Paris Marx is joined by Karen Hao to discuss how Sam Altman’s goal of scale at all costs has spawned a new empire founded on exploitation of people and the environment, resulting in not only the loss of valuable research into more inventive AI systems, but also exacerbated data privacy issues, intellectual property erosion, and the perpetuation of surveillance capitalism.
Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist and the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people and the deliberate destruction of food security in Gaza.
The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine convened on November 22 and 23 in Barcelona. The event brought together organizers, human rights advocates, and legal experts and offered a platform for survivors of the ongoing assault on Gaza to present evidence of Israel’s international crimes. After two days of testimony, jurors returned their verdict: Israel, the United States, and other Western powers are guilty of the crimes of genocide, ecocide, and the forced starvation of the Palestinian people.
“The mass killings, deliberate starvation, systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure, environmental devastation, and the targeting of hospitals, shelters, schools, and places of refuge were carried out as a matter of state policy, and with full knowledge of their fatal consequences,” said head juror Ceren Uysal, reading from the verdict as the tribunal closed.
Hosted by the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, International People’s Front, and People’s Coalition of Food Sovereignty (PCFS), the tribunal offered a quasi-judicial platform for advocates and survivors of Israel’s ongoing genocide to present evidence and legal arguments related to the crimes committed against the Palestinian people. It follows in a tradition of popular forums seeking justice and accountability where institutions have failed to provide it, including previous tribunals on recent crimes in Gaza.
It came as Israel continues to commit violence in Palestine. Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in effect since October 10, 2025, at least 497 times, killing more than 340 people, according to the Gaza Government Media Office. On November 17, the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan for an international force that he will lead to oversee the continued occupation of Gaza, drawing condemnation from legal experts and rights groups, who argue the plan violates Palestine’s right to self-determination and will fail to protect Palestinians. (more...)
Pope Leo, climate change, and the synodal Church of Accompaniment. Where do I stand, and has The Remnant’s editorial policy softened?
EWTN and the ADL? Are you serious? Dr. Scott Hahn and Ben Shapiro correct the record.
Lila Rose is "a feminist nag who has no business telling men anything about pornography." Hating on women... is the Nick Fuentes effect driving the Neo-Trad movement into the ground?
And, finally, a massive movement is rebuilding Christian Europe one province at a time, and you won’t believe what’s driving it!
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In this week’s Remnant Underground, Michael Matt goes where the actual (as opposed to the false flag) Deep State doesn’t want anybody to go -- back to Rome 1965, the Second Vatican Council, where something extraordinary happened that impacted the lives of every person on earth, Christian or not.
Using Jewish sources, Michael demonstrates how Jewish organizations lobbied the pope and powerful Council Fathers at Vatican II to radically “reform” Catholic teaching on the Divine Commission of Jesus Christ to "go out and convert all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and Holy Ghost." (Matthew 28:18-20)
This "reform" was to be carried out under the guise of improving the Church’s relations with non-Christan religions. The result? Well, watch and see, but here’s a hint – it has everything to do with global apostacy, Christian persecution, the Vatican crackdown on traditional Catholics, even the recent FBI infiltration of Latin Mass parishes.
This week's Underground will blow your mind because it explains not only the fall of the Catholic Church over the past century but also the rise of Zionism and the war in the Mideast. It’s all connected. So, prepare to have your blindfold removed.
Speaking of which, this week Cardinal Dolan calls us to "unite with our Islamic brothers" in prayer and fasting during Lent, and President ‘Mr. Green T’ Zelenskyy finally exposes himself for the angry little fraud he’s always been. (You’re on deck, Bibi)
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Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial intelligence, more are set for construction. When one considers that, in 2021 alone, US data centres were found to be consuming approximately 415,000 acre-feet of water, the statistics are bound to be staggering.
Unlike its competitors, the tech behemoth is rather cagey on how much water is used by its data centres. Statistics on absolute water consumption are simply never provided. There is some speculation that water usage may be relatively less in some instances given the company’s focus on using evaporative cooling systems which only turn on when temperatures reach unacceptable levels.
Will Hewes, who steers the water sustainability efforts for the company at Amazon Web Services (AWS), gives the impression that using water is a lesser evil, as it “reduces the amount of energy that we use”, which assists the company meet “other sustainability goals.” In an interview with Grist in August 2024, he explains that the company “could always decide not to use water for cooling, but we want to, a lot, because of those energy and efficiency benefits.” To this apparent nod to environmental decency, Hewes goes on to remark that “big portions of our data center footprint are in places that aren’t super hot, that aren’t in super water stressed regions.” Virginia and Ohio are mentioned as places where the need to use water cooling is only pressing during the hot periods of summer.
