Mosul e Aleppo, attenti alla propaganda

Ci avete fatto caso? Ora che potrebbero parlare liberamente, raccontare a tutti i giornali e alle Tv che cos’hanno visto e subito ad Aleppo, sono spariti tutti. Clown, pediatri, ragazze disposte a suicidarsi piuttosto che vivere sotto Assad, elmetti di ogni colore, attivisti fino a qualche giorno fa impegnati a rifornire le Ong di notizie terribili, mamme disperate. Solo la bambina che twittava sotto le bombe è rispuntata per recarsi in Turchia a prendere un premio da Recep Erdogan (lui sì, un modello di umanità). E ha potuto farlo proprio perché ribelli e jihadisti hanno infine sgombrato i quartieri di Aleppo Est.mosul-propaganda
“Così va spesso il mondo” scriveva Alessandro Manzoni a proposito di quella che, nei Promessi Sposi, viene definita “la notte degli imbrogli e dei sotterfugi”. Però la lezione di Aleppo va tenuta ben presente perché sulla devastata città della Siria si è giocata una partita di propaganda che va ben oltre la già drammatica situazione particolare.
Nei quartieri per anni occupati da ribelli e jihadisti stanno saltando fuori le solite fosse comuni piene di corpi di civili, torturati prima di essere ammazzati. Dico le “solite” perché il rito atroce si è ripetuto ovunque l’Isis abbia dovuto cedere terreno. Nell’estate scorsa l’Associated Press, studiando immagini satellitari e confrontandole con testimonianze raccolte sul campo, è riuscita a localizzare 72 fosse comuni in zone appena abbandonate dall’Isis.
In quelle buche (alcune scavate nei giardini pubblici e nei campi da calcio delle città) erano stati scaraventati tra 5 mila e 15 mila corpi. Al confronto, i civili morti ad Aleppo sotto le bombe russe e siriane sono un’inezia.
Questa osservazione va fatta non per cinismo ma, al contrario, per spirito umanitario. Le persone innocenti chiuse in quelle fosse sono cadute per mano dei jihadisti dell’Isis ma anche a causa del fatto che la guerra mossa contro l’Isis in Iraq dalla coalizione guidata da Usa e Arabia Saudita è andata al rallentatore. Anzi: è stata una guerra finta, di soli bombardamenti che misteriosamente colpivano soprattutto il deserto. Nell’evidente speranza che, intanto, l’Isis desse il colpo decisivo ad Assad. Mentre tutti, in Medio Oriente, supplicavano la coalizione di intervenire con maggiore decisione e mettendo, come si dice, “gli stivali sul terreno”.
 
Tutto quel traccheggiare, ovviamente, si è scaricato sulla popolazione civile. Ed ecco le fosse comuni. Piene di morti che sono figli di nessuno, per i quali nessuno si prende la responsabilità, nonostante che siano stati vittime anche di una precisa scelta strategica.
Siriani e russi hanno fatto il contrario. Con i raid e le incursioni hanno certamente provocato vittime tra i civili. Ma hanno accorciato la guerra e, così facendo, hanno anche risparmiato molte vite.
Per capirlo, senza farsi intortare da clown e pediatri, basta osservare quanto accade a Mosul. A due mesi dall’inizio dell’offensiva per liberare la città, le operazioni militari sono ferme e l’Isis è così poco preoccupato da aver distaccato dal fronte iracheno qualche migliaio di miliziani per mandarli a riconquistare Palmira, in Siria. Questo accade perché anche a Mosul l’alternativa è sempre quella. O attacchi e risolvi in fretta il problema, e così facendo provochi vittime tra i civili come sempre succede in situazioni analoghe (vedi per esempio Gaza, o Fallujah in Iraq nel 2004, o Grozny in Cecenia nel 1994-1995); oppure esiti, e così facendo lasci che i civili restino ancor più a lungo in balia dell’Isis, con le conseguenze ben note.
I generali americani e il Governo iracheno lo sanno bene. A Mosul hanno fatto la scelta politica di bloccare l’avanzata e abbandonare i civili al loro destino. È una scelta legittima ma non più nobile o meno cruenta di quella opposta di accelerare le operazioni, com’è stato fatto ad Aleppo. Quando anche a Mosul salteranno fuori le fosse comuni lo capiremo meglio. A dispetto di clown, pediatri, aspiranti suicide e bambine con la mania di twitter.
di Fulvio Scaglione – 03/01/2017

EODE-AFRICA TOP10 2016 DES PERSONNALITES PANAFRICAINES

# EODE & EODE-AFRICA/ TOP 10 EODE AFRICA 2016 DES PERSONNALITES PANAFRICAINES

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TROISIEME EDITION 2016 DU ‘TOP 10 EODE AFRICA

« DES PERSONNALITES ET ORGANISMES PANAFRICAINS »

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Les Experts internationaux d’EODE et notamment d’EODE-AFRICA ont pour la troisième année consécutive, travaillé ardemment de façon à ne pas être absents sur la scène politique africaine et même au-delà.

LA METHODE, LES ETAPES ET LES VOTES

Depuis septembre 2016, ils se sont mis au travail afin de permettre aujourd’hui, la publication des personnalités publiques (les leaders d’opinions, les hommes d’affaires… industriels, commerçants, scientifiques, etc) et les organismes publics et privés (universités, chaines de télévision, etc) qui, de par leur indépendance, leur capacité à répondre aux besoins urgents du continent noir, leur intrépidité à vouloir exceller pour bâtir un continent fort et uni, ont contribué au rayonnement incontestable de l’Afrique.

Aujourd’hui, grâce à la participation du public panafricain au vote que nous vous avons soumis en septembre puis en décembre 2016, nous sommes parvenus aux résultats que vous trouverez ci-dessous.

A titre de rappel, du 15 septembre au 1er décembre 2016, lors de la première phase du vote qui a donné lieu au vote du Top 100 EODE 2016 (voir le lien), nous avons connu la participation de 49.594 votants soit un pourcentage avéré de 48% scrutateurs du Cameroun, 26% de Côte d’Ivoire, 11% du Sénégal, 9% des autres pays africains et 6% de la diaspora. C’est ainsi qu’a été lancée la seconde phase du vote, à partir du Top 100, le 6 décembre dernier.

27.567 est le chiffre que nous avons enregistré dans cette seconde phase qui n’a duré qu’un mois. Les votants proviennent de Côte d’ivoire, du Cameroun, du Sénégal, de RDC mais nous avons eu également une participation pour le moins inattendue du Burundi, du Mali, du Nigeria, du Ghana. La diaspora a été très présente notamment celle de France, de Belgique, de Russie, des USA et du Canada.

Dans son ensemble, le Cameroun détient le plus grand nombre de votants talonné par la Côte d’Ivoire ; au niveau de la diaspora c’est la France qui mène de loin la course. Nous avons eu au total en Afrique :

  • Cameroun 33,60% de votants.
  • Côte d’Ivoire 27,45% de votants.
  • Tchad 1,19% de votants.
  • Burundi 0,85% de votants.
  • RDC 4,13% de votants.
  • Sénégal 9,82% de votants.
  • Gabon 0,64% de votants.
  • Ghana 0,52% de votants.
  • Mali 0,55% de votants.
  • Nigeria 1,10% de votants.

