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New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure
L: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-california-pension-leaders-oppose-extreme-spacex-control-structure-2026-05-14/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134389
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Etats-Unis : Prison à vie pour l’auteure d’un livre sur le deuil qui a empoisonné son mari avec du fentanyl
🗞️ 20 Minutes - 🕐 14/05 02:04
Condamnée mercredi à la prison à perpétuité incompressible dans l’Utah, Kouri Richins a été reconnue coupable du meurtre de son mari, Eric Richins, mort en mars 2022 après avoir ingéré du fentanyl. Cette affaire a pris une dimension nationale aux Eta... [2403 chars]
🔗 https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/etats-unis/4223512-20260514-etats-unis-prison-vie-auteure-livre-deuil-empoisonne-mari-fentanyl
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Technical debt, aka I keep forgetting about custom.css: https://taonaw.com/2026/05/14/technical-debt-aka-i-keep.html
Wait, how can something on a website be broken to one degree or another? Is it broken or not? Well, you see… CSS.
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#XiJinping l-a dus pe Donald #Trump să vadă un loc impresionant din 🇨🇳#China. Președintele 🇺🇸#SUA, uimit: ”Un loc măreț. Incredibil”.
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L’OL prolonge le contrat du jeune Haktan #Sener
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Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
L: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altmans-business-dealings-under-gop-scrutiny-ahead-of-openais-ipo-52c1cc4d
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134429
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As an American, I've been here before. Fuel was "cheap" back in 1992 when I went to Germany because it was rationed on military installations. Then later, back in USA, I did the right thing when fuel prices rose (traded up to a small car)
I've paid current prices for fuel with my current car before. It's "high" because we've been conditioned to accept ~$0.50/l as a "normal" price when large parts of the world pay over $2 for that liter.
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Employment Ice Age
L: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Ice_Age
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134291
posted on 2026.05.14 at 08:12:19 (c=0, p=4) -
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
L: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/swift-bricks-to-be-installed-in-all-new-buildings-in-scotland-after-holyrood-backs-ruling
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079587
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Remove .zig Files from Bun
L: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30680
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133323
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Pipes, Forks, and Zombies
L: https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/wiki/2017/Shell3/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133493
posted on 2026.05.14 at 06:37:54 (c=0, p=3) -
Cannabis Lies Vol. 9: The Reform Lie
Filed Under: Policy Fiction
The federal apparatus has spoken. The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration have announced a shift in the regulatory status of cannabis, moving state-licensed medical products to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act while pointedly leaving adult use, unlicensed, and synthetic THC products in Schedule I. Headlines across the country erupted with the language of victory. Outlets hailed this as a historic acknowledgment of the plant’s medical utility, a shift that supposedly recognizes the plant’s reality after decades of denial. The public was told that the prohibition era was entering its twilight and that the federal government had finally conceded that the plant possesses medicinal value.
None of this reflects the actual legal impact of the order. This announcement is the latest manifestation of the Reform Lie. It is a calculated piece of bureaucratic maintenance designed to satisfy the demand for progress while ensuring the core structure of prohibition remains entirely untouched. As Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche stated in the order, the new policy mandates that:
“Marijuana in any form covered by a state medical marijuana license, be placed in Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act.”
It is a classic maneuver by the state to preserve its authority by offering a small, controlled concession that changes everything on paper but leaves the reality of the drug war exactly where it has always been.
The Reform Lie is the mechanism by which the state manages the tension between popular opinion and its own mandate. It functions by acknowledging that a substance has medical value without ever addressing the fundamental injustice of its criminalization. When the government moves a substance from one box to another, it claims it is following the science. When that same government keeps the prisons full, keeps the borders militarized against possession, and keeps the threat of federal intervention hanging over every state-sanctioned interaction, it is not following science. It is managing optics. For decades, the apparatus has faced growing pressure to address the disconnect between federal law and the public reality of cannabis use. Instead of dismantling the structure, the government has repeatedly opted for symbolic reform. These gestures generate cycles of positive press. They allow officials to claim they have acted on the issue. They provide a release valve for public anger without ever sacrificing the underlying authority to arrest, prosecute, and punish. This is the central trick. The Reform Lie presents a change in tax status as a change in morality.
To understand the scope of this deception, one must look closely at what the shift to Schedule III actually achieves. Under the Controlled Substances Act, Schedule III is home to substances such as anabolic steroids and certain prescription painkillers. It is a designation that implies a potential for abuse, though one that the state deems less severe than those in the Schedule I category, which the government defines as having no currently accepted medical use. Moving state-licensed medical products to Schedule III finally acknowledges what has been true for thousands of years. It acknowledges that the plant has medical value.
However, the change in classification does nothing to address the core conflicts of the prohibition era. The federal criminal penalties for the unauthorized production, distribution, or possession of cannabis remain firmly in place for everything outside that narrow, state-sanctioned medical window. The interstate commerce ban survives completely intact. The government continues to treat the transport of the plant across state lines as a federal crime, regardless of the legality of the substance in the states of origin or destination. Banking remains a fractured landscape of private risk and federal oversight. Employment in the federal sector remains hostile to users, and the firearm restrictions that strip rights from medical patients do not budge.
Most critically, this move provides no relief for those currently held in the carceral system. This order structurally excludes any mechanism for record relief, sentence modification, or pardon, leaving the carceral status quo entirely intact. It does not vacate criminal records. It does not end the status of cannabis as a tool for immigration enforcement. It does not stop the random, localized harassment of the population by federal agencies that still view the plant as contraband outside of the narrow, state-licensed framework.
This is a victory for the balance sheet. It is a win for the corporations that have spent millions lobbying for the ability to deduct ordinary business expenses under the tax code. As of April 22, 2026, state-licensed medical cannabis is no longer subject to 280E. It is a stabilization for the industry that the government has deemed acceptable. For the average person, for the patient, and for the citizen who does not operate within the protective bubble of a state-licensed medical program, the reality remains frozen in the past. This bifurcation of the population is intentional. It creates a system where legitimacy is not a right inherent to the citizen. It is a commodity to be licensed. The people who work within the sanctioned industry are protected, taxed, and monitored. The people who exist outside of that bubble, who grow their own, who share, or who live in states without functional medical programs, are left to the mercy of a law that has not changed. The government has not legalized the plant. It has simply professionalized the privilege of interacting with it.
This strategy is not new. It follows a consistent historical pattern. In every generation, the state has used cannabis policy as a messaging tool to address shifting cultural demands. This is not about the plant. It is about the maintenance of control. The lineage of this deception is long and well-documented.
Consider the era of the Gateway Lie. The government needed a way to justify the expansion of its police power, so it framed the plant as the first step on a path to hard drug use. This narrative was never about safety. It was about creating a bridge between a benign cultural habit and the perceived chaos of the heroin epidemic. It gave law enforcement a justification to monitor, harass, and incarcerate individuals who were otherwise peaceful. The Gateway Lie was effective because it operated on fear. It suggested that a single act of consumption was a moral failing that would lead inevitably to destruction.
Consider the Crime Lie, where the plant was the supposed accelerant for violence. In the 1980s and 1990s, the state pivoted to a narrative of aggression. It claimed that cannabis use caused psychosis and fueled the drug trade. It used this narrative to justify the militarization of police forces, the introduction of civil asset forfeiture, and the explosion of the prison population. The Crime Lie turned the consumer into a danger to the public, a threat that had to be neutralized by the full weight of the judicial system. It was never about the drug. It was about the expansion of the carceral state.
Consider the Teen Epidemic Lie, where the narrative focused on the alleged destruction of youth, or the Addiction Lie, which served to pathologize a human relationship with a plant. Each of these lies served a purpose. They provided the state with the moral cover required to expand surveillance, increase budgets, and exert control. The Reform Lie is simply the modern evolution of this pattern. The state no longer needs to argue that the plant causes violence, because the public no longer believes it. So, the state shifts the narrative. It pivots to the language of regulation. It claims to be fixing the system. It is a retreat, but it is a managed retreat. The goal remains the same, which is to maintain the state’s position as the final arbiter of what a person can put into their own body.
The most devastating impact of the Reform Lie is the erasure of the human cost. When the headlines celebrate a minor technical shift, they drown out the voices of those who continue to suffer under the full weight of prohibition. The Reform Lie tells the prisoner that their incarceration is necessary because they did not have the right paperwork. It tells the immigrant that their status remains precarious because the federal law still views the plant as an illicit substance. It tells the veteran that they must choose between their medical treatment and their access to federal services. It tells the small grower that they are a criminal while the corporate entity next door is a taxpayer. By focusing on the tax status of corporations, the conversation ignores the individuals who are still being processed through the system. It creates an environment where progress is measured by market capitalization rather than the restoration of liberty. It turns the struggle for sovereignty into a fight for market share.
Help Keep Pot Culture Magazine Independent Pot Culture Magazine is independent cannabis journalism. No corporate owners. No investors. Just readers. If you value this work, chip in a few dollars and help keep it going. Support PCMIf the government acknowledges that cannabis has medical value, the continued maintenance of criminal penalties for everyone else becomes an indefensible moral contradiction. One cannot simultaneously argue that a substance is legitimate medicine and that the possession of that substance warrants the stripping of rights, the loss of employment, or the threat of prison. This contradiction exposes the truth of the state position. The government does not actually care about the safety of the substance. It cares about the control of the substance. If it were about safety, the state would be looking for ways to educate rather than incarcerate. If it were about medicine, the state would be ensuring access rather than creating barriers. The existence of the prohibition machinery alongside the admission of medical utility for the licensed few is proof that the objective has always been to maintain a system of punishment.
This system relies on the compliance of the public. It relies on the belief that the state is making progress. The Reform Lie is designed to prevent the public from seeing that the state is not moving toward freedom. It is moving toward an integrated model of control. By allowing a portion of the market to become legitimate, the state creates a vested interest in the status quo. The corporate entities that now have a seat at the table are no longer incentivized to fight for total legalization. They are incentivized to maintain the current regulatory structure because it keeps their competitors out. They become partners in the enforcement of the very prohibition they once railed against. This is the ultimate victory for the state. It co-opts the opposition by giving them a slice of the profit.
We have seen this happen in other sectors of the economy, where regulations are written by the very corporations they are meant to govern. This is not reform. This is the capture of the regulatory apparatus. The Reform Lie ensures that the people who built the culture, who fought for the plant when it was dangerous to do so, are excluded from the new order. They are the ones who bear the cost of the transition. They are the ones who are still in cages, who are still fleeing from the law, who are still fighting for the right to exist in peace.
