La prueba

))_  Por este post verifico que soy verdadera Tarakihi, la que dejo el comentario por el enlace siguiente:

http://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/la-objetividad-la-primera-victima-de-la-polarizacion

Gracias.

LA HISTORIA SECRETA DE "PUSSY RIOT"

Sup Marcos invita a Pussy Riot a visitar "la escuelita zapatista"

Que pensamos nosotros rusos sobre este acto de estupidez de la partte de un destacado izquierdista mexicano? Por que la izquierda mexicana parece simpatizar a la asi llamada "oposicion rusa",  alimentada y soportada por EEUU?

 i ZAPATISTAS CHIAPANECOS! 

LES PODEMOS PRESTAR NUESTRAS PUTAS  - 

i QUE BAILEN EN LAS  IGLESIAS INDIGENAS,  DEMOSTRANDO SUS GENITALIAS,  ANTE SUS MUJERES Y NIÑOS INDIGENAS, - 

CON EL OBJETIVO DE QUE SE VAYA PEÑA NIETO Y GOBERNADORES COMPRADORES DE CHIAPAS!!

i QUE BAILEN DESNUDAS EN LA CATEDRAL DE SAN CRISTOBAL, DONDE TODAVIA SE GUARDA LA MEMORIA DEL OBISPO SAMUEL RUIZ !

....Por eso hemos mandado invitación, entre much@s, a algunas, algunos, que simbolizan no sólo lo absurdo de pretender encerrar la libertad, también, y sobre todo, la digna resistencia y la perseverancia de quienes no son vencidos por guardias, paredes y rejas.r eso hemos mandado invitación, entre much@s, a algunas, algunos, que simbolizan no sólo lo absurdo de pretender encerrar la libertad, también, y sobre todo, la digna resistencia y la perseverancia de quienes no son vencidos por guardias, paredes y rejas. .......

Maria Alyójina, Yekaterina Stanislávovna Samutsévich y NadezhdaTolokónnikova.   -  Rusas, integrantes del grupo de rock punk “Pussy Riot”.  Su delito: denunciar la imposición de Vladimir Putin con la complicidad del alto clero de la Iglesia Ortodoxa rusa.  Fueron detenidas y tomadas prisioneras por tocar música punk en una iglesia.  La rola pedía a la madre de dios que echara a Putin del gobierno.  Fueron sentenciadas a dos años en prisión por haber “socavado el orden social”.

   Esto en el país que se precia de haberse liberado de la “tiranía comunista”.

Desde las montañas del Sureste Mexicano.

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

Enlace Zapatista

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PUSSY RIOT - LA HISTORIA SECRETA 

26 agosto 2012  

Universalmente admiradas, Pussy Riot (o PR en resumen) han sido presentadas como superestrellas. ¿Pero que son? No son un grupo rock o punk. Un periodista británico se asombraba: no producen música, no pintan, nada, rien, nothing. ¿Cómo puede describírselas como artistas? Esto no deja de ser una severa prueba para sus partidarios, pero la han superado con buena nota: ese famoso amante del arte, el Departamento de Estado estadounidense ha pagado por su primer single, siendo producido por The Guardian a partir de ciertas imágenes y sonidos.

Podemos soportar obscenidad y blasfemia; soy un gran admirador de Notre Dame de Fleurs de Jean Genet, que combina ambas. Sin embargo, PR nunca ha escrito, compuesto o pintado nada de valor. Chris Randolph las ha defendido en Counterpunch comparándolas con el “controvertido Yegor Letov”. Que comparación más confusa. Letov compuso poesía, llena de obscenidades pero aún así poesía, mientras que las PR no han hecho nada excepto Relaciones Públicas.

(LEER MAS, CON INFORMACION REVELADORA... CUIDADO! FOTOS +18!!!)

PUSSY RIOT AS A POLITICAL LEVERAGE AGAINST RUSSIA

ПУССИ-РАЙОТ КАК СРЕДСТВО ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ДАВЛЕНИЯ НА РОССИЮ
Тони Карталуччи, Underinformation, Греция
Западная информационная кампания в поддержку Пусси-Райот в сто раз хуже, чем пропаганда советских времен

Who or What is Russia's "Pussy Riot?"

