US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis. An oil refinery in Canada.
Has cheap oil gone forever? Photograph: Dave Reede/All Canada Photos/Corbis A conference sponsored by a US military official convened experts in Washington DC and London warning that continued dependence on fossil fuels puts the world at risk of an unprecedented energy crunch that could inflame financial crisis and exacerbate dangerous climate change. The 'Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue', which took place on 10th December last year, was co-organised by a US Army official, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Latest news, sport and comment from the Guardian. Improvised Munitions Handbook. Protest In Eugene. Sharing the Internet: "Commotion Wireless" Technology Lets Communities Create Free Webs of Access. In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Here are 14 Ways to Fight Back Against the "Intellectual Property" Racket. Republished from localorg.blogspot.com By Tony Cartalucci In your standard dictatorship, activists are brought out back and shot.
In the United States' crypto-dictatorship, activists are bullied by the state until they go bankrupt, are buried under a mountain of legal woes, are publicly discredited or humiliated, or as in the case of activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, made to crack under the constant pressure, and commit suicide. While superficially the United States may seem more progressive, a dead activist bullied to death for his political views, is a dead activist - whether it was a bullet in the back of the head by SS officers, or a mountain of litigation dumped upon someone by the US Department of Justice.
Insurgent Anarchism: the new networked resistance. With the advent of the internet, a huge shift has occurred from the centralized mass media to the decentralized network power of the new media.
INSURGENT ANARCHISM:Part I: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Part II: The Power of Networked Resistance Part III: Forthcoming… By Nozomi Hayase of the Associated Whistleblowing Press. Clay Shirky, a consultant on the social and economic effects of internet technologies recently spoke of the emerging global interconnectedness and the possibilities it engenders.
Shirky shared the success story of a platform called Ushahidi, a program that mines and collects data and provides information for emergency situations, like natural disasters. Prosecution of Anonymous activists highlights war for Internet control. Whatever one thinks of WikiLeaks, it is an indisputable fact that the group has never been charged by any government with any crime, let alone convicted of one.
Despite that crucial fact, WikiLeaks has been crippled by a staggering array of extra-judicial punishment imposed either directly by the US and allied governments or with their clear acquiescence. In December 2010, after WikiLeaks began publishing US diplomatic cables, it was hit with cyber-attacks so massive that the group was "forced to change its web address after the company providing its domain name cut off service". Young Greeks Create Self-reliant Island Society. Experts: Food Prices Will Soar Leading to Political, Civil Unrest. Midwest droughts, growing unrest in the Middle East have prognosticators worried By Keith Johnson The worst U.S. drought since 1936 has devastated crops and livestock across the country and opened the floodgates to opportunists hawking genetically modified (GM) seed products.
Worse yet, socioeconomic experts now predict that the world may be less than one year away from a catastrophic food crisis that could lead to even more political instability and civil unrest. Meanwhile, consumers are bracing for a harsh winter as food prices begin their rise to unprecedented levels. Meat and dairy products, which account for 52% of the world’s food basket, are expected to become far more expensive over the next several months as farmers around the globe continue to slaughter millions of hogs, dairy cows and steers because they cannot afford the corn and soybean products used to make feed.
This Presidential Race Should Never Have Been This Close. Europe is Revolting. London.
A general strike in Greece, massive protests by the indignados in Spain, public transport strikes in Portugal (and Spain), and industrial action by aluminium, steel and public sector workers in Italy headlined this week. On Saturday mass protests will erupt again in Portugal as the indignaos movement that brought out a million into the streets of the country on September 15 – the same day there was another huge scale turn out into the plazas in Spain – join action called by the country’s largest trade union, CGTP. And it’s not just in the Continent’s south. On Sunday mass demonstrations are expected in France, calling for a referendum over the EU Fiscal Compact, the ‘permanent austerity’ treaty. Does voting even matter? World Revolution for Real Democracy – Timeline.
