Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Double Taxation and Free Markets


Double Taxation and Free Markets

One of the selling arguments by the abdicated of the free markets is the markets provide competition and this competition sprout products. While the reality is further from the facts, Organic Chemistry was the high technology of 1800´s and to the middle of the 20 century. Organic Chemistry, history in the 1816, Michael Chevreul study soups made from fats and alkali, and later on Friedich Wöhler the analysis of Urea is organic product, but the industrial application was obtained and abandon by British in 1856 William Henry Perkin trying to manufacture Quinine need for the colonization of Africa since malaria slow down the colonization, by accident synthesize organic dye, and more over, could be produce an industrial scale. But since the British Empire obtained the dyes with almost not cost from India, Germany developed the science and technology of organic chemistry by a partnership between industry and Universities and German Universities become the first research university.
A maverick product was Bayer, aspirin. In WWI the US confiscated all the Patents, Products and trade mark from Bayer and distributes the rights for 70 years to US companies, begin the interference of the market an influence that will benefit from this product. At the same time Sonar for the US Navy was developed in MIT. During WWII ENIAC developed in University of Pennsylvania, later of with ARPA, the first computer communication developed in LA and Stanford, the same place in the 1940´s and 50´s with the support of US Government the transistor was developed. The US given contract in research through the Military, DARPA, NSF and NIH, developed  technologies well knows like the protocol for what will become the internet, or less well know like bolometer by Honeywell in the 70´s declassified in the 90´s open a new research  in middle infrared detectors. The 30 drugs most success to deal with cancer 25 were under NIH funding, a reason: the basic research to product takes more the instant gratification, the industrial labs like AT&T stop to exist in the 1980´s by Regan administration began to implemented a Capitalism base on connections, in a recent report by the NIH, their own grants base on race, where an African American with the same qualifications and track as white will have not chance to obtained the grants, since we tend to support people who are similar to us (i.e. not many African Americans are found this research Tracks). The reason is US has not deal with the race which the nation was built on. But the fact is the tax payer, pay for the research, development and products, then the companies awarded to research, INTEL for example many the initial Microchip development was base on Government contracts, before any one can say where the best, the contract are awarded by contact, in many case many firms and Universities used their Alumni and Lobbies. What happen to Capitalism has been being reduced to pure Cronyism. The public pay the research and still buy the product, what is serious medical  research is deny, by health care pay by monies of the tax payers, why  X company get to benefit of the work from pubic monies, not just GPS, or many consumer products. Science is a long project not company can afford a long project since the share holder inters is short term, the tax payer pay the bill and pay the product a double taxation.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Unetending Consequences

If elite suppose to lead, the question is where are leading us, and that is why not to follow. The higher institutions, where suppose learn and learn also mean to have judgment just a few samples from the last 110 years and the consequences:

Conflict
Year
Leader
Education
Police Leader and Policy
Consequence
Spanish American War
1898
William McKinley
Allegheny College Law School University Albany
President Monroe (Campbelltown Academy/William and Marry College)
Fidel Castro
Philippines
1898
William McKinley

Part of the conflict
40 years of Marcos and Al-Qaeda training ground, many of the terrorist plots acts of 1990´s and culminated with September 11. The Southern Island of the Philippines were and being used for the planning of this plots
Nicaragua
1927-1933
Herbert Hoover
Stanford University
Having the Honor of creating the great depression out incompetence, the second measure international conflict 
In the 1970´s US continue supporting the Dictator Family Somoza ending in the late 70´s with Sandinistas
WWI
1914
Woodrow Wilson
John Hopkins University/University of Virginia
WWI come out desire of the German Kaiser to be rival empire to Great Britain losing the conflict, the desire of the French and British to dismember Germany out rival planting the seeds of WWII

Hitler, the WWII was conflict of ideology, the Utopia of a master race versus the Utopia of working class/imperfect imperial democracies
Guatemala
1951
Eisenhower
US Military Academy
Under his leadership, the OSS from WWII, who was under the guide by Alumna from Yale University, transition to the CIA.  Allen Wells Dulles the first director/Princeton University George Washington Law School, his fame, in the 1920´s expose the fraud by the Anti-Semitic Propaganda by Russian Secret Police/possible Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky
Protocols of Zion  
With the Agrarian Reform by President Árbenz a Center Left Government, the United Fruit Company requested coup d’état consequences from the middle 1990´s to the 2010, Latin America has lean left, but not the only, today Nicaragua is back into the Sandinista. In the 1980´s t0 1990´s the military committed genocide acts against the indigenous natives-Mayas
Iran
1953
Eisenhower

