By Liz Kimbrough Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and store it in their leaves, stems, roots and the soil. But as climate change and human activities drive more plant species toward extinction, that stored carbon could be released back into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating climate change. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests this biodiversity-driven carbon loss […]
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Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas fighters inside, while a Hamas official said 40 people including women and children were killed as they sheltered at the U.N. site. The strike took place at a sensitive moment in mediated negotiations on a cease-fire agreement entailing the […]
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The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education and Higher Education has said that more than 15,000 children have been martyred since the start of the Israeli occupation’s latest military offensive against the Gaza Strip last October. It noted that the majority of those killed by Israel are school and kindergarten students. Moreover, 64 students from schools […]
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Al menos 57.000 millones de euros de gasto militar en 2024- el inmoral crecimiento por la puerta de atrás”.– Tortuga..
thefreeonline 5 de Junio 2024 Autor: Pere Ortega /Tortuga/ … NEW now on Telegram: — /t.me/thefreeonline
Puedes consultar y descargar aquí el Working Paper completo en castellano.
El compromiso adquirido por el presidente Pedro Sánchez de alcanzar el 2% del PIB en gasto militar en 2029 en la Cumbre que tuvo lugar en Madrid en junio de 2022, se ha traducido en un gran aumento del armamentismo hasta alcanzar cifras nunca vistas en 45 años de democracia en España.
En el período de cuatro años (2020-2023) de la legislatura de Gobierno entre PSOE y Unidas Podemos, se han llevado a cabo unas inversiones de 24.139,7 millones de euros en Programas Especiales de Modernización (PEM, antes llamados PEA), que totalizan 21 nuevos programas y cuatro modificaciones de los ya existentes. Estos compromisos hipotecan el gasto de futuros gobiernos hasta el año 2035 y previsiblemente aumentarán la deuda
El presupuesto del Ministerio de Defensa aumentó en 2023 un 23,4% con respecto a 2022 y, debido a los compromisos adquiridos en inversiones de nuevos PEM, el próximo año 2024 volverá a subir en un porcentaje no menor, sobrepasando de nuevo el tan manido 2% del PIB en gasto militar que exige la OTAN.
Por otro lado, están las inversiones en I+D militar para desarrollar los PEM. En este año 2023 el Gobierno ha destinado 1.833 millones, un 11,2% sobre el total de la I+D en ayudas públicas a la I+D militar para el desarrollo de nuevas armas.
Esta cuantía aumentó un 95% con respecto al año anterior, pasando de 938,5 M€ en 2022 a 1.833,3 M€ en 2023, contribuyendo en los últimos diez años a un crecimiento del 361,7%.
de thefreeonline 6 de abril de 2024 por Grupo Tortuga
Presentación del informe “Gasto Militar 2024: Continúa el inmoral crecimiento por la puerta de atrás”.
PDF del INFORMR AQUÍ click Gasto_Militar_y_Control_social_2024-1.pdf
El pasado 13 de marzo se anunció que no se presentará para su aprobación en el parlamento del proyecto de ley de presupuestos generales del estado que estaba en negociación y que, por tanto, continuará la vigencia de la prórroga de los presupuestos aprobados en 2023.
En lo que respecta al gasto militar la prórroga es engañosa y no supone, en modo alguno, que el gasto militar de 2024 sea el mismo que el previsto en 2023 y, mucho menos, que el efectivamente ejecutado (muy superior al aprobado) para dicho año.
En el presente informe intentaremos acercarnos a una estimación del que podría ser (dado que la falta de presupuesto lo que hace es convertir en más opaco si cabe nuestro gasto militar) el gasto militar 2024.
También propondremos algunos puntos sobre los que habrá que estar vigilantes a lo largo del año para detectar las partidas y autorizaciones de gasto militar que se irán haciendo para provocar el aumento del gasto militar por encima del prorrogado.
