Month: June 2016

On: June 15, 2016

Extracts from the first weeks of a detox journal kept throughout the summer of 2016.Read More

NEW YORK 10014 OR BROOKLYN 11231?
edge of the East River – DUMBO, Brooklyn looking at downtown Manhattan
AUTHORITARIAN REALISM? POST-LEFT TECHNOSOCIALISM?
Democracy is going through stormy seas. The howling winds of the hurricane have been hallooing to anyone left on deck: Assange, Snowden, Weinstein, Epstein. All stand for whistleblowers, active and passive, all have become shorthands for the political scandals that shook liberal democratic political culture to the core. The sails of SS Democracy
HERO’S JOURNEY IS DISTRACT DISEMPOWER AND #neveraccountable
Divisive Mass Propaganda Conspiracy in the modern world is a complete red herring. Not because today’s popular conspiracy theories are false; but because the culture around dripfed conspiracy theory is a planned distraction designed to mislead a targeted portion of the public. Disempower, disenfranchise, divide-and-rule. Conspiracy. Typically these are modeled
SINNER MAN – CINNAMON MAN – SINNERMAN NINA SIMONE
The original lyrics of Nina Simone’s SINNERMAN were a hymn of challenge, beckoning the foul sinner back to the fold. But Nina Simone answers the dimestore evangelism with a more powerful rebuttal: the tragic unjust plight of the Black Man in cruel America.

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INTEL

In 2019, Twitter censored accounts in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Bangladesh and Spain in order to block the dissemination of "state-backed news." Also in 2019, Twitter began blocking institutional accounts, such as, in Venezuela for example, those of the Central Bank, the armed forces, the press office of the Presidency and that of the Ministry of Finance. In 2020, Twitter had sealed an agreement with the British government to combat "lies" (sic). Soon after, he took part in the US (...)

Mark Zuckerberg censors governments

Mark Zuckerberg's company Facebook is already used to censoring governments. After closing French Army accounts in the Central African Republic and Mali in December 2020, plus those of the incumbent President of the United States in January 2021, Facebook has also just closed those of Ugandan president Museveni's team. The decision came a few days before the Ugandan presidential election in which President Yoweri Museveni was running for a second term, in an attempt to favour his adversary, (...)

After the USSR, the USA collapses, by Thierry Meyssan

Everything has an end, so do empires, both the United States and the Soviet Union. Washington has outrageously favoured a small camarilla of ultra-billionaires. Now it has to face its old demons, prepare for secession and civil war.

Fire at India’s Serum Institute kills 5, AstraZeneca vaccine output unaffected

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The inauguration of Joe Biden

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Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182: The search for answers

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Johnson raises fears of lockdown in England continuing into summertime

No 10 wary of talking about easing restrictions as infection rate remains high

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Boris Johnson raised fears that tough Covid restrictions could continue well into the spring and beyond on Thursday as ministers refused to be drawn on plans for any potential easing of lockdown.

While the vast majority of Tory MPs have toed the line since the new variant of the virus sent cases soaring, Downing Street’s reticence is already causing anxiety among a few backbenchers, who are urging an easing of the restrictions if vaccination rates stay on target.

Friday briefing: Fauci enjoys giving dose of facts

£500 payment on testing positive proposed in England … Nissan says Brexit gives advantage to UK factory … Judi Dench on life and lockdown

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Only a third of UK’s key fish populations are not overfished

First post-Brexit audit finds of the top 10 UK stocks, only three are in ‘a healthy state’

Only a third of the UK’s key fish populations are in a healthy state, and catches of key species such as cod should be reduced this year as the UK negotiates fishing rights with the EU, according to the first post-Brexit assessment of the UK’s fisheries.

Of the top 10 stocks on which the UK’s fishing industry relies, only three – mackerel in the north-east Atlantic, haddock in the North Sea, and langoustines in the west of Scotland – are in a healthy state and not overfished, according to an audit of 104 stocks by the charity Oceana.

The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities