Born ~310 ppmCO2, Engineer, Co-op founder/Dev Worker, SME manager, retired :) 10yr+
#MMTer
Commons, common ownership media sector = essential for human survival
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, whose interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@ArielElyseGold
..which makes Israeli Gov's actions all more heinous & criminal - they *should know* what it means to ethnically cleanse a blockaded Ghetto with lethal & indiscriminate violence.
Yet they do it to Gaza.
& West's mass media/political power monopoly are all criminally complicit.
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@Glenn_Diesen
Lieutenant General Fabio Mini, General of the Corps of the Italian Army and former Chief of Staff of NATO’s Southern Command said much the same thing.
And Western MSM studiously ignored him too...
20 gün önce filistin halkı için ne yapabilirim diye düşündüğümde vardığım sonuç
#israilesevkiyat
ıdurdur çağrısı yapmak olmuştu. sevkiyatın detaylarını araştırınca tüm ihracatçı firmaların ve armatörlerin hiçbir şey olmamış gibi israil sevkiyatlarına devam ettiğini gördüm. bu
@nookyelur
Well, Zionists are using their religion as part of their propaganda onslaught to justify a genocide & ethnic cleansing. It's extremely helpful if Jews do speak out against it.
Perhaps even a moral obligation to denounce Zionist Israel's claims of 'Jewish' (only) lands?
@Jackiew80333500
As Assange said "..all wars begin with media lies.." - 100% true for 🇮🇱 *and* its western backers/arms supplier countries
Mass media elevates politics to power, & it's time we realised that mass media (used to be religion) run by a few rich elites is the primary cause of wars.
@wyattreed13
Western media all know about the nazi militias in Ukraine, in prior reports, but their silence now is deafening as they hand wave away any suggestion of their influence over Kiev.
👇=why a peoples', Commons mass media sector is essential - to prevent people with Psychopathy type personality disorders attaining brutal power over citizens lives their traits cause them to crave.
This the *real crisis* humanity is suffering now (again).
@jamesfoley57
This complete ignorance of Kiev's Nazi run regime reality (since 2014), created by media in lockstep, should ring alarm bells for all.
Far right/nazi politics, & its methods of taking power by propaganda control & politicised 'police'/militia violence growing in many countries.
How our monetary systems/macro economies actually work.... yes, in one tweet, the basic principles you need to know because mainstream media & economists lie & gaslight you (for last ~60+ yrs & counting..)
Post WWII, US imposed the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, a
@Tracking_Power
Mass media control by the few is the biggest problem (for everything now rendering our votes worthless).
Meaningful democracy requires citizens have their own media sector to challenge the powerful - a Commons, excluding all private money. Not hard to do👇
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
Fry is one of the 'antisemitism crisis' liars.
He knew exactly what he was doing and what the consequences would be.
You besmirch your image,
@Humanists_UK
, promoting this sinister liar.
#ItWasAScam
12-year-old Liel Hetzroni was not slain by Hamas. According to testimony by an Israeli eyewitness to the girl’s death, she was killed by an Israeli tank shell alongside several neighbours
Reeves is a fraud
UK Gov issues new £s, free gratis, every time it spends
By defn. as fiat currency issuer, it has no 'money' constraint nor depends on taxes or fake 'borrowing' to spend. Facts
But then, Starmer's whole Labour party is a fraud, as are MSM that put them in
*Economics 101* - my take, as described by
#MMT
1. An 'economy' begins with a *monetary system* - that a Gov creates as a matter of law.
2. In the beginning...
- Gov mandates by law that taxes will be due from the private/non-Gov sector, typically as a % of earnings or asset
@Glenn_Diesen
Many in Washington & Kiev believe their own propaganda, and that attacking Kursk region would strengthen Kiev's negotiating position, and for the US keep the illusion going that Ukraine could win something at least until the Presidential election is over.
@RnaudBertrand
Yes, good piece.
But be in no doubt that in its 'bait & switch' role for the establishment (rich elites) the Guardian will still smear any candidate with antisemitism, come next election time, if they dare to criticise Israel's program of genocide & ethnic cleansing.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Western MSM only peddles propaganda/lies of the de facto ruling elites, & we don't get to 'vote' them out...
