Da Merkel vielleicht die höchste Gefahr zur Zeit stellt, besteht größte Chancen, daß die Kehre im Gestell zur Lichtung mit Einblick in die Wahrheit des Seins einkehrt: und Deutschland kann weiter vorwärts anstatt rückwärts mit Merkel/Stoiber/Kirchhof/Westerwelle und co. !
There 's a chance...
Learn French! Speak English! Read German!
In his seminar on Nietzsche's philosophy as early as 1939, Der Wille zur Macht als Erkenntnis, in the subsection entitled Verständigung und Berechnung, Martin Heidegger clearly raised the specter of unenlightened commitment to commerce, trade, consumerism at the neglect of human value and integrity. Here, this short quote (taken from Bd.1, S. 521 of Martin Heidegger: Nietzsche; Stutgart, Verlag Günter Neske, 1961).
Verständigung ist der höchste Kampf um die wesentlichen Ziele, die ein geschichtliches Menschentum über sich errichtet. Deshalb kann in der gegenwärtigen geschichtlichen Lage Verständigung nur heißen: der Mut zu der einzigen Frage: ob das Abendland sich noch zutraut, ein Ziel über sich und seiner Geschichte zu schaffen, oder ob es vorzieht, in die Wahrung und Steigerung von Handels- und Lebensinteressen abzusinken und sich mit der Berufung auf das Bisherige, als sei dies das Absolute, zu begnügen.
roughly translated: Clarification/agreement is that highest of struggles for the essential goals which an historical mankind erects over itself. Therefore, in the current historical situation, clarification/agreement can only mean: the courage to face the one and only question: whether the Occident [the Western World] might still be capable of creating a goal over and for itself and its history, or whether it prefers to sink into the mire of preserving and increasing the interests of trade and daily life [I might dare here to translate indeed: consumerism] and to be satisfied with appeals to what has already been, as if that were the Absolute.
"Il n'y a pas de cosmos et chacque homme est un monde à lui seul,
à lui donc à s'y initier en le faisant vivre, c'est-à-dire en le créant, du bras, de la main, du pied et du souffle de sa personnelle et inexpugnable volonté."
- From Antonin Artaud's letter to André Breton "vers le 1er mars 1947".
As the New Yorker I was, the Parisian I have long been deep inside, and the Berlin dweller and lover I am - big city guy - my heart beats with Londoners today:
Don't let go of your city way of life, don't let them intimidate you: our big cities are the wildest weirdest wackiest wantonest most wonderful part of our free civilization.
No to Terror - No to Fundamentalists!
Yes to Liberty - Yes to Justice!
And with an expression of debt to Charles Baudelaire and Philippe Sollers, this thought for meditation:
What they're always trying to keep hidden from us all is that the French Revolution, with all its assertion of human rights and liberty, was something voluptuous, instigated by people who sought voluptuousness, while the Counter-Revolution and the Terror accompanying it and plaguing us still today was fomented on us by the "virtuous" and in the name of "virtue".
After reading this article, even the last idiot in the US should realize that the bushbaby playpen is obstructing justice and curtailing human rights in violation of the most sancrosanct principles of democracy. This is no way to assist efforts to spread democracy and justice to countries and peoples who til now suffer under the yoke of various repressive regimes: regimes that imprison citizens and others without charges or trial and which subject them to torture! It is no wonder that countless recruits for fanatic fundamentalist terrorism are putting smiles on the faces of Osama & Co.
The United States is supposed to be one nation with liberty and justice for all: Start at home, BushBaby, and you'll do more to protect America from terrorist attacks and help the rest of the world achieve a bit more peace and security.
CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO NOW! RELEASE DETAINEES OR RAISE CHARGES AGAINST THEM FOR CONSIDERATION IN A TRIAL BEFORE A COURT OF LAW!