Puis au niveau de la diaspora

  • France 10,65% de votants.
  • Belgique 4,43% de votants.
  • Russie 1,74% de votants.
  • USA 2,38% de votants.
  • Canada 0,88% de votants.

Nous avons été justes et impartiaux. Nous avons respecté les contributions de tout le monde. Nous avons bel et bien enregistré vos votes par mail, par les réseaux sociaux Twitter et Facebook, par SMS et par téléphone sur Whatsapp et vous les restituons ici. Et le taux de participation donné ci-haut montre bel et bien que l’Afrique est en marche malgré tout. Nous allons continuer à populariser nos travaux actuels ainsi que  les travaux des éditions à venir. Nous comptons et compterons toujours sur votre participation massive aussi longtemps possible pour que vive le continent africain que nous aimons tous. 

LES RESULTATS

Il va s’en dire que certaines personnalités et organismes qui figuraient dans le Classement en 2015 ont perdu soit leur place ou leur position, ou ont été déclassés, ou ont gagné en points et ont amélioré leur classement. Preuve que quelque chose bouge sur le Continent et que l’Afrique est en marche malgré les attaques continues de l’impérialisme.

Les Experts d’EODE ont en toute liberté et sans aucune influence, travaillé à rendre fiable et objectif le classement pour l’Année 2016, à travers la consultation d’un vaste panel (et il se coimplete en permanence) de 306.000 acteurs du Panafricanisme (experts, journalistes, militants, politiques, enseignants, intellectuels, syndicalistes, diplomates, officiers, hommes d’affaire, étudiants, universitaires, engagés de la société civile, etc.), dont cette année 26.861scrutateurs qui nous ont gracieusement apporté leur contribution par vote et qui sont inscrit dans notre base de données des téléspectateurs actifs d’AFRIQUE MEDIA TV, groupe officiel sur Facebook.

Il faut par ailleurs rappeler que le classement du ‘TOP 10 EODE AFRICA 2016’ est présenté par le « Conseil des experts d’EODE », présidé par Gilbert NKAMTO, Administrateur d’EODE-AFRICA, sous la coordination de Luc MICHEL, administrateur-général du Conseil d’Administration d’EODE. Ce Conseil d’Experts regroupe 18 membres de différents pays, notamment de Belgique, du Cameroun, du Tchad, de Guinée Equatoriale, de RDC, de Côte d’Ivoire, du Burundi, de France, d’Allemagne, de Turquie, de Syrie, du Royaume Uni, d’Iran, de Russie, de Moldavie et de Roumanie.

LE CLASSEMENT 2016 DU ‘TOP 10 EODE AFRICA

DES PERSONNALITES ET ORGANISMES PANAFRICAINS’:

1° IDRISS DEBY ITNO,

Président en exercice de la République du Tchad et Président de l’Union africaine.

23,96% de suffrage exprimé.

Il fait un très grand bond, partant de la 5ème place en 2015 à la 1ère position. Leader politico-militaire de la guerre contre Boko Haram, il bénéficie aussi de ses spectaculaires déclarations contre le Franc CFA.

2° TEODORO OBIANG NGUEMA MBASAGO,

Président en exercice de la République de Guinée Equatoriale.

22,80% de suffrage exprimé.

Il perd sa place de leader politique africain de l’année 2015 mais garde son leadership sous-régional en 2016.

3° AFRIQUE MEDIA,

Chaine de télévision privée panafricaine.

20,29% de suffrage exprimé.

Elle conserve son classement de 2015 mais reste toujours le leader incontesté de la cause panafricaine, la première chaine de télévision panafricaine authentique.  

4° PIERRE NKURUNZIZA

Président en exercice de la République du Burundi.

8,14% de suffrage exprimé.

Le plus controversé des lauréats 2015, sorti 7ème au classement. Il gagne 3 places par rapport à 2015. Il est salué pour sa résistance à l’agression américano-occidentale dans le cadre du pseudo « printemps africain » (clone du sinistre « printemps arabe »). Très populaires sur les réseaux sociaux, il a effectué une véritable percée dans notre classement dans les dernières semaines de 2015 et aujourd’hui il fait partir des leaders incontestés et incontestables du classement EODE surtout pour ces prises de positions panafricaines…

5° LAURENT GBAGBO,

Ex-Président de la République de Côte d’Ivoire,

4,95% de suffrage exprimé.

Déporté et illégalement détenu à la pseudo « Cour Pénale Internationale » à la Haye depuis le 29 novembre 2011.

Depuis le début de notre classement en 2014, il n’a jamais quitté les 5 premiers du classement EODE. Preuve de l’attention et du leadership qu’il incarne auprès de la nouvelle génération des panafricains.

6° DR. JOHN MAGUFULI  

Président en exercice de la République de Tanzanie.

4,83% de suffrage exprimé.

Il progresse d’une place par rapport au classement 2015. 

7° ROBERT MUGABE,

Président en exercice de la République du Zimbabwe.

4,19% de suffrage exprimé.

Malgré son leadership dans la SADC, le président Mugabe perd de plus en plus la sympathie de nombreux panafricanistes. Il part de la 2ème place en 2015 pour se retrouver à la 7ème place. 

8° FATIMA BEYINA-MOUSSA, femme d’affaires, du Congo-Brazzaville

Directrice générale de la Compagnie aérienne privée congolaise ECAIR et de l’AFRAA.

4,13% de suffrage exprimé.

Une vraie architecte du développement dont les ambitions sont celles de relier les capitales africaines pour faciliter les échanges des biens et des personnes… chose qui manque cruellement en Afrique. Elle fait une très bonne percée dans le classement EODE et semble être la seule femme du top 10 EODE.

9°  BRETT BAILEY,

Metteur en scène sud-africain,

3,76% de suffrage exprimé.

Un Africain blanc hors pair et très controversé qui compose et réalise des opéras et des expositions choc (parfois mal comprises). Lutte pour la grande cause du continent. Il est en régression spectaculaire, de la 6ème place en 2015 pour la 9ème place en 2016. Sans doute parce qu’il a moins été au centre de l’actualité en 2016.

Le rappel que les blancs (dont les grands Gaston Donat – Cameroun et Algérie -, Joe Slovo – Afrique du Sud – et le Che Guevara – Congo -) et les arabes (dont les icônes Nasser et Kadhafi) sont aussi des acteurs du combat panafricaniste. Le panafricanisme est un humanisme et le contient appartient à tous ceux qui se battent pour lui …

10° UNIVERSITE DE CAP TOWN, Afrique du Sud

2,90% de suffrage exprimé.

Elle fait une entrée spectaculaire dans le classement 2016 EODE. Par son dynamisme, cette université est un levier en Afrique pour accompagner l’Afrique dans émergence en produisant des têtes pensantes pour l’Afrique de demain.

* Lire le Classement EODE AFRICA 2015 :

* Lire le Classement EODE AFRICA 2014 :

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TRUMP DEFINITIVEMENT ELU : 1er ROUND PERDU POUR LA ‘PURPLE REVOLUTION » DES SOROS-CLINTON-OBAMA …

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Le Congrès américain certifie l’élection de Donald Trump à la présidence ce 6 décembre !

