DEAR READERS ,FOLLOWERS,FELLOWS
CHAIRESTHAI EN IRENE,
IT TOOK ALMOST 1 YEAR TO RECOVER FROM THE MENTIONED TO THE PREVIOUS ARTICLES ADVENTURE OF MINE WHICH THE CURRENT OLIGARCHIC SYSTEM & THE LOCAL GREEK COMMUNITY IN BRUSSELS PUT ME FOR THE LAST YEARS.THE SITUATION WAS ANALOGOUS(=in ratio) TO THAT MR ASSANGE FACED IN A CLOSED PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT OF AN EMBASSY OR JAIL AS AN EXPERT CONCLUDED:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48473898
THE DIFFERENCE WAS THAT FOR THOSE WHO DONT FIT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF A CORRUPTED SYSTEM AND CANT BE BLAMED FOR BEING ILLEGAL THEN THE WHOLE CITY BECOMES AN OPEN JAIL.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE REMOTE E-SUPPORTERS THE FEW LOCALS&THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS PERSONNEL WHO ASSISTED MY EFFORTS.
THANKS TO ALLAH-THEUS-DIEUX I AM STILL HEALTHY&READY FOR BEING IN THE POLITICAL BATTLE FOR ANOTHER EUROPE AS THIS ONE WHICH IS ENVISIONED&DESCRIBED HERE BUT ALSO TO THE eCO(h)UMENISTS BLOG , TO LINKEDIN,FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS AND GROUPS.
COMING TO THE POINT OF OUR INTEREST IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED OUR
DEDICATION TO THE EUROPEAN&MEDITERRANEAN AFFAIRS ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS APPROACH THROUGH THE IDEAS&PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE WRITTEN AT THE eCO(h)UMENIC THEORY BUT ALSO THROUGH THE CITIZENS ASSEMBLIES WHICH FOR SURE ARE GOING TO BE DEPLOYED THE UPCOMING YEARS.
THE BELGIAN GERMANOPHONE COMMUNITY IS A PROOF ABOUT THIS STATEMENTs POWER :
https://www.lesoir.be/208837/article/2019-02-25/la-communaute-germanophone-se-dote-dune-assemblee-citoyenne
THE eCOWAVES MOVEMENT AS IT WAS SPOKEN FOR THE LAST YEARS IS READY TO BEGIN ACTIONS&ACTIVITIES FOR THE NEXT EUROPEAN ELECTIONS BY ORGANISING A TRANSITIONAL PARTY GROUP OR and BY CHOOSING VARIOUS WHICH EXIST,BUT
the eCOWAVERS have to decide for this
FROM 2011 WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BEGAN TO BE ORGANISED IN AN UNDERGROUND FORM THROUGH POSTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS IT HAS BEEN COPIED BY ALL EU PARTY INSTITUTIONS RIGHT OR LEFT APART THAT THEY WERE FORMED VARIOUS NEW POLITICAL SCHEMES BY THE ESTABLISHMENT LATELY.
THIS ASSISTED FOR THE CIRCULATION OF OUR IDEAS DUE TO THE POLICIES NOT TO INTERFERE FOR THE TIME BEING WITH THE MAIN MEDIA ORGANISATIONS.
ON THE OTHER HAND THEY DIRECTED THESE IDEAS TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE FROM THAT WHICH IS PROPOSED BY OUR MOVEMENT.
THE EXTREME RIGHTISTS WHO ARE PARTS OF THE PARTY SYSTEM TOOK OUR IDEAS TO CLAIM THEIR PATRIOTISM WHEN THEY ARE TOTALLY DEPENDED FROM POWERS OUTSIDE OF EUROPE&AT THE ECONOMIC POINT THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE CAPITALISTIC IDEALS AS IT IS AND WILL BE PROVEN IN THE NEXT YEARS.
A Vote for Populists Is a Vote for Putin
&
A Vote for Populists Is a Vote for TRUMP
THE LEFTISTS RADICALS OR NOT STACK ON THEIR ANACHRONISTIC MARXIST IDEALS CANT UNDERSTAND THAT THE ERA WE ARE LIVING IS A STATE CAPITALIST ONE AS IT WAS DESCRIBED BY VARIOUS THINKERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY BUT MAINLY FROM CASTORIADES.
THE QUESTION OF NOWADAYS IS NOT WHO CONTROLS THE INDUSTRIAL MACHINES BUT who controls the automata or robots?
TO THIS QUESTION WE HAVE THE ANSWERS WHICH ARE COMING FROM A LONG HARD STUDY IN THEORY&IN PRACTICE.
