Every citizen, including every public representative, has the right to go about their work and their life without fear. I also want to commend those who responded to the incident. 2/2 #Rights #PublicSafety #Resilience #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
EU leaders say that Canada and Ukraine may become 'associate members' of the EU. Do citizens get a say on EU expansion? https://t.co/vIir6t2JBi #EUExtension #Canada #Ukraine #CA #UA
A more competitive Europe is a safer Europe. #security, #defence, and #competitiveness are our priorities. The more competitive we are, the more we can invest in our security. The more secure we are, the more private investment we attract. This is how we protect our citizens #Security #Defence #Competitiveness #EU
I call for a publicly funded smartphone for every European child from the age of 8. Digital participation is no longer a luxury — it is part of education, communication and modern citizenship. Every child in Europe should have access to a secure modern smartphone, high-quality https://t.co/JEIOsYSafi #DigitalInclusion #SmartphoneForAll #EducationAccess #EU
SANCTIONS DEADLOCK OVER USMANOV France has joined Slovakia in pressing for Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be removed from the EU sanctions list. According to the Financial Times and Euronews, Paris linked the move to efforts to secure the release of French citizens https://t.co/HTWmHvAIL1 #Sanctions #Usmanov #EU #FR #SK #RU #UZ
Dodik celebrated Schmidt’s departure as if Bosnia had been conquered by one man. He is wrong. Bosnia and Herzegovina does not belong to Dodik. It belongs to its citizens. And in a democracy, the voters have the final word. Dodik wanted Schmidt gone. Now the voters can send https://t.co/r1vy2ffVMU #Bosnia #Democracy #Dodik #BA
WITH GUNTHER FEHLINGER, EUROPE WILL THINK BIG AGAIN. 🇪🇺 My vision is clear: a European Union of 50 member states — as many states as the United States of America. A Europe of around 700 million citizens, united by freedom, democracy, prosperity and security. Ukraine, Moldova, the https://t.co/OFvyoLkAxj #EuropeanUnion #Unity #Democracy #EU #UA #MD #US
I argued the rules would combat electoral fraud and I have long claimed that voting by mail allows non-citizens to cast ballots and is prone to fraud.
JUSTICE FOR SERBIA 🇷🇸 Serbia’s students and citizens are showing that intimidation cannot kill the demand for freedom, democracy and rule of law. According to reports from Serbia, attempts to obstruct signature collection only produced more solidarity, longer queues and renewed https://t.co/M5yHxXHiZU #JusticeForSerbia #Freedom #Democracy #RS
Greaves Summer School: The Irish govt should establish a Citizen’s Assembly or series of Assemblies to discuss the process of constitutional change & the measures needed to build an all-Ireland economy, a truly national health service & much more. This makes sense. https://t.co/I8okznpN5T #CitizensAssembly #ConstitutionalChange #AllIrelandEconomy #IE
Can You Resist Tyranny? The average person today is incapable of governing themselves, which is why so many yearn for a new “system.” They desire an external imposition of control to order their lives in a way they feel incapable of doing for themselves. Riddled with fear, they trade liberty for protection. Ideology recasts their resentment as righteousness. Loneliness drives them to find a herd to become one with. Internal chaos creates a demand for imposed order. When you tell people that the answer to collective madness is not collective action in the opposite direction, they often mistake this for rolling over and accepting defeat. But chaos does not defeat chaos. As Friedrich Nietzsche pointed out, “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” Think about every hero story you’ve ever admired. The hero doesn’t take to the streets and try to convince everyone of his cause. Rather, he confronts evil head-on and puts himself in the line of fire. A well-ordered individual is not harmless or ineffectual. A single competent, strong, and courageous person can carry more weight and value than a mob of NPCs. As Carl Jung said, “a million zeros do not add up to one.” Nor does being well ordered mean being harmless or indiscriminately nice. Such a person must possess strength, aggression, ambition, judgement, competitive instinct, the capacity for force, and the desire for achievement. The question is what these qualities serve. Money, power, and lust, or love, family, and God? If no strong internal ordering principle exists, a movement, leader, ideology, or State will fill the vacuum externally. No one looking for a solution to increasing social insanity can afford to overlook it. All others are contingent on it. The answer is not to dissociate from the world and simply pull yourself together. It is that a disordered individual cannot possibly bring order to his environment. By becoming a man of virtue, he can then carry that order into the roles individuals occupy: father, teacher, pastor, judge, journalist, leader, neighbour, police officer, and citizen.
