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LE SIONISME : PETIT COURS DE RATTRAPAGE « Libertes & Internets - 0 views

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  • Le premier attentat-suicide palestinien s’est produit en 1994, quarante jours après le massacre, par Baruch Goldstein, natif de Brooklyn, de vingt-neuf fidèles en prière à la Mosquée d’Abraham, à Hébron. A l’époque, cela faisait plus de vingt-cinq ans que la Cisjordanie, Jérusalem Est et la bande de Gaza étaient sous occupation, à la suite de la guerre de juin 1967. Ainsi, une génération entière de Palestiniens avait accédé à l’âge adulte sans avoir rien connu d’autre que l’occupation militaire, au moment où le premier attentat-suicide s’est produit.
  • L’idée qu’il s’agirait d’un conflit religieux, qui se poursuivrait depuis des milliers d’années, est inexacte. Depuis près de deux mille ans, juifs et Arabes entretenaient des relations harmonieuses et, depuis quatre siècles avant la Première guerre mondiale jusqu’à celle-ci incluse, ils avaient les mêmes droits, en tant que citoyens de l’Empire ottoman. De fait, les juifs occupaient des positions officielles éminentes, dans l’administration dudit Empire.
  • Tout a changé en 1896, avec la publication de l’ouvrage de Theodore Herzl, L’Etat juif, dans lequel il proposait l’idée de l’inévitabilité, de l’immuabilité, de la permanence et de l’omniprésence de l’antisémitisme, arguant que la seule solution à ce problème était un Etat séparé, pour les juifs.
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  • Les deux mouvements réactionnaires (le nazisme et le sionisme, ndt) avaient en partage l’idée que les juifs qui vivaient en Allemagne représentaient dans ce pays une « race » étrangère et que la séparation raciale devait être pérennisée à tout prix (l’historien Lenny Brenner a écrit trois ouvrages remarquables sur la collaboration siono-nazie). L’utilisation du nazisme par les sionistes prit notamment la forme du blocage de voies de secours pour les juifs vers d’autres pays d’Europe et leur détournement vers la Palestine, même après que les trains de la mort eurent commencé à sillonner l’Europe. L’ascension politique d’Hitler et son accession au pouvoir n’ont jamais fait l’objet d’une quelconque opposition du mouvement sioniste, antérieurement à la création de l’Etat d’Israël.
  • Voici ce qu’en dit Lenni Brenner : … parmi tous les juifs opposants actifs à l’idée de boycotter l’Allemagne nazie, le plus important fut l’Organisation Sioniste Mondiale [World Zionists Organisation – WZO]. Non seulement cette organisation acheta des équipements allemands, elle les revendit et elle alla jusqu’à chercher de nouveaux clients à Hitler et aux industriels qui le finançaient et le soutenaient.
  • … « La WZO perçut la victoire d’Hitler comme sa filiale allemande, la ZVfD, l’Organisation Sioniste d’Allemagne : elles y virent non pas principalement une défaite pour tous les juifs, mais comme une preuve positive de l’échec de l’assimilation et du libéralisme » [Brenner, Zionism in the Age of Dictators].
  • Bien qu’Herzl eût envisagé de jeter son dévolu sur une région d’Argentine, et même sur une région de l’Ethiopie, la Palestine fut le site sur lequel se dégagea le plus important consensus. A propos des indigènes palestiniens, qui étaient à l’époque environ un million à vivre en Palestine, il avait dit : «Nous ferons disparaître la population sans le sous à travers la frontière en lui refusant tout emploi. Le processus de l’expropriation et le déplacement des pauvres doivent être menés à bien avec discrétion et circonspection. »
  • Dans son ouvrage Le Mur de fer, paru en 1923, Vladimir Jabotinsky, fondateur de l’aile « révisionniste » du sionisme, écrivait :
  • « Tout peuple voit dans son pays son foyer national, dont il veut être le maître total. Un peuple ne laissera jamais son pays, de son plein gré, à un nouveau maître. Ce sont donc les tenants d’un compromis avec les Arabes, parmi nous, qui sont invités à nous convaincre que les Arabes sont des sortes d’imbéciles qu’il serait possible de duper avec des formulations dissimulant nos objectifs fondamentaux. Je refuse tout de go d’avaliser cette vision avilissante des Arabes palestiniens… « Les Palestiniens vont se battre comme ils le font tant qu’il leur restera la moindre étincelle d’espoir…. Peu importe les termes dont nous usons pour expliquer notre colonisation. La colonisation a sa signification, intégrale et inéluctable, que chaque juif et que chaque Arabe connaît fort bien. La colonisation n’a qu’un seul but. C’est dans la nature même des choses. Changer cette nature est quelque chose d’impossible. Il a été nécessaire de poursuivre la colonisation à l’encontre de la volonté des Arabes palestiniens, et les conditions actuelles sont strictement les mêmes.