West’s “Pussy Riot” media coverage worse than “Soviet era” propaganda.
by Tony Cartalucci 

August 6, 2012 -  Accurately described as bigots and hooligans, the 3 member musical band known as “Pussy Riot” is now on trial for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” This came after they burst into a church in Moscow, disturbing the peace while mocking the beliefs of practitioners in an attempt to protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Had skinheads done something similar in a synagogue in the West, surely they’d have long ago paid steep fines and begun their lengthy jail sentences for “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity” (and here).

The Guardian’s article titled, “Pussy Riot trial ‘worse than Soviet era’,” opens immediately with overt propaganda, describing the courtroom and Russian flag as “shabby” and a police dog as “in search of blood.” The British paper attempts to portray Russia itself as having a “stark divide” between conservatives and liberals, the latter fighting against the state “with any means it can.”

Already the Guardian runs into trouble – by portraying Russia as “divided” it is dismissing recent elections that granted Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party a sound mandate to lead the country. And while it is true that in reality, between voter turnout and Putin’s garnering the support of 63% of those that did turn out (in a 5-way race), only about 40% of Russia’s total registered voters actually voted for Putin, his mandate is still sounder than that of  US President Barack Obama’s 32% in a mere 2-way race, or last year’s victory here in Thailand by Yingluck Shinawatra with a tenuous 35%, a victory hailed by the Western media as a “sweeping” mandate.




Image: Screenshot taken from the National Endowment for Democracy website featuring US funding for the NGO “GOLOS.” GOLOS allegedly was searching for “election irregularities” in Russia’s recent elections” GOLOS and other US-backed NGOs and opposition parties are now attempting to trigger an “Arab Spring” in Russia. 

It should also be noted that Russia’s recent elections were marred by election monitoring NGO “GOLOS” attempting to call the results fraudulent. It would be later revealed that this NGO, billed as “independent” by the Western press, was in fact funded and directed by the US State Department via the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Attempts by Wall Street and London to frame the elections as fraudulent set the groundwork for a wider campaign of political destabilization – a campaign “Pussy Riot” has now become a key player in.

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Russian Ethnic Round-Dance Flashmob in Siberia

In Novosibirsk:

- Do you recognise it?
- Of course. A legendary video.
- Cool! Let's do it again, but all throughout Siberia!
- Let's!

The flashmob took place from 3 to 12 June in 9 Siberian cities, including Novosibirsk, Omsk, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Abakan, Kyzyl, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk.

More than 3 thousand young people took part in the event.

The accompanying music is traditional Russian chant performed by a folk choir, but interpreted in a rock style. The dance includes ethnic elements (a Russian round-dance, "khorovod"), and elements of break-dance. Also, the traditional dance of Far East peoples was included (city of Abakan).

Operación Sofía

In continuation of my previous post which speaks of the Guatemalan right wing's feedback to Rios-Montt trial. The main idea of Guatemalan right is to reject the term of "genocide"  and replace it with the term "internal armed conflict" for the purposes of, as I see it, 1) changing the penalty for Rios Montt and his men for lighter term, and 2) presenting Guatemala in a more favourable light before the U.S. (or international community), because "genocide" sounds bad, but "internal conflict" is much more acceptable.

But going back to Guatemala's history provides enough information to prove that genocide took place. For example, we may look through the general timeline of events, and choose details of Victoria 82 and Sofia military operations which were run based on "frijoles and fusiles" policy, where civilians didn't receive any "frijol" as promised by military rhetorics, but just "fusiles".

Indigenous people being misplaced by the army. 

¿Hubo genocidio?

Estoy leyendo la prensa guatemalteca e internacional sobre el juicio contra Rios-Monnt.  Lo primero que me dió sorpresa fue la polarización entre guatemaltecos iniciada por el presidente del pais  y su slogan popular que “No hubo genocidio”.  Vista por fuera,  toda esa discusión o mejor decir, la campaña mediatica se revuelve alrededor del termino “genocidio” construido por expertas de ONU, segun dice Sr Presidente y sus seguidores, tales como historiador Carlos Sabino de la UFM  (de quien jamas sabiamos aqui en Rusia, pero lo conocimos através de una persona yacuto-rusa que lo anunció por medio de LiveJournal como “su amigo personal”).

Sin embargo, creemos que a esta discusion sobre los terminos juridicos, la desconocen miles de indigenas ya muertos o los que han sobrevivido matanzas y reclutamientos forzados a los PAC, igual que las muertes de sus familiares, violaciones y perdidas de su identidad cultural.  

