News of the Restless

Ex-prince Andrew has been arrested!

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. We have an announcement! Music please, maestro:

Yes, those little things make life interesting.

And now we’re living in some very interesting times, because Andrew, the Mountbatten-Windsor formerly known as Prince and still nicknamed Randy Andy for reasons, has been arrested — on his 66th birthday, of all days.

The charges couldn’t be more vague — “suspicion of misconduct in public office”? ¿Qué?

Ah well. If the charges are clear as mud at the moment, and the police aren’t saying much, one thing is obvious as a fart in a crowded elevator: It’s all to do with his ties to the late, unlamented Jeffrey Fucking Epstein.

Right now it’s most likely his financial dealings with the “disgraced financier” (read: PEDOPHILE PIMP WITH A SHITLOAD OF ILL-GOTTEN MONEY), but as more living victims of both men may feel encouraged to come forward, additional charges could well apply. Virginia Roberts has pointed the finger at him from the pages of her posthumous memoir, but since Randy Andy was famously voracious (as well as sadistic and entitled), I don’t believe she will be the only one vindicated when he is sentenced.

I’ve suspected this was coming ever since the late Queen Elizabeth stripped Andrew of his royal duties, and King Charles followed up late last year by stripping his royal titles. No doubt Her Majesty was not amused by having to pay 12 million pounds to compensate a victim of her favorite child’s depredations, and no doubt His Majesty King Charles III is not amused either at the prospect of his spoiled little brother being an ongoing liability to the House of Windsor. Ol’ Andy’s been nothing but an embarrassment for decades, ever since his affair with actress Koo Stark became tabloid fodder. He’s had the reputation of being a skirt-chasing playboy for over four decades. Only now, he’s looking more and more like a criminal, as well as a figure of scandal.

In addition, all signs are pointing to Epstein being an intelligence agent or asset for at least three countries. His New York home was chock-a-block with clandestine recording equipment. And at an apartment building he managed, which was used by none other than Ehud Barak when he was in town, there was spy gear apparently installed by Mossad with Epstein’s full knowledge and co-operation. Mossad also had agents installed right across the way from him, with a camera trained on his pad at all times. And since ol’ Randy Andy was infamously photographed on the doorstep of said residence, more than once, it’s very likely that he was also recorded, on audio and video, inside the building.

The exact (undoubtedly grotesque) details have yet to be revealed, but I’m sure that everything that transpired in there was quite useful to Mossad, the CIA, and possibly even Russian intelligence, for blackmail purposes. Which would add another layer of unsavoriness on top of the rather dull financial stuff, and the downright horrifying pedo stuff. And which would make Andrew a national security liability for all the Brits.

It’s almost enough to make one wish that the Tower of London were still a prison.

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MariCori’s not-smart, very-dumb, ig-Nobel move

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Sabina Becker

Oh…how embarrassing. But how totally unsurprising it all is:

You may recall that I said MariCori wasn’t worthy. Well, now you know why. And now you also know why I called her a sycophant.

(And no, silly FUX Snooze reporter lady, MariCori does NOT have “the support of the Venezuelan people”. Not even a little of it. But to understand that, you’d have to ask actual Venezuelans who didn’t fuck off out of their country when the economic going got rough, thanks to US embargoes and all that imperialistic jazz.)

This whole kerfuffle puts MariCori in the same ignominious league as Knut Hamsun, the racist and fascistic Norwegian literary Nobel winner, who “dedicated” his own award to none other than Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister of Germany. He sent Goebbels his medal.

So, I guess this isn’t the first time Norway has come away from a Nobel award ceremony with egg on its face. (Recall that it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that awards the peace prizes, and that at least one of their members has consorted in the past with Jeffrey Epstein.)

Now, the question is: Who was, or were, the idiot(s) on the committee that decided to award this fucking idiot that fucking joke of a prize? Anyone care to come forward?

Thought not.

