Force of Intent - Lidia Thorpe

Australian woman-politician

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‘Absolute maniac’: Lidia Thorpe torched for ‘shrieking’ during nuclear press conference - 6.2.2025
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Nuclear engineer responds to heckling incident involving Lidia Thorpe. Nuclear engineer and 2023 Miss America Grace Stanke has responded to the heckling she faced from Senator Lidia Thorpe during a pro-nuclear press conference where she claimed that nuclear was “poisonous. If that certainly is a fear, I think people should start spending some more time indoors because after all, when you’re stepping outside, you’re getting exposed to radiation. When you’re eating a banana, you’re eating radiation,” Ms Stanke said. The whole deeper message behind this is that people need to understand where the facts are, they need to understand the science and they need to know where to ask questions.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Thorpe

Lidia Thorpe - Senator for Victoria, Incumbent (возложенный как долг/обязанность). Assumed office 4 September 2020
Preceded by Richard Di Natale - Deputy Leader of the Greens in the Senate. In office. 10 June 2022 – 20 October 2022. Leader - Adam Bandt. Preceded by Office established
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Northcote. In office 18 November 2017 – 24 November 2018. Preceded by Fiona Richardson.
Succeeded by Kat Theophanous.
Personal details
Born Lidia Alma Thorpe 18 August 1973 Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Political party Independent (since 2023)
Other political affiliations Greens (until 2023)
Relatives Alma Thorpe (grandmother), Robbie Thorpe (uncle) Children 3.

