Alex Rainy

Annual Report on Death Penalty in the World, prepared by Radical party's affiliate.

2011-08-09T08:32:00.000-07:00

August 4, 2011: the 2011 Report on the death penalty worldwide, supervised again this year by Elisabetta Zamparutti, was presented at the headquarters of Hands Off Cain. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, Education Minister and Transitional Tunisian Government spokesperson Taïeb Baccouche, Senate Vice President Emma Bonino, HOC President Marco Pannella, HOC Secretary Sergio D’Elia, and Elisabetta Zamparutti all participated at the conference. Also present were ambassadors and representatives of numerous foreign embassies. During the conference, Foreign Minister Frattini said: "Regarding Mubarak, Egypt must show courage in avoiding the temptation for revenge" with the death penalty. "I felt sadness seeing the image of Mubarak in a stretcher at the trial. Above all I thought that only one year ago the ex leader was known around the world as a champion in the fight against terrorism.". Frattini invited Egypt to follow the example of Norway, where the extremists were isolated. "The state's answer cannot be revenge and Egypt should avoid handing the death penalty to someone who practised it when he was in power."....

http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=15310045

2011-08-07T12:54:00.000-07:00

Secret Journal 1836-1837 by A. S. Pushkin

The hero of the work, Alexander Pushkin, presents in an encapsulated form his various sexual relations, his complex thoughts on life, the nature of sin, love, and creativity, as well as the complicated path that led him to his tragic end.

Audios and videos from the General Council of Nonviolent Radical Party.

2011-07-30T03:52:00.000-07:00

Tunis, 22-24 of July, 2011.

http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/332236
http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/332237
http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/332238

2011-07-22T10:27:00.000-07:00

I think Ingermanland project is the most perspective namely as DEMOCRATIC regionalistic project in the modern Russia. As Ingermanlandian (although living in Moscow), I wish maximal success to the project.

Info here: http://ingria.info

The Gospel of Judas in Finnish.

2011-07-22T10:24:00.001-07:00

http://wsoy.fi/yk/products/show/28464

2011-07-22T10:23:00.001-07:00

Alexander Volodarsky, sentenced last winter to 1 year of the inprisonment for the art-action against moralistic prohibitionism of pornography in Ukraine, has been liberated today. Congradulations!

2011-07-22T10:22:00.001-07:00

I think Russian citizens must boycott military conscription until this slavery army exists. We need only professional army, defending true (con)federation, but not this aggressive Evil Empire.

2011-06-25T12:52:00.001-07:00

Today is the 70th anniversary of the second Soviet aggressive war against Finland. Eternal glory to Finnish heroes, who defended their country's independence.

Marco Pannella is on hunger and thirst strike for Italy go back and be a democracy.

2011-06-23T20:59:00.000-07:00

On 23 June the left-leaning newspaper il Manifesto published a picture of Marco Pannella on the cover with the title “his prisons”.

On Tusday June 21st a group of members of the NRPTT to end the censorship surrounding Pannella's iniziative projected the video below on the building seat of RAI (the Italian public broadcasting system) in which Pannella calls for an Amnesty to allow the Italian Republic to go back to be a full-fledged democracy. The video was eventually projected on the oldest Roman prison of Regine Coeli and the Ministry of Justice. The demonstration was eventually stopped by the police....

More:

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/marco-pannella-hunger-and-thirst-strike-italy-go-back-and-be-democracy

This is the official version of the letter sent to Marco Pannella by the President of the Italian Republic

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/official-version-letter-sent-marco-pannella-president-italian-republic

St. Petersburg bans PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED?!

2011-06-21T12:20:00.000-07:00

That's right, St.Petersburg metropolitan officially banned physically challenged people from accessing the public underground transportation.

This outrageous act of discrimination against physically challenged people has been explained by the St. Petersburg metro's management as a "necessary measure" which was CAUSED by the fact that the WHOLE CITY METRO SYSTEM of the St.Petersburg city is NOT, quote unquote "handicapped accessible" - although hundreds of the physically challenged citizens of St.Petersburg use it on a daily basis.

For example, Eugenea Goorova, a student of St. Petersburg University was forbidden from accessing the metropolitan station just yesterday, after she got an A mark at the annual exams and was going home - !because she was in a wheel-chair!.

This goes against all moral and/or common senses! I would like if the people on the Internet who would read this would sign a petition to the St.Petersburg mayor to stop this outrageous abuse of human rights.
Thank you.

WTO?

2011-06-19T14:02:00.001-07:00

I hope Georgia will block Russia's entering in the WTO. State-aggressor must be prosecuted for de-facto annexion of Georgian territories.

R.I.P.

2011-06-19T14:01:00.001-07:00

Elena Bonner has died yesterday. Her activity in the field of human rights was such great and well-known...

But I like her also for the principal position in the field of struggle against anti-smoking fascistic paranoia in the USA, etc.

Uyghurs should be treated according to international norms both at home and elsewhere. Kazakhstan must stop Ershidin's extradition to China

2011-06-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

Statement by Senator Marco Perduca, co-vicepresident of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty:

"The ordeal of Ershidin Israel, an Uyghur currently in Kazakhstan who for some time has enjoyed the protection of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee, seems to have reached a tragic end: deportation towards China. For reasons that remain unknown to the public Mr. Ershidin has been stripped of the status he was granted by UNHCR and will therefore be handed over to Chinese authorities by the Nazarbayev government soon. As the many precedents tell us, Uyghurs, once back in China, suffer harsh prosecution if not executions.....

More:

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/uyghurs-should-be-treated-according-international-norms-both-home-and-elsewhere-kazakhstan-m

Radical Party Special Statement.

2011-06-13T07:46:00.001-07:00

There is no connection whatsoever nor poltical or ideal contact between Serbia Radical Party of war criminal Voislav Seseli, that is demonstrating in Belgrade in support of Radko Mladic and the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty that since the early 1990s has campaigned to creat the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, collaborating, together with No Peace Without Justice, on the gathering of evidence to indict the supreme chief of the intra-Yogoslav aggressions Slobodan Milosevic.

The NRPTT therefore urges the media to specify such a dinstiction.

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/mladic-serbia-radical-party-has-nothing-do-nonviolent-radical-party-transnational-and-transp

Include Holodomor as a permanent exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights!

2011-06-07T13:57:00.001-07:00

http://www.causes.com/causes/571418

Baltic deportations 1941 statement.

2011-06-07T13:56:00.000-07:00

MEPs commemorated the 1941 deportations from the Baltic states during a statement from president European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek on 6 June 2011.

14 June marks the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of thousands of people who were exiled to Siberia during Soviet rule.

More than 30,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were sent to prison camps under the orders of Joseph Stalin....

See more of text and video report here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/europe/newsid_9502000/9502920.stm

Rest In Peace, dear doctor!

2011-06-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

Jack Kevorkian, the controversial American doctor who claimed to have assisted more than 100 suicides, has died aged 83.

To his critics, he was Dr Death. To other detractors, Jack the Dripper.

Kevorkian was given plenty of nicknames after receiving international attention in the 1990s, throughout which he waged a defiant campaign to help people end their lives.

But to his supporters, he became the poster boy for legislative reform....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13649381

I completely support the position of French sex-workers.

2011-06-03T14:18:00.000-07:00

http://youtu.be/LwTZoqqg6c4

Russia: No Democracy if Constitutions are violated. The Rule of Law is essential for the right to life.

2011-06-02T09:09:00.000-07:00

05/31/2011

Statement of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty

On 31 May 2011, the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty together with the members of ANNAVIVA held a demostration in Rome in solidarity with the Russian activitsts of Strategy 31, who, for two years now, have gathered, or sought to gather, in the centre of Moscow, in Triumfalnaya Square, and outside Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg on the 31st of each month that has 31 days to highlight Art. 31 of the Russian Constitution, which protects the right to freedom of assembly.

Read more:

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/russia-no-democracy-if-constitutions-are-violated-rule-law-essential-right-life

Saakashvili: the West is only option | euronews, interview

2011-06-02T07:38:00.000-07:00

Saakashvili: the West is only option | euronews, interview

Antiprohibitionistic report of Global commission on drug policy in the UN.

2011-06-02T05:33:00.000-07:00

http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/Report

General Mladić arrested: triumph of justice over violence.

2011-05-29T16:40:00.000-07:00

“No Peace Without Justice and the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty herald today’s arrest of General Ratko Mladić as a victory for justice and a critical step in the healing of the former Yugoslavia. Nearly sixteen years ago, Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladić executed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys and forced another 25,000 women, children and elderly people to leave their homes. The massacre was found to constitute genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2004, a finding reaffirmed by the International Court of Justice in 2007...

More:

http://www.npwj.org/ICC/General-Mladi%C4%87-arrested-triumph-justice-over-violence.html

In defence of Alexander Volodarsky.

2011-04-12T06:40:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow, in 3 o'clock we will perform a picketing in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, in defence of Alexander Volodarsky, famous Ukrainian representative of conceptual art, who was centenced to 1 year's inprisonment for his actions of self-expression, and he's in prison since January. Address: Moscow, Leontievsky per., 18. Metro "Tverskaya", "Pushkinskaya".

"Free Radicals" libertarian movement.

Congress General Motion.

2011-03-09T15:56:00.000-08:00

The 39th Congress of the Nonviolent, Transnational and Transparty Radical Party, convened in Chianciano on 17-20 February 2011

notes

that the Manifesto-Appeal and its goals, proposed exactly thirty years ago by the Party – now officially named Transnational, Transparty and Nonviolent Radical Party – as received and undersigned by over 140 Nobel Laureates, still reflect the dramatic, historical, compelling matters afflicting the contemporary world;

emphasizes

the tragic, topical nature of what the signatory Nobel Laureates stated in 1981:

“We need to rebel against the false realism which induces people to resign themselves as though it were fatal, to what instead belongs to the responsibility of politics and the "established disorder". We need to fight realistically so that the possible is done and not consumed, perhaps forever.

“If world powers are responsible, they are not the only ones. If the unarmed would not resign themselves to being inert, if they would be more numerous in declaring non-obedience to other laws than this basic law of the rights of men and people, that in the first place is Justice, and the right to life; if the unarmed would go and organize themselves using their few but long lasting weapons of political democracy and the great non-violent "Gandhian" actions, fixing themselves and imposing the choice of objectives from time to time limited and adequate; if this would happen, it would be certain, just as today it is certainly possible, that our times would not be catastrophic.

“If mass media, if the powerful who decided to honor us with the acknowledgements we received, decided to listen and cause others to listen to our voice and actions, and the voice and actions of those who are working along the same lines, elsewhere in the world; if women and men, if peoples had access to knowledge and information, undoubtedly the future would look different from what is looming and seems destined for everybody, everywhere in the world. But only in this case. We need to choose, act, create now.”

Read more:
http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnational-and-transparty-general-motion

Attention!