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Dirty Donnie is even dirtier than you know

Posted on January 14, 2026 by Sabina Becker

He’s dirtier than you and I know. But a US army veteran (of the Iraq war) named Sascha Riley knows from terrible experience just how dirty he could be:

The first 15 minutes or so are the crucial part. According to Lisa Voldeng’s Substack, this is a summary of the events he describes here:

During the years SR was trafficked within the Trump/Epstein ring, he was forced to perform sexual acts during the filming of several child pornography films, including a snuff film. He recalls at least 10-12 such films. During the snuff film shoot, SR saw a girl child shot and killed during filming. After another film shoot, a girl child was taken to another room. SR recalls hearing gunshots. He said that when he heard the gunshots, he was scared. He said that another perpetrator still in the room with him, sensing his fear, said, “Don’t worry. Boys are hard to find.” The films were produced within the Trump/Epstein ring.

There was a time when I would have had a lot of trouble believing accounts like this, but that was before I read Elly Danica’s book, Don’t: A Woman’s Word, in which she describes similar events from her own childhood. Like Sascha, Elly was abused and trafficked by her own father, photographed and even filmed in grossly abusive ways, and pimped to wealthy and prominent men in and around the Saskatchewan town where she lived. All of them were sadistic and enjoyed seeing her suffer, much as the abusers Sascha Riley describes getting their sick jollies off the suffering of his friend Patricia.

The only difference between the two girls is that Elly survived; her abusers stopped short of murder, probably because it’s a lot harder to hide or explain away the violent death of a girl in a Canadian prairie town. She could not be made to simply disappear. Blame would have been difficult to deflect elsewhere. Even with the complicity of wealthy doctors and judges, like the ones who abused her, it would have been well-nigh impossible. They could have been implicated at any time, and the conspiracy would have fallen apart like a moth-eaten scarf. The circuit of abusers in that time and place was too small; all the men knew her father, and the guilty ones were friends of his.

And it was a lot harder to procure children for what those perverts had in mind. The films and photos, too, would have required a darkroom to process in that pre-Internet era; there were no servers, and you couldn’t just upload the materials, which would have been distributed either via postal mail or passed in secret from hand to hand. The entire operation was too lucrative, and also too costly, for them to just dispose of their victim like a sack of trash when they were done with her. She had to be controlled, physically and mentally, with silence and shame.

And for many years, she was.

But even when Elly came out with her story at last, and the book was national news, it was still not received the way she’d hoped it would be.

“The reception took me by surprise in the sense that I wanted to change people’s perceptions about the issue of child sexual abuse, wanted to have it taken seriously, wanted to make the extent of the impact of such experiences clear—it is never just an event, but so much more. Primarily I wanted it stopped, want children and women to be safe and feel safe. Instead I became as one journalist described me: ‘Canada’s most famous victim.’”

Danica further tells me the window of interest for her story was a very narrow one, and that in the space of a mere eighteen months post-publication she went from responding to the upset reactions to incidents in the book, to having to defend her memories, and then to accusations that her memories were ‘false.’ In her follow-up memoir, Beyond Don’t, published eight years later, she frankly discloses the toll the publication took on her, that though an exercise in recovery, it was merely a first step. “I had underestimated both how long it would take to get there and what I would have to come to terms with to make a better life possible,” she writes. “I began to abuse drugs and alcohol. At the time I could not explain to myself or to anyone else why I was in so much pain, and so focused on walking oblivion or suicide.”

I hope that Sascha Riley doesn’t have to go through what Elly Danica did in her efforts to raise awareness. I hope that things really have changed in the decades since Don’t came out. And that people are ready to hear the worst, and believe the victims. Because even though the sexual abuse and trafficking of children is a lot more common than we all would like to think, and victims are everywhere among us, there is a huge effort to keep sweeping those horrors under the rug. Victims are frequently dismissed as “crazy”, because they can’t just coherently string together a narrative that immediately makes sense and is easy to verify. Their memories come in flashes because the whole is too awful to bear.

Even when a victim does manage to come forward with an account that makes sense, there is still a huge resistance to the truth. Nobody wants to believe that anybody socially prominent is this evil, this capable of these things. Much less if that “anybody” is not just some rich doctor or judge in Saskatchewan, but the president of the United States himself.

