A collection of tweets I’ve posted to Twitter @precarity (political tweets) and/or @anargreen (cultural, non-political tweets). The newest are at the top.

  • Anyone discussed the parallels between #TrayvonMartin and #RacialProfiling of #Arab youths? Same fears, same generalizations. @Islamophobia
  • Culture must change at the pace of youth culture.
  • Politics must change at the pace of electronic music.
  • Politics must change at the pace of youth culture.
  • .@chrislhayes is my favourite Lieutenant Commander Data look-alike, and just as logical. #StarTrek #uppers @BrentSpiner
  • Toronto 17: Canada’s first DHS-style entrapment. #cdnpoli
  • My idea of comedy is watching Americans debate how to get out of #Afghanistan.
  • My _every_ morning starts with a chicken’s menstrual by-product.
  • What solution’ll benefit Jewish kids of 500yrs from now? #israel #palestine
  • When you chose to increase population via multiculturalism, u forfeited your option to fight unjust wars. #cdnpoli #uspoli #ukpoli #ozpoli
  • Citizen Kane’s mistake was that he should’ve started wars instead of opera careers. It’d have been more successful. #FoxNews  #NoWarWithIran
  • Travel is like education: You have to finish primary school, before you can tackle high school. Don’t do Kolkata when you’ve not even done Paris! (Posted as: “Travel is like education: You have to finish primary school, before you can tackle high sch. No Kolkata when you’ve not even done Paris!”)
  • It seems that a natural consequence of globalisation is the empire’s terror being imported back home. #cdnpoli #ukpoli #USpoli
  • Travel is like education: Some people go to school, and never learn a thing.
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski says he’s ashamed of GOP candidates. Imagine how their bombed victims are going to feel. #NoWarWithIran #uspoli
  • If US media weren’t foreign agents, they’d ‘ve turned their guns on #banksters, instead of inciting #AIPAC wars. #occupyAIPAC #NoWarWithIran
  • The greatest secret of power is the fact that it has little clue what it is doing. @Wikileaks exposes this.
  • After Pearl Harbor, #AIPAC would’ve pressed US into attacking #Iraq. #NoWarWithIran #Iran #IraqWar
  • If, in Bay of Pigs, Cuba was Israel’s Muslim threat, #AIPAC would’ve pressed US into First Strike. #NoWarWithIran #Iran #occupyAIPAC
  • If, in the Cold War, USSR was Israel’s Muslim threat, #AIPAC would’ve pressed US into First Strike.  #NoWarWithIran #uspoli #occupyAIPAC
  • Goebbelsian: A bankrupt patriot can be riled to lose a leg in a 2nd country for a 3rd country he can’t spot on a map. #NoWarWithIran #AIPAC
  • Goebbelsian: You can wag the public to war over anything. #NoWarWithIran #uspoli #ukpoli #cdnpoli #iran
  • Bibi’s game plan: 1.Israel attacks 2.Obama hesitates 3.Santorum/GOP wins. #NoWarWithIran #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli #USElections
  • #AIPAC2012: Obama gets called up to the headmaster’s office! #NoWarWithIran #OccupyAIPAC
  • #IamProIsrael having 1 person 1 vote for everyone in historic #Palestine, regardless of race/religion/etc. #OccupyAIPAC #AIPAC2012 #1state
  • @ggreenwald ‘Feign concern for Iranians, then sanction/bomb’? Unlike with Iraq, I hope this time they’ll count the dead! #NoWarWithIran
  • At this late a stage, “A Separation” is the only possible antidote to media’s dehumanization of Iranians. #NoWarWithIran #Iran #OccupyAIPAC
  • “A Separation” can be the “If You Love This Planet” of the current nuclear scare #NoWarWithIran #OccupyAIPAC #Iran #uspoli
  • #IamProIsrael is the official hashtag of the #AIPAC2012 Israel-Firsters. #NoWarWithIran #Iran #OccupyAIPAC
  • #IamProIsrael because I enjoyed the 1mil dead Iraqis so much, I want seconds! #NoWarWithIran #OccupyAIPAC #Iran #AIPAC2012
  • As @MJayRosenberg says, light must be shone on #AIPAC. #OWS shows that the national dialog _can_ change. #OccupyAIPAC #NoWarWithIran #Iran
  • @IranLGBT ‘US flag on iran voter shirt’? Wait till his kids get cancer from US Depleted Uranium attacks. #NoWarWithIran http://precarity.org/2012/03/02/millions-of-dead-iranians/
  • ‘The Economist ignores #robocalls’? #cdnpoli is immaterial to the world so long as it remains a mere echo of the most vulgar #uspoli.
