EVENTS up to the RIDICULE of JUSTICE
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I am ashamed and embarrassed because our United
States is siding with a State that is putting up show
trials, Soviet and Nazi style, in which the judges and
the Court are instruments of the accused and in which
a few selected scapegoats, executing orders, are meant
to explain and to atone for the crimes of the cowards
hiding behind the robes of their own servile judges.
SHAME TO ALL THOSE THAT STAND FOR THIS
RIDICULE OF JUSTICE AND THIS CHARADE.


This is not a matter between Italy and Germany, nor is it
just a matter concerning a single, however impressive and
beautiful, piece of art of however marvelous a Gallery.
It is matter of Humanity and Civilization: Not only is it
imperative that Art be protected from the foolishness
and baseness of human actions, and restored and preserved
in its original form for future generations to admire and for
a clear message to be send that it belongs to all Humanity
and it is not to be trifled with and used as a bargaining chip
in greed and in war, but it is also necessary, in the Spirit of
Unity and Human Brotherhood, that Art be returned and
exhibited in its Natural Surroundings, undisturbed by
the whims, the ups and downs and the unreliability,
mercuriality and aggressiveness of human behavior.
I strongly applaud the Director of the Uffizi in Firenze
and I hope that his Demand will be met and that his
zeal and his passion will create a precedent and the
outcome with pave the way for other Works of Art
Belonging to All Humanity to be returned and restored
to the places where they originated from and/or belonged,
for All Citizens of the World to be able to visit and enjoy,
without being constantly reminded of their status as loots,
and spoils of enmity and war.


What a ``reformer", what a pariah, what a close ``fiend"
and ``ally" of the United States! A State, where ``cybercrime"
refers to any show or program that criticizes His Brutaleness,
the Crown Butcher of the Arabia, currently under the
dictatorship and stranglehold of His Abject Family (in the
sense of Gang or Outfit). If criticizing the powers to be had
been a crime here in our United States, every single Citizen
would have been serving long, very long, jail sentences, but
at least (I hope), even Journalists, would not have been lying
in pieces in buckets of acid outside American Consulates
Somewhere on Planet Earth...


It is imperative that France and Germany, together with
all Other European Nations, work together to solidify and
enhance the Union through reforms with two major
underlying directions: More Integration and More
Democratization. E.g., States should think carefully,
plan and act on, first securing what is currently common,
and widely supported by All Citizens, like Freedom of
Movement and the Common Currency, and then advancing
integration of services in additional sectors; more and
closer educational, cultural, political, defense and
economic ties, with the ultimate goal being Full Unity
in all sectors. Moreover, plan and institute Constitutional
Reforms that would give Direct Choices to the People,
the Citizens of Europe, especially for Offices with
very High Influence and Political Power and endowed
with Decision Making Abilities, such as the President
of the Commission. Besides delegating more power
to the Citizens, such moves will create unprecedented
levels of much needed responsibility and accountability,
which, unfortunately, are lacking in the current, rather
anachronistic, authoritarian structures that are in place.
There is absolutely no reason why the same type
of campaigning and electioneering that takes place
for the Heads of Government and the Parliaments
of European States could not happen and become
entrenched and the mode in European Affairs and
throw NEW LIGHT and FRESH AIR into European
Politics and create a NEW, OPEN, DEMOCRATIC,
RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE EUROPEAN
LEADERSHIP, with an enhanced decision making
mandate, overseen, as now, by State Governments.


``Peace is their profession"!!! But when every single Citizen
of this Earth welcomes the New Year with renewed Hope and
renewed Wishes for Peace, Cooperation, Solidarity and
Fraternity Between All States, All Nations and All People
on this Planet, their message is that they are standing by,
cocked and ready to cause havoc and mayhem... Good Night
``Professionals of Peace". Happy 2019 to you as well.


Organized religion ending 2018 at its best... Patriarchs holding
double-edge, perfectly sharpened, swords and daggers and fully
at the ready to slaughter each other. Organized religious greed
for political and economic (and who knows what other human
and earthly) power at its zenith. And all that despite the, I am
sure, high-minded and noble-worded, sanctified and "idealistic",
"brotherly" and "conciliatory" preaching that will be read, on
their behalf, in their official announcements to the naive and
pliable ``faithful" from the pulpit.  Good night, greedy and
avaricious and insatiable "patriarchs"; The World deserves
much, much better; the World deserves a new enlightenment
that would get rid of empty suits, empty words and false promises.
Happy 2019.


Our World will be poorer in 2019 without Georges Loinger.
But our Humanity and our Memories will be richer forever
because of Georges Loinger.


If he does this, he will be wondering why the stock
market is plunging and why all the turmoil and the
insecurity, and will be blaming the poor (``poor")
Fed Chairman for the woes ensuing from his own
instability, insecurities and other issues that are
resulting from his mindlessness, his unwillingness
to face reality and his absurd, opportunistic, demagogic,
unproductive and unrealistic election promises...


Amos Oz is with us no more...


The Kurdish forces had one, and only one, ally in that
region and that was the United States. Lacking a better
alternative, they are now withdrawing and inviting
Bashar ``The Beast" al-Assad's forces to fill the void.
Eventually, being sandwiched between aggressive and
determined Turkish forces and mad, exterminating
``Bestial" Syrian troops, they will have to completely
withdraw to Kurdish Iraqi territories to regroup and
settle back and rethink and lament their fortunes
(or not). We'll have to wait and see...


It is high time the Israeli Voters send this corrupt
and short-sighted ``leader" home. Israel needs,
above everything else, Honest, Inspiring and
Visionary Political Leaders that would repair, and
restore Public Trust in, a rigged Political and Judicial
System, who would take Bold and Courageous Steps
for the Future of Israel and the Region, and who
would be ready to Compromise and to Engage with
Good Will and Good Faith in renewed Negotiations
with the Palestinian Side to advance the project of
establishing a State for the Palestinian People with
the goal of cementing Peace and Security and of
fostering Cooperation and Close Political, Economic
and Cultural Ties Between the Two Sides. DO NOT
MISS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY! ELECT A
PROGRESSIVE, FORWARD LOOKING,
VISIONARY POLITICIAN to guide Israel
forward and move it away from stagnation
and the current aura of corruption and who
would have a genuine interest in moving away from
undue entanglements and would have the Respect
and the Authority needed to attempt, in earnest,
to drain the overwhelming and overpowering
political and economic swamp.
This is also a good opportunity for the Palestinians
to call an election and move away from the petty
political stagnation and the personalized politics,
who have transformed the Palestinian Lands into
laughable pariahs internationally, having ``elected"
leaders for life, a system worse than dictatorships
and absolutist regimes and favoring corruption
and cronyism to unparalleled and unprecedented
levels, offering them little to no political capital.


It seems like the morph has surrounded himself with
people who are equally childish, volatile and repulsive
as himself; at least those that stick around, are reluctant
to contradict his mercuriality and his whims and afraid
to speak their minds openly, but find it constructive to
have useless calls with bankers for show, and to issue
statements to calm investors about fears they never
seem to have had, as if implying that there had been
some other danger lurking they did not know about,
which, of course, has the opposite effect than the
morose morph lackeys even thought were going to
have. In any case, who else in their right kind of
mind would stick around and risk his reputation
and his respectability and dignity than worthless
suck-ups and abject cronies, and who else, other
than careless and selfish idiots, would have paraded
their spouses in the open for private shopping and
pleasure travels on the public purse so openly,
shamelessly, unapologetically, scandalously and
provocatively, as if they were madams of the worst
possible repute, with such sliminess and such
jemenfoutisme to cause the entire country to shiver?


Farewell to His Majesty the Emperor, who has done his
part in reconciling Japan with Her former foes and to
promote Peace, Brotherhood and Prosperity in the
Western Pacific Region and in Our World. May His
Wishes for a Peaceful World, in which all Nations Live
Brotherly and Cooperatively and His Wisdom in
Admonishing Us All to NEVER FORGET HISTORY
and the countless Human sacrifices that have been
made in the altar of eventual Peace, to NEVER
DISTORT HISTORY, but make sure to pass it
down and recount it to our children accurately,
and to LEARN FROM HISTORY and NEVER
HESITATE TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AND
GIVE RESTITUTION WHEN WE ERR be heard,
be absorbed, be respected and be amplified by ALL.
FAREWELL, YOUR MAJESTY.


The morph should come out clean about what would
be the profit margin from the ``border wall project".
I smell here a big scam and a humongous conflict of
interest in the president, being a businessman, potentially
granting the project with enormous profit margins to
other businessmen that have relations with him and/or
his companies, expecting to get freebies and other
perks and advantages for his and his families' relatives,
associates and construction projects when out of office.
The ethics watchdogs and Congress MUST SUPERVISE
THIS ``PROJECT" CLOSELY and if anything happens,
even the appearance of anything improper, there must
be an immediate injunction and impeachment. The
morph is unstable, deeply unethical and ruthless
and would not hesitate to break the Law if it suited
his investments, his finances, his ego and/or his interests,
and he should be watched and his actions overseeing,
supervised and scrutinized by Congress for impropriety
very very closely. They share much of the responsibility
and, should anything occur, we will apportion blame
proportionally and will not forget...


The market has been unjustifiably hot and it needs
to cool down. It is much better to have gradual
adjustments to more realistic values, like what is
happening right now, rather than a one off
realization that everything is bubbly and hyper
inflated and a reckoning causing a meltdown.
My view is that many of the increases have very
little to do with innovation, productivity, real
output and consumption and a lot to do with
the artifice and exhilaration of lack of competition
and of biases and protectionism that have been
introduced by the tariff wars and by the unwise -
because unaffordable - tax cuts that will surely be
repealed when the sudden panic hits and the
truth strikes that we cannot afford our current
standards without higher taxes. The investors,
market analysts and market forces know this very
well and are trying to make a buck as quickly as
they can riding the bubble before it bursts, which
creates a vicious cycle and aggravates an already
tense and delicate financial situation.


I guess he even believes that he knows better how
to strategerize (as another one of the best educated
that we occasionally elect to lead us would have said)
and how to apply military policy than a general.
What a fool! If foolishness, vanity and stupidity could
ever have reached such excesses, who would have
thought we would have seen it in a President! But
it did not come out of the blue, no, no, no! There
have been clear signs and warnings and, as a Nation,
we fell very very short indeed in our calling and our
duty to elect one of the ablest, the smartest and the
best among us to lead us and to lead the Free World...


There is significant and substantiated suspicion that
the European Union and European Commission
Authorities are not telling the truth, or at least the
whole truth, when it comes to the health and the life
of Juncker. I encourage them to be very honest and
very open on this account and to allow the People
of the Union to judge and to decide based on all
facts without embellishments. Secrecy and lies
about the health of an ``irreplaceable lider maximo"
remind one of petty dictatorships, absolutist regimes,
autocracies and other personality centered and
personality cultivating regimes, and one would
hope that the Europe of today has made enough
strives away from those kind of polities to behave
and act even remotely closely to a simulacrum.


At last a measure of accountability by some private
actors, which we very very rarely see. Having said
that, we should recognize that it is not a measure
that hurts in any way the accused, which is very
unfortunate and very detrimental to an already
eroded public trust to the private sector, currently
at its nadir, but just a measure of withholding some
undue and undeserved additional luxury; sad and
disappointing indeed.
HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE BY TAKING
AWAY SOME OF THEIR INCOME; NOT BY
DENYING THEM ADDITIONAL OUTRAGEOUS
AND UNDESERVED PERKS AND OTHER
UNWARRANTED LUXURIES AND BONUSES!


I am sure that deep down Meghan has feelings for
her dad like all humans do. On the other hand,
she is an extremely astute and smart person and
she knows that he has proven time and again
untrustworthy and greedy and she senses that
any and all associations with him would risk
inappropriate, provocative and/or scandalous
behavior on his part and would result in his
exploiting the relationship for commercial
purposes because of his avaricious character.
This is a risk and peril that neither the Royal
House nor herself could afford at the moment.
In my view his getting the cold shoulder and
going wanting and whining around the media
circus is a proof that Harry has chosen wisely...


We should not have organized religions at all. The mere
fact that, for a single religion, there are so many flavors,
denominations, heads and subheads, etc., shows that
the whole institution is there as a power grabbing and
money amassing operation that suits the interests of
those at the top and serves not to fulfill the spiritual
needs of the ``faithful", but to exploit the weaknesses
of Humanity for the benefit and to the advantage of
another bureaucracy and another select caste of few.
My opinion here has nothing to do with the Russia-
Ukrainian rift or the ethnic and political background
of the dispute. But it has to do with my disappointment
that Patriarchate, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians and
others are more divided than united religiously, even
though the only things to divide are political power,
influence and property, and there are no spiritual and/or
substantial dogmatic disagreements, which emphasizes
exactly my point why organized religion is detrimental.
Not to even touch or mention the despicable role that
organized religions play oftentimes in the subjugation
or entire populations or the reprehensible role that
organized religions have played in fostering hatred
between populations and in sowing seeds of enmity
and war among different religious groups throughout
the History of Humanity.


Imagine a person feeling dizzy in their house and, having
called some inspectors and being told that the level of CO2
detected is dangerously high, responds: Oh well! I'll open
some windows if I ever pass out. Unfortunately, that's how
``government negotiators" on climate change sound to an
observer following the talks. They are aware of the dangers
and vaguely feel that something is amiss in the whole situation
and they are told that the path taken by individuals, industry
and governments has catastrophic consequences. But since
they do not see smoke and they do not smell fire, even though
they already pay for consequences, they do not feel either
the impetus or the urgency nor do they have either the will
or the spirit to move forward with anything meaningful
or substantial.




In Soo, Michigan, there is the last pub that accepts only
cash. In London, there is the first pub that accepts only
cards...


Those that were expecting the Arabia currently under
the yoke of the Sauds to voluntarily extradite their own
most brutal and most loyal murderers were fools..
Which Mafia, which Organized Criminal Outfit, which
Racketeering Organization would, of his own volition
and having plenty of opportunity to do the opposite,
act civilly and hand to Police and Investigators its own
capi, its own hitmen and its own executioners?


U.K., STAY! And let us not hold referendums every
two years about destroying one of the Noblest and
most Daring Developments in Human History and
in Human Culture and Civilization. Theresa May
has told you that ``it is either her plan or no Brexit",
i.e., in her canny political way has warned you not
to vote for her excremental plan, but be free to opt
for the much much better and much much more
sensible and much much more constructive and
much much more appealing alternative, despite
the fact that many of you have walked deeply and
far, motivated by morons and opportunists and
rather unwisely, into the opposite direction and
are weary and fearful of admitting a mistake and
of turning humbly to the voters and admitting that
you erred, you misled and/or were misled, and
that the promises given and the policies promised
were not earnest, realistic and viable and that the
motives put forward were selfish, brutish and
morally, fraternally and Historically questionable.
TAKE THE DECISION and accompanying
OPPORTUNITY provided by the ECJ and
reverse course and STAY! Both the U.K. and
the European Union and All Citizens on both
sides of our Channel will be the better off for it!!


For heaven's sake, do remember and abide by the
rules and regulations; they are there for a reason.
They are not there to be remembered only and
be taken into account after we mourn victims
and destroy lives and during the grim trials to
attribute guilt and apportion culpability, but to
never, alas, be able to resurrect the deceased
or to heal their families or to relieve their pain
and sorrow.


Neither man is to my liking, but I am sure you could
guess on whose side I would stand, if it came to have
to absolutely take sides. It is a telling feature of the
character and the wisdom of the elector himself when
he chose for the Number 2 Job in a Nation's
Governing Apparatus and, perhaps, because of the
role of our United States in the World, the Number
1 in Importance and in ensuring Fraternity, Freedom,
Democracy, Equality, Peace and Harmony and All
Noble Values that we would like and insist as Citizens
of the United States and the World that our United
States Stand For Forcefully and Unequivocally,
that he chose, by his own admission, if he is not
himself a liar, dumb and manipulative, a person
``dumb as a rock" and ``lazy as hell", and an even
worse telling feature of his character if he is indeed
a liar, a moron and a fool, thinking that such a whiny
imbecility and deviousness after the fact adds gravity
to his machinations and weight to his opinions.


There can be no Merkel 2.0 in the CDU; only some weak
related wishful thinking. But this is not without some
advantages, namely, that it will now be in the power
and in the hands of the Historic SPD to reclaim its
position as an irreplaceable advocate of People's Issues
in the Heart of Europe. SPD, DO NOT LET THIS
OPPORTUNITY COME TO NAUGHT!


Zoran Zaev messed up big time. When you try so hard
to create a balance and mend fences in politics, it is not
only advisable, but a sine qua non to talk in a fraternal
and conciliatory way and to send clear signals that you
intend nothing but respect and understanding for both
your cosignatory's and tour own position in the matters
agreed upon. Zaev, facing a stiff opposition at home,
attempted to sway votes by aggravating instead of
ironing the Greece-FYROM relations and has caused
a huge fury and, perhaps, a perilous, but, hopefully, not
yet totally irreparable rift with Athens by showing that
he meant very little of what was put of paper and that
he intends misinterpreting, at best, and violating, at
worst, the dicta of the agreement.
 

U.S. SENATE prepare for another confirmation fight and,
above all PREPARE TO DO THE RIGHT THING! In
Our State, we want the BEST QUALIFIED, THE BEST
TRAINED and THE MOST EXPERIENCED to get the
most IMPORTANT and the most SENSITIVE JOBS for
our Foreign Policy, National Security and International
Relations. You should insist on MERITOCRACY and
deflect any attempts to promote individuals that are
far lesser qualified than others and chosen mainly, or
only, because of their opinions and their loyalty.
WE ARE NOT A PERSONAL STATE BASED ON GRAFT,
CRONYISM AND FAVORS; WE ARE NOT AND SHOULD
NOT BEHAVE LIKE A BANANA REPUBLIC IN OUR
PUBLIC LIFE.


BRAVO TO THE U.S. SENATE!! No one in their right
state of mind should be politicizing an abject and heinous
crime or refraining from calling a murder a murder and
a butchering a butchering and refusing to apportion blame
and to impose harsh penalties individually and political
sanctions and consequences on the regime. Anything else
amounts to ostrichism, blindness and tolerance and
acquiescence to extremism and to the unacceptable.
Our United States stands unequivocally and with
conviction on the side of Free Thought, Free Speech and
Free Expression and opposes vehemently persecution
and incarceration for political and/or ideological reasons
and, a fortiori, political liquidation and extermination of
dissenters, in a way unheard of and incomprehensible in
a civilized society under any conceivable Rule of Law.


Ελπίζω ο Τσίπρας να μην είναι τόσο βλάκας που να
μας περνάει για κορόϊδα διότι είδε τί επαθαν οι άλλοι
που μας περνούσαν για κορόϊδα σχετικά πρόσφατα.
Εξάλλου, σ'αυτήν την βλακεία, ασχετοσύνη και αφέλεια
των υπολοίπων οφείλει αυτό το σύντομο και, ελπίζουμε,
ανεπανάληπτο, πέρασμά του από την εξουσία...


Let us all, English and Welsh, Scottish and Irish, and
TRUE, DEDICATED and DEVOTED, FRIENDS OF
EUROPE increase pressure on both the British
Government and Theresa May to DO THE RIGHT
THING at this, the eleventh hour, cancel this process,
make Great Britain part of the Continent again, where
it truly and integrally belongs, and stash and seal
this nightmare in the cabinets of most unfortunate
and most reprehensible ideas in the History of
Nations, where, in my view, will hold a prominent
and most exemplary position and be a reminder to
backward and short-sighted opportunists of things
that should be refrained from and avoided at all costs.


Not intending to be disrespectful to anyone, but I much
prefer and respect leaders that take a minute before a
meeting to read a briefing and heed the advice and the
council of their trained and experienced diplomats than
those who spend their preparation time tweeting about
unrelated stuff or related things that they know very
very little about because they either do not take the
time to be briefed or they ignore their councilors' and
diplomats' advice, thinking that they know best, and so
they invariably end up messing up.


This is shameful and unacceptable. Peaceful Protests
and Demonstrations, without the fear of harassment
and repercussions, are the Right of every Citizen in an
Open, Democratic and Civilized Nation. But crossing
the line and damaging Historical, Significant and
Important Artifacts and other Unique Pieces of the
Cultural and Artistic Heritage of All Humanity cannot,
and should not, be accepted or tolerated. Those violent
protesters in France, regardless of the Righteousness
or Wrongfulness of their Cause, owe the French
Government and the World an apology and should
refrain in the future from vandalizing and from
damaging such Works and insulting Our Heritage.


The morph met the aggressor in Buenos Aires and the
pictures conveyed how cordial the climate was, unlike
the high-fives between the two murderous thugs...
At least the morph did something right this time.


High-Five's between murderers of dissenters...


As long as the Chancellor and the Crew are well
and there was no accident and no fatalities, the
rest can be fixed, delays excused and meetings
postponed and rearranged for some future time.
Incidents like this remind us how brittle Humanity
is and that, even under the best of circumstances,
unexpected, frightening and upsetting situations
may be just around the corner.


Αυτά που βγαίνουν στη φόρα τώρα για τον αγύρτη,
λόγω των ευαίσθητων καταστάσεων, και δείχνουν
έλλειψη ανθρωπιάς, έλλειψη συμπόνιας, έλλειψη
ευαισθησίας, αναλγησία και κυνικότητα, δυστυχώς
τα ήξεραν πολύ καλά όσοι τον γνώριζαν και ήξεραν
πώς κινείται και με ποιούς συναλλάσσονταν και ώς
φοιτητής και ως νέος ``πολιτικός". Αλλά μερικοί,
ελλείψι άλλων επιλογών ή για προσωπικά συμφέροντα,
αρνούνταν να τα καταλάβουν ή/και να τα αποδεχτούν.
Ιδού τα αποτελέσματα.


A lesson for us to be taught by, to remember and to
absorb. Having a bunch of Law-abiding Citizens
running around wielding guns and other weapons
in public places, allegedly, as the NRA and other
self-interested organizations and persons would
have us believe, for our safety, is an invitation for
mayhem and a likely cause of confusion and havoc.


Canada, France, Germany and the United States are
pretentious and manipulative and impose sanctions
for show without substance. How else could a State
impose sanctions on murderers and thugs, but allow
its Head to be in the same room and shake hands
with the person that gave the command and directed
the operation, i.e., the butcher-in-chief, the boss of
the criminal outfit? SHAME ON THE WEST FOR
DOING NOTHING AND TRYING TO APPEASE
THE PUBLIC ONLY FOR SHOW.


