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G-20: Hold Saudi Arabia Accountable
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Tuesday: November 17: 2020 || ά.
G-20 member countries should press Saudi Arabia to release
everyone, detained unlawfully and provide accountability for
past abuses in advance of the virtual G20 leaders’ summit,
taking place on November 21, Human Rights Watch said on the
eve of the event. Human Rights Watch is launching a
campaign, urging leaders of G20 governments to hold their
Saudi hosts accountable for its human rights abuses after
writing to them in July and August with the same request.
G-20 countries awarded Saudi Arabia the G-20 presidency for 2020,
despite the Saudi government’s unrelenting assault on fundamental
freedoms, including, jailing and harassing public dissidents and
human rights activists, unlawful attacks on civilians in Yemen and
flouting international calls for accountability for the murder by
state agents of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“The G-20 presidency has conferred an undeserved mark of
international prestige on the government of Crown Prince Mohammad
bin Salman.” said Mr Michael Page, the Deputy Middle East Director
at Human Rights Watch. “Instead of signalling its concern for Saudi
Arabia’s serious abuses, the G-20 is bolstering the Saudi
government’s well-funded publicity efforts to portray the country as
‘reforming’ despite a significant increase in repression since
2017.”
The two years since Saudi agents’ brutal murder of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi in October 2018 has brought no accountability for
top-level officials, implicated in the murder. Since then, Saudi
Arabia has spent billions of dollars, hosting major entertainment,
cultural and sporting events as a deliberate strategy to deflect
from the country’s image as a pervasive human rights violator.
G-20 countries should help prevent Saudi Arabia’s attempts to
whitewash its abuses through hosting the G-20, including, by
advocating for Saudi Arabia to undertake the following measures:
::: Unconditional release of all Saudi human rights activists,
accused of vague offenses, based on their activism, including, their
contact with international human rights organisations, the United
Nations Human Rights Council and international media outlets. These
activists include prominent women’s rights activists detained in
2018, Ms Loujain Al-Hathloul, Ms Nassema Al-Sadah, Ms Samer Badawi
and Ms Nouf Abdulaziz, as well as, the activists Mr Salah Haidar, Mr
Waleed Abu Al-Khair, Mr Essam Koshak and Mr Raif Badawi.
::: Allowing the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen to carry out
its mandate by facilitating access to Saudi Arabia, including, to
the coalition’s Riyadh headquarters and targeting unit, the Joint
Incidents Assessment Team:JIAT and the Defense Ministry, as well as,
facilitating access to Yemen.
::: Allow an independent, international body to investigate Jamal
Khashoggi’s killing and review all court documents from the trial of
those, allegedly, responsible for the murder, which concluded in
September.
“G20 countries can make a difference and play a significant role in
convincing Saudi Arabia to halt its human rights abuses.” Mr Page
said.
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China: National Security Law Must Not
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Wednesday: July 01: 2020 || ά.
Responding to the passing of a national security law for
Hong Kong by the Standing Committee of China’s National
People’s Congress, the Head of Amnesty International’s China
Team, Mr Joshua Rosenzweig, said, “The passing of the
national security law is a painful moment for the people of
Hong Kong and represents the greatest threat to human rights
in the city’s recent history. From now on, China will have
the power to impose its own laws on any criminal suspect it
chooses.
The speed and secrecy with which China has pushed through this
legislation intensifies the fear that Beijing has calculatingly
created a weapon of repression to be used against government
critics, including, people, who are merely expressing their views or
protesting peacefully. The fact that the Chinese authorities have
now passed this law without the people of Hong Kong being able to
see it tells you a lot about their intentions. Their aim is to
govern Hong Kong through fear from this point forward.’’
He
states further in this statement, “China’s eagerness to pass this
law quickly is, also, an ominous signal for the legislative
elections, coming up in Hong Kong in September, with a threat that
the security law could be used against pro-democracy candidates. In
implementing this law, the Hong Kong authorities must now strictly
and demonstrably adhere to their own human rights obligations and it
is down to the international community to hold them to account.
At
this pivotal moment for Hong Kong, it is imperative that the
national security law is not used to trample human rights and
undermine the freedoms that distinguish the city from mainland
China.”
The national security law was passed and is expected to be signed
into law by Chinese President Xi Jinping, after which it will be
listed under Annex III of the Basic Law: Hong Kong’s
mini-constitution. Amnesty International has a range of human rights
concerns about the law, under which all individuals, institutions
and organisations in Hong Kong would be prohibited from ‘engaging in
activities, that endanger national security’.
The so-called crimes of separatism or ‘splittism’, subversion,
terrorism and ‘collusion with foreign or overseas powers’ to
endanger national security will be banned under the law. These
broad, vaguely defined offences are similar to those, that feature
in China’s own National Security Law, which has been used to crack
down on dissent.
The law would, also, authorise the Beijing central government and
the Hong Kong government to set up a national security office in the
city. In mainland China, such agencies systematically monitor,
harass, intimidate and secretly detain human rights defenders and
dissidents, with many indications of torture and other
ill-treatment.
