System Working As Intended
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One day I'll share stories with my grandchildren about the twisted reality of end-stage capitalism.
This collection will help me remember.
This collection will help me remember.
Epstein Files as a testing ground for cancelling economic reports?
Lets see if the playbook is the same - first delay, then blame Democrats, then...?
(Tell me. Impossible answers only!)
Lets see if the playbook is the same - first delay, then blame Democrats, then...?
(Tell me. Impossible answers only!)
Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures | The New Republic
Donald Trump has now blocked three economic data reports.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Epstein Files as a testing ground for cancelling economic reports?
Lets see if the playbook is the same - first delay, then blame Democrats, then...?
(Tell me. Impossible answers only!)
Lets see if the playbook is the same - first delay, then blame Democrats, then...?
(Tell me. Impossible answers only!)
From nationalisation to privatisation: 101.
This time a lengthy one, but if you're here for detailed observation of the system working as intended, it's a valuable article.
This time a lengthy one, but if you're here for detailed observation of the system working as intended, it's a valuable article.
Letter from Mexico: the privatization of PEMEX
A letter in Insurgent Notes #10 about the privatization of PEMEX, an oil company in Mexico.
libcom.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
From nationalisation to privatisation: 101.
This time a lengthy one, but if you're here for detailed observation of the system working as intended, it's a valuable article.
This time a lengthy one, but if you're here for detailed observation of the system working as intended, it's a valuable article.
Have you seen ANIARA?
One of the greatest films ever made, in my humble opinion.
It comes to mind when reading about Ecological Grief, that chronic sorrow that many of us drag behind.
One of the greatest films ever made, in my humble opinion.
It comes to mind when reading about Ecological Grief, that chronic sorrow that many of us drag behind.
Anarchist news from 600+ collectives 🏴 Anarchist Federation
Anarchist news from 600+ collectives 🏴 Anarchist Federation
www.anarchistfederation.net
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Have you seen ANIARA?
One of the greatest films ever made, in my humble opinion.
It comes to mind when reading about Ecological Grief, that chronic sorrow that many of us drag behind.
One of the greatest films ever made, in my humble opinion.
It comes to mind when reading about Ecological Grief, that chronic sorrow that many of us drag behind.
Bromance?
Seriously if there is a news that puzzled me af, it's this stuff.
Can maybe someone translate this stuff to my naive brain. I don't get it.
Seriously if there is a news that puzzled me af, it's this stuff.
Can maybe someone translate this stuff to my naive brain. I don't get it.
Trump and Mamdani spark surprising bromance during White House meeting
President Donald Trump said he would be a partner to his onetime foe during an appearance with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the White House on Friday.
gothamist.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Bromance?
Seriously if there is a news that puzzled me af, it's this stuff.
Can maybe someone translate this stuff to my naive brain. I don't get it.
Seriously if there is a news that puzzled me af, it's this stuff.
Can maybe someone translate this stuff to my naive brain. I don't get it.
Yes, you read it right. Prosecutors dropped charges against a woman SHOT BY Border Patrol agent in Chicago.
They tried assume self defence.
I feel that I know where their teachers come from.
#borderpatrol #chicago
They tried assume self defence.
I feel that I know where their teachers come from.
#borderpatrol #chicago
Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Woman Shot by Border Patrol Agent in Chicago
Observers point out this isn’t the first time prosecutors have dropped charges against protesters in recent months.
truthout.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Yes, you read it right. Prosecutors dropped charges against a woman SHOT BY Border Patrol agent in Chicago.
They tried assume self defence.
I feel that I know where their teachers come from.
#borderpatrol #chicago
They tried assume self defence.
I feel that I know where their teachers come from.
#borderpatrol #chicago
Continuing yesterday's darkness.
Some sick right-wing Italians, Germans, French, British, US Americans, and Canadians paid to snipe civilians.
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#Bosnia #Sarajevo #rightwing
Some sick right-wing Italians, Germans, French, British, US Americans, and Canadians paid to snipe civilians.
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#Bosnia #Sarajevo #rightwing
"Human safari": new testimony reveals wealthy tourists paid to hunt civilians in Sarajevo
Human safari probe widens after reports that rich Westerners paid to gun down civilians during the Sarajevo siege
www.thecanary.co
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Continuing yesterday's darkness.
Some sick right-wing Italians, Germans, French, British, US Americans, and Canadians paid to snipe civilians.
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#Bosnia #Sarajevo #rightwing
Some sick right-wing Italians, Germans, French, British, US Americans, and Canadians paid to snipe civilians.
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#Bosnia #Sarajevo #rightwing
The incredible efficiency and innovativeness of capitalism.
Connecticut Towing Companies Frequently Value Cars Low, Allowing Them to Sell Vehicles Quickly
A database created by The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica of more than 6,000 forms submitted by the state’s towing companies shows a pattern of low values, including for some luxury cars.
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The incredible efficiency and innovativeness of capitalism.
5D Chess, ain't it?
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
5D Chess, ain't it?
Great article showing how the destruction is profitable to big business / big politics.
From Red Bull to Gaza: The Empire of Wreckage
A professional cyclist from Spain was recently paralyzed from the chest down after a catastrophic crash at a Red Bull event. He rides for Monster —
www.counterpunch.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Great article showing how the destruction is profitable to big business / big politics.
A comprehensive source of knowledge about the real life background to the Brazilian COP30.
By the way - do you know that big business lobbyists are the biggest crowd on those climate COP conferences?
By the way - do you know that big business lobbyists are the biggest crowd on those climate COP conferences?
COP30 farce in Lula's Brazil - Freedom News
Their idea of ‘sustainable capitalism’ is to sell off the rainforest and build mega-projects ~ Rafael Sanz, desinformemonos ~ COP 30 ha…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A comprehensive source of knowledge about the real life background to the Brazilian COP30.
By the way - do you know that big business lobbyists are the biggest crowd on those climate COP conferences?
By the way - do you know that big business lobbyists are the biggest crowd on those climate COP conferences?
When I created this account I thought I'd have to spend much more time on finding good, grotesque, twisted, bizarre news.
Now when I'm feeling lazy I just type TRUMP into the search bar et voila!
Now when I'm feeling lazy I just type TRUMP into the search bar et voila!
Trump Asks Israeli President to Pardon Netanyahu From Corruption Charges
This is one of numerous times that Trump has tried to intervene in Netanyahu’s trial.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
When I created this account I thought I'd have to spend much more time on finding good, grotesque, twisted, bizarre news.
Now when I'm feeling lazy I just type TRUMP into the search bar et voila!
Now when I'm feeling lazy I just type TRUMP into the search bar et voila!
This is fine.
ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
Veteran-led protests against Trump’s National Guard deployments encourage soldiers to resist Trump’s illegal orders.
truthout.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is fine.
UK Metropolitan Police says it cannot help being racist.
A broken watch is still right twice a day, indeed.
A broken watch is still right twice a day, indeed.
Met Police's own review finds that their racist culture is "inevitable"
Searing review finds that the Met Police are a hotbed of anti-Black racism - cue Met boss Mark Rowley fucking up his response to the report
www.thecanary.co
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
UK Metropolitan Police says it cannot help being racist.
A broken watch is still right twice a day, indeed.
A broken watch is still right twice a day, indeed.
Real-time End-to-end Surveillance.
Meta - FB, Insta, WhatsApp - will read your DMs and AI chats, rolling out from Dec
Meta will soon be able to read users conversations via its AI function which cannot be turned off - if data protection laws don't stop them
www.thecanary.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Real-time End-to-end Surveillance.
A few years ago I started thinking of our rising collective consciousness as of a cognitive dissonance of an individual. We start to appreciate the fact that we awfully fucked everything up. Now there is that primal struggle between denial and will to fix it.
Have some food for the dissonance.
Have some food for the dissonance.
How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s
YouTube video by MintPress News
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A few years ago I started thinking of our rising collective consciousness as of a cognitive dissonance of an individual. We start to appreciate the fact that we awfully fucked everything up. Now there is that primal struggle between denial and will to fix it.
Have some food for the dissonance.
Have some food for the dissonance.
Vote for me or my master invades us.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Vote for me or my master invades us.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”.
Let Them Eat Marble and Big Beautiful Ballroom | Common Dreams
Hours after exultantly posting 24 photos about his gaudy new marble bathroom and hours before he defiantly refused to fund food stamps and health care subsidies for 42 million Americans, King Donald h...
www.commondreams.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”.