El artìculo en The Wall Street Journal identificó el juicio contra Rios Montt como “absurdo”, porque, escribe,

 “ In the trial, the prosecution presented the testimony of numerous Indians who had been victims of the violence. But their stories could not prove genocide. (sic!)

Neither did the prosecution's "experts," mostly foreigners of the leftist persuasion who were not actually witnesses to any alleged acts of genocide. They were used to advance the prosecution's case that the army strategy "to exterminate" subversives was the same thing as an attempt to "exterminate" the Ixil people.

REDD Programme in Chiapas: Controversy

I make a re-post of this text from  Global Justice Ecology.org, as it narrates controversy about implementation of the REDD programme in Chiapas.  Also, it is noted that a demarcation line is finally being made to define the borders of the "Zona Lacandona" (forty years after the law of the Brecha Lacandona was enacted and thirty-six years after Montes-Azules nature reserve was established in the selva). It's still worth mentioning that inability of Mexican bureaucratic authorities to define the "nuclear" zone of the selva led to multiple evictions of indigenous communities from their lands (see the above link to Pangea web-page).

In the reposted article, the special emphasis is made on the miserable destiny of lacandones who became, consciously or unconsciously, traitors of their indigenous identity:

==While the members of the Lacandon Community are the beneficiaries of both the monthly REDD payment and access to vast territory, such benefits come at a high cost. In the words of Miguel Angél García, Coordinator of the  Chiapan NGO Maderas del Pueblo, “Of all the ethnic groups in Chiapas, the one that has suffered the greatest abuse of their rights are the Lacandones; they’ve been robbed of their history, of their identity, and of their dignity, and they’ve been turned into walking folkloric entities. There’s nothing worse than that.”==

Read the full text:

(La Selva Lacandona, Carretera Fronteriza. Photo is mine, year 2005)

A Broken Bridge to the Jungle: The California-Chiapas Climate Agreement Opens Old Wounds

ANGEL OF RUSSIAN KNIGHTS

"Angel" in Heavens made by aerobatic team "Russian Knights"

Prussian Colony On Mosquito Coast and Ferdinand von Tempsky

Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky (1828-1868), a Prussian soldier of fortune, a traveler, journalist and an artist, made a trip from California to Mosquito Coast to take up a command of Mosquito (Misquito) Indians squad which had been set up by Britain. On Mosquito Coast, there was also a Prussian and German colony due to activities of Moravian Church missionaries who made efforts to convert local creoles and Indians into protestantism.

Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky

Goetz von Houwald in his book "Los Alemanes en Nicaragua" ("Germans in Nicaragua") describes the conditions in which the German colony lived there, and their relationships with the British representatives:

(Read in Spanish... leer en espanol...)

What have we done, Maggie, what have we done?

Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream 

Tell me true, tell me why was Jesus crucified
Is it for this that daddy died?
Was it you? Was it me?
Did I watch to much T.V.?
Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes?
If it wasn't for the nips
being so good at building ships
the yards would still be open on the Clyde
And it can't be much fun for them
beneath the rising sun
with all their kids committing suicide.
What have we done, Maggie what have we done
What have we done to England
Should we shout, should we scream
"What happened to the post war dream?"
Oh Maggie, Maggie what did we do?

Evangelising Lacandons: Problems of Ethics

The Lacandon selva in Chiapas has become a bundle of problems - political, social, economic, ethnic and demographic - since the 70-s of the last century.

The sadly famous Law of the "Brecha Lacandona" was preceded by a series of government's attempts to preserve the selva from destruction caused by logging, cattle breeding, farming, migrating of population and other invasions which threatened its integrity. (Read more...)

Mockery of Liberal Ideas in Russian Blogosphere

We have found a fascinating article in Spanish Wikipedia about Lev Shcharanski.

Shcharanski is a ficitious character mocking Russian liberals and dissidents who are taking desperate efforts to establish American-style democracy in Russia. Shcharanski and his "fans" demonstrate the absurdity of neo-liberal idea by exagerrating its slogans and mottos.

Lev Shcharansky's image is generally depicted as Alexander Solzhenitsyn whose dissent has always been widely rejected by majority of the Russian general public.

