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Aufklärerin des Tages : Sika Golf
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Quand un régime peu démocratique s’invente une raison d’être religieuse, corruption et hypocrisie y sont systématiquement présents. La Thailande ne fait pas exceptikn á cette règle.

19.7.2025 von Nick Brauns -/In Thailand gilt der Buddhismus bis heute als ein Garant der Stabilität – mit dem König als »Verteidiger des Buddhismus« an der Spitze. Doch nun gehen Schockwellen durch das Land, nachdem ein Sexskandal den moralischen Verfall des Klerus enthüllt hat.

Am Dienstag wurde die 35jährige Wilawan E., Spitzname Sika Golf, in Bangkok festgenommen. Die aus einer armen Familie stammende Mutter von drei Kindern soll über Jahre hinweg sexuelle Beziehungen zu mindestens 13 hochrangigen Mönchen unterhalten und dafür fast zwölf Millionen US-Dollar an Geschenken und Schweigegeld kassiert haben. Auf ihren Handys fanden sich rund 80.000 Fotos und 5.000 Videos, die sie beim Sex mit den Mönchen zeigen. Offiziell leben diese spirituellen Erben Buddhas im Zölibat, schon die Berührung einer Frau ist ihnen verboten.

Die Millionen, die Sika Golf kassierte, dürften aus Klosterkassen stammen, also aus Spenden der Gläubigen, die sich damit Karma erkaufen wollen. Dass viele Mönche keineswegs in Askese leben, haben schon frühere Skandale offenbart. Erst im Mai ist ein Abt verhaftet worden, der fast zehn Millionen US-Dollar aus einem Tempel für ein Onlineglücksspielnetzwerk veruntreut hatte. Solche Enthüllungen hinterlassen Spuren in der Gesellschaft. »Ich bin nicht mehr so religiös wie früher«, zitiert AFP etwa den 33jährigen Motorradtaxifahrer Mongkol Sudathip. »Ich habe keinen vollständigen Respekt mehr.« Statt an Tempel wolle er lieber für Krankenhäuser spenden.

Ein Ausschuss des Senats hat nun gefordert, Sex mit Mönchen unter Strafe zu stellen, also letztlich Frauen für Heuchelei und Geilheit der Kuttenträger büßen zu lassen. Zumindest Sika Golf ist auf Kaution freigekommen und spricht im Fernsehen freimütig über ihre »romantischen Affären« mit ihren Liebhabern in Orange. Sie verdient eine Auszeichnung für antireligiöse Aufklärung.

Love, lust and lost funds
▻https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3071208/love-lust-and-lost-funds

18.7.2025 by Karnjana Karnjanatawe - Sika Golf’ case sends shockwaves through nation’s monastic community

A growing scandal involving senior Buddhist monks and a woman dubbed “Sika Golf” has gripped Thailand in recent weeks. The case centres on Wilawan Emsawat, a 35-year-old woman accused of forging intimate relationships with high-ranking monks and allegedly using them for financial gain, sparking a wide-ranging police investigation and multiple arrests.

Who Is Sika Golf?

“Sika Golf” is the media nickname for Ms Wilawan, as “sika” is a title for women used by monks. Ms Wilawan comes from Sak Lek district in Phichit province. Raised in a poor family, she left school without finishing Matthayom 3 or Grade 9 and moved to Bangkok to find a job.

She has three kids. Her first child was with a DJ, and then she had two more children with an academic and a monk in Phitsanulok.

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Wilawan Emsawat posts a photo on one of her social media accounts while visiting a temple. (TV screen capture)

How the romances started

Her involvement with monks began in Phichit, when she received a Line message from the then-abbot of Wat Tha Luang, Phrathep Watcharasitthimethi. In an interview on the Hone Krasae television programme, she stated that their relationship soon became romantic. Over the course of two years, her life changed dramatically — from having nothing to having everything she could want.

“The [former] abbot took very good care of me. Whatever I wanted, he provided. One day, I said I wanted a Mercedes, and he bought it for me, paying three million baht in cash,” she said.

After the relationship ended (from 2013 to 2015), she became involved with other people, including monks, an academic, and a local politician.

“I felt guilty. I knew it [having relationships with monks] was a sin, but I didn’t want to struggle anymore. I wanted enough money to look after myself and my children,” she said.

So far, police have found evidence of her having romantic relationships with about 15 high-ranking monks, including abbots or assistant abbots in many provinces, including Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Saraburi, Chachoengsao and Khon Kaen.

She was subsequently dubbed the “monk-slayer” by the media.

What Triggered the Case?

The scandal surfaced after Ms Wilawan allegedly coerced Phra Kru Siriwiriyathada, a former assistant abbot of Wat Sothon Wararam Worawihan in Chachoengsao, one of the monks with whom she had a romantic relationship, into filing a complaint against Phra Thepwachirapamok, also known as Chao Khun Archawa, the former abbot of Wat Tritossathep in Bangkok.

She claimed the latter owed her 7.2 million baht in child support for a pregnancy that turned out to be false. Chao Khun Archawa was hastily disrobed at a temple in Nong Khai on June 27, sparking public suspicion and a media frenzy.

What Did Police Discover?

Following orders from the national police chief, police began investigating Chao Khun Archawa on June 18, led by Pol Maj Gen Jaroonkiat Pangkaew of the Central Investigation Bureau. At that time, police could not find the former abbot, so they searched the house of Sika Golf.

Authorities raided Ms Wilawan’s home, seizing mobile phones, a laptop, and documents. They discovered over 80,000 photos and 5,000 video clips, some allegedly used for extortion or blackmail involving numerous monks. Ms Wilawan was arrested on July 15.

How Much Money Was Involved?

Investigators found that Ms Wilawan had received 385 million baht over the years via two personal bank accounts. Much of this came from senior monks. She is said to have spent lavishly — reportedly spending 3 million baht in one day on luxury goods and up to 500,000 baht per online gambling session. Her account now holds less than 8,000 baht.

What Has She Admitted?

According to Pol Maj Gen Prasong Chalermphan, commander of the Anti-Corruption Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), Ms Wilawan has confessed to all charges. She admitted to having deep relationships with several senior monks and said her behaviour was shaped by childhood trauma after being abandoned by her father.
What Has Happened to the Monks?

So far, 12 monks have been defrocked, including five senior-level ecclesiastical figures. More are under investigation, after videos or financial ties to Ms Wilawan were uncovered.

One former monk, Maha Boonlert Chuaithani of Wat Mai Yai Paen in Bangkok, told police that Sika Golf approached him under the pretext of asking for help with religious items. He admitted to staying overnight at her home. He claimed she initiated an intimate encounter and later borrowed 100,000 baht from him. He said he now sees himself as a victim.

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Ms Wilawan as she appeared when arrested by police on Tuesday. (Photo: Royal Thai Police)

What Charges Does She Face?

Ms Wilawan faces four charges filed by the Anti-Corruption Division: supporting a state official in the embezzlement of assets under Section 147 of the Criminal Code; supporting a state official in the misconduct of duty under Section 157; conspiracy to launder money; and receiving stolen property.

In addition, the Crime Suppression Division has filed three further charges against her: extortion, unlawful detention, and fraud.

Investigators opposed bail, citing the severity of the charges, the large number of victims, and concerns that she may interfere with evidence or witnesses.
What About Former Monks?

So far, one former monk has been charged. It is the former abbot of Wat Chujit Thammaram — Phra Theppacharaporn, now known as Sompong — who allegedly transferred 380,000 baht from temple funds to Ms Wilawan.

Police pressed two charges: embezzlement by a state official under Section 147 of the Criminal Code, and misconduct in office by a state official under Section 157.

Mr Sompong confessed to transferring over 12 million baht of his personal savings to Ms Wilawan, claiming that she said she needed the funds to invest in a ceramics business. Believing her, he said he continued to transfer money until his personal funds were depleted. He then transferred 380,000 baht of temple funds to her.

Mr Sompong cooperated with police, confessed fully, posed no flight risk, and was granted temporary bail for aiding the investigation and benefiting the case, officials said.

Police are investigating other former monks to determine if they misused temple funds for personal use.
Police Urge Public Vigilance

Police are calling on the public to help protect the Buddhist clergy’s integrity by reporting inappropriate behaviour by monks. Tips can be sent confidentially via the Central Investigation Bureau’s Facebook page or by calling 082-123-7166.

#Thailande #corruption #religion #misogynie #hypocrisie

How ‘In God We Trust’ Got on the Currency in the First Place
▻https://time.com/4179685/in-god-we-trust-currency-history

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Soyons clair : quelques sectes protestantes trop radicales pour le Royaume Uni constituent les racines des États Unis d’Amérique. Les USA sont aujourd’hui une base pour le prosélytisme chrétien mondial qui accompagne les actions impérialistes de l’état. Pas étonnant que ce pays choisisse comme ennemi idéologique principal la théocratie République islamique d’Iran .

13.1.2026 by Sarah Begley - A lawyer filed suit in Ohio this week seeking to remove the phrase “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency. It’s far from a new fight, and as with many interactions between religion and the American state (like the “under God” part of the Pledge of Allegiance), the invocation of the almighty is newer than you might think.

“In God We Trust” was first added to U.S. coins during the beginning of the Civil War, when religious sentiment was on an upswing and concerned Americans wanted the world to know what their country stood for. Many wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase on the matter, and he agreed with their arguments. Congress passed his act requesting the addition of “In God We Trust,” adapted from a lesser-known verse of Francis Scott Key’s “Star-Spangled Banner,” and the first two-cent coin with the phrase was minted in 1864.

But as TIME wrote in a 1991 cover story on the separation of church and state, opposition lay ahead.

