Kapiteins reddingsschepen Middellandse Zee weigeren mensenrechtenprijs van bestuur Parijs

Pia
Klemp en Carola Rackete, de twee Duitse kapiteins van Sea Watch schepen, weigeren een mensenrechtenprijs van het Parijse stadsbestuur voor het redden van
vluchtelingen. Ze vinden volkomen terecht dat deze prijs een uiterst
hypocriete poging is om het gevoerde wanbeleid tegen vluchtelingen
schoon te wassen. Zo worden vluchtelingen die in Frankrijk op straat
leven zelfs de dekens afgepakt door de politie……

Klemp
heeft meer dan 1.000 vluchtelingen gered en in 2017 werd haar schip
in beslag genomen door de fascistoïde Italiaanse autoriteiten……. Intussen is
Italië bezig om het redden van mensen te criminaliseren als
mensenhandel en is van zins daarvoor wetten in het leven roepen….. Gelukkig
is de fascistische regering van Italië op de bek gegaan, nu maar
hopen dat er een humaan bestuur voor terugkomt…..

Overigens
is de hele EU verantwoordelijk voor de grote aantallen drenkelingen
in de Middellandse Zee en voor de situatie in Italië, het is zonder
meer een schande hoe de EU omgaat met vluchtelingen, waar de NAVO-lidstaten verantwoordelijk
zijn voor heel veel ellende in Afrika en het Midden-Oosten, ellende
waardoor mensen op de vlucht slaan…… Nog schunniger is het dat
men nog steeds geen goede opvang heeft voor vluchtelingen in het hele EU gebied….. (‘leve de EU!’) 

Frontex, de EU grensbewaker zou dit jaar niet één boot met vluchtelingen hebben gered en deze mensen hebben afgezet in Italië of bijvoorbeeld Spanje…… Nee de organisatie heeft wel bootjes met vluchtelingen teruggesleept naar de Libische kust waar men deze mensen overdroeg aan de uiterst gewelddadige ‘autoriteiten’, waarna deze mensen worden opgesloten in door de EU bekostigde concentratiekampen, waar het aan veel zaken ontbreekt, al helemaal aan het beschermen van mensenrechten…… Deze vluchtelingen worden gemarteld, verkracht en vermoord, waar een aantal van hen worden verkocht op openbare slavenmarkten….. Anderen worden gegijzeld voor geld van familieleden in de thuislanden van die vluchtelingen, als er niet wordt betaald worden veel van deze gegijzelden vermoord……
Libië wordt door Nederland en de EU als onveilig gezien, althans als het gaat om de eigen onderdanen die willen afreizen naar dat land, echter men heeft er geen probleem mee om vluchtelingen terug te sturen naar het land dat door de VS met de NAVO (onder militair commando van de VS) naar de kloten werd geholpen, waar het eens rijkste land van Afrika, waar mannen en vrouwen gelijk waren, nu tot de armste landen van Afrika behoort……… (waar vrouwen nu zijn gereduceerd tot broedmachines, die zich ‘zedig moeten kleden’ en die zich stil moeten houden……)

Dit alles terwijl er alleen deze maand al meer dan 500 vluchtelingen waaronder een fiks aantal kinderen (allen: mensen) zijn verdronken op de Middellandse Zee…..

Het volgende artikel over deze zaak komt van Middle East Monitor (MEMO):

Captain
of migrant rescue ship declines Paris honour

August
23, 2019 at 8:56 am 

German ship captain Pia Klemp on the bridge of Sea-Watch 3 [Wikipedia]

German
ship captain Pia Klemp on the bridge of Sea-Watch 3 [Wikipedia]

The
German captain of a rescue ship who has saved the lives of hundreds
of migrants in the Mediterranean has declined a humanitarian prize
from Paris City Council. Pia Klemp and her colleague Carola Rackete
were awarded the Grand Vermeil Medal last month for their courage in
rescuing migrants despite Italian efforts to prevent them.


Ms
Klemp accused the French capital’s authorities of hypocrisy over
the treatment of the migrants. “We do not need authorities to
decide who is a hero and who is illegal,” she said on Facebook.

In
a letter to Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, Klemp wrote: “You
want to offer me a medal because our crews are working to save
migrants from difficult circumstances on a daily basis. Meanwhile,
the police of your country are stealing blankets from people and
forcing them to live on the streets, while suppressing protests and
criminalising those who defend the rights of migrants and asylum
seekers.”

A
spokesman for Paris City Council said that officials would be in
contact with Klemp, adding that, “The city of Paris is fully
prepared to support the refugees, shelter them and ensure respect for
their humanity and dignity.”

Klemp
has rescued more than 1,000 people who were on the verge of drowning
after using unseaworthy small boats in their attempt to cross the
Mediterranean and get into Europe in search of a better life. In
2017, the Italian authorities seized Klemp’s ship and prevented her
from sailing off the Italian coast.

Italy
has accused the German captain of smuggling migrants. The accusations
are believed to be part of a campaign by right-wing Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini, known for his anti-immigration position. The campaign
has described rescue workers such as Klemp, the NGO Sea Watch and
other relief organisations as “criminals”.

Categories

Europe
& Russia
FranceGermanyNews

Zie
ook: EU
using Israel drones to track migrant boats in the Med
 en uiterst verontrustend artikel waarin de EU
wordt beschuldigd van het gebruik van Israëlische drones, die
Frontex, Italië en de EU gebruiken om o.a. bootjes met vluchtelingen te spotten waarna de Libische autoriteiten worden gewaarschuwd, of om zoals hierboven al door mij geschreven, schepen worden uitgestuurd om bootjes met vluchtelingen
terug te slepen naar de Libische kust, waarna deze mensen in door de
EU betaalde concentratiekampen verdwijnen….. 
(nogmaals: ‘leve de EU!’) 


Italiaanse regering laat fascistische gezicht zien: 629 bootvluchtelingen kunnen barsten…….


EU missie Sophia in Middellandse Zee stopt: bootvluchtelingen worden niet meer gered…….


