Greg Hausmann

former Sr SW engineer for empire C2; decent cook; amateur archaeologist; wanted - by the evil forces, no place to hide

"Tell the children the truth!"

[Greg Hausmann @enderw8s]

"When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me"

[Daniel Fooks @DanielFooksArt]

We are on the fast train to fascism.....

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

As everyone is distracted by the Iran war, Israel is fully annexing the West Bank. As Israel approves over 60 new settlements and the IDF is working with genocidal settlers to murder Palestinians

[Ирина Карловна @shenebraskan]

https://t.co/BfzS38Hunp Free Palestine TV

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

This is Gaza right now.

Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in the middle of the night while people sleep.

Not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.

[Ирина Карловна @shenebraskan]

https://t.co/7Ukp8dXOxh Judge Napolitano with Lawrence Wilkerson; Max Blumenthal; Douglas MacGregor

[Ирина Карловна @shenebraskan]

https://t.co/jF9Ai2wf9e Glenn Diesen with Henry Tillman on Arctic

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

When Obama bombed Libya, the justification was "humanitarian intervention." "Protection of civilians." "Responsibility to protect." The language of international law and moral obligation.

Libya was subsequently destroyed. It has open slave markets today. The humanitarian outcome was catastrophic.

But the language was immaculate. The syntax was perfect. The suits were pressed and the speeches were moving and the Nobel Peace Prize sat on the shelf while the drones flew.

Trump bombs things and says it's about the oil.

In terms of honesty, pure, raw, unmediated honesty about what American power actually does, Trump is more accurate than any of his predecessors.

This is not a defense of Trump.

This is an indictment of everyone who made the polished version seem acceptable.

The lie was always more dangerous than the liar currently in office.

Because the lie had good manners.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Trump has been repeating the exact same meaningless cycle every single week since he and Netanayau started this war on February 28.

1) We won!; 2) They're begging to surrender!; 3) Order Barak Ravid to announce that a deal is imminent; 4) Bomb again; 5) Back to #1.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Most Moral Prison Rapists In the World:

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

I'm not even bothering to comment on Trump's delusions. We're ready for war.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine

https://t.co/hnhzKBxWYG

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant profit-generating machine for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Music is made to be as profitable as possible, which means giving it the broadest possible appeal using formulaic song structure calculated to cause a chemical response in the largest number of human brains.

Movies are designed to draw the largest possible box office revenue at the lowest possible risk to studios and investors, often by just rehashing a movie that’s already proven successful in the past or by slapping together a story about an IP with pre-existing mass appeal.

Food is made to be fast and addictive rather than nourishing.

Healthy human connection has been commodified as social media intertwines with friendships and dating apps insert themselves into the development of romantic relationships.

Human sexuality is being warped and twisted as internet porn normalizes violence and degradation for the maximum number of clicks.

Attention and engagement have been monetized, creating an information ecosystem dominated by conflict and gossip designed to appeal to our baser instincts.

Advertisement is injected into every possible corner of our waking sensory experience, with any available space where the eye might rest or the ear might listen being flooded with psychological manipulation compelling us to consume. They’ll start running commercials in our dreams the instant they have the technology to do so.

You spend eight hours at the office working to generate corporate profits, then you come home and consume products to profit other corporations. You need your beer and snacks to unwind, your streaming services and social media to distract your mind from the stress of it all, your online clothing purchase to try to feel good about yourself, and your prescription drugs to get to sleep at night. People live their entire lives like this.

And that’s those of us who are lucky enough to be living in the global north. In the global south you get wage slavery and exploitation with far more toil, far less relaxation time, and no cheap products made by impoverished workers on other continents with which to comfort yourself.

All of humanity has been roped into this mess. And for what? To make the numbers in some bank accounts increase. To get some green arrows pointing upward on the stock exchange. To enable a few billionaires to buy islands and elections.

All while destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival.

This, we are told, is the best possible system we could possibly be living under.

I personally do not believe this is true. I personally believe we can have better. Those who benefit from this current arrangement are going to assure us it’s impossible and do everything they can to stop us from changing it, but we do have the means to reclaim the wealth, dignity and happiness that they have stolen from us.

They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.

[Sharing Travel @TripInChina]

A glass ball from Qianjiang, Hubei.😅😅

[Dialogue works @Dialogue_NRA]

Larry Johnson: BREAKING: Iran Forces Trump Into Concession – War Price Unbearable https://t.co/RxvYXs1zmB

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SpeakerJohnson 19 Republicans withheld our votes in order to preserve Constitutionally guaranteed rights.

By refusing to honor the Fourth Amendment, you’re jeopardizing the continuation of FISA.

Include a WARRANT requirement for US citizens if you want Republicans to pass this bill.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

BREAKING: CDC AWARDS PFIZER $1.24 BILLION FOR INFANT & ADULT COVID-19 mRNA INJECTIONS

$736 MILLION for pediatric shots.
$505 MILLION for adult shots.

Our public health agencies are DOUBLING DOWN after getting caught COVERING-UP 25 major safety signals including SUDDEN DEATH.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

While the US made a noticeable concession in the text of the agreement on Wednesday and presented it to Iran through the Qatari mediator, it also launched a media and intimidation campaign to suggest that Iran had backed down under the threat of bombardment.

But now, in the real world, Trump has backed down, accepted the same text from two weeks ago, and is awaiting final approval from Iranian officials.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Fuck Israel, free Palestine

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Your genocidal empire is crashing before our eyes.

[Daniel Fooks @DanielFooksArt]

9/11 was a psyop organised by the military industrial complex.

Was used as the pretext to strip away civil liberties in the US and plunder Iraq.

Total racket!