El blog pretende publicar, principalmente, traducciones al español de textos y poemas de Henry David Thoreau y referencias a trabajos sobre dicho autor.
Nuestra economía en el aire se ha
transformado en una caída mortal, y nos disponemos a traerla debajo. El
problema es que todos estamos bajo ella, y así tenemos que traerla debajo con
el menor sufrimiento posible para nuestra tierra y nuestra gente. No sé cómo puede
hacerse, y me inclino a pensar que nadie lo sabe. No puedes confiadamente traer
algo abajo si no supiste qué hacías cuando lo elevaste.
(WB)
And so: Might it not be that the
displaced persons were needed by
their families and their neighbors,
not only for their economic assistance to the home place and household, but for their love and understanding, for their help and comfort
in times of trouble?Of the Americans
known to me, only the Amish have
dealt with such questions openly and
conscientiously as families, neighbors, and communities. The Ainish
are Amish by choice. There is no
requirement either to subscribe to the
religion or to stay in the community.
The Amish have their losses and their
failures, as one would expect. At present some of their communities have
become involved in the failure of the
larger economy. But their families
and communities nevertheless are
held together by principle and by the
deliberate rejection of economic and
technological innovations that threaten them. With the Amish—as once
with the rest of us—a family member
or a neighbor is by definition needed,
and is needed not according to any
standard of usefulness or any ratio of
cost and price, but according to the
absolute standards of kindness,
mutuality, and affection. Unlike the
rest of us, the Amish have remembered that the best, most dependable,
most kind safety net or social security or insurance is a coherent, neighborly, economically sound, local
community.
Find where you go
Behind the glare is what I know
The melody climbs higher
The song is in the fold
The harmony is cold
What’s old is new is ever ever told
I go where you are
I know there is no
Assigned melody
Prof Arne Burkhardt - PANDEMIC STRATEGIES, LESSONS AND CONSEQUENCES, 21st- 22nd January 2023
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Autopsies show that the mRNA vaccine safety paradigm collapsed. The mRNA stays in the body & expresses toxic spike protein in cells throughout the body. All organs are affected including blood vessels, heart, brain & reproductive system. It has to stop!
Resumen de la información sobre la posible cesión de soberanía de los Estados al HERA y OMS (a fecha 17 de febrero de 2023)=
El abogado de la Asociación Liberum, Luis María Pardo avisa que el Consejo de Ministros de España ha aprobado la creación de la Agencia Estatal de Salud Pública (AESAP).
El Reglamento Sanitario internacional actual de la OMS va a ser modificado en mayo de 2024 con lo que se ha llamado el “Tratado de Pandemias”. Si no lo frenamos, los Estados estarán obligados por la Comisión Europea a ceder la soberanía al HERA (Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, que es la Autoridad de Preparación y Respuesta ante próximas pandemias), con lo que los Estados no tendrían la potestad ni autoridad respecto de las próximas pandemias.
Los ciudadanos podemos presentar ALEGACIONES / OPINIONES a ese anteproyecto de Ley, simplemente mediante email indicando que los ciudadanos españoles no queremos perder la soberanía ante instituciones supranacionales.
Esas Organizaciones supranacionales impiden a los Estados y también a la Unión Europea y al Parlamento Europeo que se puedan expresar Asociaciones ni ciudadanos.
En resumen:
Los Estados van a crear Agencias de Salud Pública, y se cederá esa competencia al HERA (Autoridad Europea) que a su vez la cederá a la OMS.
Se nos impondrían Leyes y Agencias que vulneran la soberanía a instituciones privadas (la OMS es una Entidad que está financiada al 97% por capital privado) que nadie ha votado o a instituciones de la Unión Europea que no tienen competencia alguna para restringir los derechos fundamentales.
Las alegaciones/opiniones se deben enviar al email:
normativa_dgsp@sanidad.gob.es
el cual está indicado en el link de la web del Ministerio de Sanidad:
donde se puede leer lo siguiente, y más información al respecto:
“ Sanidad saca a consulta pública previa el Real Decreto para la creación de la Red Estatal de Vigilancia de la Salud Pública.
