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Another great logical effort to show how the world could be organised. Perhaps Steady State will be more attractive than DeGrowth. However little attempt is made to suggest a practical way to divert the ‘Death Spiral’ to the Steady State. How to stop the runaway Capitalist/Military train. Little focus on bottom-up climate justice. Or how to subvert the GREAT RESET Campaign from converting all land, water, resilient communities and natural assets into their private property for Wall Street speculation!

Steady State Economics

An Interview with Martin Tye https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/01/16/steady-state-economics/

What is a Steady State Economy?

A Steady State Economy is a mildly fluctuating economy that does not exceed ecological and planetary limits.

A Steady State Economy is not an alternative economic ideology that is centred on endless GDP growth. It is neither capitalism nor communism.

Economic growth, with all of its downsides, is clearly unsustainable in the 21st century.  Long-term recession is no panacea either.  A steady state economy is the sustainable alternative to perpetual economic growth.

Economic growth was never a magic bullet; it is simply an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services–it can’t possibly lead to a sustainable outcome.  In contrast, the steady state economy provides the means for present and future generations to achieve a high quality of life. 

In this interview, Palm Oil Detectives speaks with Martin Tye, a representative of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) in Regional Australia. Martin studies ecological economics and history and passionate about improving the quality of life for current and future generations and restoring wildlife.

The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) was formed in 2003 by conservation biologist, author, speaker and media commentator Brian Czech.

How do we stop the world’s ecosystems from going into a death spiral? A #SteadyState Economy. An interview with @SteadyStateEcon’s Australasian leader @MartinRev21 Tweet

“Somehow, we have come to think the whole purpose of the economy is to grow, yet growth is not a goal or purpose. The pursuit of endless growth is suicidal.”

David Suzuki

The goal of Steady State Economics is to substitute the model of endless GDP growth with a stable and mildly fluctuating economy

The term often refers to a national economy, but ‘Steady State’ economics also be applied to a local, regional, or global economy.

By The Remnant News Paper | Press Release First, Japan’s health ministry acknowledged the growing rate of heart inflammation among the vaccinated population. Then Japan’s public and private sectors were alerted to the fact and forbidden to discriminate against those who refuse the COVID vaccine. Furthermore, Japan has made it clear that “informed consent” is required to […]

Japan Drops All Vaccine Mandates, Places Myocarditis Warning on Label

By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | January 12, 2022

In August, Germany’s top newspaper, Bild, apologized for the outlet’s fear-driven Covid coverage – with a special message to children, who had been told “that they were going to murder their grandma.”

Now, a newspaper in Denmark has publicly apologized for reporting government narratives surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic without questioning them.

Okay they only admitted like 1% of the mass fraud, greed and murder going down, the point is they broke the wall of lies

“We failed,” reads the article’s headline from tabloid Ekstra Bladet, which goes on to admit that “For ALMOST two years, we – the press and the population – have been almost hypnotically preoccupied with the authorities’ daily coronavirus figures.” (translated).

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Triple/Double Vaccinated account for 4 in every 5 Covid-19 Cases, Hospitalisations & Deaths since November according to official figures – The Expose

WE HAVE STARED at the oscillations of the number pendulum when it came to infected, hospitalized and died with corona.

And we have been given the significance of the pendulum’s smallest movements laid out by experts, politicians and authorities, who have constantly warned us about the dormant corona monster under our beds. A monster just waiting for us to fall asleep so it can strike in the gloom and darkness of the night.

THE CONSTANT mental alertness has worn tremendously on all of us. That is why we – the press – must also take stock of our own efforts. And we have failed.

see also Japan Drops All Vaccine Mandates, Places Myocarditis Warning on vaccines

WE HAVE NOT been vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference. A big difference.

Posted on December 11, 2021 by enough14 — Leave a comment

If everyone fought for their own convictions, there would be no war.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Hey. Are you there? It’s me, Barabule Cuterescu, the Molodvan peasant, your humble potato. This will be my fourth dispatch from northeastern Romania, and to be totally fucking honest, it could very well be my last.

If you’ve been reading these horrible diatribes of mine, you might remember me making some wise-crack about little green Russian men running around our corn-fields if Putin invades Romania.

Well, turns out that shit isn’t funny, and it’s not what I imagined. It’s not going to be Russian tanks plowing through our fields. It’ll be all of NATO rushing to the front lines. I’m serious.

Originally published by The Transmetropolitan Review.

Let me catch you noobs up to speed. I live in an anarchist commune now completely frosted with the first snows. I have to keep the giant teracotă stove burning with wood all day, for both cooking and heat.

It’s currently just above freezing outside. I live within 90 kilometers of Iași, the nearest big city and traditional capitol of the former Kingdom of Moldova. I live in the Moldova region of Romania, which is wholly separate from the Republic of Moldova.

From my front door, it’s about a three hour hike on foot to reach the Moldovan frontier. Beyond that is a land outside of NATO, outside of the EU, and if Russia happens to invade Ukraine, the next country in their path is Moldova.

