#elitepanic — Public Fediverse posts

"They roll back environmental and social protections: pulling out of agreements on climate mitigation, desperately promoting a building boom, directing expenditure to the military, promoting non-solutions such as nuclear power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, all in the name of GDP growth, for they know no other god."

#degrowth #FalseSolutions #ElitePanic

#ElitePanic is an underappreciated factor in political and social life: "“The community aid is something we need to continue to support, but it’s a drop in the bucket. What we need is more government assistance. We need FEMA assistance. We need the federal government to step up and do its job. You know, we have seen a level of response from both federal and state governments. But that response hasn’t been bringing in aid, it has been bringing in police. I have seen police from Charlotte, from Louisiana, from Atlanta. All this manpower wasn’t sent in to distribute supplies, or to clear the roads, or even direct traffic. It was sent in to make sure hungry people, thirsty people, desperate people couldn’t get the supplies they needed. Those police and the private security which we saw guarding grocery stores, could have helped with distributing supplies instead. But that’s not what they’re doing.”

https://www.liberationnews.org/hurricane-helene-disaster-zone-socialists-provide-relief-capitalist-government-provides-nothing/

December 8 Case: Anti-Terrorism Attacks Social Struggles

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/30/december-8-case-anti-terrorism-attacks-social-struggles/

The aim is to confuse terrorism with social struggles, so as to prepare public opinion for the fact that the perpetrators of political illegalism will soon be charged with terrorism. And to give free rein to political repression, by giving it the benefit of the most complete repressive arsenal the law offers today: anti-terrorist legislation.

#SilencingDissent #tyranny #fascism #terrorismlabel #socialstruggles #elitepanic

The Surveillance of State and Capital and the Collapse of Privacy

https://anarchist-rising.com/2023/09/21/the-surveillance-of-state-and-capital-and-the-collapse-of-privacy/

An essay on surveillance…
#surveillance #privacy #humanrights #profit #elitepanic

"Incompetent bureaucrats pose more of a danger to Seoulites than North Korean rockets" Kim Jong-dae, visiting scholar at Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies

"Citizens remain unfazed, but the South Korean elite are gripped by confusion and fear."

#korea #ElitePanic