(download .xps file with Wiki Article)
Also see: Parody and Dissent

Lev Shcharánski

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, el disidente soviético, las fotografías de quien se utilizan como la aparencia de Lev Shcharánski

Lev Natánovich Shcharánski (en ruso: Лев Натанович Щаранский; en inglés: Lev Sharansky) es un personaje ficticio satírico en el Internet rusohablante que parodia a un ex disidente soviético. El personaje escribe en su blog en LiveJournal y en Twitter, donde utiliza las ideas de los liberales rusos modernos llevándolas al absurdo. Toma su apellido de Natan Shcharánski, el ex disidente soviético y político israelí.

El carácter de Shcharánski se utiliza también para desacreditar la votación en línea. Por ejemplo, en 2011 él ganó la encuesta en línea para determinar el «bloguero del año» organizada por la revista «Afisha».¹

[editar]Referencias

1. ↑ Блогером года стал Лев Щаранский (en ruso)

[editar]Enlaces externos

• Blog de Lev Shcharánski en LiveJournal
• Lev Shcharánski en Twitter
• Russia: The Fake Political Twitter Account Phenomenon (en inglés)
• Parody and Dissent (en inglés)
• A Case Study In Democratic Journalism (part 1) (en inglés)
• Люди российского интернета: Лев Щаранский. (en ruso)

Quiptic: Peasant Movement and Conflict Resolution in Chiapas

It is worthy to note that neo-Zapatista movement was preceded by organised "campesino" unions of the Selva Lacandona.  They resisted the so-called Presidential Decree of the "Lacandon Breach" ("La Brecha Lacandona") by which the majority of selva lands was granted to the Lacandon community (tribal people living in the selva for about 300 years) which deprived other indigenous people in this area of their titles to the same land.  The controversial nature of this decree may be explained in the context of Mexican government's agrarian policy in 40-60s which focused  mainly on colonisation of "unpopulated" lands  and preferring rather the extensive, not intensive development of its agrarian sector.  In search for new lands, thousands of indigenous migrants from the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Morelos, Chihuahua as well as from other regions of Chiapas moved to the Selva Lacandona trying to establish their homes there. Through a decade, settlers were motivated and commended by the Mexican Government and Secretaria de la Reforma Agraria (Ministry of Agrarian Reform) who legally granted them titles for "unpopulated" lands hoping to resolve the vibrant Mexico's issue of the 60-s - deficiency of land.

The settlers' land titles became invalid when the Decree of the "Brecha Lacandona" was enacted in 1973. Of course, the Presidential Decree envisaged the following re-settlement of peasants from the area of the Selva Lacandona (called "Lacancon Community") and special re-settlement programmes were taken.  Nevertheless, indigenous settlers of the Selva (tzeltal, chol, tzotzil and tojolabal indigenous peoples) resisted the displacement and rightly saw it as a consequence of unlawful and inconsistent agrarian policy of the Government.

In 1975, then biggest campesino union Quiptic Ta Lecubtesel was created uniting 23 resisting settlements ("Quiptic"). Marcela Acosta Chavez, researcher of Quiptic, notes that resistance to the unjust Presidential Decree was the main organising factor in strenghening and uniting of the Selva peasants (Marcela Acosta Chavez, "La Quiptic Ta Lecubtesel"). They managed to organise their representation and negotiated with Chiapas government their land titles by urging them to resolve the real root of the conflict (land deficiency),  and opposing  government's usual "quick solutions" which they saw in replacement of "irregular" indigenous settlements.

This was the first attempt in the modern Chiapas history to resolve the main and long-lasting Chiapas conflict: deficiency of land and uneven distribution of income, which later developed in Zapatista rebellion and San-Andres Accords.

Mediators' Position in Armed Conflicts (Zapatista case)

(a Russian opinion or, rather, question relating to the well-known Mexico's event)

It seems interesting how Mexican CONAI (National Comission for Intermediation) defines their moral position while negotiating the peace between government and indigenous rebels.

The CONAI was created in 1995 by Chiapas bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia with views to help establish the peace process after armed rebellion by EZLN ( indigenous neo-Zapatistas) which took place on 1 January 1994. Immediately after the conflict, a very unstable truce was established in Chiapas, so bishop Samuel Ruiz put forward his peace initiative proposing himself and his Commission as mediators between the rebels (who were mostly of his congretation) and the government.  Soon CONAI was recognised by then Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari as a lawful mediator between the EZLN and Government representatives.

