librarian #librarians #liberty #hawaii
#bigisland #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism
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Empresas de telefonía móvil deberían poder elegir tecnología “sin ningún tipo de intromisión”, dice experto de entidad global
El especialista de la GSMA, organismo internacional sobre telecomunicaciones, se refirió al caso de Costa Rica y la exclusión de empresas chinas del 5G.
La entrada Empresas de telefonía móvil deberían poder elegir tecnología “sin ningún tipo de intromisión”, dice experto de entidad global aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#5G #AlejandroAdamowicz #Claro #GSMA #Kölbi #Liberty #País #Tecnología #Telecomunicaciones #ÚltimaHora
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I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85458/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #connecticutyankee #church #churchandstate #corruption #freedomofthought #humannature #liberty #oppression #organizedreligion #religion #religiousintolerance #tyranny
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As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers
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Fabis Statue of Liberty (1986) by American pop artist Andy Warhol. In the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. #andywarhol #andywarholmuseum #theandywarholmuseum #fabisstatueofliberty #opart #popart #popartist #yellow #liberty #ladyliberty #france #francesgift #giftoffrance #giftfromfrance #statue #famousstatue #civicstatue #civicgift #foreigngift #art #arting #artist #artmuseum #pittsburgh #city #allamericancity #modernart #greatart #greatartist
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The Hidden Engine: Incentives Drive American History
History reveals incentives as key drivers behind events.https://simplebender.com/2026/08/01/the-hidden-engine-incentives-drive-american-history/
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🏴☠️ Listen up! Double @workingclasshistory podcast episode on the Golden Age of #Piracy with historian Marcus Rediker. ⚓️ Those legendary #pirates weren't just thieves – they were reckless rebels who confronted colonial empires and the systems of power behind them. 🔥 Resistance, refusal of authority, and freedom for working-class life – listen here 🎧 https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e103-pirates #Resistance #ClassStruggle #Anarchism #AntiImperialism #Liberty #AntiColonialism
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Spring in Budapest (I) by valyeszter
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjh5RAfCq00
#cityscape #building #buildings #artitechture #city #sky #vintage #photography #street #budapest #hungary #citylife #window #architecture #structure #lightsandshadows #shadows #landscape #citycenter #house #walk #spring #afternoon #gellérthegy #gellerthill #gellert #blossoms #almond #liberty #bridge
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Just thinking about how Dominion Voting Systems was sold to company run by former Republican election official last year.
:thinkSpin:
And how if someone continued to make similar claims as those that won Dominion the lawsuit, the newly allied co-conspirator may provide manufactured evidence to support any delusional election conspiracy theories an orange man might say.https://abcnews.com/US/dominion-voting-systems-sold-company-run-former-republican/story?id=126378259
#CurrentMood #USA #trump #Elections #USPol #Dominion #Liberty
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https://www.europesays.com/it/570659/ Trump, la sua memecoin lascia in perdita quasi un milione di investitori (ma lui continua a guadagnare) #acquirenti #Affari #analisi #avvio #Business #calo #corso #criptovalute #dollari #DollariRicavi #donald #DonaldTrump #financial #guadagnano #iniziale #iniziative #insediamento #investitori #IT #Italia #Italy #lanciata #liberty #LibertyFinancial #memecoin #MemecoinTrump #MemecoinTrumpLanciata #nansen #perdita #presidente #società #token #totale #TotaleDollari #trump
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Faith and the Founding: The Religious Roots of the Original Thirteen Colonies
As America celebrates 250 years of independence, it's worth looking beyond the Declaration of Independence to the diverse religious foundations of the original thirteen colonies. Contrary to popular belief, not every colony was founded for religious freedom. Some sought wealth, others provided refuge for persecuted believers, and together they shaped the ideas of faith, liberty, and government that continue to influence our nation today. -
Liberty Bell Bay smelter given another reprieve, with workers keeping their jobs for now
Liberty Bell Bay has been given another reprieve, with administrators for the mothballed Tasmanian smelter continuing to engage…
#NewsBeep #News #Business #adminstrator #AU #Australia #consortium #EY #liberty #libertybellbay #Manganese #smelter
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Liberty Bell Bay smelter given another reprieve, with workers keeping their jobs for now
