La Tarcoteca

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martes, 25 de septiembre de 2012

Spanish parasitism: 1 of the 15millones workers are unproductives by definition. And we wanted to change the unions!


  Spain is a dump: 5 million unemployed persons, 15 million workers, of which 944 000 people are real parasite to serve its own interests and paid directly by the state. Taking advantage of the extortion applying to their lackay subjects called state taxes.
  This is the size, number, and aparance of the dragging system.
Politicians
A study that has been echoed by the Net amounted to no less than 445,568 political appointees who work in Spain.
 The Autonomic State has duplicated 17 times the structure of state, one by region. Hightest number and proportion in Europe.
Trade Unions Delegates-Neither the government nor the unions give official data on the number of union released in Spain and there is no census.
Two years ago the CEOE, patron organization, ventured to give a figure of 'liberated' in the private sector in a report which stated that 4,200 workers devote all their time to union issues.
-In the case of public sector figures are between 9000 and 10,000 (adding the central government, regional and local).
From Moncloa Accords in 1978 Spanish representative system forces companies to have certain union delegates, depending of number of workers, paid by both companies and state with only menaging functions. "Worker elite". They are choose in the corrupted Union elections. Parasites.
Patronal  released Workerin Spain there is about 35,000 people who earn their living by working in one of the 5,000 clusters that are part of the structure of the management nurse, the CEOE, according to his yearbook.
Spanish patronal organization and state paid a number of person for menaging this organization. This jobs are finger-selected, nepotism.
Police
According to EUROSTAT in Spain's 224,000 police officers. Heirs of dictator's age they think haven't still end. They have complete impinity. Hightest number in Europe.
Military
The number of soldiers is around 110,000. The same as police but with a aristochratic touch. Untouched by goberment cuts.
Priests and religiousAccording to Cadena Ser Radio, there are in Spain about 60,000 religious in the Social Security. From Vaticano II Accords in 1971 Catholic churc godes a lot of privileges, that includes their financial network. As organization untouched by goberment cuts.  Taking adventage of goberment "Concert" contract and "Fundation" companies, private administration of public money modes.
   A total of 944,000 people directly dependent on the organization, draggign and ruin of the state. As seen, estates are organized monopolizing the domes and intermediate positions. All this parasite factions are organized to share the pie of the state and everyone gets something.

   People are confused and disorganized. On one hand, there are the possibilists who spect some benefit despite to the full wave of cuts. And there are the disillusioned who believe that the state is completely corrupted and can not get anything out of something that is already divided and has an owner, as the items and budgetary adjustment measures. The action strategies are completely different.

  Why the population is divided? The various factions are mixed directly with influencing citizenship. Following, are helped by the media, owned by the very wealthy. They lay people with the same interests against each other.

The change starts with the unions, because they are a massive and organized, natural vanguard of popular demand.

  The worst thing is to see that the vanguard of the protest is spearheaded by the estate, held by the state. Shell Unionists.

  This produces a bicefalism, between the popular movement represented by the 15-M, which has been able to shed the burden of the game of political parties and the labor union movement, which has not yet begun the process that will detach from this.

  We must recover the unions if we are a true sovereign force .

  How to recover the unions for the people? These short, fair and logical measures may be asked and require. To them if they can influence their situation because they are more exposed to social action.

Union must disclaim subsidies and released delegated.

  This is the condition sin equa non, essential, for unions stop being businesses, and stop being another transmission belt. Until we meet these two simple and difficult conditions continue to belong to unions and government defending tooth and nail, and not workers.

  Sorry, but in the current conditions do not believe that any changes or possible social influence on the state despite all demonstrations, as demonstrated by the "No to War", "No to the Bologna Process", "No to labor reform", " No to. .. Tarcoteca still will go out to the streets as usual.

  Important PS: As we must say there is only one big statewide union without release or grants in all this country, the proud CNT.