Lidia Alma Thorpe (born 18 August 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023, when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and became a key figure in the "progressive No" campaign for the Voice referendum in October 2023. Thorpe served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022. Thorpe has previously been a member of the Victorian Parliament. On winning the Northcote state by-election on 18 November 2017, she became the first known Aboriginal woman elected to the state's parliament. She served as the member for the division of Northcote in the Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2018.
Thorpe has received media attention for her support of the Blak Sovereign Movement and her criticism of the legitimacy of Australian political institutions, which she views as the legacy of colonialism.
Early life and education
Lidia Alma Thorpe was born on 18 August 1973 in Carlton, Victoria, to Roy Illingworth and Marjorie Thorpe. She is of English, Irish, Djab Wurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara descent. Thorpe grew up in Housing Commission flats in Collingwood and went to Gold Street Primary School in Clifton Hill. She studied Year 7 at Fitzroy High School, Year 8 at Collingwood High, returned to Fitzroy High for Year 9, but left soon afterwards, at the age of 14. She has stated that, at school, she was harassed "as a black kid," and she would retaliate by punching "boys and the girls out," instead of which, now, she says, "I’ve learnt to use my mouth." Her first job was working with her uncle Robbie Thorpe at the Koori Information Centre at 120 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, which at that time was "a hub of Black political activity". She says that from that
day onward, she has worked continuously, apart from six-month breaks after the birth of each of her children. She won the 2021 Social Impact Award from Swinburne University of Technology, from which she graduated in 2007 with a Diploma of Community Development.
Early career
Thorpe has worked as a project manager with the East Gippsland Shire Council, Indigenous manager at Centrelink and manager at Lake Tyers Aboriginal Training Centre. Thorpe was the co-chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee from 2014 to 2017.
Bankruptcy
In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia and A$55,000 owed
to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence, stating "like many survivors of family
violence, I ended up losing everything in a bid to protect myself and my family from an impossible situation". Her ex-husband, who was an alcoholic, confirmed her account of the marriage breakdown. She was discharged from bankruptcy in 2016.
Victorian Legislative Assembly. Thorpe at a rally in Melbourne in 2019
Thorpe won the seat of Northcote at the 2017 by-election on 18 November 2017 after receiving 45.22% of the primary vote, which became 50.93% after the distribution of preferences. She was sworn in as a member of parliament on 28 November 2017 and delivered her first speech to the assembly the following day. Thorpe was the Australian Greens Victoria portfolio holder for Aboriginal Justice, Consumer Affairs, Skills and Training, Sport and Mental Health. In May 2018, she organised a historic gathering of Aboriginal Elders at the Parliament of Victoria to discuss the state's treaty processes. The meeting was organised as part of Thorpe's campaign to implement clan-based treaties, which would recognise the approximately 100 Aboriginal clans in Victoria. At the time, Thorpe said: "Our sovereignty and each of our language groups and our Clans must be clearly recognised in the government's treaty advancement legislation." The delegation of clan elders unanimously agreed to form an elders council. Thorpe supported the Victorian Government's 2018 treaty bill, but stated that she would continue to push for clan sovereignty to be recognised as the treaty process advances. Thorpe lost her seat to Labor candidate Kat Theophanous at the 2018 Victorian state election, with her term finishing on 19 December 2018. She told ABC Radio Melbourne: "We need to have a good look at ourselves and have a review of what this election has done to our party, losing quite a considerable amount of Greens members." She said Labor ran a "dirty campaign" against her, but conceded, that negative coverage due to internal party scandals had also contributed to her defeat.
Senate
Thorpe being sworn into parliament in October 2020. In June 2020, Thorpe was preselected by Victorian Greens members to fill the federal Senate vacancy created by former leader Richard Di Natale's resignation. She was appointed to the vacancy at a joint sitting of the Victorian Parliament on 4 September and sworn in on 6 October 2020. She is the first Aboriginal woman to represent Victoria in the Senate and the first Aboriginal federal parliamentarian from the Greens. Following the May 2022 federal election, at which she was re-elected, Thorpe was elected by the Greens party as its deputy leader in the Senate. In a speech to Parliament in May 2021, Thorpe commented negatively on bail legislation being introduced into the Northern Territory and expressed the assumption that the Attorney-General of the Northern Territory is a white male. The Attorney-General, Selena Uibo, an Aboriginal woman, commented that Thorpe is not qualified to speak on Northern Territory issues.
In December 2021, Thorpe interjected to speaking Liberal senator Hollie Hughes the remark, "at least, I keep my legs shut", during a Senate discussion about people living with disabilities. When challenged on the remark, Thorpe told the Chamber: "I just got a view of something over there that disturbed me. But I'm happy to retract." Hughes viewed the statement as a reference to her autistic son, and was reportedly left in tears. Later in the evening, Thorpe admitted to "inappropriate remarks" and "unreservedly" apologised, but denied any direct reference to Hughes's family. In December 2021, following a fire that damaged the Old Parliament House in Canberra, Thorpe was criticised for tweeting "Seems like the colonial system is burning down. Happy New Year everyone #AlwayswasAlwayswillBeAboriginalLand". The tweet was criticised by members of both the Coalition and Australian Labor Party. Thorpe deleted the tweet an hour later. In a June 2022 interview, Thorpe said that the parliament has "no permission to be here [in Australia]" and that she’s a parliament member "only" so she can "infiltrate" the "colonial project." She added that the Australian flag had "no permission to be" in the land. Aboriginal, conservative senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price denounced Thorpe's comments as "divisive" and "childish," and called for her dismissal from the parliament. In August 2022, during her swearing-in ceremony, Thorpe added the words "the colonising" in the required Oath of Allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II, saying I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the colonising Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Australia, Her heirs and successors according to law."