BRAVO, U.S. Senate! This was the Right Thing to do
and I hope the resolution has some teeth and is not
simply advisory and ornamental. This is a Good
Opportunity to urge and to encourage Iran to do the
Right Thing also and abstain from aggressive acts
in Yemen and contain its support to the fighting
warlords and lawless men there and, for that matter,
restrain from getting entangled and from meddling
in the affairs of other States and in external conflicts.
Decent, Peace Loving and Law Abiding States have
a huge responsibility to not only refrain from
encouraging wars or participating into conflicts by
proxies, but, on the contrary, playing a constructive,
conciliatory role through Diplomatic Channels and
through Alliances and Allegiances on the ground,
so that those conflicts are concluded by ceasefires,
peace treaties and other agreements and negotiated
solutions before they claim unreasonable amount of
Human Lives and bring untold sorrow and disaster
on innocent Civilians and cause extensive and, often,
irreparable damage to infrastructure and ruin entire
States, Livelihoods and Economies.


Another clear failure of the Democratic Party in the
selection of candidates with impeccable credentials
that are beyond criticism and reproach. This seat,
with Mississippians hungry for change and with the
abject and racist Republican Candidate, was for the
Democrats to lose, not unlike the 2016 Presidential
Race, and guess what: They just did.


To a casual observer, it seems from these simple tabulations
of data that some people high up in the Indonesian Air Safety
Hierarchy are being bribed and/or paid off to turn a blind
eye to safety and airworthiness issues of junk planes (or
shall we say flying caskets) and allow companies to use
them again and again despite warnings, to the detriment
of public safety and to the advantage of those sharks that
are in the inspection business. In a nutshell, unless and
until Indonesia becomes serious about inspecting its
inspectors and cleans its act as a State when it comes
to air traffic security, it has to be sanctioned at the highest
International Level. When Citizens and the Public in a State
cannot be defended and their health is not or cannot be
taken seriously by the authorities of their own State, it
becomes, in such an interdependent and interconnected
World, the duty and responsibility of other States and/or
International Organizations to take over and replace that
State in taking care of National and International Travelers,
when that is doable and appropriate.


I cannot pass judgment on the culpability of these persons
since I am not familiar with the accusations or with their
circumstances. One thing that I can say, however, and that
I support emphatically is that China, or any other State,
should not shy away from prosecuting serious financial
and other crimes because of the accused having dual
Citizenship. It is very well known and a very widespread
habit of the affluent and well-connected to either ``buy"
or attain Foreign Nationalities and/or Residences based
purely on wealth and favors, and not on merit, and, hence,
if one took the possession of this status as an excuse not
to prosecute, then the rich and well-connected, be it in
China or elsewhere, would have automatically immunity
for any and all financial and/or other crimes.


I never heard more stupendous of an absurdity as is
going on now in British politics. May is going around
telling conservatives that (even though this is a disaster)
the alternative is even worse and risks dividing the
party even deeper (if that is possible). Why would
anyone do something bad to avoid something worse
instead of backtracking and going back to square
one, thus avoiding the initial bad altogether? Is the
stubbornness and the pride of politicians that have
``accomplished" something momentously unbelievable
and absurd so huge to not even want to reverse and
backtrack out of the mud when there is ample time
and power to do so before getting overwhelmed,
smeared and condemned by History?


One of the Giants of Cinema, Bernardo Bertolucci,
is with us no more...


Ο Παγκαλίξ ζει με 369.99 ευρώ το μήνα. Μη τον
ρωτάτε πως τα βγάνει πέρα... Ζει υπο το όριο της
άνοιας και της κακομοιριάς και τη βγάζει μόνο
με πίτσες και κοψίδια. Φοβάται να βγεί μην πέσει
θύμα ξυλοδαρμού για τα πεπραγμένα του και,
βέβαια, λόγω της βαθειάς πείνας και της ακραίας
απόγνωσης απειλεί ότι θα τους κλείσει όλους μέσα
(εννοεί αυτούς που μαζί τους τα έτρωγε...)


That the President of our United States, which has
always stood on the side of Free Thought, Free Speech,
Decency and Transparency is presenting us with
alternative facts and a distorted reality about the
outrageous butchering of Jamal and the culpability
of his killer and arch-butcher, this despicable brute
of a ``prince", is reprehensible and unacceptable
and Congress should take action and make sure
that all facts, all telephone calls and videos that
we have been hearing about, are carefully reviewed,
blame fairly apportioned and severe retaliatory
action taken so that the culprit(s) do not get a
slap on the wrist and feel that they can get away
with immunity and that they can do the same thing
against whomever they please or that whomever
displeases them because they justifiably despises
their policies can be eliminated with no consequences.


International Law and the overwhelming majority of
Nations both in the General Assembly and on the
Security Council are on the side of Airbnb and demand
a stop to the illegal settlement of occupied territories.
Moreover, even if that had not been the case, Humanity
would demand the Israel cease this activity and become
an Honest Negotiator with the Palestinian side, instead
of incrementally grabbing more and more of their land
and leaving them at the end no option but forcefully
accepting a ragged territory in which to go from one
city or one village to the next one would have to stop
and get demeaned and harassed by innumerous Israeli
guards, policemen and soldiers. ISRAEL, TAKE THIS
OPPORTUNITY AND DO THE RIGHT THING AND
COME BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
IN GOOD FAITH, WITHOUT DEMANDING THE
ENTIRE PIE AND THE DOG FED.


It is such a great pity and there is no doubt that people
at the top, who are the most expensively compensated
and, therefore, should be held the most accountable,
should pay a hefty price, when, under their watch and
with their consent and/or acquiescence, places that
should be temples of Respect, Knowledge, Idealism
and Transparency, become houses of abuse, fully
subservient to monetary and other interests and
full of conspiracies and cover ups.


In the face of disquietude and worries about Italian
National Debt in European Union Circles, Salvini
is joking about having expected a letter from Santa.
The way he acts and the way he jokes and the way he
ignores Italy's woes and the disastrous consequences
of upsetting the markets, he is going to receive a letter
from Santa in the next elections, if not sooner, alright.


I completely agree with the Kremlin's position that
the strong United States opposition to Prokopchuk's
election at the helm of Interpol was a form of
interference in the electoral process of an International
Organization. On the the other hand, I am considering
such an interference and council a very positive aspect
of World Affairs. When States see questionable individuals
with records that are far from impeccable and whose
objectivity and independence have been tainted,
they have a responsibility to speak up and oppose
making a mockery of those International Institutions
by electing them in positions of power. Needless to
say the same should happen with the election of
unworthy States in significant decision wielding
positions in International Bodies, such as the
Human Rights Council, when such States are
far from able to claim any virtuous or untainted
record as related to Human Rights, their defense
and their adherence to Humanitarian Norms and
Human Rights Covenants and Regulations. After
all, in the one single International Body that has
Law Making Power, our Security Council, not
only is States' interference a norm, but it is in
fact, by Constitution, the Modus Operandi.


What happened in Boularat (Vouliarates) was not pleasant
and Nationalism in any form has no place in modern and
open societies. On the other hand, taking as a pretext
this incident to claim that Albania should not Celebrate
with its Neighbors the Determined and Fierce Resistance
Against Fascism and Nazism is only a sign of weakness
and imbecility. Even Italians and Germans send their
Heads of States and other Delegates to Celebrate
Freedom and Resistance to their despicable regimes
and to Commemorate the Victims of Nationals of
Other States that gave their lives for the Continent
that we have and know today. In that sense I strongly
oppose Berisha's opinion and urge the Neighbors to
find ways to commemorate jointly and peacefully
and to also take opportunity to Celebrate their Common
Mutual Interest, that ensues from their Common Destiny,
in Future Peace, Stability and Prosperity within the
European Family and European Framework.


BRAVO, Airbnb!! We all should do the Right Thing,
even if it is costly or may lose some business. In this
case illegal settlements contravene International Law
and the entire World should put pressure on those
engaging in illegal acts to comply and give Peace
a Chance and engage in Good Faith in Negotiations
for a Fair Agreement leading to Good Neighborly
Relations, Lasting Peace, Palestinian Statehood and
Prosperity and Good Will for both sides of the divide.


I am wondering whether all the crass, uncivilized brutes
of Roman Times savageness and vindictiveness will chant
``Lock her up, Lock her up!" everywhere her brutish,
crass, and unfit for office, father shows up. Because, unlike
the other lady who erred and/or broke the law, this one
is not at her post nor does she hold her office because
she is competent and highly qualified, but simply because
of cronyism and favoritism, because she happens to be
the dearest and trusted confidant of a mistrustful and
perverse individual, who is reluctant to appoint those
most worthy that would have the guts, the knowledge
and the experience to say NO and to give an honest
opinion without licking feet and staying in line and
pretend to be loyal puppets, while going to the press
to produce anonymous digs as confidential sources.


These comments were not misinterpreted or misconstrued.
They were taken at face value and understood correctly, and
having the shamelessness to claim otherwise, instead of
acknowledging grave mistake and intent to discriminate,
is reprehensible. I only hope that Alexandra stays pure and
simple, despite the enticement by the special interests and
the constant courting and pressure by lobbyists that tend
to transform even the purest, the youngest and the most
idealistic to one and the same with those ancient committee
chairpersons and curmudgeons that look after everyone but
the people and take care of everything but the interests of
the people and cause the people to veer and embrace such
bigots, racists, sexists, nationalists and other demagogues
and opportunists of a certain morphic intelligence and
demeanor.


In my view, this crime deserves maximum penalty and,
perhaps more, if there is a loophole in the Law that would
allow the Judge, at his/her discretion, to impose harshest
penalties. The issue here is not simply the act of treachery
and breach of trust. The issue is much larger because
such acts, violating the Noblest of all feelings of Human
Kindness and Human Generosity, together with the, in
my view equally heinous, humongous salaries and
compensation packages of administrators and merchants
and professionals of ``charity", are shattering the Public's
Confidence in Good Deeds and the Public's Trust on Acts
of Good Will and Generosity and hardening the souls of
many Citizens who would otherwise have been inclined
to contribute and help, but have become so afraid and
so weary of the perversion of ``charity" in our societies
and in the seeking of rewards for ``charity" by both
individuals and organizations that they cannot do so
without inhibitions and/or regret in the end.


Scapegoating a single culprit to salvage the ``reputation"
of the mastermind, the monster butcher trash of a ``prince"...
 

BRAVO, Denmark! Aid should be given conditionally,
provided basic Human Values and basic Humanitarian
Norms are Respected and Adhered To and, on many
occasions, also under strict oversight and strict supervision
so that the funds do not end up in private accounts in
Switzerland and/or do not end up fostering private
shadow states and warlordism that we are so used to
seeing, under the cover of pseudo-democracies without
term limits and other supposedly functioning, but
in essence failed or bad-governed, States in the Developing
World. States that provide aid should take a cue from
Denmark's Example and cut aid, when aid is misused
or otherwise unwarranted, to exert positive influence.


This could be a great opportunity in the Israeli
and Palestinian conflict for Negotiations to take
place, a Lasting Peace to be established and a
genuine, heartfelt road map to be followed for
the Establishment of a Palestinian State towards
which both sides will undertake to work in Good
Faith and with Good Will and Peaceful Intentions.
It is time, on the occasion of the resignation of this
terrible aggressive brute, to call fresh elections in
Israel and, needless to say, it is past high time that
elections be held in the territories under Palestinian
control for a new Palestinian Administration,
Then, the newly elected Governments should
embark on a new and hopeful road to Peace.
But the Citizens must do their part:
REJECT ENMITY, HATRED AND CONFLICT
AND ELECT FORWARD LOOKING, PEACE
ORIENTED. PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES
THAT WOULD BE FAVORABLY INCLINED
TO DISCUSS AND RESOLVE THE SERIOUS
ISSUES AND NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH!


I understand the disappointment of not seeing the
morph visiting the cemetery due to rain, but, one
has to also take into account his age when one
makes comparisons with Barack. One was a much
younger man at the peak of life during his tenure,
especially at the beginning, whereas the other is
a spent force, both in business and in his (non
existent and/or totally inconsistent) politics.


I urge the United Kingdom on this very very Historically
Loaded and Extremely Significant Day of Commemoration
of the Perils and the Victims and the Ravages of War, of
Warning against Critical and Unresolved Discords,
Disagreements and Unsubstantiated and Misplaced
Belligerence, Nationalism and Pseudo-Patriotism, and
of Celebration of Peace, Harmony and Brotherhood
among All Nations, and especially Neighboring Nations,
and in the face of all the revelations of the false promises
and the lies and all the governmental failures of Her
Majesty's most short-sighted, least visionary and most
brutish and uncivilized politicians and subjects, and the
total collapse of agreement between the Members of
the Governing Party on what to do and what the Right
Path is, to RETURN THE BALL TO THE COURT
OF THE PEOPLE AND TO ASK AGAIN THE
CITIZENS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, who are
now much better informed and much better aware
of the false promises and the nonexistent alternatives
and the rhetoric and demagogy of pretenders, TO
GIVE, ONCE MORE, ADVICE TO THE QUEEN
AND THE GOVERNMENT. I am sure our Brethren
in the United Kingdom will vote overwhelmingly
for Brotherhood, Solidarity and Unity with the
Continent and will be able to see that the European
Union, which rose and flowered out of the ashes of two
wars is not merely a financial and economic calculation,
but a Bold and Noble Project and Wager for a Future
of Openness, Coexistence and Cooperation Without
Borders, of Brotherhood, Peace and Prosperity that
would have been impossible to envision or realize
without Common Decision Making and Common
Policy Making at the very top, despite differences
and despite unavoidable disagreements and despite
occasional diverging interests between the Member
States. We Stand All Together, and, as our Futures
and our Destinies are Indivisibly Intertwined, all
those differences seem secondary, an important
part of free and vigorous political dialog and
of free and lively negotiations between Partners
rather than an obstacle to the Logical Culmination
of this Grand Dream and Wondrous Project that
we inherited from the Most Talented, the Most
Gifted and the Most Forward Looking and Most
Progressive of our Forefathers. Liberals and Tories,
United Kingdom, DO THE RIGHT THING, ON
THIS MOST MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT
DAY, AND ANNOUNCE A BOLD, FORWARD
LOOKING AND PROGRESSIVE CHANGE OF
POLICY AND COURSE AND REEMBRACE
THE UNION. THE CITIZENS OF THE U.K.
WANT IT, THE CITIZENS OF EUROPE WANT
IT AND WE ALL ARE LOOKING AT YOU AND
EXPECTING THAT ONE NOD AND APPROVAL.
 

It was a Great Day in our United States Election Day!
In our State of Michigan, we saw long lines and long
waits, but People Took Their Right and Their Civic
Responsibility Very Seriously, waited and chatted
patiently and with Civility, as befit a Great and
Civilized Nation, and Expressed their Views and
their Opinions Freely and Proudly at the Ballot
Machines. It was also a Great Day in our United
States Election Day because our Citizens sent to this
Administration and the World a strong and clear
message: Beware what you do and who you put up
in the next even-year election cycle. WE are not
going to stand silent and repeat twice mistakes
not befit a Great Nation and the only remaining
Superpower. Do not put up for our Judgement
and ask for our Vote crass charlatans, unfit and
inadequate to hold the Greatest Offices of this Nation,
impolite brutish demagogues who:
1. Are full of discredited and undeserved posture
    and braggadocio when the only thing they have
    accomplished has been inheriting great wealth
    and driving it to the ground through multiple
    failures and bankruptcies and who are unwilling
    and/or unable to reveal their economic status
    for fear that their shenanigans will see the light
    of day and their financial records will bear witness
    to their debasing lies and their incompetence;
2. Put in jeopardy infrastructure and very important
    programs for social security and social cohesion and
    the support that a Great State should, by force of
    its Moral Principles and its Conscience, provide
    its weakest and more vulnerable Citizens, by
    shrinking dramatically the income of the State,
    with the exclusive purpose of providing unneeded
    breaks to the richest Citizens, including themselves,
    their families and their cronies and political
    supporters, associates, donors and other lackeys;
3. Are anti-immigrant in a Nation built through
    immigration, that has embraced and exploited
    Globalism, foreign capital and foreign contributions
    in all Sections of Life, are sowing xenophobia,
    racism and hatred for the different and the other
    because it suits their short-term political goals
    even though they live in a Diverse Nation that was
    built on, and has, therefore, a Unique and Unusually
    Strong Respect for the Different and the Other;
4. Spread misogyny, antisemitism and belittle
    immigrants, while marrying immigrants
    multiple times and marrying off daughters to
    Jewish Families, when personally and financially
    advantageous, suitable and/or convenient;
5. Tout repulsion for the ``swamp" and an intention
    to clean up politics, but turn around and appoint
    unqualified and inexperienced relatives, lackeys,
    cronies, feet lickers and people owing and owed
    favors to key Advisor, Envoy and Cabinet Posts,
    that should be filled in any Nation that Respects
    its Citizens, wants to Appoint the Best and Exploit
    its Best Talents, Give Equal Opportunity to All its
    Citizens and be Fair to All, by the Best Qualified
    Citizens and by the Best Minds and Most Experienced
    for the Job, regardless of personal allegiances.
We urge the Parties to look deep into themselves
and bring forward in Primaries for the next even
year election cycle Candidates that have exemplary
records regarding these points and whose rhetoric
is Unifying and Humane, who will be, regardless of
short-term political interests and electability concerns,
genuinely interested in Uniting All U.S. Citizens,
Giving Equal Opportunities in Government and
a Fair Shot at Office to All. We must have Candidates
who will be set to Restoring in America the Great
Feeling of Openness, Fraternity, Friendliness,
Compassion and Support towards All Citizens of
All Nations of the Globe and who will show readiness
and eagerness to support, align and cooperate with
All Nations that Return a Hand of Friendship, that
Negotiate With Us in Good Faith and Keep their
Word, and not with those impostors and pretenders
that kiss our hands, but, behind our backs plant
bombs in our midst and kill Fellow Residents of
ours in botched, medieval in brutality, operations
that have no place in a civilized society which has
long ago, at least in all other places but theirs,
emerged from the darkness of the middle ages
and values Free Thought and Free Speech and
cherishes Fundamental Individual Rights.
To close, another Word of Praise to our State of
Michigan whose Citizens and Voters approved
overwhelmingly to:
1. Forbid gerrymandering and shenanigans that
    defecate on the face of Democracy and that
    ridicule and make a mockery of the Greatest
    Democratic Principle of All: ``One Citizen One
    Vote!"
2. Allow unfettered and unrestricted access to the
    pols for All Citizens and remove and curb all
    possible restrictions and limitations to voting.
    What is the point of having to preregister, or
    of forbidding Straight Party Voting etc. Elections
    are, by nature, all about giving Citizens MORE,
    not LESS, choices, and last night Michiganders
    spoke loud and clear on this issue and showed
    the Power of Reason. When technology advances
    so rapidly and can be used to facilitate everyday
    life so greatly, we want it to be used to enhance
    and safeguard access and choices, not to restrict
    them and make access and choices more cumbersome.
BRAVO, MICHIGAN!
  

Tone down the despicable, destructive and fruitless
rhetoric of hatred. It does not serve the interests of any
State in the Balkans and it undermines Peace, Good
Neighborly Relations and Fraternity and Cooperation
between States and exacerbates issues that can best
be resolved by Political Dialog, Understanding, Human
Warmth and Cooperation. Understand and digest that
States on the Peninsula are destined to live together
side by side and, after the last wars, the introduction
of the Charter Regime and the Post-Communist
Realignment of Borders, it is to every State's urgent
and utmost interest to stabilize, deepen and solidify
the status quo by actively engaging in the warmest
and most cordial relations, by deepening cooperation
in all possible sectors, economic, social, cultural and
political, and by urging and encouraging Citizens on
all sides to do the same. LET US ALL DO OUR PART!


Relentless pressure on Iran versus money, aid, deals
and alliances with the Arabia of the Sauds. Shameful,
totally incomprehensible... Completely incoherent,
based on fictions and prejudices and lunatic foreign
policy decisions. Our United States need change very
urgently in very important sectors of Government.
LET US START TOMORROW, FLIPPING SENATE
AND CONGRESS TO BALANCE THE ABSURDITY
OF THE EXECUTIVE.


Cameroonians, both Government and rebels, you are
destroying your own State and inflicting severe pain
and casualties to your own Population, when you
could have, instead, considered and looked at
bilingualism as a unique and valuable opportunity
and distinct advantage that one could have exploited
to become a leader in investment, development and
attracting foreign business and foreign capital in
your Region of the Mother Continent. Too bad that,
once more, Governments and People of Africa prove
uninspiring, intolerant, below the Calls of History
and below circumstances and expectations. One
would have expected African Nations and their
Governments to have stood above the frightening
and divisive remnants of their Colonial Past and to
show the West and the World a Humane, Peaceful,
Harmonious and Collaborative Way to Innovate
and Move Forward. SHAME ON CAMEROON!


I have to confess that what scares me and disturbs me
the most, besides the intolerance, hatred and violence
that I am witnessing and the tormenting feelings and
thoughts of unjustifiable and perplexing sudden loss
of undervalued and trivialized Human Life, is the fact
that these events and developments happen with the
support and the acquiescence of some parts of the
World's Jewish Community and Leadership, who, in
my view, for Historical Reasons, should always stand
the firmest, the most decisively and the most steadfastly
against any traces or inclinations of intolerance, of
discrimination, of misogyny, of racism, of hatred
for the alien, the different and the other. The Jewish
People should not equivocate, because their Fathers
and Relatives have suffered recently and unimaginably
and their Communities and Kin are the ones that are
among the most vulnerable and the most likely to suffer
again, since they are often singled out for scapegoating
and for political and other exploitation on the spur of
the moment, when it becomes convenient and expedient
to unconscientious and ruthless political groups to sow
hatred and divisibility and garner support by stirring
the basest primitive instincts in humanity. Unfortunately,
I see Jewish Groups aligning with the AfD in Germany
and supporting the morph in our United States and,
because of short term political expediency in Middle
Eastern and United Nations Affairs, taking in Israel
positions that align them with the current United
States administration. If they decided reversing course
and partnering with Progressive, Forward Looking and
Open Minded Elements in our Societies,  supporting all
that is virtuous, Brotherhood, Fairness, Equality and
Tolerance, embracing those in need and in search of a
brighter future and of opportunity, regardless of religious,
ethnic, racial background and other personal preferences
and characteristics, they would gain in Alliances and
gather Support and Recognition, whereas many current
political decisions put them under unfavorable light and
have a distinctively grave potential of backfiring and
proving detrimental and perilous to their own interests
and well-being and to those of other similarly vulnerable
and prone to scapegoating communities that could
otherwise benefit from and return Jewish support.
WE SHOULD ALL STAND TOGETHER, ALLY
WITH THOSE FORCES WHO SEE IN US ALL
STRENGTH IN UNITY AND BROTHERHOOD,
AND EXPRESS THESE FEELINGS AND VOICE
THOSE DEMANDS AT THE POLLS THIS COMING
TUESDAY. THERE IS NO MORE TIME AND NOT
ANY JUSTIFICATION OR ROOM TO HESITATE,
TO FALTER OR TO EQUIVOCATE!
LET US SEND A STRONG POLITICAL
MESSAGE ON THE SIDE OF HUMANITY!


