George Monbiot – Ayn Rand: A Manifesto for Psychopaths Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats. I wonder how many would continue to worship at the shrine of Ayn Rand if they knew that towards the end of her life she signed on for both Medicare […]
George Monbiot – Ayn Rand: A Manifesto for Psychopaths / Paul Krugman explains why Ayn Rand’s libertarianism is absolutely deadly
Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all. ~ Interviewed by Elizabeth Vasileva ~ You recently spoke about the importance of solidarity and connections, between prisoners and with their supporters on the outside. Can you give us any examples of this […]
Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
Marruecos impide el desembarco de la marcha por los presos saharauis tras someterlos a vigilancia desde territorio español
La delegación encabezada por Claude Mangin es retenida en el ferry rumbo a Tánger sin explicación oficial foto: La marcha internacional ‘Camino por la Libertad’, que arrancó el pasado 30 de marzo en París, ha convocado una concentración en Algeciras (Cádiz) antes de embarcarse hacia Marruecos. | Efe Francisco Carrión@fcarrionmolina No hubo desembarco. La “Marcha por la…
Marruecos impide el desembarco de la marcha por los presos saharauis tras someterlos a vigilancia desde territorio español
Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It’s Wrong To Burn Children Alive
Israel is burning children alive in Gaza. And call me an antisemitic Jew-hating Nazi terrorist lover if you must, but I happen to believe that’s wrong.
Caitlin Johnstone at Caitlinjohnst May 28, 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-H2P see Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3252
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley).
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Now that it’s been made clear that Israel’s goal in Gaza is the complete ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians, Israel apologists have been shifting from bleating about hostages and Hamas to arguing that ethnic cleansing is actually fine and good. Which makes sense; that’s really the only argument they can make at this point.
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Never forget that the US Congress gave Netanyahu dozens of standing ovations during a single speech while he was in the middle of perpetrating history’s first live-streamed genocide. This is who they are. It will always be who they are.
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Israel has done more to promote hatred toward Jews in the last year and a half than Stormfront has in its entire existence. No white supremacist propaganda will ever be as effective at spreading hatred against Jews as openly mass murdering children under a Star of David flag.
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Support for Israel used to be the overwhelmingly dominant opinion in the western world. Luckily that’s changing, but the fact that this was the case until Israel exposed itself shows you really can’t just go along with majority opinion on any issue. You need to think for yourself.
Ignore what the crowd says. Ignore people who scream at you for disagreeing with their position. Look at the raw facts as free from your own cognitive biases as you are able, and have the courage to stand on your own if necessary.
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Gaza is such an easy moral issue to get right that there’s no way anyone who gets it wrong isn’t a shitty person in other areas of their life as well. I feel sorry for anyone who has interpersonal relationships with Israel supporters, because they’d suck to be around.
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World Food Programme director Cindy McCain is saying that she’s seen no evidence of Hamas stealing aid entering Gaza. Israel’s one and only argument for continuing to block aid to Gaza is being publicly debunked by a member of one of the most pro-Israel families in US politics.
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The US has reportedly delivered some 90,000 tons of weapons to Israel since October 2023.
I mostly focus on the Gaza genocide these days, but sometimes figures like this make me zoom out a few clicks and think about how bat shit insane our civilization is as a whole. Just think how much good we could do in the world if we weren’t pouring resources into evil shit like this.
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Murdoch-owned publication The Australian came after me the other day for tweeting “Two Israeli embassy staff getting shot in Washington DC is less newsworthy than tens of thousands of Palestinians being killed in Israel’s genocidal land grab. It is less important. It deserves less attention. It is not the main story. Israel’s genocide in Gaza is the main story.”
They called me a “journalist” in scare quotes, which I guess is supposed to be an insult, but coming from the Murdoch press it can only be seen as a compliment.
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According to the official western narrative, Americans becoming violently radicalized by a US-backed genocide is a bigger issue than the US-backed genocide.
According to the official narrative, university protests against a transparent ethnic cleansing operation are a greater concern than the transparent ethnic cleansing operation.