EU stuurt vluchtelingen terug in de hel die Libië heet

Nederland stuurt asielzoekers terug de hel van Libië in

Nederland stuurt asielzoekers terug naar gevaarlijk Libie‘ (al onder PvdA opperhufter Koenders in 2014……)

Fascisme groeit in de EU: Macron (Franse president) wordt rechts ingehaald door de fascisten van Le Pen…….

In
een eerder bericht over de EVP (de christelijke fractie in de EU,
waar het CDA deel van uitmaakt) conferentie in Helsinki*, sprak ik al
over het immer groeiende fascisme in de EU, ‘zelfs’ terug te vinden
in de EVP, zeker met haar kandidaat voor het presidentschap van de
Europese Commissie, Manfred Weber, een fascist van de Duitse CSU, die
probeert om zoveel mogelijk stemmen te trekken voor de EU
verkiezingen volgend jaar.

Weber
doet dit door standpunten van de fascisten over te nemen, zoals een
stop op de vluchtelingenopvang…….. Niets nieuws daar de EVP al behoorlijk is gevuld met aanhangers van het fascisme, en zoals de keus voor Weber aangeeft, heeft deze partij er geen moeite meer mee
als haar partij een fascistische koers gaat varen……

Afgelopen
zaterdag schreef ook Tyler Durden een artikel over het groeiend
fascisme in de EU, al duidt hij deze figuren niet aan als fascisten (wat ze echter wel zijn). Neem de regeringen van Hongarije, Polen, Roemenië, Italië en Oostenrijk, ik kan deze regeringen niet anders zien dan fascistisch…… Andere Oost-Europese landen zitten overigens niet ver af van dat inhumane smerige niveau, waar Oekraïne zelfs een neonazi-junta als regering heeft….. Deze regering werd door de VS geparachuteerd, nadat de VS (met Hillary Clinton op BuZa) een opstand tegen de democratisch gekozen regering Janoekovytsj organiseerde in dit land (de VS bekostigde dit met meer dan 4 miljard dollar….)….

Durden wijst terecht ook naar Frankrijk waar men telkens weer stelt dat Marine Le Pen de verkiezingen niet heeft gewonnen, alsof haar partij RN (voorheen Front National) daarmee is weggevaagd, het tegendeel is waar, de partij krijgt steeds meer aanhang, zoals de verkiezingen van de afgelopen 10 jaar laten zien, ook de PVV groeit met elke verkiezing…… Er is één uitzondering en dat is Ukip, die kreeg behoorlijke klap met de laatste landelijke verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië, de vraag is of dat een blijvende teruggang is, maar ik vrees dat dit niet het geval is……

Ronduit
stuitend te zien hoe het fascisme steeds meer terrein wint in de EU en er nu
zelfs sprake is van de oprichting van een ultrarechts blok in het EU
parlement….. Dit ‘Freedom Front’ moet alle fascisten (volgens
Durden ‘populisten’) in EU landen verenigen…….. Eerder stelde ik op deze plek al dat het gevaar bestaat dat de fascisten, nu in woord nog anti-EU, bij grote winsten wel eens anders zou kunnen opstellen en als fascistisch blok heel machtig zouden kunnen worden in de EU….. Blijkbaar zijn de EU fascisten daar al mee bezig……. 

Hitler zou er z’n bloederige poten bij aflikken, zeker als je ziet dat men het volk steeds beter in de hand kan houden en kan controleren, dit middels cameratoezicht, controle van het internet, telefoon taps (t/m inbraak op de smartphone), controle van de media (de reguliere media laten de oren al hangen naar hun regering en het neoliberalisme in het algemeen, een ideologie die je zeker als fascistisch kan aanmerken…)… 

Wetenschappers zijn nu al bezig om ultrakleine drones te ontwikkelen (ter grootte van een insect), uitgerust met camera en wie weet in de toekomst met een dodelijke dosis van het één of andere chemische wapen, waarmee tegenstanders simpel kunnen worden vermoord…… Vandaar dat het ook zo belangrijk is dat onze privacy eindelijk eens wordt geëerbiedigd, immers als men misbruik kan maken van een technologie, zal dit ook daadwerkelijk plaatsvinden, zo wijst de praktijk uit…..

Lullig genoeg blijft de groei van het fascisme niet beperkt tot de EU, ook de nieuwe president van Brazilië, Bolsonaro is een overduidelijke fascist….. Ook in de Filipijnen is een fascist aan het bewind: de uiterst moorddadige Duterte….. En laten we eerlijk zijn: de Trump administratie vertoont op z’n zachtst gezegd behoorlijke fascistische trekken, neem alleen al de omgang met ‘migranten’** uit Midden-Amerika…… 

Tot slot nog dit: lullig te zien dat de rk kerk en de protestantse baptisten zich maar al te graag fascistische regimes steunen…….. 

EU
Populists In France, Hungary And Italy Continue To Surge In Polls; Le
Pen Overtakes Macron

by Tyler
Durden

Sat,
11/10/2018 – 12:45

According
to the latest polls, the populist wave of anti-mass migration
nationalist parties across the European Union is 
picking
up steam
,
particularly in Italy, France and Hungary as pro-nationalism parties
lead their rivals going into next year’s EU parliament election.

As
we reported 
last
week
,
recent
poll
 from
Nov. 4 from the Institut Français D’opinion Publique (IFOP)
showed that French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party
Republic on the Move (LREM) has fallen to 
19%,
while Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Rassemblement National (RN, formerly
National Front) jumped to 
21%,
according to 
Euractiv

Another
poll from Elabe shows RN at 20% while Macron’s LREM at 19.5%.  


Europe Elects@EuropeElects

France (European Election 2019), Elabe poll:

RN-ENF: 20% (+0.5)
LREM+-ALDE: 19.5% (-4.5)
LR-EPP: 15%
FI-LEFT: 11% (+1)
EELV-G/EFA: 7% (-1)
PS-S&D: 7% (+1)
DLF-EFDD: 6.5% (+1)
UDI-ALDE: 4% (+2)
G.s-S&D: 2.5% (+1)

Field work: 6/11/18 – 7/11/18
Sample size: 1,002


54

6:47 PM – Nov 7, 2018

Meanwhile,
a Hungarian national poll released last week from Medián
reveals that Prime Minister Victor Orbán’s Fidesz party and
their Christian Democratic People’s Party allies have increased their
lead to 
63% –
with the second most popular party, Jobbik, coming in at just 
11%.