By the turn of the century, however, the war’s memory had faded; President Teddy Roosevelt considered the mingling of God and Mammon to be vulgar, and he ordered the phrase removed from newly designed gold coins in 1907. A public outcry forced Congress to backtrack. By the mid-1950s, the concern with piety in Washington had apparently deepened; in 1955 Congress ordered the same phrase to appear on all paper currency.

The motto appeared on paper currency beginning in 1957, and in the subsequent decades, numerous legal actions have sought to remove it from currency and strike “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. But as TIME wrote in that ’91 story, the banality of the phrases may not be worth the fight as a symbol of separating church from state. “Today even ardent separationists seem to agree with retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, who wrote in 1983 that slogans such as ‘In God We Trust’ have ‘lost any true religious significance.’”

In God We Trust
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

“In God We Trust” (also rendered as “In God we trust”) is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, along with the nation of Nicaragua (Spanish: En Dios confiamos). It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, replacing E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one"), which had been the de facto motto since the initial design of the Great Seal of the United States.

#USA #religion #chistianisme

Early 2003 : Chirac asks theologian to explain George W. Bush’s reference to Gog and Magog
▻https://sedulia.blogs.com/sedulias_translations/2009/05/chirac-asks-theologian-to-explain-george-w-bushs-reference-to-gog-and
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Oubliez les islamistes, voilà des gens vraiment dangereux.

A voir :
Les évangéliques à la conquête du monde
►https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/093034-000-A/les-evangeliques-a-la-conquete-du-monde-1-3

J’aime : In God We Trust, the others pay cash ;-)

George Bush and the Code of Ezekiel

When he evokes the political situation in the the Middle East, the president of the United States sees Gog and Magog at work—two creatures who appear in an apocalyptic vision of the Old Testament. Thomas Römer, an expert at UNIL (the University of Lausanne), explains. He was contacted by the Elysée [the French President’s residence] in 2003, when Jacques Chirac was trying to shed light on troubling references by George W. Bush.

“The telephone rang. It was the head of the Biblical Service of the Protestant Federation of France [Service biblique de la Federation protestante de France]. She asked me if I could write a page on Gog and Magog for the French President.” Thomas Römer, a theology professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and specialist in the Old Testament, had just been plunged into the midst of international politics. This seemingly banal theological inquiry had unsuspected ramifications, for it was set into motion by George W. Bush.

“The prophecies are being accomplished.”

“I also learned during this phone call that the President of the United States had brought up Gog and Magog in a conversation with Jacques Chirac. The discussion was about current events in the Middle East. After having explained that he saw Gog and Magog at work, George W. Bush added that the Biblical prophecies were coming to pass,” Thomas Römer continues.

This conversation, which also included the Axis of Evil, took place at the beginning of 2003, a few weeks before the American intervention in Iraq. George W. Bush was then trying yet again to convince Jacques Chirac to follow him in his Operation Just Cause, which the Frenchman obstinately refused to do.

As neither Jacques Chirac nor his advisers had understood the American President’s reference, the administration got to work. Since George W. Bush belongs to the evangelical Christian movement, the Elysée turned to French Protestants, who transmitted the request to Thomas Römer. “There is nothing unusual about that,” the UNIL researcher continues. “We often collaborate on scientific matters with our neighbors.”

So the Lausanne theologian was now given the task of enlightening the French President on Gog and Magog, a work which this specialist in the Old Testament was happy to do, and about which he speaks for the first time today, now that Jacques Chirac has retired and this episode belongs to history.

▻https://sedulia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c82d353ef01156fbd3c36970c-800wi?.jpg DavenKnapik Magog at the Guildhall, London

An uncertain and unclear text

“I wrote a one-page paper which explained the theological foundations of Gog and Magog, two creatures who appear in Genesis and especially in two very obscure chapters of the Book of Ezekiel, in the Old Testament,” the UNIL theologian remembers, before adding that for more than one reason, Ezekiel is a disconcerting book.

“The transcription which has come down to us is not certain, the names that are cited pose a problem, and the text is difficult,” Thomas Römer adds. If that were not enough to confuse the 21st-century reader, this book “also contains a message that is a bit hidden. It is part of a kind of writing that speculates on the future, in a cryptic language, and is destined for initiates,” the UNIL researcher explains.

However, it is not necessary to be an expert in esoteric studies to understand the outline of this apocalyptic prophecy. In chapters 38 and 39, the authors of the Book of Ezekiel added a vision according to which a great world army will form, and that this coalition of peoples will bring a final battle upon Israel. “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to take advantage of this conflict to wipe out the enemies of his people before a new age begins,” Thomas Römer goes on.

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In his coalition, the author of this text places peoples known to archeologists, like the Persians, the Nubians, the Assyrians, and the Kushites. He adds other names which perplex historians, but which leave no doubt as to the sense of the prophecy. The army that is on the march is huge, and assembles peoples come from all over, but mainly from north of Israel.

According to this text, Ezekiel also announces that this great coalition will be brought together by a certain Gog, perhaps supported by Magog. In different translations of the Bible, one can read “Gog and Magog,” "Gog from Magog," “Gog, in the land of Magog,” or even “Gog, prince of Magog.”

“These names are difficult to decode,” Thomas Römer emphasizes, “like the names of Meshek and Toubal, which are also associated with the coalition, and which are also enigmatic.”

Recent Hypotheses

This enigmatic Gog has aroused speculation for more than twenty centuries. Today, George W. Bush is probably looking for him in the direction of Iran, which covets atomic weapons, after having tracked him down to Iraq. Before him, another American president [also] believed in the imminent realization of Ezekiel’s prophecy.

“As Ronald Reagan knew the Bible well, he believed that the Cold War and the existence of the atomic bomb made it possible for the prophecy of Ezekiel to come to pass, therefore that the moment had come,” Thomas Römer continues.

“Because Gog is an enemy who comes from north of Israel, and because Meshek can easily be connected to Moscow, people who read Ezekiel 20 or 25 years ago often associated Gog with communist Russia. They also noticed that the Biblical text says that Gog is said to be ’at the head’ of this coalition. Now, in Hebrew, ’head’ is ’rosh.’ From ’rosh,’ it’s easy to get ’Russia,’ therefore communist Russia,” says the UNIL theologian, smiling.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall swept away this hypothesis, the imminence of the apocalypse seemed to fade. For rationalist readers like Thomas Römer, the “threat” disappeared more than 2000 years ago.

Gygos, Alexander, and Nero

For not everyone who reads Ezekiel dissects current affairs with the goal of finding signs of the arrival of Gog and his apocalyptic armies. Many historians and theologians seek his trace, rather, in the past. “Some researchers have identified Gog with a certain Gygos, who was a king of Anatolia in the seventh century BC. He could be at the origin of this apocalyptic text. I think it is the same process as in the case of the apocalyptic prophecies of Daniel, which concern the great enemy of the time, Antiochus IV.”

If one adds to this that many researchers believe that the [Roman] emperor Nero is the famous 666 evoked in the Apocalypse of John, that the Great Whore is Rome, and that the fall announced is that of the Roman Empire, it is noticeable that the past can explain all the apocalyptic Biblical prophecies, a historical analysis that Thomas Römer tends to favor.

In that case, if one believes the UNIL researcher, the prophecy of Ezekiel would be linked to the travels of Alexander the Great. “The arrival of Hellenism [Greek culture] in the Middle East constituted a major culture shock,” Thomas Römer explains, “to the point that the Bible has kept many traces of the passage of the Macedonian king, notably the oracles on the capture of [the city of] Tyre. This episode doubtlessly led people to develop a chronology, to reflect on the succession of reigns, to evoke the advent of [new] forces, and to speculate on the end of times and the irruption of a new time.”

No Apocalypse Without Reconstruction of the Temple

The fact remains that not everyone reads the Old Testament as rationally as Thomas Römer. We must therefore state to our most nervous readers that it is not enough for a coalition of countries to attack Israel for the End Times to come. “There is a long section about the reconstruction of the Temple, and this reconstruction is, for certain currents of Judaism, the necessary condition for the return of the Messiah.”

This reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem is detailed at length in Ezekiel, which consecrates interminable chapters to it, before specifying that the Temple must be rebuilt at its initial location, that is, the famous Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, where today there stands one of the most sacred spots in Islam, the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In other words, it would require a truly apocalyptic train of circumstances for the conditions evoked in the prophecy to be reunited.

Ezekiel smoothes the way for American support to Israel

More widely, this text of Ezekiel explains the strong ties that have been woven between the United States and the state of Israel. “For George W. Bush, this text has political consequences,” Thomas Römer goes on. “Like many American Christians, he believes that God will be on the side of Israel during the final confrontation, so, therefore, the enemies of that country will be on the side of the Antichrist. He will therefore support Israel without weakening, because he is deeply convinced that when the end time arrives, it is necessary to be on the side of Israel.”

This may surprise Europeans, more used to analyses based on geopolitics, power ratios, and oil pipeline maps than they are to religiousness when the foreign policy of the United States is in question.

“This American interpretation is effectively overlooked by Europeans, who have lost that relationship to Biblical texts,” the UNIL theologian continues. “Germans understand George W. Bush more easily than the French or the Swiss. For an American, these questions are central. To forget religiousness in analysis of the U.S. support for Israel is to be wrong.”

Did these political reflections figure in the one-page report that Thomas Römer sent to the French President at the beginning of 2003? “No. I sent a Biblical note. One one page, I explained the context, I explained that it was an apocalyptic prophecy, with a cosmic battle of peoples. I spoke of Gygos and I said when it was written. And I have not heard back either from Jacques Chirac or his advisers.”