The British-Iran  Petroleum company request to over through of the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh by the CIA
Iran is theocratic state with clients in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip
Lebanon
1958
Eisenhower

50 years of conflict, but the seed was by creation of France a country run along ethnic and religious line
Hezbollah
Vietnam
50´s/60´s/70´s
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
Kennedy(Harvard), Johnson (Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (now Texas State University San Marcos), Nixon (Whittier College/Duke University Law School)
Robert Strange McNamara (University California-Berkeley/Harvard Business School), Henry Kissinger (Harvad)
Vietnam was not a minor conflict, but a power conflict, the first military conflict loss by US. The conflict had consequences between cold war, with collapse of the Soviet Union, and leaving US is the only super-power
Chile
1973
Nixon

Kissinger
Today most of Latin America runs by left and center left. The market experiment imposes by Milton Friedman and allocated (Today many of the Chicago School are the Neo-Conservatives). The policy implemented in the East Europe and Latin countries creating in old Soviet Union an oligarchy class, the old elite under communism. Many of the market experiment give away to corrupt system in Eastern Europe
Argentina
1973
Nixon

Kissinger, the US took a policy of fighting Marxist guerrilla across border, the dirty war in Argentina, with protest of the mothers of the lost and culminated of the Falkland war. The market experiment continues to the Argentinean economy collapse.
During this period one of the long guerrilla conflict in Colombia rage fuel, by poverty and inequality. The reason of this conflicts, the under line poverty still rage, have fuel Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guyana are run by left and centre left government
Granada
1983
Ronald Regan  
Eureka College
While Granada was a minor conflict, become the place were neo-conservative policy found a voice, their influence in Regan administration regarding the Soviet Union, but their view crystallise their ideology
Leon Strauss in the 1930´s responding to his native Germany consider high culture change into murderous society. Strauss believe the easy way to manipulated such higher educated society was possible, because inspire by Plato-Republic only an elite could control the populism. Strauss Students move to Yale to Harvard, since US education is top down the elite schools produces the teachers to less well known schools. Fukiyama with his end history, except September 11 prove so wrong. Elite by nature becomes so separated from the reality.
Afghanistan
1986
Regan

Casey J William (Fordham University/St John University
While Casey being the director of CIA in the high of the Cold war, may be consider a minor figure in fact, he was catalyses of the Neo-Conservatives policies. Casey visiting the Mujadeen in 1986 in his  naivety he comparing them to Christians conservatives in the South US, the cost of the ignorance being teach in the elite of the schools in US is September 11.

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Dublin Doors






























Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wind Utopia








Friday, August 05, 2011

A Echo Chamber

We are in an extraordinary times, not just the fact due to the technology, we are more fragmented and our instead of belonging to the small village our conversation only with others who share our view. The legacy of capitalism derived from the feudal system, where privilege was granted, from Augustine in the City God, the rights were rationalize, since god granted the right and Rationalist like Leibnitz granted a rational.
Education being instrument to form behavior, not accident in the Medieval education was not only control by the Roman Catholic Church, but the languages was Latin, many meaning Latin was the Languages of the Empire, but the time of Constantine, the rational of the despotic rule was god and rationalizes in the 16 and 17 Century, given divine to Aristocrats and Nobility. The behavior which society will like impact is privilege, the propaganda an egalitarian education, by disseminated certain believe or ideology and gate keepers using test or access to education limited who belong to class. In practical terms the economy meltdown of 2008, from the 20,000 Economist in US only 3 question the US economy since 68, has base on economy of credit. With Nixon in late 60´s turn the non profit health care of US into a profit exploiting the health care in the 90´s where US haven higher cost still have 52 Million of 300 Million without any kind health insurance.
In the 80´s Regan diminishing student grants in favor a guaranty Educational loan, given a cost of the elite schools 50,000 USD. Knowing well not every profession will achieve the mean to repay the 200,000 USD + the interest on the loan. An example the corruption of the Educational system State University receiving a 300 Million donation turns the monies into Sport complex, the same done by private Universities.
But the gate keeper corruption of the system: Some scholar economist question the credit base economy and question Federal Reserve judgment on this respect, the Editors of the most respectable Journals and reviewer are populated by people working the Federal Reserve is not just a conflict of interest, but many of the Economics are built on abstract acrobatics, Economics is a social Science, more precise psychology of human behavior in a certain assumption on a frame. They stop publication from critics of the policy to the credit economy.
But the corruption is not unique to the Humanities or social Science for example Pharmaceuticals companies sponsor Journal to validate the drugs being market. The corruption not just in soft sciences, hard Science like Physics wile Abstract had helped, the base of Scientific is Experiment being able to validate by any one. When empirical work reaches an impassive many in the Science going to abstract missing the experimental work is the frame of validation.
Privilege means access, the elites made a decision to return to time privilege, the only problem they can not control events, Japan Earth quake not just affected Nuclear Industry in Japan, but the impact was felted in Europe., The decision by Germany of dismantle the Nuclear power will have impact in the generation of Energy of the 500 Million in Europe. The right of the slave is to rebel we should undo and make sure the gate keepers and privilege of knowledge should broken, by open, free higher education. Using the internet to disseminated descent an question any self appointed elite with self given rights of privilege.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