When I see hordes of uncivilized brutes that use Religion
to justify in Humanity and its actions the basest of the
worst animal instincts, killing, maiming, brutalizing and
taking revenge, I feel sorry about Humanity, which has
stayed so much behind and in such primitive modes and
backward stages of existence and civilization, with zero
capacity of independent thought and zero willingness
for tolerance and diversity in some States like Pakistan,
despite its overall Progress and its overall Advancements
and overall Forward Looking trends and inclinations in
the overwhelming majority of all other States.


Τί περιμέναμε άραγε αφού τα ξεπουλήσαμε όλα οσον
αφορά την μόνιμη κατοικία; Ακούω κλάμα και φωνές
και κραυγές για την τακτοποίηση του Σκοπιανού
ζητήματος, πιθανώς με τον καλύτερο δυνατό τρόπο
εν μέσω των δεδομένων συγκυριών, για την Ελλάδα,
αλλά δεν άκουσα τα ίδια όταν η Κυβέρνηση αποφάσισε
με 3 και 60 να πουλήσει άδειες παραμονής στους έχοντες.
Γιατί μπορεί στην Ελλάδα να μας φαίνονται τα 250
χιλιάρικα πολλά, αλλά σε άλλες χώρες τα έχουν πολύ
πιο εύκολα, ή τουλάχιστον, όπως στην Κίνα, οι αριθμοί
είναι τόσο μεγάλοι πληθυσμιακά που, ακόμα και το
0.1% μόνο να τα έχει, μπορεί να έρθει και να αγοράσει
άπαντα και να πάρει και άδεια χρυσής παραμονής.
Αλλά σκεφτόμαστε καθόλου πριν πράξουμε ή ό,τι
φαίνεται και ακούγεται καλό το εκολουθούμε
παρορμητικά κι όποιον πάρει ο χάρος (και φαίνεται
εδώ πήρε πάρα πολλούς και τακτοποίησε και τις
τσέπες πολλών).


They should have sent this idiot to a school of diplomacy
and political science. One gaffe, one bulls**t, one idiocy
follows the next. An already suffering State will sink even
further because of the abject cronyism, corruption,
mismanagement and selfishness of an unworthy family.


My opinion is that it is inappropriate and unethical in a
genuine mature Democracy to divulge any partial results
or information (including statistics, percentages, etc.) or
comparisons having to do with an election process right
before or during the time this election process is unfolding.
The fact that in our United States it is legal and allowed
by Law to publicize partial (or total) statistics about early
voting during an election that has not yet been concluded
is a flaw and/or a sign of immaturity and laxity and seems
absurd and outrageous. CONGRESS MUST FIX THIS!


Google, you have the money, you have the responsibility,
seize the moment, make us look up to you as an example,
unfortunately rare and much needed, of an uncompromising,
determined and deliberate advocate of ethics in the Corporate
World. When harm is done, annul contracts for breach
of Rules and Violation of Ethics and take cases to Court,
if need be, and refuse to reward the culprits. Only in that
way, only together, will we be able, slowly, but steadily, to
make a difference and create the progress needed on these
sensitive and important issues that have rigged Justice,
inhibited Opportunity, ridiculed Accountability and
warped Fairness and Equality in our Societies.


Another State so uncivilized that day in and day out forces
us to celebrate the rudimentary and the obvious, because
it is a good day in Pakistan when Logic and Common
Sense prevail. And, unfortunately and sadly, another State
on our Planet that, despite its atrocious and despicable
record of Human Rights and in spite of its shadiest and
covert role in fostering and supporting instability and
extremism, our United States and other Western Allies
have chosen as a Partner and an Ally. It it high time to
rethink and to reconsider our support and our alliances
with regional power players, like the Arabia of the Sauds
and Pakistan, and to distance ourselves from them and
from their actions and to cease economic and military
support in order to exert pressure to their current leaders
to conform to modern standards of civilization (just the
minimums that Decency and Good Governance and
Brotherhood and Cooperation demand) and, on some
instances, like Arabia, which under the ruthless and
heartless and backward Sauds has been transformed
to one of the worst and most corrupt and autocratic
regimes on the Planet, encourage Regime change and
a move towards more transparency and power sharing.



I was happy to see that in the Arabia, the authorities have
a good sense of self-understanding. They arrested some
Filipinos for attending a Halloween Party and, of course,
justifiably so. Why on earth would one need a Halloween
Party in Saud-dominated Arabia to absorb and enjoy the
message of the holiday when the ``leader" himself is
Prince Dracula reincarnate, with killing, dismembering
and disposing devices ready at hand and squads all fully
equipped and with diplomatic slaughter-passports ready for
any contingency or sign of free speech and free expression?


It is imperative that Greece and all its Neighbors and
Greeks and All Citizens of the Balkans Respect the
Charter of the United Nations and Abide by the
Tenets of International Law, which decree that all
current borders, as established by International
Treaties, are Inviolable and Not Subject to Change.
Supporting opinions and posting comments that are
or that may be perceived to be inflammatory and
advocating change of International Borders is not
helpful and does not foster Peace, Security and
Brotherhood and Cooperation between Neighbors
and does not serve Stability and Good Relations
between Nations that share a Common History
and a Common Destiny and have every interest
in Living Peacefully and Securely along each
other. We, as Citizens, have a unique responsibility
to be careful in advancing these values and do all
in our power to foster those feelings of fraternity
and good neighborly relations.


Very sad news from Leicester yesterday and very sad news
from Jakarta this morning.



Neo-Nazi Bolsonaro won Brazil's Presidential elections.
The future does not look very bright politically for Brazil,
but it may have looked even worse with the establishment,
which had plundered the State and its resources and had
thought and behaved as if the State was their fiefdom to
use for personal power, personal enrichment, with
unchecked sense of entitlement and rampant corruption.
If the omens prove correct and Brazil politically and
socially suffers gravely and irreparably by the election
of chauvinistic, anti-Democratic brutes, the blame will
be fair and square on the shoulders of the left and of
``leaders", like Lula and his associates, who failed
miserably in their promises and in their responsibilities.


Antisemitism goes hand in hand with hatred for immigrants,
with aversion for LGBTQ, with fear for the ``other" and with
condescension and belittlement of women and minorities.
Those belonging to these groups have a distinct responsibility to
realize what is happening and which are the forces that, despite
claims to the contrary and in spite of short-term opportunistic
alliances and political maneuvers, have the sole purpose to
sow fear and hatred in the hearts and minds of our Fellow
Citizens and gear them towards divisibility and the unthinkable
in order to exploit and profit from it politically and achieve
their darkest hopes and their despicable and obscure goals.
We all, but especially people belonging to these groups, that
are targeted and have endured the most and that will still bear
the brunt and suffer disproportionately more,  if such ideologies
and such movements come to pass, have a distinct burden
and the gravest responsibility to Stand Together, to Ally with
Progressive and Forward Looking Political and Social Forces
and to make the argument that Humanity has a Common
History, despite superficial temporal and spatial differences,
and that Humanity stands to profit when All of Us, Brothers
and Sisters of All Races, All Nations, All Religions, All
Socioeconomic Backgrounds and All Personal Preferences
and Characteristics, Work Together for a Better Future and
to Face in Unison and in Coordination our Common Destiny.
Only if that happens, only if we make sure, through our
actions, through our educating our youth and through
our political activism and social awareness and sensitivity,
that the Love for All Humans defeats in our hearts the fear,
the suspicion and the hatred for the ``other", will there come
one day when such terrible incidents might seem remote,
impossible and unthinkable. Pittsburgh will heal, because
time helps us heal, but Pittsburgh will happen again, if we
forget and if we do not become aware of the lurking dangers
and we do not take the Right Turns and make the Right
Adjustments and the Right Decisions promptly, without
hesitation or equivocation and with determination.


None of the Civilized Nations of this World, nor our
United Nations, should ever agree to allow these trials
to take place in the Arabia (currently under the strangle
hold of the Sauds) or, if that happens, to legitimize and
accept the verdicts of these sham courts, which, of
course, since they will be trying the lieutenants and
executioners of the dictator, who authorized them
and ordered them to perform the atrocious butchering,
are going to deal with the ``trials" as a show and
a mockery of Justice with predetermined outcomes
and no substantial evidence will be (allowed to be
revealed and) presented connecting the real culprits
(including the ``prince"ly butcher, the foreign ministry,
``ambassadorial" and ``consular" authorities")
with the documents, the traveling arrangements, the
issuing of ``diplomatic credentials" and with enabling
and facilitating the slaughtering. All Nations should
Unanimously, with a United Front, and Steadfastly
demand the extradition of the culprits to Turkey.
They should demand the arrest of the ``ambassador"
and ``proconsul" and all other employees who aided
and facilitated the ``operation" and should, at least
temporarily, terminate diplomatic relations and
send Arabian heads of ``diplomatic missions" and
high ranking personnel home and ask the ``embassies"
and ``consulates" to operate on a caretaking capacity,
with only essential personnel, with numbers of stuff
diminished enough so as not to be able to organize
and execute criminal operations and conspire to
use diplomatic premises for crimes unbecoming and
unrelated to their missions and, sadly, geared towards
deliberate elimination of opponents, grave breaches
of International Law and serious, worrisome and
disconcerting violations of Human Rights.
STATES OF THE WORLD, UNITED NATIONS,
DO THE RIGHT THING! DO NOT GIVE AN
INCH! DO NOT ALLOW BUTCHERS DOUBTS AND
TO THINK THEY CAN DO IT WITH IMMUNITY
AND GET AWAY WITH TRYING THEMSELVES.


It sounds like the dude who was arrested for sending
the packages with the fake bombs was either one of
the morph's ``bad hombres" or one of the eggs in
Hillary's ``basket of deplorables" or maybe falling
in both categories...


I hope that this continues and that it provides an example
to other companies and corporations to do the Right Thing.
No one, whichever their race, their sex and/or their sexual
orientation and/or other personal preferences and other
personal characteristics, should be afraid to go to work
or should be embarrassed and/or intimidated when they
go to work because of an enabling environment that
doe not face head on discrimination and harassment
issues and that tolerates people who consider it their
right to take advantage of their positions, their power
and/or their rank and relations to bother and harass
others and make their coworkers' professional lives
miserable and painful.


Beauty is one thing, boldness is another. But ignorance,
especially ignorance on issues of critical importance to
the History of the Nation, and the ensuing insensitivity
issuing from that ignorance, make one unsuitable and
unfit to hold one of the most expensive leading positions
in entertainment and, in my view, puts serious and rather
puzzling questions on the credentials and the record of,
and the means employed by, such a person to attain
such exposure and such market value.


Επι ημερων του και υπο ``ελεγχου" του τα κλεφτρονια
έπαιρναν και εδιναν και τα γουρουνια εκαναν παρτι.
Τι να πει φυσικα το ``αφεντικο" αυτης της καταστασης;
Προσπαθει ακομα να διατηρησει την εικονα του αθωου
και χαρισματικου και υπερ ανω ``ηγετη"... ΝΤΡΟΠΗ.


The ``prince" (butcher-in-chief) will punish those he sent to
butcher the journalist in their ``embassy" (slaughterhouse)...


The Mediterranean is very important strategically for both
the United States and the European Union and the recent
events unfolding in the Southeast Asia Region with China's
aggression and disregard of International Law are too
disquieting and upsetting for the United States and the
European Union to allow another significant military
power, like Turkey, to impose unilaterally and without any
opposition and warnings its will and its unscrupulous and
distorted pseudo-interpretations of International Law in
order to gain unopposed full control of a wide Geographical
Region in which, of course, like in Southeast Asia, many
other States, including Cyprus, Egypt, Greece and Israel,
have also Rights that are enshrined in International Law
(some of which are Exclusive Economic Rights at that)
which Turkey is trying in an uncanny and blatant manner
 to restrict or suppress for the sake of absolute dominance.


What is the point for a State to decide to dedicate humongous
resources to further develop a nuclear arsenal when it already
possesses one formidable enough to destroy and bury the
World over multiple times? As if this had not been enough,
what is the point of dedicating resources to develop the kind
of weapons that will, most likely, never be used in any type of
warfare, rather than devoting a much more reasonable and
much more affordable sum to develop weapons that have
proven very valuable in most cases and under most likely
scenarios and circumstances? Finally, is it not arrogance
and mindlessness to dedicate huge sums, that one does not
have readily available, to acquire things that one does not
need and that one would likely never use and that, if one
even needs, will, by then, very likely, be out of date and
displaced by other more viable technologies?  Why
consuming ominous and burdensome amounts of resources
for developing and maintaining such an expensive arsenal
of questionable strategic utility? I do have indeed the
hardest time to understand how any intelligent planner
and any intelligent advisor would give such a foolish
direction to our United States security and military policies.


Oooowooooo!!!


How ironic, but how extremely common, for the most
``faithful" to prove themselves over and over again
the biggest liars, the biggest hypocrites and the most
greedy and most avaricious swindlers, with the deeds
and the opera of megachurches, schools and museums
to provide evidence to these charming qualities of
theirs...


The morph is again seeing things upside down. The United
States should not be pissed at States for allowing their
Citizens to leave freely and go freely wherever and whenever
they want. In fact, we were up in arms in despair and in
protestation when, in the past, communist and other
States were forbidding people from leaving and without
justification restricting the movement of Citizens and
Foreign Nationals visiting their territories. BUT the
United States should be disappointed and pissed at
seeing States with ``democratic" regimes have their
leaders siphoning off the wealth of the people and
giving no rat's a** for the safety and security of
their Citizens and for the well-being of their Nationals,
simply spending all their budgets in fattening their own
pockets and stashing private wealth in the banks of
developed Nations and safe havens and refusing to
abide by their obligation to reinvest most of it in
development, security and well-governance in favor
of the populace. That is the reason why we should
either withdraw aid or, when we provide aid, do it
directly and not through local agencies and those
merchants of charity and other parties whose work
has repeatedly amounted to null and whose major
accomplishments have been multi-million dollar
compensations and mansions for their top executives
to the complete and utter ridicule of their declared
missions.


The main culprits. The Saudi reasoning is a classical
petrodollar reasoning with the perennial petrodollar
pseudo-servile, but arrogant, at heart, attitude: ``We
pay them, they owe us, we control them and we silence
them, so we have a free pass and they better f**k off"


Το χείριστο που μπορεί να κάνει ο Κοτζιάς είναι αντί
να αφήσει την ιστορία να κρίνει θετικά ή αρνητικά
τις ενέργειές του στο Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών, να
αρχίσει να γίνεται φαιδρός ασχολούμενος με τον
πάσα ένα γελοίο με σχόλια στο twitter και αλλού
και να ``υπερασπίζεται" με κραυγές και με δήθεν
επιχειρήματα του κώλου και του δρόμου την
``τιμή, την υπόληψη και την αξιοπρέπειά του".
Νίκο, άσε τα έργα να μιλήσουν και σιώπησε και
άσε του κριτές, που επί δεκαετίες κάθονταν
ανενεργοί και σιωπηλοί και άφηναν τα πράγματα
να ρέουν από το κακό στο χειρότερο, να τιτιβίζουν
ξεδιάντροπα. Μην ασχολείσαι και μην χάνεις την
ψυχραιμία σου γιατί θα γελιοποιηθείς όπως αυτοί
ακριβώς επιθυμούν και επιδιώκουν.


The British want back in. They are OUR BROTHERS
AND SISTERS and we want them to stay in. But they
can take demagogues and liars and savages who ignore
and disrespect History, Peace and Humanity, like the
despicable Farage and Johnson and stuff them up their
a**es before they return back in. Such people are brutes
and veritable persona non grata in Societies that Promote
Peace, Brotherhood, Solidarity, Cooperation and a
Different, Fairer, More Just and Fraternal Vision of
a Common European Future.



Can the despicable morph still equivocate and deny
the undeniable and side with his ``brother" in blood?
All the World Community knows that the team that
undertook the butchering operation on foreign soil
were trusted lieutenants of the beast currently in
the helm of the Arabian peninsula, that ought to
be stripped of its despicable illegal rulers and given
to its people, whose wealth they should also be in
charge of and invest for their own benefit and for
the future of their children; not for luxurious trips
and entertainment of one family nor for terrorizing
and killing innocent Civilians and Journalists on
the territories of other Nations, whom they call
allied for optics, but whom they have hated, towards
whom they have a cavalier and condescending
attitude and whom they have actively undermined
overtly and surreptitiously for so long. SHAME
TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF A REGIME THAT
IS ILLEGITIMATE AND HAS CROSSED A LINE
REPEATEDLY WITH IMPUNITY AND RECEIVED
FRIENDSHIP AND ADVANTAGES, FINANCIAL
AND COMMERCIAL TIES, AS A REWARD FOR
ITS BRUTALITY AND ITS BEASTLINESS.


This was a long time coming and a long time overdue.
We've been brainwashed to think of the Iranians, one
of the most Civilized, the most Historical and the most
Respectful Nations on Earth, as the bullies, simply
because of U.S. prejudices, because of Western financial
interests, because of the Islamic Revolution and because
of aggressive and expensive lobbying and networking by
the Sauds. But the reality is that Iran has a much better
functioning Government, much better and much more
stable institutions and is much more Respectful of its
own People and willing and open to listening to their
input and their grievances than is the monarchical
terrorist prone autocracy of the Sauds, that is consistently
and abjectly tramping on the Rights of the People of the
Arabia and is using shamelessly and with a sense of
entitlement, as was proven in the 9/11 and the Khashoggi
case, murder and intimidation, even outside its borders,
on the territory of powerful ``allies", to achieve its
objectives,  impose its will and enforce its interests
on the backs of other Nations.


Ara Guler and his observant eyes are with us no more...


Συγχαρητήρια, Δήμαρχε! Καλή Θητεία και Καλή Επιτυχία!


Ο Κοτζιάς έπρεπε να το περιμένει αυτό. Δεν τα έχουμε
πει και ξαναπεί χιλιάδες φορές; Όποιος κάνει κάτι προς
το συμφέρον του τόπου και καταφέρνει να αποσπάσει
το μέγιστο δυνατό κάτω από αντιξοότατες συνθήκες
(στις οποίες θέσαμε εαυτόν, παρεπιπτόντως), χαίρει
υποστήριξης όταν τα πράγματα βαίνουν καλώς και
οι άνεμοι είναι ούριοι, και έπειτα απομονώνενται και
επωμίζεται όλη την ευθύνη ως να ήταν εντελώς μόνος
και ο μόνος υπεύθυνος για τις αποφάσεις για τις οποίες
όλοι προηγουμένως έχαιραν και πανηγύριζαν. Δεν τα
είδαμε αυτά και με τον Γεωμέτρη, που κάποιοι ακόμα
θέλουν να του αποδώσουν την ``ευθύνη" για τη διάσωση
της χώρας από βέβαιη και σχεδόν αναπόφευκτη κατάρρευση,
επειδή χρειάζονταν δυσβάσταχτα και μη δημοφιλή μέτρα
επειγόντως  τα οποία και είχε το θάρρος και τη συναίσθηση
ευθύνης να πάρει; Και ο Κοτζιάς τα ίδια θα περάσει.
Η μόνη διαφορά είναι πως εκέινος μπορεί και να μην
αντέξει, αλλά δεν μειώνεται η συνεισφορά του κατά
το ελάχιστο ακόμα κι αν αυτό συμβεί.


Do not elect someone that is so careless. This is a matter
of basic Human Decency and Basic Human Rights and
the sacred Right to Privacy that Democrats should be
in the forefront of the fight for defending and preserving
and even strengthening. I am sure that if this had been
done to a member of her family and/or herself and, even
worse, by a Republican Legislator she would have been
up in arms and barking like a rabid dog. DO NOT
(RE)ELECT PEOPLE OF THAT SORT TO PUBLIC
OFFICE! Our United States deserve better.


Of course the Clinton-Lewinsky affair was an
abuse of power by the very definition of abuse
of power, since one was in a supervising role
over the other and had the power and prestige
to make or break the career of the other. For
Hilary or anybody else to try to rewrite, retell,
gloss over, etc., History and change the facts
is a gross violation of decency and civility.
Should we have expected differently from
such a politician and manipulator? Perhaps
not. After all, her sliminess and abuse of power
by her family and their refusal to behave like
ordinary Citizens (rather than as the ``chosen"
or ``divine" family lying above and beyond the
Law and the Customs of the Land) was, in my
view, the main reason of her lack of rapport
with the public that led to the catastrophe
of 2016. And, by such individuals, lessons
are, unfortunately, never learned...


Γιατί κάνει λόγο ο Κύριος (παπάκης) Παυλόπουλος
για σαχλαμάρες και διαρχίες; Μάλλον πίσω από τη
ρητορική και τα περί πολιτεύματος και συνταγματικών,
οι ψηφοφόροι μπορούν να διακρίνουν πολύ καλά.
Γιατί άραγε να χρειάζεται να αυξήσουμε αναγκαστικά
τις αρμοδιότητες του Προέδρου για να υιοθετήσουμε
απευθείας εκλογή του από το λαό; Ή μήπως δεν
χρειάζεται και παρουσιάζεται αυτό σαν, δήθεν,
εμόδιο για μία Συνταγματική αλλαγή, που θα
διατηρεί τις αρμοδιότητες του Προέδρου ως έχουν,
ως Επικεφαλή και Εγγυητή του Πολιτεύματος, αλλά
απ' ευθείας εκλέξιμο από το λαό, τελειοποιώντας
έτσι ένα Δημοκρατικό Πολίτευμα με εξαιρετικές
Δημοκρατικές Ευαισθησίες που με πολύ κόπο και
θυσίες έχει η Ελλάδα αποκτήσει και οι Πολίτες
της απαιτήσει και διαφυλάξει; ΝΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ
ΑΠ' ΕΥΘΕΙ΅ΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΛΑΟ ΕΚΛΟΓΗ ΤΟΥ
ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ! ΟΧΙ ΣΕ
ΑΥΞΗΜΕΝΕΣ ΑΡΜΟΔΙΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ ΣΕ
ΑΛΛΑΓΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑΚΟΥ ΚΑΘΕΣΤΩΤΟΣ
ΣΕ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΕΥΟΜΕΝΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ Ή ΣΕ
ΥΒΡΙΔΙΚΟ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΡΧΕΣ ΚΑΘΕΣΤΩΣ.


BBC Panorama with devastating and utterly damning
reporting from Syria on the use of chemical weapons.





Love of beer... Where else? Not for those faint of heart
or sensitive to spicy food or serving on certain Supreme
Courts...


Ms. Trump you know very well we focus exactly on WHAT YOU DO
and that does not exactly make you glimmer under a favorable brilliant
light... You came in this Country of ours under a visa that was, it is
reported, for exceptional achievement; you married a crass, uneducated
man, many times your senior, for his fortune; you stood by him through
numerous demeaning escapades, affairs, bankruptcies and numerous
machinations and manipulations through lawyers and courts of a rigged
and corrupt system (to your personal and family advantage and to the
ridicule and further detriment of an already rotten and unbalanced
system, the two of you being champions of the swamp he so vehemently
and for political opportunism he later attacked) and, at the end, you
were his ally and supporter when he turned with venomous rhetoric
against other immigrants, like you, and tried to play on the fear of the
New, the Global and the Progressive to divide, sow hatred and boost
nationalistic and ultra-right wing elements and give them a carte
blanche to attack other citizens and other positive and progressive
forces in our societies. And amidst all this tsunami of lowly, unethical
and totally and unacceptably un-American rhetoric, behavior and
policies, you never said anything other than ``you do not always agree
with all he does" and that it broke your heart to see families separated
when his heartlessness, his idiocy and his stupidity and disorganization
and incoherence in public policy reached new lows and had despicable,
devastating results on families of Fellow Human Beings and on the
Moral Standing and Authority that our State and Nation have enjoyed
and their Universal Pull and Reputation as Beacons of Kindness,
Solidarity, Compassion and their Championship of Human Rights
all around the Globe. What else do you think, Ms. Trump, we should
take into account that you, so successfully and so providentially and so
advantageously for our Nation, have embarked on and you have
done and you have said that should make us think of you as a positive
force? In fact, despite all your despicable actions and all your stances on
the side and in support of an unsupportable and totally unfit for the
Leadership of the Greatest Nation on Earth petty man, only some of
your words have been positive, but their force has been limited, since
they have been cancelled and totally contradicted immediately for,
not only have they not been backed up by any significant or supporting
moves, but they are shown pretentious and hypocritical in the light
of your actions and the mode of conducting your affairs. You tried
to mumble anti-bulling words, when you are married to the greatest
bully on earth, to murmur sympathetic words to immigrants, when
you are married to the most anti-immigrant man of European
extraction in the History of Political Life of this Nation, who has
imported most of his ex- and current spouses, to mutter pro-Family
Value and pro-Women's Rights words, when your own position and
timidity in the light of his rampant and well publicized fixing and
silencing women with whom he had affairs has been remarkable,
surprising and uninspiring, to say the least. So it seems to a  thinking
person that you have on occasion ``nice words" to say, not backed to
the least by the Right Actions, and not vice versa, as you do desperately
and understandably are trying to convince all around you (and perhaps
even your own self) it has been the case. Sorry, Ms. Trump, but we
are following you and are thinking and analyzing your words, actions
and your stances, like we do the president's, and the balance has been
devastatingly and ominously tilting against you in measuring
``good deeds" despite your eagerness to market the opposite.


WHY ARE STATES IN OUR UNITED NATIONS
NOT FULFILLING THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
AND THEIR MISSION IN GOOD FAITH?
I am sure the majority of the States of our World
are either Clean or at least are trying in Good Faith
and with Good Will to Defend and Protect Human
Rights, a sine qua non for Civility, Civilization and
Good Government. So how is it possible for those
States not to be able to command the necessary
majority to effectively oppose and block the
appointment in overseer bodies of great importance of
those States that are bad actors and do not deserve to
be serving on these bodies? WE MUST HAVE
AN ANSWER and the SECRETARY-GENERAL
AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OWE US
AN EXPLANATION. We DEMAND A CLEAR
ACCOUNT AND FULL ACCOUNTABILITY.


Under his Highness, Sultan Tayyip of the Porte, Turkey
has, unfortunately, lost its PR sensitivity besides also
having lost its Democratic sensitivities and its financial
stability. Based on outcomes, there were absolutely no
reasons, it seems, to have soured ties with both Greece
and the United States by detaining the Greek soldiers
and the American pastor for such extended periods of
time. In both cases, the Turkish Justice System should
have acted more swiftly without political interference,
in view of the fact that it was dealing with Foreign
Nationals of very closely allied and very friendly States,
who were not under substantiated suspicions for any
serious breaches of Turkish Law. But Judges were
inclined to mess up on their own initiative or were
instructed to mess up through political channels and
they so did without hesitation.


One of those families, it seems like, where the offspring
get loads and loads from the true masters and, over time,
they develop a sense of entitlement and forget their debt
and think that the fortune is theirs, when they deserve
almost none of it. We've seen this becoming a rampant
and uncontrollable state of affairs in many intra-ultra-
rich family relationships on both sides of our Northern
frontier. Too bad that money creates beasts of prey and
ungratefulness rather than civility, grace and thankfulness.


BRAVO, UNITED KINGDOM!! It is never too
late to start cleansing one's act, and all other Governments
in the E.U. and around the Globe should follows this
example. We cannot allow, it is not sustainable to allow
and it is morally and ethically imperative that we do
not allow such thieves in large - humongous - scale
living luxuriously - beyond luxury and beyond
imagination - while the World's resources and the
majority of the World's Citizens, even in developed
Nations, see their incomes either stagnating or
shrinking for decades on end. It is absolutely
necessary that the Governments of the World, our
Governments, ask these ultra-wealthy, unscrupulous
criminals some tough questions and start confiscating
their ill-gained goods, properties and wealth and either
returning them to the Nations from which they were
stolen or putting them to the service of Public Interest.


For an envoy to call a lame lackey, who was appointed
with zero experience and zero credentials to a post simply
and exclusively because of nepotism and cronyism and
has shown subzero and substandard results in his post,
``a hidden treasure", there is something going on out of
the ordinary that is worth investigating. Such open
unjustified and unsubstantiated declarations point
either to personal favors or to familial favors. One
wonders whether Haley has something that she owes
to either Kushner or Kushner's family. Have either
services, favors or property changed hands? Has
perhaps her stay and comfort in New York been
facilitated by the morph's in-laws and his wealthy
relations and their connections in the City? I hope
that Journalists investigate her life and times in the
City to shed light to this extremely surprising and
biased declarations on behalf of the morph's lakey,
who has not elicited praise by anybody else nor has
performed or acted in any way that would justify
such loud and shameless empty proclamations.
She is either under obligation or does not realize
at all the responsibilities for a basic sense of decency
and objectivity that go with the office she holds.


British Intelligence - Russian Intelligence: routing with
a knockout punch. Long gone are the days when the
Soviet Union had a legitimate claim to a competent and
competitive intelligence apparatus and apparatchik.
Nowadays we are witnessing the miserable state of
affairs of an incompetent Russian machinery that
can be called more suitably gangland gangsterism,
murderous spree and butchering in open daylight
than anything resembling the traditional discreet
and undetectable operation of well-trained operatives
that British and Israeli Agencies, e.g., are notorious
for. Of course, whether this makes any difference in
the bottom line, after everything gets revealed and
when everything is said and done, is rather dubious...


If I were the morph, I would have been much more cautious.
We've seen many many things play out completely differently
than we, or anybody else, might have expected. I would not
be surprised to the least if, where the FBI failed because they
had too little time and a rather narrow mandate and almost
no discretion, serious Investigative Journalism with the
appropriate resources and patience may succeed in unearthing
shocking skeletons in one of our Supreme Court Justices closet.
Then the morph will regret saying that related testimonies
were a hoax, but that is his nature. He always lets his tongue
and his fingers run ahead of his brain and he does not seem
to either realize that it is rather inappropriate and idiotic,
nor does he seem to regret it at all when he drops face down
and makes himself the ridicule and joke of the day.


ΜΠΡΑΒΟ, ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΧΙΟΥ!!

«Αγαπητές μητέρες, τις επόμενες μέρες υποδεχόμαστε με μια μεγάλη
λαϊκή αγκαλιά τα προσφυγόπουλα που θα έρθουν στα σχολεία μας,
σαν να είναι παιδιά μας. Καλούμε τους εκπαιδευτικούς, τους γονείς
και τους μαθητές, να κλείσουν τ’ αυτιά στις ρατσιστικές και
ξενοφοβικές φωνές.

Όποιος νοιάζεται για τα παιδιά του, νοιάζεται για τα παιδιά όλου
του κόσμου, ανεξάρτητα από το χρώμα τους, τη γλώσσα τους, τη
θρησκεία τους. Δεν τα θέλει πνιγμένα στο Αιγαίο, σε σκηνές μέσα
στις λάσπες και στο κρύο, δεν τα θέλει αμόρφωτα, πεινασμένα και
φοβισμένα.

Κάθε γειτονιά στο νησί μας, έχει πλούσια ιστορία, συνδεδεμένη
με την πίκρα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης. Έχουμε
χρέος να υπερασπιστούμε το δικαίωμα των προσφυγόπουλων,
όπως όλων των παιδιών, στη μόρφωση, στην υγεία, στη ζωή
χωρίς φτώχεια και πολέμους. Έχουμε χρέος να παλέψουμε για
έχουν και αυτά τα παιδιά, ρούχα καθαρά, ένα ζεστό πιάτο φαΐ,
να ζωγραφίσουν τις ζωγραφιές τους, μακριά από τον λασπότοπο
της ΒΙΑΛ.

Ο εχθρός μας δεν είναι τα μικρά και καταταλαιπωρημένα παιδιά
που άφησαν την πατρίδα τους εξαιτίας του πολέμου και των
ιμπεριαλιστικών επεμβάσεων. Ο πραγματικός αντίπαλος είναι
το σύστημα που γεννά την ανεργία, τη φτώχεια, τον πόλεμο και
την προσφυγιά. Είναι η ελληνική κυβέρνηση, η Ε.Ε. και η συμφωνία
τους με την Τουρκία που έχουν οδηγήσει στον εγκλωβισμό χιλιάδων
προσφύγων στη χώρας μας, οδηγώντας τους στην απελπισία και
την εξαθλίωση.

Έχουμε ευθύνη απέναντι στα παιδιά μας να μην πιάσει τόπο το
ρατσιστικό δηλητήριο που ρίχνεται με αφορμή την εκπαίδευση
των προσφυγόπουλων. Να μάθουμε στα παιδιά μας την αλληλεγγύη,
τη συλλογική δράση, ν’ ακούν τη γνώμη του άλλου και να έχουν
το θάρρος της δικής τους γνώμης! Να μάθουν ν’ αγωνίζονται
για τα δικαιώματά τους, για μια ζωή χωρίς εκμετάλλευση και
καταπίεση.

Καλούμε κάθε μητέρα, που ανησυχεί για το μέλλον το δικό της
και των παιδιών της να καλωσορίσει τα προσφυγόπουλα στα σχολεία.
Να διεκδικήσουμε:

1. Να κλείσει τώρα το χοτ σποτ.
2. Να απεγκλωβιστούν τώρα όλοι οι πρόσφυγες και οι μετανάστες –
    τα θύματα των πολέμων – από τα νησιά, με τη μεταφορά τους σε
    κέντρα της ηπειρωτικής χώρας, όπου εκεί να γίνεται η κατάθεση
    των εγγράφων για την έκδοση ασύλου, με προορισμό τη χώρα
    που επιθυμούν.
3. Μόρφωση όλων των παιδιών μέσα στα σχολεία, με αποκλειστική
    κρατική ευθύνη, χωρίς την εμπλοκή ΜΚΟ. Να γίνουν όλοι οι
    απαραίτητοι εμβολιασμοί και να δοθούν ιατρικές βεβαιώσεις
    (ΑΔΥΜ) με ευθύνη των δημόσιων δομών υγείας, καθώς και να
    παρθούν όλα τα μέτρα υγιεινής.
4. Να στηριχτούν και να χρηματοδοτηθούν επιπλέον τα σχολεία
    που φιλοξενούν προσφυγικές δομές (εκπαιδευτικοί, μεταφορά,
    καθαριότητα).

Δείχνουμε και έμπρακτα την αλληλεγγύη μας, συγκεντρώνοντας
σχολικά είδη για τα προσφυγόπουλα (στα γραφεία του Συλλόγου
Γυναικών Χίου, Καλαμπόκα 74)»


I do not feel envious of Brazilian Voters and the decision
that awaits them on October the 28th at all. They have
to decide between thieves and neo-nazi, racist, sexist and
far-right hypocrites, with an unacceptable and repulsive
rhetoric and an uncontrolled propensity for demagogy
and ear-soothing populism. Would I vote for those that
have shown that they are eager and willing to plunder
the State coffers and to unashamedly take bribes and
betray the Public Trust and destroy any remnants of the
People in the enabling, stagnating and rotting Political
System, or for those that use rhetoric and words that
should have been long ago confined to the trash cans
of History and never again seen the light of day and
who are trying to exploit displeasure against the vultures
to instill and stir, in a justifiably upset and disgruntled
Populace, feelings of hatred, divisibility and push them
into dangerous paths that, in a State like Brazil, with
its Social and Economic fabric and constituency, may
prove disastrous and utterly tragic? Despite having an
appreciation for Brazil's History and for Brazil's
progress and contributions in our World Culture, in
this, 2018 runoff elections, I must admit that I feel rather
happy that such an impossible and psychologically
damaging dilemma does not fall on my shoulders, because
I feel that Voters are between a rock and a hard place,
damned if they do and damned if they don't. I just feel
the responsibility to wish them well and inspiration to
decide for the best for Brazil and for the World.


Great news from Romania! The forces of backwardness,
conservatism and discrimination have failed miserably
and it was shown, once again, that People believe that
organized religion should restrain itself and should be
constrained to a role separate and distinct from that of
the State, which should be exclusively responsible for
enforcing the Laws and Regulations that Govern the
Lives of the Citizens simply because it is accountable
to the Citizens and because they can influence in a
timely and decisive manner its decisions.
BRAVO, ROMANIA!!


We have numerous bad State actors in the World
currently running amok and tramping on Human
Rights seemingly with a free hand, unconfronted,
with impunity and without any serious repercussions.
The West has to wake up and to stand up to rogue
States and has to stop going along with State
terrorism of that scale and magnitude.



Morph, give more and more money and weapons to
the Sauds to pursue and kill whomever they please
wherever they please. But when that happens on
our own soil again DO NOT SAY YOU DID NOT
KNOW OR YOU COULD NOT PREDICT; then
YOU WILL HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR OWN
HANDS and you can share a human blood soup
with your beloved ``prince". How are you all so
blind to be incapable to see in our United States
that the Sauds and their dictatorship are much
more brutal and much more detrimental to our
own interests and so much more of a threat to
World Peace and Security and so much more
sympathetic and akin to terrorist methods and
groups than the Iranians?
WE MUST DO THE RIGHT THING AND
SWITCH OUR ALLEGIANCES NOW AND
EXERT PRESSURE ON THE DESPICABLE
REGIME OF THE SAUDS THROUGH A
FULL BOYCOTT TO CHANGE THEIR
WAYS AND FORCE THEM TO EMBRACE
CIVILIZATION FOR A CHANGE!


I hope the voters send a strong message and unseat both
Senator Manchin of West Virginia and Senator Murkowski
of Alaska. These Senators think that the electorate is a
mindless body that cannot discern manipulations, sham
machinations, mockery, ridicule, parody of a process and
a farcical exchange based entirely on selfishness and an
exclusive focus on serving personal interests with the
ultimate goal being reelection and preserving lucrative
offices and chairs, By this move, which one suspects follows
a deliberate negotiation and a carefully orchestrated
exchange, aimed at clouding the political waters, these
despicable ``servants of the people" secured, on the one
hand, immunity from internal uproar from within their
Parties, since the balance was not tilted in any way, and,
on the other a safe positioning vis-a-vis swing voters and
voters of the center in their respective States, avoiding
taking positions that, even though they might have strongly
believed in, they did not have the courage to express for
fear of losing the coveted lucrative chairs in the next
election cycles. I do hope the Voters look through such
reprehensible wheelings and dealings  and such abject
machinations that ridicule the Senate and its processes
and send both of them home where they deserve to be.



Shocked, indignant and terrified, I heard on NPR News
this morning that there are Jewish groups in Germany
that are actively aligning themselves with AfD, the Party
of extreme Nationalists, of followers of Neo-Nazism, of
heirs of Nazism and of Hitlerites, in order to confront
and, if possible, stop Muslim and Arab Immigration
in Germany and to eradicate the Muslim element from
German society, as is the stated and/or implicit goal of
this abominable, despicable and repulsive pseudo-political
organization. I suppose all of you are as smart, as cautious
and as good students of History as Netanyahu, who aligned
himself, for the political interest and expediency of the
moment, with the morph, ignoring the long-term effects
of the morph's rhetoric and demagogy on all immigrants
and on Jews, in particular. What makes me deeply puzzled,
and deeply wondering is how it is possible for a German
Jew not to realize that what is needed is a Coalition and
a Partnership of all those Minorities and Groups, who
are attacked and abused physically and verbally by
Nationalist and White-Power elements in Germany
and their Alliance with Progressive and Forward-Looking
Mainstream Elements in German Society and German
Politics to confront, shame, isolate and marginalize these
fringe hateful subgroups and elements, instead of falling
victims and pray to a divide-and-conquer strategy and
aligning with them to combat their``enemies", only to
become the victims themselves in later campaigns, when
it will become expedient to those Nationalist criminals
to seek alliances with somebody else and turn and tear
apart their former allies, which for them are also and
equally foreign and unwanted elements. And finally and
tragically, I have been thinking and wondering, who are
your Parents and Grandparents, who are your Rabbis,
who are your Elder Fellow Jews, of Germany of all
Nations, and what, if anything, were they able to Teach
you about Common Humanity and Common Destiny,
about the Tragedies that They and All Humanity have
suffered and will suffer, Unless and Until All Decent
Human Beings and All Citizens Start Standing Together
and Raising Their Voices As One against the racism
the bigotry and the divisiveness of people like the morph
and political groups like the AfD, instead of falling victim
to their rhetoric and being eager to get fooled for momentary
political expediences and interests. And what did all
those who have been responsible for your being raised
as Informed Citizens of Germany and of the World and
as Good Stewards of History, with a Particular Burden
and a Particular Responsibility because of the Targeted
Sufferings and Carnage of Your People barely 70 years
ago, Teach you and told you to pass down to Your Own
Children about the Shoah and the Messages of Humanity,
Tolerance and Brotherhood that it Still, and Forever, should
Resonate in the Hearts of All Humanity, the Minds of
All Citizens to All Four Corners of the Universe?
If you do not have those sensibilities with you, are you
expecting your Children to have them in 30 years' time?
And are you expecting them to survive other onslaughts
and other massacres that are bound to occur if we are all
so willing and eager to allying ourselves with demagogues
to ``combat our alleged enemies" in our own societies by
falling so easily victims to their masterfully crafted and
superbly executed abominable schemes and machinations?

In the United States, we have a deep Love and Appreciation
of Japan, its History, its Culture, its Civilization and its
Accomplishments in Science, in Technology and in the Arts.
But we do not accept Historical Revisionism and we do not
accept Denial and Self-Deception when it comes to Historical
Realities and Historical Truth, because refusing to face the
Good and the Bad of History and refusing to account for
our mistakes and the Historical Tragedies that we have
caused as perpetrators or have suffered as victims, deprives
us and others of our Humanity and robs us and others from
Clear Sight, Historical Reckoning and the Possibility and the
Opportunity to Change and to Improve. We encourage all
our Friends and Allies to take their past and their mistakes
seriously and not to be angered at us when we try to recall,
Remember and Commemorate Historical Tragedies and
Historical Injustices (one hopes we would do so consistently
by also acknowledging and atoning for our own missteps).


Κρίμα! Στην Ελλάδα ούτε στη Φιλανθρωπία, στην
Ελεημοσύνη και στην Γενναιοδωρία δε μπορούμε
να μην κλέψουμε, να μην απατήσουμε και, γενικά,
να μην τα θαλασσώσουμε...


A word of advice to both the United States and Iran.
Take the International Courts and their decisions
extremely seriously and abide by them, if they are
final, and/or appeal them, if they are not.
Some of those decisions are going to be for you and some
are going to be against you, like it happens in any Court
of Law. But the Law is the Law, be it Domestic or
International, and It and Its Tenets may, on occasion,
need to be Rethought, Revisited and Reformed, but there
is no Civility, no Peace, no Stability, no Prosperity and no
Advancement or Cooperation in Societies Disrespecting
and/or Ignoring the Law and Its Institutions and Servants.


Φυσικά και είναι πανάθλια η εικόνα που εκπέμπει
η κυβέρνηση με διαφωνίες και αλαλούμ σε πάρα πολύ
σημαντικά θέματα, επί των οποίων σε μία ανεπτυγμένη
Πολιτεία με ανεπτυγμένη Δημοκρατία και Θεσμούς
θα έπρεπε να έχουν προυιοθετηθεί και προσχεδιαστεί
κοινά αποδεκτές προγραμματικές συγκλίσεις πριν
το σχηματισμό οποιασδήποτε κυβέρνησης συνεργασίας.
Από την άλλη, όμως, η Ελλάδα στάθηκε τυχερή, διότι
στα πιο σημαντικά ζητήματα ο καμμένος και κατα-
ζεματισμένος παχύδερμος δεν είχε κατ' ουσίαν
κανένα λέγειν και η μόνη συμβολή του (επ αμοιβή
φυσικά και με αντάλλαγμα την καρέκλα) ήταν η
στήριξη της κυβέρνησης που, αργά μεν αλλά
καλύτερα από ποτέ, έλαβε σκληρά αλλά απαραίτητα
δημοσιονομικά και οικονομικά μέτρα που έσωσαν
τη χώρα από πολλές ανεπιθύμητες συνέπειες και,
ίσως χειρότερα, από πολλές απρόβλεπτες περιπέτειες.


The Prize has been cheapened and trivialized substantially
by the anal insistence of a misserving and disserving
Nobel Committee to refuse to see that, especially for
the Nobel Peace Award, the Awardee should be expected
and should be understood to have a Serious and Unwavering
Lifelong Commitment and Dedication to Alfred Nobel's Ideals
and not be allowed to betray them without reconsideration
by the Committee and without consequences and repercussions.
If you are not willing to do your Job properly and to Honor
Alfred Nobel's Idealism and Vision, resign and let someone
that is ready to take the Honor and Privilege seriously and is
willing and in a position to do so to undertake this serious
responsibility and to fulfill this vision faithfully. Old fashioned
dinosaurs with little ethical sensitivity and lack of boldness
and courage should not be members or allowed to serve
in a committee which, allegedly, awards the most prestigious
medals, but has made them in recent years so trifling and
so base and detestable as to put the vision of their founder
in great jeopardy and limbo.


