#pilger

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

The #propaganda in the west is so strong and insidious that i actively try to avoid taking it in, not letting these #narratives and false views into my mind. I see it as dangerous enough that i treat it in the same way that i do #commercials. If i happen to come in contact with it by accident i actively look away from images they present, and put my fingers in my ears when they are speaking. This is for my own safety.

How do i keep up to date on what is going on in the world? Someone here on diaspora suggested to me that we can follow individual journalists who we trust. But who can we trust and how to determine who to trust? One thing i look for is if a person has had opinions that have held up over time, for example people like Noam #Chomsky or John #Pilger (unfortunately he's now passed away).

macouc@diaspora.psyco.fr

Why the British said no to Europe

By John #Pilger
#brexit #uk #eu #labour

The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.

This was, in great part, a vote by those angered and demoralised by the sheer arrogance of the apologists for the "remain" campaign and the dismemberment of a socially just civil life in Britain. The last bastion of the historic reforms of 1945, the National Health Service, has been so subverted by Tory and Labour-supported privateers it is fighting for its life.

A forewarning came when the Treasurer, George Osborne, the embodiment of both Britain's ancient regime and the banking mafia in Europe, threatened to cut ÂŁ30 billion from public services if people voted the wrong way; it was blackmail on a shocking scale.

Immigration was exploited in the campaign with consummate cynicism, not only by populist politicians from the lunar right, but by Labour politicians drawing on their own venerable tradition of promoting and nurturing racism, a symptom of corruption not at the bottom but at the top. The reason millions of refugees have fled the Middle East - irst Iraq, now Syria - are the invasions and imperial mayhem of Britain, the United States, France, the European Union and Nato. Before that, there was the wilful destruction of Yugoslavia. Before that, there was the theft of Palestine and the imposition of Israel.

The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centrepiece of modern "globalisation", with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor: its freedom for capital and denial of freedom to labour; its perfidious politicians and politicised civil servants.

All this has now come home to Europe, enriching the likes of Tony Blair and impoverishing and disempowering millions. On 23 June, the British said no more.

The most effective propagandists of the "European ideal" have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even "cool". What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as "neoliberalism".

The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor. In Britain today, 63 per cent of poor children grow up in families where one member is working. For them, the trap has closed. More than 600,000 residents of Britain's second city, Greater Manchester, are, reports a study, "experiencing the effects of extreme poverty" and 1.6 million are slipping into penury.

Little of this social catastrophe is acknowledged in the bourgeois controlled media, notably the Oxbridge dominated BBC. During the referendum campaign, almost no insightful analysis was allowed to intrude upon the clichéd hysteria about "leaving Europe", as if Britain was about to be towed in hostile currents somewhere north of Iceland.

On the morning after the vote, a BBC radio reporter welcomed politicians to his studio as old chums. "Well," he said to "Lord" Peter Mandelson, the disgraced architect of Blairism, "why do these people want it so badly?" The "these people" are the majority of Britons.

The wealthy war criminal Tony Blair remains a hero of the Mandelson "European" class, though few will say so these days. The Guardian once described Blair as "mystical" and has been true to his "project" of rapacious war. The day after the vote, the columnist Martin Kettle offered a Brechtian solution to the misuse of democracy by the masses. "Now surely we can agree referendums are bad for Britain", said the headline over his full-page piece. The "we" was unexplained but understood - just as "these people" is understood. "The referendum has conferred less legitimacy on politics, not more," wrote Kettle. " ... the verdict on referendums should be a ruthless one. Never again."

The kind of ruthlessness Kettle longs for is found in Greece, a country now airbrushed. There, they had a referendum and the result was ignored. Like the Labour Party in Britain, the leaders of the Syriza government in Athens are the products of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, groomed in the fakery and political treachery of post-modernism. The Greek people courageously used the referendum to demand their government sought "better terms" with a venal status quo in Brussels that was crushing the life out of their country. They were betrayed, as the British would have been betrayed.