Europe Elects@EuropeElects

Hungary, Medián poll:

Fidesz-KDNP-EPP: 63% (+3)
Jobbik-NI: 11%
DK-S&D: 9% (-1)
MSZP-S&D: 8%
Momentum-*: 3% (+1)
LMP-G/EFA: 2% (-2)
MKKP-*: 1%
P-G/EFA: 1%
Mi Hazánk-*: 1% (-1)

Field work: 12/10/18-17/10/18
Sample size: 1200


58

6:48 PM – Nov 7, 2018

According
to 
Breitbart‘s
Chris Tomlinson, Italy’s League – which Interior Minister Matteo
Salvini leads, has continued to outperform its coalition partners,
the Five Star Movement, 
since
July

Salvini
has been shown to be the 
most
trusted politician
 in
Italy according to a poll from the 
Giorno newspaper
released in July. The Five Star Movement and its leader Luigi Di
Maio, meanwhile, have struggled to implement their economic
reforms which include a basic citizen income due to 
pushback from
the European Commission. –
Breitbart

According
to pollster Noto, the League leads with 31%, while Five Star comes in
at 27%. 

Europe Elects@EuropeElects

Italy, Noto poll:

LEGA-ENF: 31%
M5S-EFDD: 27% (+1)
PD-S&D: 18% (+1)
FI-EPP: 9%
FdI-ECR: 4%
LeU-S&D: 4% (+1)
+E-ALDE: 3% (+1)
PaP-LEFT: 3% (+1)
Ncl-*: 1%

Field work: unrevealed
Sample size: unrevealed


28

4:53 PM – Nov 7, 2018

Populists
unite

While
American political strategist Stephen K Bannon has made
strides uniting European populists through his nonprofit
organization 
The
Movement
,
Salvini and Le Pen met last month in Rome and announced that they
were exploring a “
Freedom
Front

of their own to unite the populists among the EU parliament. 

Meanwhile,
according to Tomlinson, calls to boot Orbán and Fidesz from the
conservative European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary group may
result in a solid alliance between Orbán, Salvini and Le Pen. 

Tag
Politics

====================================

Zie: ‘Manfred Weber (CSU) de gedroomde fascistische kandidaat van de EVP voor presidentschap Europese Commissie



** Migranten? Vluchtelingen zoals in de karavaan die in de richting loopt van de Mexicaanse – VS grens, een karavaan vooral gevuld met mensen uit Honduras, waar een door de VS geparachuteerde juntaleider de armen en vooral de activisten onder hen vermoordt…… De eerder democratisch gekozen regering van Honduras werd na een door de VS georganiseerde staatsgreep in 2009 afgezet (onder Hillary Clinton op BuZa)……. Deze vluchtelingen werden door Trump en het overgrote deel van de republikeinen  voor de midterm-verkiezingen van vorige week afgedaan als criminelen, men had zelfs het gore lef te zeggen dat deze ‘migranten’ een gevaar vormden voor de staatsveiligheid van de VS….

Zie ook: ‘EVP (EU ‘christendemocraten’) heeft 1 fascistische partij in haar fractie, waar nu het Oostenrijkse EVP lid met fascisten van de FPÖ gaat regeren…..

Braziliaanse verkiezingen: democratie versus (neo-) fascisme, ook een groot gevaar in Europa

Ben
het niet helemaal eens met de kop, daar er in feite geen neo-fascisme
bestaat*, het is dezelfde schoftenideologie die eerder zovelen heeft
getroffen, zowel in Europa, als in Latijns-Amerika en in de VS (de
McCarthy jaren en de toestand zoals die nu is onder Trump, al
‘moet’ het fascisme daar nog verder groeien)………

Pepe
Escobar de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, eerder
geplaatst op Consortium News (een onderdeel van Anti-Media), stelt dat de verkiezingen in Brazilië bepalend zijn voor
het groeiende fascisme in de rest van het westen, waar ik zojuist de
VS al noemde.

 Oct 8

Latuff destaca a queda de braço entre a democracia e a extrema direita – Brasil 247 via

Translated from Portuguese by 

Latuff highlights the arm drop between democracy and the extreme Right-brazil 247 via

De
linkse partijen in het westen en in Latijns Amerika hebben voor een
groot deel hun hand overspeeld met vernieuwingen, die het linkse
ideaal de nek hebben omgedraaid, neem de PvdA die onder de
exorbitante zelfverrijker Kok de links-ideale veren afschudde.

Veel
van deze partijen hebben om mee te kunnen regeren, hun idealen in de
koelkast gezet, waar ze de neoliberale ideeën hebben omarmd, of waar
ze de grootste regeringspartij waren, zich niet langer hebben ingezet
voor de doelgroep die hen ooit groot heeft gemaakt……. Ofwel deze ‘linkse partijen’ hebben de grote
onderlaag en allen die weinig kansen hebben in de maatschappij, zoals
invaliden, chronisch zieken en in feite de ouderen, in de steek gelaten……

De onderlaag van wie het
grootste deel tegen, op of onder de armoedegrens moet leven (dat is drie keer in armoede leven en dat voor rond de 4 miljoen mensen, inclusief hun kinderen!), veelal werkloos is, of veel te weinig verdient en in te
dure huurwoningen leeft…… Wat betreft de ouderen: in tegenstelling tot
wat men continu durft te verkondigen, dat ouderen welgestelde
uitvreters zijn, leeft een groot aantal van hen in armoede, zo hebben veel van deze ouderen de huishoudelijke hulp afgezegd, daar ze de eigen bijdrage niet meer kunnen betalen, gevolg: ouderen vervuilen of ze zijn intussen al helemaal vervuild en zijn verder vereenzaamd…. De vermaledijde ‘participatiemaatschappij’ bestaat niet eens voor het overgrote deel van deze groep….. (het hele ‘participatiemaatschappij’ idee is niet anders dan een smerige bezuiniging, deze maatschappij bestaat dan ook niet en zal nooit bestaan, anders dan mensen die zich altijd al hebben ingezet voor mensen die geen of minder kansen hebben dan anderen)

Het
voorgaande, dus wat betreft de linkse partijen, geldt bepaald niet alleen voor Nederland, maar ook voor
landen als Australië en voor een groot deel van de EU landen, plus uiteraard een aantal Latijns-Amerikaanse landen…… In de VS bestaat er geen socialistisch of sociaaldemocratisch alternatief op het niveau van de twee grootste partijen, die nog amper verschillen van elkaar….