—Jocelyn Rochat (who by the way is a man; a woman would be named “Jocelyne”), editor-in-chief of Allez savoir, a university magazine of the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, in September 2007. The French-language original can be seen here.

This is my translation of the article.

Oddly, Gog and Magog are said to be protectors of Great Britain— I wonder if George W. Bush knows this. (By the way, doesn’t the name George look a lot like Gog?)

Top photo: Magog at Guildhall, London. Middle photo: Gog and Magog at the Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London. Below: Gog and Magog in the Lord Mayor’s Parade, London.

▻https://sedulia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c82d353ef011570b2807a970b-800wi?.jpg Sally London Commentary sidebar in the article: "Only a minority of believers see modern-day Iran as the Persia of which the Bible spoke."

Olivier Favre is a Ph.D in Social Sciences from the University of Lausanne and a pastor of the apostolic evangelical church. He is coauthor of the first empirical study on the evolution of the evangelical movement in Switzerland*. We asked him how the texts of Ezekiel were read by Swiss evangelicals.

Allez savoir! : Are Swiss evangelicals as interested as George W. Bush in the prophecies of Ezekiel?

Olivier Favre: In Switzerland, apocalyptic themes are much less present today than during the Cold War period. I see a distancing going on with respect to that kind of reading of history and belief in the future. The tendency in Swiss evangelical communities is rather to become more involved in politics again, to develop their message in the here-and-now. We see it notably in their recent involvement (certainly conservative) in politics. These believers have realized that they are not limited to fatalism.

Allez savoir!: Do evangelical communities read these apocalyptic texts the same way as George W. Bush?

Olivier Favre: The great majority remains very prudent about this. But at the extremes, we do in fact find a small minority of people who see modern Iran as the Persia of which the Bible spoke, therefore as an enemy of Israel. This minority believes that the Biblical prophecies are coming true. And at the other extreme, there are evangelicals who consider George W. Bush as the Antichrist, and who see in the terrorist attacks of September 11th the proof that God disapproves of American materialism.

Allez savoir!: These are two very different visions....

Olivier Favre: Yes, because the evangelicals have very different readings of these apocalyptic texts, of Ezekiel but also of Daniel. To simplify, you could say that there are two diametrically opposed positions on the End of Days. But they are very much in the minority. The majority simply waits for the return of Christ without making any pronouncement about the rest of it.

Allez savoir!: There are optimists and pessimists?

Olivier Favre: Those I call pre-millennials are effectively catastrophists. They think that the return of Christ must be preceded by the rise of the Antichrist, whose reign will mean a long period of catastrophes for us. Opposed to this vision, there are the post-millennials who believe that the Church will triumph, and that Christ will come back to a peaceful planet. Finally, very far from both these positions, there is the vision of traditional Protestants, but also of moderate evangelicals, who read these apocalyptic texts symbolically and think that the Bible announces the fall of an empire, probably that of Rome.

Allez savoir!: How representative is the President of the United States concerning evangelical ideas?

Olivier Favre: It’s necessary to be prudent with the figure of George W. Bush. It is extremely difficult to know what, in his speeches and actions, comes from his personal convictions, and what comes from an instrumentalization of the evangelical faith. Note also that the American evangelical electorate is divided today regarding him. While some of them approve of him, others are now criticizing him, notably because of global warming.

Allez savoir!: What strikes you when you look for Gog and Magog in Wikipedia, the internet encyclopedia, is the difference between the information contained in the French and English versions. There are five lines in French and five pages in English.

Olivier Favre: This shows pretty well that these re-readings of Ezekiel are a theme above all in America. The development of evangelicals in the southern hemisphere (South America, Africa) has marginalized these apocalyptic themes and brought in other priorities, because these communities are more concerned about social and ecological problems.

Allez savoir!: More broadly, what does this religious reading of international politics inspire in you?

Olivier Favre: On this side of the Atlantic, strongly in France, but also in French-speaking Switzerland, there is a tendency to believe that no one reasons in religious terms any more. Now, we have populations who are still believers in various ways. Prayer is still practiced, and people keep their faith in a life after death. We could therefore expect, in the future, that the religious component could also surge back into public life here.

—Interview by J.R.

#religion #évangélisme #apocalyse #enlèvement #rapture

Dieu et l’État
▻https://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article893

« Cette contradiction est celle-ci : ils veulent Dieu et ils veulent l’humanité. Ils s’obstinent à mettre ensemble deux termes qui, une fois séparés, ne peuvent plus se rencontrer que pour s’entre-détruire. Ils disent #D'une seule haleine : Dieu, et la liberté de l’homme ; Dieu, et la dignité et la justice et l’égalité et la fraternité et la prospérité des hommes - sans se soucier de la logique fatale conformément à laquelle, si Dieu existe, tout cela est condamné à la non-existence. Car si Dieu est, il est nécessairement le Maître éternel, suprême, absolu, et si ce Maître existe, l’homme est esclave ; mais s’il est esclave, il n’y a pour lui ni justice, ni égalité, ni fraternité, ni prospérité possibles. Ils auront beau, contrairement au bon sens et à toutes les expériences de l’histoire, se représenter leur (...)

#Anarchismes,_anarchie #Infokiosque_fantôme_partout_ #Religions_et_croyances
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▻https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/dieu-et-l-etat-pageparpage.pdf

Peut-on tout faire avec son #corps ? avec Margaux Cassan et Fabrice Hadjadj
▻https://youtu.be/JYUEUx3d3KU

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#identité #frontière #relation #nudité #maladie #pudeur #spiritualité #christianisme #bernardins

Pourquoi l’écologie est-elle impopulaire ? avec Jean-Marc #jancovici et Olric de Gélis
▻https://youtu.be/qSoWIcmRX3I

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#écologie #climat #énergie #transition #motivation #incitation #joie #spiritualité #foi #religion #bernardins #bestof

Projet Aurora : un cabinet américain chiffre la “relocalisation” des Palestiniens hors de la bande de Gaza
7 juillet 2025 - Agence Media Palestine
▻https://agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2025/07/07/projet-aurora-un-cabinet-americain-chiffre-la-relocalisation-de

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(...) C’est un nouveau scandale qui pourrait entacher la réputation déjà bien affaiblie du Boston Consulting Group. Ce cabinet de conseil mondialement connu aurait, d’après des révélations du Financial Times, modélisé financièrement le coût d’un plan de “déplacement volontaire” des Palestiniens de la bande de Gaza.

La modélisation financière du déplacement des Palestiniens

Ils seraient une douzaine de collaborateurs du BCG à avoir travaillé sur ce projet, nom de code “Aurora”, entre octobre 2024 et la fin du mois de mai. Le montant des travaux réalisés par le cabinet équivaut à quatre millions de dollars. Parmi ces travaux, une modélisation financière a été réalisée pour estimer les coûts liés à la “relocalisation” de centaines de milliers de Palestiniens de la bande de Gaza et à l’impact économique d’un tel déplacement de population.

L’idée de ce modèle de “réinstallation volontaire” était d’offrir une forme de compensation financière aux Palestiniens de Gaza en échange de l’abandon de leur terre d’origine. Cette compensation a été désignée par le BCG comme un “package de relocalisation” pour chaque Palestinien qui quitterait l’enclave. Le cabinet a considéré qu’un quart des Gazaouis (environ 500.000 personnes) accepteraient de partir et que 75% de ces derniers ne reviendraient plus sur leurs terres. Prix du package ? 9000 dollars par personne, soit un coût d’environ cinq milliards de dollars pour encourager les Gazaouis à partir. (...)

#Aurora

Tribunal de Brest : suspecté d’avoir fait une fausse déclaration, un ancien allocataire du RSA relaxé
▻https://www.letelegramme.fr/finistere/brest-29200/tribunal-de-brest-accuse-de-fausse-declaration-un-ancien-allocataire-du

Ce vendredi 4 juillet 2025, l’homme de 27 ans à qui est reprochée une fausse déclaration à la Caisse d’allocations familiales du nord Finistère n’est pas présent à l’audience au tribunal judiciaire de Brest. Il est à Montego Bay, en Jamaïque où il exerce la profession de manager dans un hôtel, moyennant une rémunération mensuelle de 6 000 €. La prévention situe les faits commis à Locmaria-Plouzané entre le 1er janvier 2020 et le 1er janvier 2023 pour un paiement indu de 13 747, 40 € au titre du revenu de solidarité active (#RSA).

encore des cassos fraudeurs qui palpent 6000 le mois ? euh... pas sûr.

#paywall ... #CAF #contentieux #allocataire #relaxe

We’re Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower
▻https://www.elektormagazine.com/articles/opinion-no-innovation-forgetting-slower

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#innovation #history #memory #culture #knowledge #complexity #reliability #hypecycle #understanding #technology

Engineered Addictions - by Mason - Noiseproof
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#addiction #attention #relationships #socialnetworks #darkpatterns #technology #ethics

Israels Angriff auf den Iran verfehlte wohl sein Ziel
▻https://www.telepolis.de/features/Israels-Angriff-auf-den-Iran-verfehlte-wohl-sein-Ziel-10462370.html

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La guerre entre les régimes de fanatiques religieux est une histoire sans fin. Pas étonnant, ils combattent pour un but stratégique dans l’éternité de l’au dela. Nous autres humanistes et croyants moins fanatiques n’avons rien à attendre d’eux sauf peut-être l"hécatombe nucléaire.

27.6.2025 von Lars Lange - Israels Angriffe auf Irans Atomanlagen blieben laut US-Geheimdienstkreisen wirkungslos. Teilerfolge könnten sich als Pyrrhussieg erweisen.

