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The Acorn. issue 39 : Resistance on the streets in 2018!

In this issue:

1. “Let’s put our resistance on the streets in 2018!”

Resistance against the global capitalist system and its police-state repression will be coming to the streets of Europe at the start of 2018, with important international demonstrations planned for Switzerland and Germany.

The action, and discussion, in Switzerland this month revolves around the meeting at Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Swiss radicals are calling for anti-capitalist unity against the WEF and the plutofascist system it represents.

They say: “This year’s WEF slogan is ‘Creating a common future in a broken world’. We agree that the world is not what it should be. But unlike the WEF we see…

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How The Microbiome may Destroy the Ego, Vaccine Policy, and Patriarchy

If 99% of what it means to be human is microbiome-based, and if the mother contributes most, if not all, of the original starting material, or at least the baseline and trajectory of future changes in the inner terrain, then her contribution becomes vastly more important than that of the father.

by Sayer Ji, Founder at GreenMedInfo

The relatively recent discovery of the Microbiome is not only completely redefining what it means to be human, to have a body, to live on this earth, but is overturning belief systems and institutions that have enjoyed global penetrance for centuries.

A paradigm shift has occurred, so immense in implication, that the entire frame of reference for our species’ self-definition, as well as how we relate fundamentally to concepts like “germs,” have been transformed beyond recognition. This shift is underway and yet, despite popular interest in our gut ecology, the true implications remain unacknowledged.It started with the discovery of the microbiome, a deceptively diminutive term, referring to an unfathomably complex array of microscopic microorganisms together weighing only 3-4 lbs. in the average human, represents a Copernican revolution when it comes to forming the new center, genetically and epigenetically, of what it means in biological terms to be human.

Considering the sheer density of genetic information contained within these commensals, as well as their immense contribution towards sustaining basic functions like digestion, immunity, and brain function, the “microbiome” could just as well be relabeled the “macrobiome”; that is, if we are focusing on the size of its importance rather than physical dimensionality.

For instance, if you take away the trillions of viruses, bacteria and fungi that coexist with our human cells (the so-called holobiont), only 1% of the genetic material that keeps us ticking, and has for hundreds of millions of years, remains.

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ADM .. Amazing Free Occupied Harbour ..Threatened AGAIN

WELCOME TO ADM!

The ADM is the biggest cultural freehaven in the Netherlands. Our community consists of around 125 people from all ages, nationalities and walks of life.We transformed a disused, derelict shipyard from the Amsterdam Drydock Company into a thriving Living Experiment, sharing our space, visions and creations. We produce our own projects such as Green ADM, festivals, concerts, workshops and arts.

Like many other historic squat’ communities, ADM is a fertile, vibrant space for local and international cultural climates, as well as playing a leading role in the Creative Industry. Continue reading “ADM .. Amazing Free Occupied Harbour ..Threatened AGAIN”

Kobane Rebuilds: A Trip Through the Nth Syrian Revolution..VIDEO

Democratic Federation of Northern Syria – Communities across northern Syria have begun to rebuild following the cessation of six years’ worth of conflict that transformed once-thriving areas into bombed-out ghost cities.

Kurds Rebuild Kobane as ISIL Loses Foothold in Syria from Unicorn Riot on Vimeo.

British YPG volunteer Oliver Hall was 24 when he recently passed away from clearing buildings booby-trapped by Islamic State fighters

Battles between hardened fighters from the Islamic State of the Levant (ISIL) continue around Deir-ez-Zor as units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) watch over ISIL’s recently-captured former capital city of Raqqa. Meanwhile, residents are taking steps to re-inhabit the Kobane Canton and other areas recently gained from the Islamic State

Unicorn Riot contributors visited the recovering cities of Kobane and Manbij in northeastern Syria as well as the grim frontline of armed conflict in Deir-ez-Zor, and obtained photographs from Raqqa. The following video presents various elements of life in Syria, such as displaced residents fleeing ISIL control, scoping out an ISIL holdout, clearing a booby-trapped building in Deir-ez-Zor, as well as rebuilding and creating new apartment blocks in Kobane.Bombed-out buildings litter the landscape of Kobane – November 2017

With over half of the country’s population displaced during the last few years and a majority of the infrastructure destroyed, estimates place at least a $300 billion price tag on rebuilding Syria. The human death toll in the Syrian conflict in the past six years, as of early November, was estimated at exceeding 340,000.New Building in Kobani Continue reading “Kobane Rebuilds: A Trip Through the Nth Syrian Revolution..VIDEO”

Time to Pull the Plugs: Only Anti-Capitalism could Save The Planet

Capital will not lead the exit from the fossil economy. Only a movement of movements can amass a social power greater than the enemy’s in the little time that is left.