Zoals
al vaker hier gesteld: het fascisme is flink groeiend in de EU,
hoewel men het na de meeste verkiezingen uitkraait van genot als men
stelt dat de extreem rechtse, ofwel fascistische partijen, niet de
grootste partij (of zoals in Nederland: beweging >> PVV) zijn
geworden, vergeet men voor het gemak dat deze partijen (behalve Ukip in GB) bij elke verkiezing groter worden….. (terwijl ze al een fiks aantal kiezers hebben……)

De
gevoerde neoliberale politiek in westerse landen zorgt ervoor dat de
grote onderlaag en allen die weinig of geen kans hebben, zich meer en
meer uitspreken voor fascistische partijen of bewegingen……. Uiteraard is dit het gevolg van leugens die figuren als Wilders (en Trump) hen op de mouw spelden, als zouden zij zich wel voor deze vergeten groepen inzetten……..

We
hebben in de 20er en 30er jaren van de vorige eeuw gezien waar het
voorgaande toe kan leiden en toch trapt er niemand op de rem…..
Integendeel men probeert de fascisten de wind uit de zeilen te halen
door rechtse stokpaarden over te nemen en zich bijvoorbeeld uit te
spreken tegen vluchtelingen….. 

Terwijl de oorzaken voor dat vluchten
door het westen zijn gecreëerd met economisch afknijpen van
ontwikkelingslanden (gesubsidieerde dumping van westerse goederen
zoals groente, vis en vlees), echter erger nog zijn de illegale oorlogen die
het westen o.l.v. de VS voert in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft, of door
regeringen omver te werpen door de VS middels door de CIA en/of NSA  georganiseerde opstanden…… 
(het liefst in combinatie met economische oorlogvoering, door blokkades op de invoer van levensmiddelen en medicijnen, zoals we dat nu in Jemen, Venezuela en meer en meer in Iran zien…..) Vooral de illegale oorlogen van de VS zijn de grootste oorzaak van de enorme vluchtelingenstromen….. 

Lees
het volgend uitstekende artikel van Escobar en geeft het door, het is
de hoogste tijd dat men ontwaakt uit de consumptiecoma en ziet welk duistere gevaar op ons afkomt, een fascistische EU, of zoals Escobar het noemt een Unie van Europese (fascistische) Staten:

Future
of Western Democracy Being Played Out in Brazil

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Future of Western Democracy Being Played Out in Brazil

October
9, 2018 at 9:48 pm

Written
by 
Consortium
News

Stripped
to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a
direct clash between democracy and an early 21st Century
neofascism, indeed between civilization and barbarism.

(CN Op-ed) — Nothing
less than the future of politics across the West – and across the
Global South – is being played out in Brazil.

Stripped
to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a
direct clash between democracy and an early 21st Century,
neofascism, indeed between civilization and barbarism.

Geopolitical
and global economic reverberations will be immense. The Brazilian
dilemma illuminates all the contradictions surrounding the Right
populist offensive across the West, juxtaposed to the inexorable
collapse of the Left. The stakes could not be higher.

Jair
Bolsonaro, an outright supporter of Brazilian military dictatorships
of last century, who has been normalized as the “extreme-right
candidate,” won the first round of the presidential elections on
Sunday with more than 49 million votes. That was 46 percent of the
total, just shy of a majority needed for an outright win. This in
itself is a jaw-dropping development.

His
opponent, Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party (PT), got only 31
million votes, or 29 percent of the total. He will now face Bolsonaro
in a runoff on October 28. A Sisyphean task awaits Haddad: just
to reach parity with Bolsonaro, he needs every single vote from those
who supported the third and fourth-placed candidates, plus a
substantial share of the almost 20 percent of votes considered null
and void.

Meanwhile,
no less than 69 percent of Brazilians, according to the latest polls,
profess their support for democracy. That means 31 percent do not.

No
Tropical Trump

Dystopia
Central does not even begin to qualify it. Progressive Brazilians are
terrified of facing a mutant “Brazil” (the movie) cum Mad Max
wasteland ravaged by evangelical fanatics, rapacious neoliberal
casino capitalists and a rabid military bent on recreating a
Dictatorship 2.0.

         

           Bolsonaro:
Danger for Brazil.

Bolsonaro,
a former paratrooper, is being depicted by Western mainstream
media essentially as the Tropical Trump. The facts are way more
complex.

Bolsonaro,
a mediocre member of Congress for 27 years with no highlights on his
C.V., indiscriminately demonizes blacks, the LGBT community, the Left
as a whole, the environment “scam” and most of all, the poor.
He’s avowedly pro-torture. He markets himself as a Messiah –
a fatalistic avatar coming to “save” Brazil from all those “sins”
above.

The
Goddess of the Market, predictably, embraces him. “Investors” –
those semi-divine entities – deem him good for “the market”,
with his last-minute offensive in the polls mirroring a
 rally in
the Brazilian
real and
the Sao Paulo stock exchange.

Bolsonaro
may be your classic extreme-right “savior” in the Nazi mould. He
may embody Right populism to the core. But he’s definitely not a
“sovereignist” – the motto of choice in political debate across
the West. His “sovereign” Brazil would be run more like a
retro-military dictatorship totally subordinated to Washington’s
whims.

Bolsonaro’s
ticket is compounded by a barely literate, retired general as his
running mate, a man who is ashamed of his mixed race background and
is frankly pro-eugenics. General Antonio Hamilton Mourão has
even 
revived the
idea of a military coup.

