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  • Ne tweetez plus, manifestez !
    https://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/0600227687745-ne-tweetez-plus-manifestez-2225431.php

    Il n’en demeure pas moins que les réunions dans les espaces physiques remplissent des fonctions démocratiques tout simplement hors de portée de l’activité en ligne, si persévérante et fervente soit-elle. En 2011, lorsque Barney Frank, député à la Chambre des représentants, demandait pourquoi les manifestants d’Occupy Wall Street « pensaient que leur simple présence physique était vraiment importante », une réponse adéquate eût été : « À la vérité, l’occupation des espaces publics peut accomplir de grandes choses, tout dépend de qui sont les occupants et de leur nombre. »

    #démocratie

    • C’est un peu comme le résultat de l’enquête d’une agence de publicité à propos des choses qu’intéressent les utilisateurs en ligne. Ils on trouvé qu’il n’y a que 6% des gens qui s’informent en ligne sur des questions politiques.

      Während Erwachseneninhalte wenig überraschend relativ weit oben auf der Liste stehen, enthalten die Top 10 der von deutschen Internetnutzern gesuchten Themen auch einige überraschende Ergebnisse:

      1. Recherche von Krankheitssymptomen (15 Prozent)
      2. Neue Kleidung (14 Prozent)
      3. Inhalte für Erwachsene (12 Prozent)
      4. Urlaubsziele (11 Prozent)
      5. Neuwagen (9 Prozent)
      6. Ex-Partner (7 Prozent)
      7. Neues Haus (6 Prozent)
      8. Teure Artikel wie Schmuck und Elektronik (6 Prozent)
      9. Politische Fragen (6 Prozent)

      10. Einfache Tätigkeiten, wie z. B. „Wie kocht man ein Ei?“ (5 Prozent)

      J’ai analysé ces chiffres :

      Suchhäufigkeit: Politische Fragen (6 Prozent)

      Wenn man davon ausgeht, dass 90% der Deutschen „online“ sind, bedeutet diese Zahl, dass man höchsten 5% der Menschen übers Internet mit politischen Informationen erreicht.

      10% machen den unveränderlichen faschistoiden Bodensatz der Gesellschaft aus, je 10% wählen zuverlässig CDU oder SPD, und etwa 20% sind überzeugte Grün- oder Nichtwähler, die man alle nicht hinter dem Ofen hervorlocken kann.

      Es bleiben also nach Abzug der Hälfte von 5% noch 2,5% der Wähler übrig, die man über das Internet gewinnen kann.

      Da verteile ich doch wieder rote Kugelschreiber und Kondome in der Fußgängerzone und bin stolz auf meine effektive Überzeugungsarbeit.

      Vielleicht reicht eine gelbe Warnweste.

      Résultat : Stop au gaspillage d’argent et d’efforts en ligne, pour changer des choses il faut parler avec les gens face à face.

      Après il ne faut pas exagérer. Un autre résultat de l’enquête est que 5% des allemands sont trop bêtes pour faire cuire un oeuf mais savent utiliser l’internet. Enfin ...

      #politique #internet #wtf

  • Anti-settlements resolution in Mass could be ’last straw’ for many Dems, warns party boss in AIPAC’s pocket

    http://mondoweiss.net/2017/04/settlements-resolution-massachusetts

    This is good news. The Massachusetts Democratic Party is getting involved in the Israel/Palestine issue, with rival resolutions that are already dividing the state committee.

    Writes Shira Schoenberg at Mass Live:

    Democratic State Committeewoman Carol Coakley, of Millis, introduced a resolution, which will be voted on by the State Committee later this month, condemning Israeli settlements as “obstacles to peace” and urging Massachusetts’ members of Congress to oppose the settlements.

    James Segel, a former aide to Congressman Barney Frank, at a public hearing on Wednesday introduced an alternative resolution urging support for a two-state solution and acknowledging that there are many impediments to peace — including both Israeli settlement expansion and Palestinian incitement and terrorism.

    Longtime Democratic Party boss/treasurer Steve Grossman, who also headed the Israel lobby group AIPAC, is upset that anyone would take a stance against settlements:

    “I think passage of the Coakley resolution would be deeply divisive at a time when Democrats should be working on common shared principles and values, and I think it would harm the Democratic Party,” warned Steve Grossman, a former state Democratic Party chairman and a lifetime member of the Democratic State Committee who previously led the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a national pro-Israel lobby.

    Here’s the Globe’s panicky report, which gives Grossman paragraph after paragraph to sound off:

    State Democratic Party heavyweights are sounding a red alert against a provocative proposal for their state committee to declare opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank without specifically mentioning Palestinian violence, a step some top leaders fear would lead to an exodus of Democratic voters…

    Grossman… said it feeds a “one-sided blame game,” which is playing out across college campuses and in pockets of the “progressive wing of the Democratic Party,” and would send a disturbing message to many Democratic activists.

    “A lot of people would read about it and would read the language and say: ‘Frankly, that’s the last straw. This is not a place I feel comfortable any longer,’ ” Grossman said.

    “Many would see it as an attempt to drive a rhetorical stake through Israel’s heart and lay the blame — not part of the blame, but virtually the exclusive blame — for the failure of the peace process at Israel’s door, to the exclusion of any responsibility by Palestinians,” he said.

    Here’s that resolution. Very mild! We affirm our support for longstanding US policy, from Johnson to Obama, that settlements “are an obstacle to peace.”

    #Israël #colonies #Etats-Unis

  • Who Makes US Foreign Policy ? - Lawrence Wilkerson On Reality Asserts Itself (1/3)
    http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11839

    ... it’s incredibly complex, difficult to analyze from a strictly governmental standpoint, but when you start probing and you start analyzing, you begin to discover that there are centers in this mess (...) that are getting what they want. And what they want is basically wealth and power. And they then turn that wealth and power back into political contributions, which now almost have no limits, no constraints on them, and they influence people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Bob Menendez as and Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank when he was in there and so influential with the banking committee, and they get what they want in terms of legislation that oftentimes I’m convinced the legislatures do not even realize they’re doing. They don’t understand that they’re fulfilling this objective of a particular oligarch or conglomeration of oligarchs. And yet they’re doing it. And they’re doing it because they are well paid for doing it, in the sense that their PACs are flush and full and they get reelected.

    Is John McCain motivated entirely by this? Is Bob Menendez motivated entirely by this? Of course not. They’re not intellectual giants, and they don’t spend lots of time analyzing this situation in the complex ways that we do. So they think they’re actually fulfilling their principles and bending over a little bit to accept the money and the cash necessary to do that. So that’s how the system works. That’s not even half the explanation, but that’s how the system works. And, incidentally, it has worked that way for a very long time, I would say probably since about Andrew Jackson coming into the White House after we’d really established ourselves.

  • Barney Frank Questions the Questions at NPR – FAIR blog
    http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/08/10/barney-frank-questions-the-questions-at-npr

    It’s an article of faith in mainstream media discussions of the budget: Social Security and Medicare are the “entitlements” driving our debt problems. That’s not really true, but that’s overwhelmingly the starting point for these discussions. Occasionally, perhaps by accident, someone questions that assumption.

    That’s what happened on NPR’s Morning Edition on Monday (8/8/11), when Rep. Barney Frank (D.-Mass.) was interviewed by Steve Inskeep about, among other things, the entitlement burden.

    [...]

    FRANK: No, wrong. I’m sorry. The Defense budget is bigger than Medicare, and Social Security is, in fact, self-financing, still is.