Civil War: expression mentioned ever more often, apparently related to social instability and economic uncertainty

In the everyday language of political discussion, the words "Civil War" appear ever more frequently. What would be the tipping point, the trigger, for such an event? Discontent and grudges are the way up for a wide range of reasons. People do not need to be on the same wavelenght to get involved in marches and demostrations. In fact, when you ask those in attendance what led them to participate you can get different answers.

The common link is anger about something. Marches and Demonstrations are therefore an opportunity to vent anger, discomfort, frustration, et cetera, and everything comes as a package.There might be other factors involved and this includes emotional issues. Some people who face isolation in their private lives are desperately looking for meaning, a cause that will make them feel better about themselves. In societies in which people increasingly live alone and often deprived of human contact, it is not unthinkable that somebody might join a certain group of people merely not to feel isolated, cut off, abandoned.

Birthrates are falling and this might happen for a vast number of reasons. Inability to have meaninful social interactions can be one of them. Some say that ordinary people are increasingly having better relationships with electronic devices than with other human beings. Are we becoming dehumanised? When even creativity is being left in the hands of software programmers (Artificial Intelligence), it comes as no surprise that social functions are being distorted.

In the past, there have been Civil Wars, but I assume that everybody involved or affected by Civil War had an understanding of the reasons why. Today, many things will happen in the open and many other things will happen even subliminally. Many people will be acting, driven by motivations that they might not even be aware of. 

Gaza Stripped: The expansionist Jewish State of Israel and the consequences

Gaza stripped: the Expansionist Jewish State of Israel 

Not a day goes by without yet another massacre. Not a day goes by without more violence. The repercussions of what is happening in Palestine are now spreading worldwide.

In Britain, of all places, the country is being shaken and the inaction of those supposed to take action is generating an environment in which the struggle will take over the streets. If there is bloodshed in the streets then we must prepare ourselves for widespred civil unrest.

Britain/Palestine/Israel: Murder campaign continues and protesters are being repressed

Britain used to be part of the so called Free World. Not anymore. While the images of people being murdered as they try to reach for food continue to spread across the world, British authorites influenced by those we cannot criticize increase repressive measures. Now, protesting againts mass murder is classified as terrorism. Sooner than later there are going to be extremely serious consequences in Britain itself.

Dame Stella Rimington stated in the Houses of Parliament that the then Security Services did not have the necessary manpower to follow every lead. Today, in fact, no matter how many repressive measures are implemented to prevent people from protesting there will come the time when protests will become explossive and so widespread that British authorities will have created a lethal National Security crisis.

As trust in British authorities is going downhill, what we see saw some years ago after an incident inTottenham will be nothing compared to what is coming. As some Conservative comentators indicated, Civil War in Britain is just a matter of time. Poverty, discontent, sheer hatred, spreading criminality and lack of trust are a highly flammable mix.

England is starting to look like Northern Ireland and the rise of an English Republican Army is not inconceivable. Most elected representatives are like the French Aristocrats shortly before July 14th 1989. Those in privileged positions ignore the dangers that exist in feudal Britain. Politicans talk about numbers and "savings" with complete disregard for the desperate circumstances a growing number of peoples in Britain face. If this was not enough, they are standing for mass murder and in favour of repressing and silencing those who understandably stand against mass murder.

Labour will put up taxes: no matter how many times they try to deny it, improvements have to be paid for

 

No matter how many times, Keir Starmer or any other Labour party supporter tries to deny it, the fact remains that promises made by the Labour Party will have to be paid for by rising taxes and Council Tax is the one thing that will be targetted as it was targetted in Birmingham to try to rescue Birmingham from bankruptcy. 

You cannot increase salaries across the public sector and invest monies to rescue the British Armed Forces from extermination without paying for it with higher taxes. For many, next July is going to be a very hot summer and not just because of weather conditions. 

Remember: there is no free lunch. And we must start wondering how rising taxes and rising prices in the shops are going to affect the economy and what the political consequences will be for the country as a whole. Any worsening of financial circumstances will push people towards extremes.

America: Lying to iself and lying to the world.

The USA is an expert in lying to the world and lying to itself. Regardless of a Civil War and of the Declaration of Emancipation, a war supposedly fought to free black slaves and promote equality on the basis that All men are created Equal and have therefore intrinsically the same rights, many decades after the Civil War in the 1960s the Civil Rights movement went to the streets and after a march the crowds assembled near the Abraham Lincoln Memorial to, once again, ponder about racial inequalities. The long forgotten Native Americans were followed by other minorities, minorities that are minorities on the streets, but are majorities in the vast American system of prisons spread across the USA. The prison system is the USA is a business.

In a country that is considered to be the main power in the world, economic inequalities when it comes to race are appalling and is even more appalling that despite vast resources, the United States of America does not have a National Health Service that covers all of its citizens, the same citizens that throughout the years have given their lives in many international conflicts. Don’t wait for the said issues to be resolved any time soon as both Republicans and Democrats share the blame for such scandal that blemishes the United of America.

