Podcasts about Moldavia

The last days before the Great Hunt.Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.“Can the scorpion ever stop being a scorpion? “"Do we get our legally permitted weaponry back?" The bishop still held my hand."Sure. If it makes you feel better.""I would like to meet your people then," he gave my paw one last shake then released me. "Shall we go?""I will have someone take you to your car. I want to briefly meet with the President, of Havenstone, then I'll join you in the garage. We'll drive over to JIKIT and I'll make the introductions. Good enough?""That is acceptable," he nodded."What about you two?" I regarded the nun and the Swiss Super-soldier. The nun remained vigilant, and silent. The Swiss' eyes flickered to his boss before settling back on me."It is what I volunteered for," he stated firmly."Okay. Please never say I didn't give you a chance to take the sane way out. Also, Bishop Nicolö, circumstances have conspired to up my prospective wedding date to January 1st.""That will be more difficult. Why the change?" he remained grim."We are having twins. By March, this will be very visible.""That is, unfortunate," he shook his head."You have no idea," and then a brainstorm. "And I am curious about resurrecting the Order of the Dragon, the Societas Draconistarum." Technically that meant 'Society of the Dragonists' which was more appropriate than the literal Ordo Draconis."Precisely how do you plan to recreate a crusading Christian Order which was the purview of the Hungarian monarchs?" he didn't sound the least skeptical, just curious."I have billions of euros to fund such a thing," I winked. "Of far greater critical importance, I know where I can find the supernatural guidance and spiritual imperative for such an organization.""You are going to produce a dragon?" his eyes grew larger even as he fought down his fear. Good man. He was adaptive. He'd need to be."I never said such a thing. That would make me sound crazy," I smiled broadly. "Besides, when I say 'dragon', you think 'devil' and that's way too pedestrian for where we are going.""I am not a moral relativist.""Neither am I. I'm out to save lives and nurture the drive in the human spirit to reach for freedom, love and liberty. As you might imagine, I'm pretty freaking outnumbered.""I think you are crazy," he re-evaluated things."I just might be. In all honesty, you should back out now. Take your two compadres back to 25 East 39th Street (the Holy See's Permanent Observer Offices to the UN in NYC) and report 'Mission Failure'. You'll most likely live longer," I reasoned."I am not afraid to die," Sister Rafaela Sophia finally voiced an opinion."That's idiotic," I scoffed before the bishop could reprimand her for opening her mouth. "You should be.""My soul is in God's hands," she set her jaw."Does he talk to you?" I countered."His message is clear.""Not what I asked. I asked if he specifically directed you to toss your life fruitlessly away as an object lesson for the reckless, or careless?""This is uncalled for," Nicolö intervened."Nope. I bet you a phone call to my Brother to physically restore your bishopric that there are four people in this room who have murdered in cold blood," I kept eye contact with the nun, "and she's the odd one out. Right Juanita?""Yes, Ishara," Juanita slipped up. Her spycraft, like mine, needed work."You were in the military?" the bishop asked my bodyguard."Was? I am. Right now," she related. "I will be until I die."That earned me looks from the three Catholics."She is loyal," Nicolö nodded slightly toward her, referring to Juanita's declaration."Huh? To me? Nope. She's loyal to my office, which we shan't get into right now. Back to you, Sister Rafaela Sophia. Are you out to be a martyr, or has some saint, or angel, given you a directive the other two seem to be unaware of which causes you to devalue your life?""I am devoted to the One True God, Christ, our Savior," and Juanita snorted, "and the Virgin Mary," the nun stated firmly. "I don't hear voices in my head.""Juanita, that was rude. Apologize to our guest," I kept looking forward."No." Well, fuck you too."Gun," I commanded. I held out my left hand."What? No. I will not give you one of my guns," she resisted."Juanita, give me your primary weapon, or I will ask Pamela to beat you up the moment I depart for the Great Hunt. After yesterday's stunt, you know she will," I threatened. Fair, I was not. She drew a Glock-20 and handed it to me. I went through the routine, dropped the magazine then ejected the round before opening the door.Oh look, there were four SD chicks outside, ready to escort my visitors downstairs. I didn't even need to waste a phone call. It wasn't like the conference room wasn't being monitored."Excuse me," I took a half step out the door then hurled all three items down the hall. Looking back at Juanita. "Go fetch.""Fuck you," she snapped."And insulting her faith was as degrading to both her faith and her as me doing this to you is degrading to you right now," I lectured her. "It is important to her, therefore it is important to me because she is my guest in the same way it is important to me that I let my bodyguard do her job without being a total asshole all the time. Now go get your God-damn weapon," I barked. Off she went. I left the door open."Now Sister Rafaela Sophia, the point of all this is: I don't give a crap if you are willing to die for God. In fact, that makes you less than worthless to me and the team. I want to know if you are willing to put other motherfuckers in the ground so that Bishop Nicolá, or Mathias, might get to keep doing their jobs.""Murder is a sin," she declared."Go home," I sighed while shaking my head."She answers to me, the Church and God, not you, Mr. Nyilas," the bishop stepped forward."Then you can go home too," I shrugged. "I'm not asking for remorseless killers. I'm asking for people willing to kill to get the hard work done and best of all, for people who know the difference.""Everyone on JIKIT is a professional soldier, or killer?" he asked."No, but the ones who aren't don't carry guns and know to get down when things get funky," I bantered."I vouch for her," he insisted. Juanita came running back into the room."Cool beans. I don't know you either.""You apparently know my service history," he volleyed."Yeah. Ten years a foreigner in the service of France, then you went straight into a university which turns out Jesuits," I riposted."What turned your life around?" he evaded. That was okay. I'd gotten what I wanted. I was willing to bet he had read every bit of public information about me and it was rumored the heavy Catholic membership in the FBI had its benefits to the Church as well. Not so much as to give them insight into JIKIT, but,"Someone risked their life for me. It's been pretty much downhill from there," I confessed. It was the truth. After Katrina gave me the life line on Day Two, it had all spiraled to the revelation of my heritage, Dad's death, Summer Camp, the Hamptons, Romania and Aya's kidnapping."A person, a soldier, died saving my life," the bishop empathized. "Her story is similar. She seeks redemption. She is not suicidal. I am staking both our lives on it."Did he mean him and Mathias, or him and me? I wasn't certain. Still, it was good enough for now. I'd gotten a look at their emotional make up, even the relatively quiet Swiss."Very well," I agreed. "I have to go see the President about my new job description. I'll catch up with you at your car." To the SD team leader, "Take them to the garage. I will join the group of you very soon.""Yes Ishara," she nodded. I exited the room, Juanita in tow. Two SD entered. I was gone before the Papal team left. Upstairs we went, with one last chore to discharge. I had to check on Ms. French to be absolutely freaking sure it was Shawnee, because anyone else would spell disaster.{8:30 am, Monday, September 8th. Last day}A Room full of asistants:Well, there it was, the office of the Executive Director to the President, and not 'Executive Assistant', because this was Katrina's final 'fuck you, no, just her final 'fuck you' before the Great Hunt got underway. I shouldn't assume things, dang it!Anyway, according to the gray-haired matron running gatekeeper to the Office of the President, this was where I was supposed to show up. I shot Juanita a worried look. She glanced my way and shrugged, momentarily willing to not give me shit about the past 24 hours because where I was situated would determine how easily she could do her job.In we went. In the suite were three desks, the 'big' desk situated at the far end of the office space and two far more modest ones on either side of the entryway. The room expanded beyond the chokepoint formed by the two closest desks into a cluttered area. The walls were cluttered with inset bookshelves and portraits of women. Facing one another were a loveseat on my left with bookend plush chairs in an 'L' facing and a full sofa on the right. There were end tables at the ends of the sofa and the corners between the loveseat and each chair.As the door opened, I hadn't knock as this was my office, or so it seemed, the occupants, who had all been sitting in quiet conversation in the central section, began reacting. Oh look ~ Constanza! I nearly had a heart attack before I realized there were three other Amazons also in the room. Sadly, none were behind the 'big desk', so I couldn't tell who was in charge. Two of the other three choices weren't too much better. First off,"Ishara," Marilynn Saint John stood to greet me. I'd last seen her when I'd dedicated her grandmother's (Hayden's) spirit to the halls of my ancestors, not hers, after forcing the political crisis leading to Hayden's suicide ~ her taking herself to the cliffs and in doing so, destroying the Amazon Cult of Blood Purity. Marilynne was clearly still bitter with me. Umm, I could still incite passion in women I hadn't slept with, yet, woot?"Cáel," the senior-most and only friendly face in the room spoke next. Thank goodness it was Beyoncé Vincennes, Head of House Hanwasuit and House Ishara ally."Cáel Ishara," the third individual was deferential which I wasn't sure how to take as the last time I'd encountered her, yeah, things hadn't gone well either."Beyoncé," I started off with a smile. From there, I had to figure out, ah, Beyoncé's eyes flickered to Constanza then Sabia. I knew Marilynn, with her young age, had the least seniority, "Constanza, Sabia, Marilynn. How's tricks?"Glum faces by everyone except Beyoncé. I didn't ask about Sabia's particular well-being. It had been months since I'd beaten her into the mats of the Full-blooded gym. She'd attacked Yasmin, the Brazilian Hottie and my Brazilian Jujutsu sparring buddy, and I'd retaliated by ambushed her when she turned her back on us. Besides, she'd been giving me shit before I even could see straight.Constanza was minus her left eye because of her dire insult to me. If she wasn't capable of working, she wouldn't be here. If she appreciated my 'mercy' in sparing her life ~ her insult was worthy of her death ~ Constanza hid it well. I hadn't spared her expecting a change of heart. I hadn't felt words alone warranted anyone's death. I was a big boy and could take a few insults. House Ishara, as represented by me, could care less. These days, my sisters would be less understanding despite them knowing my heart."Constanza Landau of House Jaya and Marilynn Saint John of House Anahit are Assistants to President Shawnee French," Beyoncé eased things along, "so will be working closely with us, at least for the short term. Sabia Noel of House Guabancex, who I now think you know as well, has joined you as the other 'Assistant' to the 'Executive Director to the President', (that would make me an 'adept', but adept at what?), and since two of the three Regents are unfamiliar with the workings of Havenstone proper, Shawnee has asked me to perform in that role."Beyoncé was, or had been, Havenstone HQ's CFO (Chief Financial Officer). From what I was quickly piecing together, she would essentially be making all the day-to-day decisions concerning the running of Havenstone (how the Host made the majority of its money) until the Regents got up to speed.Only Buffy had actual experience with the New York office and, from what she had told me, solely within Executive Services. While ES knew 'who' did what inside Havenstone, they weren't aware precisely how those Amazons got their jobs done. That would have been an impossible task. Katrina could do it, but she knew it was beyond the ability of most of us 'mere mortals'. Since we were currently at war, the Host needed Katrina completely focused on her duties as Chief Spy-mistress, not baby-sitting the adults.Shawnee indeed had much gravitas among the other House Heads. Not only had she risen up to lead a First House, she had performed heroically during the final days of the last Secret War. Afterwards she had moved into the realm of Amazon jurisprudence and mediation. Until yesterday, she had lived in a House Arinniti freehold in Minnesota's Great Lakes region thus her desire for the 'Training Wheels' period.The Regency would not rule through telecommunication (the upper echelons feared being eavesdropped upon beyond the standard Amazon (read: paranoid) levels) and Havenstone: New York was the center best situated for the current war-fighting operations, so here she lived. I was sure a team from Executive Services was buying, outfitting/spy-proofing and fortifying a dwelling suitable for the President of a Fortune 500 company. Hayden's home would remain the domicile of Sydney thus Marilynn.The same rigmarole would be done for Rhada and Buffy (though I imaged Buffy would bitch endlessly). Publically, they were VP's of a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars and they had to present the public trappings of such leaders.Why did the Amazons do this ~ unmask their leadership to public exposure? Legal-simple: they could request and expect all levels of public and private security for their executives who happened to also be important officials of the Host. Certainly not all executives at Havenstone were officeholders, House Heads, or House Apprentices, but the high level of competence which permitted one often led to the other.Beyonce:As an example: Beyoncé wasn't the most 'bad-ass' lethal chick in House Hanwasuit. As she was preparing to be casted, her intelligence, creativity and diligence at her future craft, finances, was noted by the Host and the members of her House. In due time her name was circulated as Apprentice and the elders approved. When her elder cousin, the prior House Head, took herself to the cliffs, Beyoncé assumed the top spot. Beyoncé wasn't even one of that woman's three daughters.Mirroring her advancement in her House was her advancement in Havenstone's Accounting, Acquisitions and Banking Divisions until she was appointed CFO Havenstone HQ ~ the supreme financial authority inside Havenstone, though the individual regional branches had a greater degree of autonomy than you might normally expect from a 21st century conglomerate, or a Bronze Age autocracy.I had to constantly remind myself, despite the near-constant feuding, Amazons exhibited a phenomenally higher level of trust than I'd ever found in any other society I'd ever witnessed, or read about, before. Though technically Beyoncé could have gone to President Hayden to enforce her decisions ~ or now the Regency ~ she was far more diplomatic in her approach in dealing with the other 'continental' CEO's and CFO's.That meant she had to wrangle the aspirations and resources from:North America (including Latin America, the 'Canadian Arctic' and the North Pacific Ocean),South America (includes both the South Atlantic and South Pacific as far as Samoa),Europe (mostly Central Europe these days plus Antarctica, the 'Russian' Arctic and the North Atlantic),Africa (mostly West-central Africa),India (the subcontinent plus the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean) and,Southeast Asia (which includes Australia)All of which suggested Havenstone hadn't redrawn the Amazons' geographic demarcations since the late 19th century. As an example, an East African venture, say in Tanzania, was as likely to be under the purview of Havenstone: India (due to its control over the Indian Ocean) as Havenstone: Africa (which traditionally had no East Coast holdings due to their constant struggles versus the Arabic slave trade).Returning to Beyoncé: initially she had held the proper 'conservative' (aka man-hating) mindset. My behavior during that first Board Meeting began to change her opinion of me and the New Directive. After the Archery Range incident, Beyoncé became a vocal proponent of the New Directive and faced challenges within her ranks. House Heads do not have to accept challenges and Beyoncé didn't, reasoning with her detractors they had no alternatives save the 'Old Ways' which spelled doom for the Amazon Race.Bing-bang-boom ~ I became the Head of a resurrected House Ishara by the Will of the Ancestors and Beyoncé was vindicated. Not necessarily in the New Directive, but in her support of me thus the rebirth of a sister First House. The purge following High Priestess' Hayden's death was her ultimate absolution. The Ancestors and Destiny had spoken and shown Beyoncé had been piloting House Hanwasuit along the proper course all along.Back to my current circumstances:Oh, why was I Assistant to the Executive Director to the President? It gave me direct access to the finances of Havenstone which was a critical leg of the war-fighting stool ~ people, morale, money and equipment. As Chief Diplomat, I helped with all four of those in varying degrees, allied troops, allied victories, allied bank accounts and allied armaments.The Great Khan, my spiritual 'Blood-Brother', was ramping up his logistic support for my Amazons in Africa, Asia and the Americas. We were 'Allies in the Struggle' and he wasn't going to wait for the Condottieri to begin coordinating with the Seven Pillars to declare them to be his enemies. They were already fighting the Amazons and 9 Clans, his allies, so their fates were sealed.In Japan, my Amazons provided small yet highly effective strike groups which the Ninja families furnished all the support services for. Everything from food to bullets to medical attention as needed. Without reservation, we shared their death-grapple with the Seven Pillars.From the dispatches I was getting back from my family members and envoys in Japan, we were making serious diplomatic inroads with the Ninja. Once again, it was the Amazons shocking capacity for violence as well as their fanaticism, professionalism and proficiency which all impressed our hosts and terrified our enemies, and this from people of a philosophical mindset which had them historically battling samurai.The Black Lotus were running around like rhesus monkeys on crack cocaine unleashed in a China Shop and given RPG's. While the Amazons couldn't help them in China, Indochina & Thailand ~ the Khanate could and was. The Amazons were of more help in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, where the Black Lotus and Amazons were going everywhere on the offensive against the Seven Pillars while the normal tight cohesion and iron-clad confidence, traits which made the 7P's so dangerous ~ were shaken by their horrendous losses in the 'Homeland' aka Mainland China.Less we forget, the 'military intelligence' wing of their organization had been decimated by the Khanate's Anthrax attack due to members of the Earth & Sky sacrificing themselves by being injected with the toxin then allowing themselves to be captured, which always ended in torture and death.Furthermore, the People's Republic of China, while having a scary 18% of the population either captured, imprisoned, dead, or displaced due to the Khanate invasion, that had come with the loss of 63% of their landmass (they had lost all of Nei Mongol, Ningxia & Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regions, Qinghai and Gansu as well as 90% of Yunnan, 80% of Sichuan and 20% of Shaanxi provinces) to the Khanate and the 'abomination' that was a free Tibet.Then came the Russian 'stab in the back' which entailed the loss of another 10% of their people falling under foreign dominion as well as losing 8% of their most industrialized territory, Manchuria (Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces ~ the Nei Mongol portion of 'Manchuria' was in the Khanate's greedy clutches, from the viewpoint of a Seven P's warrior).Don't get me wrong, they weren't about to throw in the towel. If anything, they were becoming more dedicated to trying harder, digging deep into their knowledge of every atrocity, inhumanity and perversion now deemed necessary to re-chart history back onto its 'correct' path. It was this willingness to act in an even greater sociopathic manner which was being used against them. After all, the 7P's had plenty of proxy allies, who were starting to get really nervous about what their paymasters were now asking them to do,We Amazons were getting some extra special help too. The Booth-gan (Do not call them Thuggee ~ the confederate 9 Clan member based out of India though long since ensconced within various Hindi enclaves across the Globe) had created an all-female group of ultra-fanatical Kali-devotees ~ a gift for the upcoming battle fomented by the Will of the Goddess herself.While Aya was our Queen and the Regency would rule until she wished to assume command of the Amazon People, the nuts-and-bolts of the Host's activities were handled by Saint Marie as Golden Mare (our Minister of War) (technically she held the top spot due to our State of War, though no Golden Mare had ever exercised such authority over a Queen (and she definitely believed Aya was our Queen)), Katrina (as Minister of Intelligence and Security), Beyoncé (as Havenstone (the multinational corporation) ~ our Treasurer/Economic Tsarina) and me (our Foreign Minister).Saint Marie had decided to forgo a public face in order to better facilitate her moving around to various battle fronts and holding clandestine meetings with her junior regional commanders. Her Havenstone corporate title was 'Chief of Security Training and Certification'. As an extra level of deception, the head of Security Services wasn't even a Director-level position, instead being folded into the duties of the Office of the President.To my current circumstances ~ I had been given Constanza's house name which could only mean she wasn't currently assigned to the Security Detail; a fact that couldn't have made her bad attitude any better. Marilynn had completely lost her way as an Amazon when I first met her, burying her pain and confusion in endless partying and intoxicants. I believed only her grandmother's status as High Priestess kept her from the severest of reprimands, or death. I didn't even know what Marilynn's caste was. Sabia,"While I'm sure you are both far more qualified than I, precisely how did you two get these jobs?" I had to ask my two non-coworkers. Constanza glowered. Marilynn flinched."I have an in depth knowledge of Havenstone security procedures and resources," Constanza replied."Shawnee requested me," was Marilynn's comeback. "I also have intimate knowledge of the City of New York and its environs.""Actually, Buffy Ishara recommended you both to Shawnee," Beyoncé corrected their misconceptions. I knew the score. I'd be working intimately with the tight community around the President (Shawnee) and Vice Presidents (Buffy & Rhada). Buffy wanted me to be surrounded by women who hated my guts, so I wouldn't end up boinking them. It rarely worked that way. All