Unbelievable, heart wrenching devastation...
Hundreds of lives taken away unjustifiably,
more plunged in grief and sorrow and much
of the coastal infrastructure in many areas
devastated and gutted beyond imagination.
What can anyone say beyond offering words
of consolation, support and hope for patience
and courage to the extent humanely possible...


The Great Otis Rush is with us no more...


It was high time. This guy was mercurial, unstable
and out of control, much like the morph, and he was
constantly pulling this company down. Now with
steadier hands, hopefully, Tesla might leave gloom
and doom (was it drunkenness, depression, mental
instability, a combination?) behind and face brighter
days ahead.


BBC's Guy Delaunay has to read carefully the entire
bilateral agreement and report on the BBC again with
accuracy on what each side gave and what each side
took. If you are a serious reporter do not go by hearsay
and put emphasis on the mood while putting the all
important details of the deal on the back burner and
portray them inaccurately. Unless, the agreement that
I read and the one that he did were in different languages
and some of what I read and some of what he read were
either lost in translation or mistranslated on purpose.
PLEASE DO IT AND REPORT AGAIN ON THE DEAL.
 

This is not a matter of not wanting a conservative or a
Republican appointed Justice. This is simply a matter
of appointing a JUSTICE, a MAN or WOMAN, a
PERSON BEYOND REPROACH, a person that is
DECENT AND HONEST AND CLEAN to the best
of our knowledge and the best of our ability to judge,
WITHOUT SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET that
could potentially bias his opinion and make him
recusable and unqualified to participate in a case
involving treatment of women and sexual issues.
No Judge is entitled to a Supreme Court Justiceship,
however qualified juridically they may be. A Justiceship
is an HONOR that our polity should reserve for
those absolutely beyond reproach and suspicion
and Kavanaugh does not fit that bill. By not
visiting again the list to pick another candidate,
another Judge, you are shooting yourselves in
the foot and you are not offering the Good Offices,
nor performing your duties in Good Faith, as our
Nation demands and deserves.


Netanyahu has to understand that the U.N. is not ``The Sun"
or the ``Daily Star", in which whoever has a mental problem
and a psychological fixation or other personal issues can
prepare a poster and recite nonsense without much credibility.
Bibi has to get used to giving a call to his psychiatrist and his
shrink before leaving Israel for the U.N. so that the World
can focus on real International Problems of General Interest,
rather than having to deal every time with his personality
and his fixations. And ``instructional posters with a message"
he can leave for his son (but he's grown and those apparently
did nor work on him) or, perhaps, better, adopt another kid
and try it on them. What a shame and a pariah...


The Nation will regret it, but it will be too late, like it has
happened on many other occasions, but we are all so slow
in learning... You could tell from his demeanor, his answers
and his questioning back with irrelevant questions, when
he was asked and was embarrassed to give honest and
truthful answers, that his doubts about the first two
accusations were not as certain and as ``100%" as he
was so eager to portray them. The only case which he
seemed to be unequivocal, without self-doubts and very
convincing in his answers about was that of the third
accuser. He came through as a super-duper alpha male
and left no qualms in the ears of the audience that he is
and/or was capable of what he was accused of, that all
these accusations are consistent with his personality
and that, actually, reaching to the top in the Judiciary
may have something to do with that persistence and
that ``not taking ``no" for an answer", which we have
so often witnessed can propel politicians, journalists
and producers/directors/actors to the top, but also
throw them to the jaws of abuse, scandal and quagmire.


Το κάθε αμόρφωτο και ανιστόρητο κωλόπαιδο,
ό,τι θυμάται χαίρεται...


BRAVO, CANADA!!
Sweden and Norway, follow through!
No fake honors for the undeserving.
No awards to abject criminals and
to persistent and unrepentant Human
Rights abusers and violators.


I heard those words spoken in our U.N. General Assembly
and froze in space and time: ``We reject the ideology of
Globalism; We embrace the doctrine of Patriotism."
1. Abject, utter ignorance, arrogance and ostrichism
    from the ``leader" of a Nation whose Founders, whose
    Fathers, Grandfathers and Forefathers crossed Oceans,
    rode Liners and Airliners, and bridged Continents to
    explore new Worlds, escape hardships and create
    New Destinies and Found new Polities.
2. Hypocrisy, deception and demagogy from a man
    whose businesses seek shamelessly opportunities
    and partnerships in a Global Economy and in a
    Global Business Environment to Expand, Develop
    and Thrive and, also, to save a buck by exploiting
    cheaper labor at home and overseas...
3. Both Globalism and Patriotism are ``ideologies"
    or, better, Outlooks, Viewpoints and Stances that
    Americans would embrace and support in an
    overwhelming majority and whoever says that
    Contemporary America does not stand for both
    is either ignorant, a demagogue or a flat out liar.
    America spends a great deal, of wealth, effort
    and resources eyeing servicing of interests and
    exerting and expanding its influence for, mostly,
    positive developments in the World. Maybe
    some of our Citizens would place Patriotism
    and ``America First" before Internationalism
    and Globalism and some vice versa. However,
    no Intelligent and/or Engaged Citizen (and the
    morph in his ignorance does not realize that he
    is one by simply, for instance, meeting and by
    negotiating with World Leaders and by merely
    appearing and speaking internationally) would
    reject either ``ideology". So the language is false
    and absurd, either intentionally or by mistake,
    certainly in an unsuccessfully covert effort to
    mislead and convey falsities and fabrications
    for the eyes and ears of the unthinking, who
    are, unfortunately, his intended and revered
    political audience and his blind followers.


Vote ``YES" for a European North Macedonia,
with a unanimously recognized Slavic Macedonian
Language and a unanimously recognized Slavic
North Macedonian Nation and Heritage.


Even if these accusations proved factual and
substantial, would we have expected a charlatan
in chief, who admitted to sexual misconduct and
to grabbing women by their genitals and who
has instructed his fixers to silence women by
pay offs and legal documents, to do the Right
Thing? I hope that not a single Citizen, not a
single Voter in this Great State of ours is
delusional enough or in such a state of self
denial and ostrichism to refuse to accept the
obvious; that it is neither a favor nor a big
support to have this anthropomorph backing
you ``all the way", but it is rather an insult and
a disgrace to have his support and backing
on these and on many other issues.


Any terrorist act for whatever reasons and in
whichever State is unacceptable and should
be condemned. On the other hand, the United
States has a strong record of both Words and
Actions against terrorism, one of the - if not
the - strongest in the World and, consequently,
it is also absurd and unacceptable for Iran or
any other State to turn their venom against
the United States and accuse them as the State
responsible and/or backing those that engage
in such atrocities. It is, however, sadly the case
that our United States, out of outdated tradition
and economic and military interests, has allied
with and backed in that tortured region evil
and dark forces, like the Dictatorship of the
Saudis, which dominate an Arabia, which
under them, has not wasted any chances in
bankrolling and backing extreme elements
that have been and are responsible for many
known, and I am certain, many unknown
and obscure, dubious acts that do not do
Justice to either Humanity or the Reputation
of our United States, including acts against
our United States itself on its own soil. So that
alliance and that alignment should have been
reconsidered long ago, at least seven years ago,
but one could argue ``better late than never".

 
It is heartbreaking for the siblings to have a gone
brother who leaves them no option. But it is at the
same time heartwarming for America that a family
can stand for the Ethical and the Right even at the
expense of decrying and abandoning a brother all
of whose actions betray the decency and the trust
of a State, the Nation and the World.


Bravo to the Mexican President! I hope he never forgets
about austere promises, that he continues to travel as all
other Citizens travel, and that he keeps his promises and
his outlook throughout his term of office and beyond, and
does not get tempted and compromised by luxuries and
perks that are, admittedly, very convenient, but are not
available to the average Citizen and, therefore, cause
those fortunate enough to use them to get out of sync
and out of touch with the average Citizen's problems
and worries, which should not happen to a President
with deeply Democratic Convictions and Orientation.


Whether one agrees or not with this Professor's
stance, the truth is that in Israel and in occupied
territories live two Nations, one of whose Political
and Individual Rights are Respected, Practiced
and fully enshrined in the Constitution and one
whose Political and Individual Rights are trampled
upon, shunned or, at best, offered at the whim
and at the discretion of the ruling group. The
ONLY WAY THIS APARTHEID STATE SHALL CEASE
TO EXIST IS EITHER WITH A CLEAR TWO STATE
SOLUTION OR A ONE STATE SOLUTION WHICH
GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AND EQUAL
RIGHTS TO ALL INHABITANTS OF THAT STATE'S
TERRITORIES. To allege that those that are practicing
this abominable and reprehensible discrimination are
those who are discriminated upon and not the perpetrators
of terrible Human Rights violations is absurd and nonsensical.
And it is even more saddening and more incomprehensible
when one realizes and absorbs the fact that this Nation of
the perpetrators are the sufferers themselves, barely 70
years ago, of one of the most terrible campaigns of racism,
discrimination, abuses, torture and massacres in the History
of Humanity, and that a Nation who has suffered so much
so recently should be the one STANDING FIRST AND
ABOVE ALL OTHERS WITH THE STRONGEST VOICE
AND THE CLEAREST MOST UNEQUIVOCAL STANCE
AND ARGUMENTATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL
ITS CITIZENS, ALL ITS NEIGHBORS, ALL OTHER
NATIONS AND OF ALL CITIZENS OF THE WORLD.


Senator Grassley, our Country does not owe Judge
Kavanaugh, or any other Judge, a Justiceship of the
Supreme Court. But our Country, and more precisely
our Senate, owes the Supreme Court as an Institution
an Untainted Person as its New Member. Do not rush
such a sensitive process and allow the appointment
of a person who might, in the future, be revealed to
have been undeserving of this Honor and who might,
moreover, be entangled either in legal proceedings
or might have to be recused from cases in front of
the Court related to sexual misconduct and to
sexual discrimination because of past record that
would put him under great suspicion of potential
bias due to grievances and prejudices against women.
IT IS BETTER TO TAKE YOUR TIME AND BE
THOROUGH AND TO MAKE ANOTHER CHOICE,
UNTAINTED BEYOND THE SHADOW OF ANY
DOUBT, RATHER THAN RUSH AND FIND
YOURSELVES APPOINTING SOMEONE WITH
A QUESTIONABLE RECORD AND WITH SOME
LINGERING UNRESOLVED ACCUSATIONS
HANGING OVER THEIR HEADS.


The Natural Resolution of the Irish issue through
Naturally imposed Irish Unity under EU auspices
was and is a glaring proof of why Membership in
the EU (and the creation of the EU, in the first place)
is something Grand and Idealistic, and why bringing
it down to the level of mere economic and financial
calculations and transactions, like Brexiteers do, is
abhorrent, despicable, repulsive and infuriating.
WHEN OUR PARENTS AND OUR FOREFATHERS,
THROUGH DEXTEROUS, INTENSE, BOLD AND
SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMACY BRING ABOUT
ADMIRING, GROUND BRAKING, DARING
PROGRESS, HOW IDIOTIC, SELFISH, NARROW
MINDED AND UNACCEPTABLE FOR US TO
STEP BACK AND DESTROY THEIR SUCCESSES
AND THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS...


The entire World, and all World Citizens, including,
hopefully, the majorities in both Koreas, applaud
the meeting and the rapprochement, and are thirsty
for more gestures of Fraternity and Good Will.
But, one wonders if those folders were prepared for a
visit by the morph, but, lacking one, were used instead
to accommodate the visit of President Moon. One can
very easily imagine how delighted and beaming with
pride the morph would have been in this case: ``They
gave me a very very big folder, believe me, it was much
bigger than his, the biggest folder any leader has ever
received, and he gave me a huge hug, he is indeed a
great man!" he would say, even if the folder was a
totally neutral document proclaiming eternal
admiration to the morph and the unwavering
friendship of the ``supreme leader" without any
substance whatsoever to back it up.


The morph is escalating the tariff war with China and
other States. The alleged justifications are the unfair
production and trading practices that are employed
by some of the United States' trading partners around
the Globe, especially China, that are, according to the
morph, hurting the United States economy and its
workers. Even though there might be some truth and
some credence in this theory and the accompanying
statements and justifications, there is, I am afraid,
another alternative justification for these wars and
this latest escalation that is more consistent with
the morph's view point and his narrow and self-
serving economic outlook. The huge tax cuts that
he gifted to big corporations, including his own and
those of his relatives and his cronies and of the richest
Americans, are going, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
to have a long term adverse effect in the health,
robustness and fiscal balance of the United States
economy and its ability to cope with increasing needs
and infrastructure and other urgently needed public
projects and obligations. It seems to me that, having
gifted the ultra rich and their corporations with those
tax cuts, he has become aware that some other means,
indirect mind you, are needed to plug in the gaping
hole of the public purse. Instead of easing some of the
tax cuts or of imposing other taxes, which would
create another accusation of instability and volatility,
and, also, would place part of the burden on the rich,
like himself and his cronies, by imposing huge tariffs,
he is passing the buck of replenishing the public purse
into the hands and on the backs of ordinary middle
class Citizens, who are, overwhelmingly, the ones that
pay to buy the taxed products and who will, undoubtedly,
be eventually charged by market forces to compensate
for these tariffs. In other words, we are witnessing an
anti-Robin-Hood strategy, or shall we say a Donnie
Troomp strategy, of inverse wealth redistribution,
of stealing from the poor (to give to the State) to
give to the rich...


The decomposition of a State that does not get upset any
more by the sheer amount and the gravity of thousands
of murders, but gets agitated and upset by the force of
the stench of the piles of decomposing corpses...


I followed with some care Katty Kay's very well thought
out list of questions raised concerning the incident alleged
to have happened in the earlier days of Judge Kavanaugh.
My two cents' worth of commentary is that, if this incident
has indeed taken place and if it was an isolated incident,
i.e., a misstep of a young underage person, then it should
not have damaged the entire career of the accused (and
indeed it has not had a major effect, since he has had
an enviable career in the Judiciary), but it should prevent
him from getting at the very top, where the requirement
should be nothing less than spotlessness. We have only
nine of those Justices and they should be the Fairest
and the Cleanest Individuals in our United States. Of
course, we do not have always the positive information
to ensure that this distinction goes with the Right
Credentials, but whenever we have available even a
speck of significant negative information, we should
take it into account and choose an alternative to fill these
spots. Mind you, I would have said the same thing about
the Presidency. Unfortunately, much substandard and
much tainted persons have oftentimes the power of
the purse and/or the elegance and/or the rhetoric to
ascend to the Presidency, but, since there is no committee
to vet and only the votes of the electorate (oftentimes
uninformed and often times easily swayed by demagogues)
count, we cannot, in practice, insist on that high
nonnegotiable standards from our presidents. But
from our Justices, at least in some instances, we can.
SO LET US INSIST ON IT WHEN WE CAN!!


Africa is not a poor Continent. Africa is poor because
of beasts and thieves like these, who misappropriate
and misuse their States' resources and hide their ill
gotten gains and profits, which belong to the States
and their People, in Switzerland, Brazil and elsewhere
and because of the absence of a concerted effort by
the World's bodies to arrest them, indict them and
condemn them to appropriately long sentences.


I think that it is good that the fratricidal knives are out
in the open within the Torries. Now is the time for the
Progressive, Forward Thinking and Open Minded
elements in the British society to exert relentless and
strong pressure for a New Referendum and a Revising
of this very shameful and very detrimental decision for
both Britain and Europe, and push for scheduling a
new referendum in which the liars, demagogues and
propagandists of the preceding one would not have
any strength, since their arguments have been totally
crashed as lies and their promises revealed as totally
unrealistic and absurd fabrications.


Very Good News from Cuba. The new Cuban President
has taken positive and bold positions towards Human
Rights, involving LGBT Rights and a Society Without
Discrimination in general and, also, has left open the
door of Dialog, Cooperation and Friendly Relations
with All Other Nations, including our United States,
and this augurs well for the Future of Cuba and its
Society and for the future of his terms in office.


No wonder why his popularity is at a free fall...


Οχι αυτοδυναμία στην Ελλάδα. Από' δω και στο εξής
Κυβερνήσεις Συνεργασίας ώστε να υπάρχει πάντα και
συνεχώς πολιτικός έλεγχος, τον οποίο αδυνατεί να
επιβάλλει ένα Κοινοβούλιο απαρτιζόμενο από απόλυτη
πλειοψηφία, στην οποία οι βουλευτές του κυβερνώντος
κόμματος αισθάνονται σαν πρόβατα εγκλωβισμένα στο
μαντρί. Όσο για τις υποσχέσεις του Κυριάκου, είναι ή
δεν είναι ειλικρινής, επειδή από ``ηγέτες" τά' χουμε
ακούσει και ξανακούσει πολλές φορές και έχουμε δει
τα αποτελέσματα και τις ενέργειές τους στην πράξη
πολλάκις, ιδιαίτερα από οικογενειοκράτες και από
πολιτικάντηδες κομματανθρώπους, δε δίνουμε προς
το παρών καμμία βάση, ούτε πρέπει να αποτελέσουν
δικαιολογία για να του δοθεί εμπιστοσύνη για
απόλυτη πλειοψηφία στις επερχόμενες εκλογές.
Αν ``θέλει" να συνεργαστεί, θα του κάνουμε καλό όλοι
οι ψηφοφόροι να τον ``αναγκάσουμε" να συνεργαστεί.
Αν το λέει ψέματα, τότε θα κάνουμε καλό σε' μας τους
ίδιους και στη χώρα να μην του δώσουμε ψήφο και να
τον αναγκάσουμε να ακολουθήσει τις ψευδείς υποσχέσεις,
που απλόχερα δίνει γιατί ακούγονται καλές, ενάρετες
και αρεστές,  λόγω έλλειψης αυτοδυναμίας και λόγω
ανάγκης...
Υ.Γ. Και όσο για τον εάν έχει η Ν.Δ. ακροδεξιούς,
ο Κυριάκος ζει στον κόσμο του ή εθελοτυφλεί...


I agree 100% with the dissenting sentiments expressed
in this article. A Humanitarian, heartful and charitable
businessperson would start by looking into and taking
care of the needs of his/her own employees first, who
are, after all, the main force that contribute to his/her
amassing a fortune, even at the cost of lowering his/her
profits and personal gains. Then, out of his/her still
substantial earnings, (s)he should look into ways to
benefit his/her community and fellow Citizens as a whole.
Treating your own as lesser children of god, having
them live lives of insecurity and fear to earn the extra
buck and then giving that away to portray charitable
character is not righteous or virtuous and, moreover,
creates bad precedent, a world where everything and
anything goes and everything and anything is excused
from the rich and the well-connected if they, at last,
give back part of their ill-gotten earnings, through
abuse, terror and extreme strategies and tactics, to
their communities in the form of charity and alms.
 

Another ``law enforcement" agency that does intrusive and,
oftentimes, aggressive and insulting background and other
checks on everyone else except their own. Before being
distrusting of others and heartless, aggressive and intrusive
towards others and other people's affairs, the overwhelming
majority of whom are kind, mean no harm and go about their
affairs and their daily lives as most of you do, look at yourselves
in the mirror, look at some of the despicable elements you have
in your own midst, do thorough background checks on your
own before putting them to ``protection" roles, and treat
them as they deserve to be treated, as animals and criminals,
before turning your anger, lack of civility and impoliteness
on others. With all these policies of the morph and all this
eagerness and enthusiasm on the part of the patrolmen to
break up families and send away fellow citizens of ours
who have no other home, the tolerance of the public for
criminality within and for inhumanity and aggressiveness
without has run very thin and is almost nonexistent.


Zaev is moving in the realm of fantasy, myths and fabrications.
The products produced in North Macedonia must clearly carry
the designation ``Made in North Macedonia", as any other product
that is admitted for importation or is destined for exportation does.
Moreover, if the spirit of the agreement is to be respected, and if
the reasons that made this agreement necessary and the related
sensitivities are taken into account, the North Macedonia products
should clearly indicate the origin by the ``North Macedonian"
designation and not a ``Macedonian" designation, which has been
used to refer to the products of Greek Macedonia even before the
creation of the ``Republic of Macedonia" as a constituent Republic
of the Yogoslav Federation.


WE MUST STAND UP FOR OUR FELLOW CITIZENS.
What the ``police" killers, abusers and torturers are doing
is despicable, reprehensible and totally unacceptable.
They would not do it to a white person and they would
totally hide and conceal it by fabrications and lies, had
the victim been a ``police officer" that happened to be a
smoker or drug user. SHAME ON THE POLICE, SHAME
ON THEIR INHUMANITY, BIAS, HEARTLESSNESS
AND BRUTALITY.


Ontarians, since you elected this man, knowing what you
knew, you deserve fully and amply all that he is, and that
he will be, doing to you and your Polity, and more. Enjoy
and Good Luck, and I hope you do some thinking before
voting next time around...


Ελικρινά διερωτώμαι πώς άραγε ελπίζει το ΚΚΕ ότι
η Ελλάδα θα μπορούσε ειρηνικά να διερευνήσει και
να διεκδικήσει μία καλύτερη λύση από αυτή που
διαπραγματεύτηκε και υπέγραψε στις Πρέσπες.
Η γνώμη μου είναι ότι, αφότου δημιουργήθηκε
αυτή η οντότητα στην πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβία και
αφότου η διεκδίκηση μέρους της Μακεδονίας (ως
Γεωγραφικής Περιοχής) και της (Σλαβο-)Μακεδονικής
Γλώσσας είναι τα μόνα προσόντα και τα μόνα
χαρακτηριστικά που συγκροτούν και συγκρατούν
μαζί αυτό το ``έθνος", δεν θα ήταν ποτέ δυνατόν
η Ελλάδα να πάρει κάτι παραπάνω από το όνομα,
δηλαδή την παραδοχή ότι η χώρα απαρτίζεται
από το βόρειο μέρος της Ιστορικής Γεωγραφικής
Περιοχής της Μακεδονίας, καθώς και την αποδοχή
επί χάρτου των Σλαβικών χαρακτηριστικών και
την παραδοχή μη ταύτισης και μη συσχετισμού
αυτών των χαρακτηριστικών με τους Αρχαίους
Μακεδόνες και την Ιστορική Μακεδονία.
Τώρα η προσοχή πρέπει να επικεντρωθεί στην
Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και στα Ηνωμένα Έθνη,
όπου παμψηφεί χρεάζεται από την Επιτροπή
και το Κοινοβούλιο καθώς και από το Συμβούλιο
Ασφαλείας και τη Γενική Συνέλευση να περάσει
η καινούργια ονομασία, να αναγνωριστεί από όλα
τα Κράτη και να αρχίσει άμεσα να χρησιμοποιείται
Erga Omnes. Επιμείνετε σε αυτό, καθώς και στην
αλλαγή των αρχικών από MK και MKD σε ΝΜ
και NMK, και αφήστε τις όποιες μη ρεαλιστικές
ελπίδες για δήθεν καλύτερη λύση στο μέλλον.
Αυτή η ρητορική, η δημαγωγία και η εμμονή
σε φρούδες απραγματοποιήσιμες ελπίδες δεν
βοηθούν ούτε στο εσωτερικό, ούτε την Ειρήνη, την
Αδελφοσύνη και την Σταθερότητα στην Περιοχή.


