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from mongoosedistro.com by Dan Baker via thefreeonline

Did you hear what’s going on with the war?

The War on Drugs, Class War or World War?

So much death, do you even care what it’s for?

You’re not built like me, you’ve never been to war.

It builds on the horizon, rolling thunder to the core.

Then the rotting bodies, constant shots – this is war.

Kids step on mines, can’t leave cuz too poor.

Like U$ ghettos spreading, Amerikkka wants war.

When it comes home you’ll realize it’s not sport.

Your family displaced and tortured – you wanted war.

Chemical fires, radioactive poison air, like spores.

Infection, dysentery, smallpox blankets are war.

Gut sick exhaustion, crawling through shit, festered sores.

Governments exist through constant wars.

Do you think the rich are really keeping score?

If we want it to end let there be one war:

The poor against the rulers, what guillotines are for!

We refuse to participate in their world war!

We’ll skip World War 3 and give them World War 4!

Global revolution while their troops are at war!

If we must fight we’ll mobilize the poor!

Take up arms – “No war but Class War!”

What Are The Odds? The U.S., Europe, Africa, China and ... So if there were a couple of isolated droughts in 2022, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But that isn’t what we are facing. Instead, the United States, Europe, Africa and China all experienced droughts of epic proportions. As a result, crops failed in key agricultural areas around the globe .

from Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal via thefreeonline

Drought – The Drought Initiative | UNCCDBy 2050, droughts may affect an estimated three-quarters of the world’s population.

MADRID, Dec 1 2022 (IPS)* – Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress.

In other words, droughts are one of the “most feared natural phenomena in the world;” they devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering, as reported by the world’s top specialised bodies: the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

They occur when an area experiences a shortage of water supply due to a lack of rainfall or lack of surface or groundwater. And they can last for weeks, months or years.

These satellite images show portions of Lake Powell in the summers of 2017 and 2022, Lake Powell straddles the border of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona; most of the area shown is in Utah. Read more about these images from NASA Earth Observatory.

Exacerbated by land degradation and climate change, droughts are increasing in frequency and severity, up 29% since 2000, with 55 million people affected every year.

Of course these ‘everlasting’ droughts are accompanied by devastating unprecedented flooding in other areas. Other studies show that Climate Change will increase torrential rain, but often all at once and in the wrong places

By 2050, droughts may affect an estimated three-quarters of the world’s population. This means that agricultural production will have to increase by 60% to meet the global food demand in 2050.

This means that about 71% of the world’s irrigated area and 47% of major cities are to experience at least periodic water shortages. If this trend continues, the scarcity and associated water quality problems will lead to competition and conflicts among water users, adds the Convention.

Europe and the US not the only Drought stricken regions. The Yangtze River in China has shrunken to half its normal width. They’ve had to close canals supplied by this water. pic.twitter.com/fOE66uGMik

— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) August 19, 2022

Most of the world already impacted

The alert is loud and strong and it comes from a number of the world’s most knowledgeable organisations.

Continue reading “Big Parts of Our Planet are Drying Up. And these Are the Consequences”

Human Wrongs Watch *SOURCE: UN News.December 2022 by thefreeonline

— The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade “reverberates to this day”, just as modern-day enslavement is growing, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.

© UNICEF/Christine Nesbitt | Children in Burkina Faso engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in artisanal gold mining and quarrying.

In a message ahead of commemorations for the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, on 2 December, Mr. Guterres said that societies remain scarred by the historical suffering of enslaved Africans, and are unable to offer everyone the same development opportunities.

The UN chief also urged action to identify and recommit to eradicating all forms of contemporary slavery, from people trafficking to sexual exploitation, child labour, forced marriage and the use of children in armed conflict.

Citing the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery on forced labour and forced marriage, Mr. Guterres said that 50 million people were enslaved during the course of last year.

He explained that marginalised groups are most at risk, such as ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, along with migrants, children and LGBTI individuals; and that most of these vulnerable persons are women.

“Increased action needs to be taken with full participation of all stakeholders, including the private sector, trade unions, civil society and human rights institutions”, he said.

“I also urge all countries to protect and uphold the rights of victims and survivors of slavery.”

Slavery on the rise

Latest estimates by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) show that forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years.

There were around 10 million more people enslaved in 2021, compared to 2016’s global estimates, according to the UN, bringing the total to 50 million worldwide.

Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking.

Still pervasive

It encompasses all situations of exploitation where a person cannot refuse, or leave, because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, or plain abuse of power.

Modern slavery occurs in almost every country in the world, and cuts across ethnic, cultural and religious lines.

Contrary to conventional assumption, some 52 per cent of all forced labour and a quarter of all forced marriages, can be found in upper-middle income or high-income countries.

Almost four out of five of those in forced commercial sexual exploitation, are women or girls.

New ‘global data warehouse’ on forced labour

Coinciding with the International Day, ILO is launching a new Forced Labour Observatory (FLO), developed by the ILO’s Bridge Project  to respond to the request from the UN labour agency’s governors to develop “a global data warehouse on forced labour and trafficking.”

The FLO database will be a repository of global and country level information on forced labour – a “one stop shop” for information on the scourge.

Country profiles have been developed for all 187 ILO member States using publicly available information from reputable sources, to provide an overview of national responses to tackle this crime.

2022 Human Wrongs Watch

by Vanessa Beeley at The Wall Will Fall 5th Dec 2022 via thefreeonline

US Sanctions: The act of withholding means of sustaining life to innocent civilians in order to coerce an entire nation into submission –If people are thinking about complaining about the situation in their country – please be aware of what Syria is going through right now. I live in Damascus.

