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[qnx]

Další ukrajinský teroristický útok:
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/zahranicn ... y-40452658

[qnx]

Když má ministr chování řeznického psa:
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/zahranicn ... k-40452601

[davkol]

Copak prostředníček Lavrovovi… Ale je vypovídající, že právě to pohoršilo qnx.

Zemřel válečný zločinec Henry Kissinger a Jan Lipavský kolem toho krouží v prázdných frázích a posílá kondolence, i když tazatelé v rozhovoru otevřeli možnost vyjádřit se k různým Kissingerovým odkazům. Škoda, že zapomněl na ty miliony obětí.

Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100. “Few people ... have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger.”

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Kissinger helped prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America. He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin.

There were “few people who have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger,” said veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.

A 2023 investigation by The Intercept found that Kissinger — perhaps the most powerful national security adviser in American history and the chief architect of U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia from 1969 to 1975 — was responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known, according to an exclusive archive of U.S. military documents and interviews with Cambodian survivors and American witnesses.

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As National Security Adviser, Kissinger played a key role in prolonging the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese. During his tenure, the United States dropped 9 billion pounds of munitions on Indochina.

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As secretary of state and national security adviser, Kissinger spearheaded efforts to improve relations with the former Soviet Union and “opened” the People’s Republic of China to the West for the first time since Mao Zedong came to power in 1949. Kissinger also supported genocidal militaries in Pakistan and Indonesia. In the former, Nixon and his national security adviser backed a dictator who — according to CIA estimates — slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians; in the latter, Ford and Kissinger gave President Suharto the go-ahead for an invasion of East Timor that resulted in about 200,000 deaths — around a quarter of the entire population.

In Latin America, Nixon and Kissinger plotted to overturn the democratic election of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende. This included Kissinger’s supervision of covert operations — such as the botched kidnapping of Chilean Gen. René Schneider that ended in Schneider’s murder — to destabilize Chile and prompt a military coup. “You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende,” Kissinger later told Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the leader of the military junta that went on to kill thousands of Chileans. In Argentina, Kissinger gave another green light, this time to a terror campaign of torture, forced disappearances, and murder by a military junta that overthrew President Isabel Perón. During a June 1976 meeting, Kissinger told the junta’s foreign minister, César Augusto Guzzetti: “If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly.” The so-called Dirty War that followed would claim the lives of an estimated 30,000 Argentine civilians.

Kissinger’s diplomacy also stoked a war in Angola and prolonged apartheid in South Africa. In the Middle East, he sold out the Kurds in Iraq and, wrote Grandin, “left that region in chaos, setting the stage for crises that continue to afflict humanity.”

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Kissinger was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — America’s highest civilian award — in 1977. In 1982, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting group that became a revolving door refuge for top national security officials looking to cash in on their government service. The firm leveraged their and Kissinger’s reputations and contacts to help huge multinational corporations, banks, and financial institutions — including American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Heinz, Fiat, Volvo, Ericsson, and Daewoo — broker deals with governments. “A big part of Henry Kissinger’s legacy is the corruption of American foreign policymaking,” Matt Duss, a former adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, told Vox in 2023. “It is blurring the line, if not outright erasing the line, between the making of foreign policy and corporate interests.”

Kissinger counseled every U.S. president from Nixon through Donald Trump and served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1984 to 1990 and the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board from 2001 to 2016. After being tapped to head the 9/11 Commission, families of victims raised questions about potential conflicts of interest due to Kissinger’s financial ties with governments that could be implicated in the commission’s work. Kissinger quit rather than hand over a list of his consultancy’s clients.

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Kissinger’s legacy extends beyond the corpses, trauma, and suffering of the victims he left behind. His policies, Grandin told The Intercept, set the stage for the civilian carnage of the U.S. war on terror from Afghanistan to Iraq, Syria to Somalia, and beyond. “You can trace a line from the bombing of Cambodia to the present,” said Grandin, author of “Kissinger’s Shadow.” “The covert justifications for illegally bombing Cambodia became the framework for the justifications of drone strikes and forever war. It’s a perfect expression of American militarism’s unbroken circle.”

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Nick Turse
November 29, 2023
The Intercept

A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger. For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.

Greg Grandin
November 29, 2023
The Nation

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies. The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him.

Spencer Ackerman
November 29, 2023
Rolling Stone

[Marek.Krejpsky]

„Velké nadnárodní skupiny budou v ČR odvádět minimální daň 15 %, což je důležitý krok k zajištění spravedlivého a vyváženého zdanění v naší zemi. Připojíme se tím ke státům, které odmítají umožnit odklon firemních zisků do tzv. daňových rájů,“ řekl Stanjura

(a já jen dodám, že doufám že tentokrát ty daně od korporací opravdu vybere a dopadne to lépe než windfall tax)

https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/ekonomika ... m-40452692

[Petr.Vileta]

Zemřel válečný zločinec Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger nebyl válečný zločinec
https://nazory.aktualne.cz/komentare/he ... f6b220ee8/

[davkol]

Kissinger zásadně přispěl k sabotáži mírových jednání za vlády LBJ v roce 1968. Viz Chennault Affair, popsáno např. v How ‘The New York Times’ Whitewashed the 1968 ‘October Surprise’—and Why It Still Matters.

Dále pozornosti hodný web s primárními zdroji – odtajněnými dokumenty – je National Security Archive, který má nyní zvláštní vydání zaměřené na Kissingera.

[quote]Mnoho se také mluví o údajné Kissingerově podpoře surových vojenských režimů v Latinské Americe. Ta byla součástí tehdejší snahy USA o zadržování sovětského vlivu, proto je třeba činy této doby soudit v kontextu.[/quote]

Kde já tenhle vzorec zrovna viděl? Už vím, snahy Ruska o zadržování amerického vlivu ve východní Evropě.

[Marek.Krejpsky]

Ministerstvo spravedlnosti jde v korupci příkladem.

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/doma ... tra-240530

[Petr.Vileta]

Ministerstvo spravedlnosti jde v korupci příkladem.

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/doma ... tra-240530

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/doma ... pci-240845

[Petr.Vileta]

STAČILO! Konečná povede novou koalici do eurovoleb proti „asociální Fialově vládě“
https://www.forum24.cz/stacilo-konecna- ... -eurovoleb

Koalice má prý sdružovat levicové a vlastenecké osobnosti, a tak ji doplní právník Ondřej Dostál, který patřil v minulosti k Pirátům ...

Asi jsme mu nebyli dost vlevo.

[Robert.Magni]

Dostál přestal být karierní asociál kdy ?