Patriarchy only needs an unequal distribution of wealth that supports an hierarchy with men on top. It feeds the worst instincts of men and therefore they're all too happy to comply.

It's a grift, an endless grift that keeps being reinforced even by those who call themselves "allies" (solidarity not included).

/endof

What a week in #patriarchy :

- Chomsky cozying up with Epstein (who became, according to the untouchable Guru of the Left, himself the victim of the "hysteria around sexual assault")
- Bastani and Walker (Novara Media) going on praising Epstein's exceptional manipulating skills to get Chomsky be his bestie
- Neil Gaiman sending his fans to a shady Substack of an obsessive "fan" tracking down the women he allegedly abused (& selling you a new book).

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#Epstein #Chomsky #NeilGaiman

Starmer campaigned on "Change" (that empty signifier). Gave us instead a reheated, serially corrupt establishment apparatchik.

Chickens and perches come to mind.

@luisglezreyes
Hmm. Trainer hace dos argumentos. Sobre el primero tiene razón: decrecimiento se define en torno la a escala de la economía material y la imposibilidad de más expansión (más, tiene que reducir mucho).
Pero el segundo es una posición muy equivocada, que 'socialismo no tiene nada que ver con decrecimiento'.
Ver mi respuesta a una intervención anterior deTed:
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/22/degrowth-the-movement-the-state-socialism-and-marx/

@collective_truth
Banks are part of the capitalist system. They behave as you'd expect!

“We had no way of knowing man forced to resign twice for corruption would be corrupt” insists Starmer – NewsThump
https://newsthump.com/2026/02/05/we-had-no-way-of-knowing-man-forced-to-resign-twice-for-corruption-would-be-corrupt-insists-starmer/?mc_cid=1ec2a8a612

Starvation by design: How Israel turned food into a weapon of war in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/5/starvation-by-design-how-israel-turned-food-into-a-weapon-of-war-in-ga?traffic_source=rss

#Gaza #GazaGenocide

A new book is challenging the very foundations of our relationship with technology and power.

Writer and campaigner Gerry McGovern has just released “99th Day: A Warning About Technology,” a forensic examination of Big Tech, environmental collapse, and the culture driving both.

https://www.clare.fm/podcasts/gerry-mcgovern-on-his-book-99th-day-a-warning-about-technology/

@onlmaps
A preview of what AMOC collapse will feel like

If #Labour activists really care about stopping Reform, now is the moment to stay home and give #hannahspencer a clear shot in Gorton and Denton. If you really feel labour is the only route to progressive change (IMHO you are mistaken) then your time directed to recapturing the principles that the labour party was founded on is urgently needed, and surely a far better use of time than splitting the vote in one byelection.

Oh good. That means he's on the way out!

Starmer has ‘full confidence’ in Morgan McSweeney, No 10 says amid calls for his sacking – UK politics live | Politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/05/peter-mandelson-keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-labour-updates-latest-news

"In the past, whenever there was a financial crisis or a major political conflict, investors would pile into dollar assets, driving the dollar up – as happened during the 2008 financial crisis. That hasn’t happened under Trump; the dollar index has fallen 10% against other currencies in 2025. ...
"The dollar, as the world’s major currency for central bank reserves and in transactions in international trade and finance, has been in gradual decline for decades."
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/the-debasement-trade-and-the-future-of-the-dollar/

I wouldn't normally post a link to LinkedIn, but this is an important republished piece on AMOC collapse from Johan Rockström.

Climate risk becomes a matter of security
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-becomes-matter-security-johan-rockstr%25C3%25B6m-p9n7f/

#AMOC #collapse #FoodSecurity #UK

Human rights groups hail ‘huge victory’ as six Filton 24 defendants acquitted
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/human-rights-groups-hail-huge-victory-six-filton-24-defendants-acquitted

AND, as a reminder that the UK and Elbit assisted Gaza genocide continues:

Israeli forces kill another 19 Palestinians in Gaza
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-forces-kill-another-19-palestinians-gaza

#Gaza #HumanRights #PalestineAction

Exceptional rains in Spain, roads, railways cut.

MAPA | Qué carreteras están afectadas por la borrasca Leonardo: consulta el mapa de la DGT en directo
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mapa-carreteras-afectadas-borrasca-leonardo-consulta-mapa-dgt-directo_1_12963828.html?utm_source=Al+d%C3%ADa&utm_campaign=bce21f3ce7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_04_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-bce21f3ce7-70547832&mc_cid=bce21f3ce7

@btschumy
Yes, here's the future:
"Studies suggest the loss of up to 90% of current arable land in the UK, and major reductions in climatically suitable areas for key crops globally."

#collapse #hunger #UK

@markhburton From the article:

“We are entering a phase of climate change where uncertain but catastrophic risks can no longer be ignored. Among the most serious and imminent is crossing the tipping point for destabilisation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) - a major ocean current system that underpins climate stability, food security and energy systems across the North Atlantic and Northern Europe.”

Novara proving patriarchy is well and alive: 2 "leftist" men talking about the Epstein files will spend like an hour sh*tting on the men they don't like and then apologising the Left guru Noam Chomsky and not even a word for the only people that matter: the victims
Fuck Novara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdd3U9yobzQ

Oh look, here's the BBC yet again giving a platform to the fascists and xenophobes, stockbroker's party.

El artículo más importante que NO leerás hoy. Pero deberías. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-becomes-matter-security-johan-rockstr%25C3%25B6m-p9n7f/