And he has a vast network of fixers to make sure that the spotlight is turned everywhere except upon himself.

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Dirty Donnie’s Venezuela skulduggery, exposed

Posted on January 6, 2026 by Sabina Becker

Carlos Ron, former Venezuelan deputy foreign minister (who left that office a year ago to join the Tricontinental Institute as a researcher) is interviewed by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of Drop Site News. The interview is part of a longer live stream that was broadcast this morning:

While the US major media have speculated that senior figures in Nicolás Maduro’s government were complicit in his abduction by US military forces, Carlos Ron rejects that premise. And he would know, having until fairly recently been a member of that government himself.

He also delves briefly into the revolutionary socialist history of Delcy Rodríguez, the current acting president, who was sworn in to fill the power vacuum left by Maduro’s kidnapping. If there’s any doubt about where she stands, on this development and what it means for Venezuela, let her own words disabuse you of all illusions:

Message from the Acting President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Message from Venezuela to the world and to the United States

Venezuela reaffirms its vocation of peace and peaceful coexistence. Our country desires to live without external threats, in an environment of respect and international co-operation. We believe that global peace is built by guaranteeing first of all the peace of every nation.

We consider it our priority to advance toward a balanced and respectful relationship between the US and Venezuela, and between Venezuela and the countries of the Region, based in sovereign equality and non-interference. These principles guide our diplomacy with the rest of the countries of the world.

We extend an invitation to the government of the United States to work together in an agenda of co-operation, oriented toward shared development, under the seal of international law and with a strengthened and lasting communal coexistence.

President Donald Trump, our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war. That has always been the position of President Nicolás Maduro, and is that of all Venezuela at this moment. That is the Venezuela in which I believe, to which I have dedicated my life. My dream is that Venezuela will be a great power in which all good Venezuelans will find themselves.

Venezuela has the right to peace, to development, to its sovereignty, and to the future.

Translation mine.

Doesn’t sound like she’s in any mood to concede an inch of Venezuela to Donnie and his nonsense. In fact, she’s very pointedly (albeit politely) telling him to back the fuck off, stop doing war crimes, respect Venezuela’s sovereignty and international law both, and be an actual president of peace — and not the one we’ve seen so far, who’s eager to stick his fat little fingers in where they’re not wanted and claim peace prizes that neither he nor the crazy loon who actually won one have earned.

I admire her hope and optimism in expecting him to listen and engage in dialogue, but the man who ordered the bombing of fishing boats (and his drunken secretary of war, who committed his own war crime by ordering the killing of all the survivors of the initial attack) is deaf to anything but the roaring of his own ego. And also, to his panic at the ongoing revelation that he’s the most prominent — and frequent — perpetrator of child sexual abuse in the Epstein Files.

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Why Dirty Donnie wants to make Canada the 51st state

Posted on December 21, 2025 by Sabina Becker

Riddle me this: What do Canada and Venezuela have in common?

Okay, a little spoiler…

Yup, that’s right. “Their” oil is under OUR soil…and Venezuela’s, too.

Of course, it’s not THEIR oil. It’s OUR oil, in OUR soil, just as it’s Venezuela’s oil under Venezuela’s soil. The fire-prone forests around Fort McMurray, Alberta, may not look like the hot, humid shores of Lake Maracaibo (although the local mosquitos might seem remarkably similar in size and number), but they have pretty much the same heavy crude, and they have vast reserves of it, too. But since the US is pretty much dry of the liquefied dinosaur bones (West Texas notwithstanding, that shit got pumped out and pissed away for the most part in the 1980s), of course the US has to cast its eyes on other sources.

Saudi Arabia is already tame to their interests, since its oil industry was developed by the US, as were its armed forces, decades ago. They can’t buy parts for their fighter jets from anywhere else, so of course they’ll do whatever the current occupant of the White House tells them to do. Without the US, the royal House of Saud would soon find its own head on the chopping block, because the populace can only take so much oppression for so long. So of course, the Saudis are happy to sell the US as much oil as they can deliver, at whatever price is offered. There are too many swords hanging over their heads for them to even contemplate doing otherwise.