A citizens' Commons sector of mass media would rely on our (annual) 'votes' to continue, enabling meaningful democracy itself (for the 1st time)-
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, whose interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@RnaudBertrand
Israel has infected the entire Western media/political class, & we see the results - going same way & by same mechanism as 1930s..
Neuroscientist explains (it's a media induced brain dysfunction, visible in brain scans)
🇮🇱 is what happens when a society is cradle-to-grave 24/7 brainwashed to hate/fear an 'outgroup' (Arabs), blocking brain's empathy response -
- & then creating 🇮🇱 military where they can commit worst crimes of murder & torture with zero legal or moral
Lady your country runs a torture camp in Guantanamo.
Your country dropped the atomic bombs
Your country assassinates civilians in countless wars...
Just save yourself the self adoring embarrassing ignorance
@0Calamity
It's actually about the dynamic of Pathocracy, which feeds on its own propaganda until it reaches critical mass & full blown fascism...as now (US, Ukraine Israel & EU)
👇=why a peoples', Commons mass media sector is essential - to prevent people with Psychopathy type personality disorders attaining brutal power over citizens lives their traits cause them to crave.
This the *real crisis* humanity is suffering now (again).
@alon_mizrahi
Ruling elites often lack empathy or conscience - traits which attract them to power. But they use mass media to legitimise it, & induce it the general population as the inevitable result of 'divide & rule' propaganda.
A neuroscientist explains...
@Jonathan_K_Cook
People like Ungar-Sargon (& her editors/publication owners) wouldn't matter if we had any real diversity in western mass media. Lies need a monopoly to stick, truth doesn't.
Diversity with a citizens' true Commons media sector isn't hard to create👇
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@MannieMighty1
Only Al Jazeera showing reality of Gaza. (Plus some token months late partial reporting from other channels to try counter their growing reputation - much deserved - as US/NATO/EU 'stenographers to power')
But AJE are 100% US/EU Neocon war monger propaganda on Ukraine conflict...
@johncusack
Why these episodes of mass murder by states keep happening... (Spoiler: It's always media/propaganda driven to de-humanise 1st).
Neuroscientist Dr David Eagleman explains how normal 'eusocial' behaviour gets blocked in the brain>
Essential viewing - youtube video of
@davideagleman
on the subject of 'ingroups' & 'outgroups' in human social behaviour, and the vulnerabilty, hard wired (or disconnected) we have to the 'labelling' we're exposed to, especially in propaganda media, & in
@EveryDoctorUK
MPs get away with being paid lobbyists b/c there's only token-for-illusion scrutiny or accountability from mass media. No meaningful democracy exists either, & it won't until the public discourse has meaningful integrity - very easy to implement👇
Never forget Navalny wanted to strip Chechens, Dargins, and all other nations in the Caucasus of their Russian citizenship and compared them to cockroaches and flies.
He was a literal fascist and the shitlibs are crying for him. Scratch a liberal....
@Saltymick
@simonmaginn
All this clearly shows that no meaningful democracy exists, & it won't unless we address the rich elites' mass media monopoly/monoculture which creates Pathocracy👇
@nealerichmond
Varadkar (& Irish Times) need to explain why they support a regime in Kiev whose 'security' officers openly wear WWII Ukrainian Nazi SS Galizien division insignia on their uniforms👇 (SS Galizien massacred 100s of 1000s of Russian & Jewish civilians they considered 'communists')
@docrussjackson
Lewis could have asked Sunak why the £200 was a 'loan' at all, considering UK Gov issues £s at zero cost to anyone? (Claiming otherwise is a fraud upon the public.)
Sunak clearly has no 'inflation' concern from his spending plan, taking 5yrs to remove the £200 from circulation.
@RnaudBertrand
IME, many Irish 'National' (to age 13) schools, especially the many small rural schools, are not too far off what's being described in the article.
Part of why I think Irish people have retained their normal human empathy far more than other countries (cheering war/genocide etc.)