This administrative process is now set to continue with new hearings starting June 29, 2026. These proceedings are often portrayed as a necessary step toward further reform, a way to build a bureaucratic consensus for future changes. In practice, they serve as a stalling tactic. They provide a way for the administrative state to maintain the illusion of progress while keeping the ultimate authority firmly in its own hands. These hearings will involve experts, lobbyists, and officials debating the minutiae of regulation, all while the fundamental structure of the Controlled Substances Act remains unassailable. The system is designed to consume time, resources, and energy, ensuring that any real change is mediated through a process that the state can control, slow, or halt entirely. It is a theatre of governance, performed for an audience that is desperate for change, but the script was written in the halls of power, not by the people who have lived the consequences of prohibition.
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by Pot Culture Magazine EditorsMarch 28, 2026March 27, 2026The administrative state is also moving to consolidate its control over clinical trials. By creating a registration pathway for state-licensed entities, the government is essentially seizing control of the research process. It is setting itself up as the gatekeeper of scientific knowledge. It will dictate who can research the plant, what they can research, and what the results can be used for. This is not an opening of the doors to scientific discovery. It is the enclosure of the scientific commons. It ensures that the research that reaches the public will be the research that has been filtered through the priorities of the state.
The Reform Lie is not a strategy. It is an admission of failure. When the government chooses to perform the act of reform without embracing the reality of justice, it proves that it is not interested in the truth. It is interested in the maintenance of power. True reform would not be a shuffling of schedules. It would be the total and unconditional withdrawal of federal interference from the lives of the people. It would be the recognition that the state has no authority to criminalize the relationship between a human being and a plant. It would be the end of the prohibition machine, the release of the prisoners, and the restoration of rights for every person affected by the war on the plant.
As long as the apparatus continues to frame these technical shifts as moral victories, the public must recognize the deception. This is not progress. This is the state recalibrating its control to ensure that it remains the gatekeeper, the tax collector, and the final judge of who is allowed to exist in the world it seeks to dominate. The plant remains the same. The people remain the same. The only thing that has shifted is the label on the cage. The cage is still there. The bars are still locked. The guards are still watching. The power to punish, to threaten, and to control has not been removed. It has been refined. It has been made more surgical. It has been made more efficient.
The moral weight of this lie is heavy. It falls on those who have been promised justice and received only a change in terminology. It falls on the families who have been broken by the enforcement of archaic laws. It falls on the communities that have been targeted for generations. The Reform Lie assumes that the public has forgotten the history of the struggle. It assumes that the public is satisfied with the crumbs of corporate legitimacy. It assumes that there is no understanding of the difference between the freedom to live and the permission to serve.
The narrative of the state must be rejected. The recognition must grow that every small step that leaves the core structure of the prohibition machine in place is a step away from justice. The government must be held accountable for the contradiction of its own law. The reality of the prohibition era must continue to be documented, to expose the lies that are told to justify the control, and to advocate for the total restoration of liberty. The struggle for the plant is not a struggle for a change in status. It is a struggle for the soul of the culture. It is a struggle to define what it means to be a free person in a society that seeks to regulate every choice. As NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano noted regarding the order:
“Rescheduling fails to fully harmonize federal marijuana policy with the cannabis laws of many states, particularly the 24 states that have legalized its use and sale to adults.”
This is the core of the deception. The Reform Lie is the latest barrier to that freedom. It is a wall that must be dismantled, not by the government, but by the people who have lived the reality of the struggle.
The truth is simple, though the state works hard to obscure it. Cannabis is a part of the human experience. It has been used for healing, for creativity, for connection, and for joy for as long as historical records exist. The attempts by the state to control this relationship are an affront to human autonomy. They are based on fear, on ignorance, and on a desire for power. The reclassification to Schedule III is just the latest tactic in a long campaign to prevent people from fully embracing their own sovereignty. While the proponents of this move claim that:
“Today’s order marks a historical reversal in federal cannabis policy,”
It is a sign that the state is feeling the pressure, that it knows its position is untenable, but that it is not yet ready to concede.
A crossroads has been reached. Either the crumbs offered by the state are accepted, turning the public into participants in their own regulation, or the fight for the total and unconditional end of the prohibition machine continues. The Reform Lie can be accepted, or the truth can be demanded. The history of the culture is a history of resistance. It is a history of people who refused to be told what they could do, who they could be, or what they could consume. That history is the source of strength. It is the foundation upon which the future will be built. Permission from the state is not required to exist. Schedules, labels, and tax codes are not needed to define what is right. The truth is known, and it will continue to be shared until the last cage is empty and the prohibition machine is nothing but a memory.
The Reform Lie will continue to be told. The headlines will continue to scream about progress that does not exist. The state will continue to frame its maintenance of power as a move toward justice. But the deception will not hold. The patterns are visible. The history is known. The stakes are understood. The reality of the prohibition era will be documented, one article, one story, one voice at a time. This is not just a battle for a plant. It is a battle for the truth. And it is a battle that will be won, not because the state gives permission, but because the truth is on the side of the people. The prohibition machine is built on lies, and lies cannot stand forever against the weight of reality. The end of prohibition is coming, not through the actions of the state, but through the resolve of the people who have been fighting for it all along. The Reform Lie is the last gasp of a system that knows its time is over. We will not be fooled. We will not be silenced. We will be here, documenting the reality, telling the truth, and fighting for the culture until the day the plant is free.
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Cannabis Lies Vol. 9: The Reform Lie
Filed Under: Policy Fiction
The federal apparatus has spoken. The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration have announced a shift in the regulatory status of cannabis, moving state-licensed medical products to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act while pointedly leaving adult use, unlicensed, and synthetic THC products in Schedule I. Headlines across the country erupted with the language of victory. Outlets hailed this as a historic acknowledgment of the plant’s medical utility, a shift that supposedly recognizes the plant’s reality after decades of denial. The public was told that the prohibition era was entering its twilight and that the federal government had finally conceded that the plant possesses medicinal value.
None of this reflects the actual legal impact of the order. This announcement is the latest manifestation of the Reform Lie. It is a calculated piece of bureaucratic maintenance designed to satisfy the demand for progress while ensuring the core structure of prohibition remains entirely untouched. As Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche stated in the order, the new policy mandates that:
“Marijuana in any form covered by a state medical marijuana license, be placed in Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act.”
It is a classic maneuver by the state to preserve its authority by offering a small, controlled concession that changes everything on paper but leaves the reality of the drug war exactly where it has always been.
The Reform Lie is the mechanism by which the state manages the tension between popular opinion and its own mandate. It functions by acknowledging that a substance has medical value without ever addressing the fundamental injustice of its criminalization. When the government moves a substance from one box to another, it claims it is following the science. When that same government keeps the prisons full, keeps the borders militarized against possession, and keeps the threat of federal intervention hanging over every state-sanctioned interaction, it is not following science. It is managing optics. For decades, the apparatus has faced growing pressure to address the disconnect between federal law and the public reality of cannabis use. Instead of dismantling the structure, the government has repeatedly opted for symbolic reform. These gestures generate cycles of positive press. They allow officials to claim they have acted on the issue. They provide a release valve for public anger without ever sacrificing the underlying authority to arrest, prosecute, and punish. This is the central trick. The Reform Lie presents a change in tax status as a change in morality.
To understand the scope of this deception, one must look closely at what the shift to Schedule III actually achieves. Under the Controlled Substances Act, Schedule III is home to substances such as anabolic steroids and certain prescription painkillers. It is a designation that implies a potential for abuse, though one that the state deems less severe than those in the Schedule I category, which the government defines as having no currently accepted medical use. Moving state-licensed medical products to Schedule III finally acknowledges what has been true for thousands of years. It acknowledges that the plant has medical value.
However, the change in classification does nothing to address the core conflicts of the prohibition era. The federal criminal penalties for the unauthorized production, distribution, or possession of cannabis remain firmly in place for everything outside that narrow, state-sanctioned medical window. The interstate commerce ban survives completely intact. The government continues to treat the transport of the plant across state lines as a federal crime, regardless of the legality of the substance in the states of origin or destination. Banking remains a fractured landscape of private risk and federal oversight. Employment in the federal sector remains hostile to users, and the firearm restrictions that strip rights from medical patients do not budge.
Most critically, this move provides no relief for those currently held in the carceral system. This order structurally excludes any mechanism for record relief, sentence modification, or pardon, leaving the carceral status quo entirely intact. It does not vacate criminal records. It does not end the status of cannabis as a tool for immigration enforcement. It does not stop the random, localized harassment of the population by federal agencies that still view the plant as contraband outside of the narrow, state-licensed framework.
This is a victory for the balance sheet. It is a win for the corporations that have spent millions lobbying for the ability to deduct ordinary business expenses under the tax code. As of April 22, 2026, state-licensed medical cannabis is no longer subject to 280E. It is a stabilization for the industry that the government has deemed acceptable. For the average person, for the patient, and for the citizen who does not operate within the protective bubble of a state-licensed medical program, the reality remains frozen in the past. This bifurcation of the population is intentional. It creates a system where legitimacy is not a right inherent to the citizen. It is a commodity to be licensed. The people who work within the sanctioned industry are protected, taxed, and monitored. The people who exist outside of that bubble, who grow their own, who share, or who live in states without functional medical programs, are left to the mercy of a law that has not changed. The government has not legalized the plant. It has simply professionalized the privilege of interacting with it.
This strategy is not new. It follows a consistent historical pattern. In every generation, the state has used cannabis policy as a messaging tool to address shifting cultural demands. This is not about the plant. It is about the maintenance of control. The lineage of this deception is long and well-documented.
Consider the era of the Gateway Lie. The government needed a way to justify the expansion of its police power, so it framed the plant as the first step on a path to hard drug use. This narrative was never about safety. It was about creating a bridge between a benign cultural habit and the perceived chaos of the heroin epidemic. It gave law enforcement a justification to monitor, harass, and incarcerate individuals who were otherwise peaceful. The Gateway Lie was effective because it operated on fear. It suggested that a single act of consumption was a moral failing that would lead inevitably to destruction.
Consider the Crime Lie, where the plant was the supposed accelerant for violence. In the 1980s and 1990s, the state pivoted to a narrative of aggression. It claimed that cannabis use caused psychosis and fueled the drug trade. It used this narrative to justify the militarization of police forces, the introduction of civil asset forfeiture, and the explosion of the prison population. The Crime Lie turned the consumer into a danger to the public, a threat that had to be neutralized by the full weight of the judicial system. It was never about the drug. It was about the expansion of the carceral state.
