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Yerevan, Armenia is currently a police state while the people and the government try to sort out who legally won the presidency and who will actually take power of the government.
Fun times.
There’s a revolution going down in Yerevan right now. Sort of.
My uncle is friends with Raffi Hovannisian, the man who supposedly won the election but was cheated out by the incumbent, Serzh Sargsyan. I’ve been told he is the Ron Paul of Armenia, but I don’t personally know anything else about him. I really don’t care who wins because Armenia has gigantic issues that probably won’t be solved within the next decade, but the situation is interesting to monitor for a few reasons.
Armenia received a lot of US funds over the past few years for a lot of reasons. Armenia is the only democratic christian state in the region and has a common boarder with Iran. The US built, what was at the time, the largest US embassy in the world in Yerevan. The US gave Armenia even more money in order to establish some comity with the Armenian legal system and for Armenia to begin extraditing felons who fled America for a safe haven in Armenia. Recently, the US came out in full support of Serzh’s re-election and they seem pretty set on supporting his administration for many reasons, including those listed above.
Personally, it really makes no difference to me but I’m interested because it’s pretty sad and pathetic that Armenians are fighting other Armenians, especially on the eve of the Armenian Genocide memorial coming up this month and also one of the companies I work for has been investing a ton of money in that country and instability isn’t exactly a welcomes site.
A lot of the political infighting stems around which super power people prefer to associate with or which Armenian conglomerate business owner the politician is friends with. If you think Corporatism is a major issue in America, Armenia is the flawless, if you can call it flawless, example of Corporatism at it’s peak. If you want to know what the future of American politics might look like, look to the situation in Armenia.
The news has probably completely ignored the situation but it’s pretty important as far as American Foreign Policy is concerned. I hate to say it, but I think the US might step in, especially if they see their man, Serzh, losing power and they see Raffi take office.
Follow along:
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The parliament of Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia has approved a largely symbolic declaration stating the region is a sovereign entity, paving the way for a referendum on independence from Spain.
The proposal was carried Wednesday by 85 votes in favor, with 41 against and two abstentions.
Though symbolic, the declaration sets up a potential showdown with the central government in Madrid, which has said it will block any move toward Catalonian independence in the courts.
The declaration was backed by the region’s governing Convergence and Union group and the Republican Left. It was opposed by the Catalonian Socialist Party and the Popular Party that governs Spain.
Polls show Catalonians are evenly divided over independence, but a majority opposes it if it means exiting the European Union.
Un poble, una llengua, una cultura. Països Catalans 2014!
BTW, more than half of Catalunya’s population supports full independence.
WHOA. #1, That’s crazy, #2 That’s beautiful and #3 I wonder how many US-secession bashing idiots in the media will support this as if it’s the greatest thing to happen to humanity…
Does anyone else realize how incredible of a time we are living in?
Practically the entire planet, every corner and certainly every civilized continent is a midst protect, culture change, revolution and questioning. Questioning our existence, questioning our actions, questioning authority and questioning our destiny.
Yet, it seems as if no one is appreciating the beauty of the chaos we live in. We are seeing a time of civil unrest and conscious awakening that’s greater than the revolutionary era of 1776 to 1799 that saw both the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
The last few years has brought us the Arab Spring, the global Occupy movement, Wikileaks, the dissent and move to third and even fourth parties both here in America and abroad. We are seeing the weakening of political unions and the strengthening of localized, accessible government and even the promotion of self governance. The rise of Voluntaryism. The belief that voluntary interaction is not only better, but best.
The entire world is changing, at once. There is a global alignment of thought without coercion.
This isn’t the new world order that conspiracy theorists have feared for decades, this is the new world order that humanity has desperately seeking for millennia.
Did you know that there was a successful peaceful revolution in Iceland? It’s true. But you wouldn’t know from watching TV.
In 2008, the people of Iceland forced their prime minister and his whole government to resign. Next, they nationalized the banks & opted not to pay back the fake debt created by foreign bankers. Next, they created a public assembly to rewrite their constitution. And all of this in a peaceful way.
The people of Iceland have proven to the world that there is a way to dismantle the system while preserving peace & democracy.
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Icelandic_financial_crisis_protests
If this happened 200 or even 100 years ago, it would be the biggest story of the decade. We’d still be learning about it in school and the Icelandic people would be praised as heroes.
Today, it’s not even discussed on CNN, Fox msNBC and it barely even makes a dent on the radar of the new-age, non-traditional internet media.
(via thinksquad)
“One country refused to bail out its derelict banks and slash social spending amid the financial crisis. And guess what? Unlike the eurozone and the United States, it’s making a sturdy comeback.
Iceland’s stock market plunged 90 percent in 2008. Inflation reached 18 percent, unemployment shot up ninefold and its biggest banks failed. This was no recession. It was a full-blown depression.
Since then, the country has steadily improved. By September of this year, it repaid its IMF rescue loans ahead of schedule. Unemployment dropped by half and its economy will have grown by roughly 2.5 percent by the beginning of 2013.
So what’s Iceland’s secret? According to the editors at Bloomberg News, it’s a refusal to do what virtually every other nation that was pummeled by the crisis did: adopt policies of economic austerity.”
The Icelandic Revolution will not be televised.
Iceland isn’t exactly an AnCap paradise but they did what no one else had the balls to do in 2008, run their own country and control their own economy. Good on them.
(via reasonmagazine)
“There has to be a revolution… but it has to be a revolution of consciousness.”
(via moralanarchism)
“You doubt that your great country is on the wane? I say only this – look around you.” - Saint Griseus
