Ruphus -> RE: Must-see docu on journalism, of a kind you don´t get to see too often (Nov. 28 2017 12:13:47)
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Fully agreed with your assessment. It is inherent of people´s representative that integrity of such personality ought to be assured way beyond common privacy. In fact it is already a scandalous misnomer that the aberration of thelike public position has been established as "career- / professional politician". That is paradox to what a politician should be. Such task should not be "profession" to seek one´s career in. In the opposite. Prospects should be finding their way into political scenery through idealism on behalf of which engagement arises which again may be compensated with state salary. Not the other way around. Anyway, authentic democracy would inalienably be needing strict ensuring of representative´s integrity, hence constant traceability of officials´ conduct. And any political applicant in actual agreement with the priority of integrity and transparency would be prepared to give up on common privacy for as long as publicly active. However, practice people are getting to see instead is all secrecy and wheeling and dealing of their alleged representatives, or better to say "nomenclatura". The actual condition of opacity just ought to serve corruption. Let alone the bold presentation of lobbyism around parliaments, which is not even considered stigma in these estranged times, but common condition and work routine. Career politicians, discretion and lobbyism are peculiarities already openly countering democracy. Same with further countering arrangements like indirect "democracy". If it ain´t direct, it can´t be democracy anymore. - In comparison to Germany I always admire public´s maturity in France. While the elevated resistance during WWII may not have been as wide-spread among people as claimed and celebrated, the French are way more sensitive against dictation and autocracy than the Germans. They are much more sensible against elitist coups and much more ready to protest than Germans. In countries like France or Italy at least peaks of corruption are being named as such. The Italians even traditionally naming their mafia as such. In Germany in spite of both phenomenon's rigid dominance since over 30 years the terms are basically nonexistent in respect of internal ongoing. (Just like "labor surplus value" and "usury / price gauging" are practically nonexistent internationally.) As mentioned before: Even if politicians are vividly caught with attacheé cases full of bribe money, nothing will happen. It will routinely be turned into "party donation" and the bribed individual will resume untouched, climbing further up the career ladder. There basically is no way for internal corruption to become labeled as such, unless someone was outlawed by his own pals. All this why symptoms of the undermined state are blatant. Just look at yesterday´s final sequel of above mentioned glyphosat scandal. The SPD had agreed with the CDU that Germany shall once again abstain in the EU voting about this disastrous chemical that has already made Germany nearly bee / insect free. Still, the CDU guy Christian Schmidt went and voted pro glyphosat. SPD officials now showing stunned. Obviously again: Extraneous relevance at work. There exists no pertinent background for such typically persistent advocacy / lobbying in advantage of industrial biz. And look at the explosive hurdle even taken for execution of the true reign´s order. As you know, there is much-noticed hassle currently, with stranded coalition negotiations and threatened new elections. The CDU imploringly wanting to coalise with the unwilling SPD, yet the Schmidt bloke dared to officially breach trust on behalf of this one pesticide among so many related products. The SPD is aghasted, and Monsanto got another 5 years. Period. Case closed. Move on. Now, the obviously mobbed-up fraction has prepared blurb according to which much more toxic solutions otherwise would have been engaged, which the press is gladly spreading. Further accommodating the press´ spreading of Schmidt´s motivation, which hence ought to be pressure from the farmers. Anything far-fetched, only not the blatantly obvious. After all, the host of industrial agents around the parliament are there for something. Where on the other hand are the TV- and print media- daily news journalists who in such case prepared with debunking data would grill the extraneously operating official? How come this concertized butt kissing in the mainstream media, with plain talking only present in sub organs late at night when majority sleeps? Similar consistency with tampering poll institutions who reliably streamlined project before elections? Or with manipulated voting machines and elections that counter apparent mood in a country? What I would like to message to fellow people is this: If tricking oneself into believing that minorities´ total superiority was leaving you an end of societal authencity and people´s sovereignty ... If thinking that nasty sold down the river reality is too much to fully bear, and if you can accept what´s being deprived of your rights and belonging, that is dandy. Everyone has a right of personal choice as to how far wanting to know and to be aware of his world. However, be aware of these times differing from anything of the past. There is no ecological leeway left over. If interested in the leftover of habitat to be kept alive, you need to face the degree of authenticity and reason that is in place. And in respect of decisive administration and government agencies that is effectively zero. They are industry held and refuse to note (societal &) environmental reality. If people will not be prepared to realize status quo, and will let governments go on as they do, the threshold of ecological breakdown will be surpassed sometime between next year and max three years ahead. It won´t be meaning that doomsday will be breaking out right then, but that there will be no U-turn possible before destroyal of the earth as lively habitat for advanced species as we know it. And it will not occur too far in the future either. Even though comments on newspaper boards are being increasingly censored like back in the authoritarian times, I can see that even Germany´s rather phlegmatic public witnessing the social erosion, is progressively awakening. However, major media and institutions are reluctant to reflect that. This is another aspect that needs to be taken into consideration while one tries to make up his mind before idle appearing scenery, and weigh whether it is time for change of perspective or not. Whatever we may be prepared to realize, one thing can be told in advance. Even if mankind managed to survive on a deserted planet (which it rather likely will not for long): Humankind cannot stay humane without fellow creatures at their side. Without fellow creature man ought to turn into ogre. You wouldn´t be wanting to live under such circumstances.
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