Socially-acceptable forms of social change entail:
1) Refusing to question structures of power, leaving them exactly as they are
2) Asking those with power within those structures to behave a certain way.
3) When that fails, then adhering to the (rigged) rules of the game, to try to acquire official power oneself, which is costly, time-consuming, and likely to fail.
That's it. And given the fascism of the 2020s, those forms of social change will fail.
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Russia fires a record 728 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine, Ukrainian air force says
https://apnews.com/article/russia-record-drone-attack-ukraine-war-fe3d23673b9b5696bb5097def9ed0775?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Politique des transports - Le changement d'actionnaire majoritaire est désormais effectif chez Transdev. L'opérateur de transport public a en effet annoncé leMarie-Hélène Poingt (Ville, rail & transports)
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Minerals for peace? How to make the Rwanda-DRC deal stick.
By Lewis Mudge 🟦 HRW JUL-07
"A #US.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment. It is a mineral deal first, an opportunity for peace second. (...)"
#rwanda #DRC #peace #law
#humanrights #africa
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A U.S.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment.Human Rights Watch
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η ΕΕ καλεί η Αθήνα να στείλει στα δικαστήρια τις υποθέσεις διαφθοράς....
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Giants catcher Bailey makes history with game-ending, inside-the-park home run
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Rome Statute countries must explain why Netanyahu flights allowed in airspace
“Italian, French and Greek citizens deserve to know that every political action violating the international legal order, weakens and endangers all of them.”
Francesca Albanese
The countries, which are all parties to the Rome Statute, are obligated to arrest the Israeli prime minister.
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EU giving a f... about employee:
"Palestinian man who worked for the EU in #Gaza has appealed to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, after the closure of his office left him in Cairo without a job or residency rights.
He was “not consulted or warned” that he would be let go after nearly two decades of working for the EU."
Remember this when they want your money and kids to defend European values!
Be the diplomat, who has intervened on his behalf!
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Exclusive: Mohammed Baraka asks von der Leyen for help, saying he is stranded in Cairo without residency rightsLisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)
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Germany's government giving a f... about its own promises:
Bundesregierung:
Aufnahmeprogramm der Vorgängerregierung beenden.
Gericht:
Die Bundesregierung muss einer afghanischen Staatsangehörigen und ihrer Familie Visa zur Einreise nach Deutschland erteilen, nachdem entsprechende Zusagen gemacht wurden.
#Afghanistan
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It's funny how so many people are like "wow, Jack Dorsey's new bluetooth chat app, what a cool idea" .
.... *cough*
briarproject.org/
has been around since 2018...
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Well, that page says "Briar’s core protocol, threat model, development process, and user experience design began development in 2011 by Michael Rogers and Eleanor Saitta" 😀
(no idea what Dorsey did now)
same thing, but with an iOS app, which Briar does not have 😀 "and it made all the difference"
Weil das Löschen aus der Datenbank sehr wahrscheinlich noch nicht abgeschlossen ist. Wenn viel Content gelöscht werden muss, dauert das je nach Anzahl von Accounts gerne mal mehrere Wochen. Erst wenn alles gelöscht ist, wird ganz zum Schluss der Nutzer selbst gelöscht.
Es kann aber auch sein, dass es ein Problem beim Löschen gibt. Stichwort: foreign key constraints - dann siehst du aber entsprechende "DB error" Meldungen im Log.
worker [ERROR]: DB Error {"code":1451,"error":"Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails...
@Steffen K9 🐰 @Steffen K9 🍮
Danke dir. Da erscheinen (zum Glück) keine Einträge im friendica.log.
Dann warte ich mal noch ab. Seltsam nur, dass ich das bisher noch nie hatte, dass das so lange gedauert hat. Okay, es sind insgesamt ja auch 30 User. Vielleicht deswegen?
Wahrscheinlich ja. Kommt natürlich auch darauf an, wie viele Daten die Nutzerkonten in der DB gespeichert haben.
Habe zuletzt ca. 1200 Accounts in einem Rutsch gelöscht. Das hat 2 Monate gedauert. 😀 Während der Zeit sieht man auch ständigt DELETE FROM ... Queries, die teilweise sehr lange laufen.
@Tuxi ⁂ Am besten einmal im Monat Hausputz machen, dann kann nicht so viel auflaufen.😉
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Okay, heute tauchen genau sollche Logeinträge auf:
2025-07-10T12:30:34Z worker [ERROR]: DB Error {"code":1451,"error":"Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails (`dbname`.`post-engagement`, CONSTRAINT `post-engagement_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`owner-id`) REFERENCES `contact` (`id`))","params":"DELETE FROM `contact` WHERE (`id` = 5468731)","worker_id":"126cb6a","worker_cmd":null} - {"file":"Database.php","line":786,"function":"e","request-id":"686fb2694fbb2","stack":"Database::e (1273), Database::delete (369), DBA::delete (265), Contact::deleteById (31), Remove::execute, Worker::execFunction (378), Worker::execute (112), Worker::processQueue (91), Worker::doExecute (108), Console::execute (171), Console::doExecute (108), Console::execute (233), App::processConsole (25)","uid":"bcfbe4","process_id":714516}Und nu? Kann ich da irgendwas machen?
Musst du was manuell in 'post-engagement' löschen. Ist nicht ganz trivial rauszufinden, was genau.
Grundsätzlich betrifft es die id 5468731 in der Tabelle contact. Dieser Datensatz kann nicht gelöscht werden, weil er noch eine Referenz in post-engagement hat.
Ohne jetzt nachgesehen zu haben, hat wahrscheinlich der 'contact' mit id 5468731 auch eine owner-id. Die musst du per SELECT ... FROM contact WHERE ... rausfinden. Diese owner-id müsste sich auch in der Tabelle 'post-engagement' wiederfinden lassen.
Dann musst du erst in post-engagement die Datensätze löschen, die diese owner-id haben. Dann löst sich der Rest von selbst.
Das Ganze ohne Garantie. Bitte doppelt prüfen, ob du auch den richtigen Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Tabellen erwischst, sonst löscht du was falsches. 😀
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, hitting a refugee camp after a day of attacks that killed at least 95 people.Tim Hume (Al Jazeera)
How the heck did I pick up 25 shows this season? Why is this happening to me? 
I need to drop at least two or three... or more...
Israeli plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah tehrantimes.com/news/515401/Is…Israeli plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah
Israel's Israel Katz says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.Tehran Times
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I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the #Fediverse, but only on #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Bluesky, #Ghost and #Peertube.
Just one is on #Sharkey (👋🏻 @heiseBotti) and none on #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, #Piefed, #Misskey & Co. Are there really none there, or did I miss some?
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It's occurred to me that the only real application, in theory, for blockchain-enforced "smart contracts" would be something like international security guarantees.
For instance, if you want a Palestinian state to agree to be demilitarised, sure, if there's a system such that an attack by Israel would ⋅immediately and automatically⋅ trigger a comprehensive sanction regime, stop all international bank transfers in and out of Israel, invalidate all trade licences, etc.
Apart from political feasibility, it's not practical, of course. What ⋅exactly⋅ would be the triggers? Who gets to decide whether and when to roll back? Besides, whatever anyone tries to tell you, blockchain's are NOT safe from manipulation, even in principle, especially when we are talking about state actors.
Just in terms of if there WERE a use case, that's what it would be.
This was not a proposal. We can flush all "blockchain technology” down the toilet today and lose nothing, as far as I'm concerned.
I was trying to work with the premise of people who try to make the case for "smart contracts" (that are predicated on a system where, yes, certain actions are algorithmically ⋅enforced⋅) to see what might conceivably be a valid use case at least in theory.
In other words: the fundamental premise of "smart contracts" is that there are situations where you need an agreement between parties who you cannot ask to trust each other, so they can instead trust the algorithm. And I was just noting that asking a Palestinian state to be demilitarised fits that description. But since, as you correctly note and I also pointed out, it wouldn't work even then, that just shows that actually there is no use case.
Antisemitische KI von Elon Musk: Adolf Hitler als Lösung
Der Chatbot Grok wirft Menschen mit jüdischem Nachnamen „Hass auf Weiße“ vor und lobt Hitler. Die Entwicklerfirma xAI muss eingreifen.
Antisemitische KI von Elon Musk: Adolf Hitler als Lösung
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Ce soir, en ce moment, sur #Arte.
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Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, le terrorisme d’extrême droite s’organise et fait de plus en plus de victimes dans le monde. Comment cette #violence #raciste se nourrit-elle et comment la contrer ? Une série #documentaire qui s'appuie sur de riches témoignages (de victimes, de repentis, d’enquêteurs...) recueillis sur quatre continents.
#Racisme #Haine #HaineBlanche #Extrême-droite #Droite #Terrorisme #GrandRemplacement #GreatReplacement #Neonazi #KKK #Suprémacisme #Blanc #Blancs #Suprémaciste #Occident #Politique #Europe #France #USA
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Court ruling: Stickers with political warnings must be removed from books
The Münster Higher Administrative Court has ruled that a sticker with political warnings must be removed from a book in the Münster City Library. Library users are "responsible citizens" who should not be manipulated.
The Higher Administrative Court in Münster ruled on Tuesday that stickers reading "This is a work with controversial content. This copy is provided due to freedom of censorship, freedom of opinion, and freedom of information" must be removed from two books in the Münster City Library. One of the affected authors had filed an urgent appeal against the decision of the Münster Administrative Court, which had permitted the stickers.
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Stadtbücherei Münster - Gerichtsurteil: Sticker mit politischen Warnhinweisen müssen von Büchern entfernt werden
Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster hat entschieden, dass ein Sticker mit politischen #Warnhinweisen von einem #Buch in der #Stadtbücherei Münster entfernt werden muss. Bibliotheksnutzer seien „mündige #Staatsbürger“, die nicht gelenkt werden sollen.
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Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster entschied, dass ein Sticker mit politischen Warnhinweisen von einem Buch in der Stadtbücherei entfernt werden muss.Marie Rahenbrock (Apollo News)
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Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster hat entschieden, dass ein Sticker mit politischen #Warnhinweisen von einem #Buch in der #Stadtbücherei Münster entfernt werden muss. Bibliotheksnutzer seien „mündige #Staatsbürger“, die nicht gelenkt werden sollen.
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A Palestinian carries children as wounded Palestinians receive treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, after an Israeli airstrike on a house, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
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#Gaza
#children
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Smoke rises in Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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As a Jew who knows her history very thoroughly, I recognise this ‘proposal’ very well. There is no daylight between this and the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Gaza was already a ghetto for almost 20 years. It was poor, run down, and separated from the rest of the world due to a blockade that has been going on since 2005.
What we are witnessing is the liquidation of that ghetto, and the associated depravity of the people doing the liquidation.
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Eyal Benvenisti, who represented #Israel before the #ICJ, co-writes:
Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in #Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
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Essay by leading Israeli scholars on the Israeli government's "Gideon's Chariots" order to move Palestinian Gaza population.Chaim Gans (Just Security)
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Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.
For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.
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#tech #cloud #datacenters #cdnpoli #cdntech #canada #markcarney
During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies.Paris Marx (CCPA)
Malik Lutfi contemplated which of his family's belongings to salvage in the few moments he was given while Israeli troops carried out home demolitions in the Tulkarm refugee camp where he grew up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Now 51, the father of six has rented a small room in the nearby city of Tulkarm, but without access to his electronic repair shop in the cordoned-off camp, he has no income to meet the rent.
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“There is no benefit in being shackled to the decomposing corpse of deluded, post-imperial Britain.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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In the town of Raba, in the Jenin Governorate of the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinians are fearful of an Israeli decision to seize the summit of Mount Salama, a move that would strip the town of an important economic resource.
Last Wednesday, the town’s residents received an Israeli order to seize 600 acres for the purpose of establishing a military zone that includes Mount Salama and its surrounding fields.
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Watan-In the town of Raba, in the Jenin Governorate of the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinians are fearful of an Israeli decision to seize the summit of Mount Salama, a move that would strip theWatan News (Watan)
Netanyahu, with the most morally repugnant army in the world and the avaricious Israeli population display themselves to the world as abusive psychotics relentlessly raping an enclosed captive society they are intent on exterminating
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The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.Amjad Iraqi (+972 Magazine)
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Video source (with music from Hans Erdmann) : • "Nosferatu" (1922). HD (720p). HANS ERDMAN... Picture : Marco FontaniliFrench translation : Loop Ar VroM...YouTube
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#israel #palästina : #krieg / #gaza / #genozid / #geschichte / #ideologie / #feindbild / #legitimierungsnarrativ / #brutalisierung / #dehumanisierung
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«Wenn Israel in Gaza tausend Hunde töten würde, löste dies einen grösseren Aufschrei aus als die Massenabschlachtung von Menschen.»infosperber
They're not even trying to hide the grift
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The current regime ruling the United States is trafficking people to various countries against their will.
But people seem to have quite bad memories and seem to believe that it's Trump that's just a bad actor.
Let me remind you that under the Bush regime, the CIA created a network in which it trafficked people, with no due process, for the express purpose of having them tortured.
Trump is not an aberration. The Empire is rotten, and it is dying.
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After the 9-11 attacks against the United States, the CIA conspired with dozens of governments to build a secret extraordinary rendition and detention program that spanned the globe.www.justiceinitiative.org
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Dear @EUCommission,
X’s AI (in other words, X Corp.) is spewing blatant antisemitism. Will you do something about it or is your defense of the Jewish people limited to your members legitimising, censoring criticism of, arming, and profiting financially from the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people?
gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok…
#x #twitter #elonMusk #grok #antisemitism #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank
Grok even endorsed another Holocaust against the Jews.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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Kirsch sees “the concept of settler colonialism” as activist “nonsense”…
By highlighting [his] text’s many elisions and obfuscations, Khalili makes clear that Kirsch has no clue what he’s talking about. That’s no surprise: He is, after all, a literary critic with zero expertise on Israel/Palestine or the discipline his book attempts to invalidate. Khalili’s review rigorously deconstructs Kirsch’s arguments before turning to a virtuosic micro-history of Zionist settler colonialism, drawn from the very primary sources and scholarship, especially by Palestinians, that Kirsch neglects. It’s a harrowing account—and a persuasive argument, for anyone willing to face the facts.
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Francesca Albanese, the #UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has demanded answers from #Italy, #France, and #Greece over their decision to grant airspace and safe passage to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—despite an active arrest warrant request from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
In a post on X, Albanese wrote: “Italian, French and Greek citizens deserve to know that every political action violating the international legal order, weakens and endangers all of them.”
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#warcriminal #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #crimesagainsthumanity
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Winter themed hypnotic stories for sleep by Michelle's sanctuary
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Une recette efficace pour éteindre son âme et causer la souffrance consiste à faire de l'étranger l'intime, et de l'intime, l'étranger.
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When tradition locks up the disciple...
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When tradition locks up the disciple,it is because in reality, the disciple has once again allowed himself to be locked up by his own atrophies of the heart, Tradition, however, does nothing.I feel…Notes & Silence
The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and,…Ramzy Baroud (CounterPunch.org)
The technology has already recouped hundreds of millions of pounds and could be extended right across Government, according to a new report by the National Audit OfficeDavid Hencke (Byline Times)
De Gaulle talking about the dollar.
Extract from a press conference , February 1965 (machine translation)
Journalist
Mr. President, by exchanging part of its dollar assets for gold, France provoked reactions that themselves revealed certain flaws in the current international monetary system.
Are you in favor of reforming this system, and if so, how? My question, Mr. President, follows on from the previous one.