Près de deux mois après le scrutin présidentiel américain du 8 novembre, le Congrès a certifié ce vendredi l’élection de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche, malgré les perturbations créées par des élus démocrates et des manifestants (les partisans de la « Purple revolution », cette révolution de couleur initiée par George Söros avec les Clinton et l’aide d’Obama).

SÖROS ET SA « PURPLE REVOLUTION »

C’est l’argument principal de la « Purple revolution », financée et organisée par le spéculateur milliardaire George Söros, le mentor des révolutions de couleur en Eurasie, au Proche-Orient et en Afrique depuis près de 20 ans. Comme lors de son galop d’essai aux USA en 2008, « Occupy Wall-Street », Söros s’appuie sur l’extrême-gauche, notamment les trotskistes (PLS et cie), « idiots utiles » des manipulateurs de foules en colère ou en détresse.

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https://vimeo.com/197330996

DEUXIEME ECHEC (OU DEUXIEME ESSAI) EN TROIS SEMAINES POUR SÖROS

Les grands électeurs, réunis le 19 décembre dernier, avaient alors été « vainement pressés de ne pas voter pour Trump ». Ils étaient alors au moins des dizaines de milliers d’Américains à croire, fanatisés par la machine de propagande de Söros, qu’il était encore possible de « barrer la route de la Maison-Blanche à Donald Trump » ! C’était, en effet, ce lundi 19 décembre, “premier lundi suivant le deuxième mercredi de décembre” comme le prévoit la loi électorale, que se réunissaient, dans chacune des capitales des Etats de l’Union, les 538 “grands électeurs” qui doivent formellement désigner le président des Etats-Unis.

« Vestige d’un passé que d’aucuns jugent révolu, l’élection indirecte, ou en deux temps, du chef de l’exécutif américain, passe d’ordinaire totalement inaperçue. Le Collège électoral formé par les grands électeurs, à de rarissimes exceptions près, ne fait que confirmer la préférence exprimée dans les urnes par la population. Les résultats de son vote sont ensuite transmis au Congrès pour y être officiellement proclamés, le 6 janvier », commentait l’AFP. Cette fois, cependant, il en allait tout autrement. La personnalité de Donald Trump qui indispose jusque dans les rangs républicains, le fait qu’Hillary Clinton a perdu l’élection tout en remportant le vote populaire (avec près de 2,9 millions de voix d’avance), commentait l’agence française (vous noterez qu’elle ne dit pas un mot de cette « Purple revolution » qui cie).

A cela s’ajoutait encore « la conviction exprimée par la CIA et le FBI qu’une puissance ennemie, la Russie, était intervenue dans le processus électoral en piratant des boîtes de courrier électronique démocrates » (coup de pouce d’Obama et de son administration à la « purple revolution », qui vise avant tout à délégitimer l’élection de Trump). « Tout cela incitait beaucoup d’américains à remettre en cause le verdict du 8 novembre, et nourrissait à la fois une mobilisation sans précédent et un débat juridique surprenant. Cet épisode là, le premier round de la « Purple revolution » s’est terminé ce 6 janvier !

* Manifestants de la gauche radicale à Washington le 19

décembre 2016 : les « idiots utiles » infanterie de Söros …

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REALITY OR UTOPIA ???

« AMERICA COME FIRST AGAIN » REALITY OR UTOPIA?

Bibeau.robert@videotron.ca   Éditeur.     http://www.les7duquebec.com

4.1.2017

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Throughout the electoral campaign, Donald Trump insisted on the slogan “America First Comes Again!”, implying, thus, that with him and through him the United States would become again the first industrial power on the planet, which the United States is no longer for ages, surpassed in this by “emerging” and immense China.

Indeed, the President Trump was not mistaken and abandoning the military crusade Obama-Clinton against the Russia, second in the group, he darts his warheads towards the China Sea (1).

To achieve a “reindustrialization”, assuming that America is “de-industrialized” – which is not assured as we shall see soon – the US economy must manage to maintain a precarious balance between six fluctuating and interdependent variables, over which the capitalist state apparatus – regardless of the titles of the official president – often has little control. The first variable is the currency, its value and its exchange rate relative to competing currencies. This variable is an indicator of the economic health of a country and affects the other variables as we shall see later. The second variable is the tax system, the cost of taxes and national levies, related to fiscal balance and to sovereign debt, indicating that this second variable is strongly correlated with the first one. The third variable concerns the interior and exterior markets for these goods to be marketed. Via the trade balance this third variable strongly influences the currency – its value – its exchange rate, which in turn affects the market access. The fourth variable is the cost of inputs, including labor (the price of labor power that will produce the surplus value, only reason of the operation) and energy. This variable is also connected to the first one. The fifth variable with which the Trump administration must juggle is the productivity of labor. This variable influences the wages and the purchasing power of legionaries of consumption and depends on investments in the fields of labor training, but also of mechanics, robotics, computer and digital industries. Finally, to cap it all, a sixth not decisive, as suggested by the incompetent left, but determined variable, resulting from the preceding, the commercial, tax and labor laws, which take the form of free-trade agreements that will come, not organized or structured all these variables, but validated them. This is also a major error of ‘outraged’ economists and analysts in the pay to have claimed that Donald Trump and the clique, which brought him to power, wanted to repeal the free trade agreements negotiated by the previous administrations (Democrat and Republican). The economic Establishment, who placed their protected to the Presidency, knows very well that these agreements are only ratifying the relationships of economic, political and military strenghts, and that we must first change these international balance of power before hoping to reopen the negotiations to secure further concessions from its allies and competitors. Thus, even before being enthroned, the thundering President is already in a campaign of intimidation against the true adversary of America, the imperialist China (2).

Who attracts the capital?

Let us first examine the level of industrial attractiveness of the various competing countries of America. The map 1 indicates the importance of each country and gives an indication of its attractive force in terms of reception of operations (production, computerization, management, distribution, communication, research / development) outsourced and / or relocated. It is easy to note that China and India are the lion’s share, but it should also be noted that since 2011, India is more attractive than China in terms of outsourcing / relocation of highly developed countries towards the so-called “emerging” countries, dislodging China which, in order to create an internal market, increases the incomes of its employees.

Moreover, the Chinese capitalists are less and less interested in the production of trinkets and are increasing their production in the range requiring better skilled and better paid employees (3).

                                                     Map 1

The size of the country represents its attractive strength in terms of outsourcing / relocation of production, management or marketing operations.

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The monetary variable.

If one considers the monetary variable, the US dollar is in a bad position to support the ambitions of the White House tenant. Notwithstanding the speculative frenzy phase that has gripped the US traders in the aftermath of the election: “Not only Wall Street did not record the predicted declines, but chained the increases. In the days following the election, the total US market index Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 (W5000 rated) closed in increase in 1.41%, the index of 30 “blue chip” US Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI rated) gained 1.40%, while the index of technology stocks

Nasdaq (IXIC rated) was content with a gain of 1.11%. Two weeks after the election, the gains recorded since November 8, settled respectively in + 4.13%, + 3.77% and + 3.71% for these three indices“(4).

