Staking Dubai teken van hoop

23 May

Zeer hoopgevend nieuws uit de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE). Aljazeera vertelde gisteren dat arbeiders in Abu Dhabi en Dubai – onderdelen van de VAE – in staking zijn gegaan. Dat is niet gering want de VAE is een zeer repressief land waar arbeiders veelal vrijwel rechteloze migranten zijn. Dat juist onder deze arbeiders verzet op gang komt, laat zien dat zelfs intense repressie en uitsluiting geen ongestoorde uitbuiting van arbeiders kunnen garanderen.

De stakers zijn personeelsleden van het grote bouwbedrijf Arabtec. Zaterdag al protesteerden sommigen van hen in Abu Dhabi, intussen zijn dus ook arbeiders in Dubai in actie gekomen. Het gaat om loonsverhoging, wat met maandsalarissen van 160 tot 190 dollar in de maand bepaald niet raar is. Ook eisen arbeiders betaling van achterstallig loon. Volgens het ministerie van arbeid, dat de staking zegt te volgen, is er niet zo heel veel aan de hand. “Het ministerie voegde eraan toe dat Arabtec de arbeiders betaalt in overeenstemming met de ondertekende contracten, en dat hun huisvesting in overeenstemming was met arbeidsreglementen.” Als dat al zo is, dan zegt dat wellicht iets over die afgesproken lonen en die arbeidsreglementen. Dat arbeiders contracten ondertekenen waarin laag loon wordt afgesproken, duidt eerder op de dwang waaronder arbeiders staan dan op de rechtmatigheid van zulk loon. Ze kregen volgens het ministerie bovendien gezondheidszorg en gratis transport. Dat moest kennelijk illustreren dat arbeiders het best redelijk hadden. Alsof het vervoer van slaven van hun slaapplek naar hun werkplek een soort privilege is.

Dubai is feitelijk een verzameling van luxe bouwprojecten, hotels en dergelijke. Die bouw was in 2008 vrijwel ingestort. Dubai was feitelijk een vroeg slachtoffer van de kredietcrisis. Maar omdat het deel was van de VAE, met het van oliegeld druipende Abu Dhabi als onderdeel, kon Dubai een beetje overeind blijven, en nu is de bouw weer op gang gekomen. Dat bouwen wordt gedaan door arbeidsmigranten, veelal uit Zuid-Azië. Die wonen in een soort barakken, net buiten de stad. De behandeling van deze contractarbeiders komt neer op een soort apartheid.

Arbeiders hebben geen organisatievrijheid, en van vakbondsrechten is ook geen sprake. Het tekent de repressieve gang van zaken in het land, en de strikte gelaagdheid in de maatschappij. Er is een steenrijke top van zakenlieden, projectontwikkelaars, bouwondernemers. Er is een brede middenklasse van professionals op allerlei vlak, deels trouwens ook immigranten maar dan uit westerse landen, en met een hoge opleiding. Voor zover het wel mensen zijn uit het land zelf, dan zijn dit de mensen met burgerrechten. Al moet je je daar ook niet teveel van voorstellen: van democratie is geen sprake, het land wordt bestuurd door een emir. De burgerrechten betreffen vooral sociale zekerheid en dergelijke, als onderdeel van een relatief hoge levensstandaard. Er is onder die groep ook onvrede, over de zeer ingeperkte vrijheid. Zo zitten er 94 mensen gevangen op beschuldiging van een soort complot ter voorbereiding van een staatsgreep. De onderdrukking richt zich vooral tegen plaatselijke geestverwanten van de Moslim Broederschap. Maar er zijn meer politieke gevangenen. Drie mensen die een petitie voor hervormingen hadden getekend, waaronder mensenrechtenactivist Ahmed Mansoor, werden tot drie jaar cel veroordeeld. Mansoor kreeg echter gratie. Dat doet echter niets af aan het algemene patroon van onderdrukking. In december 2013 sloot de politie Mohammed Salem al-Zumer op. Deze jonge man, 18 jaar, had het op internet opgenomen voor andere opgesloten dissidenten. Het regime laat zien hoe nerveus het is dat de opstandigheid van de Arabische Lente ook haar onderdrukte onderdanen in beweging zal brengen.

