March 20, 2021 “Information Clearing House” – – “The Canary” – – #FacistBritain has been trending on Twitter. But can we quantify whether the UK is descending into a modern, fascist state? Simply put: yes, we can.
Fascism’s “defining characteristics”: nationalism, power, authoritarian government and disregard for human rights
Che Scott-Heron Newton tweeted how she believed fascism was “presenting in modern Britain”. She noted four areas. One was “Powerful and Continuing Nationalism”. In this instance, she gave the example of police protecting a Winston Churchill statue:
Defining characteristics of fascism and how it’s presenting in modern Britain:
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La decisión del Parlamento Europeo de allanar el camino para la extradición de políticos independentistas catalanes a España es una amenaza para la democracia europea, dijo a RT el exlíder catalán Carles Puigdemont.
Puigdemont huyó de España en 2017, después de que Madrid lo acusara de rebelión, sedición y uso indebido de fondos públicos para organizar la votación de la independencia catalana ese año mientras se desempeñaba como jefe del gobierno de la región.
En enero de 2020, un tribunal belga se negó a extraditar al político a España, citando su inmunidad procesal como miembro del Parlamento Europeo. Sin embargo, el máximo órgano legislativo de la UE votó este mes para despojarlo a él y a otros dos eurodiputados independentistas de Cataluña de la inmunidad parlamentaria, allanando el camino para su posible extradición.
En declaraciones a Going Underground de RT con Afshin Rattansi, Puigdemont calificó la decisión de sus colegas eurodiputados como “una clara amenaza contra uno de los fundamentos de la democracia europea”.
“Cuando un miembro del Parlamento Europeo es procesado políticamente y el parlamento no defiende su inmunidad, es una muy mala señal”, dijo.
Eso no está en el marco de la legislación europea y, de hecho, socava la autoridad moral de la Unión Europea para enseñar a otras regiones del mundo a proteger los derechos humanos y los valores fundamentales.
Puigdemont dijo que continúa sirviendo como eurodiputado, participando en eventos oficiales, incluso cuando la extradición una vez más se cierne sobre él. Está convencido de que “no tendrá un juicio justo” en su país de origen.
“Es vergonzoso que las instituciones europeas tengan una prueba clara de que se trata de un enjuiciamiento político por parte de un estado miembro [de la UE] y que colaboren y sean parte de ese enjuiciamiento”, dijo, destacando que fue elegido para el Parlamento Europeo por los ciudadanos de Cataluña que apoyan sus puntos de vista. Puigdemont agregó que esperaba que la UE le enviara a Madrid un mensaje de que deben “resolver los conflictos políticos utilizando herramientas políticas”.
En 2017, más del 90% de los catalanes respaldaron la independencia en una votación que nunca fue autorizada por el gobierno español y luego fue invalidada por el Tribunal Constitucional de España. Varios importantes políticos independentistas fueron encarcelados por su papel en el referéndum. Los veredictos provocaron protestas a gran escala en la capital de Cataluña, Barcelona, algunas de las cuales provocaron enfrentamientos con la policía.
La hostilidad del gobierno español hacia la independencia catalana siguió siendo la misma después de que Pedro Sánchez, del partido socialista PSOE, se convirtiera en primer ministro en 2018, según Puigdemont. Dijo que el nuevo gobierno actualizó su “vocabulario” en comparación con sus predecesores del conservador Partido Popular, “pero eso es todo”.
Barcelona 01 10 2017 Politica Referendum 1-O elecciones la policia nacional ha intentado desalojar a las personas concentradas en las puertas del colegio electoral Ramon Llull Foto Ferran Nadeu
“Nada ha cambiado. La gente permanece en la cárcel. La gente permanece en el exilio. El fiscal general está procesando ideas ”, argumentó Puigdemont, y dijo que los funcionarios en Madrid“ preguntan por el diálogo, pero de una manera muy retórica ”.
La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores española, Arancha González Laya, por su parte, elogió al Parlamento Europeo por poner fin a la inmunidad del exlíder catalán. “Los problemas de Cataluña se van a resolver en España, y no en Europa”, dijo. Puigdemont opina lo contrario.
National police were imported in a failed attempt to stop the Catalan Referendum
El mensaje que queremos compartir con el resto de europeos: los catalanes somos parte de Europa, y nuestra crisis es una crisis europea.
“La democracia europea está [siendo] exanimada en cómo Europa manejará esa crisis”, dijo.
Stripping Catalan MEPs of immunity from prosecution ‘undermines EU’s moral authority’ – region’s ex-leader to RT
Follow RT on The European Parliament’s decision to pave the way for the extradition of Catalan pro-independence politicians to Spain is a threat to European democracy, Catalonia’s former leader, Carles Puigdemont, told RT.
Puigdemont fled Spain in 2017, after Madrid charged him with rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds for organizing the Catalan independence vote that year while serving as the head of the region’s government.
In January 2020, a Belgian court refused to extradite the politician to Spain, citing his immunity from prosecution as a member of the European Parliament. However, the EU’s top legislative body voted this month to strip him and two other pro-independence MEPs from Catalonia of parliamentary immunity, paving the way for their possible extradition.