It should be noted that the increase in stock prices in the United States is speculative since no increase in production capacity has been recorded in the country since November 8th.

For their part, most European and Asian stock-exchanges have adopted a downward path: “The financial markets reacted in a scattered way in the days following the announcement of the victory of Donald Trump. The Asian markets fell: more than 5% of loss for the index Nikkei in Tokyo and Hang Seng in Hong Kong.

The European markets sulked oscillating between -0.4% in Madrid and + 1.99% in Zurich, the BEL20 and the CAC40 appreciating respectively + 1.42% and + 1.49%”

(5). At the same time the gold resisted in its role of safe investment and appreciated of more than 5 %, sign than the investors do not share the optimism of the American small-time speculators.

The dollar is overvalued vis-à-vis its main competitors, even if the euro is approaching the parity, and even if the yen keeps on falling, the same for the pound sterling and the yuan which the Chinese authorities leave depreciate: “The Chinese authorities have made clear that they considered a depreciation of their currency necessary while warning that they would ensure that the process is not messy” (6). “We are currently in 6.90 yuan to the dollar, even if the yuan were to fall to 7.25 against the dollar, the depreciation would be only 4% from current levels when the yen lost 16% against the US dollar over the last five weeks“(7).

Incidentally, the relative rise in the dollar has the effect of a rocker and reduces the fall of the yuan. The rise in dollar is a bad omen because it restricts the export prospects for US companies whose production facilities are located in the United States. On the other hand, this increase in the currency is advantageous for US companies whose production facilities are outside the country. They will be able, via tax havens, to repatriate their profits denominated in yuan, or in yen, and raise them by turning them into dollars. But for that the interest rates will have to be increased.

Thus, the US Federal Reserve has announced an increase in its key rate in order to curb the hemorrhage of currencies that are fleeing the country. Other increases are foreseeable. It can be anticipated that the increase in the rent of money will lead to the bankruptcy of millions of American households – similar to what the country experienced in 2008. Many households will be unable to make their payments, resulting in lower sales, surplus of inventories and bankruptcies of companies unable to sell their products, and ultimately a decline in generalized profits, including for US companies established abroad.

President Trump has multiplied the warnings to his faithful allies like Saudi Arabia and Emirates of the Persian Gulf, nothing happens, they get rid of their dollars sealed. Even Iran, which Obama had succeeded in bringing about, is threatened by the President-elect who wants that this country calms its frenzy and stop getting rid of its heap of dollars by buying expensive planes and so that it continues to sell its energy in petrodollar (8).

Conclusion, on the side of the currency the conditions are not met to attract the industrial investments nor the capital money in the den of the globalized capitalist “democracy”. Let us analyze the conditions of the second variable, the tax system.

The tax variable.

The US capitalists have always had an antagonistic relationship with the tax authorities and this is particularly evident since the US economy began its ineluctable decline in the late seventies. While in the 1950s the tax rate on corporate profits exceeded fifty and sixty per cent, it has been a long time since the tax evasion, coupled with the reduction in the tax rate, began in the Reagan era, has melted the central government revenues.

From the days of Presidents Nixon and Reagan, the left-wing and right-wing politicians and the so-called “neo-liberal” economists argued that tax and levies cuts freed capital for investment that generates growth and increased revenues for the State. This tactic could be justified if the problem of the US economy was the lack of liquidity to develop, but it is not so. The capital is overabundant, there is overproduction in most sectors and China could double its supply of products if required. It is the domestic market that is paralyzed from where the Trump team, having understood it, launches large public investment programs that will temporarily create demand.

This aversion towards the taxation is so embedded in the American psyche that the Tea Party has made of it his favorite theme, and Donald Trump, the multimillionaire boasted on TV of being a “smart guy” and of having paid nothing to the tax authorities for years. The President-elect has promised to reduce the income tax guaranteeing that he will considerably increase the public investments in infrastructure and expenditure on arms. It should be noted, however, that if the infrastructure investments are productive, the spending on armaments is economically inefficient. Must we conclude that there is a variable favorable to the reindustrialization of America?

Not at all. The federal budget as well as that of the other levels of public administration (states and municipalities) has been in deficit for decades, these projected revenue cuts coupled with the announced increase in spending will entail the sovereign debt in abysmal depths. All the more the rise in the relative value of the dollar, coupled with rising interest rates, will increase the price of government bonds, the Federal Reserve replaces the market to buy these fuzzy bonds, the more will rise the quantity of dollars of junk in circulation. This catastrophic conjuncture will push for a drastic devaluation of the dollar after a spectacular rise following a frantic stock market speculation as before each stock market crash. This is why China, in particular, gets rid of its dollars: “Moreover, although Japan took to China the rank of first holder of US Treasuries, according to official data released on Thursday, December 15 and held in October $ 1131.9 billion against 1115.7 billion accumulated by the mainland China (excluding Hong Kong), Beijing keeps a pressure lever on financing the US debts“(9).

To conclude, we can say that with the globalization of the economy, each country competes with its neighbor in terms of taxation so that this variable has only a secondary impact on the location of investments.

The home market variable and foreign markets.

In a globalized and integrated imperialist economy, it is difficult to control all the variables that can ensure the industrial and commercial recovery. Thus, the injection of US dollars into international financial system has maintained the power of the dollar (the reserve currency) and fueled the stock speculation with junk cash, that is, money not backed by concrete capital (means of production, exchange or communication). On the other hand, this money caused inflation (especially for common consumer goods) and further reduces the purchasing power of American workers. Thus, since the 2008 crisis in the United States, thousands of families live in parks or in their cars, and a third of young households have returned to their parents’ homes. This means that the value of the commodity “labor force” collapsed at the same time as the real value of money. The devaluation of a currency always has a cost for the employees and represents always a way to transfer the weight of the economic crisis on the back of the working class, which no economist-coolie will dare to confirm. Thus, for a few months now the euro is no longer supported by the European Central Bank (ECB) and who will pay the price will be the European workers.

When we think that 70% of US GDP is based on consumption (against 40% of Chinese GDP), all this has a direct impact on the home and export market. The consumer workers see their purchasing power lagging as a result of an overflow of money in circulation causing the devaluation of this money capital. As it is imperative that the goods must be marketed – sold and consumed – to realize surplus value, unique objective of economic activity, the international capitalists have therefore devised a subterfuge, the credit, the anticipated expense of the salary of the proletarian – and the annuitant’s income – which may never be paid or cashed. In doing so, the capitalists dig deeper into the catacombs of their ambitions, causing more inflation and the depreciation of the currency further reducing the consumption, the markets, and the possibilities of disposing of production. It is then easy to imagine that in the absence of a market, the production stops, and doing so ceases the valorization of capital, aim of capitalist economic activity.

Since 1976, the United States has recorded each year a deficit in its trade balance (10). In 2015 this astronomical deficit amounted to 530 billion US dollars or 3% of the US GDP (11). These data reflect the lack of competitiveness of the US production system in the consumer goods sector, but they conceal surpluses in the high-tech sectors (armaments, IT, communication, high-level services, etc.). In any case, a national economy can not survive indefinitely by living on the brackets of foreign countries with which it accumulates debts and repetitive deficits. It is easy to foresee that the creditors of this insolvent debtor will eventually refuse to finance it. It is then that the danger of a military confrontation will reach its apogee.

