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The Triumph of the Ridiculous Nikos Raptis 31 March 2012 in the Znet Commentary The Triumph of the Ridiculous Nikos Raptis 31 March 2012 In the ZNet Commentary "Anno Domini 2012: One More Year Of Ridicule and of Hate", of March 17, 2012, it was mentioned that: "March 25th is the '4th of July' for the Greeks ... [there is a] possibility of having half a million Greeks greeting the members of the [Greek] government at Syntagma Square with a collective 'moutza' [insult] as they are standing on their elevated platform during the 'March 25th' parade ... A provocatio n during the parade, preferably a bloody one, could be a cause for postponing the [upcoming] elections or for worse developments in Greece." Leni Riefenstahl, was a rather pretty lady and a film maker, who served as a "tool" of propaganda for Hitler. In 1935 she filmed Hitler's infamous Nuremberg Rally, which she named "Triumph des Willens" ["Triumph of the Will"]. The German word Willens [pronounced: vi' lens, exactly as the English word "villains"] is the [rare] genitive of the German noun "der Wille" [the will]. Did Riefenstahl know that her Nazi friends were "villains"? Of course she did? Did the Nazi "villains" triumph? Excepting some problematic individuals like Hitler, Himmler, and Goering, who committed suicide, a great number of the Nazis (top and low) "triumphed", thanks to the US elites; Werner von Braun is a "glorious" case, Heinz Alfred Kissinger's mentor in the US government was a top Nazi, etc. Riefenstahl, herself, did quite well. After her denazification, she went on working as an "artistic" photographer of ... negroes, etc. On the jacket of her book "The Last of the Nuba", published by the US company Harper & Row in 1973, she offers the world 12 pictures of herself from 1927 to 1973. Excepting the pictures after 1965, when she was smiling, because, by now, she was again a member of the dignified West, the only pictures that she is caught smiling are those of 1936; the apogee of the Nazi era. Had Riefenstahl been alive today she would have been the right person to film the "Triumph of the Ridiculous": the "March 25th" national holiday parade, for 2012, in Athens, Greece. The Greek governing elites for two weeks, in a panicky state, were planning their reaction to a possible protest (mostly through insults) against them by the Greek population at Syntagma Square, the traditional site for the parade. This is the result of their consultation: - They positioned snipers [!!!] on the roof of the Parliament building, just above the elevated platform that the officials stand during the parade. - They forbade the presence of ordinary Greeks in the wider area of the parade at about a distance of 3 to 4 blocks around the Syntagma Square, by using about 4,000 policemen. - They applied preemptive detaining of civilians, whom the police found to be "aesthetically" suspect. They detained around 300 persons in Athens. - They shortened the duration of the parade, which normally used to last for a couple of hours, to 35 minutes. - They vetted the few persons, mostly retired military, that were allowed to stand at the sidewalk opposite the officials. So, the governing elites of Greece had the pleasure of having a military parade, in Athens, all to themselves, while the Greek population was absent. A joke, which, nevertheless, was taken very seriously by these elites, who became the laughing-stock of the Greek population. Why was the Greek population absent? For some the "introduction" of snipers in the events taking place in Syntagma Square for the last couple of years, was something that could not be ignored. Kids may like parades, but some parents wisely kept the kids at home. For the mass of the very angry people of Athens, this absence and this silence proved that their maturity is considerable. By ignoring the parade fiesta and by avoiding to give a chance to the rulers to exploit a possible provocation to their favor, the ordinary people protected themselves and in the meantime made the ridicule for the rulers more loud. "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voice you are throttling today." Addressing the martyrs of Haymarket at the Waldheim cemetery in Chicago, we can assure them that they were right. Syntagma Square, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Wisconsin, Occupying, and more, and more, prove that they cannot throttle the voice of humanity. Back to Athens: One additional factor for the restraint of the people of Athens was that the upcoming parliamentary elections, in about four weeks (early May), are pivotal for the Greeks. A postponement, or even a cancellation, of the elections, which is the aim of the US, the Germans, and the IMF, will be a very bad development for the Greeks. In other Greek towns, smaller than Athens, in Salonika, in Patras, in Crete, and others there were some loud insults against the governing politicians, but the "battle" was given in Athens and the people was victorious. How about the governing politicians, after the "March 25th" events in Athens? Did they feel any shame? Of course not. Yet, is it shamelessness or is it a cynic and servile obedience to the dictates of the US, the EU, the IMF and other benevolent institutions of that kind? The answer: servility presupposes shamelessness. Suppressing anger for a moment and observing these people with a calm and cool gaze, one is bound to discover the "childishness" of all these "leaders"; W. Bush, Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, Berlusconi, the Greek governing elites, the Pope, etc, etc. Yet, their childishness is dangerous and leads to criminal behavior. Will this ridiculous childishness of these elites and of the economic deviates that control them prevail and be triumphant? I hope not in Greece. A test of this will be the parliamentary elections in early May of 2012. The situation in Greece is reaching the limits of rational patience. This drama must end. www.zcommunications.org Antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 Is Undermining India's Medical Sector Sonia Shah 31 March 2012 Some of modern medicine's most heralded interventions -- from routine surgeries to organ transplants and cancer treatments -- may soon be too dangerous. The viability of these procedures hinges on physicians' ability to use antibiotics to swiftly vanquish any bacterial infections that might arise in the course of treatment. For decades, physicians have been able to choose from hundreds of different kinds of antibiotics to do the job, including many powerful "broad spectrum" varieties that indiscriminately kill a wide range of bacteria. But over the past two decades, antibiotic drugs have started to fail one by one, as bacteria with resistance to them have emerged and spread. Taming the new drug-resistant pathogens requires ever more toxic, expensive, and time-consuming therapies, such as a class of last-resort antibiotics called carbapenems, which must be administered intravenously in hospitals. In the United States alone, fighting drug-resistant infections costs up to 8 million additional patient hospital days and up to $34 billion every year. Now, the emergence in India of a particularly nasty form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which renders even the last-resort drugs obsolete, could bring about an era of unstoppable infections. To contain the bacteria, South Asian governments must quickly reform their public health practices and medical manufacturers must fast-track the development of new drugs. But with the Indian political establishment prioritizing building up its lucrative private health sector over making costly public health reforms, and policies aimed at recalibrating drug research and development in the West stymied, the political will to accomplish the job is scarce. In India, antibiotic use is virtually unregulated. Antibiotics are widely available without a prescription and, as in the United States, affluent people tend to consume the drugs whether medically necessary or not -- for everything from colds to diarrhea. Meanwhile, when ill, India's poor tend to scrape together a few rupees to buy a couple doses of antibiotic at a time, enough to quell their symptoms but not enough to clear their infections. Both patterns of consumption contribute to the development of drug-resistant bacteria. So, it is no wonder that, even before the new super-resistant strain was first documented, over 50 percent of the bacterial infections that occurred in Indian hospitals were resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Then, in 2010, a study of a New Delhi-area hospital found that 24 percent of bacterial infections there could resist the last-resort carbapenem antibiotics. Thirteen percent not only resisted carbapenem drugs, but overcame 14 other antibiotics, making treatment options exceedingly limited. The gene that conferred this extreme drug-resistance was dubbed "New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1" or NDM-1. Scientists found that, unlike other drug-resistant bacteria, NDM-1 bacteria are able to quickly and prolifically spread their genes to other bacteria, easily jumping the barriers of species and gen us. The pandemic potential of such a microbe is enormous. Indeed, according to Tim Walsh, a University of Cardiff medical microbiologist who has been chasing the dangerous gene, NDM-1 infections already turned up in more than 35 countries last year -- often in the bodies of medical tourists, who had traveled to India or Pakistan for cheap surgeries and other procedures. And NDM-1 bacteria have also been found in drinking water and in puddles around New Delhi. Part of the problem in taming the bug is an ongoing failure to develop drugs to combat it. Despite growing global demand (and the World Health Organization's recognition that drug-resistant pathogens are one of the greatest threats to human health) the drug industry hasn't launched a new class of antibiotics to treat the class of bacteria susceptible to the NDM-1 gene in 45 years.
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