The same country that purports itself as defender of democracy and equality is extremely undemocratic and suffers from enormous inequalities. When it comes to International Law, the USA is not even signatory of the International Court of Justice. So here we are. USA claims to be there to protect International Law and is not even signatory of the International Court of Justice.

For ever and ever, the USA has told everybody else to live within their means. Does the USA live within its means. We have become accustomed to Congress having to pass legislation after legislation to increase public debt and it continues to borrow and print banknotes as if there was no tomorrow to finance all kinds of military adventures that often end up in disaster for the USA and for all those affected by the USA. The first lesson in morality should be for the USA to live within its means and spend its resources to improve the wellbeing of American citizens without getting involved in any more military adventures.

Catalonia: A historical insight into what led to the present crisis

Catalonia: A historical insight into what led to the present crisis

Eduardo Mendoza provides a different angle - a pragmatic non partisan approach - to what has led to present events in Spain and in Catalonia. The author, born in Barcelona in 1943, states in the book "Qué está pasando en Cataluña?"(What is happening in Catalonia?) deals with cetain historical assumptions that tend to distort perceptions of what is actually happening. He also deals with cultural aspects of Catalonia, immigration and how immigration has shaped up today's Catalonia and in end comes to the issue of independence of Catalonia.

Eduardo Mendoza clearly explains why he wrote what he wrote refering to those who are in favour of independence and those who are against independence:

"No lo he escrito para posicionarme en un bando o en otro. Personalmente, no me gusta ninguno de los dos, pero eso se puede atribuir a mi temperamento, a mis ideas y a mi experiencia personal. Lo he escrito para tratar de comprender lo que está pasando." (I haven't written it to take sides. Personally, I don't like neither, but this can attributed to my temperament, to my ideas and to my personal experience. I have written it to try to understand what is happening." 

Although I don't completely agree with some of the statements made by Eduardo Mendoza, the book provides a valuable analysis to deal with the complexities of the subject. When you deal with the history of Spain and of Catalonia nothing is black or white and over-simplication can lead to fundamental errors. Eduardo Mendoza states that although the Spanish Civil has something to do with what is happening today there are other more relevant factors dating from Post-Franco Spain. 

"Francisco Franco fue un criminal de guerra, un dictador y un político astuto y mediocre, pero su importancia histórica y su influencia han sido magnificadas." (Francisco Franco was a war criminal, a dictator and an astute and mediocre politician, but his political importance and his influence have been exaggerated.) By saying this, the author indicates that thinking that everything that happens today was due to the Civil War and Franco's regime is in itself an exaggeration. 

During the Civil War and after the Civil War, Catalonia was not a monolithical unit. Some Catalans sided with Franco and some Catalans sided with the Republic. Catalonia itself was divided across socio-economic classes. In principle, Catalonia didn't want independence. Catalonia wanted to recover its lost freedoms, an amnesty for those who had been incarcerated and those who had been forced to leave the country and the restoration of its autonomous government.

The book plublished by Seix Barral in 2017 is a brief, but right to the point analysis for those seeking to comprehend present realities of Catalonia and of Spain. 

It must be remembered that the book was published long before recent political events in Catalonia and in Spain under a Socialist Prime Minister that seems to have lost control. Excessive use of force and long jail sentences for elected representatives of the Catalonian people are reminders of the fact that repression is neither exclusively left wing or exclusively right wing. It happens under any ideology. What is shocking is that today it is happening in what is considered to be democratic Spain.

UK: Frustration is dangerous and will certainly fuel extremism

Frustration is dangerous and will certainly fuel extremism

For the first time, I am hearing people openly talking about joining paramilitaries and even National Action in the United Kingdom. Extremely high levels of frustration are creating a pressure cooker effect and the unthinkable might happen. 

At a gathering people spoke about using IRA tactics in Britain to fight against the political establishment and the mass media including BBC, SKY and others that have a very clear anti-British political agenda.

When it was mentioned that several serving soldiers were on trial for suspected membership of National Action, I saw the whole picture. No one in the British Armed can have certain ideas without the middle ranks knowing about it and this leads me to the fact that National Action is alive and well inside the British Armed Forces.

Banning an organisation doesn't get rid of the ideas that led to the creation of the said organisation. What is more, the present trend to prevent people from expressing what they believe (attempts to control Internet, bans and censorship carried out on Internet will only make things worse. When people are not able to express their feelings and ideas in writing, they will carry out attacks. Like an animal pushed against a wall, with nowhere else to go, people will turn violent.

Only yesterday somebody suggested that Police Forces are being readied to deal with Civil War in the United Kingdom because Civil War is coming. Spaces for dialogue are vanishing and the harsh approach put into practice by Police Forces in the United Kingdom show that it is self-evident where things are heading.

I reject the idea of going around publicly threatening individuals or communities but I do understand the level of anger shown by some who do go around threatening individuals or communities. More often than not we have seen members of Muslim Communities with placards talking about beheading those who do not surrender to Islam. We have seen them burning Poppies and insulting and threatening British troops and the beheading of Lee Rigby is a clear example of what is to come showing that what is written on placards is very much the announcement of what is going to happen in the no so distant future.