La ciudadanía, organizaciones y asociaciones que así lo consideren, pueden hacer llegar sus opiniones sobre los aspectos planteados en el RD hasta el próximo 02 de marzo de 2023 a través del correo normativa_dgsp@sanidad.gob.es ”
En el artículo 7 del anteproyecto de Ley por la que se crea la Agencia Estatal de Salud Pública, se indica la obligación del suministro de datos de nuestra salud de todas las instituciones y empresas, incluso las privadas.
El link del documento del anteproyecto de Ley es el siguiente, que está en la web del Ministerio de Sanidad:
17 US senators, led by Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), introduced the “No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act” on Feb 15, which states that the pandemic accord must be deemed a treaty, thus requiring the consent of a supermajority of the Senate, which is 2/3rds. pic.twitter.com/lMu4Fbrb6q
The “Twitter Files” have exposed numerous
contacts between US government officials and Twitter and requests for
suppression of accounts or content: notably, in the context of alleged
Covid-19 “disinformation.” But what they have not revealed is that there
was in fact a formal government program explicitly dedicated
to “Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation” in which Twitter, as well as all
other major social media platforms, were enrolled.
As part of this program, the platforms were submitting monthly (later
bi-monthly) reports to the government on their censorship efforts.
Below is a picture of an archive of the “Fighting Covid-19
Disinformation” reports.
I did not have to hack into the intranet of the US government to find
them. All I had to do was look on the public website of the European
Commission. For the government in question is not, after all, the US
government, but the European Commission.
The reports are available here.
Lest there be any doubt that what is at issue in “Fighting Covid-19
Disinformation” is censorship – but how could there be any doubt? – the
Commission website specifies that the reports include information on “demoted and removed content
containing false and/or misleading information likely to cause physical
harm or impair public health policies” (author’s emphasis).
Indeed, the Twitter reports, in particular, include data not only on removed content, but also on outright account suspensions.
It is thanks precisely to the data that Twitter was gathering to
satisfy the EU’s expectations that we know that 11,230 accounts were
suspended under Twitter’s recently discontinued Covid-19 Misleading
Information Policy. The below chart, for instance, is taken from
Twitter’s last (March-April 2022) report to the EU.
Note that the data is “global,” i.e. Twitter was reporting back to the
European Commission on its censorship of content and accounts all over the world, not just in the EU.
To be clear then: It is strictly impossible that Twitter has not had
contact with EU officials about censoring Covid-19 dissent, because the
EU had a program specifically dedicated to the latter and Twitter was
part of it. Furthermore, it is strictly impossible that Twitter is not continuing to have contact with EU officials about censoring online content and speech more generally.
This is because the EU’s “Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation” program
was launched within the framework of its more general so-called Code of
Practice on Disinformation. Under the Code, Twitter and other online
platforms and search engines have assumed commitments to combat – i.e.
suppress – what the European Commission deems to be “misinformation” or
“disinformation.”
In June of last year, a “strengthened” Code of Practice on Disinformation
was adopted, which created formalized reporting requirements for Code
signatories like Twitter. Other major signatories of the Code include
Google/YouTube, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft – which is notably the owner of
LinkedIn – and TikTok.
Furthermore, the strengthened Code also created a “permanent task force”
on disinformation, in which all code signatories are required to
participate and which is chaired by none other than the European
Commission itself. The “task force” also includes representatives of the
EU’s foreign service. (For more details, see Section IX of the Code, titled “Permanent Task-Force.”)
And if this were not enough, in September of last year, the EU opened a “digital embassy”
in San Francisco, in order precisely to be close to Twitter and other
leading American tech companies. For the moment, the embassy reportedly
shares office space with the Irish consulate: meaning, per Google maps, that it is around a 10-minute drive from Twitter headquarters.
So, it is strictly impossible that Twitter has not had and is not
continuing to have contact – indeed extensive and regular contact – with
EU officials about censoring content and accounts that the European
Commission deems “mis-” or “disinformation.” But we have heard
absolutely nothing about this in the “Twitter Files.”
