by George Monbiot shared with thanks via thefreeonline

We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible

‘Even if the leading contenders to replace Boris Johnson had wings and haloes, they still could not govern us well.’ Nadhim Zahaw. Congratulations to some of Labour’s leading figures, who have begun to discover some 19th-century proposals for political reform.

Proportional representation, devolution from the centre, abolition of the House of Lords: a few senior Labour politicians are now taking the daring step of contemplating these “radical” innovations.

While I have nothing against 19th-century solutions to our 18th-century government, would it be too much to ask, at the risk of sending these bold pioneers into a dead faint, that they might also start exploring some more recent ideas?

Regardless of which creep beats the other creeps to become the next prime minister, inordinate power will again be granted to someone who should not be allowed anywhere near it.

But even if the leading contenders to replace Boris Johnson had wings and haloes, they still could not govern us well. Society is a complex system, and complex systems can never be sensibly and benevolently controlled from the centre.

A centralised, hierarchical system means concentrated power, and concentrated power favours concentrated wealth. Systems like ours are easy for billionaires and their media empires to co-opt.

The human urge to take back control, loudly promised by governments that have done the opposite, is real. To a far greater extent than has been permitted in our recorded history, we should be allowed to manage our own lives.

Continue reading “Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea”

from stigmatis shred with thanks via thefreeonline

Bees are not the only pollinating species at risk: “many pollinators are disappearing through processes of silent extinction, imperceptible to human vision,” biology doctor Luis Navarro warned Efe.

Navarro, who is currently a full professor at the University of Vigo, has pointed out that although “the species best known by society is the honey bee, there is a great variety of different bees, more than 1,200 species in the Iberian Peninsula and up to 20,000 in the world”, to which must be added other “functional groups” responsible for the pollination of plants.

“Each plant has different characteristics that require a pollinator adapted to them”, he specified, as is the case with the marigold that transfers its pollen with the help of butterflies, the orchid that does it with wasps, the honeysuckle with bombilidae bombs or avocado, poppy and rockrose with beetles.

All these small animals and others that also work in the reproductive processes of plants are in danger for various reasons that threaten their ecosystems, such as “the appearance of invasive alien species such as the Asian hornet, macro-crops, the use of fungicides and pesticides or the consequences of climate change, which implies displacement of species or problems of lag between the appearance of animals and flowers”, Navarro pointed out.

Continue reading “Biologist warns: “many pollinators at risk of “silent extinction” / English..Spanish”

Why is this not news, beyond one website? Why has (say) the New York Times not picked it up, to look into the CAUSE of all those deaths? We know why….

by Mark Crispin Miller Subscribe now 101 more comments via thefreeonline Jul 28 2022

One thing (among many) that the COVID Crisis has made painfully clear is that black lives DON’T matter when those “vaccines” take them.

Hear, and heed, what Marvin Gaye sings in the first verse of his 1971 classic (scroll down for it).

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50 Great Soul Music Artists Who Have Died in 2022

https://www.soultracks.com/deaths-2022

One of our saddest jobs at SoulTracks is to inform SoulTrackers about the deaths of soul music artists. And 2022 is a year in which we’ve already lost some great ones.

We feel it is part of our mission to pay tribute to the legacies of these all time greats. On this page we provide a list of those artists who have died during 2022, and a link to our tributes to them. They are shown in the order of the date we reported on their deaths during the year. 

Nick Colionne (singer and guitarist)

Jessie Lee Daniels of The Force MDs

Calvin Simon of Parliament-Funkadelic

James Mtume (songwriter, producer and group leader)

R. Dean Taylor (Motown songwriter and singer)

Ronnie Spector (singer)

Sonny Turner of the Platters

Fred Parris of The Five Satins

Rosa Lee Hawkins of The Dixie Cups

Greg Webster, Sr of The Ohio Players

Lew Kirton (singer)

Freddie Hughes (singer)

Philip Paul (drummer)

Darrell Crooks (guitarist)

Donny Gerrard of Skylark

Syl Johnson (blues and soul singer)

Johnny Brown (singer and actor)

Betty Davis (singer)

Continue reading “What’s goin’ on? 50 great soul music artists have died (suddenly?) already in 2022”

From The Institute for Anarchist Studies by Spencer Beswick, July 29, 2022 via thefreeonline

Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack

May Day, 1987: thousands of black-clad Autonomen (“those who are autonomous”) riot in West Berlin.

After a decade spent honing their street-fighting tactics, they stage an offensive against state repression by blocking streets, occupying buildings, and fighting a low-intensity urban war against the police.

The Autonomen expand their liberated zone throughout much of the neighborhood of Kreuzberg that is their base. After a night of rebellious jubilation, they return to their squatted houses and social centers to nurse their wounds, curse the police, and celebrate a temporary victory.

Although the German media depict the Autonomen as little more than violent mobs whose only motivation is destruction, the radicals have simultaneously constructed an extensive network of squatted alternative infrastructure across West Berlin and throughout West Germany.

During the 1980s, the Autonomen turned hundreds of abandoned buildings into group housing, social centers, movement bars, and cultural centers—spaces that provided both alternative forms of living and bases of attack.

Continue reading “Living Communism..the invisible Committee post-autonomist collective”

stigmatis.wordpress.com July 28, 2022 and Dustin Jones via thefreeonline

Political activist Olivia Julianna, 19, was publicly shamed by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz after the congressman said women who are fat or ugly don’t need to worry about getting pregnant or having an abortion. She started raising money for abortion funds across the country after Gaetz attempted to humiliate her, and has since raised over $700,000.

Callaghan O’Hare for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz attempted to humiliate a teenage girl after arguing that overweight and unattractive women don’t need to worry about getting pregnant or needing abortions. That same girl has since raised over $700,000 for abortion care.

Nineteen-year-old political activist Olivia Julianna thanked Gaetz for his attack, which she credits for the wave of donations, and offered to send him a bouquet of flowers; one for every $100,000 raised. The money is being raised through Gen Z for Change, the nonprofit where Julianna serves as a political strategy specialist, but ultimately will be dispersed evenly to 50 abortion funds across the US.

During his speech at the Student Action Summit in Tampa, Fla., Saturday night, Gaetz said, “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?”

Gaetz: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." pic.twitter.com/0qqvun3Pf8

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022

“Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” he told the crowd.

Continue reading “A Texas teen raises over $700,000 for abortions after Rep. Matt Gaetz mocked her”

Official Government Documents indicate Authorities are using Monkeypox to cover up the fact the COVID-19 Vaccines cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS)

By The Exposé on July 28, 2022•( 9 Comments ) via thefreeonline

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The new evolving hysteria surrounding the alleged emergence of ‘monkeypox’ in Western nations is not what it appears to be. We are not witnessing the monkeypox virus run rampant across first-world countries for the first time ever.

Instead, we are witnessing the latest attempt to advance Draconian biosecurity policies through a monumental coverup of the devastating damage done to the immune systems of people who have had the Covid-19 vaccine. Damage so severe that it can be likened to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.

And we can prove it…

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Human monkeypox is a zoonosis thought to usually occur sporadically in the tropical rainforest of western and central Africa. But the exact incidence and geographical distribution are actually unknown because many cases are not recognised. The reason being is that it is commonly mistaken for chickenpox / shingles.

According to a scientific study published in 1988, between 19981-1986, 977 persons with skin eruption not clinically diagnosed as human monkeypox were laboratory tested in Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo).

The results were as follows –

‘3.3% of human monkeypox cases were found among 730 patients diagnosed as cases of chickenpox, 7.3% among cases diagnosed as “atypical chickenpox” and 6.1% among cases with skin rash for which clinical diagnosis could not be established.

The diagnostic difficulties were mainly based on clinical features characteristic of chickenpox: regional pleomorphism (in 46% of misdiagnosed cases), indefinite body-distribution of skin eruptions (49%), and centripetal distribution of skin lesions (17%). Lymph-node enlargement was observed in 76% of misdiagnosed patients. In the absence of smallpox, the main clinical diagnostic problem is the differentiation of human monkeypox from chickenpox.’

Can you spot any major differences between the following two images?

Now you can see why it was regularly misdiagnosed.

Human monkeypox was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a 9-year-old boy. Since then, human cases of monkeypox have been reported in 11 African countries. It wasn’t until 2003 that the first monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa was recorded, and this was in the United States.

Continue reading “Strong Official Evidence Monkeypox is just another reaction to Covid ‘Vaccine’ destruction of our Immune System + how to repair”