What follows is my English translation of a short article, originally published in German on Friedensbewegung.ch on 29th August 2024 and then in Italian on ComeDonChisciotte.org on 16th September 2024.
Canada has two official languages. Switzerland has four!
German, French, Italian, and Romansh
So two multi-lingual nations support a country that banned Russian as an official language! Even more absurd is the Bloc Québécois support for the Liberal govt. of Canada which supports Ukraine! Apparently the party of Quebec independence hasn't noticed the obvious parallels between Quebec and the Donbas!
I feel like I'm living in Bizarro World from the old Superman comics.
This is completely stupid. Switzerland is not a strategic route to the east for anyone except perhaps France. Even if it were, Switzerland is the land of tunnels and bridges. A few well placed missiles would shut down their entire transportation network. Haven't their military planners pointed this out? They obviously understand the defensive role the tunnels and bridges would play in preventing an invasion. What the hell are they thinking?
UNDERSTANDING PEACE is something one commits to with one's lifestyle, in solidarity with one's family, local people, as well as in our international economy, all people empowered to have livelihood (local as possible), living in spending time & money for necessities-of-life, so we have reserve to help both ourselves & others when called, rejecting harmful work & finding helpful work.
Peace is not an 'opinion' we have or a political party to act on our behalf or a vote we 'X' at elections. We have to be peace in our daily lives. All humanity's worldwide 'Indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated the 'Great-good-way-of-kindness', Great-Law-of-Peace & Constitution for many 10s of 1000s of years before the last 7000 years of fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch commanded violent amnesic colonialism & genocide.
LOCAL & NATIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE in SECULAR POLITICS from the Bottom-up using the Indigenous First Nation still Sovereign Economic Democracy system, we can arrive at the distributed decentralized system we all need & be stronger for it as a nation & indeed a world. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/9-secular-politics
Worldwide 'indigenous' nations cultivated what the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People-of-the-extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') refer to as the 'Kaianere'kowa = 'Great-good-way-of-kindness' aka 'Great-Law-of-Peace' aka 'Constitution'. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. In Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me.). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (below), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'.
All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices as below. Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation with ~110 nations across Turtle-Island (N. America) organized into ~23 Confederacies, into Continental & Hemispheric Councils. The mathematics of organization & governance in indigenous society is based in cultural 'fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). One can compare this fractal organization with the autonomous natural organization of the genes, cells, tissue & organs of the human & other animal bodies.
ECONOMIC MEMORY with bodily autonomy. Modern neurology has established how each part has both neurons, memory, intelligence & the autonomous mandate to act with their specific knowledge. The brain is considered as one of several body Nexus for the inter-communication of these events & coordinated action by the whole body, often well after the fact. The body is synonymous with the body-politic or society at various levels. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
EXAMPLE OF PUTTING PEACE INTO PERSONAL PRACTICE: Mohandas Gandhi as part of India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'Indigenous' aka 'Self-sufficiency') program advocated 'Become the change, you want to see in the world'. Gandhi's last 32 years since returning from his 2 decades in India in 1915, as a British trained lawyer & 'activist' for government change, rethought his strategy upon the influence of Swadeshi. India's 'Swaraj' (H. 'self-rule') or independence was based in 'economic' (Greek ''oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') engine. This empowerment of diverse peoples locally in solidarity 'animated' local 'self-sufficiency' as the key fractal determinant for the autonomy of the whole society. Gandhi cultivated 'Satyagraha' (H. 'Truth-search') as part of India's Swadeshi Council Process with Both-sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues among India's diverse nation, caste-economy, religion & politics as citizens & leaders. (web-link below)
ORGANIZING FROM THE TREE ROOTS: One needs to contrast this distributed, decentralized collaboration from the bottom-up, with western colonial society as a top-down, Oligarch commanded & controlled society. The present so-called Peace-Movement adheres to visions of Top-Down change of governments & corporations. Many of us walk home alone at the end of meetings, alone, economically isolated with next to no discussion about what we might do as groups of people together in the first step of Mutual-Aid needed for the distributed autonomous Team Work, we all wish to be a part of. While those in social & environmental movements might characterize governments & corporations as COLD HEARTED, this 'cold-content' is the term Marshall McLuhan in the 'Medium-is-the-message' applies to the 'activist' movement itself. McLuhan called for warmth in the 'process' of our association. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/9-mutual-aid