Why? The answer is: because EU censorship really is government censorship, i.e. censorship that Twitter is required to carry out on pain of sanction. This is the difference between the EU censorship and what Elon Musk himself has denounced as “US government censorship.”
The latter has amounted to nudges and requests, but was never
obligatory and could never be obligatory, thanks to the First Amendment
and the fact that there has never been any enforcement mechanism. Any
law creating such an enforcement mechanism would be obviously
unconstitutional. Hence, Twitter could always simply say no.
But so long as it wants to remain on the EU market, Twitter cannot
say no to the demands of the European Commission. As discussed in my
previous article here,
the enforcement mechanism that renders the Code of Practice obligatory
is the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA gives the European
Commission power to impose fines of up to 6% percent of global turnover
on platforms that it finds to be in violation of the Code: n.b. global turnover, not just turnover on the EU market!
The Commission has not been shy about reminding Twitter and the other tech companies of this threat, thus posting the below tweet last June on the very day that the “strengthened” Code of Practice was announced.
This was before the DSA had even been adopted by the European
Parliament! But the DSA has been the sword of Damocles hanging over the
heads of Twitter and the other online platforms for the last two years,
and it is now law. Once designated a “very large online platform” by the
Commission – which is inevitable in its case – Twitter will have 4
months to demonstrate compliance, as the below “DSA Timeline” makes clear.
Moreover, the power to apply financial sanction is not the only
extraordinary enforcement power that the DSA gives the Commission. The
Commission is also given the power to conduct warrantless inspections of
company premises, sealing the premises for the duration of the
inspection, and gaining access to whatever “books or records” it
pleases. (See Article 69 of the DSA here.)
Such inspections, which have been previously used in the context of EU
competition law, are quaintly known in the literature as “dawn raids.”
(See here, for example.)
This is why Elon Musk and the “Twitter Files” are so verbose about
alleged “US government censorship” and so willing to “out” the private
communications of US government officials, but have remained suitably
mum about EU censorship demands and have not outed the private
communications of any EU officials or representatives. Elon Musk is
being held hostage by the European Union, and no hostage in his or her
right mind is going to do anything to irritate the hostage-takers.
Far from any sign of defiance of the Code and the DSA, what we get from Elon Musk is repeated pledges of fealty: like the below tweet
that he posted after meeting with EU Internal Market Commissioner
Thierry Breton in January. (For an earlier such pledge in the form of a
joint video message with Breton, see here.)
And if Musk should ever have any doubts about what he needs to do to
satisfy the EU’s requirements, help is always close at hand – indeed a
mere 10 minutes aways. For the EU’s “digital ambassador” to Silicon
Valley, Gerard de Graaf, is one of the authors of the DSA.
But if Elon Musk is so fearful about crossing the EU, then why has he
restored so many Covid-19 dissident accounts? Wasn’t that an act of
defiance of the EU and notably of its “Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation”
program?
Well, no, it was not.
Firstly, it should be recalled that Musk had originally promised a
“general amnesty” of all suspended accounts. As discussed in my earlier
article here,
this quickly drew a stern and public rebuke from none other than
Thierry Breton, and Musk failed to follow through. Instead, in
accordance with Breton’s demands, there has been a case-by-case
restoration of selected accounts, which has recently slowed down to a
trickle.
@OpenVaet,
whose own Twitter account remains suspended, has been maintaining a
partial inventory of suspended Twitter accounts. As of this writing,
only 99 of the 215 accounts in the sample, or roughly 46% percent, have
been restored. (See @OpenVaet’s spreadsheet of still banned and restored
accounts here.) Assuming the sample is representative, this would mean that over 6,000 accounts in all are still suspended.
And this is to say nothing of the more insidious form of censorship
that is “visibility filtering” or “shadow-banning.” Per the motto
“Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach,” Elon Musk has never denied
that Twitter would continue to engage in the latter. Many of the
returning Covid-19 dissidents have noticed a curious lack of engagement,
leading them to wonder if their accounts are not in fact still
subjected to unannounced special measures.