Consider the Teen Epidemic Lie, where the narrative focused on the alleged destruction of youth, or the Addiction Lie, which served to pathologize a human relationship with a plant. Each of these lies served a purpose. They provided the state with the moral cover required to expand surveillance, increase budgets, and exert control. The Reform Lie is simply the modern evolution of this pattern. The state no longer needs to argue that the plant causes violence, because the public no longer believes it. So, the state shifts the narrative. It pivots to the language of regulation. It claims to be fixing the system. It is a retreat, but it is a managed retreat. The goal remains the same, which is to maintain the state’s position as the final arbiter of what a person can put into their own body.
The most devastating impact of the Reform Lie is the erasure of the human cost. When the headlines celebrate a minor technical shift, they drown out the voices of those who continue to suffer under the full weight of prohibition. The Reform Lie tells the prisoner that their incarceration is necessary because they did not have the right paperwork. It tells the immigrant that their status remains precarious because the federal law still views the plant as an illicit substance. It tells the veteran that they must choose between their medical treatment and their access to federal services. It tells the small grower that they are a criminal while the corporate entity next door is a taxpayer. By focusing on the tax status of corporations, the conversation ignores the individuals who are still being processed through the system. It creates an environment where progress is measured by market capitalization rather than the restoration of liberty. It turns the struggle for sovereignty into a fight for market share.
Help Keep Pot Culture Magazine Independent Pot Culture Magazine is independent cannabis journalism. No corporate owners. No investors. Just readers. If you value this work, chip in a few dollars and help keep it going. Support PCMIf the government acknowledges that cannabis has medical value, the continued maintenance of criminal penalties for everyone else becomes an indefensible moral contradiction. One cannot simultaneously argue that a substance is legitimate medicine and that the possession of that substance warrants the stripping of rights, the loss of employment, or the threat of prison. This contradiction exposes the truth of the state position. The government does not actually care about the safety of the substance. It cares about the control of the substance. If it were about safety, the state would be looking for ways to educate rather than incarcerate. If it were about medicine, the state would be ensuring access rather than creating barriers. The existence of the prohibition machinery alongside the admission of medical utility for the licensed few is proof that the objective has always been to maintain a system of punishment.
This system relies on the compliance of the public. It relies on the belief that the state is making progress. The Reform Lie is designed to prevent the public from seeing that the state is not moving toward freedom. It is moving toward an integrated model of control. By allowing a portion of the market to become legitimate, the state creates a vested interest in the status quo. The corporate entities that now have a seat at the table are no longer incentivized to fight for total legalization. They are incentivized to maintain the current regulatory structure because it keeps their competitors out. They become partners in the enforcement of the very prohibition they once railed against. This is the ultimate victory for the state. It co-opts the opposition by giving them a slice of the profit.
We have seen this happen in other sectors of the economy, where regulations are written by the very corporations they are meant to govern. This is not reform. This is the capture of the regulatory apparatus. The Reform Lie ensures that the people who built the culture, who fought for the plant when it was dangerous to do so, are excluded from the new order. They are the ones who bear the cost of the transition. They are the ones who are still in cages, who are still fleeing from the law, who are still fighting for the right to exist in peace.
This administrative process is now set to continue with new hearings starting June 29, 2026. These proceedings are often portrayed as a necessary step toward further reform, a way to build a bureaucratic consensus for future changes. In practice, they serve as a stalling tactic. They provide a way for the administrative state to maintain the illusion of progress while keeping the ultimate authority firmly in its own hands. These hearings will involve experts, lobbyists, and officials debating the minutiae of regulation, all while the fundamental structure of the Controlled Substances Act remains unassailable. The system is designed to consume time, resources, and energy, ensuring that any real change is mediated through a process that the state can control, slow, or halt entirely. It is a theatre of governance, performed for an audience that is desperate for change, but the script was written in the halls of power, not by the people who have lived the consequences of prohibition.
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by Pot Culture Magazine EditorsMarch 28, 2026March 27, 2026The administrative state is also moving to consolidate its control over clinical trials. By creating a registration pathway for state-licensed entities, the government is essentially seizing control of the research process. It is setting itself up as the gatekeeper of scientific knowledge. It will dictate who can research the plant, what they can research, and what the results can be used for. This is not an opening of the doors to scientific discovery. It is the enclosure of the scientific commons. It ensures that the research that reaches the public will be the research that has been filtered through the priorities of the state.
The Reform Lie is not a strategy. It is an admission of failure. When the government chooses to perform the act of reform without embracing the reality of justice, it proves that it is not interested in the truth. It is interested in the maintenance of power. True reform would not be a shuffling of schedules. It would be the total and unconditional withdrawal of federal interference from the lives of the people. It would be the recognition that the state has no authority to criminalize the relationship between a human being and a plant. It would be the end of the prohibition machine, the release of the prisoners, and the restoration of rights for every person affected by the war on the plant.
As long as the apparatus continues to frame these technical shifts as moral victories, the public must recognize the deception. This is not progress. This is the state recalibrating its control to ensure that it remains the gatekeeper, the tax collector, and the final judge of who is allowed to exist in the world it seeks to dominate. The plant remains the same. The people remain the same. The only thing that has shifted is the label on the cage. The cage is still there. The bars are still locked. The guards are still watching. The power to punish, to threaten, and to control has not been removed. It has been refined. It has been made more surgical. It has been made more efficient.
The moral weight of this lie is heavy. It falls on those who have been promised justice and received only a change in terminology. It falls on the families who have been broken by the enforcement of archaic laws. It falls on the communities that have been targeted for generations. The Reform Lie assumes that the public has forgotten the history of the struggle. It assumes that the public is satisfied with the crumbs of corporate legitimacy. It assumes that there is no understanding of the difference between the freedom to live and the permission to serve.
The narrative of the state must be rejected. The recognition must grow that every small step that leaves the core structure of the prohibition machine in place is a step away from justice. The government must be held accountable for the contradiction of its own law. The reality of the prohibition era must continue to be documented, to expose the lies that are told to justify the control, and to advocate for the total restoration of liberty. The struggle for the plant is not a struggle for a change in status. It is a struggle for the soul of the culture. It is a struggle to define what it means to be a free person in a society that seeks to regulate every choice. As NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano noted regarding the order:
“Rescheduling fails to fully harmonize federal marijuana policy with the cannabis laws of many states, particularly the 24 states that have legalized its use and sale to adults.”
This is the core of the deception. The Reform Lie is the latest barrier to that freedom. It is a wall that must be dismantled, not by the government, but by the people who have lived the reality of the struggle.
The truth is simple, though the state works hard to obscure it. Cannabis is a part of the human experience. It has been used for healing, for creativity, for connection, and for joy for as long as historical records exist. The attempts by the state to control this relationship are an affront to human autonomy. They are based on fear, on ignorance, and on a desire for power. The reclassification to Schedule III is just the latest tactic in a long campaign to prevent people from fully embracing their own sovereignty. While the proponents of this move claim that:
“Today’s order marks a historical reversal in federal cannabis policy,”
It is a sign that the state is feeling the pressure, that it knows its position is untenable, but that it is not yet ready to concede.
A crossroads has been reached. Either the crumbs offered by the state are accepted, turning the public into participants in their own regulation, or the fight for the total and unconditional end of the prohibition machine continues. The Reform Lie can be accepted, or the truth can be demanded. The history of the culture is a history of resistance. It is a history of people who refused to be told what they could do, who they could be, or what they could consume. That history is the source of strength. It is the foundation upon which the future will be built. Permission from the state is not required to exist. Schedules, labels, and tax codes are not needed to define what is right. The truth is known, and it will continue to be shared until the last cage is empty and the prohibition machine is nothing but a memory.
The Reform Lie will continue to be told. The headlines will continue to scream about progress that does not exist. The state will continue to frame its maintenance of power as a move toward justice. But the deception will not hold. The patterns are visible. The history is known. The stakes are understood. The reality of the prohibition era will be documented, one article, one story, one voice at a time. This is not just a battle for a plant. It is a battle for the truth. And it is a battle that will be won, not because the state gives permission, but because the truth is on the side of the people. The prohibition machine is built on lies, and lies cannot stand forever against the weight of reality. The end of prohibition is coming, not through the actions of the state, but through the resolve of the people who have been fighting for it all along. The Reform Lie is the last gasp of a system that knows its time is over. We will not be fooled. We will not be silenced. We will be here, documenting the reality, telling the truth, and fighting for the culture until the day the plant is free.
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Cannabis Lies Vol. 9: The Reform Lie
Filed Under: Policy Fiction
The federal apparatus has spoken. The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration have announced a shift in the regulatory status of cannabis, moving state-licensed medical products to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act while pointedly leaving adult use, unlicensed, and synthetic THC products in Schedule I. Headlines across the country erupted with the language of victory. Outlets hailed this as a historic acknowledgment of the plant’s medical utility, a shift that supposedly recognizes the plant’s reality after decades of denial. The public was told that the prohibition era was entering its twilight and that the federal government had finally conceded that the plant possesses medicinal value.
None of this reflects the actual legal impact of the order. This announcement is the latest manifestation of the Reform Lie. It is a calculated piece of bureaucratic maintenance designed to satisfy the demand for progress while ensuring the core structure of prohibition remains entirely untouched. As Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche stated in the order, the new policy mandates that:
“Marijuana in any form covered by a state medical marijuana license, be placed in Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act.”
It is a classic maneuver by the state to preserve its authority by offering a small, controlled concession that changes everything on paper but leaves the reality of the drug war exactly where it has always been.
The Reform Lie is the mechanism by which the state manages the tension between popular opinion and its own mandate. It functions by acknowledging that a substance has medical value without ever addressing the fundamental injustice of its criminalization. When the government moves a substance from one box to another, it claims it is following the science. When that same government keeps the prisons full, keeps the borders militarized against possession, and keeps the threat of federal intervention hanging over every state-sanctioned interaction, it is not following science. It is managing optics. For decades, the apparatus has faced growing pressure to address the disconnect between federal law and the public reality of cannabis use. Instead of dismantling the structure, the government has repeatedly opted for symbolic reform. These gestures generate cycles of positive press. They allow officials to claim they have acted on the issue. They provide a release valve for public anger without ever sacrificing the underlying authority to arrest, prosecute, and punish. This is the central trick. The Reform Lie presents a change in tax status as a change in morality.
