blog of the post capitalist transition.. Read or download the novel here + latest relevant posts
These loony unforgettable calls gave me goosebumps!
This 1 September 2019 video says about itself:
The eerie calls of Common Loons echo across clear lakes of the northern wilderness. Summer adults are regally patterned in black and white. Listen to the calls of the four other types of North American Loons.
*leer en castellano abajo
Costa Rica is one of the few States that can boast of being nearly ‘Carbon Neutral’, conserving 25% and doubling its forest. But it’s still a capitalist top-down State, dominated by US capital and being rapidly bought up cheap for nearly tax free US holiday homes. Over 20% of people survive in severe poverty while millions of tourists arrive by plane and Cruise Liners, spewing uncounted CO2. You can even take a Tourist Tour of the slums to photograph the ‘happy smiling beggars’.(7 Shocking Facts About Costa Rica’s Poverty Rate).
Of course we must follow Costa Rica’s amazing ecological gains, but without forgetting it’s a small exceptional place (4.5m people) and to solve Climate and ecological breakdown the whole system of Infinite Growth must change.
by Pepe Galindo edited with inserts by thefreeonline ”Costa Rica, is an Central American country that conserves its forests very well and that promotes renewable energy Years of uncontrolled logging razed two thirds of Costa Rica’s trees. When they stopped cutting, the forests grew.
But that was not something that simply happened, but was organized by the leaders of the country. They recognized that forests generate many benefits that do not appear in economic account.
Costa Rica began to give tax benefits to those who conserved their lands without degrading them.
They understood that protecting their “natural resources” is beneficial in the long term. The so-called Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are serving to recognize that healthy ecosystems generate benefits and that they must pay for them (carbon sequestration, water filtration, maintenance of quality aquifers and air, provision of food and medicines, etc. .).
When these environmental processes are free, people have no incentives to conserve them. Free is not valued. In rural areas, PES have also served to reduce poverty.
”Costa Rica Property Rights, Buying and Owning Property …Costa Rica granted generous incentives to foreign nationals wishing to become residents. The lure of its beautiful coasts and the warmth of the people, together
with numerous scams, has led many North Americans to buy property where there is no Capital Gains Tax …. Meanwhile 20% of the population live in extreme poverty and the number is rising. Continue reading “Costa Rica Doubles Forests/Going Carbon Neutral/ But has a million in poverty..”
see also..UPDATE 9 Oct: Urgent Calls for Resistance against Turkish Invasion of Rojava
💥On 12th & 19th October will be worldwide action days. If democratic movements decide to put the issue on the agenda, then we can develop a worldwide front against #Turkey’s war.
We call upon everybody: Organize the Resistance! #riseup4rojava!https://t.co/w55cIDq1WB pic.twitter.com/bbPA9o9l4b
Saturday, October 12th:
Sunday, October 13th:
community, you can contribute HEREsee also..UPDATE 9 Oct: Urgent Calls for Resistance against Turkish Invasion of Rojava
see also:
The SDF coalition of militias, of Rojava/Autonomous Administration(AA) though 70,000 strong, are facing a giant 639,551.[8] strong modern NATO army , led by an openly fascist…
View original post 3,022 more words
community, you can contribute HEREsee also..UPDATE 9 Oct: Urgent Calls for Resistance against Turkish Invasion of Rojava
see also:
The SDF coalition of militias, of Rojava/Autonomous Administration(AA) though 70,000 strong, are facing a giant 639,551.[8] strong modern NATO army , led by an openly fascist, racist, misogynist and mass murdering expansionist regime, as being illustrated daily in Afrin, which in principle should destroy them in days.
The SDF has very few armoured vehicles, tanks or heavy artillery and of course no air force at all, while Turkey is the second biggest NATO force with tens of thousands, now poised to take over Rojava and northern Syria.
21:41 10 Oct 19:Fighting resumes between Manbij Military Council fighters and the occupation forces in Ceblê, Hemra, Til Torîn and Boxaz villages of Manbij that were attacked with heavy weapons. Manbij Military Council fighters are retaliating in kind.
Most of Turkey’s weapons are US, and there are no restrictions, so in replacements the US, and personally Donald Trump, stand to gain a bonanza from a genocidal massacre they permitted, and could have prevented with just 1000 of their million strong military.
