Es un tópico en algunas redes sociales, y parece que la extrema derecha no se ha enterado, pero los que han utilizado dinero negro de Venezuela o de Irán no han sido precisamente los de Podemos. No nos van bien las cosas en ningún país que ha seguido el neoliberalismo y, a estas alturas, sería bueno que pusiéramos a los países nórdicos como un buen ejemplo a seguir en muchas cosas (sentido democrático, derechos de la mujer, sanidad, educación, civismo...), pero no lo haremos porque cada vez que se abra un debate sobre el modelo a seguir, la extrema derecha responde con las palabras Venezuela e Irán. Podría yo contestar, "¡Burundi!" o "¡Tanzania!".
Podría, si quisiera ir más al grano, contestar: "¡Saudi Arabia!" Porque ese país, que odia a las mujeres, que trata a los asiáticos como esclavos, que decapita y crucifica a sus disidentes, que está destrozando un país entero en estos mismos momentos (Yemen), que fue el país responsable -si te lo quieres creer- del atentado de las Torres Gemelas, que vende el petróleo y comercializa con la corrupción que garantizan que nuestras instituciones no harán nada frente a la crisis climático que en cuestión de décadas acabará con gran parte de la humanidad, y mandará la restante a la edad de piedra... a ese país los mismos nunca aluden. Es un aliado, receptor de nuestras armas más mortíferas, las que sabemos que están usando contra civiles de uno de los países más pobres del mundo.
No obstante lo que Venezuela e Irán es especialmente relevante, aunque los mismos no lo quieran saber, dado que Podemos no tiene vínculo con dinero negro en ningún país, como ha sentenciado el Tribunal Superior unas 7 veces ya. Es cierto que alguna de su gente ha trabajado como politóloga para varios gobiernos del mundo (ah, ¡Venezuela, Irán!, pero también la UE).
Pero -y dice mucho sobre lo poco serias que son sus fuentes de información- estos días los que sabemos leer -y no solo ver la tele- hemos aprendido que "un alto cargo de la Xunta de Galicia nombrado por Alberto Núñez Feijóo ha trazado un plan en Venezuela para que una fundación pública cubra con fondos propios el agujero de 300.000 euros detectado por el Tribunal de Cuentas en la gestión de las ayudas de emergencia a españoles en aquel país durante 2015 y 2016, dos años electorales.
El secretario general de Emigración de la Xunta de Galicia, Antonio Rodríguez Miranda, un dirigente próximo a Feijóo, formuló esa propuesta en diciembre pasado durante una reunión en la embajada española a la que acudieron el embajador, Jesús Silva, y el cónsul general, Juan José Buitrago."
Tampoco se han enterado de que, en 2017, "el hermano de Ignacio González [está siendo] investigado por negocios y comisiones en Venezuela. Pablo González consiguió contratos en cinco países, participó del reparto de comisiones 'en todos los sentidos' y benefició a su círculo familiar más cercano."
En enero "Vox reconoce que financió su campaña a las europeas con dinero iraní aunque la Ley Electoral lo prohíbe expresamente. La financiación extranjera de partidos durante la campaña electoral está prohibida por el artículo 128.2 de la Ley Electoral. Partidarios en el exilio del grupo de oposición marxista-islámico CNRI financiaron el 80% de la campaña, que costó un millón de euros."
Uno de los problemas no es la falta de ejemplos, sino que ya son tantos, y tan descarados, que es imposible estar al día. Otro es que estos dineros que parecen relativamente modestos son utilizados para trucar el resultado electoral. El gasto de los partidos en las elecciones generales están regulado porque puede -evidentemente- influir el resultado. Tanto Vox como el PP han usado dinero negro para situarse más cerca del poder en unas prácticas que no son compatibles con una democracia.
Y lo más triste es que los votantes que apoyan la extrema derecha, y a la extrema, extrema derecha, no quiere escuchar, ni saber la verdad. No responden a los hechos, sino cambian de tema. Y vuelven a votar por sus partidos que son organizaciones corruptas, o sea, no exclusivamente unos individuos corruptos. Casi con seguridad, son mafia.
Showing posts with label Vox. Show all posts
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Monday, 24 February 2020
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Censorship
"No writing, nor any other statement, should ever be censored, no matter how vile it is. Indeed, if it is vile, then it needs to be exposed, not hidden; because, if it is hidden, then it will fester until it grows in the dark and finally becomes sprung upon a public who have never been inoculated against it by truth, and therefore the false belief becomes actually seriously dangerous and likely to spread like wildfire, because it had been censored before it became public."
Julian Assange, the scourge of censorship and official lies, has been almost a decade imprisoned in various degrees of solitary confinement and deprivation. Meanwhile, he has grown old having committed no crime and having done democracy and the public a huge service. In a few days we shall learn if he's going to be extradited to the US. Any hopes I had died when Labour under Corbyn lost the UK election.
