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Braverman doubles down on ‘woke’ police crackdown: ‘PC patrols not policing pronouns’ Home secretary tells police conference she is fighting a ‘campaign against political correctness in policing’

Answering questions from Police Federation members, the Home Secretary rejected claims that police forces are “institutionally racist”. That's what Braverman means by a "“campaign against political correctness” - the same as always, cover for state racism www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

putting together the bibliography for PART ONE of For Land lmao

this ain't even all of it (articles goes on for a few more pages)

The surprising thing isn't so much the tactic - an intimidation tactic calculated to stir fear in relation to local beliefs. The surprising this is that Amazon gold cartels have access to fucking JETPACKS

'7-foot flying aliens' in Peru ate faces, claim locals. Cops say they were... Terrified villagers in Peru claimed they were attacked by 7-feet-tall flying aliens. Now, local officials have stated that members of illegal gold mining gangs were likely behind the incidents.

So, I just did some reading on this and, yeah, looks like alluvial gold mining gangs in the Amazon used fucking jetpacks and dressed up as aliens to attack indigenous people this year.

this came to me in a dream and idk what to do with the idea so you all have to suffer with me

Deforestation in the Amazon is threatening South American monsoon patterns. If this study is correct, we are on the verge of a *rapid* decline in rainfall, of up to 30% present rates. This is the rainforest's death knell.

This is the whole point of AI. It’s not to actually replace humans. It’s to change your title from “head writer” to “assistant AI technician,” not credit you, and pay you half of what you were paid before

Labour will, of course, dutifully doff the cap to whatever capital demands.

Some of this gibberish will make it into attempts at what passes for policy in Britain today, some of it won't. The point, however, is to prepare for the most vile culture war shit you've ever seen when Labour inevitably take the reigns.

The Tory Party conference this year has been a circus of absurdity and reaction on a scale eclipsing any of their prior efforts. They have nothing but PR massaged violence to offer. An opposition in waiting, preparing to consolidate the far-right around it for the long haul.

🚨 Undercover on the government's Rwanda plan For the past three months, Led by Donkeys has been investigating the government’s plan to forcibly send asylum seekers to Rwanda, a cornerstone of the Prime ...

This is chilling.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to confirm toughening of benefits sanctions while raising living wage Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride announced last month he was looking into changes to the Work Capability Assessment. Reducing welfare spending and getting people into work is part of the reason ...

Economic terrorism.

For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis In this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult...

For more of our analysis, check out this video:

Europe’s olive oil supply running out after drought – and the odd hailstorm Heatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America

As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se."

The food crisis is just starting.

Refugee activist’s house in Home Office raid for ‘unknown illegal persons’ Campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding answers as to why his home was searched by immigration officers without a warrant

Refugee campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding an explanation from the Home Office and Northumbria Police after immigration enforcement officers raided his home without a warrant www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

British troops must be prepared to fight, says Army Chief In a speech on Tuesday, General Sir Patrick Sanders will say he had never seen such a clear threat to democracy as the 'brutal aggression' of Vladimir Putin

There have been material preparations for escalation in the public domain since June last year too. News source below.

Full speech from Army Chief here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=99iF...

Up to 50 UK special forces present in Ukraine this year, US leak suggests Documents appear to list number of western special forces personnel in Ukraine in February and March

This is not the first time British troops have been sent to Ukraine since February 2022, however. They've been there for the duration of this phase of the war (and before but that's a distinct thing).

One big factor in why Britain is particularly aggressive over Ukraine: Shell secured a 50 year exclusive deal to exploit the natural gas fields in the east of Ukraine, between Kharkiv and Donetsk, in late 2013. The outbreak of war has stopped the investment from realisation.

British troops could deploy to Ukraine to train soldiers, says Grant Shapps Defence secretary says proposal being discussed would reduce reliance on UK and other Nato members’ bases

To be clear: this is the first time since February 2022 that British troops will be deployed in Ukraine *openly*. That is a major escalation, verging on catastrophic. Whether or not the troops are there for training (doubt), the potential for open direct conflict is huge.

[Podcast #33] Approaching Ecosocialism, part two: development debates and social bases | Patreon Official Post from Prolekult

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"Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities" www.canonsociaalwerk.eu/1943_apeldoo...

little more up to date - regrowth for year already seems to have peaked (source: twitter.com/EliotJacobso...)

The second volume of Capital is absolutely fucking insufferable to try and translate into supplementary study aids and pedagogic materials.

Recorded water levels in the Bow River showing lower than average streamflows.

Canada research chair of water resources and climate change:

“The low streamflows in rivers across Alberta this year are unprecedented. In Calgary, he said the Bow River is at about half its normal level.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What I mean isn't the chauvinist "class analysis first" shit. What I mean is that following the bourgeois media and its provocations down every rabbit hole or focusing on individuals to nauseous obsession is doing neither class analysis nor solidarity with oppressed people.

It feels futile to say that to not be beaten by the culture war shit, the left needs to stop biting at this point. Focus on signifiers and individuals above conditions, policy and class throughout the online left seems pretty ubiquitous, to the point of compulsivity.

S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI: Employment

The UK 📉

Lionel Hutz says: MR. SIMPSON, DON'T YOU WORRY. I WATCHED MATLOCK IN A BAR LAST NIGHT.