Israels Angriffe auf Irans Atomanlagen blieben laut US-Geheimdienstkreisen wirkungslos. Teilerfolge könnten sich als Pyrrhussieg erweisen.

Die US-Angriffe auf iranische Atomanlagen haben ihr Ziel verfehlt. Die nuklearen, unterirdischen Einrichtungen konnten nicht zerstört werden. Das besagt eine vorläufige Schadenanalyse aus US-Geheimdienstkreisen, zitiert nach Reuters. Das iranische Atomprogramm sei höchstens für ein oder zwei Monate zurückgeworfen worden.

Sollte das tatsächlich so sein, wären alle strategischen Ziele Israels nicht erreicht worden: Weder haben Israel und die USA das nukleare Dispositiv des Iran einschränken können, noch wäre es Israel damit gelungen, die Bedrohung durch iranische ballistische Raketen zu reduzieren. Bislang gibt es keine Videobeweise, dass unterirdische Raketensilos vernichtet worden sind.

Kommerzielle Satellitenbilder zeigen Schäden an oberirdischen Gebäuden, die mit Raketentechnik zusammenhängen – möglicherweise Produktions- oder Lagerstätten. Analysten des US-Thinktanks „CNA“, zitiert nach Ynet gehen davon aus, dass die Treffer an oberirdischen iranischen Anlagen „die Fähigkeit zur Massenproduktion von Raketen erheblich beeinträchtigen“ könnten. Allerdings steht das in Widerspruch zu Aussagen, dass der Iran seit mindestens zehn Jahren seine Raketenproduktion in den Untergrund verlegt.

Nach Angaben des iranischen Young Journalists Club gibt es bereits seit mindestens 2018 unterirdische Produktionsanlagen für ballistische Raketen. Darauf weist auch der US-Thinktank „Foundation for Defense of Democracies“ (FDD) in einer Analyse hin. Deshalb muss die Aussage, dass mit den Zerstörungen oberirdischer Ziele die iranische Fähigkeit zur Massenproduktion erheblich beeinträchtigt worden sei, zumindest hinterfragt werden.
Israels militärischer Coup: Die Radar-Enthauptung

Dennoch kann man die Behauptung aufstellen, dass Israel die kurze militärische Auseinandersetzung nach Punkten gewonnen hat. Der Erfolg beruhte auf einer spektakulären Operation, die als „Enthauptungsschlag“ gegen Irans Luftverteidigung charakterisiert werden kann. Entscheidend war dabei nicht die Zerstörung der iranischen Luftverteidigungssysteme selbst, sondern die gezielte Ausschaltung ihrer Radarkapazitäten.

Nach vorliegenden Erkenntnissen gelang es Israel bereits in den ersten Stunden des Konflikts, die iranischen Luftverteidigungskapazitäten durch eine Methode lahmzulegen, auf die Iran offenbar nicht vorbereitet war: durch gezielte Anschläge von im Iran selbst operierenden Kommandoeinheiten. Diese Vorgehensweise, die durch das Völkerrecht nicht gedeckt ist, erwies sich als außerordentlich effektiv.

Das Ergebnis war die drastische Reduzierung einer Luftverteidigung, die vor dem bewaffneten Konflikt als umfangreicher gegolten hatte als die gesamten europäischen Luftverteidigungskapazitäten. Entscheidend ist jedoch: Israel zerstörte nicht die Launcher-Systeme oder die Raketen selbst, sondern blendete das System durch die Ausschaltung des Radars. Die iranische Luftverteidigung wurde nicht vernichtet, sondern „erblindet“.

Diese Strategie ermöglichte es der israelischen Luftwaffe, zumeist außerhalb des iranischen Luftraumes Abstandswaffen, vorwiegend Marschflugkörper, über dem iranischen Territorium zum Einsatz zu bringen.

Irans Problem lag jedoch nicht nur in der Radar-Enthauptung: Das Land verfügte zwar über das Potenzial, deutlich mehr Raketen gegen Israel abzufeuern, doch die ballistischen Launcher im westlichen Landesteil – wo große Kapazitäten konzentriert sind – standen unter ständiger Bedrohung israelischer Aufklärung und Vernichtung.

Der Iran war daher auf Silos in Zentral- oder West-Iran angewiesen, die schwerer von Israel aufzuklären waren. Diese geografische Einschränkung begrenzte sowohl die Handlungsmöglichkeiten als auch die Anzahl der Raketen in den einzelnen Volleys erheblich.
Das Paradox der Verteidigung: Israel kann sich nicht schützen

Trotz des militärischen Erfolgs über Iran offenbarte der Konflikt eine bemerkenswerte Schwäche Israels: Das Land war nicht in der Lage, sein eigenes Territorium wirksam zu verteidigen. Iranische Raketen durchbrachen immer wieder den viel gepriesenen Iron Dome und andere Abwehrsysteme, was zu kontinuierlichen Schäden und Opfern führte.

Besonders problematisch erwies sich die Knappheit an Abwehrraketen. Nach Berichten des Wall Street Journals kostete der Konflikt Israel „Hunderte Millionen Dollar pro Tag“, wobei die Abfangraketen allein zwischen zehn Millionen und 200 Millionen Dollar täglich verschlangen.
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Zusätzlich waren die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen für Israel gravierend: Flughäfen blieben geschlossen, der Tourismus brach zusammen, und die für Israel so wichtige Hightech-Industrie litt unter der anhaltenden Bedrohung. Die täglichen Sirenen und Angriffe verhinderten jede Normalisierung des gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens.

Israel konnte seine eigene Bevölkerung nicht vor den Angriffen schützen.
Militärische Pattsituation trotz israelischen „Sieges“

Die erfolgreiche Ausschaltung der iranischen Radarkapazitäten war ein spektakulärer taktischer Erfolg. Doch bei genauerer Betrachtung der militärischen Bilanz zeigt sich eine andere Realität: Iran behält nahezu seine gesamte Kampfkraft.

Die viel zitierten israelischen Behauptungen über die Zerstörung eines Drittels der iranischen Raketenwerfer erweisen sich anhand der veröffentlichten Bilder als unwahrscheinlich. Die Langstrecken-Flugabwehrlauncher blieben vollständig intakt, ebenso wie der Großteil der ballistischen Raketen-Launcher. Entscheidend ist: Alle Flugabwehrraketen sind noch vorhanden, alle Launcher-Systeme funktionsfähig – lediglich die Radare wurden zerstört.

Die ballistischen Raketen-Launcher sind je nach Raketentyp technisch verhältnismäßig simpel und kostengünstig herzustellen, weshalb Iran sie im Bedarfsfall schnell in Massen nachproduzieren kann. Entscheidend bleibt: Iran verfügt weiterhin über mindestens geschätzte 3.000 ballistischen Raketen. Andere Experten gehen sogar von einer fünfstelligen Anzahl ballistischer Raketen aus.

Und seine 400 Kilogramm angereicherten Urans sind wohl durch rechtzeitige Evakuierungsmaßnahmen geschützt worden.

Die anhaltende Angriffsfähigkeit Irans bis in die letzten Stunden vor dem Waffenstillstand unterstreicht diese Einschätzung: Das Land ist militärisch wahrscheinlich leicht geschwächt und keineswegs besiegt.
Strategische Niederlage: Der Pyrrhussieg

Obwohl Israel den Konflikt militärisch vielleicht für sich entscheiden konnte, erweist sich dieser Sieg bei strategischer Betrachtung als klassischer Pyrrhussieg – ein Erfolg, der langfristig mehr schadet, als nützt. Das iranische Parlament hat bereits den Austritt aus den internationalen Kontrollmechanismen für das Atomprogramm beschlossen, was die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer iranischen Nuklearbombe signifikant erhöht.

Die strategische Lage für Iran hat sich paradoxerweise verbessert: Das Land verfügt weiterhin über 400 Kilogramm angereicherten Urans, seine Nuklearanlagen für die Herstellung einer Bombe könnten noch intakt sein, und die militärischen Kapazitäten bleiben nahezu vollständig erhalten. Gleichzeitig hat Iran nun einen überzeugenden Grund, tatsächlich Nuklearwaffen zu entwickeln – die israelischen Operationen haben die Notwendigkeit einer nuklearen Abschreckung aus iranischer Sicht aufgezeigt.

Besonders problematisch für Israel ist das entstehende „Nuklear-Fenster“: Iran benötigt geschätzt etwa zwei bis drei Jahre, um seine Radarkapazitäten vollständig wiederherzustellen. In dieser Zeit ist das Land militärisch verwundbar – was einen Zeitdruck schaffen könnte, schnellstmöglich zur Nuklearwaffe zu gelangen. Denn Iran könnte sich vor die Wahl gestellt sehen: Entweder schnell zur Bombe oder das Risiko weiterer israelischer Angriffe eingehen.

Das militärische Ergebnis sieht also für Israel so aus: Sobald neue Radare installiert sind, ist Iran militärisch wieder voll einsatzfähig – aber dann möglicherweise nuklear bewaffnet.

Seul point positif chez les fanatiques : ils sont assez pragmatiques pour faire des affaires avc tout le monde, même avec leurs ennemis jurés. Ça donne de l’espoir, non ?

#Israël #Iran #USA #guerre #religion

Trump Has a Thin Cultural Vision of the Future
▻https://jacobin.com/2025/06/trump-culture-traditionalism-fascism-history

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Est-ce que le #trumpisme est un #fascisme ? La réponse n’est pas évidente. Sur le plan culturel il est mille fois est pire que le fascisme italien et cent fois plus réactionnaire que les #nazis allemands. Au fond il a une vision apocalyptique qui se nourrit du récit de l’enlèvement évangélical et de L’Île à hélice pris un peu trop au sérieux par la noblesse libertaire de la silicon valley .

