La donna cinese 2.0

Posted February 17, 2012 by Homo$auru$
Categories: China, Giuseppe Sapienza

di Giuseppe Sapienza

Togliete ad una donna la possibilita` di usare la sessualita` come arma di seduzione, come strumento di sopraffazione del maschio e di difesa dall’uomo, come metro di misura nel confronto con altre donne, come principale forma di comunicazione non verbale; togliete tutto questo ad una donna ed otterrete una donna cinese.

Ponete una donna in una societa` in cui durante la Rivoluzione Culturale il sesso prematrimoniale era immorale, le relazioni extraconiugali erano considerate con disprezzo, l’omosessualita’ era illegale e bisognava essere sessualmente ben educati per ambire ad una promozione sul lavoro; e allora non vi sorprenderete piu` della lamarckianamente striminzita femminilita`cinese. Read the rest of this post »

Fenomenologia della clacsonata cinese

Posted February 6, 2012 by Homo$auru$
Categories: China, Giuseppe Sapienza

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All’italiano in Cina che andasse alla ricerca di quei dettagli da cui e` possibile estrarre l’intera psicologia o sociologia di un paese, suggerirei di fare bene attenzione alla clacsonata. In realta` prima che voi facciate caso a lei sara’ lei a farsi notare da voi. In termini di decibel non c’e` forse troppa differenza con una qualunque maleducata citta` italiana, ma la semantica e’ completamente diversa. In Italia la clacsonata e’ una forma di prepotenza, in Cina una forma di furbizia, in Cina si avverte, in Italia si rimprovera, in Italia la faccia di chi suona tende alla smorfia, in Cina tende al sorriso. La clacsonata italiana afferma o contesta una posizione sociale: l’italiano alla guida di un SUV protesta contro la panda che ha davanti e pensa: ma guarda se uno stronzo in panda (€ 8500) deve farmi aspettare qui dietro (€ 80000). Read the rest of this post »

“PENSO QUINDI DISTURBO VS. CONSUMO QUINDI ESISTO”

Posted May 23, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Politics, Society

DI PEDRO ANTONIO HONRUBIA HURTADO
Fonte: http://www.kaosenlared.net
Link: http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/sobre-movimiento-indignados-pienso-luego-estorbo-vs-consumo-luego-exis
trad. it Comedonchisciotte

“Penso, quindi disturbo”, si poteva leggere ieri in uno dei banner che ornavano la Plaza del Carmen a Granada, la capitale dei nasridi, che in questi giorni ha ospitato l’accampamento e l’Assemblea del movimento degli “indignati” della città. Era un modo per trasformare in modo rivendicativo la famosa massima del filosofo francese René Descartes vecchia quasi quattrocento anni: “Penso, quindi esisto”.

È certo che il sistema che pretende di imporre un totalitarismo del pensiero unico a tutta la cittadinanza, e il capitalismo fa questo, non tollera il pensiero eterodosso, almeno quando queste idee possono in una qualche maniera avere la possibilità di arrivare a una larga fetta della società e mettere in pericolo il funzionamento stesso del sistema. “Penso, quindi disturbo ” è una frase che può essere perfettamente valida per la società capitalistico-consumista attuale, ma lo è anche per molti altri tipi di società, dalle tradizionali società teologiche a quelle imposte dai fascismi del XX secolo, a molte piccole società tribali dove tutta la popolazione si muove al passo di una struttura culturale uniforme, anche se le differenze dei fini ultimi di queste strutture rispetto a quelle citate prima sono abbastanza evidenti a patto di avere una minima conoscenza dell’antropologia sociale e culturale. Read the rest of this post »

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Trying to Torpedo the Dollar?

Posted May 21, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Politics, Society

by Mike Whitney
Globalresearch
 

It’s all about perception management. The media is trying to dig up as much dirt as they can on Dominique Strauss-Kahn so they can hang the man before he ever sees the inside of a courthouse. It reminds me of the Terry Schiavo case, where devoted-husband Michael was pegged as an insensitive slimeball for carrying out the explicit wishes of his brain-dead wife. Do you remember how the media conducted their disgraceful 24 hour-a-day Blitzkrieg with the endless coverage of weepy Christian fanatics on the front lawn of the hospital while Hannity, Limbaugh and O’ Reilly fired away with their sanctimonious claptrap?