Anyway, after three-year process of peace negotiations, in 1998 the CONAI withdrew from the negotiation process.  Bishop Ruiz explained this action as a protest again government's infulfilment of San-Andres Accords.  In response to this claim, he was accused by various officials of "evading his mediator's duty" and "non-neutrality".  Indeed, mediators' code of conduct reads that they shall be neutral and promote the process of negotiation by being impartial and free of any personal or political preferences, as well as be adamant against any external pressure.

Miguel Alvarez Gandara, then CONAI Secretary, explained the  Commission's moral position by arguing their moral standpoint:

The CONAI, -  he said, - was an independent entity which was impartial to all parties in the conflict. The accusations of non-neutrality refer mostly to CONAI's moral position which they assumed from the very beginning of the armed conflict - the CONAI was seeking to build the type of negotiation which would eliminate the real roots of the conflict, and namesly, disrespect and exclusion of indigenous peoples of Mexico. The only resolution of the conflict, as it was seen by multiple experts, opposition politicians, observers and majority of Mexicans, might be found  only in pursuing the appropriate and relevant constitutional reforms granting indigenous peoples the status of "public law entities", not "objects" by public law to be easily manipulated by unstable and ever changing political situation.

Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, one of the Mexican most prominent intellectuals, ex rector of the UNAM (Autonomous University of Mexico) and a former member of CONAI,   formed this standpoint by saying that he "cannot remain neutral while facing the truth."

Shall a mediator be neutral as it is demanded by his/her job position?  Shall he/she seek the real solution of the conflict, or confine himself with pacification measures only? What is the real objective of political mediation?

Zapatistas' Mexican Agenda - Why Autonomy, Not Separatism?

Gary Gossen in his article "Maya Zapatistas Move to the Ancient Future" provides his view on one of the core points that Zapatistas demanded in the course of San-Andres negotiations:  this point is indigenous autonomy.

Why autonomy, but not separatism? Why neo-Zapatista agenda coincides with the national agenda of Mexico? Why Mayan Zapatistas do not see their future apart from the Mexican state and Mexican nation? Why do they want to be Mexicans?

Gary Gossen, one of the most prominent Mayanists undertakes to answer these questions, and his arguments seem to be quite convincing. Gossen argues that among the Tzotziles, for example, foreign "heroes", regardless of their positive or negative nature in indigenous perceptions, are very commonly taken as a "necessary precondition for collective identity within the Chamula pattern of  historical memory and being in the present" (see Gossen 1993).

For example, Miguel Hidalgo (the father of Mexican Independence) and Erasto Urbina (local hero of Chiapas) are both ladinos and bearers of Mexican mestizo culture, yet Mayan Indians perceive them as part of their indigenous history. Emiliano Zapata, a  "campesino" leader of the Mexican Revolution and also being mestizo (not Indian) has become a hero of the Mayan indigenous peoples of Chiapas.  From the point of view of religion, Catholic saints have always played and are playing a very important and active role in modern Mayan panteon:  in particular, St Jerome is considered to be a keeper of animals and animal soul's companion (nahualli). At the same time, surprisingly, the heroine of the Mexican history and "mother" of all Mexicans, legendary Malinche is known in Chamula culture as "Nana Maria Cocorina", wearing a ladino dress "and is ritually addressed as xinulan antz, "stinking ladino woman"."

So why ladinos have become an inseparable part of the Mayan culture? Why sub-comandante Marcos, also being a ladino among Indians, has been entrusted the role of spokesperson of the Mayan rebels?

According to Gary Gossen, "Mayans have always constructed enthnicity, cosmology, historical reckoning and political legitimacy by drawing freely from symbolic and ideological forms of other ethnic and political entities - particularly those perceived to be stronger than themselves - in order to situate and center themselves in the present.  Therefore, what I have identified as the apprently anomalous and peculiar link of the Zapatistas to foreign alliances and symbolic affiliations - including Marcos, white foreign martyrs, the paladin of Zapata and the Mexican revolutionary ideology that he embodies - is not at all strange to the Maya imagination.  In fact, such alliances appear to have been a centrally important strategy for Maya cultural affirmation and political legitimacy since well before the contact period."