Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Peacock strut

 


A small faux-Grantite sect at the outskirts of the workers´ movement displaying like a peacock while pretending to be a new revolutionary communist international.  

Verdict

 


 


Verdict: Entertainment Value Only. I have a soft spot for Bigfoot, so the first clip was fun to watch, featuring a very venerable Jeff Meldrum and (surprise) Cliff Barackman of "Finding Bigfoot" fame. The second clip contains too much BS and hoaxes, but sure, I suppose it could be entertaining after a fashion... 

Massacre on Marion Island

 

Credit: JJ Harrison

Some really bizarre information in this one. 

The remote Marion Island in the Indian Ocean is scene to a "zombie apocalypse" during which aggressive and hungry mice prey on the seabirds, including large albatrosses, and eventually kill them. Or, not to put too fine spin on it, eat them alive under torture-like forms. 

Homo sapiens has decided to come to the rescue, and in 2026, the plan is to kill off the mice instead. That is, to exterminate millions of them! So our response to the zombie apocalypse is mouse genocide. Not until 2028 will we know whether the pesky rodent is finally gone and our tubenose brethren saved. Oh, and in a previous hominid killing spree on the island, all cats were extirpated?! 

>>>A “zombie apocalypse” has been playing itself out on Marion Island in the Southern Indian Ocean for more than a decade, as flesh-eating mice massacre vulnerable seabirds, having already laid waste to invertebrates and otherwise tenacious vegetation.

>>>In the 20 years up to 2018, the number of mice on Marion increased by about 430%. As a result, says Anderson, “the frequency of mouse attacks is increasing very significantly. It’s exponential, and it’s related to the fact that the invertebrates on which the mice used to prey have been decimated, so the mice are feeding off the seabirds and their eggs as an alternative food source” to replace their diet of weevils, moths and seeds. 

>>>In a 2015 study, mice were found to be killing one in 10 albatross chicks. Not only has this escalated, says Anderson, but “one of our concerns is that the mice are now starting to feed on adult wandering albatrosses as well. “The loss of chicks obviously has a big impact, but once you start killing adult birds of breeding maturity, then the impact on populations increases. And this is a more recent phenomenon.”

Massacre at Marion: Mouse eradication project gathers pace

Blåsippor för Israel?

 


Sverigedemokraterna går tydligen framåt i opinionen i Stockholm. Deras stöd är nu 20%, en "magisk" gräns partiet aldrig har passerat tidigare i kungliga huvudstaden. Vår ofrivillige grannbloggare T.H. gissar att det beror på gängvåldet, men observera att SD tydligen började öka hösten 2023.

*Vad* kan ha inträffat då som påverkat väljaropinionen i mer SD-vänlig riktning? 

Absurd ironi med tanke på SD:s ska vi säga brokiga bakgrund... 

SD ökar i Stockholm 

Wicked liberty

 


A "classical" Marxist critique of the book "The Dawn of Everything", attacking its pluralist and "idealist" perspective on human pre-history. The second link goes to my own review of the book.

How can we be free? A Marxist critique of "The Dawn of Everything"

The Dawn of Everything

Next cousins

 

- So we are cousins then, my dear Sir Bustard...
- Humpf, I don´t think so, you cuckoo clock trash!

So a 2014 genetic study shows that bustards are more related to cuckoos and turacos than to cranes and other gruids?! HA HA HA. But sure, it does make sense in some really bizarre way. Come to think of it, the bustard does look like a truly monstrous cuckoo. 

The falcons have already been outed as closer to passerines than to other raptors. Sure wonder what other surprises awaits us out there...

Otidimorphae

Dialogue with the Dead

 



Even the dead vote for Putin. Wtf. He must be the most powerful man in the world. But sure, it would be fun if his undead doppelgänger would vote against him! And what about the mummies of Lenin and Stalin, do *they* at least root for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation?  

Mountains of the Moon

 


A Giant Potto (and it really is huge) and two scary mystery birds...don´t get me wrong, but is *this* the best the fabled Mountains of the Moon at Ruwenzori can offer us in terms of cryptids? Geezus, I had expected albino killer apes, dinosaurs, or at the very least some really nasty spider, but naah!

Some cryptozoological riddles from Ruwenzori


Monday, March 18, 2024

Communist Cell Starter Pack?!

 

Credit: Wellred Books 


Can be yours for only 15 pounds!

From the Manifesto of the "International Marxist Tendency´s" latest little recruitment campaign at the fringes of the official Communist movement (emphasis added): 

>>>In its day, capitalism succeeded in developing industry, agriculture, science, and technique to a level undreamed of in the past. In so doing, it was unconsciously laying the material foundations for a future classless society. But now this has reached its limits, and everything is turning into its opposite. 

>>>The capitalist system long ago exhausted its historic potential. Unable to carry society further, it has now reached the point of no return. The present crisis is not a normal cyclical crisis of capitalism. It is an existential crisis, expressed not only in the stagnation of the productive forces, but also in a general crisis of culture, morality, politics and religion.

>>>The yawning abyss that separates rich and poor – between obscene wealth in the hands of a few parasites, and poverty, destitution and despair for the great majority of the human race – has never been greater. These are revolting symptoms of the sickness of a society that is rotten ripe for overthrow. Its eventual downfall is inevitable and cannot be avoided.  The world is heading towards an uncertain future characterised by a never-ending cycle of wars, economic collapse and increasing misery. 

>>>All the attempts of the bourgeoisie to restore the economic equilibrium only serve to destroy the social and political equilibrium. The bourgeoisie finds itself trapped in a crisis for which it has no solution. That is the key to understanding the present situation.

The above is true, after a fashion. 

>>>Lenin explained long ago, however, that there is no such thing as a final crisis of capitalism. Unless it is overthrown, the capitalist system will always recover from even the deepest crisis, albeit at a terrible cost for humanity.

This, emphatically, is *not* true. Not unless you have a very wide definition of "capitalism". So nah, Messrs Trotskyistes, you won´t get a second shot at it. And think of it, you´ll probably never get a first shot at it, either!



BREAKING NOW: TED GRANT TURNING IN HIS GRAVE!!!


 

Wtf. Has the IMT decided to give up on entryism and become, gulp, another small sect at the outskirts of the organized labor movement? Ted Grant must be turning in his tomb! 

The Communist, Towards the Revolutionary Communist Party