And now you’re telling me that that same media is just “doing their job?” Read the rest of this post »

How Green Became the Color of Money

Posted May 13, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Politics, Society

A consise hisotry of the rise and fall of the enviromental establishment

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

www.counterpounch.com

Over the past quarter-century, Greenpeace has gone from one of the more radical environmental groups around to a gateway into the corporate world. More and more a stint at Greenpeace seems to be prerequisite on the resumé of top-flight public relations honchos. Greenpeace has already seen former executive Patrick Moore defect to the timber industry in Canada and Paul Gilding (former CEO of Greenpeace International) set up a consulting firm for such corporate villains as DuPont, Monsanto and Placer Dome Mining.

One of the most high-profile Greenpeacers to cash in is Lord Peter Melchett, former head of Greenpeace UK, who in 2002 took a position with Burson-Marsteller, the notorious PR firm. While at Greenpeace, Lord Melchett led the group’s high-profile campaign against genetically-engineered foods, targeting, in particular, the products of Monsanto, a Burson-Marsteller client. Read the rest of this post »

Kenya, un Paese a secco

Posted May 9, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Politics, Society

 

Stazioni di servizio senza benzina, traffico paralizzato, panico generale. Il braccio di ferro tra governo e compagnie rischia di incendiare una regiione.
 

ALberto Tundo

peacereporter.net

La guerra del petrolio che sta paralizzando il Kenya non lascia morti per le strade, semmai auto ferme, in colonne chilometriche, e migliaia di automobilisti e motociclisti in una isterica disperazione. Però il conto da pagare, in termini economici, politici e sociali è comunque estremamente oneroso. La crisi è cominciata domenica ma i suoi effetti più evidenti si sono avuti mercoledì, quando in quasi tutte le stazioni di servizio del Paese è terminato il carburante. Read the rest of this post »

SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention”

Posted May 7, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Politics, Society

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, May 3, 2011
 

There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th.

The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria.

Media coverage has focussed on the Syrian police and armed forces, which are accused of indiscriminately shooting and killing unarmed “pro-democracy” demonstrators. While these police shootings did indeed occur, what the media failed to mention is that among the demonstrators there were armed gunmen as well as snipers who were shooting at both the security forces and the protesters.

The death figures presented in the reports are often unsubstantiated. Many of the reports are “according to witnesses”. The images and video footages aired on Al Jazeera and CNN do not always correspond to the events which are being covered by the news reports. Read the rest of this post »

Tu uomo lavorerai col sudore della tua fronte o con quello della fronte di un altro

Posted May 1, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Giuseppe Sapienza, Society

Giuseppe Sapienza

1-6-2011

Mentre la festa della birra si festeggia bevendo birra, quella della salsiccia mangiando salsiccia, quella dello sport facendo sport, la festa del lavoro si celebra non lavorando.

Questa piccola stranezza nasconde tutte le contraddizioni della contemporaneita`. Sembrerebbe strana una festa della salsiccia dove si potesse mangiare tutto fuorche` salsiccia, invece non sembra strano che per la festa dellavoro non si lavori.

L`organizzazione sociale basata sul lavoro considererebbe catastrofica la soluzione di alcuni problemi contro cui l`uomo combatte da sempre. Se non ci fossero piu` i ladri le guardie sarebbero senza lavoro (Vedi discorso Aldo Fabrizi-Toto`), se non ci fossero terremoti sarebbe un disastro per i lavoratori della protezione civile, se non ci fossero i mali i medici se la passerebbero male, se l`uomo smettesse di morire i costruttori di bare morirebbero di fame. Questa e` la ragione per cui le industrie farmaceutiche sostengono che bisogna curare, gli eserciti che bisogna combattere e i becchini che bisogna morire. Read the rest of this post »

LIBYA: ALL ABOUT OIL, OR ALL ABOUT BANKING?

Posted April 28, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Finance, Politics

by Ellen Brown

webofdebt.wordpress.com

 

If the Gaddafi government goes down, it will be interesting to watch whether the new central bank joins the BIS, whether the nationalized oil industry gets sold off to investors, and whether education and health care continue to be free. 

Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank – this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal:

I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. Read the rest of this post »

Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya’s Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)

Posted April 27, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Politics

by Manlio Dinucci
 
The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters. In the crosshairs of “willing” of the operation “Unified Protector” there are sovereign wealth funds, capital that the Libyan state has invested abroad. Read the rest of this post »

Why patients are not consumers

Posted April 25, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Medicine, Science

Font: allbleedingstops.blogspot.com

Republican budget guru Paul Ryan has a plan to end Medicare as we know it to be replaced with a series of less-generous vouchers. The House of Representatives has voted to implement this plan. The political side of this has been written about a lot, and I am not going to rehash what has been better covered elsewhere. I do want to address what seems to be a persistent fallacy or delusion which is held to a near-religious level by many free-market conservatives: The idea that market economics can have an impact on health care costs.

