[18] Harmony Centre & Its Geopolitical Uses (6)

Part 1.

The current dream of Latvian nationalist coalition parties to control Riga is based on the fact that Riga has been the capital city of Latvia since the foundation of Latvia in 1918.

Though Riga remained the capital of Soviet Latvia during the Soviet occupation, “occupied” Riga underwent significant changes. For one, the Latvian population, which had replaced a largely German population at the beginning of the 20th century and constituted a majority of the Riga population by 1940, decreased as Riga became the domicile of many Russians in the fifty year period under the occupation of the USSR.

Today the seats in the Latvian Saeima are roughly proportional to the ethnic divide http://www.economist.com/node/21530161 in Latvia, even as Riga, with roughly 42% of Latvian Russians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Latvia , remains a major centre of Latvian Russians. 

From a point of view of tactical manuverability and geopolitical advantage, the Latvian nationalist dream and the consequences of the attempt to realize it, have proven as unrealistic as disastrous (currently fait accompli) to the interests of Latvians. There are two reasons for this:

a)  The Latvian Latvians who were forced to leave the countryside due to neo-capitalist agricultural policy of the EU (largely favored by Latvian nationalists) did not result in an increase of Latvian population in Riga. This is because of the corruption in the Latvian Latvian government (which uses ethnic jingoism to bamboozle the rest of Latvians into a deadlock http://deadlocked.askdefine.com/ vote) and misguided economic policies. In real-life, most Latvians bypass Riga to this day for Ireland, England, and other countries offering competitively better job opportunities.
b)  The corruption of Latvian Latvian politicos resulted in straight-jacketed Latvian economic policies that led to a take-over of Latvia by foreign (largely Swedish) banking operations. The infiltration of Latvian interests by the “West” (a term used to avoid using the terms “Swedish”, NATO, or Brussels) has turned Latvian economic policies into a Ouija board like http://www.skepdic.com/ouija.html  exercise. The Latvian Ouija board actually works, because the forces that guide the pointer remain largely unknown to most Latvians and turns them into easily duped believers in magic.

The deadlock vote, the result of a never-ending stoking of jingoism (encouraged by the “West” of course), has allowed the nationalists to create a dogma of sufficiently long duration to engineer an inter-Latvian geopolitical advantage for Riga. This is to say, a reapportionment of the territories of the earlier four regions of Latvia (formerly a mythic three) into five, created the Region of Riga.

The Region of Riga expanded Riga’s territorial influence at the expense of the three regions surrounding it, re Vidzeme, Zemgale, and Kurzeme.
With the exception of Kurzeme, all the other regions were deprived of access to the sea.

In effect, the three landlocked Latvian regions (formerly only the region of Latgale had suffered from this disadvantage) have been forced to become economically dependent on Riga http://mapsof.net/map/latvia-regions-map.

No wonder that Riga could so readily misspend 130 million to build a totally useless (I call it ‘broken wing’) glass frame for its library. [I have my ideas about its used, but that at another time.]

Were it not for the self-induced ineptness of the Latvian Russian controlled Harmony Centre Party [its ineptness clearly a result of knee-jerk jingoist reaction to the Latvian Latvian coalition (thus failing to unite all Latvians], Riga might have fought off the penetration of Latvia by foreign banks and the weakening of its sovereignity.

Part 2 follows. Original at http://rigacapital.blogspot.com/

[18] Harmony Centre & Its Geopolitical Uses (6)

Part 2.

My geopolitical offer of Riga to the highest bidder, if using the Latvian Latvian or Latvian hypernationalist created map of Latvian territory would be a disaster to the other regions of Latvia.

If the reapportionment of Latvia’s regions is not deconstructed and Riga is not forced back into less expansive pretentions (for example, a 30 km radius from the flagpole on the tower of the President’s castle), my plan is not to the advantage of Latvians. It falls into the trap favored by the Unity Party (Vienotība) and Latvian geopoliticos advised by a Oija board controled by the “West”.

Although the Riga region is not the creation of the after- or post-‘fired’ government currently in office, it was created by the same forces. At the time, the President of Latvia, Andris Berzins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andris_Bērziņš_(Latvian_President) was still only the President of the Swedish afiliate in Latvia, Unibanka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEB_Unibanka . He had not yet ascended to become a Swedish poke in Latvian ribs from the offices of Latvia’s president. The latter, therefore, deserves to recuse http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Recuse  himself from the office even late after ascending to it.