It must be remembered that there can be no sale of goods if there is no production of goods and there can not be capitalization if there is not first production and then marketing. As can be seen, the home market and / or export market variable is a dependent variable whose fate depends on the evolution of the independent variables that are upstream. Incidentally, the monetary variable here reveals its sensitivity to the costs of the means of production and especially to the social price of the labor force conditioned by the level of productivity of labor, which produces the profitability of capital investment which we shall now examine.

The variable costs of the means of production – energy and labor.

It will be noted that the candidate Trump and his faction of the establishment had a real campaign program. These people pursue a very specific goal and you will notice that, for each of the listed variables, they presented proposals, just like the Clinton team incidentally – it six of one and half dozen of the other, obviously.

In terms of energy, the Trump team is pushing back the ecological nuggets and plans to re-launch the shale coal, gas and oil production, the construction of Canada-US oil pipelines and so on. However, the price of a barrel of oil will have to rise. You now understand the reason for the admonitions of the President-elect to his faithful Saudi ally that America intends to reduce its energy supply towards eccentric regions such as the Persian Gulf where it controls, less and less the situation is folding to its Canadian (40 percent of its supply) and Mexican allies. Yet, all this political and diplomatic rubbish does not prevent us from observing that the United States has no problem of energy supply and that some measures of energy saving could easily generate surpluses … But since when the economy of energy leads to the increase in profits?

The cost of transportation.

The lowering of the cost of intercontinental transport (by liners, containers and bulk carriers) also explains the ease with which the factories can move from a country to another, from a continent to another. A food scandal about spoiled meat in Europe, a few years ago, demonstrated that to produce a simple frozen dish no fewer than six companies and factories in six different countries were involved in the manufacture-marketing of these portions. However, with the globalization of production, this advantage is international and does not benefit the United States any more than other countries.

On the other hand, the American imperialism performs more than others in the management of physical and material flows whose circulation requires an immense and complex system of transport, storage and dispatch. In the United States, the logistics employs 3.5 million people, 85% of them in urban areas. The “clusters”, reception, preparation and distribution bases in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York each have about 100,000 employees. UPS employs 20,000 in Louisville and Fedex 15,000 in Memphis (12). As can be seen, the United States remained a highly productive industrialized country.

Wages, cost of workforce and productivity.

We must first specify that wages and cost of the labor force are not equivalent. The salary includes only the gross remuneration received by the employee, including the levies which he will have to pay, while the social cost of his labor force includes the taxes and indirect costs required to ensure his extended reproduction (income allowance provided by the State, health, education, cultural and sports services and other state services).

Wages and labor costs are an important variable that the Trump team has tackled with speed. Since the eighties, the American bourgeoisie leads a constant war against the American proletarian class and has had great success. Thus, as little as 11.3% of the wage labor is unionized. The unionization is extremely difficult and many workers in the United States consider it unnecessary to organize in the light of the economic struggles liquidated by the petty-bourgeois aristocracy and the union bureaucracy.

Insecurity is only one aspect of the general deterioration of working and living conditions of the majority of American employees: falling real wages and weekly schedules, now below the 1972 level; inability for 30% of workers to live without public aid; imbalance of profit / wage ratio, the share of capital in national income dropped between 1979 and 2010 from 18.8% to 26.2% “(13).

Precariousness is also the number of employees on short or forced part-time contracts, which rose from 18.7 million in 1995 to 21.6 million in 2005. There are more than 22 million workers in a vulnerable position (that is to say even more vulnerable than the others), which creates a downward pressure on wages and a worsening of working conditions for all employees. As a demagogue, Trump overcame this working despair by attributing the cause to immigrant workers, while illegal immigrants can not even claim these low quality jobs. They are content with even more miserable jobs. Certainly, where 27% of private employees are working in the factory in 1980, they are only 11% in 2010 . “But why have 5 million jobs of this type disappeared? And where? Especially in the traditional sectors such as steel and textile. Only a fifth of these 5 million jobs destroyed were by imports came from low-wage countries. Relocation and subcontracting do not explain everything. In Made in USA products, the share of components manufactured on the US ground (…) is estimated at 85-90%” (14).

In real terms, the US industrial production rose the 131% between 1982 and 2007 (before the crisis of 2008), namely 5% per year: a slower growth compared to 1960, however, the difference is much less than we can imagine (the “Post-war economic boom” boasted an annual increase of 6%). This increase was achieved by a sharply reduced workforce, but the job losses occurred mainly during the four major recessions: less than 2.5 million jobs during the 1980-82 crisis, less 725,000 during that of 1990-92, less 678,000 during that of 2000-2003, and 2 million less after 2008” (15).

With regard to the petty-bourgeois feminist movement, unconditional supporter of the multimillionaire and war criminal Hillary Clinton, we can say that from 1990 to 2010, an additional 8 million women have “freed themselves” to work in “shops hoodies” practicing painful and poorly paid handicrafts, creating additional downward pressure on wages.

In 2016, the President Obama has raised a few under the minimum wage for the underpaid employees of federal state. It is because the capitalist state has realized two things: on the one hand, the level of wages is so low in the United States that it no longer allows a section of the working class to ensure its enlarged reproduction (to reproduce its workforce and that of his family), leading to shortages of employees in certain sectors of activity leading to upward pressure on wages. Then, the derisory level of wages leads to the abandonment of legal work by a portion of the employees who prefer to offer their services on the illicit market and for the activities of the underworld. Banditry and crime against the person are exploding in the United States, which is expensive in insurance, law enforcement, and clogs the justice system as well as the prison system. Lastly, the steady decline in average and median wage reduces overall the solvent consumer market for an increasingly large portion of employees who today are over-indebted and no longer can borrow and stop consuming, hence the explosion of thrift stores, soup kitchens and other non-lucrative charities for large capital.

In 2015-2016, the Obama administration has implemented the law on compulsory health insurance for all employees, a law that aims at supporting the consumption of health products and shearing working sheep by the big pharmaceutical capital, the private medical services and the insurance companies.

Under the pretext of providing every worker with an insurance for his health care the medical care industry imagined to tax directly the workers in order to fill his pockets and those of the insurance companies. The petty bourgeoisie and the literary hacks do not understand why the American workers, who were previously insured by their employers, rebel against the fact that the “progressive” Democratic State had relieved the big companies from this responsibility for putting it on the backs of employees while the employees who were not insured still do not have the means to ensure their health at work with these prohibitive rates. Incidentally, the Republican candidate Donald Trump has surfed on this dissatisfaction during the elections. As soon as elected he betrayed his promise to abolish this very beneficial program for the capitalists of insurance, health and pharmacology and promised to simply amend the legislation. Thus, the workers were able to confirm during this bogus election that the Republican or Democrat is the same and that the bourgeois elections are “democratic traps”.