  • In 2002 I wrote about 9/11: There wasn’t this level of consensus in the Third Reich. In 2012, about media war on Iran: Ditto! #NoWarWithIran
  • Blow away a leg for Likud! #AIPAC #occupyAIPAC #NoWarWithIran
    Kill a kid for Likud. #AIPAC #occupyAIPAC #NoWarWithIran
    Break up your family for Likud. #AIPAC #occupyAIPAC #NoWarWithIran
    Go bankrupt for Likud. #AIPAC #occupyAIPAC #NoWarWithIran
  • @TomDispatch To a CEO, labor’s the model for evthg: #drones make cars/war, jobs/war get outsourced, & entire nations #Greece get laid off. [This should've read: "To a corp, labor is....." A longer version was, "To the corporate mentality,...."]
  • #RoboCalls Why is anyone surprised by this? James Travers warned you all. Do you need Zaccardelli’s boots again? #cdnpoli
  • US Media, u want war’s ratings? Make a reality show about Afghan war. Embed Snooki! #NoWarWithIran
  • The Iranians are Coming! The Iranians are Coming!’ says the media. #NoWarWithIran
  • Hope this won’t be a surprise: Iran’s Greens will fight Americans. #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
  • @GeorgieBC ‘Canada like Oz wrt US’? 2 colonial outposts clinging to yet another dying empire. Like most immigrants, they’re frozen in time.
  • @GeorgieBC ‘Another election’? u can fill’er up, turn up the heat, play music, but the car isn’t going anywhere sans wheels. #cdnpoli
  • @RickSantorum #IfUSWasControlledBySatan we could be nudists, just like him. #USElections #cdnpoli #uspoli #Santorum #nudist @TheRealRoseanne
  • @RickSantorum #IfUSWasControlledBySatan he wouldn’t tell us to live in guilt. #USElections #cdnpoli #uspoli #Santorum #ukpoli #atheism
  • @RickSantorum #IfUSWasControlledBySatan our parties wouldn’t get busted. #USElections #cdnpoli @gillespeterson ‏@maryannehobbs @TheRealBenjiB
  • @RickSantorum #IfUSWasControlledBySatan we could see a healthy erection on TV, instead of murdering missiles. #USElections #Santorum #uspoli
  • @RickSantorum #IfUSWasControlledBySatan we could see boobs on TV, instead of murder. #USElections #cdnpoli #uspoli #Santorum
  • @RickSantorum #IfUSWasControlledBySatan we could get high w/o fear. #USElections #cdnpoli #uspoli #Santorum
  • @MJayRosenberg ..Then @AlanDersh came for @normfinkelstein, and I said nothing. Then he came for MJ Rosenberg, and I … #NoWarWithIran
  • @AlanDersh @MJayRosenberg is the Bradley #Manning of the Israel First lobby. #NoWarWithIran
  • Iran’s 3x ppl, 2x land vs Iraq. This time, let’s do a better body-count of the sandniggers, shall we? #NoWarWithIran #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
  • @TomDispatch ’71% Americans think Iran has nuke weapon’? Groundhog Day, where a million die each time. #NoWarWithIran
  • If US want regime change, it should’ve ceased sanctions 30yrs ago. Prosperity raises expectations; siege makes conservatives. #NoWarWithIran
  • I think #ChrisHayes aand Rachel #Maddow need to go to graph-and-chart rehab. #uppers
  • @RobertHurst157 In-car insularity leads to road-rage, like Internet surfers flaming from behind the safety of a keyboard. #cycup #bikes
  • If u can’t twist facts enough to give your returning veterans a parade, why twist’em to incite another war! #NoWarWithIran #uspoli #cdnpoli
  • If u can twist facts to make Iran a threat, u can make US troops look victorious. So why not covering Afghanstan w/same zeal? #NoWarWithIran
  • US media is not just seeking ratings! War as video game is one thing; bending over backwards to incite one is another. #NoWarWithIran
  • @corneliagracchi ‘US blood/guts sell, not Congo’s?’ Then why not covering Afghanistan? Go with the war you got! #NoWarWithIran #uspoli
  • @corneliagracchi ‘News thrill’? 1. By that argument, they’d be covering Congo. 2. war isn’t entertainment when it’ll involve your own folks.
