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Ma Ruimei and her husband, Ding Yuande, were arrested on May 12, 2023. Ma was freed on bail, Ding is still in prison. Their son is relentlessly fighting for their freedom. We interviewed him.
All cases of religious persecution are similar, yet all are also unique. They are similar, or analogous, in their dynamics and horrors, and in the suffering of the victims. But they are also unique, not only because details and circumstances obviously differ, but because human beings are not numbers only. They are real, and all are irreplaceable. This is why, when one human being suffers, all humanity suffers. When one human being is persecuted or dies, an intimate part of every one of us also experiences persecution and death.
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Mr. Le-pin Ting has been fighting for the liberation of his parents in the PRC for 11 years
Forgotten History: How the US and Czechoslovakia helped millions survive the famine in Soviet Russia
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"The ban on our film by the Russian authorities is completely illegal. It is censorship. The film was intended for cinemas, it is a pity that people in Russia will not see it on the wide screen. But we will definitely release it and it will be free to watch. They don't want to remember the time when Russia needed help and the whole world came to save us. They want to show that the US and Europe have always wanted to destroy us. The film shows the opposite."
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Not much is known about the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921-1923, but it killed a similar number of people as the famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. No one knows the exact number of victims, but estimates are around 5 million.
In Russia, people were starving to death in 1891, but the famine of 1921 was different for many reasons. First, the number of victims was ten times higher. This was largely due to the policies of the Communists, led by Lenin, who had just come to power. And for two years huge amounts of humanitarian aid flowed into the country from abroad, especially from the United States, but Czechoslovakia was one of the most active countries. At one point, the U.S. was feeding 10 million Russians a day, wrote the Slovak independent Dennik N.
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"Putin really, really won't change. Whoever thinks so is dreaming. Europe must change and find reliable companions." Karel Mrzílek (2014)
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"Russia will always cause problems with its policies. The only thing it understands is violence. No one can get along with it the easy way. 1939: annexation of eastern Poland in cooperation with the Germans, Katyn, 1957 invasion of Hungary, 1968 Czechoslovakia, 2013, 2014 Ukraine." Jan Herna (2014)
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgina Meloni could not have said it better in the name of preserving freedom and democracy. A fascinating response from the real boss, to calls from Italian "desolates" to stop sending arms to the Ukrainians: "Is it better to live under a dictatorship than to die? No, people should live in freedom."
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There was vomit, blood and lots of cobwebs on the walls. There was water in the cell, but it ran dirty and smelled.
"In Kingisepp they didn't give me drinking water at all, only three decilitres of tea in the morning and evening. In an emergency, when I was terribly thirsty, I had to drink even the stinking water. Diarrhoea naturally followed. The toilet was a hole in the ground, like an open sewer. I don't even need to mention the outrageous smell," Mazák said.
In St. Petersburg, they had cockroaches in the cells, which caused prisoners to plug their ears with cotton wool
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Journalist Jaroslav Spurný responds to my criticism about the silence of the weekly RESPEKT (2021): I have to get used to the fact that "What is good for the public is fortunately not decided by Šinágl" (I can no longer find the text on FB). JŠ
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About a case from the State Department, or the de facto decision-making power remains in the hands of technocrats elected by no one. Overwhelming bureaucracy just one of the problems that is capable of stifling any effort at change.
The main method is to manipulate their minister, primarily by keeping him busy with time-consuming tasks whose sole purpose is to keep the minister busy and out of his way. However, he does not shy away from using his own mistakes against the Minister.
"This is a tragedy, the entire state and public apparatus is riddled with it. They don't decide ability but who is whose friend, who is kissing up to whom and can be useful in return, by passing on contracts to friends who helped him into office. You can change the whole government, but this is here to stay. You have to change the whole system and that is a Sisyphean job and I'm afraid it's just not feasible without a total screw-up of the whole society."
Systemic change will have to include at least three aspects:
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"This is the highest truth I know; only those deserve freedom and life who conquer both every new day."
J.W.Goethe
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Damn, we need more people like that in the world, and not for them to leave so soon. We will never forget and thank you for making us a part of your life.
The obituary ends with the words: Good friend, dad and friend, good brother and son, cousin and uncle. A good journalist, a good farmer, a good politician and ultimately a skilled lawyer.
Ales' life's mission was to fight for justice. For justice for himself, for his family, friends, acquaintances... and in time for anyone decent who turned to him. For example, Ales was one of the first Czechs to open a censored website, where cases were published with the names of corrupters, judges, bankruptcy trustees and police officers. He was therefore more than at home with the police. Any scoundrel could have found a place with her. All the godfathers were crystal clear and to this day civil servants walk around them with kid gloves. Despite all the vicissitudes, Ales was always willing to help, cooperate and listen. He just got more and more tired. Just as those with time on their side calculate.
Yes, there has been a great relief in Ales over the last year. He has devoted himself much more to his son Max and the rest of his family. He wanted a break from the worries of the last two decades of his life. Unfortunately, fate had taken a very different approach to his desire for rest.
