Essay
written by Jahn J Kassl
translated by Franz
Kickoff
to Inhumanness
Great events always cast their shadows
before!
With the kickoff of the Soccer World Cup on
June 12th 2014
it is not different. Even more so.
Corruption,
inhumanness, displacement, slave labor etc.
flourish as always and the FIFA
runs to top form, in order
to once again pocket huge profits at the expense of
the weakest
ones. The World Soccer Federation FIFA (Fédération Internationale
de
Football Association), headquartered in Zurich, has more than
one
billion Euros in reserve and cannot get enough, because for
the World Cup 2014
they are aiming for a profit of unbelievable
1.62 billion Euros and according
to predictions, this will be
reached or could possibly be surpassed.
A
lucrative business and this tolerates no humanness!
Even more, it shows how
perversely inhuman this métier
and our society are, and it shows how ruthlessly
FIFA acts.
Brazil
as venue had to carry out great construction projects
in order to present
suitable facilities. Brazil had to pay for those
costs by themselves, meaning,
the citizens of the fifth largest
country in the world, both by population and
size. The Brazilian
State indeed does not see a single “Real” (currency of
Brazil,
also called “Reais”) from the immense profits, because FIFA
walks off
with all of this – goodbye forever.
That’s
the way it goes and nobody is offended by it.
170,000
People forcibly displaced
For 170,000 people it means the end of
the
base of their existence!
Because on short notice this many people were evicted from
their
apartments or dwellings, the Favelas. Adequate compensation
or replacement
housing, financial settlements, like it is customary
in our regions in such or
similar cases, is a dead loss.
Affected
persons complain about the “rehousing
politics”
and activists talk about human right violations.
In
twelve Cup-Cities social organizations, universities and
other institutions of
public life have founded so-called
“World Cup people committees”.
In
their dossier “Mega events and human rights violations in
Brazil” the
“systematic violations of the right for housing”
have been evinced. According
to this 500 families of Favel’s
„Vila
Autódromo“ were not even informed about their upcoming
resettlement,
instead they had to find it out from their daily
paper O Globo. In some cases the houses of the poorest were
torn down
including the modest inventory of the inhabitants.
The
UN reporter and city planner at the University of Sao
Paulo Professor Raquel
Rolnik: “People were then relocated
to
places with a bad infrastructure and less possibilities for
work….This violates
the right for adequate housing, including
consideration of education, health
and work.”
Already
in April 2012 Rolnik published her UN report,
pointing out the human right
violations. With little success:
“Only in
a few cases has the situation improved. And that foremost
due to the pressure
from the people and from the committees.”
These are the explosives wherefrom the riots in Sao Paulo at the
opening
game came from and further riots will follow. “Riots instead
of Samba”, only
our Politicians remain quiet and even the outcry
from the media stays away this
time.
Flashback to Sotchi
It was totally different during the
winter of 2014 in Sochi.
The XXII. Olympic Winter Games (Putin’s prestige project”,
as it was gladly described), at the
Black Sea, offered plenty
of opportunity for reasons of excitement and the
uproar from
the media was enormous.
No question, even this great event was
probably
accompanied with justified allegations of corruption.
The issue, which all finally agreed
upon, in order to wipe
out the reputation of the “Russian dictator”, according
to
Western diction, was Putin’s attitude toward homosexuality.
Thereby they
accused him of discrimination against homosexuals.
In times when gender madness
is mainstream, this is an absolute
no-go.
For the German President Gauck it was
reason enough to totally
stay away from the Games, also from Paris nobody of
rank and
name, except for a second or third rate set of Politicians, came
to
the “Russian Riviera”. However the rejection from Washington
was harsh. Neither
Obama nor Vice President Biden, not even
Ministers, were sent to Sochi.
Instead, Obama, quite trickily,
appointed the lesbian sports legend Billie Jean King (70), as
leader of the
US sports delegation. The “Welt online” in a lead
story
already asked on 8/11/2013: „Boycott of
the Olympic
Games 2014 in Sochi?“
This is totally different in Brazil.
Here nobody asks! Here all keep
silent!
King Soccer rules and as long as the USA
or NATO
have not declared Brazil a rogue State, it stays like that.
Whoever has sovereignty of
interpretation determines the rules.
While Putin has been condemned to degree
of intolerability, in Brazil the intolerable stays
silent.
If the riots had not happened, we would not even know
how disastrous the
situation for human Beings is there.
Obviously Obama has announced he would come, also
Gauck and Hollande
will allow themselves one or the other
treat in soccer. And the Pope, like all
his predecessors, at
any situation that presents itself, speaks of
“reconciliation”,
via twitter wishes his followers “a beautiful World Cup, a
soccer tournament in the spirit of true
brotherhood” and
thereby remains
so vague and not at all concrete, so that
it pains one in the soul. Everything is as usual in this world.
As usual for the Elites, and everything wrong for us human Beings!
Double Standard
Closing words: These politics of “double
standard” are intolerable.
And Politicians, who according to the geopolitical
situation of the
USA and NATO support these politics that are so disdainful of
human Beings, and still only react by acclamation from the
system, are
disgusting to me!
Honored Readers,
When you adjust your TV chair in these
days or sink into
your World Cup sofa, in order to watch your favorite team
performing their magic, or simply want to enjoy the beauty
of the game, please
think about the following:
For 170,000 people our pleasure means
the end of their existence.
Yes, the greed of FIFA makes it possible that in the 21st
century
and just like under the Nazis, thousands of families have been
ruthlessly displaced – at best relocated – and anyhow have
been evicted from
their rightful property.
Appeal for TV-Boycott
It is a game that only
works, because we look away from
humanly despising facts and we watch the World
Cup! We,
the television consumers are the bringers of the ratings for
FIFA and
on account of our addictive behavior of watching
television these exorbitant
profits, at the cost of human
Beings, are only possible.
We have the power to end
this tragedy,
whereby we change our unreflective TV habits or give them up.
In awareness of these facts and the
awareness that what has
been done cannot be reversed, for me, in connection
with the
World Cup, only a single option remains, the appeal:
To boycott all games on television
by abstaining from TV consumption.
What I hereby have decided for myself,
even though I thoroughly enjoy soccer.
And otherwise I demand the unconditional
basic
income as a birth right of all human Beings 0-99.
Jahn J Kassl
Source: DW-Akademie dw.de
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The Seed-Horror: Chosse Sides! JJK:
http://lichtweltverlag.blogspot.co.at/2014/02/the-seed-horror-choose-sides-jjk.html
The Seed-Horror: Chosse Sides! JJK:
http://lichtweltverlag.blogspot.co.at/2014/02/the-seed-horror-choose-sides-jjk.html
