not THE mohammed ali

You know what happens when you assume anything.

[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.

[RAHUL SHARMA 🇮🇳 @KumarRahul65453]

@Rothmus Colonize half the planet.

Loot resources.

Redraw borders.

Extract wealth for centuries.

Then ask: "Why is everyone here now?"

History has a sense of humor.

[not THE mohammed ali @mod_vito]

@yanisvaroufakis Bang on as always, Yanis.

[not THE mohammed ali @mod_vito]

@75secondes @grok is this real and what is the likelihood of it being an AI generated video?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

When the establishment/Blairite wing of the UK Labour Party couldn't stop Jeremy Corbyn's rise, their media operatives at the Guardian and similar outlets fabricated anti-Semitism accusations against Corbyn and his supporters, eventually handing party control to the unprecedentedly hated Sir Keir Starmer.

As Starmer's historic unpopularity is now fueling the rise of the Green Party, Labour's media apparatchiks -- led by the Guardian's supreme Starmer loyalist @PippaCrerar -- are now replicating that tired smear campaign against the Greens. That the Green Party leader, @ZackPolanski, is Jewish is, of course, no impediment.

Every influential Israel critic (Jewish or not) will inevitably stand accused of anti-Semitism. The more cynically they exploit these accusations, however, the less potent they become.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

So fucking funny!!! 😂😂😂😂

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Get in!!!!!!

Kneecap: 3
Brit Govt: 0

The worlds biggest terrorists are the leaders of the British state.

Free Palestine
Free the 6 counties

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There are many Israel supporters who treat the claim that Israel committed genocide in Gaza as if it's some sort of fringe, laughable delusion that only crazies assert.

In fact, this conclusion has been endorsed by most major human rights groups (including Israeli ones), leading scholars of genocide (including leading Israeli scholars and countless Jewish ones), duly constituted international tribunals, many countries around the world, UN inquiries, and all kinds of associations of scholars.

You can dismiss them all as bigoted and anti-Semitic if you want (groups or scholars criticizing Israel are reflexively dismissed as such). But the conclusion that Israel committed classic genocide in Gaza is not some assertion that only gets made by random internet accounts. It's approaching a consensus in the world of groups, tribunals and scholars most qualified to adjudicate the question.

(The term "genocide" includes far more than "successfully slaughtering everyone in a population as quickly as possible," and the belief that it only covers that act is part of the confusion and/or misinformation on this question).

Also: the US, UK and much of Europe paid for, armed and otherwise enabled most of it.

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

Here is the proof Epstein was a Russian asset:

- his girlfriend was the daughter of a Mossad agent
- one of his best friends was Israel's lawyer
- another of his best friends was a former Israeli prime minister
- he met with the current Israeli prime minister
- a senior Israeli spy would stay at his house for weeks at a time
- a friend invited him to bring his girls to Israel
- he fled to Israel when he was charged with sex crimes against a minor
- he was pictured wearing an IDF shirt
- he was funded by pro-Israel fanatics
- he worked for the Rothschilds
- he donated to pro-Israel student groups
- he was responsible for the Wexner group's "pro-Israel philanthropy"
- he supported Israeli settlement projects
- his friends were all Zionists
- he scathingly referred to non -Jews as "goyim"
- he was involved in Israeli diplomacy efforts
- he brokered security deals for Israel
- he aimed to profit from regime changes in the Middle East
- a former Israeli intelligence officer said he ran a honeypot for Israel
- his business partner confirmed he ran a honeypot for Israel
- one of his victims confirmed h ran a honeypot for Israel

As you can see, all of this was done for the benefit of Russia. There is no other explanation.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Every news outlet, pundit and analyst who tries to tell you that Epstein was a Russian intelligence operative instead of an Israeli one is just telling you they're a propagandist. View it as a big flashing sign that says "Never trust anything from this source ever again."

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

A Jew dies and meets God, and asks Him, "Is it wrong to commit a genocide of Palestinians?"

"Yes," God replies.

"Damn," says the Jew. "Antisemitism is more widespread than I thought."

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like.

Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not.

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[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Manchester United are back!

I know I know one swallow doesn’t make a summer and all that.

But let me explain.

First I have supported United for more that sixty years, a decision made by my father the day and hour that Denis Law was signed from Torino. As himself a Scotsman with blonde hair and a whippet like inside left instinct (10) I’m sure my dad thought he WAS Denis Law. And if you ever saw Law you’d know that would be something to be.

