Bible classes in american schools.

I cannot resist giving my opinion every time the issue of religion arises as part of a student's basic knowledge because the first thing I wonder is whether it is okay to allow a government to find its ideological option in the public school, which is that of all, and a text as important to Judeo-Christianity as the Bible from its place of study in synagogues and churches is moved to the school bench.


It does not seem a very democratic action to introduce a determined faith in public schools when they are centers created for knowledge and reasoning. We will have to abandon once and for all the era of superstition and move towards rationality and science because democracy supports freedom of worship, understood as a personal, individual option, and points to a state forced to provide us with the best training as citizens of the world. Religion in school, whether public or private, must be optional and if it is implemented as part of the list of teaching subjects, it should not teach a particular belief and discard others, but expand our cultural horizons by showing us the development of religions.


A believer does not need reason to validate his faith and that will have to be respected because reason has never been enough to refute the existence of God. A Hill-Harris X survey of the United States found that 16 percent of respondents believe that states should require schools to offer history classes, to teach about major religions, not just Christianity and the Bible, and a 17 percent believe they should include atheism in this.


Until last May, according to Gospel Coalition, the Bible classes were legally recognized in seven states of the Union. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution says that "Congress may not pass any laws regarding the establishment of religion, nor prohibit the free practice of it." This is what is taken as consecration of the separation of the Church and the State, but it seems to me open to nuances, as those flexible states have shown, that have embraced the very founding root of the nation. History shows us that the first settlers arrived pushed by religious reasons to the coasts of North America.


The trend would be unimportant if President Donald Trump had not tweeted his approval in the promotion of such initiatives, which for the American Union for Civil Liberties and the organization of Americans United for Church Separation- State, transmit a message of religious preference, which would go against the First Amendment. And I believe it because what would be the point of introducing these classes?


They are very simplistic who see in these actions a neutral interest and an aseptic vision, especially because it has been reported that in Kentucky it is proposed to do everything possible to establish close relationships with other Christians, so that they can help each other in difficult times, which It is very close to the closed concept of a sectarian point of view. Others are invited to combat stress with biblical epistles and apply the virtues of the Book of Proverbs to the present, as well as memorize Bible verses, watch religious movies or study dinosaurs from the perspective of the holy book. If it weren't because there was written record, I would laugh and see it as a joke in bad taste.


How to know that the seventy-six books of the Bible are the only writings that should have been included in Scripture? Especially after discoveries such as those of the Qumram or Nag Hammadi. What happens to the apocrypha or the Gnostic gospels? Why should they be excluded? The answer lies in the canonicity word for the measuring stick in Hebrew and Greek languages. But knowing this does not give us more knowledge to answer the previous questions.


Bible, as we know it, was compiled in the third century before our era by 70 wise Jews to contribute to the Alexandria Library a concentrated history of the Jewish people, which we identify as the Old Testament. The work, translated from Aramaic to Hebrew and then into Greek, resulted in the Alexandrian or Seventy (Septuagint) Bible, the basis of the current Christian text. But those originals disappeared in looting and fire and although they were rewritten by battalions of scribes they suffered a doctrinal and voluntary correction by the copyists.

So the bills passed in some American states and those presented without such luck have confessed the inexplicable purpose of focusing "on the historical impact and literary style of the Old and New Testaments, to teach students knowledge of the content biblical ... as prerequisites for understanding contemporary society. " There is no such historical impact nor literary style, there is no real understanding even of Judeo-Christian history, which is not the only one in the world.

All of the above is based on the Blitz Project, launched in 2015 by the Congressional Prayer Caucus, which seeks to "protect the free exercise of traditional Judeo-Christian religious values ​​and beliefs in the public square." Such values ​​and beliefs are protected by the Constitution, another thing is that we want to hammer them in the minds of those who are not so traditional.

Several studies have shown that those children and young people educated solely in the values ​​of the Bible, a book for nothing reliable, remain without alternatives to a modern world, so the controversy on how to fit the teaching of religion or how to focus it on a system Public education leaves us in these cases before a private institution such as the Catholic Church imposing content in the public school, which only benefits her.