Liberty Bell Bay has been given another reprieve, with administrators for the mothballed Tasmanian smelter continuing to engage…
#NewsBeep #News #Business #adminstrator #AU #Australia #consortium #EY #liberty #libertybellbay #Manganese #smelter
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Liberty Bell Bay workers given until Monday to find out if smelter will secure alternative funding
A member of the consortium designated as the preferred bidder for the Liberty Bell Bay manganese smelter has…
#Australia #Administration #AU #Austrlia #bellbay #consortium #EYParthenon #FederalLabormemberforBassJessTeesdale #GFGAlliance #lbb #liberty #LibertyBellBaymanganesesmelter #sale #SanjeevGupta
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-10-07), “Safeguards Against Communism,” Masonic Temple, Detroit, MichiganMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #freecountry #freesociety #freedom #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #heterodoxy #minority #unpopularity #liberty
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually, their innermost desire is for an end to the “free for all.” They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 28 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10928/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #competition #failure #freesociety #freedom #frustrated #happiness #inferiority #liberty #selfhatred #selfloathing #truebeliever #unsuccessful
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Thomas Pynchon on ‚Liberty‘
„Unfortunately, young people,“ recalls the Revd, „the word Liberty, unreflectively sacred to us today, was taken in those Times to encompass even the darkest of Men’s rights,— to injure whomever we might wish,— unto extermination, were it possible,— Free of Royal advice or Proclamation Lines and such. This being, indeed and alas, one of the Liberties our late War was fought to secure.“
Thomas Pynchon
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A quotation from Phyllis Wheatley
In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784) African-American poet, manumitted (1773) enslaved person [also "Phillis" and/or "Wheatly"]
Letter (1774-02-11) to Samson OccomMore about this quote: wist.info/wheatley-phyllis/837…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philliswheatley #deliverance #freedom #humannature #imperative #instinct #liberty #oppression #slavery
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This is such a straw man and false dilemma fallacy. People don’t have to work for either private capitalists or the state/collective/society. There is another alternative where people work for themselves individually or jointly: #EconomicDemocracy. This position isn’t justified with appeals to collective authority, but rather liberal individual inalienable #HumanRights theory.
https://youtube.com/shorts/x-lIb2MGQ2w
#politics #individualism #individualist #socialism #capitalism #communism #liberty #mutualism
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Operadores de internet fijo cumplen velocidades en GAM, pero dos incumplen en zonas costeras, según Sutel
El ente regulador señaló que Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia y San José son las provincias donde todas las empresas cumplen con las velocidades contratadas.
La entrada Operadores de internet fijo cumplen [...]#CarlosWatson #InternetFijo #JoséGutiérrez #Kölbi #Liberty #Operadores #País #SUTEL #SuperintendenciaDeTelecomunicaciones #Tecnología #Telecable #Tigo #ÚltimaHora
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“It is then easy to see how #Staël could stem from #Rousseau: both considered #literature as the most secure path to #liberty because it freed the #imagination from social conventions, and prevented #language from being worn down to a series of preset transactional phrases.” aeon.co/essays/the-r...
The role of literature as the ... -
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. We move forward by assuring to all people protection in the basic liberties under a democratic form of government, and then making sure that our government serves the real needs of the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1940-02-10), “Fear is the Enemy,” The Nation, Vol. 150, No. 6More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/62…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #censorship #civilliberties #civilrights #democracy #dissent #generalwelfare #government #liberty
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA
#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism
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On a gray day in a gray time, I happened to pass by this statue in Metz. It depicts Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette with a quote of him from 1778 about the fight for freedom and liberty in America.
I wonder what La Fayette would think today about his legacy...Nowadays, more than ever, we need people like La Fayette who stand up for freedom and fight against despots and oppressors—especially in the United States.