That leaves Canada and Venezuela. Neither of whom is tame to the US any longer.

Venezuela got out from under that thumb over 20 years ago, when Chavecito was president. His self-recommended successor, Nicolás Maduro, is now in charge of that same project of sovereignty, and of forging closer ties to non-US trading partners. They’ve been steadily adding to the list of countries Venezuela will sell oil to, and the US is getting less of that precious booty every passing year. Which no doubt explains why Donnie felt he just had to hijack not one, but two Venezuelan tankers in the Caribbean.

Canada is just now twigging to the realization that our so-called friends and allies to the immediate south of us are not so friendly, and not really allies. The results of our last election speak to that wake-up call; if Justin Trudeau hadn’t stepped down and Mark Carney stepped in, the results would have been a disastrous victory for the Maple MAGAts of the Conservative party, and that smarmy little shitweasel, Pierre Poilievre, would be lining up on our nation’s behalf to kiss Dirty Donnie’s ass. (And be promptly elbowed out of the way by Marlaina “Danielle” Smith, the laughingstock of Alberta, who lost no time scurrying down to Mar-a-Lardo to suck up and reassure Mango Mussolini that if Canada wasn’t going to be the 51st US state, Alberta would.)

Anyhow. Venezuela does have an ace up its sleeve that Donnie hadn’t banked on:

Yep. That’s the trading partner that will be only too happy to take Venezuelan oil, at whatever price is deemed fair.

And Canada will not be far behind, either.

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Donnie loses Nobel Peace Prize to an unworthy sycophant

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Sabina Becker

“Fellow deputies, I propose that we eliminate ordinary parliamentary sessions, because I don’t mix with ordinary people.” –MariCori, saying the silent part out loud.

I have a confession to make: I was fully expecting Donnie NOT to get the Nobel Peace Prize. So I wasn’t surprised to see that he didn’t get it; mildly gleeful, yes, because anything that upsets and disappoints the orange king-baby is good for a passing snicker. But I wasn’t expecting him to lose it to — of all people — María Corina Machado.

MariCori, as she is known in Venezuela, is absolutely NOT a peace activist, nor is she a peacemaker. She is an oligarch. She is a sycophant. She is a putschist. She is a professional crybaby. She hasn’t accomplished a single thing in the 20+ years that her name has been in the public eye. All she’s done is run whining to Washington every time a Venezuelan presidential election doesn’t hand her, or whoever she’s backing, the top job in the land. And to collect millions of dollars in the process for her astroturf group, Súmate — which, like her, is just a bunch of well-off do-nothings whose only job is to make pitiful noises about the nation’s “dictatorship” every time a camera is on them, or a US diplomat is in the room. They’ve been at it ever since Chavecito was in office, and they’re at it still, now that Nicolás Maduro — a former bus drivers’ union leader — occupies Chavecito’s place. One time, she was photographed in a grip ‘n’ grin session with Dubya Bush, in which her skinny legs took centre stage.

And that is all she and her comical organization have ever done. They haven’t succeeded in toppling “the dictatorship”, because it isn’t in fact any such thing. Madurito, like Chavecito before him, is democratically elected. And while he lacks the ebullient charisma of his late predecessor, he is still far and away more popular than MariCori, Súmate, or any of its puppet presidential pretenders, like whatsisface — oh sorry, Juan Guaidó. (Who, for the record, was never elected to any office higher than a seat in the National Assembly, and was never president. And who, for all the noises about how Madurito and Chavecito are “like Hitler”, actually did take a leaf out of Hitler’s book when he crowned himself king, or rather, went all over the world claiming to be the rightful president and hoped that no one would notice that he wasn’t.)

Anyhow. It’s not as if the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a farce, and hasn’t been since the day it was first awarded. Alfred Nobel, after all, was a capitalist who made his fortune in a literal instrument of mass death — namely, dynamite. Not exactly the stuff of which peace is made. And the prize has been pretty much a running dirty joke since the day Henry Fucking Kissinger won it.

