Film of Week: We Are Legion — Story of the Hacktivists

10/09/2013 by Don Quijones

365days-jeremy-hammond_fullThis week’s film of the week is an absolute must-watch documentary for anybody remotely interested in what’s happening in the present and what lies in store for the future. Continue reading “Film of Week: We Are Legion — Story of the Hacktivists”

Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich. one billion can’t afford bread!

Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich: The Global Agri-Business Model

04/05/2013 by Don Quijones20121013_blp502

A daily ration of bread is now beyond the reach of roughly a billion people on  planet Earth. What’s more, hunger is spreading like a pandemic, making incursions from its traditional strongholds in the global south to towns and cities across depression-hit Southern Europe. Continue reading “Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich. one billion can’t afford bread!”

Make them Leave it in The Ground: How We can Resist Climate Suicide

confront fossil fuels(extract from George Monbiot’s article with References and Comments)

”Preventing climate breakdown – the four, five or six degrees of warming now predicted for this century by green extremists like, er, the World Bank, the International Energy Agency and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (1 , 2 , 3 ,  ) – means confronting the oil, gas and coal industry.”

The only realistic way to do this is by making further development unprofitable. Global Warming Point of No ReturnThis seems impossible, even if extraction were to be limited by a world agreement, scarcity would drive prices up and make evasion eminently profitable, to companies who are anyway more powerful than many nation states.

One step forward is the movement in the US for Disvestment by Companies, Universities and Local Administrations, as it becomes ever clearer that the future of the planet really is being destroyed. (See article HERE Campaign to de-Invest from Fossil Fuel Climate Criminals ) Continue reading “Make them Leave it in The Ground: How We can Resist Climate Suicide”

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