Media, Politics, Hollywood full to the brim of J(ust)eff
F(u**ers)agers...


Phony, abject scum, Human Rights Violator and
ruthless War Criminal and Nobel Prize Laureate.
That's what's Humanity has come down to, this
is how worthless and how ``meritorious" our most
``prestigious" prizes are and have been for some
time. No wonder why those ``Members" cannot
keep even the semblance of decency going...
``In the footsteps of Walesa, Havel and Mandela"
my a**. Such absurd comparisons that one gets
sickened and vomits thrice, once for each.


Rachid Taha is with us no more...


It is a shame that our State has not ratified the Rome
Statute and has opted not to join the 123 Nations that
have ratified it, despite being a signatory to the treaty.
It is also a lesson to Democrats that they cannot face
challenges and cannot make decisions hesitatingly and
half-heartedly, since, then, they will have extremists
on the Right boldly and enthusiastically destroy the
moderate and floundering progressive advances with
swift counter-action. Democratic Administrations
should have thought about the Great Need for and
the Great Value of and the Great Role that an
International Criminal Court could play in many
respects with regards to International Law and
Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity, especially
so in cases - and there are so many - where the States
responsible are reluctant and unwilling to prosecute
their own either out of pride and nationalistic
sentiments or because - most often - those criminals
are unfortunately the ``leaders" of those States and
the ``governments" are just fronts to conceal absolute
and personal power of these ruthless individuals.


I hear CBS was negotiating a $100M bonus package
for a beastly head, who is accused of gross sexual
misconduct and severe sexual harassment. If this
totally despicable and totally unethical organization
wants to turn itself into a ``charity" and offer
millions to unworthy individuals to gut what
little remnants are left of its ``reputation", then
they should give me a call to willingly accept the
``challenge". Another so-called president and
c.f**k.o. of the many that we have been witnessing
recently and I am certain that not even the tip of
the iceberg has seen the light of day yet, with such
a culture of entitlement and such lack of oversight.


``officer"? ``officer"? ``officer"? Doing
this in an apartment that she ``has mistaken as her
own" and the ``police" departments are expecting
people like that, worse than criminals and junkies
in perception, conscience and behavior, to defend
and protect the public?


I am totally ashamed and embarrassed that, despite
the proximity in Historical scale of the monstrosities,
the devastation, the destruction and the beastliness
of the Second War, Europe is choosing to give its
vote to parties of hatred, divisibility, nationalism
and absolutism, and that Europeans have become
so forgetful and/or so historically ignorant and so
uneducated that they are willing to place their
States', their Continent's and their own Confidence
and Future in the hands of those individuals that,
seeing, exactly as the Nazis and the Fascists did in
the interwar period, an opportunity to exploit the
serious issues and dissatisfaction of the Populace
and to find, accuse and attack scapegoats for
personal gain and rapid, undeserved personal
ascend, are aggressively and vehemently sowing
hatred via rhetoric and demagogy that stirs and
wakes people's worst instincts and worst inclinations,
without a sense of responsibility and without a second
thought, and that their opponents seem to have no
weapon and no strategy to resist and to defend
Values that one would have thought Dear, Non
Negotiable and Unassailable only a Generation ago.
When States like Sweden give 18% of their votes
to these kinds of Parties one feels rotten in the
stomach and a sickening and gut wrenching
feeling,  but the Fight must be Renewed and one
should not give up and abandon the Continent
into the hands of the admirers of the unacceptable.


Γνωστό τοις πασι ότι ``όλοι έτσι συμπεριφερόμεθα
και ότι όλοι έτσι βολευόμεθα. Θα περιμένατε από
μένα διαφορετικά;" Αν ήσουν μία απλή πολίτης,
δεν θα είχαμε άλλες προσδοκίες. Αλλά είσαι
Τσιπρουργός και αυτός ο αρχιψεύταρος αλήτης
μας είχε υπεσχεθεί ότι απ' αυτόν να μην περιμένουμε
μία από τα ίδια. Αλλά από αμόρφωτο συνδικάλα,
που πήρε πτυχίο με τα ψέματα, τα γλυψίματα, τα
παρε-δώσε και τις δουλείες του συνδικαλισμού της
εποχής, θα είμαστε και αφελείς και μαλ**ες αν
είχαμε πιστέψει τις δηλώσεις και τις εξαγγελίες,
όπως, έπραξαν, δυστυχώς, εκατομμύρια εύπιστων
συμπολιτών μας...


The United States should be prepared for the event
of a chemical attack accompanying or preceding a
cleansing operation in Idlib. If that happens, the
Syrian Beast should face the missiles of the 6th fleet
locked upon the Presidential Palace in Damascus
with no exit being left untargeted. We are sick and
tired of petty dictators and generalissimos who,
having their own power, wealth and ambition as
their only guides and motivators, totally and
provocatively ignore and disregard International
Law and serially and remorselessly violate the
most important Tenets and Customs of Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law.


It sounds surprising that the pariah could have been
tolerated by the same person for 25 years. He seems
and sounds like one so flighty and insufferable that
one could not even be around him for even a second.
Apologies to his kids, who are of course innocent and
not responsible for the state of dilapidation and mental
incoherence and decrepitude of their progenitors.


It is one of the saddest and most pathetic things in this
administration that they have appointed an extremist
Jewish Nationalist as U.S. Ambassador to Israel and
that they have appointed an inexperienced lackey to
negotiate progress in the Palestinian issue.
These moves are not in the long-term  interests of the
United States, nor are they in the long-term interests
of Israel, although the current administration in Israel
is too short-sighted and too fixated and delusional to
realize this and they think that all their political
manipulations are contributing to the State's security
rather than being a detriment to it.


The anthropomorph absolutist uncivilized demagogue
still claims to be ``draining the swamp" because it just
sounds positive and because there are millions of
non-thinking, willing and eager individuals who are
cheering at every piece of nonsense it utters, not unlike
in the Germany of the 20's and 30's. How could one
steeped in money and corruption, the two main causes
and the two main fertilizers of the swamp and the two
main boosters of the stinky sewage and stagnating
stench in our Capital, claim to be draining what they
have been working to enhance and fortify their entire
lives for personal gain and personal profiteering? As
for corruption, why have we not yet seen the morph's
tax returns and why are many close associates and
champions of his causes and supporters of his assent
pleading guilty and cooperating, or indicted and going
to jail? None of those individuals, it turns out, were
working for country and ideals; they were all working
for their own pockets and their narrow interests.


This couple should commit suicide out of any speck of
decency they have left or, at best, hide in sewers like the
stinky rats they are. Exploiting a homeless person to
scam and defraud thousands of others online does not
leave any room or reason for them to exist among
Humanity anymore.


Bravo to the ladies (perhaps I should say ``girls", due to
my age)! I am looking forward to them not becoming part
of the corrupt, stinky and stagnating establishment of the
Capital, but instead working hard, with integrity and
passion, for reforming institutions that need to be reformed
and for radically changing what needs to be changed and
for an America that is more Open, more Compassionate,
more Just and less violent, less materialistic and less
isolationist and inward looking than the America that
we are passing down to them. I wish them success and will
be their best supporter in constructive progressive moves
and their harshest critic should they appear to be veering
towards getting entangled in the corruption and the stench
of the big money and the big interests that will certainly be
surrounding and courting them and will certainly be a big
part of their daily experience and pressure, and which have
been shamelessly devouring the honesty and integrity of
our political system and our polity.


If Juncker had threatened to quit because people were
criticizing him for having done something unethical and
inappropriate, then his critics should not have backed
off, but should have pushed him to quit instead. What
is revealed here is not only detrimental to the trust of
EU Citizens towards shady shenanigans at the top, but
it is plain and blatantly unacceptable.


It should be plain and simple:
NO SENSITIVITY FOR THE PUBLIC
PURSE, NO PUBLIC OFFICE.
If one is more sensitive about not missing time with
their own family and their own baby than he/she is
about protecting the Public Purse and about avoiding
unreasonable and excessive spending, then they should
withdraw from Politics, care about their own family and
manage and protect their private income at home rather
than pretending to serve the Public Good. Period.


We live in staggeringly extraordinary times, in which
our United States is a Democracy with Equal Rights
for All in name only and in which the Separation of
Powers exists in name only and in which the ``president"
believes that his own cronies and associates are above
the Law and should be treated by our Polity as sacred
and untouchable no matter how crooked and dishonest
they are and how they behave. THERE IS ONLY ONE
LAST RESORT AND ONE RECOURSE: SEVERE,
MERCILESS, THUNDEROUS PUNISHMENT IN
NOVEMBER, LIKE THIS COUNTRY AND THE
WORLD HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. And of
course in November 2020, send this anthropomorph,
this pariah, crashing down the drains of History,
where it certainly belongs for attempting to destroy
the Greatest State on Earth by trashing Its Best
Traditions and by pounding upon, unjustifiably
attempting to disgrace and destroy its Noblest,
Worthiest and Most Dedicated Servants, such as
Journalists, Progressive Thinkers and Activists.


The blond discredited pariah that feels the need to
occasionally express unsolicited mumbo jumbo in
a desperate effort to remain relevant. Not even
worth a spit..


The European Union has to choose as its new President
of the Commission a very Strong Progressive Unionist.
For the second, there is absolutely no doubt. The absurdity
of appointing to roles of leadership of Departments,
Ministries and Agencies people who were dead set against
their existence and their role and were opposing them
and suing them in Court which happened with the
Administration on this side of the Atlantic should not
be allowed to take place or be repeated in the Old
Continent. The first is a prerogative of the way the
Commission functions as a Leadership Organization
that takes seriously and at heart the various issues
and disagreements of the States over fiscal, social and
other policies and makes decisions based on the Common
Good and the Common Interest, with Boldness and
Vision. And that Common Future and that Vision
MUST include solidarity, compassion, more integration
and great regard for the Rights of and the Practical
Benefits to the Citizens of the Union. No conservative
and no neo-liberal would be in a position to ensure that
these Values are strictly adhered to in order to preserve
Cohesion, boost support for Integration and move the
Union towards a Truly United Continent.


This pariah skato-state has the audacity and shamelessness
to jail journalists that do their job and that let the World
know about grave violations of Human Rights and of the
Laws and Customs of War, instead of Congratulating Them
Rewarding Them, rounding up the perpetrators, holding
a swift, effective and efficient investigation, indicting them
and jailing them for life for inflicting unbelievable suffering
and pain and uprooting, maiming, raping and killing with
no reason and indiscriminately based on racial and religious
criteria fellow Citizens of ours. I hope the ICC, based on
this total uncooperativeness and this atrocious behavior
and posturing, takes swift action and issues immediate
and very severe arrest and seizure warrants for all people
responsible at the top of this despicable and atrocious regime.
THE SAME HAS TO BE DECIDED HERE BY OUR
UNITED STATES: WITHDRAW AID, FREEZE ASSETS
AND STOP ALL COMMERCIAL AND OTHER TIES
WITH REMORSELESS, RACIST KILLERS AND BRUTES.
And the SAME WE EXPECT NOW FROM THE SWEDISH
ACADEMY. In the Land of Olof Palme, the Dove of Peace,
A PRIZE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED
TO STAND FOR ATROCIOUS TORTURERS AND RAPISTS,
FOR ETHNIC CLEANSERS AND JAILERS OF VIRTUOUS.


This is one of the (many) problems of nouveau
riches and corrupt States that, despite amassing
huge amounts of wealth, still do not know what
the right priorities are and instead focus on
fattening the purse of politicians and other
elites and letting trickle wealth down to convince
everyone that they are ``better off than before",
but totally neglect meaningful infrastructure
and cultural investment in favor of material
and other stuff. And that price we all pay, since
the losses in this case, as well as in many many
others, recently and not so recently, are not only
theirs, but also ours; they are losses of the
Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity.


Now we are talking! Cutting aid to the Palestinians
that need support until there is a resolution to the
problem and they have an Independent State that
can stand on its own two feet, with a democratically
elected and effective leadership, is counterproductive.
On the other hand, AID SHOULD HAVE BEEN
CUT LONG AGO from Pakistan and military
support from (non Saudi) Arabia which have both
played a shady and detrimental role for Peace,
Stability and the well-being of their Regions.
Also aid should have been cut strategically from
Israel so that the Jewish State would know that
aggressiveness and intransigence reap no rewards
and that getting seriously back on the negotiating
table and respecting the U.N. Resolutions would be
a good start for creating a climate of Trust and
Good Will so that both sides may conclude a secure
and viable agreement for a future two-State solution.


I have a lot of sympathy for the Palestinian People,
deep feelings about their plight, admiration for their
perseverance in seeking a Homeland of their own and
some Hope that, despite the fact that their oppressors
are ultra-rich and super well connected, there will
come one day when Justice will prevail and the two
Nations will decide that living in Stability, Peace and
Fraternity side-by side is the only way that can
guarantee Happiness and Prosperity for both.
On the other hand, Palestinians need, now more
than even, to change ``leadership", get away from
the stagnation of the old generation that, despite
lukewarm efforts, has achieved no results, and to
empower a new generation, passionate, active,
enthusiastic and willing to go out and seek in a
clinical way the partnerships and the alliances
with those progressive and forward looking
Jewish Liberals and with those centers of World
Power that would enable the Palestinian Cause
to move forward. The United States, albeit with
much diminished credibility as a fair broker,
has some legitimate concerns regarding some
issues related to the problem, and, unless the
Palestinians elect a new leadership, younger
with fresher ideas and, above all, not ``for life"
and embark in some much needed radical reforms,
I am afraid that, even with a change of leadership
in our United States, the Palestinians will continue
to have little sway and will continue being at a
considerable disadvantage when it comes to
earning a satisfactory and viable Peace Deal.


Many believed that Daniel Ortega was fighting for Nicaragua's
People for a better future, more dignity and a more just society,
while in the opposition. It has been proven, however, beyond the
shadow of the doubt that he was an opportunist who, with the
first chance, when he rose to power, started behaving worse and
more autocratically that the repulsive and despicable politicians
that he was trying to unseat and oppose. SHAME ON THE
GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA, left in words, ultra-right
and ultra-conservative in deeds, actions and reactions. Who
has nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of does not
kick monitors and observers dedicated to assessing the record
of a government and to helping improve its performance with
regards to Respect for Human Rights and Adherence to Human
Rights Treaties and Custom out of one's State, but rather,
cognizant of local limitations and shortcomings, invites
external help and support in Strengthening Human Rights
Laws and Regulations and in Enforcing those Norms.


BRAVO, BRAZIL! People that have been convicted of serious
charges against the State, have betrayed the trust of the People,
have been disloyal to the oaths they took and have proved that
they are incompetent to govern honestly and that they are
detrimental to the well-being of their States should not be
allowed again to participate in the Democratic Process, at
least not while they are serving their sentences. Very good
news from the Brazilian Judicial System.


Brutes and murderers killing for fun. Why would any Human
Being fire a gun to kill someone that is running away from them?
If you need to arrest someone and they are fleeing, keep down
your weapon, call for back up and pursue in a manner that
does not lead to escalation, unnecessary violence and the death
of a person, however guilty they may be for however harsh of
a crime. That is not for a ``police officer" to judge, nor is it for
a ``police officer" to give or to take a Human Life, unless it is to
give birth to their own child. If you are not prepeared, ready
and willing to serve our societies in a civilized, non-threatening
and courteous manner, then get out of the ``police force" or
face the consequences.


A society that promotes and rewards acquitted murderers is
not a society at all, because there is no society without civility,
compassion and self-restraint. SHAME TO OKLAHOMA.


One starts wondering whether this will also turn out to be as
incredible and monumental as the meeting with Kim and the
complete and verifiable denuclearization agreed there.
One also starts wondering whether, besides thinking defects,
there is something critically awry and amiss with the ability
to understand and to communicate.


Criminals against Humanity, violators of Human Dignity
and of the Laws and Customs of War, both in the military
and their political overseers, MUST face Justice and must
be punished very very severely for their disregard for
Human Life, lack of basic Human empathy and compassion
and for ignoring, ridiculing and manipulating everything
that the Civilized World has instituted after painful and
grave lessons for the protection of Human Life and Dignity.
From our U.N. and the I.C.C. we have many times in the
past heard declarations, proclamations and affirmations
without seeing them come to fruition. DO NOT LET US
DOWN AGAIN with empty promises. Arrest, indict,
prosecute and incarcerate those animals responsible for
the deaths, the torture, the forced exile and ethnic
cleansing and the destruction of homes and property
of tens of thousands of our fellow Human Beings.


Senator McCain is with us no more...
Perhaps it is neither time nor place here for such comments,
but if I were Pence, having accepted to partner with and,
as a result, representing the ``man" that he represents, I
would be ashamed to attend the funeral and would put my
tail between my two legs, lower my brainless head and hide.


Bravo to the DRC Electoral Commission. Individuals
eager to overturn the Democratic Order of their State,
engaged in disturbing Peace and in warlordism for
personal power and personal gain, steeped in corruption,
tampering with the Law and suspected of Grave Breaches
of Humanitarian Law and of Crimes Against Humanity
have no place in the Democratic Process of a Civilized
State and should not be allowed to participate on the
Political Process or be eligible to govern.


Heartbreaking... How much damage can one inflict
on his own State before realizing it is time to go?
Does this not amount to high treason, Mr Maduro?
It would amount to catastrophe and disaster of
monumental dimensions in any other State, but,
specifically for Venezuela, with so many resources,
this definitely amounts to treason. IT IS TIME
TO GO. IF NOT, SEVERE PUNISHMENT SHALL
COME. THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE. DO
NOT DEPLETE YOUR STATE FROM ALL ITS
POPULATION BEFORE STEPPING DOWN.
 

Now that the despicable and reprehensible morph
and all his actions are out in the open, the new take
of those voters that got us stuck with this subhuman,
this terrible brainless egomaniac, is to proclaim that
they do not care about his private actions, his ethics
and his machinations. Thus gets revealed, once more,
the absurdity and the hypocrisy of the American
political ``right" wing, which dresses itself up and
portrays itself as ``ethical" and ``christian", but
they prove, in their adherence and strict following
of the morph and their jemenfoutisme regarding
his inexcusable ethical standing, his unjustifiable
actions, his demeanor of entitlement and of
``for me everything is allowed", that they are
nothing but, and that they are extremely backward
politically and extremely detrimental for the well
being of this Nation and for the maintenance,
reinforcement and advancement of all gains that
have been attained regarding Human Rights and
Equal Treatment of All Citizens in the last few
decades of our State's History.


The morph is barking indignity that ``no collusion"
has been revealed. He should explain to his supporters
how he is expecting a Human Being with any degree
of intelligence, a Good Patriot acting in Good Faith
to support a candidate and/or sitting official many of
whose former associates are guilty and/or are striking
pleas to escape serious punishment for serious crimes
against the State and the Dignity of the State and of
our Political System that would have brought any
other less connected and less fortunate Citizen lengthy
jail terms, significant irreparable damage and many
legal and other troubles. The morph is a non-entity
steeped in and surrounded by buddies, ``fixers" and
other associates that are befit a criminal outfit boss
who could not care less about obligations and
responsibilities under Law and feels that he has
the right and is entitled to manipulate a corrupt
and rigged system to do as he pleases and has no
(not even a remote) resemblance to a Sitting President
of this Great Nation. The fact that, in this Country
of ours the Political System is corrupt and the
Legal System favors the rich and well-connected
and the Electoral Process does not ensure that
the Candidate Winning the Majority of the
Popular Vote is the Winner have, in his case,
contributed to our having got stuck for four
years with the worst of the worst. BUT I DO
HOPE AND WISH THAT THIS WILL BE IT
AND NO MORE!


Devastating. One's heart is torn apart thinking of
the little girls. And cannot stop wondering about
all the false smiles, pretentious happiness and all
the other lies and false appearances that are hidden
behind facebook, twitter, instagram etc., photos and
quotations that the socially sensitive believe they
have some kind of responsibility and obligation
to project upon themselves to be and feel respectable
in an artificial, rigid and completely fabricated
society with concocted and antiquated norms.
Αμαρτίαι γονέων παιδεύουσι τέκνα.


Unconvincing, totally and menacingly unconvincing.
When one deals with a criminal, abusing, harassing,
exploiting and trafficking syndicate of death and of
destruction, one does not pray, ask for solidarity,
express remorse etc. etc. and blah blah blah blah;
one calls the FBI and the most clinical and effective
Law Enforcement Authorities, arrests the criminals,
annihilates the outfit and destroys its structure and
its ability to continue to operate and function, and
decapitates the top, the boss of bosses, and then
moves down and eliminates the various dons and
local bosses. Sorry, the catholic syndicate of  sexual
exploitation, pederasty and child pornography has
operated with impunity and with boldness and
a sense of entitlement for so long that it is not
something fixable through meditation, pondering
and introspection. It is something that cannot exist
any longer. What ``faith", what ``good will" could
any parent have remaining when (s)he should be
terrified and totally unwilling to let his offspring
be in any proximity of any establishment bossed by
or connected to this outfit and how could anyone
who is a true believer with any speck of ethical
standing and fortitude forgive what happened?


It just breaks one's heart to see a State rich in oil and
other natural resources descend into complete financial
chaos and having inflation predicted to approach
1,000,000%. It is even hard to imagine such a situation
in a much less fortunate state, let alone one like Venezuela.
I all honesty, if I had been at the helm of such a State
and even a fraction of such humongous predicament
and such turmoil had stricken, I would have considered
it my duty to relinquish power. It does not have to be
necessarily a change of governing party, but it has to
be a change of leadership, and, I am afraid, in such
a situation, it has become now necessary to call in
knowledgeable and experienced technocrats with
the requisite know-how, discuss measures to first
stabilize and then shore up and improve the economy
and implement those measures immediately.
VENEZUELA, DO NOT WASTE MORE TIME!
YOU MAY BE MISLED TO BELIEVE THAT IT
IS A MATTER OF PRIDE AND SOVEREIGNTY,
BUT, SHOULD YOU PROCRASTINATE, YOU
WILL END UP LOSING MORE AND MORE
AND MORE OF BOTH...