The SDF should therefore probably go for a guerilla resistance from the beginning, as any set battles in the open countryside could be suicidal. However this is do or die for them, and for their amazing human revolution. Everything else has been tried. There is no other choice but total resistance.
Another tactic then may be to extend the battlefield, on all levels.. all the long border, in Afrin, in Iraq, in Iran and across Europe and the world, with all, including me and hopefully you, resisting at their own level.
Rise Up For Rojava !
International reactions have been almost unanimous but not concrete. Only Qatar and Spain have supported Erdogan with their aggression. The USA has remained erratic. Trump has assured that he will not accept Erdogan’s inhuman action and threatened with “more than just sanctions.” Continue reading “Rojava Invasion : War Rages with Heroic Popular Resistance: Live Updates 11 Oct”
This 8 October 2019 video says about itself:
Ecuador: Indigenous activists block roads to protest Moreno’s economic package
Indigenous activists blocked several streets in Quito on Monday, demonstrating their rejection of the economic package announced by Lenin Moreno’s government.
Footage shows the activists from indigenous communities in the Guangopolo area east of Quito blocking roads with rocks, stones, tree trunks and barricades.
“Our comrades are coming from the south, from the north, from the centre; from the east and, [with them] comes the seizure of Quito. Comrades and [I give you] a suggestion, get water and food supplies,” said indigenous leader Sebastián Correa, adding, “we are willing to give our life.”
Streets surrounding the civic centre of the locality also remain without commercial activity, blocked off by fences and barbed wire. …
Ecuador is experiencing a wave of protests triggered by the announcement of the so-called ‘paquetazo’, a series…
View original post 1,319 more words
20:45SDF: Three of our fighters and five civilians have been martyred.20:44Turkish army and allies are heavily shelling the Qamishlo and Gire Spi city centers.20:38
SDF fighters have destroyed a tank of the Turkish army at Derik border.
20:15
The invading Turkish army is shelling the village of Sülük in Kobanê with howitzers. SDF forces are responding.
20:13
Violent clashes reported between the occupying Turkish state and SDF fighters in Eyn Dîwarê, a district of Derik.
20:07
Upon hearing that the Turkish state launched attacks on Rojava, the Kurds and their friends living in the Swedish capital Stockholm stood up for the defense of Rojava.
19:55
Warplanes belonging to the invading Turkish army are bombing around Girê Spî. Movement of warplanes continues in the region.
19:46
A civilian was killed and 1 injured in the attack of the Turkish army against the Syrian and Assyrian neighborhood of Bêşiriye in Qamishlo.
18:32
In Dêrik, the people protested the Turkish state’s invasion of northern and eastern Syria. People marched chanting slogans on the streets of the city.
18:27
While the attacks continued around the city of Sêrikaniyê with mortars, Sêrikaniyê Military Assembly forces responded. There are thousands of civilians in the city.
18:23
A 6-year-old boy in the village of Sê Girka in Qamishlo was wounded during the attack of the occupying Turkish state. In the same area, the Turkish army shot a vehicle belonging to civilians.
18:21
Responding to the Turkish state’s occupation attack, HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli said in a statement, “Let us give voice to Rojava. Let’s speak out against this war against the Kurdish people”.
Ready for Resistance-Call to Day X: No war on Northern SyriaThe local councils of various towns and areas have held huge protests and promised to resist Turkish fascism to their last breath.
#Breaking:Two civilians lost their lives, two others were injured in the Turkish aerial bombardment targeted the village of Misharrafa, west of Ras al-Ain. pic.twitter.com/fZOM8T76I9
— Coordination & Military Ops Center – SDF (@cmoc_sdf) October 9, 2019
A witness told the Reuters news agency that thousands of people had fled Ras al-Ain deeper into SDF-controlled territory towards Hasaka province. 09 Oct 2019, Wed – 16:35 Turkish occupation aircraft bombs Serekaniye … 09 Oct 2019, Wed – 16:43 Turkish occupation army shells Ain Issa and Girê Spi , 09 Oct 2019, Wed – 17:19 Occupation army shells western Qamishlo’s Sikarka village … etc …
Continue reading “Urgent Calls for Resistance against Turkish Invasion of Rojava: Live Updates”
