Capitalism, a love story

Capitalism is unfaithful.
A big love story it must be for put up with it, with Capitalism. That's the message of Moore in his last movie. The love is not, however, too present in the film, and it can only be supposed for the bankers and other profiters of the system. Seen from an European point of view, the situation can be seen a little bit differently. Cause we have also capitalism, but truly saying a more social one. But even us in Europe we have some similarities with the situation showed by Moore in his film. One of the main points in his explanation of how the destiny of America has fallen in hands of the economic power is the fact of how economic power has been able to pressure* the legislative power, the Congress and Senate to vote by contributors paying seven hundred thousand millions of dollars (700.000.000.000 $) to the banks theoretically for that they don't go bankrupt. In America people have not right to social rights like in Europe, but here we have been also paying bank's bills without always the biggest guarantees. So, the film tries to show how the economic power only tries to defends its interests and how without legal limits it acts against the interests of people. In fact, it seems to be also that while thousands and even millions of people are thrown out of their houses in United States for not being able to pay the bills other little minority makes business of this, even of people death (necessary to see the film for understand this point) and gets payed millions while peoples money is used to finance the stability of banks and banks doesn't use their money for any social purpose. In fact, according to the film, which quotes the study of an American economist in the States 1% of the population owns 99% of the wealthiness of the country and the 99% of the rest of the people owns only the rest 1%. So, Michael Moore, argues in favor of democracy for that the constitution and peoples political rights and rights to dignity were applied in politics across their votes. The documentary finishes with the electoral campaign of Obama, which promises socio-economic rights to the people. Economic power tried to stop his way to he White House, and even if Obama is not a socialist, neither a revolutionary, as banks and their payed republicans argued, some changes have begun to have place, as the public health care program, which doesn't appear in the film, but which is already a reality, but as Moore shows during his record, many other changes are necessary, necessary for a more equilibrated society, where ones welfare would not be built on the basis of the exploitation of others or the unbalance of the welfare of the society.
So, it seems that love arrived to its finish. Its the time of reforms.

Poland's presidential crash; first insights from a train to Warsaw

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A man's cell phone rings and the news flies. So are transmitted within minutes the news today. In a carriage that seems from another era, in a train cabin. Five young people and a serious businessman of disturbing coldness. In this environment comes the news. In a train from Poznan to Warsaw, few minutes after 11 a.m.

One of the youth has the privilege of being the first to receive the news and responds incredulously to what they're telling to him and he thinks that it's a joke. Who speaks is his own mother, but in front of so significant news the holiest seems liar. I have the luck to be in the heart of the events, for who tells the stories it's better to live by his own what he's going to tell. Lucky to be in Poland, lucky to be just in the way to the capital, where not everything happens, but a big part, and finally the chance to know the young man who gets the exclusive.

The other youth soon caught the thread of the conversation. They don't know each other from before this train trip, but the atmosphere is close and they look puzzled and their looks and gestures require the chosen boy to disgorge while he keeps on speaking. He receives all the information and account. Within minutes, at most within hours, everybody throughout the country hears the news, but trains continue their journeys.

"Now you live in a country without government -I say to them, for searching their impressions- you can do whatever you wish". The country's president has died in a plane crash with his wife and several other dozens of the representatives of the state.

I ask for explanations, for opinions. At the beginning these young people of the cabin seemed to say that both the Polish president and his twin brother (one of the most important Polish political scene in the country) were in the plane, which has been proven false. Maybe it was because they wished, or perhaps their unconscious. Can anyone wish the death of another person? We can discuss whether it is right or not, if it is unethical, but many people can rejoice in such misfortune.

Let's take a little explanatory backward. The president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński was not the most popular president who has been in the country. Many were his detractors, which was also something widely known among people in the rest of the world, at least between those who follow international news minimally.

Being young does not mean being foolish or thoughtless. An interesting reflection of one of the young of the coach, just after receiving the news proves it: "Now for a week people will be very united by this tragedy, but after a week all politicians will begin to fight again". And not only politicians, people also have political opinions and want to defend them. When people begin to say what you think usually there's somebody who thinks completely different.

After the Polish tragedy the country's institutions have decreed a week of mourning, the magnitude of the political tragedy is important, at least from the psychological and symbolic standpoint. A president is someone chosen by its people and even if he looses popularity after his election the death of the incumbent president it represents to lose the leadership that the nation had given to itself. Of course this is theoretical, and while many Poles can show their solidarity with the tragedy or wait silently while the manifestations of sadness take place, many others also for instance raise their voices, five days later of the crash to reject that the President becomes remembered as a hero.

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>> Direct from Liège, testimony of a visitor in Poland. You never know what will fall from the sky when you look at a pigeon that flies ... It's about being in the right place, chance and open your eyes and listen carefully.
More notes from the witty reporter soon ;)

R. B. R.

L'ordre economique mondial-OMC

En español (in Spanish)

'Battle in Seattle' est un film de l'Américain Stewart Tonwnsend sur la revendication réalisée pour milliards d'activistes altermundialistes pendant la sommet de l'Organisation Mundiel du Commerce (OMC) en 1999.
En ce année-là la ville américaine de Seattle vécut des batailles rangées où, pour première fois en l'histoire, les protestes citoyennes réussirent à perturber les réunions de l'organisation qui décide les normes du commerce global. Le gouvernement américaine pressa* pour utiliser les 'forces de l'ordre' contre les manifestants pour finir avec le contrôle de la situation que les activistes avaient réussi à avoir.
Le film raconte les faits d'une semaine historique d'une façon dramatisée travers d'une poignée de personnages entre les quelles il y a des activistes, des citoyens non impliqués en les protestes, des forces d'ordre, ainsi que le même maire de la ville, entre d'autres.
Dans un postérieur jugement le Tribunal Suprême des États-Unis a confirmé que les attaques de la police aux manifestants avaient violé leurs droites constitutionnels, les quels avaient été agressés brutalement sans avoir commis aucun délit préalable.
Le film de Stewart Tonwnsend se trouve dans le genre du drame historique et seulement au début il expose un positionnement idéologique critique avec le système économique actuel consistant a l'hégémonie du pouvoir occidental et sur tout des entreprises multinationales (qui montrent son pouvoir à l'OMC). L'information qu'il expose montre le fonctionnement de ça que on pourrait appeler 'le système d'exploitation mondiale' où nous habitons.

Donc, j'introduis le fragment explicatif sur l'OMC qui introduis le film pour que chaque personne puisse s'en former une opinion.