But, secondly, and more to the point, have another look at the
archive of the “Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation” reports shown above.
That is the complete archive. The March-April 2022 reports are the final set of reports. Last June, as noted here,
the European Commission discontinued the program, folding the reporting
on Covid-19 “disinformation” into the more general reporting
requirements established under the “strengthened” Code of Practice on
Disinformation.
By this time, most of the most onerous Covid-19 measures in the EU,
including “vaccine passports,” had already been ended, and most of the
remainder have been gradually rolled back since. Elon Musk thus allowed
(some) Covid-19 dissent back onto Twitter when, at least in the EU,
there was hardly any public policy to dissent from anymore.
But the EU’s censorship regime as such is still very much in place,
and censorship has by no means come to end on Twitter. Thus, on the very
night of the Brazilian elections on October 30, Twitter was already
censoring local reports of electoral fraud. The famous “misleading”
warning labels that had once been used to quarantine reports of Covid-19
vaccine harm now made a reappearance, insisting that according to
unnamed “experts,” Brazil’s elections were “safe and secure.” (For
examples, see my thread here.)
Whether electoral integrity/fraud in countries of interest, the war in Ukraine or the “next pandemic” for which the EU is already reserving
mRNA “vaccine” capacity, you may rest assured that the EU will not lack
new subjects of “disinformation” requiring censorship and that Elon
Musk and Twitter will oblige.
Whether this censorship takes the form of outright suspensions and
content removals or content “demotion” and account “visibility
filtering” is a secondary matter. The European Commission will be able
to work out such details with Twitter and the other platforms.
Indeed, the DSA further requires the platforms to grant the
Commission access to their back offices, including, as Thierry Breton
triumphantly notes in a blog post here, “the ‘black box’ of algorithms that are at the heart of platforms’ systems.” As noted on the Commission website,
itthe Commission is even setting up a European Centre for Algorithmic
Transparency, in order to be able to better fulfill its “supervisory”
role in this regard.
Needless to say, such “transparency” does not extend to mere users
such as you or me. For us, the algorithmic functioning of the platforms
will remain a “black box.” But the Commission will be able to know
everything about it and to demand modifications to ensure compliance
with the EU’s requirements.
Robert Kogon is a pen name for a
widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher
working in Europe.Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com.
They
who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to
face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely.
They put off the day of settlement indefinitely, and meanwhile the debt
accumulates.
HDT
Dr Francis Christian: “We who believe in peaceful civil disobedience must remind you of its power - its power to bring down empires; its power to harass, harry and hound evil; its power to embarrass and dethrone the tyrant; and its resilience over many centuries...”
"WWI
was a railway war of centralism and encirclement. WWII was a radio war
of de-centralism. WWIII is a guerrilla information war with no division
between military and civilian participation." - Marshall McLuhan (1970)
Todos habitamos un mismo templo de símbolos que elegimos en
función de la costumbre o la sensibilidad. Hay quienes buscan los símbolos más
acordes con su carácter y quienes se conforman con los que heredaron de sus
padres (…)
En nuestro ser más íntimo se halla contenida una huella de
la infinitud. Los cuerpos son sombras que pasan. No es más verdad lo tangible
que el sueño. El tacto no debe imponerse a la vista, la mano se sacrifica para
salvar al ojo y la mente puede contemplar lo que no tiene peso ni medida.
En ese sueño he vivido. La música, la luz de la luna y los
sueños han sido mis armas. La razón onírica mi fortaleza. No hay grandes
perfiles en la naturaleza, todos los contornos son aparentes, sombras de una
luz prefigurada. Hay oscuridad a pleno sol, en lo que las cosas fingen ser,
mientrasque en los sueños son siempre
lo que son. Ellos no se corrompen como el cuerpo, transcurren como el río y,
mientras no se detengan, no les alcanza la putrefacción. Próspero tenía razón.
