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In early and classic film melodrama too, villains of the piece wore black or dark colours, while heroes wore lighter colours.
Black too is the colour of death and funerals in the West. In East Asia it is white
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Black is the absence of colours. The black panther is a melanised animal
What you have said is apt for those to bear in mind who talk about paper books being bad for the environment, and who tell me to abandon books in favour of electronics!
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I prefer to have a paper book in my hands and take notes from a paper book. Even more, for most books that I read, I have a notebook, but when paper books are not available, I buy the digital ones, and I print them, and they are transformed into paper books, and I send them to a friend who owns a bookbinding company, or I turn them into a spiral book with hard cardboard backing. They last for many years; the place where I keep my books and notebooks is fumigated, not dusty, fireproof and clean, and I have bookshelves; it has fluorescent lamps. Inside the house or inside a garage, they get insects.
In Spain, they have kept all their literature and novels from their golden age in paper book format; they are classical books. In secondary school, we had a class in literature, and we were motivated to memorise the names of the books, the authors and a summary of the literature books. It was Eugenio Maria de Hostos pedagogue system. When I bought them, they were very cheap; now they are very expensive. They still look like new because they have vinyl plastic covers. It is a real enjoyment to read classical literature, novels, poetry and drama
There are many used books online that are in good condition, such as AbeBooks and thrift stores; es they can be covered wth contact paper. We can download some free books from the internet; they can be exported in PDF format, and they can be printed on a laser printer. It is much better because the size is 8 x 12, and they have bigger fonts and better paper quality; without ink, they use toner.
Kindle or Nook have a very small screen, and the iPad or Samsung tablets have a bigger screen, and they have colour images (Retina display, HD) for textbooks, but they are very expensive, and the battery charge only lasts a few hours; Kindle lasts for more than a month. Some phone companies sell them with internet connections.
https://www.demco.com/demco-reg-circextender-reg-book-covers. Cover for soft paperback books. They are used by libraries; old book covers look new, and they are protected. It takes some practice to do it properly, and you must use a bone spreader
While people are getting addicted to the so-called smartphones, the manufacturers and designers are accumulating an enormous amount of capital obtained from the sweat of poor workers, and wars have been fought to obtain the raw materials to manufacture smartphones, chips and computers. The struggle to dominate the reserves of rare earth and lithium between the USA and China is creating international friction.
To extract lithium, the aquifer must be contaminated, and also the rivers; it is similar to fracking, and the mining of those minerals produces ecological and environmental disasters, and drought and drought produce fire in the mountains and forests. In Chile and Argentina, the fires produced in Patagonia are blamed on the Jewish tourists instead of being blamed on the capitalist mode of production, and the Mapuches are being expelled from their lands to take those minerals.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/argentina-patagonia-wildfires-javier-milei-mapuche-conspiracy-theories-cuts-climate-crisis-extreme-weather?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2026-01-28&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+US+leaves+Paris+EU-India+trade+deal+Australia+nears+50C. A conspiracy theory known as the Andinia Plan, claiming that israel wants to create another jewish state in Patagonia, it was a theory created by right wings militaries, to blame the disaster produced by capitalism on jewish tourists and the jewish population of Argentina and Chile
The wall built at the Mexican border is creating a huge environmental and ecological disaster and the extinction of more than 90 animal species
It prevents the reproduction of animals, they must cross to find mates, food and water
It is destroying the desert ecological system.
Mixing large quantity of cement is depleting the aquifer and water system
Local farmers and peasants are losing their lands due to expropiation and eminent domain
The wall produce over flooding during the raining season and affect the life of many animals
Bulldozing has destroyed many Native American burial and cultural sites
It is a disaster. The construction companies are making huge profits, ironically they are using Mexican workers
The USA passed an executive order to allow farmers and hunters to kill the Mexican gray wolves, the purpose is to provide more profits to the cow ranchers.
Most peoples do not know the ecological benefits of those wolves, they prevent the spreading of diseases, they help vegetation to grow and to attract birds to create nests and reproduce, beaver can create river habitats and fish can lay eggs in those habitats.
Animals are part of our ecological system, and natives Americans preserved and protected them
Those black pigs eat bellotas ( Pata Negra ham )
In Italy it is known as Proscuito, but it is too salty. It is made in the province of Parma
There is not need to spend so much money, it can be made at home using salt and seasoning, it can be cured in the refirgerator
A person can support higher wages, nationalisation, stronger welfare programmes, progressive taxation or a left-wing government while continuing to accept wage labour, money, commodity production and the state as permanent features of society.
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The welfare system was created in 1935 by white peoples and for white peoples, and passed by Roosevelt, and in 1964 black peoples were allowed to have welfare to obtain their votes, and later on Latinos or others minority were allowed to have welfare, and now the right populist leaders are blaming the latinos about having handouts which they call socialism, and Ronald Reagan called women the welfare queens. Who is financing those social democrats benefits ?
That is the question of the millions dollars, the burden of taxation falls on the profits of the capitalist class, to understand that conception workers must read David Ricardo and Karl Marx on taxation, or the literatures of the socialist party because leftist do not have that conception either
In the United States, the modern national welfare system was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he signed the Social Security Act of 1935.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established federal welfare programs under the Social Security Act. This included Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) to help single mothers and widows, alongside aid for the elderly and blind.1960s
President Lyndon B. Johnson expanded the safety net significantly. He signed legislation creating Medicare, Medicaid, and the permanent Food Stamp Program.1996
President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This law changed welfare into the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, adding work requirements.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck created the first modern state social insurance system in the 1880s to provide worker protections.
Early forms of state-administered income support, child benefits, and food stockpiles via the public treasury (Bayt al-mal) were established under Caliph Umar
These reformist reform are been used to divide the working class , it was not created by foreign workers
Wild pigs are being killed, but people do not know the history.
Domesticated pigs were brought by the Spanish to Florida.
Then hunters brought Eurasian wild pigs, and they mixed with them and became wild pigs, and they reproduce in large quantities.
Wild pigs have a better diet than farmed pigs, and now they have discovered that the meat has a better flavour than domesticated pigs. In Spain, domesticated pigs with forest diets are used to make Mountain ham (Jamón Serrano), and it is a very expensive ham
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The Chinese are farming wild pigs, and they are buying and farming wild asian carps who were also killed because they reproduce in large quantities.They were reducing the prices of other types of fish because they are free; it is a fish like any other fish. They are called an invasive species by the fishing industry.
Years back, I used to obtain free shrimps, crabs and lobsters from the rivers and the ocean until the fishing industry took over the rivers and the oceans
They killed all the wild pigeons using commercial hunters, and those pigeons made large ecological contributions to the earth and the forest, such as organic fertiliser and the spreading of seeds to help forestation.
Real definitions:
The phrase “black magic” comes from a linguistic mix-up in medieval Europe that combined the Greek word for communicating with the dead with the Latin word for the colour black.
However, the actual concept of harmful or forbidden magic dates back to the earliest human civilisations.Etymology (The Word Itself): Nigromancy:
The term originally evolved from necromancy (communicating with the dead). In medieval Europe, people confused the Greek prefix necro- (death) with the Latin word niger (black), turning it into nigromancy.
First Use: The exact phrase “black magic” in English first appeared in 1590 in Edmund Spenser’s epic poem The Faerie Queene.The Colour Meaning: The word “black” was used strictly to mean dark, evil, or hidden, long before modern racial categories existed.
Medieval authorities used it to label an unauthorised spiritual practice as a dangerous heresy.
Historical Origins (The Practice Itself: )Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt: The belief that people could use supernatural forces to cause harm (maleficium) or contact spirits for selfish reasons is recorded in ancient laws and texts from Babylon, Assyria, and Egypt.
Forbidden Arts: Ancient and medieval societies separated acceptable public rituals from artes prohibitae (forbidden arts), which included curses, hexes, and summoning entities outside the approved religious order
The word heresy meant: an independent thinker, or to look for the true meaning.
The original meaning of the word heresy comes from the Ancient Greek word haíresis (αἵρεσις), which simply meant “choice,” “thing chosen,” or a “school of thought/philosophical sect.”Evolution of the Meaning:
Neutral Beginnings: Originally, it was a non-judgmental term used by ancient philosophers and physicians.
It described a person choosing a specific philosophical tradition—such as Platonism or Stoicism—or a specific religious group or faction (like the Pharisees or Sadducees in the New Testament).
Religious Shift: As the early Christian church grew, it viewed its teachings as the sole, unified truth revealed by God.
Adopting haíresis into Latin as hairesis, the church began using it negatively to describe a willful choice to break away from official dogma, turning the concept into a doctrine rejected as false.
Apostasy has nothing to do with christ apostle, it was documented to be submutted to the vatican renouncing from the catholic church, the jehovah witness used it when somebody rejet their teaching saying that they against the teaching or jesus or the apostles, the thing is that the catholic church member approves the documents, therefore, most peoples that become protestants are catholic.
A friend submitted more than 30 years ago and has not had it approved.
Apostasy is the formal abandonment, renunciation, or disaffiliation from a religion by a person.
An apostasy means completely leaving behind a faith or religious community.
A person who chooses to leave is called an apostate.
The word can also refer to someone turning away from a non-religious cause, political party, or organisation.
Apostasy is a total rejection of an entire belief system, whereas heresy is questioning or disagreeing with only specific doctrines while staying in the group.
The word comes from the Greek word apostasía, meaning a “defection” or “revolt”.
Long ago, Greeks and writers like Josephus used the term for a political rebellion or military revolt against an empire or ruler.
The term entered the English language in the 14th century with its religious meaning.
The topic is most prominent in religions like Christianity and Islam.
Historically viewed as a grave sin or rebellion against God, major historical churches penalised it (such as through excommunication).
Modern Christian groups generally treat it as a personal choice without civil punishment.
Islamic law traditionally views leaving the faith (riddah) as a serious religious offence, with varying degrees of censure or legal sanctions depending on the historical context or country.
I think the piñata metaphor actually gets to the heart of the matter.
When unemployment, low wages, inadequate housing or insecurity are blamed primarily on foreign workers, workers are encouraged to see other workers as the source of problems that arise within a much larger social and economic system.
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Someone travelled by car the whole USA from east to west, west to east, north to south and south to north, and saw that most poor people were white Americans; they were not Mexicans, and there were many ghost towns.
All factories were closed, taken by the capitalists to other countries, and many were seating in the front porch waiting for the mailman to bring the unemployment or welfare check.
Now the right-wing politicians are saying that the foreign workers are eating the Piñatas and that they have taken all the jobs, and many workers believe that lie.
Statistics have shown that crime is not a monopoly of foreign workers, and some jails system are run by private corporations that make profits like any corporation, and some companies employ prisoners, giving them underpaid jobs, lower than the pay rate required by law. Similar to the jails for undocumented workers, they are run by private corporations; they need tenants.
https://www.beacon.org/They-Take-Our-Jobs-P1419.aspx. This book debunks all those fallacies. She is the daughter of Noam Chomaksy, and she has a doctorate in Latin American studies.
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https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/41/. This book, written by Aviva Chomsky, demonstrates why emigration became illegal and when and why, and that the so-called melting pot is just a historical lie, and that one group entered through the east, but there was a large group that entered through the west, and they are not mentioned, which are the Chinese, and they also contributed to the development of capitalismAll those fallacies and hysteria help to keep the workers divided and do not help to obtain class consciousness, and the capitalist class knows the reality.
An American ambassador told the soviet union that they knew that Russian leaders were developing state capitalism, but many workers have been lied to by both sides, who were saying that the soviet union was socialist. or developing socialists, and the Leninists also propagated the same lies
We can cite thousands of examples that will contribute to the disunity of the world working class.
“So perhaps our response to the growth of the Right should not be: “How do we get these workers back to the Left?”
It should be: “How do we get workers to stop looking to either side of capitalist politics and begin thinking in terms of their own class interests?”No “perhaps” about it! That’s what our response should be.