domingo, 20 de mayo de 2012

Santander Bank in Spain: master of everything under the sun


Police kick out haundred of 15M
indignados to allow Santander Bank event
Translation from the article: Banc Santander: no ets benvingut a la plaça. http://contrainfo.cat/difusio-i-pensament-critic/banc-santander-no-ets-benvingut-a-la-placa/
<<Many people have been perplex when gigantic tents appeared on Ciutat [Palma de Mallorca city] in Iceland Square, [main square of the city] set by Santander Bank in scope of advertising point. Yes, the same space that was vacated a few days ago a number of people who were quietly making an assembly, during the 15M acts. It was not the square of everybody? It seems that if your name is Santander Bank has more facilities. But who is this illustrious guest who has taken without permission our square?
Santander Bank, a financial monsterAs explained on its own website, Santander is a commercial bank based in Spain with presence in major international markets. It is the largest bank in the eurozone and is among the fifteen largest in the world in relation to market capitalization, with more than 50,000 million euros at the end of 2011, the year the bank earned 8.181 million euros of profit. Emilio Botin, chairman of Santander, is considered one of the most influential Spanish entrepreneurs, and has recently learned that he and his family had at least 2,000 million hidden in Swiss accounts[1].
- Guilty of the crisis
Santander Bank, one of the biggest banking and financial groups in the world, is directly responsible for the crisis we are suffering. Among other reasons, for having contributed to the speculative bubble developing and disseminating thousands of financial products opaque and highly risky. Santander Bank, like the other big banks, rating agencies used to legitimize the accounting fraud and cheated to further increase their profits [2].
- Controls all a media group
Santander, along with Goldman Sachs and HSBC, controls the Liberty Acquisition company, which owns 51% of the shares of Grupo PRISA, who has 100% of El País (national daily), Five Days (national review), Cadena Ser (national radio), Top 40 (national radio), Cadena Dial (national radio), M80 (national radio), Maxima FM (national radio), Radiolé (national radio), Canal + (TV-PPV), Plural Entertainment (national radio) and Editorial Santillana (editirs). In addition, PRISA controls 18% of the Mediaset Group [3].
- Kidnap democracy
The plutocracy is a system of government in which power is held by those with the forces of wealth. One of the main sources of the plutocracy is the illegal financing of political parties. In this sense, there are few voices that speak of the strong influence of banks -Santander bank among them- who have a very prominent and influential in public policy [4]. A few months ago Santander bank granted a loan of 100 million euros to the Balearic Government, we hope there are no surprises in the fine print [5].
- Evictions
Santander bank's role in the 58,241 evictions that occurred during 2011, the Spanish state record [6]. At the same time, Santander Bank has signed the "code anti-evictions" promoted by the Spanish Government a few weeks ago. This "gesture" of good will, like all Corporative Social Responsability policies can not hide that speculative housing Santander Bank  practices remains the same and is a major source of all the problems.
- Armament
Santander Bank is the second Spanish financial institution with more investment in the weaponery sector and has revealed the important role of this entity in the production and marketing of weapons around the world. It was also reported their contribution during the last decade, with more than 1,000 million euros, production and marketing of weapons, directly responsible for human rights violations and millions of deaths worldwide [7].
- Investments that jeopardize the environment and human rights
Santander Bank has a stake in companies that are directly involved in social and environmental conflicts, especially in South America. One case, for example, is the investiment in a hydroelectric plant in Brazil, on the border between Santa Caratina and Rio Grande do Sul, where there is a conflict between local people and a company accused of violation of human rights, social, economic and ecological. At the same country there are other conflicts, as the case of a company cellulose is planting acres and acres of eucalyptus, which is killing the biodiversity of the region by creating a true "green desert". Companies associated with Santander group maintained similar conflicts related to power plants or natural resource extraction elsewhere in Brazil, but also in Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico. Santander Bank is also involved in companies that have similar conflicts with indigenous peoples of New Caledonia and Indonesia [8].
- Laundering of drug money
Santander Bank was marred by a matter of laundering Mexican drug money, along with other big banks [9].
- Fraud to customers
Santander has been the first court conviction for selling the famous "Santander values", issuance of convertible amount of 7,000 million have been lost, thousands of customers, more than half of the money [10].
- Advertising obscene and cynical
Now it is clearer than ever the role of banks in the crisis and its impoverishing action of society and the social and labor rights, Santander conducts advertising campaigns that try to clean up their image by selling a false sense of philanthropy and service to society and the environment at the same time they invest, for example, funds that speculate on food prices and hunger cause the death of thousands of people [11].
- Outstanding intrusive role in higher education and research
Santander Bank is increasingly implemented in universities and has a prominent role in the process of privatization and commercialization of education and research that we are witnessing. Each year the bank makes juicy contributions in the form of grants, loans, sponsorship and research practices. Obviously it does so philanthropic, but does so knowing that gradually have more and more ability to influence the research agenda of universities [12].
- Its dome is steadily rising wages
Apart from saying publicly that banks have no blame for the crisis, the dome of Santander Bank raises the salary over 12% last year, and even declared figures for the daily allowance of 700 euros. That is, what a manager of Santander takes on diets every day, well above the minimum monthly wage of the Spanish [13].
These and other reasons make it clear that the tent of Santander Bank is an insult to the spirit of 15M and the recovery of public squares and public spaces that have lived the last year.
Santander Bank, you're not welcome in the square.>>

sábado, 14 de abril de 2012

Hunting a King: Spanish Monarchy in spotlight


 

In the midst of the worst crisis in the last 60 years the Jucan Carlos I de Borbon, King of Spain, takes a few days off, as if it were an common public official to hunt elephants, a protected species, in Bostwana. There he brokes his hip and needed surgical intervention. For more banter the King is President of WWF-Adena, an recognized NGO dedicated to the conservation of nature and lucre of its managers. After surgery doctors said his greatest wish is return to work.