The incompetent idiot has appointed a senile imbecile to
represent him and, unavoidably and predictably, the entire
country is having a good, but tragic and devastating, laugh.


I am very sympathetic to this call for immigrants to adopt
local customs when they immigrate to new societies rather
than have the expectation that the inhabitants of their new
homelands adapt to their own customs and expectations.
Especially with this issue of handshakes, what if my faith
dictated that no person apart from family was to approach
me at a distance closer than 5 meters? Should I have the
(in my view unreasonable) expectation that in a society
where I was to visit or live everyone would have to learn
of my ``demand" and stay clear of me at the required
distance or else accuse them of religious insensitivity,
discrimination and blame them for being at fault?
On the other hand, if a visitor in a State, where such a
custom was predominant, did not do its proper homework
and in a disrespectful and insensitive way was approaching
people very close in an uncalled for way, then he should
expect to be scorned and to be chastised for not having
studied essential aspects of the local culture before visiting
and for not adhering to them while visiting or living there.
All sides have to make this effort for equal, fair,
respectful and harmonious coexistence. It cannot be
the case, and it is not either proper or viable, for one
side to demand that its customs be followed here or
there without granting the other side the rights and
the responsibilities that, by fiat, accords to itself.
In this case, I think, Switzerland is right, and, on top, I
do understand their extreme sensitivity, after the grand
fiasco in the World Cup, where it was revealed beyond
the shadow of a doubt that Swiss Citizenship is accorded
to a cohort of disparate individuals that feel no closer
to Switzerland than to their places of origin, nor do they
show any signs of Modern European Outlook and
eagerness or willingness for harmonious coexistence
with All Other Nations, which, purportedly, is a Swiss
Cornerstone and Trademark.


As a human being I am saddened by any decent Human
Being's death and this has been the case with Kofi Annan.
On the other hand, Kofi Annan, despite, in many cases,
his good will and good intentions, in his tenure as our U.N.
Secretary General failed in the most difficult, and it is in
the most difficult that the boldest and most courageous are
called to prove their skill, their acumen and their worth.
The fact that he was not beyond reproach and beyond
suspicion regarding personal gain and fraudulent
maneuvering does not help justify those posthumous
accolades either. In a nutshell, he was indeed a much better
choice than some of his very controversial predecessors, but
our U.N. deserves the best of the best at all times at the helm.


A Queen of the Soul and Blues is with us no more...


Unfortunately, we are ``governed" by a septuagenarian
with the brains and the mental stability of a baby. And
the characterization ``vicious, not smart" and ``loser,
nothing but problems" is the one that most Americans
would attribute guess to whom...


V.S. Naipaul and Samir Amin are with us no more...


This is a very good example that we all should keep in
mind on how the mercuriality, randomness, ignorance,
lack of self restraint and aggressiveness of a couple of
``leaders" and the bad ``chemistry" between them,
which, unfortunately, comes to the fore when one is
not basing its decisions on the wisdom and the good
advice of experienced and knowledgeable technocrats,
can lead to disastrous consequences for States and
their Citizens. We had a glimpse of that predicament
before and during the Second War, but it is frightening
that such terribly unstable and incompetent individuals
have reentered the scene so soon after lessons ought to
have been learned and absorbed and remembered.
 

As much as I like seeing Erdogan - not Turkey, but Erdogan -
go through dire straits that would force him to reconsider
many of his policies that have cost Turkey and have put
Turkey in a backward orbit politically, socially and
economically, I am puzzled by these injurious moves by
the morph. I am wondering whether he realizes that
``America First" does not mean undermining and/or
destroying other States' economies nor is it reasonable
to embark on moves that shake the confidence of the
markets in economies of friends and allies, since such
moves are bound to come back and bite our own State
in multiple ways. The well-being of any Nation and the
well-being of its closest Friends and Allies are closely
intertwined and interdependent, and the Leaders of
our United States had realized this and had taken it
into account in forging a Solid, Dynamic and Forceful
Foreign Policy, envied by many around the Globe.
Unfortunately, the morph, not a good student of either
History or Politics nor distinguished for his smarts, but,
nevertheless, crass, smug and abrasive, is in the process
of dismantling this solid foundation, an extremely ill
advised and risky endeavor, the effects of which might
be rather detrimental. But we'll have to wait and see.
 

This is a great relief and a win for Human Rights.
Criminals that, compared to other violators, get a
slap on the wrist, a disproportionately mild sentence
and a ridiculously, extraordinarily gentle treatment,
and have the audacity and shamelessness to ask for
even less and declare themselves unfairly treated
should be shown no mercy and given no further
leniency. They should ponder instead over their
actions, their true meaning and the damage and
pain they have caused. The judges are not to be
congratulated in this case; they just did the least
that Human Decency and Law required.


Humanity demands that we be compassionate when
a fellow Human Being faces maladies and/or life or
death issues. BUT, the Assads are directly or indirectly
responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of
innocent fellow Humans of ours and in this case, a
case that demands prosecution for Crimes Against
Humanity and Grave Violations of Humanitarian
Norms and of the Laws of War, our tolerance cannot
penetrate and our sympathy cannot apply. This
couple of subhumans, of beasts without dignity
and without respect for Humans, deserve the worst
since they have not been held accountable and since
their only proper place should have been under the
guillotine, or at least to a life behind bars.


Ενα ξεφτιλισμένο, μίζερο και υπάνθρωπο γεροντάκι.


The decision to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear
Agreement was one of the worst decisions in the
United States Political, Foreign Affairs and Security/
Military History and it is not a surprise that it came
from one of the most chaotic, inexperienced, brainless,
thoughtless, incompetent, disorganized and damaging
United States administrations in the History of our
State and one that was eager and intent on licking
the Jewish State's feet and serve its interests without
asking for anything in return (despite proclamations
about the President's negotiating prowess and acumen).
(a) It undermined severely the credibility of the United
      States as a trustworthy negotiator;
(b) It violated the Principle of pacta sunt servanda,
      by which the Agreements that States enter between
      one another are to be Respected and Served in Good
      Faith regardless of domestic Political Changes;
(c)  It disregarded the fact that in a Multilateral Agreement,
      based on  the Principle of  Sovereignty, Independence
      and Equality among Nations, the voice of the many
      signatories should prevail over the voice of one;
(d) It disregarded the political fact that, by unilaterally
      withdrawing, it ridiculed all the time and the joint
      effort that the Allied States had expended under
      pressure and guidance from the previous United
      States administration to reach a balanced deal;
(e) It is causing great legal discrepancies and putting
      many internationally active corporations in limbo
      by essentially overwriting U.N. Law, in violation
      and contravention of the Charter, by requiring
      companies to do one thing while, on the other side
      of the Atlantic, they are told to do another.
      I am afraid that this is going to let many crimes
      and many infractions slip through loopholes and
      may give many ill-meaning firms the opportunity to
      exploit the messy situation and the discord among
      authorities of the most capable States and the chance
      to break International Laws and Conventions and
      create havoc and cause damage to international
      security and international commercial relations,
      thus undermining International Law and Order.
AN EXTREMELY WORRISOME, SAD AND
PATHETIC MOVE BY AN ADMINISTRATION
IN DISARRAY UNDER LACK OF (OR VERY
BAD - TRAGICALLY BAD) ADVICE, NOT
WORTH ITS PROCLAIMED PURPOSES.
I would urge them to turn their attention to dealing
with Israel's arrogance and intransigence and to
coming up with sanctions to force the modernization
of the People's Arabia (and not of the Sauds) that
has not only actively harmed U.S. interests, but
continues to play the dirtiest, most detrimental
role for U.S. interests in that tortured region.


BRAVO to Canada and to its Ambassador!
Congratulations also to all of you out there that celebrate
every time the despicable dictatorship of the Sauds, that is
pillaging the Arabian Peninsula, is allowing a woman to
say a word without a man's presence or to wear a skirt a
millimeter longer than previous regulations etc. And to
those of you that are ardent supporters and allies of a
regime that should have been boycotted and forced to
change its ways and become Modern, conform to
Contemporary Standards of Peaceful, Cooperative
Coexistence,  refrain from funding Terrorists and
Extremists and update its codes to allow its People
and especially its Women and Minorities to live and
to participate in social and professional functions like
all Human Beings are entitled to by Inalienable and
Sacred Fundamental Individual Rights.


The truth is that we are hearing from them so many
contradictory things and so many versions of the same
event because they are lying big time; and why would
anyone choose to blatantly and persistently lie if they
had nothing to hide that they thought was reprehensible
and susceptible to lead into criminal troubles and a
very very perilous and, perhaps, irreversible, political
and National disaster, namely a sitting U.S. President
cooperating with Foreign Intelligence Services, definitely
willingly, but either out of pure spite and hatred or
out of ignorance and stupidity, or, as may very well
be in the case of the despicable, repulsive morph,
out of both and more... We'll have to wait and see.


In the same way that I could in no way accept racist
remarks targeted towards African Americans or
Chinese Americans or Korean Americans or Native
Americans or Italian Americans or..., I cannot accept
racist remarks against white people or any other
race or ethnicity, or people with specific preferences,
sexual orientation etc., ESPECIALLY SO FROM
PEOPLE WITH SPECIFIC POWER AND MISSION,
INVESTED WITH HIGHER RESPONSIBILITY
THAN AVERAGE, including, but not limited to,
People in Government, especially highest levels,
such as President and Cabinet Members and
Congress Men and Women, and Journalists.
Sorry to say that New York Times in this case, or
any other Media Organization, is failing both the
Public and its Sacred Mission of Unbiased Reporting
by hiring people with such predisposition for insensitive
and racial spite and/or by giving overwhelming
preference, on the other hand, to journalists of
a certain ethnic and/or religious background, which,
in my opinion, implies direct, albeit covert and
concealed, discrimination against others.


In Africa ``politicians" have to understand that elections
are not meant as a pretext for an incumbent to cling to
power or for a contestant to usurp power. Elections are
meant for PEOPLE TO EXPRESS FREELY AND
UNMOLESTED WHO THEY WANT TO SERVE
THEM for the next term in office.  Those pseudo-leaders
that fail to have such a basic understanding of a Democratic
Process and are not willing to abide by Basic Constitutional
Premises, not only in words but in deeds, should not be part
of the electoral process at all. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.


Another Republican revealed to be demented and deviant
in private, since all of them advocate ethics, properness,
virtue and modesty, only for others of course, in public.
Only the Republican Party, U.S.A., and the Catholic
Outfit, Vatican City, have proven to be such lasting,
degenerate, repulsive and despicable machines of naked
and persistent hypocrisy on a payroll in the History of
Humanity.


The bulldog has started barking really really loud, so
one can safely conclude that there is juicy meat around
(the Mueller investigation).  Moreover, in its tweet, it
is admitted that the Russian Collusion with the Trump
campaign was among the ``most successful in history",
whose unfortunate consequences we are living through
every single day. We'll have to wait and see.


BRAVO to Motor Oil for this very very important initiative.
I hope other companies and individuals who can would take
similar initiatives and offer resources and services to alleviate
some of the pain and redress some of the damage caused by
the recent devastating tragedy. In a State in financial straits,
it is imperative that those companies and fortunate individuals
who have the means assume more active roles in the economic
and social sphere to help with basic needs.


It is incidents like this that happen in this country of
ours every single day that torture one's conscience
and leave us with no other option than wholeheartedly
and vocally supporting Bernie Sanders and the left
wing of the Democratic Party in consistently and
persistently advocating for a more just, a more
fair Health Care System that can only be provided
through Universal Health Care and Nationalization
of the Basic Services in one form or another. When
people in pain are being discriminated upon due
to race, and the perception of affordability as biased
by race, by none other than the emergency responders,
or prefer suffering pain alone without proper care
due to the debilitating cost, then a red line has been
crossed and our passivity and our patience are to
the breaking point, almost exhausted. We cannot and
should not tolerate anymore a system that allows fellow
Citizens of ours going through such suffering daily.


BRAVO to Zimbabweans who are taking part, with
high turnout, in their State's first free elections after
the dethronement of the abject Mugabe. Even though
it is a day of celebration of Democracy and of the
Right of the People of Zimbabwe to Vote, I cannot
but express my fury and indignation, when I partly
followed yesterday this despicable dictator's open
statement. First, the man who used to sleep in
important meetings, when his attention was
required, or at least demanded by basic rules
of civility, woke up now and expressed his
unwanted and uninvited opinion. Second, the
man that has kept his State in a political, social
and economic darkness and has shown utter
and complete disrespect for Freedom and for
Democracy, and, by extension, for the People
of Zimbabwe, said that he would not be voting
for the party that kept him in power for so long
because they had the guts to remind him that
offices are not for life ans to depose him. And,
as if that was not enough, he claimed that he
had doubts that freedom would come... Could
freedom be worse off than when this beast was
abusing and struggling her? What a clueless,
selfish and opportunistic pig, what a shame and
an embarrassment not only for Zimbabwe, but
for all of our beloved, tortured Mother Continent.


We do not need ``proof" to know that Qatar, the most
unsuitable State in the World, used sabotage, bribing,
gifts of all kind, and who knows what else, to ``corrupt"
the eagerly, willingly and most conveniently corruptible
of all organizations and bodies on the planet (save the
drug cartels and mafia syndicates) and manage to get
the hosting of a ``world cup". Those that are asking
for ``investigations", internal mind you, ridiculous,
sham and farcical proceedings to exonerate the guilty,
who are doing nothing other than their ordinary
business as usual, stashing proceeds and loot in
the banking system of the great state of switzerland,
are trying to fool the informed, but hopeless and
disbelieving public. The only way up in World
Football is for National Associations, especially the
most powerful ones, to help implode FIFA and give
power back, in a decentralized way, to the local
and the National Associations and let them organize
international tournaments, receive and invest the
proceeds from sponsorships and redistribute the
benefits to the grassroots, both for sporting and for
sportsmanship, and in the promotion of  the associated
values of educating the youth in teamwork, ethics and
the spirit of comradeship, unity and brotherhood.
Bosses and Gangsters have no place in the most
Beautiful and most Popular Sport on the Planet.
And neither do States that think that they can
manipulate and exploit the World's Most Revered
and Beautiful Sport for own gain because they
happen to sit on a land of black gold.


I am shocked and ashamed of Russia. They are not the
only State by any stretch, where such things are happening,
but this State that has lost so many and so much in the
Second War, having young ``guards" being misanthropes
and applying to their own countrymen primitive and
sadistic methods of torture, brutality, moral repression
and individual extermination such as these, sends chills
down one's spine and regrets and disappointment on
how fast and how totally we exploit politically our past
misery and predicaments to elicit sympathy and demand
protection for our own, while, at the same time, applying
the same techniques to ``others", the foreign elements,
the unfortunate, the less well-connected and the ``outcasts"
in our societies, by brutally and remorselessly stamping
on the Dignity and on their Humanity and giving no
second thought (not unlike in the Jewish State).
 

How could anyone with even an iota of conscience and
an iota of ethical standing dare attend meetings and
conferences addressing Human Rights issues and
hypocritically portray himself as a Human Rights
``advocate" when he has abused minors and deprived
powerless and helpless human beings of the most
Fundamental of Human Rights, the Dignity of an
Individual? Unfortunately from the catholic outfit,
that abominable syndicate of sexual deviance and
sexual deprivation and of collusion and cover-ups,
we would not be justified to expect anything better.


Το κάθε α**ίδι αντί να σιωπά αυτές τις δύσκολες ώρες
και μέρες, που δεν είναι και το πιο δύσκολο, βγαίνει και
λέει ό,τι σαχλαμάρα και μπούρδα του κατέβει στον κενό
του τον ανύπαρκτο εγκέφαλο και με τρόπο ξεδιάντροπο
και προκλητικό και η αμπελοφιλοσοφία δίνει και παίρνει.
Δεν περίμενα καλύτερα από τον άχρηστο πα**ροζούραρο,
αλλά έλπιζα ότι θα ήταν λίγο πιο ευαίσθητος. Είναι όμως
τελικά όσο αναίσθητος και όσο παχύδερμος είναι και ο
``πρόεδρός" του, κύλισε ο τέτζερης και βρήκε το ζουράκι.
Αν ο Τσίπρας είναι πολιτικά ζεματισμένος, αυτοί είναι
πολιτικά εξευτελισμένοι και ολοκληρωτικά καμένοι,
αλλά τί να πουν και όλοι οι αθώοι και οι συγγενείς τους,
που είναι καμένοι κι αυτοί δίχως αιτία κι αφορμή.


Κάλλιο αργά παρά ποτέ.. διότι, δυστυχώς, στην Ελλάδα
έχουμε δει συχνά κι έχουμε συνηθίσει και το ποτέ...


Sergio Marchionne is with us no more...


It is hard to comprehend how our State has messed
up so severely with these schemes of detention and
deportation. Are we great only in weapons and war
but clueless about basics of Humanity and Human
Treatment and of elementary Courtesy and Dignity
of Individuals? How on earth could the Authorities
of a Developed Nation with advanced automation and,
supposedly, a functioning bureaucracy and decent
levels of organization and coordination, manage
to sever touch between parents and their children
and to send parents home before reuniting them
with their kids? Could they not, at least, deport
families together, instead of separating them and
keeping underage children on one side while sending
childless parents alone to the other? Are our State
Agencies so clueless and so careless that at some
point, we'll have to extend a plea to the Red Cross
to come in and offer their expertise in finding who
is who and in getting a grasp and who is related to
who and who is where, in order to allow families to
to be reunited and kids to join their parents again?


Both of them know that they have a lot to do to
make their States Democracies, with Equal Rights
for All, Respect of Individual Freedoms for All
and Equality and Due Process under the Law
for All, as any State does, but those two very
much in particular. The saddest and most
unfortunate and heartbreaking development.
however, as pertaining to those two States as
opposed to others, is that, under guidance of
incompetent, short-sighted, egotistic and petty
politicians, these two States have been consistently
taking steps backwards instead of working, as
most other States do, to advance these Noble
Principles and Noble Ideals of Freedom, Equality,
Fraternity, Respect for Diversity and Multiculturalism,
and are making their States live and believe in
ideas that are antiquated, incompatible with
modernity and baffling and incomprehensible
in an increasingly Interconnected World, in
which All Citizens of All Nations are feeling
deeply the Common Origins, the Common
Strives and the Common Destiny of Humanity.


I am speechless at the devastation and the heartache;
Greece, Japan, Laos and Sweden all suffering from
either natural or human-caused calamities and
mourning many victims. We are reminded of our
common Humanity and a common Responsibility
to do our utmost to protect our natural environs
and a common duty to try to help and support our
fellow Humans and to do what is in our power,
politically, economically and socially to institute
the right planning and adopt the right measures
to prevent such disasters from happening again
and alleviate to the extent possible the suffering
and the ensuing consequences.



I would advise President Rouhani to not lower his
intelligence, nor sacrifice his political skills and his
reasoning ability, nor lose his temper to come down
to and confront the morph at his level and mode of
discourse. Try, if at all possible, to motivate and to
encourage the morph to behave as a stable, thinking
statesman rather than as a moron, and resist getting
swayed by his dementedbehavior and starting
behaving like a moron yourself to antagonize him.


In this critical time, when the Prespes Agreement has
added momentum towards a solution of a long-standing
disagreement and moved forward a stagnating process,
and with the Public in the two States being divided
between many supporters and more detractors, it is
constructive and helpful to listen to the voices of People
that are thinking outside the box and that take a third
eye, at least semi-objective, point of view. Whether one
fully agrees or not with the open letter, one has to
admit that its statements are correct and clearly written
and that its comes from political sensitivity, worry
about contemporary political affairs and a heartfelt
sympathy and eagerness to see old problems and
disputes put to rest and renewed Friendship and
Cooperation, on the basis of Mutual Understanding
and Mutual Compromise, firmly established on a
sound and solid basis.


Many of us would hope that Governor Kasich, who was,
perhaps, the only decent candidate in the Republican
Primaries - and, hence, as things developed and with
a posteriori knowledge of the outcome, did not stand
any chance - would reconsider the death penalty and
its impracticality and serious drawbacks, and campaign
for its abolition both in Ohio and Nationally. Can anyone
imagine such a development coming, instead of from the
left, from a moderate and forward thinking Republican?


Και μη χειρότερα... Οποιος κουτσός, στραβός κι ανάποδος
στην πολιτική ζωή ανοίγει και δικό του κόμμα. Έχουμε
απηβδίσει και τους έχουμε σκυλοβαρεθεί όλους αυτούς
τους χονδροαφερέγγυους.


I understand why Trevor Noah says many things under
cover of comedy and jokes that are ill-conceived and may
be seen as validating many antiquated and hurtful ideas
and stereotypes. First, all these comedians with regular
shows are under pressure to ``produce" continuously,
and, unavoidably, people in that predicament will often,
or at least occasionally, utter nonsense, non sequitur,
or regrettable blabber. Second, Noah is making the same
tragic mistake which is made constantly by Israel and
its politicians. They start and stop the clock of History
and of Humanity wherever it suits their political interests
or ``jokes", or ``social commentary". If Humanity is
taken as a whole and we are not allowed to start History
from colonialism, then all Humans, in particular, all
Europeans, are in some sense Africans. And for similar
reasons, if we do not stop the clock after the first one or
two generations of immigrants, all Citizens that are born
in the State of their Citizenship (and are not immigrants)
can be genuinely thought of as an integral part of
the State whose Citizenship they carry as natives
of that State of their birth. I would have thought that
Noah, of all people, would have understood and adopted
this Universal View of the feelings of Kinship and of
Fraternity between All Humanity and in All Time,
thus avoiding using such a sensitive and not amenable
to ``jokes" or ``commentary" issue for night show
trivialities and exploitation.


This attempt to even raise questioning an officially
appointed translator in the service of a Head of State
or a Minister of State is appalling and should never
have been discussed nor should it ever come to pass.
People in that capacity and in such a mission are
supposed to be incognito, granted the highest level
of trust and confidentiality and should be treated
as non-existent, playing a commissioned, supportive
role of the highest necessity and importance, but
kept completely behind the scenes, untouchable and
with no responsibility on the contents of discussions
and statements other than their faithful and accurate
translation. So in no way should they be held accountable
or put in a spying role regarding such proceedings.
BRAINLESS SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
IN WASHINGTON ARE TRYING TO DIVERT THEIR
RESPONSIBILITY OF HAVING ACCEPTED AND
HAVING ALLOWED AN IGNORANT AND COMICAL
MORPH ALONE WITH A WORLD-CLASS SPY AND
LEADER IN A ROOM, BY TRYING TO PLAY WITH
FIRE AND EMBARKING INTO DANGEROUS AND
ABJECT PROCEEDINGS AND GIMMICKS.
You should be all ashamed for not having done
the Right Thing in the first place to prevent the
meeting in the form it had been announced.