THE CURRENT OLIGARCHIC ESTABLISHMENT IN ORDER TO SURVIVE (AFTER COMMUNISM&TERRORISM FEARS ENDED) AND EXTEND ITS LIFE (due to its foundations on false macroeconomic theories)AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE REINVENTED THE POLITICAL THEORY FIRST APPEARED IN USA AT THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY ABOUT POPULISM AND PROGRESS WHEN THE MAIN CURRENT EU PARTY IS CALLED THE PARTY OF THE POPULUS=PEOPLE ,EPP.
Progressives and Progressivism in an Era of Reform (CLICK ON THE LINK OR SEARCH IN THE NET)
ONE ARTICLE THAT DESCRIBES OUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THESE ELECTIONS IS WRITTEN BY Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey AT pravdareport.com ON 30.05.2019
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey works in the area of teaching, consultancy, coaching, translation, revision of texts, copy-writing and journalism. Director and Chief Editor of the Portuguese version of Pravda.Ru since 2002, and now Co-Editor of the English version, he contributes regularly to several other publications in Portuguese and English. He has worked in the printed and online media, in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly magazines and newspapers. A firm believer in multilateralism as a political approach and multiculturalism as a means to bring people and peoples together, he is Official Media Partner of UN Women, fighting for gender equality and Media Partner with Humane Society International, promoting animal rights. His hobbies include sports, in which he takes a keen interest, traveling, networking to protect the rights of LGBTQI communities and victims of gender violence, and cataloging disappearing languages, cultures and traditions around the world. A keen cook, he enjoys trying out different cuisines and regards cooking and sharing as a means to understand cultures and bring people together.
THE MAIN THING IS CITIZENS EDUCATION WHICH IS THE FOCUS OF THE eCOWAVES MOVEMENT FOR THE YEARS TO COME BY THE SLOGAN FROM 17/05/2017
"WE CALL THE EDUCATORS" (CLICK ON THE LINK )
BUT ALSO OUR SUGGESTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE URGENCY AND CITIZENS PARTICIPATION DAY BY DAY ARE FOUNDING GROUND BY THE FREE CITIZENS TEAMS,GROUPS,HOMAD(e)S AND NON ORGANISED CIVIL SOCIETY.
WE WORK FOR AN INDEPENDENT EUROPE&MEDITERRANEAN
OF
PEOPLES,NATIONS,CITIZENS
WE THANK ALL FOR YOUR ATTENTION&SUPPORT TO SUCH A DIFFICULT TASK ABOUT CHANGING EUROPE&MEDITERRANEAN TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC DIRECTION.
CHAIRESTHAI EN IRENE,
IT TOOK ALMOST 1 YEAR TO RECOVER FROM THE MENTIONED TO THE PREVIOUS ARTICLES ADVENTURE OF MINE WHICH THE CURRENT OLIGARCHIC SYSTEM & THE LOCAL GREEK COMMUNITY IN BRUSSELS PUT ME FOR THE LAST YEARS.THE SITUATION WAS ANALOGOUS(=in ratio) TO THAT MR ASSANGE FACED IN A CLOSED PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT OF AN EMBASSY OR JAIL AS AN EXPERT CONCLUDED:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48473898
THE DIFFERENCE WAS THAT FOR THOSE WHO DONT FIT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF A CORRUPTED SYSTEM AND CANT BE BLAMED FOR BEING ILLEGAL THEN THE WHOLE CITY BECOMES AN OPEN JAIL.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE REMOTE E-SUPPORTERS THE FEW LOCALS&THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS PERSONNEL WHO ASSISTED MY EFFORTS.
THANKS TO ALLAH-THEUS-DIEUX I AM STILL HEALTHY&READY FOR BEING IN THE POLITICAL BATTLE FOR ANOTHER EUROPE AS THIS ONE WHICH IS ENVISIONED&DESCRIBED HERE BUT ALSO TO THE eCO(h)UMENISTS BLOG , TO LINKEDIN,FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS AND GROUPS.
COMING TO THE POINT OF OUR INTEREST IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED OUR
DEDICATION TO THE EUROPEAN&MEDITERRANEAN AFFAIRS ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS APPROACH THROUGH THE IDEAS&PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE WRITTEN AT THE eCO(h)UMENIC THEORY BUT ALSO THROUGH THE CITIZENS ASSEMBLIES WHICH FOR SURE ARE GOING TO BE DEPLOYED THE UPCOMING YEARS.