This concept has underpinned every major Republican health care plan since, well, since Mitt Romney’s proto-ObamaCare reforms. The idea is that consumers, when they have “skin in the game,” and when they are empowered and incentivized to see that their money is spent efficiently and only as necessary, will change their health care consumption behavior in a way which will force providers to compete on cost and quality and thus drive down costs. Read the rest of this post »

Apple: the hidden costs of your iPad and iPhone

Posted April 21, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Science, Society

Eifion Rees

4th April, 2011

Theecologist.org

It may have billion-pound profits and gushing praise for technological innovation but Apple is increasingly in the spotlight over its labour rights and environmental record. Eifion Rees reports on the ‘sweatshop brand’

 Thinner, lighter, faster… The iPad 2, recently launched in the UK, is the latest in a proliferating number of touch-screen devices from computer giant Apple.

It arrives on these shores a mere 12 months after the advent of the original iPad and the fourth-generation iPhone. Since 2007, when the first iPhone was launched, Apple’s smartphones and tablet computers have taken the world by storm.

But in recent years the company has faced criticism for its less than exemplary environmental and social record – including the use of toxic chemicals, a secretive supply chain and a lack of general commitment to green issues. Unlike other companies, it refuses to set future targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and does not produce corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. Read the rest of this post »

LA LOTTA DI CLASSE SOTTO ALTRO NOME

Posted February 23, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Politics

DI VICENÇ NAVARRO
Público

Stiamo vivendo la valanga conservatrice-neoliberale guidata dal cancelliere Angela Merkel, che propone la realizzazione di riforme nell’eurozona, indirizzate a migliorare la competitività dei paesi che la compongono, sulla base di una riduzione dei salari e dei diritti dei lavoratori. Con tale atteggiamento si presuppone che la competitività dipenda soprattutto dai salari, in modo che la loro variazione al ribasso produrrà un aumento al rialzo della competitività, permettendo una discesa dei prezzi che renderà i prodotti più economici e quindi ne aumenterà la competitività. A supporto della sua teoria, Merkel parla della Germania, la cui alta competitività si basa, secondo il cancelliere, nella “moderazione salariale”, parole utilizzate nel discorso neoliberale per definire un processo nel quale i salari vengono congelati o diminuiscono, mentre la produttività aumenta. Read the rest of this post »

Battle for Britain: Resisting the Privatization of the NHS and the Loss of 100,000 Jobs

Posted February 21, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Medicine, Society

By Andy Worthington

On Saturday, I published an article, Battle for Britain: Fighting the Coalition Government’s Vile Ideology — and Praise for UK Uncut, in which I summarized many facets of the coalition government’s “unprecedented assault on almost every aspect of British society — hard-pressed middle class and working class people, students, schoolchildren, the working poor, the unemployed and the disabled; everyone, in fact, except the rich and the super-rich.” I also noted how, “[d]riven by a repusive ideological desire to smash the British state, and to privatize whatever was not privatized under Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the government was “ferociously pursuing the biggest ever hatchet job on the British state on the basis of economic necessity, counting on the sloth and indifference of the public to disguise their true intentions, and to prevent anyone from scrutinizing how those responsible for the financial crisis — the banking sector, and the corporations committed to wholesale tax avoidance — are not being held accountable.” Read the rest of this post »

Wall Street versus the Poor and the Middle Class: Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Is A Tool Of Class War

Posted February 20, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Finance, Politics

by Paul Craig Roberts
Globaresearch
Obama’s new budget is a continuation of Wall Street’s class war against the poor and middle class. 

Wall Street wasn’t through with us when the banksters sold their fraudulent derivatives into our pension funds, wrecked Americans’ job prospects and retirement plans, secured a $700 billion bailout at taxpayers’ expense while foreclosing on the homes of millions of Americans, and loaded up the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet with several trillion dollars of junk financial paper in exchange for newly created money to shore up the banks’ balance sheets. 

The effect of the Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing” on inflation, interest rates, and the dollar’s foreign exchange value are yet to hit.  When they do, Americans will get a lesson in poverty.
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BCE: Draghi candidato solo italiano?