To understand the scope of this deception, one must look closely at what the shift to Schedule III actually achieves. Under the Controlled Substances Act, Schedule III is home to substances such as anabolic steroids and certain prescription painkillers. It is a designation that implies a potential for abuse, though one that the state deems less severe than those in the Schedule I category, which the government defines as having no currently accepted medical use. Moving state-licensed medical products to Schedule III finally acknowledges what has been true for thousands of years. It acknowledges that the plant has medical value.
However, the change in classification does nothing to address the core conflicts of the prohibition era. The federal criminal penalties for the unauthorized production, distribution, or possession of cannabis remain firmly in place for everything outside that narrow, state-sanctioned medical window. The interstate commerce ban survives completely intact. The government continues to treat the transport of the plant across state lines as a federal crime, regardless of the legality of the substance in the states of origin or destination. Banking remains a fractured landscape of private risk and federal oversight. Employment in the federal sector remains hostile to users, and the firearm restrictions that strip rights from medical patients do not budge.
Most critically, this move provides no relief for those currently held in the carceral system. This order structurally excludes any mechanism for record relief, sentence modification, or pardon, leaving the carceral status quo entirely intact. It does not vacate criminal records. It does not end the status of cannabis as a tool for immigration enforcement. It does not stop the random, localized harassment of the population by federal agencies that still view the plant as contraband outside of the narrow, state-licensed framework.
This is a victory for the balance sheet. It is a win for the corporations that have spent millions lobbying for the ability to deduct ordinary business expenses under the tax code. As of April 22, 2026, state-licensed medical cannabis is no longer subject to 280E. It is a stabilization for the industry that the government has deemed acceptable. For the average person, for the patient, and for the citizen who does not operate within the protective bubble of a state-licensed medical program, the reality remains frozen in the past. This bifurcation of the population is intentional. It creates a system where legitimacy is not a right inherent to the citizen. It is a commodity to be licensed. The people who work within the sanctioned industry are protected, taxed, and monitored. The people who exist outside of that bubble, who grow their own, who share, or who live in states without functional medical programs, are left to the mercy of a law that has not changed. The government has not legalized the plant. It has simply professionalized the privilege of interacting with it.
This strategy is not new. It follows a consistent historical pattern. In every generation, the state has used cannabis policy as a messaging tool to address shifting cultural demands. This is not about the plant. It is about the maintenance of control. The lineage of this deception is long and well-documented.
Consider the era of the Gateway Lie. The government needed a way to justify the expansion of its police power, so it framed the plant as the first step on a path to hard drug use. This narrative was never about safety. It was about creating a bridge between a benign cultural habit and the perceived chaos of the heroin epidemic. It gave law enforcement a justification to monitor, harass, and incarcerate individuals who were otherwise peaceful. The Gateway Lie was effective because it operated on fear. It suggested that a single act of consumption was a moral failing that would lead inevitably to destruction.
Consider the Crime Lie, where the plant was the supposed accelerant for violence. In the 1980s and 1990s, the state pivoted to a narrative of aggression. It claimed that cannabis use caused psychosis and fueled the drug trade. It used this narrative to justify the militarization of police forces, the introduction of civil asset forfeiture, and the explosion of the prison population. The Crime Lie turned the consumer into a danger to the public, a threat that had to be neutralized by the full weight of the judicial system. It was never about the drug. It was about the expansion of the carceral state.
Consider the Teen Epidemic Lie, where the narrative focused on the alleged destruction of youth, or the Addiction Lie, which served to pathologize a human relationship with a plant. Each of these lies served a purpose. They provided the state with the moral cover required to expand surveillance, increase budgets, and exert control. The Reform Lie is simply the modern evolution of this pattern. The state no longer needs to argue that the plant causes violence, because the public no longer believes it. So, the state shifts the narrative. It pivots to the language of regulation. It claims to be fixing the system. It is a retreat, but it is a managed retreat. The goal remains the same, which is to maintain the state’s position as the final arbiter of what a person can put into their own body.
The most devastating impact of the Reform Lie is the erasure of the human cost. When the headlines celebrate a minor technical shift, they drown out the voices of those who continue to suffer under the full weight of prohibition. The Reform Lie tells the prisoner that their incarceration is necessary because they did not have the right paperwork. It tells the immigrant that their status remains precarious because the federal law still views the plant as an illicit substance. It tells the veteran that they must choose between their medical treatment and their access to federal services. It tells the small grower that they are a criminal while the corporate entity next door is a taxpayer. By focusing on the tax status of corporations, the conversation ignores the individuals who are still being processed through the system. It creates an environment where progress is measured by market capitalization rather than the restoration of liberty. It turns the struggle for sovereignty into a fight for market share.
Help Keep Pot Culture Magazine Independent Pot Culture Magazine is independent cannabis journalism. No corporate owners. No investors. Just readers. If you value this work, chip in a few dollars and help keep it going. Support PCMIf the government acknowledges that cannabis has medical value, the continued maintenance of criminal penalties for everyone else becomes an indefensible moral contradiction. One cannot simultaneously argue that a substance is legitimate medicine and that the possession of that substance warrants the stripping of rights, the loss of employment, or the threat of prison. This contradiction exposes the truth of the state position. The government does not actually care about the safety of the substance. It cares about the control of the substance. If it were about safety, the state would be looking for ways to educate rather than incarcerate. If it were about medicine, the state would be ensuring access rather than creating barriers. The existence of the prohibition machinery alongside the admission of medical utility for the licensed few is proof that the objective has always been to maintain a system of punishment.
This system relies on the compliance of the public. It relies on the belief that the state is making progress. The Reform Lie is designed to prevent the public from seeing that the state is not moving toward freedom. It is moving toward an integrated model of control. By allowing a portion of the market to become legitimate, the state creates a vested interest in the status quo. The corporate entities that now have a seat at the table are no longer incentivized to fight for total legalization. They are incentivized to maintain the current regulatory structure because it keeps their competitors out. They become partners in the enforcement of the very prohibition they once railed against. This is the ultimate victory for the state. It co-opts the opposition by giving them a slice of the profit.
We have seen this happen in other sectors of the economy, where regulations are written by the very corporations they are meant to govern. This is not reform. This is the capture of the regulatory apparatus. The Reform Lie ensures that the people who built the culture, who fought for the plant when it was dangerous to do so, are excluded from the new order. They are the ones who bear the cost of the transition. They are the ones who are still in cages, who are still fleeing from the law, who are still fighting for the right to exist in peace.
This administrative process is now set to continue with new hearings starting June 29, 2026. These proceedings are often portrayed as a necessary step toward further reform, a way to build a bureaucratic consensus for future changes. In practice, they serve as a stalling tactic. They provide a way for the administrative state to maintain the illusion of progress while keeping the ultimate authority firmly in its own hands. These hearings will involve experts, lobbyists, and officials debating the minutiae of regulation, all while the fundamental structure of the Controlled Substances Act remains unassailable. The system is designed to consume time, resources, and energy, ensuring that any real change is mediated through a process that the state can control, slow, or halt entirely. It is a theatre of governance, performed for an audience that is desperate for change, but the script was written in the halls of power, not by the people who have lived the consequences of prohibition.
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by Pot Culture Magazine EditorsMarch 28, 2026March 27, 2026The administrative state is also moving to consolidate its control over clinical trials. By creating a registration pathway for state-licensed entities, the government is essentially seizing control of the research process. It is setting itself up as the gatekeeper of scientific knowledge. It will dictate who can research the plant, what they can research, and what the results can be used for. This is not an opening of the doors to scientific discovery. It is the enclosure of the scientific commons. It ensures that the research that reaches the public will be the research that has been filtered through the priorities of the state.
The Reform Lie is not a strategy. It is an admission of failure. When the government chooses to perform the act of reform without embracing the reality of justice, it proves that it is not interested in the truth. It is interested in the maintenance of power. True reform would not be a shuffling of schedules. It would be the total and unconditional withdrawal of federal interference from the lives of the people. It would be the recognition that the state has no authority to criminalize the relationship between a human being and a plant. It would be the end of the prohibition machine, the release of the prisoners, and the restoration of rights for every person affected by the war on the plant.
As long as the apparatus continues to frame these technical shifts as moral victories, the public must recognize the deception. This is not progress. This is the state recalibrating its control to ensure that it remains the gatekeeper, the tax collector, and the final judge of who is allowed to exist in the world it seeks to dominate. The plant remains the same. The people remain the same. The only thing that has shifted is the label on the cage. The cage is still there. The bars are still locked. The guards are still watching. The power to punish, to threaten, and to control has not been removed. It has been refined. It has been made more surgical. It has been made more efficient.
The moral weight of this lie is heavy. It falls on those who have been promised justice and received only a change in terminology. It falls on the families who have been broken by the enforcement of archaic laws. It falls on the communities that have been targeted for generations. The Reform Lie assumes that the public has forgotten the history of the struggle. It assumes that the public is satisfied with the crumbs of corporate legitimacy. It assumes that there is no understanding of the difference between the freedom to live and the permission to serve.
The narrative of the state must be rejected. The recognition must grow that every small step that leaves the core structure of the prohibition machine in place is a step away from justice. The government must be held accountable for the contradiction of its own law. The reality of the prohibition era must continue to be documented, to expose the lies that are told to justify the control, and to advocate for the total restoration of liberty. The struggle for the plant is not a struggle for a change in status. It is a struggle for the soul of the culture. It is a struggle to define what it means to be a free person in a society that seeks to regulate every choice. As NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano noted regarding the order:
“Rescheduling fails to fully harmonize federal marijuana policy with the cannabis laws of many states, particularly the 24 states that have legalized its use and sale to adults.”
This is the core of the deception. The Reform Lie is the latest barrier to that freedom. It is a wall that must be dismantled, not by the government, but by the people who have lived the reality of the struggle.
The truth is simple, though the state works hard to obscure it. Cannabis is a part of the human experience. It has been used for healing, for creativity, for connection, and for joy for as long as historical records exist. The attempts by the state to control this relationship are an affront to human autonomy. They are based on fear, on ignorance, and on a desire for power. The reclassification to Schedule III is just the latest tactic in a long campaign to prevent people from fully embracing their own sovereignty. While the proponents of this move claim that:
“Today’s order marks a historical reversal in federal cannabis policy,”
It is a sign that the state is feeling the pressure, that it knows its position is untenable, but that it is not yet ready to concede.