A Moment for Reflection













The Beginning

In the beginning was only thought and from the thought were emotions the
turbulences of life were in the beginning.

No reason in the beginning. It was like waking up from a dream, no reason in the beginning.

Then started the seasons, then rain flourished life in the beginning.
Then turmoil and the hope, the misery of the beginning.

But was the beginning the hope or the lie that I have to die?
What was the beginning?
A god which was not there and can not understand or did
destiny make fun of my failure to understand.
what was the beginning, turmoil of life,
like a capricious young girl full of lies taking in a stream, drowning myself in the waters of life.

That was in the beginning.
Like the last cup of the Passover sender waiting for a messiah
can never come.

That was in the beginning.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Stones

Stones who talk in my path,
stone which had never changes the path.
Multiple colored in the stones.
cold heart, because their value are the stones.


Stones which separate the man from
the gods, stones which speak the changes
of man heart, to hopes of cold days
of the heart.

Stones in the name Gods, which are sacrificed.

Stones having the sacrifices of the heart,
blood flow down to the grounds of the
Gods.
Cold stone in name of the Gods,
We had sacrifices the heart.

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Antisemitism from right and the left


Antisemitism is not just the old Christian believes, because Jews did not accept the Christian Messiah, the Jews become exile from their land. The Racial Utopia which the National Socialist advocated in Germany and rationalist by Alfred Rosenberg in his Biography by Ernst Piper (In German) and the plan action described in “Das Erbe Der NAPOLA” by Christian Schneider, Cordelia Stilke amd Bernd Leinewber about NAZI schools. Rosenberg reproaches Hitler, for the brutality of Germans toward Ukraine, Rosenberg believed a pan- racial Europe, and these believe influenced today the Neo-NAZI in Europe.
The other ideologue in this racial utopia is Heidegger the Rector from Freiburg University and the relationship is in detail Heidegger and Nazism by Farias.
By the end WWII, when NAZI Germany was losing the conflict created SS units integrated many other European countries from Estonia, Latvia, Scandinavian, Holland French, and not need to forget Franco send support to NAZI Germany, a special reminder in recent memoir derived from letters Clara Pettaci Mussolini mistress, where Mussolini said he was Anti Semitic before Hitler.
WWII for NAZI was not just a war for empire, but the fundamental war was against the Jews. The same Antisemitism existed in Islam and Iraq the pro NAZI government headed by Rashid Ali al-Galyani incited the Farhud pogrom. At the time was not unique to Iraq, but in case of the Balkans, the Mufti of Jerusalem created SS units, in Croatia carry massacres against Slaves and Jews, after WWII the Mufti of Jerusalem was indicted by them Yugoslavia military court to confront crimes against humanity, escaping to Lebanon to his death. The Mufti asked the NAZI Germany to attack the Jews in Palestine and Italians in 1944 carry in attack to Tel-Aviv.
Today on the left especially in Marxist the Antisemitism come from the idea: Jews were never a separated identity, and not claim to any historical or religious to Judea. Palestine name was given by Rome; especially Byzantium wanted to disassociate the Jews from any claim of Jerusalem. The nationalist left and Marxist from the Hegelian roots carry the old Christian Antisemitism. An example carrying the Racial Utopia is by 50 Km from Hannover Germany, Bergen-Belsen, and army field transform in the beginning of the conflict a POW for Russians. Many of the surround village come to see the Russian, which consider in the racial utopia is sub-humans. Eventually POW camp transform into a concentration camp under command Joseph Kramer previously in Auschwitz-Birkenau. About 50,000 Jews death, Site (Gypsy),Anti-Nazi Christians, Poles, Czech and homosexuals. The camp itself has not gas chamber since mass killing was on second side in the east, but the camp had a crematorium. The Jews kept for exchange (ransom), many of the Jew come from Holland and Bergen Belsen was the place the Anna Frank death. When British liberated the camp, they destroy the camp for fears of Typhus, the camp after the conflict was use for displaced persons' camp.