Thorpe was immediately criticised by fellow senators. After an instruction by Labor the President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines and interjections from others that the oath must be taken word-by-word, Thorpe recited the pledge once more, this time omitting the two words.
On 16 April 2023, footage emerged of Thorpe in a verbal altercation with men outside a Melbourne strip club. Thorpe was filmed telling a number of people they had a "small penis" and were "marked". She claimed the men provoked the altercation by harassing her. The manager of the club claimed she provoked the incident by approaching white patrons, telling them they had "stolen her land;" he announced he was banning Thorpe from the club "for life." During a 2023 parliamentary hearing, while questioning the allocation of funding to Northern Territory police forces, Thorpe walked out of a Senate Estimates hearing after being called a "disgrace to her people" by Labor's assistant minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy, Aboriginal senator for the Northern Territory. On 14 June 2023, during the Senate's examination of the 2021 allegations of sexual misconduct in the institution, Thorpe accused Senator David Van of sexually assaulting her in the premises. Van denied the allegation as "disgusting," "unfounded and completely untrue," though he admitted that in 2021 he had moved his office after Thorpe had submitted complaints about "his conduct in parliament." Van was expelled from the Liberal Party. When asked about her relations with Senate colleagues, Thorpe stated she gets along well with Malcolm Roberts of One Nation and Matt Canavan of the National Party, despite Roberts and Canavan coming from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum.
Relationship with biker gang ex-leader
While holding the justice portfolio for the Greens party and serving on the joint parliamentary law-enforcement committee, Thorpe was in a relationship with Dean Martin, ex-president of the Rebels outlaw biker gang. Martin had been president of the Rebels in Victoria, and had been charged and pleaded guilty to liquor offences in 2013. As a member of the committee, Thorpe became privy to confidential briefings about motorcycle gangs and organised crime. She had not disclosed the relationship, which was only revealed when her staff, who became aware of the relationship in mid-2021, notified party leader Adam Bandt's office and an independent parliamentary authority. In August 2021, when confidential, law-enforcement committee, briefing documents concerning motorcycle gangs arrived in her office, one of her staffers urged her to inform the party leader but she failed to do so. She told the staffer that "she was being really careful", in that she used encrypted social media to communicate with Martin, and that she was deleting conversations between them weekly, while, ostensibly, they would never meet at either one's home. The matter was referred to the Australian Federal Police. On 20 October 2021, it was reported that, following a complaint from one of her staff, the Department of Finance was reviewing the "culture" of Thorpe's office. On 24 October 2022, Thorpe referred herself to the Senate privileges committee about her relationship with Martin.
Resignation from the Greens' deputy leadership
On 20 October 2022, ABC News revealed that Thorpe had been dating Martin in 2021. Thorpe resigned from her position as Greens' deputy leader in the Senate, shortly after. Following the revelation, Thorpe faced a censure motion in the Senate. ALP senator Helen Polley, the head of the joint parliamentary law enforcement committee, of which Thorpe had been a member, said, with regard to Thorpe's position as a senator: "She should consider if it's the right place for her". Thorpe stated, she continues to be friends with Martin. In March 2023, a parliamentary investigation cleared Thorpe of contempt of parliament. The committee found that Thorpe did not disclose any sensitive information to Martin, but stated she should have declared their relationship to avoid the perception of a conflict of interest.
Resignation from the Greens party: independent senator
On 6 February 2023, Thorpe announced, that she would resign from the Greens to become an independent senator, sitting on the cross-bench, over disagreements, concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In a statement, Thorpe stated, that "This country has a strong grassroots Black Sovereign Movement, full of staunch (стойкий, лояльный) and committed warriors, and I want to represent that movement fully in this Parliament. It has become clear to me, that I can't do that from within the Greens."
Progressive No in the 2023 Referendum - Further information: Uluru Statement from the Heart and 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.
In 2023, Australians were invited to vote Yes or No in a referendum, titled the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, the first referendum in the country since 1999, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described, when introducing it, as a "gracious request", that would give Indigenous people much needed input in policies, that impact their lives. The proposal was not met with unanimous support by Indigenous Australians. Thorpe, while condemning various "racist" voices of opposition to it, attacked the Indigenous Voice proposal as "nothing, but cheap window dressing," and called it a "distraction from the keys to real change: Truth-telling and the recognition of Indigenous sovereignty." She became a "key figure" in the so-called Progressive No campaign, acknowledging, that the proposal has deeply divided the Indigenous community. The referendum was held on 14 October 2023 and, with a turnout of 89.95%, the proposal was rejected by 60.06% of the voters.
Allegation against MP
In an estimates hearing held in June 2024, which examined covid-19 stimulus funding, Thorpe asked land-council executives, whether a grant equal to some $400,000 had been diverted by the Northern Land Council, which represents Aboriginals, towards building at the Twin Hill Station cattle business company a "holiday house" for Marion Scrymgour, indigenous politician and Lingiari federal MP. Thorpe's questioning during the hearing falls under parliamentary privilege, but since the senator repeated the accusation on social media, Scrymgour stated, that a concerns notice would be issued to Senator Thorpe, since she intends to pursue legal action against the Victorian senator for defamation.