Hong Kong and Chinese officials have claimed that there is an urgent
need for security laws to counter the threat of ‘terrorism’ and
violence in the city. However, the protesters, taking to the streets
over the past year, have been overwhelmingly peaceful. Hong Kong’s
Chief Executive Ms Carrie Lam was slated to address the United
Nations Human Rights Council. Last week, more than 50 UN human
rights expert bodies, mandated by the Council, took the
unprecedented step to jointly express concerns about the proposed
national security legislation for Hong Kong and other actions taken
by China.
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How Vladimir Putin Is
Devising His Exit Plan: That Requires Staying In Differently
With Command and Control So to Ensure Protection |
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Thursday: January 16: 2020: Associate Professor William Partlett
Writing || ά.
Proposed
constitutional reforms significantly weakening the authority of the
Russian president suggest Mr Vladimir Putin is considering life as
an ex-president, with some caveats. For much of Russian history, the
transfer of power has been difficult. The bloody struggle for power
after Stalin’s death is just one example. For many observers, Mr
Vladimir Putin’s iron grip over Russian domestic and international
politics is as secure as ever.
But Mr Putin’s speech on Wednesday, announcing major constitutional
changes provides the first serious indication that he will
permanently leave the presidency in 2024. Although, his proposed
constitutional changes will allow him to maintain levers of formal
power outside of the presidency, Mr Putin’s position will be
weakened. Most importantly, he will have to share power with a newly
elected Russian President.
The transfer of power is an incredibly dangerous period in any
system of centralised and personalised presidential power. Leaving
the presidency threatens both the interests of the out-going
president, as well as, his network of supporters. Experience shows
ex-presidents are always vulnerable to the new president. For
instance, in the ex-soviet republic Kyrgyzstan, the ex-president was
forcibly arrested last year and is now facing trial.
In Russia, one of the hottest topics amongst Kremlin insiders over
the last couple of years has centred on the ‘2024 problem’, the
constitutional rule, barring a President from two terms in a row and
requiring Mr Putin to step down in 2024. Should Mr Putin amend the
constitution and stay on in power indefinitely as Mr Xi Jinping did
in China? Or should he risk a presidential succession in 2024 by
stepping down?
In 2008, Mr Putin faced a similar dilemma and simply took the Prime
Minister position before returning to the presidency in 2012.
Putin’s speech yesterday, however, suggests that he is now
considering a much more drastic change by permanently stepping down
from the presidency in 2024.
First, the proposed reforms significantly weakening the authority
of the Russian President suggest that Mr Putin is considering life
far more seriously as ex-president and wants a weaker President, who
will have fewer powers to harm him or his supporters.
Second, Mr Putin’s suggestions about increasing the power of two
key institutions could allow him to wield power as ex-president. One
set of constitutional reforms will increase the power of the lower
house of the Russian Parliament, allowing it the ability to appoint
the prime minister and government. The Russian Parliament is
currently dominated by Mr Putin’s United Russia Party. Thus, Mr
Putin could use his authority over this Party to shape policy as
ex-president.
Another set of constitutional reforms centres around ‘strengthening
the status and role of the State Council’. Until now, the State
Council has been a tool for the President to oversee the development
of governmental institutions, economic and social reforms and other
objects, affecting the public as a whole. With an enhanced role in
the reformed Russian constitutional system, it is possible this
institution could offer a powerful role for Mr Putin as
ex-president.
A final reason why these proposed changes suggest Putin is strongly
considering giving up the presidency is that it follows a similar
exit path, used recently by another post-soviet country. After more
than 20 years as President, Kazakhstan’s President Mr Nazarbaev
pushed through constitutional reforms, weakening the power of the
presidency and creating a newly strengthened Security Council before
stepping down from the presidency. He, then, pushed a hand-picked
successor into power and assumed leadership of this newly
strengthened Security Council while, also, renaming the capital city
after himself.
Russia appears to be implementing a similar plan. The next steps
will require Mr Putin to look for a successor to take his place as
President. Speculation will run rampant and the struggle will
resemble Churchill’s quip likening Russian politics to ‘watching
dogs fighting under the carpet’.
Already commentators are dismissing the chances of the newly
appointed Russian Prime Minister, Mr Mikahil Mishustin, to be Mr
Putin’s successor. Whoever it is, though, it will likely be someone,
who Mr Putin and his team will hope to be able to control.
But, even, after pushing a hand-picked successor into the
presidency, the Kazakh experience provides another intriguing lesson
for Russia. Despite the controlled nature of the transition,
political power in Kazakhstan is no longer dominated by the
President. Instead, it is now characterised by two competing
policy-making institutions: one in the office of the new President
and the other in the ex-president’s office at the Security Council.
Thus, if, Mr Putin does follow through on a similar exit plan,
post-2024 Russia is likely to look different than it does now. Most
importantly, although, Mr Putin will still call some of the shots,
his power will be weakened.