Secularity in the school guarantees coexistence, all are welcomed without privileges or discrimination from one another, preserving freedom of conscience and neutrality of the state in the religious question. Religion already has a place in civil society. DO NOT forget that the right space to profess our faith are the places designated for it as churches, synagogues, and other temples, NOT the school, because their purpose is not to instill dogmas or proselytize, whether religious or political, because many of such contents contradict reason, science and human rights themselves, such as the fact that Eva was born no less than from Adam's rib or the magical origin of the universe or in other cases, to say that the ideas of a philosopher are capable of creating a system of government and economic.

The public school must educate in universal humanistic values, in the plurality and respect for the rights of others and in ethical values, alien to sexism and close to the concept of democracy, where comfortable believers and non-believers feel comfortable.

NEW STRATEGIES, NEW NUCLEAR HAZARDS.

The resignation by the United States and Russia to extend their respective responsibilities in the INF Treaty, signed in 1987, redifine a new strategy in the regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in a global world, within a multipolar movement.

The acronym in English for the Treaty of Nuclear Forces of Intermediate Reach, negotiated in the middle of the Cold War by presidents Ronald Reagan and Michail Gorbachev, not only meant the elimination of one type of weapons, but also opened the way for its control. When the key document expires today, an important global security instrument falls, to which the leaders concerned had to study and appreciate more.


Reading the content of the Treaty, that was a milestone in the Blocking process between blocks, we can get an idea of ​​the amount of opportunities lost by both parties to cut much more the nuclear arsenal, in the resolution of regional conflicts and in having ended much earlier with the Cold War.


To propose for the first time a reduction of armaments, instead of marking a roof, led to the destruction of almost 2,700 missiles of short, medium and intermediate range. All ground, nuclear and non-nuclear missiles were eliminated, with a range of 500-5,500 kilometers.


By eliminating missiles essentially based in Europe, the treaty lessened the threat of nuclear war on the continent and cleared the way for the negotiation of tactical and chemical nuclear weapons, as well as that of conventional European forces.

Russia and the United States have certified the death of the treaty last Friday accusing each other of violating it. The White House talks about Moscow's refusal to destroy a 1,700-kilogram, eight-meter-long cruise missile known as Novator 9M729 (SSC-8, according to NATO classification) and that Washington alleges it violates the treaty by exceeding 500 kilometers range.


Russia considered this requirement inadmissible and at a press conference the defense minister claimed that the missile was within the range specified in the treaty because it only had a range of 480 kilometers.


The Kremlin on the other hand has assured that Washington has repeatedly violated the treaty with the placement of interceptive missiles within the framework of the missile shield. Other violations would include the manufacture of drones or drones with weapons and Mark-41 systems to launch medium-range cruise missiles, which the United States wants to deploy in Poland and Romania.
The Russian Defense Minister has said that Moscow is willing to take unprecedented transparency measures, above its obligations in the INF, but its attempts and proposals have been torpedoed in recent months by US negotiators who continue to launch the ultimatum on the Novator He warned that the decision to leave the treaty puts START-3 at risk, which limits the offensive strategic armament and expires in 2021, and whose negotiations remain stagnant.

American diplomacy has placed the emphasis on what President Donald Trump really pursues with his withdrawal from the agreement; "to start a new chapter in search of a new era of arms control" beyond bilateral treaties and that favors the participation of other powers, read, China.


The question would be in this new strategy if the United States has the ability to counteract a coup from China. The answer is No. Nor from Russia.
Two years ago, before the Senate, the former head of the Pacific Command of the United States Armed Forces, Harry Harris said that China has "the largest and most diverse missile force in the world, with an inventory of more than 2000 ballistic missiles and of cruise. " This is a country that is not part of any disarmament treaty.


Russia is the country with the largest reserve of nuclear weapons among these the most powerful bomb, the SS-18 "Satan" heavy intercontinental ballistic missile. Experts estimate that it has 55 of the deadliest weapons, but only five would be necessary to destroy the east coast of the United States in case of confrontation. I just hope that Americans know all this.
Trump contemplates the agreements signed during the Cold War and START-3 as reflections of a non-existent bipolar world, wants a new focus on strategic stability on new principles, as has been his policy since his arrival at the White House, demonstrating substantial progress and No step by step. But a new approach would require a high level of trust that does not exist, neither with Russia nor with China.

