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Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century
Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century Study shows ‘disastrous consequences for wildlife’ if human-caused emissions push global temperatures up 4.4C A female desert bighorn sheep in the Joshua Tree National Park, California. Such areas would be among the worse impacted if global emissions are not cut. Photograph: […]
Even The Mainstream Media Is Now Admitting That Humanity Is Facing “A Perfect Storm”
Even The Mainstream Media Is Now Admitting That Humanity Is Facing “A Perfect Storm” Over the last several decades, have we ever seen a year start as strangely as 2020 has? Global weather patterns have gone completely nuts, large earthquakes are popping off like firecrackers, it looks like the plague of locusts in Africa could […]
Assange and Auschwitz
Assange and Auschwitz When I read that Angela Merkel visited Auschwitz this week (for the first time ever, curiously, after 14 years as Chancellor, and now it’s important?), my first thought was: she should have visited Julian Assange instead. I don’t even know why, it just popped into my head. And then reflecting on it […]
Assange, Attack, Guardian, Journalism
Assange, Attack, Guardian, Journalism Guardian columnist Owen Jones, a self-described left activist and socialist, was attacked in the streets of London at 2 am Saturday morning in what he himself describes as “a blatant premeditated assault” by a bunch of guys. He says he was kicked, punched, but then saved by the friends he was […]
“They Were Saying Horrible Things” – How Monsanto Tried To Discredit Journalists, Rockstars And Other ‘Roundup’ Critics
“They Were Saying Horrible Things” – How Monsanto Tried To Discredit Journalists, Rockstars And Other ‘Roundup’ Critics Discrediting adversarial journalists and even a legendary rock star who had criticized the health hazards of roundup weedkiller. Silencing activists and alleged victims of the company’s roundup weedkiller. These Harvey Weinsten-esque tactics were employed by Monsanto owner Bayer […]
Don’t Leave Nukes on the Shelf. Use Them!
Don’t Leave Nukes on the Shelf. Use Them! Photograph Source: United States Department of Energy – Public Domain On June 20, the London Guardian ran a curious headline: “Nuclear Weapons: Experts Alarmed by New Pentagon ‘War-Fighting Doctrine.” Last week, a report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff was briefly available to the public on the Pentagon’s website. […]
Putin, the African Queen
Putin, the African Queen Luke Harding is a former journalist for the Guardian. I say former because while he is still writing for the paper, he lost his one remaining shred of credibility last November with an article about Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange multiple times in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, which soon was discredited […]
Fake News After Mueller
Fake News After Mueller Allow me to start with a question: Has anyone seen any of the main newspapers and networks who went after Donald Trump for 3 years accusing him of colluding with “the Russians”, apologize to either Trump, or to their readers and viewers, for spreading all that fake news now that Robert […]
Dumping on the Donald
Dumping on the Donald Rembrandt van Rijn The Adoration of the Magi 16xx I still had some things I didn’t talk about in Sunday’s Trump Derangement International, about how the European press have found out that they, like the US MSM, can get lots of viewers and readers simply by publishing negative stories about Donald […]
Trump Derangement International
Trump Derangement International Diego Velázquez The Spinners 1655-60 Dirk Kurbjuweit, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine for the past 4 years, unwittingly put his foot a mile deep in his mouth this week when he reacted to a letter written by US Ambassador to Berlin Richard Grenell. His reaction presents perhaps the most […]
Smear Slander Rinse and Repeat
Smear Slander Rinse and Repeat Frans Masereel Montmartre 1925 The way ‘news’ is reported through known outlets changes so fast hardly a soul notices that news as we once knew it no longer exists. This is due to a large extent to the advent of the internet in general, and social media in particular. On […]
It’s Spreading: Now the British Media Is Pushing Microchipping In The UK
It’s Spreading: Now the British Media Is Pushing Microchipping In The UK It’s no coincidence that a veritable public relations advertisement concealed as an article in the Daily Mail regarding the microchipping of thousands of Swedish people would soon be followed up by an article announcing yet more microchipping of employees and individuals in the […]
No farm future, no growth future, no farmer future: a SFF bulletin
No farm future, no growth future, no farmer future: a SFF bulletin Let me offer you a brief news roundup from the Small Farm Future editorial chair. First up, this website’s favorite Guardian journalist George Monbiot has been unleashing his inner ecomodernist again with an article about producing protein for human consumption via bacteria that […]
Leaked U.N. Memo Reveals Saudis Demanded Western Propaganda For $1bn Pledged To Aid Agency
Leaked U.N. Memo Reveals Saudis Demanded Western Propaganda For $1bn Pledged To Aid Agency We wonder if the Saudis had never been caught in Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder, would such essential stories and leaks now happening such as the below Guardian report ever see the light of day? On Tuesday The Guardian published select contents of a leaked […]
