La Grève des electeurs (The Voters strike) is the title of a clearly anarchist chronicle by French writer Octave Mirbeau, First appearing in Le Figaro on November 28, 1888, the text was subsequently published on numerous occasions in the form of a brochure, often associated with another chronicle, « Prélude », that also appeared in Le Figaro on July 14, 1889. The first edition appeared in 1902, in issue 22 of an anarchist newspaper, Les Temps nouveaux, and has since been translated into over a dozen languages and widely disseminated by anarchist groups throughout Europe.
Electoral trickery
Like all anarchists, Mirbeau regarded universal suffrage and the electoral system as nothing more than a form of trickery by which the powerful obtained at little cost the support of the very people they oppressed and exploited. Mirbeau addresses an average voter, « a thinking biped who was endowed with free will – or so he was told – and who went away, proud of his rights, convinced he was doing his duty, having dropped off some kind of a ballot in some kind of a ballot box ». Mirbeau tasks himself with demystifying, discrediting, and delegitimizing the so-called “right to vote” by which the oppressed, alienated and made into idiots, “freely” choose those who exploit them : « Sheep go to the slaughterhouse. They say nothing. They hope for nothing. But at least they don’t vote for the butcher who will slaughter them or the bourgeois who will eat them. Stupider than animals, more sheep-like than sheep, the voter names his butcher and selects his bourgeois. » And as Mirbeau adds with bitter irony: « He has undergone revolutions to attain this right. »
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Dessie (Amharic: ደሴ?) (also spelled Dese or Dessye), is a city and a woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, it sits at a latitude and longitude of 11°8′N 39°38′E / 11.133°N 39.633°E / 11.133; 39.633, with an elevation between 2,470 and 2,550 metres above sea level.
Dessie is located along Ethiopian Highway 1. It has postal service (a post office was established in the 1920s), and telephone service from at least as early as 1954. The city has had electrical power since at least 1963 when a new diesel-powered electric power station with a power line to Kombolcha was completed, at a cost of Eth$ 110,000. Intercity bus service is provided by the Selam Bus Line Share Company. Dessie shares Combolcha Airport (ICAO code HADC, IATA DSE) with neighbouring Kombolcha.
Dessie is home to a museum, in the former home of Dejazmach Yoseph Birru. It also has a zawiya of the Qadiriyya order of Islam, which was the first Sufi order to be introduced into north-east Africa.
Colneleate synthase (EC 4.2.1.121, 9-divinyl ether synthase, 9-DES, CYP74D, CYP74D1, CYP74 cytochrome P-450, DES1) is an enzyme with system name (8E)-9-((1E,3E)-nona-1,3-dien-1-yloxy)non-8-enoate synthase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
This enzyme is a heme-thiolate protein (P450).