"We will give a symmetrical response. Our American partners denounced their participation in the treaty and we will do the same," said President Vladimir Putin, meeting with his foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov, and Defense, Sergei Shoigú.


The Russians denounced that the United States began to prepare the ground to leave the INF two years ago when they began the work of manufacturing short and medium range missiles in one of its military plants in Arizona, managed by the Raythone Foundation.


A satellite image shown at a press conference in Moscow shows the plant where, according to its version, it increased its perimeter by 44% and its staff by 2,000 people.


The United States Congress allocated $ 58 million to Defense in November 2017 clearly intended for the "development of a medium-range land missile," which confirms, according to Moscow, its allegations.


Russia and the US-led West are currently experiencing much greater tensions than in the Cold War and this unstoppable movement seems to have begun when Moscow interfered in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine and Crimea was annexed. This had a major escalation after the war in Syria, where rebel groups, supported by the United States and Arab allies, seek to exterminate the government of Damascus, backed by Russia.

Washington warned that on February 2, the INF withdrawal process would begin, which will be completed in six months. From that moment on, it would be free to position missile systems in Europe and Russia would do the same in its bordering territories with the European Union or other geographical areas. One of the two leaders signing the agreement, Gorbachev, has warned that after this will come chaos.

Notre Dame or the language of tradition

By Mirta Balea


The devastating fire in the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris caused a wave of twits on aid for reconstruction, which politically correct lovers have begun to criticize because there is a lot of famine in the world and nobody seems to care.And they are right. In comparison with campaigns in favor of aid for children, refugees or Third World nations, which sometimes do not collect everything necessary to alleviate misfortunes, we are faced with a global response and multi-million dollar donations for the reconstruction of the emblematic building.

I think it will not be just for appearing on the front pages of newspapers and magazines or for the public treasury to take them into account, but that they have thought about the impressive work of art that humanity would definitely lose. There are other important ones also in French territory such as Chartres. It seems to me that the immediate response is based in the simbolism within the tradition, present in the majority of such sanctuaries built during the Middle Ages as if responding to a call. 

The very name of cathedral as church-residence of the bishop was decisively imposed between the XII and XIII centuries, period in which the most beautiful and majestic were built. The phenomenon - if we refer to history - appears linked to major changes at that time in Western Europe, among the most important, the demographic explosion, the development of commercial exchanges and the growing diffusion of culture by the increasing domination strong urban centers.

If the feudal economy had been characterized as closed to the outside, the cities were open to trade. So it seems to many that the cathedral is the symbol of the world citizen above the great abbeys, until then provided with huge agricultural land, isolated monasteries living in the autarky to which libraries gave the first of spiritual life , cultural and artistic. They copied and preserved ancient manuscripts, read by only a few privileged.

The difference between the current use of a cathedral and the historical one is that in the past they were meeting places, both for the people and for the arts and crafts corporations, where wheat, cattle, and textiles were sold. everyone's house, the center of public activity. The proverbs sculpted in the stone, the representation of the seasonal cycle of the months, acted as oral teaching. Today they continue to gather people, but only for the official liturgy

I must admit that I am not a mere speaker on the subject of the fire. Actually my goal is to talk about what is not visible, but for me essential, which is tradition as a compendium of principles and laws, a work of civilization, whose language is the symbol. So that we understand each other. Any piece of real knowledge that we have in Western civilization derives from tradition. To cling to it is to return to the deepest roots of our humanity.

The medieval European cathedrals point to the settlement of Gothic architecture and the importance in this of the Trappist priests of the Cistercian Order. They decided not to undo what was inherited from Romanesque, the first architectural form clearly Christian and European with stone as the main material. From the aforementioned urban development, a civil architecture is created, which makes the plastic arts independent. The religious continuity we see it in the same plant of the churches of cruciform character with head in the apse, oriented to the east, and the timeless concept of the own work.

