“The Guardian: Bank of England governor attacks eurozone austerity…”

Hallo, Fräulein Merkel and Brusselocrats, are you listening?! "The Guardian: Bank of England governor attacks eurozone austerity. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwqumLtCA Mark Carney says eurozone is caught in a debt trap and should ease hardline budget cuts just days after the Syriza election directly challenged policy. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Carney’s remarks come just three days after the election … Continue reading “The Guardian: Bank of England governor attacks eurozone austerity…”

“Poland lost chance to build bridges between Russia and Ukraine at Auschwitz – ex-PM…”

http://rt.com/news/225995-auchswitz-russia-ukraine-meeting/ "[...]Polish officials chose to make it clear Putin would not be welcome at the event, with Moscow sending a lower ranking official to represent the country at the commemoration, while Poroshenko would be a guest of honor." In my humble opinion, Poland's understandable reaction against Putin, shouldn't be considered a general attitude towards Russia, … Continue reading “Poland lost chance to build bridges between Russia and Ukraine at Auschwitz – ex-PM…”

Rewriting history? Polish FM says Ukrainians liberated Auschwitz, Russia puzzled…

http://rt.com/news/224891-poland-ukraine-liberated-auschwitz/ Young survivors at the Auschwitz, liberated by the Red Army in January 1945 (Photo from wikipedia.org) «The Polish Foreign Minister’s statement that it was the Ukrainians who liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has puzzled Moscow. Russia’s UN envoy remarked that the Soviet Army, which liberated the camp, was actually multinational. “The 1st Ukrainian front … Continue reading Rewriting history? Polish FM says Ukrainians liberated Auschwitz, Russia puzzled…

Dark past: Latvia blocks Nazi Holocaust exhibition in Paris due to image fears…

http://rt.com/news/224591-latvia-blocks-holocaust-exhibition/ " Latvia has cancelled a Holocaust exhibition in Paris for the fear of tarnishing the country’s image as the Baltic nation currently holds the EU presidency. The exposition was to tell the story of child prisoners at a concentration camp near Riga. The display was organized by historians from Latvia, Russia and Belarus and … Continue reading Dark past: Latvia blocks Nazi Holocaust exhibition in Paris due to image fears…

“Freedom of speech has limits – Pope”

"Freedom of speech has limits - Pope http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30835625 " According to the BBC, "Pope Francis has defended freedom of expression following last week's attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - but also stressed its limits. The pontiff said religions had to be treated with respect, so that people's faiths were not insulted or ridiculed." … Continue reading “Freedom of speech has limits – Pope”

So much for Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’

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eichmann

‘This Adolf too was a Nazi piece of work’ Anna Heyward’s review of Bettina Stangneth’s Eichmann Before Jerusalem: the Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, Trans., Ruth Martin, Scribe, 2014, The Weekend Australian Review, November 15-16, 2014

Adolf Eichmann, SS Obersturmbannfuhrer, was one of the Nazis primarily responsible for the mass deportation and murder of European Jews between 1939 and 1945.

After the Allied victory he went into hiding, first in Austria, where he farmed eggs, and later in Argentina, where he lived with his wife and children as part of Juan Peron’s community of Nazi sympathisers.

Eichmann was absent from the Nuremberg war crimes trials and came to be known as “the Nuremberg ghost”. In 1960, he was kidnapped by a Mossad team and taken to Israel, where he was put on trial in 1961. Most observers of the trial noted that he showed no remorse and…

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(…)reason

There's never been an age of reason. Loneliness marched upon us as ashes thrown back upon fields of blood soaked memories of ungrateful departed... Loneliness doesn't reason; it just sinks thought and unthought requiems of undreamed nightmares... The day our consciousness became attached to reason, another age was born: the age of treason...