Hurricane Mellissa.
165 UN countries condemning US embargo on Cuba.
AGAINST: US, Israel, Argentina, Hungary, Paraguay, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
ABSTENTIONS: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Czechia, Ecuador, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Moldova and Romania.
165 UN countries condemning US embargo on Cuba.
AGAINST: US, Israel, Argentina, Hungary, Paraguay, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
ABSTENTIONS: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Czechia, Ecuador, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Moldova and Romania.
U.N. Votes Overwhelmingly to Denounce U.S. Embargo on Cuba as Hurricane Melissa Batters Island
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 33rd consecutive year, with just seven opposed, including the United States, Israel and Ukraine. Th...
www.democracynow.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hurricane Mellissa.
165 UN countries condemning US embargo on Cuba.
AGAINST: US, Israel, Argentina, Hungary, Paraguay, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
ABSTENTIONS: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Czechia, Ecuador, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Moldova and Romania.
165 UN countries condemning US embargo on Cuba.
AGAINST: US, Israel, Argentina, Hungary, Paraguay, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
ABSTENTIONS: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Czechia, Ecuador, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Moldova and Romania.
Funny guys in your govt, USA.
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Funny guys in your govt, USA.
This belongs here.
The hottest topic in UK is whether to ban those baby killer enthusiasts from a game or not. Of course all our oligarch politicians say let the motherfuckers sing whatever they like because they are from Israel and then can do whatever they please.
The hottest topic in UK is whether to ban those baby killer enthusiasts from a game or not. Of course all our oligarch politicians say let the motherfuckers sing whatever they like because they are from Israel and then can do whatever they please.
Video: Tory MP embarrasses himself trying to back Maccabi Tel Aviv at any cost
Iain Duncan Smith tried to find an example of one game where Maccabi Tel Aviv fans didn't cause chaos - and fell flat on his face
www.thecanary.co
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This belongs here.
The hottest topic in UK is whether to ban those baby killer enthusiasts from a game or not. Of course all our oligarch politicians say let the motherfuckers sing whatever they like because they are from Israel and then can do whatever they please.
The hottest topic in UK is whether to ban those baby killer enthusiasts from a game or not. Of course all our oligarch politicians say let the motherfuckers sing whatever they like because they are from Israel and then can do whatever they please.
Surprising effects of lobotomy.
Tommy Robinson rallies nationalists to support Israelis playing English team
Tommy Robinson is a far-right extremist; he also finds himself completely in line with PM Keir Starmer on this issue
www.thecanary.co
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Surprising effects of lobotomy.
Theft is theft, right?
Yes, it is. Unless we are talking about an employer stealing wages. Then it's "ok for a price" and in reality that price is... nothing.
Ah, and the Labour Party tried to add a tribunal fee. Of course for workers to pay.
System working as intended.
Yes, it is. Unless we are talking about an employer stealing wages. Then it's "ok for a price" and in reality that price is... nothing.
Ah, and the Labour Party tried to add a tribunal fee. Of course for workers to pay.
System working as intended.
Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media
A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.
novaramedia.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Theft is theft, right?
Yes, it is. Unless we are talking about an employer stealing wages. Then it's "ok for a price" and in reality that price is... nothing.
Ah, and the Labour Party tried to add a tribunal fee. Of course for workers to pay.
System working as intended.
Yes, it is. Unless we are talking about an employer stealing wages. Then it's "ok for a price" and in reality that price is... nothing.
Ah, and the Labour Party tried to add a tribunal fee. Of course for workers to pay.
System working as intended.
"They are just as sophisticated as MS-13, as Tren de Aragua, as Isis, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, all of them."
Oh, joy.
Oh, joy.
Hezbollah and MS-13 'R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears | Common Dreams
Despite court losses, public antipathy, ridicule, a shutdown they ignore, the nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an America in flames. Their victims include brown p...
www.commondreams.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"They are just as sophisticated as MS-13, as Tren de Aragua, as Isis, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, all of them."
Oh, joy.
Oh, joy.
Privatisation of water in UK: the next chapter - you guess it - another price raise.
FIVE water companies are begging the regulator to let them raise your bills
Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, Wessex Water and South East Water all want to hike your bills - but by how much?
www.thecanary.co
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Privatisation of water in UK: the next chapter - you guess it - another price raise.