[Parenthethetically, the reconstruction of the Riga region could begin by returning the formerly administratively unified region of “The Northern Vidzeme Biosphere”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vidzeme_Biosphere_Reserve its unity and give it more generous legal powers to enforce a true biosphere, i.e., one protected from human predators cutting down its forests and killing off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2EuC2sxLY&feature=related the wild pigs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeXqrHMSYNU .
A map of the biosphere: http://www.baltcica.org/casestudies/latvia.html 

In other words, in the process of deconstructing the Riga region to size, it should be kept in mind that it is a sweet. It has the potential of being rented to business under limited, yet more or less sovereign authority of its own–for an agreed to period of time. Latvians want investors to come to Riga and feel free to begin working at their business, but only by staying within boundaries drawn with the consent of the Latvian people. Those boundaries include limitations as to Riga’s extent on land and respect for the rights of the inhabitants of the rest of Latvia, not least Latvian “forest green” heritage.]

This is a good time for the Harmony Party to speak not only for Latvian Russians (the party’s majority membership), but to speak up on behalf of Latvian Latvian interests that have not been so well served by Latvian Latvian nationalist self-destructiveness.

It takes too long to state all the reasons why a 3-way split of interests in Latvia and Riga serves all three parties concerned, but one can readily percieve that the language issue now so troubling to the unity of the Latvian citizens is replaced with English as the language of everyday social intercourse in Riga, while Latvian and Russian remains a subjective issue among the speakers when home.

In Jelgava, the next Latvian capital city, Latvian will of course prevail.

Latvian will also prevail in the rest of Latvia where “forest green” rather than the chainsaw or plow rules. As for the latter, it is misleading as an ad on television loudly claims, that for the last seven hundred years the Latvians have been a peasant (zemnieku) people.

For much more than half the above mentioned 700 years, Latvians were forest dwellers, who cultivated a patch of land to enhance their forest diet with turnip and beet. The words brotherhood of the forest (Mezha brahlyi) was a popular term until even after the end of World War 2. The sense of freedom for a Latvian used to come from the forest and not from plowing the land for the barons.

It is only after, say, 1933 (the arrival of the so-called Ulmanis regime, that Latvians officially become descendants of peasants. They stay locked into that perception to this day.

Original at http://rigacapital.blogspot.com/

[21] November 18, 1918 – November 18, 2011

Ninety-three years have gone by since Latvians declared themselves to be an independent country, Latvia.

Technically speaking, after all these years Latvia still exists. After losing independence in 1940 to the Soviet Union, Latvia reemerged as an independent country in 1991 again.

The question today is whether the twenty years of government since regaining independence have justified the hopes of those Latvians who waited to see their country independent again?

The answer, if based on the state of Latvia’s economy and culture is—no. The hopes and expectations of Latvians have not been justified.

It is not however a question of democratic elections that decided the answer, but an understanding of history, the times, a sense of where the future lies, and the availability of men and women with a perspective on the world sufficiently embracing and sure of it to lead confidently. Unfortunately, Latvians do not have a sufficient number of such people, and those who do have a perspective are repressed by a media also repressed and delusional every time it projects an advertisement.

The reason for the shortage of Latvians with intelligence of breadth is not the fault of Latvians, but the result of most everyone in the world having been absorbed by the illusion that the prevailing political economic system is faultless. As long as the system put money in the pockets of a sufficiently large number of people to persuade the media that happiness is the state of most of the system’s inhabitants, there were but few critical minds that thought and said otherwise.

Some economists, generally academics, blamed the working economists for not perceiving that the reason why the system was dysfunctional was not to be sought with this or that nation or bookkeeping error, but that the dysfunction had reached a pandemic http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pandemic stage and was systems wide. The system(s) is generally understood as that particular enlightened order that can be stuffed under the heading of neo-liberal capitalism or liberal neo-capitalism (actually interchangeable terms) and was brought into the world (princes having been outlived) by past wealthy oligarchs, who, naturally, are more enlightened than the rest of men and women. Another name the system is known by is a “self-regulating market economy”.

It is the self-regulating system that today so regulates that a good portion of Latvia’s own have become economic refugees. Under the self-regulating market, a half a million Latvians have left Latvia (some say only 350,000), while my countryside neighbor insists that it is actually a million who have left. While I know of no factual basis for agreeing with “a million” figure, I assume that it is nevertheless an honest reflection of what it feels like to be a countryman when one compares the Latvian countryside of twenty years ago with that of today.