Heckle of King Charles III

ВЫСОКИЙ БЕЛЫЙ КЛОН - КОРОЛЬ ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ - ЧАРЛЗ С ГРУППОЙ ТАКИХ ЖЕ TALL WHITE КЛОНОВ В ПАРЛАМЕНТЕ АВСТРАЛИИ ТОЛКАЕТ РЕЧЬ ПО ШПАРГАЛКЕИ В ЭТОТ МОМЕНТ В ЗАЛ ВРЫВАЕТСЯ АВСТРАЛИЙСКИЙ СЕНАТОР- ЛИДИЯ THORPE И КРИЧИТ ЕМУ: "ТЫ ОТНЯЛ У НАС ЗЕМЛИ, ТЫ НЕ МОЙ КОРОЛЬ!" ИНТЕРЕСНО ТО, ЧТО НИ ОДИН ИЗ ГЛАВ АВСТРАЛИЙСКИХ ШТАТОВ (PREMIERS) НЕ ЗАХОТЕЛ ВСТРЕЧАТЬ КОРОЛЯ БРИТАНИИ, А ТОЛЬКО АВСТРАЛИЙСКИЙ ГЛАВА АВСТРАЛИИ (PRIME-MINISTER) - ALBANESE (АНГЛО-САКСОН) - ОКТЯБРЬ 2024

On 21 October 2024, Thorpe heckled (прерывать оратора критическими замечаниями,выкриками,вопросами) King Charles III by shouting "This is not your land, you are not my King" and making claims of genocide against "our people", after he finished an address at Australia's Parliament House, as part of his royal visit to Australia. As she was escorted away by security, she was heard yelling "Fuck the Colony". Ngunnawal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan, who had been with the royals at an official greeting party the same day and was sitting in the Parliament House during Thorpe's protest, stated the heckling was "disrespectful" and that Lidia Thorpe does not speak for her and her people. The heckle was also condemned by Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia who commented that the heckling was not of the standard Australians rightly expect of parliamentarians, as well as Peter Dutton, Leader of the Opposition, who called on Thorpe to resign from the Senate. In the aftermath of the incident, she was asked about the oath she had recited and signed during her swearing-in process, in which she had sworn allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II and "her heirs". Thorpe claimed she had instead said "her hairs". Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey stated in response, that the signed oath would have stated "heirs", and that the presiding officer could exclude Senator Thorpe, if they believed a valid oath had not been sworn. Simon Birmingham, leader of the opposition in the Senate, announced, that the coalition is considering "legal opinions" on the validity of the senator's constitutional duty of affirmation. Thorpe, subsequently, revised her claim, stating that, when she was being sworn in as a senator, she "mispronounced" heirs, as hairs, "without meaning to do so", and did not do it deliberately. In the statement, she added, that "they can't get rid of me," pointing out she's "got another three and a half years [of service in the Senate]." On 18 November 2024, Thorpe was censured by the Australian Senate. The Senate's censure, which passed 46–12, described Thorpe's actions, as "disrespectful and disruptive" and said, they should disqualify her from representing the chamber, as a member of any delegation. A censure motion is politically symbolic, but carries no constitutional or legal weight.

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Suspension from Senate

On 27 November 2024, Thorpe was suspended from the Senate for the remainder of that sitting year for "disorderly conduct" following a confrontation with One Nation's Pauline Hanson after Hanson questioned the eligibility of Mehreen Faruqi to sit in parliament under foreign citizenship requirements. Thorpe is said to have shouted, that Hanson was "a convicted racist" and thrown torn-up paper in Hanson's direction, before walking out with her middle finger raised. The morning after her suspension, Thorpe entered the Senate through the press gallery and yelled "Free Palestine" with her fist raised, before departing of her own accord. Thorpe also attended a rally outside the building, during which she described the "disciplinary colonial actions", levelled against her, as a "badge (символ) of honour" and stated, that she felt the Senate was a "very violent workplace", consisting of "mainly white men in suits, who look down on people like me."

