In
Wisconsin ‘the shit hits the fan’, zoals men dit in de VS ‘zo
mooi’ kan zeggen. De vertrekkende republikeinse senator Scott Walker
en zijn republikeinse deelregering willen de komende democratische
senator Tony Evers diverse bevoegdheden afpakken, zodat deze zo goed
als niets kan doen voor het grootste deel van de bevolking, die de
laatste jaren werden getroffen door maatregelen die hen allesbehalve
ten goede kwamen……. Sterker nog het maakt de senator afhankelijk
van de republikeinse wetgevende macht………. Ofwel Evers zal als een
‘lame duck’ moeten ‘opereren’, zoals men dit daar noemt.
Eigenlijk kan je dit een ‘coup’ noemen, immers de gekozen senator Evers wordt vleugellam gemaakt. Een coup die de VS verder richting een totale dictatuur drukt, al moet gezegd worden dat de VS in feite al fungeert als een politiestaat……..
Terecht
een grote demonstratie in de hoofdstad van Wisconsin, Madison ondanks
de hevige kou. De republikeinen dachten dan ook dat de kou de mensen
wel van de straat zou houden, niet dus!
Jammer
genoeg zijn de democraten niet veel beter, zie het doortrapte spel
van de democraten voor, tijdens en na de voorverkiezingen en de uiteindelijke presidentsverkiezingen in
2016, waarvan we heden ten dage nog de ellende zien en waardoor we
zelfs met censuur in westerse democratieën te maken hebben, terwijl censuur toch
echt in dictaturen thuis hoort……
Published
on Tuesday, December 04, 2018 by Common
Dreams
‘This
Is a Coup’: Protests Engulf Wisconsin Capitol as Outgoing Scott
Walker and GOP Move to Cripple Democratic Power
“They
are terrified that democracy is returning to Wisconsin. They are
terrified that 2018 is not the end of anything, but only the
beginning.”
“You
rig the system when you win and you rig the system when you lose,”
Wisconsin Democratic state Rep. Chris Taylor said of the Republican
legislation. “How is it that you have more power when you lose?”
(Photo: Michelle Stocker/Capital Times)
As
Wisconsin Republicans voted to plow ahead with a sweeping package of
legislation that would allow outgoing Gov. Scott Walker to strip
significant authority from Democratic governor-elect Tony Evers,
outraged Wisconsinites flooded the state capitol Monday night to
denounce the GOP’s brazen attempt to subvert the will of the voters
and “undo democracy itself.”
“This
isn’t a bill. This is a coup,” Randy Bryce—aka the “Iron
Stache”—said before
Wisconsin’s Joint Committee on Finance, which deliberated
and ultimately
voted along party lines to advance the
Republican plan, which seeks to transfer many
of Evers’ crucial executive powers to
the GOP-dominated legislature. A final vote on the plan is expected
as early as Tuesday.
Unlike
some of their representatives, thousands of
Wisconsinites braved the freezing weather and turned out in force,
crowding the inside of the capitol building with chants of “Respect
our vote!” and rallying outside to denounce the Republicans’
last-ditch power grab.
“They
are terrified that democracy is returning to Wisconsin,” The
Nation‘s
John Nichols, a Wisconsin native, declared in a speech from the steps
of the capitol building. “They are terrified that 2018 is not
the end of anything, but only the beginning.”
(de volgende korte video’s komen van YouTube, maar zijn niet te zien in het originele bericht op common Dreams)
Wisconsin GOP Makes Move To Strip Power From Incoming Governor:
WI Democrats, Republicans butting heads ahead of Lame-Duck Session this week:
“The
only way they can pull this off is if nobody finds out about it,”
Ben Wikler, another Wisconsin native and MoveOn.org’s Washington
director, said at Monday night’s demonstration. “I was texting
right before the show with some national reporters. They can’t
believe people are coming out in this weather once they hear how cold
it is. We’re proving them wrong right now. This is what democracy
looks like.”
If
approved by the state legislature, the Republican
plan would force
Evers to implement Wisconsin’s Trump-approved Medicaid work
requirements, stop him from banning guns in the state capitol, and
restrict both his ability and that of newly-elected Democratic
Attorney General Josh Kaul to execute the state’s legal affairs.
The
GOP’s sweeping legislative package would also severely restrict early
voting, limiting it to as little as two weeks before an election.
Walker,
who has just weeks left in office, told
reporters on
Monday that he would sign the legislative package if it reaches his
desk.
