Tagged: neutrality

Pillages et Port d’armes : Droit 44

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On prétend que la liberté d’expression est nécessaire à la démocratie mais le seul pays au monde qui ait, du point de vue de sa législation, une véritable liberté d’expression, ce sont les États-Unis, où les lois contre le Premier Amendement de la Constitution sont systématiquement cassées par une Cour suprême non élue. Aux États-Unis, comme en France et ailleurs, les élus font tout pour éroder la liberté d’expression par des lois, et c’est parce que des juges indépendants non élus s’y opposent que ce pays se distingue. En Europe, les élus obtiennent ce qu’ils veulent, et de ce fait il n’y a pas de liberté d’expression. Si bien que, si la liberté d’expression est nécessaire à la démocratie, comme la classe politique élue s’y oppose et la combat partout, la classe politique est un obstacle à la démocratie. Ou bien la liberté d’expression est nécessaire pour tout autre chose.

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Ceux qui parlent de « glissement vers la dictature » prêtent à sourire. La France ne fait présentement qu’ajuster sa législation répressive existante au nouvel environnement numérique qui permet de la contourner. Nés de la dernière pluie, ces sauveurs niais ne changeront rien. (Février 2024)

Il y a deux choses. 1° La loi sur les réseaux sociaux ne fait qu’adapter la répression existante au nouveau milieu numérique. 2° Une loi telle que la proposition de loi Yadan étend certes le domaine de la répression, mais c’est ce qu’ont fait tous les gouvernements de ce pays les uns après les autres au cours des dernières décennies.

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Pas une année ne passe en France sans une nouvelle loi de répression de la parole, parce que, nous dit-on, « l’arsenal » n’est pas suffisant. À supposer que ce soit vrai, quelle déficience cognitive profonde peut être à l’origine d’un tel dysfonctionnement législatif ?

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Que demander d’abroger une loi scélérate (loi de 2014 sur « l’apologie du terrorisme ») fasse dire qu’il est ainsi démontré que ceux qui font cette demande soutiennent le terrorisme montre le niveau de la liberté d’expression en France. (Novembre 2024)

Pourquoi l’apologie du terrorisme est-elle une infraction en France alors qu’elle est libre aux États-Unis (« advocacy of unlawful acts »). Quelle est cette sous-liberté qui est la nôtre ?

Nous lisons que la loi de 2014 est nécessaire pour lutter contre les filières de recrutement. Est-ce un rêve ? Nous combattrions comme de l’apologie ce qui est au plan pénal de l’association de malfaiteurs, « l’entente établie en vue de la préparation d’un ou plusieurs crimes » ?

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Tant de procès pour contenus « haineux » à l’encontre des militants en France et ailleurs en Europe, et pourtant dans presque aucun de ces procès, qui en fournissent l’occasion, n’est invoquée l’inconstitutionnalité de ces lois. Quel est donc ce cirque ? Même quand l’un des accusés gagne son procès au fond, la loi reste une épée de Damoclès.

Une défense mettant en cause la répression de la parole appelle une question prioritaire de constitutionnalité (QPC) in limine litis. Dans une plaidoirie « au fond », il n’y a guère que deux possibilités : 1° « Je n’ai pas tenu ces propos », ou 2° « Les propos tenus n’enfreignent pas la loi ». Il faut que la QPC soit in limine litis, « au seuil du procès », car le procès porte « au fond » et s’il n’y a plus de loi il n’y a plus de procès. C’est la seule défense « militante ». Si la procédure en vient au fond, aucune critique de la loi n’a de sens et ne sera retenue, car la justice doit juger d’après les lois.

Au cas où le Conseil constitutionnel s’est déjà prononcé sur la constitutionnalité de la loi, cela ne peut être un obstacle à une nouvelle QPC. Le Conseil constitutionnel saisi de la constitutionnalité d’une loi se prononce sur des moyens ou arguments : à nouveaux moyens, nouvelle question.