  • « Si vous voulez coloniser une terre déjà habitée par des gens, vous devez lever une armée pour conquérir cette terre… Sinon ? Sinon, renoncez à votre colonisation, car, à défaut d’une armée qui rende physiquement impossible toute tentative pour détruire cette colonisation ou en empêcher l’installation, la colonisation est impossible. Le sionisme est une aventure de colonisation : la question de son échec ou de sa réussite tourne toute entière autour de sa force armée. Bien entendu, parler hébreu, c’est important. Mais, malheureusement, il est encore plus important de savoir viser et tirer – sinon, je n’ai rien contre l’idée de jouer à la colonisation…
  • Les « sionistes révisionnistes » étaient partisans de réviser le mandat britannique sur la Palestine afin d’y inclure la rive orientale du Jourdain (la Transjordanie, ndt), qui constitue aujourd’hui la Jordanie, aussi bien que la Cisjordanie, le Jourdain formant la frontière orientale du territoire sous mandat britannique, à l’époque. Le parti « révisionniste » s’est transformé, au fil des années, en l’actuel parti Likoud, le parti de droite de Menahem Begin, qui voyait en Jabotinsky sont parangon et son mentor philosophique. C’est aussi le parti d’Yitzhak Shamir, qui est devenu le chef du parti Révisionniste au moment de la mort de Jabotinksky, ainsi que celui d’Ariel Sharon et de Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • Et, en février 1948, Ben Gourion disait à Yosef Weitz, directeur de la colonisation du Fonds National Juif et chef du Comité du Transfert de 1948 : « C’est la guerre qui nous donnera notre terre. Le concept de ce qui est à nous et de ce qui n’est pas à nous est un concept qui relève uniquement d’une situation de paix : nous sommes en guerre, et ces concepts ont perdu toute signification. »
  • En 1983, Raphael Eytan, alors chef d’état major des Forces Israéliennes de Défonce [Tsahal, ndt] a dit : « Nous déclarons ouvertement que les Arabes n’ont aucun droit à s’installer sur le moindre centimètre carré de la Terre (sacrée) d’Israël [Eretz Israel]… Apparemment, la force est la seule chose qu’ils comprennent ou comprendront. Nous devons user de la force la plus extrême jusqu’à ce que les Palestiniens viennent ramper devant nous… Quand nous aurons peuplé les terres, la seule chose que les Arabes seront en mesure de faire, c’est de courir partout, comme des cafards saouls enfermés dans une bouteille… »
  • En 2002, Moshe Yaalon, chef d’état-major de l’armée israélienne, a dit : « Il faut faire comprendre aux Palestiniens, jusqu’aux tréfonds de leur conscience, qu’ils sont un peuple vaincu. » Entre l’époque où Israël s’est autoproclamé un Etat, en mai 1948, et l’été 2005, Israël a tué 50 000 Palestiniens, estime l’historien israélien Ilan Pappe. Et depuis octobre 2000, Israël a tué 6 348 Palestiniens, affirme le site ouèbe If Americans Knew [Si les Américains savaient ça…] Ce dernier chiffre correspond à environ 2 Palestiniens tués, chaque jour, par Israël [1,932, selon un calcul personnel]
  • Il est des sionistes qui seraient favorables à une solution à deux Etats et à un retrait de la présence militaire israélienne à l’intérieur des frontières de l’Israël pré-1967, tout en autorisant la création d’un mini-état « palestinien » sur les 22 % de la Palestine restants. Mais la réalité, sur le terrain, c’est qu’Israël s’est étendu au-delà du point de ce retrait, avec l’installation de 300 000 colons en Cisjordanie et de 183 000 colons à Jérusalem Est (à la date où cet article est écrit), avec au minimum 200 colonies en Cisjordanie dont certaines sont deux fois plus étendues que Manhattan, avec leurs écoles, leurs universités, leurs centres commerciaux et leurs milliards de dollars d’investissements en infrastructures tant publiques que privées et un système ségrégué de 4502 km d’autoroutes réservées aux seuls juifs, coupant en deux la Cisjordanie, les Palestiniens étant emprisonnés entre ces barrières de béton et d’asphalte, en des bantoustans discontinus.