24.6.2025 by Matthew Grumbach - On art and culture, Donald Trump and the movement behind him are offering a highly circumscribed vision of the future in comparison to far-right movements of the past.

On November 16, 1989, protesters lined the sidewalk outside of Artists Space in New York City to protest the rescinding of federal funds for an exhibition dedicated to the AIDS crisis. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) had withdrawn a $10,000 grant because, as then NEA director John E. Frohnmayer claimed, “a large portion of the content [was] political rather than artistic in nature.”

The cut came on the heels of NEA-supported exhibitions featuring works by the artists Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe. These exhibitions sparked debates in Congress, with far-right Senator Jesse Helms and Representative William Dannemeyer pushing through tighter controls over what kinds of art could receive federal funding.

The AIDS activist group ACT UP and the artist David Wojnarowicz were quick to call out Frohnmayer’s dissimulations and homophobia at the NEA. Wojnarowicz linked the right-wing backlash to earlier waves of repression, writing, “We as a society have been in this political climate before. It is cyclical and similar bigots and extremists have reared their conservative/fascist heads before in order to conduct witch-hunts.” Like today, the invocation of fascism was not uncommon. A sign at the Artists Space protest read, “Fascism begins with censorship.”

Although the funding was eventually restored, the NEA’s reversal was a Pyrrhic victory and set the stage for culture war battles to come. As we face a new wave of censorship and cuts, analogies to fascism abound and have galvanized debate. In a recent Guardian piece, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor describe Trumpism’s vision of endless war and assert that we are facing an end-times fascism that offers no utopian future. The seemingly peripheral sphere of cultural policy can help us assess this provocative claim. Examining matters of art not only confirms that today’s neofascism does not offer a future vision comparable to classical fascism but also reveals the contradictions of Trumpism’s shallow mode of governance.
Trump’s Miserly Return to the Past

One of the first moves that provoked comparisons to fascism came in late 2020 when Trump issued the Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The order criticized modernist architecture and called for new federal buildings to use classical and traditional designs (picture the US Capitol Building and its Corinthian columns). On January 20, 2025, Trump doubled down and released a memorandum directing the General Services Administration to come up with a plan “to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage.”

Beyond architecture, Trump 2.0 has continued down the traditionalist path and staged a hostile takeover of federal art institutions. First came the purges at the Kennedy Center, where Trump named himself chairman. Under its new direction, the center will no longer honor “radical left lunatics.” Then, in March 2025, Trump issued an executive order charging J. D. Vance with the task of removing “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. If Trump’s vision for federal architecture recalled the monumental neoclassicism of Albert Speer, then the overhaul of the Smithsonian was the nail in the coffin that prompted further comparisons with the Nazis and their purging of “degenerate art.”

However, Trump’s cultural policy is not only marked by historical revisionism, traditionalism, and a backward-looking élan. It is also exceptionally austere, even for a nation with a stingy welfare state. Not only has the administration drastically shrunk the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), but in May 2025, the NEA began canceling grants for arts organizations across the country. The termination letters state that “the NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation’s rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President.” The agency specifically plans on elevating projects that “foster AI competency,” “foster skilled trade jobs,” and “make America healthy again,” among other stated aims.

Given these new priorities, it is doubtful that we will see robust public funding for the arts anytime soon, even for art that conforms to Trumpism’s hackneyed patriotism. As of now, the only major projects on the table are the National Garden of American Heroes sculpture park and the Celebrate America! grant program, the NEH soliciting applications in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Art Under Italian Fascism

While it is possible that the National Garden of American Heroes may end up resembling the ring of marble athletic sculptures that encloses the Foro Mussolini’s Stadio dei Marmi, that is where the similarities end. With regard to culture, Trumpism is both more traditionalist and repressive, and less generous and visionary than Italian Fascism.
Stadio dei Marmi in Rome Italy. (Wikimedia Commons)

Since Nazism looms large in the public consciousness and tends to be the focus of liberal scholars of fascism like Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder, the bulk of recent commentary often collapses key distinctions between German and Italian fascism. One major difference has to do with how the regimes approached art.

Whereas the Nazis promoted a naturalist, sentimental realism, with Adolf Hitler demanding the “absolute correctness in the presentation of the female and male body,” no such mandate emerged in fascist Italy. Benito Mussolini called for the creation of “a new art of our times” and when artists and intellectuals debated how to fulfill the Duce’s wishes in the pages of Critica fascista, they came to the consensus that the regime should not intervene in the artistic process and established that fascist art needed to be socially engaged but not overtly didactic or propagandistic.

The cultural empresario and Critica fascista founder Giuseppe Bottai held tight to these principles. His often-repeated credo was, “Fascism does not promulgate aesthetics.” When he took charge of the Ministry of National Education in 1936, Bottai expanded the state patronage system and supported modernism from Novecento and futurism to post-impressionism and post-Cubism. Through competitions, state acquisitions, and encouragement prizes, avant-garde artists were rewarded for producing artworks that instilled national values and reflected the progress of the fascist epoch.

In addition to providing direct financial assistance to artists, Bottai and his deputies also spearheaded new initiatives that sought to increase traffic between center and periphery and ensure that Italy’s underdeveloped south was not deprived of culture. These measures aligned with the regime’s broader efforts to democratize culture through subsidizing train tickets for art exhibitions and programs like the Sabato teatrale, which provided discounted tickets to theater performances.

Of course, like Trumpism, Italian Fascism was embroiled in internal conflict and factional disputes, and not all fascists agreed with Bottai’s modernist approach to state patronage. The bellicose squadristi leader and former secretary of the National Fascist Party Roberto Farinacci and his philonazi faction were fierce critics. In the province where he ruled, Farinacci established the Premio Cremona, a painting competition that had prescribed themes and promoted an Italian version of national socialist realism.

The fascist culture wars went deeper than matters of taste and reflected long-standing tensions. In the early 1920s, after the March on Rome, Bottai and Farinacci were locked in a struggle over the future of fascism. According to the historian Edward Tannenbaum, “the squadristi idea of the fascist revolution was the conversion of Italy to a demagogic, gangsterlike form of militarism.” Bottai did not wholly oppose violence, but for him it represented “the negative phase of fascism,” and once the movement achieved power, it would have to move from destruction to construction.

The fascist future that he envisioned would be realized through “translating ideas into institutions.” To fulfill the revolution, it was thus incumbent on the movement to consolidate the state and expand its activities and functions. Bottai’s approach to cultural policy reflected his conviction that fascism ultimately needed to build something new and articulate a positive vision.
End-Times Fascism and Hegemony in the Long Downturn

Some scholars have grown wary of using classical fascism as a yardstick against which to measure the far right. And while there may be drawbacks to identifying new forms of fascism using the example of interwar Europe as our sole criteria, considering figures like Bottai and Farinacci can help us decipher the vision of Trumpism.

Klein and Taylor argue that the techno-capitalist and populist wings of Trumpism have converged on an apocalyptic politics of destruction that, unlike classical fascism, offers no “vision for a future golden age after the bloodbath that, for its in-group, would be peaceful, pastoral and purified.” While it is certainly not a perfect double, Trumpism’s “supremacist survivalism” dovetails with Farinacci’s rural gangsterism.

Given the libertarian leanings of the techno-capitalists, this is perhaps not surprising. In Late Fascism, Alberto Toscano notes the similarities between Italian Fascism’s “state-led anti-statism,” of which Farinacci was an exponent, and the minimal state advocated by market fundamentalists like Ludwig von Mises. The techno-capitalists that surround Trump are just the latest in a long line of progeny.

Focusing on trade policy, Adam Tooze has responded that Trumpism does indeed have a future vision that delivers by rejecting the status quo, reviving blue-collar manufacturing, and instilling unity through sacrifice so men can return to heavy industry. John Ganz also emphasizes the gendered dimensions of this industrial promise land. And Jamelle Bouie lists off Trump’s many destructive attacks but ends up siding with Tooze and Ganz to affirm that Trumpism has a future orientation that fits the definition of reactionary modernism.

But if Farinacci in some ways prefigures Trumpism’s narrow horizon, how does Bottai square with Trumpism’s techno-industrial futurism? However imperfect, the art initiatives that Bottai established offer a glimpse of the kinds of programs that fascists developed to break down regional divides, mobilize different segments of the population, transform their consciousness, and sometimes even put money in their pockets. When we consider the scope of these programs, the future vision that Tooze, Ganz, and Bouie attribute to Trumpism looks skimpy and circumscribed.

Trumpism’s future orientation at best constitutes a thin form of hegemony. It is often forgotten that Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is not a purely ideological phenomenon. The ruling classes need to make their narrow economic interests appear as the universal interest of society, yes, but the exercise of hegemony also requires that they develop their organizational capacity and make real material concessions to subordinate groups.

The Right has made strides in this direction by building a robust network of think tanks and media outlets. Art, however, plays less of a role in the exercise of hegemony than it did in the past. This is not only because Trumpism’s populist wing denounces cosmopolitan elites, but also because the techno-capitalists appear uninterested.

Michael McCarthy notes “that despite being flush with cash, the crypto world has failed to fund any truly public goods like public education, health, or even more mundane things like public infrastructure, parks for sports, or public centers for art making. Instead, this world funds the renaming of stadiums, like the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and SBF’s FTX Arena in Miami, or Superbowl ads.”