With
governor-elect Evers vowing to pursue legal action if the plan passes
the legislature, Wisconsin Democrats continued to voice their outrage
at the GOP’s patently anti-democratic plan, which mirrors ongoing
efforts by Republicans in
Michigan to effectively overturn November’s election results.
“You
rig the system when you win and you rig the system when you lose,”
Wisconsin Democratic state Rep. Chris Taylor said of
the Republican legislation. “How is it that you have more power
when you lose?”
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Ja,
kromme kop beste bezoeker, ik weet ‘t en voordat je denkt dat ik een paar jaar
geleden McCain als held zag, het tegendeel is waar, McCain was een
oorlogshitser van de eerste orde en bovendien een psychopathische
oorlogsmisdadiger!
De
kop heeft alles te maken met het hieronder opgenomen artikel van
Caitlin Johnstone. Het democratische congreslid Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez was een politieke held van Johnstone, met de nadruk op
was……
Ocasio-Cortez
twitterde lovende woorden over McCain na diens ‘verscheiden’, zo
durfde deze republikeinse hufter te stellen dat de erfenis van
McCain het toonbeeld is van menselijk fatsoen en ‘dienstbaarheid’ aan
de VS……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Beste bezoeker dat was het
nog niet, Ocasio-Cortez schreef voorts: als stagiair heeft ze van
McCain de kracht van menselijkheid in regeren geleerd, door zijn vriendschap
met senator Kennedy…….. Ja, ik kan wel blijven lachen, jezus,
waar haalt ze het vandaan??? Blijkbaar wil deze Ocasio-Cortez over
een paar jaar op voor het presidentschap in de VS, immers ze moet
weten wat een enorm bloedige erfenis deze McCain heeft
achtergelaten………
Overigens
de reguliere media hier kunnen er ook wat van, de ene superlatief na
de andere over deze misselijk psychopaat……. Het defecte BNR kompas voor het buitenland, zwetskont Hammelburg vond het vanmorgen nodig om in z’n column McCain een aantal veren in de reet te steken, ach ja, Hammelburg…… Laat ik ook één superlatief toevoegen: McCain was een enorme schoft en oorlogsmisdadiger die in
de gevangenis van Scheveningen dood had moeten gaan! (na een levenslange veroordeling door het Internationaal Strafhof)
Lees
het uitgebreide artikel van Johnstone, waarin ze beschrijft hoe de meeste veelbelovende politici je keer op keer weer weten teleur te stellen. Jammer dat Johnstone zegt dat ook socialistische regimes keer op keer mislukken (en er eigenlijk nooit echte socialistische regimes zijn geweest), echter dat heeft alles te maken met de grote vijand van het socialisme, de VS, die keer op keer succesvolle socialistische regimes probeert af te zetten (wat vaak genoeg is gelukt), waar de VS eerst zo’n land economisch onderuit haalt, door boycots en niet VS bedrijven (VS bedrijven lopen wat dat betreft braaf aan de leiband) te dreigen met sancties als men toch zaken doet met zo’n land, neem Cuba, Chili en nu weer Venezuela (waar Iran in feite een succesvolle socialistische politiek voert, wordt dit land door de VS nu op andere valse gronden geïsoleerd van de wereld…). Jammer dat ene punt, geen reden om het verder uitstekende artikel van Johnstone te negeren:
Democratic
congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is drawing fire from
the antiwar left, and not for the first, second or third time. The
same leftist contingent which has been energizing Ocasio-Cortez’s
campaign and elevating her to the public spotlight has been voicing
increasing concerns about her antiwar platform temporarily
vanishing from
her campaign website, about her walking
back from her position on
the Israeli government’s massacring of Palestinian protesters with
sniper fire, about her weirdly hawkish criticism of the GOP as being
“weak
on national security”,
and her deference to the establishment
Russia narrative.
And
now, as multipleoutlets have documented in
articles released in the last few hours, many of Ocasio-Cortez’s
supporters have been upset with a statement she made praising the
recently deceased warmongering psychopath John McCain and his
blood-soaked legacy.
“John
McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency
and American service,” tweeted the candidate upon McCain’s death,
which, for anyone who cares about the late Arizona
senator’s relentless
push to
inflict military
violence around
the world at every opportunity, is incredibly offensive. McCain was
easily the single most virulent warmonger on Capitol Hill, so
praising him and his legacy as exemplary of human decency necessarily
clashes with the “Peace Economy” platform that has
had so
many of Ocasio-Cortez’s supporters so
excited.