  • Mais, quoi que pensent ces sionistes modérés qui prônent le retrait à l’intérieur des frontières de 1967, la dynamique d’Israël, c’est l’expansion, comme cela a toujours été le cas, depuis sa création. Les forces centrifuges qui poussent à cette expansion sont multiples et complexes ; elles sont religieuses, elles sont militaires, elles sont sécuritaires, elles sont dues à une soif de pouvoir pour le pouvoir. Mais elles sont constantes, elles ont derrière elles un élan séculaire, et elles représentent un siècle de sionisme en action.
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A rightwing insurrection is usurping our democracy | George Monbiot | Comment is free |... - 0 views

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  • A consultant who worked for the billionaire Koch brothers claims that they see the funding of thinktanks "as a way to get things done without getting dirty themselves".
  • From the beginning, senior journalists on the Telegraph, the Times and the Daily Mail volunteered their services. Every Saturday, in a wine bar called the Cork and Bottle, Margaret Thatcher's researchers and leader writers and columnists from the Times and Telegraph met staff from the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Over lunch, they "planned strategy for the week ahead". These meetings would "co-ordinate our activities to make us more effective collectively". The journalists would then turn the institute's proposals into leader columns while the researchers buttonholed shadow ministers.
  • As Pirie's history progresses, all references to funding cease. Apart from tickets donated by British Airways, no sponsors are named beyond the early 1980s. While the institute claims to campaign on behalf of "the open society", it is secretive and unaccountable. Today it flatly refuses to say who funds it.
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  • Pirie describes how his group devised and refined many of the headline policies implemented by Thatcher and John Major. He claims (and produces plenty of evidence to support it) either full or partial credit for the privatisation of the railways and other industries, for the contracting-out of public services to private companies, for the poll tax, the sale of council houses, the internal markets in education and health, the establishment of private prisons, GP fundholding and commissioning and, later, for George Osborne's tax policies.
  • Today's parliamentary equivalent is the Free Enterprise Group. Five of its members have just published a similar manifesto, Britannia Unchained. Echoing the narrative developed by the neoliberal thinktanks, they blame welfare payments and the mindset of the poor for the UK's appalling record on social mobility, suggest the need for much greater cuts and hint that the answer is the comprehensive demolition of the welfare system. It is subtler than No Turning Back. There are fewer of the direct demands and terrifying plans: these movements have learned something in the past 30 years.
  • Once more the press has taken up the call. In the approach to publication, the Telegraph commissioned a series of articles called Britain Unleashed, promoting the same dreary agenda of less tax for the rich, less help for the poor and less regulation for business. Another article in the same paper, published a fortnight ago by its head of personal finance Ian Cowie, proposes that there be no representation without taxation. People who don't pay enough income tax shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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    Le lobbyisme des corporations tourne à fond pour en finir avec l'état providence et ramener le monde à l'état sauvage. Merci les gars.
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Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called 'Haiti' | The Onion - Amer... - 0 views

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  • "They must have had no way of communicating with the outside world, because had we known about these Haitians, we would have done everything in our power to help them," U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. "Of that I have no doubt."
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      Obviously.
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Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling - ProP... - 0 views

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  • Meeks used to have abundant water on his small alfalfa ranch, a 40-acre plot speckled with apple and plum trees northeast of the Wind River Mountains and about five miles outside the town of Pavillion. For 35 years he drew it clear and sweet from a well just steps from the front door of the plain, eight-room ranch house that he owns with his wife, Donna. Neighbors would stop off the rural dirt road on their way to or from work in the gas fields to fill plastic jugs; the water was better than at their own homes. But in the spring of 2005, Meeks’ water had turned fetid. His tap ran cloudy, and the water shimmered with rainbow swirls across a filmy top. The scent was sharp, like gasoline. And after 20 minutes — scarcely longer than you’d need to fill a bathtub — the pipes shuttered and popped and ran dry.