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« Je suis raciste »

« Est-ce que la loi française me permet de dire : ‘Je suis raciste’, juste cela, rien d’autre ? » Réponse de l’IA : « Oui etc. »

« Oui, à condition que… » Normalement, la principale question lors d’un procès est : « L’accusé a-t-il commis les actes qui lui sont reprochés ? » Dans le contentieux de la parole, la question est le plus souvent : « Que penser de ce que personne ne nie avoir été dit ? » « Moi, je pense que c’est un délit, et vous ? » Aucune sécurité juridique n’existe plus dans ces conditions. La censure administrative était plus respectueuse des grands principes du droit, car en droit pénal il existe le principe selon lequel le doute doit profiter à l’accusé. Dans le contentieux pénal de la parole, tout est douteux. Une apologie, par exemple, doit être plus qu’une simple approbation : où l’une finit-elle ? où commence l’autre ? Ils veulent, ou certains ont voulu, que l’apologie soit plus qu’une simple approbation afin de sauver les apparences, pour dire que ce régime défend la liberté d’opinion et qu’il faut vraiment avoir exagéré pour être condamné. En réalité, c’est à la tête du client.

Si vous dites « je suis raciste », juste cela, cela n’empêche pas que vous ayez pu dire autre chose ailleurs qui permette de comprendre l’un au regard de l’autre comme délictuel et passible de prison. Aucune échappatoire n’est permise, quand il le faut.

Alors, oui, on peut dire « je suis raciste », juste cela, si vous voulez, car le régime a besoin de cette fiction pour prétendre garantir la liberté d’opinion. Certes, il y a aussi ceux qui, parfois à des positions gouvernementales, proclament que « le racisme n’est pas une opinion, c’est un délit », mais là nous avons véritablement affaire à des porcs.

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Pillages et Port d’armes

Des pillages de l’ampleur de ceux du 17 octobre 2026 ne sont guère imaginables dans un pays où porter une arme est un droit.

À la suite de ces pillages, le Président de la République a annoncé des mesures de suspension du droit de manifester, car la police ne peut être en nombre suffisant dans ces conditions et l’idée qu’un homme libre a le droit d’être armé et de défendre sa vie et ses biens est inconnue en France.

C’est pour vous désarmer que l’État dit que sa première mission est la sécurité, mais croyez-vous vraiment qu’un criminel craint l’État comme il craindrait un homme armé ?

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Quiconque est un peu familier de psychologie des foules sait que la plupart des pilleurs du 17 octobre méritent clémence pour des actes opportunistes, mais le même pouvoir qui empêche les gens de défendre leur vie et leurs biens châtie durement quelques voleurs opportunistes, pour faire peur.

Des rideaux de fer aux boutiques rendent le vol difficile. Quand il n’y a pas d’obstacles, c’est ne pas voler qui est difficile. Quand l’État supprime les obstacles (police absente, pas le droit pour les commerçants de se défendre), la justice doit être clémente aux voleurs opportunistes.

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Pendant les grands procès en URSS, peu avant la mort de Staline, un des chefs d’accusation était que les accusés cherchaient à faire passer l’antisionisme, qui devenait une politique officielle de l’URSS, pour de l’antisémitisme. C’était peut-être un chef d’accusation crédible.

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Le Conseil constitutionnel français fonctionne au mépris d’un principe fondamental à valeur constitutionnelle, le principe selon lequel nul ne peut être juge et partie. On peut en France être le père d’une loi et être plus tard juge de sa constitutionnalité.

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Le seul pays européen ayant une législation sur la franc-maçonnerie, l’Italie, est aussi le seul où il a existé des loges maçonniques d’extrême droite.

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L’ancien de Louis-le-Grand est contre les lycées privés : il veut que tout le monde à Saint-Denis aille à Paul Éluard. C’est comme ça que la société sera égalitaire, pour l’ancien de Louis-le-Grand.

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The “well-regulated militias” of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution are what voters who in majority voted for mass deportations should be part of when the policy they voted for is sabotaged. These are not the militias of the so-called militia statutes, which are mere departments of the standing army. A “well-regulated militia” is armed citizens taking a policy that is vital to “the security of a free state” (Second Amendment), such as curbing illegal foreign invasion, into their own hands when other constitutional institutions are remiss.

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On a private island known for human trafficking, you should find a burial ground. A large-scale human trafficker is always a murderer too, because among the trafficked individuals, some will try to escape, some will become a nuisance, some an unwanted burden.

