The Nerfed World
The Nerfed World A spoken word (new-power.org) The First Worldists want a safe, comfortable world. They want a world where they have driven everything real away. They want coffee without caffeine. They want near beer. They want revolution without revolution, without violence. They want pads, cushions on everything, even the human soul. No sharp edges,... Continue Reading →
Editor says he planted stories for the CIA
by Ralph Lopez (Digitaljournal) Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA. Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that... Continue Reading →
Santa’s real workshop: the town in China that makes the world’s Christmas decorations
(theguardian) Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the world There’s red on the ceiling and red on the floor, red dripping from the window sills and red globules splattered across the walls. It looks like the artist Anish... Continue Reading →
Leon Sosselson – Song of the Old Communist
Leon Sosselson - Song of the Old Communist Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ecU2yGDpM
This guy fooled millions of chemtrail conspiracy theorists, now they want his head
[There is a significant portion of the population who are not good at discriminating between genuine social control and make-believe paranoid fantasies. This population correctly distrusts the system, but does not really understand how the system works in a scientific way. Instead they weave all kinds of bizarre fictions. This is a good example of... Continue Reading →
Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970: WWF
[Capitalism is killing the natural world. We need to wake up or there will be no future. We need to liberate the earth for our children and their children. --NP] By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The world populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell overall by 52 percent between 1970 and 2010,... Continue Reading →
Vet operates on goldfish in Australia to remove life-threatening tumour
[People in the Third World don't have food and health care, yet First World people spend money curing cancer in goldfish. The majority of Peru's fish crop was, at one point, going to feed cats in the USA, as people in Peru suffered hunger every day. We oppose cruelty, but this is ridiculous. The whole... Continue Reading →
Majority of consumer products may be tainted by illegal deforestation – report
WASHINGTON, Sep 11 2014 (IPS) - At least half of global deforestation is taking place illegally and in support of commercial agriculture, particularly to supply overseas markets, new analysis released Thursday finds. Over the past decade, a majority of the illegal clearing of forests has been in response to foreign demand for common commodities such as... Continue Reading →
Global study: World not ready for aging population
[Capitalism is irrational from the standpoint of human need. Capitalism is about creating more capital, not organizing society scientifically, rationally. Capitalism does not prepare for the future. It destroys the environment. Our children, future generations, will pay the price for capitalism's irrationality -- NP] Global study: World not ready for aging population (AP) The world... Continue Reading →
Red Hack deletes debts
Red Hack deletes debts [via Global Revolution LIVE] RedHack_En deletes everyone’s late utility bills. Google translation http://bit.ly/151wug6 The hackers also renamed several public schools after people who died during the Turkish protests. Original Links in Turkish Hurriyet http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/teknoloji/23604713.asp Sol Haber http://haber.sol.org.tr/devlet-ve-siyaset/redhack-borclari-sildi-ethem-abdullah-ve-mehmetin-adini-kurumlara-verdi-haberi-754
Pyramid in Peru torn down by developers
[Capitalism bulldozes ancient culture to make way for shopping malls -- NP] Pyramid in Peru torn down by developers (Guardian) Real estate developers using heavy machinery tore down a 20ft (6m) tall pyramid at one of Peru's oldest archaeological sites, cultural officials have said. Rafael Varon, deputy minister of cultural patrimony, told reporters on Wednesday... Continue Reading →