too often ladies who hated my still-beating heart ended up punishing me with sex. I wasn't sure why that happened, but it did."Beyoncé, didn't the Chief Diplomat of the Host have her own office? I'm pretty sure Troika had one before her unfortunate collision with Saint Marie," I felt entitled to inquire."Do you feel you've earned that office space?" she riposted."Oh, fuck no!" I waved my hands one over the other to accentuate my denial. "I was just wondering where I could stick Juanita while I'm hanging around, here.""She has the desk right outside the door, Cáel," Beyoncé smiled knowingly. "So there is no way you can sneak past her.""Oh," I grunted. "Buffy again?""No. Pamela Pile put in that particular request.""Oh, Sweet Mother of God, now she is conspiring against me too?""Yes. Some of us realize the greatest hazard to your health is yourself, Ishara," Beyoncé chided me. "We'd like to keep you around, so we listen to those charged with that nigh impossible task.""Is she going to be hanging around the office often?" Constanza asked, either myself, Juanita, or Beyoncé; I wasn't sure. She = Pamela."Please, Constanza," I attempted to intervene, "don't make Pamela kill you. It will upset Mona." Constanza's scowl was accentuated by the eyepatch covering her ruined left socket, the one Pamela had carved out when Constanza had insulted me and House Ishara on our first day of rebirth. I didn't tell Juanita this, because Juanita might just shoot Constanza over the insult before Pamela got a chance to finish the job.The tension was palatable."Mona and I have talked, about Romania, and other things," Constanza grudgingly allowed. It took me a second to realize there was a hidden meaning to what she said. Mona was part of my personal Security Detail bodyguard unit. If she felt Constanza, the woman who had raised her after her birth-mother had died, was a threat to me, she'd feel duty-bound to snuff Constanza first. Amazons were hard-ass bitches alright and I think Mona had made that clear."I hope things can improve between us," I offered to Constanza. "Beyoncé, I just stopped in to say 'hey'. I'm off to JIKIT and I've got three of the Pope's people waiting on me in the garage so,""Vice President Varma requested a moment of your time," Beyoncé smirked. "She is in 2604.""Who?""Vice President Rhada Varma, a moment of your time, alone?" she clarified."Sure thing," I backed out of the office. Once I had some space, I turned to Juanita. "Give me three minutes then bust in and say, I don't know, a tsunami is about to overwhelm the city, or something. Otherwise, I won't get out for at least an hour and I think I've put the Bishop and his people through enough delays as it is.""Are you actually asking me to stop you from having an in-office liaison?" she studied me intently as we walked in the direction of Rhada's office."Yes. It's not likely to happen often, believe me.""Oh, I do, in that you won't ask me to do it often," she grumbled. I'd deal with Juanita's morale problem later. Right now, I had to gird my loins so they wouldn't do anything else with Rhada. I had work to do, damn it!Rhada was sitting at her desk, working on something, stylus raised up so she could chew on the end. Her hair was pulled back in a half-ponytail, the type that captured the rear half of the hair in a ponytail while leaving the front and bangs free to flow down. Rhada's blouse was white & billowy and, as I was soon to discover, her pants were ultra-tight and contour hugging."Mr. Nyilas," she greeted me. "I would like a moment of your time," she relayed what I already knew. She was more than a tad nervous to boot."Vice President Varma," I started off."When in private you may call me Rhada," she interrupted."Rhada, you look more ravishing than ever."That got up her and coming around her desk, which revealed her ultra-tight pants with no sign of her wearing underwear. Yikes! My cock was preparing to do what a cock was meant to do and I just didn't have the time, Really!"Do you have any time?" she let her bosom heave."Not today, ugh," I groaned. See, Rhada took the stylus and dragged it down her chin, throat and in between her bountiful mounds.All of which exposed the top of her black bra."Are you sure, Master?" she enticed me by turning around and then leaning over her desk, point that ass in my direction. My mouth began salivating and my groin ached. I found myself quick-stepping to her and giving those buttocks two firm slaps, one on each cheek."No, damn it, though I'm going to make you pay for this when I get back," I rumbled."Master will make me wait?" she taunted me."That will cost you even more," I growled. "I have business which simply won't wait and here is my captive teasing me with the treasures of her flesh. Bad, war captive," I spanked her yet again, hard. "Bad!" and I spanked her a fourth time. With each beating, Rhada gasped in pain and then exhaled in pleasure."If I've been bad, Master must be extra harsh with me when he returns in triumph from the Great Hunt," she gloated. Rhada had gotten what she wanted, which was another affirmation of my lust for her and our 'game'. I could provide her the release she so desperately craved while allowing her the safety of remaining in the Amazon fold. It was a perfect pairing, for her.I had other problems, such as all the other baby mamas in my life plus the extra-marital affairs I was contemplating. I still took the moments we had to snuggle with Rhada, her grinding that tush into my rod while I held both her arms tightly to her side while raining kisses down onto her neck and head."Sir! A giant tsunami is approaching the city!" Juanita exploded through the door."What?" I coughed. I had a face full of hair."Huh?" Rhada pushed up and away from me. I let her go."Right now," Juanita insisted. She really needed to stop taking me so seriously when I gave her such advice."Really?" from Rhada. She shot me a curious look so I shrugged. What else was I supposed to do with such a flimsy lie forcing our separation? At least I got out of there on time?{9:50 am, Monday, September 8th ~ Last day}(JKIT HQ)"Is this a common occurrence?" Sister Rafaela Sophia whispered to the closest woman, who happened to be Wiesława, the Polish Amazon. Since she hadn't arrived with us from Havenstone, the nun might have assumed she was with the 'Americans', or British."What?" Wiesława responded evenly."Weapons combat, they look real," the nun clarified."They are real. We always practice with real weapons.""Really?""Of course," Wiesława smiled at her. "We believe a few cuts and scrapes now will save lives when the true tests come.""Oh, you are with, Havenstone?" Rafaela clued in."Yes. I am Wiesława of House Živa. I am currently assigned to Unit L, Cáel's unit within JIKIT," she offered her hand to shake. Despite being a full-blooded Amazon from a freehold, her 'human' skills were progressing nicely. The nun shook it."I am Sister Rafaela Sophia of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that is a Roman Catholic Religious Order." Pause. "Do you hate Catholics too?""Yes. We have lived beside your people for many centuries and found your clergy to be much more dangerous than your pagan predecessors. Still, Cáel thinks you can be relied on and he's proven we can trust outsider women, which I was raised to believe was unlikely, and outsider men, which was basically anathema, so I'm willing to set aside my prejudices and judge you as an individual," the Pole imparted."Outsider men?" Rafaela mumbled."Well, yes," Wiesława smirked. "You are a nun, right?""Yes.""So you set aside the World of Men to live mostly among women, right?""Not entirely," the nun chose her words carefully. "We still rely on priests for religious rights and of course obey the life teachings of Christ and follow the leadership of his Holiness, the Pope, a man.""No one is perfect," the Amazon bantered back."Do you know the teachings of our Lord, Jesus Christ?" Rafaela ventured into dangerous waters."Yes. He was the semi-historical Son of your supposed One True God. We are not monotheists. We are Polytheists. Živa is my House's matron Goddess. It is also the name of the first woman to lead the House, her birth name surrendered to Destiny so all the daughters who came afterwards would be equals.""Oh, is Mr. Nyilas also pagan?" she inquired."I am unsure. From what I have been told, he has commended the spirit of his fallen father to your Jesus in a sacred ceremony then, in the presence of your Trinity and the Goddess Ishara, brought in new members to his House. I suspect he may be both," Wiesława reasoned. "Why don't you ask him?""Because he's fighting for his life?" Rafaela looked my way.See, the entire time their discussion had been going on, I had been sparring in a spare room at JIKIT HQ with Estere Abed, the Hashashin assassin (rather redundant ~ like saying the Sahara Desert). I had two tomahawks while she had a scimitar and curved dagger. While we sparred using the furniture as obstacles, Agent-86 was briefing me on various World events to get my input.Addison Stuart (CIA) and Lady Fathom Worthington-Burke (MI-6) were having a chat with Bishop Nicolé de Santis, verifying for themselves he was worth adding to the team. Juanita was having a similar discussion with Rikki Martin (US State Department) concerning my earlier encounter with the Papal team. Nicolé's buddy, Wachtmeister Mathias Bosshart of the Swiss Guard, was getting acquainted with the other security personnel.In comparison, those two had it easy. Both men were in their elements. Nicolé was a spook who pretended to be a diplomat for the Pope and was well acquainted with terms like 'deniable assets', 'plausible deniability' and your direct superior referring to requests concerning your identity/diplomatic status by saying 'I never heard of him and if I had, I have no idea what he was doing when you caught him doing what I don't know what he was doing', or something like that.Mathias was in the company of military-security specialists, brother professionals who were introducing him to his 'sister' professionals. Our Homeland Security gang were almost entirely former military by now. They got along with our JSOC folks and both had gained a limited acceptance with the Amazon security contingent.They bonded over the fact they were forced to work with really shady characters ~ the 9 Clans menagerie ~ who didn't always appreciate JIKIT operational security. Without going into particulars, the Wachtmeister was given the impression the abnormal was the norm and if you didn't think there was a 'down-side' to being able to carry your personally favorite bang-bang (the SG 552-2P Commando in his case) with some serious attachments (read: grenade launcher) around in downtown Manhattan, you probably didn't belong on this team.Back in the room,"He's not fighting for his life," Estere laughed. "He is fighting for mine.""Right," I responded sarcastically. We went through a flurry of exchanges, ending up with me kicking a chair at her. Estere stepped over it, colliding with me.I blocked her dagger, disarmed her scimitar and,"You are dead," she panted down at me, smiling. I was on my back, her straddling me. She had a belt-knife to my throat. I hadn't see her draw it. The scimitar 'disarm' had been a distraction."Woot!" I exhaled."But you're dead," Sister Rafaela misunderstood my good humor."He survived a minute and thirty-four seconds more today than his previous record," Estere responded. She slithered off of me, doing my arousal no good whatsoever, then offered me a hand up."And that's better?""He's a rank amateur with a few months on the job. I've been training to kill people for nearly two decades," Estere smiled. "Care to have a go?""With him, or you?""Either," Estere offered."I don't have a knife, or any hand weapons," she stated."We'll need to remedy that," Wiesława stated. "You should at least carry a knife.""Really? Why?""It is a nearly universal tool," I verbally stepped up. "Even if you are disarmed, you should be able to find one relatively easily, people are less likely to miss a stolen knife than a purloined gun, and a concealed blade could come in handy.""Do you train in knife-work?" Rafaela eye-balled me."Absolutely. It is part of my culture," I grinned."Okay. Can we spar, hand-to-hand?""Sure," I nodded. I put my tomahawks in their harnesses then put my harnesses aside. Estere gave me a wink before giving us the fighting space."So," Rafaela began to circle, "are you Christian?""By your definition, or mine?""By the definition of the Catholic Church."Oh cool, she went for a Savate stance. This was going to get ugly.My "no," was followed by her kick and my block, lunge and grapple. She wasn't nearly as good as Felix. I had her down and in a choke hold within fifteen seconds.Perhaps she thought I'd take it easy on her. She tapped out. I released her, retreated and flowed back to my boxing stance. It took her a moment to realize this was 'practice', not 'an interview'. She hadn't failed in anyone's eyes. We were both doing this to get better."See, I really, truly believe I have talked to supernatural entities ~ some who are considered divinities," I continued. This time she was more careful, trading jabs and blocks with me. "They don't claim to be the One True God. I believe in such a thing, but I also believe having been given the Message, Humanity has been left to muddle things out for ourselves."Whoops, she popped me one."The Woman-Thing this morning?""Yep," I evaded another flurry. She got cocky and I landed three blows, dropping her to the ground. I didn't help her up. Instead, I withdrew and let her get back up on her own before deciding if she wanted to continue. She did."I believe I've seen dragons and ghosts. I have felt legions of my ancestors give me quiet encouragement when I needed it. I know the dead have been brought back to life," I came at her. This time we both went for body blows, knees, elbows and fists. She was not SD-caliber and she needed to be. I grappled and she was forced to tap out again. After she regained her feet, she held up a hand for a pause."Do you believe any of that?" she addressed Estere."I am an adherent of Ismaili Islam yet nothing Cáel has encountered is contrary to my belief system. The Universe is a complex place and the Divine Light is often seen through a fractured lenses," she counseled the nun."Among the escapees were lawyer Francisco Luemba, Catholic Priest Raul Tati, economist Belchior Lanso Tati and former policeman Benjamin Fuca who are serving jail sentences of between three and six years each for supposed links to the rebel group FLEC (Frente para a Libertaé'o do Enclave de Cabinda), which carried out the attack on the Togolese football team at the start of the Africa Cup of Nations in January, 2010," Agent-86 read off yet another bit of global minutia."We need to get to them," I half turned. Sister Rafaela punched me in the gut and I folded up."Oh!" she gasped. "I'm sorry.""Okay," I mumbled. I had to keep with the plan. "Those men. We need to contact our Coils people in Kinshasa and the Warden of the Mountain Ways ('she' was the Amazon Host's leader of Africa ~ in the ancient times, the mountain ways had been the routes of southern vulnerability for the Amazon tribe thus the name).""Okay," both Agent-86 and Estere answered."Why?" 86 added."The Coils and the Host have had a serious problem with no nation in Africa giving them even back room recognition so we are going to take over our own country, Cabinda. It's been struggling to be free of Angola since 1975 and, by latest estimates, we've got strike elements of over 2,000 Amazons ready and waiting next door in Cameroon, Gabon and the Republic of Congo.""So you are going to go to war with Angola?" Estere frowned. "Don't we have enough enemies?""Au contraire," I grinned wickedly. "The resistance movement is genuine," I ticked off my points, "they have tons of offshore oil, and after we set off some spectacular explosions in the two main Angolan ports which are just down the coast, we allow global panic to bully the UN into intervening before the Angolan military launch an effective counter-offensive ~ considering the Angolan Armed Forces (I'd been reading up on a ton of CIA & MI-6 briefings) will most likely involve attrition warfare since they can't beat us in a stand-up fight.""They, the Angolans, have no overland access, they are separated by 60 kilometers of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of Congo over some sad ass roads Plus the Congo River itself which is freaking huge by the time it gets that close to the Atlantic, Cabinda rests on the Atlantic Ocean by the way. No bridges. The Angolan Navy is anemic. Let me think."I began pacing."Hmm, they have no paratroopers though they have some Special Forces, we will need to hit as many of them in the barracks as we can. Their last invasion was from the north, overland, from the Republic of the Congo, in 1975, not likely to happen this time, though I may have my 'Brother' weasel up a battalion of Indian paratroopers to act as convincing peacekeepers after the initial take over.""Perhaps we can recruit some Vietnamese. I'm sure they'll love fighting in someone else's jungle for a change. We'll need some of 'our' guys to seize the port of Soyo, it is on the wrong side of the river, but has the major refinery the Cabindans will need. Since the entire surrounding province are the same ethnic make-up as the Cabindans, we'll have to take that too.""Man-o-man, I bet by the time this is over they'll really wish they'd given little Cabinda independence back in 1975. As for their other refinery, it is in their capital, Luanda, a few big explosions there too will get the markets jittery. Check that ~ the complete and utter destruction of their major petroleum facility will create a stampede for Peace," I continued. I walked over as our resident computer intelligence genius worked his magic."Blowing things up, you mean killing people," the nun blanched."Yes. This is what I do," I spared her a sympathetic glance. "I've got a madman roaming around in my head who provides me truly epic military advice which normally, but not always, means blowing shit up and killing folks. Welcome to the team," then as the data appeared, "Holy Shit! Did they build their oil refinery in the midst of their ghetto?" I was staggered. The refinery in Soyo was isolated from the town so it could be easily (and safely) seized. It was the one in Luanda which was the 'Holy Shit' site."It looks that way," Agent-86 agreed nonplussed. "Hmm, yeah, here is the port facility then your neighborhood of shoddily constructed one- and two-story dwellings between the refinery and the inland storage tanks, the perimeter barrier appears to be a chain link fence. I'd hate to be their Chief of Security.""Oh yeah," I choked. Estere slipped around to get a look."Whoops," she snorted."What are these people thinking?" I continued. "The whole shebang is exposed to the northern quarter of the city. The storage tanks have residential dwellings on all four sides with numerous side streets. Two teams with RPGs and four rounds apiece, Holy Crap. Sorry Sister.""But I want to save lives," she sputtered."Limiting the collateral damage could be pretty tough," Estere frowned. She toggled throw a series of maps to multiple pictures."Oh, look (dripping sarcasm); they light up the refinery at night. You can sit off the coast in a speed boat under cover of darkness and attack from there," she noted."Damn. Those are a lot of lights," Agent-86 agreed."24-7 operation," I suspected."We will need some experts," the government agent nodded."Or we are going to kill a fuck-load of innocent people. Not just the workers, but can you imagine a fire spreading to those neighborhoods? Shit," I muttered."You can't seriously be contemplating doing something like this," the nun sputtered. "It is inhumane. Think of the families, the children.""Lady, yes I am. Do you have any idea what the Human Rights record of the Angolan Army in Cabinda is? It is truly horrific and in case you missed it, one of the guys in dire need of rescuing by me, due to him being a huge rebel leader who has managed to escape, is also a Catholic priest. He's going to be part of the new government we are going to install once we kill a few hundred Angolans ~ mostly soldiers (more like well over a thousand).""We are going to kill a few hundred so a few hundred thousand can live free, democratic lives without worrying about the local police and political establishment torturing and murdering them. It is all part of the plan.""I think I need to talk with the Bishop.""Hang on. Let me finish," I forestalled her. "He'll get briefed along with everyone else. After all, it is a majority Roman Catholic country as is Angola, so I'm sure your guy can be of immense help.""The people you are putting at risk don't deserve this," she protested."They never do," I nodded in agreement with her. "It rarely stops terrible crap from happening to them though."I felt sorry for the Sister. She thought the Bishop was going to put a stop to this. Poor girl; he was going to do the exact opposite. See, the two competing forces at play here were a communistic kleptocracy (currently ruling Angola) and Catholic liberation theology united with a Cabindan national identity dating back to 1885. At stake was 900,000 barrels a day of petroleum. That was a bunch of funding for somebody. Last I checked, the state run energy conglomerate had misplaced $32 billion, in just three years.Mind you, the Coils of the Serpent and the Amazon Host didn't want to help the People of Cabinda out of the goodness of their hearts either. They wanted cover for the importation of weapons and other war-fighting material so they could kill the Condottieri in Africa. If the rebel leaders-turned-legitimate government didn't play ball well, the Coils were in the 'assassinating people' business and somewhere along the line the survivors would figure out keeping 'us' happy kept them alive. Problem solved.It was Bishop Nicolé de Santis' job to facilitate that understanding. If certain people with Vatican credentials explained the 'facts of life' to the new regime a lot more lives could be saved, Catholic lives. In turn, he could work to make sure the new group in power wasn't nearly as corrupt as the gang we were tossing out. Better education and quality of life, improved infrastructure & security and a nice shiny cathedral, or two.We, as in JIKIT and our component members, didn't want to rule the country and dominate the people's lives. We needed the ports and the airfields with a blind eye turned to our skullduggery. Sure, there would be future considerations. Amazons and Coil members would be fighting and dying for these people's freedom ~ public recognition definitely not required. No; the Amazons wanted to be left alone in their deep jungle homes which was an isolation they basically already had. This was a future chit which said 'don't come looking'.The Coils? Let's just say in the future Cabinda would have embassies around the globe and if occasionally they wanted someone to slip through under diplomatic cover ~ they were good for it. And if the Cabindans ever needed help in the future they knew they had friends in dark places who were now invested in Cabinda's survival. It was a win-win-win, unless you were an Angolan big-wig, or one of their foot-soldier currently serving in Cabinda. Amazons weren't big on taking prisoners, or even giving the opposition the option of giving up.For me, it wasn't lunch yet and here I was plotting to overthrow yet another government in yet another country ~ though in only two, small provinces this time. Thank the Goddess I had the rest of the week