2011-03-09T15:50:00.001-08:00

My 2011 donation to Partito Radicale Nonviolento has NOT been send to the Party through PayPal system. Be cautious with using this strange pay-system and pay your year's donations only immedidiately through NRP web-site and your personal credit cards.

2011-02-24T07:21:00.001-08:00

Motions of the 39th Congress of Partito Radicale Nonviolento, Transnazionale e Transpartito.

2011-02-22T09:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-motion-freedom-and-democracy

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-motion-support-fight-tunisia

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-resolution-proposed-sindh-de

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-resolution-southern-cameroon

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-motion-demographics-and-envi

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-particular-motion-sexual-min

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnazional-e-transparty-motion-balochistan

Petition to the European Parliament and the United States Congress To Place Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on a "No Entry List".

2011-02-19T00:21:00.000-08:00

To: European Parliament & US Congress
We, the undersigned, urge the members of these august representative bodies to place Vladimir Putin, Russia's Prime Minister, on a "No Entry List," thus barring him from being able to travel to the European Union and to the United States.

"Who is Mr. Putin?" was a big question 10 years ago. Now anyone who's been in touch with reality knows the answer.

Mr. Putin is the one who explicitly vowed to end terrorism, however terrorist attacks in Russia increased manifold after Putin took office. [1]

Mr. Putin promised to root out corruption, nevertheless during his reign corruption in Russia reached unprecedented levels, in no small part due to Mr. Putin's promotion of his cronies into the highest reaches of Russia's government and business hierarchies. Indeed, almost half of Russia's GDP is lost to bribes. [1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8]

Mr. Putin began his presidency vowing to fight "legal nihilism" and took an oath to uphold the Russian Constitution. In practice, despite his legal educational background, he consistently displayed blatant disregard for the Russian Constitution and personally encouraged violations of some of its most sacred principles, including Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly and Human Rights. [9],[10]

Mr. Putin instituted and continues to promote a policy of using vast Russian energy resources as a weapon and as an international blackmail mechanism.

Mr. Putin established the infamous "power vertical," which is nothing more than an organized-crime federal system being operated as corruption and oppression apparatus.

During Mr. Putin's reign, fascist ideology has become widely popular among the Russian youth - in no small part due to Mr. Putin's exploiting nationalist themes.

Under Mr. Putin's domination Russia left the path towards becoming a democratic state and became, in Mr. Putin's parlance, "sovereign democracy" and "controlled democracy." In reality, Mr. Putin turned Russia into a "kleptocracy."

Under Mr. Putin's authoritarian regime most of the independent media outlets were shut down or taken over by the government. As of 2011, all TV stations are controlled by the government; there is a single semi-independent radio station and several low-circulation printed outlets left that represent opposition views.

During Mr. Putin's reign, government-sponsored and taxpayer-financed extremist pro-Kremlin youth groups, known as Putlerjugend, were organized and began to hold regular mass rallies and to attack opposition leaders, both verbally and physically.

In Russia, Mr. Putin and his cronies are above the law. Is it purely coincidental that hundreds of the sharpest and well-informed critics of the regime (opposing politicians, investigative journalists, human rights activists, etc.) have been murdered over the past 10 years of Mr. Putin's autocracy?[4],[11]

Mr. Putin continues to use the Russian [in]Justice System to persecute his political opponents. Recently, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, Russia's most well-known political prisoners, were sentenced to 14 years in a prison camp, after a second trial based on absurd charges. The trial was remarkable for showing the lengths to which the government was prepared to go to make the surreal case that Messrs. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev stole all the oil their company produced. The Kafkaesque trial and extended sentencing of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev completed the transformation of Russia into an authoritarian regime with a permanent political leadership of Mr. Putin. [2],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21]

To ensure his eternal supremacy over Russia, Mr. Putin is plotting the third trial against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He's been publicly reiterating the bizarre comparison of the political prisoner with Bernard Madoff and Al Capone on several occasions, including the national television. Mr. Putin is brazenly implanting preposterous images of "brains in the garage" and "blood on Khodorkovsky's hands" into people's minds to justify his despicable lawlessness towards Mr. Khodorkovsky. Not only those signals were manifestly reflected in the second sentence, but the lead prosecutors of the second trial have already made a semi-official statement in one of the more prominent pro-Kremlin Russian newspapers about the likelihood of a third trial against Mr. Khodorkovsky. [12],[14],[20],[21]

Putin is above the Russian law. It's a fact. But enough is enough. He is not above the international law. Putin's abuse of Human Rights in Russia is not just a Russian problem. You can make a loud statement to that effect by denying him entry into the Member States of the European Union and to the United States of America. The Russian people are forbidden to express their will under the constant danger of the persecution. Therefore strong sanctions by the West are vital and urgently needed in order to stop the threat coming from the out-of-control Putin's KGB clique.

Current publications:
1 PUTIN: What 10 Years of Putin Have Brought (an independent expert report by B. Nemtsov and V. Milov) http://www.putin-itogi.ru/putin-what-10-years-of-putin-have-brought/
2 The state of Russia: Frost at the core. http://www.economist.com/node/17674075
3 Sergey Kolesnikov's tale of palatial corruption, Russian style http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/22/AR2010122203770.html
4 WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-russia-mafia-kleptocracy
5 Corruption is forcing Russia's best and brightest to flee the country. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/14/putin-s-russia-exile-businessmen.html
6 Below Surface, U.S. Has Dim View of Putin and Russia http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world/europe/02wikileaks-russia.html?pagewanted=all
7 Regional anti-corruption initiative http://www.rai-see.org/news/world/1057-russian-tax-authorities-start-accepting-anti-corruption-calls-from-citizens.html
8 Russian corruption may be half of country's GDP http://www.newstime.co.za/WorldNews/Russian_corruption_may_be_half_of_countrys_GDP/9412/
9 Russian activists jailed over freedom of assembly protest http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/russian-activists-jailed-over-freedom-assembly-protest-2011-01-04
10 The High Price of Journalism in Putin's Russia http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703805004575606461059832950.html
11 Alexander Litvinenko murder 'probably had Putin's OK' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-alexander-litvinenko-murder
12 Justice delayed http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/12/mikhail_khodorkovskys_trial?page=1
13 A Business Martyr in Putin's Russia http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704648604575620440116413922.html
14 A Prisoner in Putin's Russia http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203731004576045720460065928.html
15 Freedom House Report http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&country=7904&year=2010
16 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement. Document - Russian Federation: Unfair trial concerns cast doubt on the integrity of the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev http://amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR46/042/2010/en/d319e0c1-263a-4b52-b961-031cc6febd72/eur460422010en.html
17 43 organizations and 23 prominent individuals dedicated to human rights in Russia have publicly declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev political prisoners http://letthemgonow.org/supporting-organizations/
18 Plea for end to Khodorkovsky вЂpersecution'http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72e313e8-06ed-11e0-8c29-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1CCRrr84x
19 Davos Man and Khodorkovsky: Lawless states don't attract capital. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704754304576095181932381482.html
20 Putin remarks dash hopes for Khodorkovsky
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b109377c-092e-11e0-ada6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1CMmh2hr2
21 Khodorkovsky may face third trial - prosecutors http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110124/162266786.html

PLEASE, HAVE THE COURAGE AND THE DECENCY TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/blp11/petition.html

2011-02-12T02:21:00.000-08:00

Thanks a lot to my Italian Transnational-Radical friends from Luca Coscioni Association for the book I received from them by ordinary mail recently:

Download pdf-version:
http://www.lucacoscioni.it/sites/all/files/Proceedings_2009_EN.pdf

You can receive a copy of the proceedings by donating to Luca Coscioni Association. Request your copy to info@freedomofresearch.org
The proceedings represent a relevant instrument of theoretical reflection and dissemination. Our objective is to spread the message of the ongoing activity of the World Congress and to promote the next meeting.

A long-waited Congress of Nonviolent Radical Party.

2011-02-12T01:32:00.000-08:00

The 39th Congress of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty is officially confirmed for February 17-20 in Chianciano (Italy).

In another message all organizational and logistical information will be forwarded.

To convene our Congress with such a short notice has been a difficult choice, considered the structural weaknesses of our party. However, it was a necessary choice - a decision that we owe, first and foremost, to the many representatives of oppressed and non represented peoples, and to the many nonviolent activists and leaders, who in the last decades have trusted the Party and have demonstrated to be interested and to believe in the political project and reality it represents.

Indeed, we need to update and to propose, again and more strongly, the tools and goals of political nonviolence, of democratic hope, of the universal affirmation of human rights, of European and world federalism as alternatives to the degeneration of liberal democracies towards ‘real democracies’, to the persistent illusion of absolute national sovereignty, and to the eventual systematic cancellation of human rights that have been historically acquired and are now perceived as ‘natural’.

While we are organizing for Thursday, January 20 a demonstration in London to ask the truth on the war in Iraq, which is a key part of the initiative of convening the Congress, we kindly ask you to be ready from now, in your country, in your town, within your political movement or association and with your friends, to circulate this invitation in order to have the highest possible number of significant participants in the Chianciano Congress.

Read more:
http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/39th-congress-nonviolent-radical-party-transnational-and-transparty-officially-confirmed-feb

The Definition of “Gnosticism”.

2011-02-11T23:51:00.000-08:00

The Definition of “Gnosticism”.

By Dmitry A. Alexeyev, St.-Petersburg.

Melchisedec is an Old Testament’s hero, King of Salem (or Sodom), a priest of the Highest God, mentioned in Gen., 14:17-24. The most important question for us is why one of the Old Testament’s positive heroes, priest of Biblical God, who blessed Abraham, becomes a wearer of a Gnostic revelation? I mean namely Gnostic revelation, because “Gnostic”, or, even more exactly, “Sethianic” character of the tractate, named “Melchisedec”, is evident, even although it is very badly preserved.

More:

http://community.livejournal.com/gnosticism/64689.html

2011-01-30T15:21:00.001-08:00

Vivat, Berlusconi!

Fuck your puritanian prosecutors! Sexual or near-sexual intercourses with prostitutes in 70+ is wonderful!

New issue of ICT's Tibet Press Watch is now available.

2011-01-26T13:29:00.000-08:00

Here are a few of the stories now online from the latest edition of ICT's Tibet Press Watch newsletter . . .

http://bit.ly/fhRGZT

*Protest: Defending Tibet's Heritage*

After the 2008 uprisings that spontaneously spread across the Tibetan plateau, China's repressions were brutal, and citizens rightly feared for their freedom and their lives. This justifiable fear makes recent events all the more remarkable. Read more ...

http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#protest

*From the ICT Blog: Understanding the Dalai Lama's Retirement Statement*

The recent media statements by the Dalai Lama about his desire to announce complete retirement has create a buzz among Tibet watchers at all levels. I have no doubt that the Chinese government, primarily, and all concerned governments are studying the implication of such a development. Read more ...

http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#blog

*In Memoriam: Wangchuk Meston*
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#memoriam

*Films to Watch For: Tibet in Song*
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#film

*Book Review: In the Shadow of the Buddha*
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#book

Also in this issue:*

* Tibet Press Coverage [ http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#press ]

* ICT News & Reports [ http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#news ]

* From the ICT Blog [ http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#blog ]

*New ICT Report:*
The Kyegu Earthquake: Six Months On
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#report

*Take Action for Dhondup Wangchen*
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010#action

Read more and download the entire issue at:
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/tibet-press-watch-winter-2010

Famous Russian victim of so-called "anti-pedophilic" paranoia.