  • As a result, drilling was about to happen in states not typically known for oil and gas exploration, including Michigan, New York and even Maryland. It would go from rural, sparsely populated outposts like Pavillion to urban areas outside Dallas, Denver and Pittsburgh. Along the way, a string of calamitous accidents and suspicious environmental problems would eventually make hydraulic fracturing so controversial that it would monopolize congressional hearings, draw hundreds in protests and inspire an Academy-Award-nominated documentary produced for Hollywood.
  • At 540 feet the new well still wasn’t drawing water suitable for the cattle trough, and Meeks’ contractor, Louis Dickinson, shut down the engines and brought the drill bit to a rest. But before Dickinson could finish the job, a distant rumbling began echoing from below. It grew steadily louder, like some paranormal force winding its way through the earth. “Then, holy mackerel,” says Meeks, “it just came on us.” An explosion of white foam and water, chased by a powerful stream of natural gas, shot out of the ground where Meeks had drilled his well. It sprayed 200 feet through the air, nearly blowing the 70-foot-tall drilling derrick off its foundation, crystallizing in the frigid winter air and precipitating into a giant tower of ice. A Suspicious Correlation The blowout, roaring like a jet engine, continued for 72 hours, until a judge ordered EnCana engineers to use their equipment to control it. In that time, according to one estimate a gasfield worker gave Meeks, 6 million cubic feet of natural gas shot out of his 540-foot-deep water well, more than many gas wells in that part of Wyoming produced in an entire month.
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  • As Meeks continued his quest, hydraulic fracturing was transforming the energy industry and unfurling a wave of drilling that rippled quickly across the country. The fracturing technology that was first used commercially by Halliburton in 1949 had been reworked until a sweet spot combination of chemicals and pressure was derived that made it possible to reach gas far deeper in the earth than energy companies had previously been able to. In 1995 hydraulic fracturing was used in only a small fraction of gas wells, and the nation’s gas reserves were around 165 trillion cubic feet. The United States was so desperate for energy that energy companies were scrambling to secure foreign oil and building $300-million ports to import liquefied natural gas from Russia, Qatar and elsewhere.
  • By late 2008, however, fracturing was being used in nine out of 10 of the roughly 33,000 wells drilled in the United States each year, and estimates of the nation’s gas reserves had jumped by two thirds. Drilling was taking place in 31 states, and geologists claimed the United States contained enough natural gas to supply the country for a century. Russia’s president (and former chairman of its state gas company, Gazprom), Dmitri Medvedev, said he would curtail his own nation’s gas drilling efforts because he thought the United States might have so much gas that it wouldn’t buy more from Russia.
  • As more wells were drilled, however, more reports began to emerge from people who had similar experiences to that of Louis Meeks.
  • Much of the land in Sublette County is owned by the federal government, which meant that the Environmental Protection Agency — not just state regulators — was charged with conducting an environmental review before drilling is allowed. As part of that review, in 2007 EPA hydrologists sampled a pristine drinking water aquifer that underlay the region. What they found was a show-stopper: frighteningly high levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, in 88 separate samples stretching across 28 miles. “It was like, holy shit, this is huge,” said Greg Oberley, a groundwater specialist at the EPA’s Region 8 headquarters in Denver. “You’ve got benzene in a usable aquifer and nobody is able to verbalize well, using factual information, how the benzene got there. Nobody understood what caused this.” One thing was clear: There was little industrial activity in the Pinedale area other than drilling, and few other potential causes for the pollution.
  • It wasn’t at all clear that the EPA had the budget, the political fortitude or the impetus to pursue the thorough study that Oberley and other scientists thought was needed. The agency had looked, briefly, at hydraulic fracturing before. In 2004 it published a report examining how it affected water supplies in a type of geologic formation, called coalbed methane, which is different from the rocks being drilled in most of the nation’s new gas fields. The report detailed numerous concerns about the potential for dangerous fluids to migrate underground. But then, in an abrupt turn, it concluded that hydraulic fracturing “poses little or no threat” and “does not justify additional study.” The one exception, it found, was when diesel fuel was used in fracturing fluids. But the industry insisted that it was discontinuing that practice. The EPA’s findings were criticized in some scientific circles at the time, and by an EPA whistleblower, Wes Wilson, for bending to Bush administration dictates and ignoring scientific methods for analyzing contamination complaints.