The majority of medieval cathedrals merge and succeed the centuries, knowing their builders and architects that they would not see the work finished, nor perhaps their own children or grandchildren. Here we see the audacity of initiating a technical challenge - and economic, too - that has not been planned how to finish. One of the most tragic moments for Notre-Dame was the damage caused to the mole during the French Revolution.

The radical restorations began after the historic event, fusing centuries of tradition, which served to modify and add other parts such as the needle of the dome, devoured by the recent fire, along with the dome and, according to witnesses, made a deafening noise when it fell . Bear in mind that the cathedral is not only an architectural science of the Ancients and the Moderns, it is also a place of protection, of rest, its profile is that of a mountain, with its peaks represented in the bell towers and the needles, as symbols chosen by man because of his relationship with the sacred.

The portico would be the entrance to that cavern or natural grotto used by primitive man as a sanctuary. Archaeologists define the cathedral as a prehistoric place of worship. The ancients protected them with fearsome figures, monsters, as they appear in Romanesque and Gothic art. Entering this type of sanctuary is like doing it in a danger zone if we are guided by the perception of tribal civilizations, although it is the symbol of the heavenly city as well as the initiatory hut, archetypes of great influence on men. The passage of time adapted them to the new Christian message, away from the symbolism of the mountain and the cave.

There is a will in humans to always reproduce what is present in nature and thus the sacred places are associated with forests, rocks, caves and mountains. For Mayassis, an architect who dedicated his life to the study of origins, the cult of the tree and the stone have the same importance and synchronicity in terms of the appearance of symbolism in the Paleolithic. With the development of construction, the notion of symbol was lost and the style has prevailed over the meaning of what is being built.

The masons who built the cathedrals were illiterate, using a different mode of communication. They dominated the system of forms, proportions and figures necessary for the projection of their works, they were the heirs of a heritage of exact and specific knowledge arrived from a distant time, a source of exceptional learning. If we think about the rupture that took place with the sacred from the humanism of the fifteenth century, we can understand the symbolic value of architecture in the Middle Ages as the union of nature and human intervention. In miniatures dated in the Middle Ages, one can see God as a geometer supplied with the tools needed to design the world. Hence Simons' claim that Master Mason or Adam Magister felt that he imitated the divine Master in his work. The obvious conclusion is that geometry was at this time a way of spiritual edification. The Gothic word is object of diverse interpretations from very old. I will choose that of Fulcanelli, who saw a derivation of the slang of the masons, which acquires meaning in the French language with the fusion of the terms art and gothic and the sonority derived from argotique. This secret language of the builders of the cathedrals was used to prevent access to the knowledge of the uninitiated. We would then find a complex history of knowledge, transmitted only to those capable of understanding its deeper meaning. We could not aspire to know something of the Gothic without knowing that the style began to develop with the push that gave the Cistercian Order (one of the most important of the Middle Ages) the abbot Bernardo de Clairveaux. Descendant of the Celts, he paid more attention to nature than to the study of the sacred books. In his title of Doctor Mellifluus or teacher in the art of the word, the doctor of the Church was added. He was a predominant figure of the time, with the strength and authority necessary to prevail over the bishops and the Pope, he often intervened in councils and witnessed the schisms that tore the Church at that time, preached the crusades and fought against heretics He also created the Order of the Temple, which he endowed with his own Rule.

The space occupied by the cathedral, chosen by its builders with extreme care, is one of the most important elements in its symbolism. The apse represents the sky or East and not only the direction of the rising sun, it is the place where the Son of God was manifested for Christians. The cathedrals, however, look to the southeast because for a European the birth of Jesus goes in this direction. In the cathedrals, direction prevails as a qualitative element of space, because it also has a physical influence and intrinsic energies.