A crossroads has been reached. Either the crumbs offered by the state are accepted, turning the public into participants in their own regulation, or the fight for the total and unconditional end of the prohibition machine continues. The Reform Lie can be accepted, or the truth can be demanded. The history of the culture is a history of resistance. It is a history of people who refused to be told what they could do, who they could be, or what they could consume. That history is the source of strength. It is the foundation upon which the future will be built. Permission from the state is not required to exist. Schedules, labels, and tax codes are not needed to define what is right. The truth is known, and it will continue to be shared until the last cage is empty and the prohibition machine is nothing but a memory.
The Reform Lie will continue to be told. The headlines will continue to scream about progress that does not exist. The state will continue to frame its maintenance of power as a move toward justice. But the deception will not hold. The patterns are visible. The history is known. The stakes are understood. The reality of the prohibition era will be documented, one article, one story, one voice at a time. This is not just a battle for a plant. It is a battle for the truth. And it is a battle that will be won, not because the state gives permission, but because the truth is on the side of the people. The prohibition machine is built on lies, and lies cannot stand forever against the weight of reality. The end of prohibition is coming, not through the actions of the state, but through the resolve of the people who have been fighting for it all along. The Reform Lie is the last gasp of a system that knows its time is over. We will not be fooled. We will not be silenced. We will be here, documenting the reality, telling the truth, and fighting for the culture until the day the plant is free.
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Cannabis Study Sparks Fear Among the Uninformed
Filed Under: Panic Science
Every few years, the cycle repeats itself. A new cannabis study appears, a few statistics are pulled from the results, and within hours, headlines begin warning that marijuana is fueling a mental health crisis.
The latest panic comes from researchers at McMaster University, whose analysis was published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Media coverage quickly framed the research as evidence that cannabis use is driving anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts across Canada.
That is not what the study actually proves.
The researchers did not run a clinical experiment. They did not administer cannabis to participants or monitor psychological changes over time. Instead, they analyzed existing national survey data collected between 2012 and 2022 from the Canadian Community Health Survey, a large population dataset maintained by Statistics Canada.
The dataset included roughly 35,000 respondents. Participants answered questions about cannabis use and about their mental health. Researchers then compared those answers to identify statistical patterns across the population.
What they found was an association.
Individuals who reported cannabis use were more likely to report symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicidal thinking. Heavy users, defined in the paper as individuals using cannabis at least twice per week, appeared more likely to report psychological distress than people who reported never using cannabis.
But association is not causation.
The survey does not show that cannabis caused mental health problems. It only shows that people who use cannabis also report those problems at higher rates. The direction of that relationship remains unknown.
People experiencing anxiety or depression may turn to cannabis as a coping mechanism. Individuals already struggling with mental health issues may be more likely to experiment with substances. Socioeconomic stress, trauma, and other factors can influence both substance use and psychological well-being.
Survey data cannot untangle those relationships.
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Self-reported survey data is valuable for spotting trends across large populations, but it cannot establish biological cause and effect.
That distinction often disappears once the findings leave the academic journal and enter the news cycle.
Headlines compress nuance into alarm. A statistical relationship becomes proof of danger. Words like “linked” or “associated” quietly disappear and are replaced by stronger claims that the research never made.
This pattern has followed cannabis research for decades.
Studies showing correlations between cannabis use and mental health outcomes frequently receive widespread attention. The more cautious conclusions written in the paper itself rarely make it into the headline.
None of this means cannabis is harmless. Like alcohol, prescription medication, or any psychoactive substance, it can affect individuals differently depending on genetics, mental health history, age, and frequency of use.
But good science requires precision.
The McMaster analysis examined survey responses.
It identified statistical relationships.
It did not demonstrate that cannabis use causes mental illness.
Those distinctions matter, especially when research findings are used to shape public policy, influence public perception, and guide medical conversations.
Without that context, studies designed to explore complex social patterns can easily become fuel for the next wave of cannabis panic.
And the cycle starts again.
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Las obras del paso inferior desde el barrio de Santa Eugenia al Hospital Infanta Leonor comienzan en Febrero 🛣️🏥
La Comunidad de Madrid comenzará en las próximas semanas las obras de construcción del paso inferior bajo las vías ferroviarias para comunicar el Hospital público Universitario Infanta Leonor con el barrio de Santa Eugenia. Para ello, el Consejo de Gobierno regional aprobaba este miércoles la adjudicación de estos trabajos con una inversión de 4 millones de euros y que tendrán una duración prevista de 9 meses.
Este caso es un grave problema que lleva años enquistado, por motivos políticos y cuyo origen es la urgencia electoralista y la mala planificación con la que se planteó e inauguró en Febrero de 2008 el ‘renombrado’ Hospital Infanta Leonor (anteriormente a su inauguración fue nombrado como «Hospital de Vallecas»).
Esta infraestructura demandada por los vecinos durante 16 años, permitirá una conexión rápida entre Santa Eugenia y el centro sanitario, facilitando el acceso de miles de ciudadanos tanto en sus vehículos como, especialmente, a pie gracias a una nueva senda peatonal.
El vecindario seguirá reclamando las mejoras prometidas como el parking gratuito, un entorno acondicionado correctamente y que se habilite la 3ª planta del Hospital (menos F1 🏁🏎️ y más Sanidad Pública ⚕️ ).
Más información sobre esta noticia en el siguiente enlace de nuestra web:
#PasoInferior #Hopsital #InfantaLeonor #Atrasos #Protesta #Vecinal #Reivindicación #Viasdeltren #Políticos #Vergüenza #Electoralismo #Aleluya #Accesos #Urgencias #F1 #Formula1Madrid #VilladeVallecas #Vallecas #Vallekas
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Las obras del paso inferior desde el barrio de Santa Eugenia al Hospital Infanta Leonor comienzan en Febrero 🛣️🏥
La Comunidad de Madrid comenzará en las próximas semanas las obras de construcción del paso inferior bajo las vías ferroviarias para comunicar el Hospital público Universitario Infanta Leonor con el barrio de Santa Eugenia. Para ello, el Consejo de Gobierno regional aprobaba este miércoles la adjudicación de estos trabajos con una inversión de 4 millones de euros y que tendrán una duración prevista de 9 meses.
Este caso es un grave problema que lleva años enquistado, por motivos políticos y cuyo origen es la urgencia electoralista y la mala planificación con la que se planteó e inauguró en Febrero de 2008 el ‘renombrado’ Hospital Infanta Leonor (anteriormente a su inauguración fue nombrado como «Hospital de Vallecas»).
Esta infraestructura demandada por los vecinos durante 16 años, permitirá una conexión rápida entre Santa Eugenia y el centro sanitario, facilitando el acceso de miles de ciudadanos tanto en sus vehículos como, especialmente, a pie gracias a una nueva senda peatonal.
El vecindario seguirá reclamando las mejoras prometidas como el parking gratuito, un entorno acondicionado correctamente y que se habilite la 3ª planta del Hospital (menos F1 🏁🏎️ y más Sanidad Pública ⚕️ ).
Más información sobre esta noticia en el siguiente enlace de nuestra web:
#PasoInferior #Hopsital #InfantaLeonor #Atrasos #Protesta #Vecinal #Reivindicación #Viasdeltren #Políticos #Vergüenza #Electoralismo #Aleluya #Accesos #Urgencias #F1 #Formula1Madrid #VilladeVallecas #Vallecas #Vallekas
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Volvemos a publicar una versión ligeramente modificada recibida al correo.
ACERCA DE LOS CUIDADOS Y EL DULCE OLOR DE LA DINAMITA…
Comunicado año 1. Número 1.
Mujeres, esclavas del esclavo: animad a vuestros compañeros a sacudir el yugo que nos oprime a todos por igual. Rechazad las mentiras y embustes de los verdugos ensotanados: arrojadles al hocico sus “reliquias” y sus monos ridículos y engrosad las filas de las libertarias que, unidas a los rebeldes, hacen propaganda, con la pluma, la palabra, y, también con el fusil o la dinamita, destruyendo las madrigueras donde habitan los lobos del poder, del dinero y de la religión. ¡Adelante mujeres libertarias!
Francisca J. Mendoza
¡Tierra!. Núm. 481
28 de diciembre de 1912Aproximadamente a las 22 horas del 9 de septiembre de 2023 colocamos un artefacto explosivo hecho con dinamita y gas butano en un camión de carga en la calle 31 de Escárcega, Campeche, con la intención de sabotear la guerra contra la selva que el gobierno de méxico está llevando a cabo con la construcción del llamado “tren maya”.
I. ¡NO ES SOLO UN TREN, NO ES MAYA!
Se trata de un proyecto de destrucción por reordenamiento territorial que pretende instaurar un modelo de “polos del desarrollo” cuyos efectos serán la expansión de las relaciones plenamente capitalistas en la península de Yucatán, lo que provocará la proletarización, desplazamiento forzado, contaminación generalizada, despojo y destrucción de nuestras formas de vida. NO LO ACEPTAMOS.
Este proyecto se impuso a través del funcionamiento de la maquinaria militarista estatal en contubernio con las mafias agrarias que funcionan desde tiempos coloniales en la península de Yucatán; y en las “consultas” amañadas que se hicieron, nunca se nos preguntó a las mujeres de la región nuestra opinión. POR ESO TUVIMOS QUE RECURRIR A LA PROPAGANDA POR EL HECHO, PARA DEJAR CLARO NUESTRO REPUDIO AL PROYECTO.
¡No queremos ver destruida la selva! ¡No queremos dejar nuestras formas comunitarias de vida! ¡No queremos que nuestras hijas se conviertan en sus cocineras, en sus sirvientas o en sus objetos de violación! Y eso es lo que nos ofrece la violencia de su “desarrollo” con el tren.
¡Nuestrxs hijxs serán libres! ¡Libres como la selva! Nosotras no queremos violencia, pero han sido el gobierno y los burgueses explotadores los que con violencia está destruyendo nuestras formas de vida, nuestros cuerpos, nuestros territorios! ¡Y vamos a defendernos!
¡En este escenario de anfiteatros y devastación que nos quieren imponer, las ética del cuidado en nuestras manos tendrá que adquirir el dulce olor de la dinamita!