  • In March 2009, six weeks after President Obama’s inauguration and four years after Meeks first had trouble with his water, a team from the EPA’s Superfund program began collecting 39 water samples from properties around the Pavillion area. It was the first formal investigation into complaints of water pollution in Pavillion after many years of letter writing and phone calls and visits to the governor’s office and even a couple of lawsuits. Across the mountains in Pinedale, Oberley had also continued to collect water samples from the aquifer underneath the Anticline drilling fields — where he’d found the benzene the year before — and was carefully assembling a broader body of data. The EPA scientists preferred to keep a low profile and dodge the political canon fire that was bound to be returned from any perceived assault on the oil and gas industry. But, in effect, the EPA had begun its first robust scientific examination of the environmental effects of natural gas drilling on the nation’s water supply. By this time, complaints about water contamination in drilling areas had become a national issue.
  • In the face of this tornado of worry, the drilling industry remained steadfast in its insistence that fracturing and all the drilling processes related to it were completely safe. They continued to spend tens of millions of dollars lobbying against regulation and peppered websites and publications with pro-gas advertisements. Industry trade groups pointed out that drilling development brings jobs and economic bounty to ailing communities and painted critics as unpatriotic heretics working against U.S. energy independence. They drew support from local businesses and residents whose communities needed the money and needed the jobs.
  • Late that summer Meeks was told that the EPA was ready to reveal its first findings. On August 11, 2009, eager to finally hear what was in his water, Meeks got in his red 1994 Nissan pickup and drove the five miles to Pavillion’s community center, a corrugated steel building with bare walls and poured-concrete floors at the end of one of the two roads that cut through town. He had been anticipating the meeting for six months. Along with 80-some other residents, some who had driven from as far as Riverton, 26 miles away, Meeks took a seat on one of the wooden benches that were lined up facing a folding table and a projection screen, eager to hear the preliminary findings from the EPA’s first round of water testing. With the room quiet and tense, Luke Chavez, the EPA Superfund investigator, started off tentatively. He was shy and non-committal. But he proceeded to make headlines. Of the 39 water samples his team had taken from a smattering of properties around Pavillion, Chavez said 11 were contaminated with chemicals, including some with strong ties to hydraulic fracturing. The EPA found arsenic, methane gas, diesel-fuel-like compounds and metals including copper and vanadium. Of particular concern were compounds called adamantanes — a natural hydrocarbon found in gas — and an obscure chemical called 2-butoxyethanol phosphate. 2-BEp is a compound closely related to 2-BE, a substance known to be used in hydraulic fracturing solutions, and that is known to cause reproductive problems in animals. It was a chief suspect when Colorado regulators investigated the well explosion in Silt. Meeks’ well contained traces of petroleum hydrocarbons, bisphenol A, the adamantanes, and methane. John Fenton’s water, which tasted good and hadn’t even been suspected to have been contaminated, had methane and bisphenols. And Jeff Locker’s water, even after filtering with a reverse osmosis system, contained arsenic, methane and metals.
  • In the fall of 2009, Meeks got a call to meet Randy Teeuwen, the EnCana representative, at the Holiday Inn in Riverton. The company had warned him months earlier that it would stop paying for his water supply and had given him the option to continue the service and pay for it himself. Meeks declined. There was no way he could afford the payments. He was still hoping that a broader settlement might be reached and EnCana would buy him out. If his property was worthless, Meeks wanted them to pay for his entire loss.
  • On September 14, HB Rentals, the global oilfield services supplier EnCana had hired to supply Meeks with water, sent Scott Farrell with a truck to remove the tanker of water from Meeks’ home. Farrell found himself facing a cluster of television crews and reporters. But Meeks, for all his blustery anger, was uncharacteristically quiet. After all these years the wind seemed to have been sucked out of his lungs, and he had nothing to say. He fought tears, and his voice quivered as he told his story to the TV cameras. Taking the water was like issuing a life sentence. Once it was gone, there was no way he would be able to replace it. “I can’t believe someone would do something like that,” he told the reporters. Farrell was visibly affected. “We decided that we were not going to leave Mr. Meeks without any water,” he said, when the cameras turned to him. “We’re going to leave the tank and everything here at no charge.”
  • But a few hours later, HB returned, loaded the tanker, and finally took Louis Meeks’ water away.