THE BELGIAN GERMANOPHONE COMMUNITY IS A PROOF ABOUT THIS STATEMENTs POWER :
https://www.lesoir.be/208837/article/2019-02-25/la-communaute-germanophone-se-dote-dune-assemblee-citoyenne
THE eCOWAVES MOVEMENT AS IT WAS SPOKEN FOR THE LAST YEARS IS READY TO BEGIN ACTIONS&ACTIVITIES FOR THE NEXT EUROPEAN ELECTIONS BY ORGANISING A TRANSITIONAL PARTY GROUP OR and BY CHOOSING VARIOUS WHICH EXIST,BUT
the eCOWAVERS have to decide for this
FROM 2011 WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BEGAN TO BE ORGANISED IN AN UNDERGROUND FORM THROUGH POSTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS IT HAS BEEN COPIED BY ALL EU PARTY INSTITUTIONS RIGHT OR LEFT APART THAT THEY WERE FORMED VARIOUS NEW POLITICAL SCHEMES BY THE ESTABLISHMENT LATELY.
THIS ASSISTED FOR THE CIRCULATION OF OUR IDEAS DUE TO THE POLICIES NOT TO INTERFERE FOR THE TIME BEING WITH THE MAIN MEDIA ORGANISATIONS.
ON THE OTHER HAND THEY DIRECTED THESE IDEAS TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE FROM THAT WHICH IS PROPOSED BY OUR MOVEMENT.
THE EXTREME RIGHTISTS WHO ARE PARTS OF THE PARTY SYSTEM TOOK OUR IDEAS TO CLAIM THEIR PATRIOTISM WHEN THEY ARE TOTALLY DEPENDED FROM POWERS OUTSIDE OF EUROPE&AT THE ECONOMIC POINT THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE CAPITALISTIC IDEALS AS IT IS AND WILL BE PROVEN IN THE NEXT YEARS.
A Vote for Populists Is a Vote for Putin
&
A Vote for Populists Is a Vote for TRUMP
THE LEFTISTS RADICALS OR NOT STACK ON THEIR ANACHRONISTIC MARXIST IDEALS CANT UNDERSTAND THAT THE ERA WE ARE LIVING IS A STATE CAPITALIST ONE AS IT WAS DESCRIBED BY VARIOUS THINKERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY BUT MAINLY FROM CASTORIADES.
THE QUESTION OF NOWADAYS IS NOT WHO CONTROLS THE INDUSTRIAL MACHINES BUT who controls the automata or robots?
TO THIS QUESTION WE HAVE THE ANSWERS WHICH ARE COMING FROM A LONG HARD STUDY IN THEORY&IN PRACTICE.
THE CURRENT OLIGARCHIC ESTABLISHMENT IN ORDER TO SURVIVE (AFTER COMMUNISM&TERRORISM FEARS ENDED) AND EXTEND ITS LIFE (due to its foundations on false macroeconomic theories)AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE REINVENTED THE POLITICAL THEORY FIRST APPEARED IN USA AT THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY ABOUT POPULISM AND PROGRESS WHEN THE MAIN CURRENT EU PARTY IS CALLED THE PARTY OF THE POPULUS=PEOPLE ,EPP.
Progressives and Progressivism in an Era of Reform (CLICK ON THE LINK OR SEARCH IN THE NET)
ONE ARTICLE THAT DESCRIBES OUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THESE ELECTIONS IS WRITTEN BY Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey AT pravdareport.com ON 30.05.2019
Looking for Democracy, the antidote for extremism
he poor turnout in last week's European Parliamentary elections showcases the lack of interest in politics and its growing distance from the people
The turnout in last week's European Parliamentary elections was hailed by the media as being the highest in twenty years, being fractionally over fifty per cent of the electorate, as a whole. However in some countries the turnout was thirty per cent, reflecting a general trend of distancing between people and politics across the globe, in local, legislative and presidential elections.
The extremists will always turn out
In general, those with more extreme views will be more likely to turn out to vote than those with centrist views. This means that it is easier for a firebrand populist to garner votes than a level-headed someone with experience and responsibility but who has problems communicating the complexity of the issues with the electorate.
This means that the one who stands up and declares "Let's close all the hospitals and eradicate disease, forever!" or promises "Zero taxes so you have more money in your pocket, let THEM pay for it!" or even "Get rid of the foreigners, empty our prisons and get jobs back!" will receive some very loud cheers and "yays".
In the UK, the Brexit campaign was staged to a backdrop of racism and lies, such as "350 million pounds a week for the National Health Service" (perhaps those promising this should be forced to pay it from their own pockets), slurs against "Islamization" and "Pakis" (Pakistanis, a racist heading encompassing Somalis, Eritreans, Syrians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Indians, basically anyone wanting to emigrate to the UK, none of them being EU citizens) and idealistic nonsense about "taking our country back", whatever that means.