2011-01-24T12:24:00.000-08:00

Health of Arrested Professor Has Sharply Worsened.
By Alexandra Solomina

In the night of 16-17 January Anatoly Ryabov suffered his second hypertonic
crisis in a week, informs his lawyer Igor Trunov.

Let us remember that Anatoly Ryabov, renowned pianist and professor at
the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P I
Tchaikovsky, Honoured Worker of the Arts of the Russian Federation, long-time professor at the Conservatory, was arrested on 14 January under point (b), part 4, item 132 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation: “Violent Actions of Sexual Character”.

The facts about Ryabov’s detention have become known. The application to the prosecutor’s office was submitted by the mother of Irina, Ryabov’s student, one day prior to his arrest. The prosecutor’s office acted on the application solely on the word of the applicant. Even in Mikhail Pletnev’s case the authorities were not so rigid. The application in this case does not appear justified.

“We simply don’t understand of what he is accused,” said Ryabov’s lawyer
Igor Trunov. “There is no proof. All is absolutely unfounded, is based on the application of the mother of this girl. There were no examinations of the girl; a psychologist did not speak with her. I could never imagine that my client – and elderly man in poor health, which such positive characteristics, registered in Moscow – would be put behind bars. He could not and would not run anywhere; this was hugely unexpected for us. The judge had only one basis for locking him up: the weight of the crime of which my client is suspected. In his annual address the president said it is necessary to be involved with childhood. And with one letter a person’s reputation has been blackened!

In the prosecutor’s office Ryabov became ill from the pressure and was taken to the prison branch of the 20th hospital. Nevertheless, on 15 January the decision of the closed judicial panel was passed and Anatoly Ryabov was placed in a solitary confinement cell. It is not known why the decision was this instead of placing him under pledge not to leave a certain place, or under house arrest. As of 18 January the professor of music Anatoly Ryabov, 65 years, has been taken into custody at Pre-Trial Detention Centre No. 5 and quarantined with no visitors permitted.

In the meantime, today the facts of another firing at the Central Music School have been released. Stanislav Alexandrovich Katenin, of the wind instrument and percussion faculty, in relation to 11 year old contrabass player Lyova Lysenko. A previous victim of administrative reprisals at the school was mathematics teacher Maria Ivanovna Salazkina.

The scandal with Anatoly Ryabov, which appears to stem from quite different
motives, has not remained local. Many leading Russian media outlets have
broadcast it. As fault of the teacher has not been proven, some have hurried to attribute that the accusations will possibly not end up in a single lawsuit. The majority of the editions have made their own investigations and expressed doubt at the accusations.

“There is a struggle. The director considers Ryabov a competitor whom parents and students would like to take the seat as head. It has been explained as slander. In such cases there are two typical scenarios: the person is accused of bribery or sexual harassment. It was suggested that Ryabov leave, and nothing would come of it. Though he left, he had regrets and came to consult with me.”

According to the lawyer, Ryabov came to him at the end of 2010, a month before his arrest. The lawyer advised him to petition to have his job reinstated, asking his resignation to be nullified as it was written under pressure. The day after Ryabov made the petition for his job, the application for corruption of the 13 year old Irina was brought forward.

In turn, to hide the problems at the Central School at the Moscow Conservatory is obviously not possible. Illegal prosecutions and firings of dissenting teachers have occurred en masse. Parents have united to protect children against the orders reigning at the school. Children have been organized to boycott lessons with teacher-strikebreakers.

For example, this link leads to a shocking video of “Sex with Anfisha Chekhova” about the composer and erotomane Jaroslav Sudzilovsky, whose ballet “The Furious Phallus” was a revelation to critics and the ordinary listener. Mr. Sudzilovski now teaches composition to children at the Central Music School.

In the background of the arrest of Anatoly Ryabov, of which the reasons are
possibly far from the accusations, is a question: what and who now teach the children at the Central Music School with the mass layoffs of the teachers, teachers who are the gold that brought glory to this school?

PS: 18.01.2011 13:27 – The firing of Stanislav Katenin has not legally been
issued. Current information available is that he has submitted a letter of
resignation “of his own accord”.

http://www.classica.fm/2011/01/18/health-of-the-arrested-professor-of-music-has-sharply-worsened

My 8 euros of entrance payment were more useful than usually, I hope.

2011-01-03T08:42:00.000-08:00

My note in the Book of replies to the "After-War", Helsingin contemporary art museum Kiasma's installation of Kristina Norman, dedicated to the Tallinn's "Bronze Soldier":

Kristina, thank you for the installation. To tell you the truth, I think that Estonian authorities were absolutely right when they removed the Soviet-era monument from its former place into the special memorial park. Firstly, because it is real symbol of Soviet (and quite bloody!) occupation of Estonia (and not only an anti-Nazi symbol), and secondly because such monument must be (if must...) located at memorial cemetery, but not at the centre of capital of the independent state.
Sincerely, - Alex Moma, Moscow (Russian citizen). 30.12.2010.

Open Letter to The FIFA Executive Committee from the members of the Russian National Tea Party Movement.

2010-12-02T07:21:00.000-08:00

(And, of course, from me too.)

Dear Members of the Executive Committee,

Since Russia is a candidate country for hosting the 2018 world cup, we urge you not to give Russia this status.

First, in contrast to the developed countries, in Russia the bulk of the costs of organizing the world cup will be borne by the taxpayers and not those who would be willing to voluntarily contribute to the world cup. We believe that it would be unjust to force all Russians to finance the world cup, even those who are not in any way interested in football.

Secondly, as you may know, there is neither an independent judicial system, nor sufficient rule of law in Russia. The citizens’ property rights, including property rights in land plots are not adequately protected. And the existing legislation allows takings of private land plots for very loosely formulated public purposes. This raises our concern with the fate of Russian citizens whose property rights in land plots would be under threat in connection with the creation of infrastructure for the world cup.

We hope that the rights of ordinary Russian citizens are more important to you than the interests of potential small circle of well connected Russian beneficiaries from the world cup.

Appeal for a worldwide ban on female genital mutilation by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010.

2010-10-21T15:19:00.000-07:00

We, the undersigned, human rights activists and citizens worldwide, joining together after years of struggle for female genital mutilation to be recognized and condemned as a violation of the human right to physical integrity, and conscious that a United Nations ban will give new strength and impetus to the efforts that are still needed to end the practice worldwide;
- call upon the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a Resolution to ban female genital mutilation worldwide;

- call upon all governments, and upon all international and regional organizations, to support and promote the adoption of this Resolution in 2010;

- invite all citizens of the world to support this initiative and sign the petition to put an end to this widespread and systematic form of violence committed against women and girls, in violation of their fundamental right to physical and personal integrity.

Sign the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/banfgm

According to the link from: http://www.radicalparty.org/

The Putin Principle

2010-09-23T09:26:00.000-07:00

Ottawa - Article 31 of Russia's constitution guarantees freedom of assembly. In defence of their diminishing democratic rights and so as to protect this constitutional right of assembly, on the 31st of each month Russia's beleaguered opposition gathers to protest. Unfortunately, in Putin's Russia, notwithstanding constitutional guarantees, the democratic space has been shrinking. On August 31, peaceful protestors of Russia's democratic opposition were arrested. Vladimir Putin, commenting on the arrests of leaders of the democratic opposition, established a new tenant of Putinism; protesters have been warned by Putin that "You will be beaten on your skull with a truncheon. And that's that."

This statement was made in response to questions surrounding the arrest of activists carrying the Russian flag on August 31, a date symbolizing the right to free assembly in Article 31 of Russia's constitution. In the past several weeks opposition leaders such as 69-year-old Lev Ponomarev (a long-time human rights activist) and Mikhail Schneider (a leader in the newly formed democratic opposition movement Solidarity) have not only been arrested, they have been sentenced to prison using old Soviet-style laws which allow for prison terms for taking part "in unsanctioned meetings."

Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj commented on the imprisonment of Mr. Ponomarev and Mr. Schneider, as well as the arrest of Mr. Boris Nemtsov, leader of the democratic opposition and former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (Mr. Nemstov was arrested the day after Wrzesnewskyj introduced Mr. Nemstov who was linked by Skype to the Black Ribbon Day conference at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre organized by the Central and Eastern European Council of Canada):

"Mr. Putin has not only diminished Russia's democratic space, he is instituting a new dictatorship. As he prepares to take over Russia's presidency in 2012, Putinism's tenants appear to be:

1) state/oligarch capitalism;
2) courts subsumed to the will of the executive branch of government;
3) electoral manipulation and abuse;
4) repeated use of police intimidation of human rights and democracy activists, and growing police corruption;
5) intimidation and killing of journalists;
6) state control and revision of history;
and
7) declining religious freedom while promoting State Russian Orthodoxy."......

Read more: http://maidan.org.ua/static/narnewslviv/1284730208.html

Moscow Tea Party (Moskovskoye Tchaepitiye).

2010-09-06T17:30:00.000-07:00

Next Libertarian Moscow Tea Party will be in Moscow. Join us on Bolotnaya square, in September, 12, from 3 P.M.

Second Part of the Radical Party's General Council. General Motion in English

2010-09-06T17:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/general-council-general-motion-0

Moscow Tea Party.

2010-08-21T01:56:00.000-07:00

Join our group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135379116506009

Next Party - in September, 12.

2nd anniversary of Russian aggression against Georgia.

2010-08-11T09:59:00.000-07:00

2010-07-26T21:56:00.000-07:00

As I cannot to work under “my” scientific texts because of fucking terrible heat in Moscow (+35), these days I constantly read the downloaded book of Francis King – “The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.”, published in 1973 in the U.S.A. and previously concerned the initiation Rites of Ordo Templi Orientis during its Thelemic period. At the present moment I’ve red only until the end of the Third Degree, but I’m already must to say, that this book is very interesting. Firstly, because of its beginning chapters about the O.T.O.’s history. Secondly, because of demonstration of the strictly Masonic elements in the Initiation structure and Rites. And thirdly, because of my wishing to find out the similarities (and, maybe, visible contradictions) between the Rites of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica and the O.T.O. itself.

Russia as fascistic and clerical state.

2010-07-07T16:23:00.000-07:00

Church and state in Russia
Art under arrest
A blasphemy trial shows the limit of Russia’s cultural freedom
Jul 1st 2010

Avant-garde Samodurov under guard

A CONTEMPORARY work of art can provoke outrage disproportionate to its artistic merit. In Russia it can also herald a change in the course of history. In 1962 the then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously denounced and banned an exhibition of avant-garde artists in Moscow, saying his grandson could paint better. This marked the end of the short post-Stalinist thaw and ushered in the period of “stagnation”. Khrushchev himself was deposed two years later.

Nearly 50 years on, Russian prosecutors are demanding a three-year jail sentence for the organisers of a contemporary-art exhibition in Moscow. The verdict, expected on July 12th, could have an impact far greater than the exhibition itself and determine the balance of power between ultranationalist religious radicals and secular pragmatists in Russia.

More:

http://www.economist.com/node/16490095?story_id=16490095

Dear friends, Moscow’s Gnostic scientific group need your help.

2010-04-06T13:47:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,
Our scientific group need (for the future links, notes and cites) some pages from the book. ALL these pages can be opened only from the DIFFERENT ip-addresses. This is a specific of so-called “limited access” to the books from the project books.google.com.

Namely, we need following help. You may open the following link - http://books.google.com/books?id=-Py3IGGOZoUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+nag+hammadi+texts+and+the+bible&hl=ru&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false and, with help of “Content” in the left upper corner or with help of option “Search in this book”, you may try to open and to make a “print screen” (by taping CTRL + PRINT SCREEN) of the following pages

276
312
357
374
377
386
388
390
401
403
409
419

and save them on your computers as images of any format. Then you may send them to me on the following e-mail: alex_rainy @ yahoo.com .

I hope on your possible help, because we have a great problem with buying so expensive for us, and geographically hard-accessed edition.

Thanks so much.

Support Russian Activists Calling for their Constitutional Rights.

2010-03-23T05:08:00.000-07:00

Human rights defenders and opposition political activists have formed a coalition in Russia to defend basic political rights that have been under attack for years. The Strategy 31 protests are organized on the 31st day of every month that has 31 days, with the next one scheduled to take place on March 31st. They take their name from Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which upholds freedom of peaceful assembly.

By trying to convene peaceful political assemblies in cities throughout Russia while routinely facing obstruction from the authorities, the protesters hope to demonstrate the extent to which basic political freedoms, in this case the right to peaceful assembly, are denied in practice. Previous attempts to convene such rallies have been broken up by police with hundreds of participants, including leading political and human rights figures, taken into detention.

TAKE ACTION NOW to urge Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to grant peaceful protesters the rights guaranteed to them by Article 31 of the Russian Constitution and by binding international human rights treaties.

Click Here to Take Action:

http://actions.humanrightsfirst.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1455

One note from me personally: Medvedev is not a President, but "President", because he was not elected freely. Russia is not democratic state, absolutely.

Vote!

2010-03-23T04:21:00.000-07:00

Was Google right to delete its google.cn website and redirect users to its Hong Kong site?

http://www.euronews.net/news/you

I voted YES. Undoubtedly. Fuck Chinese totalitarian authorities!

Another one fascistic action of Russian police.

2010-03-18T15:11:00.000-07:00

Ifolder.ru service interrupted by excessive police action.

Today (March 17th 2010) police investigators showed up at the datacenter located at building 5 on 2nd Entuziastov street. They produced a statement entitling them to conduct operational search in order to obtain some evidence located at the iFolder.ru site.

Employees in charge offered to take each and every reasonable step in order to obtain the evidence, and to track a user responsible for uploading the information in question. However, the offer was unexpectedly turned down. Instead, policemen started to insist on seizure and removing of ALL of the Agava's equipment (approx 100 servers) and taking it to police headquarters for the purpose of their own investigation. After some intense debates the seizure was averted. Unfortunately, as an alternative the investigators switched off and sealed all of the iFolder servers and also a number of servers that had no relation to iFolder whatsoever.

Agava considers that unprecedented event as putting in jeopardy and dimming the future of every business in Runet. We are determined to challenge and overcome the excessive and destructive actions we encountered, to protect our customer's interests. We thank our clients in advance for their patience, and for media and other support they provide us with.

Highly Recommended to Read:

2010-02-27T05:06:00.000-08:00

Divine Prostitution by Mikhail Armalinsky, Minnessota, United States -

http://russianliterature.blogspot.com/2010/02/divine-prostitution.html

The most famous books about Soviet aggression against Finland in 1939-1940 I'm recommending for you, my friends:

2010-01-05T10:53:00.000-08:00

1. Born a soldier. The Times and Life of Larry a Throne. By J. Michel Cleverly.
25 euros.

2. Finland at War 1939-45. By Philip Jowett and Brent Snodgrass.
18 euros.

3. Frozen Hell. By William Trotter.
17 euros.

4. White Death. By Robert Edwards.
17 euros.

5. The Winter War. By Eloise Engle and Lauri Paananen.
22 euros.

6. The Winter War. William Trotter.
16 euros.

7. The Winter War. By Robert Edwards.
32 euros.

And you may also buy another books (in Finnish) on that theme in Academic Bookstore in Helsinki (Akateminen Kirjakauppa), situated on the corner of Keskuskatu and pohj. Esplanadi, near Schwedish theatre.

Dear Gnostic brothers and sisters,

2009-12-23T13:34:00.000-08:00

I wish to congradulate you with Saviour's Incarnation Day. Merry Christmas, and don't forget about our common serving to Gnosis.

Alex Moma, Ecclesia Gnostica Russica.

For Radical, liberal and libertarian friends.

2009-12-22T08:41:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

tomorrow,

in December, 23, in 5 o'clock in Moscow will be process against Radical party and Free Radicals activist Serge Konstantinov according to paragraph 20.2 of Russian Administrative Code. There's no risk of his inprisonment (5 -- 15 days) on that paragraph (unlike p. 19.3), but there's a risk of fee and, as a result of such verdict, a risk of his (and Mikhail's too) future criminal prosecution (on falsified basis - article 318, "violence against representative of authorities") in the case of administrative judging of Serge.

Today's process against Mikhail Kriger on p. 20.2 wasn't finished again because of police's falsification of the proceeding's documents. Earlier falsified administrative proceeding against Mikhail and Serge according to paragraph 19.3 were returned to the police by judge.

I hope somebody of European Deputies or somebody from the Italian embassy in Moscow will present on these process for supporting Serge.

The Address of the court:
Moscow, Center, Novaya Ploshchad', 7\8, build. 1.

Thanks you.
Alex Moma, partito radicale, Moscow.

Serge and Mikhail were freed yesterday. But the administrative processes against them will be.

2009-12-15T16:14:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

After 48 hours in the police district Mikhail and Serge were freed. BUT - ...

see the post right above this.

Dear friends,

2009-12-12T10:03:00.000-08:00

Radical party and Free Radicals activist Serge Konstantinov and Solidarity movement activist Mikhail Kriger were arrested today in Moscow during the peaceful and nonviolent street action in support of Constitution and constitutional freedoms.

Police falsifies against them paragraph 19.3 of Russian Administrative Code, and there's a high risk of their unlawful imprisonment on 5 -- 15 days.

The phone numbers of the ploice district: +7 495 623 25 24, +7 495 623-25-25.

Thank you for possible help!

Alex Moma.

2009-11-21T05:05:00.000-08:00

Excuse me for long silence. This year (and, as I hope, only this year in so wild life-regime) because of serious scientific and, at the same time, Gnostic work I have no free time to write here, because posts in English occupies more time and personal energy than in Russian as a native. But today I'd wanted to celebrate with you (virtually) an important data in the history of modern Europe: yesterday, according to the decision of Russian Constitutional Court, death penalty in Russia was de-facto finally prohibited. We, Radical Party's and "Free Radicals" activists, are very glad and hope that our so-called "parliament", at least, will ratify the
6th Additional Protocol to the Human rights convention of the European Union, that prohibites death penalty on the lewel of internal law.

Thanks to all of you, who signed our petitions against death penalty in Russia (and all around the world).

Partito Radicale transnazionale on Facebook.

2009-11-21T05:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Partito-Radicale-Nonviolento-transpartito-transnazionale/305075195136

HRF's petition for the investigation of political assassination in Chechnya.

2009-07-15T23:34:00.000-07:00

http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Estemirova?rk=zd20Yd6qtniXE

Sign it, please!

Petition to U.S. President against increasing neo-nazi violence in Rusia.

2009-07-02T03:03:00.000-07:00

http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/fd_medvedev

Gay-Pride in Finland.

2009-06-30T14:40:00.000-07:00

I think this year's Helsinki Pride Parade was even much better than 2 years ago, because:
1. There's no terrible heat like that time - only 20 degrees now, and cloudly. So fine!
2. My old friend Petri now guides me in special kahvila...
3. The musical part (in the park, after parade) was better, than 2 years ago.
4. As it seems to me, today there were much more beautiful (namely beautiful) girls and young people in common.
5. There was much more heterosexuals (like me), many with their children. And without traditional for Russia clerical-orthodox fucking bullshit' roarings about "destroying of family´s values", etc.
6. Food in the park wasn't so expensive: tea for 1, and sausage for 1.50 E.

Reposting: Human Rights First on Facebook and Twitter. Join and discuss!

2009-06-13T22:44:00.001-07:00

Dear friends!

Will you join Human Rights First on Facebook?

HRF have launched a Facebook page where you can find information about our current campaigns and take action on critical human rights issues online.

Become a fan now and join the HRF-community.

Its page is new and growing – they are posting new videos, blogs and commentary daily to keep you up to date on what’s going on at Human Rights First and within the broader human rights community.

You may join it at http://www.facebook.com/humanrightsfirst.

You can also follow HRF on Twitter: http://twitter.com/humanrights1st

Sign the petition in support of repressing art-curators in Russia!

2009-06-03T19:08:00.000-07:00

Drop Charges against Russian Art Curators.

In Moscow, Yury Samodurov, a human rights activist, and Andrey Erofeev, a museum curator, are facing criminal prosecution for organizing an exhibition entitled "Forbidden Art 2006" at the Andrei Sakharov Museum. In June 2007, an ultranationalist religious organization, Narodnyj Sobor, submitted a formal complaint about the exhibition to the public prosecutor's office, which brought charges against Samodurov and Erofeev for inciting religious and ethnic hatred under article 282 of the Penal Code. The two men could be sentenced to up to five years imprisonment. The Tagansky District Court in Moscow is scheduled to resume hearing the case behind closed doors on June 5, 2009.

Human Rights First has documented a disturbing pattern of threats and assaults against human rights activists in Russia over the past few years. The Russian authorities have also increased bureaucratic and legal harassment of human rights organizations, launching investigations and prosecutions, disrupting public events, and carrying out raids and searches on dubious grounds. Several human rights defenders and supporters of opposition groups in Russia have faced criminal charges for expressing dissenting opinions or criticizing government authorities.

The charges brought against Samodurov and Erofeev represent the latest attempt to curtail freedom of expression in Russia. Antiextremist legislation-and in particular Article 282 dealing with incitement to hatred-has been misused to target human rights activists and other non-violent activists who are critical of the government. Take action now to demand that the charges against Yury Samodurov and Andrey Erofeev are dropped and the case closed.

You may sign it here:
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Art?rk=H720Yd6qPAd5E

If somebody didn't read it, I'm recommending to read.

2009-05-11T17:26:00.000-07:00

James Robinson (well-known editor of the Nag Hammadi Library in English),
"The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel". New York, Harper & Collins, 2007.

From the review by Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty, published in http://www.radicalacademy.com :

The original document, designated as "The Gospel of Judas," has been, according to Professor Robinson, "kept under wraps until now, to maximize its financial gain for its Swiss owners. The grand expose is being performed by the National Geographic Society, timed for the greatest public impact, right at Easter. Those on the inside have been bought off (no doubt with considerably more than thirty pieces of silver), and sworn to silence on a stack of Bibles -- or on a stack of papyrus leaves." Robinson's book was obviously rushed into print (there are citations from as late as February of this year) and I suspect this was done to predate National Geographic's "Grand Event" and provide a contextual background for it when it occurs.

----------------

I've just red an official Russian translation of the book and say thank you to Dr. Robinson for this honest research.

Concerning recent political murderings in Russia. Take this action of the Human Rights First!

2009-01-26T09:30:00.000-08:00

.... Demand that Killers of Human Rights Defenders in Russia be Brought to Justice
On January 19, Stanislav Markelov, a human rights defender and lawyer, was gunned down in the middle of the afternoon in downtown Moscow. Anastasia Baburova, a freelance reporter working for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta who was with Markelov and tried to intervene, was also shot and died hours later.

Markelov was a well-known and respected figure in Russia's human rights community. He was the president and founder of the Rule of Law Institute, an organization formed to protect human rights and the rule of law. As a lawyer, he represented victims of human rights abuses in Chechnya, independent journalists, and victims of neo-Nazi violence. Baburova had written a number of reports on Russia's growing problem of racism and neo-Nazi violence for Novaya Gazeta.

Russian human rights defenders, including lawyers, journalists, and other activists, are used to dangerous conditions such as violence, threats, and unfair prosecution. But the brazen killing of two human rights defenders, in daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses, marks an alarming deterioration brought about by impunity for prior attacks. The Russian authorities must conduct a prompt, thorough, and transparent investigation, identify those responsible, and bring them to justice.

SIGN THIS PETITION! Here:

http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Markelov?rk=Q120Yd61HigCE

I support Israel. Completely.

2009-01-15T14:52:00.000-08:00

I think its actions against HAMAS are absolutely justicial. Israel realizes its root right on self-defense and long-term anti-terroristic strategy. I hope this campaign will be more successful than "Lebanon" campaign-2006.

"My" Transnational Radical Party also allways supported Israel as democratic state.

Good night.

Sites of civil activists who are takes part in the protest campaign against "anti-pedophilic" paranoia:

2008-12-30T12:24:00.001-08:00

http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/index.php

http://www.inquisition21.com

http://www.reckoning.obu-investigators.com

Death of jazz-legend

2008-12-30T12:16:00.000-08:00

Freddie Hubbard, widely regarded as the most gifted jazz trumpeter of the post-bebop '60s and '70s, died Monday at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 70.

The cause of death was attributed to complications from a heart attack he suffered Nov. 26, according to Dave Weiss, his longtime manager.
(Los Angeles Times)

RIP

Cite from Russian Post-Modern Writer.

2008-12-03T12:32:00.000-08:00

- Why does it happen that all these people who were so thoroughly and publicly soul-fucked every day since they were born are so afraid to touch someone who was allegedly fucked up the ass?

- It's because they want to keep absolute anal virginity for their Lord, this is very important in their religion.

Victor Pelevin. "ППППП" M., 2008.

To our Congress.

2008-11-30T09:21:00.000-08:00

Moscow's FREE RADICALS Libertarian Movement, an unofficial Russian branch of the Nonviolent Radical Party, celebrates this month its second anniversary and holds its Third Congress the day after tomorrow.

To tell you the truth, for Russian liberal and liberatrian activists it's not easy task to find a hall for their movements' gatherings and meetings. Kremlin's and local authorities makes all that only possible for preventing our Congresses. For example, recently radically oppositional all-Russian future "The Solidarity" Democratic Forces Movement have had a Congress of its Moscow Branch, that cold be held on three weeks earlier than it was: not in November, 23, but in November, 2. But earlier the concert halls owners were afraid of the possible and threatened future repressions from the authorities and rejected to organizers in the halls providing.

But our movement is not large, and we hope we'll have no problems (especially "in the last minutes") with the small hall or even room for our Congress.

UPD: We've provided it!

My dear Gnostic friends,

2008-11-27T04:54:00.000-08:00

I need your help.

Could you scan and send me by e-mail an introduction to the Pistis Sophia edition by George Horner (not G.R.S. Mead!) of 1924 ?

I need this material for the future intro to the Pistis Sophia Russian edition. My attempts to receive it in Russian and Finnish libraries were unsuccessful.

Beforehand thanks, -

Alex Moma,
Translator of the Pistis Sophia into Russian.

My e-mail: alex_rainy @ yahoo.com

The FIRST edition of St. Paul.

2008-11-27T04:42:00.000-08:00

the revolutionary work of PAUL-LOUIS COUCHOUD (1928)-----Harnack followed the ecclesiastical authors without critically examining their assertions. He relied on them. If he had been aware of the fact that Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius could not have thought otherwise than they did without becoming heretic and that their opinion depended completely on their faith, he would have agreed that it made sense to take up the question once again and to handle the question with purely critical method. Yet critical investigation stands against the assumptions of the ecclesiastical authors. It shows as we will see, that the Apostolicon is not a mutilation of the long edition but, on the contrary, that the long edition is nothing but a reworked and extended Apostolicon. In other words, the text reconstructed by Harnack is the genuine edition of the Paulina. It is the oldest version available to us.
-----full text:

http://www.radikalkritik.de/couch_engl.htm
http://www.radikalkritik.de/Couch_engl.pdf

Taken here: http://community.livejournal.com/gnosticism

Thanks to the post' author.

New Future UN Resolution Concerning Death Penalty.

2008-11-27T04:13:00.000-08:00

UN. THIRD COMMISSION APPROVES NEW PRO-MORATORIUM RESOLUTION

November 20, 2008.
The Third Commission of the United Nations’ General Assembly approved, for the second consecutive year, the draft resolution on the 'Moratorium on the use of the death penalty.' 105 countries voted in favour, 48 against, with 31 abstentions. Compared to the resolution approved by the same commission in 2007, there was an increase of 6 favourable votes, a decrease of 4 votes against, and two less abstentions. "The UN vote records a positive trend towards the abolition of the death penalty around the world over the last ten years. It also rewards our efforts to end, through the moratoria, the aberration of a nation becoming Cain in order to defend Abel," Sergio D'Elia, Hands Off Cain Secretary, commented.

The resolution was introduced at the Assembly by the Chilean representative, under the name of a coalition or representative countries from all continents. There were 89 co-sponsors of the resolution this year, two more than the previous year. Countries for the death penalty presented 7 amendments. This included two affirming the principle of the internal sovereignty of nations, that if approved would have weakened the political strength of the text. They were all denied by a widening majority with respect to last year. In substance, the text (which is much more concise than the one in 2007) concentrated on the moratoria. It also relaunched the previous year’s resolution, favourably saluting the decision of countries that put into practice the moratoria. Reminding the Assembly of the global trend towards the elimination of the death penalty, the text welcomes the relevant Report by the Secretary General.

The definitive approval of the text by the General Assembly is scheduled for mid December, and the text establishes that the Assembly will return to discuss it within two years.

http://www.handsoffcain.info

This Saturday

2008-11-17T02:22:00.000-08:00

I've baptized in the Thelemic "Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica", as decided in September. Moscow's Thelemites from O.T.O.'s Pan's Asylum Camp and its Church are my good friends, and according to their invites I took part in the Gnostic Masses - during past 2 years every 3-4 weeks. Also I red and heard the lections in Moscow's Colledge "Thelema-93". So, now I'm a spiritual member of O.T.O.

At the same time, I'm staying, of course, a "strict" Gnostic and Gnostic texts' translator and researcher and as a member of classical Gnostic "Ecclesia Gnostica Russica" (created in Saint-Petersburgh not as a branch or a parish, but as a follower-in-common of the "Ecclesia Gnostica"; I was its co-ordinator since January until July, 2007). As I know, there are only two large esoteric organisations of Occultic type - Theosophical Society (including its Russian branch), and O.T.O., those position concerning their adept's membership in and studying of another Occultic and esoteric organisations \ traditions is completely positive.

Message of Radical MEP Marco Cappato to the World Congress "Right to Die" Participants.

2008-11-07T12:58:00.000-08:00

Paris, November 2008
Dear Jean-Luc, dear Elke, dear Jacqueline, dear participants to the Right to Die - World Congress, Unfortunately, due to the Congress of Radicali italiani, which is happening exactly in the same days, we - as Nonviolent Radical Party, Radicali italiani and Associazione Luca Coscioni - cannot be with you in Paris today for your important Congress.

Nonetheless, we have been together some time ago for the conference that the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats has hosted in the European Parliament, entitled "Medically Assisted Dying and Euthanasia - a matter of human rights".

As you will recall, that conference has been an important moment from different perspectives: it was the first event of this relevance in the European Parliament, bringing together so many people from different countries and from different fields, from politicians to legal experts, from bio-ethicists to witnesses, from NGOs to citizens. We have discussed and analysed the situation in those States that have legalized euthanasia as well as in those that have not, and the respective consequences. We have evaluated legal reports underlining how assisted dying and euthanasia are in full conformity with Conventions on human rights. We have drafted a resolution / declaration going further, affirming that fully recognising the right to dignity leads to regulation and legalization of end of life decisions and euthanasia.

Your contribution to that conference has been fundamental. You have provided participants with your experience on the field of campaigning for the right to die in dignity, and you have provided us with suggestions on the declaration / resolution, which participants to the Conference have officially endorsed. At the same time we continue the campaign to get to a legal recognition of living wills and for the right to die in dignity. As you will imagine, we have as adversaries on this campaign in Italy the Vatican and their "representatives" in the Italian Parliament, both in the majority and in the opposition. Some important judicial developments have taken place, starting with the case of Piero Welby (our Co-President) and Eluana Englaro - but the regime and its representatives are still trying to block any change, including by taking jurdicial and legislative action. The public opinion is with us - and any support from international campaigners is welcome.

