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De slapende reus: een vergelijking met de huidige situatie als gevolg van het Coronavirus

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Een kort verhaal van Caitlin Johnstone, die de massa´s aanwijst als een slapende reus, die keer op keer in slaap wordt gehouden, terwijl zijn wereld zo verandert dat z’n manier van leven voorgoed voorbij is en de maatschappij ‘voor zijn eigen bestwil’ is veranderd in een enorme gevangenis…… Ofwel de gevolgen van het Cornavirus versnellen de poging om de individuele burger van de wieg tot het graf te volgen, te controleren en te manipuleren, een maatschappij als beschreven in 1984, het boek van George Orwell…….

 De moeite van het lezen meer dan waard!

The Sleeping Giant

by Caitlin Johnstone

A slumbering giant began to stir and awaken.
“Something’s wrong,” he mumbled.
“Now, now, just you relax,” said a small voice. “Everything’s fine.”
The giant cracked an eye open to find a small man in a lab coat holding a needle and syringe half his size.
“I need to get up,” said the giant. “It feels like something’s wrong.”
“Nonsense, everything’s fine,” said the man in the lab coat. “We’ve taken care of everything. You need your rest. We’ll look after you. I’m going to give you some medicine to help you sleep.”
“How long was I asleep for?” the giant asked after wincing from the prick of the needle.
“Not long enough,” said the man. “Rest now. We’ve got everything taken care of.”
The man’s voice faded into blackness as the giant relaxed into the ground and lost consciousness. He dreamed that a great serpent was chasing him.
Much later, the giant awakened with a start to the sounds of distant gunfire and began to get up.
“Shhh, relax! It’s okay,” said the man in the lab coat.
“There is a war!” said the giant. “I must stop it!”
“Yes, there is a war, but it’s a necessary war,” said the man, struggling to fill a giant syringe with green liquid from a container nearby. “The side we’re fighting against is very bad and must be stopped. Their leader persecutes minorities, and kills babies for no reason! And we received intelligence saying that they were preparing to attack us with powerful weapons.”
“Oh that’s terrible!” said the giant, relaxing and laying his enormous head back down.
“Very terrible indeed,” said the man in the lab coat. “It will be over soon though. Victory is right around the corner. Then we’ll have peace.”
“I like peace,” said the giant, screwing his eyes shut as the needle went in.
“Don’t we all?” said the man. “Rest now. Rest.”
Heavy eyelids closed, and the pops and explosions faded into nothingness.
A long time passed. The giant kept having nightmares about a venomous serpent biting his flesh.
Eventually the giant began awakening once again. The gunfire and explosions were still going, and they were louder than before. He opened his eyes and saw the man in the lab coat urinating on a tree.
“You said the war would be over soon,” said the giant.
“Oh! You’re awake!” said the man with a start, hastily zipping up and rushing to his medicine bag.
“Ah, yes, yes the war,” he said as he fumbled to prepare the needle. “Well see we got rid of the bad guy, but that ended up creating a power vacuum and now there’s an even worse bad guy in his place! This one actually eats babies!”
“I feel sick,” said the giant. “Something’s wrong with me. I need to get up.”
“You know I’m glad you brought that up, because it happens that we have put together a party that is dedicated to curing your sickness,” said the man. “You just relax and go back to sleep, and the party will take care of everything.”
“Why are there tubes in my flesh?” asked the giant.
“They’re there to help you become healthy,” the man replied. “Your medicine is ready. Just relax, you’ll feel a slight pin prick.”
“You’re sure you guys have a handle on this?”
“Absolutely. Relax. Trust the party.”
The giant had nightmares that he was trapped in the coils of an enormous serpent. Every time he’d exhale it would squeeze its coils ever tighter around him.
A great long time later, the giant’s eyes opened again. He was lying on his back now, and he could feel tiny ropes being cast over his body.
“Hey what’s going on?” yelled the giant.
“Shhh, relax,” the man in the lab coat said into his ear. “Go back to sleep.”
“They’re tying me up!” the giant protested, beginning to struggle and shake.
“It’s for your safety! Calm down,” said the man. “Sometimes you move in your sleep and we’re worried you might hurt yourself.”
“I still hear the war!” objected the giant. “And I feel even sicker now! What’s happening? You said your party would fix this!”
“There’s been a problem in the party, but we’re fixing it,” said the man. “There is a great revolutionary leader who is fighting to take control of the party, and he will put everything right. Soon big changes will be made, and all will be well.”
“I can make the changes myself!” roared the giant. “I am vast! I am powerful! I will make things right! Untie me and let me up!”
“Yes, you can. Of course you can,” said the man. “But we’ve got to work within the system. If you go upsetting the system, the bad guys will win!”
“Oh well I don’t want the bad guys to win,” the giant said, relaxing slightly.
“Of course you don’t,” said the man. “You are good, and you are mighty. Now relax and go to sleep so we can win this revolution.”
“Okay,” said the giant. “Okay.”
The world fell away after the familiar needle prick, and the giant dreamed he was being swallowed alive by an enormous serpent.
After what felt like a very, very long time, the giant awoke to the sounds of construction. He opened his eyes and, after much straining through badly blurred vision, was able to make out cranes and pulleys all around him, lifting large iron bars which many men were working to affix to an enormous structure being built around him.
“Wh- what is this?” asked the giant. His voice was weak and raspy.
“Relax,” the familiar voice said into his ear. “It’s nothing. Go back to sleep.”
“They’re building a cage around me,” the giant whispered.
“It’s for your safety,” said the man in the lab coat. “We need to protect you from the bad guys while you sleep.”
The giant struggled to get up but couldn’t move.
“Why am I tied down?”
“It’s for your safety, remember? Your safety is our highest priority.”
“I am sick,” said the giant. “I’m sick, and I’m weak. I need help.”
“We are helping you,” said the man. “We are making you well.”
“No, no you’re not. You’re making me sick. You’re making me weak. These tubes you’ve got in me. They’re not helping me, they’re draining me.”
“Nonsense. You’re imagining things.”
“You’re using me. You’ve been using me this entire time.”
“That’s a paranoid delusion. You’re paranoid and crazy. I’m going to give you some medicine to calm down.”
“No. No!”
The needle went in, followed by the familiar darkness.
“One of these days,” thought the giant as he slipped away. “One of these days I should definitely get up.”
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Zie ook:
‘Rutte 3 wil ongrondwettelijke noodmaatregelen legitimeren met spoedwet‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over de aantasting van burgerrechten ‘in de strijd tegen het Coronavirus’)