Andreas Malm Illustrations by Zoran Svilar

Our best hope now is an immediate return to the flow. CO2 emissions have to be brought close to zero: some sources of energy that do not produce any emissions bathe the Earth in an untapped glow. The sun strikes the planet with more energy in a single hour than humans consume in a year.

Put differently, the rate at which the Earth intercepts sunlight is nearly 10,000 times greater than the entire energy flux humans currently muster — a purely theoretical potential, of course, but even if unsuitable locations are excluded, there remains a flow of solar energy a thousand times larger than the annual consumption of the stock of fossil fuels.

The flow of wind alone can also power the world. It has nothing like the overwhelming capacity of direct solar radiation, but estimates of the technically available supply range from one to twenty-four times total current energy demand.

Other renewable sources — geothermal, tidal, wave, water — can make significant contributions, but fall short of the promises of solar and wind. If running water constituted the main stream of the flow before the fossil economy, light and air may do so after it. Continue reading “Time to Pull the Plugs: Only Anti-Capitalism could Save The Planet”

Repsol Sigue Saqueando Libia: el último Sabotaje de un Oleoducto no le Afecta.

Repsol Sigue Saqueando Libia: el último Sabotaje de un Oleoducto no le Afectade RT actualizaciones abajo

Una explosión sacudió un oleoducto de crudo que alimenta la terminal marítima de Es Sider en Libia, dijo una fuente petrolera en el país.

IN ENGLISH HERE El puerto mediterráneo de Es Sider es el mayor depósito de petróleo de Libia. La explosión ocurrió cerca de Marada, en el oleoducto perteneciente a la compañía petrolera Waha, dijo la fuente a Reuters.

El puerto está controlado ahora por las fuerzas del General Hafter. los ‘últimos noticias son que el petróleo había sido redirigido a otro oleoducto y que se perderán menos de 100.000 barriles por día en exportaciones durante aproximadamente una semana. Sin embargo, los precios del petróleo en los Estados Unidos alcanzaron un nuevo récord después de la noticia. una foto en Twitter del oleoducto.. 26 de diciembre 17

“Una fuente militar dijo a RIA Novosti que la” gran “explosión en el oleoducto fue el resultado de un ataque terrorista” Los combatientes pertenecían a las Brigadas de Defensa de Benghazi (afiliadas a Al Qaeda) o al Estado Islámico (IS, anteriormente ISIS / ISIL) ya que son terroristas que llevan a cabo desvíos para paralizar las instalaciones de producción petrolera “. Russia Today Reportuna foto en Twitter del oleoducto.. 26 de diciembre 17

“En marzo del 2017 las fuerzas leales al comandante militar de Libia, Khalifa Haftar, recapturaron Es Sidar y reanudaron las operaciones”.

Repsol sigue saqueando Libia … Las ganancias se disparan mientras que los vecinos Tuareg y Tebu pasan hambre

El sabotaje de Es Sider, sin embargo, no interrumpirá las exportaciones del yacimiento petrolífero de Sharara, donde la empresa española Repsol tiene la mayor participación del 60%. Sharara ahora exporta casi 300.000 barriles de petróleo por día, lo que le da enormes ganancias a Repsol.El inmenso campo petrolero de Sharara. El gas metano se quema, desperdiciando un recurso no renovable para obtener ganancias más rápidas. No les importa la creciente emergencia climática del planeta, al contrario el Repsol se jacta del incremento de la extracción y la gente local se queján del racismo y que no han recibido nada. Continue reading “Repsol Sigue Saqueando Libia: el último Sabotaje de un Oleoducto no le Afecta.”