La confianza empresarial alemana se mantiene estable en 85,2 en febrero a la espera de un nuevo gobierno. Esto se queda en línea de lo que esperaba el consenso de los analistas. “La economía alemana está a la espera”, dice el presidente del Ifo, Clemens Fuest, mientras el país entra en una fase de conversaciones para formar un gobierno en la que una gran coalición parece el resultado más probable. Los 27 ofrecen a Ucrania su apoyo para ayudar al país a financiar las compras de gas y avanzar en la integración de su mercado eléctrico con la UE, que espera culminar en la primavera de 2027, junto con Moldavia, sí como una mayor incorporación en el sector del gas de la UE. Así lo ha anunciado la Comisión Europea con motivo del tercer aniversario de la invasión rusa, que se ha conmemorado en un acto celebrado este lunes en Kiev. Just Eat se dispara más del 50% tras la opa de Prosus por 4.300 millones. La propuesta de Prosus, que cuenta con el respaldo unánime de los directorios de Just Eat Takeaways.com, contempla el abono en efectivo de 20,30 euros por cada título del gigante holandés de reparto de comida a domicilio, lo que supone una prima del 63,4% sobre el precio marcado al cierre de la sesión del viernes. Entrevistaremos a Mikel Martínez, CEO de Burdinola, Premio PYME del año 2024 de Bizkaia, un galardón que concede el Banco Santander y la Cámara de Comercio de España. En clave nacional, debatiremos con nuestros contertulios José Ignacio Gutiérrez, de la Confederación de Cuadros y Profesionales, y Francisco Canós, inversor y partner en CyberC, del acuerdo alcanzado entre ERC y el gobierno para la condonación del 22% de la deuda que la Generalitat tiene con el Fondo de Liquidez Autonómica (FLA), apenas dos días antes de la reunión del Consejo de Política Fiscal y Financiera.

Today in History: In the days of the Persian Empire, Zechariah the Prophet saw a vision of four colored horses standing among myrtle trees (see Zechariah 1:7). It's also the memorial of the “Even Tzohar,” Rabbi Yechiel Tzvi Lichtenstein (of blessed memo- ry). He was a Messianic Jewish pioneer who died in 1912 CE (5672). He was born in 1831 in Moldavia and became a disciple of Yeshua while studying in Yeshiva. He wrote a very important Hebrew commentary on the Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament).This week's portion is called “Mishpatim” (Judgements). Think about: What Scripture spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God, or something you need to do in your life?Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God's Word, while also discovering its Jewish context!THE KIDS' JOURNAL is available from ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://arielmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠BUSY MOMS who want to follow the Daily Bread readings on podcast for adults, can go to ⁠⁠https://dailybreadmoms.com⁠⁠The Bible translation we are reading from is the Tree of Life Version (TLV) available from the Tree of Life Bible Society.INSTAGRAM: @dailybreadkids @arielmediabooks @dailybreadmomsTags: #DailyBreadMoms #DailyBreadJournal #BibleJournaling #Messianic #BiblePodcast #BiblicalFeasts #Journal #biblereadingplan #Messiah #JewishRoots #Yeshua #GodIsInControl #OneYearBible #MomLife #MotherCulture #FaithFilledMama #BiblicalWomanhood #Proverbs31woman