#nokings #liberty #freedom #lafayette #democracy #usa #metz -
Gobierno de Chaves no vería adjudicación de 5G: ICE pide nueva prórroga para adjudicar hasta mediados de mayo
La licitación 5G del ICE acumula un retraso tras otro mientras los competidores de Kölbi ya ofrecen el servicio desde hace meses.
La entrada Gobierno de Chaves no vería adjudicación de 5G: ICE pide nueva prórroga [...]#5G #Atraso #Claro #Contratación #Ericsson #ICE #Kölbi #Liberty #Licitación #Nokia #País #RodrigoChaves #Samsung #Sicop #Tecnología #ÚltimaHora
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We're removing the #OliveBranch from our eagle, for our 250th commemorative coins. The dime on its reverse (obverse is #Liberty) will have an eagle w/arrows for war but no branch of #peace.
Taken directly from our 1775 diplomatic "Olive Branch Petition" to #KingGeorge III, the *U.S. Seal* shows the #eagle holding both, & pointedly facing the branch of peace, not facing the arrows of #war.
Add the war crime of "No quarter!" & here we are.
#OurPutin #AnotherOrban #GOP #KKK
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Sutel evaluó el internet fijo de cuatro empresas: estos son los resultados por cada provincia
El indicador refleja el grado en que cada operador cumple en brindar el servicio de acuerdo con las velocidades contratadas.
La entrada Sutel evaluó el internet fijo de cuatro empresas: estos son los resultados por cada provincia aparece primero en Seman [...]#Descarga #FedericoChacón #Internet #InternetFijo #Kölbi #Liberty #País #SUTEL #Telecable #Tigo #Velocidad #ÚltimaHora
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Sutel prohíbe fusión entre Liberty y Tigo ante posibles “daños irreversibles”; empresas rechazan medida
La superintendencia advirtió que la transacción podía significar un riesgo para la competencia y los consumidores.
La entrada Sutel prohíbe fusión entre Liberty y Tigo ante posibles “daños irrev [...]#CostaRica #EMPRESAS #FedericoChacón #Fusión #JoséPabloRivera #Liberty #Milicom #País #SUTEL #SuperintendenciaDeTelecomunicaciones #Telecomunicaciones #Tigo #ÚltimaHora
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Banco Nacional niega direccionamiento de contrato a Cisco, pero todos los oferentes son proveedores de esa marca
El banco calificó como “coincidencia” que todos los oferentes sean canales de Cisco y aseguró que exigir que los equipos sean compatibles con esa marca “no constituye direccionamiento”.
La entrada Banco Nacional niega [...]#BANCONACIONALDECOSTARICA #BN #BNCR #BancoNacional #CGR #Cisco #Contraloría #ContratoDirecto #Impreso #Liberty #Licitación #País #Sicop
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Encuesta de Sutel: Claro, Kölbi y Telecable son los mejores evaluados por usuarios
El estudio evaluó los servicios de internet fijo, telefonía móvil, telefonía fija y televisión por suscripción.
La entrada Encuesta de Sutel: Claro, Kölbi y Telecable son los m [...]#Claro #Encuesta #FedericoChacón #Internet #Kölbi #Liberty #País #SUTEL #ServiciosDeTelecomunicaciones #Sky #SuperintendenciaDeTelecomunicaciones #TELEFONIA #Telecable #Televisión #Tigo #Usuarios #ÚltimaHora
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Nothing is more detestable than disgrace, nothing more shameful than slavery. We have been born for glory and freedom — let us either hold on to these things or die with dignity.
[Nihil est detestabilius dedecore, nihil foedius servitute. Ad decus et ad libertatem nati sumus; aut haec teneamus aut cum dignitate moriamur.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 36 (3.14/3.36) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2019)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #defeat #dignity #disgrace #dishonor #freedom #glory #liberty #servitude #slavery
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ICE rechaza último recurso de Huawei contra cancelación de concurso 5G y le queda vía libre para nuevo proceso
La entidad planea sacar a licitación una nueva contratación para 5G pese a que informes técnicos trazan otra ruta como la más conveniente.