  • Why’d a nation, its jobs in ChinaIndia, drowned in card debt, vets from 2 wars, attack a nation that prefers to trade w/it? #NoWarWithIran
  • Goebbelsian: If u can Birther the US pres. 2be a Kenyan, u can turn an amenable #Iran in2 a menace. #NoWarWithIran #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
  • @CarcrossTWD ‘Iran’d not fire a nuke’? Nuke’s a straw man. Given Goebbelsian desire, u can wag the public 2 war over anythng. #NoWarWithIran
  • @corneliagracchi ‘Media pushes war io2 sell ads’? Do they run ads for bombs? Does Bounty target military’s paper-towel needs? #NoWarWithIran
  • John Bolton pushed Iraq; now pushes Iran. #NoWarWithIran
    Bill Krystol pushed Iraq; now pushes Iran. #NoWarWithIran
    Richard Perle pushed the Iraq war; now pushes an Iran war. #NoWarWithIran
    AIPAC pushed the Iraq war; now pushes an Iran war. #NoWarWithIran
    WINEP pushed the Iraq war; now pushes an Iran war. #NoWarWithIran
    Joseph Lieberman pushed the Iraq war; now pushes an Iran war. #NoWarWithIran
    US media is not being misled into war, it is leading the charge. #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar @tparsi @rezamarashi #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    What will Blackwater be named in Iran? #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar @tparsi @rezamarashi #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    Will Qom be Iran’s Fallujah? #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    Vietnam:5mil. Iraq:1+. How many millions’ll die in Iran? 1 thing 4 sure, US doesn’t count the corpses of those it liberates. #NoWarWithIran
    AEI pushed the Iraq war; now pushes an Iran war. #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    US media pushed the Iraq war; now pushes an Iran war. #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    Why would a drowning empire borrow its way into attacking! #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    Why would Iran fire a nuke missile at an Israel so small that it’d kill Palestinians! #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    Why would Iran fire a nuke missile at an Israel that has 200 missiles! #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
    Post-1978, every external threat has strengthened Iran’s government. So will this! #NoWarWithIran #iran #iranwar #ukpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli
  • @Reza84 @blakehounshell Bernard Lewis jack of all trades? Access to Turkish archives makes one an expert on evthg within missile distance.
  • @tparsi @rezamarashi Media repeating Iraq mistakes w/Iran? To deduce ‘error’ from such coverage is not just naive, but a strategic failure.
  • @teymournabili Wash.Post says Iran bought uranium? Was it from Niger? #Iran
  • @inindia @TomDispatch Cops will go the way of bank clerks: ATM’ed out of a job. And us, out of our rights/privacy. #drones #precarity
  • @TomDispatch What u don’t know is that local policing will be done by drones (speed/parking tickets, some non-emgcy calls) for cost-saving.
  • ‘You never know’ is the deductive logic of imbecils.
  • It’s hard to be a male feminist when you’ve been cocking thru half your life!
  • Why would a drowning empire borrow its way into attacking #Iran!
  • I won’t be a part of your revolution if I can’t make fun of it.
  • #Bangkok vs nuclear scientist: Clearly, when it comes to terrorism, #Israel is more competent than #Iran.
  • Zionists treat The Holocaust like a trade mark. #uspoli #cdnpoli #ukpoli
  • Citizens United: If corporations are people, then Mother Nature is more so. They should pay her royalties & reparations. #cdnpoli #ukpoli
  • I won’t be a part of your revolution unless if I can get some!
  • Trickle down: the notion that Democrat win in #USElections helps the rest of the world. Americans are the world’s 1%. #cdnpoli #ukpoli
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms–AKA Tory Toilet Paper! #cdnpoli #OccupyCanada #Khadr
  • Communism’s sales pitch: proletariat, dialectical….
    Capitalism’s sales pitch: Big money, big money, big money!
    #cdnpoli #ukpoli
  • Americans’ emotional attachment to, and conduct around, their flag is almost animistic. It’s flag fetishism. #cdnpoli #ukpoli #realnews
  • United States’ flag: the world’s favourite combustible. #cdnpoli #ukpoli #anarchy #realnews
  • I don’t know if Rachel #Maddow has a partner, but I want to see #ChrisHayes donate sperm to their turkey baster. It’s America’s only hope. (Posted as: Don’t know if Rachel #Maddow has a partner, but IWantToSee #ChrisHayes donate sperm to their turkey baster. It’s America’s only hope.#uppers)
  • Analogous to Israeli colonies, suburbs are “fact-creation” for Global Warming: They counter efforts at a solution.#globalwarming #palestine
  • ‘You never know’ is the analysis of people who never do.
  • Apologists for #imperialism used to measure craniums. Now, ‘culture’ is the racial touchstone.
  • True North has lost its moral compass. # khadr.
  • Whatever happened to the “kinder, gentler nation”! #khadr
  • On the Internet, you’d listen to lots of people you wouldn’t listen to in real life.
  • ‘Civilization’ always arrives with superior fire power.
  • The downside of #democracy is that it gives the impression to idiots that everyone is entitled to an opinion.