Bergen-Belsen Memorial Today:


























A relationship to equality


The “mythos” in our societies, that we have equal footing manifested say by market, obscure by the reality from a beginning a principal of inequality. From the international test compared educational system, the best predictor for success in the US is class meaning wealth. Wealth and the lack of wealth is one big reason lack of success in minorities. In the US gap is about information, after all what is consider knowledge is tilted and defined by a test, on other hand case of Finland, where is not test and education is cooperative knowledge, a 15 year old in US will need 2 years of more schooling to achieve the same level of science education to a 15 year in Finland.
In our “mythos” we wanted believe when we exchange a value for example how we defined the value of certain work, for example a Banker making 200,000 USD and paramedic at 11 USD. Consider a banker under stress have a heath attack and in that moment the paramedic demand 200,000 USD for his life cost, if he value his life that will be proper exchange, so the question how to value a work and exchange. In capital is what willing to pay on the Marxist theory exchange is actual work, but neither satisfy the value after all in the moment, the value given by the two parties, how to enforce and considered to be fair. If a system build on the satisfaction, where not need to allocate a value is, can correct the inequality.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Grass

In vast sea open space I move side by
side forming green waves all over the
plane.

I heard the stomp of the bison,
and the trail of the horse
and the trail of the white man
in the sea of grass.

After the commotion, after the noise
a soft whisper by the sound of the grass.
In the infinite planes rolling in the
ground the sound of moving grass.

In the empty planes only
the sound of storms of the moving
grass.

Sounds only could hear the moving grass.
Solitary grass just move by the capricious
wind forming waves of moving grass.
The Slaves

Chain my soul by passions our passion,
You deny my soul, because where I born.
But I am free like the master who chained my soul.
And my master is slave, because he held my speech
to said my soul.

You took away my freedom in the war.
You took my freedom in my home.
You took my freedom from my God.
You took my freedom, because I just born.
You took my freedom because I born with
privileges, so you made slave.

But my heart asked for the light of my soul,
despite of the beating, despite of the chuckles,
despite of the pain I born to be free
because my soul knew my name, the name of the
slave, because I born in the freedom word:

I was human, I am human, I would be human,
because my soul just born to be free, despite where
I come from.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Hope

I dream, I had touched the sun.
I dream, I touched the moon,
I dream, I touched a soul.

In my dream, the other soul, we
dance to music of ecstasy of life,
Infinity was the realm, the whole sky,
lightning and the fire of the creation
made the music for the dance.
Something peculiar was in the dance,
only a silence.
All the voices in the sky were silence,
slowly the sky was dark.
I felt inside the intensity of my existence.
I left with my own self.
Because I thought, I knew that I was alive,
but the silence in the dark night was just silence.
I looked for the other soul, who was the one I danced with?
I went in many directions,
I did not know where, if it was to my left or to my right.
I looked for the other soul, and
I just saw the dark night.
In desperation I looked for any soul,
maybe, because it was dark, or because was
only speaking to no one.
Nothing left in my thoughts,
Nothing left to hope.
Maybe, one day, I would touch another soul.
Art and Privilege


Tell me what you do and can tell you where you had been. If the history of art shows many stages of our evolution, for example, in France some the cave Niux show panting closed to10, 000 years and more show every day experience of the hunt and spirits who rule in the hunt, forward in Egypt the standing monuments of despotic rulers the Pharaohs, not doubt Art was produced of the everyday, but was not important to maintain.
The medieval art still around a despotic rulers, and despotic religion whether was the Roman Catholic Church or Islam. The religion in the name of a God, the everyday life was not important, with the rebellion by Luther against the church brought down God to every one, no more on the hands of the few. The
Golden age of the Dutch republic, the Republic brought down the monumental despotic to less despotic leaders of the city. Not to say, the monumental art continue, the National Socialism, Fascist and the Realism of the Soviet Union continue the tradition. Capitalism continues the monuments of individual egos, the French president to mark the rule get to choose a monument for themselves.
What the art shows the fact, the in our evolution nepotism and privilege is given by permit. Education accreditation is given by the state or private organizations or enterprise become the gate keepers. As individuals we accept their rule with out question or challenge, but what art has evolved each generation is reflect more about itself slowly taken the gate keepers power, but stopping to submitted and more important their right of being the gate keeper.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Jerusalem

Cool stones, silent stones, and warm stones.
Silent streets, noisy streets.
Quiet nights, noisy nights.

