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.
2025-10-25
The over-extention of military is a sign of a dying empire.
And the US Empire is right on schedule!
US deploys aircraft carrier and threatens invasion of Venezuela, while expanding “drug” war to Colombia
As US warships inch towards Colombia and Venezuela, Petro denounces Trump’s airstrikes in the Caribbean as “extrajudicial executions”
Hmm ... I wonder how far this will go.
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.”
2025-10-22
'Envirocide'
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.
The side of the so-called 'AI Bubble' that isn't being talked about.
Snippet
... 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centers are environmental degradation, loss of land which could have productive uses, and a massive load added to the outdated electrical grid, for which the buck is passed on to electric bills rather than the companies operating the data center.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
2025-10-21
A reminder on who's the psychopaths?
Hint - it's not all the countries the United States is trying to either attack, sanction, bomb, invade, overthrow, or loot.
From Baghdad to Caracas: a Washington manual on sanctions and war
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.
What fucking ceasefire?
To psychopaths and criminals, it's just a pause for them to re-arm and fire again.
Israel’s war on Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies after Gaza ceasefire
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has
intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank,
conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on
Palestinians harvesting olive groves.
2025-10-19
Imagine if a homicial psychopath is armed and circling around your house. You'd be scared right. That's the point.
The efforts by the US in the Caribbean are exactly that - to instill fear into the people of Venezuela.
Venezuela alerts UN to imminent military threat amid US escalation
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.
A reminder to the MAGA Reds - your guy is a much a criminal as the last guy.
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.
2025-10-16
2025-10-14
Mariners up 2-0 on the Blue Jays, who come to town tomorrow.
Great run by the Mariners - let's hope no tests positive for illegal substances.
2025-10-13
Happy Indigenous People's Day.
Justice for the victims, survivors (and their descendants) of past and ongoing crimes committed by the European/West remains an ongoing struggle.
2025-10-11
In the West, 'social media' is just the corporations' Ministry of Lies and Propaganda.
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/
Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report
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).
2025-10-10
Just wait. It's simply a matter of time and circumstance before Israel resumes its genocidal acts against the Palestinians.
Think I'm kidding?
The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about
Hebrew-language Israeli media reports say
there is a "secret clause" buried in the Gaza ceasefire agreement that
would allow Israel to resume the war. Palestinians worry this is the
pretext Netanyahu needs to get out of completing the deal.
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.
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