Assault

After The Australian published a report in October 2024 stating, that Thorpe had missed 16 of the Senate’s 44 sitting days that year, she revealed, that she was recovering from injuries sustained in an assault on 25 May, while attending an Australian Rules Football match in Melbourne. The suspect, a 28-year-old indigenous woman, was charged, following her arrest on 25 July, with two counts of recklessly causing injury and three counts of unlawful assault at a stadium. The two women, reportedly, know each other. A police statement described the senator’s injuries from the alleged assault as minor. Thorpe stated, that she had "sustained serious nerve and spinal injuries in [her] neck, which required spinal surgery and a plate to be inserted".

Various roles and interests

Thorpe is or has been the delegate for the Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, the Victorian representative to the National Advisory Committee for The Smith Family, and co-chair of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Lidia Thorpe plays Australian rules football and netball.

Activist

Thorpe has supported the Pay the Rent campaign, which calls on non-Aboriginal Australians to voluntarily pay reparations through an organisation of the same name. Thorpe has been critical of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, believing there should be a treaty before an Indigenous voice to government. Thorpe led a walk-out of the Uluru convention, believing, that it was "hijacked by Aboriginal corporations and establishment appointments and did not reflect the aspirations of ordinary Indigenous people". On Australia Day 2019, an inaugural dawn service organised by Thorpe was held at the Kings Domain Resting Place, as a day of mourning and reflection on the colonisation of Australia with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in attendance for the ceremony. On 25 February 2023, Thorpe, after walking behind the police float, that was taking part in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade and shouting slogans against police violence, laid down in front of the float in protest against the participation of the police in the parade. The parade was temporarily halted and eventually Thorpe walked away without being arrested. In March 2023, footage emerged of Thorpe being tackled to the ground by a police officer, while attending a demonstration outside of Parliament House. Thorpe was part of a group countering an anti-transgender rights rally at Parliament House, in which Party of Women leader and anti-transgender rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull was taking part. Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus was reported to be investigating the matter and having sought advice from the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. Thorpe claimed her treatment by the police constituted assault, while the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, stated the incident was "disturbing and concerning."
Award
Thorpe was awarded the Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership in 2008.

Personal life and family

Thorpe's grandmother, Alma Thorpe, was one of the founders of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in 1973, the year of Lidia's birth, and was also involved in the setting up of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Her mother, Marjorie Thorpe, was a co-commissioner for the Stolen Generations inquiry, that produced the Bringing Them Home report in the 1990s and later a member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and a preselected Greens federal candidate for Gippsland. Both Alma and her mother, Edna Brown, were Koori activists in Footscray and Collingwood. Edna had been forcibly moved out of Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve in 1932, aged 15, before becoming a community activist. Edna was married to James Brown, of Scottish/Australian descent. Thorpe's sister is Meriki Onus, who co-founded the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) collective, that was a driving force behind the Australian Aboriginal Sovereignty movement. Her uncle is activist Robbie Thorpe, who is linked to some of the earliest struggles for Aboriginal Australian self-determination, and also involved with the Pay The Rent campaign. She became a single mother at the age of 17. She has three children, from "relationships that never lasted," and as of April 2022 four grandchildren. Thorpe was reportedly in a relationship with Gavan McFadzean, manager of the Climate Change and Clean Energy Program at the Australian Conservation Foundation, from 2019 to 2022.