Sanctions on Syria – a silent death and killing hope

1. Electricity: most areas in Damascus and countryside have only had 30 minutes to one hour in last 24 hours. In the rest of Syria especially rural areas no electricity for 3 days at least.

2. Poor performance of the landline phone network and terrestrial internet due to lack of fuel to run generators during the time of power outage and even the towers powered by solar energy almost shut down because of cloudy weather.

3. Most of the large factories reduced their distribution because their vehicles have no fuel and many closed down until next week – crippling many industries and supply chains.

4. Some government institutions could not conduct electronic transactions on Wednesday and Thursday because there was no electricity or internet.

5. Shops and markets throughout Damascus are closing at sunset because there is no fuel for their generators.

6. Private bakeries reduced production of bread because they cannot operate their machines and ovens.

7. Restaurants reduced production and are only serving cold food or barbecue for the same reasons.

As-Suwayda- A national popular stand was organized on Wednesday in front of Suwayda Governorate building in rejection and condemnation of the US sanctions and the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria.

8. Diesel and fuel have disappeared even from the black market with 20L of BM fuel now at 200,000 Syrian pounds (average salary is 150,000 per month = $ 27, most are earning less).

Continue reading “Here in Syria life becomes a Living Hell due to Punitive US Sanctions”

Posted on November 22, 2022 by winter oak

1. Exposing the global criminals
2. Neither left nor right, but Gilets Jaunes!
3. Reclaiming our freedom
4. Silvia Federici: an organic radical inspiration
5. Acorninfo

1. Exposing the global criminals

Our culture has a strange tendency to want to describe reality in terms of abstract ideas.

It is regarded as a sign of education and intelligence to be able to identify a social or political process in terms of a concept invented to describe just such a thing.

“Ah, this is classic neoliberalism in action!” we might declare. Some other situation might be described as “socialism” or “fascism” or whatever.

There is nothing wrong with such labels (we have used them frequently enough on this website!) as long as we understand that they are merely descriptions of a reality and not the reality itself.

It has become obvious in the conversations that have been taking place since 2020 that such labels mean different things to different people (particularly “capitalism”) and so their use can lead to confusion.

This confusion risks drawing attention away from the actual truth behind the terminology, which in the case of the Great Reset amounts to a vile clique of power-hungry psychopaths lying and intimidating their way towards their goal of total global domination.

We are not in fact dealing with an “-ism” of any variety, but with a real conspiracy involving real people and with real victims.

It is therefore unsurprising, as the urgency surrounding what is happening increases, that we are seeing more and more specific denunciations of individuals and organisations, rather than ideological statements on an abstract level.

Our recent article on the First World War, for instance, followed the example of researchers Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor in identifying those responsible for the bloodbath, who seem to be very much the same imperialist/globalist elements manipulating us today.

A team of researchers at the Thinking Slow website are among those who are busily tracking down the detail of exactly who is behind the current worldwide financial-totalitarian power grab.

They explain that they have invested thousands of hours into researching COVID itself and the staggering levels of dishonesty around the data, the policy response and media reporting.

“This is in many ways a frightening and fascinating time to be around and this website and the painstaking research behind it represents our contribution to the cause of liberty against tyranny in the UK and elsewhere”.

They invite people to join them in their efforts – they can be contacted at ThinkingSlow1@gmail.com or via Twitter.

They have produced, for instance, a video about the receipt by the UK’s ruling Conservative Party of more that £1 million from two Russian nationals via Luxembourg and some British Virgin Islands companies.

Coincidentally, the Moscow-based Edward Slavsquat blog revealed earlier this month that the Russian state is fully behind the creation of a global Pandemic Fund.

Led by the World Bank, in partnership with the WHO, this will be used to support the G20’s health agenda, which includes efforts to “improve genetic surveillance, encourage the mobilization of health resources for medical countermeasures, and expand research and manufacturing networks for vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics”.

Continue reading “The Acorn – 78/ Exposing the global criminals”

Dec 2022 by Dreyfus at anarcomnet via thefreeonline

All round the Planet multitudes of us are rising up in resistance as our Capitalist rulers sabotage our lives to support their precarious Ponzi Schemes.. robbing the poor, war profiteering, bunker sales, militarization… Now is the moment to launch revolutionary change.. mutual aid, local economies, debt refusal, workers takeovers… whatever works!

No War But The Class War!/ Strike now for Revolution! –

What will it be like to have no pain free dentistry or flushing toilets?  What is an urban ice age like with no lighting, heat or running water? How could it feel to sleep beside your dead?  

All the safe assumptions of the post war West are being dismantled in real-time as the war in Ukraine escalates inexorably to total war. 

In the developed metropolitan centers of the West we have become accustomed to a concept of ‘normality’.  A relationship to technology, growth and consumption sold to us as the evidence of the civilizing role of commodity capitalism. 

A normality, that while excluding millions at its margins, beguiles most of us alongside ‘loose celebrities’; ‘coronation soaps’ and ‘who doesn’t want to be a pauper’ quiz shows. 

For most Europeans and North Americans at least, this has been presented not just as inevitable, but the promise to all societies seeking development and progress. 

For the global majority, millions of people in the deliberately underdeveloped post-colonial world, reality has demanded a bloody price for this fantastical lie since WW2. 

Continue reading “Hungrier, colder, poorer and closer to Armageddon – No War But The Class War! – Strike now for Revolution! –”