Perhaps, most intriguingly, for western leaders, dealing with
Russia, this new post-2024 configuration of power offers a new start
for foreign policy. Mr Putin has made it clear that Russia will
remain a presidential republic, even, if, he leaves; foreign policy
will continue to be run out of the presidency. A new President holds
the possibility of a new direction for Russia. What the direction of
that relationship will look like is far too early to tell.
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One World
One Earth One Humanity
|| Iran: USA: The World
Still Is Real and
Dangerous In Which This
Humanity Must Make a
Stand Against Violence
Lawlessness
Assassinations and
Self-Destructive
Imperialistic Behaviours
Conducts and Actions by
States: The World Has No
Resources to Be Burnt
Down Into Wars: Back
Away From Lunacy and
Invest in Dealing with
the Vital Challenges
Ravaging Humanity Across
the Earth |
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Invest In Getting the
World's All Children an
Education: The World
Does Not Need Bombs: It
Needs Food and Drink and
Medicine and Employment
and Homes and Much More
Beside: America Needs to
Eradicate Its Very Own
Poverty, Poverty-Wage,
Hunger, Malnutrition,
Homelessness, Drug Abuse
Crisis, Gun Violence,
Gun Crime, Inequality,
Human Rights Abuses,
Women's Rights and
Children's Rights |
|| Monday: January 06: 2020 || ά. The term imperialism signifies a
big-brother-approach, taken, followed and pursued by large states
and powers of the world, where whatever they do is dictated by that
very geo-political stand point these states have taken. America has
pursued this approach all along, with many other powers doing the
same, such as, the former Soviet Union and currently its successor
Russia; China is following the same route, so are many others. This
unilateral and unnatural approach has created a world, that has
become dangerous and the world has seen what it has done as
consequences; one of the foremost consequence was that an enormous
amount of natural, human and financial resources have been put in
advancing arms and weaponry and the maintenance of huge armed forces
while a great chunk of humanity hungers away, dying away. Were the
entire world’s combined armed forces budget to be invested in
changing and bettering the human condition of this devastated
humanity on this earth, the world could advance few centuries in a
decade!
And while education has been allocated ‘a corner’ to keep the
fireball of darkness enlarging all the time so that the ruling
elites can impose anyone they want to run things for them because
without education this world, this earth, this whole existence of
life on earth on this universe is far too large, far too complex and
far too innumerable for an uneducated mind to be able to understand
their complexities, let alone, judge, compare and choose. In this
imperialistic world view these powers act and behave, as, if, they
are the big-brothers and the rest of the world will have to accept
whatever ‘terms’ they impose and enforce on them. America has
followed this path all along, however, the current resident of the
White House has followed it with a renewed vigour. It has led
America towards enhancing and amplifying hostility, aggression and
open imperialistic attitudes, behaviours and conducts to other
states. The latest drum roll to start up a war has taken place
whereby America has assassinated an Iranian General.
This has taken the world closer to war between America and Iran in
a region where wars have been raging on for years; all around the
mess of the blood and the corpses of these wars are strewn about,
about which no one has any hold or power to bring an end to these
needless deaths and suffering of people while America has gone on
and created a dangerous situation. America nor can any other powers
of the world must not be let to dictate and impose wars on the world
on its imperialistic terms. It is time that the world and world
political forces and movements rise to challenge this imperialistic
attitude, conducts and behaviours by these imperialistic states,
including, America. This has gone on for far too long.
Assassinations have much been done by America but it has failed to
establish it as ‘lawful’ and it has shown the world that states,
that believe they can achieve political means by using
assassinations as tools are utterly misguided and absolutely wrong.
The world lived through imperialistic past and it began to move
away from it; well, at least, that was where the world was headed in
the acknowledgment that unilateralism was not the way the world
should go and that multilateralism was the only rational pathway for
humanity to follow; however, all the geo-political forces of the
world, including, America and, increasingly, Russia, China, joining
forces with this race is a ‘panicking European Union’ etc, are back
on that path of imperialistic dictation and direction.
This must not be let to succeed. This can only be done by the world
uniting in a joint and focussed movement against unilateralism and
imperialism. The states can only behave and conduct their affairs
the way they are let to do so; the world’s peoples and the political
parties, movements and organisations must work together and create
resistance against this violence, this lawlessness and this
self-destructive direction of the world. The world and world
humanity have far too many and far too much problems, challenges and
difficulties to face and deal with; human endeavours, efforts,
initiatives, resources, energy and imagination must not be let to be
squandered in ratcheting up these pointless but dangerous wars.
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Does
Imran Khan Have A Point:
He Does Have One Though
the World Is Not Taking
It Seriously: India
Pakistan Nuclear
Conflict Has Been Left
to Slow-Burn Around
Kashmir That Could
Ignite Any Time |
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|| Thursday: September 26: 2019 || ά. Mr Imran Khan has been
speaking at the United Nations and
with many member states about his
concerns around the realistic
prospect of an all-out nuclear
conflict breaking out between
Pakistan and India, which is no
longer hypothetical but, has reached
a state of ‘ever-presence’, that no
one can or should ignore.