Three essential aspects of INDIGENOUS CULTURAL ECONOMY Peace include:
1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). This loving intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. 70% of people today live in multihomes /c an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute 2 trillion $ / YEAR of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions as well as it seems the 'Peace-movement'. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) Time-based equivalency accounting once upon the String-shell Value system (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America, Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands), which integrates: a) Capital ownership & decision-making rights, b) Currency compensation for spending, c) Condolence social-security of all kinds, d) Collegial Educational Credits in mentored-apprenticeship for youth, e) Time-based analysis in Communication, f) professional Costume for identifying essential expertise. This integration of human values enables people to be economically welcoming & inclusive. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
Here's a thought! Maybe the French/Italian part of Switzerland should declare their independence and political neutrality. If Czechia and Slovakia can separate peacefully, why not?
My aunt (British) lives in Geneva where my ex-wife (Spanish) and I visited many years ago. We had a great time there, but not so much in the German parts where they treated my wife like she was radioactive. I guess they thought she was a Turk - she could pass for one.
In my travels I've found French and Italian people to be far more reasonable than Germans, and as a microcosm, the same seems to apply to Switzerland, so maybe it's not such a bad idea?
it's a shame switzerland is and has been losing its neutrality.. regarding this, karl shared a global times article which i highly recommend...
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/global-times-critiques-stoltenberg
Yes, I read it already. I subscribe to his substack. Thank you anyway!
and it is for anyone else new to your site or karls!!
Thanks for this translation, Ismaele.
What a shame that Switzerland is compromising its neutrality. I would have expected better from them.
Canada has two official languages. Switzerland has four!
German, French, Italian, and Romansh
So two multi-lingual nations support a country that banned Russian as an official language! Even more absurd is the Bloc Québécois support for the Liberal govt. of Canada which supports Ukraine! Apparently the party of Quebec independence hasn't noticed the obvious parallels between Quebec and the Donbas!
I feel like I'm living in Bizarro World from the old Superman comics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World
"Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!"
"Common sense" is not so common, after all. :)
This is completely stupid. Switzerland is not a strategic route to the east for anyone except perhaps France. Even if it were, Switzerland is the land of tunnels and bridges. A few well placed missiles would shut down their entire transportation network. Haven't their military planners pointed this out? They obviously understand the defensive role the tunnels and bridges would play in preventing an invasion. What the hell are they thinking?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_in_Switzerland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Switzerland
UNDERSTANDING PEACE is something one commits to with one's lifestyle, in solidarity with one's family, local people, as well as in our international economy, all people empowered to have livelihood (local as possible), living in spending time & money for necessities-of-life, so we have reserve to help both ourselves & others when called, rejecting harmful work & finding helpful work.
Peace is not an 'opinion' we have or a political party to act on our behalf or a vote we 'X' at elections. We have to be peace in our daily lives. All humanity's worldwide 'Indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated the 'Great-good-way-of-kindness', Great-Law-of-Peace & Constitution for many 10s of 1000s of years before the last 7000 years of fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch commanded violent amnesic colonialism & genocide.
Peace is our welcoming, inclusion, sharing & caring together in RELATIONAL ECONOMY https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
LOCAL & NATIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE in SECULAR POLITICS from the Bottom-up using the Indigenous First Nation still Sovereign Economic Democracy system, we can arrive at the distributed decentralized system we all need & be stronger for it as a nation & indeed a world. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/9-secular-politics
Worldwide 'indigenous' nations cultivated what the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People-of-the-extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') refer to as the 'Kaianere'kowa = 'Great-good-way-of-kindness' aka 'Great-Law-of-Peace' aka 'Constitution'. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. In Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me.). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (below), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'.