On Friday, the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was asked by the BBC if he would pay tribute to the departed Cameron, his comrade in the "remain" campaign. Corbyn fulsomely praised Cameron's "dignity" and noted his backing for gay marriage and his apology to the Irish families of the dead of Bloody Sunday. He said nothing about Cameron's divisiveness, his brutal austerity policies, his lies about "protecting" the Health Service. Neither did he remind people of the war mongering of the Cameron government: the dispatch of British special forces to Libya and British bomb aimers to Saudi Arabia and, above all, the beckoning of world war three.

In the week of the referendum vote, no British politician and, to my knowledge, no journalist referred to Vladimir Putin's speech in St. Petersburg commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941. The Soviet victory - at a cost of 27 million Soviet lives and the majority of all German forces - won the Second World War.

Putin likened the current frenzied build up of Nato troops and war material on Russia's western borders to the Third Reich's Operation Barbarossa. Nato's exercises in Poland were the biggest since the Nazi invasion; Operation Anaconda had simulated an attack on Russia, presumably with nuclear weapons. On the eve of the referendum, the quisling secretary-general of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Britons they would be endangering "peace and security" if they voted to leave the EU. The millions who ignored him and Cameron, Osborne, Corbyn, Obama and the man who runs the Bank of England may, just may, have struck a blow for real peace and democracy in Europe.

https://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-british-said-no-to-europe

taschenlampe@despora.de

John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works

And when will writers stand up, as they did against the rise of fascism in the 1930s? When will film-makers stand up, as they did against the Cold War in the 1940s? When will satirists stand up, as they did a generation ago?
Having soaked for 82 years in a deep bath of righteousness that is the official version of the last world war, isn’t it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda? The urgency is greater than ever.

#pilger #propaganda #war #warcrime #usa #china #russia #ukraine

deutschewelle@squeet.me

Bus mit polnischen Pilgern in Kroatien verunglĂŒckt | DW | 06.08.2022

Viele Menschen kamen ums Leben, als ihr Reisebus von der Straße abkam. Die Gruppe war unterwegs zum Medjugorje-Jugendfestival in Bosnien-Herzegowina. Ein weiteres tödliches BusunglĂŒck ereignete sich in Bulgarien.#Polen #Kroatien #Bus #BusunglĂŒck #Pilger #Bosnien-Herzegowina #Medjugorje #Jugend #Religion
Bus mit polnischen Pilgern in Kroatien verunglĂŒckt | DW | 06.08.2022

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

#JohnPilger #Pilger #Ukraine #Russia

https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1496807122364895234

aktionfsa@diasp.eu

07.10.2021 Strukturelle Polizeigewalt?!

BĂŒrger beobachten die Polizei

Das Grundrechtekomitee hat zu zwei PolizeieinsÀtzen recherchiert und die Berichte zeigen eine erschreckende Selbstherrlichkeit der eingesetzen Beamten.

Was religiös ist entscheidet die Einsatzleitung

Es gibt ein grundgesetzlich garantiertes Recht auf "die ungestörte ReligionsausĂŒbung", die laut Artikel 4 Absatz 2 GG "gewĂ€hrleistet wird". In Verbindung mit Artikel 19 Absatz 2: "In keinem Falle darf ein Grundrecht in seinem Wesensgehalt angetastet werden."

Als nun am 23. Juli 2021 auf der 18. Etappe des "Kreuzweges fĂŒr die Schöpfung – Von Gorleben nach Garzweiler" die Gruppe am Schloss Oberwerries in Hamm ankamen, stoppte die "zufĂ€llig" (so der Polizeisprecher) anwesende Polizei den Zug. Die EinsatzkrĂ€fte aus Nordrhein-Westfalen haben versucht dem Pilgerzug den religiösen Charakter abzusprechen und nannten es eine nicht angemeldete Demonstration.

Der Vorwurf lautete, es handle sich bei dem religiösen Kreuzweg um eine “nicht angemeldete, politische Versammlung”, u.a. weil politische Fahnen mitgefĂŒhrt werden. So war zum Beispiel auf einem Plakat das Zitat "Diese Wirtschaft tötet" von Papst Franziskus zu lesen.

Auf dem Internetauftritt des Kreuzweges ist weiter zu lesen: Bei dem Polizeieinsatz wurde ein Rentnerehepaar von “Christians for future Aachen” von der Polizei zu Boden gestoßen. Der bekannte WaldpĂ€dagoge Michael Zobel wurde in Handschellen abgefĂŒhrt. Der KreuztrĂ€ger Jonas wurde festgenommen und auf das PolizeiprĂ€sidium Hamm gebracht.

Die Polizei hat inzwischen alle VorwĂŒrfe der Pilger zurĂŒckgewiesen. Haben die VorfĂ€lle nicht oder in einer anderen Dimension stattgefunden?

Polizeieinsatz ohne RĂŒcksicht auf Gesundheit und Leben

In dem anderen Bericht des Grundrechtekomitees geht es um die VorfÀlle bei der Rodung des Dannenröder Waldes zwischen Oktober 2019 bis Dezember 2020. Dort wurden Aktivist:innen aus ca. 100 BaumhÀusern und verschiedenen Baumhausdörfern mit Polizeigewalt vertrieben. Die AktivistInnen beklagen:

WĂ€hrend der RĂ€umung hat die Polizei immer wieder ihr Motto „Sicherheit vor Schnelligkeit“ gepredigt, die EinsatzrealitĂ€t war allerdings eine andere. Es wurde zwölf Stunden tĂ€glich, sieben Tage die Woche gerĂ€umt. ... Die FĂ€llungsarbeiten sind zudem systematisch zu nah an Aktivist:innen durchgefĂŒhrt worden, weil es entgegen des Mottos „Sicherheit vor Schnelligkeit“ fĂŒr sinnvoll erachtet wurde, gleichzeitig zu rĂ€umen und zu roden. Das bedeutete, dass in nĂ€chster NĂ€he zu uns gearbeitet und kein Sicherheitsabstand eingehalten wurde. In diesem Zusammenhang kam es auch zu einem schweren Pendelsturz, bei dem eine Person verletzt worden ist. ...

In Abwesenheit parlamentarischer Beobachtung sind auch zwei Menschen von den Cops besonders schwer verletzt worden. Einmal wurde ein tragendes Seil einer Blockadestruktur von einem Cop durchgeschnitten, ein anderes Mal wurde so lange auf einem Seil herum getrampelt, bis es riss. Zwei Menschen sind aus mehreren Metern Höhe abgestĂŒrzt und haben sich dabei Wirbel gebrochen. ...

Die Aktivist:innen der drei darauffolgenden Autobahnblockaden am 26. Oktober auf der A3, der A5 und der A661 sind vom Amtsgericht Frankfurt in Untersuchungshaft genommen worden und saßen teils monatelang im Knast. Dies ist ein absolutes Novum – bis dato waren keine U-Haft-FĂ€lle im Zusammenhang mit Verkehrsblockaden bekannt. ( https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/148303/4746857 und https://freethemall.blackblogs.org/ )

Die Sprecherin fĂŒr Straßenbau und LĂ€rmschutz der hessischen GrĂŒnen Ă€ußerte sich in einer Landtagsdebatte am 10. Dezember 2020 zur RĂ€umung des Dannenröder Waldes ganz anders:

"Strukturelle Polizeigewalt hat es im Dannenröder Forst nicht gegeben. Wer dieses Bild stellt und in den sozialen Medien verbreitet, lĂŒgt und hat andere Motivationen als den Schutz der WĂ€lder, die Verkehrswende oder die Einhaltung der Pariser Klimaziele. Dem geht es um den Kampf gegen unseren Rechtsstaat und fĂŒr eine andere Gesellschaft". ( https://www.hessenschau.de/politik/landtag/landtagsvideos/katy-walther-gruene-die-polizei-hat-im-dannenroeder-forst-viel-geleistet,video-139140.html )

Mehr dazu bei https://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/details/verfassungsfeinde-ueber-uns-zum-polizeieinsatz-bei-schloss-oberwerries-hammwestfalen
und https://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/details/strukturelle-repression-gegen-die-klimabewegung
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