Dark streets, history built in blood
and from Mt. Olives I see the dome.
I can hear the Prayer of my people from the Wall for
the last thousand years to a God who has deserted us.

The stones tell histories, long histories, short histories,
histories of the stones.

In my early years I walked the night in narrow streets,
to go and pray in symbols. The silence
of thousand years spoke in the stones.

I can't forget the silence of the spring.
In the underground, the belly of the mountain
carrying the river of the history of silence.

Only the symbols of the stone
and the exile, the self-exile, my exile
from Jerusalem.

City of a thousand years, a thousand nights,
a thousand days, clear sky, blue sky
of the exile.

Only the silence of the stones, left stones
for a thousand years' silence, in the exile
only the silence is the symbol of the
stones.
Yes Mr Friedman, the world is not flat and they are consequences
From the delays of the Dream Liner of Boeing or GM motors closing production of cars due to the tragic event in Japan. The fiction and wishfully thinking the open trade will have cheap labour brings consumer price down. The lessons are more complicated, with the new religion in 1980´s by Regan and early by Nixon, the market will decided and by this action production will be in a new pedestal.
Clinton NAFTA made tangible and consequence. North Caroline and many textile production move to Mexico, with economic crises and cost in pennies moving to other places in Central America eventually, China and Vietnam.
The workers in this case, many had to move to less well paying jobs or just become unemployment, the economic crises culminated in 2008, from the no regulation. Modern economy depending on commodities, itself finite, Oil, showing a limitation, due to political in the words of the Daily Show: “Why God hate us so much, the Oil we need to run our economy is on the hands people who does hate us so much.”
As the working class become extincted in US and the West in general (Germany and France still have working class), with a non-boundary technology like Internet the next hit is the white collar worker, the data centers in India.
Many Arguments is the US should work on innovation, but like any innovation with the Japan crises many of the Microchips are being stop, the car suppliers had stop producing parts for GM and other car manufactures a consequences of not having a native manufacture base any more. It is not not enough to created innovation, if the tools are not in place, we can not predict consequence is the catastrophic situation in Japan, more over show when you depended to the outside in the delivery and production, the free market fantasy come to end, next stop a more Sustainable Economy, local and green. The ones who had benefit from this model, in the 90´s many of this companies who move out, with the low cost, the managers and share holders, but now everyone is paying a price, minus the same managers they get tax payer bailout.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Situationes: Jean Michel Baron






Jean Michel Baron in front his exposition of the CNT-AIT Granada, October 2010/ Octubre Rojo Y Negro

Since the full speed credit economy created in 1930´s by the Chicago School and Nixon taken baby steps by privatizing health care in the late 1960´s, but Regan in the 1980´s took the form where in education educational grants, become student loans who the private institutions like Harvard and Yale University administration favor with the banks, we are today at the point education has become unachieved and permanent under class has been created.
Art is an expression of class struggle and irony of Art realism who the Communist Art and the same by National Socialist German party. With the contra-culture of the 1960´s, where is expression of working class. In anarchism tradition is especially the pacifism anti-militarily. Now the state and centralized socialism has themselves discrete, even today Fidel is saying and backtracking: “the Cuban system does not work even for us,” but in the Capitalistic system following his feudal origins and continues the ideal of privilege the inherited inequality persist.
The continuous state of crises is due to speculation and the concentration of the wealth. Traditionally in Europe by birth and Church Catholic or Protestant in some ways today the same selection defined the access to privileges. Your class defined what we can have in the US is more complicated since the innovation; slave has been use by human institutions, but innovation of the US was introduction of race is slave. In Maryland 1700´s a law was pass not slave who born as slave could not bough his freedom.
The idea of class art, expressing social commentary: who is entitle to this privilege and why?
Jean Michel Baron was born in ´57 and studying architect in Strasburg France and member of the CNT-AIT Pau. Jean Michelle Baron presented an exposition: Woodland in the CNT-AIT Granada for the month black and red October, 2010.
Woodland is a social critique, since 2001 and catalyzes fear, which is one characteristics used to defined who has right of privilege. Jean Michel Baron described woodland “In is a land with a forest. When he was a small child fear was transmitted the nature was the place where wolfs, trolls and witches will fat little children to become dinner, the exposition is a self defense base on the US Army, since the 1980´s become the single great army. Using the American knows how, now Jean Michel is old he has not fear of the woods, but the fear of the war:”
Exposition begin with the questions of our heroes, since privilege begins in looking in leaders, being the leader created the right to privilege, as Junior President Bush said, it is good to have a king, the long I am the king:




Che Guevara with candle of salvations: Not God or Messiah


The little people with the many camouflage, harmless prepare for the wolfs in the woods using the 1980´s US Army camouflage style.



The exposition continues with a football table (soccer), where the army are terrorizing the civilians on the defense.







As a comment how policy brutality being hand watched, the new washing machine, with individual light and sirens.


Jean Michel Baron exposition continues in , where follow the latest Sarkozy French tradition: France takes pride in the public works haven, public navy, railway development and the latest A-380. The tradition of the public navy was used for transport slaves to plantation Haiti and the rest Caribbean island. The A-380 design designed takes the tradition of this slave ships and transfer to the A-380 use today for deportation of European Citizens from Romania-Gypsies. The public railways used in the 1940´s for the deportation of Jews, in November 12 French Railway apologize. Included a new Lego for immigrant expulsion in plans by Many Member or the European Union, but equally Monsato whether genetic alter crops is save or not, Monsato is forcing and try to force the used, modify genetic seeds.
Other expositions
Who is Juan Guiterrez




Juan Gutierrrez gives a talk in CNT-AIT Granada during October Rojo Y Negro 2010

A memory is just a reflection. When is the right time for reflections for an 80 year old man who remembers his experience as a six year old boy during the tumultuous time of the Spanish revolution and civil war between 1936-1940. What impression of the Anarchist collectives of Alhama is left in a 6 year old child when the price for a dream is a dead father killed by fire squads and a mother who committed suicide.
Until the day the republic was formed out of response of a Feudal Society built for almost 1000 years, the workers were servants. Spain’s imperial power was being justified and encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church and rose from the conflict of the Islamic occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. Xenophobia, but also the inquisition used against the “new Christians”, was not just a Christian development, but the expulsion of the Jews began in Toledo, Granada and Cordoba, at the 12th Century, by revival of Islamic Fundamentalism.
The British companies had interest in mine production in Andalusia of the 1930´s, they encourage and demanded the government to be neutral, but it was the British Government who brought Franco from the Canary Islands to the Spanish Armies during their occupation in Morocco. Franco became leader of the rebellion by the Spanish Army with support of the Roman Catholic Church, and Franco allies including Hitler supported Franco with the “Condor Division”, well know for the aerial attack of Guernica and Mussolini provided weapons and men power to the Franco regime.
Franco’s repayment during WWII provided the Nazi Regime with 50,000 Men to the Russian front “the Blue Division” (the blue used by the Spanish Fascist was the symbol of the working clothing of the working class). Later one of the leaders of the Blue Division attempted a new coup de eta against the new democracy arising from the Fascist dictatorship of Franco in the 1980´s.
Franco not just provided military support to the Axis regimes, but determined the fates of many prisoners of the republic such as Anarchists or Communists who were brought to work camps and concentrations camps in Nazi Germany like Sachsenhausen.
Franco established a system of concentrations camps which were run up to the 1940´s. Franco was never brought to justices for crimes against humanity, and neither was the Roman Catholic Church, not just for the fact that it was the Roman Catholic Church who was the first to recognize diplomatic relations with the National Socialist Regime of Germany in 1933. It was also the Roman Catholic which after the war provided Vatican Passports to people who implemented the final solution against 6 Million European Jews and the transit point for Argentina was through Spain.
Against this background Juan Gutierrez recalls his memories, born in 1930 and six years old in the herald of the new dawn with the New Republic. At that time the Nobility and the upper classes sensed the changes and moved to big cities, which in the case of Alhama, was Granada.
Months before and after the declaration of the Republic, the land owners tried to undermine the newly created Republic by prohibiting the individual renters to work the land, on the other hand, the day laborers even had no land, since the land was concentrated in the hands of a few noblemen and land owners, and the new Republic was involved in the internal inner fights about the land reform. At that time the socialist union UGT (Union General del Trabajo) and the CNT (Confederacion National del Trabajo) had about 2.0 Million members.
In the beginning of the conflict, in every town in Spain the day laborers rose and took over. Alhama is located about 75 km from Granada and marks an important pass to Malaga from Granada. At that time many of the day laborers were members of the UGT and CNT. In Alhama initially the UGT together with the CNT began the collectivization.
Juan Gutirrez described, “we where hungry one evening and the next day and after the Republic had been created we had wealth, we had food.” The revolution was born in these days for the laborers out hungry. The collectivization took place in houses of the wealthy. In many cases they were being used due to their huge sizes for storages and since now the land owners could not hold food from the laborers, they had everything.