Pakistan showed courageous leadership earlier in the year, when the
two countries came close to get into
a conflict, in which Mr Imran Khan
decided to offer a true gesture of
behaving rationally, returning the
captured Indian Pilot to India,
which, in turn, created a space so
that parties were able to pull away
from the brink. Mr Khan has
expressed his grave concern that
Kashmir remains unresolved, under
suspension while the state has been
made into a military camp, where
civilian lives seem to have been
placed under ‘shut-down’.
The world should not keep on looking away. This a dangerous
situation and the prospect of the
nuclear conflict between two
nuclear-powered states is a
dangerous one, not for just the two
states and their peoples but, for
the entire region and the world.
Nuclear conflict is never and can
not be ever a conflict between two
geographical regions. It is time the
world and world leaders take Mr
Imran Khan’s concerns seriously and
establish an international mechanism
by and through which the world
should create a space for the
adversaries to speak and seek a
resolution, a lasting, lawful and
judicious one.
Until and unless such a mechanism is established and it began
working, this dangerous state of the
‘ever-present threat’ of a nuclear
conflict remains in the slow-burner
and, it will, always, requires a
little flare up and the world will
see something happening, that can
not be undone. It is dangerous a
prospect and the world should and
must take up its mediating role and
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Study: The World Powers
Are Modernising Their
Nuclear Weapons
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2019 || ά. Nuclear weapons
are back at the core of the
global political arena. This
is the conclusion of a
recent Report, published by
the Finnish Institute of
International Affairs.
Growing emphasis on the role
of nuclear deterrence is
linked to the increased
world power struggle and
regional security, as well
as, advanced technologies.
This is no longer a question
of just the United States
and Russia against each
other, like it was during
the Cold War, because, now,
the whole environment
relating to nuclear policy
is more multipolar. The
Report examines the role of
nuclear deterrence in terms
of the security of Europe.
The key nuclear powers are
the United States, Russia,
United Kingdom and France,
who all are holding on to
their nuclear weapons and
modernising their strategic
forces. Nuclear deterrence,
also, remains the
cornerstone of NATO’s
collective military defence.
While the nuclear weapons
are, again, becoming
increasingly important,
their control has run into
an impasse. The INF Treaty
collapsed for good in summer
2019 and the future of the
New START Treaty, which
expires in 2021, is now,
also, at stake. The
interests of the United
States and Russia are in
conflict and this, may, have
negative impacts on the
relations between the
countries.
The accelerating struggle
for world power and the
nuclear deterrence have
impacts on the security
situation in northern Europe
as well. There are two
strategic hotspots in the
region.
The Arctic region is
important for both NATO and
Russia. While NATO’s focus
is on the North Atlantic,
Russia is, particularly,
interested in the Kola
Peninsula, where most of the
country’s nuclear arsenal is
located. The western defence
system of the Baltic Sea is
in turn composed of both the
collective defence of NATO
and national defence
solutions of individual
countries in the region.
Finland and Sweden are now,
even, more strongly
committed to being a part of
the western defence system
of the Baltic Sea region.
The possibilities of the
North European countries to
influence the treaty regime,
relating to nuclear weapons
control are quite limited.
However, what Finland
should, at least, do is
strengthen the competence
and expertise in this field,
both in the context of
research and civil society
organisations and in central
government.
The publication is part of
the implementation of the
Government’s plan for
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Come Away O Human Child For
the World Is More Full of
Weeping Than You Can
Understand: Turn and Unlearn
the Imposed Jacket of
Mindless Consumptions for
This Shall Eradicate You Off
the Face of This Earth with
the Entire Ecology of the
Web of Life Destroyed |
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|| Friday: June 14: 2019 || ά.
Capitalism has brought the world
to a state and stage of
development, that has ensured
the world does not get to become
one as a unity of a binary
system, composed of the earth
and the moon, that is part of an
ever-widening school of
endlessly flowing but
ever-complex living cosmological
systems and, with this,
humanity, too, has been
fragmented into pseudo realms of
identities, such as, nations, so
that, it, effectively, divided
the very world and the very
humanity into pseudo
compartments, pseudo maps and
pseudo borders and, thus,
rendering both useless in
working together to seek to
resolve the ever-increasing and
ever-evolving challenges brought
forward to human existence. This
is because capitalism has
neither value nor ideal but a
working-madness, a working
insanity, an ever-committed
doggedness to refuse to accept
reason and nature and continue
to work against both: this
working madness is: to exist to
rip the benefits of consuming,
as much as, possible of the
rewards of the robbery of the
values, that working humanity
create and, in this, it has an
infinity of greed for more and
more of the same.
