"Es steht daher eher die Frage im Raum, wie viel Taktik & Strategie unsere #Demokratie verträgt? Wenn ich taktisch wähle,weil ich Angst habe, meine Stimme wäre "verschenkt", sollte ich dann nicht eher über das Wahlsystem nachdenken? Konkret in #Berlin:...

telepolis.de/features/Gewae… ... Sollte ich mich da nicht fragen, warum der 2021 erfolgte #Volksentscheid mit bald 60 Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen nicht einmal ansatzweise umzusetzen versucht wurde, aber eine Partei mit 18,4 Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen den Regierenden #Bürgermeister stellen kann?"

"That the #Anthropocene, at its core, is a fundamentally bourgeois concept should surprise no one. After all, it tells us that behind the current, disastrous state of world affairs is the #Anthropos. It’sa trick ...

researchgate.net/publication/26… #history #capitalism #ideology ... as old as #modernity – the rich and powerful create #problems for all of us, then tell us we’re all to blame. But are we? And just who, in any case, is ‘#we’?"

"This long Malthusian cycle brewed the ideological alchemy of Good #Science and the Civilizing Project. Each moment produced new scientific and imperial regimes that simultaneously mapped, secured, and justified ever more extensive and violent...

scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/… #society ... appropriations of unpaid #work/energy for capital. Every moment of enclosing waste (the commons) involved grand movements creating #waste on the frontiers. In this long #history of natural law, Good #Science has been mobilized not only as a “productive force” but as the...

#AgeOfDeception: “#Washington is filled with politicians and organizations that hyperventilate about government #debt and the burden it imposes on our children, but they ignore the burdens imposed by #patent and #copyright monopolies granted by the government.” “Suppose that we were spending another $50 billion a year on medical #research in order to replace #patent supported research, and all the findings were placed in the #public domain so that all #drugs were sold as #generics. ...

#Science/#Society/#Academia:

“The process of #rationalization central to #capitalism has required the creation of an intermediate stratum comprising the specialists of this rationalization, as #administrators, #technicians, #scientists, #educators. The very complexity of not... ... only the #technology but the social system has made it essential that this stratum be large and, over time, expanding.The funds that have been used to support it have been drawn from the global surplus, as extracted through entrepreneurs and states. In this elementary but ...

#Science/#Society: "This #bias is explicit for Sir John Houghton, a former #IPCC vice president who is not only an eminent climatologist but also a fervent catholic and zealous proselytiser. Houghton has made a great contribution to the #climate cause, and no-one could accuse ... ... him of ignoring the magnitude of the challenge. Nevertheless, when he was asked one day if he was an #optimist or a #pessimist, he replied: ‘I am an optimist for three reasons; #scientists the world over are working hard and collaborating, the necessary #technologies are ...

"Not all #pollution comes from people. When global temperatures increase by 4°C, harmful plant #emissions and #dust will also increase by as much as 14%, according to new UC Riverside research... About two-thirds of the future pollution is predicted...

phys.org/news/2023-02-t… ... to come from plants."

"On their own, #BVOCs are benign. However, once they react with oxygen, they produce organic aerosols. As they're inhaled, these aerosols can cause infant mortality and childhood asthma, as well as heart disease and lung cancer in adults." #problems

"For the 6.3 billion people who live outside of #TheWest, 66 percent feel positively towards #Russia and 70 percent feel positively towards #China, and, among the 66 percent who feel positively about Russia the breakdown is 75 percent in #SouthAsia, ...

eurasiareview.com/24022023-5-rea… ... 68 percent in Francophone #Africa, and 62 percent in Southeast #Asia. Public opinion of #Russia remains positive in #SaudiArabia, #Malaysia, #India, #Pakistan, and #Vietnam. ...

"A container ship carrying general commercial goods docked at #Yemen's main port of Hodeidah for the first time since at least 2016 on Saturday as parties in Yemen's eight-year war are in talks to reinstate an expired U.N.-brokered truce deal."

reuters.com/world/middle-e… "The war has killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed Yemen's economy and left millions hungry. The Houthis say they are fighting a corrupt system and foreign aggression."

#Capitalism/#Work: "Timed to go to the toilet. Told off for leaning. Monitored for each package completed. As a #worker at #Amazon, I often feel that we aren’t being treated as people."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "We are treated worse than the #robots doing automated tasks in the warehouses. If the robots have an issue, the company pays for them to be serviced, whereas if we drop below certain targets multiple times, we can be fired – we have to sort it out or get out"

#Democracy/#FacaDemocracy: “Bolstering these #IntellectualProperty protection devices is an expanding set of inter-government deals. The construction of the global #market #system has been marked by a proliferation of over 3,200 bilateral and multilateral treaties on trade ... ... and investment, most of which have never been subject to any #democratic mandate or accountability."

