Tonight, we bid farewell to one of DC’s best #Ambassadors, #AudraPlepyte
We will miss you, and wish you the best of luck in your new role back home in #Lithuania!
#Ambassadors
#CAPS 2025 is about to start tomorrow in Portland (USA). ECSA and the ECS project will be there to bring our contribution to mainstreaming #citizenscience.
https://participatorysciences.org/conferences/caps-2025/
In particular the ECS project will present the #networks of #publiclibraries and #ambassadors in #europe, and the ECS Academy.
@HarriettMB I do expect @antidiskriminierung and @AuswaertigesAmt to affirm #AntiDiscrimination #laws and either force the #US embassy & consulates to comply with #Germany's laws or close and cease operations.
- After all, #Ambassadors are guests and #Embassies are to be operated with #acceptance and #respect of the host country as per #ViennaConvention.
If the #USA refuses to acknowledge that, they there is no basis for #diplomacy and I urge #contractors to press charges for #blackmail and #coercion if they get approached to fulfill for such #racist, #sexist, #ableist and otherwise #discriminatory demands because doing so violates national and #EU #laws!
Even-though Donald Trump is now president of the USA. This documentary film is still worth watching.
"Reporter Mark Willacy sits down with White House insiders who witnessed the chaos of Trump’s first term — some who continue to support his vision, and others Trump now considers “traitors”.
Trump wants to reshape the pillars of American democracy and give himself more power. Willacy goes inside “Project 2025”, the blueprint for a second Trump term and the army of recruits ready to carry out his orders.
Meanwhile strategy, security and defence experts warn of the impact another Trump presidency could have on America’s institutions, its democracy, and the rest of the world."— Four Corners
Investigating Trump, Project 2025 & the Future of the United States >
https://youtu.be/t3jqALQgBzw?feature=shared
#USA #DonaldTrump #Project2025 #Idiocy #CIA #CounterIntelligence #Ambassadors #HomelandSecurity #EU #Communications #CivilDisorder #DepartmentOfJustice #NATO #Congressmen #Congresswomen #InvestigativeCounsel #Democracy #HeritageFoundation #POTUS
How representative is the case of Al-Ḥāǧǧ Yūsuf?
Bono #diplomats had different backgrounds. Some were relatives to the sultans, such as the already mentioned Idrīs b. Muḥammad or Cidi Ismael who went to Tripoli in 1655. Other #ambassadors were slaves or eunuchs, and then there were traders. All these people had somehow close personal bonds to the ruler.
The case of al-Ḥāǧǧ Yūsuf reveals another common characteristic of many Sahelian ambassadors in the 16th century: their shared experience of the ḥaǧǧ, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. (5/5)
#NewDiplomaticHistory #Africa #BlackHistoryMonth #histodons #history #histodons
Unlike for the European context, there are in fact no biographies or autobiographies from sub-Saharan #ambassadors in the #earlymodern period.
This is due to the scarcity of sources. However, in his study, Dewiere traced the background and activities of al-Ḥāǧǧ Yūsuf, a key actor of the negotiations that occurred between 1577 and 1583, and discussed him as the epitome of a Sahelian #ambassador: (2/5)
Rémi Dewière: Al-Ḥāǧǧ Yūsuf, Epitome of a Sahelian Ambassador? (1574–1583); In: Gebke, Julia / Mai, Stephan / Muigg, Christof (ed.): Das Diplomatische Selbst in der Frühen Neuzeit
Verhandlungsstrategien, Erzählstrategien, Beziehungsdynamiken (Münster 2022), 257-271.
https://www.aschendorff-buchverlag.de/digibib/?digidownload&tid=24863
#emdiplomacy #NewDiplomaticHistory #Africa #BlackHistoryMonth #histodons #history #histodons
One of these #Congolese #ambassadors to #Rome was Antonio Emanuel Ne Vunda.
We do not know much about him – a fate he shares with most #emdiplomats. He was a close relative to the Congolese king. In 1604 he left #Congo and set off for Rome where he arrived in 1608. Unfortunately, he died only two days after his arrival of illness. (6/6)
#NewDiplomaticHistory #emdiplomacy #history #earlymodern #histodons #emdiplomacysFaces
Indigenous #Ethiopian #ambassadors were usually religious officials of high rank or trusted members of the imperial household, perhaps because the Ethiopians thought that European Christian powers could best be approached by men of religion.
Indigenous #Congolese ambassadors, on the other hand, were normally relatives of the king and could be cast in a much more ‘noble’ or princely light. As high-ranking royal relatives and courtiers, they donned expensive European clothes given to them by the Portuguese monarchs or popes on arrival at court.
One other outstanding difference is noticeable between #ambassadors from these two countries, for some Congolese ambassadors brought their wives, who represented yet another facet of #Africa – African womanhood. (5/6)
#NewDiplomaticHistory #emdiplomacy #diplomacy #history #histodons #earlymodern
The situation is quite different for #Congo.
