The Slow Murder of Gaza
A dark corner has been turned for the Palestinian people. What lies in that darkness may be a crime against humanity perpetrated against them by an apartheid state, a crime not taken lightly: genocide.
When the rebel group Hamas (حماس) broke free of the open-air prison known as the Gaza Strip and upon unsuspecting Kibbutzim — spilling into Southern Israel — there was no turning back for true Palestinian
liberation nor Netanyahu's fascistic project, enabled by the United States. More bombs are dropped on the heads of Palestinian people than ever before, with over 6500 dead and over 50%~ of housing stock
annihilated from Israel's strikes as of this writing.
The media environment in which this conflict is being broadcasted to is rife with elements of the disastrous 2001-2003 period in which the United States became drunk with rage. With this same rage like a fire
Israel is poised to commit a critical mistake that will end Israel's right to existence in the eyes of many, the cleansing of the Palestinian people from Gaza Strip. The world now sees the unfortunate truth
that Israel is impervious to criticism as America's Middle East proxy-state; where does American power lie after the constant and obvious obfuscations, lies, cover-ups, dishonesty and mudding of waters? And a
broader question for those not acquainted with the realities of realpolitik and power, when has a revolution ever been clean, or the common refrain: what has the world come to?
China Against Capitalist-Induced Entropy
How should China behave when capital demands the lives of its citizens in order to continue the onward march of profit? Forces guided by capitalism—beyond and within the borders of China—threaten China’s economic, political, and social existence by the refusal to allow for the prudent and necessary control of a disease that through continued reinfection has the potential to significantly alter the life expectancy and mental acuity of its victims.
Capitalist Pressure with Western Characteristics
What is pressure to a modern superpower nation-state with a population of over 1.4 billion souls, and what are these capitalist forces exerting this undefined ‘pressure’ on it? Pressure is economic, pressure is social, pressure comes from T.V. diplomats and it comes from the unwashed masses yearning for understanding why the price of milk has shot up and why the chicken they had not just a year ago is ten euros now instead of four-and-a-half.
China has come from the fields, into the workshops, and onto the world stage since the first five-year plan in 1953 under Mao. After decades of hard earned industrialization—and a most interesting foray into co-opting capitalism in order to slingshot themselves closer to a socialist paradise under Deng Xiaoping—China has opened up to, and participated in the ‘global market’ as how it would be defined by neoliberalism. With foreign capital influx, comes foreign capitalist pressures. Economic pressure or imperialism-as-a-service can be the result of actions such as lending and borrowing, or the withholding of borrowing or the suspension of repayment1. For China this simply put borrowing trap is dim as its economy is large and important enough to supplant any diplomatically uncouth calls for recovering an excessive amount of debts in service of reducing SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-2) restrictions.
FlyUs Dark Patterns
Out of all the things most people don't need, weird and shitty companies are needed the least. And you know what really pisses me off about them? The fact that they're in love with deliberately misleading UI patterns—these grimy peddlers brought from the searchy depths by Google's humanity-devoid decision making process.
I had the 'pleasure' of encountering some dark patterns when buying a ticket a few days ago with some weird company recommended through Google Flights called FlyUs, surprise surprise.
Start of a New Thing
Where to begin?
This bulletin board is a the culmination of hundreds of minutes of work, at least. A blog is a blog, a news website, a pile of rubble nowadays—but this site is something more casual than your local newspaper, and hopefully more interesting than the ramblings of the usual terminally-online and bored bourgeoisie.
