Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

2026-07-26

Saw this on a social media site ...

 


It does make me wonder what sort of people would be such a person who'd do all these things.

We're talking one toxic person or persons for sure.

Long goodbyes.

And lots of destruction along the way - https://consortiumnews.com/2026/07/25/vijay-prashad-the-long-goodbye-to-us-dollar/

Vijay Prashad: The Long Goodbye to the US Dollar

Breakthrough News under attack.

https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/26/house-committee-subpoenas-breakthrough-news/


Let's be clear, it's reporting about things like this, that are the reason they are under attack -

https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/07/24/israel-launches-military-operation-in-west-bank-after-iof-massacre-in-nablus/



2026-07-15

Who has a 'right to exist, depends a lot on the who.

Especially if that 'who' is actually a 'what', and not actually a sapient person.

Case in point -> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/no-israel-does-not-have-a-right-to-exist-quite-the-contrary-actually/

Israel’s record is clear. It was founded on the breach of two peremptory (jus cogens) norms: the right to self-determination of the people of the land, and the rule on the non-acquisition of territory by force, as well as on the two highest crimes in international law: genocide and aggression.   

Since then, it has refused the return of refugees and their compensation, and has continuously expanded its unlawful evictions, land theft, and colonization. 

The United Nations and every major international human rights organization have concluded that the Israeli regime is guilty of apartheid and racial segregation, unlawful occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. 

The regime is now on trial for genocide at the ICJ, charges that the Court has found plausible enough to issue a series of preliminary orders (all of which the regime has ignored). 

And the same Court has found the regime guilty of unlawful occupation, the forced denial of self-determination, the unlawful acquisition of territory by force, war crimes, apartheid, and racial segregation. 

And the International Criminal Court has indicted the regime’s leaders for crimes against humanity. 

For the full eighty years of its existence, the Israeli regime has held the distinction of being in breach of the highest number of UN resolutions and ICJ decisions of any country on the planet. 

Today, the regime is unlawfully occupying Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, attacking Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and beyond, and perpetrating genocide in Palestine. 

It has carried out assassinations across the region and has admitted to (indeed, bragged about) transnational terrorist attacks with booby-trapped pagers in Lebanon

Judged against the imperatives of international law, Israel is, in the strictest sense of the term, a rogue regime, illegitimate in its founding, and devoid of all legitimacy in its conduct ever since. 

To declare that such a regime has a “right to exist” is an affront to generations of its victims, to international law, and to human decency itself. And the threat that it poses extends far beyond Palestine. 

The Israeli regime is driven by a deeply racist and fundamentally violent ideology. It is armed with advanced technologies of surveillance and death, holds powerful conventional weaponry, and possesses stockpiles of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. 

It has declared policies mandating the mass murder of civilians (the Dahiya Doctrine), the killing of its own citizens (the Hannibal Directive), and the potential nuclear destruction of the world (the Samson Option). 

Its spies are active in countries around the globe, and its proxies are actively engaged in corrupting governments and institutions across the West. 

Does such a regime have a “right to exist?” No. 

In fact, dismantling such a regime and its replacement with a free Palestine with equal rights for all is not only a legal requirement, but also an existential imperative for all of humanity. 


2026-07-08

Reminder - in capitalism, labor and unions are frowned upon by employers.

The reason is simple - unions are the only effective defense against exploitation by employers in capitalism.

https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/07/08/protests-erupt-after-us-pharma-company-fires-900-employees-in-indias-keralam-state/

tests 

Like my late father said, if companies actually knew how to treat people, there's be no need for unions.

Great article from MintPressNews on the connection between Zionism, and propaganda.

Here's a hint - they're interchangeable, in that they are connected at the hip these days.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-israeli-spy-behind-pragerus-plan-to-rewrite-american-education-to-indoctrinate-children/291039/

This unconditional support is unsurprising, given who actually runs the company. PragerU CEO Marissa Streit is, after all, an Israeli spy. On her eighteenth birthday, Streit joined Unit 8200, the Israeli Defense Force’s spying agency. In interviews, she has admitted that she was an officer in the controversial unit, and stated that she uses the tactics and techniques honed by Israeli spying agency on the American people. “Coming back here to the United States with the gifts that Israel had given me during my military training, I felt compelled to employ them here in my nation of the United States,” she explained.

