#politician
One Jewish politician I have maximum respect for Dr Ofer Cassif. I'm so glad
that the attempt to impeach him and remove him from the Knesset failed...
He has been beaten up for defending Palestinians against settlers by the police,
it takes real courage of conviction to stand up to the far right in Israel during war.
Lone anti-war Jewish voice in Israel’s parliament says it has blood on its hands,
he accused Israel of enacting a plan in its war with Hamas which he compared
to the Nazi's Final Solution against Jews.
#OferCassif
#politician
#Israel
#SpeakingTruthToPower
#ManOfPeace
#Respect
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/11/who-is-israeli-mp-ofer-cassif-why-is-he-backing-south-africa-at-the-icj
A quotation from Elders, Joycelyn
As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.
Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933) American pediatrician, public health administrator, academic
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, s. 4, ep. 6 “Abstinence” (2006-06-05)
#quote #quotes #quotation #decisionmaking #government #politician #politics #privacy #sexuality
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/elders-joycelyn/64872/
https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Mike_Johnson_(Louisiana_politician)
Mike #Johnson (Louisiana #politician): #Astrological Article and Chart
Born: Sunday, January 30, 1972 (time unknown)
In: Shreveport (LA) (United States)
Sun: 9°57' Aquarius
Moon: 13°28' Leo
Just when I thought we had reached peak headline with "armed police chasing pig" we have this one.
Kiri Allan is our justice minister running from the scene of a car crash.
Unfortunately she had been drinking and driving the hit the back of a parked car.
The police used dogs to track her.
Of note she has been having a hard time in the last few years and should not have been in her job.
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Carthago delenda est – “Carthage must be destroyed” – was a Roman strategic aim 2,200 years ago. It was regularly repeated in his public speeches by Marcus Porcius Cato in his advocacy of putting an end to the Punic Wars by destroying the Carthaginian adversary entirely, not just militarily, so that it could never rise again to challenge Roman power. The opposition slogan was Carthago servanda est – “Carthage must be saved”. Its author, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, meant don’t rule by force if it can be avoided; instead conserve lives, resources, power.
Cato was a #politician; Corculum was a #soldier. The political strategy of doing what you can because you can, and as a warning to everyone else, won out; Cato is remembered even now; Corculum is forgotten. This is not because imperial history repeats itself, but because the history is always written by people aiming to stay on the winning side: they don’t know any better until the empire has been lost and their retainers with it.
If only we had a #politician that would fight against #climatechange like #Macron fights for his pension reform.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Cx6qpwbL3o93/
Andrew Bridgen, The Little #Rat #Politician #Who Tells You He Cares About You Now, He Didn’t In 2021
#Politician: I will take as many shots as it takes. It took four to kill him. #Dead at 36.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OI4hPad7SV2K/
#Bolsonaro’s son forgot to pay for the #internet #domain … and so someone ... see: https://bolsonaro.com.br
#Brazil #politics #politician #president #satire #protest #lol #fail #news #web #www
Indian #politician drinks #water from polluted ‘holy’ river to impress supporters, gets hospitalised
source: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/bhagwant-mann-hospitalised-water-river-b2128915.html
The chief minister of a north Indian state was briefly hospitalised two days after a viral video showed he downed a glass of polluted water from a “holy river” on the heels of a #campaign to clean waterbodies.
#fail #news #india #pollution #environment #politics #health
New York’s Stylish Slide Into #Despotism - The Return of the Roaring #Twenties
Source: https://modernheretic.com/
The text is so fitting that this time I have to reproduce very long passages.
concern about the supposed risk posed by “the unvaccinated,” who apparently no longer merit consideration as human beings worthy of compassion; we’ve become in the minds of people like him just a filthy amalgam of contagion and stigma.
They are not, as they have styled themselves in their own delusional minds, the hip Cagney-esque mobster with a heart of gold making gin in the bathtub or the wild flapper dancing the charleston on the roof with a skirt short enough to scandalize the matronly landlady below; they are the scandalized landlady who will snitch to the #police the first chance she gets or the sanctimonious #politician who is building his profitable career on compelled temperance.