(Juan Arnau, El sueño de Leibniz. Editorial Pre-textos,
LVIII, páginas 185-186)
Diario 7-09-1851
Lo actual es honesto como una visión o un sueño
HDT
(primera vez aquí el 8-01-2017)
"la vida de los signos -y signos son, entre otras cosas, las obras de arte- es el carácter performativo de su significado, su capacidad de reactivarse en el diálogo, o en la discusión con lo que le rodea, de hacerlo hablar y, a la vez, de ser traducido por él, actualizado...
La imagen procede de un fotograma del film Porcile (pocilga), de Pier Paolo Pasolini, de 1969...
Se me olvidaba traducir el texto: "Tampoco hay que matar a tanta gente para que todos callen"
(Fósiles de la vida económica (entre otras cosas) Rogelio López Cuenca, Arco 2023)
TO THE WORDS
When it happens you are not there
O you beyond numbers beyond recollection passed on from breath to breath given again from day to day from age to age charged with knowledge knowing nothing
indifferent elders indispensable and sleepless
keepers of our names before ever we came to be called by them
you that were formed to begin with you that were cried out you that were spoken to begin with to say what could not be said
I return once again to Homer, who says, “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”
When Odysseus in The Odyssey visits the famed warrior Achilles in the underworld – Achilles, who traded a long life full of peace and contentment for a short one full of honor and glory – tells Odysseus it was all a mistake. “I just died, that’s all.” There was no honor. No immortality. And that if he could, he would choose to go back and be a lowly slave to a tenant farmer on Earth rather than be what he is – a king in the land of the dead – that whatever his struggles of life were, they were preferable to being here in this dead place.
That’s what songs are too. Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They’re meant to be sung, not read. The words in Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be acted on the stage. Just as lyrics in songs are meant to be sung, not read on a page. And I hope some of you get the chance to listen to these lyrics the way they were intended to be heard: in concert or on record or however people are listening to songs these days. I return once again to Homer, who says, “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”
Thoreau says, even today, with Homer and the "wanted man" delivering the above lecture:
The coward ever sings no song, He listens to no chime, He has no heart, he has no tongue, To build the lofty rhyme.
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman’s silence receiving the river’s grace, the gardener’s musing on rows.
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men, and that has bent my mind and made me think of darkness and wish for the dumb life of roots.
Once you learn #BlackRock, #Vanguard, and #JPMorgan are the biggest stockholders of #NorfolkSouthern, the train operator that crashed in Ohio, then you realize why there has been a major media blackout on the toxic chemical disaster
Can’t risk losing that ad revenue!
Our most serious problem,
perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists ... We have an economy that depends not on the quality and quantity of
necessary goods and services, but on the moods of a few stockbrokers. We
believe that democratic freedom can be preserved by people ignorant of the
history of democracy and indifferent to the responsibilities of freedom.
Our leaders have been for many
years as oblivious to the realities and dangers of their time as were George
III and Lord North. They believe that the difference between war and peace is
still the overriding political difference—when, in fact, the difference has
diminished to the point of insignificance. How would you describe the difference
between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining,
or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to
be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in
industry it is “accepted” as a “trade-off.”
(…)
Were the catastrophes of Love
Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of
peace? They were, in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the
extent that the risks were known and ignored.
Wendell Berry
(Word and Flesh. Whole Earth
Review, Spring 1990)
IT SEEMS WE ONLY HAVE AND PROTECT DESECRATED PLACES
Et ce que nous devons à Dieu, ajoutent ils, c'est de l'aider à détruire, en cessant De désirer nous aussi, ou d'aimer: C'est, en nous détournant, en nous taisant, En recoubrant de cendres la lumière, pic.twitter.com/1pk3Y9Ns8c
Dieu desirait entendre, en ce premier réve, Ce qu'écoute le musicien, penché Sur ses cordes vibrantes ... Ce que ceux-là nomment Dieu, Attend... Enseveli encore. Et en somme, et pour la première fois, Ce qui espère#yvesbonnefoy
"Tant que l'esprit de l'homme n'est pas libéré de l'intolérance, de la méfiance et de la peur qui naissent de l'ignorance, l'humanité ne pourra jamais vivre en paix". …
... Secourir les enfants d'aujourd'hui, c'est Construire la Paix du demain ...