I believe that something that is needed, and on which the World Federation could be active, is to launch a network of legislators, Ministers, Political Party leaders, but also actors, directors, university professors at the international, European and national level, to bring together their energies for a European and international campaign, aimed at raising awareness and build public and political support for change.

Dear friends, we shall work together to do this. The work ahead of us is huge! I wish you, together with my friends from the Nonviolent Radical Party and the Association Luca Coscioni I have the honour to chair, to have a productive conference and lets' campaign together on medically assisted dying and euthanasia - which is first of all a matter of human rights!

Regards, Marco Cappato, MEP, Nonviolent Radical Party, Luca Coscioni Association

http://www.radicalparty.org

Vote for Libertarian Party Candidates!

2008-11-03T10:33:00.000-08:00

http://lp.org

http://bobbarr2008.com

And fuck off them both: clerical-moralistic Republicans and "socialist" Democrats!

Georgia.

2008-10-29T13:23:00.000-07:00

An interview of Georgian Foreign Affairs Minister concerning this year's Russian aggressive war against Georgia. Video of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: http://www.rferl.org/video/218.html

Radicals Deputies of E.U. Pannella and Cappato: THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ASKS TO STOP VIETNAM'S WAR AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS.

2008-10-25T22:56:00.000-07:00

Brussels, 22nd October 2008

With 479 votes in favour and only 21 against the European parliament adopted the Resolution put forward by the Radical MEPs Marco Cappato and Marco Pannella on the EU-Vietnam relations. In the document approved today, the European parliament asks the European Commission not to sign any agreement before the Vietnamese counterpart complies and respects the following conditions:

- A guarantee to the United Nations of an unfettered access to the entire country, including the central and northern highlands, where the Montagnard people live;

- The release of all of the political prisoners, including 300 Christian Montagnards as well as Khmer Krom Buddhist Monks, Human Rights activists, authors of petitions on land property, cyber-dissidents, trade unions leaders, catholic priests and members of the Hoa Hoa Buddhist church and the Cao Dai religion;

- To quash the house arrest sentence inflicted to Tich Quang Do, Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, and to the Kmer Krom monk Tim Sakhorn;

- To allow independent religious organisations to freely exercise their activities; to give back the ecclesiastic properties and pagodas which have been confiscated by the Vietnamese government and to restore the juridical status of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam;

- To abrogate the Vietnamese legislation dispositions which persecute any dissent and the exercise of certain religious activities.

Cappato and Pannella stated: “With its vote, the Parliament asks the Commission and the Council to respect its own European legality, which stipulates that all commercial agreements be subordinated to the Human Rights clause. The Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty commits to make sure that this vote will be observed. We will also inform the Italian Government about the seriousness of this situation and about the necessity to act immediately by means of official statements and actions”.

Source:
http://www.radicalparty.org

Censorship. Version 2.0. Analysis of Radio Free Europe \ Radio Liberty

2008-10-25T22:43:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK -- Sergei Kuznetsov, who founded one of Russia's first blogs in the early 1990s, was recently approached with an offer from a company affiliated with the Kremlin.

The company, whose name he did not reveal, presented a budget of millions of rubles to be used exclusively for public relations in the world of Russian blogs. Kuznetsov had the influence and the technical skills, and the government evidently had the interest.

Kuznetsov's situation is not unique in today's Russian Internet, or RuNet.

The second fastest-growing national cyberspace in the world, it has nearly 4 million blogs and counting -- which means an increasing opportunity for dissenting voices and pluralism of opinions.

But the co-opting of prominent bloggers and leaders of online-based political movements exemplifies the Kremlin's use of "soft," or indirect power to counter the Internet's democratizing potential, says Robert Saunders, a member of russian-cyberspace.org, an online scholarly research group focusing on the Russian Internet.

Read more:
http://www.rferl.org/content/Kremlin_Soft_Power_Keeping_Participatory_Internet_In_Check/1332812.html

Good "American" Social-Educational Analog of our Transnational Radicals -

2008-10-18T13:27:00.000-07:00

The International Society for Individual Liberty is an association of individuals and organizations dedicated to building a free and peaceful world, respect for individual rights and liberties, and an open and competitive economic system based on voluntary exchange and free trade. Members and affiliated organizations pursue these goals through independent action, using their freely chosen strategies. The association exists to promote the exchange of information and ideas, to study diverse strategies and to foster fellowship.

More:

http://www.isil.org/about

Radical Party activists continues a campaign for the defence of Tarek Aziz' life.

2008-10-18T11:43:00.000-07:00

October 11, 2008: Radical leader Marco Pannella held a press conference with lawyer Mario Lana at Montecitorio regarding Tarek Aziz, Saddam Hussein's ex Foreign Affairs Minister. Aziz has been detained in Iraq since 2003 and is at risk of being sentenced to death. Lana met the ex Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister many times and collaborated with him in Iraq.

'Tareq Aziz has only known the charges against him since 2007: being complicit in the so called Friday Mosque attack and the massacre of Iraqi merchants,' Lana explained.

But what worries the lawyer is a new charge that will cause a third trial. 'Last weekend a new charge of complicity in the deportation of the Kurdish population was formulated. It is a very serious charge that, if confirmed, could result in a death sentence,' Lana said.

'They are war crimes or crimes against humanity, which according to past experience should be judged by an international or at least mixed tribunal. Aziz has been denied this,' Lana emphasised.

It is in this context that 'Hands Off Cain' commits to its campaign for Aziz. Pannella said the campaign to prevent Saddam Hussein's execution was 'a gamble but not a failure,' and now he is fighting against time to save Tarek Aziz's life.
'We've already had a victory with the intervention of Lana and the mobilisation of public support. We have remembered a man that everyone left to die,' Pannella observed.

Aziz has been held since 2003 in Camp Propper, an Iraqi jail under American control.

http://www.handsoffcain.info
http://www.radicalparty.org

Book about (and against) anti-sexual paranoia in the modern United States.

2008-10-18T11:38:00.000-07:00

Judith Levine. Harmful to Minors. The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex.
University of Minnesota Press, 2002; 302 p.; ISBN 0-8166-4006-8

Author had a 2-years problems with publication of that book-issue.
Highly recommended.

Russian Democratic Activists Supports Full-Time Broadcasting of the U.S. Congress Sponsored RADIO LIBERTY. I'm signing also.

2008-10-12T12:49:00.000-07:00

Vladimir Bukovsky
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr.
Boris Nemtsov

Broadcasting Board of Governors
330 Independence Avenue SW
Washington DC 20237

October 3, 2008

Dear Board Members:

It is with concern and bewilderment that we have learned of the plans by the Broadcasting Board of Governors to reduce broadcasts of the Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian service from January 1, 2009.

As you know, in recent years the Russian government has established a near-total control over national broadcasters. Russian citizens no longer have access to objective political information. Opposition leaders are barred from the airwaves, and only government-approved views are presented. Just last month Radio Ekho Moskvy, the last remaining major independent outlet, came under pressure from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin over its coverage of the war with Georgia.

It is difficult to understand why, in such a context, the BBG would wish to reduce the Russian broadcasts of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, which provides a rare voice of independence for hundreds of thousands of Russian listeners.

The official explanation that funds will be transferred to RFE/RL Russian-language website makes little sense, since government censorship in Russia affects mostly television and radio, while the internet is independent. In addition, the majority of Russians do not have access to the internet.

We express our hope that you will reconsider this decision.

Vladimir Bukovsky
Fmr. Presidential Candidate;
Delegate, Congress of Democratic
Forces of Russia

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr.
Fmr. Parliamentary Candidate;
Delegate, Congress of Democratic
Forces of Russia

Boris Nemtsov
Fmr. Deputy Prime Minister;
Delegate, Congress of
Democratic Forces of Russia

(In Russian, shortly: http://community.livejournal.com/ru_radioliberty/238149.html)

For Tibet!

2008-08-31T10:45:00.000-07:00

The "Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty" and the "Italian Radicals" joined officially the nonviolent initiative promoted by the Tibetan Government in exile.

FOR TIBET!

The “Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty” and the “Italian Radicals” joined officially the nonviolent initiative promoted by the Tibetan Government in exile. For the first time, the Tibetan authorities in exile in Dharamsala, India, have suggested to the Tibetan diaspora, to the Tibetan living in China and to all the supporters of their struggle, an extraordinary, coordinated mobilization. On Saturday, August 30th anybody who wants show his own support for the Tibetans and for the Dalai Lama Nonviolent struggle, have been encouraged by the Tibetan Prime Minister, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, to observe a symbolic 12-hour long fasting. The Fasting shall be observed from 7/8 a.m. till 7/8 p.m. for 12 hours. The President of the Tibetan Government in Exile asks to observe fasting, silence, meditation and prayers, but he also encourages to spread information to support the cause of Free Tibet, to urge the choice of a dialog and the need to say the truth on a regime which, for 60 years, has been occupying and repressing the so called “ Roof of the world”.
This morning, trough a letter signed by Marco Pannella, Marco Perduca, Matteo Mecacci and Maurizio Turco, the Nonviolent Radical Party informed the President Samdhong Rinpoche, located in Dharamsala that the Radicals will give their support, once again, to the Tibetan authorities by adhering to their initiative.
By adhering, the leaders of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty stressed the importance of the active nonviolent initiative, promoted and coordinated for the first time by the top democratic leaders of the Tibetan Government in exile in India , and they reiterated their willingness to support their proposals for autonomy. Furthermore, they reaffirmed the opportunity to make public, preemptively, the plan which is going to be submitted to the Chinese Authorities by a delegation which will be sent in October to Beijing from the Dalai Lama.

We ask you, this time, to join not only us, but the whole Tibetan Community.

http://www.radicalparty.org/appello_tibet/form.php?lang=en

2008-08-22T11:54:00.001-07:00

Stop Russian aggression! Sign the petition.

2008-08-18T13:46:00.000-07:00

Russia decided to invade a sovereign democratic Georgia. Russia is bombing georgian cities, airports, railway, stadiums, civilian blocks, and everything that can be leveld to the ground. While international community stands by, thousands of civilians are wounded and dieing from blasts comming from Russian tanks and air force. Russia has INVADED a democratic sovereign country!

Immediate action is required to Stop Russia. United States, European Union, United Nations and others must do everythin to stop this disaster as soon as possible. There is no time to stand by. Please sign the petition and inform everyone of the current events that are taking place.

Please be informed and alert: Russian government controlled media is spreading missinformation about the events that are taking place in Georgia, claiming that they are supporting peace, and Georgians are to blame. Do not be fooled by the tricks of the russian television.

http://www.stoprussia.org/

Sign the petition for Georgia's affiliation with NATO!

2008-08-16T03:56:00.000-07:00

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
NATO Secretary General
Dear Mr. Secretary General,

We, citizens of Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and other countries, strongly ask you to convoke an extraordinary session of the NATO Council with the aim of affiliation Republic of Georgia as a member of NATO already in the nearest days or weeks. As you surely know Georgia is a democratic European state which seriously suffered from the direct and unexampled during almost a century (since 1920) straight military aggression of Russian Federation.

We are convinced that any delay in the Georgia’s affiliation with NATO represents a real danger for safety of this country that we love and about safety of which we worry very much.

Sincerely, –
Alex Moma, Russia
Nikolay Baev, Russia
Serge Konstantinov, Russia
Pavel Nikulin, Russia

For adding your signatoure, please, indicate your name, surname and country, and\or city here: http://community.livejournal.com/politics_free/719092.html (there this statement is in Russian also).

Please, distribute this link above more widely.
Thank you.

My friends, please, translate it in your native languages and distribute it. Thank you.

2008-08-11T12:57:00.000-07:00

TIBET: message from Marco Pannella to the Tibetan militants on a thirst-strike in India.

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"Unfortunately, I just saw the news today that was announced on August 4 that a number of marchers on their way to Tibet have undertaken a thirst and hunger-strike.”
In our urgency, we have sent this message to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile.
We invite all to translate this message into Tibetan, Chinese, Uyghur, Montagnard, Cechen, Laotian, Vietnamese, Birmese and Esperanto (and any other languages) and to forward it.
Dear Comrades in the struggle for hope and idealism,
I just read that you have reached the fourth or fifth day in a thirst-strike in your effort to give voice, body and strength to your response of nonviolence, that is, the love of truth, because even those who may allude to the use of violence is reached by your hope and faith and an affirmation of the life-choice of freedom and compassion.
I wish to beg of you to never forget, today and always, that nonviolence means risking life not death. Every death is a defeat, every death in our struggle as well as those which are certain from life’s inertia represent a painful defeat for us.
We must absolutely avoid falling into the temptation of hurling our bodies as a weapon against our “enemy.” The distorted use of nonviolence, especially in the West, has led to this error where striking out with our own bodies against our aggressors transforms them into murderers. We must know and remember that every martyr, each martyr has a human cost matched by that of the assassin that we have inadvertently created. The opposite is true, however, of our honourable pacifism but never passivity, armed with nonviolence and compassion.
Despite my very different personal history, I feel that, more and more, Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is perhaps our greatest spiritual, that is to say vital treasure. For me, it is what is meant when we refer to “soul.”
I am also convinced that His Holiness the Dalai Lama can or could have made political mistakes with his government. At least as far as I can discern from his own statements regarding reforms that he has imagined over the last ten years for a liberated Tibet, not only from its violators, its occupiers, but also regarding the harmonious balance between science and nature in respect to the Earth, politics, and Humanity.
I think I understand, as I’ve had the honour and love of being heard and listened to by Him even in criticisms, that even this Master remains well aware that understanding and acting on prophetic signs are steps to be taken with the gentlest, most cautious care and love.
With these thoughts, with this struggle like that carried out by us at the Nonviolent Radical Party with our comrades and our Uyghur, Mongol, and Montagnard comrades and those oppressed peoples in Vietnam, Laos, Birmania, Chechnya, and North Korea, we are all beginning to better understand that the struggle for Tibet, along with all the others in the territories of the far East and those not so far, is also a conscious struggle for a Free China.
Our very force excludes caving in to desperation, to anger, to scourn and the blindness of rage, to cruelty, to the violence of the powerful, for millenium the embodiment of madness induced by the impotence provoked by illusions of violence. These are the thoughts at the heart of our Party and you inspire us. You have our gratitude and you are our hope, even though you may lose hope yourselves sometimes, and, for this, now and tomorrow, I will continue to lay myself out besides you and implore you: never choose death, never die for a lack of prudence and hope, for anger and hate against those who oppress you and want your deaths, the end of what we are and for what we hope.
Even in a thirst-strike, we are responsible for all good and all bad, of all life and all death, with which we will ultimately create. I await your reply with faith, love and strength. For today, for these hours and these days so common, but also for the rest of our lives and our nonviolent struggle. I truly hope that this reaches all of you, without exception, alive, and with this opportunity to grow together in the strength of the truth and nonviolence.

http://www.radicalparty.org

Georgian ambassador had a speach in the UN.

2008-08-11T12:39:00.000-07:00

Mister President, distinguished members of the Security Council. Let me express gratitude for you for this chance to address Security Council. Today’s special session of the Security Council is elaboration(?) on grave escalation of the situation in Tshenvali region of Georgia. First of all, I will reflect on recent events that have led to this tragic deterioration.

On August 1, at about 8 AM Tbilisi Time pickup vehicle of the Georgian police officers was hit by two remote control devices. As a result of that attack 5 Georgian policemen were severely wounded. The central authorities decided not to retaliate in order to not to escalate the situation.

On August 2, 6 civilians and one Georgian policeman were injured after the shelling of Georgian villages in South Ossetia conflict zone overnight. The seven Georgian controlled villages came under intense fire from the South Ossetian separatists with large caliber mortars. Georgian law enforcement shot back defensively for some time but then received an order to cease fire in order not to escalate the situation.

On August 3rd, South Ossetian separatists’ government announced the evacuation of more than five hundred people including 400 children. However, Deputy Prime Minister of Russians North Ossetian Republic told the Interfax news agency that it was not an evacuation. Sending children to North Ossetia was part of prearranged summer camp program, as he explained. Russian media outlets started a massive propaganda campaign against Georgia.

On August 6, late, separatists opened mortar fire at Georgian populated villages of Eredvi, and other 4 villages. Georgian government forces fired back in order to defend the positions of civilian population. As a result of intense crossfire during the night two servicemen of Georgian battalion of joined peacekeeping forces were injured. Separatists’ regime also claimed several injured persons on their side. Despite the targeted attacks on a peaceful population and villages as well as on the Georgian police and the peacekeeping forces the central authorities decided not to respond through heavy exchange of fire in order not to injure the local population. Tem??? ???shvili, Georgian chief negotiator and Minister for Reintegration said in a late night television remarks on the August 6 that it was a position of Georgian government that only direct dialog with Tshenvali authorities would solve the deteriorating security situation. Mister Jacubosvili also stressed that ambassador at large Jury Popov would attend the talks as a facilitator. South Ossetia’s chief negotiator Boris Chuchev refused to take part in this negotiations.

On August 7, during the night intensive fire came from Ossetian villages from four different positions. Separatists’ authorities continued shelling Georgian law enforcement and peacekeeping units with mortars and artillery. The central authorities responded with limited fire in order to defend these positions. In the morning interview with the Russian news agency South Ossetian de-facto president Eduard Kokoity declared that if the Georgian government would not withdraw military forces from the region he would start “to clean them up”. The President Saakashvili in speaking with the journalists in the military hospital in Gory where he was visiting injured Georgian servicemen said that despite attacks on the Georgian villages Tbilisi was showing maximum restrain. President also called on Russia to recall its officials from South Ossetia who consider themselves as so called South Ossetian government. Temur Jacubashvili who visited the conflict zone in the morning of August 7 to meet with the representatives of separatist’s government. The stated minister met with Marat Kulahmetov the commander of the joint peacekeeping forces in Tshinvali. But again separatists refuse to negotiate with him. The chairman of the separatists’ republic Security Council Parankevich threatened the armed grouping of Cossacks from the North Ossetia were headed toward South Ossetia to fight against Georgian forces. Separatists resumed shelling of Georgian villages by 16:00 the same day. Three Georgian servicemen were injured after the South Ossetian separatist forces blew up an infantry combat vehicle belonging to the Georgian peacekeeping battalion. Georgian police responded by firing towards the separatists armed grouping in the respected villages, where two separatist militiamen were killed and two more wounded. Later the checkpoint of Georgian peacekeepers was bombed in Abnevi and several Georgian servicemen and civilians were killed. President Saakashvili said in a live televised address made at 7:10 PM that he had ordered the Georgian forces to ceasefire in South Ossetia. He said there were casualties both dead and many people wounded. Saakashvili said that he ordered to cease fire on purpose to offer again to South Ossetia secessionists’ regime to resume talks. Despite Georgian decision not to return fire the Georgian village of Avnevi came under fire from Ossetian militia men at about 8:30 PM. It can be said that the village is totally destroyed as the result of this attack. The South Ossetian separatists’ armed groupings fired Georgian control villages of Prici at about 10:30 PM last night. The attack left several people wounded on the Georgian side. The same separatists’ authorities opened fire at all Georgian positions around the South Ossetia capital Tshinvali at about 23:30 last night including the villages of Tamarasheni and Kurta. The police station in Kurta was destroyed totally as a result of this heavy fire.

Excellencies, I want to state very clearly. The Russian Federation security and defense agencies have control and direction of illegal separatists’ authorities and armed formations. Numerous high ranking Russian officers from among the ranks of peacekeepers as well as others from the Russian military officials’ intelligence and law enforcement are serving in senior roles in Tshinvali. This is a clear violation of Russia’s obligations to remain neutral instead they have become the party of the conflict. These Russian officers and individuals include

Mr. Jury Morozov, the Prime Minister, born in Russian Federation. Before his appointment in the government in the South Ossetia in 2005, he was occupying different positions in Bashkiria.

Minzaev. The Minister of Internal Affairs from 2005. Colonel of Russian police. In 2004 during the counter-terrorist operation in Beslan was leading FSB special unit Alfa.

Anatoliy Barankevich. From 2006 Secretary of National Security Council of South Ossetia. Colonel of the Russian military forces. He has participated in Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in both Chechen wars.

Boris Atoev. Chairman of Committee of State Security (analog of KGB) since 2006, previously was holding different positions in Soviet KGB. After accomplishment of mission in Afghanistan he was appointed in the central apparatus of FSB in Moscow.

Vasiliy Lunev, Minister of Defense Of South Ossetia since March 2008. General of Russian army.

Vladimir Kotoev. Head of the Government Protection Service from 2007, colonel of Russian Army, participating in Chechen and Bosnian wars.

Ale(?) Chebodarev. Head of the State Border Protection since 2005, colonel of Russian FSB.

These individuals were granted impunity by Russian Federation from being held responsible for atrocities they have been committing .

Excellencies, the government military action was taken in self-defense. After repeated armed provocations and with the sole goal to protecting civilian population and preventing from loses of lives of population coming from the various ethnic backgrounds. We believe every democratic country would have reacted in similar fashion to protect their own citizens. Government acted because the separatists not only defied the ceasefire but sharply escalated violence, killing several peacekeepers and civilians within the hours of the ceasefire. Additional illegal forces were and are entering Georgian territory from the Russia through the Rocky tunnel threatening even worse violence. The separatists were also continuing to threaten to attack other parts of the country outside the South Ossetian region allegedly with the foreign assistance which is flowing into that region. Russian peacekeepers told Georgian officials they are unable to control separatists. Security situation was deteriorating and violence increasing rapidly. The separatists were not heeded for any appeal for the direct talks. Georgian six negotiating solution in the conflict with international engagement are offer of autonomy along European standards still there. With international guarantees including an elected regional parliament, elected regional president, sheer (?) sovereignty and protection of South Ossetian identity, culture and language are still on the table. Until such a solution is agreed the region, we think, should be governed by the elected head of South Ossetian administration Dmitry Sanakoev, an ethnic Ossetian and former separatists’ leader. We invite Russia to constructively engage in an economic rehabilitation as well as to contribute to the agreed security arrangements of the region. Government immediate goals at this point are to restore peace and to facilitate the return of normal life for all regional residents and allow the return of refugees and peace. We stand ready to ensure adequate supply of water, electricity, food, emergency, services, medical care, and shelter. Separatists’ leaders will be allegeable for amnesty. Humanitarian organizations will have an access to the region and Georgian government already has allocated funding totally 2 million euros to immediate humanitarian and emergency needs of that region.
Excellencies, by verified reports, as well as we speak, now huge contingency of military personnel and equipment are illegally entering Georgian sovereign territory through the Rocky tunnel. Russian Federation’s republic of North Ossetia declared the mobilization of armed mercenaries to be sent to Georgia. There are disturbing signs that we are facing the calculated provocation to escalate the situation to justify preplanned military intervention from Russian side. So we demand from the Russian Federation to prevent transit of armed mercenaries to Georgia, to exercise their influence to the separatists’ regime to stop attacks on the civilian population and start negotiations. As in my last address to this high forum I want to reiterate call to international community to explicitly condemn continuous infringements of the Georgian sovereignty and territorial integrity by the Russian Federation. Despite this most recent escalation I want to emphasize the Georgian government once again calls and shows its readiness to immediately begin peace talks for resolving the conflict in the South Ossetia and calls on the separatist rebels to cease their military actions and come to negotiating table.
Thank you very much.

Fascistic Russian Pseudo-Federation began bloody and agressive war against Georgia.

2008-08-09T18:02:00.000-07:00

Nothing to add.

Moratorium on the death penalty also for Tareq Aziz. Sign the Radical's petition!

2008-07-22T07:15:00.000-07:00

Moratorium on the death penalty also for Tareq Aziz.

Since Sunday 6 July 2008, Marco Pannella - Member of the European Parliament and President of the Nonviolent Radical Party - has been on a hunger strike to halt the anticipated death sentence and immediate execution of former Iraqi Minister Tareq Aziz, number two in Saddam Hussein's decades-long regime.

After the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Resolution on the "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" on 18 December 2007, hundreds of parliamentarians representing a broad political spectrum, Nobel laureates and other outstanding personalities worldwide have joined in support of the nonviolent action and adhered to the Appeal for a "Moratorium on the death penalty also for Tareq Aziz".

APPEAL

A bogus trial is currently underway in Iraq, which most probably will result in a death sentence for Tareq Aziz, number two in Saddam Hussein's decades-long criminal regime.

In his trial, Tareq Aziz, a Chaldean Christian, has been denied due legal process. He was left without a defence council after his Iraqi lawyer fled the country fearing assassination - as happened to Saddam Hussein's lawyer - and was denied the legal assistance offered by foreign lawyers.

Following the extraordinary nonviolent initiative of parliamentarians,institutional actors and the wider public which resulted in the adoption of the "Universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty" on 18 December
2007, we, the undersigned, demand consistency with this historic achievement and call for a: "Moratorium on the death penalty also for Tareq Aziz".

This appeal is not “merely” a humanitarian plea, but aims at a specific, concrete and targeted political objective: the defence of the rule of law and of the truth, the defence of legality and justice in Iraq. Halting the
upcoming death sentence and execution of Tareq Aziz, which - we reiterate - risk occurring without there having been a fair trial, would mark a clear departure from the methods and practices of Saddam's era and would ensure truth and justice for all victims of his regime, and not only for victims of the crimes for which Aziz is being tried.

Promoted by Transnational Radical Party

For adding your signature go here:
http://www.radicalparty.org/tareqaziz/form.php?lang=en

A table of worldwide ages of consent on sex, including U.S. (and not only) states.

2008-06-03T05:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

According to this info, my GREAT respect to:

Albania
Argentina (partly)
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Chili
China (with the exception of Hong-Kong and Macao)
Columbia
Croatia
Equador
Estonia
Germany
Cyprus, Greek part (partly)
Honduras
Hungary
Israel (partly)
Italy
Latvia (partly)
Lithuania
Lichtenstain
Mexico (partly)
Moldova
Montenegro
Peru
Phillipines
Portugal
Serbia
Puerto-Rico (territory, affiliated with the United States)

and -partly- some states of the USA:
Arcansas
Indiana
Iowa
South Carolina

And my GREATEST respect to:
South Korea
Spain
Burkina-Faso
Japan (partly)

Freshest news from Gay-Pride'08 (unlawfully prohibited by Moscow Mayor's dictatorship).

2008-06-01T17:28:00.000-07:00

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http://ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/08/May/3107.htm

I wish to recommend you this new book. Too actual to ignore it.

2008-05-10T06:49:00.000-07:00

America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty by Marty Klein Praeger Publishers; 2006, 212 p.; ISBN-13: 978-0275987855

In memoriam (better late, than never...)

2008-05-02T15:32:00.000-07:00

Dr. Albert Hofmann, Father of LSD, Dead at 102

Internet rumors of his passing have been confirmed for us by a friend of Dr. Hofmann's. Dr. Albert Hofmann died of a heart attack this morning at his home in Basel, Switzerland. Hofmann inadvertently discovered the effects of LSD while researching the substance in 1943. He subsequently self-administered the drug deliberately and produced the first accounts of its powerful psychedelic effects.

If you think 102 is old, just imagine how long he might have lived if he never did drugs!

Update: The above line is sarcasm.

Here:
http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy_main/2008/apr/29/dr_albert_hofmann_father_of_lsd_

Full Coptic text of the Pistis Sophia with its Latin translation, published in 1851.

2008-03-26T14:09:00.000-07:00

http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Pistis_sophia.pdf?id=YBYGAAAAQAAJ&hl=ru&output=pdf&sig=IAgWQAW2uFG02ZDcYeaKYQ2hasY

Real SCIENTIFIC literature.

2008-03-23T13:00:00.000-07:00

Some people published these links for downloads.

Here you may download the most famous books on Gnosticism
http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/03/gnostic-gospels.html

(Elanie Pagels "The Gnostic Gospels")

http://www.mininova.org/det/1101570

(Michael Allen Williams - "Rethinking "Gnosticism"", as a component of a large torrent file)

Stand with Tibet - Support the Dalai Lama!

2008-03-22T10:12:00.000-07:00

After decades of repression, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change. China's leaders are right now making a crucial choice between escalating brutality or dialogue that could determine the future of Tibet, and China.

We can affect this historic choice -- China does care about its international reputation. But it will take an avalanche of global people power to get the government's attention. The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has called for restraint and dialogue: he needs the world's people to support him. Fill out the form below to sign the petition--and spread the word.

Petition to Chinese President Hu Jintao:

As citizens around the world, we call on you to show restraint and respect for human rights in your response to the protests in Tibet, and to address the concerns of all Tibetans by opening meaningful dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Only dialogue and reform will bring lasting stability. China's brightest future, and its most positive relationship with the world, lies in harmonious development, dialogue and respect.

Act now to end the violence:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence

APPEAL IN SUPPORT OF UYGHUR NONVIOLENT LEADER REBIYA KADEER

2008-03-18T15:23:00.000-07:00

We undersigned Members of the European Parliament express our solidarity to the Uygur people, victim of the age-old oppression perpetrated by the Chinese regime in East Turkestan (Xinjiang region) and everywhere they are persecuted. In particular, we assert our support to Rebyia Kadeer, President of the Uygur World Congress, nonviolent leader and Member of the Nonviolent Radical Party, transnational and transparty, who served a six-year detention in Chinese jails and to her two sons Alim and Ablikim who are being detained for months. To seize the opportunity for a possible truce given by the incoming Olympic games and considering that the defence of human and political lights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the best radical tool to counter any form of terrorist aberration, we warmly call on the Chinese Government of the day to drop all accusations which criminalise an entire people and to respect effectively the Pact on Civil and Political Rights for the very Chinese citizens and for all the peoples of that live in China.

You may sign the appeal here:
http://www.radicalparty.org/uighur_appeal/form.php?lang=en

This appeal was initiated by the ALDE Group of European Parliament and promoted
by Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty.

Radical Party - India - Tibet

2008-03-15T05:35:00.000-07:00

13/03/2008 | Long March to Tibet: three Members of the Nonviolent Radical Party in India begin hunger strike to support more than 100 monks arrested.

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Dhera, India, 13 March 2008

• Statement by Matteo Mecacci, Sergio D’Elia e Marco Perduca, members of the radical delegation that has joined the march started last March 10th.
Today Indian authorities in the northern region of Kangra have arrested and jailed for 10 hours over 100 participants in "The Long March to Tibet". The demonstrators - mainly Tibetan monks - have all being condemned to 14 days of detention for having refused to sign a document stating that they would pledge not to continue their march. They are currently being held in the Yateri Niwas' detention centre.
According to a law which regulates the presence of foreigners in India, the demonstrators now risk up to 5 years of jail unless they sign the document mentioned above within the next 14 days.

The demonstrators have immediately gone on hunger strike in order to have the right to demonstrate respected and thus to continue their "Long March to Tibet". We have joined their hunger strike. It is likely that new initiatives will be taken within the next few hours.

For this reason we have decided to extend our stay in India, so that we will be able to keep track of this new, nonviolent initiative of our Tibetan friends.

Source:
http://www.radicalparty.org

Oh, my God, how I hate this fuckin' Soviet Fatherland!

2008-03-15T03:59:00.000-07:00

Russian police, like it was in Soviet times, recently de-facto announced a war against young people (punks, goths, hippies and so on) who looks not like ordinary men and women on our streets and in public places. Such young people permanently being arrested for so-called "anti-social clothes and behaviour" and fixed in the special rogues galleries of many police districts in Moscow and, probably, also other cities of this fucking state.

Putin's Russia often pretends to be called in the West as a "democratic state with an uniqual way of development". You must know, my dear readers, that it is lie. Russia becomes more and more fascistic and neo-Soviet state at one time - step by step and month by month, and this process became more active since so-called "presidential elections" (March, 2nd). I'm announcing (as I did it many times in my Russian blog at Livejournal.com) that I hate this fucking state and its repressive orders. I hate the authorities of this state and its flock of sheep who pretends to be called "citizens", but keep the silence (or strightly supports the authorities) about sovetization and fascization of this fucking, mad state.

It's imporatnt. Russian fascistic authorities wants to close the European University in St.-Petersburgh

2008-02-22T05:06:00.000-08:00

You may sign the petition in support of the European University in SPb. here:

http://www.gopetition.com/online/17080.html