Hewes was giving a barely good impression of verisimilitude. As with Microsoft and Google, Amazon is eagerly constructing data centres in a more systematic, global way, invariably focusing on areas of high aridity. Three data centres, for instance, are proposed for Aragon in northern Spain, all to accompany existing Amazon data centres. These will be licensed to use 755,720 cubic metres of water annually, an amount sufficient to irrigate over 200 hectares (500 acres) of corn, a staple of the region. According to SourceMaterial, the water usage promises to be even greater, as that figure fails to consider “water used in generating electricity to power the new installations”.
A stark, consistent tendency is evident in the company’s practices: They are trustworthy on the subject of water consumption. Take, for instance, the glossy optimism of its November 2022 “Water Positive” initiative, intended to apply, not to the company’s entire operations, but to AWS. The intention is to return more water to communities than is used by the company in AWS global operations by 2030, and direct operations in all Amazon facilities in India by 2027. Last month, AWS announced that it had reached 53% of its Water Positive goal. (more...)
Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres
The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic, foriegn ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones, part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything near them.
Bases are many of the worst environmental disaster sites, polluting air, soil, and water, and generating horrific noise pollution.
Foreign bases are often mini-apartheid states with second-class status for locals and criminal immunity for militaries — a situation that can often be traced back to stolen land and other injustices.
Through public pressure, bases have been closed, plans for bases have been blocked, and bases have been converted to other purposes, superior environmentally, economically, and in terms of achieving peace.
On February 23 people will be protesting bases with nonviolent actions around the world: rallies, vigils, peace festivals, protests, lobby visits, demonstrations, flyering at gates, teach-ins, and celebrations where bases have been prevented or closed and converted into something useful.
Find an event near you or see how easy it is to create one at DayToCloseBases.org
Some of the many organizations involved are
Soon after joining Ireland’s Green Party in the 1990s, I attended a few discussions about the roots of ecological politics.
I don’t recall contributing much to those discussions. I just sat and listened to activists who were more clever and better informed than I was.
One such activist noted that there had previously been a political organization expressing a strong attachment to nature: The Nazis often talked about blood and soil.
At the time, I didn’t want to believe that Nazis could have influenced the international green movement in any way. The German Greens I had seen on television all appeared to be espousing a “make love not war” philosophy.
Today, the Greens’ Annalena Baerbock is foreign minister in the Berlin government. She talks about learning from her country’s past, while doing the opposite.
Baerbock identifies the Holocaust as “the worst crime the world has ever seen.” To atone for it, she is enabling a holocaust in Gaza, the worst crime that the world has seen so far this century.
Germany has just released new data showing that it approved military exports worth more than $100 million to Israel over the past three months. (more...)
Germany’s Greens need to be denazified
Nick Estes, indigenous activist and scholar, delivers a powerful speech in support of PGWP protestors in Brampton, Ontario. Drawing parallels between indigenous struggles and immigrant workers' rights, Estes shares insights from pipeline protests and emphasizes the importance of solidarity across marginalized groups. He critiques both right-wing and liberal governments, highlighting the need for worker unity and grassroots organizing. Estes connects the fight against colonialism, environmental destruction, and worker exploitation, urging protestors to build alliances beyond traditional power structures. This inspiring talk offers a unique perspective on shared struggles and the power of collective action.
Ed Spannaus introduces the September 1997 panel on Britains Invisible Empire. Copies of the Fall of the House of Windsor Report that he mentions are available at www.larouchepub.com Counter-Intelligence editor Jeff Steinberg opens by detailing the structure and nature of the modern British Empire starting with Queen Elizabeth, her perrogative powers, the Privy Council, and the corporate power she wields. Are you deluded enough to think that the British Empire is a relic of a romantic bygone age? Think that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are mere figureheads? Living museum pieces, trotted out out once in a while to go through the motions of dull state events while the other members of the royal family provide scandal for the tabloid headlines? Subjects in her empire might repeat that poppycock, (probably because their mum told them it was so) , however, the truth is radically different. Jeff Steinberg presents the ugly genocidal reality of the corporate structure, the raw materials cartel, the mercenary armies, the modern opium war on most of civilization, terrorism, psychological brainwashing operations, & the religious and environmentalist lunatics, all run out of London.
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Citizens in and around the Mohawk Territory say they’ve had it with waiting for governments to act on the growing environmental crisis.
The operator practically laughed her off the phone when Julie Tremblay-Cloutier called to report an environmental emergency on Mohawk land.
“He actually told me, ‘Come on now, this situation is well known, it’s not an emergency,’” said Tremblay-Cloutier, who has fought against illegal dumping in Kanesatake for over three years.
“I had called Urgence Environnement three months earlier and they assured me they were taking actions to end illegal dumping. Then a few weeks back, I called them for an update, I told them ‘It’s actually getting worse and we have proof’ but they treat me like it’s all a big joke. Well, I don’t think they’ll laugh at what comes next.”
Tremblay-Cloutier says there are about 100 Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawks) and non-Indigenous residents of Oka ready to blockade the highway and country roads that lead into Kanesatake if the dumping doesn’t stop.
This comes after an investigation by The Rover found some of Montreal’s biggest condo developers using Kanesatake as an illegal dumping ground for their contaminated soil. What’s more, the Quebec government has been aware of this practice for years but did nothing to prevent it. (more...)
Group Threatens to Blockade Highway Over Illegal Dumping in Kanesatake
Experts say Quebec won’t enforce environmental laws on Mohawk land as Kanesatake deals with numerous dump trucks with unknown contents driving in every day.
The people of Kanesatake want to know what’s being dumped on their land.
Every day, from sunrise to sunset, trucks filled with dark brown soil rumble onto the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) territory and unload their cargo by the Lake of Two Mountains.
After decades of inaction from all levels of government, local whistleblowers have gone vigilante: installing trail cams next to dump sites, flying drones overhead, surreptitiously gathering soil samples and — in one case — firing a gun into the air to scare off a trucker.
But still no answers.
On Monday, The Rover recorded three trucks loading what appeared to be contaminated soil from construction sites in Laval and dumping them onto a plot of Mohawk land that overlooks the lake.
The first picked up slabs of asphalt from an industrial building near Highway 440 while the others loaded soil from a condo development in east Laval. All three then headed northwest to Kanesatake and unloaded their cargo near the shoreline.
These shipments all belong to Nexus Construction, a Laval-based excavation company that dumps dozens of truckloads on the reserve every day, according to Kanesatake Grand Chief Victor Bonspille and the community’s environmental protection agency. (more...)
Dump Site Openly Flouts Provincial Law
As a long-time ecologist Steven Guilbeault knows we can’t overcome the climate crisis without just and equitable rules that apply to everyone no matter where they live on the planet. As a former Greenpeace spokesperson he knows militarism is extremely ecologically damaging. As a father, Guilbeault knows that killing 15,000 Palestinian children cannot be justified.
Still, Canada’s environment minister has supported one of the most horrific military onslaughts in recent memory. In fact, Guilbeault is in the cabinet of a government that has enabled Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.
The only public statement Guilbeault seems to have made regarding the conflict came soon after Hamas’ October 7 assault. On X he posted, “Canada condemns the violent terrorist attacks on Israel. Full stop.” It linked to a message from the prime minister noting, “Canada strongly condemns the current terrorist attacks against Israel. These acts of violence are completely unacceptable. We stand with Israel and fully support its right to defend itself.”
As Israel has “defended itself” by killing 40,000, Guilbeault has stayed mum. An individual who said I “came into politics so I could continue to be an activist” has ignored the many thousands who have marched in his riding over the past seven months. He has ignored a Laurier—Sainte-Marie Palestine solidarity group’s repeated appeals to support a long-term ceasefire and two-way arms embargo. Activists have also asked Guilbeault to raise his voice against Israel’s siege of Gaza and Canada’s complicity in Israel’s occupation, organizing multiple protests and town halls focused on the environment minister’s complicity in genocide. But he’s failed to even meet with organizers.
If the killing of over 15,000 Palestinian children isn’t enough to move Guilbeault, perhaps the ecologist could at least denounce the environmental devastation wrought by Israel’s war machine? (more...)
We must hold Guilbeault to account for supporting Israeli violence
Oak Flat is where deities live, medicinal plants grow and sacred ceremonies are held. The indigenous Apache people revere Oak Flat in Arizona as a holy place. The site, which is located 60 miles east of Phoenix, has been part of their cultural identity for thousands of years. But Oak Flat is at risk of being destroyed to make way for an enormous copper mine. Some of the country's largest deposits of copper ore are buried deep underground, and a mining company wants the land.
The mining giant, Resolution Copper, is seeking to acquire the land and access copper. This has caused the Native Americans and environmental activists to rise up in protest as mining can cause the ground to collapse and massive craters to appear. Although Oak Flat is part of the Tonto National Forest, it changed in 2014 when Sen. John McCain added legislation that authorised the handover of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.
Not only does Resolution Copper threaten the Apache ceremonial grounds with destruction, they also endanger water resources in the area. The mine is estimated to require some 250 billion gallons of water - enough to supply a small city for 50 years.
The documentary explores the fight for Oak Flat and Apache activists trying to protect their ancestral lands.
On today's show, Dr Uwe Alschner discusses conservatism as re-branded eugenics, and the case study of Netherland's "former SS officer" Prince Bernhardt who worked as Nazi double agent against the Dutch resistance during WWII. How this lesson helps us understand how intelligence agencies have infiltrated conservative groups with the intention of subverting them from within in our modern age will be developed at length.
Facing oil spills, evacuations and illness — nations downstream of the oil sands grieve their way of life, as the corporations polluting their water get richer
he rush of the wind and sprays of water add to the thrill as Jason Castor guides his riverboat through a stretch of Lake Athabasca near Fort Chipewyan, in Treaty 8 territories. If he slows down, his boat could get stuck in the mud or even flip over because the water levels in this spot are remarkably low. He steers around buoys, dodges logs and other debris while accelerating to the mouth of the channel, which he knows should be deep enough to navigate at an average speed.
While trawling his boat further down the river, Castor points to odd-looking clusters resembling dirty foam floating by.
“There’s just a slurry of a foam that looks like oil or some kind of chemical in there,” says Castor, a 42-year-old father, construction business owner and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN).
He’s been a traditional hunter, trapper and fisherman for nearly 20 years and has documented strange changes in the water, the land and animals.
Something’s going on in the river, he says.
“They say that it's natural, well, I know that that's not natural because I've been on the river my whole life,” he explains as he points to brown and white foam, oil sheens and other discoloured formations floating on the river..
Nowadays, it’s risky to navigate these waterways because of industrial intakes like the W.A.C. Bennett Dam to the west in B.C.; the Alberta oil sands just up the river and impacts from climate change. (more...)
For Indigenous communities in Alberta, the oil industry has left an ugly stain
Long before the British intelligence agency MI6 invented the story that Russian military agents had carried the nerve agent weapon Novichok into England, fired it at two Russians, and left it in a dustbin for a local scavenger to find, take home and kill his girlfriend, there was depleted uranium poisoning.
This is a weapon of mass destruction (WMD).
In the past thirty years it has been used by the US, British, and Israeli armies in their wars against Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine (Gaza), Serbia, and recently against the Russians on the Ukrainian battlefield. As a US invention, however, depleted uranium dispersal as a gas to contaminate terrain for enemy soldiers has been acknowledged in secret since 1943.
In the official military manuals, depleted uranium rounds are used because their metal concentration and intense heat burn their way through armour plate. In practice, they vaporise high concentrations of radioactive particles to cover large swathes of territory, civilian and military.
The US Department of Homeland Security defines a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) as “a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people.” DU harms a relatively small number of soldiers on a battlefield operating in tanks, other armoured vehicles, self-propelled artillery and reinforced bunkers. DU strikes a much larger number of people through the release of radiation downwind of the battlefield by penetrating their bodies, attacking their genetic codes, and triggering cancers, birth defects, miscarriages of the unborn, and premature death of adults. (more...)
Is it truly the case that in order to live in harmony with nature, industrial activity must be eliminated?
Can green energy systems support our current world population and is it possible to have an advanced growing thriving world civilization while also enjoying growing, thriving ecosystems?
As of October 1, 2024, the city's executive committee will impose a ban on residential gas-powered stoves, indoor gas fireplaces, and hot water heaters and furnaces that emit greenhouse gases. It also includes barbecues and pool or spa heaters that draw from gas lines.
Montreal will soon join a growing number of Canadian cities next fall to ban gas-powered systems in new construction builds.
The city's executive committee Wednesday morning approved a ban on residential gas-powered stoves, indoor gas fireplaces, and hot water heaters and furnaces that emit greenhouse gases, starting October 1, 2024. It also includes barbecues and pool or spa heaters that draw from gas lines.
The regulation will apply to new residential buildings up to three storeys high and 600 square metres in area, with a similar ban expected for larger buildings six months later.
Montreal city council said the measure will help them reach carbon neutrality by 2050, noting buildings account for one fourth of their greenhouse gas emissions. (more...)
Montreal approves natural gas ban for most new buildings
I am the very model of a modern climate modeler,
Ecologist, empiricist, there's no one Aristotle-er,
Employing mathematics, theoretic and statistical,
And arcane correlation computations syllogistical;
I prove that human action, agricultural, industrial,
Will overheat with CO2 the planet, therefore must we all
Obey the Queen of England's populational reduction goals
And late at night I like to ogle Greta Thunberg videos.
And late at night he likes to ogle Greta Thunberg videos!
And late at night he likes to ogle Greta Thunberg videos!
And late at night he likes to ogle Greta Thunberg viddi-iddi-oes!
I'm getting paid to demonstrate the world is far too populous,
Especially the poorer dark complexioned countries where we must
Kill off six billion babies, adults, teenagers, and toddlers:
I am the very model of a modern climate modeler!
To kill six billion babies, adults, teenagers and toddlers,
He is the very model of a modern climate modeler!
The climate factors cosmic and galactic I must disregard,
They contradict the green agenda, I refuse to think so hard.
Atomic power doesn't produce very much of CO2,
But 'twill increase potentials of the population, that won't do;
'Twould mean from pole to pole more Northern, Southern, Central 'Mericans,
'Twould mean More Europeans, and more Asians and more Africans,
From poverty, disease, and hunger many people could be saved,
And dear old Bertrand Russell would be spinning in his honored grave!
And Bertrand Russell will be spinning in his rotten stinky grave!
And Bertrand Russell will be spinning in his rotten stinky grave!
And Bertrand Russell will be spinning in his rotten stinky-inky grave!
My opposition to the Peaceful Atom isn't brains I lack,
But geopolitics taught me that "Green is Good." and "Snow is Black."
And if your mother disagrees, I may well have to throttle her:
I am the very model of a modern climate modeler!
And if your mother disagrees, he may well try to throttle her,
He is the very model of a modern climate modeler!
The Green New Deal and Great Reset will stop greenhouse pollution
And to the Human Question is a Final End Solution,
But even a first strike at China and at Russia I would goad,
Protecting the environment from progress on the Belt and Road.
Alas, I fear too many people are beginning to defy
My peer-reviewed and flawless calculations proving they must die,
Perhaps they'll organize to generate eight thousand gigawatts
Instead of playing Grand Theft Auto as they fry their brains on pot.
Instead of playing Grand Theft Auto as they fry their brains on pot,
Instead of playing Grand Theft Auto as they fry their brains on pot,
Instead of playing Grand Theft Auto as they fry their precious brains on pot!
And then we’d see the living standards of the population zoom,
For radical Malthusians like me there would be no more room,
With hundreds more of happy humans in each square kilometer,
I’ll be a very unemployed and moody climate modeler.
With hundreds more of happy humans in each square kilometer,
He’ll be a very unemployed and moody climate modeler!
Amidst the desert expanses of rural northern Nevada lies a land of striking contrasts and breathtaking beauty.
Washed in tones of golden yellow and burnt ochre, it is rugged, serene and captivating to the senses. In this vast stretch of parched desert, with sagebrush and other hardy shrubs dotting the landscape, there’s a sense of timelessness.
It isn’t all desert. There are also rugged mountain ranges with jagged peaks, and deep canyons that stretch regally towards endless blue skies. Their slopes are often adorned with evergreen trees, junipers and pines.
Interwoven between the mountains are numerous valleys and basins, with open vistas that seem to stretch on forever. The land is often used for agriculture and ranching, with fields of golden grasses and free-grazing livestock adding a touch of vitality to the otherwise arid surroundings.
Water is a precious resource in this region, and rivers and lakes play an important role in shaping the landscape.
The area is also home to wildlife including antelope, mule deer, golden eagles, ferruginous hawks, prairie falcons and numerous other bird species that nest in the cliffs. A rare desert wildflower called Crosby’s Buckwheat thrives in a valley 43 kilometres north of the small farming community of Orovada, Nevada.
That valley, known to locals as Peehee Mu’huh or Thacker Pass, is the site of a controversial lithium mining development owned by a Canadian mining company. (more...)
In Nevada, Indigenous land protectors face off with a Canadian mining company
Winston Churchill's choice to be the first Secretary General of NATO, Lord Ismay, described the role of NATO to be to "Keep the Soviet Union out, the U.S. in, and Germany down." This intent predates NATO, and has been at the center of British policy toward Germany since the time of its industrialization in the 1880s under Bismarck. After two world wars, the geopoliticians of the City of London are using an anti-Russian proxy war in Ukraine, and extremist anti-science Green policies, to isolate and destroy Germany. The alternative? Germany should join the BRICS!