Not the welcome we expectedWhen your tour guide is an assassin, what can go wrong?By FinalStand. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.You can do wrong while trying to do right.FlashbackAlal's 'milk of human kindness' had finally run dry as the Visigoths sacked his Roman villa. While looters ran off with his latest trappings of wealth, and deserted by his servants and his slaves, Grandpa decided that he was tired of fucking around with the Human Race. He felt they were simply too stupid, venal and weak to make any positive, lasting changes in the world.Alal decided that he was going to make the key choices for them. Fuck free will. Fuck letting the vermin that floated to the top of the cesspool destroy everything good in the world, as he had witnessed them doing time and time again. He had lost count of the monuments destroyed, histories of peoples forgotten and benefits to mankind burned away by barbarism and ignorance.By the fading light of August the 26th, 410 CE, Alal found himself sitting back in the pergola (a sort of mini-gazebo) in his rear gardens, drinking through several amphora of wine all the while having a deep philosophical debate with the several dozen very dead Goths decorating his environs.As three or four looters would enter the garden, he would kill them. And then three or four more would show up looking for the earlier group,, on and on. This reinforced Alal's belief that something drastic had to be done. He seriously considered going to the coast, getting a ship and five solid stone anchors. He'd sail out two days, maybe three, wrap himself in the anchors and jump overboard.The problem, as he saw it, was that given a few decades, the ropes would rot and he'd bob to the surface to see again that none of the fundamentals had changed. Further complicating his current thinking was that every time he came close to throwing in the cosmic towel, some more GOD DAMN GOTHS would come around, calling for their buddies, the dead ones. Somewhere around noon on August the 27th, Alal vowed that he was tired of this shit.Right on cue, around twenty Goths came strolling through the rear of his villa and soaked up the carnage out back. Fifty-two of their brethren were in various states of dismemberment and defilement (Alal had been, as usual, angry). They saw this dark-skinned Roman and rightly asked 'where's the army that killed these fellows?' He walked up to them in his wine-splashed toga."Are you the one in charge?" he asked the meanest looking Visigoth in passible Goth."I am," the leader responded. With lightning speed, he killed the man with his own sword. The Germans weren't sure what to make of that, it had happened so fast."You can join me," Alal indicated himself, "or you can join him," he indicated the corpse of their former leader. He had his new band of followers and the rest was Illuminati history.End FlashbackFor me, this meant more to me than living with the memories of a very bitter, driven and pitiless man. Alal was essentially the anti-me. It gave me chills to realize that all of Alal's gifts were bestowed on me with a purpose. I knew it was part of his greater plan. Normally, to end-run an evil genius, you just find him and kill him. Not only would Alal not stay dead, I now knew how well he could fight.I knew only four people who might be in his league, and I wasn't one of them. Of the four, Sakuniyas wasn't likely to help Pamela, Saint Marie and Elsa get the job done. That meant I had to rev up the deception engine to comfort my Aunts with hope, while dispelling the knowledge of how little they mattered to their sire. Almost as bad, I had to ignore what horribly people they were while extending that portion of my soul.It was with some relief that I hugged, kissed, and forcefully separated myself from the Aunts in Dublin. We were going on to Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport. My next action was to make my request to Selena for a contract with the Ghost Tigers to defend Hana when she arrived in Russia. (Of the three 9 Clan Assassin-Babes, Selena was the least impressed with me.) She informed me that the Ghost Tigers didn't do bodyguard work. I still wanted her to relay my request, so she relented. After that, I passed out.We left Dublin around 9:30 am Friday morning and landed in Budapest at 1:45 pm., still Friday. As Rachel rousted me so I could grab a quick shower before touchdown, I was gifted with the misconceptions of my fellow travelers:To put it nicely, Riki thought I was somewhat revolting, Virginia was disturbed and Chaz had lowered his opinion of my moral character. It was the incest thing. Vincent being polite was a pleasant surprise, Delilah's camaraderie less so and Odette was peaches with my most recent sexcapades. She was far too good to me. The Amazons uniformly didn't give a crap."So, is there going to be any other bizarre behavior we should be prepared for?" Riki sat down next to me as I was drying my hair. I was back to my 'jeans, t-shirt and wind-breaker' style."Fine, " I said loudly. "It is really none of your business what I did with and to my mother's clones. Yes, they are all clones of my mother, who died when I was seven." A lie."They are also the genetic creations of my grandfather, also known by many as Cáel O'Shea. They are sterile, they are wickedly evil, and two weeks ago I didn't know they existed. I do have a real aunt in Maryland. She's my Father's sister and is not part of the menagerie. Oh yeah, my grandpa is currently a disembodied spirit, back from the Netherworld and looking for a body to take over, if he hasn't found one already," I added."He was born roughly five thousand years ago, was cursed by an ancient Sumerian Goddess such that he can never just die and stay dead. I have his memories running around my head, which, along with denying me a good night's sleep, allows me to speak an assortment of languages, use virtually every weapon built before 1970 and know that he is a vicious criminal mastermind the likes of which you've never imagined outside of fiction.How does that sound, Riki? Shall I get more bizarre? Trust me, I can," I regarded her evenly. She was speechless, but not out of awe. No, she was certain that I was completely unhinged."Everyone who believes Cáel, raise their hand," Odette demanded. Her hand went up. Odette and the Amazons agreeing was expected by the outsiders. Delilah and Virginia joining in was not."Captain Fairchild?" Colour Sgt. Chaz Tomorrow requested clarification."You've all seen those five O'Shea's that left the plane in Ireland. Barring some cosmetic changes, they were the exact same woman. You can either go with Sean Connery's Tak-ne creating a female clone army, or you can believe there is an otherworldly plastic surgeon altering a cadre of super-rich bitches to all look alike," Delilah, who was a captain of something, put out there."Who in the Hell is Tak-ne?" Riki mumbled."Duh," I poked the State Department lassie. "Connor MacLeod's Egyptian mentor in Highlander, the original movie and in the less than stellar sequel, Highlander: The Quickening"."You are mistaken. Connery was that Spanish guy," Riki poked me back."Actually, the relevant quote is: 'I am Juan Sánchez Villalobos Ramírez, Chief metallurgist to King Charles V of Spain. And I'm at your service'," Vincent regaled us with his movie trivia. "He later reveals that he was born Tak-ne in Egypt in the 9th century BCE. Also, his Spanish name makes no sense, he has one too many surnames.""Agent Loire, I am beginning to find intelligent men to be attractive," Charlotte said."Umm, thank you," Vincent responded warily."This might be a good point to get something clear," Chaz inquired. "Mr. Nyilas, whose side are you on? It appears to be rather complicated.""Okay, Chaz, call me Cáel. Calling me Mr. Nyilas makes me miss my dad. I can also be addressed as Cáel 'Wakko' Ishara, Head of House Ishara of the First Twenty Houses of the Amazon Host. Or, you can call me what the Great Khan does, Magyarorszag es Erdely Hercege. Finally, those who love me, or find me amusing, may call me Fehér mén."Selena's snort indicated she'd failed to hide her amusement at my presumptiveness, both titular and physically."Do you want to explain what's so amusing?" Riki looked over to the Black Hand assassin."Your job should be exceptionally easy now," Selena mocked me, "Prince of Hungry and Transylvania, or do you prefer 'White Stud'?""Laugh while you can, Monkey-Girl," I sneered. "The guy currently making a run at erasing seven hundred years of Asian history gave me that title. As for Fehér mén, that means 'White Stallion' and is symbolic of my ties to House Epona, not a phallic reference." Riki's look had gone from disgust, to anger (because she thought she was being played) and lastly, to shock."No," I interpreted her fear. "I am not here as some vanguard to unite the Magyar people to their cultural kinfolk in Central Asia. If you know your Central European history, you might recall that the Mongols devastated my homeland. For the next 450 years, the Turks were unwelcome visitors, conquerors and overlords. My princely status is a pat on the head for a job well done and nothing more.""What job did you do?" Riki prodded."I saved a man's life," I looked pained to admit. She didn't get it."It must have been a major VIPs life," Chaz suggested."You can say that," Pamela nodded. "End of discussion time too."At Ferenc Liszt International, we were diverted to a private hangar once more, courtesy of the Republic of Ireland's diplomatic umbrella. Three grey Ford Focuses and a white panel truck advertising a furniture repair store awaited us. Security issues were immediately obvious. They wanted to separate us (in the Fords) from most of our luggage (in the truck).The five guy welcoming party hid under the cloak of 'don't speak any language you claim to speak' and Selena was of zip help. So, I spoke to them in Hungarian. They glanced my way, but didn't respond. Serbian? Nope. Romanian? Nope."Bows and doves," I commanded.That translated rather logically as 'guns/bows' and 'phones/doves'. Out came our pistols. The only Black Hand to react fast enough was Selena and Pamela had her covered. The Amazons were aiming at the locals while Delilah and Chaz had their weapons out and scanning. Vincent and Virginia hadn't been fast enough, this time. They also didn't have guns pointed at them.The lead BH flunky began talking calmly in German, heavily Slavic accented German."What do you think you are doing?" he inquired of me, in German."Disarming you, ya Moron," I grumbled. Then added in Hittite; "Go", and in my Amazons went to very roughly search, disarm and de-phone our not so friendly friends."Alright, gather up your luggage," I called out to my group. "We are walking to town." That wasn't truly accurate. There was a metro associated with the airport, a kilometer away max. Our guides didn't speak English so they were rather surprised when the bags came out of the truck and were distributed to their owners. Riki Martin and Odette were in some trouble.Girls and 'only packing the necessities', Well, we had some diplomatic lumber to toss at the security services, Vincent had web-searched our location and the route we needed to take to the metro, and Delilah had purchased week-long public transport passes for the group. Only when we started marching out of the hangar did the BH comprehend the totality of their error.The five guys in the hangar were chattering away, in Hungarian, and Selena was peeved."You are upsetting my superiors by blatantly disrespecting their courtesy," she reminded me. "They have guaranteed your safety.""Less than a day has passed since the shootout in London, Selena," I countered."This is the Black Hand's backyard," Selena persisted, "not London.""So, you are only going to help us if we do stupid shit we wouldn't do, even on our own home ground, is that it?" I chuckled. "Sweet," then, to my people, "I guess we are on our own."The airport security guards didn't know what to make of our group of over-worked Sherpa, but the US State department and the RoI (Republic of Ireland) vouched for us, so they let us pass.We hadn't taken the cars and the truck because that would have been theft. The confiscated guns and phones had been disassembled and tossed into a large iron drum of used aviation lubricant. Odette began shopping around for hotel reservations (I was carrying most of her gear). She was the logical choice because she sounded the most human of the bunch.Selena called her people back, explained the fuck up and engaged in a mutual ass-chewing that spilled over a half-dozen languages and ended up with Dick-head, the local BH chieftain providing us with quarters that would turn a blind eye to our arsenal. With that address in mind, we made for the bowels of modern Budapest.Dutifully, Riki contacted the US Embassy to Hungary's CIA mission head and Chargé D' Affaires, a.i., updating them on our arrival and movements. At the last moment, I had Riki relay the wrong address, on a paranoid hunch. I was right to be paranoid except I was looking in the wrong direction.We had just disembarked at the Kőbánya-Kispest M3 station when we walked into the rolling ambush. A 'rolling ambush' is like a meeting engagement, the difference being that one side (ours) is on the move, not knowing it is being hunted while the other side (our attackers) was rushing to catch up with us, not knowing where along the path they would find us.As we preparing to transition from the station to the attached terminal, looking for the bus line that would connect us to the BH safe house in the Kőbánya (X) District, our attackers were dismounting their vehicles from across the street as well as to our left and right. They were dressed like cops. Had they been armed like cops,"Oh look," I snickered to Pamela, "I see a whole bunch of heavily armed people coming our way.""Good for you," Pamela muttered. "Your eyes are still working.""Do you think they are here to raise me up on their shields and proclaim me 'Prince'?" I joked."I think they are here to kill us," Pamela grinned."I prefer to think positively," I grinned back."I am positive they are here to kill us," Pamela laughed. It had to be our relaxed demeanor that confused them.Had we been the droids they were looking for, we wouldn't have been chatting in the open with our bags in our hands. That would have made us crazy, and they would have been right. We were crazy alright and there was a method to our madness. It was mid-afternoon, yet there were plenty of average Hungarians wandering about.Sure, they saw the 'special cops' closing in. They didn't see the upcoming shoot-out because that was plain nuts. A gun battle in a modern metropolis in broad daylight? London yesterday was an aberration, not the new normal. Our impromptu plan was to let the killers get as close as possible to limit the collateral damage.This wasn't classic Amazon training. It was a concession to allies who did care about civilians killed in the cross-fire. The oncoming hit squad was finally putting faces to targets when Odette broke the calm before the storm. All she did was squeak when Vincent pushed her behind a kiosk. Riki took Virginia shifting her to cover in silence.Delilah took off at a dead-run to the south-east. They were raising their shotguns and assault rifles. We were drawing our pistols. Normally this would have been an unequal match, except that in the time period where, in their eyes, we had gone from bystanders to targets, they'd also covered a good deal of ground, to the point that they were out in the open while my fighting band was in close proximity to all kinds of cover.It started out as eighteen to twelve. Pamela, Chaz and Selena quickly cut down those odd by five. Me? I didn't try to shoot and run at the same time, so I made it to cover and was stuck there by our opponents use of fully-automatic fire.My lack of martial prowess could be forgiven by the reality I was the one they were trying to off. My greatest contribution to this skirmish was tossing my SPAS-12 to Chaz so he could use something more than his standard military issue Glock-17. I had barely gotten Chaz's appreciative nod when two grenades went off in close proximity to me.At first, I heard and felt nothing. My eyes were having trouble focusing. When my limbs began to orient themselves, I had to fight down the instinct to move. I was lying down, which was far safer than staggering around in the middle of this hail of lead. The twin grenades turned out to be their second and very fatal mistake on this mission.The first had been their delay in identifying my group. The second, using the stun grenades, did put me, Pamela and Selena out of commission temporarily. But their mistake was having misplaced my six Amazons in this mess they had created. They did have thirteen shooters versus Chaz, Virginia and Vincent. They rushed our position using the classic advance while firing rote.Two meters from me, the six Amazons revealed themselves with five P-90's and one big-ass bow. Four escaped the kill zone only to find themselves flanked by Delilah. Her .480, combined with their confusion, finished off the survivors. That wasn't the end of it. We still had to effect our get-away.I was still getting my head on straight as the ladies decided to hotwire some of the deceased men's rides and get us the heck out of Dodge. Recovery brought with it the knowledge that Virginia and Chaz had been shot. Pamela, Selena and me, we had some scrapes and bruises. Everyone else checked out. Mona let us know that she could handle the wounded. They wouldn't be doing jumping jacks for a week or two, but a hospital was not required. On the downside, no one believed that eighteen killers dressed as cops randomly rolled up on our transit point by accident. The only people who knew about our change in travel plans had been the Black Hand. We'd lied to the US.We broke into an abandoned factory to stash the vehicles and make our next plan. Selena was coldly furious. Not only did she come to the same conclusion we had, the Black Hand had set us up to be murdered, we weren't letting her call in. Wiesława and Charlotte kept their guns pointed at her, so low was our level of trust.Chaz was pretty much of the opinion that Selena should be coerced to provide us with the names and locations of the Black Hand involved so that we could do our own 'fact finding tour'. Oddly, none of the Americans asked to be pulled out. Vincent and Riki wanted to let the US Embassy know what had happened, yet were willing to wait until we were secure somewhere first.Rachel was on board with Chaz's idea, with the addendum that they kill every Black Hand they could get their hands on before fleeing the city. They had tried to kill ME after all. I was touched. It was Pamela who put things in perspective.1) The attackers were not Black Hand, they were mercenaries and that pointed a bloody finger at the Condottieri.2) Selena wasn't a fanatic and her life had been in as much danger as anyone else's. She wasn't part of our ambush. Her buddies had tossed her under the bus.3) It would have been far easier to catch us in that convoy they'd tried to stick us with. Caught in pre-planned crossfires and without our heavier weapons, we would have all died.4) Having failed to deliver us to the pre-planned ambush site, the Condottieri had to rush to our metro stop because, the safe house they had prepared for us wouldn't have worked. We had the numbers to allow us take total charge of our security once we were in place. No, gauging our numbers, this traitor had sent the mercs into a straight-up fight they'd just lost.

Desde el 1 de enero, Moldavia se enfrenta a una crisis energética y política cuyo desenlace sigue siendo incierto. En pleno invierno, la rusa Gazprom dejó de suministrar gas a Transnistria, una región moldava autoproclamada e independiente dirigida por separatistas prorrusos.

En noviembre, la presidenta de Moldavia, Maia Sandu, fue reelegida. Sandu debe en parte su victoria al voto de la diáspora, mayoritariamente proeuropea, que representa el 20% del electorado. Pero dentro del país, una parte de la población sigue firmemente apegada a su pasado soviético y denuncia el resultado de las elecciones. El tema es divisivo, incluso dentro de las familias.

L'anno 2024 si chiude registrando una situazione che, per quanto riguarda il conflitto in Ucraina - al di là di tutte le entusiastiche (ma precipitose) aspettative che l'elezione di Trump alla Casa Bianca aveva suscitato nei putinisti di casa nostra – non sembra affatto evolversi verso una rapida soluzione. Gli Ucraini non ci stanno, infatti, a sottomettersi all'arroganza del Cremlino e, non a caso, Zelensky continua a chiedere aiuti militari e finanziari a chiunque sia disposto a fornirglieli. A sua volta, Putin ha manifestato, in modo inequivocabile, la sua intenzione di non mollare la presa, nel momento in cui ha posto - come condizione per sedersi ad un tavolo di trattativa - il fatto che prima si siano tenute regolari elezioni in Ucraina, poiché l'attuale presidente sarebbe illegittimo. E poiché è ben difficile ipotizzare lo svolgimento di normali consultazioni elettorali sotto le bombe, risulta abbastanza chiaro che il piccolo zar, in questo momento, a tutto pensa tranne che al cessate il fuoco. C'è chi sostiene, soprattutto in Italia, che questa guerra non avrebbe mai dovuto iniziare e che l'Ucraina avrebbe, quindi, dovuto arrendersi immediatamente: noi però, a questa vulgata obiettiamo che se Kiev avesse, fin da subito, rinunciato a qualsiasi accenno di opposizione di fronte ad una così clamorosa violazione del diritto internazionale, Putin, con ogni probabilità, non si sarebbe più fermato e avrebbe poi attaccato anche la Moldavia e magari pure i Paesi Baltici. Per nostra fortuna però, il popolo ucraino ha scelto di sacrificarsi e di combattere anche per la libertà dell'Europa intera, mandando in frantumi certi piani di restaurazione dell'epopea zarista che, comunque, continuano evidentemente a frullare nella mente del presidente russo. Il fatto è che in Ucraina – così come negli altri Paesi dell'Est europeo che hanno vissuto l'esperienza del Patto di Varsavia - di tornare a soffocare sotto la pressione dei Russi (siano essi sovietici o neo zaristi) non ne vogliono proprio sentir parlare...E questo è un aspetto della questione che, purtroppo, in Italia sono in molti a sottovalutare, ma che nella memoria degli Ucraini – che, ad esempio, nella grande carestia ( imposta da Stalin all'inizio degli Anni Trenta) raccolsero circa 7 milioni di vittime - è, invece, ancora ben impresso. Grosse responsabilità per tutto quanto sta accadendo da ormai tre anni a questa parte, ricadono sull'Occidente – e non perché la NATO fosse andata ad “abbaiare al confine” dell'autocrazia moscovita – ma, al contrario, per l'imperdonabile leggerezza con la quale ha voluto ignorare le mire espansioniste di un regime pericolosamente ispirato alla dottrina della missione imperiale della Grande Russia. Stiamo, dunque, attenti visto che Putin, nella sua conferenza stampa di fine anno, ha cercato di accarezzare il pelo anche al nostro Paese, dove sa di poter contare oltre che su un vice premier che, in una foto scattata non troppo tempo fa sulla Piazza Rossa, metteva in mostra la sua bella felpa con l'immagine dell'ex colonnello del KGB stampigliata sopra, anche sulla cecità di altre forze politiche che magari non sono neanche idealmente filo putiniane, ma che pur di esprimere la propria avversione verso tutto ciò che sa di occidentale, andrebbero beatamente – contente loro - a finire nelle fauci dell'orso russo, sventolando ingenuamente il drappo arcobaleno della pace ad ogni costo. "Il Corsivo" a cura di Daniele Biacchessi non è un editoriale, ma un approfondimento sui fatti di maggiore interesse che i quotidiani spesso non raccontano. Un servizio in punta di penna che analizza con un occhio esperto quell'angolo nascosto delle notizie di politica, economia e cronaca. ___________________________________________________ Ascolta altre produzioni di Giornale Radio sul sito: https://www.giornaleradio.fm oppure scarica la nostra App gratuita: iOS - App Store - https://apple.co/2uW01yA Android - Google Play - http://bit.ly/2vCjiW3 Resta connesso e segui i canali social di Giornale Radio: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giornaleradio.fm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giornale_radio_fm/?hl=it

L'anno 2024 si chiude registrando una situazione che, per quanto riguarda il conflitto in Ucraina - al di là di tutte le entusiastiche (ma precipitose) aspettative che l'elezione di Trump alla Casa Bianca aveva suscitato nei putinisti di casa nostra – non sembra affatto evolversi verso una rapida soluzione. Gli Ucraini non ci stanno, infatti, a sottomettersi all'arroganza del Cremlino e, non a caso, Zelensky continua a chiedere aiuti militari e finanziari a chiunque sia disposto a fornirglieli. A sua volta, Putin ha manifestato, in modo inequivocabile, la sua intenzione di non mollare la presa, nel momento in cui ha posto - come condizione per sedersi ad un tavolo di trattativa - il fatto che prima si siano tenute regolari elezioni in Ucraina, poiché l'attuale presidente sarebbe illegittimo. E poiché è ben difficile ipotizzare lo svolgimento di normali consultazioni elettorali sotto le bombe, risulta abbastanza chiaro che il piccolo zar, in questo momento, a tutto pensa tranne che al cessate il fuoco. C'è chi sostiene, soprattutto in Italia, che questa guerra non avrebbe mai dovuto iniziare e che l'Ucraina avrebbe, quindi, dovuto arrendersi immediatamente: noi però, a questa vulgata obiettiamo che se Kiev avesse, fin da subito, rinunciato a qualsiasi accenno di opposizione di fronte ad una così clamorosa violazione del diritto internazionale, Putin, con ogni probabilità, non si sarebbe più fermato e avrebbe poi attaccato anche la Moldavia e magari pure i Paesi Baltici. Per nostra fortuna però, il popolo ucraino ha scelto di sacrificarsi e di combattere anche per la libertà dell'Europa intera, mandando in frantumi certi piani di restaurazione dell'epopea zarista che, comunque, continuano evidentemente a frullare nella mente del presidente russo. Il fatto è che in Ucraina – così come negli altri Paesi dell'Est europeo che hanno vissuto l'esperienza del Patto di Varsavia - di tornare a soffocare sotto la pressione dei Russi (siano essi sovietici o neo zaristi) non ne vogliono proprio sentir parlare...E questo è un aspetto della questione che, purtroppo, in Italia sono in molti a sottovalutare, ma che nella memoria degli Ucraini – che, ad esempio, nella grande carestia ( imposta da Stalin all'inizio degli Anni Trenta) raccolsero circa 7 milioni di vittime - è, invece, ancora ben impresso. Grosse responsabilità per tutto quanto sta accadendo da ormai tre anni a questa parte, ricadono sull'Occidente – e non perché la NATO fosse andata ad “abbaiare al confine” dell'autocrazia moscovita – ma, al contrario, per l'imperdonabile leggerezza con la quale ha voluto ignorare le mire espansioniste di un regime pericolosamente ispirato alla dottrina della missione imperiale della Grande Russia. Stiamo, dunque, attenti visto che Putin, nella sua conferenza stampa di fine anno, ha cercato di accarezzare il pelo anche al nostro Paese, dove sa di poter contare oltre che su un vice premier che, in una foto scattata non troppo tempo fa sulla Piazza Rossa, metteva in mostra la sua bella felpa con l'immagine dell'ex colonnello del KGB stampigliata sopra, anche sulla cecità di altre forze politiche che magari non sono neanche idealmente filo putiniane, ma che pur di esprimere la propria avversione verso tutto ciò che sa di occidentale, andrebbero beatamente – contente loro - a finire nelle fauci dell'orso russo, sventolando ingenuamente il drappo arcobaleno della pace ad ogni costo. "Il Corsivo" a cura di Daniele Biacchessi non è un editoriale, ma un approfondimento sui fatti di maggiore interesse che i quotidiani spesso non raccontano. Un servizio in punta di penna che analizza con un occhio esperto quell'angolo nascosto delle notizie di politica, economia e cronaca. ___________________________________________________ Ascolta altre produzioni di Giornale Radio sul sito: https://www.giornaleradio.fm oppure scarica la nostra App gratuita: iOS - App Store - https://apple.co/2uW01yA Android - Google Play - http://bit.ly/2vCjiW3 Resta connesso e segui i canali social di Giornale Radio: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giornaleradio.fm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giornale_radio_fm/?hl=it

La Segunda Guerra Mundial comenzó el 1 de septiembre de 1939 con la invasión alemana de Polonia, pero eso fue posible gracias a un acuerdo que nazis y soviéticos habían alcanzado una semana antes, el pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop, también conocido como Tratado de No Agresión Germano-Soviético. Firmado el 23 de agosto de 1939 entre la Alemania nazi y la Unión Soviética este documento lleva los nombres de los ministros de Asuntos Exteriores de ambos países, Joachim von Ribbentrop y Vyacheslav Molotov, de ahí que se le conozca por ese nombre. Su impacto fue determinante en el estallido de la guerra y estuvo en vigor casi dos años, hasta que Hitler puso en marcha la Operación Barbarroja en 1941. El pacto vino precedido por años de tensiones ideológicas y desconfianza mutua entre los dos regímenes. Uno se decía anticomunista y el otro antifascista, pero las circunstancias geopolíticas de finales de la década de los 30 empujaron a Adolf Hitler y a Iósif Stalin a considerar una alianza de carácter pragmático. Para Hitler el pacto aseguraba que Alemania no tendría que librar una guerra en dos frentes como les había sucedido en la Primera Guerra Mundial, mientras que Stalin veía la oportunidad de ganar tiempo para fortalecer la defensa soviética y recuperar lo perdido tras la revolución de octubre sin tener que vérselas con la oposición alemana. Lo más notorio del Pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop fue el Protocolo Secreto, que no se hizo público hasta después de la guerra. Este protocolo dividía Europa del Este en esferas de influencia. Polonia sería repartida entre Alemania y la URSS; los estados bálticos de Estonia, Letonia y Lituania, junto con Finlandia, caerían en la esfera soviética. Además, se legitimaba la anexión soviética de Besarabia, la actual Moldavia, que entonces formaba parte de Rumanía. Esta partición secreta fue un preludio a las invasiones y anexiones que seguirían, alterando drásticamente el mapa político de Europa. La firma del pacto sorprendió a las potencias occidentales que esperaban que la Unión Soviética se uniera a una alianza contra Hitler. La reacción inmediata fue una mezcla de incredulidad y consternación, especialmente entre los comunistas occidentales que veían en este acuerdo una traición a su ideología. La Comintern les ordenó que culpasen de la guerra al imperialismo y que dejasen de combatir a los nazis y los fascistas. En Alemania, el pacto sirvió para invadir Polonia y rehacer el este de Europa a su antojo. La URSS, entretanto, ocupó la mitad oriental de Polonia, anexionó las repúblicas bálticas e invadió Finlandia. Todo le salió a pedir de boca salvo la campaña finlandesa. Para celebrarlo unidades militares alemanas y soviéticas desfilaron juntas en Polonia. Al pacto de agosto de 1939 se añadieron nuevas disposiciones y protocolos así como un ambicioso acuerdo comercial por el que la Unión Soviética se comprometía a suministrar materias primas a Alemania a cambio de armas y maquinaria. Durante el año 1940 la relación entre nazis y soviéticos fue inmejorable hasta el punto de que se barajó incluso la idea de que la URSS se integrase en el Eje junto a japoneses e italianos. El idilio acabó abruptamente el 22 de junio de 1941 cuando los alemanes invadieron la Unión Soviética con un ataque sorpresa y sin declaración de guerra previa. La URSS se convirtió en uno de los aliados y el el Pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop fue olvidado durante el resto de la guerra. En 1948 los estadounidenses, ya metidos en plena guerra fría, publicaron el protocolo secreto de este pacto para avergonzar a los soviéticos, que de puertas adentro prohibieron hablar de él. La existencia misma del protocolo secreto fue negada por los Gobiernos soviéticos durante décadas hasta que en 1989 ya con la Perestroika en marcha, lo admitieron. En El ContraSello: 0:00 Introducción 4:09 El pacto nazi-soviético 1:14:52 Roma: de la República al Imperio 1:21:28 ¿Cómo financió Inglaterra la guerra de independencia de EEUU? Bibliografía: - “La Segunda Guerra Mundial” de Antony Beevor - https://amzn.to/4gNPN4K - “La segunda guerra mundial contada para escépticos” de Juan Eslava Galán - https://amzn.to/4gLPo2t - “Stalin. Una biografia” de Robert Service - https://amzn.to/4fuoATe - “Causes of the Second World War” de Andrew Crozier - https://amzn.to/4iFumVb · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #stalin #segundaguerramundial Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

La Segunda Guerra Mundial comenzó el 1 de septiembre de 1939 con la invasión alemana de Polonia, pero eso fue posible gracias a un acuerdo que nazis y soviéticos habían alcanzado una semana antes, el pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop, también conocido como Tratado de No Agresión Germano-Soviético. Firmado el 23 de agosto de 1939 entre la Alemania nazi y la Unión Soviética este documento lleva los nombres de los ministros de Asuntos Exteriores de ambos países, Joachim von Ribbentrop y Vyacheslav Molotov, de ahí que se le conozca por ese nombre. Su impacto fue determinante en el estallido de la guerra y estuvo en vigor casi dos años, hasta que Hitler puso en marcha la Operación Barbarroja en 1941. El pacto vino precedido por años de tensiones ideológicas y desconfianza mutua entre los dos regímenes. Uno se decía anticomunista y el otro antifascista, pero las circunstancias geopolíticas de finales de la década de los 30 empujaron a Adolf Hitler y a Iósif Stalin a considerar una alianza de carácter pragmático. Para Hitler el pacto aseguraba que Alemania no tendría que librar una guerra en dos frentes como les había sucedido en la Primera Guerra Mundial, mientras que Stalin veía la oportunidad de ganar tiempo para fortalecer la defensa soviética y recuperar lo perdido tras la revolución de octubre sin tener que vérselas con la oposición alemana. Lo más notorio del Pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop fue el Protocolo Secreto, que no se hizo público hasta después de la guerra. Este protocolo dividía Europa del Este en esferas de influencia. Polonia sería repartida entre Alemania y la URSS; los estados bálticos de Estonia, Letonia y Lituania, junto con Finlandia, caerían en la esfera soviética. Además, se legitimaba la anexión soviética de Besarabia, la actual Moldavia, que entonces formaba parte de Rumanía. Esta partición secreta fue un preludio a las invasiones y anexiones que seguirían, alterando drásticamente el mapa político de Europa. La firma del pacto sorprendió a las potencias occidentales que esperaban que la Unión Soviética se uniera a una alianza contra Hitler. La reacción inmediata fue una mezcla de incredulidad y consternación, especialmente entre los comunistas occidentales que veían en este acuerdo una traición a su ideología. La Comintern les ordenó que culpasen de la guerra al imperialismo y que dejasen de combatir a los nazis y los fascistas. En Alemania, el pacto sirvió para invadir Polonia y rehacer el este de Europa a su antojo. La URSS, entretanto, ocupó la mitad oriental de Polonia, anexionó las repúblicas bálticas e invadió Finlandia. Todo le salió a pedir de boca salvo la campaña finlandesa. Para celebrarlo unidades militares alemanas y soviéticas desfilaron juntas en Polonia. Al pacto de agosto de 1939 se añadieron nuevas disposiciones y protocolos así como un ambicioso acuerdo comercial por el que la Unión Soviética se comprometía a suministrar materias primas a Alemania a cambio de armas y maquinaria. Durante el año 1940 la relación entre nazis y soviéticos fue inmejorable hasta el punto de que se barajó incluso la idea de que la URSS se integrase en el Eje junto a japoneses e italianos. El idilio acabó abruptamente el 22 de junio de 1941 cuando los alemanes invadieron la Unión Soviética con un ataque sorpresa y sin declaración de guerra previa. La URSS se convirtió en uno de los aliados y el el Pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop fue olvidado durante el resto de la guerra. En 1948 los estadounidenses, ya metidos en plena guerra fría, publicaron el protocolo secreto de este pacto para avergonzar a los soviéticos, que de puertas adentro prohibieron hablar de él. La existencia misma del protocolo secreto fue negada por los Gobiernos soviéticos durante décadas hasta que en 1989 ya con la Perestroika en marcha, lo admitieron. En El ContraSello: 0:00 Introducción 4:09 El pacto nazi-soviético 1:14:52 Roma: de la República al Imperio 1:21:28 ¿Cómo financió Inglaterra la guerra de independencia de EEUU? Bibliografía: - “La Segunda Guerra Mundial” de Antony Beevor - https://amzn.to/4gNPN4K - “La segunda guerra mundial contada para escépticos” de Juan Eslava Galán - https://amzn.to/4gLPo2t - “Stalin. Una biografia” de Robert Service - https://amzn.to/4fuoATe - “Causes of the Second World War” de Andrew Crozier - https://amzn.to/4iFumVb · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #stalin #segundaguerramundial

Bottino pieno per le tre italiane impegnate in Europa e Conference League. Con Ivan Zazzaroni commentiamo la settimana delle Coppe europee delle italiane e il sorteggio delle Qualificazioni Mondiali 2026 che vedrà l'Italia o nel gruppo A contro Slovacchia, Irlanda del Nord e Lussemburgo o nel Gruppo I con Norvegia, Israele, Estonia e Moldavia.Ospitiamo lo sfidante di Alfredo Trentalange per le elezioni della presidenza dell'Associazione italiana arbitri: convocato Antonio Zappi.Chiudiamo col basket, con la nuova Virtus di Ivanovic che torna a vincere in Eurolega contro il Baskonia. Ne parliamo con Giacomo Galanda.

Programa completo de Directo Marca Sevilla 29/11/24. Analizamos la victoria del R. Betis en Moldavia frente al Petrocub que le acerca mas la clasificación aunque no dejo a nadie contento con el juego mostrado. Repasamos los sonidos mas interesantes que dejaron los protagonistas tras el encuentro. En clave sevillista, nos metemos con la previa para el partido liguero de mañana contra el Celta de Vigo con Jesús Navas y su despedida del Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán como protagonista. Ha hablado García Pimienta en sala de prensa. Posible once y lista de convocados y conocemos las novedades del equipo vigués con nuestro compañero José Riveiro. Como cada viernes, tiempo para la futbolería, hoy con Agustín Varela, Lucas Haurie, Manolo Nieto y Nacho Delgado.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

El padre del canterano bético Carlos Reina, que podría debutar este jueves en Moldavia ante el Petrocub, ha pasado por los micrófonos de la Cámara de los Balones

Desde el jueves se viven manifestaciones cada noche en Tiflis, la capital de Georgia, en medio de una crisis que estalló tras las elecciones legislativas de octubre y ganadas entre acusaciones de fraude por el partido del gobierno, Sueño Georgiano. Dicho grupo político, acusado de deriva autoritaria prorrusa, ha decidido aplazar las negociaciones para que su país integre la Unión Europea, exacerbando el descontento de los protestantes pro occidentales. Georgia se ha visto sumergida en una crisis política e intensas protestas que tomaron protagonismo tras las elecciones legislativas de octubre, cuando el partido gobernante sueño Georgiano se proclamó vencedor, a pesar de que tanto la oposición como la presidenta del país, Salomé Zurabishvili, afirmaran que se cometió fraude en los comicios.Pero la tensión aumentó aún más en los últimos días tras el anuncio del gobierno, acusado de deriva autoritaria prorrusa, de postergar hasta 2028 las conversaciones que buscan la adhesión del país a la Unión Europea.Sandro Tabatadze, profesor e investigador en ciencias políticas de Tiflis State University, asegura que para Georgia solo hay dos caminos, debido a su posición geográfica y a su alta importación de bienes y servicios: uno es acercarse a la Unión Europea y el otro a Rusia.  ¿Pero por qué los manifestantes temen tanto la posible cercanía con Moscú? Según el investigador, las razones remontan a la guerra ruso-georgiana de 2008.“Hoy sabemos que el 21% del territorio georgiano está ocupado por Rusia. Esto es la Abjasia y la llamada Osetia del Sur. Se trata de dos regiones autónomas independientes de Georgia y solo son reconocidas por Rusia, Nauru y Venezuela. Esto significa que estos territorios están actualmente bajo ocupación de Rusia, las fronteras de facto todavía están cambiando, este es uno de los puntos”, asegura Tabatadze.El analista georgiano cuenta que “después de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania, tenemos más de 1.500 inmigrantes rusos en los centros urbanos. Esto es más del 7% o el 8% de la población urbana y sabemos cuál es la lógica de Putin. Suele decir que está defendiendo a sus ciudadanos en diferentes países, esa es la política que él hace en Ucrania, Kazajstán y Moldavia”, indicó.Por su parte, Nina Vaxanski, quien ha estado presente en algunas protestas, es una de las georgianas que desean ese llamado “futuro europeo” para su país y asegura que tras las legislativas ya se están viendo cambios como con la polémica ley de injerencia extranjera.El país “ha estado cambiando desde que aprobamos esta llamada ley rusa, la ley de agentes extranjeros. Ahora todas las organizaciones que reciben financiación del exterior en más del 20% tienen que registrarse como agentes extranjeros y muchas organizaciones internacionales y ONG ya han comenzado a retirar sus fondos de Georgia. Estamos hablando de proyectos culturales, de proyectos por los derechos de las mujeres, educativos, proyectos de atención médica”, explicó.Las recientes protestas en Georgia no solo exigen continuar el camino para la adhesión del país a la Unión Europea, sino también, convocar a nuevas elecciones tras las denuncias de fraude, algo a lo que el partido gobernante Sueño Georgiano se ha opuesto rotundamente.