Biography
The work of king is know as stressful: galas and banquets in Viena, yachts in Caribbean and embassies in Arabia, hunts in africa. Let's take a brief overviewat his career:
-Born in 1938 in Rome, the grandson of Alfonso XIII of Spain expelled by the Second Republic in 1931 (see here an interesting article in spanish). Son of Juan de Borbon, not crowned and accused by his father Alfonso XIII of attempted usurpation of the crown. Due to disagreements between Franco and Juan de Borbon, Juan is skipped in the line of succession in favor of his son Juan Carlos, with the created by the dictator title of Prince of Spain; and emerging issue with the legitimate owner of the succesor tittle, the count of Barcelona, ​​his own father Juan.
- In 1939 Francisco Franco, mainly supported by Hitler, Mussolini and Salazar, wins the Civil War in Spain. He is proclaimed Caudillo and installs a dictatorship [franquismo]. He becomes the new King in functions, no one man has never had such power in Spain. Absolute military control.
- In 1948 Juan Carlos Arrives in Spain for the first time.
- In 1955 his father Juan comes to terms with Franco to give Juan Carlos education in Spain, receiving military training for 10 years in the three corps: Navy, Air, and Infantry.
- In 1956, August 29th Juan Carlos murdered his younger brother Alfonso, 12yo, with a revolver, on Estoril, Portugal. The fact was filed as an accident by authorities, but was denounced years later by his uncle Jaime de Borbón [in 1931 caiming hereditary deafness], after repent and retract his resignation to the crown rights. Requested an investigation was not carried out.
- In 1962 he get double marriege with Sophia in Spain and Greece, catholic and orthodox rites [maybe to exiliate to grece if spanish enterprise was failed].
- In 1969 is appointed as the successor of the Dictator as Head of State.
- In 1975 Franco deaths and Juan Carlos was proclaimed King and held since them the rank of Head of State. The 20th november swears to abide by the principles of the National Movement [fascist proclaim], which does not preclude support democratic reform [la transición]. This day is appointed as Captain General of the three bodies of the armed forces, the highest grade. Two days later crowed king.
- In 1977, in May, his father Juan renounces his dynastic rights. In November his son Felipe is designated as the Prince of Asturias, legitimate Royal Succesor tittle above his senior sisters, based on the "Pragmatic Sanction", law of 1830 in which the male has priority over the sisters.
- In 1981, February 23 [know in Spain as 23-F] disallows the military coup, wich reported him the popularity and aceptation he needed to pertetuate his reing. Witness insist that it was a maneuver to strengthen democracy and the royal household.
- In January 1989 acused of kill and beheaded Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, cousin of the King, Duke of Cadiz, who married the granddaughter of Franco in 1972 and therefore possible pretender to the throne. Facts happened in Aspen, USA, where he was skiing. His death raises again the controversy and questions about royal intervention in the events.
- In 2011, unleashed the crisis amid the scandal Urdangarín. His son in law was officialy charged in corruption by exploiting his position and influence to divert millions of euros. The facts splash the crown.

Conclusions
 -The Franco regime and the monarchy.
 As seen, the Franco regime did not affect the oligarchies, real masters of the country, which continued to rule more strongly driven by the Franco regime helped by militars. The demands and restrictions fell on the people. Franco ruled as a monarch. The return of the monarchy was inevitable.

-Juan Carlos and politics.
  The actual royal activity for institutional maintenance has not been politically oriented, it means that it is based on the survival and maintenance, above the political regime. During Franco's dictatorship Juan Carlos conformed to its conditions. When the social pressure became unbearable dictatorship and Juan Carlos adapted to democracy in the transiction "La transición". Since them he performed as ambassador and trader. This activity was driven by politicians and businessmen, soldiers and priests. The oligarchy.
   The activity of Juan Carlos as occupant of the throne has been to control and punish the other family members possible rivals to the throne. Brother, cousin, father. The crown requires sacrifices.

-Democracy and monarchy.
   The king and the crown is angrily defended as a symbol of the rulers and their values. As Rubicon is the emblem of the oligarchy, repression and force that this policial and military state can have. No one can critic the crown unther the worst punish, prision and torture. Oligarchy imposes a king "because they can".
   The king is representative of the values ​​of the oligarchy, and its double standards.
   On the one hand, facing the gallery with great fanfare: family, church, state, military, home, luxury, wealth and prosperity. Oligarchy imposes a king "because they want".
   But on the other hand, under a poorly hidden secret: murder, hatred, betrayal, envy, frustration, deception, opulence, waste, depressions and corruption.

Overthrow King
To overthrow the king would be necessary a social change, rejection of past values ​​and acquiring new ones, and overcome the constraints of the oligarchy, essentially military and repressive. Require a social revolution which, in the light is still far away.
But overthrow the king would not end the oligarchy. The fascist forces can be organized perfectly in republic as demonstrated in the I and II or dictatorships as with Franco.

Juan Carlos seems will die in bed, as his predecessor. Felipe was easy to get the throne, but hard to keep. Paved the way for his father, he will need a punch line style 23-F to quell doubts. We dig doubt that something must have thought.
Attacking the king is attacking the oligarchy, and will be no permit.

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