Dat soort repressie betreft de burgers van het land. Een groot deel van het werk wordt echter niet door de burgers van het land gedaan, maar door arbeidsmigranten. Daar zijn de bouwvakkers waaronder nu een staking is begonnen, een zeer belangrijke groep, die onder onmenselijk zware druk staat. Hoe zwaar de druk is waaronder arbeiders sowieso in de VAE staan, bleek al eens eerder. In mei 2011 was nog iemand van de hoogste wolkenkrabber naar beneden de dood in gesprongen, naar verluidt nadat hij nee te horen kreeg op zijn verzoek om een vrije dag.

Tegen die achtergrond is de staking van bouwvakkers – een teken dat ze willen léven, als ménsen en niet als wegwerpartikelen – nadrukkelijk een teken van hoop.

Peter Storm

Commentaar: Dit is een zeer goede ontwikkeling. De oliesjeiks versmijten hun geld en ondersteunen een extremen variant van de Islam. De Wahhabieten van Saoedi-Arabië hebben de olievelden overigens gestolen van de Sji’ieten.

Soviet Norway

23 May

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Nationalism is cultivated to the extreme in Norway. We celebrate the Constitution day (the 17th of May) like no others (and with no military parades!), every food item from Norway in the grocery store is decorated with Norwegian flags, we speak openly about «Norwegian quality» on food, we have posters in the grocery shops telling us that «carrots is a Norwegian speciality» (?!), we are the richest, the best skiers, Norway is the best land in the world, we are so important internationally, we spread peace all over the world, et cetera et cetera et cetera.

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Of course, the inverse is also possible. An Islamophobic or Anti-Semitic Internationalism. Like err, Roman Catholicism, or Shamanism.

We Are Not Our Ancestors

22 May

Reblogged from Beyond Highbrow - Robert Lindsay:

“Well, Arabs are ~90% White"

You have to seperate the Non Hijazis from the HIjazis. The former are ‘Arabs’ from Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. These appear to be ‘white.’ The Hijazis are the pure Arab stock of the Arabian Peninsula. They aren’t excatly white, but are a mix of caucazoid and Australoid. The Non Hijazis becamse Arabised over time following the Arab conquests.

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Excellent points on the Ancient Egyptian question. How will Europeans look over thousands of years?!

Projection

22 May

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the fash already do it to us, they will always do it to us, we could be handing out daisy’s all day long and they would still do it to us, we are just fighting fire with fire…
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Comment: The only “fascist” group willing to use the same level of violence consistently is the Grey Wolves, and they are mostly left alone. Against the Salafists, the Left doesn’t do anything, and is scared to death. It is the Christian “fascists” who are harassed, Christian taken broadly to mean people with a Christian cultural background. As long as the Left insists Christianity should be pacifist, and as long as the Left insists Christianity should like Muslim immigrants, the Left has the ethical duty to be pacifist. Hell is eternal.

Again, the usual wordgames

22 May

http://www.thelocal.se/48022/20130521/#.UZyVwaKpVoV

That is why we argue that Sweden needs a non-colour-blind anti-racism that enables an understanding of the thought structures behind today’s exclusive Swedishness. That is what we are trying to talk about and what we intend the exhibition Warning For Race to contribute to.

Like most other people, we do not believe that separating people into race would solve any social problems. But if certain groups of people with similar backgrounds are found over and over in the lower tiers of the statistics tables, then there is a reason to seek out knowledge about it and try to understand what the consequences are.

Comment: Way too long for “race”.  Again, you cannot have it both ways. Either people can be divided up in groups, or they can’t. Return of the King makes the usual point of Swedes invading Turtle Island, but overlooks logic works two ways. If Turtle Islanders resisted Swedish immigration, they forfeit the right to prevent Swedes from doing the same. Just as logical. Both are right, and both are wrong. As I commented somewhere else:

I think the Left won’t like a very interesting alternative. Patrilinearity; using the surname. Children of Swedish men, and, lets say, Albanian women, will be counted as fully Swedish. Swedish men are defined by Swedish surnames.

THAT is not allowed, psycho!!!

