Radio Schillers nyhedsorientering nr. 32.
Nyhedsorientering den 6. april 2006. Taler: Tom Gillesberg, formand for Schiller Instituttet i Danmark.
Velfærdsreformen - danske nedskæringer under internationalt pres for at fjerne velfærdsstaten, regeringens "newspeak" nedskæringer pakket ind i flotte formuleringer, forsøget på at privatisere pensionssystemet og fjerne statens rolle, Velfærdskommissionens præmisser forkerte, det danske befolkningsantal skal stige fremover, globaliseringen er ikke kommet for at blive, vi står frem for et global finansielt sammenbrud, LD's direktør Jeppe Christiansen advarer imod globalt finansielt sammenbrud, Greenspan-boblen brister, en Iran-krig er jokeren, 1) Sammenbrud af højrisikomarkeder som Island, New Zealand, Tyrkiet, fortsatte fald på den islandske børs, 2)boligboblen 3)derivatmarkedet, $328.000.000.000.000 i valutaderivater, $213.000.000.000.000 i kreditderivater, hvad sker der når en stor aktør kollapser?, hvem skal sikre befolkningen når systemet ryger?, globalisering=afnationalisering, globalisering=kannibalisering af økonomien, Skifte på vej i USA, Roosevelt mindeklub, LYM-medlem Kesha Rogers stiller op som formand for demokraterne i Texas, Robert Rubin lancerer Hamilton-projekt, hvad gør vi efter krakket, Nyt Bretton Woods, LaRouchekampagne deltager i valgkamp i Berlin, Danmark kan hægte sig på, Frankrig, Sidste nyt fra USA: Libby afslører at Cheney og Bush stod bag lækager til pressen.
Foredrag af Michelle Rasmussen: Abraham Lincoln og kampen for nationalstaten.
De engelske tekster der refereres til står nedenunder: (Der er også nogle tekster som inkluderes her, der ikke blev læst op pga. mangel på tid.)
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad
(The sections in brackets [] were not recited, but are included for reference.)
Deleted clause
about slavery from the original draft of the Declaration
of
He has waged cruel war
against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and
liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating
and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable
death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of
INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of
[Not
recited: And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished
die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to
purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on
whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the
LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the
LIVES of another.
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.—But it is impossible to be temperate and to pursue this subject through the various considerations of policy, of morals, of history natural and civil. We must be contented to hope they will force their way into every one’s mind.
I think a change already perceptible, since the origin of the present
revolution. The spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from
the dust, his condition mollifying, the way I hope preparing, under the auspices
of heaven, for a total emancipation, and that this is disposed, in the order of
events, to be with the consent of the masters, rather than by their extirpation.]
From Lincoln's Speech at Illinois
Republican convention nominated as candidate for US Senate
"will
not cease until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. 'A house divided
cannot stand' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave
and half free. I do not expect the
[Yet
I have never failed -- do not now fail -- to remember that in the Republican
cause there is a higher aim than that of mere office.
I
have not allowed myself to forget that the abolition of the slave trade by
Lincoln
acknowledges that he may not see the freeing of the slaves in his lifetime.
"Even in this view, I am proud, in my passing speck of time, to contribute an humble mite to that glorious consummation, which my own poor eyes may not last to see."
PRESERVING THE
Lincoln's Reply to Editor Horace Greeley's
criticism of his war and antislavery policies.
[I would save the
My paramount object in this struggle is to
save the
[What I do about slavery and the colored
race I do because I believe it helps to save this
I have here stated my purpose according to
my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed
personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
From the Second Annual Address to Congress in 1862:
For time reason, this quote was not used in the class, but was intended to show how Lincoln not only felt his personal historical esponsibility, but communicated that sense to the members of Congress:
Fellow
citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress, and this
administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal
significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial
through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last
generation. We say we are for the
If we do this we shall not only have saved
the
Gettysberg
Address:
But
in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
This picture, taken after the victory was achieved, is the only existing picture of Lincoln smiling, and is the last picture taken of him.
During
Lincoln
’s
Funeral in
From Bishop Matthew Simpson’s Oration:
“There
are moments which involve in themselves eternities. There are instants which
seem to contain germs which shall develop and bloom forever. Such a moment came
in the tide of time to our land when a question must be settled, affecting all
the powers of the earth. The contest was for human freedom. Not for this
republic merely, not for the Union simply, but to decide whether the people, as
a people, in their entire majesty, were destined to be the Governments, or
whether they were to be subject to tyrants or aristocrats, or to class rule of
any kind. This is the great question for which we have been fighting, and its
decision is at hand, and the result of this contest will affect the ages to come.
If successful, republics will spread in spite of monarchs all over this earth”
With these two pictures, one can see the result of Abraham Lincoln's life's work by looking at the great black ex-slave leader Frederick Douglas, and two of his sons, one standing proudly in his military uniform, and the other with his violin. This son became a great classical violinist.
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