In the end, as demonstrated by these data, the first cause of American economic decline is not the relocation, which is only a form of adaptation of productive capital to the conditions of (geographical) expansion and (physical ) intensification of the exploitation of the global labor force, but the increase in productivity, ie the systematic intensification by mechanization, robotization, computerization of the exploitation of the labor force, which means that the measures advocated by the plutocratic team which are directing the government of Donald Trump may eventually lead to an expansion of production without generating an increase in employment, but rather an intensification of the exxploitation of wage-earner, already overexploited.

The variable of free-trade agreements.

As we have indicated previously, this variable is dependent, in the sense that it is not imposed at the beginning of the process of industrial relocation or forced re-industrialization, as the “indignant economists” call it. It takes place at the end of the process of industrial redeployment, when the multinational oligopolies have finally redeployed their activities to exploit the local “labor force” in each of the regions of the globe where it is most “exploitable”. Thus, the aircraft production will not be relocated to Vietnam, but will be directed to China if it can offer a highly trained and qualified workforce (at the expense of the local proletariat), but at a declassified price. The international free-trade agreements will crystallize these relations of strength and pacify these relations of production between allied and competing international powers. The ultimate enemy of each of these imperialist belligerents is not the capitalist competitor, but the proletarian class of each of these countries claiming investment profits. We are here at the heart of the capitalist mode of production rendered in its imperialist phase. Always it is necessary to remember that imperialism is not a hegemonic policy of great power as is thought since Lenin, but a stage of economic development affecting an entire mode of production and consequently producing specific sociological, political, military and diplomatic behaviors … survival behaviors of a decadent mode of production destined to disappear.

The customs, tariff, labor and tax laws that have been shaped (or have been forged by officials from Brussels, Washington, Ottawa and Canberra), the multinationals present in the Schengen area, in the NAFTA region and in the WTO (World Trade Organization) ensure that the lowest paid salaried labor force will be exploited by stateless multinationals and that then their profits can migrate serenely to tax havens in order to avoid the tax and social charges always considered as execrable by those who have the vocation of collecting the maximum profit to be redistributed to the shareholders eager to reinvest this capital for a new cycle of enlarged reproduction, and so goes the economic life under decadent imperialism.

The proletarian class.

Ultimately, America’s problem is not one of industrial delocalisation, a profusion of stateless immigrant labor, mediocrity of hungry allies, or unfair competition from “emerging” capitalist countries, but strictly a problem of valuation of surplus capital in a global economy having reached its maturity and a high productivity thanks to automated work. If the capital came back to the United States or in any other friendly or enemy country – but still competitors – the profit rate would have been restored to the advantage of international capital, and the situation could be only temporary because the organic composition of capital could only begin again to deteriorate until the next widespread war.

Understand me, the problem of America is the one which will be experienced by all the capitalists of this imperialist world, it presents itself with more acquittal in America because this capital is more advanced than the others in the maturation of its contradictions. What is happening in America today prefigures what will happen everywhere else in a few years.

Two paths are open to the proletariat of the whole world, finally globalized: namely, to follow the example of certain American employees and to sell their labor force below the cost price – below the enlarged reproduction threshold – until their extinction as an operating class; or to resist with all their force the disappearance, to refuse the closures of factories and the fall of wages, to strike until participating in the popular insurrection that will happen inexorably, to overthrow and destroy the police state and not to take control or direction of it as the leftists propose, take the direction of the insurrection as a class “in itself” and “for itself” and engage the proletarian revolution, or die, because have no illusion comrades, the capitalists will be pushed until nuclear war to cling to this dying mode of production.

NOTES

(1) Robert Bibeau (2016)   http://www.les7duquebec.com/7-au-front/aggravation-de-la-guerre-monetaire-preparant-la-guerre-nucleaire/

(2) Luc Mampaey director of GRIP . Http://www.les7duquebec.com/7-de-garde-2/trump-et-wall-street-anticipations-positives-pour-secteur-de-larmement/

(3) Robert Bibeau (2015) http://www.les7duquebec.com/7-au-front/les-entreprises-americaines-delocalisent-aux-etats-unis/

(4) Luc Mampaey director of GRIP . Http://www.les7duquebec.com/7-de-garde-2/trump-et-wall-street-anticipations-positives-pour-secteur-de-larmement/

(5) Luc Mampaey director of GRIP . Http://www.les7duquebec.com/7-de-garde-2/trump-et-wall-street-anticipations-positives-pour-secteur-de-larmement/

(6) https://investir.lesechos.fr/traders/forex-infos/la-baisse-du-yuan-revient-hanter-les-marches-1620385.php#57emqAUS442pVoGs.99

(7) http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/enquete-le-yuan-a-la-baisse-avec-le-dollar-et-les-sorties-de-capitaux-e510052236dbdb909c05d3430fa99b5f

http://invest. Leechos.fr/traders/forex-infos/la-baisse-du-yuan-revient-hanter-les-marches-1620385.php

(8) http://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/tourisme-transport/0211584683296-liran-achete-80-avions-a-boeing-2049567.php

Http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2016/12/11/97002-20161211FILWW00041-l-iran-a-signe-avec-boeing-l-achat-de-80-avions.php

(9) http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/enquete-le-yuan-a-la-baisse-avec-le-dollar-et-les-sorties-de-capitaux-e510052236dbdb909c05d3430fa99b5f

(10)  http://perspective.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/tend/USA/fr/NE.RSB.GNFS.ZS.html

(11)  http://perspective.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/tend/USA/fr/NE.RSB.GNFS.CD.html

(12) According to https://ddt21.noblogs.org/?page_id=1260 . Reference Kim Moody, US Labor: What’s New, What’s Not? 2016. Kim Moody has participated in the International Socialist Organization, founded and for a long time hosted the magazine Labor Notes. Among his books: US Labor in Trouble & Transition, Verso, 2007.

(13) According to https://ddt21.noblogs.org/?page_id=1260 . Reference Kim Moody, US Labor: What’s New, What’s Not? Kim Moody has participated in the International Socialist Organization, founded and for a long time hosted the magazine Labor Notes. Among his books: US Labor in Trouble & Transition, Verso, 2007.

(14) According to https://ddt21.noblogs.org/?page_id=1260   “According to the US Department of Commerce, in 2014,” The internal content [domestic content] amounted to 51 cents for every dollar spent by consumers and companies in the purchase of manufactured goods”. This statistic indicates an average, ranging from 79% for food to 7% for tobacco. Significantly different numbers than Moody, but that in any case do not confirm the idea of a deindustrializing tidal wave

http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/whatismadeinamerica_0.pdf

(15) According to https://ddt21.noblogs.org/?page_id=1260 . Reference Kim Moody, US Labor: What’s New, What’s Not? Kim Moody has participated in the International Socialist Organization, founded and for a long time hosted the magazine Labor Notes. Among his books: US Labor in Trouble & Transition, Verso, 2007.