The Individual as an Antidote to Tyranny The average person today is incapable of governing himself, which is why so many yearn for a new system. They desire external control to order their lives in ways they feel unable to manage themselves. Riddled with fear, they trade liberty for protection. Ideology recasts resentment as righteousness, while loneliness drives them to join a herd. The answer to collective madness is not collective action in the opposite direction. Chaos does not defeat chaos. As Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “Madness is something rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” Think of every hero story you admire. The hero does not retreat from danger or surrender to evil. He confronts it directly and places himself in the line of fire. A well-ordered individual is not harmless or ineffectual. One competent, strong, and courageous person can carry more weight and provide more value than a mob. As Carl Jung said, “A million zeros do not add up to one.” Being well-ordered does not mean being harmless or indiscriminately nice. It means possessing judgment, competitive instinct, the capacity for force, and a desire for achievement. The question is what those qualities serve: money, power, and lust—or love, family, and God? This kind of person is an antidote to tyranny. If no strong internal ordering principle exists, a movement, leader, ideology, or state will fill the vacuum from the outside. The well-ordered individual is not incapable of rage, vanity, resentment, cowardice, or cruelty. Awareness of these shadow aspects helps prevent ideological capture and frees him from the seductive belief that “they are evil and we are good.” Anyone seeking a solution to increasing social insanity must recognize that a disordered individual cannot bring order to his environment. By becoming a person of virtue, he can carry that order into every role he occupies—as a parent, teacher, pastor, judge, journalist, leader, neighbor, police officer, or citizen.
Muito feliz em dividir com vocês que estarei presente no Global Citizen Festival representando o Rio de Janeiro e o nosso Brasil nessa data tão importante pro mundo! 🇧🇷 https://t.co/mZhMnjZPWA #GlobalCitizenFestival #RioDeJaneiro #Brasil
The world changed 25 years ago. On this deeply painful day for the United States and for all countries that cherish and defend freedom, we remember the many, including Portuguese citizens, who lost their lives on September 11. We also reaffirm the strength of our convictions, the #NeverForget #September11 #Freedom #US #PT
Health policy is not a playground for conspiracy theories. America deserves a Health Secretary who follows evidence, protects public-health institutions and tells citizens the truth. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly promoted false or misleading claims about vaccines, autism, https://t.co/eoZcvqeF8z #PublicHealth #Vaccines #TruthInHealth #US
🗽 IZA subirá pela primeira vez ao palco do Global Citizen Festival NYC, que acontecerá dia 26 de setembro. Como participação especial, ela estará ao lado de artistas como Alicia Keys, Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, TXT e muitos outros. https://t.co/jpXeId2txr #GlobalCitizenFestival #IZA #NovaYork
10 QUESTIONS FOR THE DODIK FAMILY — WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM? Milorad Dodik, Gorica Dodik, Igor Dodik: the citizens of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Europe deserve answers. 1️⃣ How did the Dodik family’s wealth grow so quickly, and what is the source of every https://t.co/aDclrg87DE #DodikFamily #RepublikaSrpska #Transparency #BA
Bosnians, your future is not to remain ethnic minorities inside a permanently fragmented leftover Balkans. Your future is to become EU citizens. For too long, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been trapped inside a political system where ethnic vetoes, patronage networks and https://t.co/BKSfY2APzV #Bosnia #EUIntegration #Balkans #BA #EU
EX-DAYTON NOW. 🇧🇦🇪🇺 IT IS TIME FOR EU BOSNIA. Dayton ended the war. Europe must now build the peace. The Dayton system was designed to stop bloodshed in 1995—not to condemn generations of Bosnian citizens to permanent paralysis, ethnic vetoes, institutional blockage and political https://t.co/gve4kIgZZp #Bosnia #EU #Dayton #BA #EU
Why do western governments: - partner with Israel against Intl Law/despite widespread public opposition? - restrict criticism of Israel despite its crimes? - repress citizens protesting those crimes? They seem able to afford ignoring their people. Quite illiberal for democracies. #Israel #InternationalLaw #Democracy #IL #US