La entrada ICE rechaza último recurso de Huawei c [...]#5G #Apelación #Claro #Huawei #ICE #InstitutoCostarricenseDeElectricidad #Kölbi #Liberty #ORAN #OpenRan #País #Recurso #Revocatoria #Sicop #TeodoroWillink #ÚltimaHora
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Director del OIJ asegura que kölbi, Liberty y Telecable negaron información para investigación de ciberfraudes
Las tres empresas fueron allanadas este martes como parte de un operativo internacional en que también participaron las autoridades colombianas.
La entrada Director del OIJ asegura que kölbi, Liberty y Telecable negaron informac [...]#Ciberfraudes #Estafas #Fraudes #FraudesBancarios #Kölbi #Liberty #País #RandallZúñiga #RodolfoApéstegui #Telecable #ÚltimaHora
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Fiscalía y OIJ dirigen nueve allanamientos en operación internacional sobre ciberfraudes bancarios a clientes del BCR
El operativo Nexus incluye seis allanamientos en viviendas; tres en oficinas centrales de empresas proveedoras de inte [...]
#Allanamientos #BCR #Cibercrimen #Colombia #Estafas #FiscalíaDeCibercrimen #FraudesBancarios #Kölbi #Liberty #Medellín #MinisterioPúblico #Nexus #Oij #OrganismoDeInvestigaciónJudicial #País #RodolfoApéstegui #Telecable #ÚltimaHora
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we are the 3.5 percenters, the loudmouths, the courageous, the ones who shake things up until the head tyrant is no more
tyrants and oligarchs are alone, they neither have, nor represent, #ThePeople
. The People cannot be bought, intimidated, or forced to betray their own self-interestthe interests of The People are sacred
Jesus Christ hated oligarchs, lovers of money
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Home Office fails to monitor asylum accommodation providers including Clearsprings and Serco | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-not-monitoring-asylum-seekers-accommodation-providers-billion-pound-contracts-clearsprings-serco-mears/#HomeOffice
#AsylumSeekers
#Refugees
#Housing
#AsylumAccommodation
#Clearsprings
#Serco
#Substandard
#SubstandardHousing
#OpenDemocracy
#Liberty
#Mears
#NationalAuditOffice
#NAO
#NoUpToDateListOfSubcontractors
#StayBelvedereHotels
#CrownLodge
#LionsGroup
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Millicon pierde millonario juicio por retractarse en compra de Telefónica en Costa Rica
La principal marca de Millicom es Tigo y sus planes de compra con Telefónica fueron concretados -y aprobado por la Sutel- en el 2019. La fallida transacción fue lo que llevó a Telefónica a vender sus activos a Liberty
La entrada Millicon pierde millonario juicio por retractarse en compra de Telefónica en Costa Rica aparece primero en [...] -
Post-Risorgimento Idealism: Historical Context of Giovanni Gentile’s Fascism, Mazzini and Carbonari Theosophists
NOTES ON GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY
This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in a way most people have not considered. Let us for the time being forget what H.P. Blavatsky states about Central Asian origins of Theosophy, the origins of Zoroastrianism, the preserved magical knowledge of the priesthoods of Ancient Chaldea and India, and just focus on the historical contexts of the nineteenth-century. The student must take into account the context, beginning in particular with the rise of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile as the two leading Italian intellectual tyros in their time trying to expand beyond Hegel’s Absolute Idealism. Similarly, the intellectual substance of Theosophy has been described rightly, as an objective idealism, but not an idealism that rejects the existence of matter.
Theosophy intervened in the great debate of the time occurring between scientific monism and Christian dualism. The Theosophical position however does not originate from Crocean, Hegelian, or Gentilian idealism, though it is able to make commentary on it. The metaphysical position of Theosophy has been identified with the Great Madhyamika, the Samkhya school and the Svabhavika doctrine in Indian philosophy.
