At different stages of its history, the glorious West discovered and occupied the rest of the world, massacred the people there, gathered the survivors, crushed their souls, traditions and culture, then plundered and robbed them, and thus became great. Meanwhile, he fabricated more and more wonderful ideas.
Forza D'Agro, Sicily. I'm sitting on the terrace, facing Etna, the sun is shining. Underneath the castle are small, hand-picked houses, glued to the side of the mountain, and let's not forget, this is where Al Pacino found his father's birthplace in The Godfather. A stone's throw away is Savoca, and there is Bar Vitelli, that is, the pub where Al Pacino saw his future wife. - Who is this woman? - he asks those sitting there, when the girl's father took out his rifle...
Since the movie, the neighborhood has lived on it.
I'm sitting on the terrace, facing Etna, the sun is shining. Taormina is another stone drive. "I hurried from Athens to Taormina, where I was waiting for a sunset that I knew would be the most colorful sunset painting in the world. I didn't have to think about the design for a long time here either, I was aware of everything," wrote Csontváry. Good for her. He was aware of everything.
Anyway, we owe the town to the Naxos massacre.
And there is a legend according to which the Arabs slaughtered everyone in 902, and Cruel Ibrahim tore out Bishop Prokop's heart in front of the handful of survivors and ate it while still warm.
The only problem is that I know one Cruel Ibrahim, but he was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he lived from 1615 to 1648, in Istanbul. I also know Saint Prokop, and he is the patron saint of Prague, he lived from 971 to 1053, and he tied the devil to a ploughshare, but he was not in Taormina. This makes it really easy to imagine this heartbreak - because that's how people are. I say, we owe the town to the Naxos massacre, when Andromachos gathered the survivors and founded Tauromenion here.
I'm sitting on the terrace, facing Etna, the sun is shining.
What do we owe to massacres? Pretty much everything. The whole West. At various stages in the history of the glorious West, it discovered and occupied the rest of the world, slaughtered the people there, gathered the survivors, although it did not eat their hearts, only their souls, i.e. their traditions and culture, then it plundered and robbed them, and that is how it became great. . Meanwhile, he fabricated more and more wonderful ideas.
"The sacred doctrines. / – Ah, it is precisely the holy doctrine that you always curse, / If you come across it by chance: / Because until then, you sharpen it, / You split it, you sharpen it, / Until it becomes madness or madness. / The mind does not have an exact concept, / Yet you always seek this / To your own damnation, you proud people.”
Lucifer said this to Adam in Byzantium, and how right he is. Unfortunately, he is mostly right throughout the entire work.
Look what has become of liberalism…
I'm sitting on the terrace, facing Etna, the sun is shining. I turn on the news and ruin everything.
I am reading:
"French President: Europeans must send ground troops to the Ukrainian war zone - If we do not undertake a military conflict with the Russians today, then the Russians can attack the Poles, Lithuanians, and others," declared Emmanuel Macron.
Great.
But let's see what kind of soap box or wake-up call Macron is talking about!
"France only recognized the independence of its colonies on paper. He signed a »cooperation agreement« with them detailing the nature of their relationship, securing the position of the Frankish and French educational systems in the countries, and defining their military and commercial expectations. This colonial pact, in force since the 1950s, consists of 11 main points.
The "independent" states have to pay taxes for the French infrastructure, which they had access to during the colonial period. France provides professional supervision.
African countries can only deposit their monetary reserves in the French central bank. France has managed the national reserves of 14 states since 1961. It handles the money of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Every year, about five hundred billion dollars enriches the French treasury in this way. African countries can access 15 percent of their money every year.
In addition, they are entitled to take out a loan at an interest rate based on the average commercial interest rate. However, the maximum value of the loan cannot be higher than twenty percent of their state income from the previous year. If the country wants to borrow more than that - from its own money - France can veto it.
»We should honestly admit that most of the money in our banks comes precisely from the exploitation of the African continent«
- said former French President Jacques Chirac recently.
Any new resource found in the territory of the former colonies, France has the right to acquire it first. The countries can only look for other buyers if the French have given the nod. In the case of government orders, preference should be given to French companies, it does not matter if others offer a better price-value ratio.
As a result, the economic facilities of most ex-colonies are in the hands of French emigrants. In Côte d'Ivoire, for example, French companies own all public utilities – water, electricity, telephone, transport, ports and major banks. Likewise in trade, construction and agriculture.
[How interesting: after the system change, French companies also bought the utilities, for example, and we bought them back, amid loud displeasure – intervention by me, B. Zs.]
Under the protection agreements linked to the colonial pact, high-ranking military officials sent to France can receive scholarships and grants during their training. The reality is that the French are training thousands of traitors in their institutions, who can be deployed if necessary in the event of a coup in African countries. Defense agreements allow France to take military action against its ex-colonies and station French-led troops in the countries' military bases.
When Laurent Gbagbo, the president of the Ivory Coast, wanted to end French exploitation, he became the victim of a coup. During Gbagbo's ouster, France deployed tanks, helicopter gunships and special forces, who spared no civilians.
In 2006, the French army massacred 56 unarmed civilians and wounded another 1,200. On top of all this, the French business community obliged the new government to compensate for the losses suffered during the operations. […]
Thanks to the African currency community franc, France can easily tap into the coffers of African countries. The European Union has already condemned this system, but the French are not willing to get rid of their colonial system, which enriches their treasury with five hundred billion dollars. [...]"
(Source: https://alternativgazdasag.fandom.com/wiki/Francia_gyarmati_paktum)
Macron talks about this wake-up call, and at the same time he himself believes that he is telling the truth.
He's lying. In everything and about everything. About European interests as well as about Russians. And if it hurts him anyway that the Africans are getting bored of all this and the Wagner group is moving in Africa, then you can do me a favor, Mr. President. And I can only repeat myself:
let the president go to fight in Ukraine himself.
I should also note that I would no longer allow any person in a high decision-making position who does not have children.
Because our last point of connection with eternity and the future - we killed God, didn't we - is our child. Those who don't have it have completely locked themselves in the moment, and nothing is really expensive for such a person. He so easily puts himself in a heroic pose to send other people's children to die for nothing. Five hundred billion dollars a year stolen from Africa...
I'm sitting on the terrace, facing Etna, the sun is shining. In the time of the Godfather, there was still some order to sin and there were rules.
Today there is nothing, only the "idea" and so many ugly lies. And the most disgusting of all is the "European interest", community of interests and the European idea. Either we can change this urgently, or it will be over. This too will end. And no one will miss you.
Only to the handful of "lunatics" and "illiberals" who could see beyond their noses. But now they are stigmatized, despised, ostracized, and punished. And normality is narrowly awaiting what we will owe to the next massacre.
Featured image: Zsolt Bayer, the writer and director of the series, at the press event presenting the new Hungarian documentary series The Lost Charm of the Holy East at the Mongolian Yurt Budapest restaurant on February 2, 2024. The fourteen-part series presenting the special landscapes of Mongolia can be seen on the Duna channel every Sunday from March 3. MTI/Zoltán Balogh