Interrogators Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantánamo Prison Camp - New York Times
The Nation. posted June 9, 2005 (June 27, 2005 issue)
Something Rotten in Ohio
Gore Vidal
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Outside the oil and gas junta that controls two and a half branches of our government (the half soon to be whole is the judiciary), there was a good deal of envy at the late British election among those Americans who are serious about politics. Little money was spent by the three parties and none for TV advertising. Results were achieved swiftly and cheaply. Best of all, the three party leaders were quizzed sharply and intelligently by ordinary citizens known quaintly as subjects, thanks to the ubiquitous phantom crown so unlike our nuclear-taloned predatory eagle. Although news of foreign countries seldom appears in our tightly censored media (and good news, never), those of us who are addicted to C-SPAN and find it the one truly, if unconsciously, subversive media outlet in these United States are able to observe British politics in full cry.
I say "subversive" not only because C-SPAN is apt to take interesting books seriously but also because its live coverage of the Senate and the House of Representatives is the only look we are ever allowed at the mouthpieces of our masters up close and is, at times, most reflective of a government more and more remote from us, unaccountable and repressive. To watch the righteous old prophet Byrd of West Virginia, the sunny hypocrisy of Biden of Delaware--as I write these hallowed names, I summon up their faces, hear their voices, and I am covered with C-SPAN goose bumps.
At any rate, wondrous C-SPAN has another string to its bow. While some executive was nodding, C-SPAN started showing us Britain's House of Commons during Question Time. This is the only glimpse that most Americans will ever get of how democracy is supposed to work.
These party leaders are pitted against one another in often savage debate on subjects of war and peace, health and education. Then some 600 Members of Parliament are allowed to ask questions of their great chieftains. Years ago the incomparable Dwight Macdonald wrote that any letter to the London Times (the Brits are inveterate letter writers on substantive issues) is better written than any editorial in the New York Times.
In addition to Question Time, which allows Americans to see how political democracy works, as opposed to our two chambers of lobbyists for corporate America, C-SPAN also showed the three party leaders being interrogated by a cross section of, for the most part, youthful subjects of the phantom crown and presided over by an experienced political journalist. Blair was roughly accused of lying about the legal advice he had received apropos Britain's right to go to war in Iraq for the US oil and gas junta. This BBC live audience asked far more informed and informative questions than the entire US press corps was allowed to ask Bush et al. in our recent election. But Americans are not used to challenging authority in what has been called wartime by a President who has ordered invasions of two countries that have done us no harm and is now planning future wars despite dwindling manpower and lack of money. Blair, for just going along, had to deal with savage, informed questions of a sort that Bush would never answer even if he were competent to do so.
So we have seen what democracy across the water can do. All in all a jarring experience for anyone foolish enough to believe that America is democratic in anything except furiously imprisoning the innocent and joyously electing the guilty. What to do? As a first step, I invite the radicals at C-SPAN who take seriously our Constitution and Bill of Rights to address their attention to the corruption of the presidential election of 2004, particularly in the state of Ohio.
One of the most useful members of the House--currently the most useful--is John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat who, in his capacity as ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, led the committee's Democratic Congressmen and their staffers into the heart of the American heartland, the Western Reserve; specifically, into the not-so-red state of Ohio, once known as "the mother of Presidents."
He had come to answer the question that the minority of Americans who care about the Republic have been asking since November 2004: "What went wrong in Ohio?" He is too modest to note the difficulties he must have undergone even to assemble this team in the face of the triumphalist Republican Congressional majority, not to mention the unlikely heir to himself, George W. Bush, whose original selection by the Supreme Court brought forth many reports on what went wrong in Florida in 2000.
These led to an apology from Associate Justice John Paul Stevens for the behavior of the 5-to-4 majority of the Court in the matter of Bush v. Gore. Loser Bush then brought on undeclared wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the greatest deficits in our history and the revelations that the policies of an Administration that--much as Count Dracula fled cloves of garlic--flees all accountability were responsible for the murder and torture of captive men, between 70 percent and 90 percent of whom, by the Pentagon's estimate, had been swept up at random, earning us the hatred of a billion Muslims and the disgust of what is called the civilized world.
Asked to predict who would win in '04, I said that, again, Bush would lose, but I was confident that in the four years between 2000 and 2004 creative propaganda and the fixing of election officials might very well be so perfected as to insure an official victory for Mr. Bush. As Representative Conyers's report, Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio (www.house.gov/conyers), shows in great detail, the swing state of Ohio was carefully set up to deliver an apparent victory for Bush even though Kerry appears to have been the popular winner as well as the valedictorian-that-never-was of the Electoral College.
I urge would-be reformers of our politics as well as of such anachronisms as the Electoral College to read Conyers's valuable guide on how to steal an election once you have in place the supervisor of the state's electoral process: In this case, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, who orchestrated a famous victory for those who hate democracy (a permanent but passionate minority). The Conyers Report states categorically, "With regards to our factual finding, in brief, we find that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio." In other words, the Florida 2000 scenario redux, when the chair for Bush/Cheney was also the Secretary of State. Lesson? Always plan ahead for at least four more years.
It is well-known in the United States of Amnesia that not only did Ohio have a considerable number of first-time voters but that Blackwell and his gang, through "the misallocation of voting machines led to unprecedented long lines that disenfranchised scores, if not hundreds of thousands, of predominantly minority and Democratic voters."
For the past few years many of us have been warning about the electronic voting machines, first publicized on the Internet by investigator Bev Harris, for which she was much reviled by the officers of such companies as Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad; this last voting computer company "has essentially admitted that it engaged in a course of behavior during the recount in numerous counties to provide 'cheat sheets' to those counting the ballots. The cheat sheets informed election officials how many votes they should find for each candidate, and how many over and under votes they should calculate to match the machine count. In that way, they could avoid doing a full county-wide hand recount mandated by state law."
Yet despite all this manpower and money power, exit polls showed that Kerry would win Ohio. So, what happened?
I have told more than enough of this mystery story so thoroughly investigated by Conyers and his Congressional colleagues and their staffers. Not only were the crimes against democracy investigated but the report on What Went Wrong in Ohio comes up with quite a number of ways to set things right.
Needless to say, this report was ignored when the Electoral College produced its unexamined tally of the votes state by state. Needless to say, no joint committee of the two houses of Congress was convened to consider the various crimes committed and to find ways and means to avoid their repetition in 2008, should we be allowed to hold an election once we have unilaterally, yet again, engaged in a war--this time with Iran. Anyway, thanks to Conyers, the writing is now high up there on the wall for us all to see clearly: "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin." Students of the Good Book will know what these words of God meant to Belshazzar and his cronies in old Babylon.
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I can only hope this is a beginning of the return of the United States to the principles of democracy, freedom, and justice it claims to uphold abroad (at gunpoint) while violating them at home and in Guantánmo!
The pertinent article from the Washington Post:
House Votes To Curb Patriot Act
That headline summarizes what happened in NRW elections yesterday, as voters frustrated about losing work, money, and patience because of no growth and bad moods elected the til then opposition whose ideas can only produce more job loss, take more money out of the normal Joe's wallet, stymie growth even more as the consumers spend less, and exacerbate the bad mood to the point of chronic depression.
If the same occurs in the Fall, now that Schröder has announced plans to pull forward the Bundestag elections, the voters will get what they want: a murky Merkel CDU Chancellor in coalition with a dower Westerwelle FDP neo-liberal economic plan in coalition to abolish all the things for which the German economic system has been admired all around the world: cooperation between employer and employee (co-governance of enterprises), job protection (remember that when your next boss laughs in your face when he fires you and you inform him of your plans to have the labor court review that), inexpensive health insurance (well, it will become so then for the upper 10,000), etc.
All we need in addition is for the French to vote NO next week, and the mounted capitalists and bushbaby play-penalist unlilateralists can rampage through Europe doing whatever they want, cause we'll have pretty much castrated ourselves.