This working insanity or working
madness of capitalism takes the
view that human choices, actions
and activities do not have
consequences so that, if, you
can make more profit by taking
the natural oxygen out of the
air and selling it, you go ahead
without stopping to think as to
what would result from this
mindless endeavour. But, then,
the entire system’s army of
robbers get into it and soon the
entire nature is robbed off the
oxygen and it is filled with too
much carbon die oxide and the
entire ecology of life is
brought to an end. But
capitalism is like that because
it exists on an anti-nature
sheer, clear and omnipresent
functional irrationality,
practical incongruity
management, that can not be
done. This way the entire world
is fragmented and these nations
are set alone, apart and against
each other and all others where
they act, as, if, they are an
absolute entity and they need
not see that this approach is
utterly against all evidence,
science and reason. In this a
nation is like a ship floating
on an ocean; except, all its
crew and its leadership are
stuck inside that ship and they
have forgotten the fact that
their ship is floating on an
ocean, in which they have a view
of a little less than few
nautical miles, though, they are
not even looking at these few
nautical miles, at best.
Therefore, they stand the
existential risk of perishing
away when the infinite number of
variables in that wide ocean,
that is part of a living system,
much more wider, much more
deeper and much more complex,
bring about changes in the local
ecology of that ocean, where
this nation-ship is ‘blinded’
and they will, thus,
successfully, get eradicated out
of existence.
Each and every nation on earth
are left in this state and they
keep on inflating their
blindness and they keep on
working blindly towards their
self-destruction. The night
before the wipe out of the
Soviet Union no one in that
country thought they would wake
up the following day, finding
that that giant of a state and
country they had did not exist
any longer. This is what happens
to blinded-ship approaches and
attitudes. This is what, reason
tells us, happens to all
Titanics. There are many other
such giant states and nations
now exist, who work, as, if,
they are an absolute reality and
they are eternal without taking
in the universal view of human
history, that presents a
plethora of civilisations, one
after the other, countless in
number, that humanity sought to
build, disappeared from the face
of the earth without much trace
and that they are not absolute
realities nor do they have the
power to enforce their continued
existence and things will come
to an end.
But the world is grounded and
holed in this geo-political
hole, where each player is
playing their ‘script’ and they
are working to keep on addition
grounds to the self-destructive
path they are taking, that shall
take them to the abyss of
definite self-destruction,
bringing the absolute end to the
entire ecology of life on earth.
They do not see it this way and
the entire world is in this
state of a self-destructive
blindness. And as things stand
in the world now, the entire
world has been transformed into
a puddle-circus, that,
literally, puts all these
counties and states and
governments and the people
running them into a puddle and a
circus, which is not the reality
of the vast ocean of life and
existence on this earth and on
this Universe and, in this, the
later, this Universe does not
exist for them and in that
puddle-circus, they are dictated
to create and fester a hostile,
vicious, violent and aggressive
form of opinion fascism,
vulgarity and inhumanity,
creating a hollow, shallow and
futile waste of human existence
while in the reality of this
world, in each country and each
state, there exists the most
desperate human condition, in
which humanity keeps on
suffering and dying away and
along with this join the entire
distorteddia conglomerate and
the entire range of the media
and press, vast majority of
which are owned by the powerful
and rich elite and they, instead
of presenting and reporting and
bringing forward the news, views
and analysis of the reality, the
most desperate reality of the
most desperately suffering
humanity, they are presenting
the news, views and analysis of
this puddle-circus and now there
are hardly any mention of the
reality! This way the system has
‘neutralised’ and eradicated the
power and purpose of the press
and media.
Whereas, capitalism has created
this situation where humanity
faces so many existential
challenges, that guarantee the
total wipe out of not just the
human existence but the entire
ecology of the web of life on
earth. Let us make a list:
politically, representative
democracies, where they have
been allowed to develop, brought
much benefits but, at the same
time, it ensured that a total,
complete and all-engulfing
dehumanisation of humanity is
imposed and enforced on the
peoples so that they have been
made disenfranchised,
disempowered and made absolutely
helpless for they have no
connection or power to change
anything in the countries they
live in. Further, in vast number
of places, instead of, even,
representative democracies,
there appear the monstrosities
of despots, dictators and
depraved, that have
‘state-jacked’ their countries
for their own personal benefits,
strangling their own people.
Further, in the name of system,
there are appearing large bodies
of representative democracies,
that have been converted into
supremacist and racist
majoritarian mob dictatorship,
cutting out the entire diversity
of humanity and all minorities
in such societies, such as,
India and Brazil, in which the
elite has now found their open
season. On the other hand, in
China, about one third of the
human kind, where an elite in
the name of communist party, has
strangled the entire humanity
out of any say as to how their
country and society is run. The
same happened in Russia.
There, instead of the people’s
power, enfranchisement,
engagement, participation and
empowerment, appear an elite,
who run things and they do not
change for people have no powers
to change any of the imposed
arrangement. In democracies,
such as, the United States of
America, the entire system of
governance and political
economics, has been
‘state-jacked’ by the same
elite, who now direct the
country’s resources, as, if,
they had nothing to do with the
vast majority of its people, who
are sentenced to keep on serving
their live-in-life-sentence. In
Europe capitalism and all its
stranglehold and vice-claps have
been imposed on societies and
the vast number of poor and
working poor is such that, in
the European Union, nothing can
change this death-knell of a
status-quo. People have no power
to change anything whatsoever!
