martes, 23 de febrero de 2010

Progres de papel

Hay características de la progresía que, por aún mil veces repetidas, no dejan de fascinarme. Ayer mencioné una, referida al artículo de Millás sobre los osos polares, que se puede aplicar, tanto a todo el fenómeno de la calentología, como a todas las teorías rosseauianas del buen salvaje a que son tan afectos esos progres: la visión sentimental de cómo debe ser el mundo, que les lleva a manipular la realidad, malear (en su doble sentido) los datos empíricos, distorsionar, confundir y caer en la pseudociencia, cuando no en la superstición y el vudú... en último término, rebelarse contra el objetivismo y la ciencia y retrotaerse a la pre-ilustración en pueril pataleta cuando los hechos no demuestran su pre-concebida visión del mundo.

Otro comportamiento repetido y predecible es el que la rabieta, la coz, cuando la mayoría libre decide comportarse de modo diferente a lo que su superior dictado considera conveniente. Así, descalificarán, si hace falta, a partes enormes de la población, las excomulgarán negándoles su sello de kosher demócrata-de-toda-la vida, expulsándola del espacio de convivencia común. Y todo ello, apoyado en un doble rasero aplicado con tan grosero cinismo, que resulta obvio que ellos mismos no pasarían el corte de su propio criterio. Eso, cuando no inventaron ellos mismos los comportamientos que ahora critican. Sólo hay que escuchar los sermones de Gabilondo, o la típica crítica del legítimo afán de lucro de un socialdemócrata que estará dispuesto a matar por una prebenda adicional...

Adjunto tres ejemplos sangrantes. Tildar de sectario al otro (probablemente cierto) por replicar comportamientos propios es simplemente patético. Pero quejarse de prácticas de abuso de la concesión administrativa por parte de gobiernos (también probablemente ciertas) cuando un cierto grupo funda toda su existencia en esas mismas concesiones, las primeras otorgadas bajo regímenes no democráticos y después emboscados excepcionalidades legales y opacas decisiones extraordinarias de gobiernos amigos, eso es un chiste. Y mandar a correveidiles a ponerse de ejemplo en un medio propio ya da pudor y vergüenza.

Uno

Dos

Tres

No quería quedarme con las ganas de decirlo

lunes, 22 de febrero de 2010

Erdogán y Europa

Erdogán busca confundir, mezclando causa y efecto.

Yo prefiero a Turquía en la Unión Europea. Una Turquía alineada con los valores occidentales y europeos, con la libertad, la democracia, los Derechos Humanos. Una Turquía, por tanto, secularizada y que combata el islamismo como negación de todo lo anterior. Erdogán, por tanto, es el problema, no la solución. Erdogán aleja a Turquía de Europa. Los votantes turcos deben asumir su responsabilidad...

Israel está preparada. Mil veces antes. Pero, supongo, no patalea por entrar en un club tan poco selecto...

Idiotas primitivistas del buen salvaje (y el buen animal salvaje)

En El País, of course

viernes, 19 de febrero de 2010

Un pobre hombre

Zapatero acusa a los mercados de "desagradecidos".

Y supongo que los amenazó con no ajuntarlos más...

A los mafiosos envalentonados, ni un centímetro de espacio

Los fascistas y sus métodos

Nuestra respuesta:
De: "angel.mas@asociacionacom.org"

Para: mjose.salgueiro@jcyl.es

Enviado: vie,19 febrero, 2010 16:15

Asunto: Mensaje público de apoyo


Estimada Consejera:


En relación a la actuación en Valladolid del Jerusalem String Quartet y la campaña de boicot de radicales antisemitas, queremos, primero, felicitarles por el alto criterio de calidad que demuestran en el diseño de su agenda cultural, por encima de los que prefieren el ruido al arte.

Adicionalmente, les apoyamos públicamente en su postura de no plegarse ante grupos anti-sistema que creen que pueden imponer su mezquina voluntad a la mayoria de ciudadanos libres y a sus democráticos representantes por métodos mafiosos de chantaje y coacción.
Israel y España comparten valores e intereses y esta es una nueva prueba de todo ello.

Atentamente

Angel Mas

Presidente, ACOM - Asociación para la Concordia en Oriente Medio
Si os queréis unir:

Consejera de Cultura María José Salgueiro - mjose.salgueiro@jcyl.es
Consejero de Educación Juan José Mateo - consejero.educacion@jcyl.es

jueves, 18 de febrero de 2010

Hezbollah is emptying south Lebanon from its Christian residents

By: Elias Bejjani

February 17/10

A series of on going flagrant atrocities are inflicted by the Lebanese official authorities and the terrorist Hezbollah armed militia against our Lebanese brothers and sisters that have been taking refuge in neighboring Israel since May 2000.