Apocalisse Unicredit. Milioni di risparmiatori a rischio del più grande bail-in della storia

e che non vogliamo salvare anche Unicredit? Un’altra stangata la paghiamo volentieri tutti no? NON MANIFESTIAMO CONTRO i salvataggi, sarebbe da populisti. Ma prodighiamoci per impedire manifestazioni di questi ultimi, così i poteri forti poi ci ricompensano del lavoro svolto (per la democrazia si intende)
Apocalisse Unicredit. Milioni di risparmiatori a rischio del più grande bail-in della storia
Apocalisse. Unicredit è la seconda banca italiana ed è sull’orlo del disastro. Per Risultati immagini per unicredit salvataggiorimettere in sesto Unicredit servirebbero almeno 9 miliardi di euro. Il problema è che nessuno li ha, e non sarebbero nemmeno sufficienti a mettere in salvo la banca in maniera definitiva. Procediamo  con ordine, e proviamo a raccontare la storia, tutta italiana,  di questo istituto di credito, che potrebbe avere un finale drammatico per tutto il Paese, ed esporre ad un salvataggio bancario milioni di italiani. Si può asserire che Unicredit ha imboccato la strada dell’apocalisse fin da quando l’allora CEO, Profumo, forgiò la Banca aggregando realtà italiane, a partire dal Credito Italiano e da Banca di Roma, e tedesche. La banca crebbe velocemente, è inutile ricordare tutte le aggregazioni e le acquisizioni, e Profumo divenne l’alfiere della finanza Ulivista, politicamente schierata senza pudori. Il gigante, però, aveva i piedi di argilla. I dipendenti erano (e sono) troppi, mal organizzati, pagati in maniera eccessiva e con una bizzarra organizzazione del lavoro. In questo contesto, il management spinse in modo forsennato per aumentare la redditività della Banca con metodi che possiamo definire al limite della legalità e che, in alcuni casi sanzionati dalla magistratura, questo limite lo hanno più che abbondantemente superato.
 
In ogni caso la gestione Profumo terminò non tanto per la sua cattiva gestione ma perché si trasformò in una specie di lacchè dell’allora dittatore libico Gheddafi che entrò in forza nel capitale della banca. Dopo la defenestrazione di Profumo la situazione non migliorò di molto: non si è mai avuto il coraggio di incidere in una situazione di sprechi faraonici, sovrapposizioni di filiali frutto delle aggregazioni, dipendenti costosi e poco efficienti. Una banca ben gestita, avrebbe potuto superare la crisi con qualche doloretto ma senza danni. Unicredit non era in queste condizioni. I clienti fallivano (alcuni come nel caso di Divania, vennero fatti fallire per derivati capestro proprio dalla stessa Unicredit) o iniziavano a non restituire i prestiti. Le sofferenze quindi, salivano in maniera esponenziale e oggi siamo arrivati alla somma mostruosa di oltre 80 miliardi di crediti in sofferenza. Anche a voler immaginare che si riesca a recuperarne il 20%, significa per Unicredit una perdita secca di più di 65 miliardi. E’ vero che ci sono stati accantonamenti e che gli utili generati dall’attività bancaria sono stati utilizzati in parte per coprire questi crediti. Ma è come voler svuotare l’oceano utilizzando un cucchiaino, bucato per di più. Gli utili delle banche italiane sono in picchiata. La colpa è di Draghi che ha abbassato fino ad annullarli i tassi di interesse ma questo ha distrutto anche il margine di intermediazione delle banche. A questo punto Unicredit ha dovuto fare i conti con la realtà. Il management ha deciso di  provare a cambiare rotta scaricando l’Ad Ghizzoni. Quello che servirebbe subito sono almeno 10 miliardi di euro. Tale aumento, avrebbe però un effetto devastante: diluirebbe il peso delle Fondazioni Bancarie.
 
Ma nel caso di Unicredit, l’aumento di capitale avrebbe l’effetto di diluire la quota azionaria delle fondazioni per rafforzare il primo azionista, il fondo Aabar degli Emirati Arabi Uniti. O il quarto azionista, il fondo sovrano libico che malgrado la guerra civile che infuria in Libia ha trasferito la sede a Malta e continua i suoi oscuri traffici sui mercati finanziari oltre che a finanziare milizie di ogni tipo in patria. Insomma, non proprio una bella situazione. Le fondazioni si oppongono, dunque all’aumento, forse potrebbero essere disposte a sottoscrivere pro quota un aumento di capitale da appena 5 miliardi. Ma le sofferenze sono mostruose, un aumento da 5 miliardi non servirebbe a molto, al massimo permetterebbe alla banca di continuare a galleggiare per qualche mese. Poi saremmo punto e a capo. Loro non hanno soldi, i fondi libico o degli Emirati Arabi sì e si prenderebbero la banca per meno, molto meno di un piatto di lenticchie. Cosa ne farebbero poi questi moderni predoni non è dato sapere. La soluzione che qualcuno ha proposto e la vendita di una serie di banche ad alta redditività che operano in centro e est Europa. Un’idea che ha una serie di controindicazioni. In primo luogo, non si tratterebbe di una vendita ma di una svendita a prezzi così bassi da non risolvere assolutamente il problema. Unicredit in effetti ci ha provato, cedendo la sua controllata Ucraina. Risultato? Ha dovuto mettere nel bilancio 600 milioni di euro di perdite dovute anche al crollo della valuta locale. Conti alla mano, la cessione delle controllate europee di Unicredit potrebbe, se le cose vanno bene, lasciare invariata la situazione patrimoniale. Ma siccome siamo realistici, diciamo che molto probabilmente se Unicredit si mette a vendere per un piatto di lenticchie o meno queste banche, la situazione peggiorerebbe. E se intervenisse Atlante? Ormai è una figura quasi mitologica del panorama bancario italiano. In effetti, diciamo subito che Atlante ha già salvato Unicredit. Lo ha fatto quando ha sottoscritto interamente il capitale della Banca Popolare di Vicenza, evitando quindi che a farlo fosse Unicredit che aveva garantito l’aumento stesso. E se Unicredit avesse dovuto sborsare più di un miliardo di euro, avrebbe dovuto deliberare il giorno dopo a sua volta un aumento di capitale. Perché Atlante non può sottoscrivere l’aumento di capitale di Unicredit? Semplicemente perché non ha i soldi.
 
Se Atlante volesse sottoscrivere l’aumento, dovrebbe andare prima sul mercato a cercare altri soldi. Ci sono banche piene di liquidità che potrebbero sottoscrivere altre quote di Atlante? No, al massimo potrebbe essere la famigerata Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, cioè il custode del risparmio postale degli italiani. Insomma, se alla fine la soluzione sarà quella di Atlante, a tenere aperto per qualche altro mese la seconda banca italiana saranno i risparmi delle vecchiette (e meno male che sono un sacco di soldi grazie al generosissimo sistema pensionistico retributivo). Una forma mascherata all’italiana, di nazionalizzazione, che servirebbe a tenere aperto il carrozzone. La soluzione vera, l’unica definitiva e sostenibile, sarebbe l’acquisto dell’intera banca da parte di un cavaliere bianco con un patrimonio solido e capacità gestionali, oltre che dotato del pugno di ferro necessario per riformare la banca e ridurre i costi tagliando filiali e personale. Questo cavaliere bianco oggi in Italia non esiste. Un’alba rossa si sta per alzare su Unicredit, un’alba tinta dal sangue dei risparmiatori colpiti ferocemente da quello che potrebbe essere il più grande bail in della storia europea. Chi può, si salvi, anche perché il Fondo di garanzia Interbancario ha le casse vuote e non potrebbe intervenire per coprire i depositi, non solo sopra i 100 mila euro, ma neanche al di sotto.
Written by Roberto Casalena, 31/12/2016