The Case for a Radical Break with the Status Quo. Part 1 [Warning: angry tone] & these: Part 2:originally here I prefer the more radical, long term solutions: mutual aid societies, decentralized self-sufficiency (and eventually defense), open source hardware etc., etc.
Reddit is a smart place: Share this: No one has gone to jail for crashing the world economy, torture or unconstitutional wiretaps. There is however room in our jails for people who share files or smoke pot. This is not a justice system. It is an exploitation system. : politics. Indian Elder Speaks - Point of No Return. Digital Resistance to Political and Cultural Manipulation and Indoctrination. God Damn It. Keeping your head down keeps you a tool.
The current economy is more than 5 times more productive than in 1950 when one person with a high school education could support a middle class family. Over the last thirty years basically all income growth went to the very top. Productivity continues to climb, real wages continue to fall. Corporate profits are at a 50 year high, and so is unemployment. Major law breaking by big banks and government continues to go unprosecuted. Global warming is real and worse than everyone thinks; militaries all over the world are preparing for increased instability and resource wars.
What does it mean to be an 'anarchist'? The Collapse of the Climate Change Contrarians. Cole writes: "Skeptics can be convinced by solid data and argument; contrarians are either harder to convince, or impossible to convince.
Some contrarians are committed to their position because it is central to their business model. " By Juan Cole, Informed Comment 01 August 12. Occupy Nation. Global Warming's Terrifying New Math. Open Your Eyes. Symbolism of the Cascadian Flag. Government tech support. Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally. Québec: “we didn’t know it was impossible, so we did it!”
Over the past 3,5 months, a student strike against tuition hikes in Québec has evolved into one of the biggest anti-capitalist movements in North America.
Originally published by Occupy Theory Origins of an unlimited general strike (“grève générale illimitée”) Students in Quebec marked their hundredth day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, 22 May, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movement of recent months and North America’s largest student movement in years. In fact, the mobilizations in Quebec might just be Canada’s Arab Spring.
Students have been organizing against tuition hikes for nearly one and a half years, when the Quebec government first proposed to raise tuition fees by seventy-five percent over five years (amended to eighty-two percent over seven years by the government at the end of April). Anarchists on huge anti-government rally in Moscow. Over 100,000 protesters gathered in Moscow to demonstrate against Vladimir Putin. There was violent clashed between protesters and police resulting in over 400 arrests.
Chomsky: Do We Have the Makings of a Real Revolution? Protesters at "Occupy Wall Street" camp, Liberty SquarePhoto Credit: Sarah Jaffe May 8, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Occupy's liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day. The US press seems to have decided that the Occupy movement is no longer a story. Pretty much no matter what we do.
In New York, on May Day, something between 50,000 and 100,000 people marched through the streets – we don't know the exact numbers because most papers didn't report the event at all, and therefore, didn't bother to make estimates. OPEN SOURCE ALL THE THINGS! FREE ENERGY AND FREE INFORMATION FOR A FREE PEOPLE! PApZW.jpg (1321×900) Glenn Greenwald on Targeted Killing of U.S. Citizens. Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems' V0UhI.gif (1221×1532) The revolution will be tweeted - science-in-society - 06 February 2012. Read full article. The Emerging Wisdom Revolution - Mike White's Blog. How to Film a Revolution - a tutorial - Occupy the Movie. Read Between the Lines: Hollywood Mogul Buys 2,600 Acres of Farmland; Moving to New Zealand. India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President. #Revolution. GLENN GREENWALD- With Liberty and Justice for Some -Pt 1. We The People. A Call to Revolution « Rose City Resistance.
A Call to Revolution The United States Declaration of Independence is very clear on the responsibilities of the people in dealing with oppressive governments. The Protester -Person of the Year 2011- Printout. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. Left Right - The Chemical Brothers & Anwar SuperStar. Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back. Anonymous - Message to the American People. Egypt's naked blogger is a bomb aimed at the patriarchs in our minds.