II. DISFRAZ DE MUJER. PIEL PATRIARCAL
Hoy, los comentaristas del poder se jactan —como si fuera un “avance”—, de que en las próximas elecciones en el territorio ocupado por el estado mexicano serán mujeres las candidatas presidenciales. Como si con solo cambiar el cuerpo se cambiara la política. Pero queremos decirles a estas señoras que su feminismo burgués, blanco, racista, de élites, es una basura que no vamos a digerir. Porque tenemos claro que el Estado es la forma jurídica que organiza la violencia del patriarcado, del capital y del colonialismo para someternos. ¡Por eso al estado hay que atacarlo, porque es la fuente de la violencia patriarcal! ¡NADA QUE VENGA DEL ESTADO SERÁ OTRA COSA MÁS QUE VIOLENCIA PATRIARCAL Y RACISMO POR MÁS QUE SE PONGAN UNA MÁSCARA CON CUERPO DE MUJER!
¡No somos mujeres de la selva, somos la selva defendiéndose!
!VIVA LA INSURRECCIÓN ANÁRQUICA!
Desde algún lugar de la selva en la península de Yucatán,
Coordinadora de mujeres anarquistas por la defensa de nuestro cuerpo-territorio
¡Presos anarquistas libertad! !Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar y Alfredo Cóspito, Libertad!p.d. Saludamos a las compas del comando feminista informal de acción antiautoritaria que han accionado en otros lugares del territorio ocupado por México, porque ellas nos inspiraron para tomar esta vía. Ahora iniciamos el camino en coordinación.
[Recibido al correo]
Eco mediático (muy escaso):
https://estamosaqui.mx/2023/09/10/explosion-en-camion-de-carga-del-tren-maya-en-escarcega/
https://lainoticias.com/campeche/exploto-trailer-en-escarcega-presunto-atentadoAprovechamos para difundir lo siguiente:
– Traducción de un texto de reivindicación de una acción contra el Tren Maya en Berlín, julio de 2023: Ataque al complejo de oficinas de Deutsche Bahn – Stop Tren Maya – !Switch Off! (pdf)
Otras acciones en cuya reivindicación se menciona el Tren Maya publicadas en lucharcontrael41bis:
– Desde la llamada Alemania, información e identificación de intereses de empresas alemanas en el proyecto y el alcance del proyecto más allá de un mero “tren”.
https://www.ya-basta-netz.org/tren-maya-made-in-germany-espanol/Contratos millonarios de consorcios y compañías españolas (no exahustivo):
– El Tramo 2 fue adjudicado a Operadora CICSA en convenio de asociación con Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) Construcción, grupo empresarial español con sede en Barcelona. Ambas empresas serán las encargadas de la construcción de la plataforma y vías férreas, suministro de materiales, sistemas de drenaje, entre otros.
– El tercer tramo se le adjudicó a un consorcio conformado por la constructora mexicana Gami y la andaluza Azvi –a través de su filial en México Construcciones Urales–, por una suma de 10.192,9 millones de pesos (495 millones de dólares).
– La empresa española Acciona es la encargada de la construcción de una parte del Tramo 5, en el estado de Quintana Roo
– Renfe, en consorcio con Ineco –también española, previamente relacionada con el proyecto– y la alemana Deutsche Bahn, ha cerrado un contrato por 13 millones 500 mil euros, de tres años de duración: Construir infraestructura; Responsable de la definición de los requisitos de la operación y de las labores de mantenimiento; Supervisar la fabricación y entrega del material rodante y de todos los sistemas; Abrir oficina que prestará servicio (como ‘shadow operator’ en argot ferroviario) al Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (Fonatur).
Mencionar que “Els Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), en alianza con AudingIntraesa (ahora Meta Engineering) también querían obtener jugosos beneficios del asunto. Presentaron un proyecto en 2020 que el gobierno mexicano rechazó.– Por otra parte, el Fonatur adjudicó a la consultora española de ingeniería UG21 la supervisión técnica y verificación de control de calidad de la obra por más de 200 millones de pesos (10 millones de dólares). UG21 forma parte de un consorcio en el que participan las firmas Coniisa e Ipimsa –filial de Prointec, Grupo Indra– (“Consultoría Integral en Ingeniería e Ingeniería de Proyectos” e “Infraestructuras Mexicanas” respectivamente).
– La oficina de gestión del Tren Maya fue adjudicada de manera directa a Mextypsa por una suma de 573,369,189 pesos. Ésta firma es una filial de Typsa, empresa de origen español que llegó a México hace 12 años y que ha realizado obras como los túneles de la Torre BBVA de la CDMX.
– Una parte de la energía con la cual se moverá el Tren Maya provendrá de dos ciclos combinados de gas natural que serán construidos por dos empresas españolas, en el estado de Yucatán. La Comisión Federal de Energía adjudicó un contrato de 300 millones de euros a la empresa española TSK, que ha formado un consorcio con otras dos compañías, la ibérica Tecnicas reunidas y la japonesa Mitsubishi Power.
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Volvemos a publicar una versión ligeramente modificada recibida al correo.
ACERCA DE LOS CUIDADOS Y EL DULCE OLOR DE LA DINAMITA…
Comunicado año 1. Número 1.
Mujeres, esclavas del esclavo: animad a vuestros compañeros a sacudir el yugo que nos oprime a todos por igual. Rechazad las mentiras y embustes de los verdugos ensotanados: arrojadles al hocico sus “reliquias” y sus monos ridículos y engrosad las filas de las libertarias que, unidas a los rebeldes, hacen propaganda, con la pluma, la palabra, y, también con el fusil o la dinamita, destruyendo las madrigueras donde habitan los lobos del poder, del dinero y de la religión. ¡Adelante mujeres libertarias!
Francisca J. Mendoza
¡Tierra!. Núm. 481
28 de diciembre de 1912Aproximadamente a las 22 horas del 9 de septiembre de 2023 colocamos un artefacto explosivo hecho con dinamita y gas butano en un camión de carga en la calle 31 de Escárcega, Campeche, con la intención de sabotear la guerra contra la selva que el gobierno de méxico está llevando a cabo con la construcción del llamado “tren maya”.
I. ¡NO ES SOLO UN TREN, NO ES MAYA!
Se trata de un proyecto de destrucción por reordenamiento territorial que pretende instaurar un modelo de “polos del desarrollo” cuyos efectos serán la expansión de las relaciones plenamente capitalistas en la península de Yucatán, lo que provocará la proletarización, desplazamiento forzado, contaminación generalizada, despojo y destrucción de nuestras formas de vida. NO LO ACEPTAMOS.
Este proyecto se impuso a través del funcionamiento de la maquinaria militarista estatal en contubernio con las mafias agrarias que funcionan desde tiempos coloniales en la península de Yucatán; y en las “consultas” amañadas que se hicieron, nunca se nos preguntó a las mujeres de la región nuestra opinión. POR ESO TUVIMOS QUE RECURRIR A LA PROPAGANDA POR EL HECHO, PARA DEJAR CLARO NUESTRO REPUDIO AL PROYECTO.
¡No queremos ver destruida la selva! ¡No queremos dejar nuestras formas comunitarias de vida! ¡No queremos que nuestras hijas se conviertan en sus cocineras, en sus sirvientas o en sus objetos de violación! Y eso es lo que nos ofrece la violencia de su “desarrollo” con el tren.
¡Nuestrxs hijxs serán libres! ¡Libres como la selva! Nosotras no queremos violencia, pero han sido el gobierno y los burgueses explotadores los que con violencia está destruyendo nuestras formas de vida, nuestros cuerpos, nuestros territorios! ¡Y vamos a defendernos!
¡En este escenario de anfiteatros y devastación que nos quieren imponer, las ética del cuidado en nuestras manos tendrá que adquirir el dulce olor de la dinamita!
II. DISFRAZ DE MUJER. PIEL PATRIARCAL
Hoy, los comentaristas del poder se jactan —como si fuera un “avance”—, de que en las próximas elecciones en el territorio ocupado por el estado mexicano serán mujeres las candidatas presidenciales. Como si con solo cambiar el cuerpo se cambiara la política. Pero queremos decirles a estas señoras que su feminismo burgués, blanco, racista, de élites, es una basura que no vamos a digerir. Porque tenemos claro que el Estado es la forma jurídica que organiza la violencia del patriarcado, del capital y del colonialismo para someternos. ¡Por eso al estado hay que atacarlo, porque es la fuente de la violencia patriarcal! ¡NADA QUE VENGA DEL ESTADO SERÁ OTRA COSA MÁS QUE VIOLENCIA PATRIARCAL Y RACISMO POR MÁS QUE SE PONGAN UNA MÁSCARA CON CUERPO DE MUJER!
¡No somos mujeres de la selva, somos la selva defendiéndose!
!VIVA LA INSURRECCIÓN ANÁRQUICA!
Desde algún lugar de la selva en la península de Yucatán,
Coordinadora de mujeres anarquistas por la defensa de nuestro cuerpo-territorio
¡Presos anarquistas libertad! !Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar y Alfredo Cóspito, Libertad!p.d. Saludamos a las compas del comando feminista informal de acción antiautoritaria que han accionado en otros lugares del territorio ocupado por México, porque ellas nos inspiraron para tomar esta vía. Ahora iniciamos el camino en coordinación.
[Recibido al correo]
Eco mediático (muy escaso):
https://estamosaqui.mx/2023/09/10/explosion-en-camion-de-carga-del-tren-maya-en-escarcega/
https://lainoticias.com/campeche/exploto-trailer-en-escarcega-presunto-atentadoAprovechamos para difundir lo siguiente:
– Traducción de un texto de reivindicación de una acción contra el Tren Maya en Berlín, julio de 2023: Ataque al complejo de oficinas de Deutsche Bahn – Stop Tren Maya – !Switch Off! (pdf)
Otras acciones en cuya reivindicación se menciona el Tren Maya publicadas en lucharcontrael41bis:
– Desde la llamada Alemania, información e identificación de intereses de empresas alemanas en el proyecto y el alcance del proyecto más allá de un mero “tren”.
https://www.ya-basta-netz.org/tren-maya-made-in-germany-espanol/Contratos millonarios de consorcios y compañías españolas (no exahustivo):
– El Tramo 2 fue adjudicado a Operadora CICSA en convenio de asociación con Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) Construcción, grupo empresarial español con sede en Barcelona. Ambas empresas serán las encargadas de la construcción de la plataforma y vías férreas, suministro de materiales, sistemas de drenaje, entre otros.
– El tercer tramo se le adjudicó a un consorcio conformado por la constructora mexicana Gami y la andaluza Azvi –a través de su filial en México Construcciones Urales–, por una suma de 10.192,9 millones de pesos (495 millones de dólares).
– La empresa española Acciona es la encargada de la construcción de una parte del Tramo 5, en el estado de Quintana Roo
– Renfe, en consorcio con Ineco –también española, previamente relacionada con el proyecto– y la alemana Deutsche Bahn, ha cerrado un contrato por 13 millones 500 mil euros, de tres años de duración: Construir infraestructura; Responsable de la definición de los requisitos de la operación y de las labores de mantenimiento; Supervisar la fabricación y entrega del material rodante y de todos los sistemas; Abrir oficina que prestará servicio (como ‘shadow operator’ en argot ferroviario) al Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (Fonatur).
Mencionar que “Els Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), en alianza con AudingIntraesa (ahora Meta Engineering) también querían obtener jugosos beneficios del asunto. Presentaron un proyecto en 2020 que el gobierno mexicano rechazó.– Por otra parte, el Fonatur adjudicó a la consultora española de ingeniería UG21 la supervisión técnica y verificación de control de calidad de la obra por más de 200 millones de pesos (10 millones de dólares). UG21 forma parte de un consorcio en el que participan las firmas Coniisa e Ipimsa –filial de Prointec, Grupo Indra– (“Consultoría Integral en Ingeniería e Ingeniería de Proyectos” e “Infraestructuras Mexicanas” respectivamente).
– La oficina de gestión del Tren Maya fue adjudicada de manera directa a Mextypsa por una suma de 573,369,189 pesos. Ésta firma es una filial de Typsa, empresa de origen español que llegó a México hace 12 años y que ha realizado obras como los túneles de la Torre BBVA de la CDMX.
– Una parte de la energía con la cual se moverá el Tren Maya provendrá de dos ciclos combinados de gas natural que serán construidos por dos empresas españolas, en el estado de Yucatán. La Comisión Federal de Energía adjudicó un contrato de 300 millones de euros a la empresa española TSK, que ha formado un consorcio con otras dos compañías, la ibérica Tecnicas reunidas y la japonesa Mitsubishi Power.
-
Volvemos a publicar una versión ligeramente modificada recibida al correo.
ACERCA DE LOS CUIDADOS Y EL DULCE OLOR DE LA DINAMITA…
Comunicado año 1. Número 1.
Mujeres, esclavas del esclavo: animad a vuestros compañeros a sacudir el yugo que nos oprime a todos por igual. Rechazad las mentiras y embustes de los verdugos ensotanados: arrojadles al hocico sus “reliquias” y sus monos ridículos y engrosad las filas de las libertarias que, unidas a los rebeldes, hacen propaganda, con la pluma, la palabra, y, también con el fusil o la dinamita, destruyendo las madrigueras donde habitan los lobos del poder, del dinero y de la religión. ¡Adelante mujeres libertarias!
Francisca J. Mendoza
¡Tierra!. Núm. 481
28 de diciembre de 1912Aproximadamente a las 22 horas del 9 de septiembre de 2023 colocamos un artefacto explosivo hecho con dinamita y gas butano en un camión de carga en la calle 31 de Escárcega, Campeche, con la intención de sabotear la guerra contra la selva que el gobierno de méxico está llevando a cabo con la construcción del llamado “tren maya”.
I. ¡NO ES SOLO UN TREN, NO ES MAYA!
Se trata de un proyecto de destrucción por reordenamiento territorial que pretende instaurar un modelo de “polos del desarrollo” cuyos efectos serán la expansión de las relaciones plenamente capitalistas en la península de Yucatán, lo que provocará la proletarización, desplazamiento forzado, contaminación generalizada, despojo y destrucción de nuestras formas de vida. NO LO ACEPTAMOS.
Este proyecto se impuso a través del funcionamiento de la maquinaria militarista estatal en contubernio con las mafias agrarias que funcionan desde tiempos coloniales en la península de Yucatán; y en las “consultas” amañadas que se hicieron, nunca se nos preguntó a las mujeres de la región nuestra opinión. POR ESO TUVIMOS QUE RECURRIR A LA PROPAGANDA POR EL HECHO, PARA DEJAR CLARO NUESTRO REPUDIO AL PROYECTO.
¡No queremos ver destruida la selva! ¡No queremos dejar nuestras formas comunitarias de vida! ¡No queremos que nuestras hijas se conviertan en sus cocineras, en sus sirvientas o en sus objetos de violación! Y eso es lo que nos ofrece la violencia de su “desarrollo” con el tren.
¡Nuestrxs hijxs serán libres! ¡Libres como la selva! Nosotras no queremos violencia, pero han sido el gobierno y los burgueses explotadores los que con violencia está destruyendo nuestras formas de vida, nuestros cuerpos, nuestros territorios! ¡Y vamos a defendernos!
¡En este escenario de anfiteatros y devastación que nos quieren imponer, las ética del cuidado en nuestras manos tendrá que adquirir el dulce olor de la dinamita!
II. DISFRAZ DE MUJER. PIEL PATRIARCAL
Hoy, los comentaristas del poder se jactan —como si fuera un “avance”—, de que en las próximas elecciones en el territorio ocupado por el estado mexicano serán mujeres las candidatas presidenciales. Como si con solo cambiar el cuerpo se cambiara la política. Pero queremos decirles a estas señoras que su feminismo burgués, blanco, racista, de élites, es una basura que no vamos a digerir. Porque tenemos claro que el Estado es la forma jurídica que organiza la violencia del patriarcado, del capital y del colonialismo para someternos. ¡Por eso al estado hay que atacarlo, porque es la fuente de la violencia patriarcal! ¡NADA QUE VENGA DEL ESTADO SERÁ OTRA COSA MÁS QUE VIOLENCIA PATRIARCAL Y RACISMO POR MÁS QUE SE PONGAN UNA MÁSCARA CON CUERPO DE MUJER!
¡No somos mujeres de la selva, somos la selva defendiéndose!
!VIVA LA INSURRECCIÓN ANÁRQUICA!
Desde algún lugar de la selva en la península de Yucatán,
Coordinadora de mujeres anarquistas por la defensa de nuestro cuerpo-territorio
¡Presos anarquistas libertad! !Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar y Alfredo Cóspito, Libertad!p.d. Saludamos a las compas del comando feminista informal de acción antiautoritaria que han accionado en otros lugares del territorio ocupado por México, porque ellas nos inspiraron para tomar esta vía. Ahora iniciamos el camino en coordinación.
[Recibido al correo]
Eco mediático (muy escaso):
https://estamosaqui.mx/2023/09/10/explosion-en-camion-de-carga-del-tren-maya-en-escarcega/
https://lainoticias.com/campeche/exploto-trailer-en-escarcega-presunto-atentadoAprovechamos para difundir lo siguiente:
– Traducción de un texto de reivindicación de una acción contra el Tren Maya en Berlín, julio de 2023: Ataque al complejo de oficinas de Deutsche Bahn – Stop Tren Maya – !Switch Off! (pdf)
Otras acciones en cuya reivindicación se menciona el Tren Maya publicadas en lucharcontrael41bis:
– Desde la llamada Alemania, información e identificación de intereses de empresas alemanas en el proyecto y el alcance del proyecto más allá de un mero “tren”.
https://www.ya-basta-netz.org/tren-maya-made-in-germany-espanol/Contratos millonarios de consorcios y compañías españolas (no exahustivo):
– El Tramo 2 fue adjudicado a Operadora CICSA en convenio de asociación con Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) Construcción, grupo empresarial español con sede en Barcelona. Ambas empresas serán las encargadas de la construcción de la plataforma y vías férreas, suministro de materiales, sistemas de drenaje, entre otros.
– El tercer tramo se le adjudicó a un consorcio conformado por la constructora mexicana Gami y la andaluza Azvi –a través de su filial en México Construcciones Urales–, por una suma de 10.192,9 millones de pesos (495 millones de dólares).
– La empresa española Acciona es la encargada de la construcción de una parte del Tramo 5, en el estado de Quintana Roo
– Renfe, en consorcio con Ineco –también española, previamente relacionada con el proyecto– y la alemana Deutsche Bahn, ha cerrado un contrato por 13 millones 500 mil euros, de tres años de duración: Construir infraestructura; Responsable de la definición de los requisitos de la operación y de las labores de mantenimiento; Supervisar la fabricación y entrega del material rodante y de todos los sistemas; Abrir oficina que prestará servicio (como ‘shadow operator’ en argot ferroviario) al Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (Fonatur).
Mencionar que “Els Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), en alianza con AudingIntraesa (ahora Meta Engineering) también querían obtener jugosos beneficios del asunto. Presentaron un proyecto en 2020 que el gobierno mexicano rechazó.– Por otra parte, el Fonatur adjudicó a la consultora española de ingeniería UG21 la supervisión técnica y verificación de control de calidad de la obra por más de 200 millones de pesos (10 millones de dólares). UG21 forma parte de un consorcio en el que participan las firmas Coniisa e Ipimsa –filial de Prointec, Grupo Indra– (“Consultoría Integral en Ingeniería e Ingeniería de Proyectos” e “Infraestructuras Mexicanas” respectivamente).
– La oficina de gestión del Tren Maya fue adjudicada de manera directa a Mextypsa por una suma de 573,369,189 pesos. Ésta firma es una filial de Typsa, empresa de origen español que llegó a México hace 12 años y que ha realizado obras como los túneles de la Torre BBVA de la CDMX.
– Una parte de la energía con la cual se moverá el Tren Maya provendrá de dos ciclos combinados de gas natural que serán construidos por dos empresas españolas, en el estado de Yucatán. La Comisión Federal de Energía adjudicó un contrato de 300 millones de euros a la empresa española TSK, que ha formado un consorcio con otras dos compañías, la ibérica Tecnicas reunidas y la japonesa Mitsubishi Power.
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Volvemos a publicar una versión ligeramente modificada recibida al correo.
ACERCA DE LOS CUIDADOS Y EL DULCE OLOR DE LA DINAMITA…
Comunicado año 1. Número 1.
Mujeres, esclavas del esclavo: animad a vuestros compañeros a sacudir el yugo que nos oprime a todos por igual. Rechazad las mentiras y embustes de los verdugos ensotanados: arrojadles al hocico sus “reliquias” y sus monos ridículos y engrosad las filas de las libertarias que, unidas a los rebeldes, hacen propaganda, con la pluma, la palabra, y, también con el fusil o la dinamita, destruyendo las madrigueras donde habitan los lobos del poder, del dinero y de la religión. ¡Adelante mujeres libertarias!
Francisca J. Mendoza
¡Tierra!. Núm. 481
28 de diciembre de 1912Aproximadamente a las 22 horas del 9 de septiembre de 2023 colocamos un artefacto explosivo hecho con dinamita y gas butano en un camión de carga en la calle 31 de Escárcega, Campeche, con la intención de sabotear la guerra contra la selva que el gobierno de méxico está llevando a cabo con la construcción del llamado “tren maya”.
I. ¡NO ES SOLO UN TREN, NO ES MAYA!
Se trata de un proyecto de destrucción por reordenamiento territorial que pretende instaurar un modelo de “polos del desarrollo” cuyos efectos serán la expansión de las relaciones plenamente capitalistas en la península de Yucatán, lo que provocará la proletarización, desplazamiento forzado, contaminación generalizada, despojo y destrucción de nuestras formas de vida. NO LO ACEPTAMOS.
Este proyecto se impuso a través del funcionamiento de la maquinaria militarista estatal en contubernio con las mafias agrarias que funcionan desde tiempos coloniales en la península de Yucatán; y en las “consultas” amañadas que se hicieron, nunca se nos preguntó a las mujeres de la región nuestra opinión. POR ESO TUVIMOS QUE RECURRIR A LA PROPAGANDA POR EL HECHO, PARA DEJAR CLARO NUESTRO REPUDIO AL PROYECTO.
¡No queremos ver destruida la selva! ¡No queremos dejar nuestras formas comunitarias de vida! ¡No queremos que nuestras hijas se conviertan en sus cocineras, en sus sirvientas o en sus objetos de violación! Y eso es lo que nos ofrece la violencia de su “desarrollo” con el tren.
¡Nuestrxs hijxs serán libres! ¡Libres como la selva! Nosotras no queremos violencia, pero han sido el gobierno y los burgueses explotadores los que con violencia está destruyendo nuestras formas de vida, nuestros cuerpos, nuestros territorios! ¡Y vamos a defendernos!
¡En este escenario de anfiteatros y devastación que nos quieren imponer, las ética del cuidado en nuestras manos tendrá que adquirir el dulce olor de la dinamita!
II. DISFRAZ DE MUJER. PIEL PATRIARCAL
Hoy, los comentaristas del poder se jactan —como si fuera un “avance”—, de que en las próximas elecciones en el territorio ocupado por el estado mexicano serán mujeres las candidatas presidenciales. Como si con solo cambiar el cuerpo se cambiara la política. Pero queremos decirles a estas señoras que su feminismo burgués, blanco, racista, de élites, es una basura que no vamos a digerir. Porque tenemos claro que el Estado es la forma jurídica que organiza la violencia del patriarcado, del capital y del colonialismo para someternos. ¡Por eso al estado hay que atacarlo, porque es la fuente de la violencia patriarcal! ¡NADA QUE VENGA DEL ESTADO SERÁ OTRA COSA MÁS QUE VIOLENCIA PATRIARCAL Y RACISMO POR MÁS QUE SE PONGAN UNA MÁSCARA CON CUERPO DE MUJER!
¡No somos mujeres de la selva, somos la selva defendiéndose!
!VIVA LA INSURRECCIÓN ANÁRQUICA!
Desde algún lugar de la selva en la península de Yucatán,
Coordinadora de mujeres anarquistas por la defensa de nuestro cuerpo-territorio
¡Presos anarquistas libertad! !Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar y Alfredo Cóspito, Libertad!p.d. Saludamos a las compas del comando feminista informal de acción antiautoritaria que han accionado en otros lugares del territorio ocupado por México, porque ellas nos inspiraron para tomar esta vía. Ahora iniciamos el camino en coordinación.
[Recibido al correo]
Eco mediático (muy escaso):
https://estamosaqui.mx/2023/09/10/explosion-en-camion-de-carga-del-tren-maya-en-escarcega/
https://lainoticias.com/campeche/exploto-trailer-en-escarcega-presunto-atentadoAprovechamos para difundir lo siguiente:
– Traducción de un texto de reivindicación de una acción contra el Tren Maya en Berlín, julio de 2023: Ataque al complejo de oficinas de Deutsche Bahn – Stop Tren Maya – !Switch Off! (pdf)
Otras acciones en cuya reivindicación se menciona el Tren Maya publicadas en lucharcontrael41bis:
– Desde la llamada Alemania, información e identificación de intereses de empresas alemanas en el proyecto y el alcance del proyecto más allá de un mero “tren”.
https://www.ya-basta-netz.org/tren-maya-made-in-germany-espanol/Contratos millonarios de consorcios y compañías españolas (no exahustivo):
– El Tramo 2 fue adjudicado a Operadora CICSA en convenio de asociación con Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) Construcción, grupo empresarial español con sede en Barcelona. Ambas empresas serán las encargadas de la construcción de la plataforma y vías férreas, suministro de materiales, sistemas de drenaje, entre otros.
– El tercer tramo se le adjudicó a un consorcio conformado por la constructora mexicana Gami y la andaluza Azvi –a través de su filial en México Construcciones Urales–, por una suma de 10.192,9 millones de pesos (495 millones de dólares).
– La empresa española Acciona es la encargada de la construcción de una parte del Tramo 5, en el estado de Quintana Roo
– Renfe, en consorcio con Ineco –también española, previamente relacionada con el proyecto– y la alemana Deutsche Bahn, ha cerrado un contrato por 13 millones 500 mil euros, de tres años de duración: Construir infraestructura; Responsable de la definición de los requisitos de la operación y de las labores de mantenimiento; Supervisar la fabricación y entrega del material rodante y de todos los sistemas; Abrir oficina que prestará servicio (como ‘shadow operator’ en argot ferroviario) al Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (Fonatur).
Mencionar que “Els Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), en alianza con AudingIntraesa (ahora Meta Engineering) también querían obtener jugosos beneficios del asunto. Presentaron un proyecto en 2020 que el gobierno mexicano rechazó.– Por otra parte, el Fonatur adjudicó a la consultora española de ingeniería UG21 la supervisión técnica y verificación de control de calidad de la obra por más de 200 millones de pesos (10 millones de dólares). UG21 forma parte de un consorcio en el que participan las firmas Coniisa e Ipimsa –filial de Prointec, Grupo Indra– (“Consultoría Integral en Ingeniería e Ingeniería de Proyectos” e “Infraestructuras Mexicanas” respectivamente).
– La oficina de gestión del Tren Maya fue adjudicada de manera directa a Mextypsa por una suma de 573,369,189 pesos. Ésta firma es una filial de Typsa, empresa de origen español que llegó a México hace 12 años y que ha realizado obras como los túneles de la Torre BBVA de la CDMX.
– Una parte de la energía con la cual se moverá el Tren Maya provendrá de dos ciclos combinados de gas natural que serán construidos por dos empresas españolas, en el estado de Yucatán. La Comisión Federal de Energía adjudicó un contrato de 300 millones de euros a la empresa española TSK, que ha formado un consorcio con otras dos compañías, la ibérica Tecnicas reunidas y la japonesa Mitsubishi Power.
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Trentino, mediados marzo 2023.
La semana del 13 de marzo hemos dañado un vehículo de la compañía SNAM, multinacional dedicada a la devastación ambiental mediante la construcción de gasoductos, no lejos de Rovereto, hemos pinchado las ruedas, reventado cristales y luces. Cerca dejamos una pintada NO 41 BIS ALFREDO LIBRE. Esta acción es un pequeño gesto de solidaridad con el compañero Alfredo Cospito en huelga de hambre indefinida contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo. Fuerza compañero, no estás solo! Contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo ! Muerte al Estado! Por la Anarquía.
[Nota de luchar…: según publicaban diversos mass-mierdas en mayo 2022, Enagás y Snam están estudiando hacer un gasoducto Génova-Barcelona. Además, SNAM también anunciaba su intención de relanzar el gasoducto Midcat, del que es accionista a través de su unidad Terega.]
Traducido de: ilrovescio.info
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Trentino, mediados marzo 2023.
La semana del 13 de marzo hemos dañado un vehículo de la compañía SNAM, multinacional dedicada a la devastación ambiental mediante la construcción de gasoductos, no lejos de Rovereto, hemos pinchado las ruedas, reventado cristales y luces. Cerca dejamos una pintada NO 41 BIS ALFREDO LIBRE. Esta acción es un pequeño gesto de solidaridad con el compañero Alfredo Cospito en huelga de hambre indefinida contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo. Fuerza compañero, no estás solo! Contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo ! Muerte al Estado! Por la Anarquía.
[Nota de luchar…: según publicaban diversos mass-mierdas en mayo 2022, Enagás y Snam están estudiando hacer un gasoducto Génova-Barcelona. Además, SNAM también anunciaba su intención de relanzar el gasoducto Midcat, del que es accionista a través de su unidad Terega.]
Traducido de: ilrovescio.info
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Trentino, mediados marzo 2023.
La semana del 13 de marzo hemos dañado un vehículo de la compañía SNAM, multinacional dedicada a la devastación ambiental mediante la construcción de gasoductos, no lejos de Rovereto, hemos pinchado las ruedas, reventado cristales y luces. Cerca dejamos una pintada NO 41 BIS ALFREDO LIBRE. Esta acción es un pequeño gesto de solidaridad con el compañero Alfredo Cospito en huelga de hambre indefinida contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo. Fuerza compañero, no estás solo! Contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo ! Muerte al Estado! Por la Anarquía.
[Nota de luchar…: según publicaban diversos mass-mierdas en mayo 2022, Enagás y Snam están estudiando hacer un gasoducto Génova-Barcelona. Además, SNAM también anunciaba su intención de relanzar el gasoducto Midcat, del que es accionista a través de su unidad Terega.]
Traducido de: ilrovescio.info
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Trentino, mediados marzo 2023.
La semana del 13 de marzo hemos dañado un vehículo de la compañía SNAM, multinacional dedicada a la devastación ambiental mediante la construcción de gasoductos, no lejos de Rovereto, hemos pinchado las ruedas, reventado cristales y luces. Cerca dejamos una pintada NO 41 BIS ALFREDO LIBRE. Esta acción es un pequeño gesto de solidaridad con el compañero Alfredo Cospito en huelga de hambre indefinida contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo. Fuerza compañero, no estás solo! Contra el 41 bis y el ergastolo ostativo ! Muerte al Estado! Por la Anarquía.
[Nota de luchar…: según publicaban diversos mass-mierdas en mayo 2022, Enagás y Snam están estudiando hacer un gasoducto Génova-Barcelona. Además, SNAM también anunciaba su intención de relanzar el gasoducto Midcat, del que es accionista a través de su unidad Terega.]
Traducido de: ilrovescio.info
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