Posted February 19, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Finance

Come già sapete, Mario Draghi è in pole position per diventare governatore della Banca Centrale europea. E l’Italia, naturalmente si compiace, persino Tremonti, suo irriducibile nemico, ora lo appoggia. Bene per il nostro Paese. Però ho l’impressione che la notizia faccia più piacere alle grandi banche d’affari americane e a quelle londinesi che a noi italiani. Read the rest of this post »

Obama, cameriere dei banchieri

Posted February 2, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Finance, Politics

di Matteo Simonetti – 31/01/2011
Fonte: movimentozero

Sembra che qualcosa si muova, almeno dal punto di vista dell’informazione. Mentre la situazione economica e sociale sta sempre peggiorando, dalla Tunisia all’Albania, dalla Grecia all’Irlanda, almeno la grande informazione si sta accorgendo che dietro alla crisi e al dissesto non vi sono solo Stati spreconi e corrotti, ma che si tratta dell’azione mirata di una élite di potere.
Forse per la prima volta, a parte qualche articolo apparso nelle pagine interne de Il Giornale, un quotidiano “generalista” come Il Messaggero ha deciso di pubblicare in prima pagina, lunedì 17 Gennaio, un’analisi “politicamente scorretta”, come quella di Mario Margiocco dal titolo “Se vincono ancora le banche americane”.
Si tratta di un lungo articolo di critica all’operato e alla figura di Obama, che smaschera l’inconsistenza della sinistra progressista americana, mostrando come il Presidente americano abbia portato con sé alla Casa Bianca i soliti nomi noti delle banche private e di quegli organismi che si dicono “di pubblico controllo” mentre in realtà sono comuni imprese, le più grandi, che agiscono per il profitto. Parlo del Fondo Monetario Internazionale e della Banca Mondiale. Read the rest of this post »

The Protest Movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not Dictate, They Obey Orders

Posted January 30, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Politics, Society

by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, January 29, 2011

The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World?

 “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria. Dictators are invariably political puppets. Dictators do not decide. President Hosni Mubarak was a faithful servant of Western economic interests and so was Ben Ali. The national government is the object of the protest movement. The objective is to unseat the puppet rather than the puppet-master. Read the rest of this post »

Tunisian Revolt: Another Soros/NED Jack-Up?

Posted January 25, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Finance, Informazione, Politics

by Dr. K R Bolton

January 18, 2011

“Spontaneous” demonstrations of thousands of youths pouring out into the streets with such force as to compel the flight of a long-time president… To which country are we alluding: Georgia, Serbia, Myanmar,[1] Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Hungary…? This time it is Tunisia. All of these “revolts” followed the same pattern. Already the Tunisian revolt is being called a “color revolution” by media and political pundits, and it has also been provided with a name; the “Jasmine Revolution,”[2] like the abortive “Green” and “Saffron” Revolutions, and the successful Velvet, Rose, Orange, and Tulip Revolutions, etc.

These “color revolutions” all have a common pattern because they are all planned by the same strategists; namely the Open Society network of money speculator George Soros, who serves as a kind of modern-day Jacob Schiff in funding revolutions;[3] and the National Endowment for Democracy, the latter a post-Trotskyite founded, Congressionally-funded kind of “Comintern” promoting the “world democratic revolution” in the service of plutocracy and under the façade of liberty. Read the rest of this post »

2011: UNA NUOVA DISTOPIA

Posted January 18, 2011 by Homo$auru$
Categories: Economics, Informazione, Politics

Chris Hedges
Fonte: http://www.truthdig.com
Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227
Traduzione per http://www.comerdonchisciotte.org a cura di ELENA

Due grandi rappresentazioni di un futuro scenario distopico furono “1984” di George Orwell e “Il mondo nuovo” di Aldous Huxley. Il dibattito, tra coloro che supponevano si stesse andando incontro al totalitarismo corporativo, si incentrava su chi dei due avesse ragione. Saremmo stati, come scriveva Orwell, dominati da repressivi apparati di stato per la sorveglianza e la sicurezza che ricorrevano a forme di controllo dure e violente? Oppure, come immaginava Huxley, ipnotizzati da divertimenti e spettacoli, ammaliati dalla tecnologia e sedotti da consumi sregolati per raggiungere la nostra stessa oppressione? Alla fine sia Orwell, sia Huxley avevano ragione. Huxley aveva previsto il primo stadio della nostra riduzione in schiavitù, Orwell il secondo. Read the rest of this post »