Crazy thing, there’s already 1,500 Russian soldiers nearby in breakaway Transnistria, along with 200,000 ordinary citizens who all speak Russian. This crazy non-country that Google Earth won’t even display on the map, otherwise known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, is wedged between Moldova and the Ukraine.

In other words, if Russia overwhelms Ukraine, NATO is literally going to be staging their tanks outside my window, near the Romanian/Moldovan border.

Why? Well, if you didn’t read the above paragraphs, I’ll make it real dumb: I live at the bitter end of the western world.

Desde que se reinstauró eso que llaman “democracia”, la fuerza y coraje de los sindicatos de clase se fue reduciendo hasta la complicidad con la patronal y los llamados gobiernos “de progreso”

LOS SINDICATOS ESPAÑOLES «DE CLASE» DESCONVOCAN LAS HUELGAS PREVISTAS

Filed under: ANTIFASCISMO by Carlos Tena —por RE-EVOLUCIÓN Combatiendo al neofascismo Deja un comentario 15 enero, 2022

Juan J. Sánchez .— En otro ejercicio de práctica de un modelo de sindicalismo que se aleja de los intereses de la clase obrera, los sindicatos CC. OO. y UGT han desconvocado huelgas con las que se pretendía ejercer presión sobre la patronal buscando mejoras en las condiciones laborales de diferentes colectivos obreros.

A consecuencia de esta forma de proceder de los sindicatos, que las obreras y los obreros consideran sus representantes ante la patronal, surgen opiniones que pretenden clarificar el porqué de esta forma de actuar de los que obreras y obreros consideran sus compañeros ¨aliados¨.

Deberíamos comenzar por hacernos alguna pregunta, ¿por qué esta forma de proceder? ¿se hace buscando privilegios personales? ¿hay un objetivo estratégico?

Una cuestión que se deberá comprender es que una o un sindicalista, que cuenta con la confianza de sus compañeras/os, no es un árbitro de conciliación entre patronal y obreras y obreros que, buscando resolver el conflicto, firma a la baja. Esa forma de proceder por sí sola demuestra una escasa o nula formación política, su labor y decisiones en un conflicto jamás deben ir más allá de lo encomendado por las asambleas de obreras y obreros.

La delegada o el delegado sindical, generalmente no goza de privilegios laborales o económicos, más allá de los créditos y horas de dedicación sindical. En su forma de actuar ante un conflicto no hay ninguna estrategia definida con la que poder arrinconar a la patronal, se va a la mesa de negociación ya con la idea preconcebida de la conciliación al precio que sea.

Conflicto tras conflicto vemos como los sindicalistas, compañeros en los que se ha depositado la confianza, en la mayor de las ocasiones mantienen una posición alejada del objetivo inicial por el que se llegó a la huelga.

El único sindicato que siempre ha rechazado el corruptor sistema estatal de delegados es la CNT. Sin embargo, al hacerlo, se quedó en gran parte excluida de crecer en competencia con los sindicatos mayoritarios privilegiados y subvencionados por el estado. La CNT todavía existe, aunque debilitada y dividida. Una de sus divisiones, la CGT, ha crecido fuertemente al comprometerse en el tema de los delegados mientras conserva las tradiciones anarquistas de acción directa y organización horizontal en lugar de autoritaria.

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Este modelo y comportamiento de miles de obreras y obreros que han decidido altruistamente representar a sus compañeras y compañeros tiene su origen en la penetración de ideologías ajenas a la clase obrera en el sindicato durante décadas, debido al abandono de posiciones revolucionarias por parte de los partidos que orientaban a los principales sindicatos UGT y CC OO, PSOE en UGT ya desde mediados del siglo XX y PCE en CCOO desde la década de los 80 del mismo siglo.

Estos dos partidos, en una práctica conciliadora entre clases, desarrollaron un proyecto sindical cuya expresión más significativa, fue la firma de los Pactos de la Moncloa.

Para cumplir sus objetivos de conciliación entre explotados y explotadores se impone el actual modelo sindical en el que obreras y obreros nada deciden más allá de la elección de sus representantes, modelo basado en la democracia burguesa y la representatividad institucional.

Pero hay que educar a las delegadas y delegados para que practiquen dicho modelo sin cuestionarlo. Esto se consigue, primero, combatiendo con ferocidad a quienes exigen el modelo genuino del sindicalismo de clase, las asambleas son las que deciden, para seguidamente formar a los futuros sindicalistas, alejándolos de toda ideología revolucionaria que pueda cuestionar la actual práctica sindical.

¿Pero las cúpulas, la dirección central, son igual de cándidas? No rotundo, estas cúpulas sí comprenden que en la genuina práctica revolucionaria sindical ni estarían ni se las esperaría. Pero aplicando la dialéctica comprenderemos que los que hoy son delegados o miembros de comité mañana pueden y en ocasiones son y serán dirección central.

Pacto tras pacto, firma conciliadora tras firma, convenio tras convenio firmado a la baja, se va implantando la cultura de la conciliación entre explotados y explotadores, va anulando la dependencia de la clase obrera ante la ideología del enemigo de clase, la burguesía. Razón por lo que hasta hoy por parte del conjunto de las obreras y obreros se ve con toda normalidad el que se desconvoquen huelgas.