@alon_mizrahi
Empathy is driven out of rich-media-political class in a self reinforcing feedback loop of their mass media monopoly/monoculture control as a result of 1000s yrs of 'divide & rule' strategy, which becomes 'dehumanise & kill'. Neuroscience explains👇..1/2..
@RealScottRitter
'Free Speech' is useless without *reach* - that's why we're all in this psychopath led mess in the West's fake 'democracies'. (Same MO in 1930s)
Nothing can change until citizens get a sector of media they control, not 'money' - a Commons. Not hard to do-
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, whose interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@NileGardiner
Unlike Nile Gardiner, I actually am an expert on Israel-Palestine, reporting from there daily for over 20 years.
I can confidently say: You don't need to be a 'foreign policy analyst' to understand that bombing children is wrong. You need to be a thinking, feeling human being
"..Arrest rate at ‘openly criminal’ Palestine protests is lower than Glastonbury [Festival]
Braverman’s call for ‘hate marches’ to be banned comes as data shows scant evidence of alleged wrongdoing.."
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Please stop saying 'taxpayers money' - it's not how UK£ system works. Gov spending issues new £s, taxes later delete some, and the two sums don't ever need to balance. Facts, not 'opinion'
It's *citizens' money* the BBC is abusing, or *public money* when it directly funds things.
@CensoredMen
Great idea 👍 ... except the $$s don't matter - US Gov creates new $$s from nothing every time it spends. (Taxes just delete $$) Facts.
But US military is a massive user of 'real resources', labour & materials which could (& should) be used for more useful social purposes.
@muhammadshehad2
Very possible some of these actions are carried out by agents provocateur - they can't be attributed without investigations presenting evidence of perpetrators & motive. We *do know* that every mass demo to stop Israel bombing Gaza has included & welcomed large numbers of Jews in
Excellent 9 mins interview from 2019, of MMT founder Warren Mosler, summarising most of MMT's key implications for economic policy. Essential viewing :)
@CharlesMichel
There's no 'democracy' anyway when rich elites control mass media, & the political duopoly of fake 'opposition', as in the West.
Putin's integrity, & what Russian's can see for themselves, means he has genuine legitimacy to lead that no Western leader/grifter can match. Reality.
@alon_mizrahi
"Germany has...ended all freedom of speech on Palestine, banning conferences...making pro-Palestinian speech illegal. Germany has intervened on Israel’s side in the [ICJ] genocide case....and at the ICC to object to an arrest warrant against Netanyahu."
🇺🇸🇮🇱 etc now have no empathy>
'Pathocracy' increases its grip in self-reinforcing feedback loop over time between media & politics, if control over mass media becomes too concentrated (as it has now).
Clear mechanism for this in Psychology & Neuroscience🧵>
👇=why a peoples', Commons mass media sector is essential - to prevent people with Psychopathy type personality disorders attaining brutal power over citizens lives their traits cause them to crave.
This the *real crisis* humanity is suffering now (again).
#MMT
founder
@wbmosler
uploaded video of his-
'How to Deep Six/Bin Off the Financial Sector' talk from the Leeds MMT Conf. last month. (26mins)
Love these proposals🎯
Most of Fin Sector is a total waste of 'real resources' & detrimental to real economy.
Israeli-British Oxford University Professor, Avi Shlaim, speaking at
@ICJPalestine
on October 30th 2023:
"Anti-Semitism is a very ugly thing and can never be justified. Most of the anti-Zionist statements that I've come across are reasonable, evidence-based and legitimate. The
@johncusack
We get the politics mass media elevates to power.
You can see yourself now where this leads when a mere few rich elites gain monopoly control over mass media.
Media needs to be diversified & democratised, or politics will only get worse. Not hard to do👇
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
Essential viewing - youtube video of
@davideagleman
on the subject of 'ingroups' & 'outgroups' in human social behaviour, and the vulnerabilty, hard wired (or disconnected) we have to the 'labelling' we're exposed to, especially in propaganda media, & in
@Jingjing_Li
@JohnRoss43
Anyone who watched UK 2019GE & saw Corbyn smeared in unison by the entire mass media billionaire/millionaire class & establishment knows no 'democracy' exists in Britain. BBC, Guardian & Ch4 probably the worst of all in platforming baseless smears.