  • Pro-US Canadians talk about them with the guarded generosity of one talking to a boss, rather than the candour of one talking to a cousin. [Longer version: Canadians talk about Americans with the guarded generosity of one talking to his boss, rather than the objective candour of one talking to a "cousin" or a friend.]
  • Empires crumble when they begin to believe their own bullshit!
  • As soon as a nation gets lucky on the stage of human history, they find all sorts of lofty justifications for it.
  • Michael Wolff (Vanity Fair): I think at some point, along the way, politics became a subset of the media business.
  • Schooling is child-abuse on a mass scale.
  • The Left ponders all grey areas & concedes all shortcomings. The Right debates to win by any means. The Public listens for only certitude.
  • When the poor die, it’s a news item. When the rich die, it’s a tragedy.
  • @shivmalik1 “No stable home = no community” = no voting = no electoral power. De facto voter-suppression. For the young, the game’s rigged.
  • Workers of the world, unite penis & vagina.
  • If you’re watching _TV_ news, you’re disinformed.
  • #precarity: companies want employees who don’t need training, but who’ve not clued-in enough to know what’s really going on.
  • #precarity: doing unpaid stuff on the Internet, while living on offline part-time income!
  • Service sector: where the lucky get to work, for a while, to service their debts. #precarity.
  • I saw, I conquered, I came.
  • #precarity: Another year, another dollar.
  • #Precarity: In future, everyone will be employed for fifteen minutes.
  • Amnesia makes for a peaceful old-age.
  • Movie theatres: where 90 minutes of my life goes to die.
  • Nobody who over-sleeps ever started a war. It’s morning-people that are the root of the problem.
  • On RT, US officer says, optimistically, that Iraq will be a leader in the region, in 10-20 years. In other words, what it was _before_!
  • Syria: Iraq, Part II. Enter the suicide bombers!
  • Actual quote from BBC Radio, on Spice Girls:”bold, brash, body-on-display feminism”!
  • Rock: if there’s any permutation unexplored, you can always find 4 guys, with a set of used instruments, to exploit it to coitive success.
  • “For the five decades following World War II, a nuclear test shook and irradiated the planet every nine days on average.” Cancer, anyone?
  • Homo sapiens: A bunch of apes not knowing what to do with sentience!
  • Sometimes it feels like everyone on Fox News has either fangs or horns. Or both.
  • Given orange jumpsuits, hoodies and recent US laws, the Iranian revolutionaries could have gotten away with locking up the US embassy staff.
  • How many Iraqis died? A million, give or take a hundred 9/11s.
  • Blogging: much of the work of journalism, with none of the pay!
  • In future, everyone will be vegan for 15 minutes!
  • Don’t like dog-meat restaurants in China? How do you think Hindus feel about your cow-meat restaurants?
  • Gilles Peterson to leave Radio 1. Does he get to keep the record collection?
  • Linguistic peeve: apps work _on_ Linux, not under it! Under the OS, there is only hardware!
  • Good analysis leads to no useful conclusions.
  • In “Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan”, Khan’s ship was called The Reliant–a Chrysler model! “Soft, Corinthian leather”!
  • Ecoli on organics? Is there any food left that doesn’t have shit all over it!
  • A state has no right to exist, people do! 1 person, 1 vote, for everyone in Isreal + West Bank + Gaza.
  • A state has no right to exist, people do! Or Saddam’s and Hitler’s would, too. 1 person, 1 vote, for everyone in Isreal + West Bank + Gaza.
  • I stopped watching Family Guy when the number of things I disliked about it exceeded the number of things I liked.
  • Gay men stay fit because pay-off is guaranteed; whereas for straight men it remains a shot in the dark–if they’re lucky!
  • When the poor die, it’s a news item. When the rich die, it’s a tragedy.
  • What makes a favourite DJ? His musical taste, and ability to read, raise and temper the crowd.
  • To billionaires funding private space-flight: How about fixing the land mine problem, instead?
  • I want to see the bastard child of Chris Rock’s “Bring The Pain”, and Frantz Fanon.
  • Computers are time-sinks.
  • Blackwater mercenaries to train Iraqis who fought 2 wars. What next, sell rice seeds to Indian farmers?
  • Any leather queen would enjoy Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers: Pretty boys, gargantuan muscle men, and no kissing the chick!
  • Melody trumps lyrics, every time!
    Lakme’s The Flower Duet. QED.
  • Westerners don’t even want to give up their incandescent bulbs; you really think they’re gonna give up their suburbs/cars!
  • 2 million raped.
  • 6 million dead.
  • Consumption is a disease.
  • Western economics: the numbers go up, the lot of the people goes down.
  • 40000 dead Pakistanis / 3000 dead in NYC = thirteen 9/11s. The world changed.