Manipulating
the ticket, we find massive economic interests, tied to mineral
wealth, agro-business and most of all the Brazilian Bible Belt. It is
complete with death squads against Native Brazilians, landless
peasants and African-American communities. It is a haven for the
weapons industry. Call it the apotheosis of tropical neo-pentecostal,
Christian-Zionism.

Praise
the Lord

Brazil
has 42 million evangelicals – and over 200 representatives in both
branches of Parliament. Don’t mess with their 
jihad.
They know how to exercise massive appeal among the beggars at the
neoliberal banquet. The 
Lula Left
simply didn’t know how to seduce them.

So
even with echoes of Mike Pence, Bolsonaro is the Brazilian Trump only
to a certain extent: his communication skills – talking tough,
simplistically, is language understandable to a seven-year old.
Educated Italians compare him to Matteo Salvini, the Lega leader, now
Minister of Interior. But that’s also not exactly the case.

Bolsonaro
is a symptom of a much larger disease. He has only reached this
level, a head-to-head in the second round against Lula’s candidate
Haddad, because of a sophisticated, rolling, multi-stage,
judicial/congressional/business/media Hybrid War unleashed on Brazil.

Way
more complex than any color revolution, Hybrid War in Brazil featured
a law-fare coup under cover of the 
Car
Wash
 anti-corruption
investigation. That led to the impeachment of President Dilma
Rousseff and Lula being thrown in jail on corruption charges with no
hard evidence or smoking gun.

In
every poll Lula would win these elections hand down. The coup
plotters managed to imprison him and prevent him from running. Lula’s
right to run was highlighted by everyone from Pope Francis to the
UN’s Human Rights Council, as well as Noam Chomsky. Yet in a
delightful historical twist, the coup plotters’ scenario blew up in
their faces as the front-runner to lead the country is not one of
them, but a neofascist.

One
of them” would ideally be a faceless bureaucrat affiliated with the
former social democrats, the PSDB, turned hardcore neoliberals
addicted to posing as Center Left when they are the “acceptable”
face of the neoliberal Right. Call them Brazilian Tony Blairs.
Specific Brazilian contradictions, plus the advance of Right populism
across the West, led to their downfall.

Even
Wall Street and the City of London (which endorsed Hybrid War on
Brazil after it was unleashed by 
NSA
spying
 of
oil giant Petrobras) have started entertaining second thoughts on
supporting Bolsonaro for president of a BRICS nation, which is a
leader of the Global South, and until a few years ago, was on its way
to becoming the fifth largest economy in the world.

It
all hangs on the “vote transfer” mechanism from Lula to Haddad
and the creation of a serious, multi-party Progressive Democratic
Front on the second round to defeat the rising neofascism.

They
have less than three weeks to pull it off.

The
Bannon Effect

It’s
no secret that Steve Bannon is advising the Bolsonaro campaign in
Brazil. One of Bolsonaro’s sons, Eduardo, met with Bannon in New
York two months ago after which the Bolsonaro camp decided to profit
from Bannon’s supposed “peerless” social engineering insights.

Bannon:
Danger for Europe.

Bolsonaro’s
son tweeted at the time, “We’re certainly in touch to join
forces, especially against Cultural Marxism.” That was followed by
an army of bots disgorging an avalanche of fake news up to Election
Day.

A
specter haunts Europe. Its name is Steve Bannon. The specter has
moved on to the tropics.

In
Europe, Bannon is now poised to intervene like an angel of doom in a
Tintoretto painting heralding the creation of a EU-wide Right
Populist coalition.

Bannon
is notoriously praised to high heavens by Italian Interior Minister
Salvini; Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban; Dutch nationalist
Geert Wilders; and scourge of the Paris establishment, Marine Le Pen.

Last
month, Bannon set up The Movement; at first sight just a political
start-up in Brussels with a very small staff. But talk about
Boundless Ambition: their aim is no less than turning the European
parliamentary elections in May 2019 upside down.

The
European parliament in Strasbourg – a bastion of bureaucratic
inefficiency – is not exactly a household name across the EU. The
parliament is barred from proposing legislation. Laws and budgets can
only be blocked via a majority vote.

Bannon
aims at capturing at least one-third of the seats in Strasbourg. He’s
bound to apply tested American-style methods such as intensive
polling, data analysis, and intensive social media campaigns – much
the same as in Bolsonaro’s case. But there’s no guarantee it will
work, of course.

The
foundation stone of The Movement was arguably laid in two key
meetings in early September set up by Bannon and his right-hand man,
Mischael Modrikamen, chairman of the quite small Belgian Parti
Populaire (PP). The first meeting was in Rome with Salvini and the
second in Belgrade with Orban.

Modrikamen
defines the concept as a “club” which will “collect funds
from donors, in America and Europe, to make sure
‘populist’ ideas can be heard by the citizens of Europe
who perceive more and more that Europe is not a democracy anymore.”

Modrikamen
insists, “We are all sovereignists.” The Movement will
hammer four themes that seem to form a consensus among disparate,
EU-wide political parties: against “uncontrolled immigration”;
against “Islamism”; favoring “security” across the EU;
and supporting “a Europe of sovereign nations, proud of their
identity.”

The
Movement should really pick up speed after next month’s midterms in
the U.S. In theory, it could congregate different parties from the
same nation under its umbrella. That could be a very tall order, even
taller than the fact key political actors already have divergent
agendas.

Wilders
wants to blow up the EU. Salvini and Orban want a weak EU but they
don’t want to get rid of its institutions. Le Pen wants a EU reform
followed by a “Frexit” referendum.

The
only themes that unite this mixed Right Populism bag are nationalism,
a fuzzy anti-establishment drive and a – quite popular – disgust
with the EU’s overwhelming bureaucratic machine.

Here
we find some common ground with Bolsonaro, who poses as a nationalist
and as against the Brazilian political system – even though he’s
been in Parliament for ages.

There’s
no rational explanation for Bolsonaro’s last-minute surge among two
sections of the Brazilian electorate that deeply despise him: women
and the Northeast region, which has always been discriminated against
by the wealthier South and Southeast.