But, be the award a joke or not, Donnie hears only the word “prize”, and automatically thinks he’s entitled to it. Especially since Barack Obama once won it. And Donnie just can’t bear to be outdone by a black man, because he’s a racist Nazi gangster. And he’s not above prize theft — once even yoinking the FIFA trophy out of the winners’ hands, and keeping it to display in his gaudy Oval Office as if he’d kicked the winning goal himself.

But if you think MariCori is more deserving than Donnie, you couldn’t be more wrong. Like said, peace is not what she’s about. In fact, she’s not above calling upon him and asking for a bombing of her own country:

Far right spokesperson María Corina Machado stated, during an interview with FOX News, that Venezuelans should be grateful to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, if he were to bomb Venezuela.

During the interview, Machado said that for years, the opposition extremist sector has been soliciting intervention in Venezuela.

Machado also suggested that her fellow Venezuelans should be thankful to Trump for his interventionist plans, even if he were to bomb Venezuela.

It wouldn’t be the first time that Machado has made a proposal of this sort; on previous occasions, she had expressed her wish that Venezuela be invaded and bombed so that the extremist right-wing could ascend to power.

Translation mine.

Not very peaceful, that. But it’s very much in line with what she’s been doing ever since Chavecito was in office. MariCori is also on record as approving the revocation of temporary protected status for Venezuelan migrants in the US. She was even among the putschists who stormed Miraflores, the Venezuelan presidential palace, in April of 2002, installing another oligarch, Pedro Carmona (alias “Pedro the Brief”), for not quite 48 hours. But the Venezuelan people turned out by the thousands from their hillside barrios to protest and demand the return of their elected president at the palace gates. And when the army (which was still loyal to its commander in chief) stepped in to drive them out and retake the palace, they all scuttled like cockroaches. Including MariCori, undoubtedly in stupidly expensive high heels.

Oddly enough, though, for a “dictatorship”, there were no mass arrests! Not a single putschist rotted in jail. In the end, the real coup was scored for freedom, democracy…and socialism.

You’d think that someone like MariCori would be permanently disgraced in the eyes of the world, and certainly disqualified from receiving any kind of peace prize. She’s no Henry Kissinger, as she enjoys no real power even behind the scenes. And this prize won’t grant her any true credibility, when all’s said.

But what really made my eyes snap open was what Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast in this interview, where he reveals that a member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee — he doesn’t say who — was once a guest of the infamous child-trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein:

How that committee member happened to be there, and what was said and done during that meeting, Wolff doesn’t elaborate. But it might go a long way toward explaining how a blatantly unworthy oligarch like MariCori wound up winning a prize that she should never have even been nominated for.

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BBC gets knocked in the kneecaps over Glastonbury censorship

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Sabina Becker

‘Tis the season for music festivals. (Well, except for the “Hetero Awesome” kind, because they suck a whole bag of dicks, in the most “no homo” way possible.)

And of course, in the long proud tradition of music festivals, there will be bands and performers that really speak out on the right side of things, much to the annoyance of the powers that be. (Again, I refer you to “Hetero Awesome”, and the queer punkage that went on there, making things ironically VERY awesome for all the heteros that aren’t so easily upseteros.)

But then again, there will also be efforts to stifle speech coming from the right side of history, because it has a tendency to get on the wrong side of certain ugly interests. Case in point: An Irish band called Kneecap, who’ve come under fire yet again for refusing to shut up about Palestine and the ongoing genocide against the people of Gaza:

And apparently, what they had to say was so free of speech that the BBC tried to censor it. But no worries; a duo going by the clever name of Bob Vylan also stepped up, as did numerous others who still made their way around the censorious shenanigans of the Beeb:

You know you fucked up when even Sky News is covering this angle that you’re not. And doing so with (gasp!) a certain measure of sympathy.

Anyhow, for those wondering what they missed due to the Beeb’s bullshit, I got you…it’s audio only, and it took me some damn-near-doomscrolling to find, but here you go. Enjoy!