#Marktwirtschaftstotalitarismus: "Der Hauptgeschäftsführer der Bundesvereinigung der Arbeitgeberverbände (#BDA), Steffen Kampeter, fordert längere #Arbeitszeiten – und mehr Lust auf #Arbeit. 'Wir brauchen mehr Bock auf Arbeit', ..."

tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-br… #AgeOfDeception "In den #Schulen müsse Leistung wieder eine größere Rolle spielen, forderte der Verbandsvertreter. '#Leistung ist was wert. Mehr noch: #Wir brauchen Leistung.“

"Wenn ich von '#Postdemokratie' spreche, meine ich ein Konzept wie 'postindustrielle #Gesellschaft'. Wenn wir eine Gesellschaft 'postindustriell' nennen, meinen wir nicht, dass sie 'ent-industrialisiert' geworden ist, oder dass die Belegschaft keine industriellen Produkte ... ... mehr herstellt oder benutzt. Alle Produkte und viele der Tätigkeiten des Industrialismus bleiben in einer postindustriellen #Gesellschaft erhalten, die Energie und die Kernpunkte der #Wirtschaft sind aber in neue Sektoren abgewandert."

"‘Freedom of speech’ in the #university setting has been at the heart of these arguments. The relationship between #academia and #politics is genuinely tricky and the two spheres cannot be as easily separated as naïvely ‘value-free’ ...

socialeurope.eu/when-radical-z… ... scientists would have us believe. Yet the sociologists Sarah Speck and Paula Villa are rightly critical of ‘the conflation of politics and scholarship, however progressive or well-intended these may be’, for example ‘when instructors or students fail to distinguish ...

#Origins: "The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely ...

wsj.com/articles/covid… #Covid ... the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided."

"The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence,” according to people who have read the classified report."

#Archaeology/#Technology: "A unique artifact discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda may have been used as a device during #sex rather than as a good luck symbol, archaeologists suggest"

phys.org/news/2023-02-d… "new analysis by experts at Newcastle University and University College Dublin has shown it to be the first known example of a disembodied phallus made of wood recovered anywhere in the Roman world."

#Scenarios: "we present a model that extrapolates observed growth in #millionaire numbers (1990–2020) and associated changes in #emissions to 2050. Our findings suggest that the share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow ...

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ... from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions of 286 Gt CO2. This is equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget, and significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5 °C."

#CarbonInequality #inequality

„Wir brauchen Auswege aus dem #Denkgefängnis, in dem viele eingeschlossen sind.“ @WOetsch ⬇️

issuu.com/conzettverlag/… „Wer zeitlich nur weit genug zurückgeht, kann immer eine Periode entdecken, in der jede #Selbstverständlichkeit eben nicht selbstverständlich gewesen ist.“

#Modernity/#Inequality: “one of the most significant pillars of historical #capitalism, institutional #racism. What we mean by racism has little to do with the xenophobia that existed in various prior historical #systems. Xenophobia was literally fear of the ‘stranger’. ... ... #Racism within historical #capitalism had nothing to do with ‘strangers’. Quite the contrary. Racism was the mode by which various segments of the #work-force within the same economic structure were constrained to relate to each other. Racism was the ideological ...

#Apartheid: "#Israel, they explained repeatedly, is experiencing an unprecedented 'crisis of #democracy'. This take is not necessarily wrong – after all the proposals being discussed are real and indeed extremely concerning. But ...

braveneweurope.com/neve-gordon-is… ... news reports in the Hebrew-language press like the ones cited above, and the experiences of millions of #Palestinians living under “Israeli #democracy”, suggest it is highly misleading. The dominant narrative about #Israel currently circulating in the Global North ...

"States at war generally adopt interventionist economic policies to mobilize resources and manpower. #Ukraine hasn’t followed suit, instead pursuing dogmatic free-marketeer measures that suit #Western creditors more than its own population."

jacobin.com/2022/07/ukrain… "Generally, #states at #war tend to nationalize key sectors of the economy to maximize armaments production and stabilize the civilian economy, both to prevent chaos in the rear and feed the army. Strangely, this has not taken place in #Ukraine"