After the christianisation of the kingdom, #diplomats were dispatched to the #pope
“The problem for Congolese #ambassadors was that their route to #Rome inexorably passed through #Portugal (as they had to take ships to reach #Europe and all the ships were Portuguese), but that once in Lisbon, the Portuguese were extremely reluctant to let the Congolese out of their sphere of influence and so kept them in Portugal. [...] Portugal guarded its power over the Congo jealously, and it is not coincidental that Congolese ambassadors started appearing in Rome only after Portugal's annexation by #Spain in 1580,” as Lowe explains. (4/6)
#NewDiplomaticHistory #emdiplomacy #history #histodons #earlymodern #diplomacy
@Bibliothecaris @oscgroningen Thank you for having me! Hope to discuss the topic of Mastodon #ambassadors for friends and family on a personal level in a potential workshop next time. :)
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WTF lmfao These fuckers are old and batshit lmfao
Donald #Trump taps Sylvester #Stallone, Mel #Gibson and Jon #Voight to be #Hollywood #ambassadors
One of these #Congolese #ambassadors to #Rome was Antonio Emanuel Ne Vunda. We do not know much about him – a fate he shares with most #emdiplomats. He was a close relative to the Congolese king. In 1604 he left #Congo and set off for Rome where he arrived in 1608. Unfortunately, he died only two days after his arrival of illness.
Luckily, we have an copper engraving of him that shows him in the #European style typcial of the time. This could reflect the fact that he adapted to Euopean fashion. However, it also could be expression of European eurocentric world view that tried to fit him in by depicting the Congolese ambassador as European. (6/6)
#emdiplomacy #NewDiplomaticHistory #history #histodons #earlymodern #AdventCalendar2024 #AdventCalendar
Indigenous #Ethiopian #ambassadors were usually religious officials of high rank or trusted members of the imperial household, perhaps because the Ethiopians thought that #European Christian powers could best be approached by men of religion. Indigenous# Congolese ambassadors, on the other hand, were normally relatives of the king and could be cast in a much more ‘noble’ or princely light. As high-ranking royal relatives and courtiers, they donned expensive European clothes given to them by the Portuguese monarchs or popes on arrival at court. One other outstanding difference is noticeable between ambassadors from these two countries, for some Congolese ambassadors brought their wives, who represented yet another facet of #Africa – African womanhood. (5/6)
#emdiplomacy #earlymodern #NewDiplomaticHistory #histodons #history #AdventCalendar2024 #AdventCaldendar
Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.
Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.
They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.
They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.
After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.
And their dark #history would be forgotten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY
#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries
#Brazil and #Nicaragua expelled each others #ambassadors in #BananaRepublic political spat. #DanielOrtega became outraged at #Brasil for not sending an emissary to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the #Sandinista revolution and ousted a #Brazilian diplomat. Then in turn, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decided to expel Nicaragua's ambassador. The two country's are also at diplomatic odds over the results of the recent Venezuelan presidential election, in which Nicholas Maduro has retained the presidency, despite claims from many observers the votes did not go his way. Brazil has joined calls for more transparency in the vote tallies while Nicaragua has stood by the Venezuelan President's claim to have won the decision.
#Leaked #memo shows #JDVance #blocked #ambassadors who #supported #LGBTQ+ #policies
As a #senator, #Trump’s #VP #nominee took a particular #interest in #Prideflags and #genderneutral #bathrooms.
Read the letter signed by a long list of fmr #ambassadors & other policymakers who have worked in the #WhiteHouse, #StateDepartment, #Pentagon & elsewhere.
#KamalaHarris #NationalSecurity #NATO #geopolitics #diplomacy #democracy #HarrisForPresident #Election2024 #Harris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/9ed12fbf-99e1-4766-92b5-57899d847ec0.pdf
Ireland, Norway and Spain to recognise Palestine as independent state | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/palestine-israel-ireland-norway-spain-state-recognition-b2549268.html
#Palestine
#Ireland
#Norway
#Spain
#Israel
#Ambassadors
#Hamas
#Gaza
#Rafah
#PLO
#PA
#UN
#Palestinians
#EastJerusalem
#2StateSolution
#US
#France
#Germany
#Cameron
#ICC
#Netanyahu
#ArrestWarrants
The most important group of #ambassadors to Madrid were the French ambassador, the Imperial ambassador to the Empire, the nuncio, and the Venetian ambassador.
Madrid did not have a diplomatic district. Diplomatic #envoys did enjoy immunity in the #embassy, with the king himself offering them lodgings for rent upon their arrival. Nevertheless, the ambassadors complained of the difficulties in gaining an audience with the ruler.
Following the union of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns in 1580, a global dimension of Spanish #diplomacy was developed which enhanced the reputation of the Spanish kings. (5/n)
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