The United Kingdom is a perfect
example, since, the European
Union Referendum and the whole
saga of getting out of the
European Union, in which the
country has been taken over by
the same elite of the rich and
powerful, that went about
rampaging, savaging and
devastating the country, the
people and strewn the entire
landscape with broken-down and
falling apart entities, through
the merciless, vicious and cruel
austerity enforced on the people
while the Conservative Party has
‘jacked’ the entire governance
system and, effectively, robbed
off the entire populace of the
country, more than 63 million
electorate of their democratic,
lawful and socio-political
rights to choose, who governs
them. In this 63 million plus
electorate have been muted and
invalidated and, instead,
roughly, a little more than
100,000 Conservative Party
members are given that power to
decide who runs the country!
And, the people, that are in the
leading throng of this Party
have, effectively, ‘high jacked’
the entire political, political
economic and democratic agenda
and the country now has been
placed in a whirlpool, where
everything is creating a
puddle-circus and there is no
mention of the real agenda of
the most desperate state of
humanity in this country, where
poor women and girls are going
without the basics, such as,
sanitation materials, where poor
mothers are lining the foodbanks
to get both food and nappies for
the babies, where working poor
are lining the foodbanks, where
young children are going to
school hungry, where people on
social security, including,
people with disabilities are
forced to exist with support,
with which existence is
impossible, where housing has
become a catastrophe, where
public infrastructures have been
let to rot away for lack of
investment, where people are
dying on the street rough
sleeping, where many kinds of
homelessness are strangling
humanity, where, even, the
disabled are thrown onto the
street to die rough sleeping,
where vast majority of the
working humanity are paid a
‘slave-wage’, that does not
support, even, the bare
necessities of life, where
public services and amenities
have been cut to the bone,
education, social services,
social care, health services,
law enforcement have received
drastic cuts and where reigns
the sociology of evil in the
spread out sociology of
squalors. The media and press,
like the rest of the world, have
joined in and they are reporting
the futile and revolting goings
on in that puddle-circus,
instead of the real desperation
of the real humanity in the
country. In this the people of
this country have now been made
the most disempowered, most
disenfranchised and the most
powerless.
However, this entire process of
representative democracy is
profoundly dehumanising, since,
it takes people’s power and
gives it to the elite to
exercise it. In this, people are
left outside the entire system
while their representatives are
running the show. This
dehumanising of the populace, of
the way they are
disenfranchised, disempowered
and fragmented, has been
creating a social atmosphere,
that can only be described as
poisonous and toxic. This has
been causing a great deal of
political, social and cultural
strife and people are becoming
more and more angry, aggressive,
intolerant and flagrantly
abusive towards these elites,
this includes all
representatives of the system
and the political parties and
the people, who are in
leadership positions, against
which and against whom the most
desperately powerless people are
directing their finite anger for
their infinite disempowerment.
Jurisprudentially the entire
capitalist system is based on
absolute, comprehensive and
all-engulfing irrationality,
incongruity and paradox, that
can not hide its very ugly
features: there is nothing just,
fair or equitable in capitalism
for it exists not for advancing
any of these virtues. It exists
to serve the rich and powerful
to keep on making profit by
robbing the created values by
the working humanity. Were
societies under capitalism to be
just, fair and equitable, there
should exist all humanity at
liberty and all humans should
exist as equals but capitalism
can not spell either liberty or
equality because it has arisen
by killing liberty and natural
justice and, thus, creating
inequality and so long it exists
it shall continue to ensure
there exists no liberty for
humans and no equality can be
achieved for humanity because
capitalism exists to destroy the
former and to create, maintain,
increase and distribute the
later to the vast masses of
humanity. Therefore, there
exists no basis of
jurisprudence, that is the basis
of civic societies. Capitalism
and civic are eternally two
incongruent entities, ideas.
Political Economically,
capitalism has established a
ground-swell of high-cruelties,
that it distributes to the vast
majority of humanity and with
these it brings about an
on-going killing field where
millions of humans, including,
millions of children dying away
every year and those, who are
not dying are paying almost
equally as high a price as
those, who are dying. There with
all these high-cruelties,
capitalism refuses to advance
universal education and
life-long learning, thus, it
sentences the vast majority of
humanity to perish away without
education and, thus, it enforces
the killing mechanism of
annihilating, eradicating and
destroying human intelligence.
And, then, it goes about wasting
and misdirecting enormous amount
of natural, financial and human
resources in seeking to create
‘pseudo intelligence’, that it
implants in the public domain
and public psyche as ‘artificial
intelligence’ and ‘machine
learning, that are two of the
grandest lies, ever, concocted
by anything or anyone.