‘Bill Gates, CDC, WHO en de farmaceuten anticipeerden op de Coronacrisis in november 2019…..‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen aangaande het Cornavirus)

Coronavirus: tradities van de Nederlandse (fascistische) onderbuik

Posted on by Telmo Claro

De fascisten die stemmen op Wilders en Baudet zijn zo begaan met hun ‘blanke buren’ dat ze de supermarktproducten uit elkaars handen rukken en mekaar te lijf gaan met flessen…… Alweer een traditie van ons culturele erfgoed waar ‘gelukzoekers’ (lees: vluchtelingen) af moeten blijven! (…….)

Video van AT5:

Terecht vraagt een mevrouw zich in de video af hoe het gezien de situatie nu moet gaan als er oorlog zou uitbreken……

Hoe ongelofelijk asociaal moet je zijn:

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor gevechten tijdens hamsteren in supermarkten

Zie ook:
‘Job Cohen (PvdA) prijst Rutte en zijn aanpak van de Coronacrisis…….. Een goed beleid? Lees dit!‘ (met links in dat bericht die meer over de situatie in Nederland gaan)

‘Coronavirus: Democratische Partij omarmt oorlogsmisdadiger George W. Bush‘

‘Zuid-Afrika naast ‘lockdown’ verbod op verkoop tabak en alcohol, terwijl het huiselijk geweld nog nooit zo groot was als tijdens de pandemie…..‘