With the waves of form, which endow the building with its own life, geometry acts on nature and people. This phenomenon has to do with natural magnetism, present in some places, hence the importance of properly choosing the area to build a cathedral. This wave is projected onto the individual and can affect him or her positively or negatively or not at all, depending on the case. Such monuments were built precisely to influence us as a civilizing work of the initiates, who managed to preserve knowledge through the use of coded signals.
The artisans were periodically in cities and monasteries in times of devastation and absolute ruin and each teacher, then master freemason, established his own journey. Due to the freedom of the traveler, people started talking about free Masons or Freemasons. Modern masonry is attributed to the medieval heritage, but with a less operational form; does not use initiation formulas or build buildings. Nor is it likely that the secrets of medieval masons are better kept. The passage from the square to the circle, known as the quadrature of the circle, obsessing without results to specialists and mathematicians, appears as the most important issue to solve a techno-geometric enigma and achieve a personal illumination that allows to enter the real knowledge of the laws of the cosmos. It is said that the Egyptians knew well the squaring of the circle and hid the secret in the pyramids, and Leonardo da Vinci did the same in the man of Vitruvius.

The secret is still there and it is millennium, nobody has made public the way to solve it because in the age of the cathedrals art for art was unknown, it was only the symbol that was important and should be utilitarian and active. It was Charpentier who said that in the Cathedral of Chartres the great mathematical problem was solved, but there are those who argued that a system of measures of the French period was simply used as the Pie de Rey and the toesa to elaborate the Labyrinth.

The master builder constructs with all the rules and secret measures, works on the matter with the principles of geometry, producing waves of forms, and as a Mason he transforms himself. The cathedrals were all built at the same time and for this they had to have a lot of money, collected in donations from citizens and gentlemen, but it was not enough and here the Templars entered, that if they wanted cathedrals they would do it, as a historian has said .

The use of the Latin cross in the Gothic cathedrals provides the faithful with a route that connects the entrance with the apse, where the main altar is, contrary to the Greek cross used by the Byzantines in their constructions. The facade is the synthesized vision of the meaning of the temple with a vertical axis recognizable as if it were a mountain. The dome on which a cross is erected forms a triangle, as the union between heaven and earth. The dome is the center of the world in the encounter of the ship and the cruise. The simultaneous presence of apse and dome in the vision of the builders allows communication with the divine in all possible ways: God descends to man by the altar in the apse and man goes up to God by the oculus of the dome or solar door . During the recent fire of Notre-Dame, the fall of the needle on the dome resounded with deafening force, according to the witnesses, and this is the huge hole, which from a bird's eye view, is exposed as a reminder of the misfortune that occurred on the building . In Gothic constructions, the narthex or portico becomes the axis itself, the pillar of heaven, symbol of Jacob's ladder, the center of the nave, guarded by monstrous creatures, treasurers of the caverns in medieval legends and crowned by the tower in the steeple of the bell tower. And as in Gothic art more attention is given to the progression in degrees and the naves are covered with the vault, in general ogival, the ribs are the reminiscence of the end of the route.

Charpentier wrote: Primitive Christianity and then Byzantine and Romanesque built on the ground the resonance box, the original cavern, using the dome and the semicircular vault ... static, heavy, without tension, without any vibratory property. This led the Benedictine abbots to give music the earthly action, the Gregorian chant was born ... The difference between the Romanesque and the Gothic lies in the shape of the arches and the vaults and in the high windows and their glasswork, which The eyes of those masons, heirs of an ancestral knowledge, were the inner space of the divine.

The light passes between the stained glass windows, which represent with vivid color images of saints and prophets, symbols or illustrations of sacred history. Abbot Bernardo wanted to provide his visitors with the beauty and attractiveness that Benedictine monasteries lacked in order to attract the faithful to that divine work. The Holy Chapel of Notre-Dame was a jeweler of light and color on the sides of the transept. The cathedral also represented in the Middle Ages the place where a simple man felt that his rights were respected, he was given asylum and medical care, while outside he was trampled on.

It has been said that Gothic is a phenomenon of levitation, an art that exposes itself. The vaults do not weigh on the walls due to their vertical projection, they have less thickness and are the keys so that the structure does not sink, and thanks to the flying buttresses the weight is canceled. The upward momentum is in keeping with the profound charm of the mysticism of the 12th and 13th centuries and all this will be lost if Notre-Dame is not rebuilt.

TRUMP DOES NOT CONSPIRE WITH RUSSIA DURING ITS CAMPAIGN.

By Mirta Balea

President Donald Trump was exonerated of any suspicion about a supposed conciliation with Russia so that his hackers could influence in his favor in the 2016 elections.

A report commissioned and released this week by Attorney General William Barr, under the premise of a complaint by former President Barack Obama, before leaving office, concludes that neither the current tenant of the White House, nor his trusted men, conspired with the Russians.

Barr presented his summary of the document prepared by the Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who highlights not having found any signs of undue association with Russia of the members of Trump's campaign to provoke the defeat of his opponent Hillary Clinton, nor in hacks to Democratic dependencies in that same period.

Regarding the possible obstruction of justice, derived from the dismissal in May 2017 of the then head of the FBI, James Comey, who opposed the line marked by Trump to marginalize what is known as Russiagate, the conclusions are not so clear. Always, according to Barr, Mueller does not conclude indications of crime, but neither exonerates the president.

Despite the euphoria provoked by these conclusions in the Republican ranks - after two years of suspicion and investigation -, Democratic legislators remain in the breach and demand access without mediators to the report. Barr has argued for the non-dissemination of key points of the document the use of "sensitive material" subject to restrictions for its preparation. The Attorney General may be right, but it is also true that Obama took advantage of the precise moment of his departure from the White House to publicly expose another reverse report, made by the US Intelligence Services, on the interference of Russia in the form of cyberattacks against the ranks of the Democrats and sheltered to reveal it in that it should be known to the Americans. He was even forced for this reason to amend an executive order of 2015.

Some Republican congressmen demanded more evidence so that the suspicions were not based on a mere corporate report of how such attacks could have been carried out. The press noted an attempt to further undermine relations between Russia and the United States and to question Trump's victory, something that Democrats took a long time to digest.

Obama had been announcing these alleged violations for months without presenting evidence until the FBI, the CIA, and the Department of Homeland Security's report was released when he had barely had a shave left in the White House. Spokesman Josh Earnest admitted that the Democratic Administration was not prepared to make public the manner in which the information was obtained and protect the sources, which is the same as saying that it can not be questioned by the president.

Obama pushed in Congress a new battery of sanctions against Moscow and adopted other measures from the presidency as a non-grata citizen to consider 35 diplomats, close the consulates of Washington and California and two buildings dependent on the diplomatic delegation of the Kremlin shortly before leaving the position. The text released by the ex-president, the basis for initiating Mueller's investigation, says that two groups of the Russian Intelligence Services were responsible for cyber attacks. The first group would have attacked the Democratic Party in the summer of 2015 and the second in the spring of the following year.

This document made known to the American public would be the result of a declassification under the argument of transparency. Earnest insisted on his "credibility" because it was made "by agents of Intelligence, who have dedicated their lives to the protection and security of the United States", with a violin fund included. A phrase with the clear objective of touching the patriotic feeling for its assimilation as authentic.

The text was full of verbs like "we believe", "we consider", without giving a single test, perhaps because it was an open source, which removes everything that is classified and evades all sensitive material. The patriots of the report went for the presidential campaign and for Trump and it was clear in the document.

The United States has been subject to numerous hacking attempts, some long in time such as China and North Korea. When Obama released his particular report, he had known the theft by the Chinese of a water drone and their statements that they were willing to return it. The news went unnoticed until Trump spoke about the incident on his Twitter.

The return would take place, as common sense dictates, after, of course, that reverse engineering technicians seized the secrets of the device. Would the situation have been the same in which case to steal it Russia or Iran? I don `t believe. People often forget that those in charge of the Intelligence Services are political positions at the service of the government of the day and at the moment when they were fighting against Russia it did not seem advisable to do it against China. But remember when George Busch agreed to make known about the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to endorse his vengeful invasion and later turned out to be a lie, which was given, yes, many explanations, without this supposed for the president a fiasco in what he was looking for, to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

The Obama Administration has been the one that has sold the most weapons since World War II and all this despite being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Agreements on arms sales from 2008 to 2015, according to the Congressional Research Service, reach the figure of 265 thousand 471 million dollars. The largest, registered in 2011 with the beginning of the Syrian conflict: 56 thousand 131 million dollars. On Syria and Iraq, according to the same source, 26 thousand bombs fell in 2016, date of departure of the government Democrats.