What
remains of the American left (and for my right-wing readers I here
mean the actual anti-war, socialist left, not the Hillary Clinton
“Make sure we refer to everyone on our drone kill list by their
preferred gender pronouns” corporatist Left™ that Americans are
permitted to support) has become very suspicious of anyone who rises
to a position of leadership among their ranks, especially anyone who
appears to lend legitimacy to the profoundly corrupt Democratic
Party. And understandably so; being a DemEnter progressive is a
nonstop lesson in disappointment, heartache and betrayal. Door after
door after door gets slammed on all attempts to advance your
political agendas, and if you find someone who seems like he might
maybe be able to sneak some health in between the cracks, he turns
around and helps sell
America the new cold war with
Russia.
This
has been a set pattern for a long time now. I often share
this video clip from
eight years ago when the progressives who had hoped that the Obama
administration would oppose warmongering and fight for economic
justice were coming to the conclusion that they had been duped yet
again by the “hope and change” song and dance. The term
“three-dimensional chess”, a term you’ll always see supporters
of a given political figure start using when their hero begins
capitulating to establishment interests, is used scornfully in the
clip. It happens on either side of the political aisle; I see Trump
supporters do it too when
I point out the many ways in which he is continuing and expanding the
Orwellian neoconservative policies of his predecessors.
Trump supporters claim his nonstop establishment capitulations are chess, too. And Obama’s supporters claimed his nonstop establishment capitulations were chess as well. Now you’re saying the exact same thing about @Ocasio2018. https://youtu.be/vVX8QihFhZA
What’s
up with that? Why do our heroes always fail us? Why does everyone we
elevate to fight the oppression machine always end up becoming a cog
in that very machine? Is there a lesson here we’re meant to be
learning?
I
think there is. Out of the constant rise and fall of hope and then
disappointment, over and over the lesson is that we aren’t going to
get a savior. We can keep looking for one and crowdsurfing them to
the frontlines, but each pedestalling will inevitably fail. We will
be constantly disappointed by the choices of humans on an individual
basis. The second coming ain’t coming to save us unless it’s
coming from within, and within all of us.
Every
few days I get a comment from a reader who is deeply disappointed in
my choices. “I can’t believe you’ve gone and said such a
thing,” they say. “To think, I used to trust you! You were my
hero!” And I always want to shout back, “Well, that was a bit
dumb, who told you to do that?? Who told you I was interested in
being anyone’s hero?”
And
I’m truly not. I’ve got exactly zero interest in being anyone’s
hero or leader or guru or anything like that; I’m just some
potty-mouthed bogan with a few ideas and a Medium account, and I like
it that way. I don’t have any special powers and if you find my
thoughts resonate with yours, great, but I always want you to put
your own gut before my ramblings. All I’m ever really doing here is
pointing out again and again in different ways how your own best
guess as to what’s going on in the world is always going to be
superior to the information being spoon fed to you by the paid
deceivers and manipulators of the mass media. If people could simply
shift to trusting themselves and their own inner sense-maker more
than the voices of perceived authority in their lives and on their
digital screens, our species could very quickly move into health and
harmony, because we’d no longer be streamlined into supporting the
unwholesome agendas of an elite class of plutocrats.
And
the longer I look at this thing the more clear it becomes that that
really is our only shot. It sounds a bit kooky to say that the only
way out of the oppressive Orwellian status quo that is driving us
toward war and ecocide is a mass shift in human consciousness, but I
insist that it’s far less crazy than the idea that we can solve our
problems using political solutions while maintaining the relationship
with thought and narrative that our species currently has.
Whenever
you try to debate a devout free market capitalist by pointing to the
current system’s failures, they’ll invariably tell you that the
current system isn’t true capitalism, that due to corporatism and
the influences of corrupt governmental power, true capitalism hasn’t
yet been tried. When you try to debate a socialist by pointing to the
failures of nations which carry that label you get the same argument;
those were corrupt, top heavy perversions of the socialist ideology,
and true socialism hasn’t been tried yet.
And
both are correct: neither political solution to our society’s
dilemmas has ever been tried in its pure form. And why is that?
Ultimately, it’s because humanity remains a fearful species which
latches onto abstract mental narratives in order to maintain a sense
of control over the fate of the conceptual self they believe
themselves to be,
and those narratives can then be manipulated
by more clever humans.
Happens again and again; systems designed to help humanity give way
to the manipulations of the powerful for the benefit of the powerful,
because we are too easy to manipulate.
So
in the cases of both true free market capitalism and true socialism,
the problem isn’t necessarily that those systems don’t work (who
knows, haven’t tried them yet), it’s that humanity hasn’t yet
moved into a sufficiently wholesome relationship with power and
narrative to be able to implement them. Complaining that your system
hasn’t been implemented correctly is therefore actually just
complaining that humanity has not yet experienced a global shift in
consciousness.
But
if we can make such a shift, will our old models even be useful in
the new paradigm? Isn’t it kind of like a two-dimensional character
trying to design city plans for a three-dimension civilization they
can’t even imagine? How much relevance would the manifesto of a
nineteenth century German philosopher or the ideas of long dead
Austrian economists have to a twenty-first century world in which
humans don’t move the way they used to and are not motivated by the
same things they once were?
This
is why I don’t make much of a fuss about one ideological model or
the other being the right and true one. A world in which everyone
gets what they need and we aren’t killing each other or our
ecosystem anymore is obviously something we all want, but I don’t
see any way to get there by picking heroes and sending them toward
the top of a power structure that has been deliberately designed to
funnel power upward and banish anyone who obstructs that movement.
I
no longer jump on bandwagons for the same reason I don’t go around
babbling about “sheep dogs” and aggressively trying to tear down
anti-establishment heroes who aren’t being anti-establishment
enough: if you put someone on a pedestal, eventually you’re going
to have to knock them off of it, because the solution isn’t in
them. It’s in each of us.
How
can we overthrow our oppressors if we haven’t overthrown our inner
oppressor as well? How can we shrug off the fear-soaked narratives of
the propaganda machine if we haven’t detached from the anxious
self-talk of our babbling inner narrator that seeks to dictate our
entire attention? We can turn off all the screens in our lives that
seek to take over our authority, but it’s the screen in our minds
which holds our attention that we have to turn off as well.
And
that will necessarily move us in a far more harmonious way. We will
look like a whole different species. From how I see it now, political
solutions are inherently top-down, competitive and divisive, and what
we are shooting for is a much more organically collaborative
crowd-sourced approach. As we get healthier, we’ll see solutions
come together in a distributed, improvisational way from collections
of people who aren’t interested in getting noticed, they just want
to get it done.
And
there are plenty of people like that already. The Bernie campaign
brought together huge swathes of them. We are going to see that
across all sectors, in science, technology and the arts as people put
aside our weird egoic desire for the separating effects of fame and
fortune for the joy of making something beautiful, helpful or healthy
together, simply for the thrill of accomplishing something bigger
than ourselves. The old dinosaur notions of pinning down ideas with
patents and so on will be seen clearly for what they are — an
attempt by individual egos to colonize inspiration that ultimately
inhibits human thriving. Just as we learn to stop trusting the
individual ego in others to save us, we will stop trusting it in
ourselves, and increasingly we will hand over our internal control to
the greater part of our consciousness that does not seek to control,
define, claim and deflect, but rather draws from a wisdom that often
eludes narration but creates harmoniously.
We
are the helpers. We’ve always been here, but until now we’ve been
co-opted by manipulators into manufacturing consent for their sick
agendas. Very rarely has a helper found a helper to help. Very rarely
have two people who only want to work in the highest interest and not
self-interest come together to make something, let alone a group of
them. As we begin to really see how manipulators move and they start
to pop up on our screens like a fly on white paper, the helpers will
become obvious as well. We can start to trust our gut again about who
and where to put our energy, and out of those new collaborations,
beautiful inspired solutions will be born into the world.
“Everything I just said is self-evident and immediately verifiable in your own present experience here and now. Logically, if you want to have a relationship with reality that is informed by unshakeable truth, this is where you must take your stand” https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/truth-faaf4b37b105 …
Put
to one side the anxiety-soaked stories your mind creates and deal
with what’s in the here and now, and keep gently bringing yourself
back to the reality of your feet on the floor and the air moving
through your lungs. Every reset back into peace with your
surroundings creates a space where inspiration can come in. This
simple internal act of rebellion from obedience to the
voice-that-is-me will have far-reaching consequences in the outer
world as we draw back subservience from the outer voices of
authority, and bring it back into ourselves.
I
know that’s not nearly as cool as storming the barracks with flags
and rebel songs and the image of our hero inked into our skin, but
we’ve tried that before, and we just got more of the same. Every
hero we elevate turns to smoke, and every door we’ve tried is
closed except this one. So let’s open it and see what happens.