And the polls show, people don't even trust the CDU to solve the problems facing Germany, but they'll vote for them out of frustration. They probably only watch RTL-Sat1-Pro7-Vox (a third have never even heard of the Kapitalismusdebatte) and only shop at Lidl-Aldi-Plus-Kaufdichdoof, then wonder why there are no jobs anymore....
Go to the theater, read a book, learn a foreign language, quit the church, sell the car, kiss your lover, have good sex, smile at those you encounter, and learn to think!
A must-read by Literature Nobel Prize Winner Günter Grass
Don't let them ever tell you that you're evil if you think people are more important than profits!
Die Zeit - Politik : Freiheit nach Börsenmaß
Référence plus qu'utile pour tous qui voudraient comprendre le malaise contemporain!
Un entretien avec François Meyronnis, << Pourquoi tant de calomnies?>>, Aude Lancelin
Schlagen wir die Zeitung auf, werden wir in letzter Zeit immer öfter mit den Thema Neonazis konfrontiert. Der geplante Nazigroßaufmarsch am 8. Mai, die Wahlerfolge rechter Parteien und Verbote neonazistischer Kameradschaften sind allgegenwärtig. Nicht nur in den Medien, nein selbst vor der eigenen Haustür!
Auch im beschaulichen Stadtteil Weißensee von Berlin etabliert sich Stück für Stück die rechte Szene. Ein Beispiel dafür ist der seit 1. August 2003 existierende Laden "Nordic Thunder" in der Gustav-Adolf-Str. 155. Er ist einer von über zwölf Naziläden, die es mittlerweile in Berlin und Umgebung gibt. Damit hat diese Region weit aus mehr solcher Läden als das Bundesland Sachsen.
Diese Läden sind jedoch keine normalen Geschäfte, die irgend welche Kleidung und Musik vertreiben.
Gerade bei vorwiegend jungen Menschen schürt das Angebot von Naziläden den Hass auf Andersdenkende. Rechte Kleidung, Musik, Schmuck und vor allem die Entstehung gemeinsamer Kontakte zu anderen Neonazis sind es, welche den Zusammenhalt und das Selbstbewusstsein der lokalen Naziszene stärkt. Je stärker die Neonazis, desto größer die Gefahr für alle, die nicht in ihre zigarrenschachtelgroße Welt passen.
Wir sollten das nicht länger so hinnehmen.!
Mit diesem Flugblatt wollen wir deshalb über den Neonaziladen "Nordic Thunder" informieren.
Was ist "Nordic Thunder" und wer steckt dahinter?
Der Laden verkauft nach Polizeiangaben zwar rechte Marken, der Inhaber Mike Friedrich gehöre aber keinesfalls der Naziszene an. Das stimmt! Friedrich ist Mitglied der (nicht rechten) Rockergruppe "Born to be Wild", aber kein gefestigter Neonazi. Wohl aber der Hamburger Lars Georgi, der im Hintergrund dieses Ladens agiert, und sein weiteren Firmen ebenfalls durch Mittelsmänner betreiben lässt, wie eben auch in Weißensee. Georgi hat sich im Laufe der letzten Jahre ein regelrechtes Netzwerk aus verschiedenen Marken und Läden geschaffen. Er bedient sich hier der Unterstützung durch Rocker, Nazis und Hooligans.
Mit dem rechten V7-Versand, wird ihm auch das Label "Wotan Records" zugerechnet. Dieses Rechtsrocklabel vertreibt Neuauflagen indizierter CDs und hat bis jetzt über 50 CDs im Angebot. Zum Beispiel das Album von Ex-"Landser"-Sänger Michael Regener. Der bis vor kurzem in Weißensee ansässige Rechtsrocker Regener verbüßt seit diesem Frühling eine dreijährige Haftstrafe.