Accounting in eight years of Obama's management results in a direct interest in switching to regimes that did not like, the Syrian case, for example, with the use of revolutions of a single color and selling weapons to terrorists, in a geo- politician of whom it is spoken rather little.

We all have terrorism always present, we are aware of this new era of violence, but what should take the dream of American society are the cyber attacks of adversaries and I am not referring to the confusing document issued by the former president on Russia. The level of sophistication achieved in the last five years should prepare everyone for the next decade. After September 11, 2001, all the money has been devoted, according to Pentagon sources, to Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence, and to a single objective: terrorism, which has made the country vulnerable in other areas, such as technology, the scientist, the financier, among others.

The world society has been demonetized, many people do not carry cash and our money is captive in a numerical way, not on paper, in a few encapsulation nodes. An attack against all this would have very dangerous consequences, as dangerous as the theft of scientific, technological and other secrets.

If there has been an international significance in Trump's triumph, it is that the process of globalization - as it was mounted - has been somewhat slowed down. The most wobbly are the Chinese, who bet everything on that basket. Its economy is going through serious problems because its paradox is in being a communist dictatorship on a capitalist basis.

While the "trumpists" were rubbing their hands with the statement by Barr, the president of the judicial committee of the House tweeted his intentions to call to declare the attorney general about "the worrying discrepancies" in the final decision of the Department of Justice. It should be seen as a wake-up call to his refusal to take into consideration an eventual obstruction of justice by the president. Barr reported that Russia carried out operations to influence the 2016 elections, through misinformation and the use of social networks, and recalled the infiltration of hackers in the email of candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign, in which she exposed her ingenuity as an international political figure, which was unnecessarily exposed to cyber attack. It is hard to believe that the actions of this high-level official, who dismissed her need to protect herself, are not punished as would be the case.

Half a dozen Trump collaborators have been charged and convicted of crimes committed during the campaign, including conspiracy or lying to investigators. Some 25 Russian intelligence officers or experts in the management of social networks were also accused by Barr.

Among those sentenced in this two-year trial are former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort and number two Rick Gates, lawyers linked to the president or his environment Michael Cohen and Alex van der Zwaan, foreign policy advisers George Papadopoulos and National Security, Michael Flynn, and computer programmer Richard Pinedo. The condemned confessed several crimes such as tax evasion, fraud, violation of campaign finance laws, lying to the FBI about contacts with Moscow and selling false identities to the Russians.

Other defendants, though not incriminated, are Robert Stone, Trump's campaign and business adviser, who allegedly lied to Congress, Konstantin Kilimnik, former adviser to Manafort, for obstruction of justice, 12 Russian GRU officials for hacking the Democrats and 13 Russian citizens linked to the Internet Research Agency for conspiring against the United States. They were exonerated Donald Trump Jr., the son-in-law of President Jared Kushner and the Attorney General until November 2018, Jeff Sessions.

The attorney general has said that his determination to rule out the obstruction of the president's justice takes into account constitutional considerations around the accusation or criminal imputation of a president in office, which translated suggests that the matter will have to be addressed in another forum or debate. Here we enter the impeachment, which has been flying over Trump's head since he abruptly dismissed Comey. He was in charge of investigating if the Kremlin had infiltrated the elections.

The impeachment is a political trial to a high public office with the risk of being dismissed. The figure is included in the First Article of the Constitution. To start it, a majority of the House of Representatives is required (238 of 435). The trial takes place in the Senate, under the presidency of the Supreme Court.

The Senate has the last word with a two-thirds majority to decide whether or not to acquit the accused. The Constitution provides for the use of this legal figure in case of treason, bribery or other very serious crimes, so its application could not be immediate on the current tenant of the White House.

The conclusion is that although the Republicans consider Mueller's report a victory - known in the terms given by Barr - the doubts persist. The House - Democrat majority - continues its investigations.