blog of the post capitalist transition.. Read or download the novel here + latest relevant posts
Targets will remain on the list until they publicly announce they have permanently cut all ties with Elbit.
Palestine Action respond to Gaza massacre with 50 strong death factory hit list
from thefreeonline on 11th Oct 2023 by Anarchy in the Sticks!
After many false starts, setbacks and let-downs, we finally managed to pull off another one. It looks like we’ve covered our costs so we can do it again.
We thank: Rachel at Bad Hand Coffee Roasters, Dan for organising the gig, Tom for the sound, staff at the Four Horsemen, the Sporadics, Uncivilized, Grant Sharkey, Surfin’ Dave and our own M.C. Sukie; Speakers Mal Content, Barley, Nick Heath, Dr Roger Ball, Neil Birrell and Isabella Lorruso.
Thanks to all our stall holders, those who have supported us since the beginning and a few new faces, collective members who worked so hard before, during and after, the folks at Obsidian cafe, for putting up with our planning meetings, and of course, you the public, without whom there would be no bookfair.
Bollocks to all those who tried to stop it, and the anonymous babylon who felt the need to poke their nose in.
We still haven’t really got enough people to make it the breeze it ought to be, ideally we’d have one crew for the daytime event and another for the gig. So if you feel like getting involved, don’t be shy, we’re meeting again at Obsidian Cafe in Boscombe on 11th November at 14:30 to discuss future events including next year’s Bookfair.
Love and solidarity,
D.R.B.
from thefreeonline on 10th Oct 23 info AlJazeera etc..
Oxfam is warning that a total siege on Gaza will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.
The UK-based charity has suspended all humanitarian work in the besieged coastal enclave because of ongoing air strikes and violence.
“The decision to implement a ‘total siege’ by the Israeli government, in addition to the ongoing blockade, will further deny Gazan civilians essentials like food, water and electricity,” said Mustafa Tmaizi, Oxfam’s acting country director in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.
View HERE if sharing censored.. https://twitter.com/TeaRash_Rash/status/1711674230826274957
“This constitutes collective punishment of a population that bears no responsibility for the violence and is illegal under international law. It will not contribute to peace and security, instead, it will further fan the flames of this crisis.”
2h ago (17:06 GMT)
The Israeli prime minister’s persistent obsession with the Islamic Republic may finally drag the US into another disastrous regional war. Egypt claims they warned Israel repeatedly but Israel deliberately ignored the warnings. Hezbollah is armed to the teeth by Iran and promised to open a second front, and today it openly began to join the war on the side of the Palestinians which could drag in Iran.
MEP Claire Daly criticizes Ursula von der Leyen for supporting Israel on behalf of the entire European Union: “Who do you think you are? You have not been elected and do not have the authority to determine the foreign policy of the European Union, which is set by the European Council. Europe does NOT ‘support Israel’. We are in favor of peace. Don’t speak for us. If you don’t have anything constructive to say, and you clearly don’t, shut up.”
Following Saturday’s attack, a European Union commissioner, Oliver Varhelyi, announced the suspension of economic aid to Palestine….
Among others, Paris, Madrid and Dublin protested against Oliver Varhelyi’s statement. considering that it should be discussed first by the 27. “We are not in favor of suspending aid that directly benefits the Palestinian populations
Houthi demonstrators rally to show support to Palestinian factions, in Sanaa, Yemen [Houthi Media Office via Reuters]
Jenifer Austin, an operations manager with UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) in Gaza, said that 88 schools run by the UN agency have been converted to emergency shelters, with “177,000 people seeking refuge with the safety of the blue flag of the UN”.
She said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has supplied food and water for 12 days, when accounting only for those displaced staying at the shelters and not those living elsewhere in Gaza.
Continue reading “Oxfam says ‘human catastrophe’ in Gaza/ Biden sends bombs”against evil”/ Muslim and poor countries support Palestine/ Europe divided/ Hezbollah joins in?/”from thefreeonline on 9th Oct 2023 by Todd Hayenat at Off-Guardian/
We have finally reached a point in the advancement of our technology where we no longer can believe anything we see or hear. I mean, we can if we want to, but we can also choose not to, because the presentation of anything in a photograph, a video, or an audio recording, is no longer reliable evidence of reality.
Soon we will not be able to rely on what we see right in front of our face when we are taking a walk in what we believe to be the real world. In fact, we don’t have to wait for this, it is already here.
Bizarre-looking deepfake memes are easy-to-make with online tools …
Holographic technology can already deceive us into believing something we see occurring in our own perceived reality. Many say the planes flying into the World Trade Center were holographs. Maybe they were. The technology probably exists to do this—although this link goes to a video of flying whales in Dubai, which is not an example of existing technology (apparently it is just a run of the mill CGI video), but it is coming, and you don’t even have to hold your breath.
Once we all know this is possible (many still believe it is not) then we will trust nothing to be authentic. In fact, the very word “authentic” will have no meaning. We will then clearly be living in a dream, not able to tell the difference between the dream and the dreamer.
Maybe, indeed, we have always been a product of the dream, and the Matrix of movie fame has always been reality.
So, what is reality?
I don’t think we can even define that word now, as nearly anything we might come up with doesn’t quite cut it. It used to be defined as anything objectively material. Or, as Webster states, “having objective independent existence.” Pretty clear, eh? (sarcastic laugh).
Maybe they are starting to jerk around with the definition like they are doing with a lot of other words.
Seems like Webster wants to keep the meaning a bit vague, so that it could still describe a photoshopped version of a four headed dragon as “real,” or maybe a devastating wildfire somewhere in Canada—or Hawaii. It’s all real isn’t it? Viruses, vaccines, pandemics, smiling senile politicians, masked health authorities. Whatever is needed to back up any claim is merely created and presented. We’ll believe anything as evidence if we first believe what is being said.
Don’t question it, gentle folks, just accept it. It is real.
I’ve heard many rumours that certain celebrity types are really holograms. Hillary Clinton has long been dead, for example, and what we “see” on the news, on YouTube, or whatever, is really a holograph.
Biden is supposed to be played by a digital double as well, and the Oval Office we have the privilege to see on CNN is actually a set somewhere in an underground facility on Mt. Weather just north of Washington, DC—or maybe just a CGI re-creation, painted electronically on a green screen. Whatever, who knows.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/funniest-deepfakes-internet-72418853
This used to all be sci-fi fantasies. Not anymore. Everything I just mentioned could easily be executed through an iPhone app you can pick up for a few bucks (by subscription of course) from the Apple App Store. Technology has become mind-numbingly out of this world, cheap, and available to anybody.
Like everyone else, I get a laugh out of seeing a painting of Beethoven singing “Proud Mary” or the late Queen of England reciting a speech about the virtues of anti-monarchist anarchy, but the deeper implications of what seem to be modern parlor games is rather chilling. I certainly don’t need to cite them here, common sense would easily tell us what we are in for—and mark my words, this isn’t a potential, it is a dead-on fact.
It wasn’t that long ago that visual evidence was king. If you had a photo of your husband in bed with his secretary, no one would question it as proof that your husband was messing around. Not anymore. Any 7-year-old can create all the incriminating evidence anyone could ever wish for with a few clicks of the mouse.
So, what about more serious incriminations? How about war? Murders? Trade Towers collapsing (am I suggesting such a thing? Oh no, not moi!) The possibilities are endless. Not only will just about anything that happens be accompanied by photographic, and audio evidence, soon we will begin to see any other sort of physical evidence being manufactured and synthesized to back any sort of claim. No one will be able to tell up from down.
These facts not only have implications of serious manipulations, but the subtle psychology of never knowing what is real and what isn’t, will be devastating. Everyone will have their own subjective take on nearly everything, everyone will be an expert, everyone will be able to believe whatever it is they decide to believe for whatever reason. No one will trust any of the usual evidential underpinnings of truth.
“I’ll believe it when I see it” will have utterly no meaning at all.
People will get casual about this as well. People will not experience any angst about any of it, they just won’t care. They will shrug it off, as if it doesn’t matter, they will see a video of a fleet of flying saucers lasering a city and not bat an eye. They won’t care if what they see is real or not, they just will assume that nothing can be trusted—except what they have been convinced by others is real.
Herein lies the real danger, whoever or whatever gets a hold of the collective psyche and can convince it that what they say is truth they will need no real evidence to prove their position. If people believe so and so is telling it like it is, then anything that person or institution holds up as evidential truth, will be accepted as truth.
We see this happening right now. The masses believe in the authority of a Fauci, a Biden, a Walensky, a Bourla, a Trudeau, a Zelenskyy, and when they hold up a mask as a device to ward off a dangerous virus, or a video of innocent Ukrainians being slaughtered by Public Enemy Number One, people will believe it.
There will be no vetting, no reliance on common sense, no intelligent research to determine if what they are seeing is real or not. Nothing that used to be evidence of reality is trustworthy, thus we are all easily manipulated. The determining factor as to what is real or not is who said it is real, not concrete evidence. It’s as simple as that.
No, bigger, this is Gaza I have ordered a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no fuel, no water, everything is closed. We are fighting against human animals and we are acting accordingly Yoav Galant, Israel defense minister, on October 9, 2023 The Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau [Jewish residential district in Warsaw] was […]
Daily pictures : Warsaw ghetto, 1943 ?
by Paul Cudenec I have always felt an extreme dislike for globalisation. It flattens our cultures, annihilates our autonomies and steals our futures. It rips up the roots of our belonging and flings us into the greedy gaping jaws of its all-devouring worldwide Machine. Why then, some opponents of globalisation might ask, having also noticed […]
Resisting global tyranny: nationalism, religion and the golden chain of tradition
An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Violence in Palestine and Israeli Repression Source: CrimethInc On October 7, Hamas, the ruling party in the Gaza Strip, breached the siege wall surrounding them to carry out a series of attacks. The Israeli government has responded with a full military operation. While both sides have targeted civilians as…
A Nuclear Superpower and a Dispossessed People
The Free 