The metaphysics of Croce and Gentile, both differing themselves, are connected to the historical context of the Italian Risorgimento. Croce and Gentile take two different trajectories, both trying to develop their own forms of monistic metaphysics, with Giovanni Gentile committing himself to radicalism. Fascism developed from a party, organically, founded by soldiers and veterans with political motive and political rivals.
Theosophy on the other hand does not articulate itself through a common political motive, as say the one that bound the revolutionary syndicalists, nationalists, Futurists and philosophical idealists in Italy and Gentile to radicalism as opposed to the development of Croce’s pragmatic idealism. He shares this tendency to radicalism with Mussolini, who is seen as a leader of the radical right in a fight against the left. This omits Mussolini’s anarchist sympathies, for he considered anarchists superior to socialists and communists.
The controversy over hidden political motive hung over the affairs of the Theosophical Movement, because while declaring it was not centered on political motive, nevertheless had an effect on the political world. The sponsors of H.P. Blavatsky are more than K.H. and Morya, and she was involved in spiritual and political affairs. It is a web of international political drama and struggle surrounding her, and was beyond her. Political and military events in the period affected the work of adepts in regions such as Egypt, Syria and Greece. Several of adepts seemed perceptive when it came to political events.
As to Gentilian thought, I maintain, as some before me, that Gentile’s exposition is vital to understanding the intellectual substance of Fascism, which is an entirely different ideal taught by any Western intellectual, or self-identified Fascist of our era. Hence, historical context means everything here to understand the origins and doctrine of Fascism, for Gentile specifically designs it for an Italian audience, and an answer to the dilemma of Italy within the web of complex political events.
Many of the patriots, dignitaries and disciples involved in this history did in fact hold political motives, as written before regarding the Polish Jewish kabbalist, Max Theon, a teacher of H.P.B. As stated, H.P.B. also took the great trouble of involving herself in the struggles of Garibaldi and Mazzini. H.P.B. hence held an interest in Italian politics, since she associated herself with the Carbonarist association, ‘Young Europe’ based on the model of Young Italy. In Mazzini’s exile during much of the 1850s, H.P.B. had a meeting with Mazzini in London.
Henry S. Olcott recalled a period prior to the formation of the TS in 1875, in a conversation with a caller at her Irving Place apartment:
“Among her callers was an Italian artist, a Signor B., formerly a Carbonaro. I was sitting alone with her in her drawing room when he made his first visit. They talked of Italian affairs, and when he suddenly pronounced the name of one of the greatest of the Adepts, she started as if she had received an electric shock; looked him straight in the eyes, and said (in Italian) “What is it? I am ready.” (HENRY S. OLCOTT, OLD DIARY LEAVES, VOL. 1, PP. 15-16)
Olcott further adds in detail, that they had been “talking in the most friendly and unreserved way about Italy. Garibaldi, Mazzini, the Carbonari, the Eastern and Western adepts, etc” (ibid). Mazzini was perhaps, considered a Western adept, as with Agardi Metrovitch, the “half a Slavonian” in his ‘present incarnation,’ H.P.B. mentions. The also mentioned “Signor B.” was Signor Bruzzesi, Il Conte, sculptor and secretary to Mazzini, who became acquainted with H.P.B. and Metrovitch, a Carbonaro and Mazzinist, in Italy. Both early Theosophists, Metrovitch and Charles Sotheran were disciples of Mazzini. Charles Sotheran had been later kicked out of the Theos. Soc. by H.P.B. for being involved in political violence with socialists.
“Mazzini’s view of religion stressed the concepts of Progress, Humanity, and Duty, which are implicit in the above quotation. The enlightened approach to religion, in his view, is to regard it as an unfolding expression of humanity’s discovery of its own divine potentialities. HPB’s role in history was Mazzinian in that she contributed to the liberation of human thought from old orthodoxies, while lighting the path of the future by her synthesis of the secret traditions of all nations. Her sympathy for the Asian victims of European imperialism led her to detest the missionary activities which accompanied it. Mazzini proclaimed that Christianity was in ruins and a new religious force was needed to fill the void of skepticism. This may have contributed to HPB’s vision of the Theosophical Movement’s mission. The juxtaposition of her comments about the Carbonari, her relationship with Metrovitch, and Guenon’s allegations implies that Mazzini’s influence on her development was profoundly important.”
