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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence,–too weak to live, too cowardly to die.
This world we must STILL leave.
“A Bright Spot Amidst the Chaos” – From New York to Minnesota, the Rights of Nature are Growing
The presidency was never meant to be a throne. The Constitution was never meant to be optional. And the people were never meant to be silent.
In this world, energy is distributed through massive fields of concentrated solar power. Once-thriving family farms are now obsolete, giving way to systems managed by AI, robotics, and swarms of drones called ‘agrobots.’
If the financial system ever goes down, the commons can provide a way to operate a means of exchange, so we can keep doing stuff for each other without their money, accounts and payment systems.
America’s trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
American author Biff Thuringer’s powerful, entertaining and finely-crafted novel “Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic” depicts “a complicated shell game”, “a billion-dollar shadow economy in dirty toxic chemicals”.
Aya Velázquez is one of the journalists who broke the Robert Koch Institut Leaks story, which documented how government officials and health authorities deceived the German public during the roll-out of the New Normal in 2020-2022.
Here’s 17 reasons why it really matters.
The collusion between Big Tech and the Trump administration is meant to carry out a specific agenda, one that removes pesky regulations and paves the way for lucrative contracts to develop massive AI data centers and computer chips, avoid costs associated with tariffs, and more.
Not only is it bad for democracy, it trivializes antisemitism and allows promoters of racism and ethnic cleansing off the hook.
Academics and policymakers make data-free assumptions that most of the increase in CO2 in 2024 comes from burning fossil fuels and cement production, with a small proportion from deforestation and nothing from the loss of soil organic matter.