Much
like Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 U.S. election, Bolsonaro’s
campaign targeted undecided voters in Northeastern states, as well as
women voters, with a barrage of fake news demonizing Haddad and the
Workers’ Party. It worked like a charm.

The
Italian Job

I’ve
just been to northern Italy checking out how popular Salvini really
is. Salvini defines the May 2019 European Parliament elections as
“the last chance for Europe.” Italian Foreign Minister Enzo
Moavero sees them as the first “real election for the future of
Europe.” Bannon also sees the future of Europe being played in
Italy.

It’s
quite something to seize the conflicting energy in the air in Milan,
where Salvini’s Lega is quite popular while at the same time Milan
is a globalized city crammed with ultra-progressive pockets.

At
a political debate about a book published by the Bruno Leoni
Institute regarding exiting the euro, Roberto Maroni, a former
governor of the powerful Lombardia region, remarked: “Italexit is
outside of the formal agenda of the government, of the Lega and of
the center-right.” Maroni should know, after all he was one of the
Lega’s founders.

He
hinted however that major changes are on the horizon. “To form a
group in the European parliament, the numbers are important. This is
the moment to show up with a unique symbol among parties of many
nations.”

It’s
not only Bannon and The Movement’s Modrikamen. Salvini, Le Pen and
Orban are convinced they can win the 2019 elections – with the EU
transformed into a “Union of European Nations.”

This
would include not just a couple of big cities where all the action
is, with the rest reduced to fly over status. Right Populism argues
that France, Italy, Spain, and Greece are no longer nations – only
mere provinces.

Macron:
Perfect “progressive” wolf to be released among the sheep.

Right
Populism derives immense satisfaction that its main enemy is the
self-described “Jupiter” Macron – mocked across France by some
as the “Little Sun King.” President Emmanuel Macron must be
terrified that Salvini is emerging as the “leading light” of
European nationalists.

This
is what Europe seems to be coming to: a trashy, Salvini vs. Macron
cage match.

Arguably
the Salvini vs. Macron fight in Europe might be replicated as
Bolsonaro vs. Haddad in Brazil. Some sharp Brazilian minds are
convinced Haddad is the Brazilian Macron.

In
my view he is not. His has a background in philosophy and he’s a
former, competent mayor of Sao Paulo, one of the most complex
megalopolises on the planet. Macron is a Rothschild mergers and
acquisitions banker. Unlike Macron, who was engineered by the French
establishment as the perfect “progressive” wolf to be released
among the sheep, Haddad embodies what’s left of really progressive
Left.

On
top of that – unlike virtually the whole Brazilian political
spectrum – Haddad is not corrupt. He’d have to offer the
requisite pound of flesh to the usual suspects if he wins of course.
But he’s not out to be their puppet.

Compare
Bolsonaro’s Trumpism, apparent in his last-minute message before
Election Day: “Make Brazil Great Again,” with Trump’s Trumpism.

Bolsonaro’s
tools are unmitigated praise of the Motherland; the Armed Forces; and
the flag.

But
Bolsonaro is not interested in defending Brazilian industry, jobs and
culture. On the contrary. A graphic example is what happened in a
Brazilian restaurant in Deerfield Beach, Florida, a year ago:
Bolsonaro saluted the American flag and chanted “USA! USA!”

That’s
undiluted MAGA – without a “B”.

Jason
Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale and author of 
How
Fascism Works
,
takes us 
further. Stanley
stresses how “the idea in fascism is to destroy economic politics…
The corporatists side with politicians who use fascist tactics
because they are trying to divert people’s attention from the real
forces that cause the genuine anxiety they feel.”

Bolsonaro
has mastered these diversionist tactics. And he excels in demonizing
so-called Cultural Marxism. Bolsonaro fits Stanley’s description as
applied to the U.S.:

Liberalism
and Cultural Marxism destroyed our supremacy and destroyed this
wonderful past where we ruled and our cultural traditions were the
ones that dominated. And then it militarizes the feeling of
nostalgia. All the anxiety and loss that people feel in their lives,
say from the loss of their healthcare, the loss of their pensions,
the loss of their stability, then gets rerouted into a sense that the
real enemy is liberalism, which led to the loss of this mythic past.”

In
the Brazilian case, the enemy is not liberalism but the Workers’
Party, derided by Bolsonaro as “a bunch of communists.”
Celebrating his astonishing first round victory, he said Brazil was
on the edge of a corrupt, communist “abyss” and could either
choose a path of “prosperity, freedom, family” or “the path of
Venezuela”.

The
Car Wash investigation enshrined the myth that the Workers’ Party
and the whole Left is corrupt (but not the Right). Bolsonaro
overextended the myth:  every minority and social class is a
target – in his mind they are “communists” and “terrorists.”

Goebbels
comes to mind – via his crucial text The Radicalization of
Socialism,
 where he emphasized the necessity of portraying
the center-left as Marxists and socialists because, as Stanley
notes, “the middle class sees in Marxism not so much the
subverter of national will, but mainly the thief of its property.”

That’s
at the center of Bolsonaro’s strategy of demonizing the Workers
Party – and the Left in general. The strategy of course is drenched
in fake news – once again mirroring what Stanley writes about U.S.
history: “The whole concept of empire is based on fake news. All of
colonization is based on fake news.”

Right
Against Left Populism?

As
I wrote in a 
previous
column
, the
Left in the West is like a deer caught in the headlights when it
comes to fighting Right populism

         

          Haddad:
Three weeks to head off Bolsonaro.

Sharp
minds from Slavoj Zizek to Chantal Mouffe are trying to conceptualize
an alternative – without being able to coin the definitive
neologism. Left populism? Popularism? Ideally, that should be
“democratic socialism” – but no one, in a post-ideology,
post-truth environment, would dare utter the dreaded word.

The
ascent of Right populism is a direct consequence of the emergence of
a profound crisis of political representation all over the West; the
politics of identity erected as a new mantra; and the overwhelming
power of social media, which allows – in Umberto Eco’s peerless
definition – the ascent of “the idiot of the village to the
condition of Oracle.”