In the aftermath of the Israeli army’s withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000, 6,500 southern Lebanese men, along with members of their families had no option but to leave their towns, villages and abandon all their properties and hastily run for their lives. While Israel was logistically preparing for the withdrawal, Hezbollah waged a merciless and savage media campaign against the southern Lebanese citizens. The campaign was aired publicly on all local and international TV channels and radio stations. The most frightening threats were uttered personally by Hezbollah's General Secretary, Sheik Nasrallah, who savagely said, “We will enter their bedrooms, pierce their stomachs, slaughter them and slice their throats.”

Our people declined from continuing the fight and chose to leave, not because of fear of combat or death only, but most importantly to avoid more Lebanese bloodshed, while the central government did not dare to assume its national responsibilities and obligations.

Since 2000, many of these 6500 individuals risked returning to Lebanon. On their return they were immediately arrested, humiliated, tortured and charged with treason and collaboration with an enemy (Israel). Their trials were extremely hasty, biased, scandalous and terrible infringement on all judicial international standards and human rights charters. Even after serving their imprisonment terms they were all stripped of their civil rights and officially tagged as traitors. Very few of those who served their imprisonment terms were able to return to their homes and towns in the south because the terrorist Hezbollah, and not the Lebanese authorities is in full control of that region.

Many of these unfortunate Lebanese refugees willingly left Israel and are now living in the USA, Canada, Australia, and numerous European countries. All of them are afraid to go back home, because of the kind of falsified and fabricated Hezbollah-Tailored charges that are waiting for them the moment they land in Lebanon. Those who did return ended in jail after unfair and biased trials with harsh verdicts.

In the context of Hezbollah’s fanaticism, revenge and hatred, and in the realm of its ongoing scheme to empty the southern region of its Christian inhabitants, the Lebanese military court sentenced on February 01/2010 with a stroke of a pen 34 citizens in absentia (living as refugees in Israel and other countries) with verdicts ranging from 3 to 15 years of imprisonment with hard labor and stripped them of their civil rights.

Even those who return from Israel to Lebanon as dead bodies in coffins are tagged as traitors, disgraced and humiliated. The Lebanese government exploited by Hezbollah’s terrorism, manipulation and control, has been desecrating the sanctity of death, which is not a Lebanese virtue.

In his inaugural speech, on 25 May, 2009, Lebanon's president General Michele Suleiman promised to bring back from Israel all those who took exile there in the aftermath of the Israeli army’s unilateral withdrawal from South Lebanon in May 2000. He said: "This day coincides with the anniversary of the national liberation and victory day, let us make it a motive for greater awareness for what awaits us, and to renew our commitment for freedom and democracy, which we offered sacrifices for them in a bid to safeguard the country. In this context, comes the hard work to release prisoners and detainees, disclose the fate of the missing, and to bring back our sons who fled to Israel; our country's lap has room for all of its citizens." Almost two years have passed since President Suleiman's election, while his promise to bring back our people from Israel has not yet been fulfilled.

We strongly believe that It is an ethical obligation and a national legitimate right to ask what is hindering the president from taking the needed actions to put an end to this ongoing dilemma? The answer is simply Hezbollah's terrorism and hegemony.

In reality, Hezbollah has completely assumed Syria’s notorious oppressive and murderous occupational role in the aftermath of the Syrian army’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2005. This armed Iranian fundamentalist organization is currently the actual and primary obstacle that is hindering the country from reclaiming its independence, democracy and freedoms. in fact all the unfolding destructive, shameful, terrorist and corrupting events that are currently hitting Lebanon and its peace-loving people illustrate with no shred of a doubt that this terrorist organization, Hezbollah, is merely grabbing hold of the Lebanese state and its institutions as hostages.

Hezbollahs has been constantly obstructing the honorable return of our people from Israel, through its full control on the Lebanese institutions' and government's decision making process including the military court. During the last six months, this court has viciously charged a great number of our people who are still refuges in Israel (and other countries) with treason, entering an enemy country, and accepting its citizenship. It sentenced them in absentia with very harsh and cruel verdicts and stripped them of their civil rights.

Hezbollah has been rhetorically via all its prevailing media facilities, and through the military court's fabricated charges and verdicts intimidating the country's president and indirectly prevented him from fulfilling his inaugural vow to facilitate the honorable return of our people from Israel. Hezbollah is systematically emptying south Lebanon from its Christian residents and forcing those who still live there against all the odds to sell their land and leave.