No media diversity=no democracy
Listen to Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté as he speaks about Palestine.
Send this video to every person with the 🇮🇱 in their bio when they JUMP into your mentions to call you antiSemitic.
Send it to every politician who’s silent or worse support Israel
@RnaudBertrand
1st paragraph 🎯👍
2nd paragraph... not so much. A lot of populations in the West *are* still 'fooled' by the 'procedural vision' of 'democracy' (by mass media) into believing it functions in majority citizens' interests as much as reasonably possible.
@Am_Aalou
@kennardmatt
..since Julian been in custody since well before Brexit, the jurisdiction may arguably come under the European Court of Justice (ECJ), as highest authority.
Appeal to ECJ likely free Assange, & carry weight if French Gov led the legal challenge, ie French give asylum to Assange?
@medialens
We get 'standards' of 'journalism' - now mere stenography to power - that rich elites' monopoly over mass media control delivers...& their politics.
Time the ~90+ or ordinary citizens get a voice they control, not 'money' - eg. a Commons sector. Not hard👇
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@SomethingVintag
Yes, but we need a process to do that, which will take time for institutions of society to get functioning again, likely with constitutional changes. And we need it to happen as democratically as possible. Hence imo, setting up a new Commons, Common Ownership (only) media sector
Israel's Public Diplomacy Minister:
"Erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth. That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence & try to enter Egyptian territory or they will die & their death will be evil.
Gaza should be erased!"
Still questioning a genocidal intent?
They begin this 'documentary' by repeating Israel's Oct7th propaganda narrative.
No surprise. They joined the Corbyn AS smear etc. (
#ItWasAScam
& still is, in all m/stream media channels)
@CraigMurrayOrg
🎯💯 ..and the 1st step in the people 'taking back their country' needs to be addition of a new peoples' mass media sector, controlled only by citizens - Commons, Common Ownership structured. Not hard to do for our currency issuer Govs👇Rest easily follows
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
At a time of existential climate & ecological emergency, Ukraine's US backed nazi regime is an obscenity on the face of humanity.
And so is the US.
#EnoughIsEnough
No one should have anything to with either of them.
"
#Ukraine
Army flooded the coal mines on their side of the line creating an eco-disaster. Most of the mines can't be reclaimed, poisoning the water supply.
This could result in sinkholes forming under cities and neighborhoods collapsing."
George Eliason
#Donbass
@gheliason
@DefenceU
; regarding the Tochka-U fired at the train station: get the serial number of the missile off the debris. Provide a list of all Tochka-U’s in your inventory by serial number. Prove that missile was never in your inventory. But you can’t, because it was.
Guilty.
We must retain our experienced international doctors who worked tirelessly providing care in this pandemic. I'm calling on
@DonnellyStephen
to speed up their visas and offer them equal supports for training. Sign petition-
#FastAccessStamp4
via
@UpliftIRL
This is 100% economics/monetary system illiterate drivel.
US Gov is issuer of its currency, USD, free gratis (in every act of Federal spending.
The fake 'debt' is merely the net $ assets held in the Non-Gov sector which have not been extinguished by Federal taxes. The 'debt' can
The biggest threat to the world is not China, but $31.4 trillion US debt.
US bonds price will crash inevitably and nuke many countries' economies.
Hundreds of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in pensions will disappear.
Why wouldn't Kissinger ask China to help?
#2
/10
@edballs
@Freedland
"Moral absolutes" as in not slaughtering people, observing the Geneva Convention?
Once people understand politics attracts personality disorders at a high rate, understand sociopathic traits and what a Pathocracy is, your kind will be kept from power.
@theAliceRoberts
You could enquire how they view BBC 'impartiality' in their respective coverage of Yemen, or Palestine, where daily State lethal violence reigns upon citizens, compared to, oh.... say, Ukraine? Or the Donbass region of Ukraine, since 2014. You know, as a 'for example' case study?
@alon_mizrahi
".. a culture without accountability is our disaster.." 🎯
Yes. Over time, what little accountability there was in western mass media has fully disappeared - it's now in 100% a self-reinforcing monoculture loop with the mainstream politics of a Pathocracy.
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@CraigMurrayOrg
All of this should tell you & friends that what rich ruling elites of our fake 'democracies' fear most is losing their ~monopoly control of mass media.
Soo.. the *one* thing you should all be talking about is establishing a section of media under citizens
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, whose interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
@caitoz
We get the politics (& CIA, MI6 etc.) that rich elites' mass media monopoly elevates to power. No meaningful 'democracy' exists in the West anywhere. Won't change until citizens get a media sector they control, not 'money' - a Commons.
Not hard to do-
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of
My very brief comments on CGTN Africa about the Tunisian government requesting direct financing from the Tunisian Central Bank. I will post more on this soon. Take a listen
#MMT
Translation:
Labour will -
-continue running the economy with high unemployment to keep workers' wages & conditions down on behalf of capital owner class.
-continue the neoliberal fraud that UK Gov, as issuer of £s free gratis, needs taxes or (fake) 'borrowing' to spend.
👇=why a peoples', Commons mass media sector is essential - to prevent people with Psychopathy type personality disorders attaining brutal power over citizens lives their traits cause them to crave.
This the *real crisis* humanity is suffering now (again).
@alon_mizrahi
"Every war is a result of media lies..."- Julian Assange.
Neuroscientist Dr David Eagleman agrees👇
Thing is, the wealthy/ruling elites are affected their own propaganda even more that the masses. And in a self-reinforcing feedback loop >>war crimes, =🇮🇱🇺🇸
Never forget Navalny wanted to strip Chechens, Dargins, and all other nations in the Caucasus of their Russian citizenship and compared them to cockroaches and flies.
He was a literal fascist and the shitlibs are crying for him. Scratch a liberal....
Yes, 💯. The labour class masses of the world owe the Palestinians a huge debt - it might even save our species, IF we can now clear the psychopaths out of West's media/political nexus.
"..6. It was never clearer that Western establishments work not for Western people, but for
@CraigMurrayOrg
For those who don't understand why State finances are not remotely like household/business finances (& still swallow the factually fraudulent MSM economics narrative)...
@PeterCronau
"..Hamas certainly killed hundreds of Israeli civilians in the Oct 7 attack.."
No, it's no at all clear that's what happened. It IS clear that Hamas' forces primarily attacked military/police bases, & Israeli tanks & helicopters fired indiscriminately.
Crap 'journalism' to keep
@BlackJewishA
@ecomarxi
Yes, Zionism is a form of racist fascism, like 1930s Italy & Germany etc. (& Kiev's post coup regime also)
Always the same MO - power won & maintained by violence & intimidation of street militias, themselves driven by hate speech propaganda control of mass media.
As Assange
@berningman16
Don't be silly, Trump will let Neocons/CIA etc. do whatever they like, as he did in his last term.
Trump's only there for the cash & ego.
btw here is one of the genocidal Nazi videos Navalny made where he compares Muslims to cockroaches and shoots them. It's actually much worse than is described in that Financial Times piece:
@CraigMurrayOrg
That's a terrible decision Craig. This GE is much bigger than Blackburn, & the local candidate's people should see that. You'd be as good as anyone at raising local issues too.
@EamonRyan
@UN
@irishmissionun
Wake up Ryan - nothing is going to change unless self serving rich elites' monopoly over mass media ends. It's not hard to do👇
@DavidVeevers1
If we don't learn this time that all western mass media is a state-corporate propaganda op, & the primary cause of all humanity's wars & planet wrecking...and *do something* about it... will we ever?
Paradigm change isn't difficult👇
Mass media is always going to be biased. The question is, who's interests are being served by those who own & deliver it?
The oppositional economic interests of labour class vs capital owner class* (~90% vs ~10% of pop.) serves as excellent proxy for most all divisions of