Poverty, hunger, malnutrition,
unemployment, unemployability,
homelessness, rough sleeping,
lack of universal medicare, lack
of universal social care, lack
of universal pension and social
security and the list goes on,
that creates and sustains that
sociology of evil by
establishing the sociology of
squalors, that festers in an
ecology of desperate,
all-engulfing pessimism,
nihilism and social physosis. In
this, the working poverty,
slave-waged working humanity
going-through the horror of
being in a conveyor belt of
infinite suffering because
capitalism would rather rob off
the values, these working
humanity created so that the
rich can pocket them off. This
way the entire system has put up
all forms, manners and types of
barriers, obstacles and
challenges, that, essentially,
ensure human existence is
blocked off. There, in this
capitalist system, can not exist
humanity as humanity naturale
and the suffering, the agony and
the enslavement go on and on.
And, these will keep on going so
long capitalism keeps on going.
Socially and sociologically
capitalism has brought about the
continual enforcement of
dehumanisation of humanity and
out of it, it has created an
infinite grid of infinite
poverty in which it creates
sociology of squalors, where
sociology of evil keeps on
devastating, destroying and
dismantling human existence and
all these create the breeding
grounds of an ever-harsh,
ever-evil, ever-negative,
ever-life-crushing and
ever-poisonous, all-engulfing
negation, hopelessness and
powerlessness. This can be found
in all countries in the world;
from the most advanced economies
to the least developed because
this is the system. It exists
not to support, sustain, advance
and nurture the human condition
but to do these only for the
rich, who own the vast majority
of the wealth, assets and
values, that they have robbed
off the values created by the
working humanity.
And from all these infinite
greed and mindless advancing of
consumerism without any regard
to their consequences have
brought the world: global
warming and climate change, it
has devastated and polluted both
the natural and built
environment to dangerous level,
it has brought in infinite
devastations through the nano,
micro and general plastics
pollutions of every possible
sphere of life-existence and all
these have begun to invade and
impact on all living systems and
mechanisms in all living
organisms, including, humanity,
it has destroyed and devastated
the natural air so that it has
now been made into a toxic
mixture, that is causing endless
calamities. This air pollution
is killing seven million human
beings every year, 600,000 of
whom are children every year.
It has brought contamination and
pollution to all entities of
natural and built environments,
from freshwater sources to
marine ecology, from the soil of
the earth to water systems and
the entire living ecology of
life on earth. The environment,
in which hundreds of millions of
the most poor of the world in
all these horrendous shanty
towns across the earth are
forced to suffer and perish away
are some examples of this
infinite desperations, imposed
on these humanity by capitalism.
Environmental, chemical and
other pollutions, have been
devastating life and living,
that it is now causing terrible
inflictions on humanity, deaths
and suffering of ill health and
so on.
Now all these existential
dangers are reaching a point of
no-return. Which one of these
dangers is the highest in degree
as to the severe harms they are
causing to life and to humanity?
Global warming and climate
change are continuing and the
world keeps engaged in this
puddle-circus, states and
governments go on, as, if,
reality does not exist and that
they can keep on staying in
their puddle-circus ignoring the
most desperate and most urgent
threats to existence of life on
this earth. But they are doing
exact this: they do not have the
will nor the means because they
all subscribe to this
deadly-parasite of capitalism,
that can not exist unless it
keeps killing its host. The
world is not one and the world
humanity is not one and neither
have the system, mechanism and
apparatus to work as one to face
and fight the challenges and
change the direction. Further,
unless we accept that this
entire range of existential
threats, obstacles and
challenges brought over and
against human existence are
created by capitalism and its
infinite greed and infinite lust
to consume infinitely and in
this for infinite profiteering,
waste, abuse and misdirect
enormous amount of resources,
rendering far more damages and
harms and all of which are
advancing the same harms and
horrors on humanity, we have no
way to respond positively.
Capitalism can not be sustained
and, if, it is left as and how
it is, it has infinite range of
arsenal and weapons to eradicate
the entire system and ecology of
life and existence from earth
and that will happen not in a
distant future but in such a
close-future, that we all now
can feel the heat and cold and
violence of its ferocious
reality.
Climate change, global warming,
toxic environment, toxic and
poisonous air, the plastic and
other chemical pollutions,
inflicted on all life-forms and
the entire reckless, dangerous,
mindless and brainless following
up and advancing on of infinite
consumption and the infinite
greed of pursuing profiteering
and causing the entire human
existence to be unable to
sustain itself philosophically
for it has none, political
philosophically, because it has
none, political economically,
because it has a bankrupt one,
jurisprudentially, because it
has an absolutely dilapidated
one, that can not work,
sociologically, it has nothing
but dehumanisation of humanity,
sociology of squalor and
sociology of evil and with all
these negations the world is
broken into pieces and humanity
is shattered into nano-particles
of identities and neither can
work to fight these existential
challenges, that have reached
the point-of-no-return. Why do
we keep on writing about these
issues? What else can we do: the
entire humankind, faces
extinction and the world goes on
about its puddle-circus, we
refuse to join in and we seek to
try to put up our lone and
minority voice for the truth
requires neither a majority nor
a minority but minds and wills
of humanity, that work and exist
with the architecture of human
rationality. So, we keep on
writing and keep on bringing
forward the news of the reality,
that calls our urgent, immediate
and absolute waking up to the
duties, obligations,
responsibilities and imperatives
to choose, to act, to seek to
change, alter and redirect
ourselves towards reaching a way
of existence, that can be
sustained. Until and unless we
are able to rise up to this
challenge, the saddest truth is
this, humanity shall perish away
in the most devastating and most
agony-inflicted way and with
that demise we shall end the
entire web and ecology of life
on earth. We exist in infinite
of hope and so we keep on going:
why do we do that: because when
in nature something dies, in
that decay not only things die
but, also, at the same time,
that decay feeds new life, that
grows out of that decay. The
rate of decaying of what is
decaying is the same rate by
which the new life is rising.