K. PAUL JOHNSON, THE MASTERS REVEALED, P. 42-43.
Rashid Rida, a disciple of Muhammad ‘Abduh recalled an explanation on the role of Masonry, and the motives of Jamal al-Din. This explanation partially explains the basis of those political motives.
“I asked him once what masonry really was, and he said that its role–now ended–in the countries in which it is found was to resist the authority of kings and popes who were fighting against knowledge and freedom, and that this was a great achievement and one of the pillars of European progress (…) He also told me that his membership and the Sayyid’s (Afghani) was for a political and social purpose.”
ELIE KEDOURIE, AFGHANI AND ‘ABDUH, P. 8.
This was the same simple purpose of Johann’s Adam Weishaupt ideal, as with the anti-Austrian political activities of the elusive Comte de Saint-Germain, and that of Giuseppe Mazzini, but specifically in the period and context of Italy’s revolution, the fight was for the redemption of Italy. Gentile loathed the fact, that Italy lived in the shadow of others, and had lost its glory. Italy was not respected among the European nations then, considered poor, weak and dirty. Gentilian thought is Gentile’s interpretation of Giuseppe Mazzini’s thought. Therefore, Fascism is considered a continuity of the efforts of the Risorgimento, both for this redemption of Italy, hence the rationale for the support of Italy’s intervention in the First World War.
In order for Italy to be redeemed, it was believed, Italy needed to make history through the victory of war. Gentile influenced Mussolini to accept the distinction of Fascism as an embodiment of Mazzinian ideas, in so far as Gentile understood Mazzini and Mazzini’s romantic ideas of progress. Liberals, mainstream Historians, nor Fascists tell you this today, despite certain scholars having already explained this. Gentile’s Fascism infused with Mazzinian philosophical idealism highly emphasized a call to:
- National mission (the destiny of peoples),
- An all-encompassing morality,
- Anti-individualism,
- Religiosity,
- Totalitarian unity,
- Selfless duty,
- Roman tradition of family,
- Centrality of the State.
Gentile interprets these to be the call of Mazzini’s republican idealism, which is infused into Fascism to create this civic religion. Gentile legitimately contested, that Fascism was positively committed to convictions such as equality, democracy, liberty, freedom and progress.
Gentile believed, that Fascism developed from liberalism:
“As far as I am concerned, liberalism is not reborn, because it never died. As all ideas, it is transformed in life, which is never lived in vain, and in which nothing is preserved unchanged. It is transformed, and now it is called fascism. . . .which is the most coherent, historically mature and perfect conception of the state as freedom. . . .” (Giovanni Gentile)
Gentile demonstrates his faith in the democratic masses and the best among them, when he stated that history is not made by the heroes, or by the masses, but by those heroes who sense the inarticulate, yet powerful impulses of the moving masses.
The heroes, he says have always been the few, an elite, who then proceed to inspire and galvanize the masses, and in this process of making history, “the masses find a person who succeeds in making explicit their obscure moral sentiments.” “The moral universe is that of the multitudes,” he says, “and the multitudes are governed and energized by an idea whose precise features reveal itself but to a few, an elite who then proceed to inspire masses and give form and life to history.”
It is though ironic, that after the failed days of Mazzini as Triumvir of his Republican Rome, Mazzini was reduced from a man of action to a theoretician. Similarly, when the Theosophical Society appeared to be crumbling from within, H.P. Blavatsky left Adyar to spend her days writing in London. Although, indeed, she had given her life and fortunes to her cause and proved herself in her life to be a woman of action. Hence, things that had often been said negatively about her, paled in comparison to the respect I had for her in her efforts and belief in her mission. In this mission, I too, believe. This mission was far more than the American revolutionaries had dreamt of, for the efforts of the American revolutionaries though an independent cause born out of struggle, blood and genocide, were exactly in its basic constitution, philosophy or argument, inspired by a long lineage of virtues, philosophy, legacy, heroes and sages.
It is certain, that Giovanni Gentile considered Mussolini could be guided, and be a hero. Gentile was wrong, and the path he chose was his alone. While Gentile possessed a moral philosophy, which he tried to infuse into Fascism, Fascism developed everything but that moral system. For Mussolini, there was no time. Fascism had to be pragmatic and adapt quickly to the situation at hand. Fascism, as Gentile expounds, relates to Zen Buddhism, the philosophy of the Shogun military dictatorships, and Stoicism.
Without Gentilian thought, Fascism is merely the reflected aspects and flaws of D’Annunzio’s and Mussolini’s psychology and a gang of thugs. The issues of the early party led it to shed such early notions, including members who defected, or left the party, to be replaced by zealots all-consumed by Jewish-Masonic conspiracies, and cracking the skulls in of their political opponents in the streets.
The way Fascism developed reflects the psychology of its leader. Gentile claimed the Fascist State was to be democratic, and Fascist revolutionary thought to be centered on freedom and liberty. This was understood through an ennobling spiritual philosophy and metaphysics. However, the modern Fascist today appears merely a Fascist, because of having fell too headlong into an internet rabbit-hole. and understands Fascism through propaganda reels, trying to find justification for one’s aesthetic racism.
In Gentile’s philosophy, life is seriousness, and man ought to learn of their inner spiritual nature, our place within the moral order of things, and our duty or individual responsibility to the progress of our evolution as a civilization. The humanism of young Gentile exists in Fascism, or “radical humanism” as he directly defined it.
Classical Republicanism has the belief in a deific and supernal quality in Man, that is shared with the ancient Stoics. It moves us to seek to conduct ourselves in life in a sense that aims toward self-development and self-transcendence. The totalistic or totalitarian view of things expressed by Gentile is Platonist, and Gentile continues to develop the anti-enlightenment romanticism and idealism of Hegel.
There are scholars who claim to unveil what they call Western illusions about Plato, arguing that the origins of Fascism and totalism can be found in the writings of Plato. Mazzini, Al-Afghani, Blavatsky, Gentile, and Theon despite being different persons with different philosophies all think as Platonists in their view of what constitutes the Good. This emphasis on the decadence of modernity they all share is not a “Traditionalist” argument. Anyone that has read Theosophical literature closely knows about cyclical time, and the Ages of Man.
The vices, failings, trappings, and degeneration of morality and order through the ages are all the same plea to bring to life once again a truly ennobling philosophy. Gentile not only emphasizes the necessity of the connection between thought, action, and will, familiar in the objective idealism of Theosophy, he shared at its basis this same plea, however through his own philosophy and interpretation of Mazzini.
The foundational elements of Fascism can be studied through these:
- Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism
- The Manifesto of San Sepolcro
- The Verona Manifesto
- The Diary of the Will
- The Fascist Movement in Italian Life
- Palmieri’s The Philosophy of Fascism
- Gentile’s The Philosophic Basis of Fascism and The General Theory of the Spirit
- The Constitution of Fiume (and Fiume’s history and D’Annunzio’s view on it)
- History and Ideas on Giuseppi Mazzini and his disciples
- History on French Revolution, English Republicanism, and the Italian Risorgimento.
You may also study the instructive Carl Cohen’s “Communism, Fascism, and Democracy: The Theoretical Foundations” often used in introductory college courses on Political Theory. This book includes direct writings by Friedrich Engels, Robert Owen, Georg W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Thomas Jefferson, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, John C. Calhoun, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Russell A. Kirk, Norman Thomas, Friedrich A. Hayek, Pericles, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others.
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Strong restriction of movement, commerce, open questioning, and increased surveillance took the world by storm. A deranged mentality commonly reserved for places where the most tyrannical hierarchies rule became ordinary worldwide. Instead of reading the novel 1984 as a warning, rulers are reading it as an instruction manual.
We can find solutions in the Satoshi Principles