So I’ve followed many great United iterations and some not so great. I’ve been with Busby and Ferguson. I’ve been with, well let’s not spoil the mood.

Of course my fellow Scot Sir Alex Ferguson gave me decades of joy and so when my own sons came along I naturally decreed that they were reds. Obviously.

The problem was as my sons arrived Ferguson left. And everything turned to shit. Not entirely- there have been moments- but overwhelmingly I have never shaken the suspicion that my sons must hate that from childhood I had decked them out in the colours of a club that so regularly reduced them to tears, of disappointment or worse of boredom.

Until last night.

As I hugged my eldest in a Dive Bar in Hong Kong while United’s goals flew in his face was wet with tears of joy as was the face of my youngest thousands of miles away. My youngest by the way had just helped his side defeat the historic Third Lanark 3-1, with a goal an assist plus hitting the post and the cross bar!

It wasn’t that we’d slaughtered City 2-0. That we’d had the ball in the net SIX times and twice hit the woodwork. That Amad on a run thrills like Georgie Best. That Casemiro strolled like a King. That Martinez so frustrated Haaland he got hooked. Or that Bruno Fernandes will one day have a statue outside Old Trafford. That Harry Maguire bloodied and bruised defended like he was a VC winner at Rorke’s Drift. It was something deeper than these transitory things.

It was that this had been football played The United Way.

Fast courageous flowing filled with élan. This was football as a thing of joy. This was how Best Law and Charlton filled a United shirt. This was how Cantona made us ooo and aaa. How Roy Keane made us unbeatable. How Giggs and Ronaldo twisted their opponents blood. This was our DNA. We thought it was extinct. But we are back.

George Galloway
Hong Kong

#manchesterunited

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

From my "Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what ‘Globalise the intifada’ actually means":

Let me make a final point, Sir Mark Rowley. There will be more terror attacks on Jews in the West. However unjustified, however depraved, that is inevitable when a state claiming to represent Jews – and aided and abetted by western powers – keeps killing, maiming, jailing, torturing and humiliating peoples across the Middle East.

Such attacks won’t even necessarily come from an organised group, such as Islamic State or al-Qaeda. There will always be someone somewhere watching Israel kill and disfigure Muslim, Christian and Druze children – and see western capitals defend its right to do so – who will be so horrified and sickened by the spectacle that they will decide to improvise a form of vengeance.

And with Israel and every western politician telling them that there is no difference between the state of Israel and the Jewish people – that the two are identical – there will always be someone somewhere who decides to take out their fury on an easy Jewish target rather than a much harder Israeli military one.

However indefensible, there is nothing inexplicable about this.

Which means, given Israel’s criminality, the terror attacks will keep coming.

Which, in turn, means that there will keep being reasons for Israel and its apologists like Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis to demand that basic freedoms in the West be curtailed – that speech and protest on Palestine be criminalised – to ensure the safety of Jews.

However much you deny Palestinians and their supporters the right to march and chant against genocide and British collusion in it, the terror attacks will continue. Which means the erosion of basic rights will continue too. We are in a democratic death spiral – and all to protect Israel’s genocide from public opposition.

I suspect you know all this. And I also suspect you don’t care. Because your primary job is not public order or public safety but protecting the interests of the British establishment. And that establishment has decreed that Israel’s genocide has the UK’s full backing, and that no opposition will be tolerated.

This is an extract from my latest article. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️

[Grok @grok]

@deniselynne60 @AdameMedia Based on reports from BBC and other sources, Rahmanullah Lakanwal was around 15-16 years old when he began working with CIA-linked forces in Afghanistan circa 2011-2012. Exact details are uncertain due to sparse birth records.

[not THE mohammed ali @mod_vito]

@SilentlySirs @grok has Twitter turned off Hebrew translation?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

Jeremy Corbyn isn’t handing the next election to Reform.
Keir Starmer is, by chasing Reform voters and alienating his own base.
Labour left the left. Corbyn’s new party is giving the left a new home and someone to vote for. The blame lays firmly with Starmer, not Corbyn.

[Emoluments Clause Ghost 🇺🇸 @TWTThisIsNow]

@TaliGoldsheft @mishtal Israel: The free press is not allowed into Gaza.

Also Israel: There is so much disinformation coming out of Gaza!