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On CNN, Harris stuck to echoing Biden’s rhetoric — calling for a ceasefire while dodging the reality that the U.S. government could force one by implementing an arms embargo on Israel.
Dealing out crumbs through humiliating charity and robotised slavery. With nothing to guarantee any more, the technicians in power promise only crisis and emergency – and soon war. In the guise of defence against the rabid attacks in recent weeks they have enhanced their arsenal of social control against all of us.
MEANWHILE RACIST ATTACKS TAKE PLACE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
The perpetrators target ‘immigrants’ (or whoever they classify as such) with abuse, chemical dousing, threats, beatings, fire and bricks.
This is the worst kind of cowardice: kneeling in front of bosses and leaders, but leaping up to strike at anyone they fear coming from below them.
Without a doubt masses of angry citizens join behind them, perhaps more hesitant to act, but no less lobotomised by fear of the outsider.
What they don’t see is that every inch of space is at the mercy of profit and control.
Everyone and everything is molded in the image of an inhuman ‘progress’. The human dream of belonging and co-existence is murdered and re-animated as the zombie of imperiled nationalism.
This disgrace is encouraged by the mass conformity of addiction to politics, media and social media. It is a high-tech attention racket, churning out new things to be terrified of, or furious at – anything to keep us scrolling and clicking.
Now, after the smoke of would-be pogroms has cleared, the state continues to sing its lullaby of ‘safety’ – set in a fairytale kingdom of multicultural unity.
But we know its knights in shining armour are cops, judges, screws, snitches, and tech companies selling DIY surveillance.
And the unity they defend is only made up of deadly, voluntary obedience – to subhuman housing and rent, life-devouring work, and poisonous consumption.
To let ourselves be lulled by the sham product of ‘security’ comes at a high price – our own living thought and will to act: a nice deal for those with power and privilege, and shameful dispossession for the rest of us, left sitting ducks.
Enough of all that! We won’t help to decorate this exploited wasteland with flags and democratic lies.
It’s time to act, face each other, face reality, choose our companions in struggle and confront what is destroying us.
In the Harehills neighbourhood of Leeds, the attempt by the cops and social services to abduct several children against their will led to a night of multi-racial rebellion from the combative youth of the area.
In Croydon a gathering of 50 people, against a fascist threat that came to nothing, didn’t let the moment go to waste – attacking police and barricading streets.
But we don’t need to wait for the final straw.
Let’s form self-organised groups, without flags or leaders, meet, talk, identify the questions that are making our lives unliveable, starving our children, throwing us out into the streets or forcing us to live in urban destitution and humiliation.
Without unions or political parties, let’s self-organise the attack on the existent with those we choose and coordinate our struggles, bringing forth quality, solidarity, joy, starting right now to create a world worth living in.
Protesters obstruct an entrance to Bath Iron Works where a christening was taking place for its 41st guided missile destroyer, USS Patrick Gallagher, on July 27, 2024 | Staff photo by Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Because we strongly believe, nay absolutely know, that the U.S. does not need another warship. Reposted from Common […]
For months sewage has been flowing into the streets of Gaza Strip after IDF attacks have destroyed much of the infrastructure. | AP Reposted from Peoples World For months sewage has been flowing into the streets of Gaza Strip after IDF attacks have destroyed much of the infrastructure. | AP After 25 years without polio, the […]
This morning, a civilian vehicle carrying our comrade Xalide Şerif & her son Ednan Silêman was attacked by the fascist Turkish state.
This is another femicide against our self-organisation & fight for women‘s liberation!
Our statement on the attack:
The greater our pain now, the greater will be our struggle for freedom
This morning, a civilian vehicle carrying our comrade Xalide Mihemed Şerif and her 24-year-old son Ednan Silêman was attacked by the fascist Turkish state.
Xalide Mihemed Şerif was active with Kongra Star in the city of Qamishlo and was a vanguard of her society.
This is a direct attack against us as women! This is an other femicide committed by the fascist Turkish state! Against our self-organisation and fight for women‘s liberation!
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) August 28, 2024
These attacks, which violate international law, are part of a series of Turkish attacks on the population in northern and eastern Syria that has increased sharply in the past week.
And even as we write this statement, more than 8 Turkish unmanned drones are flying close over Qamishlo looking for their next targets.
The fascist Turkish state is systematically waging a drone war against female activists and leaders of their society, and the first of these kinds of attacks happened 4 years ago in Halince.
On June 23 in Helincê, Kobane, three women Zehra Berkel, Hebun Xelil and Emine Weysî, who have been working as members of the women’s movement and activists to improve the living conditions of women in North and East Syria and the Middle East, were attacked.