People clash with Spanish Guardia Civil guards outside a polling station in Sant Julia de Ramis, where Catalan president Puiugdemont was to vote, on October 1, 2017, on the day of a referendum on independence for Catalonia banned by Madrid. More than 5.3 million Catalans are called today to vote in a referendum on independence, surrounded by uncertainty over the intention of Spanish institutions to prevent this plebiscite banned by justice. / AFP PHOTO / Raymond ROIG 4638#Agencia AFP
Speaking to RT’s Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi, Puigdemont called the decision by fellow MEPs “a clear threat against one of the basics of the European democracy.”
“When a member of the European Parliament is politically prosecuted, and the parliament fails to defend his immunity, that is a very bad sign,” he said.
That is not in the frame of European law, and that undermines, in fact, the moral authority of the European Union to teach other regions of the world to protect human rights and fundamental values.
Puigdemont said he continues to serve as MEP, participating in official events, even as extradition once again looms over him. He is convinced he “will not have a fair trial” in his home country.
“It is shameful for European institutions to have a clear proof that it is a political prosecution by a member state [of the EU] and to collaborate and to be a part of that prosecution,” he said, stressing that he was elected to the European Parliament by the people of Catalonia who support his views. Puigdemont added that he had hoped the EU would send Madrid a message that they must “solve political conflicts using political tools.”
In 2017, more than 90% of Catalans backed independence in a vote that was never authorized by the Spanish government and was later invalidated by Spain’s Constitutional Court. Several top pro-independence politicians were jailed for their role in the referendum. The verdicts sparked large-scale protests in Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, some of which led to clashes with police.
With leaders still jailed 3 years later support for independence has a bigger majority in the Catalan Parliament
The Spanish government’s hostility towards Catalan independence remained the same after Pedro Sanchez from the socialist PSOE party became prime minister in 2018, according to Puigdemont. He said the new government updated its ‘vocabulary’ compared to their predecessors from the conservative People’s Party, “but that’s all.”
Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, meanwhile, praised the European Parliament for ending the former Catalan leader’s immunity. “Catalonia’s problems are to be resolved in Spain – and not in Europe,” she said. Puigdemont has the opposite opinion.
The message we want to share with the rest of the Europeans: We Catalans are part of Europe, and our crisis is a European crisis.
“European democracy is [being] exanimated in how Europe will manage that crisis,” he said.
https://ift.tt/3s4sgDq Rapporteur appointed on lawsuit against HDP Hurriyet Daily News The head of Turkey’s Constitutional Court on March 19 appointed a rapporteur on a lawsuit filed by the Supreme Court of Appeals’ chief prosecutor for the closure of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). Turkish police detain pro-Kurdish HDP officials, rights activist AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) […]
Since last year, women have taken to the streets across the country calling on the government to stick to the convention.
Erdogan issued the dictadorial Decree on Friday 19/3/21, just hours before the Kurdish Nowruz new year celebrations which are marked by the women’s social and political revolution in neighbouring Rojava.
No reason was provided for the withdrawal, but officials in Erdogan’s AK Party said last year that the government was considering pulling out amid a dispute about how to curb growing violence against women [Murad Sezer/Reuters]
Turkey has sparked local and international outrage after it withdrew from the world’s first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women.
The 2011 Istanbul Convention, signed by 45 countries and the European Union, requires governments to adopt legislation prosecuting domestic violence and similar abuse as well as marital rape and female genital mutilation.
On Friday, Turkey pulled out of the treaty by a presidential decree in a shocking move for human rights activists in the country
.After a long campaign of misogyny and anti-LGBTI hate, #Turkey withdraws from #IstanbulConvention on combating violence against women by midnight presidential decree. Meanwhile, 77 women were killed in the first 78 days of this year. The government is complicit in their deaths.Deniz Yüksel@denizyuksel130
No reason was provided for the withdrawal, but officials in Erdogan’s governing Justice and Development (AK) Party had said last year that the government was considering pulling out amid a dispute about how to curb growing violence against women.
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During the events, authorities announced a baseless bomb threat via FEMA’s Wireless Emergency Alerts system. The Carlton County Sheriff’s Office also made unsubstantiated connections between the water protectors and the “potential explosive hazard.”.
Carlton County, MN – On Friday, February 19, a family-friendly caravan disrupted traffic at several Line 3 construction routes.
Around noon, before the caravan started, a dozen people protested near the pipeline construction just feet away from Camp Migizi on the Fond Du Lac Reservation. The caravan first drove to a choke-point of roads used for construction access, and then to the new Line 3 corridor, where the pipeline has yet to be laid.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021 from finimondo shared with thanks
A news story that barely leaked out in the middle of the unbearable daily heaviness caused by alarmisms and dispositions decreed by the authorities.
On Wednesday 10 March, at 12.47 am, a fire broke out in Strasbourg inside one of the four huge data centers of OVH, a French multinational web hosting (ie telematic services).
Despite the immediate alarm and despite the fact that over a hundred firefighters intervened on the spot – using vehicles that even arrived from neighboring Germany – a few hours later there was nothing left of the SBG2 data center. From silicon to ash. Before being put out, the flames also hit the SBG1 building severely, devastating more than half of it.
To manufacture consent for its own constant aggressions the US claims its competitors are guilty of even greater crimes – often sheer inventions that never happened as an excuse for trade sanctions, blockades and war.
A revolutionary’s first commitment is to the truth. But deciphering the truth has become a difficult task in the United States, not least because the misinformation apparatus is both enormous and tied directly to the imperatives of imperialist state itself.
Whatever separation that existed between the military industrial complex and the U.S. corporate media is a thing of the past.
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