Exile is the path that I have chosen, because I know that sometime, leaving your home to escape political oppression is the best possible course of action.
(ROMANIA) THE PLAGUED MASK OF DESOLATION
We go untouched and shrivel slowly.
The skin is silent but the chest burns on the inside.
Will we ever recover from this fabricated calamity?
Uruguay: A New Journal of the Plague Year
“… being Observations or Memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in Uruguay during the last great visitation in 2020. Written by a scholar who continued all the while in Montevideo.”
Where the heck are we?
It would appear that the government has realised that leveraging the Covid crisis as a means of bringing about the changes needed to usher in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is starting to run out of steam.
U.K. Anarchist Sentenced to 3 years in Prison Following Publication of Anti-4IR Zine
My name is Toby Shone, and I’m an imprisoned anarchist held in Bristol prison who was kidnapped at gunpoint by the anti-terrorist unit, as part of Operation Adream in the UK. The repression was aimed to target the anarchist group of critique and practice, 325 collective and the website 325.nostate.net.
Situation report – January 2022
Yet again, I’m going to attempt to summarise where we are in an increasingly weird and dystopian situation. Yet again, I realise that what I’m now writing could in weeks…days even…be overtaken by events. I’m persisting in producing these situation reports because they help me to marshal my thoughts in a bid to try and understand what’s happening.
Breaking and re-making us
One part of the strategy and tactics being deployed against us is persuading a significant chunk of the populace to do the dirty work of divide and rule for you. Having an atomised, frightened populace makes the project of breaking and re-making us that much easier. Atomisation is a key part of the process.
2021 – spiralling down | 2022 – ‘interesting’
Do you remember March of 2020 when it was ‘just three weeks to flatten the curve’? We do although given how far back that is now, the memory is not exactly an immediate one. It’s not even two years ago but it feels like a lot longer than that as we unwillingly become acclimatised to a new (ab)normal.
It’s complicated…
We can’t help but notice the demonisation of anyone opposing vaccine passports, digital or paper, as so called ‘anti-vaxxers’. It would be too easy to dismiss this demonisation as lazy, uniformed thinking. That would be wrong because this is part of a strategy of divide and rule.
Situation report – November 2021
Taking a step back, it’s clear the rollout of vaccine passports is going to be a classic case of mission creep. It starts off with concerts and nightclubs, it will be moving onto pubs and restaurants and before you know it, supermarkets. It moves from what people are willing to sacrifice for the sake of principle to what they need to survive.
Putting the skids under the vaccine passports
Plenty of people have said that they’ve no intention of going to a concert, sports event, restaurant or pub if they have to show a vaccine passport, paper or digital. That includes a fair few double jabbed people as well as the un-jabbed. That will be a lot of people engaging in the tactic of boycotting.
Against 5G & the Digitalization of Our Lives
The 5G network is the essential infrastructure for the realisation of the ‘smart planet’: a world of hyper-connected devices able to constrain all human dreams and needs along predetermined paths.
On the ethics of torching vaccination centres
A flick of the lighter, the whole thing catches fire, and the silhouettes disappear into the night.
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
The Estuary Stirrer This was the post I put up a week ago on Monday, July 19th, the day we supposedly got our freedom back: […]
Love Has Been Abolished
The task is to be a voice of reason in the midst of this mass psychosis.. The task is to awaken the masses from the trance they are in, dispel the fear that is governing them, and remind them of what gives their lives meaning.
‘Freedom Day’…what a joke that was…
Whatever our differences may have been in the past and regardless of the different perspectives we still have, we need each other in this fight for our basic freedoms. This is the fight of our lives and isn’t one we can walk away from because we’ll lose everything if we do. If we stick together and fight off the divide and rule merchants, there’s everything to gain…”
Resist the Fourth Industrial Repression!
The 4IR empties everything of meaning, particularly words. It says “sustainable” when it means ecocidal. It says “development” when it means destruction. It says “basic universal income” when it means slavery.
Dismantling tyranny
We need to rediscover what it means to be truly human, to cherish value over price, communal belonging over personal self-interest, honour above wealth. We need to look deep inside ourselves and search out and nurture everything that makes us noble, authentic, generous and kind.