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In a May 2024 interview with Reuters in the tin-roofed house that Mujica shared with his wife, former Senator Lucia Topolansky, he said he had kept the old Beetle and that it was still in "phenomenal" condition. But, he added, he preferred a turn on the tractor, saying it was "more entertaining" than a car and was a place where "you have time to think." Critics questioned Mujica's tendency to break with protocol, while his blunt and occasionally uncouth statements sometimes forced him to explain himself, under pressure from opponents and political allies alike. But it was his down-to-earth style and progressive musings that endeared him to many Uruguayans.
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BEHIND BARS

Jose Mujica's birth certificate recorded him as born in 1935, although he claimed there was an error and that he was actually born a year earlier. He once described his upbringing as "dignified poverty." Mujica's father died when he was 9 or 10 years old, and as a boy he helped his mother maintain the farm, where they grew flowers and kept chickens and a few cows. At the time Mujica became interested in politics, Uruguay's left was weak and fractured and he began his political career in a progressive wing of the center-right National Party. In the late 1960s, he joined the Marxist Tupamaros guerrilla movement, which sought to weaken Uruguay's conservative government through robberies, political kidnappings and bombings. Mujica later said that he had never killed anyone but was involved in several violent clashes with police and soldiers and was once shot six times. Uruguay's security forces gained the upper hand over the Tupamaros by the time the military swept to power in a 1973 coup, marking the start of a 12-year dictatorship in which about 200 people were kidnapped and killed. Thousands more were jailed and tortured. Mujica spent almost 15 years behind bars, many in solitary confinement, lying at the bottom of an old horse trough with only ants for company. He managed to escape twice, once by tunneling into a nearby house. His biggest "vice" as he approached 90, he later said, was talking to himself, alluding to his time in isolation. When democracy was restored to the farming country of roughly 3 million people in 1985, Mujica was released and returned to politics, gradually becoming a prominent figure on the left. He served as agriculture minister in the center-left coalition of his predecessor, President Tabaré Vázquez, who would go on to succeed him from 2015 to 2020. Mujica's support base was on the left, but he maintained a fluid dialogue with opponents within the center-right, inviting them to traditional barbecues at his home.
"We can't pretend to agree on everything. We have to agree with what there is, not with what we like," he said. He believed drugs should be decriminalized "under strict state control" and addiction addressed. "I do not defend drug use. But I can't defend (a ban) because now we have two problems: drug addiction, which is a disease, and narcotrafficking, which is worse," he said. In retirement, he remained resolutely optimistic. "I want to convey to all the young people that life is beautiful, but it wears out and you fall," he said following a cancer diagnosis. "The point is to start over every time you fall, and if there is anger, transform it into hope."

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Всё конечно звучит неплохо на словах, но это нужно было делать не с такими "лидерами" и не в конце Планетарной Игры! Владимир Ленин

https://holod.media/2024/06/17/rossijskomu-biznesu-predlozhili/
Министр по развитию Дальнего Востока и Арктики Алексей Чекунков написал статью для РБК, в котором сформулировал принципы «патриотического социализма» и новой индустриализации в России. Он предложил особый путь для победы над рыночным предпринимательством в международной конкурентной борьбе и сравнил занятие бизнесом в России с бейсджампингом. По его словам, повторить советский опыт развития Арктики и Дальнего Востока
в современных условиях невозможно. «Строить города на мерзлоте, копать тысячи километров шахт и прокладывать тысячи километров дорог подневольным трудом больше не получится», — убежден Чекунков. Он также отметил, что попытки привлекать людей «на севера» зарплатами в три-пять раз больше рыночных приведут лишь к появлению неконкурентоспособных предприятий, росту инфляции и оскудению ресурсов для всего населения страны. «Любой подход к развитию стратегических территорий, где мало людей, но много ресурсов, должен быть нацелен на создание конкурентоспособной экономики и достойных условий для жизни, невзирая на расстояния и климат», — подчеркнул министр. Он также отметил, что неприменим в России и опыт развития крупнейших экономик Азии. «Главным ресурсом, который на протяжении десятилетий успешно использовали азиатские страны, был дешевый дисциплинированный труд.
По мере накопления благосостояния вместо дешевого он становился производительным — благодаря освоению передовых технологий. Еще один фактор успеха — культура предпринимательства. Произвести дешевле, продать больше, улучшить, повторять бесконечно», — пояснил Чекунков. Он напомнил, что в Китае, Японии и Корее более 30 миллионов частных компаний, которые «отчаянно конкурируют между собой и со всем миром, в процессе создавая все более совершенные товары, наполняя бюджеты и обогащая свои народы». В своей статье Чекунков пишет, что для России актуален другой путь. По его словам, «пройдя через грехи быстрого накопления капитала в 90-е, российское предпринимательство так и осталось в восприятии большей части общества чем-то аморальным и паразитическим». При этом «иммунной реакцией государственного организма стало “очищающее” внимание силовиков к предпринимателям, делающее бизнес занятием сродни бейсджампингу». Это, по мнению Чекункова, и стало причиной того, что доля частного сектора в России стабильно снижается вот уже двадцать лет, а самих предпринимателей «не видно ни в завоевании новых рынков, ни в авангарде инноваций». Альтернативой массовому предпринимательству министр считает культуру служения и созидания. «Вместо неприжившихся “бизнеса»/«предпринимателей”, увязших в заботе правоохранителей, на первый план выйдут созидатели — более альтруистичные и патриотичные, но не менее конкурентные, чем охотники за прибылью», — убежден министр. По его словам, в связке с такими «созидателями» будут работать «служители». Так Чекунков называет наследников традиций Горчакова, Муравьева-Амурского и Косыгина.