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Most workers do not know that there is no difference rbetween ight and left; they think that both are different. As well, they do not know that the issue is not liberal versus conservative, or vice versa; the real issue is class. On Facebook, one leftist said that we are agents of capitalism because we do not support either one, and because we do not support leftist leaders and leftist governments and the so-called socialist countries
Most left or right populists political candidates are xenophobic, racists, patriotic and warmongers, and blame the social, political and economic crisis on the foreign workers. and workers have been mentally influenced by those conceptions
They are hitting the Piñata on the wrong side, the capitalist class is getting the candies, fruits and toys, they are obtaining all the benefits from the suffering and exploitation of the large population of human beings ( human lives is not an expression used by molecular-celular biology, it is a religious expression, we are placental mammals animals, the pro life do not want to accept it )
In Chile both tendencies run a political campaign based on xenophobia, racism and patriotism, and the right wings populists won the election, in a country where they have had more leftwing governments than right wings governments, and several have call themselves socialists including Eduardo Frei before Salvador Allende, neither of them have been socialists
There was a coalition of communists and independent communists who supported xenophobia and racism, and most of the Chileans are descendants of Mapuches ( Araucanos ) and other ethics groups, and the Mapuche punished them with null or blank votes or supporting the right wing populists, and the leftist government had sent the military troops to their territory, and those territories have large deposits of minerals and fossil fuels
The leftwing populist blamed their lost on political maneuvers or election fraud, they lost because the leftist were doing the same job as the right-wingers, and they did not fulfill their false promises, and some of the laws passed by them are being used by the right wing populists and since they were minority in the congress both made alliances, the left communists which did not support anyone of them said that it was like a cow selecting the sides of a slaughter house
Those communist candidates wanted the Haitians and Venezuela workers to leave the country according to them they are taking their jobs, and they are gangsters, but with and without them the unemployment rate is pretty high, and crime will continue, the reality is that the majority of Haitians are leaving the country they are also living in extreme poverty. Most Venezuelans are not members of the Tren de Aragua gangs, they are leaving Venezuela because they are poor workers, it is like Trump saying that all foreign workers are criminals, what is the difference ?
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-58550943. This article from BBC shows the real situation,
therefore, left wingers are running the same political campaign as the right wingers, they are not a choice eitherThose so called communists do not know the logic of the capitalist mode of production, which is the one producing unemployment, and need cheap labor power to produce more profits, the correct conception should have been to unite all the members of the working class. They must be reading marvel comics books instead of socialism
The ex president of Argentina ( who is considered a leftist Peronist ) expressed a public statement that “all them came on boats from Europe” , and it showed its historical ignorance,, because Argentinians are also descendants of natives Americans, and there is poverty among the descendants of Italians, Spaniard, German and Jews along with the Gauchos, mulatos, and natives Americans, the color of the skin is not an issue under the capitalist mode of production, it is just a fallacy. What is the difference between an anarcho capitalist known as Millei ?
The language spoken is not pure Spanish ( or Castilian ) it is known as Rioplatense Spanish, ( like in Uruguay ) and the national music which is the Tango came from the African , the word tango come from an African expression known as nTangu or Tangana, they removed the congas and the bongos to introduce europeans instruments like the accordion. Workers do not know their own history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_tango. The Milonga was influenced by Afro-cubans music. I collected music for several decades, and Cuba influenced in al the rhythms, and they have more than 140 varieties, it is like negating that American jazz and Rock and Roll is not African music which came from Blues
ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz. Square dancing was influenced by the Mexican music and dancers, as humans we do not know who we are, and where we came from, and the capitalist class wants to close all the natural history museums and all libraries
PS Adam Buick published on Facebook the names and percentage of all the natives peoples that exist in Latin America, and they are majority compared with the europeans, as well the composition of Mulatos ( mixed, come from Mules, Maria Teresa Babin wrote a book ) is also a big ethnic group. In Mexico several natives languages are spoken by a large population of natives Americans, the original name of those continents was Abya Ayala ( and Turtle island the north continent )
It is a contradiction because most workers do not know that the state is financed with surplus value and the burden of taxation falls on the profits of the capitalist class, some sectors of the working class believe that they are the one paying for welfare, and only foreign workers use it, and that they paying the cost of wars to defend their homeland, both statements are completely wrong because the capitalist class is the one that want to cut benefits to make more profits and they are the ones paying for wars. This is part of the class consciousness or the lack of class consciousness
Most peoples around the planet want peace and a better life for them and their children, Americans are the ones who want more state cut, based on the so called big government ( a concept spread by Ronald Reagan ) and more guns to defend the so called homeland, and Europe governments are cutting social democratic benefits to produce and buy more guns