‘Bill Gates, CDC, WHO en de farmaceuten anticipeerden op de Coronacrisis in november 2019…..‘ (zie de links in dat bericht met nieuwere artikelen dan de hieronder getoonde)
‘Coronavirus: Center for Disease Control in VS ontvangt 11 miljard dollar tegen 738 miljard voor oorlogsvoering‘

‘Coronavirus: Duitsland verplicht alle openbare gelegenheden de poort te sluiten, behalve religies‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

‘Coronavirus en de sluiting van koffieshops, waar supermarkten met een horecagelegenheid open mogen blijven‘

Of klik voor meer berichten over het Coronavirus op dat label, direct onder dit bericht.

De VS moet stoppen met het demoniseren van vluchtelingen en de noodtoestand uitroepen over de klimaatverandering

Posted on by Telmo Claro
In plaats van vluchtelingen te demoniseren, die NB op de vlucht zijn geslagen door VS bemoeienissen met Latijns-America, zou de regering van de VS de noodtoestand moeten afroepen over de klimaatverandering!
De democratische politici Earl Blumenauer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez en Bernie Sanders wijzen de Trump administratie op de vreselijke gevolgen van de klimaatverandering, gevolgen waar de VS nu al mee te maken heeft, gezien de steeds vaker optredende bosbranden en de steeds heviger en vaker optredende verwoestende orkanen. Niet vreemd dus dat de voornoemde politici aan de bel trekken, waar zij stellen dat Trump de vluchtelingen die de VS willen bereiken, wel heeft uitgeroepen tot noodtoestand (waarbij hij hen afschildert als misdadigers…) en de ogen sluit voor de klimaatramp die zich voor zijn ogen (en de rest van zijn administratie) voltrekt.

Uiteraard is het afroepen van de noodtoestand over vluchtelingenstromen door Trump te belachelijk voor woorden*, waar Trump en zijn administratie keer op keer durven te stellen dat de klimaatverandering een leugen is van linkse krachten….. Dit terwijl zoals gezegd de gevolgen van de klimaatverandering al velen in de VS in diepe ellende hebben gestort en deze verhevigde natuurrampen het volk van de VS al honderden miljarden dollars aan belastinggeld hebben gekost…..
De VS wordt in feite deels bestuurd door het bedrijfsleven, inclusief de oliemaffia, waar de grote bedrijven op z’n zachtst gezegd grote moeite hebben met maatregelen die de klimaatverandering nog enigszins kunnen afremmen, daar hun winsten daar onder zullen leiden en zelfs zouden kunnen leiden tot het sluiten van hele bedrijfstakken die niet anders doen dan de klimaatverandering aanjagen…….
Lees het volgende artikel van Meagan Day, gepubliceerd op JACOBIN:

The US Government Should Declare Climate Emergency

By Meagan Day

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC, for the Green New Deal. Alex Wong / Getty Images

The havoc that will soon be wrought by climate change is unfathomable. It’s a crisis — one which Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded yesterday the US government recognize. It’s a needed step towards winning a Green New Deal.
To justify his administration’s barbaric actions at the Southern border, Donald Trump is using the language of crisis. In May 2019, a scaremongering statement from the White House declared that the United States “has been invaded by hundreds of thousands of people coming through Mexico.” This “sustained influx of illegal aliens” is “overwhelming our schools, overcrowding our hospitals, draining our welfare system, and causing untold amounts of crime,” the administration said.
This, of course, is bullshit.
The United States is currently seeing a net outflow of undocumented immigrants. And even if we weren’t, these people have a right to migrate in order to create a life free from wanton violence and economic devastation — chaos largely created by the United States.
Immigrants do not “overwhelm” us; they are us, and their presence in this country does not constitute a crisis. Their abuse at the hands of our government, however, absolutely does.
The Trump administration recently invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify its inhumane treatment of immigrants on US soil. This struck Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon as unjustifiably hypocritical. What if we used the language of crisis to instead describe an actual mass emergency: the looming threat of climate disaster, which the Trump administration categorically neglects and which, unlike the presence of undocumented immigrants, requires drastic and immediate political action in order to ensure public safety?
Blumenauer has teamed up with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to propose legislation declaring global warming a national and international emergency.
The resolution was submitted to the House of Representatives on Tuesday. In order to address the crisis at hand, it calls for “a national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization of the resources and labor of the United States at a massive-scale to halt, reverse, mitigate, and prepare for the consequences of the climate emergency and to restore the climate for future generations.”
The legislation may have been inspired by Trump’s duplicity, but the idea did not spring fully formed from Blumenauer’s mind. It is a response to climate activists, who have been increasingly demanding that national, state, and local governments around the world declare the climate crisis an emergency.
In April, the new group Extinction Rebellion occupied central London for ten days. “The science is clear: It is understood that we are facing an unprecedented global emergency,” says the group. “We are in a life or death situation of our own making. We must act now.” Extinction Rebellion’s first demand is that governments “must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.”
Declarations of emergency are also the most urgent demand of The Climate Mobilization, a US-based climate activist group waging a campaign to pressure governments to sign on. The group states that “declaring Climate Emergency is the critical first step to launching the comprehensive mobilization solution required to rescue and rebuild civilization.”
In response to the Extinction Rebellion protests, the United Kingdom House of Commons declared emergency in May. Similar declarations around the world are pouring in. To date, climate emergency has been declared by 740 jurisdictions globally, one of which is New York City, which declared emergency in June. Los Angeles appears set to follow suit. The joint resolution proposed by Blumenauer, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders would make the United States the seventeenth and largest nation to heed the crisis declaration call from climate activists.
It remains to be seen whether the US federal climate emergency resolution has the support needed to pass into law. The United States government sustains intimate ties with the fossil fuel industry, ties that have so far prevented political representatives from touching anything that opens the door, as this resolution does, to a national mobilization to cease fossil fuel extraction and transition to a zero-emissions economy. Even though the resolution is nonbinding, it clearly gestures toward the implementation of a Green New Deal (GND) which, as envisioned by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders, would spell the end of the fossil fuel era.
There’s another reason legislators may be hesitant, despite clear evidence that we are indeed facing a climate emergency, to vote for a bill that paves the way for a Green New Deal. The GND isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s about doing so in a way that builds the power of working people and erodes inequality, on the basis that the current capitalist system brought us to the brink of destruction to begin with.
To this end, the GND would create millions of green jobs, and insists that they come with “a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States.”
American politicians aren’t just beholden to the fossil fuel industry; they’re beholden to the capitalist class writ large. Reducing unemployment and building worker power — including providing universal healthcare, education, and housing, also outlined in the GND — makes exploitation harder, which means profits for the few will sink even as living standards for the many improve. There’s no doubt that the GND will face tremendous pushback in the halls of power, and that pushback may begin with shooting down this declaration.

The best shot we have at muscling this bill through is to raise hell in the streets. It’s sound politics: when the people in power don’t want to budge, the majority must create pressure from the outside to force their hand. It’s no easy task. But if people fight hard enough, we might be able to get the United States — the biggest carbon polluter in world history — to formally acknowledge the real crisis at hand.

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Zie ook:
‘Extinction Rebellion richt zich teveel op de toekomst‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)

‘Boeren vs Extinction Rebellion: ‘zoek de verschillen’‘

‘Extinction Rebellion blokkeert de vuilste straat van Nederland en GL burgemeester Halsema stuurt in haar plaats de ME‘

* Waarmee Trump ook nog eens haatzaait tegen vluchtelingen en dat in een land dat bomvol zit met bewapende psychopaten…… Intussen vertrekken er veel mensen de VS, die eerder vluchtten uit Latijns-Amerika (waaronder een aantal met een verblijfsvergunning), daar men in de VS steeds vijandiger wordt tegen deze minderheden…..