In short, Latvia under the present government (that strange griffon that has impressed Latvians into the neo-liberal self-regulating capitalist system) has not, come November 18, 2011, justified itself to those of us who hoped to see it recover and stand on its own feet. Indeed, many of us (those who had some critical perspective on the delusional West) had never had any desire to see “Latvia go West”, but would have been happier seeing Latvia participate in the ‘game’ of real politic. Latvia’s geographical location indeed allows it its own geopolitical strategy.

Having allowed themselves to be stuffed into the sack of the EU and NATO, those of today’s Latvian government increasingly appear to be chameleons rather than griffons http://latgola.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/500px-coat_of_arms_of_latvia-svg.png  . As a chameleon the government increasingly looks like a leech on the body of the Latvian community by now nearly exhausted by its many misfortunes. The next misfortune of immigrants replacing missing natives is at our door.

Given the failure of the leadership of the Latvian state, it would be significant if from within the inner circles of the leadership there came a voice and, too, says NO! I have suggested in the past that the voice belong to Latvia’s President. I still believe so. The nation, too, will be grateful if the President takes advantage of November 18, and presents the West, the East, and Latvians themselves with a reverse “shock”— resigns from office.

The shocked will be awed at the vistas of geopolitical potential that opens the moment Latvians cut for themselves a new door.

Original at http://rigacapital.blogspot.com/

November 18, 2111

This is Independence Day of Latvia. Seeing that I live some 140 kilometers from Riga, I am as usual sitting at home. Since the road goes by my house some hundred yards away, I display my flag at home.

If the Latvians have anything that comes close to being called “violent foundation” day, this is it. It is certainly “legitimization” day.

Yet Latvians emerged from out of this birth a much divided people. They were so profoundly divided that the socialists went East, while the capitalists went West. The capitalists won the government and kept the socialists out, if not de jure, then certainly de facto. The Latvian government is to this day a right wing government. Socialists as if do not exist.

Yet the socialists got their share and more, when Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union. The right wing government and all those oriented to its way of thinking (my family including) were brutally repressed.

After nearly half a century at the helm of the nation, preaching socialism as communism with as absolute a power as once the Bible was passed down from above to us mortals, the torch reverted back into the hands of the right wing. It has run with the torch (or call it flag) for twenty years and has run it into the ground.

Today the torch is out and the flag is muddied. Of course, only those who have eyes to see see it. For others it continues to be presented with rockets and with what Al Gore called “political gore”. The government always makes sure that it appears well sanitized and a new coat of paint. In reality, it is a government that is all knotted up in the stomach.

The reason is that the government lives on lies. Lies will gunk up the stomach as good as eating salmonella marinated fish.

So, Latvia has a right wing oriented government since its inception. Perhaps this is one reason why the one and only photograph of all those present at the act of the “foundational act of Latvia”, the To Be President of Latvia is not present.

All kinds of excuses have been written why Janis Chakste http://www.historia.lv/alfabets/C_/c_a/cakste_janis/cakste_janis.htm was not present at the inauguration. My godfather Mintauts Chakste http://nekropole.lv/lv/Mintauts-CAKSTE , the eldest of Chakste’s sons, never talked about it. Apparently it was a tabu subject in the extended family, too. Jānis Chakste, a successful lawyer, had missed out on the Inauguration Ceremonies on the 18th of November, 1918. No one wanted to know why.

I really do not pretend to know President Janis Chakste’s reasons for being absent, except not to be so naïve as to believe that if he had wanted to be there, he would not have been.

I also know that Latvian historians, politologues, politicians, writers of all kinds have all fudged this “legitimating” and “foundation” day of Latvia with as many strokes of crayons as a messy child paints a sheet of paper.

It is a shame that ninety-three years after the foundation of Latvia no one speaks of the possibility that one of the reasons why Jānis Chakste was not present at the 18th of November Founding Act was that it occurred under the Dom Mayor of the Allies, where German interests (in spite of the fact that Germany had lost the war) kept the tilt of the government to the right, and had the left excluded, unless as a decoration.

Another reason could have been because Jānis Chaste was a Jelgava http://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelgava city loyalist and may have wanted the capital of Latvija to be in Jelgava not Riga, the latter which was still largely populated by Germans.

