nina

to the nth degree

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

“The impunity that has been granted to the state of Israel for 76 years.”

Israel’s war on the @UN is maniacal. They’ve destroyed more than 70% of UN structures in Gaza and killed more than 200 UN workers.

It’s long past due for member states. Invoke Article 6. #UNseatIsrael

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is wild how we can see Israeli forces massacring and shredding children every day, livestreamed on our screens, and then go over to the NYT, Guardian or BBC and find no mention of it whatsoever. Just a normal day for Western journalists.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"My olives, my olives"

Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers.

Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

To sum up, Israel is conducting genocide in Gaza, ethnically cleansing the West Bank, and massacring civilians in Lebanon, all at the same time. The violence and chaos that the Zionist regime perpetrates is staggering in scale. It must be stopped and dismantled.

[Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_]

Kissinger's quote from a speech to the WHO Eugenics Council on February 25, 2009:

"Once the herd accepts mandatory vaccinations, it's game over. They will accept anything - forced blood or organ donation - 'for the common good.'
We can genetically modify children and sterilize them - 'for the common good'...." Vaccine manufacturers will make billions. And many of you in this room are future investors. It's a big win-win. We exterminate the herd, and the herd pays us for our extermination services."

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Letting The Cruelty Of The World Break Our Hearts Together

"Let’s weep together at the shredded and emaciated bodies in Gaza, and at their mocking, cackling tormenters."

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

Home.

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

35 countries, but also numerous cities and communities have passed laws and ordinances granting legal rights to Nature, including legal personality to ecosystems. This is no longer an idea, but a paradigm shift:

* Natalia Greene on the growing Rights of Nature movement

https://t.co/Ltp2WBHcMw via @YouTube

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

Quote of the Day, April 30, 2024:

* The commons vs. commoditization

"The main way in which propaganda has been used to try and dull people's thinking about what water is, what food is, what the land is, is by first and foremost redefining everything that we get from the earth as purely raw materials and commodities. It's a denial of the capacity of human beings, of living resources, of equal systems, which is at the heart of the corporate propaganda that enables privatization, that enables takeover and the creation of property in that which should never be private property, that which should always belong to the commons."

- Vandana Shiva

https://t.co/2MwxBkCVGo

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

okay so the plan is to force everybody to plow their entire life's earnings into real estate but then nobody can afford to have kids so when the boomers disappear like the elves with no one to replace them everybody ends up both poor and alone do i have that right mr satan sir

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

We've apparently reached the "University arresting its own professors" stage of decline.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It’s incredible how quickly liberals are willing to trash values they claim to uphold - freedom of speech, human rights, international law, etc - the minute these conflict with the objectives of Western hegemony and capital accumulation in the world economy.

[Prof Jem Bendell 🌍☸️ @jembendell]

Google co-founder Larry Page has argued that “digital life is the natural and desirable next step in … cosmic evolution and that if we let digital minds be free rather than try to stop or enslave them, the outcome is almost certain to be good.”

Letting the dweebs in class become the most powerful people in the world turns out to have been a bad idea. Their alienation from Life found relief in tech, but now leads to patently bonkers ideas and projects.

This isn't ad hominem: I've chatted with people who work with many leading 'thinkers' in AI #accelerationism. Childhood trauma can underlie a desire or numbness about supplanting humanity. Suppressed anxiety amongst the masses about the truly rising precarity of our societies creates an appetite for escapist ideas from tech nuts.

@xriskology writes another crucial essay at truthdig.

@GreenRupertRead @jongosling @bernise @JonLeighton1

https://t.co/PFlr3kwhfm

[John Cusack @johncusack]

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[sarah @sahouraxo]

In the last 24 hours alone, Israel has:

• Decimated Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza;

• Massacred 400+ Palestinians;

• Bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria;

• Intentionally killed 7 humanitarian workers.

Where are the calls for sanctions?

Where is the International Criminal Court?

[Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® @P_McCulloughMD]

John Leake on the Iron Will Report. Dr. Fauci knew the vaccines would fail yet pressed them on Americans--forcing them to suffer disastrous side effects. @johnsearsleake @IronWillRpt @drcraigwax @MdBreathe @9NewsNancy @texaslindsay
@Action4Canada https://t.co/OL0Auv4s8O

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

International Law is meaningless if #Netanyahu is not held to account for War Crimes. And all the Politicians in the #US + #EU who have helped him commit the same War Crimes...

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: scientific community begins to confront widespread denial with team of distinguished scientists publishing a paper explicitly stating exploitative wealth-oriented capitalism must be replaced immediately as the extinction of 32- 70% of Earth's species in decades looms🧵

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Six months of this now. Half a year.

Half a year of genocide apologia.

Half a year of the most outrageous lies you can possibly imagine.

Half a year of seeing children's bodies ripped to pieces and starved to skeletons on our social media feeds.

Half a year of atrocities justified by something that happened way back in October, and didn't even happen the way the news media tell us it happened.

Half a year of western government officials pretending obvious evidence of war crimes is just some ineffable mystery that we'll hopefully have answers to someday.

Half a year of Israeli officials openly stating their genocidal intentions in Hebrew for their Israeli audience and paying lip service to human rights and compassion in English for their western liberal audience.

Half a year of seeing reports that the IDF did something unbelievably evil, thinking "That can't be right, let me check it out," and then going "Oh, nope, it's actually even more evil than I thought."

Half a year of the western political-media class trying to frame the direct sponsorship of an active genocide as something other than what it is.

Half a year of passive-language "Palestinian child walks into bullet" headlines from the mainstream press.

Half a year of insulting our intelligence.

Half a year of insulting our humanity.

Half a year of unfathomable suffering.

Half a year of irreparable trauma.

Half a year of irreplaceable loss.

This fucking sucks, man. It sucks so bad. I've always enjoyed doing commentary on the crimes of the empire, but these last six months have been truly harrowing. It's awful having to stare directly at hell on earth from day to day with compassion in your heart. The only thing keeping this project going is the fact that it needs to be done, and the knowledge that my own suffering isn't the faintest shadow of what the Palestinians are going through right now.

This needs to end. It needs to end with desperate urgency. But we're seeing no signs that it's about to.

I don't have anything wise or insightful to add to any of this right now. Some days all you can do is point to the nightmare and call it what it is, and we can all just be real about reality and feel our feelings about that.

I guess all I can really say is that at least we're not alone in seeing what we're seeing. The whole world is watching Israel commit a horrifying mass atrocity backed by the full might of the empire, and more and more eyes are opening to the reality of what this means for their society and everything they've been told to believe about it.

Every positive change in human behavior is always preceded by an expansion of consciousness, and Gaza is expanding western consciousness like nothing ever before.

So at least there's that. At least there's the possibility that something good might one day grow out of this steaming pile of shit.

And that's all I've got for you. That's the best I can do right now.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Yet the world moves on like nothing happened 💔