Thread by @AlisonBlunt

1) "1. Where do we go from here?"
But when all of this naked authoritarianism is justified by blatant lies, the situation becomes still more outlandlish."
THE ACORN – 58, July 21, 2020 by @WinterOakPress
winteroak.org.uk/2020/07/21/the…

2) 'The “science” behind this medical strategy of tension is so flimsy that one would imagine that all but the dullest of TV-addicted sofa spuds would see right through it.'

3) 'But, for many, believing the official version seems to have become an article of faith, a central part of their initiation into the sinister “new normal”.'

4) 'In order for this psychological surrender to authority to be effective, maybe the message had to be obviously false, in the same way that Winston Smith’s torturer in Nineteen Eighty-Four is obviously holding up four fingers rather than five.'

5) 'A further twist of the knife has come from the way that people we assumed we knew, people we imagined shared our basic ideals, have turned out to be something else.'

6) 'Worse still, they turn on those of us who have remained consistent in our principles and accuse us of having somehow drifted into unacceptable political territory!'

7) [Seems the thread is a bit threatening to some folk watching this..the previous text image said, 'Liberty-loving rebels, long-term opponents of the capitalist system, have suddenly become authoritarian robots, mindlessly repeating the lies and demands of the system.']

8) 'It comes as no comfort to have seen much of this coming, whether in the shape of the increasing authoritarianism of the neoliberal system or the dangerous narrowing of political thinking on the left.

Where do we go from here?'

9) 'But we can also start thinking about what our long-term resistance is going to look like, what kind of movement might emerge to fight the new white-coated fascism and the Fourth Industrial Repression it has unleashed on us.'

10) 'In thinking about this future movement, we can all help to create and shape it.

To this effect, we invite Acorn readers to share their thoughts with us, not so much in the form of articles for publication (though we also welcome those!), as in an informal way.'

11) "2. Protection racket
However, when these areas are being promoted by the same capitalist system which brought nature to her knees in the first place, the alarm lights start flashing!"

12) "Because, in typical capitalist style, this scam has been wrapped up in shiny green packaging and promoted by the well-known WWF, the New Deal for Nature initially attracted little opposition."

13) "Warns Survival director Stephen Corry: “The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world’s so-called ‘Protected Areas’ (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe’s lands and oceans."

14) [Quoted tweet in article

https://twitter.com/StephenCorrySvl/status/1234902190956908544?s=20

]

15) '“Many PAs aren’t really protected at all. They include industrial exploitation — mining, logging, plantations, trophy hunting concessions, or extensive, usually high-end, tourist infrastructure.'

16) 'The alert is also being sounded via the World Rainforest Movement, notably in a statement entitled “Protected Areas feed corporate profiting and destruction”.'
[wrm.org.uy/bulletins/issu…]

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18) '“The result is that billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money are funnelled into conservation areas that ignore all checks about upholding human rights, which are routinely violated there. Most such projects are run by NGOs, profit-making private companies, or both.'

19) 'We urge readers to support the No Deal for Nature campaign in any way they can.

Their site is [nodealfornature.org] and they are on Twitter [twitter.com/nodealfornature], where they work closely with Boycott WWF.'

20) 'Thanks to the resistance, however, this event has now been postponed to May 17-30, 2021, according to a press release from the Convention on Biological Diversity on July 15.'

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It's a bit unfair on sheep...