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25 Dec 13:45

Todos los 'whatsapps' de Mazón a Feijóo, la tarde de la dana: "Tenemos lo que necesitamos, que es la UME"

by Harkon

Este es el documento donde Feijóo se dirige al juzgado y, también, el fragmento del acta notarial con los mensajes de Mazón: static.eldiario.es/eldiario/public/content/file/original/2025/1224/17/

etiquetas: whatsapps, mazón, feijóo, tarde, dana, ume

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25 Dec 13:45

No importa cuánto bebas: la ciencia confirma que el alcohol siempre es tóxico y puede generar adicción sin avisar

by YSiguesLeyendo

“El alcohol es malo siempre y no hay una cantidad segura de consumo. Cuando una persona consume alcohol y no le das tiempo a metabolizarlo (una caña por hora aproximadamente), si le damos más de esa cantidad se va acumulando y el daño será mayor”, añade.

etiquetas: alcohol, adiccion

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25 Dec 13:44

No importa cuánto bebas: la ciencia confirma que el alcohol siempre es tóxico y puede generar adicción sin avisar

   El psiquiatra Gabriel Rubio, autoridad en adicciones en España y con más de 40 años de...

25 Dec 13:44

Donald Trump propone quitar licencias a canales que lo critiquen

Mediante la red social Truth Social, Donald Trump sugirió quitar la licencia a televisores del país que criticaran su mandato.

25 Dec 10:46

Europa en peligro: lo que los informes que no cuentan. La guerra que viene después de Ucrania

by Negocios TV

Europa en peligro: lo que los informes que no cuentan. La guerra que viene después de Ucrania

La guerra de Ucrania entra en una fase crítica marcada por una profunda contradicción entre el discurso político y las evaluaciones de inteligencia de Estados Unidos y Europa. Mientras Washington explora vías de negociación y habla de avances hacia una posible paz, informes internos de los servicios de inteligencia estadounidenses alertan de que Vladímir Putin no ha renunciado a su objetivo estratégico de controlar toda Ucrania y, a medio plazo, recuperar influencia sobre territorios del antiguo bloque soviético, incluidos países hoy miembros de la OTAN. Según estas evaluaciones, cualquier acuerdo actual podría ser solo una pausa táctica para Rusia, no el final real del conflicto, lo que convierte la paz en un posible error histórico para Europa.

Rusia controla ya cerca del 20% del territorio ucraniano —incluyendo Crimea, gran parte del Donbás y zonas de Zaporiyia y Jersón— y exige el reconocimiento formal de esas pérdidas como condición para negociar, mientras Estados Unidos presiona a Kiev para aceptar concesiones territoriales a cambio de garantías de seguridad. Sin embargo, el presidente Volodímir Zelensky se niega, apoyado por una sociedad ucraniana que ve esas cesiones como una rendición encubierta. Polonia y los países bálticos comparten la visión de la inteligencia estadounidense: si Ucrania cae, Europa del Este sería la siguiente línea de presión rusa, lo que eleva el conflicto de una guerra regional a una amenaza directa para la seguridad europea.

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25 Dec 10:26

Procesos o personas ¿qué es lo importante?

by Miguel A. Ariño

En el mensaje de esta semana expongo cómo en muchas organizaciones mandan los procesos, el modo de hacer las cosas, muchas veces sin tener el impacto negativo que en un momento dado pueda esto tener en las personas.

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25 Dec 10:25

Si vamos a usar la IA, que sea para este tipo de cosas.

by Fino
25 Dec 10:24

Washington congela aranceles a chips chinos hasta 2027

by quitamelpiedencima

La Casa Blanca suspende el arancel del 100% a semiconductores maduros de China para evitar un shock de costes mientras acelera su plan de autonomía tecnológica

etiquetas: chips, china, eeuu, aranceles

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25 Dec 10:22

Mucha gente se ha sentido identificada con este mensaje del Xokas sobre la Navidad. “Desde que no está mi abuela, la Nochebuena no es lo mismo”

by Fino

Aprovechando este post os comunico que esta noche me he despedido de Salem, una bola de pelo naranja que me ha acompañado durante los últimos 14 años. Un cachito de mí se va con esa bola de pelo.

Ver post completo: Mucha gente se ha sentido identificada con este mensaje del Xokas sobre la Navidad. “Desde que no está mi abuela, la Nochebuena no es lo mismo”

25 Dec 09:29

Los dos tuits más delirantes de Eduardo Garzón

by Juan Ramón Rallo

Eduardo Garzón desmonta la Teoria Monetaria Moderna cuando pretendía estar defendiéndola.

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25 Dec 09:29

Hard times by Studs Terkel

by Raul Barral Tamayo

© 1970, 1986 by Studs Terkel.

In this unique recreation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity.

Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, and writers, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the Depression affected the lives of those who experienced it firsthand.

Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was the bestselling author of thirteen books of oral history. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Presidential National Humanities Medal and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in Chicago.

Estimated reading time: 74 minutes.

This book objectives:

  • Ours, the richest country in the world, may be the poorest in memory. Perhaps the remembrances of survivors of a time past may serve as a reminder to others. Or to themselves.
  • This is a memory book, rather than one of hard fact and precise statistic.
  • It is simply an attempt to get the story of the holocaust known as The Great Depression from an improvised battalion of survivors.

Main ideas:

  • Regulations that came into being after the Crash of ’29 have been loosened more than somewhat. Especially for our banks.
  • That there are some who were untouched or, indeed, did rather well isn’t exactly news. This has been true of all disasters.
  • In severe cases, many of the young will fight, even kill to protect their things.
  • Elderly black: «The Nero was born in depression. It was a rarity to hear a Negro kill himself over money».
  • Everybody was a criminal. You stole, you cheated through. You were getting by, survival.
  • A Depression could not happen again, not to the extent of the one in ’29. Unless inflation went out of hand and values went beyond true worth.
  • Another remarkable thing about the Depression; it never resulted in revolution.
  • People would work for next to nothing.
  • People today have been taught violence, the denial of humanity under money pressure.
  • There are always a few who make money out of other people’s poverty.
  • What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.
  • The most valuable thing we lost was hope. A man can endure a lot if he still has hope.
  • Those on welfare today are despised as they were never despised before.
  • I think a sense of powerlessness, of fatalism, has been growing form the Thirties.
  • They built up the Nazis so they could kill the Communists.
  • Were a Depression to come again, I fear we could have a Fascist state.
  • There was humanity then. We don’t have humanity today.
  • Al Capone was becoming kind of a Robin Hood in that era. He would go to ball games, people would get up and cheer him. They didn’t regard him as an underworld character. They thought of him as a sport.
  • Chaos will create a demand for a strong man. A strong man will be most repressive. The greater the Depression, the greater the chaos.
  • I don’t think we’re basically a revolutionary country. We have too large a middle class. The middle class tends to be apathetic. An apathetic middle class gives stability to a system.

Comments extracted from the book, they could be right or wrong, you decide for yourself:

  • Foreword.
    • Larry Humphreys: «When the banking system collapses, the logical thing to do is to come out bearing arms … It’s pretty much common knowledge that most of the international banks are Jewish».
    • In the Thirties, an Administration recognized a need and lent a hand. Today, an Administration recognizes an image and lends a smile.
    • Ed Paulsen was nineteen in 1931. He was a job applicant, too. «I’d get up at five in the morning and head for the waterfront. Outside the Spreckels Sugar Refinery, outside the gates, there would be a thousand men. You know dang well there’s only three or four jobs».
    • The new nomads have come from the rust belt, the abandoned farm, small failed business, many of them had voted for Reagan because «he made us feel good». Now they don’t feel so good, but few blame the President. They resent being called losers, though that is what they are called these days. In the Thirties they were called victims. If there is a core difference between Then and Now, it is in language. Then, the words of the winners reflected discomfort in the presence of losers. Now, they reflect a mild contempt.
    • In the Thirties, vagrancy was the most frequent charge in arrest and detention. Burglary ran a close second. Today, the FBI reports that burglaries and robberies have doubled in cities where plant closings have become the norm.
    • A vietnam veteran, on the move with his wife, two small children, and a tent, is thinking the unthinkable. «I’m trying my damndest to be an upright citizen. I’ve never committed any crimes before, but I’m thinking of hitting that 7-11. I’m not gonna shoot anyone, just food for the kids».
    • Ed Paulsen: «Hell, in the Thirties, everybody was a criminal. You were getting by survival. Stole clothes off lines, stole milk off back porches, you stole bread. It created a coyote mentality. You were a predator. You had to be».
    • Sidney J. Weinberg: «A Depression could not happen again, not to the extent of the one in ’29. Unless inflation went out of hand and values went beyond true worth. A deep stock market reaction could bring a Depression, yes. There would be immediate Government reaction, of course. A moratorium. But in panic, people will sell regardless of worth».
    • Regulations that came into being after the Crash of ’29 have been loosened more than somewhat. Especially for our banks.
    • With New Deal regulatory agencies gutted by the Reagan Revolution, aggressive banking (a phrase dear to free-marketeers) has become the order of the day. Free translation: speculation in money.
    • Ours, the richest country in the world, may be the poorest in memory. Perhaps the remembrances of survivors of a time past may serve as a reminder to others. Or to themselves.
  • This is a memory book, rather than one of hard fact and precise statistic. A hesitancy, at first, was followed by a flow of memories; long-ago hurts and small triumphs. Honors and humiliations. There was laughter, too.
  • This is not a lawyer’s brief nor an annotated sociological treatise. It is simply an attempt to get the story of the holocaust known as The Great Depression from an improvised battalion of survivors.
  • That there are some who were untouched or, indeed, did rather well isn’t exactly news. This has been true of all disasters. The great many were wounded, in one manner or another. It left upon them an «invisible scar».
  • Fear of losing things, of property, is one legacy of the Thirties.
  • An elderly civil servant in Washington buys a piece of land as often as she can afford: «If it comes again, I’ll have something to live off». She remembers the rotten bananas, near the wharves of New Orleans: her daily fare.
  • Thanks to technology, things today can make things, in abundance, is a point physically difficult for Depression survivors to understand. And thus, in severe cases, they will fight, even kill to protect their things (read: property). Many of the young fail to diagnose this illness because of their innocence concerning the Great Depression. Its occasional invocation, for scolding purposes, tells them little of its truth.
  • Elderly black: «The Nero was born in depression. If you can tell me the difference between the depression today and the Depression of 1932 for the black man, I’d like to know. Why did these big wheels kill themselves? He couldn’t stand bringing home beans to his woman, instead of steak and capon. It was a rarity to hear a Negro kill himself over money. There are so few who had any».
  • Jim Sheridan.
    • There was none of his hatred you see now when strange people come to town, or strangers come to a neighborhood. They resent it, I don’t know why. That’s one of the things of the Depression. There was more camaraderie than there is now. Even more comradeship that the commies could even dream about. That was one of the feelings that America lost.
    • People had different ideas, they disagreed with one another. But there was a fine feeling among them. You were in trouble … damn it, if they could help ya, they would help ya.
  • E. Y. (Yip) Harburg.
    • When I found that I could sell a song or a poem, I became me, I became alive.
    • When I lost my possessions, I found my creativity. I felt I was being born for the first time. So for me the world became beautiful.
    • With the Crash, I realized that the greatest fantasy of all was business. The only realistic way of making a living was versifying. Living off your imagination.
    • The biggest bread line in New York City was owned by William Rudolph Hearst. He had a big truck with several people on it, and big cauldron of hot soup, bread. Fellows with burlap on their shoes were lined up all around Columbus Circle, and went for blocks and blocks around the park, waiting.
    • The prevailing greeting at that time, on every block you passed, by some poor guy coming up, was: «Can you spare a dime?». Or «Can you spare something for a cup of coffee?». On every block, on every street. It isn’t just a man asking for a dime.
    • Why should this man be penniless at any time in his life, due to some fantastic thing called a Depression or sickness or whatever it is that makes him so insecure?
  • Lily, Roy and Bucky.
    • Roy: «If they were hungry and there was nothin’ there, they’d just have to wait».
    • Lily: «If we fell now, I think everybody would take it a lot harder. Everybody’d step on each other. They’d just walk all over and kill each other. They got more than they ever need that they’d just step on anybody to keep it. They got cars, they got houses, they got this and that. It’s more than they need, but they think they need it, so they want to keep it. Human life isn’t as important as what they got».
  • Marshall and Steve.
    • Steve: «I think of dreams people had, they were forced to give up in order to stay in American society. To make a buck. Like my mother did. Crushed hope. It gets across to me that there were a great many Americans who were ashamed of the Depression. They were ashamed of what they had done».
    • Marshall: «Today, if we had great storehouses of grain, if they wouldn’t be opened up immediately to feed people who are starving, people would take guns and see that they were opened up. People are not imprisoned by the idea that you don’t have a right to food. Why should people starve to death when there is food?».
    • Steve: «Many times, young people are told idealism is fine for youth, but there comes a pint when one must face up to the realities of existence. That lesson was learned during the Depression. My parents were forced to give up their idealism, forced to face the hard realities of making a buck to stay alive. This lesson was so hard learned, they felt it necessary to transmit it to us».
    • Marshall: «Fear, It unsettled the securities, apparently false securities that people had. People haven’t felt unfearful since. Fear of Communists, fear of people living in sin, fear of the hippies – fear, fear, fear. I think people learned if from the Depression».
    • Steve: «I can’t imagine that fear without the Depression. It shaped their lives and consciences. I got the feeling it was a time of utter chaos, in which there were no road signs. The moral and social guideposts had been wiped out. Why wasn’t there more violence in that period? What happened? Was it government pump-priming or was it the Second World War that pulled us out of the Depression?».
  • Ed Paulsen.
    • In small towns out West, we didn’t know there was a Crash. What did the stock market mean to us? Not a dang thing. If you were in Cut Bank, Montana, who owned stock? The farmer was a ping-pong ball in a very tough game.
    • More and more men were after fewer and fewer jobs. So San Francisco just ground to a halt. Nothing was moving.
    • We weren’t greatly agitated in terms of society. Ours was a bewilderment, not an anger. Not a sense of being particularly put upon. We weren’t talking revolution; we were talking jobs.
    • Before Roosevelt, the Federal Government hardly touched your life. Outside of the postmaster, there was little local representation. Now people you knew were appointed to government jobs.
    • Everybody was a criminal. You stole, you cheated through. You were getting by, survival. It wasn’t a big thing, but it created a coyote mentality. You were a predator. You had to be. The coyote is crafty. He can be fantastically courageous and a coward at the same time.. He’ll run, but when he’s cornered, he’ll fight. A coyote is nature’s victim as well as man’s. We were coyotes in the Thirties, the jobless.
    • I don’t see the Depression as an ennobling experience. Survivors are still ridin’ with the ghosts, the ghost of those days when things came hard.
  • Pauline Kael.
    • The rich people thought there was going to be a revolution, and they moved out of town.
  • Frank Czerwonka.
    • I won’t hang around with failures. When you hang around with successful people, it rubs off on ya. When you hang around with failures, it may rub off on ya, too. So I’m a snob, so do me somethin’.
    • Everybody was cheatin’ on gas, electricity, everything they could. A lot of people had their meters taken out. So he’d rig up jumpers on the meters in the whole neighborhood.
    • Five-gallon cans that were always a quart short. Even the one-gallon cans were about four ounces short. They never gave you a full measure. That was the standard practice in them days. They were gyppers.
    • In 1933, when Prohibition was lifted, alcohol dropped from $40 a gallon to $5.
    • Freight trains were amazing in them days. When a train would stop in a small town and the bums got off, the population tripled. So many ridin’ the freight.
  • Kitty McCulloch.
    • There were many beggars, who would come to your back door, and they would say they were hungry. I wouldn’t give them money because I didn’t have it. But I did take them in and put them in my kitchen and give them something to eat.
    • He gave me a dirty look and he started down the alley. I watched him when he got, oh, two or three doors down, he threw the sandwich down the street.
  • Dawn, Kitty’s daughter.
    • I remember that our apartment was marked. They had a mark, an actual chalk mark of something. You could see these marks on the bricks near the back porch. One mark signified: You could get something at this apartment, buddy, but you can’t get anything up there.
    • My mother was hospitable to people, it didn’t matter who they were.
  • Louis Banks.
    • They’d steal and kill each for fifty cents.
    • He’d come back and say: Detroit, no jobs. He’d say: they’re hirin’ in New York City. So we went to New York City. Sometimes ten of fifteen of us would be on the train.
    • A man had to be on the road. Had to leave his wife, had to leave his mother, leave his family just to try to get money to live on.
    • I’d get ninety days for vag. When I was hoboing I was in jail two-thirds of the time. Instead of sayin’ five or ten days, they’d say sixty or ninety days. ‘Cause that’s free labor. Pick the fruit or pick the cotton, then they’d turn you loose.
    • You’re jack of all trade, you’re doin’ it all.
    • The poor people had it rough. The rich people was livin’ off the poor.
    • When the war came, I was so glad I got in the army. I knew I was safe. I’d rather be in the army than outside where I was so raggedy and didn’t have no jobs. I was glad to put on a United States Army uniform and get some food. I didn’t care about the rifle what scared me. In the army, I wasn’t gettin’ killed on a train. I wasn’t gonna starve.
  • Emma Tiller.
    • They wouldn’t hire a white woman to do housework, because they were afraid she’d take her husband.
    • Many times I have gone in my house and taken my husband’s old shoes, some of ‘em he needed hisself, but that other man was in worser shape than he was. Regardless of whether it was Negro or white, we would give to ‘em.
    • Anybody can go around and write a book about a person, but that book doesn’t always tell you that person really. At that particular moment when you are talkin’ to that person, maybe that’s how that person were. Tomorrow can be different people. It’s very important to see people as people and not try to see them through a book. There’s an awful lot of people that has outstanding educations, but when it comes down to common sense, especially about people, they really don’t know …
  • Peggy Terry and Her Mother, Mary Owsley.
    • People come form every direction in there. A couple years later, they was livin’ in everything from pup tents, houses built out of cardboard boxes and old pieces of metal that they’d pick up, anything they could find to put somethin’ together to put a wall around ‘em to protect ‘em from the public.
    • There was a lot of suicides that I know of. From nothin’ else but just they couldn’t see any hope for a better tomorrow.
    • A lot of times one family would have some food. They would divide. And everyone would share. Even the people that were quite well to do, they was ashamed. ‘Cause they was eatin’, and other people wasn’t.
    • Peggy Terry.
      • One place had bread, large loaves of bread. Down the road just a little piece was a big shed, and they gave milk. My sister and me would take two buckets each. And that’s what we lived off for the longest time.
      • I can remember one time, the only thing in the house to eat was mustard. My sister and I put so much mustard on biscuits that we got sick. And we can’t stand mustard till today.
      • It’s different today. People are made to feel ashamed now if they don’t have anything. I think the rich were as contemptuous of the poor then as they are now. But among the people that I knew, we all had an understanding that it wasn’t our fault. It was something that had happened to the machinery.
      • The only thing we felt is that we were hungry and we were going to get food. Nobody made us feel ashamed. There just wasn’t any of that. Today you’re made to feel that it’s your own fault. If you’re poor, it’s only because you’re lazy and you’re ignorant, and you don’t try to help yourself. You’re made to feel that if you get a check from Welfare that the bank at Fort Knox is gonna go broke.
      • When you’re poor and you stay in one spot, trouble just seems to catch up with you. But when you’re moving from town to town, you don’t stay there long enough for trouble to catch up with you. It’s really a good life, if you’re poor and you can manage to move around.
      • The atmosphere since the end of the Second War; it seems like the minute the war ended, the propaganda started. In making people hate each other.
      • I remember I was very irritated because there were very few gringos in this little Texas town, where we lived. Hardly anybody spoke English. When you tried to talk to the Mexicans, they couldn’t understand English. It never occurred to us that we should learn to speak Spanish.
      • When I read Grapes of Wrath that was like reliving my life. Particularly the part where they lived in this Government camp.
      • I think that’s the worst thing that our system does to people, is to take away their pride. It prevents them from being a human being.
      • You get law and order in this country when people are allowed to be decent human beings.
      • You wake up in the morning, and it consciously hits you because you don’t know what that day is going to bring: hunger or you don’t know.
      • Children shouldn’t have to go around stealing.
  • Kiko Konagamitsu.
    • It seems the less affluent you are, the more you are able to trust people, the more you are able to give others.
    • The communal spirit of the Nisei is less today it was in the Depression. The second-generation Japanese has become the most so-called American.
  • Country Joe McDonald.
    • It’s hard to be phony when you haven’t got anything. I mean when you’re really down and out. I think the Depression had some kind of human qualities with it that we lack now.
  • Cesar Chavez.
    • When you’re small, you can’t figure these things out. You know something’s not right and you don’t like it, but you don’t question it and you don’t let that get you down. You sort of just continue to move.
    • We trusted everybody that came around. You’re traveling in California with all your belongings in your car: it’s obvious. Those days we didn’t have a trailer. This is bait for the labor contractor. Anywhere we stopped, there was a labor contractor offering all kinds of jobs and good wages and we were always deceived by them and we always went. Trust them.
    • We couldn’t find a job elsewhere, so we’d come back. Sort of beg for a job. Employers would know and they would make it very humiliating …
    • Did these strikes ever win? Never.
  • Blackie Gold.
    • The biggest stealing would be a guy go by a fruit store and steal a potato. But you never heard of a guy breaking a window. In the Thirties, the crimes were a hundred percent less than they are now.
  • William Benton.
    • In all catastrophes, there is potential of benefit. I benefited our of the Depression. Others did too, I suppose the people who sold red ink, red pencils and red crayons benefited.
    • The Depression just passed me right over. I’m not a good man to talk to about the Depression.
    • We succeeded in radio because none of us knew an better. These were the new techniques of the Depression. The Depression speeded up greatly the use of research in marketing. I developed new techniques. I invented things that I know apologize for.
    • I invented the phrase: «Music not to be listened to». That was my comercial phrase with which I sold Muzak. It was the first music deliberately created to which people were not supposed to listen. It was a new kind of background music.
    • Every businessman wants a product that is habit-forming. That’s why cigarettes, Coca-Cola and coffee do so well. Even soap is habit-forming.
  • Arthur A. Robertson.
    • In 1929, it was strictly a gambling casino with loaded dice. The few sharks taking advantage of the multitude of suckers. It was exchanging expensive dogs for expensive cats.
    • There had been a recession in 1921. We came out of it about 1924. Then began the climb, the spurt, with no limit stakes. Frenzied finance that made Ponzi look like an amateur. I saw shoeshine boys buying $50,000 worth of stock with $500 down. Everything was bought on hope.
    • Suddenly the banks became holier than thou, and took over the business of the companies that owed them money. They discharged the experts, who had built the businesses, and put in their own men. I bought one of these companies from the banks. They sold it to me in order to stop their losses.
    • The worst day-to-day operators of businesses are bankers. They are great when it comes to scrutinizing a balance sheet. By training they’re conservative, because they’re loading you other people’s money. Consequently, they do not take the calculated risks operating businesses requires.
    • Everybody in those days expected the sun to shine forever.
    • Suicides, left and right, made a terrific impression on me, of course. People I knew. It was heartbreaking. One day you saw the prices at a hundred, the next day at $20, at $15. You saw people who yesterday rode around in Cadillacs lucky now to have carfare.
    • Many brokers did not lose money. They made fortunes on commissions while their customers went broke. The only brokers that got hurt badly were those that gambled on their own, or failed to sell out in time customers’ accounts that were underwater.
    • People say we’re getting a repetition of 1929. I don’t see how it is possible. Today with SEC controls and bank insurance, people know their savings are safe. If everybody believes, it’s like believing in counterfeit money. Until it’s caught, it serves its purpose.
  • Jimmy McPartland.
    • We were musicians, so what is money? That’s nothing. The important thing is life and living and enjoying life. So these guys lose all their money, what the hell’s the difference, we used to say, «You’re still livin’, aren’t ya?». They can start all over again. This is what we used to think.
    • There was more camaraderie. It didn’t make any difference if you were colored or white. If you were a good musician, that’s all that counted.
    • The Government should work something out so people have something to do. There are so many things to be done in these cities. You feel much better if you’re workin’ instead of gettin’ a handout. You’ll get self-respect, which is number one.
  • Sidney J. Weinberg.
    • Over-speculation was the cause, a reckless disregard of economics. There was a group ruthlessly selling short. You could sell anything and depress the market unduly. The more you depressed it, the more you created panic. Today we have protections against it.
    • The war had a great deal of stimulus in 1939.
    • A Depression could not happen again, not to the extent of the one in ’29. Unless inflation went out of hand and values went beyond true worth.
    • Today you’ve got twenty-odd million stockholders owning stock. At that time you had probably a million and a half. You could have a sharper decline now than you had in 1929.
    • In a panic, values go down regardless of worth.
  • Martin DeVries.
    • Most people today are living beyond their means. They don’t give a damn. The Government’ll take care of them. People today don’t want to work.
    • Roosevelt attacked people, with some reason. But without justice. All people on Wall Street are not crooks.
  • John Hersch.
    • The Crash; it didn’t happen in one day. There were a great many warnings. The country was crazy. Everybody was in the stock market, whether he could afford it or not. Shoeshine boys and waiters and capitalists … A great many holding companies pyramids were unsound, really fictitious values. It was a mad dream of get-rich-quick.
    • It wasn’t only brokers involved in margin accounts. It was banks. They had a lot of stinky loans. The banks worked in as casual a way as the brokers did.
    • I kept hearing about town that their businesses were in trouble. But they never lowered their standard of living a bit. They lived like kings, right through the Depression. I’ve never been able to figure this out. I never knew how they did it. My friends and I were all broke, and we had no pretensions.
    • You also had short-selling and a lack of rules. There were many cases of staid, reputable bankers making securities available on special deals (below the market price) for their friends. Anything went, and everything did go.
    • There were people living under the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Gentlemen in old $200 suits were selling apples. There was plenty of misery. I never want to see another …
    • Another remarkable thing about the Depression; it never resulted in revolution. When you consider what was going on in the country; the whole country was orderly: they just sat there and took it. In retrospect, it’s amazing, just amazing. Either they were in shock, or they thought something would happen to turn it around …
  • Dr. David J. Rossman.
    • The President declared the possession of gold to be illegal.
    • I learned about the crack in our economy long before the stock market crash of ’29. I had a patient who was the biggest kitchen utensil distributor in America. He had a huge plant. He said: suddenly, without notice, his orders just stopped. May and June, 1929.
    • You could get the most wonderful kind of help for a pittance. People would work for next to nothing.
    • At the outbreak of the war, all psychiatrists in New York were just simply drowned with work. I saw my first patient at seven in the morning and I worked till nine at night.
    • In those days everybody accepted his role, responsibility for his own fate. Everybody, more or less, blamed himself for this delinquency or lack of talent or bad luck. There was an acceptance that it was your own fault, your own indolence, your lack of ability. You took it and kept quiet. A kind of shame about your personal failure.
  • Clifford Burke.
    • The negro was born in depression. It didn’t mean too much to him. The best he could be is a janitor or a porter or shoeshine boy. It only became official when it hit the white man.
