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!!!)

¿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

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...)

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?

Why Russians Don’t Smile

Submitted by Alex on Wed, 02/15/2012 

Many in the West have the stereotype that Russians don’t smile in public. Russians may look serious, sad or even depressed, but they never smile! On the other hand, many Russians I’ve spoken to say they find western (especially American) smiles false and insincere and don’t see why people smile so often. In Russia, if you smile a lot at strangers in public they think you’re either insane or on drugs! In the West, people who fail to smile at the correct times and in the appropriate situations may be considered impolite or even aggressive.

In reality, we have a similar separation between public and private spheres in our societies and we behave differently in each. Smiling in the West often acts as a defence mechanism or a way of signalling to those around us that we mean them no harm. This doesn’t indicate that we want to be friends or engage in conversation, it is merely an acknowledgement and acceptance of the other person’s presence. Western smiles of this kind are not connected with feelings of happiness. They are instead extra linguistic signals which are not intended to convey emotion. This is why I would argue that they are neither false nor insincere – they simply serve a different purpose from smiles in Russian culture.

The House that Sam Built

(This is a parody using a famous children's nursery rhyme...)

   

This is the house that Sam built.    

And this is a currency unit

Which lay in the house

that Sam built.                                       





   

CARIBBEAN SEA PIRATES IN CRISIS

 This is a text about Russian with an insight into mechanisms of world economy

CARIBBEAN SEA PIRATES IN CRISIS

By Israel Shamir

(A lecture on Economics delivered at Rhodes Forum on October 9, 2011)

The crisis peaking in Britain is of a Caribbean-sea-pirate type: long time no trophies, while lifestyle has to be maintained. Neoliberal policies have undermined the toughest folk on earth, hard-working, prudent, obedient, stiff-upper-lipped red-faced Brits, the people who managed India, burned down the White House and withstood Hitler. Their backbone – Yorkshire miners and Sheffield steel workers – was broken by their Golders Green grocer-at-large, a.k.a. the Iron Lady. She folded down the industries, and turned the Isles into a Tortuga-like pirate paradise, a place for financiers to relax, unwind and plan their raids.