I believe that this non-event that gives the first President of Latvia a major, albeit silent, role and voice in the founding of Latvia, needs to be examined more thoroughly and that the official story is critically deconstructed. The deconstruction must be in the public eye.

I surely would like to know why my stomach knots up on the 18th of November, and as the day progresses becomes painful, and what comes to the fore of my mind are pictures of departing Latvians, a million of them, so says a folk wisdom accurate in every way but fact. Nonetheless the Latvian people know it.

Original at Clone Village Notes, re http://clonevillagenotes.blogspot.com/

This from a longer blog at http://clonevillagenotes.blogspot.com/

The Latvian nationalist argument against Russian as Latvia’s second language de facto, while Latvian is Latvia’s language de jure, runs into obstacles set by none other than Latvian nationalists. The chief obstacle to the Latvian language in Latvia is nationalist obstinacy in the face of clear signs that the Latvian language is unable to hold its own given there are only a million and a little more Latvians in Latvia. No Latvian today is able to receive a thorough education without knowing one of the major academic languages, the dominant of which is—by consensus—English.

While the Latvian nationalists tout “latvianism” as defining a Latvian, and no latvianist dare defend using the Russian language in Latvia, it is the nationalist led corruption in government that has made a notable contribution in the loss of the Latvian Latvian population to economic out-migration. The lost population may be a half a million Latvians, while many Latvians not of ultra nationalist persuasion insist that the loss feels more like a million. Even on this very day, when Latvia is experiencing major unemployment, poverty, and economic collapse, the nationalists have no program for economic development. In fact, the “nationalist” (presumed) President and Prime Minister of Latvia are suspected by many of being agents of Swedish banks and a self-enclosed capitalist system led by banks, the Bank of Latvia among them.

Let me return to the topic of the ‘diminutive’, its pervasiveness in the Latvian language, but its near total absence in the public media.

The proper name of the ‘diminutive’, one that accurately describes its function, is to call it ‘the endearing word’. Many years ago, I received a letter of appreciation from the Latvian University for noting this fact. Since that time, I have come to realize that ‘the endearing word’ is also a major vehicle and facilitator of mimesis. The appreciation of the theatre, so noted among Latvians (at least of those of a generation ago and earlier), may well be a direct result of the Latvian language enabling them to ‘get into’ mimesis, role acting, and the theatre.

What are the ultra-nationalist Latvians doing with regard to the teaching of the values implicit in the Latvian language?

A one word answer suffices: Nothing. One may only add: It is the ultra-nationalists who are losing Latvia for Latvians by projecting jingoism and being witless when it comes to the economy.

Original at Clone Village Notes, re http://clonevillagenotes.blogspot.com/

November 29, 2111

The subjection of the Latvian language over the past twenty years to an increasingly brutal secularization, has been gaining increasing attention lately.

The attention is a byproduct of a successful signature gathering campaign by members of the Russian population for a petition to hold a referendum (the current amount of signatures 137,500; the necessary amount 154,379) to change the Latvian Constitution so it will allow the Russian language in Latvia to acquire equal rights to the Latvian language, in effect to make such constitutional changes as are necessary to allow Russian to become the second language in Latvia.

The issue was first raised by certain Latvian jingoists parties (re Unity and All for Latvia; Vienotība and Visu Latvjai). The intent to bolster the political popularity of said parties has resulted in a counter movement by the Russian segment of the Latvia’s population.
In the face of many years of Latvian “do-nothingn politics” to reform corrupt politics or improve the country’s economic prospects, the language issue has proven itself exceedingly popular among the Russian speaking segment of the Latvian population.

Though one can sympathize with the point of view of the Latvian jingoists to some degree, such sympathy soon comes up against the fact that the ultra nationalist viewpoint turns the Latvianlanguage itself into no more than an advertising tool for the above mentioned parties.

Once one perceives the divide that forms between a secularized language and its earlier spiritualized and emotive equivalent, one (whether one is born to the Latvian or Russian language) understands that the present use of one’s language may add up to little more than that of an advertising tool. This is when one makes the conclusion that one’s language has become a tool for advertising as such. In other words, the issue that the Latvian ultra nationalists have unintentionally raised is to focus attention on their use of the Latvian language. Needless to say, the jingoist effect of promoting themselves highlights a misuse of the language of their forebears.

The misuse suffered by the Latvian and Russian languages is the dismissal (in toto) of their innate spiritual values.