According to the official narrative, western Zionist Jews feeling emotionally upset about opposition to a modern-day holocaust is a more urgent problem than a modern-day holocaust.
All of our institutions are backwards and evil. Our media. Our politics. Our education system. Our manufacturers of mainstream culture. This should be clear to everyone by now.
Everything we were taught to fear about the countries that the western empire hates is true of the western empire.
Every dark future we were warned about in dystopian fiction is true of the dystopia we are living in presently.
We live in a nightmare of a civilization, under an empire that is fueled by human blood. The closer you examine it, the uglier it gets.
This cannot be allowed to continue. It must not be allowed to continue.
The empire must fall.
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‘Shocking AI “hallucinations” stem from info input of Evil Google, Global Elite and ‘post truth’ Trumpism..’
AI is increasingly embedded in critical, time-sensitive operations – from pilots’ cockpits and nuclear plants to biowarfare labs and sprawling chemical facilities. AI hallucinations are drawn from Insane Mindsets of its Creators.
By Dr. Mathew Maavak, who researches systems science, global risks, strategic foresight, governance and AI on 25/5/25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-H1D see Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3243
AI hallucinations: a budding sentience or a global embarrassment?
In a farcical yet telling blunder, multiple major newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, recently published a summer-reading list riddled with nonexistent books that were “hallucinated” by ChatGPT, with many of them falsely attributed to real authors.
The syndicated article, distributed by Hearst’s King Features, peddled fabricated titles based on woke themes, exposing both the media’s overreliance on cheap AI content and the incurable rot of legacy journalism.
çThat this travesty slipped past editors at moribund outlets (the Sun-Times had just axed 20% of its staff) underscores a darker truth: when desperation and unprofessionalism meets unvetted algorithms, the frayed line between legacy media and nonsense simply vanishes.
How to spot generative AI ‘hallucinations’
The trend seems ominous. AI is now overwhelmed by a smorgasbord of fake news, fake data, fake science and unmitigated mendacity that is churning established logic, facts and common sense into a putrid slush of cognitive rot. But what exactly is AI hallucination?
AI is a perfect storm threatening humanity Opinion Artificial intelligence may bring about the end of the world as we know it – but not in the way most would expect May 8, 2025 14:53
AI hallucination occurs when a generative AI model (like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, or DALL·E) produces false, nonsensical, or fabricated information with high confidence. Unlike human errors, these mistakes stem from how AI models generate responses by predicting plausible patterns rather than synthesizing established facts.
Why does AI ‘hallucinate’?
There are several reasons why AI generates wholly incorrect information. It has nothing to do with the ongoing fearmongering over AI attaining sentience or even acquiring a soul.
Continue reading “‘Shocking AI “hallucinations” stem from info input of Evil Google, Global Elite and ‘post truth’ Trumpism..’”UN CONGRESO DE AGROECOLOGÍA DE LOS PUEBLOS (POR LOS PUEBLOS Y PARA LOS PUEBLOS)
Los días 5, 6 y 7 de junio próximo, la Universidad Nacional de Luján (sede central) abrirá sus puertas para recibir a lxs asistentes al 1º Congreso de Agroecología de los Pueblos, impulsado por el Encuentro de Pueblos Fumigados por la Agroecología y el Buen Vivir de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (EPFBA).
por Alberto Lezin at comunicación popular el 22/05/2025 via agenciadenoticiascap via thefreeonline a https://wp.me/pIJl9-GZT Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3232?single
Cientos de personas se congregarán allí para intercambiar saberes, experiencias, sensaciones y propuestas en relación con prácticas productivas armónicas con el ambiente y para fortalecer las nunca bien ponderadas redes sociocomunitarias que la Agroecología entrelaza.
Esta iniciativa colectiva, pensada por productores, consumidores, investigadores, docentes, profesionales, integrantes de Pueblos Originarios, Organizaciones Sociales y otras personas que sufren directa o indirectamente las consecuencias del agronegocio, propone visibilizar y debatir sobre una multiplicidad de cuestiones que atraviesan a quienes encaran la tarea de aportar, desde la práctica y la teoría, a una verdadera transformación de la matriz productiva vigente basada en el extractivismo.