Could you clarify your policy regarding foreign investment in France, and particularly American investment?
Charles de Gaulle
Well, I will try to explain my thoughts on these points.
As the Western European states that were ruined and decimated by wars recover their substance, the relative situation they were in tends to appear inadequate and often even abusive and dangerous.
There is nothing here, moreover, in this observation, which implies, on their part, and even more so on the part of France, anything unfriendly towards any country, and in particular, towards America.
But the fact that these states want to act more and more on their own every day, in every area of international relations, is a natural part of things.
This is true of the monetary system that is being put into practice, of the monetary relations, if you will, that have been in practice in the world since the trials undergone by Europe caused it to lose its balance.
I was speaking, of course, of the international monetary system that appeared in the aftermath of the First World War and was established following the Second.
We know that this system, starting with the Genoa Conference in 1922, granted two currencies, the Pound and the Dollar, the privilege of being considered equivalent to gold in foreign trade.
It is true that the Pound was devalued in 1931 and the Dollar in 1933.
And at that time, it was believed that the privilege, this signal privilege, this signal advantage of these two currencies was compromised.
But America was overcoming its great crisis and then, afterward, the Second World War ruined the currencies of Western Europe by unleashing inflation.
Since almost all the world's reserves were then held by the United States, and they were the universal suppliers and consequently they had been able to maintain the value of their currency, it could seem natural that states would indiscriminately include dollars or gold in their foreign exchange reserves.
And that the differences in the balance of payments were settled by transfer of credit or American monetary sign as well as precious metal.
And this international monetary system, this Gold Exchange Standard, has consequently been accepted practically since then.
But it turns out that it no longer corresponds in the same way to the realities of today.
And that consequently it has disadvantages that are becoming more and more serious.
As this question which interests the world must be considered with serenity and with objectivity, what the current situation allows us to do, which in this respect does not contain anything that appears either very pressing or very alarming, it is the moment to do it.
Let us note that the conditions which had created the Gold Exchange Standard have changed profoundly.
The currencies of the Western European states have been restored to such an extent that the gold reserves that these states possess, let's say these six states, the six, the total of their gold reserves is equivalent to that of the Americans.
And it would exceed it even if these states wanted to convert into gold all the dollars they have to their account.
So, this kind of transcendent value that was recognized in the dollar has lost its initial basis, which was America's possession of the largest part of the world's gold.
But in addition, the fact that many States accept dollars in principle as well as gold for the settlement of differences that exist to their advantage in the American balance of payments, this fact leads Americans to get into debt and to get into debt gratuitously vis-à-vis foreign countries because what they owe them, they pay them at least in part with dollars that it is up to them to issue and not with gold which has a real value, which one only possesses because it has been earned, and which one cannot transfer to others without risk and without sacrifice.
But also in this way, this sort of unilateral facility which is attributed to America, contributes to fading the idea that the dollar is an impartial and international sign of exchanges whereas it is a means of credit appropriate to a State.
Obviously there are other consequences to this situation.
There is in particular the fact that the United States, for lack of having settled in gold at least completely, the negative differences of their payment, contrary to the practice which was formerly adopted, and by virtue of which the States were led to take, and if necessary with rigor, if necessary, the measures required to establish their balance, the United States I say, suffer from year to year deficit balances not certainly because the total of their commercial exchanges are to their disadvantage.
Their exports of materials exceed their imports.
But this is also the case for dollars whose outflows always exceed the inflows.
Then there is created in America by means of what must be called inflation, capital which in the form of loans in dollars granted to States or to individuals is exported abroad, and of course this increase in American fiduciary circulation makes investments within the United States less profitable.
Hence a growing propensity among them to invest abroad.
This results in some countries having a sort of expropriation of one or other of their companies.
It must be said that this practice has long encouraged and still encourages to a certain extent the multiple and considerable aid that America provides to many countries.
And from which we ourselves, in other times, have benefited greatly.
But circumstances have changed, and that is why France advocates that the system itself be changed.