This Butina affair makes one lose any respect and
any admiration they might have held about the
efficiency, the planning and the deliberation of the
Russian foreign intelligence services. I may be
alone in this, but I have never seen any foreign
``student" behaving in such an openly attention
provoking way (especially after 9/11) in any U.S.
university. Any student that hangs around arms
and weapons conventions and conferences and
fraternizes with right wing elements would,
hopefully and certainly, draw the attention of
U.S. Law Enforcement that would investigate
closely, and such a state of affairs should not
be welcome by someone that implants or that
acts as a spy for a foreign agent or Government.
So Butina's affair shows that either the Russians
were completely unprepared, completely ignorant
and completely uninformed about U.S. customs
or that they are, at the intelligence gathering
area, at a level far, very far, inferior to British,
Israeli or American operatives, to give a few of the
best known examples, and that they need radical
refocusing and training from top to bottom.


Seriously?? A gun playing and gun wielding
``foreign student" in the U.S. post 9/11 and
she had not been immediately under suspicion
from day one???!!! One would think the FBI
would have been onto someone for much less.

How does Israel expect other States to grant equal
Status to Jews in their own Lands if it provocatively
and scandalously and openly discriminates against
non-Jews and demotes their status in Israel? As
I have said before, the RELATIONS BETWEEN
STATES, AS ENSHRINED IN CUSTOM AND
IN THE CHARTER, ARE BASED ON MUTUAL
RESPECT, EQUALITY AND RECIPROCITY
and Israel should not expect Jews to be treated
any differently in other States than it treats
non-Jewish People and People of other faiths
in Israel itself. I am dumbfounded at how the
imbecile and stupid ``leaders" of the Jewish
State do not see how such a move harms their
own, undermines any attempts and any efforts
that have been made by open-minded, forward
thinking and peace loving progressives around
the Globe for Equality, Fraternity and Respect
among all Nations especially after the tragedies
of the Second War, and how it implodes all the
efforts and ridicules all pleas that Israel
frequently and insistently makes for Respect
and Equal Treatment of Jews as Citizens of
other Nations. With these measures, bills and
proclamations, no one, no Nation will be taking
any statements made by Israel and its abominable
politicians any more seriously than they do those
made by the moronic and laughable morph.
What a fiasco, what a pity, what a destruction.


Hungary (and not only) is a State which sent its own
people in large numbers to other States (and many
many Hungarians are still living abroad), but is
unwilling to accept, and is bothered by, people of other
States wanting to immigrate into Hungary. Such
absurd positions are not going to pass. Mutual
Respect, Equality and Reciprocity are Cornerstones
of World Politics and a sine qua non in World Affairs
and International Relations and NO STATE CAN
DO FOR ITSELF WHAT IT FINDS CONVENIENT
WHILE DENYING THE RIGHT OF OTHER STATES
A SYMMETRIC, RECIPROCAL RIGHT TO DO THE
SAME. The behavior of some States and their
Governments is provocative and unacceptable.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.


Leave the AF One untouched. The colors are beautiful
and the design is fine and it has become distinguishable
and a symbol of American Power and Diplomacy and
Friendliness around the Globe. Morph, you've messed
with and have mostly messed up most of our Dearest
Principles and Traditions as a Nation; do not interfere
with and damage by trying to ``fix" another one that
is not broken (despite your best, brainless but persistent,
efforts to break it).


Another rich guy with dubious successes who needs
to spend sometime in detox, or relax or decompress
or wherever most of these guys like or should spend
their time at with their fellow privileged and connected.


A deeply moving and Noble gesture by the Croatian
World Cup 2018 Team. They donated all their earnings,
which are significant, having reached the Final Game
of the tournament, to Children Charities to support
the Noblest of all Causes that anyone could imagine.
BRAVO, CROATIA!! After Japan, whose players
and staff gave lessons in Public Service and Exemplary
Conduct, Croatia follows with a similar, highly valuable
and commendable, gesture. We do want to see such
moves in the World of Football, the most beautiful
and fascinating sport on the Planet. We have had enough
of stories of players, relatives and managers earning
tens of millions of dollars and making every effort to
evade taxes and to avoid doing their part, despite being
among the richest and most privileged members in the
societies they inhabit, in serving the Public Good and
in giving back to their Communities.


It is disconcerting that public criticism of that magnitude
is taking place. It might mean that some heads are going
to roll without due process or any recourse to Justice, simply
on the whims and by the dictates of a single individual, who
seems to be untrustworthy and of questionable stability, as
capricious and volatile and hurtful as most ``leaders" of
absolutist regimes.


An American Tragedy: A nude, ignorant, crass, imbecile
representing a formerly Formidable and Great State, with
Powerful Traditions in Intelligence and Foreign Policy,
entered on his own volition, with a naive, demented fool's
eagerness and enthusiasm, the den of intelligence lions,
foxes, coyotes and vultures and, predictably, was swallowed
alive, but was the only one not to realize and the only one
who, instead of feeling devastated for the humiliation to
which he subjected his own State, basked in glory and
self-importance and pride... A true American tragedy.


A second referendum must be held and truth has to be
told clearly; not the abject lies and the false promises
that were put forward by Farage, Johnson and the
gang of separatists the first time around. Moreover,
unlike the first time, the weight should shift from the
emphasis on economics to that of Unity and Fraternity
and to the Central Role that Britain must play in a
United Europe because of its Fundamental Historical,
Social, Scientific and Cultural Contributions to European
Culture and the Critical Role that Britain should play
in a United Europe in the proposals put forward and
the discussion concerning the reorientation and the
reforms that are needed to revitalize and push forward
the DREAM OF ALL REASONING AND FORWARD
THINKING AND VISIONARY EUROPEAN CITIZENS
FOR A FULLY UNITED AND FULLY INTEGRATED
EUROPE WITH ONE CURRENCY, ONE ECONOMIC
SYSTEM, NO INTERNAL BORDERS AND BARRIERS
AND INTEGRATED OR CLOSELY COORDINATED
EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY
SYSTEMS.


Our stupidity as ``humans" has reached new heights.
Murderous vengeance against animals whose natural
instinct is to act as predators, as if they are reasoning
and as if they attack with deliberate malice and with
deliberate intent and determination to kill out of some
dark motive. What are such killings for? To change
behavior and prevent future ``crimes", to deter similar
actions in the future or to punish for the intent? And
then, we are expecting societies of imbeciles and brutes
to think of, aspire to and institute more ``humane"
forms of penalties and of treatment for incarcerated
offenders and to abolish the capital punishment...


When our fellow Citizens give to the media accounts
of brutal and provocative confrontations with ``police"
or ``police"-induced injuries and murders, they always
accompany them by phone video evidence that,
most of the times, makes clear what transpired,
despite subsequent hiring of expensive lawyers and
faulty evidence provided by fellow ``police" and
other people with interests incompatible with the
Public's Safety that lead to scandalous exoneration.
Police, if they ever want to be believed by the Public,
who supports and pays their expensive equipment
and their salaries (without any oversight and
without any saying on whether they are upholding
fundamental principles or meeting minimum
standards), given their absolutely horrendous
record of credibility due to abject lies, fraternal
false evidence to alleviate the woes of colleagues
and outright fabrication of evidence and implanting
of nonexistence incriminating evidence, MUST
ACCOMPANY THEIR ACCOUNTS BY VIDEO
FOR THEM TO EVEN BE MINIMALLY CREDIBLE.
Accounts like the ones given in this article on BBC:

``A police statement said officers on patrol in the
South Shore district at about 17:30 local time saw
the man "exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person".

"An armed confrontation ensued resulting in an officer
discharging his weapon and fatally striking the offender,"
the statement said, adding that police recovered a gun
and two ammunition magazines at the scene.

Chicago police patrol chief Fred Waller told US media
that officers saw a bulge in the victim's trousers that
they thought was a gun.

When they approached the man, he "started flailing
and swinging away, trying to make an escape" and
then "reached for the gun", Mr Waller said."

unless followed by video evidence should be taken
a priori as garbage, provided by a murderous and
thuggish machine, with ``chiefs" and ``officers",
a.k.a. ``bosses" and ``executioners", with subzero
credibility.


Hopefully, the public in Arizona follows this and,
hopefully, the public in Arizona sends this stupid
a** where he really deserves to be. I cannot even
imagine what a black man of the same age, without
``legislative license" to break the law unpunished,
would have suffered for the same crime if he had
dared to even utter a tenth of what this imbecile
started conveying to the ``officer" of the State,
i.e., the machine that serves and protects the
rich, powerful and well-connected ``immune"
few and harasses and arrests the many less
fortunate and less well connected under the laws
that the few ``immune" pass for the many
unprotected to follow and to get arrested under.


We complain about our Representatives and our Senators
and the way they are completely out of touch, or, at best,
semi-detached from the average person struggling to get
by. But in Deep Third World States, literally and
metaphorically,  the discrepancy, the insensitivity, the
disrespect, the wretchedness and the indifference are
provocative, scandalous, unacceptable and catastrophic.
In Kenya, a State where BBC reports the average person
survives with $150 per month, MPs are paid (after recent
reductions!) $6,100 per month and are allowed funding to
attend (allegedly and very very unconvincingly not for
enjoyment and pleasure) the World Cup in Russia on
taxpayers' expense, as if $6,100 monthly are not enough
for them to pay for themselves the expenses needed, should
they elect to go and do the stuff they were ``assigned" to
do ``as duty", such as fraternizing with various countries'
fans and attending the semi-finals and finals of the
tournament. SHAME! KENYA NEEDS A REVOLT
TO CHANGE COURSE AND FREE ITSELF FROM
ITS DOMESTIC ABUSERS AND EXPLOITERS.


Look who's talking!! The ``man" who put in line his
State's Elections and his State's Political Integrity to
entice Russian State actors to help him, an unstable
and untrustworthy imbecile, with zero political
experience, questionable capability, zero diplomatic
skills and a huge - and unacceptable for a developed
State - tendency for corruption and nepotism, to the
highest office of the Land. SHAME, UTTER SHAME
FOR A COMPLETE LACK OF SELF APPRAISAL
AND SELF RESTRAINT. BUT FROM THE MORPH
NOTHING BETTER TO BE EXPECTED. We'll
have to wait and see.


Εχουμε πια βαρεθεί ο κάθε απλοϊκός, μαλθακός και ηλίθιος
που δεν ξερει τί θέλει και πέφτει σε δυσμένεια στην Ελλάδα
να ιδρύει και νέο κόμμα. Enough is enough...


Unfortunately, Turkey has become in the hands of one
man and by the whims of one man, an untrustworthy
and unstable State with a backward polity and an
utterly misled, corrupt and bankrupt economic system.


The Brexit-ists lied and misled the public and should
step aside and make way for a Strong Unionist that
would work to scrap talks, work for a rekindling of
relations with Europe and a rapprochement and to
plan for a new referendum, where truths would be
told frankly, as they are, and where the British Public
will be urged by a sensible and responsible Government
to rethink its position and to reestablish the Rightful
and Critical Role of the United Kingdom in the
Heart of Europe. WE WANT THEM IN and BOTH
SIDES HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN and MANY
THINGS TO LOSE FROM SELF-INFLICTED
DIVISIONS AND SELF-DRIVEN WEDGES IN A
LONG, FRUITFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE
RELATION.


Ο Γεωμέτρης δεν έχει ανάγκη του να ηγηθεί της ``αριστεράς",
ούτε και ελπίζω να έχει τέτοιες φιλοδοξίες. Όσα με τόση προσοχή,
αφοσίωση και κόπους έχει πετύχει στο οικονομικό μέτωπο, είναι
πολύ μεγαλύτερης αξίας ήδη από όσα θα μπορούσε να πετύχει ή
να γκρεμίσει ως ``ηγέτης" μιας αμφιλεγόμενης και γεμάτης
αμφιβολίες και ενδοιασμούς αριστεράς. Ο καθένας στο πόστο
και στο ρόλο που του αρμόζει καλύτερα ώστε όλοι μαζί σαν
σύνολο να μπορούν να δουλεύουν αποτελεσματικά και φερέγγυα.


SkatoPruitt: An insensitive criminal and abuser of public
funds. A condemned affair, a political fiasco of major
proportions from the very beginning. Nothing better
to be expected from the morph and his men. We'll have
to wait and see who else is going to fall in this domino
of political carcasses and empty suits.


Ο Καμμένος λέει αν έρθει η συμφωνία των Πρεσπών στη
Βουλή θα μπουκάρει στο Προεδρικό να σπάσει τα απαυτά
του παπάκη. Εγώ στοιχηματίζω ότι όταν έρθει η συμφωνία
στη Βουλή, θα είναι ή στο Μόντε Κάρλο για ρουλέτα ή στο
Λας Βέγκας για πόκερ. Τέτοιο ζώον και τέτοιο παχύδερμο,
Θεός φυλάξει. Ελπίζω όποιος ψήφισε τέτoιο πράγμα, να
περάσει από κανένα μοναστήρι για να κάνει μετάνοιες
και να ζητήσει συγχώρεση και άφεση αμαρτιών...


I am not optimistic about Mexico. Change was desperately
needed, so this is the best possible outcome. But I am afraid
change is not coming because Mexico has already advanced
to a state of decomposition beyond repair. Change in
Mexico can no longer occur through the existing political
``system" nor through ordinary and existing processes
which are damaged and degenerate beyond repair. What
is needed is a seismic, radical ``destruction", reshaping and
reconstruction of the entire ``State" and a reeducation and
reconditioning of the ``influential" people that have been
using the ``State" and its machinery and mechanisms for
personal profiteering and for personal aggrandizement and
a crashing of the state, parastate, military and paramilitary
organizations that have become a dark ``State". Changes
can only be brought about through processes that would
cause upheaval and pain for a considerable amount of time
and that require politicians of a special creed (not unlike
the Castros and Che in Cuba and Madiba in South Africa)
and, clearly, Mr. López Obrador does not fit the bill, nor
is it certain that Mexicans would be ready to undergo the
pain and the deprivations that such radical change would
require of them.


Unacceptable and moronic analysis by the AfD concerning
the failures of the Panzers and the blame in the 2018 World
Cup. In the same way that a team Wins by Standing Together,
a Team loses and falls together and the shortcomings and the
blame are collective. Unfortunately, Germany had a big
problem with moving the ball and with speed. Strategy was
not lacking and against Korea, Germany had many chances,
but one also needs a bit of luck and Germany did not have
it on her side at that game. But, overall, the complaints are
justifiable and the German side seemed to have very heavy
legs and move very slowly on the field, despite being well
organized, as if the players had just come out of an opium
parlor and were in a high state and semi petrified in place.


I hear the morph has encouraged the President of France
to think about quitting the EU so as to get a better trade
deal with our United States. I did know that the morph
is a derailed, disturbed and sorry personality, but I did
not know that he is so ignorant or on purpose acting to
strongly undermine the interests of our United States.
First, the United States has a political and military
interest in supporting a United, Strong and Prosperous
European Union. Second, the United States, for the sake
of Convenience and Practicability has a strong commercial
interest in supporting a United, Strong and Prosperous
European Union. The morph may want a better trade
deal for our United States with the EU and that is
perfectly understandable. But it would be much more
convenient and practicable to push for such a deal with
the entire bloc and its Commissioners and Representatives
rather than trying to isolate States and entice them one
by one for such a deal. Even President Putin, who is
not very well known for its friendly and fraternal feelings
towards Europe and who is well known for instinctively
following an old and tried Soviet recipe of divide and
conquer, knows better about driving a wedge between
European States and has repeatedly and insistently
voiced his support for a Strong and United Europe
as a commercial partner of Russia. If only he had
refrained from messing up by causing havoc and by
proceeding with the first Grave Violation of the
Sovereignty and Independence of another State
in modern European History...


Even though the International Pressure on Poland and
the ensuing repeal of an abominable and ill thought out
bill are really great news, it is still very sad and very
discouraging that the despicable government of a State
that has suffered so much from Nazism and which has
lost a good percentage of its population to grave and
unforgivable atrocities were not only eager to introduce
such legislation, but are very often disregarding those
Standards and those Principles curved in European
Polity after the war to prevent missteps and abuses
in the social and political sphere and in the domain
of Individual Liberties that led to the immeasurable
suffering and the brutality of that era. Poland and
its Government have a responsibility to THINK
CLEARLY AND AVOID EXCESSES BEFORE
ATTEMPTING THEM rather than merely succumbing
reluctantly to International Pressure.


Third World scumbags dressed in luxury. Malaysia
did not deserve such dirt and their unbearable stench
or their criminal and gangrenous behavior and its voters
should have done much much better.


In Cameroon they had a unique opportunity to show
that they are better than the colonialists and that they
could negotiate Peacefully and solve their Problems
in a Fraternal and Forward Looking Spirit. As is so
often happening in Africa, however, they are proving
that they cannot stand to the height that difficult
circumstances demand nor to face challenges and
disagreements successfully in a Brotherly and
Conciliatory way and that they are as eager and
as willing to kill, maim and brutalize brothers and
sisters as were the colonialists, who, at least, had no
connection and no relations with the Populace and
the Lands they were administering so brutally.
SHAME ON CAMEROON AND SHAME ON AFRICA for
THEIR FAILURES AND THEIR ABJECT BRUTALITY.


I am strongly opposed to denying someone service
in a public place for whatever reason, resulting in
an open and shameless discrimination. Having
said that, I hope Sarah Sanders tasted the experience
that the Government and the Morph, for whom she
works, is subjecting various individuals based on
a policy where service may be denied based on
religious, political, racial and other ``beliefs" and
``convictions". These policies are outrageous and
utterly unacceptable and take our State, which has
made tremendous progress in Human Rights and
tremendous leaps in Civility through painful and
oftentimes bloody struggles, backwards, and should
never have been allowed to occur under the watch
of this or of any other U.S. Administration.


There is a big difference in the Spirit and the Quality
of the Immigrants and of the Process of Integration that
takes place in the United States versus in many European
and pseudo-European States. This was showcased
yesterday in a most painful and most outrageous way.
Whereas in the United States, players that compete
with our Stars and Stripes, no matter their Ethnic
Origin and their Race or Personal Preferences, would
never even imagine insulting each other or players
of other Nations by inimical and provocative gestures
full of hatred and divisibility, in places like Switzerland,
not only does this happen routinely, but it goes unmentioned
and unpunished even when it takes place by supposed
``representatives" of their National Team in an official
capacity in the most celebrated tournament of the most
beautiful sport on Earth. I feel ashamed on behalf of
the Swiss athletic and political authorities and have
the impression that, should they wish to strictly
reinforce the attitude that their players must be
first and foremost Swiss in outlook and feeling and
not behave like Third World morons, they have to
take decisive action and impose significant penalties.
SUCH ATTITUDES HAVE NO PLACE IN TODAY'S
AND TOMORROW'S EUROPE AND ARE A STAIN
IN THE CONSCIENCE OF NATIONS THAT ARE
ASPIRING TO AND WANT TO BE CALLED
``EUROPEAN".
 

Frankly, if I had been of humble origins, had married
a ``Donald J. Trump" and was entitled to a significant
percentage of his wealth without having to move any
part above the waist (on condition that he left me alone),
I would also not give a f**k, would you?
Or in Greek: Τις τζαμπα μαγκες τις πουλανε βερεσέ.
Or yet in Greek: Μαγκιά, κλανιά κι εξάτμιση.


The morph did the Right Thing. If only he had thought
a little beforehand and had avoided doing the wrong
thing in the first place. It is not one of his virtues, but
he should be strongly encouraged to THINK more
carefully of the consequences of his actions before
acting.  In that way, a lot of pain and discomfort would
be avoided and no corrective action needed, let alone
escaping the embarrassment of bending under pressure
and having to rescind his own policies and decisions,
which, frankly, many Americans of all walks of life
and all political persuasions find un-American,
unbecoming and totally unacceptable.


Another idiotic move from the brainless morph.
Instead of cooperating with other States to
safeguard Space as a domain of Mutual Trust
and Collaboration and of using it to benefit
Humanity and advance Common Goals, the
despicable and short-sighted pseudo-leader
is once more choosing enmity, divisibility and
friction by proclaiming the creation of a
``space force". The last thing our State needs,
with so many financial problems and with an
infrastructure in bad need of repairs and of
updates, not to mention also of the desperate
need of a constructive and inspired Foreign
Policy to mend the devastating and potentially
lasting damage that this brainless administration
is causing, is to create another domain of
distrust, mutual suspicion and unproductive
competition with other States on this Planet
of ours, on which we are destined to stand
and prosper or to crumble and fall together.
One would have thought that such choices
would have been simple and straightforward,
but, alas, for the morph they are not.


Τέτοιο παχύδερμο και ασυμπάθιστο ζώο δεν έχει
ξαναεμφανιστεί στα χρονικά της Ελληνικής
πολιτικής σκηνής. Το παχύδερμο, αναίσθητο
και απαράδεκτο κήτος διαλαλεί ξεδιάντροπα
ότι είναι οπορτουνιστής διότι ή δεν έχει ή δεν
δίνει δεκάρα για τις ``θέσεις" του και το μόνο
που τον ενδιαφέρει είναι η ``καρέκλα" του.
Τέτοια βλακεία, δεδομένης της τύχης παρόμοιων
προσώπων και παρόμοιων συμπεριφορών στο
παρελθόν δείχνει παντελή έλλειψη δυνατότητας
ανάγνωσης της Ιστορίας και παντελή αδυναμία
εξαγωγής χρήσιμων συμπερασμάτων από την
ανάλυση των πολιτικών πραγμάτων...
ΑΞΕΣΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΙΚΑΝΟ ΖΩΝΤΟΒΟΛΟ.


Δεν θα μπορούσαμε να πετύχουμε κάτι σημαντικά
καλύτερο και θα ήταν μάλλον ατόπημα να μην
εκμεταλλευόμασταν και πάλι, την παρούσα χρονική
στιγμή, μία καλή ευκαιρία και να πασάραμε την
μπάλα στις επόμενες γενιές λόγω απώλειας τόλμης
και πολιτικού θάρρους από τη δικιά μας. Όμως,
ΝΑ ΕΓΚΡΙΘΕΙ ΟΜΟΦΩΝΑ Η ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΑ ΑΠΟ
ΤΑ ΗΝΩΜΕΝΑ ΕΘΝΗ ΤΟ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΟΤΕΡΟ
ΔΥΝΑΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΝΑ ΥΙΟΘΕΤΗΘΕΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ Σ.Α..