For energy is eternal, that does
not and can not vanish but
transform from one to another.
Capitalism is decaying and its
rate of decay is at its fastest
now and out of that fastest rate
of decay of capitalism is rising
its replacement, that the world
must look out to identify,
support, nurture and bring about
into solid existence. This is
why we have infinite hope and
infinite optimism and infinite
faith that this humanity shall
not keep on being dragged into
non-existence by these
monstrosities of capitalism for
this humanity is an infinity
unfolding itself, that possess
the most-rich of all riches: the
architecture of human
rationality, the eternal spring
of the human heart, infinite
imagination, infinite creativity
and infinite ingenuity, with
which to build a replacement of
this parasite, this cancer-germ
of capitalism. Therefore, we let
W. B Yates speak: Come Away of
Human Child for the World Is
More Full of Weeping Than You
Can Understand.:::ω.
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Instead of Wasting Human
Energy and Ingenuity Into
Macho-Making-Pseudo Quarrel
with Neighbours the World
Should Work Like This: The
Water Work: The China Europe
Water Platform Gathered in
Qingdao for a Workshop and
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|| July 03: 2018 || ά. European
and Chinese stakeholders of the
China Europe Water Platform:CEWP
met last week in Qingdao, China
for celebrating the official
start of a new series of
projects funded by the European
Union’s Partnership Instrument
in support of the CEWP and for a
Joint Steering Committee
Meeting. Both meetings were held
in connection to the Qingdao
International Water Conference.
In the starting workshop on June
26 the stakeholders discussed
the different objectives and
actions planned within the frame
of the projects funded by the EU
2018-2021. The support from the
EU will enable the CEWP to
strengthen its leading role in
the field of China-Europe water
co-operation, which includes
river basin management, rural
water, the links between
urbanisation, energy and water,
international water policy and
business and innovation issues.
On June 27 the stakeholders
gathered for a Joint Steering
Committee Meeting of the CEWP.
The meeting ended with a renewed
commitment on both the Chinese
and European sides towards the
Water Platform, whose work is
based on mutual interest and
mutual benefit.
The CEWP held several events
during the Qingdao Water
Conference, including, three
business related Access
Programme Events on June 27 and
28. CEWP’s Access Programme
provides insights and future
market requirements for water
tech solutions.
Considering the particular role
of water as a crucial natural
resource and its impacts on the
environment and on the social
and economic development, the
objective of the CEWP is to
promote policy dialogue, joint
research and business
development in the water sector.
Since the CEWP was introduced in
2012, four annual high-level
dialogues have been held
respectively in Zhengzhou,
Budapest, Beijing and
Copenhagen.
The 2017 CEWP High-level
Dialogue Conference was held in
Turku, Finland with high-level
representatives from 11
countries, from the EU, World
Bank and OECD and over 400
delegates present.
The conference was concluded by
the Turku Declaration, which
promotes China–EU co-operation
on water resource management,
green growth and circular
economy with a particular focus
on the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development goal on
water. The conference was also
concluded by the signature of a
Memorandum of Understanding,
establishing formally a Water
Policy Dialogue between the EU
and China.
The next high level dialogue is
planned to be held in Beijing in
November this year. In Beijing
the focus will be on the global
promotion of water-related
Sustainable Development Goals on
the exchange of policies and
practices related to water
security, on the river and lake
governance and on the
environment restoration.
On December 04, 2018 CEWP will
organise a business side event
for technology start-ups,
investors and established water
tech companies in Slush
Helsinki, Finland. The topic of
this Access Program event will
be digitalization as a game
changer in the water sector.
The China Europe Water
Platformme:CEWP aims at
strengthening water co-operation
between the EU and China. The EU–China
2020 Strategic Agenda for
Co-operation explicitly supports
the EU–China Water Platform so
as to ‘promote water policy
dialogue, enhance joint
scientific research and business
co-operation with a view to
addressing water challenges such
as water quantity, water
scarcity, drought, ground water,
urban water systems, water and
security nexus, water use
efficiency, water recycling,
industrial water use, water and
food nexus, water and energy
nexus, water quality, pollution
reduction, river basin
management and water disasters’.
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