The tangible consequences of populism and absenteeism
Such arguments have consequences, and looking at the result of the 2019 European Parliamentary election, we see the following:
Right-Wing Nationalists (ENF) up from 37 members to 58
Populists (EFD) from 31 to 54
New or Unaffiliated MEPs up from zero to 29
True, the Greens rose from 52 to 69 seats and the center grew (unfortunately at the expense of the Left in general and also at the expense of the Conservatives to the right of center), however the Alt Right, Populists and Unaffiliated received 141 of the 751 seats. In other words, nearly 20 per cent. Hitler's Nazi Party peaked at just 37 per cent of the vote, yet he was swept to power on a populist ticket of Make Germany Great Again, Freedom, and Law and Order.
When people have nothing, or when they are dissatisfied with what they have, they will turn to the one who says "I understand you, I am one of you, let us make THEM change and I will deliver what you want". This is a blanket remedy for the jobless, homeless, hopeless, poor and anyone bored with the Establishment who wants to see something different, even those who want to see a political real-life version of the Simpsons in Congress or Parliament for entertainment.
While it is also true that people these days have bread on the table, clothes, universal schooling, universal healthcare and in general are not dying in thousands on the streets, the fact remains that the populist vote is increasing and with populism, comes extremism, and with extremism, comes imbalance, going against the grain of centuries of socio-economic and societal development.
Democracy requires education
The antidote to this is democracy. Real democracy, not the insult we see today in which most people have not a clue what they are voting for, what the policies of the party they are supporting are, what their vote represents in the European Parliament and to which Euro-groups their parties belong. They vote for "him" or "her", meaning the image of the Leader of the Party on television and nothing else.
Hence the ridiculous reasons given for voting or not, such as "Oh he does wear some nice ties", or "(s)he looks honest", or "I didn't vote Brexit, it's Latin, I voted Leave", or "It's the fish and chips, isn't it?" or "It's them Pakis" or whatever else in whatever country. And hence the Bolsonaros in Brazil and the Trumps in the USA. And Farage in the UK.
This does not mean that all those voting for them are idiots, what it does mean is that if the rest of the population is not careful, one day an idiot is going to be elected, if such has not already happened.
The solution is, again, education. If all schools adopted a program in which civil responsibilities and issues were taught, then people would have a clear idea when they reached voting age about what the political groups represented, how politics works at local, national and international levels, the benefits of each voting system and so on. If they understood the issues they would be more likely to vote and for sure the extremists would not disappear but would become fringe groups raising issues for the center to take up. This is called political maturity and a sustainable model of governance.
We are never going to get there if people do not get up and vote, either through educational programs or else because they are forced to by law, as in the case in Brazil.
Food for thought.
Twitter: @TimothyBHinchey
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey works in the area of teaching, consultancy, coaching, translation, revision of texts, copy-writing and journalism. Director and Chief Editor of the Portuguese version of Pravda.Ru since 2002, and now Co-Editor of the English version, he contributes regularly to several other publications in Portuguese and English. He has worked in the printed and online media, in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly magazines and newspapers. A firm believer in multilateralism as a political approach and multiculturalism as a means to bring people and peoples together, he is Official Media Partner of UN Women, fighting for gender equality and Media Partner with Humane Society International, promoting animal rights. His hobbies include sports, in which he takes a keen interest, traveling, networking to protect the rights of LGBTQI communities and victims of gender violence, and cataloging disappearing languages, cultures and traditions around the world. A keen cook, he enjoys trying out different cuisines and regards cooking and sharing as a means to understand cultures and bring people together.
THE MAIN THING IS CITIZENS EDUCATION WHICH IS THE FOCUS OF THE eCOWAVES MOVEMENT FOR THE YEARS TO COME BY THE SLOGAN FROM 17/05/2017
"WE CALL THE EDUCATORS" (CLICK ON THE LINK )
BUT ALSO OUR SUGGESTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE URGENCY AND CITIZENS PARTICIPATION DAY BY DAY ARE FOUNDING GROUND BY THE FREE CITIZENS TEAMS,GROUPS,HOMAD(e)S AND NON ORGANISED CIVIL SOCIETY.
WE WORK FOR AN INDEPENDENT EUROPE&MEDITERRANEAN
OF
PEOPLES,NATIONS,CITIZENS
WE THANK ALL FOR YOUR ATTENTION&SUPPORT TO SUCH A DIFFICULT TASK ABOUT CHANGING EUROPE&MEDITERRANEAN TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC DIRECTION.
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