Being on a private island with private pilots, either you dump the bodies, which will be clues flushed on random shores, or you carry them elsewhere, straining your pilots, or you simply bury them on the island, where no one will dig unless you are already finished. (In case sulfuric acid is used, bones are partially or heavily degraded, but fragments remain; teeth and implants are often intact; microscopic residues, such as fine mineral structures, recrystallized calcium phosphate, are present.)

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A war for women’s liberation is a mission for women soldiers. Good luck!

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Surely the stupidest people on Earth are those who had the technology to land on the moon and lost it.

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Fat people should be taxed for being fat, as they encroach on others’ space. In public transportation, it is almost impossible that a fat person will not touch others, while physical contact is undesirable.

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Nonneutral non-belligerency

“A non-belligerent state differs from a neutral one in that it may support certain belligerents in a war but is not directly involved in military operations.”

The Axis declared war on the United States because the U.S. was mobilizing its whole industry against it, supplying its enemies, and sanctioning it by freezing its assets, among other things†, as NATO does today with Russia.

Pearl Harbor cannot be said to have been “unprovoked.” Being nonneutral is a casus belli: Nonneutral non-belligerency is formally deprived of the Hague Convention status of neutrality.

Besides, the right to self-defense is obviously restricted to certain limits with respect to proportionality, in order not to be characterized völkerrechtlich as aggression plain and simple. Before an hypothetical international court, therefore, there would be two cases regarding the Pacific War: 1° a case against Japan as aggressor (and I believe Japan had a casus belli) and 2° a case against the United States as aggressor, as I believe the U.S. by making use of atomic bombs exceeded its right to self-defense under the circumstances, thus committing aggression.

† For instance, Germany had to smuggle its platinum from Colombia because the United States had pressured the country to sell her platinum to her only (monopsony), months before Pearl Harbor. A non-belligerent nonneutral state trying to break one’s war machine knows what to expect.

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Similarly, Spain was non-belligerent but not neutral. Spain remained non-belligerent because she was exhausted by the Civil War. She had fought Bolshevism on her own ground and had been plundered by Red internationalists (to this day the Incas’ gold lies in Moscow’s vaults).

Nevertheless, she provided vital tungsten to the Axis throughout the war. As a result, in 1945 the United Nations excluded Spain, and there was a total embargo from the USA, USSR, and Europe, from 1946 to 1951. (Peron’s Argentina disregarded it and sent wheat.) France closed the border for a few years. Spain was treated as an enemy.

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Hate speech laws are a crime.

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Lawfulness of incitement to violence

Incitement to violence is protected speech in the United States, with a minor exception made of “incitement to imminent violence likely to occur.” Saying, therefore, that incitement to violence is not free in the United States is further from the truth that saying it is free, that is, it is not true.

One can call for someone’s murder. It is protected “advocacy of unlawful acts” as long as the call is not likely to result in an imminent act, that is, if it is not “brigaded with action,” in the words of Justice Black (former Klansman), like a call to and from a mob on the street. Furthermore, only true threats are crimes, and case law is stringent as to what a true threat is. When a civil servant said, after President Reagan was shot, “If they go for him again, I hope they get him” is protected speech according to the Supreme Court (Rankin v. McPherson). Likewise, “If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.” is protected speech (Watts v. United States). A call to someone’s murder, a threat to kill someone can be protected speech.

If my neighbor threatens me, it may be a true threat. But when someone openly wishes the death of a public figure, like Reagan or L.B.J., it cannot be a true threat because no one believes you can shoot the President or even Charlie Kirk alone. In this case, it is “hyperbole.” In both Rankin and Watts, there was a “conditionality” in phrasing that made the speech not a true threat, but if my neighbors said: “Given the opportunity, I would kill you,” conditionality would be immaterial, because my neighbors have the opportunity to kill me any day of the week. Not so with a public figure, the real criterion here, as in libel law.

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“That man, that young man, I forgive him.” (Charlie Kirk’s widow, at a Republican convention in Sep. 2025, shortly after her husband’s assassination)

Before she spoke in front of thousands of people, no one told her that said “young man,” Tyler Robinson, is presumed innocent and that the proper way to express her feelings was therefore to forgive “the assassin whoever they are.” Robinson says he is innocent, he was not arrested in flagrante delicto and is presumed innocent until found guilty by a court of law. Apparently, the Republican Party wants people to believe otherwise, as no one told her.

