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mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

Russian colonialism is not reformable says historian Botakoz Kassymbekova

Most #Russians seem unwilling to give up the privileges the government gives them at the expense of the country's #ethnic #minorities

"Russian dissidents want to retain the #empire, which means they want to maintain the status quo,” Kassymbekova alleges. “This status quo will never bring democracy, simply because an empire is an #authoritarian system," she adds.

Some believe #Russia is among the last empires still standing, being a vast and highly centralized state that rules over a variety of different peoples. Russian “national republics,” regions that were created to give a form of autonomy to national minorities living in them, are, in fact, governed from Moscow, with governors directly appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-colonialism-is-not-reformable-says-historian-botakoz-kassymbekova/

#Imperialism

'Russian colonialism is not reformable,' says historian Botakoz Kassymbekova

Most Russians seem unwilling to give up the privileges the government gives them at the expense of the country's ethnic minorities, says Botakoz Kassymbekova, a historian focusing on Eastern Europe at the University of Zurich. "Russian...

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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

Comply...
As part of those efforts, the U.S. stationed a regional export control officer in Taiwan for the first time last year to help ensure that companies there, as well as in Japan and Korea, comply with Washington's rules. — https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/U.S.-steps-up-export-control-enforcement-efforts-in-Taiwan
#compliance #us #empire #taiwan

U.S. steps up export control enforcement efforts in Taiwan

Washington posts first regional officer in Taipei, continues Huawei probe

theaitetos@diaspora.psyco.fr
theaitetos

The Economic Decline of Germany

The suicidal decision to increase energy prices is now causing centuries-old German breweries to shut down:

The #decline of the traditional #German brewing #industry shows no signs of slowing down. Recently, several breweries have filed for #bankruptcy or closed permanently, resulting in the loss of centuries-old brewing traditions.

The latest victims are the Gambrinus Brewery in Weiden, Upper Palatinate, and the Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach, about 100 km southeast. Both are located in the Bavarian border region with the Czech Republic, an area often described as structurally weak. The nearly 100-year-old Gambrinus Brewery filed for insolvency on Friday at the Weiden District Court due to unpaid bills and outstanding wages. The brewery’s decline is attributed to rising costs, pandemic-related sales losses, and internal issues, with current production at around 15,000 hl, half its peak output.

On Thursday, it was announced that the insolvent Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach would close permanently after nearly 500 years, ceasing production. Despite intensive negotiations, no investors were willing to continue operations. Remaining employees have been let go, and the Viechtacher brand will continue to be produced at the nearby Hofmark Brewery in Loifling, located in the Cham district of the Upper Palatinate.

Last month, the 672-year-old Karmeliter-Bräu from Salz near Bad Neustadt an der Saale (about 75 km northeast of Würzburg) permanently closed its doors. The brand and distribution rights were acquired by Oettinger Brewery, one of Germany’s largest brewery groups, mainly active in the entry-level segment. It is speculated that the brand, named after a monastic order, will be used to establish the group in the higher-priced segment, similar to other well-known brands like Trappist, Augustiner, Paulaner, Franziskaner, Benediktiner, and Kapuziner.

In addition to various external and internal factors, the wave of brewery closures is also due to declining beer consumption in #Germany. Recent figures show a significant drop in sales in June 2024 compared to June 2023, with a total decrease of 11.2% or nearly 1 million hl. The Federal Statistical Office reported that beer sales in June 2024, at 7.77 million hl, were the lowest for June since the Beer Tax Act was revised in 1993.

#Prosperity is never a given. This decline, and in some cases, inevitable #collapse of various #societies is the direct result of the national elites being subverted and converted to false and foreign ideologies that promote dyscivilizational dysgenics. #Diversity is not a strength, it is a fatal #cancer to every society, as is readily observable in the histories of every #fallen #empire. The #migrants are no better for the #Germans than the #Spaniards were for the #Incas, or than the #Arabs were for the #Byzantines. In the end, it’s not the armies that eradicate a #human #society, but the #women and #children who normally follow them and eventually replace the #native #genetics with their own.

A Germany full of Germans is an economic powerhouse. An area of 357,022 square kilometers in the middle of #Europe populated primarily by German-speaking #Turks, #Arabs, and #Africans will be neither German nor an economic powerhouse. This is not rocket science.

The dirt is not magic. The ideas are not material. People will always live according to their own natural preferences. The transplantation of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants to the New World is what made America what it was in the place of the American Indian societies that preceded it. Neither geography nor ideology nor language nor even religion are determinant in the end, as genetics ultimately and always dictates the destinies of nations.

As the great Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld has written, #immigration is #war. To be more specific, it is war on the native people and their culture.

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gring@diasp.org
The

Presidential Candidate Jill Stein on Fighting The US War Machine

In the third episode of The Racket, Journalist and Author Matt #Kennard speaks to #American physician, activist, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill #Stein ‪@JillStein2024‬. They discuss #US foreign policy, #corruption and #empire, renewed #fears of #Nuclear #war and Julian Assange & Edward Snowden's place in The White House.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs3CqUWmNUU

Obrigado; @mulk@diasp.eu

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kuchinster@rusx.org
kuchinster

We lied, we cheated, we stole

Image/photo☭ The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇷 wrote the following post Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:02:35 +0300

CIA Director Mike Pompeo summarized the job of the US spy agency: "We lied, we cheated, we stole"

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo admitted in 2019 that, in the coup-plotting spy agency, "We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like, we had entire training courses". Pompeo then became secretary of state - head of the US State Department, overseeing Washington's foreign policy.

https://youtu.be/EIwjkt6WeRA

#USA #US #deepstate #CIA #Washington #american #empire of #lie #spy #fraud #murders #crimes #history

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

#vampire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8O1E-2jfpE

#empire - bomb the bass
I’m looking at your soul, your soul, your soul, your soul
I’m looking at your future, your future, future, future
As I look into your eyes, these eyes, these eyes, these eyes
I see another side, side, side, side

Vampire, you feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire you suck the life of goodness
Vampire, you feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire you suck the life of goodness

Turn the light on
Let the light shine bright
Turn the light on
Let the light shine bright

You’ve got to feel yourself and let go
You got to know you reap what you sow
You’ve got to feel something at sometime

Check the writings on the wall
And look to the sign
You’re spending all your money on gear that never work
you’re wasting all your energy and everywhere it hurts
God it really hurts
yes it really hurts
you got to know yourself

Vampire, you feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire, you suck the life of goodness
Yes
Vampire, you feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire you suck the life of goodness

From now on I’ll call you England
From now on I’ll call you England
From now on I’ll call you England
From now on I’ll call you England

See if you spit in the sky
It will fall in your eye
You see what goes up must come down
You will die looking up, if you’re not looking in
you’ve got to know yourself

I’m looking at your pastures and they were never green
I’m looking for your justice and it can not be seen
I’m checking where you’re coming from and where you’re going to
I’m checking out what you have done to see what you can do
I’m looking at your lawbooks and they were never read
I’m looking at your lovesquire and they can not be dread
I’m looking at your empire slipping on the drears
You’ve got to know yourself

Vampire, you feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire, you suck the life of goodness
Yes
Vampire, you feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire you suck the life of goodness

From now on I’ll call you England
Empire fall man, empire go
From now on I’ll call you England
There’s a lesson to be learned, by that, you must know
From now on I’ll call you England
And the rich that you eat is more like food that you fear
From now on I’ll call you England
gotta see no love anyway you appear
From now on I’ll call you England
you’ve got to know yourself
from now on I’ll call you England
you’ve got to know yourself

https://open.spotify.com/track/0FAU5cYiAbjZsnnK7acoIy
Empire - song and lyrics by Bomb The Bass, Benjamin Zephaniah, Sinéad O'Connor

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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

The Twilight of the British Empire archiveorg
British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 (2017)
Chikara Hashimoto
This book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain’s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by the British Intelligence and Security Services and he Information Research Department (IRD) of the Foreign Office, Britain’s secret propaganda apparatus.
#book #uk #me #middleeast #empire #intelligence #countersubversion #history #chikarahashimoto

The Twilight of the British Empire - British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain’s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies...

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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

100 years ago natives were given the right to become automatically citizens of the empire!!!

While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines a citizen as any persons born in the United States and subject to its laws and jurisdiction, the amendment had previously been interpreted by the courts not to apply to Native peoples. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

#usa #history #empire #indians #firstnations

Indian Citizenship Act - Wikipedia

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

Michael Parenti on the ruling class' concern with our thinking/perceptions

"But they don’t care about what we think. They turn a deaf ear to us," some people complain. That is not true. They care very much about what you think. In fact, that is the only thing about you that holds their attention and concern. They don’t care if you go hungry, unemployed, sick, or homeless. But they do care when you are beginning to entertain resistant democratic #thoughts. They get nervous when you discard your #liberal complaints and adopt a #radical analysis. They do care that you are catching on as to what the motives and functions of the national security state and the US global empire are all about at home and in so many corners of the world. They get furiously concerned when you and millions like you are rejecting the pap that is served up by corporate #media and establishment leaders.

By controlling our #perceptions, they control our society; they control public #opinion and public #discourse. And they limit the range and impact of our political #consciousness. The plutocrats know that their power comes from their ability to control our empowering responses. They know they can live at the apex of the social pyramid only as long as they can keep us in line at the pyramid’s base. Who pays for all their wars? We do. Who fights these #wars? We do or our low-income loved ones do. If we refuse to be led around on a super-patriotic, fear-ridden leash and if we come to our own decisions and act upon them more and more as our ranks grow, then the ruling profiteers’ power shrinks and can even unwind and crash—as has happened with dynasties and monarchies of previous #epochs.

We need to strive in every way possible for the revolutionary unraveling, a #revolution of organized #consciousness striking at the #empire’s heart with full force when #democracy is in the streets and mobilized for the kind of irresistible upsurge that seems to come from nowhere yet is sometimes able to carry everything before it.

There is nothing sacred about the existing system. All economic and political #institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the #people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic.

--- Michael Parenti, in his book Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies (highlights added by me)

#MichaelParenti #capitialism #oligarchy #RulingClass

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petitpain@diaspora.psyco.fr
CradoK

Macron l'Américain, la France livrée aux Gafam ?

Off Investigation | 26 avr. 2024

2 américains et demi en 17 ans, et le cauchemar américain est là, bien inséré, lui.

https://piped.lunar.icu/watch?v=ey33QCAo5hc

c'est toujours pire de regarder derrière, les choses nous pete à la gueule, pour ceux qui sont immergé par les médias tv, quelle médiocrité cette télé, et dire que... ho merde après tout - 2017 - Le Pixel Mort
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=SUwdqI9kbMk&autoplay=0&continue=0&dark_mode=true&listen=0&local=1&loop=0&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=medium&thin_mode=false

Macron face à Poutine | Damien Gillard, Antoine Donneaux & Isabelle Hauben | Le Grand Cactus 151
https://youtu.be/5QvVu6ERtiM?t=288
https://piped.privacydev.net/watch?v=5QvVu6ERtiM?t=288

#politique #reportage #docu #macronLamerloc #corruption #NapoMacron #capitalisme #empire #neo-con #occident #peuple-sans-voix

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