Exactly what her role as a Unit 8200 officer remains a mystery. Streit has said of her time there that, “We were tasked with looking at problems that the intelligence community might be missing.” Given that her service coincides with the Second Palestinian Intifada, however, one can speculate that suppressing domestic resistance to occupation was among her tasks.

2026-07-07

A book worth checking out.


Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System

Quote of the day -

We must not allow ourselves to grow desensitized to the reality of what our tax dollars could be funding instead of the spread of surveillance,  destruction, and devastation. And we must make it clear that we will never mistake the roar of engines overhead for the promise of peace, whether that is abroad or here.

Every dollar spent on one of these performative fighter jet overpasses is a dollar stolen from our communities. The budget is a clear reflection of what the country values, and right now, our budget says we value genocide, destruction, and the theater of war over the substance of peace and the actual betterment of our communities, our country.

The America and Freedom 250 celebrations ask us to reflect on what our nation stands for, a nation started by genocide, carried out by slavery, fueled by exploitation, and exposing how militarism, racism, and fascism are on full display. Why do we spend trillions to destroy and destabilize the world, while spending pennies on investments to make our own communities actually safe?

2026-07-04

If i needed a reminder that propaganda serves to demonize, divide people, and keep them at each other ...

... a system that keeps the rich and powerful in control, look no further than mass media in this country.

Specifically the American movie industry aka 'Hollywood'.

When it comes to the black man specifically, the beast, the ghost, and crazy one, and the predator are all useful tropes to keep him down.


2026-07-01

Breaching capitalism’s digital fortress.

I think this extends not just to the 'Left' per se, but really for all people essentially.

https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/07/01/the-left-and-breaching-capitalisms-digital-fortress/

We are called upon to take possession of the tools of our age, since just as Marx and Engels transformed the economic and philosophical sciences of their time from tools that justified the existing order into a theoretical and practical weapon in the hands of the working class, the left today is called upon to be an active and programming force in this arena. We must move from the position of the “passive user” subject to the terms of capitalist platforms, to the position of the “alternative producer” who puts forward a technology that is communal, open, and liberated.


 

2026-06-24

Dating and Zionism - who knew how fucked up such a thing would be in this day and age?

I'm off the market, but even if I wasn't - I'd still stay away from this.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tinders-secret-war-how-israel-used-the-dating-app-in-the-propaganda-battle-for-south-lebanon/291026/

Tinder’s Secret War: How Israel used the Dating App in the Propaganda Battle for South Lebanon


The choice tid-bit -

Tinder, the most popular “dating” app in the world, boasts over 75 million active users in more than 190 countries. It is owned by Match Group – a multi billion dollar conglomerate that owns the largest market share of dating platforms – Hinge, Match.com, OkCupid. Plenty of Fish, Salams, and others.

Largest market share also means one of the largest data gold mines – personal and intimate user data, messages, video calls, facial recognition and location data on potentially hundreds of millions of users across Match Group’s dozens of dating applications. Tinder’s user data was found in a breach at Gravy Analytics – a data broker company who sells data to governmental agencies to be used for police and military location tracking.

But Match Group’s strategy and their technologies became fully militarized after Zionist billionaire investor and trump donor Paul Singer and his Elliot Management group built a $1 billion stake in the company in January 2024.

Paul Singer has long worked to integrate Israeli military tech into global markets – co-founding Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC), a Tel Aviv based nonprofit started to combat the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. SUNC works to promote Israeli tech and get Unit 8200 officers – Israel’s elite military intelligence unit – hired at all major US tech firms like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Palantir.

My newest favorite map.

https://www.urbanrail.net/am/monr/montreal-map.png