It is not often that one hears in our day a discussion of the spiritual values imbedded within the language one speaks. An attack against such values has been a long and ongoing process, which runs parallel to the secularization and commercialization of all Western languages and the communal values imbedded in same since their ancient past.

One may go so far as to say that the spiritual values embedded in the language one speaks goes back to the days, when implicitly and communally shared values were replaced with overt “religions”. The first such overt religion to impose itself over a native people was Western Roman Catholic Christianity. Instead of allowing the “endearing word”, which is imbedded in the use of one’s language to play an active role in community life, “religion(s)” began to deny such values as “pagan”, stressing the canonical values of “religion” instead.

Original at Clone Village Notes, re http://clonevillagenotes.blogspot.com/

December 3, 2111

As the host of “100.panta preses clubs” (in Latvian), Dzintris Kolāts introduced those present http://ltvzinas.lv/?n=zinas&id=4204 Šovakar „100. panta preses klubā” – diskusijā par krievu valodu Latvijā - Sandra Kalniete, Eiropas Parlamenta deputāte („Vienotība”), Nikolajs Kabanovs, Saeimas deputāts (SC), Kārlis Seržants Saeimas deputāts (ZZS) Žurnālisti: Eduards Liniņš (Latvijas Radio), Māris Antonevičs („Latvijas Avīze”), Andrejs Hotejevs, („Telegraf”) Raidījuma vadītājs – Dzintris Kolāts.

While the chances of the Referendum winning for the Russians, there was a 60%/ 40% or 800,000 vs 300,000 agreement on the disparity of how the public votes, this blogger believes that the odds are rather the reverse the interests of the Latvian language. For more re http://clonevillagenotes.blogspot.com/

December 5, 2111

Map of the Baltic states during the Great Northern War (1700-1721): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Northern_War_Part1.png

The history of Eastern Europe and Central Europe is one of the least explored histories. For all practical purposes, it is an unknown history. At this particular time in the history of the world, this “known unknown history” is directly harmful to the people living in the region. The reason for this “known unknown” is attributable to the many political interests involved and which have fought over the possession of the region over a long period of time.

Since the author of this blog was born in Riga, Latvia (1933), his interests are concerned with the fate of the Latvian people. Since his original knowledge of whatever history of the Baltic region was taught him in Latvian schools, while he resided as a refugee in Western Germany, the history that he became familiar with is the version that traces its beginnings to the founding of the City of Riga in 1201 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/503392/Riga by Bishop Albert, who had landed there in 1199 with 23 ships filled with [the Order of the Brothers of the Sword , whom he attached as a branch unit to the Teutonic Knights in 1237). to wage a Crusade against the (?) Eastern pagans.

The interpretation of this early period of Riga (and Latvia) continues to be hazy for reasons of determined obscurantism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism , its repressive force fed by numerous religious interests to this day. The pervasive religious repression in the Latvian culture continues to this day (affecting all segments of society),

While Latvia is said to be largely under the aegis of the Lutheran Church, it cannot be forgot, that the foundation of the Lutheran Church is Catholic, and remains Catholic in its outlook to this day (the Lutheran archbishop of Riga, Vanags http://news.frut.lv/lv/ppl/107258 , recently discussed making an alliance with the Catholic Church that had once dominated in Latvia’s eastern part, a long time under Polish domination. One of the unanswered myseries of the attack against Jersica is whether the inhabitants of Jersika were, as those of Carcasonne http://www.cathar.info/1202b_chronolgy.htm , Cathar Christians, who—like those in Albigensia—may have had Slavic roots.

The Slavic-Baltic connection probably goes back to this time and before. Indeed, the linguistic split may not have taken its severest turn until the times of the so-called “Great Schism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism ,” in which conflict the Roman Catholic Church appears to taken the upper hand. The Catholic background of Livonia continues to favor (even in academic circles in our day) the prejudice that the pro-Catholic prejudice is to be held on to, which explains the Latvian prejudice to “will the West” and “off the East”.

Religious obscurantism still influences the way the Eastern-Central part of Europe views its history to the present day. If it is true that the famous belt or sash of Lielvarde http://baltic-crossroads.com/store/index.php?p=product&id=301 is of Cathar origin (they were known to be fabulous veawers), the mystery is explained.