The land was worked for everyone and individuals who did not wanted to be part of the collectivization could hold the land that themselves or their family could work the land, but could not hire outsiders to exploit them, nor they did wanted to return back to the exploitation system built in the previous 500 years.
The collectives provided with credit for everyone and every citizen had access to the product, a confederation of free collectives and cities created a confederation of Municipalities.
But the reality of the conflict of Franco just two weeks after his initial rebellion against the Republic overtook Granada, where in Alhama located in the Mountain Passes and the operational zone of the Battalion of Granada of 900 Men, members of the CNT-FAI and UGT were able to hold Fascist forces from June 1936 to February of 1937.
Many of the collective’s members fled to the Republic zone, but with little support from the west and the Soviet Union, only taken the Gold of the Republic to Moscow, weapons of second hand. The Communist Party in Spain made a conscious decision to dismantle the workers militias from the CNT and UGT by force.
At the end of the conflict, the Fascist dictatorship with the support of the Roman Catholic Church, told Spain if they would not take arms against the new regime they could return, but the majority of Spanish workers ended up in either camps or jails. The sympathizers of the Fascist and their new regime took revenge in the case of Juan Gutierrez: the local Medical Doctor outed Juan Gutierrez’s father, and Lucas Gutierrez Lopes was singled out and executed by a fire squat in the Cemetery of Granada, in the hill bottom of Alhambra in 1937. Lucas Gutierrez Lopes had served under Franco in 1926 in Morocco.
The summary executions were not just political but also social motivated. Garcia Lorca was executed for being homosexual. Behind Lorca’s execution it was provided by Lorca’s family.
After the conflict the six year old Juan Gutierrez, born into the working class, was being assigned a job by the new regime to take care of pigs. When he returned from the farms he found his mother in black mourning for his father and his brother who had lost a leg due to gangrene and subsequent amputation, who had been treated by the same doctor who did point out his father. In the 1940´s Juan’s mother hang herself in the orchard. Eventually, like many Spaniards crossing the border to France and living as members of the CNT-AIT in exile, Juan received an education in France which Spain had denied him.
Late in his 80´s Juan wrote a memoir for his 3 daughters and grandsons not to forget the fámily roots where they are coming from. His memoires “La Revolution y las colectividades en Alhama de Granada” is in the process to be translated in English. Juan is currently working on a book about the fate of 3,000 Spanish workers from Andalusia’s who where send to the concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

Friday, September 17, 2010

A place

The problem with capitalism like an other “ism” is about access. Lyman Frank Baum in the “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” writing about his experience in South Dakota, but the book is more then a social commentary. The book is about the frontier come to an end and now everything needed to be legitimized. To be wise your needed a title, to have courage  you needed a medal and to have a hearth you will need recognition.  

The ism had took place in the frontier and then who has the power defined the access. In ism the power is distributed by capital, the one with capital decided who get the title, who is the boss and who wish is your status.  

Some ism used their believed to decided who has the power, in some ism your believes  tell you what is your position in life.  
We can not be deceit by the ism will gave you an opportunity. It is up to everyone take the control and deny the ism to defined us-It is up to to individually to change the  ism.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Middle

A inherent conflict how the individual can be and dependent in his community. Aristotle “Golden Middle” (Eudemian Ethics ), applied to to politics is act to compromise. The issue is who made the rules, the problem we are dealing how individual choices are accommodate by a community. Communities operated in religious ground is good place to observed the effect. In many case religious communities reality is rule by a dogma, which in many cases did not tolerated any minority, even when in the principals adherent to some kind tolerated, but due to the dogma in the long run become very intolerant society.
A good example Al-Andalus, had been idealize, where the tree major monotheistic religions could coexist, far from the truth a revival of Islamic fundamentalism of 12 century force the first expulsion of the Jews an internal strife weak the empire. The inherent problem the Spain was conquer and natives especially the north kingdoms of Aragon and Navarra, kept and fought back the conquest.
After almost 800 years Islam not just as religion, but a force were expels from Spain is a Christian land.
This situation is not unique to Al-Andalus in the 700ś to 1493, but after of Ottomans conquest of Constantinople to this day in the 21 did not recognize the authority as power of the Patriarch of Constantinople, in part or the reason Islam does not want and afraid to the confront, in name of a God, just an Imperial power forcing a God.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Identity

