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"I don't have any flashy bank account, I don't have any glittering jewels, I don't have any show buildings, I don't have any big assets. But I have friends and people to whom I can give my favour. That's what's important - people you can help to become better. Then you become better too."
From Bohuslav Hynek's book Diplomat in African Switzerland.
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He introduced himself by phone from the hotel and immediately invited me to lunch. I was not used to accepting such invitations. I stood to receive the Czech shoe expert, as he first said about himself at the embassy, to learn who I was dealing with and what was going on. I offered to send a car to the hotel to pick him up.
Entered a gray-haired gentleman of tall stature and neat manners, at first sight a retired worldling, but most of all a Wallachian. He had flown to Zimbabwe to help select applicants to study at "The International School oí Modern Shoemaking, in Zlín, which he co-founded after November.
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"Unfreedom is not only a hideous injury to the will, but to the dignity. Unfreedom is not discipline, it is humiliation." Karel Čapek
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We need to learn to truly live, not just exist and consume idly, to be content in abundance, not excess. Abundance threatens sufficiency and there will inevitably be no sufficiency unless we change the ways of our lives. We cannot live forever in debt and at the expense of future generations. If we cannot do it, nature will do it for us, and the losses will be much greater.
Let us stop being obedient, fearful and become free citizens
Let's speak out and actively oppose any form of injustice, law-breaking, bad behaviour, from pointing out a discarded cigarette to the frauds and crimes of Putin's castle-keepers, politicians, policemen, judges and prosecutors.
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From Bohuslav Hynek's book Diplomat in African Switzerland.
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During a brief farewell - Alison Smale of the Associated Press was waiting for me behind my back - before my departure to Harare, the journalist, then a resistance fighter, currently Minister Dienstbier, whom I have admired all my adult life, praised me for having visited Archbishop Tomášek and the Slovak Matrix as part of my pre-departure preparations, but was not happy about missing the meeting with the directors of Omnipol and Desty Děčín.
In the former Rhodesia, Czech hunting guns are in vogue. I myself had one rifle sent to Ladislav Kropacek. They didn't have the one he wanted, so they sent another one. Lad'a told me it was only good for an elephant. He registered it quickly so he could resell it. Hunters called Czech rifles and shotguns Brno rifles. True, I don't know what kind of gun he used to shoot at game on weekends, but for a bottle of whiskey, or just for fun, the immunity-protected U.S. ambassador, I was never there; it may also have come from our gun factory when he picked up his second wife in the American Czech community.
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The best ambassadors of our country have often been those who were not appointed as such.
I read the slim little book by diplomat Bohuslav Hynek "Diplomat in African Switzerland" (2021) in one breath. We know each other personally from his time at the Czech Embassy in Switzerland. With the author's permission, I am making it available to the public and recommend it especially to young people and schools at all levels. One cannot but bow before Jan Pivečka (p. 86) for his life's work as a Bata worker. The story of Alžběta Pezoldová (page 63), sister of Karel Schwarzenberg, is a shocking example of the continuing failure of the Czech justice system. The rule of law and justice is determined by the relationship to existing political and power structures. As a side note, I would like to remind you that the Czech Republic has nominated as the new ambassador to the USA the former State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Miroslav Stašek, a demonstrably unprincipled person. If his diplomatic 'mission' is accepted by the US President, it will be another failure of Czech diplomacy and another disgrace for our country. J.Š.
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At a press conference for the Global COVID Summit, attended by a group of more than 17,000 of the world's leading doctors and scientists, a number of scientists spoke about their experiences during the recent "coronavirus crisis". Summit participants stressed that there is now a need to "restore scientific integrity", which was significantly "damaged" during the declared pandemic.
"We, physicians and medical scientists around the world, united by our allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath, recognize that the disastrous public health policy regarding Covid-19 that is being imposed on physicians and our patients is the culmination of a corrupt medical alliance of pharmaceutical, insurance, and medical institutions and financial trusts, that control them," the declaration said, adding that these groups "have infiltrated our health care system at every level and are protected and supported by a parallel alliance of major technology companies, media, academics and government agencies that have profited from this staged disaster." Full Article>
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