S14E12-241111 ‘NUNTII PRESCRIPTI’ ‘IN SERMONE LATINO’ ‘EX UNIVERSITATIS PANAMERICANAE DISCENTIBUS ET EX LUIS PESQUERA OLALDE’. News translated into Latin by the students of the Universidad Panamericana and by Luis Pesquera Olalde. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘INSTRUMENTUM’ ‘AD LATINUM DISCENDUM ET DOCENDUMQUE’ ‘EST’. ‘*NUNTII EX PERIÓDICIS HEBDOMADARIIS’ A 6-XI-2024 AD 9-XI-2024 *SUNT. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET ITALICA’ ‘AUDIS’! CIVITATUM FOEDERATARUM AMERICAE COMITIA. TRANSLATIONES A CASANDRA FREIRE SUNT. RES ITA EST. TRUMP VICTOR. ‘*DONALDUS TRUMP’ ‘VICTORIAM’ ‘AB KAMALA HARRIS’ ‘IN COMITIIS PRAESIDENTIALIBUS AMERICAE FOEDERATAE’ ‘*REPORTAVIT’, [UT ‘*OBSIGNARET’ ‘REDITUM HISTORICUM IN DOMO ALBA’ ‘SICUT QUADRAGESIMUS SEPTIMUS PRAESES CIVITATUM FOEDERATARUM’]. ‘CUM NONNULLIS PROVENTIBUS’ ‘ADHUC *NUNTIARETUR’, ‘*TRUMP’ ‘VENTUM POPULAREM QUENDAM’ ‘*QUAESIVIT’ ‘SEPTEM ADDUCTIUS CIVITATES’ [‘*QUAE’ ‘PER TRIUMPHUM’ ‘EUM’ ‘*DUCERET ’], ET ‘FORTASSE ETIAM POPULUM SUFFRAGIUM’. ‘*TRUMP’ ‘IN ORATIONE VICTORIAE’ ‘*DIXIT ’ [IMPEDIMENTA ‘*EOS’ ‘*SUPERAVISSE’] [‘QUA’ ‘*NEMO’ ‘*PUTABAT’] {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿In quo tempore verbum infinitivum est: praesente, praeterito vel futuro?}// QUOD DIXIT AUCTOR. ‘IN DIARIO THE DAILY BEAST’ ‘*HARRIUS LAMBERT’ ‘*DIXIT [‘*TRUMP’ ‘UNIVERSUM’ ‘CUM VICTORIAM’ ‘*AGITAVISSE’] ET ‘*QUAESTIONES FINALES’ ‘MONSTRANT QUOMODO’ ‘IS’ ‘*FECERIT’. ‘GRATIAM MULIERUM’ ‘*CAPTAVIT’. ‘*TRUMP’ ‘SEDECIM PUNCTA’ ‘ALTIORA APUD HISPANICOS’ ET ‘TRIGINTA TRES PUNCTA’ ‘INTER GENUS VIRES HISPANICOS SUPERIORES’ ‘*CONSECUTUS FUIT’, ‘DUM’ ‘DEMOCRATARUM PLUMBUM’ ‘INTER SUFFRAGATORES NIGROCOLORES’ ‘PER NOVEM PUNCTA’ ‘*SECANTUR’. ‘IN NBCNEWS.COM DIARIO THE WANTED’ ‘*STEPHANIE PERRY’ ‘*DIXIT [‘*SUFFRAGIOS’ ‘*LOQUUTUS ESSE’ ‘DE FRUSTRATIONE’ ‘CUM OECONOMICIS SUIS’ ET ‘STUDIUM DE STATU PATRIAE MORANTES’], ET ‘* SEPTEM IN DECEM’ ‘*DIXIT’ [‘*ESSE ’ TRUMP [‘* QUI’ ‘ CAUSAM DEFENDERE’ ‘*POSSET’ {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿In quo tempore verbum infinitivum est: praesente, praeterito vel futuro? ¿Quas alias orationes secundarias invenies?}// UCRAINA. RUSSIA UCRAINAM OPPUGNAT ET PROSEQUITUR. ‘*RUSSIA’ ‘ASSULTUM DUPLICEM’ ‘*IACIT’. ‘ANTE RUSSIAE IMPETU CONSTANTE’, ‘ESTONIAE EXPLORATIONIS OFFICIALIS’ ‘*DICIT’ [‘UCRAINAE *MILITES’ ‘A POKROVSK’ ‘*TRANSFUGITUROS ESSE’] {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿In quo tempore verbum infinitivum est: praesente, praeterito vel futuro?}// ISRAELE. TRANSLATIO A LUCERO MAILLE EST. ‘*BINYAMIN NETANYAHU’ ‘YOAV GALLANT, MINISTRUM DEFENSIONIS SUUM,’ ‘*DIMISIT’. ‘*NETANYAHU’ ‘CAUSAM’ ‘*DEDIT’ "CRISIS FIDUCIAE" ‘INTER EOS’.// HISPANIA. PAIPORTA, HISPANIA. IRA INUNDATIONE. REGIMEN LENTE RESPONDIT. PETRUS SANCHEZ MISIT DEX MILIA COPIAS AD ADIUVANDUM. CENTENI AD REGEM ET AD REGINAM CAENUM IACTAVERUNT ET CLAMAVERUNT [HOMICIDAS ESSE] {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿Quod es nomen accusativum in hac oratione?}// MOLDAVIA. MAIA SANDU, MOLDAVIAE PRAESES PRO OCCIDENTE, ALTERUM MANDATUM ACQUISIVIT. ‘EA’ ‘CUM QUINQUAGINTA QUATTUOR CENTESIMIS SUFFRAGIORUM’ ‘*VICIT’.// CANADA. CANADA. LEX DENUO DISCEPTANDA EST. ‘COLUMBIAE BRITANNICAE IUDEX’ ‘SUICIDIUM ADIUTUM’ ‘VETUIT’. ‘ACTA DIURNA ‘GLOBE AND MAIL (ANGLICE)’ ‘DICIT’ [‘IN CANADA’ ‘LEGEM’ ‘PRO SUICIDIO ADIUTO’ ‘ADHUC DISPUTAVISSE’] {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿In quo tempore verbum infinitivum est: praesente, praeterito vel futuro?}// SINAE. IN SINIS, ‘CURIAE MUNICIPALIS OFFICIALES’ ‘AD MULIERES FERTILES’ ‘SINE FILIIS’ ‘*DICUNT’ [‘PLURES FILIOS’ ‘*HABERE’].// BOLIVIA. ‘EVO MORALES *ASSECULAE’ ‘DUCENTOS MILITES’ ‘DIE PRIMO NOVEMBRIS MENSE’ ‘IN COCHABAMBA’ ‘*RAPTAVERUNT.// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA ET ANGLICA’ ‘AUDIS’! RUSSIA. TRANSLATIONES A SAID RAYMUNDO DELGADO SUNT. MOSCOVIA. VITORIA ELECTI TRUMP CELEBRATUR. '*DUCTORES RUSSIAE' 'GAUDIUM AD VICTORIAM ELECTI TRUMP' 'IN COMITIIS PRAESIDENTIALIBUS CIVITATUM FOEDERATARUM AMERICANAE' 'HAC HEBDOMADE' '*MONSTRAVIT'. '*PRAESES ANTERIOR DIMITRI MEDVÉDEV VOCATUR' '*DIXIT' ['ELECTUM TRUMP*' 'UTILEM NOBIS' '*POTUERIT ESSE'] QUONIAM ['*ILLUM' 'PECUNIAM' 'SOCIIS IDIOTIS' '*ODIT DONARE'] {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿In quo tempore verbum infinitivum est: praesente, praeterito vel futuro?}// MOSCOVIA. CONURATIO INCENDARIA IN AEROPLANIS. '*AUCTORITATES EUROPAE' 'HAC HEBDOMADE' '*NUNTIAVERUNT' ['RUSSIAM*' 'BOMBARDAS' 'IN AEROPLANIS ONERIS' '*COLOCAVISSE']. '*MAQUINAE INCENDARIAE' 'DUAS CELLAS “DE-HA-EL”' 'UNA IN BRITANNIARUM REGNO ET ALTERA IN GERMANIA' 'IN IULIO' '*INCENDIT'. '*COLLABORATOR SECURITATIS GERMANIAE' '*DECLARAVIT' ['BOMBARDAS*' 'ACCIDENS AEREUM' '*POTUIT CAUSARE'] {De syntaxe. Quot Orationes secundarae completivae infinitivi invenis?// CANADA. IN COLUMBIA BRITANNICA, FALKLANDIA. ‘*VIGILES’ ‘HEBDOMADA PRAETERITA’ ‘FENTANYL LABORATORIUM CLANDESTINUM’ ‘IN FALKLANDIAE VICULO’ ‘*INVENERUNT’. ‘*VIGILI IN EQUO DAVID TEBOUL NOMINATUS’ ‘*DICIT’ [‘CANADAE DUPLICEM POPULATIONEM’ ‘OCCIDERE POSSE’] {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿Quod es nomen accusativum in hac oratione?}// BRITANNIARUM REGNO. TRASLATIO A FERNANDA SOLÍS EST. ‘TIMES NUNTIORUM (anglice: The Times)’ ‘*DICUNT’ [‘INTERDUM’ ‘HOMINES’ ‘NON *AUSCULTARE’ ‘DUCES FACTIONUM OPPOSITIONIS]. ‘KEMI BADENOCH, [QUI DUX NOVUS FACTIONIS CONSERVATIVI ‘EST], ‘ILLA PROBLEMA’ ‘NON *HABET’ {De syntaxe. Quot Orationes secundarae completivae infinitivi invenis?// FRANCIA. TRASLATIO AB ALISSA SOUZA EST. PICTAVIUM, FRANCIA. DE VI MEDICAMENTORUM. ‘*BRUNO RETAILLEAU, [VIR DEXTERAE PARTIS IMMIGRATIONI ADVERSUS]’, ‘HORRORE AFFECTUS’ '*DICIT' ['VIM', ‘QUAE OLIM IN LOCIS CRIMINIBUS MEDICAMENTORUM' 'NOTIS CONTINERI SOLEBAT’, 'NUNC EMERGERE']. [‘*NARCO-SCUM’ 'NEGOTIATORES MEDICAMENTORUM' 'HODIE' '*NULLOS FINES' *HABERE'] 'INQUIT'. 'ELECTIO QUAM HODIE HABEMUS' 'EST', 'AUT MOBILIZATIONEM' 'AUT MEXICANISATIONEM' 'PATRIAE’. {De syntaxe. Quot Orationes secundarae completivae infinitivi invenis?// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GALLICA’ ‘AUDIS’! ISRELE. ISRAELE, KIRYAT SHMONA. ‘HOC CIVITATE,’ ‘PLURIME INCOLAE’ ‘*FUGIUNTUR’ SED ‘*PAUCI’ ‘*RESISTUNT’.// SINAE. SINARUM AUTOCINETA ELECTRICA IN EUROPA. ‘*UNIO EUROPAEA’ ‘TRIBUTA’ ‘EX TRIGINTA QUINQUE CENTESIMA’ ‘COMPETITIONE INIQUA’ ‘AD SINARUM AUTOCINETA’ ‘*IMPOSUIT’.// THAILANDIA. ‘MONACHI BUDDHISTICI’ DE NARCOTICARUM MEDICAMENTORUM CONSUMPTIONE ET CRIMINIBUS VIOLENTIS, ETCERIS’ ‘ACUSSATI FUERUNT’.// COLUMBIA. ‘IN CALI SIVE IN URBE CALIENSIS,’ ‘COLLOQUIUM CIVITATUM SEDECIM (ANGLICE ‘COP 16)’ ‘AD NATURAM PROTEGENDUM’ ‘IN CHAO’ ET ‘CUM NEGOTIIS SINE SOLUTIONE’ ‘*FINIVIT’.// BOTSUANA SEU BOTSWANA. ‘MOKGWEETSI MASISI, BOTSUANAE PRAESES,’ ‘POST SEXAGINTA ANNOS’ ‘CLADEM SUAM’ ‘IN COMITIIS’ ‘AGNOVIT’.// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET HISPANICA’ ‘AUDIS’! MEXICO. ‘TESTES’ ‘*DICUNT’ ‘ROCHA MOYA’ ‘AUXILIUM’ ‘AD MAYO’ ‘AD PRAETOREM FIENDUM’ ‘PETIVISSE’. {De syntaxe. Orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi prode. ¿Quod es nomen accusativum in hac oratione?}.// ‘BELLUM INTUS SINALOAE CHARTELLUM’ ‘A SINALOA’ ‘AD MAZATLÁN’ ‘REDUNDATUR’.// LEXICON: Aeroplanum oneris. Alterum mandatum. Assecula, -ae. Assultus duplex. Bombarda, -ae. Caenum, -i. Chartelum. Colloquium civitatum. Competitio iniqua. Copia, -ae. Curiae municipalis officiales. Disceptandus, -a, -um. Disputo. Domus Alba. Explorationis officialis. Fugio. Hispanicus, -a, -um. Idiota, -ae. Impetus, -us. Laboratorium clandestinum. Maquina incendiaria. Monachi buddhistici. Mulieres fertiles. Nigricolores. Obsigno. Oratio victoriae. Proventus, -us. Rapto. Redundo. Resisto. Suffragium, suffragii. Suicidium, -ii. Tributum, -i. Transfugiturus, -a, -um. Utilis, -e. Ventus popularis. SI NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA TRADUCTOR ESSE VOLUERIS, QUAESO LITTERAM ELECTRONICAM AD lpesquera@up.edu.mx MITTAS’. If you would like to collaborate as a translator in Nuntii in Lingua Latina, please send an email to lpesquera@up.edu.mx

Stop! In the name of the podcast! Pete and Ryan are laying down the law on 15th-century Moldavia. Was Stephen so great, or did he have a few skeletons in his court? Join us as we arrest the quirks of medieval justice, judge the man behind the crown, and find out why handcuffs and marriage came hand-in-hand. It's a criminally good time you won't want to miss!   Chapters: 00:00 Intro! 01:58 Orientation to Moldova! 12:51 History of Moldova! 21:08 What is Law Enforcement! 28:01 Stephen the Great! 44:48 Gypsy Slaves! 58:07 Derzolation! 59:48 Outro!   LInks / Thanks: ‘Police Squad' Main Theme | https://youtu.be/iQ0XRXaxTWM?si=kJtFdzxizv0HI0GP Moldova National Anthem | https://youtu.be/lKSqlXhG_10?si=PrMmsqK0GIoAnlyT O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei | https://youtu.be/YnopHCL1Jk8?si=RWRGjkwmBvcdZyXn   Contact: http://hhepodcast.com https://linktr.ee/hhepodcast

Elly Schlein ha detto che il Pd non sosterrà Vincenzo De Luca per un terzo mandato come presidente della regione Campania, ma il Consiglio regionale approva una legge che gli permette di ricandidarsi. Intanto da sabato in Iran è scomparsa una ragazzo dopo che si era spogliata rimanendo in mutande e reggiseno in segno di protesta, la Moldavia conferma la candidata presidente europeista. ➡️ Qui per prenotare il tuo posto alla masterclass con Gianluca Defendi ... Qui il link per iscriversi al canale Whatsapp di Notizie a colazione: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va7X7C4DjiOmdBGtOL3z Per iscriverti al canale Telegram: https://t.me/notizieacolazione ... Qui gli altri podcast di Class Editori: https://milanofinanza.it/podcast Musica https://www.bensound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

¿Cómo ha intentado Rusia intervenir en las elecciones presidenciales en Moldavia? ¿Qué significa para Ucrania la victoria de la candidata proeuropea Maia Sandu frente al prorruso Alexandr Stoianoglo? Lo analizamos con la ayuda de Ecaterina Locoman, moldava y profesora de Estudios Internacionales en el Instituto Lauder de la Universidad de Pensilvania, y con Javier Valencia, especialista en desinformación vinculada a injerencias extranjeras, profesor del Máster de Inteligencia de la Universidad Nebrija y miembro del colectivo Monitor Disinfo.Escuchar audio

La fuga di notizie nel governo Netanyahu, l'esito delle elezioni in Moldavia e la chisura delle scuole pakistane a Lahore a causa dell'inquinamento

Estamos a pocas horas de que se celebren las elecciones presidenciales de los EEUU, una cita que se antoja crucial para muchas cuestiones de la actualidad internacional, como por ejemplo la guerra de Ucrania, la guerra de Gaza o la propia situación internacional. Todo puede cambiar según quien gane y según quien ocupe la Casa Blanca en el mes de enero.Hoy buena parte de nuestro programa estará dedicado a EEUU, aunque también haremos alusión al juicio que ha arrancado en París por el asesinato de Samuel Paty o a las elecciones de Moldavia, uno de esos países que quieren salir de la órbita rusa para formar parte de la UE a corto o medio plazo.Escuchar audio

(00:45) Giuseppe Sarcina spiega quanto pesano le guerre in Ucraina e Medio Oriente sul voto negli Usa (e che succede se a vincere sarà The Donald o Kamala). (08:26) Marco Imarisio analizza il risultato delle elezioni nel Paese che confina con Russia e Ucraina, in cui la presidente filo-Ue Maia Sandu è riuscita a farsi riconfermare. (14:50) Greta Privitera racconta la storia di Ahou Daryaei, la studentessa che si è spogliata all'università, rimanendo in biancheria intima.I link di corriere.it:Elezioni Usa: quando si vota, orari e tutto quello che c'è da sapereMoldavia, l'europeista Maia Sandu confermata presidenteAhoud Daryaei, la studentessa iraniana che si è spogliata a Teheran

Resumen informativo con las noticias más destacadas de Colombia del Domingo 3 de noviembre 6:00am

Resumen informativo con las noticias más destacadas de Colombia del sábado 02 de noviembre de 2024 a las once de la noche.

S14E10-241028 ‘NUNTII PRESCRIPTI’ ‘IN SERMONE LATINO’ ‘EX UNIVERSITATIS PANAMERICANAE DISCENTIBUS ET EX LUIS PESQUERA OLALDE’. News translated into Latin by the students of the Universidad Panamericana and by Luis Pesquera Olalde. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘INSTRUMENTUM’ ‘AD LATINUM DISCENDUM ET DOCENDUMQUE’ ‘EST’. ‘*NUNTII EX PERIÓDICIS HEBDOMADARIIS’ A 23-X-2024 AD 26-X- 2024 *SUNT. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA ET ANGLICA’ ‘AUDIS’! CIVITATUM FOEDERATARUM AMERICAE COMITIA. TRANSLATIONES A CASANDRA FREIRE SUNT. CIVITATES FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. ‘*TRUMP’ ‘SUFFRAGIUM CHRISTIANUM’ ‘*QUAERIT’ [ ET ‘*DICIT’ ‘ DEUM EUM *SERVAVISSE’]. ‘*DONALD TRUMP’ ‘DIE LUNAE’ ‘SUFFRAGII CHRISTIANI’ ‘*SUASIT’ [ UT ‘ELECTIONI DUO MILIA VIGINTI QUATTUOR *ADSINT’], [AFFIRMANS ‘*ADMINISTRATIONEM KAMALA HARRIS LIBERTATES RELIGIOSAS *RESTRINGERE ET SE DEFENSOREM CHRISTIANORUM *EXHIBERE’].// VASINGTONIA, De-Ce. CALUMNIA ‘COMITIALIS. INTELLIGENTIAE *OFFICIALES vel EXPLORATIONIS SERVITIUM’ ‘RUSSIAM’ ‘DE NUNTIORUM FALLACIUM VIDEUM’ ‘CONTRA TIM WALZ’ ‘*CULPAVERUNT’. ‘IN HAC PELLICULA,’ ‘AD TIM WALZ’ ‘DE ABUSIBUS SEXUALIBUS’ ‘*ACCUSABANT’ {De lexico. Locutiones “nuntii fallaces, abusus sexualis” in Vicipaedia investiga}.// CIVITATES FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. *CHENEY *HORTATUR ‘CONSERVATIVOS AD AUXILIUM HARRIS DE CAUSA ABORTI’. ‘*LIZ CHENEY, PRISTINA CONGRESSA REPUBLICANA ET LONGI TEMPORIS ADVERSARIA IURIUM ABORTUS’, CONSERVATIVOS *HORTATA EST [UT DEMOCRATAE KAMALA HARRIS PRAESIDENTI AMERICAE FOEDERATAE *FAVERENT].// CIVITATES FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. ‘ PARVUM AUXILIUM A MEIS AMICIS’. ‘*DONALD TRUMP’ ‘DUCTOREM FACTIONIS LABORIS BRITANNIAE’ ‘*ACCUSAVIT’ [‘MITTENDI AUXILIUM’ ‘AD CONTENTIONEM ADVERSARIA SUA KAMALA HARRIS’ ‘IN CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATAE AMERICAE’].// ISRAELE. TRANSLATIONES A SAID RAYMUNDO DELGADO SUNT. JABALIA. PALESTINAE TERRA. INCURSIO AD SEPTENTRIONEM. 'CENTENAE *PERSONAE' 'IN OPPUGNATIONE ISRAELIS CONTRA SEPTENTRIONEM GAZAE' 'MORTUI SUNT'* ['*OPPUGNATIO 'SEPTIMANA ANTERIORI' 'POST CAEDEM DUCTORIS HAMAE YAHYA SINWAR VOCATUR' 'SE *AGGRAVAVIT'].// 'ANTONIUS BLINKENUS' 'SUAM UNDECIMAM VISITATIONEM' 'AD ORIENTEM PROXIMUM' 'IN ANNO SOLO' 'EFFECIT*'. ['*SECRETARIUS CIVITATIUM FOEDERATAE AMERICAE' 'NETANYAHO' ['ISRAELEM*' 'PLUS INGRESSUM AUXILII HUMANITARII' 'IN SEPTENTRIONEM GAZAE' 'DEBEBIT PERMITTERE*'] 'DIXIT*'].// LIBANO. BERYTO. ‘ISRAELIS PYROBOLORUM *CONIECTIO’ ‘HAEC HEBDOMADA’ ‘*ASCENDIT’. ‘MULTAS PERSONAS’ ‘*INTERFECIT’ ET VICTIMAS ‘AD CIRCA DUO MILIA QUADRIGENTAS’ ‘*ADVENIT’ .// TURCIA. ANCYRA. IMPETUS FUNESTUS. ‘SALTEM QUINQUE *PERSONAE MORTUAE *FUERUNT’ ET ‘VIGINTI DUO *PERSONAE VULNERATAE *FUERUNT’ ‘HAEC HEBDOMADA’ ‘IMPETU’ ‘IN TURCIAE AEROSPATIALI INDUSTRIA’.// TZADIA. VIOLENTIA ET FAMES MILIA ET MILIA PERSONAS AD TZADIAE LIMITEM TRANSENDUM IMPELLIT. ‘CIRCA VIGINTI QUINQUE MILIA *PERSONAE, PLERUMQUE MILIERUM ET PUERORUM,’ ‘TZADIAE LIMITEM ORIENTALEM’ ‘VIOLENTIA ET FAME’ ‘*TRANSIERUNT’.// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET ITALICA’ ‘AUDIS’! EX HEBDOMADA PAPAE. CUM VENIA EX DICASTERIO VATICANII AD COMUNICATIONEM. “DILEXIT NOS” INITIALIA SUNT VERBA QUARTARUM LITTERARUM ENCYCLICARUM FRANCISCI PAPAE AD MUNDUM QUI COR AMISISSET VIDETUR.// RUSSIA. CASSANO, RUSSIA. PUTIN BRICS+ HOSPITO. ‘A DIE VICESIMO SECUNDO MENSIS OCTOBRIS AD DIEM VICESIMUM QUARTUM MENSIS OCTOBRIS’ ‘CASANO’ IN RUSIA’ , ‘*VLADIMIRUS PUTIN, PRAESES FOEDERATRIONIS RUSSICAE,’ ‘BRICS-PLUS CIVITATES’ ‘*HOSPITAVIT’ . ‘*PUTIN’ ‘*VELIT’ ‘AD ORBEM TERRARUM OSTENTARE’ [‘QUOD’ ‘SOLITARIUS’ ‘NON EST’] {De syntaxe, de orationibus secundariis relativis. Orationem secundariam relativam, cum verbo in modo indicativo, cum pronomine ‘qui, quae, quod’ invenite}.// IRAQUIA seu IRACA. ‘IRAQUIAE COMITIA. ‘CURDISTANIAE *FACTIO DEMOCRATICA (PE-DE-KA)’ ‘COMITIA LEGISLATIVA LOCALIA’ ‘DIE VIGINTI MENSIS OCTOBRIS’ ‘*VICIT’. ‘HIS COMITIIS’ ‘SEPTUAGINTA DUOS CENTESIMAS CENSUS’ ‘SUFFRAGIA’ ‘*TULERUNT’ {De lexico. Locutiones “Curdistania, Curdistania (provincia), Curdistania Turcica, curdistania Syriaca” in Vicipaedia investiga. Omnia verba differentia sunt}.// INDIA. TRANSLATIO A FERNANDA SOLÍS EST. ‘*INDIA ET SINIS’ ‘*CONVENIUNT’ ‘DE DISPUTATIONE IN FRONTIS COMMUNIS MONTIBUS HIMALAIS’. ‘TEMPORE PRIMO, POST BELLI IN ANNO 1962, ‘FRONTEM ‘DETERMINATAM FUIT.// AEGYPTO. AEGYPTO MALARIA LIBER EST. ‘DIE VICESIMO MENSIS OCTOBRIS’, ‘*ORDO MUNDI SANITARIUS (O-EM-ES)’ ‘*DIXIT’ [‘AEGYPTUM’ ‘EX MALARIA VEL FEBRI TROPICA’ ‘LIBER’ ‘ESSE’] {De syntaxe: orationem secundariam completivam infinitivi in accusativo pro actio simultanea attende}.// CAMERONIA. TRANSLATIO A LUCERO MAILLE EST. YAOUNDÉ. PRAESES REDIVIVUS: ‘*PAULUS BIYA, PRAESES SENEX CAMERUNIAE,’ ‘RUMORES’ ‘DE MORTE SUA IN EXTERIS PARTIBUS’ ‘PER PUBLICUM ADVENTUM HOC HEBDOMADE’ ‘POST SEIS HEBDOMADES ABSENTIAE’ ‘*EXSTINGUIT’ [‘*QUI’ ‘RUMORES’ ‘DE MORTE SUA DIVERSIS LOCIS’ ‘*NATUS EST’].// KENIA. PRAESEM VICARIUM EXPULIT. ‘KENIAE *CURIA SENATORUM’ ‘RIGATHI GACHAGUA, PRAESEM VICARIUM,’ [DUM IN NOSOCOMIO *ERAT], ‘*EXPULIT’ {De syntaxe, de orationibus secundariis temporalibus. Orationem secundariam temporalem, cum verbo in modo indicativo, et cum coniuctione ‘dum’ invenite}.// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GALLICA’ ‘AUDIS’! CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATIS AMERICAE. HARRISBURG, PENNSILVANIA. COMITIALIS MUNUS. [‘SI’ ‘SUFFRAGATORES’ ‘PRO’ ‘TRUMP’ ‘SUNT’], ‘*ELON MUSK’ ‘ALEAM UNIUS MILIBUS MILIUM DOLLARIUM’ ‘COTIDIE’ ‘IN SEPTEM PROVINCIIS’ ‘PRO SUFFRAGAROIBUS’ ‘*AFFERT’ {De syntaxe: orationem secundariam conditionalem attende}.// FRANCIA seu FRANCOGALLIA. WISANTO, RESPUBLICA FRANCICA. TRAGOEDIA IN MARE BRITANNICO sive MANICA. ‘*NAVIS’ ‘CUM SEXAGINTA OCTO MIGRANTIBUS’ ‘IN MARE BRITANNICO’ ‘*NAUFRAGAVIT’. ‘UNUS *INFATULUS MORTUUS’ ‘*FUIT’.// RE PUBLICA POPULARI DEMOCRATICA COREANA. ‘COREA SEPTRENTIONALIS’ ‘COPIAS AD BELLANDUM PRO RUSSIA’ ‘AD UCRAINAM’ ‘MISIT’. ‘*UCRAINA’ ‘UNDECIM MILIA MILITES’ ‘A COREA SEPTRENTIONALI’ ‘IN UCRAINA’ ‘*CALCULAT’.// CUBA. HAVANA. INSULA OBSCURATUR. ‘CUBAE *ELECTRIFICINA, [QUAE ERGASTRIUM UBI ELECTRICITAS GENERATUR EST],’ ‘*PERFRINGITUR’ . ‘CUBAE *INSULA’ ‘PER ALIQUOT DIES’ ‘*OBSCURATUR’ . ‘*REGIMEN’ ‘SCHOLAS ET NEGOTIA’ ‘AD ‘REDUCERE ENERGIAE CONSUMPTIONEM’ ‘*CLAUSIT’ {De syntaxe, de orationibus secundariis relativis. Orationem secundariam relativam, cum verbo in modo indicativo, cum pronomine ‘qui, quae, quod’ invenite}.// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GERMANICA ‘AUDIS’! MOLDAVIA sive MOLDOVA. COMITIA IN MOLDAVIA. ‘MAIA SANDU, PRAESSES MOLDAVIAE,’ ‘AD MAIOREM PARTEM’ ‘SUFFRAGIORUM’ ‘NON PERVENIT’. ‘*SANDU’ ‘SOLTATUM QUADRAGINTA UNUM CENTESIMAS SUFFRAGIORUM’ ‘ACQUIRIT’, ‘QUOD’ ‘SUFFRAGIUM DECRETORIUM’ ‘ERIT’. ‘REFERENDI MOLDOVIAE PRO ADHESIO AD UNIONEM EUROPAEAM EVENTUS’ ‘EX QUINQUAGINTA PUNCTUM TRIGINTA NOVE CENTESIMIS’ ‘FUIT’ {De recitatio. Quaeso, omnes numeros cardinales a viginti ad quadraginta recita}.// GERMANIA publice RES PUBLICA GERMANIAE. GERMANIA CONTROVERSIA DE SEMAPHORI COALITIONIS PECUNIA. ‘DUODECIM SEPTIGENTI MILLIARDUM EURORUM’ ‘IN QUANTITATE MINORE’ ‘*ERIT’. ‘*OECONOMIA’ ‘*DEBILITATUR’. ‘*REGIMEN’ ‘ACCIPERE CIRCA SEXAGINTA MILLIARDUM EURORUM EXPECTATI’ ‘IN MINORE QUANTITATE’ ‘AD ANNUM DOMINI BIS MILESIMUM DUODETRICESIMUM ‘*SPECTAT’ {De recitatio. Quaeso, omnes numeros cardinales a unus ad viginti recita}.// ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET HISPANICA’ ‘AUDIS’! MEXICO. MEXICOPOLIS. CIBUM QUISQUILIARUM PROHIBENT. ‘HAEC HEBDOMADA’, ‘MEXICI *REGIMEN’ ‘CIBUM QUISQUILIARUM’ ‘IN SCHOLIBUS’ ‘PROHIBUIT’. ‘OBESITAS INFANS’ ‘QUAESTIO MAGNA’ ‘IN CIVITATE’ ‘*EST’. ‘TRIGINTA QUINQUE CENTESIMAS EX PUERIS’ ET ‘SEPTUAGINTA QUINQUE CENTESIMAS EX ADULTIS’ ‘OBESI’ ‘SUNT’ {De lexico. Quaeso, locutionem “cibus quisquilarum” in Vicipaedia invenite}.// LEXICON: Abusus sexualis. Aerospatiali industria. Alea. BRICS+ sive BRICS-plus. Curia senatorum. Electrificina. Euro. Explorationis servitium. Factio laboris. Himalaia. Infantulus. Intelligentia officiales. Libertas religionis. Limes. Littera Encyclica. Maior pars. Malaria sive Febris tropica. Nuntii fallaces. Obesitas infans. Obscuro. Ordo mundi sanitarius. Ostento. Pellicula. Praeses vicarius. Pristinus, -a, -um. Restringo. Rumor. Senex. Solitarius, -a, -um. Suffragator. Tzadia. SI NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA TRADUCTOR ESSE VOLUERIS, QUAESO LITTERAM ELECTRONICAM AD lpesquera@up.edu.mx MITTAS’. If you would like to collaborate as a translator in Nuntii in Lingua Latina, please send an email to lpesquera@up.edu.mx

Il NUOVO libro di Nova Lectio, Instant Storia d'Italia Prima di Roma: https://amzn.to/4h3P7cc Tutti gli altri libri di Nova Lectio: https://amzn.to/48dkPQo Canale Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NovaLectio Voce, Simone Guida Testo e ricerca di Mauro Indelicato: https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Moldavia/Moldova-si-all-Europa-per-un-soffio-233993 https://it.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/21/referendum-sulla-moldova-nellue-la-presidente-sandu-risultato-alterato-dallacquisto-di-vot https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wnr5qdxe7o https://www.consilium.europa.eu/it/press/press-releases/2024/10/22/republic-of-moldova-statement-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-european-union-on-the-constitutional-referendum-and-the-first-round-of-the-presidential-elections/ https://www.adnkronos.com/internazionale/esteri/moldova-elezioni-referendum-ue-news_TlU5qeDNB1y57SaAgbCAu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moldavia y Georgia son dos países que, aunque parezcan pequeños, pueden ser los talones de Aquiles de la ampliación de la Unión Europea. Con María Sahuquillo, delegada de El País en Bruselas y conocedora del espacio post soviético, entendemos la complejidad de sentimientos políticos que viven estas sociedades que oscilan más allá del Kremlin y Occidente.Murió en Estados Unidos Fetulá Gülen, líder espiritual del movimiento Hiretz, a quien el presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdogan acusaba de terrorista. Marga Zambrana, periodista radicada en Estambul, nos explica cómo fue el proceso que llevó a Gülen de aliado a contraparte de Erdogan.En la ciudad de Cali está llevándose a cabo la COP16, pero cubrir la crisis climática de cumbre en cumbre impide que la información medioambiental tenga el peso planetario que debe tener. Rocío Gómez, periodista y presentadora del pódcast 'La climática', adscrito a La Marea, explica la proximidad y la transversalidad que requiere informar sobre el cambio climático mostrando que, a cada problema, siempre hay una salida para recuperar la biodiversidad del planeta.

Il voto popolare di un piccolo paese ai confini dell'Unione europea ha catturato l'attenzione di chi segue con attenzione gli affari europei. La Moldova - vale anche Moldavia ma la popolazione locale preferisce la prima - ha scelto di ancorare l'adesione all'Unione europea nella sua Costituzione. Lo ha fatto approvando a strettissima maggioranza un quesito referendario in questo senso. Ne parliamo a Europa Europa, in onda domenica alle 11,30. Nella seconda parte spazio ai rapporti Euro-Atlantici, a 10 giorni dal voto presidenziali americano. Tra gli ospiti il prof. Antonio Zotti dell'Università Cattolica di Milano.

Il referendum in Moldavia, le proteste in Mozambico e l'eliminazione della malaria in Egitto

Istat, il calo delle nascite. Moldavia, sì all'Ue per un soffio.

Moldavia ha celebrado un referéndum para respaldar en su Constitución su proceso de adhesión a la Unión Europea. Ha ganado el sí con el 50,46 % de los votos. La sociedad moldava es compleja, se divide entre los que quieren acercarse más a Rusia, los que quieren acercarse más a los 27 y los que simplemente quieren tener identidad propia. Vamos a estar en Estados Unidos con nuestra corresponsal María Carou. Hoy empezamos una serie de reportajes de cara a las elecciones del próximo 5 de noviembre. Hoy, sobre los estados bisagra. Tendremos también una entrevista sobre el papel de Elon Musk como garante de la candidatura de Donald TRump. Además estaremos en Reino Unido donde se celebra un juicio sobre el desastre que provocó la rotura de una presa en Brasil en 2015 y en Turquía tras la muerte de Fethullah Gülen, antiguo aliado del actual presidente, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. También tendremos una entrevista sobre el aumento de la violencia sexual en República Democrática del Congo. Escuchar audio

(00:43) Marco Imarisio parla dei risultati del referendum per decidere se inserire nella Costituzione il processo di adesione all'Unione europea, vinto per pochissimi voti dai favorevoli.(07:12) Paolo Valentino presenta il nuovo vertice delle potenze economiche emergenti che si apre oggi in Russia. (13:49) Federico Fubini elenca i motivi per i quali il multimiliardario (con un gigantesco conflitto d'interessi) sostiene il candidato repubblicano alla Casa Bianca in tutti i modi possibili.I link di corriere.it:Referendum in Moldavia, il «sì» all'Europa passa con il 50,3%Perché Elon Musk (che tifa Trump) ha il conflitto d'interessi più grande del mondoRimonta di Trump e allarme fascismo: a che punto è la campagna elettorale negli Usa

Las estaciones de Atocha y Chamartín recuperan la normalidad tras el caos ferroviario de este fin de semana. Un error judicial permite que siga en la calle el abusador sexual de una niña de Cádiz pese a quebrantar dos veces la orden de alejamiento. Además, Netanyahu vuelve a bombardear Beirut en busca de sedes financieras de Hezbolá y Moldavia pavimenta su camino hacia la adhesión a la UE en un ajustado referendo.

Il referendum in Moldavia, le elezioni parlamentari in Islanda e la richiesta del Pakistan di espandere la Belt and Road Initiative cinese

This week we have a look at the 1960 Mario Bava-directed horror film BLACK SUNDAY, AKA THE MASK OF SATAN and other related titles.  This is Episode #443! Black Sunday (Italian: La maschera del demonio, lit. 'The mask of the demon') is a 1960 Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava in his official directorial debut, and starring Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici and Enrico Oliveri. Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "Viy", the film takes place in Moldavia and tells the story of a witch who is put to death by her brother, only to return two centuries later to seek revenge upon his descendants.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.

Hoy ponemos el foco en las elecciones de Irán, que se celebran el viernes y en las que los iraníes deberán elegir a su nuevo presidente. Está por ver si vence alguno de los varios candidatos conservadores o si es uno más moderado el que se lleva el gato al agua. De momento enfilamos el final de la campaña y hoy vamos a saber cómo es un mitin político en Irán con nuestros enviados especiales a Teherán.Vamos a estar en el último debate entre el primer ministro británico y el líder laborista antes de las elecciones del próximo día 4 de julio. Hablaremos de las posibilidades de Moldavia y Ucrania de entrar en la Unión Europea ahora que han comenzado las conversaciones sobre la adhesión. Sabremos más del aumento de la tensión en la frontera de Líbano y en qué puede derivar el conflicto con Israel. Estaremos pendientes de la situación del periodista acusado de espionaje en Moscú y profundizaremos en la decisión del gobierno de Estados Unidos de indultar a veteranos de guerra que habían sido condenados por ser homosexuales. Escuchar audio

Hoy es un día de gran significado para Ucrania y Moldavia porque hoy han comenzado las conversaciones formales sobre su posible adhesión a la UE. Ernesto Pascual, profesor de Estudios de Ciencia Política de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.Escuchar audio

Le dimissioni di Gantz in Israele, lo scioglimento del Parlamento francese e i colloqui per accedere all'UE dell'Ucraina e della Moldavia e

Georgia está viviendo las mayores protestas contra el Gobierno en muchas décadas. Una propuesta de ley que obliga a declarar la financiación extranjera de ONG y medios ha sacado a miles de personas a la calle. Dicen que es una ley prorrusa y autoritaria. El trasfondo es la tensión entre Rusia y Occidente. Un reportaje en Tiflis de Irene SavioBuena parte de las protestas que se hacen masivas surgen de forma espontánea. Jóvenes con banderas europeas de pronto se convierten en multitud.Pero el Gobierno acusa a la oposición de organizar estas marchas para perjudicarle en las próximas elecciones. “Es deliberado intento de su parte para desacreditar al Gobierno y provocar indignación pública”, afirmó Nika Samkharadze, del partido gubernamental Sueño Georgiano.Integración europeaQuienes protestan se sitúan claramente al otro lado de la barricada: denuncian violencia policial desmedida, y aseguran que la ley es similar a la que se usa en Rusia para perseguir a casi cualquier opositor. El objetivo es alejarles de la Unión Europea.“Mi generación valora la perspectiva de la integración europea aún más que mis padres y mis abuelos”, afirma Dachi Imedadze, del Grupo Vergüenza, una ONG en que defiende la integración de Georgia en la Unión Europea.Beka Kobakhidze, profesor de la Universidad de Ilya, pide no olvidar la disolución de la URSS, que dejó en herencia algunas zonas en limbos geopolíticos: “Georgia, Ucrania y Moldavia nos quedamos en una especie de zona gris, ya no éramos parte de Rusia, pero tampoco nos integraron en las organizaciones transatlánticas”, indica. Eso países mencionados, con la guerra de Ucrania, son aún más importantes para Occidente por los gasoductos y oleoductos que conectan Asia con Europa.Pero otra parte de la sociedad georgiana es más conservadora y mira con recelo el modelo europeo, como Saba un joven actor que ayuda en la basílica de la Trinidad de Tiflis, quien se queja porque “en Europa, hay muchas cosas importantes que no están bien para los cristianos” refiriéndose a las marchas gays, que le tiene preocupado tanto como a la Iglesia ortodoxa local. Y este es solo uno de los elemento disruptivo en un país cada vez más zarandeado por dos mundos en abierto conflicto.

Iulian Ciocan, il racconto della frontiera d'Europa tra le paure e l'attesa di un paese di confine dove gli sviluppi della guerra in Ucraina sono un allarme diretto alla sicurezza nazionale. Questa puntata di Europa Europa, in onda domenica alle 11,30, corre lungo i suoi confini, dove l'Europa per molti appare un miraggio e un obiettivo da conquistare, per altri però una minaccia. Ne parliamo con Francesco Testa, ricercatore e traduttore letterario che ha tradotto due dei tre romanzi che compongono la trilogia moldava di Ciocan. "E al mattino arriveranno i russi" (ed. BEE Radar), un libro che anticipa una realtà che già ne segna il presente.

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860 (CEU Press, 2024) offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising.  Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860 (CEU Press, 2024) offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising.  Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860 (CEU Press, 2024) offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising.  Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860 (CEU Press, 2024) offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising.  Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860 (CEU Press, 2024) offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising.  Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

La OTAN cumplió 75 años el día 4 de abril y, a diferencia de lo que sucedía cuando celebró su 70 aniversario en 2019, hoy nadie duda de su necesidad. La alianza se ha fortalecido desde que hace algo más de dos años Rusia invadiese Ucrania desencadenando una guerra cuyo fin nadie acierta a atisbar. Desde entonces dos nuevos países, Finlandia y Suecia, han ingresado en la OTAN y proliferan las misiones y ejercicios comunes. Días antes de que los ministros de exteriores de todos los Estados miembros se reuniesen en Bruselas para celebrar el cumpleaños, un total de 14 países realizaron un gran ejercicio denominado Crystal Arrow (flecha de cristal) en torno a la base de Adazi, situada unos kilómetros al norte de Riga, capital de Letonia. El Crystal Arrow no fue un ejercicio cualquiera, sino el mayor que ha organizado la OTAN desde hace casi cuarenta años, desde 1988 para ser más exactos, es decir, desde que la guerra fría daba sus últimas boqueadas. La zona elegida para el ejercicio se encontraba a sólo 300 kilómetros de la frontera rusa e involucró a más de 3.000 efectivos de infantería y unidades de acorazados. El ejercicio estuvo liderado por Canadá, pero el país que más soldados aportó fue España con 500 militares enviados desde el otro extremo del continente junto a sus carros de combate, tanques Leopard y piezas de artillería autopropulsada. El ejercicio partía del supuesto que una fuerza enemiga había cruzado la frontera que comparten Rusia y Letonia y se dirigía hacia Riga. Se trataba, por lo tanto, de un ejercicio concebido para repeler un ataque desde Rusia, lo que viene a indicar que todos los temores de la OTAN están concentrados hoy en ese tramo de frontera que la alianza tiene con Rusia. Desde hace años se ha reforzado la presencia militar en esta área, más concretamente en las tres repúblicas bálticas que son fronterizas por el este con Rusia y Bielorrusia. Este programa de defensa conjunta del flanco norte de la OTAN dio comienzo tras la anexión de Crimea. De Estonia a Bulgaria hay contingentes internacionales preparados para resistir un ataque, cada uno de ellos liderado por uno de los principales países miembros. La invasión de Ucrania no ha hecho más que intensificar la colaboración entre los aliados, que han reunido contingentes en todos los países que hacen frontera con Rusia, Bielorrusia, Ucrania y Moldavia. Cada una de las secciones está liderada por un miembro diferente: Polonia por Estados Unidos, Estonia por el Reino Unido, Letonia por Canadá, Lituania por Alemania, Rumanía por Francia y Bulgaria por Italia. La idea es transmitir al Kremlin que la OTAN está lista y entrenada para defender a cualquiera de sus miembros, especialmente a aquellos que se encuentran al alcance del ejército ruso. Esto desplaza el núcleo de acción desde la costa del Atlántico hasta las llanuras de Europa del este, convertido ya en muro de contención del expansionismo ruso. Para los ucranianos, que enfrentan en estos momentos una primavera y un verano complicados por la falta de armas y municiones hasta que vayan llegando los paquetes de ayuda de Europa y Estados Unidos, que la OTAN presente un frente unido y común es un gesto muy necesario ya que fueron ellos los que durante años advirtieron del peligro que representaba el régimen de Putin sin que nadie en Occidente les hiciese caso. En La ContraRéplica: - La imagen de Sánchez en el extranjero - La democracia amenazada - La deriva bolivariana · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #otan #europa Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Accedi a 60 giorni di ascolto gratuito su Audible: https://www.audible.it/ep/prova-audible?source=IIFALC5960222240010(offerta valida solo per i nuovi iscritti)Ascolta il podcast Sigonella85 da qui: https://www.audible.it/pd/Sigonella-85-La-sfida-atlantica-Podcast/B0CVXPN13W?source=IIFALC5960222240010 INSTANT GEOPOLITICA, il mio nuovissimo libro sulla Geopolitica: https://amzn.to/40RLZsiPROGETTO KIRGHIZISTAN: https://donorbox.org/reportage-kirghizistan-nova-lectioTesto e ricerca di Paolo ArigottiFonti:Canale YouTube Nova Lectio: “Transnistria: la repubblica separatista filo-russa tra Moldavia e Ucraina” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3aqmhBb7Qit.insideover.com/politica/la-battaglia-sulla-lingua-che-infiamma-la-moldavia.htmlwww.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Moldavia/Gagauzia-dove-il-separatismo-non-ha-vinto-91536it.insideover.com/politica/gagauzia-la-quinta-colonna-del-cremlino-al-voto.htmlwww.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/28/transnistria-tensions-could-russia-try-to-annex-moldovas-breakaway-statevoxnews.info/2024/03/07/putin-riceve-premier-provincia-moldava-ribelle-vi-difendero-io/formiche.net/2024/03/leve-di-potere-mosca-sfrutta-i-frozen-conflicts-in-trasnistria-e-gagauzia/#contentwww.lindipendente.online/2023/02/22/putin-ha-ritirato-il-decreto-che-assicurava-lintegrita-territoriale-alla-moldavia/it.insideover.com/politica/la-guerra-si-allarga-ecco-cosa-succede-davvero-in-moldavia.htmlwww.lindipendente.online/2023/11/05/amministrative-in-moldavia-escluso-partito-filo-russo/https://www.ilreportage.eu/2024/01/alla-scoperta-della-gagauzia-che-e-ancora-legata-a-mosca-testo-e-foto-di-gianluca-pardelli-e-pietro-romeo/https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-russia-moldova-gagauzia-evghenia-gutul/https://it.insideover.com/reportage/nazionalismi/gagauzia-un-enigma-geopolitico.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La Francia firma un accordo di collaborazione economica e militare con la Moldavia e la scelta degli irlandesi di non cambiare la Costituzione

La presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula Von der Leyen, ha pedido a los estados miembros que empiecen a pensar en la necesidad de utilizar los fondos rusos congelados desde que comenzara la invasión para destinarlos a ayuda militar para Kiev. La región separatista de Transnistria, en Moldavia, pide ayuda a Rusia. Hoy, además, vamos a hablar en el programa de los resultados de las primarias del estado de Michigan, en EEUU; tendremos entrevista sobre la sostenibilidad en ese país y conoceremos a un hombre israelí que perdió a su familia en el ataque de Hamas y aún así quiere que haya paz y acabe la guerra. Además, conoceremos más sobre un cantante palestino que podría representar a Islandia en Eurovision.Escuchar audio

Charlamos sobre el documental más reciente de Ricardo Marquina, reportero en el este de Europa. Hablamos sobre Moldavia, un país democrático joven que se divide entre la influencia rusa, europea y rumana.Escuchar audio

En el programa de hoy hablamos de Gaza pero también de la agenda judicial del que fuera presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. Nos iremos a Senegal y Mauritania, con nuestros enviados especiales, para conocer algunos proyectos relacionados con la migración. Y charlamos sobre la identidad de Moldavia.Escuchar audio