"Landser" wurde Ende 2003 wegen Gründung einer terroristischen Vereinigung verboten. Regener galt als Kopf jener Band, die mit Liedzeilen wie "Nigger, raus aus unserem Land" Kultstatus in ihrer erreichten. Außer mit Rechtsrock verdient Georgi sein Geld mit dem Verkauf rechter Textil-Marken, z.B. "Sport Frei" "H8 Wear" und "Pro Violence". Alle drei Marken richten sich an eine Mischszene aus Hooligans, Rockern und Nazis. Neben Georgis Marken sind weiterhin die rechten Klamotten-Labels "Wallhall" und "Thor Steinar" erhältlich. Weil das "Thor Steinar"-Logo Runen ehemaliger NS-Organisationen verwendete, musste es auf Gerichtsbeschluss im Nov. 2004 geändert werden. Ebenfalls im Angebot sind Messer, Teleskop-Schlagstöcke, Pfefferspray und germanischer Schmuck.
Der "Nordic Thunder" ist damit einer von vier Naziläden im Großbezirk Pankow. Die anderen Läden sind der "Harakiri" (Bornholmer Str. 93) im Prenzlauer Berg, sowie die Pankower Geschäfte "Firestarter" (Dietzgenstraße 57) und "Andycap" (Dietzgenstraße 94).
Nicht Wegschauen!
Ein Naziladen im eigenen Kiez... So weit, so schlecht. Nur was dagegen unternehmen? In erster Linie ist es wichtig, seine Mitmenschen darüber zu informieren, um was für ein Geschäft es sich hier handelt und was da verkauft wird. Dieses Flugblatt ist Teil der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Gerade junge Menschen sind Zielgruppe von Läden, wie dem "Nordic Thunder". Da die Naziszene sich auch im Äußeren verändert hat, sind rechte Inhalte auf den ersten Blick nicht mehr zu entlarven. Nicht alle Eltern würden sofort erkennen, dass es sich bei dem "modern" gehaltenen Shirt-Aufdruck "Thor Steinar" um eine Nazimarke handelt.
Bekanntlich hat der Nationalsozialismus historisch einmalige Verbrechen an Menschen in der ganzen Welt begangen. Wieder üben Alt- und Neonazis den "Schulterschluss aller volkstreuen Deutschen". Die NPD, eine straff geführte Kaderpartei von ca. 6000 Mitgliedern, bekennt sich immer offener zum Nationalsozialismus. Militante Neonazi-Kameradschaften und rechte Parteien wie die NPD haben den Kampf um die Straße und Köpfe längst begonnen. Ihr erklärtes Ziel ist die Überwindung des "liberalkapitalistischen Systems und der Vasallenrepublik BRD". Nach der Eroberung der politischen Macht wollen sie das "Deutsche Reich" wiederherstellen.
Faschismus ist nicht nur eine Meinung, er ist ein historisch einmaliges Verbrechen, Neofaschismus birgt die Gefahr der Wiederholung dieses Verbrechens in sich. Die Warnung Pastor Niemöllers hat darum nichts an Aktualität verloren:
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr,
der protestieren konnte.
Wir rufen alle Anständigen und Zuständigen auf, alles zu tun, damit sich dies nicht wiederholt! Nutzen Sie die 60. Wiederkehr des Tages der Befreiung vom Faschismus, um gegen die Neonazis zu protestieren, bevor es wieder zu spät sein wird zu protestieren.
Schließt die Naziläden in unseren Kiezen!
Setzen auch Sie ein Zeichen! Kommen Sie bitte am 21.Mai 2005 zur Demonstration gegen die Naziläden "Nordic Thunder" und "Harakiri".
antifaschistische Demonstration: 21. Mai 2005 / 16 Uhr / Antonplatz / Weißensee / Berlin
Tram M4, M13, 12 bis Haltestelle Antonplatz
Netzwerk gegen Rassismus, Antisemitismus...
Mail/ Internet-Adresse.