And while pronatalist baby bonuses are a step toward redistribution, it is hard to say if anti-woke TikTok videos, space fantasies, Ultimate Fighting Championship fights, and psychological wages will secure the active consent of the masses in the long run or endow Trumpism with a unifying moral-cultural vision. There is also a good chance that Trumpism will slide into domination without hegemony due to structural and economic constraints. Even if Steve Bannon, Josh Hawley, and the populist wing begin to command greater influence, how will Trumpism deliver the goods if the state is nothing but a hollow shell?

Upward redistribution remains the rule of the day, and it is unlikely that the kind of zero-sum redistribution that Bannon hopes would uplift white Christian households will come to pass as productivity growth slows and profitability declines. When we combine historical comparison with considerations of how neoliberal conditions reduce state functions and constrain the exercise of hegemony, Klein and Taylor’s diagnosis of end-times fascism looks more and more convincing.

We obviously cannot accept any form of fascism, whether it resembles the bleak Farinaccian version or the more inventive one that Bottai helped construct. Specifying the contours of neofascism is critical for locating our adversary’s vulnerabilities and determining how we resist. As alarming as end-times fascism sounds, it is unclear whether it is sustainable and can produce a resilient form of rule.

If Trumpism transforms society into a bunker world, then civil society is likely to degenerate, perhaps becoming “primordial and gelatinous,” as Gramsci once referred to civil society in tsarist Russia. Without “a sturdy structure of civil society” to offer support, end-times fascism may prove unstable. Time will tell. But as Klein and Taylor argue, any future success will hinge on our ability to unify a mass movement that articulates “a story not of end times, but of better times.”

NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes | National Endowment for the Humanities
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First proposed by President Trump in 2020, the National Garden of American Heroes sculpture garden will feature life-size statues of 250 great individuals from America’s past who have contributed to our cultural, scientific, economic, and political heritage. The National Garden, which will be constructed for the 2026 semiquincentennial and located at a site to be determined, will create a public space where Americans can gather to learn about and honor American heroes.

Enlèvement de l’Église
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L’Île à hélice
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Liste de prédictions de la fin du monde
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septembre 1935 Cet évangélique annonce que « le monde va « bouffer » et disparaître » en septembre 1935. Voliva, qui a acquis une notoriété nationale grâce à sa vigoureuse défense de la doctrine de la terre plate, a également prédit que la fin du monde viendrait en 1923, 1927, 1930, 1934 et 1935. États-Unis Wilbur Glenn Voliva (en), Protestants, Évangéliques

Date : 1936 Événement : Le fondateur de l’Église universelle de Dieu a dit aux membres de son église que l’enlèvement devait avoir lieu en 1936 et qu’ils seraient seuls sauvés. Après l’échec de sa prophétie, il a changé la date trois fois. Lieu : États-Unis Prédicatdur : Herbert W. Armstrong (en), Protestants, Évangéliques

1943 La première des trois dates révisées d’Armstrong après sa prédiction de 1936 n’a pas pu se réaliser.

1972 Troisième date d’Armstrong après ses prédictions de 1936 et 1943.

1977 Le fondateur de l’Église chrétienne israélite a prédit cette année qu’Armageddon se produirait. Angleterre John Wroe (en), Protestants, Évangéliques, Église chrétienne israélite
Ce Pasteur Pentecôtiste a prédit que l’enlèvement se produirait au plus tard en 1977. États-Unis

2038 Une « fin du monde » similaire au bug de l’an 2000 avait été supposée pour 2038 avec le retour à zéro des dates UNIX (nombre de secondes écoulées depuis le 1er janvier 1970, sur 32 bits). Le remplacement progressif des architectures 32 bits par des 64 bits au cours de la décennie 2010-2020 semble écarter tout risque de cet ordre.

2060 Fin du monde selon des calculs réalisés par Isaac Newton à partir de la Bible.

2239-3239 Selon une interprétation courante du Talmud par les juifs orthodoxes, l’avènement du véritable Messie doit se produire 6 000 ans après la création d’Adam (en) (fixée supposément à l’an -3761, selon l’actuel calendrier hébraïque). S’ensuivra une période de grand chambardement pendant 1 000 ans, qui se conclura par l’instauration du Royaume des Cieux.

etc.

#art #culture #religion #wtf

Italie : le sang coulant des yeux de la Vierge était en fait celui de la « voyante » Par Le Figaro avec AFP

En 2024, le Vatican avait déjà réfuté le caractère surnaturel des « apparitions » relatées par Gisella Cardia, qui avait affirmé avoir entendu Marie et assisté à ses miracles à Trevignano Romano, une localité au nord-ouest de Rome.

Les larmes de sang coulant des yeux d’une statuette de la Vierge ayant attiré moult pèlerins près de Rome étaient contrefaites : la voyante autoproclamée qui en avait fait un juteux business utilisait son propre sang, selon des analyses ADN révélées mardi par la presse italienne. En 2024, le Vatican avait déjà réfuté le caractère surnaturel des « apparitions » relatées par Gisella Cardia, qui avait affirmé avoir entendu Marie et assisté à ses miracles à Trevignano Romano, une localité au nord-ouest de Rome.

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L’ex-entrepreneuse, condamnée en 2013 pour banqueroute, avait assuré avoir vu la statuette de la Madone verser des larmes de sang et avoir assisté à une multiplication de pizzas et de gnocchi - comme dans le « miracle de la multiplication des pains » décrit dans l’Évangile.

« Arnaque géante »
En réalité, le sang était le sien, comme l’ont révélé les analyses génétiques de quatre prélèvements renvoyant tous à son ADN, selon des informations publiées par la presse italienne, dont le quotidien romain Il Messaggero. Contacté par l’AFP, le médecin responsable des expertises biologiques n’était pas joignable ce mardi.

Le diocèse avait ouvert une enquête en avril 2023 à la suite des plaintes de nombreux habitants de Trevignano Romano déplorant une « arnaque géante » et exaspérés par les allées et venues des fidèles. Le parquet de Civitavecchia avait lui aussi ouvert une enquête pour escroquerie : grâce au succès né du bouche-à-oreille, Gisella Cardia avait fondé une association qui a engrangé les fruits d’un juteux business nourri par des dons individuels.

Seules les lacrimations de la Vierge à Syracuse (Sicile) en 1953 ont été officiellement reconnues comme miraculeuses par un pape. Depuis, on ne compte plus les phénomènes du même genre revendiqués autour de statues de Marie, du Christ ou de saints en Italie, où 74,5% des 59 millions d’habitants sont catholiques. Dans ces affaires, l’Église catholique reste très prudente et laisse chaque diocèse se prononcer au cas par cas.

#miracle #religion #catholique #Italie #sang #escroquerie
Source : ▻https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/italie-le-sang-coulant-des-yeux-de-la-vierge-etait-en-fait-celui-de-la-voya

Our crisis is not #loneliness but human beings becoming invisible
▻https://aeon.co/essays/our-crisis-is-not-loneliness-but-human-beings-becoming-invisible

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#work #technology #invisibility #depersonalisation #recognition #standardization #transactions #reciprocity #marginalization #mentalhealth #relationships

Le multilatéralisme sans les États-Unis
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/Le-multilateralisme-sans-les-Etats-Unis

En désignant les organisations internationales comme boucs émissaires, les attaques trumpistes sapent le multilatéralisme et l’ordre libéral issu de 1945. Ce désengagement américain relance le débat sur un possible leadership alternatif porté par l’UE.

#International #relations_internationales #États-Unis #GRAM
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/202506_marieke.pdf

Die Forderung nach einer Klarnamenpflicht im Netz hat wieder Konjunktur...

via ▻https://diasp.eu/p/17699462

.... Dabei ist sie brandgefährlich für gleich mehrere #Grundrechte. In einer #Demokratie brauchen wir Orte, an denen wir wirklich frei kommunizieren können. Ein Kommentar. #Klarnamenpflicht: Wir alle brauchen anonyme Orte im Netz

19.06.2025 - Markus Reuter

▻https://netzpolitik.org/2025/klarnamenpflicht-wir-alle-brauchen-anonyme-orte-im-netz

#Anonymität

Laïcité : l’école est finie ?
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/Laicite-l-ecole-est-finie

Comment les personnels scolaires font-ils face à une diversité religieuse de plus en plus prégnante ? Un collectif replace les mutations des rapports scolaires dans un triangle qui associe quartiers populaires, difficultés scolaires et #islam, donnant lieu à des négociations au plus près des élèves.

#religion #école #laïcité #éducation_populaire
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/20250619_ferhat.pdf

Irlande : 796 bébés morts abandonnés dans une fosse commune vont être exhumés

En 2014, Catherine Corless révélait que 796 enfants avaient été inhumés anonymement dans un foyer en Irlande. Plus de dix ans plus tard, les premières exhumations vont commencer. « Ce fut un combat acharné » , raconte cette femme aujourd’hui âgée de 71 ans à l’AFP. Lundi, des experts boucleront le périmètre de l’ancienne fosse septique du foyer St Mary des sœurs du Bon Secours. L’objectif : procéder aux recherches dès le mois de juillet.

Tout commence en 2014. Cette année-là, Catherine Corless met au jour des preuves attestant du décès de 796 enfants - des nouveau-nés jusqu’à l’âge de neuf ans - dans ce foyer situé dans une petite ville située à 220 kilomètres de Dublin. Ses recherches conduisent à une découverte macabre : une fosse commune. « Il n’y avait aucun registre d’enterrement, pas de cimetière, pas de statue, pas de croix, absolument rien » , se rappelle-t-elle. Surtout « quand j’ai commencé, personne ne voulait écouter (...) je suppliais : sortez ces bébés de ces égouts, offrez-leur l’enterrement chrétien digne qu’on leur a refusé » , raconte-t-elle. En vain.