  • It’s really easy to say you should just get out of this situation,” says Deb Thomas, Meeks’ friend and the environmental organizer from Clark. “But they are not young. Everything that they have is wrapped up in that place — not just in their home. They’ve got animals and a life here. It’s pretty hard to leave that.” Meeks didn’t drink the water but used it to bathe and clean his dishes. By January he was complaining of ill effects on his health. He suffered of shortness of breath and described lesions and sores on his arms and legs. At the veterans hospital, he was told he had a respiratory infection and prescribed prednisone and moxifloxacin — but the doctors couldn’t say whether it was the water, the stress, or his persistent medical problems that were to blame. While he suffered, EPA took its biggest step on the fracturing issue in more than six years. In March 2010, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced that the EPA would undertake a major national study of risks to water supplies from hydraulic fracturing far bigger than the Pavillion study. This time, scientists would broaden their definition of fracturing beyond the energy industry’s version, and examine every aspect of the process, from the transportation and disposal of the chemicals to the water supplies needed to make the process happen. In New York, Gov. Paterson issued an executive order banning one type of hydraulic fracturing until July 1, 2011, by which time he hoped environmental officials would have thoroughly examined its safety. And in several states — including Wyoming — laws were passed to require drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they pump into the ground. A group of Democratic members of Congress ratcheted up the debate by revealing that fracking companies had continued to inject tens of millions of gallons of diesel fuel and diesel mixtures into the ground as part of the fracturing process long after they promised not to in 2005.
  • Whatever the EPA does, its environmental research is guaranteed to go slower than the pace of drilling development. In 2010, another 14,324 new gas wells were drilled in the United States, including in Wyoming. “If things don’t change now it’s going to be just a big polluted dump,” said Meeks Jr.
  • “I think a lot of people look at me and think what did I end up with after five years,” Meeks says. “I’m stupid for going up against a billion-dollar company.” “There is no end in sight,” he adds. “But at least they are listening now.”
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ContreInfo :: Le protectionnisme plébiscité par les Français, par Jacques Sapir - 0 views

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  • Ce jugement est sans appel. Sur les trois grandes questions qui concernent l’économie, l’emploi, les salaires et les déficits, il se trouve une écrasante majorité de français pour considérer que l’ouverture de l’économie a eu des conséquences néfastes. Très clairement, la « mondialisation heureuse » n’existe que dans certains journaux ou sous certaines plumes.
  • Cette ouverture est aussi considérée comme une mauvaise chose pour les pays développés en général (52%) et pour la France en particulier (57%). C’est aussi une mauvaise chose pour la sécurité des produits distribués en France (71%), pour les salariés (72%) et pour l’environnement (73%). La conscience des résultats négatifs de l’ouverture ne se limite donc pas à la question sociale. Elle touche aussi massivement la question de la sécurité des produits de consommation (et la sécurité alimentaire) ainsi que l’environnement. La prise de conscience qu’il y a une contradiction radicale entre le libre-échange et la préservation de l’environnement apparaît particulièrement massive.
  • Massivement, les personnes interrogées pensent que c’est à l’Europe qu’il revient de mettre en œuvre cette politique protectionniste (80%). Mais, au cas où l’on se heurterait à un refus de nos partenaires européens à appliquer une telle politique, 57% des personnes interrogées répondent qu’il faut que la France fasse cavalier seul. On ne saurait mieux exprimer la formule « avec l’Europe si on le peut, avec la France s’il faut, contre l’Europe si on le doit » !
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  • Il y a donc une contradiction évidente entre l’électorat et les principaux partis (PS et UMP) sur la question européenne. Par contre, le Front de Gauche et le Front National apparaissent comme bien plus en cohérence avec leurs électeurs. N’en doutons pas : si un référendum devait être organisé demain sur une telle question, il aboutirait au même désaveu de la classe politique, et des grands médias, que celui de 2005. D’ailleurs, 61% des personnes interrogées se prononcent en faveur d’une pétition pour l’organisation d’un débat à l’échelle européenne contre 21% de réponses opposées.
  • Jamais la divergence entre le discours des états-majors ou des futurs candidats des partis centraux de l’échiquier politique français (PS et UMP) et leurs électeurs n’aura été aussi grande que sur la question des conséquences de la mondialisation.