Weitere Informationen zu Naziläden, rechten Bands und Kleidermarken:
www.we-will-rock-you.tk
Es folgen nun Informationen zu den Nazi-Marken:
"Wallhall"
Inhaber: Ingo Grönwald aus Weimar; seit Jahren in die thüringische und bundesweite rechtsradikale Szene verwickelt; betreibt in Thüringen drei Naziläden und einen Versand; wurde 2000 nach einer Razzia gegen seinen Versand wegen Volksverhetzung angeklagt. Mehrere Produkte indizierter Nazibands wurden beschlagnahmt.
"Sport Frei"
Inhaber: Bremer Hooligan-Anführer und Nazikader Henrik Ostendorf; ehem. Mitglied der verbotenen Nazigruppen "Nationale Front" (NF) und "Freiheitliche Arbeiterpartei" (FAP); arbeitet für die Parteizeitung ("Deutsche Stimme") und den "Bundesordnerdienst" der NPD; mehrfach verurteilt wegen Körperverletzung. à Marke von Lars Georgi
"Pro Violence"
Anmelder: Christoph Herpich, ein Magdeburger Hooligan; Markenanmeldung wegen Verwendung von "gewaltverherrlichenden Slogans" vom Deutschen Patentamt untersagt. Trotzdem wird sie in den Geschäften Georgies und im "Sport frei"-Internetshop vertrieben.
à Marke von Lars Georgi
"H8"-Wear
Inhaber: Lars Georgi. Die Wortschöpfung "H8"-Wear steht auf der einen Seite für "Hate-Wear", (Hassklamotten) und auf der anderen ist es nur eine einfältige Umformung der Zahl "88", ein Kürzel in der Naziszene für die Parole "Heil Hitler".
"Thor Steinar"
Inhaber: Axel Kopelke aus Königs Wusterhausen; nahm in der Vergangenheit u.a. bei völkischen Sonnenwendfeiern, einem Liederabend mit dem Nazi-Barden Frank Rennicke und einer NPD-Reichsgründungsfeier im Jahr 2000 in Friedersdorf teil. Logo musste wegen Verfassungswidrigkeit Nov. 2004 geändert werden.
Be sure and read the entire article, link below. Here, the first paragraph:
I'm surely going straight to hell if I say anything critical of the late pope John Paul II, but according to him, I was heading there in a handbasket anyway, so what the fuck. The truth is I am a bit fed-up with the wall-to-wall lionization of this man, who admittedly brought inspiration and faith to millions, but who also propagated some ancient, reactionary viewpoints that—just my humble fag opinion here—fanned the flames of widespread oppression, all in the name of God's will. Not since Ronald Reagan's death last year—when the dead prez became painted as a forceful, flawless leader, with nary a reference to his callous, longtime refusal to acknowledge AIDS deaths—has there been such a wacky whitewash of someone's controversial canon. This time around, all the cable channel phonies—few of whom have been known to live lives of quiet piety, especially the gays—took on a nauseatingly hushed, reverent tone as they indulged themselves in nonstop slobbering over the icon they exclusively portrayed as noble, divine, and even well accessorized.
village voice > news > Pope Springs Eternal - But Why? by Michael Musto
Apparently, if one merely brings two news stories together, Minnesota school kid on mass-murder rampage with gun and the Schiavo issue (her name means slave in Italian, which she has become to the shenanigans of the BushBaby neoconservative playpen), in the United States life is only important when it's not really there: Unborn babies and vegetative brain-state adults have life so sacrosanct that Congress and the so-called President ram through special laws to protect it even against the will of the patient; but if you are just leading an ordinary life, those same instances ensure that maniacs get guns to mow you down dead during a normal day in school! Or they'll send emissaries to torture people to death in military prisons abroad. Whose death and whose life is important to whom in the US?
Time to get religion out of the considerations and consistency in!
Please refer to this article by PBS' Bill Moyers:
The New York Review of Books: Welcome to Doomsday
This article should be made required reading for all Americans. It merely scratches the surface of the dangers of religious fundamentalism mixed with politics and should serve as a warning for us all. Tolerance and intelligence must be promoted.