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À la suite des révélations de Catherine Corless, des enquêtes ont été lancées dans le pays. Elles ont établi que 56.000 femmes célibataires et 57.000 enfants sont passés par 18 foyers de ce type entre 1922 et 1998. Parmi eux, environ 9.000 enfants sont morts. Certaines de ces maisons étaient financées et gérées par les autorités sanitaires locales, d’autres par les ordres religieux catholiques. Le foyer de Tuam, lui, était administré par les sœurs du Bon Secours.

« Tous ces bébés étaient baptisés, et pourtant l’Église a détourné le regard. Pour elle, cela ne comptait pas : ils étaient illégitimes, point final » , accuse-t-elle. Malgré la découverte de premiers restes humains en 2016 et 2017, il a fallu attendre 2022 pour qu’une loi autorise officiellement les fouilles. En 2023, une équipe a enfin été nommée pour mener les opérations à Tuam. Sa mission : retrouver, identifier et inhumer dignement les restes qui seront exhumés.

Des échantillons ADN seront prélevés auprès de personnes capables d’attester un lien familial avec les bébés morts dans ce foyer. « Je n’aurais jamais cru voir ce jour arriver. Tant d’obstacles ont été franchis » , confie Catherine Corless. Mais, lucide, elle sait, que les fouilles ne fourniront pas toutes les réponses. « Même si on parvient à identifier quelques restes, cela n’apportera pas la paix à tout le monde » , souffle-t-elle.
Source : ▻https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/irlande-796-bebes-morts-abandonnes-dans-une-fosse-commune-s-appretent-a-etr
#religion #catholique #clergé #bébés #Femmes #charnier #mariage #soeurs

Comment lutter contre l’antisémitisme - et gagner
►https://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article2203

Au lieu de s’en remettre à la police, aux directeurs d’universités et aux premiers ministres, il est temps de mobiliser les mouvements intercommunautaires pour déraciner l’antisémitisme dans ses fondements. #C

/ Infokiosque fantôme (partout), #Religions_et_croyances, Anticolonialisme(s), #Antiracisme

#Infokiosque_fantôme_partout_ #Anticolonialisme_s_
▻https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/lutter_contre_antisemitisme-cahier-4pa4-2024.pdf
▻https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/lutter_contre_antisemitisme-fil-8pa5-2024.pdf

Manifest Destinies - The Tangled History of American and Israeli Exceptionalism
▻https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/amy-kaplan-our-american-israel-book-review

Un livre sur les croyances incroyables des chrétiens états-uniens.

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3.6.2025 by Rashid Khalidi - The American publishing industry does not skimp when it comes to Israel. It has provided us with bookshelves groaning with hagiographies of generations of Israeli leaders, acres of glossy coffee-table books lauding the Israeli miracle in the desert, and a plethora of studies of Israel and its relations with the world.

In the last category, studies of Israel’s relationship with the United States have a special place. Most are informed by a deep sympathy with Israel and staunchly defend the closest possible partnership between the two countries, even if they are occasionally critical of each other’s excesses. Much of this writing is by political scientists or former diplomats, whether Israeli or American, and concentrates on diplomacy and strategy.

The better books in this extensive literature have a narrow temporal focus, like Michelle Mart’s Eye on Israel and Peter Grose’s Israel in the Mind of America, or take an international-relations approach, like Camille Mansour’s Beyond Alliance, John Judis’s Genesis, and Irene Gendzier’s Dying to Forget. As a result, even the best of these studies often ignore the cultural, intellectual, religious, and emotional forces that have also played a role in shaping Israeli-US relations since the end of World War II.

Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance helps fill that void. A tour de force of both history and cultural studies, it is the first work to describe, fully and rigorously, America’s relationship with Israel in terms of the profound cultural ties that bind the two countries so closely together and to examine their evolving relationship over several generations. The title of Kaplan’s book is extremely telling: This is a story of how a national and colonial settler project in a distant and seemingly exotic part of the world was normalized and Americanized to the point that, in the American imagination, Israelis are seen as close kin. In a certain sense, for many Americans, Israel is a part of us.

Amy Kaplan is a historian of American culture and intellectual life at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work is widely respected among scholars in the field for its perceptive understanding of the crucial role of culture in history, and here she offers an exemplary examination of how American exceptionalism and the sense of Israel as a special place and people fostered by Zionism have mirrored each other. For Kaplan, this explains a crucial aspect of the extraordinary affinity between the two peoples: They share a belief that their nation’s existence was divinely ordained and that it is therefore exempt from the rules that apply to other nations.

In explaining this affinity, Kaplan draws on the two peoples’ parallel pioneering mythologies and their similarly disdainful views of the indigenous populations in the lands they rule over. She shows that American and Israeli forms of exceptionalism intersect in many ways—not just in the manner in which both countries understand their respective manifest destinies but also in the material means by which they have realized them through systematic colonization and the suppression of indigenous populations. Kaplan stresses the crucial importance of this process of suppression in the paradoxical victim-and-victor image that Israel has long enjoyed in the United States. Emphasizing the consequences of this long-standing sympathetic view of Israel for the usually invisible third party to this triangle—the Palestinian people—she also notes how the negative image of Palestinians in the American mind was largely shaped by hostile Israeli views of them, as well as by American Islamophobia and Arabophobia.

Many aspects of Our American Israel are revelatory, even for those who have long been immersed in this topic. Kaplan’s discussion of Leon Uris’s novel Exodus, as well as its film adaptation, places both hugely influential works precisely where they belong: firmly at the center of an entire generation’s understanding not just of Israel but of the entire Middle East. As Kaplan points out, a lyric from the theme song for the film—“This land is mine, / God gave this land to me”—is perhaps one of the most concise and gripping pieces of political persuasion about colonization, grounding territorial conquest in a divine injunction. Similarly brilliant is Kaplan’s analysis of the striking success of Joan Peters’s 1984 book From Time Immemorial, which had a powerful impact in persuading all those eager to believe that the Palestinians never existed as a distinct people, although reputable scholars universally debunked the book’s argument.

Among the other notable aspects of Our American Israel is Kaplan’s perceptive reading of how the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the subsequent massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, and the outbreak, five years later, of the first Palestinian intifada reshaped American views of Israel and the Middle East. While the Palestinians—erased from public consciousness after the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe), the brutal forced exodus of hundreds of thousands from their homes during the war that led to Israel’s creation—were able to draw international attention to their cause in the 1960s and ’70s, they did not achieve a similar new salience in the United States. If they existed at all in the public consciousness, they were often seen as terrorists. The 1982 war and then the first intifada started to change this equation. Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and its two-month siege of West Beirut, in which more than 17,000 people—mostly civilians—died, had a strong impact on American public opinion. The televised images of this hail of fire raining down on a defenseless city could not be squared with the carefully cultivated image of plucky little Israel holding off hordes of murderous Arabs. This was “not the Israel we have seen in the past,” said John Chancellor of NBC News, speaking from a rooftop in West Beirut as buildings burned in the background. The news reports on the first intifada had a similar effect: Month after month of nightly images showing the shootings and savage beatings of young Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli soldiers further altered the way that many Americans viewed the conflict.

Even as Kaplan underlines the importance of these events in helping transpose the well-established David-versus-Goliath image of Israel and the Palestinians, she chronicles how agilely Israel’s American advocates responded and fought back, rapidly rebuilding the support that Israel had lost, by using a new set of tropes and arguments focused on the Holocaust, Israeli vulnerability, and Palestinian terrorism. Although Peter Novick’s monumental The Holocaust in American Life examines how Americans’ reactions to the Nazi genocide against the Jews affected their views of Israel, Kaplan’s book provides the most thorough study of how the close interconnection of the two was developed in the American imagination. Building on the work of Novick and other scholars, Kaplan analyzes the ways in which the Holocaust and Israel effectively became the twin pillars of American Jewish identity, with an emphasis on the former underlining the vulnerability of the latter. Thus the Holocaust now also “signified an imminent threat to the future of the Jewish state,” she writes. “A past atrocity in Europe came to foreshadow an impending apocalypse in the Middle East.”

Kaplan is similarly persuasive in her examination of Christian Zionism, particularly among evangelicals. With the rise of the Christian right in the 1970s, this has become a topic of increasing importance, helping explain the shift in the Republican Party toward unwavering support for the most extreme Israeli policies. Indeed, today some of the most passionate support for Israel comes from evangelical Christians, a fact underlined when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a fervent evangelical, told an interviewer that God may have raised Donald Trump to the presidency in order to protect Israel.

While the Trump administration’s effusive support for Israel may make it seem nothing has changed between the two countries, in fact much has been going on beneath the surface over the past half-decade. Public opinion on the left, particularly among the young and people of color, has shifted significantly where Palestine and Israel are concerned in recent years. Correspondingly, politicians appear to be willing to break from the lemming-like consensus that supports Israel’s every action. A new cohort of young, progressive women of color elected to Congress, including Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, have spoken out against Israeli policies and in favor of the pro-Palestinian boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. In spite of the ferocious, often racist pushback against them, they have demonstrated that things can be said today about Israel and Palestine in Congress, on college campuses, and even, feebly, in the media that were simply unsayable in American public discourse only a few years ago.

