To begin with, the idea that central planning runs counter to innovation is bullshit.
Innovation is a function of the human mind, or collective human minds, not corporations, government or any kind of structure.
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To begin with, the idea that central planning runs counter to innovation is bullshit.
Innovation is a function of the human mind, or collective human minds, not corporations, government or any kind of structure.
And the US Empire is right on schedule!
As US warships inch towards Colombia and Venezuela, Petro denounces Trump’s airstrikes in the Caribbean as “extrajudicial executions”
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/portlands-city-councilors-pledge-to-investigate-citys-ties-to-israel/
A group Portland lawmakers launched a pledge to investigate the city’s connections to Israeli weapons.
The commitment calls for probes into the manufacturing and transport of weapons intended for Israel, as well as other potential connections to the country.
“The United States has provided billions of dollars in military funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to facilitate Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” reads a press release on the pledge. “The federal Government has utterly failed to uphold their duty to prevent genocide and uphold respect for international humanitarian law, so cities across the United States are mobilizing to ensure that local tax dollars and supply chains do not support criminal warfare and that local weapons manufacturers are held accountable for their role in genocide.”
I mean what other conflation of terms works better to describe this?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/22/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/
In so many ways, the world's lack of any real action to stop a bunch of bullies/psychopaths/criminals from destroying a nation, reflects what's to come; when those same bullies/psychopaths/criminals wreck the rest of the planet in the same way.
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... the byproducts of these data centers are environmental degradation, loss of land which could have productive uses, and a massive load added to the outdated electrical grid, for which the buck is passed on to electric bills rather than the companies operating the data center. This process describes what Syrian scholar Ali Kadri calls the ‘accumulation of waste’. Although Kadri’s main theoretical contributions focus on how ‘war is the basis of accumulation’, it can be useful to stretch his theory to this example to show that through favoring lumpen development of the tech oligarchy, the basis of accumulation is the waste of natural resources which are required in the form of land for the buildings, water for the cooling systems, and air for exhaust pumps and AC systems. The location of these data centers forms an almost circular Venn diagram with working-class and poor areas in the United States . Thus, they are composed of what Kadri calls ‘surplus populations’ or populations whose rights to life and development are sacrificed at the altar of accumulation.
More here -> https://blackagendareport.com/data-centers-and-ai-bubble
Hint - it's not all the countries the United States is trying to either attack, sanction, bomb, invade, overthrow, or loot.
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it.
To psychopaths and criminals, it's just a pause for them to re-arm and fire again.
The efforts by the US in the Caribbean are exactly that - to instill fear into the people of Venezuela.
Hostility from Washington towards progressive governments in Caracas is not new, but the current administration has initiated an unprecedented escalation against the government and people of Venezuela.
He just admits it out loud.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/17/trump-admits-complicity-in-genocide/
Trump failed to mention the 641,000 Gazans — about one-third of all Palestinians in Gaza — who have experienced catastrophic famine as Israel used mass starvation as a weapon of war and denied the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
And Trump omitted the fact that Israel has destroyed the civilian infrastructure across Gaza. It disabled most of the hospitals, damaged approximately 97 percent of the schools, and damaged or destroyed roughly 90 percent of all housing units.
Instead, Trump boasted about the weapons he furnished to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and praised Israel’s use of them to massacre Palestinian people:
“We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. I mean, Bibi would call me so many times, ‘Can you get me this weapon, that weapon, that weapon?’ Some of them I never heard of, Bibi, and I made them. But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we, huh? And they are the best. They are the best. But you used them well.”With those words, Trump admitted his complicity with Israel in its commission of genocide in Gaza.
And it's really admitting that the United States of America is complicit in genocide.
Great run by the Mariners - let's hope no tests positive for illegal substances.
They are pretty open about it.
Until that is, one figures it out.
Then they actively try to remove their existence from those same media. After all, they can't have anyone do any questioning or serious thinking about that sort of thing?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/
After being exposed as former national security state agents by MintPress, large numbers of officials working in the highest levels of top social media platforms have deleted their profiles or wiped the incriminating evidence from the internet.
A series of MintPress News investigations uncovered a network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter. These individuals are overwhelmingly concentrated in politically sensitive departments, such as trust and safety, security, and content moderation, meaning that these ex-spies and intelligence officials are helping to influence what billions of people around the world see, read and hear (and deciding who is promoted and who is suppressed).
Think I'm kidding?
The potential existence of such a secret clause has reinforced already-existing Palestinian concerns that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would seek to find a way to sabotage the deal. Already in March, Israel broke the first ceasefire after the release of all civilian Israeli captives in the first phase of the deal. Last July, Hamas accepted a proposed deal following talks through Egyptian and Qatari mediators, while Netanyahu completely ignored it as mediators waited for Israel’s response.