We are in cross road, we have dehumanize each other to the point we are just caricatures from each other, in name of a God, culture or Ethnicity.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Privilege

In 2006, an internal memo now public in part to Michael Moore film Capitalism a Love Story, where declare the US is a plutonomy. If we are today a plutonomy, is not just a recent development of 20 years of free market economies, but since the 1930ś FRD when use Government interference, especially no since the Barons of the 19 century, with almost not Government interferences, run the US is personal economic Kingdoms.
Using immigrants or race to kept the workers wages to a minimum.

According to their ideals being self center and egoism, glorify by Ann Rand in Atlas Shrugged, the consequence creating a permanent inequality. FRD revolution use the Government to minimize the distance of the classes, since in the Great Depression US was verge to have revolution, and does not mean Left. FDR sold the mythology of the American Dream access, through education to the system.


Ed DÁngelo in future work about the Beatniks, in bureaucracy system left or right create a permanent elite. The key of elite is access and by access of wealth. As custom of US Government to clam for profit open education, when reality the education system is a profit system, but a profit for a reason. The reason is who will be the elite, who get to define the rules, we should not be surprise the Goldman Sacks, for more a century have economic US hostage to the elite, but now they write the rules of the financial system.

The ideal of being the masters of the destiny, was the failure of the student of Leon Strauss. During WWII the irrationality of hate in this case the irrationality of Anti-Semitic in Germany from the late 19 Century and Culmination of the Genocide of Jews, or any not consider of the race privilege. In may case reinforce by the Roman Catholic Church and some protestant denominations. Strauss believe we can be the master of destiny by elite controlling and defining the social behavior, so can check any irrationality of mob.

Today, we are in the middle of us trying to defying reality. The elite has loss control, because could not understand can not control reality itself.

Saturday, April 03, 2010

The Path

When the power knows what is right, the people are being let alone and free, but when power become of one whether by one or few. Then people detached and taste the freedom. The power come by accepted, but to negated you are free.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Responsibility and Path

The sins of the father should not be held responsible to the sonś or daughters, this will be truth if they learn the errors. If the sons or daughters make the same errors or worst, the they are more responsible for the mistakes.

The path is to find the place we are satisfied with our lives, they are not a single place, but the principle should be what is the path, a bike ride or a kite flying the simplicity is place we can find to be content, but does not mean we can let injustice to pass by and stop or said something. Simplicity is to be behind ourselves.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Gender Conflict

2009, could be consider as the year of the women since the Nobel had 4 women awarded, especially the Nobel is quite political. In the Nobel history of the 300 awarded only 40 are women, and the ration between women and men is evenly split, but the numbers are quite small, so how is possible the numbers are so small. In general in any profession, where a percent around 15% of group is not found profession can be considered as token.
The statistics in US in Europe per country shows percent in this profession, what is important not the women are in profession, but these professions had dominated by men. In US in the 90´s women in Mathematics in Physics their number was 3% to 8%, in 2000´s the numbers when up to 14%. In Europe Portugal have 42% women with PhD in Physics, following Italy with 36.9%, France 35% and from this point Germany 15% and Anglo Saxon U.K, Ireland at 7%, the Scandinavian countries in the 4% and the last in the list is Iceland with not at all.
Since we are evenly split why this phenomenon, in Germany, become a professor is selected informally, and some ways is bases in seniority.
Many females leave the profession to built families, and the reason many leave is not family support in this institutions. A Neocon Bernard Lewis, who complain the Islam was using half of his creative, by suppressing females in his book, “What When Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.”
Not just Lewis point but actions by Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad, who limited the women enrolment in higher educations institutions and medical schools institutions. In Gaza Hamas has force Sharia law and women had become under Islamic law as second class. But the hypocrisy from Western institutions, by give support to women who going to built families, after all in our societies men did not raise children, just letting the spouses jobs,
The inequality created institutions; the hierarchy becomes a relationship of power.