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A lady making an American Sign Language (ASL) “I love you” sign that is also the occult sign of the horns in front of a largely Christian audience might be case of swift demonic possession, because this is the kind of confusion one should know must be avoided in front of a Christian audience. If she were sent as an envoy to a country where there are two ways of saying “thank you,” one of which can also mean “fvck you,” she would be well advised to prefer one way over the other, out of respect.

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Should rape be an exception to an abortion ban? Some countries have such an exception. One should ask if rape statistics are higher in these countries, because, given the possibility, some women who want an abortion may claim that they were raped.

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If Mexican laws allowed Mexicans to carry guns, illegal cartels would not be ruling the country.

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“Hate crime” laws were designed with the following aim: Some hecklers will be “troubling the peace” at most, while responding to them will be a heinous “hate crime”. This is an unconstitutional ploy, preventing the free expression of political ideas. Hate crime laws protect an unconstitutional heckler’s veto.

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Trials for hate speech and Constitutional Review

When a defendant’s claim in a hate speech case is that the law is not compatible with general principles, defense must be filed as asking the court to review the law’s constitutionality, otherwise the court will only examine whether the defendant’s words fall within the purview of the law. Defendants must ask for a review of the law’s constitutionality for the court to say they had the right to say what they said, namely because the law is unconstitutional. In proceedings on the merits of a case, the only possible defense, for “hate speech,” is: 1° “I did not say these words” or 2° “These words are no breach of the law”. Whether anti-migrant speech, for instance, is true or not, the anti-migrant speech law exists, if it was not judged unconstitutional “in limine.”

Preparing a defense with arguments for in-limine review of the law’s constitutionality but presenting these arguments during proceedings on the merits, where such claims as “I speak the truth” are irrelevant, is senseless. The court applies a law, the constitutionality of which the defendant failed to ask the court to review, which was the only available step in a “I speak the truth” defense. In proceedings on the merits of the case, a court does not care if speech is true or not. Absent constitutional review, which must be asked formally by the defendant, the court will not call experts to prove or disprove the truth of speech. If the speech sounds offensive, the law was designed to crack down on it. On the merits, a court will not care about truth, or statistics, or what X and Y claim; it must apply a legislation intent on cracking down on speech.

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“The judge openly admitted the facts themselves were not false.” – Not at all. The court said it is not bound by scientific or statistical evidence on the merits of a case because hate speech laws crack down on hate speech, not false speech. The court will not look at the truth of speech in proceedings on the merits. Such a judgment is perfectly legalistic. The defendant mistook his arguments for unconstitutionality of hate speech laws for arguments on the merits of his case. The law, not the judgment, is the problem. The defendant’s lawyers’ work, on the other hand…

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The judge did not make the statute. And when scores of militants year in year out are tried for hate speech but do not attempt to have the statutes eviscerated by a court when given the opportunity by their own trial, I am asking: What is this circus?

The judge did not make the statute but he could terminate it by declaring it unconstitutional, if only the militant in front of him would remember he is a militant who wants the statute terminated and file for constitutional review. Even if, by some circumstances unique to the case, the defendant wins, the law will still allow to try the same kind of speech. Each case is unique, as they say.

The problem is with the law, but the defendant does not challenge its constitutionality, although his trial gives him the opportunity; that is, regardless of the result of this trial, the law will remain. And militants will keep blaming courts for applying laws!

Calls for helping with legal fees would make more sense if the defendants challenged the laws’ constitutionality.

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Authorities should not interfere with families aggrieved by heinous murders. Any government contact of the sort is a devious pressure on families not to vent “bad” feelings and should not be tolerated.

Law 35 The Chinese takeover: Reflections on a world revolution

Feb-Mar 2023

The Chinese Takeover

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Republican lawmakers have urged Blinken to tell Beijing that its aggression against India and Taiwan is not ‘acceptable’. They have also asked Blinken to raise human rights violations, unfair trade practices, expansion in the Indo-Pacific and China’s leading role in the fentanyl crisis in the United States. (Hindustan Times, YouTube, Feb 2023)

“China’s leading role in the fentanyl crisis in the United States”? China is responsible for American physicians’ prescribing opioids to Americans, of course! and the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), “who is responsible for protecting the public health” according to its website, is responsible for nothing in an opioid crisis that has claimed more than half a million American lives. Of course!