  • Une telle divergence est suicidaire. Elle l’est pour chacun de ces partis qui prend le risque de passer à côté d’un thème majeur de la future campagne électorale, et ainsi de favoriser les partis qui, eux, sont beaucoup plus en phase avec l’opinion des Français, et en particulier le Front de Gauche et le Front National. Mais, cette divergence est aussi, et même avant tout, suicidaire pour la classe politique et pour la démocratie. Elle contribue à asseoir dans l’opinion l’idée que la classe politique, du moins pour ce qui concerne les « grands partis » a des intérêts et des préoccupations radicalement différents de ceux de la population. La vague populiste qui monte dans notre pays comme dans de nombreux pays d’Europe y trouvera certainement un aliment important, et peut-être même décisif dans les mois qui viennent
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | Alt... - 0 views

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  • How exactly has American society subdued young Americans?  1. Student-Loan Debt. Large debt—and the fear it creates—is a pacifying force.
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      Jon Snow on 26 Aug 11
       
      Endettés à hauteur de dizaines de millers de $ à 20 ans ça calme n'importe qui. En tout cas ça t'occupe car il faut rembourser. Sont tombés dans une belle saloperie.
  • Today in the United States, two-thirds of graduating seniors at four-year colleges have student-loan debt, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. While average undergraduate debt is close to $25,000, I increasingly talk to college graduates with closer to $100,000 in student-loan debt.
    • Jon Snow
      Jon Snow on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow... chapeau les politics. Ou comment tuer en deux générations sa jeunesse.
  • Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.” Fromm died in 1980, the same year that an increasingly authoritarian America elected Ronald Reagan president, and an increasingly authoritarian American Psychiatric Association added to their diagnostic bible (then the DSM-III) disruptive mental disorders for children and teenagers such as the increasingly popular “oppositional defiant disorder” (ODD). The official symptoms of ODD include “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules,” “often argues with adults,” and “often deliberately does things to annoy other people.”
    • Jon Snow
      Jon Snow on 26 Aug 11
       
      Le refus de soumission à l'autorité = trouble psy = maladie. Les antidepresseurs sont pas loin, ou plutôt les submissives pills.
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  • A generation ago, the problem of compulsory schooling as a vehicle for an authoritarian society was widely discussed, but as this problem has gotten worse, it is seldom discussed.
  • Heavily tranquilizing antipsychotic drugs (e.g. Zyprexa and Risperdal) are now the highest grossing class of medication in the United States ($16 billion in 2010); a major reason for this, according to theJournal of the American Medical Association in 2010, is that many children receiving antipsychotic drugs have nonpsychotic diagnoses such as ODD or some other disruptive disorder (this especially true of Medicaid-covered pediatric patients). 
  • Television. In 2009, the Nielsen Company reported that TV viewing in the United States is at an all-time high if one includes the following “three screens”: a television set, a laptop/personal computer, and a cell phone. American children average eight hours a day on TV, video games, movies, the Internet, cell phones, iPods, and other technologies (not including school-related use).
  • The more schooling Americans get, however, the more politically ignorant they are of America’s ongoing class war, and the more incapable they are of challenging the ruling class.
  • Parents routinely check Web sites for their kid’s latest test grades and completed assignments, and just like employers, are monitoring their children’s computers and Facebook pages.
  • . “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.” The corporatocracy has figured out a way to make our already authoritarian schools even more authoritarian. Democrat-Republican bipartisanship has resulted in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, NAFTA, the PATRIOT Act, the War on Drugs, the Wall Street bailout, and educational policies such as “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.” These policies are essentially standardized-testing tyranny that creates fear, which is antithetical to education for a democratic society. Fear forces students and teachers to constantly focus on the demands of test creators; it crushes curiosity, critical thinking, questioning authority, and challenging and resisting illegitimate authority. In a more democratic and less authoritarian society, one would evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher not by corporatocracy-sanctioned standardized tests but by asking students, parents, and a community if a teacher is inspiring students to be more curious, to read more, to learn independently, to enjoy thinking critically, to question authorities, and to challenge illegitimate authorities. 
  • Fundamentalist consumerism pacifies young Americans in a variety of ways. Fundamentalist consumerism destroys self-reliance, creating people who feel completely dependent on others and who are thus more likely to turn over decision-making power to authorities, the precise mind-set that the ruling elite loves to see.
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