This is therefore the right time for the appearance of Kaplan’s compelling book on the extraordinary nature of the American relationship with Israel over the last three-quarters of a century. Her deep historical grounding and highly sophisticated treatment of culture, the arts, and the media help explain the crucial—indeed, she would probably argue (and I would agree), the preeminent—role of novels, film, journalism, and other forms of cultural and artistic production in shaping the American view of Israel. Such an understanding is especially useful at a moment when large numbers of younger Americans are increasingly scornful of their elders’ often uncritical and misty-eyed views of Israel. Palestine today has a place in the American public debate that it never previously enjoyed, and with this increased attention has come greater critical scrutiny of the US-Israeli alliance and the myths we have been told. In this environment, Our American Israel could not be timelier, and it will likely find a broad audience not only in a number of academic fields but also among activists and nonspecialist readers. For this is a book that anyone can read with enormous benefit: It is beautifully written, carefully crafted, and entirely free of jargon.

The book will also likely provoke intense controversy, as it gently but deeply gores many sacred cows. But it will be welcomed by anyone seeking to understand and to depart from the myths that have been central to producing the American/Israeli/Palestinian conundrum we face today. Our American Israel ’s clear-eyed analysis helps show us how we ended up in this conundrum, and by doing so it also helps us map out a realistic path through which justice and equality for both peoples can replace the discrimination and oppression that are the status quo.

#USA #religion #christianisme #Israel #destinée_manifeste

À Bobigny, le policier, le frotteur et le godemiché
►https://lesjours.fr/obsessions/proces-policiers/ep10-godemiche

Une fois par mois, on juge des flics à Bobigny. En juin, un fonctionnaire de police relaxé, un condamné à une amende, un autre à du sursis.

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Cinéphilo : IA, l’Intelligence de l’Autre – 2 - Ollivier Pourriol - Chaire de #philosophie à l’Hôpital
▻https://chaire-philo.fr/cinephilo-ia-lintelligence-de-lautre-2-ollivier-pourriol

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#intelligenceartificielle #altérité #humanité #her #matrix #relations #réciprocité #don #amour #apprentissage #connaissance #illusion #information #publicité #individualisation #bestof

Cinéphilo : IA, l’Intelligence de l’Autre – 1 - Ollivier Pourriol - Chaire de #philosophie à l’Hôpital
▻https://chaire-philo.fr/cinephilo-ia-lintelligence-de-lautre-1-ollivier-pourriol

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#intelligenceartificielle #altérité #humanité #her #relations #réciprocité #bestof

Tödliche Pilgerfahrt : Wie Saudi-Arabien Mekka mit KI und Apps sicherer machen will
▻https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/todliche-pilgerfahrt-wie-saudi-arabien-mekka-mit-ki-und-apps-sicherer-m

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4.6.2025 von Thomas Seibert - Saudi-Arabien holt die islamische Pilgerfahrt Hadsch ins 21. Jahrhundert – mithilfe von Drohnen und künstlicher Intelligenz.

Beides wollen die Behörden des Königreiches ab diesem Mittwoch einsetzen, um die knapp zwei Millionen Pilger aus aller Welt in den heiligen Städten Mekka und Medina lenken und potenzielle Gefahren frühzeitig erkennen zu können.

Der Hadsch gehört neben dem Glaubensbekenntnis, den täglichen Gebeten, dem Fasten im Ramadan und der Mildtätigkeit zu den fünf Grundpflichten im Islam. Diesmal trafen nach Medienberichten vor dem Beginn der Feiertage bereits 1,2 Millionen Menschen in Saudi-Arabien ein.

Für das Königreich ist die Wallfahrt vom 4. bis zum 9. Juni eine wichtige Einnahmequelle und eine Gelegenheit, sich als hochmoderner Staat in Szene zu setzen. Es ist Teil der Politik von Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman. Auch bei der kürzlichen Nahost-Reise von US-Präsident Donald Trump spielten KI-Projekte bereits eine große Rolle.

„Grundsätzlich ist das Geschäftsfeld für die Golf-Staaten deshalb so interessant, weil man damit die eigene Innovation, die eigene Kreativität, die eigene Dynamik zeigen kann“, sagt Sebastian Sons, Experte für die Golf-Region bei der Denkfabrik Carpo in Bonn, im Gespräch mit dem Tagesspiegel.

Beim Hadsch ist die saudische Selbstdarstellung mit Hightech deshalb ein wichtiger Teil des Konzepts. Das Hadsch-Ministerium veröffentlichte ein Video, das eine Kommandozentrale wie bei einem Raketenstart zeigt: Großbildschirme, Lagepläne und Mitarbeiter an Laptops, die einen störungsfreien Ablauf des Großereignisses sichern sollen.

Das Ministerium hat eine Internet-Plattform und eine App namens Nusuk, auf Deutsch Ritual, entwickelt. Mit der können die Pilger ein Reisepaket für die Wallfahrt buchen. In Mekka werden „Fatwa-Roboter“ mithilfe von KI religiöse Fragen der Pilger in bis zu 20 Sprachen beantworten.

Die saudische Behörde für Daten und künstliche Intelligenz will während der Wallfahrt die Informationen aus Tausenden Überwachungskameras nutzen, um die Bewegung der Besuchermassen zu analysieren und zu lenken.

Drohnen, KI-Systeme zur Gesichtserkennung sowie elektronische Armbänder und digitale Pilgerausweise sollen bei der Überwachung der Besucher helfen.

An neuralgischen Punkten wie der Großen Moschee in Mekka mit der Kaaba, dem wichtigsten Heiligtum im Islam, soll die Zahl der Wallfahrer mit Sensoren im Boden und an Durchgängen gemessen werden. KI-Systeme sollen Bewegungsmuster erkennen. Notfalls sollen dann Helfer einschreiten, um Pilger zu stoppen oder umzulenken.

6 Minuten sollen Medikamente bei einem medizinischen Notfall nur noch brauchen – dank Drohnen.

Drohnen sollen zudem Medikamente transportieren, wenn es medizinische Notfälle gibt. Bisher konnte der Transport wegen der Menschenmassen bis zu 90 Minuten dauern, wie die saudische Zeitung „Arab News“ meldete – die Drohnen reduzieren die Lieferzeit auf sechs Minuten.

Auch in Mina, südöstlich von Mekka, wo sich die Pilger zum Ritual der „Teufelssteinigung“ versammeln, könnte die moderne Technologie zur Überwachung der Besuchermassen lebensrettend werden.

Vor zehn Jahren starben mehr als 2000 Pilger bei einer Massenpanik im Gedränge während des Rituals, bei dem drei Säulen symbolisch mit Steinen beworfen werden.

Drohnen und KI sollen zudem nach Pilgern suchen, die als Touristen nach Saudi-Arabien kommen und sich unter die Wallfahrer mischen. Schon vor dem diesjährigen Hadsch stoppten Polizisten laut Medienberichten fast 270.000 Menschen, die ohne Hadsch-Anmeldung nach Mekka fahren wollten.

Die saudischen Behörden wollen sie aussieben, weil sie die Wallfahrt unberechenbarer machen. Hadsch-Gäste ohne Anmeldung sind der Hitze oft schutzlos ausgesetzt, weil sie keinen Zugang zu klimatisierten Zelten haben.

Im vergangenen Jahr starben mehr als tausend Pilger an Hitzschlag. Unter den Todesopfern waren viele unregistrierte Pilger.

Auch diesmal könnte die Hitze lebensgefährlich werden. In den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, einem Nachbarstaat von Saudi-Arabien, erreichten die Temperaturen in den Tagen vor Beginn des Hadsch fast 52 Grad. Für Mekka werden diese Woche bis zu 47 Grad vorausgesagt.

#religikn #islam #pélerinage #intelligence_artificielle

Circoncision rituelle à Bordeaux : deux médecins suspendus après la mort d’un nourrisson Marie-Hélène Hérouart - Le Figaro

Le 25 mai 2022, un enfant de deux mois est décédé des suites d’une circoncision organisée à Bordeaux par le Centre de circoncision rituelle. Deux de ses médecins ont été suspendus par le conseil national de l’Ordre des médecins, mardi dernier.

Dans la religion juive, la tradition veut que les jeunes garçons soient circoncis dès le huitième jour après leur naissance. Appelé « brit milah », ce rite est le plus souvent réalisé par un rabbin circonciseur. Une pratique religieuse qui n’est, en principe, soumise à aucune loi. « Des médecins jouent sur cette ambiguïté, en faisant valoir leur statut, pour réaliser des circoncisions rituelles qui sortent du champ médical » , a déploré mardi dernier le conseil départemental de l’Ordre des médecins de la Gironde.

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Un nourrisson décédé
Selon nos sources, la séance du 25 mai 2022, après laquelle un nourrisson est mort, s’était déroulée dans une villa louée à cet effet, comme d’ordinaire. La plupart des enfants présents ayant largement dépassé l’âge de 8 jours (âge auquel un nourrisson ne se souviendrait pas de la douleur de la circoncision selon les mœurs juives), un médecin généraliste était présent. Il a prodigué des anesthésies aux enfants.

Or, bien que ce docteur soit juif, son statut de médecin l’oblige à respecter les lois de la médecine, même dans le cadre d’une tradition religieuse. C’est à ce titre que l’Ordre des médecins lui a interdit d’exercer pour trois ans en lui reprochant d’avoir pratiqué une anesthésie qui « excédait sa compétence » et « ne pouvait être mise en œuvre que sous la responsabilité d’un médecin anesthésiste-réanimateur » . L’instance a retenu également le manque de moyens techniques, notamment de réanimation, à disposition dans les locaux utilisés. . . . .
Source et suite : ▻https://www.lefigaro.fr/bordeaux/circoncision-rituelle-a-bordeaux-deux-medecins-suspendus-apres-la-mort-d-un
#france #bébés #souffrance #santé #enfance #santé #circoncision #religion #prépuce #dingues #religieux #obsédés_sexuels #tarés #médecins