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The weather balloon conspiracy

(For details, see Law 33: Weather Balloon from China, as well as the comments section.)

When someone apologizes to you for an accident, you may scold them for negligence or clumsiness, but not for intentional wrongdoing (such as airspace violation for spying) because then you are calling them liars and reject their apologies. The U.S. is provoking China, calling her a liar and rejecting her apologies, which means America refuses to turn the page and threatens China with retaliation. “Never again,” in this context, means “We are going to teach you a lesson.” This is a menace, and they know the implications of menace in international law.

The number of American provocations against China these last months and weeks appalls me, as a European. Next, they’ll say China gave Putin the green light for the military operation in Ukraine; they’ll say Putin asked Xi whether China minded if Russia started the operation and Xi said “You have our support.”

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China’s Ukraine hypocrisy: Readies drones for Russia & calls out West for arms to Kyiv. (Hindustan Times, YouTube, Feb 2023)

When you’ve got, in this war, a party that has just made known it will send weapons to Ukraine “as long as it takes,” after a whole year of war already, you know their plans are not to reach peace in six months as a contrived CIA report that was pumped into the media made believe (just after a U.S. top general had publicly said it will be “very, very hard”). You know this party is on the contrary expecting a decade-long war. So, if you lend a hand to belligerent country A, although you began with opposing arming belligerent country B, you are not “duplicitous”; in fact, you are trying to deter the Brandon party to further carry out the bellicose strategy aiming at war “as long as it takes,” because you want a peace deal and your acts are no different from your words.

What prevented NATO from granting Ukraine their military shield, like the “oil for security deal” between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia? It is not right, after such a lack of anticipation, to try to amend one’s mistakes with precipitous sanctions and arms supplies. – Ukraine will be a battlefield “as long as it takes.” This is not weapons Ukraine should ask for: it is full belligerence of NATO countries or peace with Russia.

Arming Ukraine cannot make this country win the war in the foreseeable future, so, absent direct belligerence by NATO, Russia is the only possible winner. A ceasefire and peace deal should be agreed by Ukrainian authorities, and that probably means relinquishing the newly annexed regions, no more no less. NATO countries have failed to anticipate and prevent this; if they think Russia has more such operations in store for the future, they should provide some countries with a military shield, such as the shield with which the United States is covering her friend Saudi Arabia. Arming Ukraine cannot be a substitute for lack of anticipation, something that should be obvious after a whole year of sanctions and financial and military support.

One may question my expectations about the war as waged to this day, but what are NATO’s expectations to begin with? One American general said it will be “very, very hard” to chase Russians from the newly annexed regions, then, a few days later, a CIA report talked about ending the war in six months. So much for the consistency. Zero credibility. Let them admit publicly that their policy of arming Ukraine is a 10-year or longer war plan, and China’s position will become much clearer. “As long as it takes” means war for years, it’s not going to be six months. Those who oppose this are those who may be said to be for peace.

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A non-neutral (although nonbelligerent) party to a conflict will be deemed tainted with partiality by a neutral, impartial judge. The non-neutral U.S.’s talking of Chinese “disinformation” regarding the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is therefore partial. It may or may not be true in the final analysis: an impartial judge will decide after hearing all parties. On the other hand, the U.S.’s talking about “poisonous” disinformation is hostile, and the statement will be recorded as such, as hostile toward China.

The American rhetoric and its use of fighting words shall be stressed in the record. “Poisonous” hints at pests, such as snakes. And the idea that the Chinese “poison the well” (“The well has been poisoned by Chinese and Russian disinformation, said the special envoy”) hints at lepers and other outcasts from the European Middle Ages, who were accused of poisoning wells. The record shall stress that the American party has abandoned the language of diplomacy and is now resorting to the language of incitement.

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Justa Causa

The Americans are making believe there is no such thing as a “just cause” (justa causa), but their practice and precedents show that they cannot claim to have an international doctrine of nonaggression; the U.S. cannot claim to consider aggression by itself a breach of international law. On the contrary, their practice shows they act under the notion there are just causes of war, and therefore they shall be asked not to claim, without reason and evidence, that there cannot be just causes whenever the U.S. herself is not involved in a conflict outbreak. For neutral parties, the question whether Russia had a right to send troops in Ukraine or not remains open, by application of the just cause doctrine.