22 May

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Its terrorism in the strictest sense of the word, and just as cops show up in your doorstep, talk to your friends and family, even will resort to violence to make you refrain from activism “terrorising” Nazi’s is highly effective. It makes being an active Nazi just nit worth it. But its an extreme tactic that should only be used against the most influential, top organizing Nazi’s, and one best used in sillence, in the dark.
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i urge people to dont forget this is sweden we are talking about here, before (among other tactics) this kind of campaing were unleashed on the fash trade-unionist, left-wing journalists and other leftists where getting (fire) bombed and knifed at an alarming rate in the 90′s. shit was really bad for a while. when the nazi’s are setting fire to the houses of trade-unionists with not only them but even their kids inside extreme measures are called for.
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Comment: Common sense tells us that vandalism is a proportional response to vandalism ( a fortiori if you are knifed at an alarming rate). We can admit that to psycho. However, as long as the Radical Left insists Jesus is the friend of Muslim immigrants, and an opponent of “racism”, the Radical Left is ethically bound to turn the other cheek, and not to retaliate. Judaism as well has Christian Privilege. Christians keep ritual circumcision legal, Christians keep ritual slaughter legal, and most importantly, Christian Pro-Life and Pro-Family activism keeps Jewish families large. Either Jews politely decline on Christian assistance, or they are morally bound to turn the other cheek as well. Leeching off the Christian memeplex has consequences. Hell is eternal.

Quebequois want to be vulnerable to mutilation

22 May

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/1700-converge-on-quebec-city-to-oppose-govrsquot-plan-to-legalize-euthanasi

QUEBEC CITY, May 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly 2000 people converged on the Quebec Capital on a brilliant spring Saturday afternoon to March against a government plan to legalise euthanasia in the province. Called the “Springtime March”, the event attracted euthanasia opponents from all corners of the province to protest the Parti québécois government’s proposal to allow “medical aid in dying” –the direct and intentional killing of a patient—under certain conditions. Junior minister Veronique Hivon indicated at the beginning of the year that she would table a bill legalizing the deadly practise before the province’s parliament adjourned for the summer.

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Organised by the Quebec Rally Against Euthanasia – an ad hoc group headed by Dr. Claude Morin, an emergency-room doctor in Quebec City – the March was firmly backed by the province’s Catholic bishops, including Mgr. Noël Simard, newly appointed bishop of Valleyfield and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. As head of the bioethics committee of the Quebec Bishop’s assembly, Simard had earlier this year penned a statement accusing the government of going down “a dangerous path” and questioned its intention to include “deliberately causing death” as part of health care. Also present were Archbishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix of Quebec City, Archbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal, and Paul-André Fournier, bishop of Rimouski and president of the Quebec Bishops’ Assembly.

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The March participants assembled on the historic Plains of Abraham, where they heard speeches delivered by a vast array of Quebec euthanasia opponents including Amy Hasbrook of Not Dead Yet, an organisation defending the rights of disabled people, and Dr. Patrick Vinay, former dean of medicine at the University of Montreal and palliative care expert. Also present were Dr. Catherine Ferrier representing Physicians Alliance for Total Refusal of Euthanasia, Linda Couture of the Living with Dignity Network and Louis-André Richard, a philosophy professor, bioethics expert and spokesperson for the Quebec Rally against Euthanasia.

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The Marchers then processed through Quebec City via the Grande Allée chanting slogans such as “killing is not care” and arrived before the Quebec National Assembly where speakers once again rallied the crowd. The crowd seemed especially appreciative of a speech by Hugh Scher of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, who affirmed that “dangerous lessons” ought to be learned from the legalisation of euthanasia in Holland and Belgium and that “each of us is at risk” when life becomes devalued.

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At the close of the event Dr. Claude Morin stated that he hoped that the day’s message would make it to the ears of the PQ government, but that in the event that the bill would nonetheless be tabled, he invited the assembled crowd to return for a second protest.

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As of the time of writing, the euthanasia bill has yet to be tabled, some indicating that it may even be presented later this fall.

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 Comment: The Netherlands are blessed with Geert Wilders. If you allow abortion, euthanasia becomes inevitable.
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