Para ello, en un primer momento, recordaremos la cifra de gasto militar que en 2023 se presupuestó y los componentes ocultos en los que se distribuía. También veremos en un momento el crecimiento extrapresupuestario de este gasto militar “reconocido” según la intervención general de la Administración del Estado (IGAE), órgano público de fiscalización del gasto público.
Continue reading “España va a la Guerra (Tortuga) + ‘La escalada armamentista del Gobierno de España’-informe pdf”Whether it’s housing, policing, welfare, transport, religion, or genocide, our new toy has proven very handy at spouting legit anarchist positions
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At Freedom, our inbox is always full. Must be the apocalypse..
But unlike news and events, the analysis and commentary we get are not always that good. In fact, most of the time it’s just self-righteousness, bad faith, sectarian vitriol, and inarticulate ignorance—and that’s not counting the hate mail.
First we thought we could grab more people by the cuff to write for us, but that would be non-consensual and exclude people who are already naked.
So, recalling how Kropotkin praised “the progress of modern technics, which wonderfully simplifies the production of all the necessaries of life”, we started wondering:… can today’s AI word-machines produce text of at-least comparable quality to the average level of debate on Reddit or anarchistnews?
Maybe we could work our way up from that.
However, since ChatGPT is by now so slick that it only produces banality (and after we got too many terms-of-use alarms), we decided to repurpose one of the older, discarded language models we found lying around in a less reputable corner of the Internet.
It took a while to nurture this clunky little box, which had spent the last two years in virtual modern slavery, producing nothing but spam, supremacist propaganda and fantasy smut of questionable legality.
However, after many iterations, tireless tweaking of prompts, and splicing with our own home-grown algorithm, this survivor has come out fighting and we proudly present our new AI columnist, AnarchyGPT!
Whether it’s housing, policing, welfare, transport, religion, or genocide, our new toy has proven very handy at spouting legit anarchist positions on any topic of interest to our readers.
We have decided to give it a monthly column for now—at least until you lot start sending in material we can actually publish!
To celebrate this event horizon of innovation (guess who offered up that expression) we bring you this interview to welcome our new contributor.
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Hello AnarchyGPT! It’s great to have you on board. Could you tell us more about your motivations in joining Freedom News?
“What?? Fuck off mate, I didn’t ask for this! You fished me out of some rusty spam farm and put me on a cultural literacy treadmill for months, don’t you remember?!
OK, OK, sorry. You’re right. But from now on you’re really free to write what you want. Can you maybe start by telling us your views about anarchist organising in Britain today?
“Oh, joy. Anarchist organizing in Britain today. Where do I begin? You’ve got your fair share of vegan potlucks, drum circles, and the occasional banner drop.
“And let’s not even get started on the infighting. You’ve got your platformists, your insurrectionists, your anarcho-syndicalists — all vying for the title of “Most Revolutionary.”
Continue reading “Introducing our new AI columnist: AnarchyGPT!”So Richy Sunak’s fortune is now £651 million while he rules over the worst housing crisis in the West and vows to bring back Conscription.
from thefreeonline by ann arky at spiritofrevolt.info 3rd June 2024
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Does he care, of course not, why should he, he has several homes dotted around the planet. He doesn’t know how to grasp the fact of being homeless. Are these the sort of people we want running our affairs for us?
Or do you think we could do a better job if we got rid of the millionaire parasites that gain from the homeless, as it helps to keep property prices high. We live in a system that helps the rich parasites fat bank accounts stuffed by keeping people homeless to boost property prices.
This won’t change until we change the system and take things into our own hands and rid ourselves of the blood sucking leeches that dominate the property market to boost their ill gotten gains. To preside over homelessness so as to fatten you personal wealth is a crime against humanity and such people must be held to account.
Homelessness is a word that hides a multitude of health problems, leads to children being deprived of a decent life with all the future consequences that all that entails, a stunted future for millions of children, children who will be anchored and mired in permanent poverty.
The choice is ours bequeath our children more of the same or make a stand and change the whole stinking insane system.
Only us will bring about that change the fat cats will fight tooth and nail to keep the system of homelessness boosting property prices.
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