    • If you can tell me the difference between the depression today and the Depression of 1932 for a black man, I’d like to know it. Now, it’s worse because of the prices.
    • We had one big advantage. Our wives, they could go to the store and get a bag of beans or a sack of flour and a piece of fat meat, and they could cook this. And we could eat it. Now you take the white fella, he couldn’t do this. His wife would tell him: Look, if you can’t do nay better than this, I’m gonna leave you. I seen it happen. He couldn’t stand bringing home beans instead of steak and capon. And he couldn’t stand the idea of going on relief like a Negro.
    • It was a rarity to hear a Negro killing himself over a financial situation. He might have killed himself over some woman. Or getting in a fight. But when it came to the financial end of it, there were so few who had anything.
  • Jane Yoder.
    • My father immediately got employed in this WPA. This was a godsend. This was the greatest thing. It meant food, you know. Survival, just survival.
  • Tom Yoder, Jane’s son.
    • I don’t think my generation can really comprehend what all this means. I’ve never gone to bed hungry. I haven’t, and I probably never will.
    • It’s only human nature that we all want to go on and find something better.
  • Daisy Singer.
    • I’ve learned that in business if people smell failure in you, you’ve had it.
    • For years, I felt exempt. I grew up feeling immune and exempt from circumstance. One of the things I suffered from was that I never felt adversity. I was confirmed in a sense of unreality. I never saw a real bread line. I saw it in the movies.
  • Robin Langston.
    • I knew the Depression had really hit when the electric lights went out. My parents could no longer pay the $1 electric bill. The kerosene lamps went up in the home. And in the business. This did something to me, because it let me know that my father was not the greatest cat in the world. I always thought he was.
    • I remember when times got so hard, this sheriff pawned a radio to my father for $10. He had to come to the black man to get $10. He really needed the ten.
    • The red-light district was always in the black area. The only white prostitutes you would find would be in the hotels. They would be the high-priced ones.
    • Even though we were all in the same boat, I’m still white and you’re still black, and so we don’t need to get together. Things are going to get better for the white folks, and you black folks will have to …
    • They really want anarchy, let a Depression come now.
    • When I was sixteen, I wasn’t afraid to die. But the kid, sixteen now, is not afraid to kill.
  • Dynamite Garland.
    • After I bought some nice clothes, I decided I didn’t want to be a nun. (Laughs).
    • They say if you’re raised poor, you’ll know how to handle money. We were raised poor as church mice. But when I get it, I blow it. It’s a personality thing. I don’t regret any of it. But still …
  • Slim Collier.
    • A great deal of Iowa, southern Iowa, particularly, didn’t have electricity until the end of World War II. I was eleven years old before I lived in a house with running water. That was 1936.
    • The people in the country were getting up in arms, refusing to work at these wages. At that time, I didn’t realize the exploitation, and the competitiveness of workers.
    • I was too arrogant to join a union. I’d work for less money just to be my own self. To be a union man had some sort of shameful label to it.
  • Dorothe Bernstein.
    • We didn’t have any fear. You’d never think that if you walked by people, even strangers: gee, that person I got to be careful of. Nobody was really your enemy. These were guys who didn’t have work. Who’d probably work if there was work. I don’t know how they got where they were going or where they ended up. They were nice men. You would never think they would do you bodily harm. They weren’t bums. These were hard luck guys.
    • A lot of kids felt the stigma. While it wasn’t your fault, they feel: I’d rather it’s a closed door, those times.
    • When you get down so low that you can’t get any lower there’s no place else to go but up. You do either one of two things: you either lay down and die, or you pull yourself by your bootstraps and you start over.
  • Phyllis Lorimer.
    • It was rough on me, the Thirties. I wasn’t aware of it being with everyone else. I thought it was just personal. I was in no way aware that it was a national thing.
    • I discovered what a good union could mean. I had spent most fo my childhood alone. Now I came to respect those who worked for each other and for others.
  • Bob Leary.
    • I guess it does do something to somebody to be out of work so long. It can affect your confidence in yourself. Not that it destroyed my father’s self-confidence. But I could see how it affected his outlook on life, his reaction towards success. He was inordinately impressed by men who had made it in business. It’s my feeling the Depression had something to do with this.
  • Larry Van Dusen.
    • Remember the shock, the confusion, the hurt that many kids felt about their fathers not being able to provide for them.
    • The old concepto that there was something for everybody who worked in America went down the drain with the Great Depression. This created family strains. A lot of parents felt a sense of guilt, a feeling of shame that they had to be rescued by WPA and building a dam.
    • Any great economic upheaval, I think, alters patterns.
    • The Depression left a legacy of fear, but also a desire for acquisition, property, security.
  • Jose Yglesias.
    • Neighbors have always helped one another. The community has always been that way. There was a solidarity.
  • Joe Morrison.
    • The coal industry was hit in ’26 and never did fully recover. 1929 is when it hit banking and big business. But we had suffering and starvation long before that. In the early Twenties, mines shut down, nothin’ for people to live on.
    • People were talkin’ revolution all over the place. You met guys ridin’ the freight trains and so forth, talkin’ about what they’d like to do with a machine gun. How they’d like to tear loose on the rich …
    • You don’t find much political talk any more among workingmen. You go to a tavern now, it’s around ball games, something like that. Seldom ever politics or war.
    • Maybe they’re thinkin’ today, but they don’t talk. There’s an apathy. They’re so busy trying to keep their bills paid. And the unpopularity of their being interested in anything they’re confronted with. People forget a lot. The younger generation has simply forgotten the history of these periods. It’s being covered up.
    • We’ve reached a place where people just got over doing anything about things they didn’t want to face. They’re afraid of being branded, being called Red or something.
  • Gordon Baxter.
    • If any prospective employer were to ask about them, he’d be told: «Don’t hire him, troublemaker, agitator». The word «Communist» wasn’t used much at the time. «Red», though was a common term.
  • Bob Stinson.
    • Everybody has to have something they’re really sold on. Some people go to church. If I’d had anything I’m really sold on, it’s the UAW (United Automobile Workers Union).
    • Until 1933, no unions, no rules: you were at the mercy of your foreman.
    • You might call yourself a man if you was on the street, but as soon as you went through the door and punched your card, you was nothing more or less than a robot. Do this, go there, do that. You’d do it.
  • Charles Stewart Mott.
    • Roosevelt was the great destroyer. He was the beginner of our downhill slide. Boy, what he did to this country. I don’t think we’ll ever get over it. Terrible.
  • Scott Farwell.
    • I come from a WASP upper middle-class suburb and was raised on the myth that everybody can make it. In reality, everybody can’t make it. If a guy makes a million dollars, he can do so only because another thousand people are making $3,000 a year.
    • Books told us about guys jumping out of windows. But it didn’t tell us GM made fantastic profits all those years. Our textbooks tell us everybody got fucked. That isn’t true.
  • Dr. Lewis Andreas.
    • The poor got some care, could go to free dispensaries. The rich got good care because they could afford it. There was this big middle class that was not getting any care. The poor people would not hesitate to go to free clinics, there was no loss of self-respect for the,. They were used to this business. But the middle class couldn’t drag itself to that point.
    • She belonged to a class I used to call the well-dressed destitute. She had the clothes, she had the Cadillac, but she didn’t have any money. She’d come over and get her care for nothing. If she had come up in the Cadillac, and the social worker saw her, she would have been excluded. People of that status would find it very difficult to accept charity.
    • I knew a resident at People’s hospital. Every day, he told me, somebody would faint on a streetcar. They’d bring him in, and they wouldn’t ask any questions. They’d look the patient over briefly. The picture was familiar, they knew what it was. Hunger. When he regained consciousness, they’d give him something to eat. People were flopping on the streets from hunger.
    • In the late Thirties, I’d say our society was saved again. By Hitler. Because the stopgap wasn’t working, and things were sliding back. The war, in a sense, ended the Depression. The war stopped the second slide, which might have gone as far as violent upheaval.
  • Diana Morgan.
    • I would work in the relief office and I began interviewing people … and found out how everybody, in order to be eligible for relief, had to have reached absolute bottom. You didn’t have to have a lot of brains to realize that once they reached that stage and you put them on an allowance of a dollar a day for food, how could they ever pull out of it?
    • Maybe I’d never have understood how people feel if I weren’t subjected to it.
  • Mrs. Winston Roberts.
    • Had the thrill of hearing Roosevelt say those wonderful things. We have only to fear fear itself.
    • I never did get interested in the sufferings of the world as a lot of people. Like my daughter. I’m not quite so much that way. But I became aware of it …
  • Noni Saarinen, Mrs. Roberts’ Maid.
    • We had so little money in the bank that even if the bank was closed, it didn’t matter much.
    • The trouble with my life is that I been confined to housework, and I haven’t been able to observe the world. My world is been closed. So my observation (even if I was capable) there was a fence around.
  • Julia Walther.
    • The Opera House was finished the year of the Depression. I remember having to go to the opening night performance of Rigoletto. Everyone was sitting around there with grim faces, because the Depression had hit. Everyone knew the market was sliding.
    • The Depression was so real that it became unreal. There was a horror about it, with people jumping out of windows.
    • Until you actually see someone dying, you can’t know what war is like. Now I have an inkling of what the Depression was for some people, although I never slept under the bridge.
    • The Depression overwhelmed us, yes. It was terrible. But we had hope: This is not going to kill us. I don’t think people can say that nowadays. If a Depression came now, I’d be afraid, terribly afraid …
  • Sally Rand.
    • Friends of mine who had been to Harvard, Yale and Princeton jumped out of windows. With accuracy. The idea of the stock market quittin’ was unbelievable. Only näiveté permitted us to believe this could go on forever …
    • For those who lived with little money, it didn’t make much of a difference.
    • I truly believe we shall have another Depression. I think people will just go out and take what they need. I don’t think there will be any more people queueing up on bread lines waiting to be fed by charity. I’m not condoning this, but we’ve let it happen. Take the television. It isn’t food they’re hungry for now, it’s a different kind of food. Not only the Negroes. All the poor.
  • Tony Soma.
    • Depression is a disease, a mental disease.
    • In the old days, the poor were more ignorant. They didn’t have television. They had to work sixteen hours a day, and they didn’t have time. Today the poor are not guilty, just sick, mentally sick.
    • Poverty is always a sign of laziness.
  • Alec Wilder.
    • To be a politician in a country like this, you’ve got to be devious.
  • Doc Graham.
    • The Twenties and early Thirties was a jungle, where only the strong survived and the weak fell by the wayside.
    • There was a long period during the Depression where the police were taking scrip. Cash had a language all of its own.
    • Many policemen in that era were thieves. Legal thieves. I accepted it as such and performed accordingly.
    • The era of the times led into criminality, because of the old precept and concepts were destroyed against everyday reality.
    • When a policeman or a fireman was not  being paid, how in the name of God could you expect him to enforce what he knew as the concept of law and order.
    • The times produced Dillinger. Pretty Boy Floyd. Baby Face Nelson.
    • Today everything is a robot. Today everything is mechanical. There is very little ingenuity. Everything today is no-personal, there is no personality whatsoever. Everything today is ipso facto, fait accompli. In my era they had to prove their point. Today, you don’t have to prove your point.
    • If there were a big Depression today they’d commit suicide. I don’t think they’re conditioned to stand it. We were a hardier race then. We’d win wars. We didn’t procrastinate. We’d win them or lose them. Today we’re a new race of people. They’ll quit on a draw; if they see any feasible way to see their way out to quit with any dignity, they’ll quit. Back then, you had a different breed of people.
    • The young today are feminized, embryo homosexuals. Stool pigeons.
  • Dr. Nathan Ackerman.
    • In those days, psychiatry was quite removed from social problems. Almost ivory tower. For one thing, the really poor didn’t go to psychiatrists. It was not in any way concerned with poverty and reform. There was no connection between social health and mental health. There was social service for the poor, but hardly psychiatric care. Very few good clinics.
    • Thirty, forty years ago, people felt burdened by an excess of conscience. An excess of guilt and wrongdoing. Today there’s no such guilt. In those days, regardless of impoverishment, there was more constraint of behavior. I cannot imagine looting thirty-five years ago. Despite want, the patterns of authority prevailed. Today, those standards have exploded. Looting and rioting have become sanctioned behavior in many communities.
    • The way of life was an established one. It did not explode in a chaotic fashion. Despite deprivations, there was predictability. You could make long-term plans. Even during the Depression, there was more continuity in the way of life. Today there’s no such conviction. People can’t predict five years hence.
    • In the Depression, most people knew where they stood. Whether they were haves or have-nots. Despite the want, there was a greater degree of organization. The violence was more contained. Today it is anarchic. The complaints then were more concrete. The poor wanted food, clothing, the sheer necessities of life. Today the demand is for egalitarian status.
    • Today, consideration from a doctor or a teacher is not viewed as privilege but as a right.
    • I think depression today would have a paradoxical effect, at least temporarily. Political upheaval, on one hand; and bringing people closer together, on the other.
  • Aaron Barkham.
    • Everybody bootlegged. I kind of got to be a legitimate business. You had to be foxier than the foxes, that’s all.
    • All mines shut down; stores, everything. One day they was workin’, the next day the mines shut down. Three or four months later, they opened up. Run two, three days a week, mostly one. They didn’t have the privilege of calling their souls their own. Most people by that time was in debt so far to the company itself, they couldn’t live.
  • Edward Santander.
    • Today people don’t think and discuss as much as they did in those days.
    • The ones who couldn’t read, someone would read it to them.
    • They were a hard-drinking society under any standards. Many of them made their home brew.
    • It isn’t true that people who have very little won’t share. When everybody is in the same position, they haven’t anything to hide from one another. So they share.
    • If we had a severe depression today, I don’t think this country would survive. Many people today are rootless. You’d see dictatorship take over.
  • Harry Terrell.
    • You never see a war help the farmer, except temporarily.
    • Much a I hate to say it, the Second World War did end the Great Depression. I think we solve our problems by killing our boys and others.
    • People today have been taught violence, the denial of humanity under money pressure. People are going in that direction. I don’t think they’d tolerate those conditions that we came through. The younger people wouldn’t take it, because they know it’s not necessary.
  • Oscar Heline.
    • The farmer is a pretty independent individual. He wants to be a conservative individual. He wants to be an honorable individual. He wants to pay his debts.
    • There were a few who had a little more credit than the others. They were willing to go on as usual. They were mostly the ones who tried to break the picket lines. They were the ones who gained at the expense of the poor. They had the money to buy when things were cheap. There are always a few who make money out of other people’s poverty.
    • We went out and bought ‘em and killed ‘em. This is how desperate it was. It was the only way to raise the price of pigs. Most of ‘em were dumped down the river.
    • The hard times put farmers’ families closer together.
    • What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.
  • Emil Loriks.
    • There’s a saying: «Depressions are farm led and farm fed». That was true in the Thirties.
    • John A. Simpson, president of the National Farmers Union: «When constitutions, laws and court decisions stand in the way of human progress, it is time they be scrapped».
  • Clyde T. Ellis.
    • The most valuable thing we lost was hope. A man can endure a lot if he still has hope.
    • Anyone who’s never been in a family without electricity (with illness) can’t imagine the difference.
  • Emma Tiller.
    • We were almost starvin’ to death. Papa had some very rich land, but those worms came like showers. You could sit in the house and hear the worms eatin’ that cotton. You had to check all the cracks in the doors because the kids were scared and the worms would get in the house …
    • When you go through a lot, you in better condition to survive through all these kinds of things.
  • Carey McWilliams.
    • Before the Crash there was a runaway stock market. The value of stocks was all our of relation to earnings.
    • If such times were to come again, it would not be the same. Our discontents today are more vague and ill-defined. At the same time, we have an apparatus of police controls that could develop into a kind of American fascism. It would not be European style.
    • I think the New Deal saved American capitalism. It was a bridge. But it never really solved the problems.
  • Gardiner C. Means.
    • The New Deal said: Anybody who is unemployed isn’t necessarily unemployed because he’s shiftless.
    • The NRA was one of the most successful things the New Deal did. The NRA changed the attitudes of business and the public. It revived belief that something could be done. it set a floor on prices and on wages.
  • Raymond Moley.
    • A Depression is much like a run on a bank. It’s a crisis of confidence. People panic and grab their money.
    • The first New Deal was a radical departure from American life. It put more power in the central Government. At the time, it was necessary, especially in the farm area of our economy. Left to itself, farming was in a state of anarchy.
    • The second New Deal was an entirely different thing. My disenchantment began then. Roosevelt didn’t follow any particular policy after 1936. Our economy began to slide downhill. It was the war that saved the economy and saved Roosevelt.
    • Our economy was not sick, it was mismanaged.
    • Unemployment insurance is a welfare measure. It isn’t insurance in any sense of the word. More and more people were living off fewer and fewer people.
    • I said welfare is a narcotic, because it will never end. We’ll have to stop this business and put people to work.
  • C. B. (Beanie) Baldwin.
    • The New Deal was an uneasy coalition. Fights developed very early between the two factions: one, representing the big farmers, and the other, the little farmers.
    • Hog prices had just gone to hell. What were they, four, five cents a pound? The farmers were starving to death. They were at the mercy of the packers.
    • As I look back on it, a very poor job was done in protecting the sharecroppers and the tenant farmers.
    • There were about six million farmers in the country.
    • The real reasons the big farmers didn’t want labor camps built is that they were places where the migrants might get together and organize.
    • The Depression lessened, but it never really ended until the war.
  • James A. Farley.
    • The hotels were afraid to cash a check, so many banks were failing.
  • Joe Marcus.
    • It was a very unusual Depression in the history of societies. It lasted so long and went so deep. Usually, when you get a depression (even a severe one) you get two, three years of decline and in another two, three years, you’re back where you were. But ten years …
  • David Kennedy.
    • My first work was with the story of bank failures. In 1933, when President Roosevelt came in and declared a Bank Holiday, we worked day and night. We had three days in which to license the banks which were solvent. We had to get reports from the various states, Federal Reserve banks, the Comptroller of Currency and individual banks. From all over the country. I never left the office those three days. I slept on the couch and had sandwiches brought in.
    • We were all affected by the Crash. My salary was cut fifteen percent.
    • The Federal Reserve Board said it would buy all the securities that were offered, no matter what the volume, at the market price. That stopped the avalanche of sales. The market settled down, and we got through that.
    • It was not until the war, with its economic thrust, that we pulled out of it. The war got us out of it, not the New Deal policies.
    • Roosevelt gave us quite a bit of hope, early. He probably saved us from complete collapse, in that sense. But he did not answer the things. Many of his programs were turned on and off, started and stopped … shifting gears.
    • Roosevelt was a dramatic leader. He had charm, personality, poise and so on. He could inspire people. But to me, he lacked the stick-to-it-iveness to carry a programa through.
    • Today, attitudes have changed. There’d be some rebellion that you didn’t have then. It was peaceful then. It was law-abiding. You could walk down the street and have money in your pocket, and no one would take it from you. You might have a beggar ask you for something. But there wouldn’t be the kind of feeling that you’d have it taken away from you. There was more respect for law. Now there is this demanding thing. It’s general, it’s in all the world now.
  • John Beecher.
    • My father lost most of his money in the stock market crash of ’29. He had a hard time recovering from it, psychologically. He was still getting an excellent salary, but he felt the measure of a man’s success was the amount of money he accumulated.
    • You should have seen the things they were giving babies instead of milk. I remember seeing them put salt-pork gravy in milk bottles and putting a nipple on, and the baby sucking this salt-pork gravy. A real blue baby, dying of starvation.
  • Congressman C. Wright Patman.
    • In the late twenties, the farmers were in distress because all the money went to Wall Street. They were using it up there, manipulating. They were not using money out in the country. The same thing’s happening right now, a repeat performance of the ’29 deal.
    • These high-prices lawyers, the higher they’re priced, the less they study.
  • Colonel Hamilton Fish.
    • I think I’m the first member of Congress, and perhaps the only member of Congress, that ever returned any fund allotted to committees. I returned $5,000.
    • Congressmen like to claim credit for everything for themselves.
    • What I wanted to do was to encourage Hitler to fight Stalin. Let them fight it out. And let the free nations sit down on the sidelines, just egging them on and saying: A plague on both your houses.
    • I always denied Roosevelt was a Communist or a pro-Communist and so on. I’d say perhaps he was a Socialist, but if he wants to be one, he has a right to be one.
