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Globalist Food Empire Destroys Our Biodiversity

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:10:00 -0700

Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture.

This proves that we need local societies that produce their own food and don't rely upon global food corporations. Very interesting and inspiring video.

Modern Society Responsible for Kauhajoki Finland School Shooting

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:07:00 -0700

And so we're back again at where we started nearly a year ago, when high school shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen opened fire against his school mates and later commited suicide.

How many more school shootings do we need before we change the course of our society?

Conservative Libertarian Claims Imperialist War is Failure

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:01:00 -0700

Conservative Libertarian Ron Paul Claims Imperialist War is Failure.

What Ron Paul is saying is this: If we want to play World Police, we'll get a lot of enemies, who in turn will backfire at us for middling in their affairs. The American empire is going down, both politically and economically. Anarchists should prepare for a future downfall and organize to support local community regions, once the government falls short. Although a libertarian, the message of Ron Paul is closely linked with that of anarchism: less government, less control, less bureaucracy and no corporate tyranny. Just watch how upset the rest of the Republicans are after listening to the truth about their own politics.

Modern Corporate Lifestyle is Destructive To Health

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:23:00 -0700

The average person only gets 63 minutes of peace and quiet a day, a study now claims.

Television, radio, the internet, and telephones intrude so much on our day that the average person has just over an hour free from "media noise".

One in three adults do not even have an hour of rest while at home and more than one-in-five (22 per cent) have 30 minutes or less, according to findings from media researchers M-Lab.

From those surveyed, almost a third of people (32 per cent) said they woke up to the sound of either their television or radio and nearly three-quarters (71 per cent) said listening to the television or radio or using their computer was the last thing they did before going to sleep at night.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2675430/The-average-person-only-gets-63-minutes-of-peace-and-quiet-a-day.html

The corporate lifestyle forced upon us is destructive to our health and personal life. We need to shut off our TVs, iPods, radios and computers, and take time to calm down and experience life. The capitalist machinery is trying to lock us up as obedient consumers and workers, but as anarchists we realize that living an interesting life is more important than slaving for money and products. Reject the modern corporate lifestyle now!

The Power Theory

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:24:00 -0700

The power theory behind the definition of anarchism on anarchy.netThere are in my opinion two ways of looking at power:

1) The absolute perspective

All totalitarian ideologies fall under this category. Here, the government sees power as an end in itself. It wants more of it, all the time, and therefore ends up abusing it and exploiting its citizens. We get Gestapo police, bureaucracy and divisions among people.

2) The instrumental perspective

All anarchist-derived ideologies have got an instrumental view on power. This means that they don't see power as an end in itself, but as a method. This is where the Power Theory comes into play. It says that all power that serves no purpose for a community of people as a whole, should be removed. It's an anarchist thought that we should let go of power no one needs. We can't escape power, because it's always there, and governments that historically tried to "end" power, like the Soviet Russia, ended up oppressing people worse than ever.

What we can do is to see power as a method. We use it to attain goals. With the Power Theory, we avoid abusing power. We don't become obsessed with it. We use it only when it's necessary, and always for the benefit of the anarchist community.

What is Your opinion on power in an anarchist society?

America And EU Want To Create Global Surveillance Empire

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:00 -0700

European Union and America want to create a new world order.

Europe should consider sharing vast amounts of intelligence and information on its citizens with the US to establish a "Euro-Atlantic area of cooperation" to combat terrorism, according to a high-level confidential report on future security.

The 27 members of the EU should also pool intelligence on terrorism, develop joint video-surveillance and unmanned drone aircraft, start networks of anti-terrorism centres, and boost the role and powers of an intelligence-coordinating body in Brussels, said senior officials.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/07/eu.uksecurity

Globalisation is threatening to turn us all into slaves for the global western empire. Their talk about terrorism is just a way of stealing our individual liberties and push through totalitarian policies. Only anarchism and decentralisation of all political and economic power can solve this.

Modern Technology Makes Us Buy Things We Don't Need

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:57:00 -0700

We're shopping things we don't need, because people on TV tells us that we need these things to be cool.

I once read a story, in which a philosopher who has spent his life absorbed in study goes to a market one day. He is shocked, and says: “There are so many things here which I have no use for.”

For a long time I was confused – why would the philosopher be so shocked? But now I understand that his shock came from realising the huge gap between his own default settings and those of mainstream society.

Every time modern technology presents us with a new possibility, we quickly learn to see it as a necessity, and it becomes a default. The process is becoming shorter and shorter. Consumption has become something that we see as only right and proper.

http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2228-Default-settings-and-modern-lifestyles

As an anarchist I don't buy stuff I don't need. Seriously, you don't need all iPods, cars, clothes, CDs, computers, TVs and shit. We need to buy less and live more. That's what's anarchism is all about: personal freedom against the power of the multinational corporations. Don't let them turn you into a consumer slave!