The fascist Turkish state has been waging a systematic drone war against the women’s revolution, its achievements and the democratic self-administration in North and East Syria under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Over the years, politically active women who are at the vanguard of their society have been attacked again and again.
Today’s attack on our comrade Xalide and her son is a continuation of the Halince massacre.
Today we learned with great sadness & anger that the Kurdish journalists Gulistan Tara & Hiro Behdinan were martyred in Sulaymaniya as a result of a cowardly attack by the fascist Turkish drones.#TurkishStateMassacresJournalistshttps://t.co/UiJN5TG8dY
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) August 23, 2024
The Turkish state, with its patriarchal mentality, especially attacks those who organize themselves in the struggle against patriarchy and play an important role in society.
For years, women in North and East Syria have been organising themselves and fighting against the patriarchal mentality and for a change in society based on the liberation of women.
People of Qamishli slam Turkish attacks, vow revenge Qamishli people denounced the crimes of the Turkish occupation against civilians in NE Syria, after targeting of a car in Qamishli city and martyrdom a woman and her son.
From the beginning on Kongra Star, as women‘s movement in Rojava, played an important role for women‘s liberation and was build up to strengthen as well as organise the women.
These women have played an important role in the fight against ISIS and now the Erdogan government is taking revenge for ISIS against these women by attacking them and their achievements.
Bauer AG is a highly specialized civil engineering company which, through its involvement in gigantic infrastructure and construction projects all over the world, is complicit in the destruction of habitats and the expulsion of their inhabitants.
The advance of Bauer AG’s drills and diggers into the most remote parts of the planet never bodes well, and often heralds the end of the diversity of flora and fauna in favor of a gray misery of steel and concrete.
“What we do today determines what tomorrow’s world will look like”.
This seemingly innocuous statement by the CEO of Bauer AG represents a serious threat to everything that doesn’t fit in with the Western idea of progress, or doesn’t want to submit to it.
The Line (ThyssenKrupp, Volocopter, Bauer AG...
For wherever the much-vaunted conquests of civilization extend, there always arises a colonial mentality that wants to quantify every living thing in terms of its utility, and is obsessed with the will to dominate and control the wild and the unpredictable.
But it doesn’t always go unanswered. Recently in Canada, the staunch opposition of the Wet’suwet’en nation to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which once again crosses their territory, has drawn attention to Bauer AG’s involvement in this crime.
But Bauer AG is not interested in any of that. It prides itself on being responsible and sustainable, reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint through innovative solutions and digitalization.
But when the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia waves his dollars around and makes an appeal in the name of energy transition, they flock to the scene.
It’s the nightmare-come-true of a dystopian smart city called THE LINE, along with coveted green hydrogen and AI-driven flying taxis. THE LINE is a gigantic urbanization and construction project for a futuristic new city which, when completed, will stretch 170 km inland from the Red Sea and be home to up to 9 million people, 200 meters wide and 500 meters high.
Billed as the first major carbon-neutral city, the construction project is attracting international companies and investors, and aims to set the standard for future urban planning methods.
Smart, connected, ecological. Right up there with the Western zeitgeist. What’s more, this Smart City is set to promote hydrogen, an important energy source for the energy transition.
Several major European companies have already won large-scale contracts for THE LINE, including ThyssenKrupp, Volocopter, Bauer AG, Veolia, Siemens Energy, Keller Grundbau GmbH, Kühne+Nagel, Trewi, Navia and FCC.
With a contract value of 240 million, Bauer AG is responsible for deep drilling. With such a sum, it’s easy to overlook the fact that most migrant workers are brutally exploited on site. In order to implement this project, the Saudi government has also forcibly displaced thousands of indigenous Howeitat people who have lived there for centuries.
Anyone who resists is arrested, tortured or murdered. Energy transition at its best. Even the much-vaunted technological innovations are no longer so enchanting when you consider that they implement digital surveillance systems to identify political dissidents and enable widespread social control.
At the same time, absurd amounts of resources are being used to realize this madness, and it has to be assumed that the 170 km-long smart city monster will massively impede the usual migratory movements of the animal world and unbalance local flora and fauna.
All in all, THE LINE is a total ecological disaster and a human tragedy on every level.
Perhaps the only silver lining is that the lies of the energy transition reveal themselves with examples like this. Ultimately, it’s nothing less than the reshaping of industrial and technological exploitation to serve the constant of economic growth and profit maximization. Fire and flames to all those who take part in it and enrich it!
La opositora extremista, María Corina Machado confirmó durante una entrevista con Carla Angola, que tenía a su disposición expertos informáticos que trabajaron desde el exterior antes, durante y después de las elecciones del 28 de julio en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela.