Notices from nowhere

Democracy now finds there can be ample for all, but only if the souvereing fences are completely removed.

As seem likely as here

La caspa, siga expressada en espanyol o en anglès, no deixa d’ésser caspa.    

Es una agradable notícia que el gran tribunal español es dedique a perdre el temps en aquestes actuacions contra natura. El supremacisme espanyol és el nostre gran aliat. Quan més acceleren la maquinària coercitiva, més adeptes guanyem. És possible que tots els processos d’alliberament s’esdevinguen així d’extremadament ridículs. Considere que no s’ha de perdre la calma.

La qual cosa no significa que aquells que s’omplin la boca de bones indignacions puguen fer res en contra. Les actuacions definitòries provindran d’aquells que sempre hi han cregut. No dels alumnes avantatjats de darrera hora. Per a crear un estat, s’ha d’haver cregut en ell en algun moment abans.

Quan un té una empresa, ni que siga heretada, per tal de demostrar la teua vàlua cal mantindre-la a flot i no tancar-la. Si no tens la intel·ligència de mantenir una empresa viva en un medi propiciatori, com pots crear-ne una que és un milió de vegades major?

Crear un estat és un acte d’astúcia creativa. Un fet de gent ambiciosa que hi creu. No mai d’aquells que esperen a una xamba històrica, en què, per atzar te’n trobes un. Això no passa mai de la vida. Ni en els fets quotidians ni molt menys en crear un nou estat polític. Avui, crear un estat és un fet transcendent lligat a una nova concepció de vida humana. Com ja féu Gandhi a l’Índia. Com féu Martí a Cuba encara que fòra després de mort. O  Mandela, tot partint-ne d’un anterior.

El viatge del president Mas del cap de setmana passat als EUA recorda aquell altre fet pel president Camps fa uns anys. Les queixes domèstiques espanyoles exposades als medis de comunicació o no, els rellisquen.  Com ja va passar en la segona dècada del segle XX. Allà volen gent arriscada, amb idees clares i contemporànies. La caspa, siga expressada en espanyol o en anglès, no deixa d’ésser caspa.    

{Gandhiji addressed the A.I.C.C. at Bombay on 8-8-42 outlining his plan of action, in Hindustani, as follows;}

Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things, I want you to understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from which I am placing them before you. I ask you to consider it from my point of view, because if you approve of it, you will be enjoined to carry out all I say. It will be a great responsibility. There are people who ask me whether I am the same man that I was in 1920, or whether there has been any change in me. You are right in asking that question.

Let me, however, hasten to assure that I am the same Gandhi as I was in 1920. I have not changed in any fundamental respect. I attach the same importance to nonviolence that I did then. If at all, my emphasis on it has grown stronger. There is no real contradiction between the present resolution and my previous writings and utterances.

Occasions like the present do not occur in everybody’s and but rarely in anybody’s life. I want you to know and feel that there is nothing but purest Ahimsa in all that I am saying and doing today. The draft resolution of the Working Committee is based on Ahimsa, the contemplated struggle similarly has its roots in Ahimsa. If, therefore, there is any among you who has lost faith in Ahimsa or is wearied of it, let him not vote for this resolution.

Let me explain my position clearly. God has vouchsafed to me a priceless gift in the weapon of Ahimsa. I and my Ahimsa are on our trail today. If in the present crisis, when the earth is being scorched by the flames of Hims2 and crying for deliverance, I failed to make use of the God given talent, God will not forgive me and I shall be judged unwrongly of the great gift. I must act now. I may not hesitate and merely look on, when Russia and China are threatened.

Ours is not a drive for power, but purely a nonviolent fight for India’s independence. In a violent struggle, a successful general has been often known to effect a military coup and to set up a dictatorship. But under the Congress scheme of things, essentially nonviolent as it is, there can be no room for dictatorship. A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for himself, he fights only for the freedom of his country. The Congress is unconcerned as to who will rule, when freedom is attained. The power, when it comes, will belong to the people of India, and it will be for them to decide to whom it placed in the entrusted. May be that the reins will be placed in the hands of the Parsis, for instance-as I would love to see happen-or they may be handed to some others whose names are not heard in the Congress today. It will not be for you then to object saying, “This community is microscopic. That party did not play its due part in the freedom’s struggle; why should it have all the power?” Ever since its inception the Congress has kept itself meticulously free of the communal taint. It has thought always in terms of the whole nation and has acted accordingly…

I know how imperfect our Ahimsa is and how far away we are still from the ideal, but in Ahimsa there is no final failure or defeat. I have faith, therefore, that if, in spite of our shortcomings, the big thing does happen, it will be because God wanted to help us by crowning with success our silent, unremitting Sadhana1 for the last twenty-two years.

I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours. I read Carlyle’s French Resolution while I was in prison, and Pandit Jawaharlal has told me something about the Russian revolution. But it is my conviction that inasmuch as these struggles were fought with the weapon of violence they failed to realize the democratic ideal. In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by nonviolence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence.

Then, there is the question of your attitude towards the British. I have noticed that there is hatred towards the British among the people. The people say they are disgusted with their behaviour. The people make no distinction between British imperialism and the British people. To them, the two are one This hatred would even make them welcome the Japanese. It is most dangerous. It means that they will exchange one slavery for another. We must get rid of this feeling. Our quarrel is not with the British people, we fight their imperialism. The proposal for the withdrawal of British power did not come out of anger. It came to enable India to play its due part at the present critical juncture It is not a happy position for a big country like India to be merely helping with money and material obtained willy-nilly from her while the United Nations are conducting the war. We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and velour, so long as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred. Speaking for myself, I can say that I have never felt any hatred. As a matter of fact, I feel myself to be a greater friend of the British now than ever before. One reason is that they are today in distress. My very friendship, therefore, demands that I should try to save them from their mistakes. As I view the situation, they are on the brink of an abyss. It, therefore, becomes my duty to warn them of their danger even though it may, for the time being, anger them to the point of cutting off the friendly hand that is stretched out to help them. People may laugh, nevertheless that is my claim. At a time when I may have to launch the biggest struggle of my life, I may not harbour hatred against anybody.

Tenim un problema supremacista a l’ONU.

By Diplomatically incorrect:

While the vote was close, from my inside sources there was no real effort by the western capitals to promote the alternative Lithuanian candidate for the last more than a month. As might be expected, there has been speculation about some sort of secret deal regarding Kosovo – whether true, at least the speculation about a deal could have been speculated. The election of Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic for UNGA President for the one year term of the 67th session may also have been hindered or discouraged, depending on the line of argument, by the vote in Serbia bringing to power Tomislav Nikolic as next President, one associate with ultra-nationalist political forces and genocide denial in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia.

Out of a total of 190 ballots cast, Mr. Jeremic obtained 99 to Ambassador Dalius Cekuolis of Lithuania, (5 were deemed invalid vote and one abstention). There are 193 members. The fact that Serbia is neither member of NATO or the European Union probably advanced Mr. Jeremic’s candidacy. At the same time though much leaves to be desired of Serbia’s recent role in the region, including an ambiguous respect for Bosnia & Herzegovina’s evolution toward re-integration and functionality in a war that both the ICTY and ICJ have directly linked to Belgrade. Mr. Jeremic has also sounded a very tough note on another critical issue before the UN, Kosovo. See your Film for Blog:

“FM Jremic Speaks on Kosovo before UN Security Council”.  Belgrade and Mr. Jeremic have also been seen as much closer on Moscow’s line regarding Syria. The current Qatari President of the UNGA has been employing the UNGA as an activist counterpart to a deadlocked UN Security Council on Syria.

Pots seguir llegint en el “Vull llegir +..

“We are a small developing country that belongs to no military alliance or political union. It is therefore truly honouring to have received the confidence of so many nations from all over the world to preside over the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the United Nations.” The President-elect also proposed that the theme of the high-level debate at the start of the 67th session of the General Assembly, in mid-September, be about the “adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations by peaceful means.”

A Global Platform or Platform to Dive Back into Serbia Politics?

As a personal perspective, the election of a neighbor to such a significant post would be positive for the entire neighborhood under normal circumstances. Unfortunately these are not at least yet normal circumstances for the region, particularly for Bosnia & Herzegovina which continues to suffer from nationalist winds. I would give most weight to the perspective of Serbia’s progressive civil-society advocates. Mr. Jeremic’s election appears to be viewed with skepticism. Perhaps the attention/focus could help freedom and tolerance gain an upper hand over nationalism and old agenda’s, but the victory is more likely to be presented by the old order as a legitimization and confirmation of the old course. We will see, as Mr. Jeremic acts in a personal rather than national capacity and in theory owes no duty to Belgrade. This may be an opportunity for him to set a new course for himself and Serbia or perhaps it will be exploited as a diving board for a return to the murky waters of Belgrade’s political water polo. Undoubtedly Mr. Jeremic has further ambitions, but we will see how he defines them in terms of globe, region and self.

 

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BAUSSET, “Y EN SU PUEBLO QUÉ LENGUA HABLAN LOS LABRIEGOS?”

Recupere un antic post sobre en Josep Lluís Bausset i Ciscar:

¿Y EN SU PUEBLO QUÉ LENGUA HABLAN LOS LABRIEGOS?

Sempre m’impressionà la seua tarja de felicitació nadalenca que deia textualment:
 
“Per a servir-li a vosté i a la pàtria”

Una “pàtria” de persones reals, no de les d’estadística. 

PS: ¿algú se n’extranya que Jordi Pujol no sabera res de l’existència d’en Bausset?…..possiblement, és ací on rau un dels vells problemes dels vells lluitadors que nosaltres cal que corregim. 

Bé, béééééee….the silly of her

El gran arquitecte Josep-Antoni Coderch de Sentmenat deia durant la dècada dels setanta que la més gran ‘internacional’ arreu del món que existia era la dels estúpids.
La història sempre tendeix a repetir-se de manera caricaturesca. Llig a hores d’ara un llibre d’arquitectura victoriana, que comprí al R.I.B.A. londinenc en 1995. En la foto mostrada estem en 2005. Salude amb els quatre dits enlaire en una ‘demonstration’ per a reclama els drets del Caixmir enfront de la porta de Buckingham Palace, els ‘bobies’ ens miren de reüll.

El text comença així:

“Victorian Architecture is the reflection of unprecedent social, intellectual and technological change(?) Queen Victoria, who gave her name to the age, reigned for sixty-three years -a period which saw rapid developments in Britain’s industrial wealth, political power, and social and artistic life….”