As
we saw earlier, the central motto of Right populism in Europe is
anti-immigration – a barely disguised variation of hate towards The
Other. In Brazil the main theme, emphasized by Bolsonaro, is urban
insecurity. He could be the Brazilian Rodrigo Duterte – or Duterte
Harry: “Make my day, punk.”

He
portrays himself as the Righteous Defender against a corrupt elite
(even though he’s part of the elite); and his hatred of all things
politically correct, feminism, homosexuality, multiculturalism –
are all unpardonable offenses to his “family values.”

Brazilian
historian
 says
the only way to oppose him is to “translate” to each sector of
Brazilian society how Bolsonaro’s positions affect them: on
“widespread weaponizing, discrimination, jobs, (and) taxes.” And
it has to be done in less than three weeks.

Arguably
the best book explaining the failure of the Left everywhere to deal
with this toxic situation is Jean-Claude Michea’s 
Le
Loup dans la Bergerie
 –
The Wolf Among the Sheep – published in France a few days ago.

Michea
shows concisely how the deep contradictions of liberalism since the
18th century – political, economic and cultural – led it to TURN
AGAINST ITSELF and be cut off from the initial spirit of tolerance
(Adam Smith, David Hume, Montesquieu). That’s why we are deep
inside post-democratic capitalism.

Euphemistically
called “the international community” by Western mainstream media,
the elites, who have been confronted since 2008 with “the growing
difficulties faced by the process of globalized accumulation of
capital,” now seem ready to do anything to keep
its privileges.

Michea
is right that the most dangerous enemy of civilization – and even
Life on Earth – is the blind dynamics of endless accumulation of
capital. We know where this neoliberal Brave New World is taking us.

The
only counterpunch is an autonomous, popular movement “that would
not be submitted to the ideological and cultural hegemony of
‘progressive’ movements that for over three decades defend only
the cultural interests of the new middle classes
around the world,” Michae says.

For
now, such a movement rests in the realm of Utopia. What’s left is
to try to remedy a coming dystopia – such as backing a real
Progressive Democratic Front to block a Bolsonaro Brazil.

One
of the highlights of my Italian sojourn was a meeting with Rolf
Petri, Professor of Contemporary History at the Ca Foscari University
in Venice, and author of the absolutely essential 
A
Short History of Western Ideology: A Critical Account
.

Ranging
from religion, race and colonialism, to the Enlightenment project of
“civilization”, Petri weaves a devastating tapestry of how “the
imagined geography of a ‘continent’ that was not even a continent
offered a platform for the affirmation of European superiority and
the civilizing mission of Europe.”

During
a long dinner in a small Venetian trattoria away from the galloping
selfie hordes, Petri observed how Salvini – a middle-class small
entrepreneur – craftily found out how to channel a deep unconscious
longing for a mythical harmonious Europe that won’t be coming back,
much as petty bourgeois Bolsonaro evokes a mythical return to the
“Brazilian miracle” during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship.

Every
sentient being knows that the U.S. has been plunged into extreme
inequality “supervised” by a ruthless plutocracy. U.S. workers
will continue to be royally screwed as are French workers under
“liberal” Macron. So would Brazilian workers under Bolsonaro. To
borrow then from Yeats, what rough beast, in this darkest hour,
slouches towards freedom to be born?

By Pepe
Escobar 
Republished
with permission / 
Consortium
News
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* Hetzelfde is het geval met de term ‘neonazi’s’, alsof het nieuwe nazisme niet vergeleken kan worden met het nazisme uit de 20er en 30er jaren van de vorige eeuw, terwijl de haat tegen minderheden (waaronder Joden) even fanatiek is als in die tijd voorafgaand aan de machtsovername van de nazi’s in 1933.

Zie ook:

People of Brazil: my sincere condolences with ‘your’ fascistic, psychopathic president Bolsonaro……

Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert……

Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

Bolsonaro wint Braziliaanse verkiezingen >> weer zijn we een fascistisch geleid land ‘rijker…’

Katy Sherriff (Radio1 correspondent Z-Amerika) brandt socialistische partij Brazilië af……

Mijn excuus voor het beperkte aantal labels direct onder dit bericht, je mag 20 labels voeren en dat met een beperkt aantal letters en tekens.

Israël omarmt de Europese fascisten (niet voor niets)….

Afgelopen maandag bracht Middel East Monitor (MEMO) een artikel
over de relatie van de fascistische Israëlische apartheidsstaat met
fascisten in Europa.

Zoals
bekend mag worden geacht, gaat het de fascisten in de EU goed af, zo
goed dat je kan stellen dat landen als Polen, Hongarije en Oostenrijk
worden geregeerd door fascisten en dat andere fascistische partijen, behalve UKIP in GB, bij elke verkiezing groter worden…… 

Israël
zou volgens het artikel op MEMO ervan uitgaan dat deze fascistische
opmars in de EU niet gekeerd kan worden, vandaar ook dat Netanyahu op
bezoek gaat in landen als Hongarije, of de leiders van die landen
uitnodigt, waarbij hij een fikse hoeveelheid olie toevoegt aan het
anti-islamitische vuur dat steeds groter brand in de EU….. (uitzondering is Polen, met wie Netanyahu op z’n zachtst gezegd sinds begin dit jaar geen goede relatie onderhoudt, dit naar aanleiding van de Poolse Holocaust-wet….)

Het
gaat zelfs zover dat Israël wapens levert aan de neonazi’s in
Oekraïne en wordt de fascistische PVV van Wilders o.a. gefinancierd
door Israël……. Niet vreemd dus dat de fascistische partijen en
bewegingen in de EU Israël meer en meer omarmen…….

Voorts onderhoudt Israël goede banden met Saoedi-Arabië en Egypte….. Deze landen zijn dictaturen en zijn als de fascistische partijen in de EU, ook aan de uiterst rechterkant van het ‘politieke spectrum’ te vinden………

Tot slot: Israël nam onlangs de natiestaat-wet aan, waarmee het land officieel een fascistische staat is geworden, een fascistische apartheidsstaat wel te verstaan, daarmee zullen de banden tussen Israël en de EU fascisten nog verder worden aangehaald en zullen de Palestijnen nog gewelddadiger worden aangepakt (ook al is dat bijna niet voor te stellen, gezien de hel waarin deze mensen nu al moeten leven….)…. 

