This week the UK revoked the visas of leftist American influencer Hasan Piker and the podcaster Cenk Uygur who were both scheduled to speak at events in Oxford and London.
I recall the photograph of the assembled heads of state of NATO all taking a same direction step in unison. They conform, and if they must, well so must you.
What drives our billionaires batshit are the not too subtle signs of successful exceptions to their constant mantra of there is no alternative (TINA), namely Russia, China, and Iran.
So no chirping about things TINA. Yep, Israel is their chief hill, but topics such as environment, consumer welfare, worker rights and a whole sundry of personal liberties as dissent will not be tolerated. The police will make that reality clear. And they are prepared to mete out harsher measures. Gaza is a goal for expropriation, but it also serves as a warning.
I can attest the same things are happening down here in NZ to. Our post-Jacinda Ardern right wing government has spent the majority if it's term hacking away the public sector to the point the bones underneath are now chipping, dismantling our environmental protections (just yesterday they officially disestablished the Ministry for the Environment), rewriting the school curriculum to ignore our indigenous Māori culture and whitewash our colonial history (which we only even started teaching properly in the last 20 odd years), and legislation is currently being passed in parliament that denies the existence of trans people ( a stark contrast from previously having publicly funded gender-affirming care).
I don't think most people in the rest of the world realise just how far to the right the dinky little home of hobbits has swung in an alarmingly short amount if time. But who can blame the realy. The fascists are crawling out of the basements everywhere one looks.
Simple. The european political class has no priority other than the War On Russia, specifically, in getting the Americans to fight that war for them. European strategy since 1917 has been - get American to fight for them.
The europolities wish to curry favor with the Americans, and the Americans care passionately about Israel.
See what good flunkies we are! Don't we deserve favor?!?
Hasan Piker and the podcaster Cenk Uygur. Both of these guys and their apparent targeting by Brit Imperialism seems fishy. As we've seen with Mamdani, the ruling class will pillory individuals as critics of Israel giving them a boost in popularity and then work with them after the fact. Cenk is an absolute nationaliat reactionary. Just look at his support for the Imperialist attack on Syria. Piker oddly Cenk's relative, comes on as a critic of Israel, quotes Lenin, but then always directs his followers back to reforming and supporting the genocidal Imperialist Democratic Party. Piker may be Mamdani part 2.
You will conform.
I recall the photograph of the assembled heads of state of NATO all taking a same direction step in unison. They conform, and if they must, well so must you.
What drives our billionaires batshit are the not too subtle signs of successful exceptions to their constant mantra of there is no alternative (TINA), namely Russia, China, and Iran.
So no chirping about things TINA. Yep, Israel is their chief hill, but topics such as environment, consumer welfare, worker rights and a whole sundry of personal liberties as dissent will not be tolerated. The police will make that reality clear. And they are prepared to mete out harsher measures. Gaza is a goal for expropriation, but it also serves as a warning.
We are subjects and enemy simultaneously.
Not just Europe, similar things are happening in Australia. Once a colonizer always one, apparently.
I can attest the same things are happening down here in NZ to. Our post-Jacinda Ardern right wing government has spent the majority if it's term hacking away the public sector to the point the bones underneath are now chipping, dismantling our environmental protections (just yesterday they officially disestablished the Ministry for the Environment), rewriting the school curriculum to ignore our indigenous Māori culture and whitewash our colonial history (which we only even started teaching properly in the last 20 odd years), and legislation is currently being passed in parliament that denies the existence of trans people ( a stark contrast from previously having publicly funded gender-affirming care).
I don't think most people in the rest of the world realise just how far to the right the dinky little home of hobbits has swung in an alarmingly short amount if time. But who can blame the realy. The fascists are crawling out of the basements everywhere one looks.
Simple. The european political class has no priority other than the War On Russia, specifically, in getting the Americans to fight that war for them. European strategy since 1917 has been - get American to fight for them.
The europolities wish to curry favor with the Americans, and the Americans care passionately about Israel.
See what good flunkies we are! Don't we deserve favor?!?
Too many ppl still prefer to remain willfully ignorant of the fact that Zionism/Israel has always been an Anglo-American Imperialist colonial project
youtube.com/watch?v=IZjSVkkAjVk
youtube.com/watch?v=vEGVSvL6yQU
Hasan Piker and the podcaster Cenk Uygur. Both of these guys and their apparent targeting by Brit Imperialism seems fishy. As we've seen with Mamdani, the ruling class will pillory individuals as critics of Israel giving them a boost in popularity and then work with them after the fact. Cenk is an absolute nationaliat reactionary. Just look at his support for the Imperialist attack on Syria. Piker oddly Cenk's relative, comes on as a critic of Israel, quotes Lenin, but then always directs his followers back to reforming and supporting the genocidal Imperialist Democratic Party. Piker may be Mamdani part 2.