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Manifestazioni

This saturday I became aware of two different manifestations. One was at the TV (I am always looking at the TV in the Gym....). More than 150.000 people were demonstrating in Ankara for the non religious character of the Turkish republic and against the possibility of an islamistic president. A woman was speaking to the crowd. I was very much touched.

When I went home I encountered on Via Cavour the following:

Dentro il PD o fuori?

Boselli non vuole entrare nel PD . In un certo senso lo capisco pienamente. Il PD sembra qualche volta la combinazione dello statalismo ex-comunista con il vaticanismo ex-democristiano. Il peggio che l'Italia ha prodotto. Ma! Sull'altro lato abbiamo lo statalismo ex-fascista ed il rozzismo piccolo borghe non ex della Lega o di parte di FI.
L'Italia ha bisogno di un bipolarismo. La separazione può essere nettamente quella del vechio bipolarismo fra sinistra e destra.

Viva Marco!

Marco Panella ha reagito positivamente al Congresso dello SDI a Fiuggi. Questo è straordinario per il modo divisorio della politica italiana normale. Lo SDI ha una buona responsabilità per il tramonto di questo bellissimo esperimento della RNP. Quanto preferirei una "Rosa nel Pugno" che un nuovo PSI!!!!. Ma, la politica che è stato espresso da Boselli al congresso di Chiusi è accettabile. Se il socialismo di oggi si traduce in una sintesi fra difesa delle libertà individuali e solidarietà con i più deboli, che è da lamentarsi?

....it happens very seldom

that the Economist is in agreement with Fidel Castro. But too much is too much, also for the Ultra-liberals from my favourite newspaper. They criticise explicitely the silly policy of the American government to fancy the production of Ethanol from maize. This is not ecological, this is against free trade, this is against globalization

Ethanol | Castro was right | Economist.com

Mehr zu Links und Rechts und "human nature"

Dieser post bezieht sich auf einen anderen, https://johanneskeizer.com/node/216, in dem ich schon einmal versucht habe das unterschiedliche Verhaeltnis von linken und rechten Werten zu einer menschlichen Natur zu fassen. Ich wuerde jetzt ergaenzen: Traditionell unterstreicht die Rechte natuerliche Tendenzen der menschlichen Natur: Eigensucht, Male Chauvinism, Kinship instead of Society, das Recht des staerkeren, waehrend die Linke, diese menschliche zu sublimieren (und zu negieren versucht: Freiheit, Gleichheit, Bruederlichkeit - und zur Not mit Gewalt.

Left wing extremism in India

Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) - Left Wing Extremism, India, South Asia Terrorism Portal

this is interesting and worrying. Left Wing extremism is alive and not globally declining. It is clear the ideology and phraseology is appalling. But poor people is following. No strategy for freedom and progresse" can be successful without addressing this

Neo-Nekolonialismus

this is a citation from an interview with Jagdish Bhagwati in the last issue of the German Magazine "Der Spiegel", which should be well considered:

What kind of rights are possible

The below linked article from the Economist supports my opinion that it is inappropriate to speak about the right of housing, the right of food, and so on. Limiting essential rights to a few, will make it easier to enforce them:
- free expression of opinions
- not being jailed without a proper legal treatment by the authorities
- protection against violence from others
- state of law
this are basic principles that also can be enforced by a simple decision of will.

The Past, the Present, the Future, or what?

Berlin 2007 Kerala 2007 The KPI-M just won the elections in Kerala again

Eclecticism or tolerance or is this at the end the same?

There is no possibility to get a pic of Muhamed.

But could it find place at the side of Jesus and Ganesha?

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