Israel
Is Embracing Fascism in Europe: Here’s Why

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, 18 July, 2017 [Bernadett Szabo/Reuters]

July
30, 2018 at 10:44 pm

Written
by 
Middle
East Monitor

(MEMO Op-ed) — Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban 
visited Israel
on 19 July where he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
other officials. Orban’s visit would have not required much pause
except that the Hungarian leader has been repeatedly 
branded for
his often racist, anti-Semitic remarks.

So
why is Orban wining and dining with the leaders of the so-called
Jewish
State
’?

The
answer does not pertain only to Orban and Hungary, but to
Israel’s 
attitude towards
the rapidly growing far-right movements in Europe as a whole.
Netanyahu and Zionist leaders everywhere are not just aware of this
massive political shift in European politics but are, in fact,
working diligently to utilize it in Israel’s favor.

On
his visit to Israel, Orban asserted that Hungarian Jewish citizens
should feel safe in his country, an odd statement considering that it
was Orban and his party that 
deprived many
Jews and other members of minority groups of any feeling of safety.

Still,
Netanyahu has welcomed Orban as a “true friend of Israel” and
Orban 
called on
his European counterparts to show more support for Israel. Mission
accomplished.

Netanyahu visited Budapest
in July 2017 but that supposedly historic visit did nothing to change
Hungary’s official discourse, which is dotted with racism and
anti-Semitism. In fact, in March 2018, Orban derided Jews,
focusing 
his
criticism
 mostly
on Jewish financiers such as George Soros.

At
an election rally campaign 
Orban
said
,
“We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open but
hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not
national but international; does not believe in working but
speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it
owns the whole world”.

It
is well-known that Israel and Zionist leaders are quite selective in
manipulating the definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ to serve their
political agendas, but Israel’s attitude towards the racist
far-right movements in Europe takes this truth to a whole new level.

Indeed,
the ‘special relationship’ between Netanyahu and Orban is
only 
the
tip of the iceberg
.
For years, Netanyahu’s Israel has been ‘flirting’ with radical
right movements in Europe.

The
unmistakable Israeli strategy, of course has its own logic. Israeli
leaders feel that Europe’s move to the far-right is irrevocable and
are keen to benefit from the anti-Muslim sentiment that accompanies
this shift as much as possible.

Moreover,
the EU’s resolve to
 label illegal
settlement products and refusal to heed calls for moving their
embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is pushing Netanyahu to explore
these new routes.

During
his previous visit to Hungary Netanyahu met with leaders from the
so-called Visegrad-4, which includes Hungary, Poland, the Czech
Republic and Slovakia.

On
that visit, Netanyahu hoped to find new channels of support within
the EU, through exerting pressure by using his new allies in these
countries. In an audio recording obtained by Reuters,
Netanyahu chastised Europe for daring to criticise Israel’s dismal
human rights record, illegal settlement policies and military
occupation.

I
think Europe has to decide whether it wants to live and thrive or it
wants to shrivel and disappear,”
 he
said.

Netanyahu’s
arrogance is unbridled, especially as the censure is emanating from a
leader who represents an ethno-nationalist state, which has just
recently canceled any reference to democracy in its newly-issued
Jewish 
Nation-state
Law
.

The
new basic law defines Israel by an ethnic identity, not any
democratic values. Netanyahu is now closer to Europe’s far-right
racist groups than to any liberal democratic model, thus the ongoing
flirting between Israel and these groups.

In
fact, the term flirting is itself an understatement considering that
Israel’s ties with various far-right, neo-Nazi and fascist parties
in Europe involve high-level political coordination and, in the case
of Ukraine in particular, the actual supplying of weapons.

Human
rights groups recently
 petitioned the
Israeli High Court to stop Israel’s export of weapons to neo-Nazi
groups.

The
Israeli far-right embrace touches almost every single European
country, including Italy and Germany, whose history of Nazism and
Fascism has wrought death and misery on millions.

In
Italy, the connection between Italian far-right parties and Israel
goes back to the early 2000s, when post-fascist leader Gianfranco
Fini laboured to rebrand his movement.

Initially,
Fini was the leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian
Social Movement), which
 saw
itself
 as
the “heir to the Fascist Party”.

The
rebranding of the party required a
 trip by
Fini to Israel in 2003, after changing the name of his movement to
the National Alliance*. Interestingly, in his highly-touted visit,
Fini was accompanied by Amos Luzzatto, the head of the Italian Jewish
community.

Unsurprisingly,
far-right leader, Matteo Salvini, Italy’s current Interior
Minister, went through the same political baptism by Zionist Israel
as Orban and Fini by paying a 
visit to
Tel Aviv in March 2016 to launch his political career and declaring
his 
undying
love
 for
the Jewish State.

Israel has passed the Nation-State Law becoming officially an Apartheid State - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

Israel has passed the Nation-State Law becoming officially an Apartheid State – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

The
same scenario is being repeated in Germany where the far-right
party – Alternative for Germany (AfD) – has risen in
ranks to the point that it nearly toppled a government coalition led
by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

AfD
has more in common with Israel than the common anti-Muslim and
anti-immigrant views. The party which is “derided for
anti-Semitic, xenophobic views redolent of the Nazis is also
staunchly supportive of Israel,”
 reported The Times
of Israel
.

Last
April the anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic German party enthusiastically
began a
 campaign pushing
for the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, despite
Merkel’s views to the contrary.

The
story, however, does not end there. What began as Israeli flirting
with far-right racist movements is now Israel’s official policy
towards Europe. The same story, with different actors and names, can
be found in Austria’s Freedom Party (FPO), Belgium’s Vlaams
Belang (Flemish Interest >> VB) and virtually everywhere else.

It
remains to be seen how Israel’s embrace of fascist Europe will
bode, both for Israel and the European Union. Will the EU shrivel and
disappear, or will Israel finally be exposed for what it truly is,
an ethno-nationalist state with no interest in true democracy in
the first place?

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