Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Russian Psyche

00:00 Intro 
00:53 Introducing Konstantin Kisin
1:59 How should we understand your homeland, Russia?
3:13 What is a 'gulag'?
6:20 The Russian sense of humour & culture
8:08 Why does Putin enjoy such support in Russia?
14:07 Why hasn't democracy worked in Russia?
20:30 Mainstream coverage of the Ukraine conflict
27:02 The Achilles heel of autocracies
31:16 The depths of Western foundations
36:50 The Western reaction to Russian aggression
40:40 On slavery & ethnic tensions
45:56 On the response to COVID-19
52:08 The power of comedy and satire
55:48 John Anderson as a target of satire
57:19 The 'age of religion'
1:01:27 Replacing conflict with conversation
1:05:11 Concluding remarks

Friday, October 7, 2016

Vergangenheitsbewältigung - Coping with the past

23-7-17 Nazis: A Warning from History | BBC Select > .
Downfall Of Nazi Germany | Germany's Fatal Attraction - Timeline > .
2014 Germany continues to grapple with Nazi-era legacy - PBS > .
2020 How German Schools Teach About WW2 - tifo > .
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2019 German Neo-Nazi Party runs for European elections | DW > .

Vergangenheitsbewältigung
 ([fɛɐ̯ˈɡaŋənhaɪtsbəˌvɛltɪɡʊŋ], "struggle to overcome the [negatives of the] past" or "working through the past") is a German term describing processes that since the later 20th century have become key in the study of post-1945 German literature, society, and culture.

The German Duden lexicon defines Vergangenheitsbewältigung as "public debate within a country on a problematic period of its recent history—in Germany on National Socialism, in particular"—where "problematic" refers to traumatic events that raise sensitive questions of collective culpability. In Germany, and originally, the term refers to embarrassment about and often remorse for Germans' complicity in the war crimes of the Wehrmacht, Holocaust, and related events of the early and mid-20th century, including World War II. In this sense, the word can refer to the psychological process of denazification. With the accession of the former German Democratic Republic into the current Federal Republic of Germany in the reunification of 1990 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Vergangenheitsbewältigung can also refer to coming to terms with the excesses and human rights abuses associated with that former one-party state.

Friday, September 30, 2016

●● Atrocities, Crimes, ASPD

> Arab Problems >>>> Sociopolitical Dysfunction >>>

2Ks 
Duplicitous Populism ..
Genocidal Intent ..
Genocidal Islamists ⇻

2024 Assination/Attempt 
Schade - Attempted Assassination of DJT 24-7-13 ..
Islamists' Death Cult ..

2022 Authoritarianism

2021 Assassination
Haiti - Poverty, Violence, Assassination ..

Dark Triad & Dangerous Power 
ФСБ - KGB to FSB ..
Syndrome E for Evil →

Aggression, Evil, Sociopathy 

Apostasy

China

Failing Societies
Coups d'État ..
Islamists' Death Cult ..

Political Theory 

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Haiti - Poverty, Violence, Assassination

21-9-3 Haiti | The Caribbean's Failed State? - J K-L > .21-5-15 What Made Haiti's Earthquake the Deadliest this Century? - Real > .18-10-9 Toussaint L’Ouverture: the Black Napoleon who Freed Haiti’s Slaves - Bio > .

Haiti is widely understood to be the most fragile country in the Caribbean, if not the Americas as a whole. Indeed, it is often seen as a failed state. And yet, behind the tragic headlines, is a country that is surprisingly old. Indeed, its independence holds a rather special place in the history of state creation. However, its modern history has been shaped by political unrest and huge tragedies.

Haiti ((listen)), officially the Republic of Haiti (Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti); French: République d'Haïti) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration. Haiti is 27,750 km2 (10,714 sq mi) in size, the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribbean. The capital is Port-au-Prince.

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...