    • I don’t belong to that school of Republicans that go around calling names, a lot of bad names. I fought him aboveboard, and I’m not sorry. He did a great deal of harm to this country. It will take a hundred years to live it down.
    • To be a war President, you became a great man overnight.
    • Roosevelt would have gone down in history as a great President after the first two terms. But he made a mistake, going for the third term.
    • Socialism has tremendous ideals. If everybody was an angel, Socialism would be wonderful. If everybody worked for everybody else and for themselves and for the country, it might work. But it’s never worked in any big country. Maybe a small country of five million …
  • Max Shachtman.
    • There are few crimes as great in labor circles as dual unionism: dividing the ranks of workers in their confrontations with employers.
    • Marxism became popular again. There was more writing about Marxism (favorable, though not very perceptive, in many cases) during these years than at any other time in American history.
    • In the late Twenties and early Thirties, thousands of young people had joined the Socialist Party. They kept pushing the Socialists further and further to the left, in many instances borrowing the jargon of the Communists. This led to a split.
  • Dorothy Day.
    • The Communists contributed plenty in the Thirties. Absolutely. They were the ones that led the heroic struggles and risked beatings and imprisonment and death itself to organize in the South, for instance, in textiles. They tried to organize the unorganized, wherever they were.
    • The whole program os unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of  the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.
    • The State should never take over the functions that could be performed by a smaller body. The State should only enter when there are grave abuses.
    • We brought out everything we had in the house to eat. That’s how the first bread line started. Pretty soon we had a thousand men coming in a day, during the Depression.
    • The attitude is much worse today. In the Thirties, everybody was in the same boat. It was a general disaster. The individual did not suffer as he does suffer now. Those on welfare today are despised as they were never despised before.
  • Fred Thompson.
    • We put out a leaflet, I remember writing it myself. Bread lines, Picket lines. The theme was that bread lines lead to despair and picket lines lead to hope.
    • I’d want a revolution. Sure, I’d like one now. but the circumstances are not propitious for havin’ one, and they weren’t in 1931, ’32. It isn’t just a bunch of starving people that are going to make a revolution. It’s gonna be a people that have been asserting themselves …
    • When Roosevelt died, I remember an obituary in our paper: «He was hated by those he had helped and loved by those he had harmed».
    • In the early Thirties, there was a resurgence of an almost dead labor movement. There were various radical activities: The Trotskyites up in Minneapolis, the Communists over there in Toledo, the Socialists there, Wobblies in Cleveland, Detroit an so on.
    • When I was a kid, the union was us guys, what we collectively did. Nowadays, people don’t speak of the union a us. Almost everywhere, the union is it or they.
    • I think a sense of powerlessness, of fatalism, has been growing form the Thirties. Then, we just felt we didn’t have the power, the organization. We never felt we were inherently incapable of achieving it.
    • In the Thirties, a guy read some kind of book and he wanted everything to go according to that text. Today, these collage kids use books simply for insights. They don’t have a dogma. They’re far more flexible, far more open-minded, far more feeling. They have the feeling …
  • Saul Alinsky.
    • If you cut away a lo of your so-called political science analysis of why a totalitarian society develops, it comes down to this: If you’re out of it, the demagogue comes along and says, «Follow me». If you haven’t got a goddam thing to lose, you follow him. Isn’t it that what happened in Germany?
  • Gerard L. K. Smith.
    • No man should be allowed to accumulate a fortune of more than $5 million without a progressive levy against him.
    • Everybody came to us. The most subtle, the most cunning Communist leaders on the face of the earth, from Moscow and New York, visited us. They knew we were sincere friends of the people. They wanted to sell us on the Marxist philosophy. The moment we repulsed them, they called us Fascists. The moment we repulsed the reactionaries, we were called Communists. We were dealing with men who felt other men should go to work for a dollar a day and go to church in overalls.
    • Henry Ford never believed in charity. He believed in a job rather than a pension.
    • There were three big mass groups: Huey Long’s following, Doctor Townsend’s and Father Coughlin’s. I was instrumental in effecting this coalition.
    • I was left alone. Huey Long was dead. Doc Townsend was dead. Coughlin was silenced. But that didn’t stop me.
  • Alf M. Landon.
    • If you take Mr. Roosevelt’s program today in light of what both Republicans and Democrats are standing for, he’d be pretty conservative. I’ve never condemned Roosevelt’s objectives, just his Administration.
  • Christopher Lasch.
    • There was some talk about the possibility of revolution in the early Thirties, during the worst years of the Depression, especially in ’34, when men like Huey Long and Coughlin and Townsend identified themselves with the groundswell of dissidence.
    • The whole New Deal was really chaotic. All kinds of experiments were being tried constantly.
    • I’m not sure they were real alternatives at the time. Socialism, for instance, was written off from the very beginning. This point of view was not offered by anyone in the New Deal as far as I know.
    • While one cay say, in the relative comfort of the Sixties, that the New Deal measures were palliatives, they were more than that to the people living in the Thirties. They were, in many cases, matters of life and death.
    • Hardly any of the observers of the Thirties sensed a revolutionary mood among the people. Almost all describe the same sense of dismay and disorientation, futility and shame. Being unemployed seems to have been experienced more often as a humiliation than as evidence of class exploitation. A matter of personal fault.
    • A crisis in capitalist society doesn’t necessarily produce revolutionary changes or even of alternatives, unless people have an awareness of some other kind of social order in which disasters of this kind wouldn’t happen.
    • People who talk in terms of revolution today underestimate the capacity of American capitalism, its resiliency and inventiveness. American capitalism has the capacity to foreclose other alternatives.
  • Pauline Kael.
    • Other fathers had killed themselves, so the family could have the insurance. Families had totally broken down. Each father took it as his personal failure. These middle-class men apparently had no social sense of what was going on, so they killed themselves.
    • The meals were often three candy bars. We lived communally and I remember feeding other kids by cooking up more spaghetti than I can ever consider again.
    • I still have a resentment against the fraternity boys and the sorority girls with their cashmere sweaters and the pearls. Even now, when I lecture at colleges, I have this feeling about those terribly overdressed kids. It wasn’t a hatred because I wanted these things, but because they didn’t understand what was going on.
    • It’s different today, the fraternities and sororities having so much less power …
  • Billy Green.
    • The stock market is like shooting craps or playing horses. You hear about the ones that win, but you never hear about the ones that lose. There’s more losers than winners, I promise you. Any time you’re guessing, you got to lose. The only way to win is to have the other fella guess. That’s my theory: never be a guesser. Never take a position in life. You give the other guy the first guess, and you always come out best. You can’t make a mistake that way.
  • Scoop Lankford.
    • It wasn’t starvation. They called it malnutrition. It woulda been starvation if they died quick from malnutrition.
    • The prison itself was a protection from the outside. The people outside, they had to hustle. We were just down almost as low as we could get. We had to dig a hole in low to get any lower than we was.
  • Wilbur Kane.
    • Roosevelt and Churchill and Daladier and Laval, they built up the Nazis so they could kill the Communists. All t his appeasement myth is just a myth. It’s just that they thought they could use the Nazis against the Communists, and that’s what it really got down to. And they killed forty million people to find out how fucking wrong they were.
  • Myrna Loy.
    • They now call those The Golden Years of the Movies. Perhaps they were. People needed films, needed some diversion.
  • Hiram (Chub) Sherman.
    • I learned in the Twenties that you could exist on very little. To paraphrase Tennessee Williams, you can depend on the kindness of strangers.
  • Paul Draper.
    • I had no money before the Depression. I had no money then. So I wasn’t aware of anything affecting my life. I was a dancer.
  • Robert Gwathmey.
    • Richmond, Virginia, didn’t feel the Depression to any great extent. It’s a tobacco town. A strange thing, I don’t give a damn how deep a Depression might be, people seem to insist on smoking. That sort of sustained the city, I’m certain. Richmond had only one bank failure.
    • In the Depression, there was a little more Godlike acceptance of the unemployed guy, because you could be he.
  • Knud Andersen.
    • To me the Depression was a blessing. When the shock of losing what you had worked for comes, I found refuge in my art. I lost myself in my art. The pain that came with economic loss, I felt would pass.
  • Little Brother Montgomery and Red Saunders.
    • Saunders: In a flat, everything would go. In one room, they were playing a piano and drinking whiskey. In another room, they would have Georgia skin, poker or whatever game. In another room, they’d have whores, hustlers. Everything went. A person had to have some kind of life.
  • Herman Shumlin.
    • On every corner, there’d be a man selling apples. Men in the theater, whom I’d known, who had responsible positions. Who had lost their jobs, lost their homes, lost their families. And worse than anything else, lost belief in themselves. They were destroyed men.
    • He told me that his wife had kicked him out. His children had had such contempt for him ‘cause he couldn’t pay the rent, he just had to leave, to get out of the house. He lives in perpetual shame. This was, to me, the most cruel thing of the Depression. Accepting the ideas that you were just no good. No matter what you’d been before.
    • Shops that had been turned into one or another kind of cheap food places.
    • Broadway was still alive every night, crowded with people as it had always been. But there was a change. Their clothes were shabbier, they stood around more, they walked aimlessly up and down the streets, rather than going somewhere.
    • I’ve always remarked at the ability of people to forget. The memory of pain is extraordinarily evanescent.
    • Were a Depression to come again, I fear we could have a Fascist state.
  • Mick Shufro.
    • At the time of the budgetary cuts, I found out that large dogs at the animal shelter received more per meal than man on relief.
    • Merchants petitioned the welfare people to give more monies, so that shoplifting costs would go down.
    • Many laboring men were able to take relief without losing their self-respect or breaking down. The office worker or the professional very often broke down.
    • At that time, when we said relief, we meant relief. Everyone then you assumed was an able and willing worker, simply out of work. Today there are people society does not accept as workmen. Never having been given the opportunities, they are almost unemployable, «welfare people».
  • Elsa Ponselle.
    • The one great thing was the end of Prohibition. The liquor we drank before was awful. To this day, I can’t drink gin, because every time I get a very fine Beefeater martini, all I can remember is that white stuff I drank during Prohibition.
  • Earl B. Dickerson.
    • People standing around on corners. The streets were crowded whether it was Saturday or Monday. People who didn’t have carfare to even seek jobs. Hopelessness on their faces.
  • Dr. Martin Bickham.
    • The men wanted to work. This was the dominant theme through all the years of the Depression. I very seldom found a man who was willing to accept relief as a process of life. He knew it was debilitating.
    • As I traveled through the state, I’d find crowds of men in the county seats, standing around the hall, idle, gambling or something of the kind. Hungry looking, some of them drinking a little. As the WPA developed, these men disappeared. They would be out on a work project. They began to get wages. We were now away from the relief limit. WPA gave men full wages for full work.
  • Harry Hartman.
    • Today we’d possibly run into a lot of trouble. If we started these evictions, we’d move ‘em out on the street, they’d move ‘em right back in. Today I think it’s different, a different type people.
    • Before if you wore a badge, it meant something. Today you wear a badge, you better watch out, ‘cause somebody’ll try to take you to see if they’re as good a man as you are. And we’re getting older, not younger.
    • Today it’s tougher for evictions than it was in our day. Today if you evict anybody, you not only have to evict the people, you have to evict about seven or eight organizations that want the people in there. And each can come up with some legal point, why they should remain without giving the landlord any rent.
  • Max R. Naiman.
    • Today people are so busy with their cars and with their TVs and so on, that humanism has a little blow to it.
  • Judge Samuel A. Heller.
    • During those hard times, I learned a good lesson. A good deal of the misery that the poor suffered (and ignorance) is due to the fact that they’re not organized. They’re isolated, brainwashed.
  • Eileen Barth.
    • My top pay was $135 a month, which made me well off. Yet there were constant layoffs. I always felt that if I lost my job, I might go on relief, too. So I never really had a sense of security myself.
    • The case worker was often the object of their anger. Where else could they give vent to their feelings? So they took it out on us. The didn’t know the cause of their problems.
    • One family said to me it was terrible, but some case workers deserve to be killed.
  • Ward James.
    • One of the worst things was occupying your time, sensibly. The day was long. There was nothing to do evenings. I was going around in circles, it was terrifying. So I just vegetated.
    • I finally went on relief. It’s an experience I don’t want anybody to go through. It comes as close to crucifixion as … The interview was utterly ridiculous and mortifying.
    • A more dramatic guy than I dived from the second floor stairway, head first, to demonstrate he was gonna g et on relief even if he had to go to the hospital to do it.
    • There were questions like: Who are your friends? Where have you been living? Where’s your family? Why should anybody give you money? Why should anybody give you a place to sleep? This went on for half an hour. I got angry. I came away feeling I didn’t have any business living any more. I was imposing on somebody, a great society or something like that.
    • There was an impact even on the very young.
    • There was a feeling that we were on the verge of a bloody revolution, up until the time of the New Deal. Many people, among them, intellectual, without knowing what else to do, worked with the Communist Party. The Communists naturally exploited this.
    • I suspect, even now, I’m a little bit nervous about every job I take and wonder how long it’s going to last, and what I’m going to do to cause it to disappear. I feel anything can happen. There’s a little fear in me that it might happen again. It does distort your outlook and your feeling.
  • Ben Isaacs.
    • I always prayed in my heart that I should never depend on anybody for support. When that time came, it hurted me. I couldn’t take it.
  • Stanley Kell.
    • I don’t remember anyone being alcoholic or get out of hand like they do today. I own a liquor store.
    • There’s always gonna be in this world somebody that thinks they’re better than the law.
    • Today it’s the breakdown of law and order today causing all this turmoil that we’re having today. I don’t think it would be allowed in them days to let it get out of hand, where you can spit at an officer or hit him or dare him to touch you. You woulda been smashed.
    • In them days you knew the parents were authority. You knew if you behaved anywhere, there was a lickin’ in store for you. A good solid whack. To this day I still carry a belt. In them days the father was the boss.
    • If a Depression hits, what would happen? It would be a civil war. There’d be murder, greed, there would be manifestation of such magnitude as has never been seen in this world. Money means nothing, it’s hunger. To get whatever another person has, I’ll take it away from ‘em. If somebody doesn’t have it, they’ll do everything to get it.
  • Horace Cayton.
    • Truth is, the Communists made very little inroads with the Negro people. The Communists embraced many of the causes, but the black people didn’t take them seriously.
    • In spite of the Depression, there was hope. Great hope, even though the people suffered. To be without money is a disgrace in America today. We’re gonna have a better day. That was the feeling. That hope is gone. It’s crystal hard now. It’s hatred and disillusion.
    • When they got on WPA, you know what they’d mostly do. First, they’d buy some clothes. And tried to get a little better place to live. The third thing was to get your teeth fixed. When you’re poor, you let your teeth go. Especially, the child.
    • There was humanity then. We don’t have humanity today.
    • We’re heading, driven like figures toward a tragedy. I see nothing to do. It’s futile.
  • W. L. Gleason.
    • They were years which made a lot of bums out of good people.
  • Harry Norgard.
    • I always felt deeply in my heart, you could always sell something if you offer the buyer something better than he’s getting.
    • Bemoaning your fate gets you nowhere. I knew wherever you make an effort, you make headway.
    • People with real money didn’t get hurt during the Depression. Because they were able to take advantage of the distressed property. Buying them up. The people who got hurt were lambs in a den of wolves.
    • Someone said to me: The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have a good job. Because when you have a good job, you’re in a safe, secure, snug harbor. People will stay where it’s nice and warm and cozy. A man really does better for himself if he’s thrown to the wolves, so to speak.
    • Al Capone operated a soup kitchen. People would line up a half a block long. He was becoming kind of a Robin Hood in that era. He would go to ball games, people would get up and cheer him. They didn’t regard him as an underworld character. They thought of him as a sport. He was spreading good cheer among the poor. Things like that were happening everywhere.
    • It never occurred to me to blame anybody but myself for what was happening to me. It would be the last thought to enter my mind.
    • In those days, you could pick an employee any hour on the hour, just open up the window and yell and somebody would come in for a job. Those who retained their job had the fear of God put in ‘em. One thought was uppermost in their minds: I got to do as good a job as I can or else I’m gonna get canned. I firmly believe the only way you can get most people to do a job is to put the fear of God into ‘em.
  • General Robert E. Wood.
    • With the Crash, you became aware of trouble because your sales absolutely disappeared. Business didn’t drop off gradually. It took a plunge, just like that.
    • I always felt the Depression was temporary. You couldn’t stop this country. I founded All-State in the darkest period, didn’t I?
    • I was an isolationist, you know. I still think it was a mistake for u to have gone into the war. We’ve got an empire here, and we’ve got two great undeveloped continents, North and South America. Why should we get mixed up in the affairs of Europe which is an old-time continent? We’ve got unlimited room to expand, and why we should get mixed up in an old, tired Europe. I couldn’t see.
  • Tom Sutton.
    • The only reason any of us work is because if we don’t work, we don’t eat.
    • Those who went through the Depression have a little more pride in their possessions, have a little more pride in the amount of possessions they have. They know that it was a fortunate person in the Thirties who have as much as they have today.
    • During the Depression, nobody would admit that they were broke. My friends who went through the Depression with me, I’ll never know how much money they have, because they won’t talk about it. Whether they’re broke or wealthy.
    • The last Depression was blamed on the lack of regulation. This Depression which is coming will be blamed on too much regulation.
    • You always have one danger when you blame Government: disturbances tend to create chaos. Chaos will create a demand for a strong man. A strong man will be most repressive. The greater the Depression, the greater the chaos.
    • I don’t think we’re basically a revolutionary country. We have too large a middle class. The middle class tends to be apathetic. An apathetic middle class gives stability to a system. They never get carried away strongly, one way or the other. Maybe we’ll have riots, maybe we’ll have shootings. Maybe we’ll have uprisings a the farmers did in Iowa. But you won’t have a revolution.
    • As long as I’ve got enough money to pay rent next month, I’m happy.
  • Emma Tiller.
    • I never doubted myself in nobody’s kitchen. Which always means I had a job. You felt this independent because you knew they needed you. That’s why I studied to be a good cook.
    • A good cook is always on demand.
    • When I’m workin’ for a family like that, I always rent some place else. Because when you lose your job, you don’t lose your house.
    • Old sayin’: as long as you got your hand in the lion’s mouth, you have to be easy till you get it out.
  • W. Clement Stone.
    • Many of us learned in the Depression how to turn a disadvantage into an advantage.
    • I don’t believe in sadness. I believe if you have a problem, that’s good.
    • In those days, it was very easy to do what others were afraid to do.
  • Ray Wax.
    • In the worst hour of the Depression, if you were aggressive, if you wanted to scrounge, if you believed in Horatio Alger, you could survive.
    • They didn’t steal it. Clipping, they called it. They clipped a few bucks.
    • The whorehouses on Sand Street were the only thing that saved my sanity. I had no relationship to the rest of the world.
    • I lived in a world completely alone. The only thing that sustained me during that period: I continued to read, I continued to hustle. I had a vague sense of myself. Every guy had a gun or a knife except me. I carried a book, so they called me the professor.
    • I was born out of the Depression. I gave up my illusions. No more Horatio Alger. I had a few bad hours, a few bad years. But I found excitement. It was an awakening.
  • Virginia Durr.
    • The Depression was not a romantic time. It was a time of terrible suffering. The contradictions were so obvious that it didn’t take a very bright person to realize something was terribly wrong.
    • People blamed themselves, not the system. The preachers would tell the people they suffered because of their sins. And the people believed it. God was punishing them. Their children were starving because of their sins.
    • The young today have a strong sense of social justice. But they themselves have not been deprived. They haven’t experienced the terror.
    • I think the reason for the gap between the black militants and the young white radicals is that the black kids are much more conscious of the thin edge of poverty. And how soon you can be reduced to living on relief. What you know and what you feel are very different. Terror is something you feel. When there is no paycheck coming in, the absolute, stark terror.
    • What frightens me is that these kids are like sheep being led to slaughter.
    • The Depression affected people in two different ways. The great majority reacted by thinking money is the most important thing in the world. Get yours. And get it for your children. Nothing else matters. And there was a small number of people who felt the whole system was lousy. You have to change it.