Spari nel centro di Napoli: «È l’inizio della guerra alla mafia africana»

siccome siamo tanto bravi a controllare la nostra di criminalità perché non importarla? Chi se ne frega della gente onesta che rimane vittima di entrambe. Bell’esempio di integrazione multi-kulti.na-mafia-africana

Spari nel centro di Napoli: «È l’inizio della guerra alla mafia africana»
L’incrocio fra via Maddalena e piazza Mancini segna il confine fra la zona dei cinesi e quella dei nigeriani: a destra la china town della Duchesca, a sinistra i nuovi «possedimenti» degli immigrati africani che stanno prendendo spazi commerciali e potere, anche malavitoso. Proprio a quell’incrocio, una ventina di metri dal luogo dove c’è stato l’agguato, di fianco a un cassonetto rovesciato che porta i segni indelebili delle fiamme, un gruppo di ragazzi, altissimi e neri come la pece, parla in maniera vivace: si sbracciano, guardano il posto dell’agguato e inveiscono. Non parlano nemmeno un po’ d’italiano, almeno così dicono, per evitare domande che potrebbero essere fastidiose. Non parlano nemmeno i cinesi dei negozi della «rive droite» della Duchesca: non hanno sentito né visto nulla e non vogliono rompiscatole fra i piedi nei loro negozi debordanti di merce «perché togli spazio ai clienti». I napoletani sono pochi, si contano sulle dita di una mano.
Dietro una bancarella attrezzata con leccornie per la calza dell’epifania un tizio sostiene di essere appena arrivato e quindi di non avere nulla da dire, all’interno di un negozio qualche metro più avanti un uomo baldanzoso chiarisce di aver saputo solo dai racconti dei clienti e di non essersi accorto di nulla. Bisogna essere insistenti e assillanti per convincere qualcuno a spiegare cosa succede in quell’area a cavallo fra Forcella e Piazza Garibaldi, regno della contraffazione colmo di insegne straniere dal quale pian piano i napoletani sono stati sfrattati.
E quando qualcuno accetta di raccontare, solo a patto del più totale anonimato, ti rendi conto che tutti sanno, tutti hanno visto e forse se l’aspettavano pure una recrudescenza di violenza. Il primo dettaglio è condiviso da tante fonti intercettate nel quartiere: chi ha sparato voleva uccidere ma non ne è stato capace. Però prima di inoltrarci nel prosieguo del racconto è bene chiarire un particolare: quelle che riportiamo sono voci di persone comuni; non si tratta di versioni ufficiali frutto di indagini anzi, scoprirete in questo articolo che la «voce del popolo» produce racconti che vanno in direzione opposta a quella delle indagini delle forze dell’ordine, le uniche che possono essere considerate attendibili in casi del genere.
 
Ma torniamo alla voce del quartiere. Il primo interlocutore si stacca da un gruppetto di persone e sostiene che «chi è venuto a sparare doveva dare una lezione vera, doveva uccidere ma non è stato capace». E qui viene snocciolata una serie di teorie, condivise dagli altri del gruppo, tutte tese a dimostrare che le persone che hanno sparato «sono giovani, inesperte e quindi incapaci di fare centro. Tanto da coinvolgere una bimba innocente», oppure «arrivano completamente allucinati dagli stupefacenti e quindi non sono in grado nemmeno di prendere la mira», o infine «hanno avuto paura di uccidere, non sono camorristi veri».
 
Come avrete notato si tratta di teorie che prevedono una diretta conoscenza dell’evento, eppure alla domanda fatidica «ma allora lei ha visto chi sparava?», tutti dicono di non aver visto o sentito nulla. Il discorso, però, si fa preoccupante quando accettano di parlare altre persone che abitano nella zona. Anche in questo caso dietro la promessa dell’anonimato. La prima è una donna, non anziana ma nemmeno giovane, con la busta della spesa: «Il vero problema sono i neri – dice con astio, e precisa – non quelli marroncini, i neri-neri», che tradotto significa che non fa riferimento ai nordafricani ma agli stranieri che provengono dall’Africa centrale. «Stanno dappertutto – prosegue la donna – dove ti volti li vedi. Si riuniscono a gruppetti e pare che la strada è di loro proprietà, ti guardano dall’alto in basso, portano vestiti firmati e hanno sempre il telefono in mano. Io certe volte ho paura di passare vicino a loro. Sono brutta gente».
 
Adesso, fatto salvo il fatto che la generalizzazione è sempre deleteria e che ovviamente la maggior parte degli immigrati è composta da persone brave e lavoratrici, il concetto espresso in maniera semplicistica dalla donna, viene spiegato meglio da un ragazzo che sta per partire con lo scooter: «Qua c’è la mafia nigeriana che sta prendendo possesso di tutto. Lasciano ai marocchini (intesi come tutti i nordafricani n.d.r.) solo le piccole cose come la contraffazione, gli scippi o le rapine, mentre loro sono concentrati sulla droga. Se andate a via Carriera Grande vedete il loro quartier generale, il punto principale dello smercio; se vi fate un giro in questi vicoli noterete che ad ogni angolo ci sono almeno un paio di loro: sono pusher, vanno sempre in coppia. Sapete dove tengono la droga? In bocca, dentro a certe palline di plastica, così se arriva la polizia le inghiottono e poi le recuperano quando vanno al bagno». Il ragazzo sembra decisamente informato e prosegue senza interrompersi: «All’inizio avevano un mercato piccolo e avevano un accordo con la malavita della zona. Adesso, invece, si stanno espandendo. Ecco perché è arrivato il segnale dell’agguato». Cercando qualcuno disposto ad approfondire finisci nel Vico settimo Duchesca che è totalmente avvolto dal profumo d’incenso, quello che viene bruciato nelle bacchette…
di Paolo Barbuto
 
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Giovedì 5 Gennaio 2017, 08:16 – Ultimo aggiornamento: 05-01-2017 20:28

Franceschini apre ai giovani: “Lavorate a 433 euro al mese” + Perfino il sindacato della Camusso usa i buoni lavoro

primo: perché non ci lavori tu a sta cifra, secondo: le bollette e le tasse le inviano a te kompagno Franceschini? terzo: molti per mantenere fankazzisti come te e grazie a parassiti come te lavorano anche per meno.
Meno male che loro sono la società civile, l’argine al populismo, il meglio dei lottatori per i bisognosi, disoccupati, disagiati, pensionati e lavoratori MENO MALE
Se ne vedrebbe la differenza senza di loro, lotta dura senza paura.
 
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di Andrea Managò | 6 gennaio 2017
Perfino il sindacato della Camusso usa i buoni lavoro
voucher
Anche la Cgil pizzicata a utilizzare i tanto criticati voucher per retribuire alcuni militanti dello Spi, la sezione sindacale dei pensionati. Accade a Bologna dove, come rivelato dal Corriere della Sera , 50 pensionati che svolgono mansioni occasionali in alcuni giorni della settimana vengono retribuiti con i buoni lavoro. E pensare che proprio lo Spi-Cgil […]
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