On the other hand, absent a just cause doctrine, aggression of one state by another cannot be a just cause to be hostile to the former, because to claim to have a just cause, one needs a just cause doctrine. Furthermore, absent such a doctrine, any country has the discretionary and unaccountable right to remain neutral, that is, nonbelligerent and neutral.

In other words, faced with the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, if foreign countries 1/ abide by a just cause doctrine, then a decision not to remain neutral supposes a just cause, which can only be that the Russians themselves have no just cause, and if 2/ they do not abide by such a doctrine, the decision to remain neutral or not is unrelated to any such ground. If it is unrelated to the issue of causes, it remains out of discussion: it is entirely discretionary, the people of these states are, for all intents and purposes, mute. Therefore, NATO’s so-called free countries are expected to abide by a just cause doctrine: that their decision not to remain neutral remains undiscussed, namely, the fact that it is taken for granted that Russia does not have a just cause for intervention in Ukraine, is self-contradictory.

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U.S. fighter jet destroys object over Canada. (Hindustan Times, YouTube, Feb 2023) – User: Canada has no Air Force?

The North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD is combined U.S.-Canadian surveillance. The U.S. consisting of two mainland parts divided by Canada (see Alaska), for all intents and purposes Canada is not sovereign over Canadian skies vis-à-vis the U.S.

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German FM [foreign minister] concedes ‘War with Russia a mistake.’ (Hindustan Times, YouTube, Feb 2023) [The German minister of foreign affairs had said Germany is in war with Russia, before conceding it was a mistake.]

She is incompetent. There could hardly be another utterance proving she is “unfit for the job” as much as the one she made. Her government’s position, in terms of international law, is that Germany and other NATO countries are not belligerent parties in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and therefore eschew any responsibility if Russia takes hostile military measures against them, in which case they would act, accordingly, in self-defense. A foreign minister so blatantly ignorant of the international-law underpinnings of her government’s stance, is unfit for the job, there’s no other word.

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NATO Nation [Germany] defends India’s oil trade with Russia despite sanctions; ‘None of Our Business’. (Hindustan Times, YouTube, Feb 2023)

Last time I checked, Germany was a member of the sanctions party. Therefore, India’s buying cheap oil from Russia is 100% Germany’s business, for two reasons: 1) the sanctions party is the cause of the discount, while Europe gets its energy at inflationary price from the U.S., Qatar, and others, & 2) the sanctions party should ensure that its sanctions policy is effective, and that means it should ensure that all friends dance to the same tune, otherwise the party is only harming itself. A sanctions party that looks the other way when India and others benefit from hampering the sanctions is a joke.

Let the situation be known to the Germans (but I doubt the speech will make news there, to start with), some will begrudge their government for the nonsense, others will begrudge India for her non-cooperative “friendship,” others will begrudge both.

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At some point, it was thought by some that winds blow on the moon because the NASA pictures of the manned moon landing show the stars and stripes waving in the wind, but in fact the stars and stripes was just creased because of storage, and the first men on the moon did not care to straighten their flag before saluting it, and the flag is still.

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I’ll believe there are female soldiers fighting when I see one die on the battlefield. It’s easy to put a woman in uniform in front of cameras for the show.

They are always showing us women in uniform, in time of peace, but now and then you hear or read that this or that army’s doctrine is that women are not sent to the battlefield. Typists in uniform! Wonderful equality where I will be asked to sacrifice my life and my female colleagues will wear the same uniform and sport the same medals while being exempted from this little service, a mere trifle. You think I’m a dog? – Oh yes, it’s teamwork, we all contribute: I contribute with dying, and you with staying alive.

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Anti-racism protests in Tunisia after President Kais Saied’s migration speech [Kais said, according to journalists, “migration from Sub-Saharan Africa was aimed at changing Tunisia’s demographics”] (Al Jazeera English, YouTube, Feb 26, 2023)

The social democrats in power in Denmark say the same as Kais and implement the most restrictive immigration policy of the whole of Europe, while singing antifascist anthems like the others.

