October 14, 2020

Britain Takes a Beating…From Itself by Kenneth Surin

Photograph Source: Bradley Howard – CC BY 2.0

The week’s political headlines around the world were dominated by a member of the species Muscina stabulans *the Fly) descending on the immaculately tended white top– smooth enough to merit comparison to an Astroturf pitch– of the Trump henchman debating Kamala Harris. Nothing as visually spectacular as this occurred in the UK, where the news has been unvaryingly depressing.

+ UK Covid-19 positive tests surged 56% in a week.

+ At the same time, contact-tracing descended to a new low– 5,722 fewer people were tested. Only two-thirds of those who tested positive had their details entered into the tracing system, and a mere 68.6% of the immediate contacts of positive cases were reached. In addition, waiting times have risen again for those awaiting test results.

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Russia debunks Accusations of Poisoning as West rushes to logic-free Sanctions without Evidence.

10 Oct, 2020 22:13 by RT.com/as8m

FILE PHOTO. ©  Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch

The notorious ‘Novichok’ nerve agent described as Russia’s lethal weapon has been first presented to the world by Americans and has since been replicated by 20 of their allies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The structure of a substance that has since been known to the world as ‘Novichok’ has been first unveiled by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology back in 1998 on the basis of the data provided by the Pentagon, the Russian Ministry said on Saturday, replying to yet another damning statement by the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

Over the years, the formula was used by Americans and more than 20 other western nations to produce a cluster of as many as 140 variations of the toxin that can be attributed to the ‘Novichok’ group, the ministry said, adding that the whole lot of them are not covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention.  Also on rt.com Germany & France will ask EU allies to place fresh sanctions on Russia over alleged poisoning of opposition figure Navalny

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by CNT..Ciudad Real

Every day we see negative news in the media, where a few have a bad time, together with others where they communicate the great benefits that large corporations have obtained.

The bombardment of information we receive means that this has become something natural, something accepted by all, which does not produce more effect than a fleeting thought of sorrow, but which we quickly forget.

However, one of the greatest wishes that citizens have is based on the future happiness of their children, without realizing that the future of a person does not depend on wishing, but on actively moving.

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from The Smoking Man / 2 days ago Source – corbettreport.com

Agorism is a social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, engaging with aspects of peaceful revolution.
Agorism – Wikipedia

Such practice includes buying goods from farmers markets and community farms, rooftop gardening, personal and community use of solar power and aquaponic systems, community toolshares and skillshares, homesteading, urban farming, community protection networks, and free schools”

Is Self-Sufficiency Possible?

Derrick writes in to ask about agorism, self-sufficiency and trade without fiat currency. 

To help answer this important question, James talks to Sal The Agorist, Peter Quinones and Ernest Hancock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6d1ucqydSk&feature=emb_logo

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from Red Latina sin fronteras translation thefreeonline

Latin Network without borders

ALERT!
To public opinion, to national and international solidarity, to the Government of the State of Hidalgo and the Government of Mexico:

We strongly denounce the repeated death threats against the activist Filiberta Nevado Temples and the defenders of the Zacacuatla forest, Acaxochitlán, Hidalgo State, Mexico.

Filiberta Nevado Temples, inhabitant of the Community of Zacacuatla of the Municipality of Acaxochitlán, which is located 2,254 meters above sea level in the Sierra Otomí-Tepehua of the State of Hidalgo and that borders the State of Puebla, in recent days she denounced that she has been threatened with death by some of the main members of the logging mafia that operate on the borders between Hidalgo and Puebla.

Filiberta along with hundreds of people from the area have bravely defended the forests of Acaxochitlán and the region from clandestine logging, especially since 1999 when the Canales Temples family illegally appropriated a 55-hectare forest in which it is located. the main spring from which the Community of Zacacuatla is supplied with drinking water, this in order to cut it down.

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