President Suleiman knows more than anyone else in Lebanon that the Hezbollah mercenaries and the so-called resistance are hindering the dignified return of our people from Israel and falsely accusing them of treason and collaboration. It is the Hezbollah leadership who are actually guilty of these charges and not our heroic Lebanese people. But apparently the president has bowed to Hezbollah's tactics of manipulation and intimidation and backed off on his promise and vow.

It is worth mentioning that Hezbollah's mini state with its scattered cantons all over Lebanon, especially in Beirut's southern suburb and southern region is much stronger in all domains than the Lebanese central government. The Lebanese people in general and the Lebanese Shiite community in particular had no saying in this matter. This mini state was imposed on all of them by Syria and Iran during the Syrian occupation era of the country (1976-2005)

Hezbollah's mini state controls and dominates directly and through proxies all the affairs of the Lebanese central government via cancerous infiltration, intimidation, oppression, corruption, drug trafficking, religious decrees (fatwas), murder, crime, bribing and multifold tactics of terrorism. Not even one decision could be made by the Lebanese government or any of its institutions without Hezbollah's approval. The Lebanese state is massively dominated by the Hezbollah mullah's leadership. This terrorist militant organization boldly dictates its Iranian decrees on all the Lebanese officials and institutions, manipulates their activities and greatly influences the whole country's decision making process in all fields and on all levels.

We strongly believe that there will be no end to the bizarre, volatile and fragile situation in Lebanon unless the Hezbollah militia is dismantled and disarmed. To achieve this goal the UNIFIL force in South Lebanon must have a new engagement mandate under chapter seven of the United Nations' charter in a bid to be authorized jointly with the Lebanese Army force to implement the 1701 and 1559 UNSC Resolutions

In summary, Lebanon is still an occupied country and the occupier is Hezbollah. Our people in Israel are victims of terrorism need the help of the free world countries. We call on these countries to take all the measures that are available to pressure the Lebanese government as well as Syria and Iran, the two Hezbollah masters to put an immediate end for this systemized exodus of the Lebanese southern Christians and to stop all the heretic charges and trials.

*Elias Bejjani

Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
This happens in front of the UN forces of FINUL, under the current leadership of the Spanish army. And under the noses of all international journalists and TV networks, waiting to report the next "atrocity" of Israel. And in front of the windows of all NGOs based there taking care of the "refugees" and the "reconstruction" (not women or gay rights, much less Christians').

martes, 16 de febrero de 2010

Espinosa lloriquea

Es que es un alma sensible

Mortadelo y Filemón

Estamos pasando de la vergüenza al bochorno. La paranoia y el delirio. La conjura de los necios. Me quedo sin palabras

¿Son más estalinistas que franquistas?. ¿Son más tontos que ignorantes?.

¿Lo siguiente?. ¿Una ley con alcance supranacional y aplicada por el juez Garzón que prohiba hablar mal de nosotros en medios internacionales, mucho menos comprar y vender nuestra deuda soberana (faltaría más)?

lunes, 15 de febrero de 2010

Un disparate suicida

Y, después de la Torres, y llevando al extremo el asunto aquel de que lo cortés no quita lo valiente, citaré hoy a otro tipo al que tengo poca simpatía

Salvador Sostres en El Mundo

Algo que nunca creí que fuera a hacer: aplaudo y reproduzco un artículo de Maruja Torres

...en El País...

¿La hora de Israel?

He visto a gente que respeto faltarle al respeto a gente como Aznar o Bardají por:

Uno, destacar la necesidad de confrontar el peligro del yihadismo con determinación. Los han llamado "islamófobos" por ello. Islamófobo es el que confunde el rechazo al islamismo con el rechazo al Islam. Eso incluye a muchísimos musulmanes y gran parte de los "bienpensantes" europeos. Repito: buscar una alianza contra el nazismo no te hace germanófobo.

Dos, he oido que les llamaban "belicistas". Como belicista debió ser Churchill. Fijémonos en cómo Bardají expone el mejor modo de evitar una guerra a gran escala: con una acción bélica puntual, que tendría mejor resultado si, además, viniese acompañada del apoyo internacional. Pero los bienpensantes siempre abogarán por esperar hasta que sea demasiado tarde. Y entonces votarán a un Obama que les lleve a la guerra, pero con retórica kumbayá.

Lo adicionalmente triste de este asunto es que Europa, y los EEUU, no se comportan en este tema de modo diferente al resto de los cínicos del mundo árabe: esperan, desean que Israel actúe, que lidie con el problema que les preocupa enormemente pero para el que no tienen coraje necesario de actuar... Y justo cuando Israel nos saque las castañas del fuego, le saltarán encima demonizando a la única nación que manda a sus hijos a luchar las guerras que evitarán que los nuestros tengan que pelearlas mañana y al ladito de casa.

Es lo que hay