СРОЧНО! ПЁТР ТОЛСТОЙ СХВАТИЛ ЗА ШКИРКУ ВЯЧЕСЛАВА ВОЛОДИНА - 17.5.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiYV3bvOLIk

Как коммунисты правительство напугали... 17.5.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMGRjqBbPRc

Петр Толстой "МЫ ЗАПУСТИМ МИГРАНТОВ НА РУБЛЁВКУ, ЧТОБЫ ВЫ ПРОЧУВСТВОВАЛИ ИХ "ЛЮБОВЬ"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ITvh9LcOg

НЕМНОГО О КОСЫГИНЕ

Косыгин увлекался спортом: гребля, лыжи, бег, волейбол, горные походы, «городки», — и держал себя в тонусе. Активные занятия спортом Алексей Николаевич прекратил после микроинсульта в 1978 году. В 1967 году личным распоряжением Косыгин вдвое (со 120 до 250 рублей) увеличил пенсию В. М. Молотову. К. Т. Мазуров вспоминал: «Только этому не будем говорить, — сказал Алексей Николаевич и провёл пальцем по бровям. — Молотов есть Молотов». Летом 1969 года 65-летний Косыгин со своим близким другом 69-летним президентом Финляндии Урхо Кекконенном совершили пеший переход через Кавказский хребет. 1 августа 1976 года, во время прогулки на байдарке, потерял сознание и чуть не утонул, пережив клиническую смерть, что резко подорвало его здоровье.

Во главе Совета министров СССР (1964—1980)

На заседании Президиума ЦК КПСС, проходившего 13—14 октября 1964 года, когда обсуждался вопрос о снятии Н. С. Хрущёва, Косыгин назвал стиль правления Хрущёва «не ленинским» и поддержал группу, выступавшую за его смещение. Восьмая пятилетка (1966—1970), прошедшая под знаком экономических реформ Косыгина, стала самой успешной в советской истории и получила название «золотой». В 1970 году национальный доход достиг уровня 186 % по отношению к 1960 году, производство предметов потребления — 203 %, розничный товарооборот — 198 %, фонд зарплаты — 220 %. Экономический успех был достигнут за счёт расширения хозяйственной самостоятельности предприятий, резкого сокращения утверждаемых сверху показателей. Вместо показателя валовой продукции устанавливался показатель реализованной продукции, вместо показателя себестоимости — показатели прибыли и рентабельности, повышалось значение хозяйственных связей предприятий, договорных отношений между субъектами микроэкономики. При посредничестве советской дипломатии и лично Косыгина в 1966 году была подписана Ташкентская декларация — соглашение о прекращении военных действий между Индией и Пакистаном. По свидетельству В. И. Варенникова, в 1979 году Косыгин был единственным членом Политбюро, не поддержавшим решение об отправке советских войск в Афганистан, и с этого момента у него произошёл полный разрыв с Брежневым и его окружением. 21 октября 1980 года освобождён от обязанностей члена Политбюро ЦК КПСС, 23 октября — от обязанностей Председателя Совета Министров СССР на основании поданного заявления в связи с ухудшением состояния здоровья. По воспоминаниям члена Политбюро ЦК КПСС, первого секретаря Московского горкома КПСС В. В. Гришина, Косыгин, уже находясь в больнице, переживал за осуществление предстоящей 11-й пятилетки (1981—1985 годы), опасался её полной неудачи, говорил о нежелании Политбюро конструктивно заниматься решением этого вопроса. В октябре 1979 года пережил тяжёлый инфаркт. Умер в больнице 18 декабря 1980 года после внезапной остановки сердца (попросту был убит и тело сожжено, Ленин). О кончине «видного деятеля Коммунистической партии и Советского государства» официальная советская пресса сообщила только через три дня. Прощание прошло в Центральном доме Советской Армии. После кремации тела Алексея Косыгина в ночь на 23 декабря, днём после траурного митинга на Красной площади в Москве состоялись похороны; урну с прахом в Кремлёвской стене установил Н. А. Тихонов, ранее сменивший Косыгина на посту председателя Совета министров СССР.