Statistical Life Worth Less Today

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:17:00 -0700

Our lives are worth less today, says our government, who worships the dollar and robs us of personal freedom.The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May — a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.

Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences.

When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5353888

Why do we have to measure everything in money? Isn't money-obsession what got us into polluting our own planet and corrupting our communities?

Democracy is corruption and oppression

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:02:00 -0700

This documentary exposes what goes on behind the scenes of the democratic smokescreen.

Anyone who thinks democracy is a good idea, check this video out. These people are exploiting us and only a fool would want to vote them to power. They only care about money and profit, not what's good for the citizens that pay for this circus.

What is communitarian anarchism?

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:50:00 -0700

We define and explain our view on anarchism and freedom."WE DEMAND FREEDOM." This is what all anarchists bloviate day after day. Few people seem to bother thinking about what they actually mean by this. How do we define freedom? Some say anarchism is trying to create Ultimate or Absolute freedom, meaning no restrictions at all = everything's allowed. But wait. We all carry values. Some things seem to be less wanted, like dumping radioactive waste in rivers, raping women, torturing children, exterminating ethnic groups etc. Suddenly it seems like "Absolute freedom" is not realistic, since it would allow these things to come about. Think about it: Would you allow your neighbour to shoot your dog, because it was his personal freedom? The problem is that we have different ideas of what freedom is and many of us want different things - and sometimes these things collide with each other. So what kind of freedom should anarchism espouse?

This site you're reading is promoting what we call communitarian freedom. Remember it, because it's the anarchism of tomorrow; the future. Communitarian anarchism means we believe each group should be allowed to form their own values within their community. If one group wants to be national anarchists, that's fine. If another wants to be communist or fascist, that's their business. In other words, we're talking about a freedom to form a community and sustain the values of that community for the citizens that comprise it. Like in all communities, there will be some things people can't do, and some things people can do. It's a realistic form of anarchy. It wants to remove all power structures that serve no purpose (think bureaucracy), in other words, it's a methodological anarchy, not a static, absolute one. Such societies have never worked in the past, but feel free to give it a try, argues the communitarian anarchist. You do it your way, we do it our way.

Communitarian anarchism is against globalization. Globalism says all people should live under one system of values. Other ideologies that promote this idea include communism/marxism, leftist anarchism and certain forms of fascism. Communitarian anarchism is strongly opposed to the idea of one system applied to all people; we think that leads to the normalization of cultural diversity, creation of giant bureaucratic states, exploitation of our environment, and financial structures that force us to obey dogmatic, capitalist jobs where we slave for a rich elite who don't care about us.

Freedom is important, but it should only be championed when it is defined. Many anarchists lack ideological schooling and therefore scream "FREEDOM" whenever they can, which is why most anarchists are all theory and no action. We cannot act and fulfil our anarchist society unless we know what we're talking about. We need a plan. The plan on Anarchy.net is very simple: We want to go back to local, organic communities, held together by shared values. We need unity and common direction. What we DON'T need is complete lawlessness (which doesn't work, and seems to lack general direction) or one lifestyle/government/system of values forced on all people. That's slavery and it goes under the name of globalization and communism/capitalism.

Anarchism, intelligent communitarian anarchism, is about reducing power abuse and freeing people from their tyrannic masters. It's about true freedom, realistic freedom; communitarian freedom. You are free together with your people to live the way you feel is best. The leftist and rightist interpretations of anarchism have failed and never once demonstrated they can be applied to reality. We have a chance now to create something unique and new. Be a part of it - because it's the ONLY future for those who believe in freedom and collective self-determination. We're communitarian anarchists, and we're proud of it.

Anarchy Now!

Overpopulation problem exposed in public media

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:27:00 -0700

Environmentalist John Feeney recently explained in a public debate why we're too many people who slave under a capitalist system, destroying our planet.

Only since 1800, in the last 0.01% of the history of Homo sapiens, has the human population shot into the billions. Now at nearly 6.7 billion, with 9 billion looming 40 years away, few environmentalists seem to care.

Yet the population-environment link is clear. Our environmental impact, as gauged by total resource consumption for a country or the world, is the product of population size and the average person's consumption.

Today's crumbling environment, racked by climate change, mass extinction, deforestation, collapsing fisheries and more is evidence our total consumption has gone too far. We are destroying our life-support system. In ecological terms we are in "overshoot" of Earth's "carrying capacity" for humans, our demand exceeding the planet's absorptive and regenerative capacities.

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John Feeney is one of the few environmentalists that recognizes and dares to spread awareness of one of the biggest problems humanity has to face in modern time: Overpopulation. We're too many people who consume too much - a capitalist invention to make profit, but a dangerous idea that is now destroying our environment.

Show your support, both to Green Anarchism and to Mr. Feeney, by taking 5 minutes to register on the site and posting a short comment supporting this point of view:

* Local, small-scale society instead of institutional
* No support for surplus population
* Industry, economics must follow social needs

Parents turn in alleged school bomb plotter

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:19:00 -0700

Society and the media have propagated yet another confused, ostrasized youth with nowhere else to go.

A South Carolina high school senior arrested in an alleged bomb plot had the ingredients to assemble a bomb in minutes, police said Monday.

Ryan Schallenberger, 18, was arrested Saturday after his parents called police when 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an oxidizing agent in explosives, was delivered to their home in Chesterfield, near the North Carolina border, Chief Randall Lear of the Chesterfield Police Department said.

Chesterfield County Sheriff Sam Parker said the ammonium nitrate was purchased on eBay.

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Too many youth these days are blinded by today's media and are so vastly ostrasized by the popularity-materialist driven society that they feel the need to act out destructively.

YouTube accounts of Scientology critics suspended

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 -0700

Is YouTube a truly independent, free media sharing source? I think not.

Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended. Neither Christman nor Bunker received a notice or explanation from YouTube as to why their accounts were suspended.

On Tuesday April 15, Tory Christman a former Scientologist and volunteer for their Office of Special Affairs, and known as ToryMagoo44 on YouTube, had her account suspended for unknown reasons. On Wednesday, after complaints to YouTube from other YouTube users and from members of the group Anonymous, Christman's account was restored.

Wikinews confirmed Friday that Mark Bunker known as 'xenutv1' on YouTube, a television journalist and critic of Scientology, had his user account suspended. This is the second time that Bunker's account was suspended. He was formerly known as 'xenutv' when his account was suspended the first time.

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Perhaps the true "freedom" of the internet is not being as upholded as we'd like...

An Anarchist Primer

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:07:00 -0700

A little note of warning for all those false anarchists out there.

To start, anarchy is not what many of you probably think. It's not about drinking ravenously, smoking pot at every chance you get, and stealing cars to race against each other. Anarchy is not about chaos, it is about harmony. Harmony is being able to live without a central authority to guide every aspect of your life, and being independent to the point where you don't require an external force - be that a new purse or the newest video game console - to empower you to be a better person.

Anarchy is NOT about pyrotechnics.

Let me repeat that again:

Anarchy is NOT about pyrotechnics.

Anarchy is about self-sufficiency, belief in no arbitrary means of leadership (voting for someone you've never met, military rule, etc.), and the harmony to live without having to use material gains as a crutch for the self-induced depression of your lives.

Live and let live, that is the anarchist motto. If you want to live in a nudist, tribal society, go ahead, we're not going to tell you that you can't, because that would be against every principle of freedom in anarchy. Forcing everyone to live under one system is against any and all principles of anarchy, and unfortunately the majority of so-called "anarchist" movements today are communists-in-disguise and support something called "libertarian socialism" instead of actual anarchy.

Freedom of the individual, freedom of the society. Don't listen to these commie wanna-bees who never learned the lesson from the fall of the Soviet Union.

A friendly reminder from your neighborhood anarchists.

Food Prices Soar, Where Did The Food Go?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:57:00 -0700

As food prices soar across the world, riots are breaking out and food-related crimes are on a steep rise. Is this a temporary problem, or a precursor to large-scale food issues around the world?

THE rising cost of food is being felt around the world, by the poor especially and, in turn, by politicians. Greater demand from China and India as more people switch to rich diets is lifting prices, which had been low for some 30 years. Last week the prime minister of Haiti resigned in the face of a mob angry at the cost of food, while the Philippines made hoarding rice a crime punishable by life imprisonment. The price of wheat rose 77% in 2007. Since January the price of rice has jumped by 141%. But growing more food takes time, and as the land available for production has decreased, governments and farmers must look to improve crop yields.

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Truthfully, there's more than enough food to go around in this world, although it's all being consumed by the gluttony-driven obese trend in the West and is being hoarded by the rich. Also, having such a wide-scale "free food" program by the UN oft times makes the country in question too dependent on the food shipments, and has decreased their own food production in expectation of someone handing it to them on a silver platter.

Anarchy is about being independent as individuals and self-sufficient as a people, so grow your own food and develop your own land instead of relying on others to spoon feed you.