Have you read this book? Any other similar book? Do you have anything to say about what this book is saying? Do you recommend any book related to this matter? Anything at all? I’ll be glad to know what you think about it in the comments.

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25 Dec 09:27

Trial Lawyer: This Is A Sign You’ll Divorce in 10 Years!

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HOW TO SPOT FAKE FRIENDS

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25 Dec 09:22

Nuclear Developer Proposes Using Navy Reactors For Data Centers

by BeauHD
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: A Texas power developer is proposing to repurpose nuclear reactors from Navy warships to power the United States grid as the Trump administration pushes to secure massive amounts of energy for the artificial intelligence boom. HGP Intelligent Energy LLC filed an application to the Energy Department to redirect two retired reactors to a data center project proposed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, according to a letter submitted to the agency's Office of Energy Dominance Financing. The project, filed for the White House's Genesis Mission, would produce about 450-520 megawatts of around-the-clock electricity, or enough to power roughly 360,000 homes. The proposal would rewire reactors from naval vessels, originally built by Westinghouse Electric Company and General Electric, at a fraction of the cost of new builds. According to the report, The developer expects to seek a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy and raise roughly $1.8-$2.1 billion in private capital to prepare the reactors for civilian use, targeting initial completion by 2029. The approach is technically feasible but would break new ground by adapting military nuclear assets for the commercial grid. Bloomberg first reported the story.

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25 Dec 09:05

Este pastor de Kentucky estaba demostrando su fuerza espiritual al manipular una serpiente de cascabel... [ENG]

by Lord_Cromwell

Este pastor de Kentucky estaba demostrando su fuerza espiritual al manipular una serpiente de cascabel durante un delirio de oración cuando le mordió. Se negó a recibir tratamiento, creyendo que la fe lo curaría. Los paramédicos lo llevaron a la fuerza al hospital, pero finalmente murió por el veneno de la serpiente de cascabel.

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25 Dec 09:05

El capitalismo necesita líderes idiotas en el poder

by Holaquetalyobien

La sensación de que no hay ningún adulto en la sala; de que las decisiones que determinan si viviremos en paz o en crisis están en manos de personajes que parecen protagonistas de una sátira, no estadistas capacitados para gobernar... ¿Cómo llegamos hasta aquí? Esa es la pregunta equivocada. La pregunta correcta es, ¿para qué los necesitan?

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25 Dec 08:39

Política y religión: El sionismo cristiano

by Tito Andino U.




En diversos artículos de este blog hemos repasado sobre el sionismo y su estrecha relación con el fundamentalismo cristiano estadounidense. En las notas a pie de página dejaremos algunas referencias para quien quiera volver a darles lectura. El tema evidentemente es demasiado denso, siendo imposible abarcarlo todo en su solo ensayo, hasta nos atreveríamos a señalar que un solo libro dedicado al tema se quedaría corto, la documentación verificable es extensa.

Hay que dejar en claro que el siguiente artículo no es autoría del editor del blog, se trata de una recopilación de diversas fuentes de investigación, en otras palabras es un extracto coordinado y condensado de varios autores, por supuesto, las notas originales pueden ser consultadas en su original, se encuentran en las respectivas notas a pie de página.

Sin más, deseándoles unos días de paz y regocijo.


“Die Religion ... Sie ist das Opium des Volkes” - La religión es como opio para el pueblo. 

Dado el origen de la frase esta ha sido tergiversada y “satanizada” en su profundo significado porque lo dijo un elemento peligroso como Karl Marx en 1884. Sin embargo, incluso para un creyente culto no pasará desapercibido la forma en que históricamente se ha impuesto la religión en la psiquis humana, ofreciéndonos el “mundo” de la felicidad eterna en el cielo, más en la tierra tendrás que resignarte y vivir la vida que te dio tu estado social. Aquí no abordaremos cuestiones metafísicas de la ilusión, sumisión y resignación, ni cómo la iglesia constituida y la clase gobernante adormece a la gente oprimida en todas las fases de la historia. Naturalmente, los tiempos modernos en que vivimos nos brinda más libertad de pensamiento y una variada cantidad de formas de “felicidad” y mundos ilusorios (las formas son diversas), pero todas ellas intentan (y lo consigue) adormecer a la humanidad.

El éxito de las religiones consiste en mantener el control de las masas y perennizar la gracia “concedida” por dios a unos pocos “elegidos”, pidiendo a los desafortunados que se resignen a su destino. Allí está el “secreto”, la masa sucia (término que utilizaba Rockefeller), es decir, los desfavorecidos, han sido moldeados en el sentimiento religioso, su cerebro se ha programado para aferrarse a la esperanza de su redención en el cielo, por lo mismo, deben auto resignarse a vivir en un mundo en el que sufrirán injusticia, “sólo” así se gana el derecho para disfrutar de la dicha eterna. Alguien señalaba que es una mezcla de esperanza y fatalismo.

A pesar de que se ha llegado al punto en que la religión ya no es muy importante en Occidente, una gran potencia mundial sigue manipulando no solo su nación sino al orbe entero bajo el estatuto de principios “cristianos”, contándonos que la fe religiosa cristiana es la única esperanza para los desfavorecidos en vista a que la esperanza del cielo es para los pobres.

Para mejor entendimiento, los “amos del mundo” quieren personas muy religiosas, que no rechisten y estén dispuestos a lo peor, jamás deberían pensar en cuestionar las injusticias tangibles de nuestra sociedad. “Total si solo les quedan unas décadas de terrible sufrimiento terrenal ¿para qué perder el tiempo en intentar luchar contra las iniquidades e infamias si creen que les esperan siglos, milenios y hasta millones de años de gozo?”

En este post y en anteriores se analiza como en los Estados Unidos el cristianismo político está fusionado con los principios sionistas, en realidad son quienes dictan las políticas oficiales del estado federal. Los líderes políticos de Estados Unidos si quieren tener probabilidades de ser gobernantes necesariamente tendrán que demostrar ser unos devotos de la fe cristiana en directa relación con el sionismo israelí a quien protegerán ante cualquier circunstancia.




Iniciemos recordando este compendio de artículos con un recuento de una de las organizaciones religiosas más influyentes en Washington. ‘La Familia’ (en un anterior capítulo sobre este tema ya abordamos a la “congregación” denominada ‘The Fellowship’, o simplemente conocida como ‘La Familia’). Se trata de un poderoso grupo de hombres de la política y los negocios, cuya vanidad les lleva a verse a sí mismos como los “elegidos de Dios”. Son de la corriente evangélica protestante, su supuesto cometido o misión es librar al mundo de los males que lo aquejan mediante una “guerra espiritual”, en la realidad se trata de una guerra de destrucción y muerte, como bien se aprecia a lo largo de más de medio siglo de práctica fervorosa. Además, esa guerra “espiritual” canaliza miles de millones de dólares de grandes empresas corporativas a través de conglomerados que por su función están exentas del pago de tributos al fisco. También dejamos en claro que “La Familia”, como una de las corporaciones cristianas (si, usamos el término corporación) es de las más longevas que incide en las decisiones políticas de la Casa Blanca, sin importar cual partido político esté en el poder. Bien han señalado en una interesante referencia que “su objetivo último es imponer un capitalismo bíblico en el planeta”.

“La Familia” no hace proselitismo ni busca captar adeptos en las masas, “lo que la diferencia del resto de grandes organizaciones cristianas de derechas es que no buscan publicidad. No tratan de salvar a las masas. Tienen una idea teológica particular que busca convertir a quienes llaman hombres ‘clave’, a la élite, a personas que ellos creen que pueden desarrollar la sociedad que tienen como ideal. Y el resto, nosotros, podremos vivir en ella sin más” (Jeff Sharlet, “La Familia. Las raíces invisibles del fundamentalismo en Estados Unidos”, libro que inspiró una serie de Netflix).

Conforme aprecia Sharlet y otros entendidos en la temática, la fe y la religión son parte intrínseca de la política y la sociedad estadounidense, de allí que corporaciones como ‘La Familia’, al mejor estilo de los lobbies mantienen alto grado de influencia en las élites dirigentes, pero, no es de sorprenderse, esos dogmas no concuerdan en absoluto con la Biblia. Como buena corporación inclinada a la ultraderecha, “La Familia” inició su “mensaje” atacando al movimiento obrero por ofender a Dios, al mismo tiempo en que el fascismo quedaba arraigado en Europa. Por razones como esas en su círculo solían denominarse “capitalismo bíblico”. 

En sus reuniones se discute “sobre lo que Jesús quiere de ellos”. Concebir a Jesús como un hombre fuerte, como una figura autoritaria, ¿es eso bíblico? Pues no. Afirma Sharlet: “La línea argumental en la que se basa este movimiento es la verdad de Jesús y su fortaleza. Esa es para ellos la única verdad. Lo es todo. Y como Jesús es un hombre fuerte, Dios, busca en la tierra hombres fuertes que ejerzan el liderazgo y que se asemejan a ese tipo de perfil y concepto autoritario”. Como se deduce de la historia reciente esos hombres fuertes no necesariamente han estado liderando los Estados Unidos…

Todo aquel político que quiera aspirar a ser presidente de Estados Unidos -sin excepción- primero deberá demostrar que es un buen cristiano, de lo contrario, no lo logrará, debe ser alguien capaz de tomar decisiones fuertes, mano dura de ser el caso. “Mátenlos a todos que Dios los selecciona” es un conocido dicho que ha recorrido el mundo a veces sin importar la religión profesada, pero que nació en el mundo cristiano.

Sharlet concluye expresando que “la religión de élite en los Estados Unidos es el fundamentalismo estadounidense”, a lo que acotaremos que el sionismo cristiano constituye el pilar del fascismo estadounidense.


Foto de archivo de uno de los Congresos de Sionistas Cristianos (Foto del ICEJ -International Christian Embassy Jerusalem-



La conexión cristiana

Por increíble que parezca existe un libro que describe de la mejor forma la fusión entre Israel, Wall Street y los gigantes tecnológicos: "Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" (2009) de Dan Senor y Saul Singer, publicado por el Council on Foreign Relations, un auténtico bestseller que fue elogiado por Wall Street Journal y debatido por muchos expertos en el transcurso de los años.

El libro entre otros temas elogia la capacidad de Israel para lanzar 'start-ups' tecnológicas exitosas que reciben grandes financiaciones y luego hacen ricos a sus propietarios. Mejor es pensar el cómo se describe en el libro el crecimiento de una profunda corrupción entre Wall Street, la banca multinacional, el ejército israelí y corporaciones que unieron fuerzas para hacernos dependientes a propósito de tecnologías que no necesitamos, hacernos más tontos y pasivos, todo dentro de un plan a largo plazo que ahora entra en estos momentos en una nueva fase, el control de Palantir y Oracle.

Por otro lado, el libro nos cuenta una burda historia sobre la igualdad en las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI), describiéndole como no jerárquica, que gestiona la creatividad e improvisación mediante la cooperación entre iguales, que se entendería como que todos (al menos los oficiales) pueden dar sus propias opiniones. Este cuento de hadas es bastante dudoso, en Israel se ha desarrollado una elaborada jerarquía absoluta, invisible a simple vista, pero que se aplican brutalmente a su manera, señala Emanuel Pastreich en su artículo “Cómo Israel y Estados Unidos fueron fusionados por miembros de la clase dominante”.

“Lo que sí es seguro es que la forma en que las FDI se colaron en el campo tecnológico y luego la utilizaron como medio para ampliar su alcance en Washington DC a través de gigantes como Google, Amazon, Oracle y Microsoft, es real. El problema para nosotros es que, hasta que no veamos concretamente cómo se fusionaron exactamente Israel y Estados Unidos, nos veremos atrapados en teorías conspirativas reduccionistas judías que oscurecen los detalles críticos de quién hizo qué y quién es dueño de qué, o en respuestas emocionales a las horribles acciones en Gaza que permiten a los ricos, en Estados Unidos e Israel, desviar la atención de sí mismos”. Eso ha permitido, además, que se etiquete y denuncie como terroristas a quienes si protestan contra la violencia racista de las FDI contra palestinos inocentes. Es fundamental entender cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí, entender esa fea verdad escondida en un cuento de hadas.

Uno de los mejores ensayos escritos sobre el tema es La historia no contada del ascenso al poder del sionismo cristiano en Estados Unidos, de Whitney Webb para Mint Press News, describe como la mayor organización pro-israelí en Estados Unidos llegó al poder.

Nunca ha sido un secreto de que la más grande organización pro-Israel de Estados Unidos no está compuesta por judíos, sino por evangélicos cristianos. A menudo se pretende ignorar que el sionismo cristiano tiene sus raíces en el puritanismo que ha perdurado por siglos. cuenta con alrededor de siete millones de miembros, es decir, dos millones más que toda la comunidad judía estadounidense. Se llama Christians United for Israel (CUFI), su actual líder es el polémico predicador John Hagee, la organización suele convocar a eminentes figuras de la política y se codea habitualmente con los jefes de la Casa Blanca (Trump no es la excepción). Aclarando que el estimado de los denominados cristianos sionistas en Estados Unidos fluctúan entre los veinte millones de devotos, y por supuesto, son un sector clave tanto para las donaciones como para las elecciones principalmente del Partido Republicano.

Conforme analizamos en otros estudios de este blog, la CUFI es una más de las varias (muchas) a lo largo del tiempo que profesan defender al estado de Israel y al sionismo bajo el argumento de que un estado étnico judío en Palestina es requisito para el cumplimiento de la profecía del fin de los tiempos y el necesario retorno de Jesucristo a la Tierra (la Segunda Venida)

También creen, junto a los extremistas sionistas religiosos en Israel, que la mezquita de Al Aqsa y la Cúpula de la Roca deben ser reemplazadas por un Tercer Templo Judío para dar paso al fin de los tiempos. Sin embargo, también hemos advertido que los sionistas israelíes y los cristianos sionistas rara vez están de acuerdo con el objetivo final al momento de interpretar el fin de los tiempos.

Se trata de una alianza de fanáticos fundamentalistas obsesionados por acelerar la llegada del Apocalipsis, que por increíble que parezca sigue vigente en la actualidad, lo peligroso es que, si bien es cierto, en Estados Unidos ya han estado en el poder, por ejemplo con Ronald Reagan. En Israel, el sionismo religioso ha tomado el poder en el actual gobierno de coalición (Netanyahu y la extrema derecha) presionando hacia la política de destrucción de la mezquita de Al Aqsa y la inminente construcción de un Tercer Templo. Los sionistas cristianos de EEUU tienen ahora de vuelta en el poder un rostro conocido, Donald Trump, presentando veladamente esa visión apocalíptica como principio básico de la política estadounidense en Medio Oriente.

Para no alargar esta historia que ya ha sido documentada en este blog referente a los Puritanos, las Profecía y Palestina, pedimos -sin tienen interés en repasarlo- revisar las notas a pie de página con los enlaces respectivos, o la opción de dar lectura completa al largo ensayo de Whitney Webb (también en las notas a pie). Dejando aclarado que el rol de los cristianos estadounidenses y europeos en la formación del estado de Israel no nace con la Declaración Balfour de 1917, esos esfuerzos se remontan a siglos atrás, incluso preceden a la fundación oficial del sionismo por Theodore Herzl.


El ex vicepresidente Mike Pence estrecha la mano de John Hagee y pronuncia un discurso en la Cumbre de Cristianos Unidos por Israel en Washington, D.C. 8 de julio de 2019. (Foto oficial de la Casa Blanca/Flickr)


Los puritanos, rama del protestantismo cristiano, surgida en el siglo XVI ya defendían la inmigración judía europea a Palestina, más tarde estos puritanos llevarían sus creencias a las colonias americanas. De aquí surgieron variedad de interpretaciones sobre lo que la Biblia dice acerca del fin de los tiempos, por ejemplo el "dispensacionalismo" cristiano que en resumen señala que Israel es una nación étnicamente judía establecida en Palestina. John Nelson Derby en el siglo XIX creían que los destinos ordenados por el Dios de Israel y la iglesia cristiana eran completamente separados, los últimos debían ser separados físicamente de la Tierra por Dios antes del periodo predicho de sufrimiento terrenal conocido como la Tribulación, y esa supuesta “Tribulación” iniciaría tras la construcción del Tercer Templo Judío en el Monte del Templo en Jerusalén… la cuestión es que ni entre los cristianos dispensacionalistas se ponen de acuerdo sobre si el rapto ocurrirá antes, durante o después del periodo de la Tribulación. No obstante, el “rapto” recibió apoyo entusiasta en congregaciones de Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.

En este punto la escatología cristiana de Darby coincide con la escatología judía profesada por el rabino Zvi Hirsh Kalisher y una nueva rama del mesianismo judío que creía que los judíos debían trabajar proactivamente para acelerar la llegada de su mesías emigrando a Israel y construyendo un Tercer Templo en el Monte del Templo en Jerusalén.

Es obvio, entonces, que los sionistas cristianos -como serían conocidos más tarde- allanaron el camino para Theodore Herzl, alrededor de 1840 ya había intensas campañas inglesas instando a los judíos a emigrar a Palestina. En Estados Unidos, influenciado por Derby, el predicador Charles Taze Russell, predicaba sobre la necesidad de una inmigración masiva judía a Palestina. La iglesia de Russell daría origen a distintas iglesias entre las que destacan los Testigos de Jehová. Todo esto antes de que se funde el moderno sionismo político. Russell contactó a Edmond de Rothschild y su familia bancaria, así como a Maurice von Hirsch, un acaudalado financiero alemán para exponerles su plan de asentamiento judío de Palestina. Ese mismo plan resurgió años después en el libro sionista “El Estado Judío”, de Theodore Herzl (1896)

Casi al mismo tiempo, otro influyente predicador estadounidense dispensacionalista redactó lo que mucha gente pasa por alto en el actual papel de los cristianos estadounidenses en el desarrollo y la popularización del sionismo. William E. Blackstone pidió al gobierno de Estados Unidos tomar medidas "a favor de la restitución de Palestina a los judíos" y que se celebrara “lo antes posible una conferencia internacional para considerar la condición de los israelitas y sus reclamaciones sobre Palestina como su antiguo hogar, y para promover, de todas las formas justas y adecuadas, el alivio de su sufrimiento". (conocido como el Memorial Blackstone). 


John Nelson Derby, Charles Taze Russell, William E. Blackstone


Es para meditar quienes respaldaron el documento de Blackstone: J.D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, William McKinley (futuro presidente de EEUU), Thomas Brackett Reed (presidente de la Cámara); Melville Fuller (presidente del Tribunal Supremo), los alcaldes de Nueva York, Filadelfia, Baltimore, Boston y Chicago; editores del Boston Globe, New York Times, Washington Post y Chicago Tribune, entre otros numerosos miembros del Congreso, así como empresarios y clérigos influyentes. Algunos rabinos fueron incluidos como firmantes, pero el contenido de la petición fue rechazado por la mayoría de las comunidades judías estadounidenses. En otras palabras, el objetivo principal del sionismo, antes incluso de convertirse en un movimiento, era ampliamente apoyado por la élite cristiana estadounidense, pero rechazado por los judíos estadounidenses. (Whitney Webb)

Blackstone sería posteriormente reconocido por varios sectores sionistas estadounidenses como el verdadero "padre fundador del sionismo". Posteriormente, en el gobierno de Woodrow Wilson se solicitó un segundo Memorial Blackstone (1916-1917). Aquí el respaldo ya no fue solo de la élite estadounidense. Se pidió apoyo a organizaciones protestantes, en especial a la Iglesia Presbiteriana. Wilson apoyó el nuevo documento de Blackstone, presentado en privado por el rabino Stephen Wise, que, sobre todo, garantizó el apoyo estadounidense (privado) a la Declaración Balfour. (Arthur Balfour era dispensacionalista cristiano); curiosamente, la única persona que se opuso en el gabinete británico a la Declaración Balfour fue su único miembro judío, Edwin Montagu. Otro dato importante es que la Declaración Balfour y sus antecedentes estaban dirigidas, en diversas etapas, a los miembros de la familia bancaria Rothschild que irían convirtiéndose con el tiempo en firmes partidarios de la causa sionista.

Un personaje tras el éxito de Herzl fue el pastor dispensacionalista inglés William Hechler, figura ignorada en el auge del sionismo, Hechler, más que nadie sentía apasionadamente que la creación de un estado judío en Palestina traería el fin de los tiempos y mostró interés en la construcción del Tercer Templo.

“La alianza Hechler-Herzl es un ejemplo temprano de cómo los sionistas cristianos y los sionistas judíos usaron mutuamente las motivaciones del otro para obtener beneficios políticos, a pesar de que los sionistas cristianos a menudo tienen posturas antisemitas y los sionistas seculares, así como los sionistas religiosos, no tienen alta estima al cristianismo. Este oportunismo tanto por parte de sionistas cristianos como judíos ha sido una característica clave en el auge del sionismo, especialmente en Estados Unidos”.

Cyrus Scofield es el hombre más responsable que nadie de popularizar el sionismo cristiano entre los evangélicos estadounidenses, aquel de la “Biblia de Referencia Scofield”, una versión de la Biblia del Rey Jaime cuyas anotaciones fueron escritas por Cyrus Scofield (Scofield, sin formación teológica formal, afirmó tener un “Doctorado en divinidad”), en su anterior “vida” era conocido como un abogado corrupto, pero tras asociarse con predicadores dispensacionalistas, su conversión lo transformó del "difunto abogado, político y timador en general" que se había deshonrado cometiendo "muchos actos maliciosos", en un hombre al servicio de Dios.

La Biblia de Scofield se hizo espectacularmente popular entre los fundamentalistas estadounidenses poco después de su publicación, en parte porque fue la primera Biblia anotada que intentó interpretar el texto para el lector, así como porque se convirtió en el texto central de varios seminarios influyentes que se fundaron tras su publicación en 1909. Entre las muchas anotaciones de Scofield se encuentran afirmaciones que desde entonces se han convertido en centrales del sionismo cristiano, como la anotación de Scofield en Génesis 12:3, que dice que quienes maldigan a Israel (interpretados por los sionistas cristianos como el Estado de Israel desde su fundación en 1948) serán maldecidos por Dios y quienes bendigan a Israel serán bendecidos de forma similar.


William Hechler - Cyrus Scofield 


Los sionistas cristianos modernos, como el pastor John Hagee de 'Cristianos Unidos por Israel' (CUFI), han citado frecuentemente esta interpretación que se originó en Scofield para defender posturas extremas pro-Israel. Hagee en 2014 dijo: “Hay que volver a lo básico, con el hecho de que en Génesis (capítulo 1), Dios creó el mundo e hizo una promesa muy solemne (Génesis 12:3): 'Bendeciré a los que os bendigan y maldeciré a los que os maldicen'. Desde ese momento, cada nación que alguna vez bendijo a Israel ha sido bendecida por Dios. Y cada nación que alguna vez ha perseguido al pueblo judío, Dios la aplastó. Y así Él continuará".

Luego vendría el papel del predicador dispensacionalista y defensor del Tercer Templo, Billy Graham, con estrechas relaciones con varios presidentes, entre ellos Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson y Richard Nixon. Como vemos el poder político de la teología dispensacionalista se trasladó drásticamente de los aposentos privados de los pasillos del poder al discurso político estadounidense dominante.

Surgieron predicadores evangélicos como Jerry Falwell con la fundación de la 'Mayoría Moral' que generaba millones de dólares anuales en la década de 1970 y su posterior investigación por la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores (SEC) por "fraude y engaño" e "insolvencia grave" en la gestión financiera de su ministerio.

El famoso Falwell es uno de los impulsores de una ampliación de las relaciones entre líderes evangélicos estadounidenses y el partido Likud de Israel, según se desprende de la lectura del libro “El fin de los días: fundamentalismo y la lucha por el Monte del Templo”, del historiador israelí Gershom Gorenberg. Menachem Begin fue de los primeros líderes de gobierno de Israel en aprovechar el entusiasmo evangélico por Israel para convertirlo en apoyo político y económico.

La Mayority Moral (Mayoría Moral) siguió sujeta a escándalos y denuncias federales por fraude y corrupción; sin embargo, quedará señalada como la organización que convirtió a la derecha evangélica cristiana en una fuerza política importante en Estados Unidos, promoviendo políticas extremadamente pro-Israel, aumentando el gasto en defensa, adoptando un enfoque reaganista (Ronald Reagan) ante los desafíos de la Guerra Fría, así como políticas internas conservadoras, además de marcar un claro punto de inflexión en la relación evangélica entre Israel y Estados Unidos y ganar los votos de los votantes evangélicos, apoyaron abiertamente al Partido Likud y sus ambiciones que continúan en el presente.


Billy Graham - Jerry Falwell


De ese apoyo, en Israel surgió el programa del Ministerio de Turismo israelí de ofrecer a los líderes evangélicos estadounidenses viajes gratuitos de "familiarización" a Israel (principios de la década de 1980). El más reciente caso de “turismo evangélico” se dio a inicios de diciembre de este 2025, 1.000 pastores sionistas cristianos de Estados Unidos visitaron Israel durante una semana, el viaje fue financiado por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Israel, confirmó el diario israelí Haaretz. La misión de los pastores es estratégica, encargarles difundir la lucha contra el antisemitismo y llegar a la juventud de sus comunidades porque se ha dicho que Israel está perdiendo la guerra ideológica y necesitan de los evangélicos sionistas para luchar esta guerra.

Por sentado que los sionistas cristianos están convencidos de que, según la Biblia, el estado de Israel tiene derecho a toda la tierra de la Palestina histórica y eso incluye Cisjordania. Como apreciamos volvemos a esa visión que se origina en el dispensacionalismo misma que es contraria al par de milenios de “la tradición cristiana ya que es rechazada por la Iglesia Católica, la Iglesia Ortodoxa Oriental y muchas denominaciones protestantes, pero tiene una influencia significativa en la política exterior de Estados Unidos”. Durante un discurso ante la multitud de pastores en el yacimiento arqueológico de Shiloh en Cisjordania, el pastor evangélico Mike Evans respondió a las recientes declaraciones del vicepresidente JD Vance y del presidente Trump sobre no apoyar la anexión israelí de los territorios palestinos a los que se llama Judea y Samaria. Evans se refirió a “la política del Dios que dio origen a América y la política del Dios que dio esta tierra a estas personas”, refutando que no debería impedirse el derecho a anexar para Israel las tierras de Judea y Samaria porque son tierras bíblicas. También dijo que el movimiento MAGA (de Trump) se basa en la Biblia y "en el Dios de este libro, el Dios de Israel".

El embajador estadounidense en Israel, Mike Huckabee "comisionó" a los asistentes como "embajadores" para apoyar al estado de Israel, mientras el primer ministro israelí Benjamin Netanyahu pidió a los pastores: "Levantaos y hacéis que os cuente. Di la verdad. Habla con los jóvenes. Habla para que te cuenten. Cuento contigo y sé que harás lo que hay que hacer. Eso es lo que exige nuestro destino".

No obstante, unos meses antes, más de 1.000 rabinos y académicos judíos del mundo, destacados de los Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, UE e Israel, firmaron una carta abierta declarando que el pueblo judío "enfrenta una grave crisis moral, acusaron al estado de Israel de usar el hambre como arma en Gaza, pidieron el fin del bloqueo que ha provocado, de forma intencionada, el que millares de mujeres y niños sufran desnutrición. Se apeló a "la reputación moral no solo de Israel, sino del propio judaísmo".

Para esas fechas, el Primer Congreso Antisionista Judío que tuvo lugar del 13 al 15 de junio de 2025 en Viena, Austria, tuvo como tarea ampliar las voces judías contra el sionismo ratificando el apoyo al movimiento global por la justicia y la liberación en Palestina. “Es hora de que los judíos se unan en la lucha contra el sionismo, el apartheid y el genocidio”, proclamaron. Este Congreso al unificar las voces judías en contra del sionismo hacen “un llamado para aquellos judíos israelíes que desean formar parte de una entidad democrática e igualitaria, desde el río hasta el mar”.


Retrocedamos un poco y volvamos a la historia de Falwell, el gran amigo de Menachem Begin y también de Benyamín Netanyahu a quien calificó en 1998 de "el Ronald Reagan de Israel". En esa ocasión, incluso medios como The New York Times describieron el encuentro como una visita destinada a "reforzar su base de apoyo tradicional en Estados Unidos. Los grupos cristianos conservadores han sido durante mucho tiempo fervientes partidarios de Israel debido a su importancia religiosa para el cristianismo".

Pero Falwell y los políticos israelíes de derechas no están exentos de controversias, se acusó al evangélico pro-Israel Falwell de declaraciones antisemitas. “En un sermón en 1999, Falwell expuso su interpretación de la profecía del fin de los tiempos, ampliamente compartida por los evangélicos sionistas cristianos, de que la Segunda Venida seguiría no solo a la creación del Estado de Israel, sino también a la construcción de un Tercer Templo en el Monte del Templo, desde donde reinaría una figura conocida por los cristianos como el "Anticristo". Al responder a su propia pregunta retórica sobre si el Anticristo está "vivo y bien hoy", Falwell afirmó que "probablemente porque cuando aparezca durante el periodo de tribulación será una falsificación adulta de Cristo. Por supuesto que será judío".

Los comentarios de Falwell fueron inmediatamente condenados por varios grupos judíos, incluida la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) pro-Israel. De allí surge en Israel que esa es una "posición teológica común" entre los evangélicos estadounidenses que "solo apoyan a Israel para sus propios fines cristológicos". "Nos ven solo como los que preparan la venida de Jesús", afirman autoridades religiosa de Israel, siendo "una gran decepción tras más de 30 años de diálogo; todavía están en la Edad Media".

Otro dispensacionalista influyente en la política fue el conocido literato Hal Lindsey en la era de gobierno de Ronald Reagan, el presidente incluso lo invitó a intervenir en una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional sobre planes de guerra nuclear y llegó a ser consultor de varios miembros del Congreso y el Pentágono. Pero Lindsey y los suyos solo incurrieron en más dudas entre los judíos israelíes. El citado historiador israelí Gershom Gorenberg señala que Lindsey ve a los judíos como desempeñando "dos roles centrales" en la escatología dispensacionalista cristiana:

Sigue primando -a pesar de su insistencia en el amor por los judíos- la clásica polémica cristiana antijudía: Son 'el pueblo judío que crucificó a Jesús' y el arquetipo de quienes ignoran la verdad de la profecía. El segundo rol es cumplir profecías a pesar de sí mismos… Según Lindsey: "Solo queda un evento más para preparar completamente el terreno para el papel de Israel en el último gran acto de su drama histórico. Es decir, reconstruir el antiguo Templo..."

“Como revelan los comentarios de Falwell y Lindsey, las visiones escatológicas del dispensacionalismo suelen percibir al pueblo judío como poco más que peones que deben cumplir ciertos requisitos - por ejemplo, establecer el Estado de Israel, conquistar Jerusalén, construir un Tercer Templo- para acelerar la salvación y el "éxtasis" de los cristianos evangélicos. Mientras tanto, se espera que los judíos en Israel que no se conviertan al cristianismo mueran de forma horrible, aunque algunos sionistas cristianos en los últimos años, han intentado ajustar esta postura teológica aún común”.

Así las cosas, en 2017 ante el grupo sionista cristiano CUFI, Netanyahu dejó claro que gran parte de este apoyo "absurdo" provenía de evangélicos estadounidenses, afirmando que "Estados Unidos no tiene mejor amigo que Israel e Israel no tiene mejor amigo que América, e Israel no tiene mejor amigo en América que vosotros". Dentro de Israel, medios como Haaretz argumentan que los políticos israelíes, en especial Netanyahu, buscan apoyo de grupos evangélicos a pesar de sus matices antisemitas y del hecho de que actúan por interés propio en la persecución de sus objetivos políticos.

Richard Silverstein, académico y periodista, en un artículo de 2017, afirmó que para la derecha nacionalista israelí: “El judaísmo no es un valor espiritual, es una manifestación física del poder en el mundo. Estos israelíes entienden que no todos los judíos son sus "hermanos". Algunos judíos son demasiado efeminados, demasiado liberales, demasiado humanos, demasiado universalistas. Estos judíos son los restos que serán arrastrados por la marea de la historia. Los nacionalistas israelíes necesitan reemplazar a estos aliados judíos tradicionales y lo han hecho encontrando nuevos: evangélicos cristianos, dictadores africanos, neonazis europeos. El sionismo, tal y como lo definen, es menos un movimiento dedicado a la ética y más uno dedicado al interés propio".

John Hagee destacó tras el ocaso de Falwell. Hoy, Hagee y otros predicadores dirigen la vanguardia del sionismo cristiano y del activismo político sionista cristiano, entre los que se incluye un hijo de Falwell. La doctrina oficial de Hagee es la escatología dispensacionalista que cree que los cristianos están bíblicamente obligados a apoyar a Israel y lo ha expandido a otros círculos evangélicos. Prácticamente fue Hagee quien despertó a una ya casi olvidada organización: 'Cristianos Unidos por Israel' o CUFI, ahora apodada el “AIPAC cristiano”. CUFI se alineó con los neoconservadores desde la administración Bush y entre otras influencias políticas han llegado a dirigir el ya desaparecido 'Project for a New American Century' -PNAC-, y forman parte de la junta ejecutiva del grupo neoconservador 'Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' (FDD); y, para ser más precisos, hoy son una “parte vital de la seguridad nacional de Israel".


John Hagee (derecha) de Cristianos Unidos por Israel, entrega el premio Defensor de Israel al ex vicepresidente Mike Pence (centro) en Arlington, Virginia, el 17 de julio de 2023. 


Su influencia actual llega a las cercanías del poder en las dos administraciones de Donald Trump. Hagee ha influido en el gobierno de Trump y, aunque no formó parte de la junta oficial de asesores evangélicos de Trump (primer mandato) sí lo fueron varios de sus aliados. Trump prometió personalmente a Hagee llevar a cabo los planes para trasladar la embajada de Estados Unidos a Jerusalén y participó en las negociaciones del denominado y fracasado "Acuerdo del Siglo" destinado a traer "paz" al conflicto israelo-palestino. Hagee oró: “Israel y el pueblo judío necesitan nuestras oraciones y nuestra defensa como nunca antes… La Biblia manda”…

El ex vicepresidente Mike Pence (ferviente sionista cristiano) y el secretario de Estado y exdirector de la CIA Mike Pompeo (primer mandato Trump) fueron impulsores de la "guerra santa". Para Whitney Webb: “El sionismo cristiano tiene una larga historia en la política estadounidense, pero nunca ha conquistado el púlpito supremo de la Casa Blanca. Administraciones pasadas solían emplear un lenguaje bíblico general en referencia a Israel, pero nunca la teología evangélica del sionismo cristiano había estado tan cerca del aparato de formulación de políticas del poder ejecutivo”. (esta cita es discutible ya que en el gobierno de Ronald Reagan se apreció una política encaminada al Armagedón bíblico mediante el uso de armas nucleares. Ver referencias en las notas a pie de página). 




Las preocupaciones de que Estados Unidos ha estado bajo la influencia del sionismo religioso extremista y del sionismo cristiano seguirá impidiendo que el país actúe como un "mediador honesto" en el conflicto Israel-Palestina. Si Mike Pence fue un convencido, Donald Trump no se queda atrás, es un abierto sionista cristiano: sin embargo, fue Mike Pompeo el más abierto sobre sus creencias religiosas respecto al fin de los tiempos para la toma de decisiones como jefe del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos, una especie de remembranza de Ronald Reagan.

Un reciente artículo de Kevork Almassian (octubre 2025) titulado “Trump’s “New Middle East” and the Theology of Power” (El 'Nuevo Oriente Medio' de Trump y la teología del poder) describe como Washington convirtió la profecía en política y la fe en poder de fuego. “Si la política es teatro, este fue el apocalipsis representado en directo”.

En su última visita a Israel Donald Trump declaró el amanecer de un "nuevo Oriente Medio", anunció la fusión de la teología y la geopolítica, es decir, un acuerdo sagrado entre el cielo y el complejo militar-industrial. Vallas publicitarias en Jerusalem decían: "Ciro el Grande está vivo". El mensaje es evidente: Donald Trump es el salvador del Israel moderno, el Ciro de nuestros tiempos, el hombre que reconoció la anexión de los Altos del Golán para Israel. El presidente lo justificó: lo hizo todo como un "favor" a sus donantes. Trump el nuevo "Ciro el Grande", significa, según las escrituras judías, el hombre que allanará el camino para el Tercer Templo, para ello habrá que destruir uno de los máximos símbolos del Islam, la mezquita de Al-Aqsa (Ciro, el emperador pagano, permitió la reconstrucción del Segundo Templo). ¿Reaccionarán las petro-monarquías del Golfo?, ¿los 'defensores' del Islam en La Meca alzarán la voz en nombre del mundo árabe? Seamos sinceros: no.

Esas dictaduras o regímenes árabes que dicen defender el Islam ya optaron por cambiar Palestina por sus multimillonarios proyectos de prestigio, sus nuevas "ciudades inteligentes" del proyecto 'Visión 2030' mientras ven arder la cuna de su civilización. Dice Almassian que “los 'Acuerdos de Abraham' simplemente han formalizado lo que ya era cierto: Israel ya no necesita la paz con los árabes. Solo necesita su silencio”.

Israel, Egipto, Arabia Saudí, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Jordania, Baréin, están coordinando, bajo órdenes del CENTCOM (Mando Central de EEUU) la "arquitectura de seguridad regional", comparten inteligencia, mientras condenan las acciones de Israel en Gaza ante la ONU. “Condena de día, cooperación de noche, ya sabes, la flexibilidad moral de los estados árabes modernos”.

Quizá ese sea el verdadero significado de este "Nuevo Oriente Medio". No paz, ni justicia, ni siquiera estabilidad, sino un mundo reordenado por la marca divina. Donde el campo de batalla es sagrado, la bomba bendecida y las víctimas olvidadas. “Hay algo más profundo y casi escatológico. El "Nuevo Oriente Medio" de Trump no es solo un proyecto geopolítico; es una cuestión teológica. La alianza entre los evangélicos estadounidenses y los sionistas israelíes es un matrimonio de apocalipsis. Cada uno cree que ayuda a cumplir la profecía. Uno espera al Mesías, el otro espera la Segunda Venida. Simplemente se olvidaron de preguntar qué pasa entre medias”.


El presidente Trump y el ex vicepresidente Pence, recibiendo las bendiciones de los líderes evangélicos de los Estados Unidos quienes respaldaron al actual mandatario en su primer mandato. En la fotografía inferior Paula White, su nueva asesora espiritual, lo "bendice" acompañada de un ferviente grupo de espirituales almas cristianas (segundo mandato)



Los evangélicos en el poder y el sueño de una nación cristiana en Estados Unidos es una realidad muy bien disimulada. El nacionalismo religioso de larga data sigue consolidándose en la política estadounidense principalmente en el partido Republicano, hoy impulsada por la agrupación MAGA, que por ridículo que parezca ven en Donald Trump el elegido por Dios… Este tipo de asociaciones milenaristas anhelan transformar la democracia en una teocracia, ejercer el peso del evangelismo en la moral y el voto, escribe Antonella Marty en una publicación aparecida en octubre de este año. “El nacionalismo cristiano sostiene que el país debe regirse por valores cristianos para cumplir una misión divina y que fue fundado como una nación cristiana. En el fondo, es una batalla por definir qué es realmente Estados Unidos”.

Desde su fundación, los Estados Unidos se ha presentado como una nación “puritana”, defensora de un orden social protegido por la religión. Y en el presente es lo mismo, “discursos presidenciales, días nacionales de oración, fallos de la Corte Suprema, juramentos sobre la Biblia, apertura de sesiones legislativas con oración o incluso en los billetes del dólar. Presidentes como Wilson, Truman, Reagan, Bush y Trump han declarado al país como una “nación cristiana”. Con las innovaciones tecnológicas de la televisión aparecieron los televangelistas para controlar los medios, influir en la moral y el voto, y asegurándose tener buenas relaciones estratégicas con la Corte Suprema. Ya hemos repasado la historia de la Fellowship (La Familia) o de personajes como el pastor evangélico Billy Graham en la época de la Guerra Fría, la de su hijo Franklin Graham que continuó la “cruzada” de su padre, el televangelista y magnate Pat Robertson, la Mayoría Moral de Jerry Falwell, etc.

Iglesias y fundaciones expandieron la influencia cristiana en la política, y los políticos tenían que dedicarles devoción porque sin ellas no podrían optar a un alto cargo, así es como respaldaron a candidatos presidenciales como Ronald Reagan y Donald Trump (por citar dos nombres de los más convencidos cristianos sionistas. Jimmy Carter era un presidente abiertamente evangélico, pero se negó a fusionar fe y poder). Se dice que Donald Trump “está consolidando un modelo que fusiona religión con poder estatal y corporativo”. Ha creado la Oficina de Fe de la Casa Blanca, liderada por la pastora Paula White, su principal asesora espiritual, quien afirmó que “decirle ‘no’ al presidente Trump es decirle ‘no’ a dios”. Sin embargo, Jeffry Epstein parece haber sido más que una especie de dios vivo e influyente…

El interesante artículo de Antonella Marty concluye con estas latentes palabras: “A lo largo de la historia, las peores atrocidades se han cometido en nombre de dios. Hoy, todavía se lucha y mata por textos antiguos de procedencia incierta, mientras Estados Unidos está saturado de fanáticos religiosos, políticos mesiánicos y pastores que se enriquecen con la esperanza de otros. Ahora, este fenómeno se expande por toda América Latina”. 

Nada ha cambiado, desde hace décadas ha sido expuesto a la opinión pública el hecho de que decenas de pastores poseen mansiones, jets privados, estilos de vida lujosos, financiados con fondos de la iglesia o del ministerio; no es desconocido que tras esa fachada de piedad cristiana se esconde una red que se aprovecha de las donaciones destinadas a la labor espiritual para sostener una ostentosa riqueza, es el peligro de la autoridad no supervisada de instituciones evangélicas independientes. Los feligreses de base confían en sus líderes y no se cuestionan los abusos de poder que llegan incluso al crimen y otras formas sutiles de control: "coacción emocional, manipulación disfrazada de lenguaje espiritual e indoctrinamiento político enmarcado como instrucción moral". El ejemplo perfecto de esto es la demanda recurrente de apoyo incondicional a Israel.

Tras el asesinato de Charlie Kirk (y probablemente antes) han aparecido grietas en lo que antes parecía un apoyo evangélico inquebrantable a Israel, especialmente entre los conservadores jóvenes que han dejado de simpatizar ciegamente. “Muchos creyentes jóvenes ven el coste humanitario en Gaza como incompatible con sus ideales morales y cristianos, o se sienten frustrados por la ayuda militar estadounidense y los enredos extranjeros que contradicen la retórica de 'América Primero'. Los críticos también sugieren que el apoyo evangélico a Israel fue históricamente cultivado por poderosos actores financieros y políticos, incluidos donantes pro-Israel, que trataban a los jóvenes como un grupo demográfico para asegurar un respaldo duradero y generacional a las políticas entre EEUU e Israel. El reciente cambio entre los evangélicos jóvenes sugiere que, cuando los costes morales de la guerra se volvieron imposibles de reconciliar con la fe, gran parte de esa lealtad cultivada comenzó a desmoronarse. Kirk se había vuelto reacio a defender a Israel, lo que ha aumentado las sospechas sobre las circunstancias de su muerte y ha planteado dudas sobre una posible influencia extranjera”.

“Dentro del mercado evangélico del poder de Estados Unidos”, es un artículo escrito por Freddie Ponton que finaliza expresando: “Esta unión de la fe evangélica y el apoyo inquebrantable a Israel, a menudo enmarcada explícitamente a través de la prisma del sionismo, se ha convertido en una característica definitoria, aunque complicada, de ciertas redes eclesiásticas estadounidenses. Lo que antes se presentaba como solidaridad espiritual se ha fusionado con el tiempo con la estrategia política, creando una mezcla potente donde la convicción moral y la ambición geopolítica se cruzan. Los feligreses, especialmente los creyentes más jóvenes, a menudo se les presenta la lealtad pro-Israel como una prueba de fe, dejando poco espacio para debates matizados o vacilaciones morales. Los críticos argumentan que esta dinámica transforma el compromiso espiritual en un mecanismo de influencia: los financiadores, los operadores políticos e incluso los intereses extranjeros pueden aprovechar redes religiosas para cultivar una lealtad política a largo plazo, planteando profundas cuestiones éticas sobre el papel de la fe en la configuración de políticas y la conciencia de la próxima generación".


Otro ferviente cristiano sionista, el ex presidente de Estados Unidos Joe Biden, durante una visita a Israel en 2010, cuando era vicepresidente (Administración Obama). Fotografía Ariel Schalit AFP/Getty Images



Para cerrar este ensayo en que compaginamos una variedad de artículos sobre el sionismo cristiano e Israel debe quedar en evidencia el “Cómo el sionismo cristiano distorsiona las Escrituras para servir al imperioy por qué la obsesión de América por 'bendecir a Israel' pone en riesgo a la Iglesia, al mundo y a la verdad.

El Dr. Mathew Maavak describe como en la entrevista de Tucker Carlson (junio 2025) al senador estadounidense Ted Cruz éste último mostró no solo una alarmante ignorancia geopolítica, sino también una descarada disposición a distorsionar las escrituras en defensa de su apoyo inquebrantable a Israel. El versículo que citó - Génesis 12:3 - fue truncado descaradamente, una táctica común utilizada para otorgar legitimidad divina al excepcionalismo sionista en la profecía del Fin de los Tiempos. Este versículo se ha convertido en la base teológica de una cosmovisión militante conocida como sionismo cristiano.

Incluso los críticos judíos de la política estatal israelí expresan consternación ante el analfabetismo histórico y la grosería teológica que alimentan esta ideología en expansión dentro de los círculos evangélicos estadounidenses, apodado un "culto de la basura de caravanas", una fusión de analfabetismo bíblico, fervor apocalíptico y delirio geopolítico.

El sionismo cristiano prospera gracias a la ignorancia y a la apropiación selectiva de las escrituras. Aunque a menudo se presenta como antiguo e inmutable, en realidad es un fenómeno relativamente moderno, que surgió junto con el auge del sionismo político a finales del siglo XIX. En lugar de tratar las escrituras como sagradas, distorsiona el canon bíblico en una herramienta maleable, una que debe ajustarse a los imperativos ideológicos del momento. En una nación como Estados Unidos, que ha estado en guerra durante casi el 95% de su existencia, esta distorsión suele servir como cobertura teológica para una doctrina de "guerra sin fin", con versículos seleccionados a dedo usados para bautizar la agresión geopolítica y la creación de nuevos enemigos”.

Ronald Reagan, el santo pseudo-religioso del conservadurismo estadounidense, invocó repetidamente esta herejía interpretativa para enmarcar la Guerra Fría como una batalla cósmica contra el "imperio del mal". Hasta hoy, millones de evangélicos estadounidenses y protestantes fundamentalistas en todo el mundo siguen viendo a Rusia como el enemigo eterno del propio Dios. No debe subestimarse el alcance e influencia de esta subcultura pseudo-teológica.

Volviendo al senador Cruz, ante Tucker Carlson invocó Génesis 12:3 para justificar el apoyo inquebrantable de Estados Unidos a Israel, su cita fue notablemente selectiva. El versículo completo dice: "Y bendeciré a los que os bendigan y maldeciré al que os maldice; y en ti serán bendecidas todas las familias de la tierra”.

Esta demás señalar que esta es una promesa profética hecha al patriarca Abraham, que apunta en última instancia a su descendencia, Y según Gálatas 3:16, "todas las familias de la tierra" reciben la reconciliación con Dios. Si esa bendición es universal y mesiánica en su alcance, ¿dónde está entonces la exclusividad étnica o nacional que tan a menudo se atribuye al Israel actual?

Los cristianos sionistas en Estados Unidos creen que la identidad judía colectiva es “divina” y sus adversarios son deshumanizados como monstruos de fantasía. Curiosa e irónicamente, “los persas (iraníes) tradicionalmente han disfrutado de una representación mucho más favorable en las escrituras judías. Por tanto, la enemistad geopolítica moderna es una aberración histórica, no una necesidad teológica”.

¿En qué momento la solidaridad se convierte en sacrilegio, y el apoyo a Israel requiere una rendición teológica total? Pregunta el Dr. Maavak. Él razona el por qué es muy crítico con el sionismo cristiano: Es una ideología que santifica cualquier crimen de guerra porque, según sus seguidores, la "bendición" personal de Dios depende de la lealtad política a un estado-nación moderno.

“Gran parte de los evangélicos están dispuestos a interpretar cualquier suceso mundano como un respaldo divino al papel central de Israel en la profecía del Fin de los Tiempos. Tal es el reflejo esquizoide de la teología sionista cristiana: los signos divinos solo son válidos cuando refuerzan el guion. Cualquier otra cosa, por más cruda que sea, se descarta como coincidencia o interferencia satánica.

Los sionistas cristianos han cantado Génesis 12:3 con tanta frecuencia y con tanto celo que pocos dentro de sus filas se detienen a poner a prueba el versículo con la Escritura o la realidad empírica. Hagámoslo ahora. Génesis 12:3 dice: «Bendeciré a los que os bendigan y al que os maldice...»

Si interpretamos esto como un mandato general para la política exterior a nivel estatal, las pruebas deben ser evidentes. Así que pregúntate: ¿Están los aliados más leales de Israel hoy en día, especialmente en Occidente, realmente "bendecidos"? Estados Unidos, probablemente está más dividido internamente que en cualquier otro momento desde la Guerra Civil. Sus ciudades están en decadencia, la falta de hogar y la adicción a las drogas son rampantes, las relaciones raciales están en su punto más bajo y casi el 40% de los estadounidenses no puede permitirse un gasto de emergencia de 400 dólares sin pedir prestado, vender la reliquia familiar o endeudarse. Y, sin embargo, miles de millones en ayuda incondicional siguen llegando a Israel, año tras año. Europa Occidental no sale mejor… India, que no forma parte de Asia Oriental, tiene una población enorme y profundamente pro-Israel y resulta ser una de las naciones más 'malditas' en la Tierra”.

Así -señala Maavak- la pregunta prácticamente se plantea sola: Si Génesis 12:3 se está utilizando para evaluar la política exterior hacia Israel, ¿quién está siendo bendecido exactamente y quién está siendo maldito?

¿Por qué es esencial enfrentarse una y otra vez a la narrativa del sionismo cristiano? Porque la ideología religiosa que difunden sus seguidores (principalmente de la política) no tiene nada que ver con el cristianismo auténtico. Es una peligrosa falsificación teológica - una guarida de lobos disfrazados de cordero, tal y como advirtió Mateo 7:15. Lejos de defender la fe, el sionismo cristiano pone en peligro activamente a los cristianos en todo el mundo. En su celo por defender la Pax Americana, idolatra al estado moderno de Israel y fuerza la inserción de los acontecimientos actuales en un guion apocalíptico forzado, sacrifica comunidades cristianas reales en los altares de la geopolítica y la fantasía escatológica… 

Lo digo claramente: No tengáis comunión con estos idólatras asesinos (1 Corintios 5:11). Invocan a Cristo pero sirven a las ambiciones del imperio, a las ilusiones del hombre y a los artilugios de Satanás”. (Mathew Maavak)

Sin otras pretensiones teológicas….


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Visiones “divinas”, locura y maldad para justificar la guerra

Ronald Reagan, el fanático presidente fundamentalista

La lente bíblica y la luz nietzscheana

Política "antisemita" y fundamentalismo cristiano: el Armagedón y el "fin de los tiempos"

Estados Unidos: Política, religión y racismo "igualitario".


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Sacrilegio y arte de gobernar: Cómo el sionismo cristiano distorsiona las Escrituras para servir al imperio

Las fuerzas oscuras que controlan el imperio anglo-estadounidense-sionista son la fuente de la crisis mundial

El Evangelio del Imperio: Cómo el mito, el sionismo y el mercado conspiraron para desmantelar la paz

Patria robada: La genética desmiente el mito sionista del "Retorno"

La supremacía judía en el corazón del proyecto sionista

Si Estados Unidos quiere sobrevivir debe liberarse de Israel

25 Dec 08:37

Qué hacer cuando alguien sufre un ATAQUE DE ANSIEDAD | Técnica de primeros auxilios psicológicos

by Claudia Nicolasa Psicología

Cómo ayudar a alguien en un ataque de ansiedad ⚠️

Almudena sufre un ataque de pánico y ansiedad en una de las hogueras en la isla de las tentaciones al ver las imágenes de Darío.

Existen múltiples técnicas para ayudar a alguien que está sufriendo un ataque de ansiedad. Hoy te comparto una técnica de corregulación a través de la respiración de primeros auxilios psicológicos.

Guarda este video y compártelo para saber qué hacer en estos casos ✅
25 Dec 08:33

🟢 Por qué debemos celebrar la NAVIDAD, aunque seamos ateos, amargados o anticlericales

by Fabián C. Barrio

Los rituales son la forma más antigua y eficaz que ha encontrado el ser humano para domesticar el caos. Allí donde la vida es incierta, repetimos gestos, palabras y fechas como quien enciende una lámpara en mitad de la noche. No porque eliminen el miedo, sino porque lo hacen habitable. Un ritual no promete felicidad, promete sentido: nos recuerda que no estamos improvisando del todo, que pertenecemos a algo más grande que nuestra ansiedad individual. Comer juntos, celebrar, repetir una historia conocida una vez al año es una manera silenciosa de decir “sigo aquí” y “no estoy solo”.
La Navidad, en particular, es un ritual que habla de fragilidad y de esperanza sin pedir permiso. Nos obliga —aunque sea a regañadientes— a detenernos, a mirar atrás, a reunir a personas que durante el resto del año apenas se toleran. Bajo el ruido comercial y el cansancio emocional, hay una intuición profunda: la de que el tiempo puede ser sagrado, que el afecto necesita escenografía y que incluso los adultos necesitan cuentos para recordar lo esencial. La Navidad no es importante porque todo sea perfecto en esos días, sino precisamente porque no lo es. Celebrarla es un acto de resistencia contra el cinismo: una forma anual de insistir en que el cuidado, la generosidad y el perdón siguen siendo ideas dignas de ser representadas, aunque sepamos que al día siguiente volveremos a fallar.

Esta es una reflexión atea porque soy ateo. Entiendo que para usted el fin último sea celebrar el nacimiento de Cristo, pero como no creo en él, no está presente en mis argumentos. Si va a sentirse defraudado por esto, deberá abandonar el vídeo de inmediato, y tal vez también cancelar su suscripción.
Por favor, NO BUSQUEN ARGUMENTOS POLÍTICOS EN MI "FELICES FIESTAS". Que no nos roben también eso. Cuando digo "felices fiestas" lo hago con la mejor intención e incluyendo navidad y fin de año.

Ahora sí, felices fiestas y paz en la Tierra a los hombres de buena voluntad.
25 Dec 08:29

Albert Pla, cantante: “Te ríes de los terraplanistas, pero el 90% de la población mundial cree en Dios

by pilarina

La carrera de Albert Pla es una mezcla de grandes escenarios, colaboraciones míticas y escándalos involuntarios. Desde aquel octubre del 88 en que se presentó a un concurso con sus primeras cuatro canciones —y lo ganó— no ha dejado de ocupar un lugar único en la cultura. Premio Nacional de Música en el 2016, autor de discos esenciales como No solamente de rumba vive el hombre o La diferencia, y actor que se ha adentrado en universos como el de La Mesías, Pla continúa desafiando definiciones.

etiquetas: albert pla, dios, terraplanistas, musico

» noticia original (www.lavanguardia.com)

25 Dec 08:29

La UE advierte de posibles medidas tras el veto de EEUU a cinco europeos acusados de censura

by eaglesight1

La Comisión Europea, la rama ejecutiva de la Unión Europea, advirtió el miércoles que tomaría medidas contra cualquier "medida injustificada" después de que el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos prohibiera la entrada a cinco europeos a quienes acusa de presionar a las empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses para censurar o suprimir puntos de vista estadounidenses.

etiquetas: ee.uu., ue, trump, veto, medidas

» noticia original (www.independentespanol.com)

25 Dec 08:28

Feijóo envía a la jueza de la DANA los mensajes que recibió de Mazón el 29 de octubre

by Esteban_Rosador

El líder del PP decide reservarse los que él envió al entonces presidente de la Generalitat

etiquetas: feijoo, dana, mazón, jueza

» noticia original (cadenaser.com)

25 Dec 08:28

Documentos de Epstein exponen a 10 posibles "co-conspiradores" revelando un siniestro sindicato de pedófilos

by jm22381

Documentos del Departamento de Justicia revelan que Jeffrey Epstein tuvo al menos 10 ‘co-conspiradores’ en su red de tráfico sexual infantil. Todos menos 3 de los nombres incluidos en el email han sido censurados. Las dos primeras fueron Ghislaine Maxwell, condenada en 2021 por tráfico sexual y otros cargos; y Jean-Luc Brunel, un ex agente de modelos francés que fue encontrado muerto en su celda de la prisión de París en 2022 y sospechoso de buscar chicas para Epstein. Un tercero fue el magnate minorista Leslie Wexner.

etiquetas: epstein, complices, conspiradores, jean-luc brunel, leslie wexner

» noticia original (noticiashuesca.com)

25 Dec 08:28

Política y religión: El sionismo cristiano

by Janssen

A pesar de que se ha llegado al punto en que la religión ya no es muy importante en Occidente, una gran potencia mundial sigue manipulando no solo su nación sino al orbe entero bajo el estatuto de principios “cristianos”, contándonos que la fe religiosa cristiana es la única esperanza para los desfavorecidos en vista a que la esperanza del cielo es para los pobres. La religión de élite en los Estados Unidos es el fundamentalismo estadounidense, es decir, el sionismo cristiano constituye el pilar del fascismo estadounidense.

etiquetas: religión, política, sionismo, evangélicos, estados unidos, israel

» noticia original (www.detectivesdeguerra.com)

25 Dec 08:27

El ‘giro Trump’ en la potasa bielorrusa genera un dilema de soberanía para la Unión Europea

by Dragstat

El reciente y sorpresivo anuncio estadounidense de levantar las sanciones a la potasa bielorrusa ha provocado un seísmo geopolítico cuyas réplicas amenazan con desestabilizar la estrategia de autonomía de la UE, situándola en posición de extrema vulnerabilidad. La UE se enfrenta a la cruda realidad de su dependencia, el mineral esencial para la seguridad alimentaria, sigue siendo el gran ausente en la lista de materias primas estratégicas. Esta omisión técnica deja al sector agrario europeo a merced de los vaivenes diplomáticos de terceros.

etiquetas: estados unidos, ue, bielorrusia, minerales críticos, potasa

» noticia original (valenciaplaza.com)

25 Dec 08:26

Otra muerte «en comisaría».

by starwars_attacks

Se llamaba Haitan Mejri y tenía 35 años. Hace diez días, el 8 de diciembre, murió tras una descarga eléctrica de una pistola taser de un agente de la Policía Nacional de Torremolinos, en Málaga. La familia del joven ha denunciado que en ningún momento se mostró agresivo, que su actitud no era peligrosa -como demostrarían los vídeos que han entregado para su investigación-, y que la intervención de la Policía Nacional fue desproporcionada e innecesaria. Mientras los pseudo-sindicatos policiales aseguran que los agentes hicieron bien su “trabajo”

etiquetas: policía, guardia civil, guardia, civil, abuso, brutalidad, muerte

» noticia original (cgt.es)

25 Dec 08:25

Los 'whatsapps' certifican que Feijóo y Mazón solo se comunicaron tras la comida de El Ventorro: "Un puto desastre va a ser esto, presi"

by Abrildel21

El líder del PP, que solo ha remitido a la jueza los mensajes enviados por el expresident y no lo suyos, explica que fue él quien inició a las 19.59 horas el primer contacto con Mazón, que tardó unos minutos en contestar y lo hizo apenas tres minutos antes del envío del Es-Alert

etiquetas: whatsapps, feijóo, mazón, el ventorro, un puto desastre

» noticia original (www.eldiario.es)

25 Dec 08:24

Tesla registra caída de ventas en Europa en noviembre mientras BYD acelera su expansión

by Marisadoro

En noviembre, Tesla vendió 22.801 unidades en la región, lo que supone un descenso interanual del 11,8 % frente a las 25.840 unidades del mismo mes del año pasado, según los datos de laAsociación Europea de Fabricantes de Automóviles (ACEA). Las ventas acumuladas de Tesla de enero a noviembre, se situaron en 203.382 unidades, lo que representa una caída interanual del 28 % respecto al mismo periodo del año anterior.

etiquetas: tesla, byd, europa

» noticia original (es.benzinga.com)

25 Dec 08:24

La DGT aplaza el registro obligatorio de los patinetes eléctricos y VMP hasta nueva normativa

by Fedorito

La Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) ha aclarado cómo y cuándo se aplicará la nueva obligación de registro y aseguramiento de los vehículos de movilidad personal (VMP), como los patinetes eléctricos o los segways, tras la entrada en vigor de la Ley 5/2025, de 24 de julio. Aunque la norma establece que estos vehículos deberán estar asegurados y registrados a partir del 2 de enero de 2026, la DGT confirma que este requisito no será exigible hasta que exista un marco jurídico plenamente operativo.

etiquetas: patinete, electrico, registro, dgt

» noticia original (www.eleconomista.es)