Despite lusting after subversive non-conformity, these mere re-enactors are content to live in the shadows of their rebel icons, resigned to merely creating the palest imitation of the lives of truly adventurous people from the past instead of having the courage to live their own adventures today. With their obsession for safety, these people can only infuse their lives with the adventure they still crave by living vicariously through others more daring than themselves.
That is why when finally faced with the #opportunity to rage against the machine, these imposters got behind the machine and helped push it along instead. Lacking the moral courage to stand for their supposed convictions, they sublimate their own desire to be deviant into movies and make-believe. From the #punk enthusiast with a shaved head and ripped pants to the John Waters fan who identifies with the Drapes in Crybaby–many of these people who lust after subversive non-conformity and style themselves after countercultural icons are ironically, laughably, pathetically devoted to fitting in.
When it comes to the dichotomy of maestro versus tribal character types, they are #tribal people through and through. In essence, the tribal personality is the #conformist who is conventional, strives to fit in with others, and is great at tasks requiring unity and standardization. The maestro is the aloof non-conformist who is comfortably on their own wavelength, who is not afraid to think outside the box, and prefers to work independently. According to a popular career guidance book, the vast #majority of the population are tribal types, and maestros comprise a tiny minority.
It is easy to see this dichotomy illustrated in the #pandemic. We see it amply demonstrated in mask compliance, with tribal individuals basing the strictness of their mask-wearing, not on any supposed concern about germ prevention— but solely based on what others around them are doing. They are stringent about mask wearing when around others who also appear to be strict in their compliance. But when around others who defy the custom, they let their masks slip down to their chins or even take it off altogether because they know the risk of social ostracism is low. For most people, the mask serves as a social tool rather than a tool of supposed #hygiene.
Tribal people’s sense of values is relative and changes based on their social environments. All the societal evils that have taken place in the United States (and elsewhere) have occurred by the hands of an #establishment with the consent and complicity of masses of otherwise good, tribal-minded people who lacked the #independence and courage to be deviant. If it looks like the majority are going along with something, even something in retrospect that would clearly be deemed wrong or evil, the tribal person will go along with it as well by rationalizing their guilt and responsibility away. These rationalizations, collectively, become mass delusions that are later used to excuse the complicity in the wrong-doing. “We did not now any better,” or “it was a different time,” they will say. Hogwash. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they lacked the courage to stand apart from the crowd. For every mass atrocity that was committed, there was a strident minority that not only knew better but tried to hold the majority to task for its actions. These minorities were #historically and are currently dismissed, ignored, laughed at, socially ostracized, or even penalized.
Progressive #ideology teaches that we are better than previous generations, that we have learned our lessons from past mistakes, and that we will not repeat those mistakes. This is a load of crock, and the past two years have shown that humans are no more evolved now than they were at any previous period, that they are more willing than ever to persecute others for their differences and to subjugate people into #conformity. If nothing else, the pandemic revealed that most people today have no deep understanding of why various past persecutions were wrong, and if persecution today does not look exactly like a persecution of yesterday they cannot recognize it for what it is. Their understanding of persecution as a moral wrong is a reductionist list of rote memorization rather than an innate value borne of an underlying moral #philosophy.
These tribal-minded people, these supposed lovers of #rebellion and #subversion, are going to rationalize their culpability and cowardice away. They always do. They will say that they were operating on the best information they had at the time, that no one could have known, that even the experts were fooled, that they simply followed the leaders and experts.
We cannot let them get away with these lies.
Their complicity was not an innocent mistake as they will try to make us believe, but a willful effort to persecute the rebel #opposition.
Declared emergencies are the most expedient way for governments to seize power and the method by which many military dictatorships come into existence. A medical #dictatorship is a new twist on an old classic. Emergency powers enable politicians to do things they otherwise do not have the power to do and to severely trample on the rights of the citizenry
Who will be #Germany’s next #foreign #minister? Nobody cares.
As far as #Merkel and her team were concerned, that made Maas perfect for the job. In contrast to his two immediate predecessors, both political heavyweights with the gravitas to assert themselves on the #world stage, #Maas, who spent most of his career as a local #SPD #politician in his native Saarland, resembled a deer in the headlights standing alongside the likes of Mike #Pompeo, secretary of state under former U.S. President Donald #Trump.