All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices as below. Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation with ~110 nations across Turtle-Island (N. America) organized into ~23 Confederacies, into Continental & Hemispheric Councils. The mathematics of organization & governance in indigenous society is based in cultural 'fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). One can compare this fractal organization with the autonomous natural organization of the genes, cells, tissue & organs of the human & other animal bodies.
ECONOMIC MEMORY with bodily autonomy. Modern neurology has established how each part has both neurons, memory, intelligence & the autonomous mandate to act with their specific knowledge. The brain is considered as one of several body Nexus for the inter-communication of these events & coordinated action by the whole body, often well after the fact. The body is synonymous with the body-politic or society at various levels. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
EXAMPLE OF PUTTING PEACE INTO PERSONAL PRACTICE: Mohandas Gandhi as part of India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'Indigenous' aka 'Self-sufficiency') program advocated 'Become the change, you want to see in the world'. Gandhi's last 32 years since returning from his 2 decades in India in 1915, as a British trained lawyer & 'activist' for government change, rethought his strategy upon the influence of Swadeshi. India's 'Swaraj' (H. 'self-rule') or independence was based in 'economic' (Greek ''oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') engine. This empowerment of diverse peoples locally in solidarity 'animated' local 'self-sufficiency' as the key fractal determinant for the autonomy of the whole society. Gandhi cultivated 'Satyagraha' (H. 'Truth-search') as part of India's Swadeshi Council Process with Both-sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues among India's diverse nation, caste-economy, religion & politics as citizens & leaders. (web-link below)
ORGANIZING FROM THE TREE ROOTS: One needs to contrast this distributed, decentralized collaboration from the bottom-up, with western colonial society as a top-down, Oligarch commanded & controlled society. The present so-called Peace-Movement adheres to visions of Top-Down change of governments & corporations. Many of us walk home alone at the end of meetings, alone, economically isolated with next to no discussion about what we might do as groups of people together in the first step of Mutual-Aid needed for the distributed autonomous Team Work, we all wish to be a part of. While those in social & environmental movements might characterize governments & corporations as COLD HEARTED, this 'cold-content' is the term Marshall McLuhan in the 'Medium-is-the-message' applies to the 'activist' movement itself. McLuhan called for warmth in the 'process' of our association. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/9-mutual-aid
Three essential aspects of INDIGENOUS CULTURAL ECONOMY Peace include:
1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). This loving intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. 70% of people today live in multihomes /c an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute 2 trillion $ / YEAR of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions as well as it seems the 'Peace-movement'. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) Time-based equivalency accounting once upon the String-shell Value system (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America, Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands), which integrates: a) Capital ownership & decision-making rights, b) Currency compensation for spending, c) Condolence social-security of all kinds, d) Collegial Educational Credits in mentored-apprenticeship for youth, e) Time-based analysis in Communication, f) professional Costume for identifying essential expertise. This integration of human values enables people to be economically welcoming & inclusive. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
3) COMMUNICATION formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Constructive Agreements & for Conflict Resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Here's a thought! Maybe the French/Italian part of Switzerland should declare their independence and political neutrality. If Czechia and Slovakia can separate peacefully, why not?
My aunt (British) lives in Geneva where my ex-wife (Spanish) and I visited many years ago. We had a great time there, but not so much in the German parts where they treated my wife like she was radioactive. I guess they thought she was a Turk - she could pass for one.
In my travels I've found French and Italian people to be far more reasonable than Germans, and as a microcosm, the same seems to apply to Switzerland, so maybe it's not such a bad idea?
Here's a link to the Swiss Peace Movement.
https://www.swisspeace.ch/