Ocho ejes temáticos enmarcarán las exposiciones de lxs participantes, quienes a través de Posters, Mesas de Trabajo, Presentaciones de Libros e intervenciones Artísticas, abordarán problemáticas y construirán soluciones relacionadas con:
¿TRANSICIÓN HACIA LA AGROECOLOGÍA O A LA COEXISTENCIA CON EL AGRONEGOCIO?
Calidad de los alimentos agroecológicos: sabores, aromas, texturas. Variedades de cultivos. Abundancia. La solidaridad y el compartir. Prácticas y formas de consumo de alimentos agroecológicos.
Transformaciones de vidas individuales y colectivas a partir de la agroecología. Hablemos de agronegocios y extractivismos.
MANOS EN LA TIERRA. EXPERIENCIAS Y POSIBILIDADES
¿Qué implica producir de manera agroecológica? ¿Cómo diseñar una producción de ese tipo? Sanar un suelo degradado y el uso de sustratos y enmiendas: coberturas, cascarillas, chipeado de poda, bokashi, compost y lombricompost, purines y caldos. Uso sustentable del agua: colecta, almacenamiento y distribución. ¿Es posible la producción agroecológica extensiva en este marco? Producción agroecológica de animales, mixta, silvopastoril.
Continue reading “UN CONGRESO DE AGROECOLOGÍA DE LOS PUEBLOS (POR LOS PUEBLOS Y PARA LOS PUEBLOS)”Nace el movimiento Revoltes de la Terra para impulsar grandes movilizaciones ecologistas
Revoltes de la Terra pretende organizar encuentros por todo el territorio en alianza con los grupos locales, donde combinar la reflexión y la propuesta con la acción contra “proyectos ecocidas”.
Por Guille Larios. Todoporhacer Extraído de La Directa y A las Barricadas via thefreeonline a https://wp.me/pIJl9-GZI ver Telegram- t.me/thefreeonline/3227
Es sábado 25 de enero en el Prat de Llobregat y son las nueve de la mañana. Hay poco tráfico y la mayoría de las naves del Polígono Industrial Fondo del Peixo están cerradas. Solo se levanta una de las persianas. Es el antiguo Centro de Estudios Llobregat, un enorme edificio abandonado y rebautizado desde hace diez años como Centro Okupado Autogestionado La Llavor.
Desde primera hora se respira expectación. Un hormigueo incesante y un murmullo creciente van llenando los pasillos del centro okupado. “La Llavor trabaja para las que luchan”, dice una pintada (en catalán) en la cocina-kafeta. Hoy, dentro de estas paredes, la frase cobra todo su sentido.
Más de cien personas procedentes de cincuenta entidades y colectivos se han inscrito para asistir a una presentación tan misteriosa como esperada. Revoltes de la Terra es el resultado de más de dos años itinerantes de reuniones, encuentros, debates, estrategias y acumulación de fuerzas entre personas y colectivos ecologistas y en defensa del territorio.
Frente a un público en círculo, uno de los portavoces expone que en los últimos años, “la situación ecosocial se ha agravado y el expolio capitalista es implacable”, para añadir que “si el sistema es totalizante, también lo debe ser la respuesta”.
Este movimiento ecologista se presenta como una nueva “dinámica de luchas” para “aglutinar fuerzas”, siguiendo el impulso de movimientos climáticos surgidos en los últimos años como Rebelión o Extinción o Soulèvements de la Terre.
Revoltes de la Terra pretende organizar encuentros por todo el territorio en alianza con los grupos locales, donde combinar la reflexión y la propuesta con la acción contra “proyectos ecocidas”. Al mismo tiempo, especifica un portavoz, los encuentros sirven para “ejemplificar y denunciar los mismos problemas que existen a escala global”.
Continue reading “Nace el movimiento Revoltes de la Terra para impulsar grandes movilizaciones ecologistas”
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