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PS: kan
me niet herinneren ooit een politieke ‘held’ te hebben gehad, al had
ik veel bewondering voor figuren als Che Guevara, Fidel
Castro, Hồ Chí Minh, Salvador Allende, om er een paar te noemen, gelukkig hebben
die me niet teleurgesteld.
Mijn excuus voor de verdwenen foto’s, al plaats ik ze er weer bij, telkens verdwijnen ze na verloop van tijd……..
NRC correspondent Derk Walters moet per 1 juli a.s. Israël verlaten, vanwege ‘activisme’, zo besloot het Israëlische Government Press Office (GOP*). Dat activisme bestaat eruit, dat Walters kritische geluiden over het Israëlische regeringsbeleid laat zien in zijn berichtgeving……..
Moet zeggen, dat ik zelden een kritisch stuk over Israël in de NRC heb gelezen, maar ja, ik lees dit meer en meer afhankelijke blad nog maar zelden en altijd op het net……
Koenders liet weten dat hij het besluit van de Israëlische regering betreurt, i.p.v. onmiddellijk de Israëlische ambassadeur op het matje te roepen….. Koenders liet wel weten, dat hij zijn treurnis meerdere keren had overgebracht bij de Israëlische regering……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Of u hem maar wilt geloven, controleren kan u het niet…… Moet u nagaan, dan durft de Israëlische regering nog te stellen, dat het de enige democratie in het Midden-Oosten is…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Koenders heeft de afgelopen jaren niets gedaan voor de Palestijnen, zoveel is zeker!!
Israël is een fascistische apartheidsstaat, waar minderheden onderhorig zijn aan het joodse volk en waar die minderheden zelfs worden gediscrimineerd, dat geldt voor de Palestijnen al helemaal, deze mensen wordt het leven praktisch onmogelijk gemaakt, neem de boeren die hun land niet meer kunnen bewerken op de West Bank….. Of het feit dat Palestijnen die in het buitenland gaan studeren, niet meer terug kunnen keren naar de door Israël, voor een flink deel illegaal bezette West Bank, of de Gazastrook. Duidelijk een uitsterfbeleid en etnische zuivering…….. Zelfs overleden Palestijnen mogen niet in hun geboorteland worden begraven……..
Al deze zaken werden en worden door de opvolgende westerse (en dus Nederlandse) regeringen als een feit geaccepteerd, zonder enige kritiek laat men Israël begaan. Als Israël weer eens besluit illegale nederzettingen uit te breiden, of als deze fascisten weer eens een bloedbad aanrichten, stelt men dat er naast het overbrengen van bezorgdheid, geen commentaar geleverd kan worden, daar deze ‘de vredesbesprekingen’ zouden dwarsbomen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Trouwens daarover gesproken: ‘lekker veel aandacht’ in de reguliere Nederlandse media, over het voornemen van Hamas, Israël te erkennen, als het zich terugtrekt achter de grenzen van 1967…… ‘Logisch’ daar deze media weten, dat Israël nooit akkoord zal gaan met dit voorstel…… ‘Normaal toch, dat Israël gebieden bezet houdt, waar het volgens VN resoluties al lang weg had moeten zijn??’ Let wel: de Palestijnen zouden hier veel op inleveren, immers men eist niet de eerder van Palestijnen gestolen grond en huizen terug!!
Flapdrol Frenk van der Linden was vanmorgen te gast in het megasuffe Mediaforum op Radio1. Deze vroeg zich n.a.v. de uitzetting van Walters af, of Israël een verlichte dictatuur is, volgens de over een hondendrol getilde zakkenwasser hoort dit niet thuis in een democratie…… ha! ha! ha! ha! Welke democratie? Die in een land waar een groot deel van de oorspronkelijke bewoners werd verjaagd of vermoord? Of de democratie in een land waar de overgebleven mensen van die oorspronkelijke bevolking het leven onmogelijk wordt gemaakt, zodat men niet anders kan, dan van een fascistische apartheidsstaat spreken? De democratie in een land dat schijt heeft aan internationale rechtsregels? De democratie in een land dat een openluchtgevangenis heeft gecreëerd (Gazastrook) en waar die democratie keer op keer enorme bloedbaden aanricht……..
* Volgens een BNR verslaggever gaat het om de GPO (tot 4 keer toe…)…. (BNR vanmiddag rond 16.09 u.)
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