Today being my last program I was planning on ending on a radical note, going back to my Romanian roots, where the language still ties me a great deal to the people and their experiences. I was planning to play as in the first program I had here on Radio Ara mostly music from Romania. And I will still do that but not only. I am more than Romanian and more than a global privileged citizen and with the program I will try to humbly resonate my concerns in relation to these labels.
In the weekend that just passed many things happened in the soil of my roots, a popular revolt taking form at first around the reforms in the health system and then spreading around all the other social issues that are plaguing Romania. I am finally at ease that people are standing up to the oppressive net of systems in which they find themselves tangled in. I do feel as if many of these systems are too subtle to find their way under the public eye and their critic. I would for example like to see a Black Bloc forming in Romania with the only goal of challenging authority and the neo liberal policies while in demonstrations while I do realize that is a reality far away from the Romanian reality. Far and wide even the most radical of reporters try to pacify the revolts and place power back in the hands of the newly discovered power system which has been growing alongside the neo liberal system: the "turtles". These are the mercenaries, neither the army, nor the regular police force but brutes, in general men (probably in Romania 100% men) who come in to beat in and smother any criticism to the system. The riot police. Having developed quietly in the background they came to be paid from public funds so by the very same people that they beat and arrest. They in times of "crisis" (in which the system of the rich is shaking) come to have full power to arrest and hold anyone for as long as they please with no justification and as well to use violence to suppress any critic as it happened and I witnessed in Copenhagen in 2009 when Denmark basically turned into a police state. There the threat was that people would actually expose the charade that are the Climate Conferences in which the leaders of the world decide who will drown and who will float. Here you can see a movie of a Danish "turtle" explaining how they have supreme power to do as they please and go without any papers on private and legally owned property: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pVb9EEYp4
I am posting about this because in today´s European Union the "turtles" play a critical role in preserving the status quo. And it is this status quo that is not changing if the current president of Romania changes or not. If the educational system or the health system change or not. What is at stake is as a former soviet dissident warns, the beginning of a EU dictatorship in which power structures flow towards fewer and fewer hands: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
Something hard to grasp in privileged Luxembourg, these issues will find their way to the source, the piggy bank which is Luxembourg. I hope people will be wise enough to invest in life and in life´s small and beautiful systems that make life so wonderful instead of the free trade, pension and insurance based mentality, the war with nature mentality and especially the LEADER based mentality that has gotten most of Europe in debt and in a knowledge crisis.
In the weekend that just passed many things happened in the soil of my roots, a popular revolt taking form at first around the reforms in the health system and then spreading around all the other social issues that are plaguing Romania. I am finally at ease that people are standing up to the oppressive net of systems in which they find themselves tangled in. I do feel as if many of these systems are too subtle to find their way under the public eye and their critic. I would for example like to see a Black Bloc forming in Romania with the only goal of challenging authority and the neo liberal policies while in demonstrations while I do realize that is a reality far away from the Romanian reality. Far and wide even the most radical of reporters try to pacify the revolts and place power back in the hands of the newly discovered power system which has been growing alongside the neo liberal system: the "turtles". These are the mercenaries, neither the army, nor the regular police force but brutes, in general men (probably in Romania 100% men) who come in to beat in and smother any criticism to the system. The riot police. Having developed quietly in the background they came to be paid from public funds so by the very same people that they beat and arrest. They in times of "crisis" (in which the system of the rich is shaking) come to have full power to arrest and hold anyone for as long as they please with no justification and as well to use violence to suppress any critic as it happened and I witnessed in Copenhagen in 2009 when Denmark basically turned into a police state. There the threat was that people would actually expose the charade that are the Climate Conferences in which the leaders of the world decide who will drown and who will float. Here you can see a movie of a Danish "turtle" explaining how they have supreme power to do as they please and go without any papers on private and legally owned property: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pVb9EEYp4
I am posting about this because in today´s European Union the "turtles" play a critical role in preserving the status quo. And it is this status quo that is not changing if the current president of Romania changes or not. If the educational system or the health system change or not. What is at stake is as a former soviet dissident warns, the beginning of a EU dictatorship in which power structures flow towards fewer and fewer hands: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
Something hard to grasp in privileged Luxembourg, these issues will find their way to the source, the piggy bank which is Luxembourg. I hope people will be wise enough to invest in life and in life´s small and beautiful systems that make life so wonderful instead of the free trade, pension and insurance based mentality, the war with nature mentality and especially the LEADER based mentality that has gotten most of Europe in debt and in a knowledge crisis.
