Vad är det som är så beundrans- och fjäskansvärt med en regering som hjälper Saudiarabien stympa och tortera oliktänkande, slå ner demokratirörelser i angränsande skurkstater och avrätta folk offentligt?
Vad är det som är så fint med att ha en utrikesminister som i 6 år suttit i styrelsen för ett bolag som är föremål för förundersökning för folkrättsbrott?
Varför finns det inga gräsrötter och medlemmar i detta (S)taffageockuperade parti som har kraft nog att lyfta ner dessa övergödda vapenlobbyister och empatilösa stympningsförsvarare från deras höga kravallhästar?
Vill vi leva i en människorättskränkande, fascistisk diktatur?
Jag uppmanar alla att fortsätta kritisera vanstyret så högljutt de förmår, så att det blir tydligt för denna korrupta, människoföraktande och anti-demokratiska S/M-makt att deras värderingar inte är önskvärda.
Tänk om vi låtsades att The Academy Awards handlade om politik. Ungefär som att det rörde sig om nån sorts odemokratiskt beslutade lagförslag, likt EU-kommissionärernas direktiv, eller Angela Merkels åtstramningsprogram för PIIGS-länderna med krav på EU-kontroll över statsbudgetarna genom den ‘europeiska terminen’ och via ESM över lönebildningen som garant för att den inte indexeras mot inflationen utan istället håller sig på miniminalminimilönenivå, som snart sjunker ner till noll och under det, med tanke på nuvarande prischock och galopperande inflation.
Då skulle man kunna sätta valet av the King’s Speech som bästa film i ett förklarande osmickrande ljus. För i England pågår nämligen allt annat än den klassförsoning som Wall Street uppenbarligen fortsatt önskar.
Återstår då det politiska odemokratiska valet att upphöja Black Swans huvudrollsinnehavare till Best Actress.
Av stockkonservativa stockbrokiga the Academy ordineras sammanfattningsvis som bot för finanskrissjukdomen klassförsoning för folket och för kvinnan rentav självmord i den neurotiska, för att inte säga psykotiska överprestationens namn som läraktig Black Swan i devot icke-inkvoterad tjänst hos ondskans pekuniära axelmakter.
Istället för gråtmild klassförsoning vill man alltså i den demokratiska verklighetens UK Uncut, och Wisconsin, att det nyliberala finansfrälset och bonusprogrambankerna ställs till svars för de ekonomiska brott med skattebetalarnas pengar som begåtts, ja, till och med att tillgångarna fryses och återlämnas till sina rättmätiga ägare – folket som de stulits från.
Allt annat än the King’s Speech således, snarare ett Speakers’ Corner där det är Folket som för talan vid tribunen utan att stamma. Ungefär som i verklighetens Tunisien, Egypten, Oman, Jemen, Iran, Algeriet, Bahrein, Jordanien, Syrien, Marocko och Libyen.
”In the UK, activists have been setting up creches, laundries, school class rooms,libraries, homeless shelters, drama club, walk-in clincs, youth centre, job centres, and leisure centres in more than 40 branches of RBS, Natwest and Loyds acrosss the country [1].
This is in reaction to the bonus annoucements that were released this week. Despite RBS making a loss of £1.1bn, RBS still paid out £950m in bonuses, including a £2m bonus for the cheif executive Stephen Hester [2]. Lloyds TSB also annouced large profits of £2.2bn bonuses, and in addition, because of previous lossess, they paid no corporation tax in the last financial year. [3]. Both banks have also revealed they have 135 and 121 offshore subsidiaries in tax havens respectively [4]”
Istället för att ha världens ögon på sig angående sina grova brott mot mänskliga rättigheter väljer Iran att försöka provocera Israel så att världens blickar vänds från de inrikes upprörande förhållandena i Iran, där den totalitära regimen nyligen avrättat över 30 oppotionella regimkritiker, och inhemska, odemokratiskt valda parlamentariker fortsätter skrika på flera avrättningar.
Iranska krigsfartyg har nämligen inte passerat in i medelhavet via Suezkanalen sedan 1979, säger AFP, så när det nu ryktas om att man sökt tillstånd från Egypten för passage genom Suez för att sedan fortsätta nära israeliska vatten till Syrien, så är det ett larmande sätt att flytta blickarna från Iranregimens behandling av oppositionella, då Israel ser det som en provokation som kommer att kräva respons.
Vad världen måste göra är att stödja det iranska upproret. Där kan vi i den internationella bloggrörelsen hjälpa till så mycket vi förmår. En folklig resning av samma typ som i Egypten är än mer motiverad i Iran.
Den död som de ofantligt modiga oppositionella i Iran riskerar vid minsta protest är en ofattbar skymf mot allt vad människorätt heter.
RT @Innovatankar: Händelselöst. Vad ska man hitta på till valet när jag redan bestämt att rösta på @miljopartiet ?
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