In this writer’s opinion deliberate obscuring of history occurs not only with the arrival of the Crusaders in Riga, but their attack in 1209 against the city of Jersika (likely a native colloquialism for Jerusalem), located up-river of the River Duna (?Juna). The attack coincides with the beginning of the Albigensian Crusade, especially the attack and siege of the Cathar city of Carcasonne in Languedoc, France. While the attacks on Riga and Jersica were led by German knights, the attack against Carcasonne http://www.cathar.info/1202b_chronolgy.htm was led by knights from Northern France. No one is known to have survived the attack.

Interestingly, the Cathars of Languaedoc could escape east to Croatia and Serbia, where the the religious were relatively protected from the onslaught of the Crusaders because the area was a stronghold of the Slavs, who traced their religious influence to Byzantium or Constantinople (destroyed in the Crusade of 1204).

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December 6, 2011

No: Sarmite Elerte
Datums: 2011. gada 5. decembris 12:52
Temats: par referendumu
Epasts ar Ģirta Zeidenberga starpniecību.

Sarmīte Ēlerte, Ministru prezidenta padomniece nacionālās identitātes, pilsoniskās sabiedrības un integrācijas jautājumos

S. Ēlerte.: Sašķelta divkopienu sabiedrība nav izdevīga nevienam.

Jaņdža (EAB) atbilde: Agresīvi dogmātisks apgalvojums. Aizņemts no katoļu ticības, ka Pops apgalvo un izlemj visus svarīgos juridiskos jautājumus pēc sava prāta. S.Ē teikums paredz nākotnēju izlemšanu ar Krusta karam līdzīgu izpalīgu. Citiem vārdiem: uzvarētājs ņem un piesavinās visu.

Latviešu sabiedrības domāšanas stagnāts sākās ar Alberta uzbrukumu Jersikai, 1209. g. Tas bija laiks, kad latvieši sāka dot zvērastu (re: boyārs Kaupo) uz rakstītā vārda pamatojuma. Ar to tika sagrauts latviešu valodā pastāvošais dualisms, kas iekšēji apgalvo, ka valoda nav valsts cietums (kurā tautu var iesēdināt tās “ierakstītā” elīte, Saeima), bet realitāti ir iespējams mainīt uz tā pamata vien, kā ja ķēniņš apstākļu spiests pieļauj citādu realitātes izpratni, kā 1922.g. rakstītais Satversmes pants par valodu, valodas izpratnes veidojums pieļauj, tāds lēmums—ja arī ārkārtējs—ir tomēr pieļaujams.  Katoliskā iedoma par viena uzskata negrozamību ir gana agresīvs, represējošs, un naidu kurinošs, kā iekšējai (ielokā dzīvojošai) tā ārējai (ārpus ieloka dzīvojošai)  sabiedrībai.
1209, g, Krusta karš prêt Jersiku un tās ķēniņu Visvaldi, kas notika paralēli Albigensijas Krusta karam, bija katoliski domājošo [krustnešu—tā laika oligarhu un bojāru karš prêt latviešu Jāņu bērniem, kam domāšana bija “dualistiska” līdzīgi tā sauktiem Katāriem (vel sodien nicinoši devēti kā Ķeceri)].

S.Elertes apgalvojums jautājumā par latviešu un krievu valodas tiesībām Latvijā, ir tiešā pretrunā ar krievu valodu runājošo latviešu uzskatiem.  Latviešiem ir vērts atcerēties, ka latviešu valodā ieceltie dualistiskie (laicīgie un garīgie) uzskati tiek represēti gadu simtu gājumā.

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December 10, 2111

The currently “hot” political issue in Latvia is the consequence of a successful signature gathering campaign that will lead to a Referendum of whether the 2nd official Latvian language ought also be Russian.

While most everyone believes that the outcome of the Referendum cannot be anything but an AGAINST vote against the Russian language becoming an official second language. Maybe such an outcome is not so assured if one thinks the issue through to the end.

This writer’s sympathies were revealed when in a 1991 paper, he suggested that the official language of Latvia be in the future English, with Latvian and Russian languages playing their role within the subjective realm known as “home”. The writer’s failure to learn Russian after a total of twenty-seven years in Latvia, with Russian ancestry on the mother-side, and believing the Latvian Children of Johns’ Festival to be a relic of Russian Orthodox festivals in the distant past when the forests still ruled the surface of planet Earth, attests to a view paradoxical of the one that some readers are likely to presume as AN ANTI-Latvian orientation. No doubt, I favor the Latvian language as a language of the subjective over its officialese, for which trouble I have a couple of self-published books of translations in English of Latvian folk-poems to show.

In any case, the possibility that the anticipated AGAINST vote may not be so overwhelming as the reps of the oligarchs in the Latvian Saeima expect. There may not be any “Ureka!” for the fascist-nationalists which is but an small inflection away from the “Hurraa!” of Cossacks in attack mode. The “Hurraa!”  role ill befits the descendants of the Children of Johns, who never addressed the Sun as “Saule”, but always as “Saulihte” or Dear Sun. “Saulite” is a word, that should be the first word in the Latvian national anthem. “Dievs” (God) was put there by the advocates of Romanism likely the Herrnhuters beginning about the 18th century.

The Roman instilled tradition and presumption of substituting human lives for lack of self-discipline, rather than be able to reflect on life and act with mindfulness upon it, occupies a large area in Latvian consciousness. Therefore, with the help of teaching the Latvian mind to do a little hocus pocus in his-her mind-set by way of certain prejudices, we may come to see the Romanizing (religion imposing) tradition replaced by a vision of Romans metamorphosing into Enterprisers (Uznehmehyi) to be further re-identified as Latvian Oligarchs. Meanwhile, the substitution of taking human life has been overcome by substituting it with economic depravation (called ‘Capitalism with a Heart’), even economic death across the bredth of society as at the present time.

Having joined NATO, Latvians now officially participate in such distant, distasteful and human kind ill serving violent events, for which they contribute 2% of the annual wealth of the Latvian peoples (this writer tends to identify the people also with the name of “populists”, the Latvian people calling themselves by the name of “tauta”).

The AGAINST Russian vote may perhaps be nullified by adding to the “FOR” and “AGAINST” vote, a third vote, one that is AGAINST, BUT FOR, MAKING THE REFERENDUM NOT BINDING. This probably necessitats that the Chairman of the Elections Office resign, because he is a committed “One Systems Man”. When in an earlier Voting process, he refused to agree that it is legitimate under present law to make place for a square that would allow one to NOT-VOTE, but associating such a potential with the expression of populist sentiment.

Complete text at Clone Village Notes, re http://clonevillagenotes.blogspot.com/

December 16, 2011
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There is a well known internet site that goes by the name of NoHedge, that is to say, the contributors to the site will give their answers straight (or as straight as they can manage it) and try not to evade the truth.

Apparently the chaos in the financial world as a result of lying and speaking the untruth has become an irreversible tradition to such an extent that the people at NoHedge felt that the only way to break the irreversible tradition of lying was to approach financial news in an uncompromising manner and making the deductions the available information makes possible without verbal deceptions.
Ever since the Latvian Nationalists Association (NA) raised the issue of the place of the Russian language in the lives of Latvian Russians, with the obvious intent to destroy its presence in Latvia http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/1410/language-wars/ and then failing in their signature gathering campaign, the status quo of nearly twenty years with regard to the Latvian political system has been shaken. The Latvians speaking Russian, created their own signature gathering campaign, and bested the Latvians 19 to one, or 190,000 to 10,000.

This writer, while not being a speaker of Russian, who was born in Latvia, and who has returned from the far abroad (46 years in the U.S.A.), and now lives in Latvia for the 17th straigsht year, and has self-published several books of translations of Latvian folk poems into English, is nevertheless in complete agreement with the call just issued by the Harmony Centre (a centre-right political party).

Harmony centre (Saskaņās centrs) has just issued a call http://www.apollo.lv/portal/news/articles/259012 for all Latvians to participate in the Referendum on the “”language issue—ragardless of what one’s conviction is, whether it is FOR or AGAINST enabling Russian to become the 2nd official language of Latvia.

In effect, this writer is considering the possibility of voting AGAINST Latvian as the only official language in Latvia, and FOR Russian as a 2nd language.

Considering how one may vote in a Referendum (before the Referendum takes place by discussing it) there is NO HEDGING the discussion, especially if a date for the vote has not yet set., But it does cause one to pause, the PAUS coinciding with giving thought to the possibility of voting FOR, demands arguments that support doing so, thinking things through not necessarily in a linear fashion alone.

Therefore, the following is a list of some of this writer’s reasons for imagining that the Latvian language has not served Latvians in a way that it is supposed to serve in the public spheres of politics, business, economic development, education, video, and so forth.

In effect: This blogger, Antons Benjamiņš aka Jaņdžs, varbūt balsos PAR!

NoHedge. The ‘Varbūt’ (maybe will) is “will ponder for sure”.

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