The solution to Facebook's inclusion of massive lies is not to ban lies as already Facebook is grabbing the opportunity to ban inconvenient truth. Nor indeed can we expect Facebook to include these inconvenient truths, as it has no incentive to do so, and yet thrives on scurrilous lies. Instead we should have a public social network, without censorship, perhaps with a label indicating something like "not in accordance with the official facts", in cases of suspected outright lies.
The best way to stop manipulation through lies is of course education. We need to overhaul our education system, making people tech and media savvy and encouraging debate and free thought. Our current system is no longer fit for purpose. We need to be taught not to share outrageous memes and content spread by a few undesirables who increase their presence through lies and slander, getting those offended by them to make them more visible. Lies only take hold when we credit them with our attention. And we need to start taxing the advertising industry to pay for this. Advertising is nothing but psychological manipulation and, as such, it should be treated as a harmful industry.
While progressives wring their hands, wondering why Labour's transformative policies did not convince the public and why they voted instead for smirking, elitist, lying and incoherent Johnson, until the idea that elites are somehow suitable as leaders is questioned, nothing will change. In the US, Trump adopted a sing-song, preacher's voice which subliminally appealed to the white southern voter. People have to be educated to understand the difference between substance and form; to understand how to reason and follow an argument. Until this happens, any erudition or coherence in politics is ultimately like hitting your head against a wall.
In Spain, "apología del franquismo" (apology for the Francoist dictatorship) is soon to be illegal. This is a mistake. Anyone should be allowed to say anything (unless with an intent to cause physical injury), so long as they can back up what they're saying. If they can't, and wish to repeat the lie in a public context, for example in Parliament, they should explicitly have to explain that it is merely their opinion.
The same goes for the ridiculous current situation of never being able to criticise Israel and its zionism, our not being able to boycott Israel, and thus our never being able to defend Palestinians, despite the huge injustice that is being perpetrated against them. The zionists nobbled Ken Livingstone back in the day, and have taken over the entire Conservative Party in the UK, and now the Labour Party. In the US, AIPAC works tirelessly to ensure that all US foreign policy is set by Israel, and that internal policy keeps to the neoliberal narrative that keeps our civilisation hooked on petrol, thereby keeping Israel's importance in the Middle East.
Julian Assange, the scourge of censorship and official lies, has been almost a decade imprisoned in various degrees of solitary confinement and deprivation. Meanwhile, he has grown old having committed no crime and having done democracy and the public a huge service. In a few days we shall learn if he's going to be extradited to the US. Any hopes I had died when Labour under Corbyn lost the UK election.
The solution to Facebook's inclusion of massive lies is not to ban lies as already Facebook is grabbing the opportunity to ban inconvenient truth. Nor indeed can we expect Facebook to include these inconvenient truths, as it has no incentive to do so, and yet thrives on scurrilous lies. Instead we should have a public social network, without censorship, perhaps with a label indicating something like "not in accordance with the official facts", in cases of suspected outright lies.
The best way to stop manipulation through lies is of course education. We need to overhaul our education system, making people tech and media savvy and encouraging debate and free thought. Our current system is no longer fit for purpose. We need to be taught not to share outrageous memes and content spread by a few undesirables who increase their presence through lies and slander, getting those offended by them to make them more visible. Lies only take hold when we credit them with our attention. And we need to start taxing the advertising industry to pay for this. Advertising is nothing but psychological manipulation and, as such, it should be treated as a harmful industry.
While progressives wring their hands, wondering why Labour's transformative policies did not convince the public and why they voted instead for smirking, elitist, lying and incoherent Johnson, until the idea that elites are somehow suitable as leaders is questioned, nothing will change. In the US, Trump adopted a sing-song, preacher's voice which subliminally appealed to the white southern voter. People have to be educated to understand the difference between substance and form; to understand how to reason and follow an argument. Until this happens, any erudition or coherence in politics is ultimately like hitting your head against a wall.
In Spain, "apología del franquismo" (apology for the Francoist dictatorship) is soon to be illegal. This is a mistake. Anyone should be allowed to say anything (unless with an intent to cause physical injury), so long as they can back up what they're saying. If they can't, and wish to repeat the lie in a public context, for example in Parliament, they should explicitly have to explain that it is merely their opinion.
The same goes for the ridiculous current situation of never being able to criticise Israel and its zionism, our not being able to boycott Israel, and thus our never being able to defend Palestinians, despite the huge injustice that is being perpetrated against them. The zionists nobbled Ken Livingstone back in the day, and have taken over the entire Conservative Party in the UK, and now the Labour Party. In the US, AIPAC works tirelessly to ensure that all US foreign policy is set by Israel, and that internal policy keeps to the neoliberal narrative that keeps our civilisation hooked on petrol, thereby keeping Israel's importance in the Middle East.
Labels:
anti-semitism,
Assange,
Censorship,
Franco,
Vox,
Zionism
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