That this sort of fundamental imbalance, which is now a fact, be brought to an end.
France advocated this, as you know, at the Tokyo Monetary Conference.
Given the consequences that a crisis that would arise in such an area could have, we believe that measures must be taken in time to avoid it.
We consider it necessary for international trade to be established, as was the case before the world's great misfortunes, on an indisputable monetary basis that bears no mark of any country in particular.
What basis? In truth, we do not see how there can really be any criterion, any standard other than gold.
And yes, gold, which does not change its nature, which can be put into ingots, bars, or coins in different ways, which has no nationality, which is eternally and universally held to be the unalterable and fiduciary value par excellence.
However, in the midst of the immense trials we have all gone through, whatever one may have imagined, or said, or written, or done, the fact remains that today no currency is worth anything except through a direct or indirect, real or supposed relationship with gold.
Naturally, no State can be forced to do what it must do within itself.
But in international trade, the supreme law, the golden rule, it is indeed the case to say it, which must be restored to honor and force, is the obligation to balance the balances of payments resulting from their trade from one monetary zone to another through the effective entry and exit of precious metal.
Certainly, the end without a harsh shock of the Gold Exchange Standard, which is the restoration of the gold standard, as well as the complementary and transitional measure that would be indispensable, in particular, the organization of international credit, on this new basis, all this must be examined calmly between States.
And in particular between those States to which their economic and financial power confers a special responsibility.
Moreover, the appropriate frameworks for these studies and these negotiations already exist.
The International Monetary Fund, which was established to ensure the solidarity of currencies, to ensure it as much as possible, the International Monetary Fund is certainly a very suitable place for such negotiations.
The Committee of Ten, which, as you know, is composed independently of the United States and England on the one hand, and of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, on the other hand, from Japan, Sweden and Canada, the Committee of Ten would prepare the necessary proposals and finally it would be up to the six States which appear to be on the way to creating a Western European economic community, it would be up to them to develop among themselves and to promote it abroad, the solid system which would be in accordance with common sense and which would respond to the resurgent economic and financial power of our ancient continent.
France for its part is ready to contribute actively to this great reform which is necessary in the interest of the whole world.
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in reply to Aaron • • •My critique of democratic socialism) and how I see my democratic socialist friends trying to engage with social change) is this:
There is an inherent belief that the power of the people is an effective force for change *only because* the people can affect or take over the state apparatus.
Thus, in this theory-in-action there is not a belief in the power of the people as an ends in itself. The power of the people is a means to the real source of power, which is state power.
Aaron
in reply to Aaron • • •But what happens when the best-funded and most violent (violence is a form of power) levels of the state--the federal level--works to destroy that the mechanisms by which others can take over the state?
That's where state-centered theories of power and social change fall apart.
I think a lot of people feel helpless right now because they understand, even if they haven't articulated it, that these theories are kaput.
We need to be building and leveraging other forms of power.
Aaron
in reply to Aaron • • •One set of antidotes to this powerlessness, this broken theory of social change, would be anarchist lenses on power.
The power of the people is inherent. The were many millenia when the people maintained societies without nation states.
The state is a necessarily-problematic power dynamic; it creates and enacts socially-accepted violence against minority populations and those who stand in the way of the state's conception of progress.
The nation state is not essential to human civilization.
Aaron
in reply to Aaron • • •The nation state as an entity and the nation state system itself is an iteration of empires and the colonial system, respectively.
The underpinning philosophies and theories of value that enabled slavery, colonial theft, genocide, and land theft were all left intact when we became nation states. The ruling class just patched it up with things like human rights, workers rights, protections for migrants, and other things that have clearly fallen by the wayside since.
Aaron
in reply to Aaron • • •So there are two ways forward:
Colonialism 3.0, where we try to patch the whole thing together yet again.
Or we could actually build a new system which emerges from the wreckage of the old, which pulls people and resources in, electively, as nation states fail further.
This, however, would require imagination and a historical and anthropological lens on how humans could organize themselves, and how they have organized themselves.
Aaron
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