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“Hetero Awesome Festival” gets queer-punked by a military vet

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Sabina Becker

Hey y’all, remember that bunch of sad ol’ right-wingers in Boise who staged a “straight pride” event for straight white Christian folks who have NO pride? Well, they got the precise attendance they deserved (dozens of people, people — DOZENS!) They also got deservedly into debt for this small but total fiasco. And also-also, they got something they truly deserved. Namely, to be upstaged by a fine young military vet who had something rather queer to say:

You just know your hetero is, like, so awesome that you had to cut off an army guy in a tan beret, singing about a transgender kid, in mid-tune. Guess they only heard that he was a vet, and figured they didn’t have to vet him any further.

Daniel Hamrick, I salute you — may you be invited to all the cool kids’ cook-outs from now on.

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Fake cop (and very real right-wing terrorist) kills Minnesota lawmaker

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Sabina Becker

Fascist horror erupted today in a peaceful blue state. A lone man posing as a police officer stalked and shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses at home last night. Two of the victims, state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, are alive and recovering from emergency surgery; the other two, state representative and former house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, are dead. Here are the details from local TV station KARE 11:

And here’s some more, from a local CBS station, WCCO, with aerial shots showing police activity around the suspect’s home:

The shootings occurred on a day of protest against Him Who Shall Not Be Named, called No Kings Day. Apparently some flyers or pamphlets related to the occasion were found in the suspect’s SUV, which was tricked out to look like a police vehicle, complete with flashers. That vehicle was promptly taken into police custody. At first local police were warning would-be demonstrators to stay home, as the terrorist might be targeting them, but that warning has since been lifted and demonstrations are still in peaceful progress.

So who is this guy, anyway? Here are some salient details:

Law enforcement sources have identified 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter as the suspect in the targeted shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers early Saturday morning, according to the Associated Press.

CNN confirmed that Boelter works for Praetorian Guard Security where he serves as director of security patrols and has received training from U.S. military personnel.

[…]

Boelter has an extensive professional background spanning security, international business, and workforce development.

According to Minnesota Africa United, he holds a doctorate in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service from Cardinal Stritch University and has worked for major corporations including Nestle, Del Monte, and Marathon Speedway.

[…]

He previously served on Minnesota’s Governor’s Workforce Development Board, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton in 2016 and reappointed by Walz in 2019.

The governor’s office appoints thousands of people of all parties to these boards and commissions — that particular board has about 60 people on it. These are unpaid, external boards that the legislature creates, not appointments to positions in the governor’s Cabinet. However, a 2019 document shows Walz signed off on Boelter’s appointment “because of the special trust and confidence I have in your integrity, judgment, and ability.”

Despite serving under Democratic governors, Boelter last registered to vote in 2022 as a Republican, according to the New York Post.

And in a disturbing development, this right-wing shooter had a hit list over 70 names long in the car the authorities impounded. Among them were several notable Democratic politicians (including Gov. Walz himself, and federal representatives Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison), as well as pro-choice leaders and abortion providers. The victims he succeeded in shooting were strongly pro-choice and instrumental in codifying abortion rights in Minnesota.

As of this writing, the shooter is still at large. If you are in the area and think you’ve seen him, don’t engage or approach him, as he is considered armed and dangerous. Also, if he comes knocking, don’t open your door to any lone man dressed as a police officer; real cops always work in pairs or groups. Stay in safety and call your local police or contact the local branch of the FBI.

Above all: Stay strong, dear Minnesotan friends.

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Quotable: Naomi Klein on social change

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Sabina Becker

“If there is one thing I admire about the diagonalists and other denizens of the Mirror World, it’s that they still believe in the idea of changing reality, an ambition that I fear too many on this side of the glass have lost. We shouldn’t make up facts like they do, but we should stop treating a great many human-made systems — like monarchies and supreme courts and borders and billionaires — as immutable and unchangeable. Because everything some humans created can be changed by other humans. And if our present systems threaten life to its very core, and they do, then they must be changed.”

–Naomi Klein, from Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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