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FTSC Election
Ward Dossche - 2:2/1000
All RCs in all zones please be advized there is an election going
on for FTSC Standing Members. Your participation is important.
All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes"
or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can-
didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected.
The voting started Sunday, 27 February, 2022 and will conclude
Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC.
If you were listed as an RC in your zone's version of the world
nodelist.028 for 2022 then you're good to go.
These are the nominees.
Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted
Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes
James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes
Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes
Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a
cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all
candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC
addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote".
Voters need not vote for all candidates.
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| Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
|----------------------|-------------|----|----|
| | | | |
| Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | |
| James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | |
| Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | |
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Ward Dossche
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History repeats itself again and again
Ward Dossche - 2:292/854
From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy
and economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a
Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of
WW2.
War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that
doesn4t make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is.
In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near
Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit
of the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men,
women and children.
The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument.
I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers
also had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were
aware of the atrocity which they were committing without giving it
a second thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least
once in their life ...
78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent
civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good
at obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off
the brain. Follow the order and do not question.
It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly
women and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN
calls it and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its
bank-account for these people in need fleeing from ... from "what"
exactly ... A regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent
on annihilating a peaceful well organized European-style democracy
and economy ...
The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine
what the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland?
Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime.
But Russia has already committed war crimes the past week,
which they know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they
will not stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been
raped by Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ...
propaganda ... but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint
the actual story.
Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without
news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it.
It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or
you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the
darkest days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights
than in ... 2022 ...
Eventually Russia is going to do exactly as the Chinese did with
Tibet where the native polution was overwhelmed by an influx of
Han-Chinese and that way trying to destroy the age-old culture and
traditions of the Tibetans.
The same will happen in Ukraine, as a nation ... a people ... a
civilisation will be wiped-out. The country will be rebuilt by
ethnic Russians and hundreds of years of culture and civilisation
will be destroyed by the fire on pyres reminiscent of May 10 1933
when works of Ernest Hemmingway, Bertold Brecht, Heinrich Mann,
Ernst Glaeser, Erich Kaestner, Erich Maria Remarque and others were
deemed corrupted and decadent presaging an era of state censorship
and control of culture.
In the end the so-called de-Nazification by Putin will be
carried-out by strictly Nazi methodologies and policies ...
To stay mentally healthy, you look for rational explanations. But
some things are inexplicable. Western culture in the decades since
the Second World War has tried to explain everything, to be tolerant
and always to understand the other. But sometimes the other is simply
evil. Pure and simple. We had forgotten the existence of that evil.
Now we see the outcome of that mistake.
It is unbearable to see war as a simple product of an insane mind.
There must be a plan behind it, it must mean something. Who sets up
a catastrophe with their own hands, just because they can?
There's an interesting book explaining how Hitler could continue
his horrible policies against his own population ... "Hitler's
willing executioners" ... Who will write its sequel "Putin's willing executioners" ?
Putin has noticed that his number of followers has dwindled in the
last two years, and does not know how to save his presidency in a
country that is largely integrated into the Western world. So he
does something so horrific that the whole world shuts itself off
from him. Then locks the door from the inside. People are arrested
for standing on the street with a blank sheet of paper in their
hands, it is enough to hold it and get beaten. Perhaps Putin will
soon reach for an Iranian or North Korean scenario. If the
country is locked down, explicit protest is almost impossible.
Then every discourse, like the minds of the people, will be
divided into two versions, as in Soviet times. You stick to the
official story if they can see and hear you. In addition, there
is the story that is told within the family.
We need separate what is happening in Putin's head and what is
happening in Russia. Russia is not a collective brain. All polls,
even those of loyalist sociologists, clearly show that the country is
not united.
Support for the war varies in a country where people aren't
exactly open to a man with a microphone asking them what
they think of Putin or the war.
Russia needs a change of leadership real bad but a revolution is not
really possible anymore there. Putin's state has been preparing for
such a scenario since 2011. They are ready to consolidate its power.
Putin claims he is realigning a brother nation in Ukraine after
being led astray by a "fascist" leadership. How long can that story
last in Russia?
It's the style of newspaper articles from the 1930s and 40s. In
a sense, there is already a civil war raging in Russia and the
riot-police are already there. Putin is trying
to drag the people into a dark past and forcing them to think as
if the ideas and circumstances of eighty years ago still hold
true today.
Half of all Russians know someone in or outside Ukraine who can
paint the real picture for them. So it will be difficult to sell
the idea of Ukraine as a Nazi state or historical slave state,
as Putin is trying to do.
Russians cannot continue to pretend that nothing is wrong and to
avoid "war" as the subject. Not talking about it but making its
presence inaudibly known is also a way to protest.
Sometimes silence is a statement on its own.
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2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Call for Votes
Andrew Leary - 1:1/19@fidonet
2022 FTSC standing member election, call for votes
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Voting for FTSC standing members commences on Sunday, 27 February,
2022, 20:00 UTC.
All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes"
or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can-
didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected.
Although not required, voters are encouraged to consult their
constituency before casting their votes. Debate with the candidates
is also encouraged. No need to hurry.
Voting ends on Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC.
The status of RC's will be determined by nodelist.028 of this year
by the list as issued by the ZC in the zone where they reside.
This is the list of nominees.
Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted
Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes
James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes
Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes
Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a
cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all
candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC
addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote".
Once again, voters need not vote for all candidates.
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| Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
|----------------------|-------------|----|----|
| | | | |
| Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | |
| James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | |
| Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | |
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Regards,
Andrew
FTSC Election Coordinator
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