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Update 19.8.2023: I have received another Summons to appear in court on 12.9.2023 at KS Praha. What have they "invented" again "JUDr." Martin Michal and bailiff Mgr. Jan Benes? The plaintiffs, represented by the plaintiff Mgr. Jana Gavlasová, never appeared at the court hearing. My request that they appear in court so that I could ask them questions was not granted, with reference to their power of attorney to the legal representative. This does not prevent them from "bravely" slandering me in the "friendly" tabloid media. The "unfriendly" tabloids preferred to keep quiet so as not to have to litigate for years. I am consistently denied access to these slanderous media. Despite Zeman's honouring of "comrade" Helena Vondráčková, the train is not running. The modern "class enemy" must be destroyed". I pay with my property, my health and millions of crowns for publishing and reminding the truth, known to the whole country. The prosecutors should pay me, but sue for years, when you would have seen the verdict in heaven... Truth is punished, lies are rewarded. The state has extended the summer of grace until the end of November. The law doesn't apply to bailiffs' costs?! Welcome to the "banana republic" in the middle of Europe. The result of the "jingle of the sprouts"... Even freedom of speech and the public's right to information has its price. The public and the media are once again invited to the court hearing. However, I expect that the public seats will remain empty again. Will "justice in reverse" continue? Nothing lasts forever. The truth, which the whole country knows, "will one day come out like oil on water", as Jan Antonin Bata wisely said, shortly before his death. I add justice - God's justice, certainly. JŠ
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See for yourself at the links and photos: EXTRA.CZ (taken over by SEZNAM.CZ) - SUPER.CZ - KAFE.CZ - AHA and Slovak ČAS. To his credit, the lies of "JUDr." of Martin Michal and Helena Vondráčková. CRo2, Xaver TV and Frekvence 1 willingly joined in the lies and slander. No media contacted me. They did not respond to my questions and warnings? Slander takes precedence over the truth. Czech media "democracy" in practice. Maybe soon the Kremlin will join in:-) Half of the people in the Czech Republic are indebted for life and another quarter are heading there. If things keep going this way, it will soon be more than just thieves, crooks and politicians in foreclosure. JŠ
I quote from the Resolution of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic (28.6.2023): "The plaintiffs demand the removal of the text of the entire articles and discussions under them on the defendant's web portal, published in 2010 and 2011, the occurrence of non-pecuniary damage in the millions against each of them remains unresolved. The action is not negotiable, even after the third invitation to supplement the action".
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"Society can be its own tyrant, even when its laws are not tyrannical."
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"Social tyranny is often far more dangerous than political tyranny. Even if it does not impose severe punishments, there is no escape from it; it penetrates deeper into all spheres of life and enslaves the soul. Protection from governmental power is not enough. It is also necessary to protect the individual from prevailing public opinion and from a society which imposes its rules on those who deviate, prevents the development of individuality and forces all to mould their character after its pattern."
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"If all mankind were of the same opinion, and only one man dissented, the majority would not have the slightest right to silence the individual, just as that individual would not have the right to silence the majority, even if he had the power to do so."
J. S. Mill "On Liberty"
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Death belongs to life as much as birth. So does dying, as long as it is natural, not artificially maintained and prolonged. Nothing against the recovery of active people regardless of age, but if people are kept alive "on tubes and pills" when they have virtually nothing left of life, cannot have anything, and only exist undignified, it is against nature, natural and inhuman. Money is consequently lacking for healthy and other necessities. That it is primarily a huge, immoral business is telling of the state of the world today. That is also why there is a growing need for palliative care and an increasing number of requests to end life where the law allows it (Switzerland). Even death should be accompanied by freedom of choice. Incidentally, 6 million children die of hunger every year.
In order to make it easier to manipulate society, it is necessary to rid it of "aggressions and rebels", elements of unrest, i.e. to maintain prosperity and "harmonize" it - by promoting unnaturalness. This is the road to hell, contrary to real, natural life and its immutable principles.
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This seems to be the theme of our time. The belief that technology will solve all our problems is refuted, distrusted, devalued. People are fed up with the pharmaceutical companies that have bought our governments and now control them. The pretend power that technocrats wield is unbelievable. Technology is a god that has failed. Running our entire lives through technocrats with toys and drugs seems like a very bad idea to me.
I should have seen Google's promise not to be evil as the opposite, a foreshadowing that one day it will do mostly evil. Now its search results are massively skewed in favour of ruling class interests, and its video platform YouTube mercilessly censors anyone who deviates from the regime's narrative. This is still happening today.
Technology certainly has its place, but it will not solve all human and natural problems. There are no injections that will make the coronavirus disappear. There are no pills or surgeries that will turn a man into a woman or a woman into a man. You can call anyone anything you want, but chromosomal differences affect the entire physical and psychological structure of the human person. Why would anyone believe otherwise?
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AVAST branded by the Brussels Morning newspaper (on my PC), as "fraudulent"? System hypersensitivity from the "bad" days? It's the facts that matter. JŠ
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Belgium (Brussels Morning newspaper), MEPs have voiced concern that the “slow progress” of an investigation into the so-called Qatargate scandal. They say that, seven months on from the affair “some of the grandiose promises for ethics and transparency reforms seem to be falling short.” The European parliament’s president, Roberta Metsola, warned colleagues that the institution and European democracy at large are “under attack.” She also pledged an internal investigation and reforms to ensure transparency. There have been two “important” developments in Parliament this week – a vote on changes to Parliament’s own rules and another on a Commission proposal for an EU ethics body.
Since the Qatargate scandal came to light, some MEPs have called for root and branch reform to, in their words, “fix the Parliament’s rotten culture of revolving doors, opaque practices, and lack of oversight.” In efforts to improve transparency at the Parliament, the Left grouping of MEPs in the assembly has persistently called for a ban on side jobs for MEPs. They state that MEPs “already receive a generous allowance. When MEPs have side jobs, their interests become inextricably linked to corporations or associations they work for, to the detriment of their constituents.”
Some members are said to earn up to €8,000 per month on top of their allowance.
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