«Принципы патриотического социализма»

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/17/06/2024/666fdd079a7947d7daecd349
Откуда взять средства для новой индустриализации? России удалось достичь почти кратного роста благосостояния с 2000 года без наращивания долга.
Госдолг в России составляет 18% от ВВП — очень комфортный уровень (когда говорят о государственных долгах, то это долги ЕВРЕЙСКИМ БАНКАМ ! ЛЕНИН).
Китай обременен в четыре раза больше; США — в семь раз, Япония — в 15 раз. На душу населения Россия должна $3 тыс.; Китай — $10 тыс., а США — $104 тыс. Большинство развитых стран мира тащат на себе тяжелый финансовый горб, в период высоких процентных ставок он давит все сильнее и отрастает еще больше. Почти четверть века мы прошли с постоянным профицитом бюджета — невиданное состояние для зарубежных стран, где политики бесконечно соревнуются в яркости обещаний и каждые несколько лет вынуждены что-то из этих обещаний оплачивать, невзирая на последствия. И четверть века мы разумно распоряжались экспортной выручкой, не разменивая золото (нефть/газ/зерно/рыбу и т.д.) на иностранные бусы, а инвестируя в инфраструктуру и развитие собственных отраслей. Однако накопленный потенциал для роста долга рано или поздно нужно будет реализовать для форсирования развития, иначе отставание в передовых технологиях будет нарастать экспоненциально. Долговой стимул нужно использовать для создания новых производств и инфраструктуры, которые сделают экономику сильнее. Плавное замещение рыночных предпринимателей и неэффективных гос-корп-менеджеров созидателями возможно путем направления долгового капитала в созидательные проекты, согласованные государством. Союз служителей и созидателей, оплаченный более смело используемым госдолгом. Слушая послание президента Федеральному собранию в начале года, мне пришло на ум определение общественного строя, в котором мы живем: патриотический социализм. У нас высокий уровень социальной поддержки всех групп населения со стороны государства и высокий уровень консолидации общества вокруг государственных приоритетов. Сугубо капиталистические механизмы, такие как рыночное предпринимательство, в нашем контексте сбоят. Отсюда необходимость новых ролевых моделей служителей и созидателей для ускорения развития с учетом особенностей нашей истории, географии и менталитета. Для того чтобы победить рыночное предпринимательство в международной конкурентной борьбе, развитие по пути служения и созидания должно опираться на три принципа. Справедливость. Прозрачные и справедливые правила для всех, соблюдаемые служителями и созидателями. Это важнейший запрос общества, и начинать всегда нужно с самих себя. Соревновательность. Не жалеть себя. Не отказываться от конкуренции, а стараться все делать лучше других. Наша история знает массу примеров, когда у нас это получалось. Культура. Культура побеждает все. Это и великая русская культура с ее гигантами из прошлого, и культура общения, и культура производства, и внутренняя культура. Культура поступать правильно, когда никто не смотрит.
В современном дичающем мире это - наш уникальный шанс.