(I don’t know if “was aimed at” is a correct report; if correct, the assertion is problematic: aimed by whom? Is there a mastermind behind these migrations? If Kais’s speech is rightly reported, then I am not claiming Denmark’s authorities “say the same” as strictly as if it were only about demographic change.)

–Denmark has a population of just 4M, it would be so easy to become outnumbered in your own land. Who wants that?

On Google, I find Denmark’s population to be 5.8M. But this is not the relevant demographic figure, which is, rather, the percentage. Does Denmark have a greater percentage of foreign population than other European countries already to make a valid claim that its native population is being outnumbered compared with more populated nations? If, with a small population, Denmark has an even smaller percentage of foreigners, the argument is contrived.

However, this was not my point, which was the irony of finding a social-democratic party implementing the most restrictive immigration policy in Europe when the same parties in other countries have been so vocal for immigration. My interlocutor is saying, in her own way, that the platforms of social democracy depend on demographics, but I don’t believe this. It’s just that political parties scramble for seats and they’ll say anything. And Danes voting for social democrats to carry out an anti-migrant policy is just as comical as their remaining loyal members of their national church without believing in anything according to polls. (See Law 13: Is the church of Denmark a religious organization?)

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Speaking at Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, [Giorgia] Meloni without naming [India’s minister of foreign affairs] Jaishankar said that “Europe’s problem has become World’s problem”. Last year, Jaishankar said that “Europe thinks that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems but world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.” Jaishankar made these comments amid persistent efforts by Europe to make India take tough position on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. (Hindustan Times, YouTube, March 2023)

I don’t want to be harsh with a woman but this lady campaigned on a platform for family values while being a single mother. The true message of such a campaign, therefore, was that she was too busy, as a VIP, to build a family for her child and that family is a loser’s thing. So much so that she eventually married her –I don’t know how to call that– boyfriend or comfort toy in a flurry, a few days ago. Europe’s problem is its inescapable decadence, and this is not a world’s problem but the problem of those who are dying and will be replaced.

Europe’s decadence is inescapable because the measures available to these countries against decadence cannot be genuine any longer. For instance, the “reaction” against decadence of family values is Giorgia Meloni, a single mother. This is not reaction, but aggravation and acceleration.

A single-parent home (and in these I include any home where the mother has a boyfriend instead of a legitimate husband) may have many causes, such as death; I may retract what I just said about this lady if I am told she had actually bonded with a man and the man died or they had to separate because of force majeure, not the banal, predictable story of people incapable of bonding because family makes no sense to them.

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When the beacon blinds you

A blogger from France using WordPress, which is owned by the American Automattic, Inc., and writing a good deal of contents in English, I have always had daily clicks from the U.S., but I think I am noticing a pattern. Lately, I took positions against the U.S. administration in its relationships with both Russia and China, and that stopped the clicks from the U.S. It comes back slowly after a few days. I had noticed the same pattern before and I can’t help thinking this is not coincidental. It is a temporary drop or stop of clicks, noticeably from the U.S., provoked by some kinds of content, and it has become somewhat predictable. It’s as if there were a software somewhere intent on deterring bloggers to post some kinds of content, lest blog stats be impacted. I guess they don’t make it permanent because they don’t want to lose platform users, and they probably hope that a temporary impact can be deterrent enough.

One user (about me): Here’s the 50c. wumao. Another user (to the former): Sounds lame…

Thank you. I reported the (former’s) post as “intimidation,” as it is inconvenient enough to be denounced, without reason, as a foreign paid agent, but contrary to a couple of previous experiences with reporting this one still shows up for me. Apparently, this kind of one-word expletives is content with which YouTube is okey, and while it is fond of flaunting its harsh speech rules and regulations, it is full of such pollution, as everyone knows. It makes one think they reserve their censorship for articulate thought-of criticism.

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If what was reported [about the Nord Stream sabotage] is not right, why the US, Norway and leaders involved did not sue the award-winning journalist?

Journalism on issues of “general interest” is protected by the American First Amendment, public officials cannot hope to win a libel case in these conditions. But this stops at the American border, and the lack of response by Norwegian personalities, if some are named, might be a clue of guilt. At least, these Norwegians may be challenged to sue the writings, they may be asked why they do not, whereas that would be irrelevant in the U.S., where libel suits by public personalities are a nonstarter.