A collection of tweets I’ve posted to Twitter @precarity. The newest are at the top.

• It seems that a natural consequence of globalisation is the empire’s terror being imported back home. #cdnpoli #ukpoli #USpoli
• 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!”)
• Travel is like education: Some people go to school, and never learn a thing.
• I think #ChrisHayes aand Rachel #Maddow need to go to graph-and-chart rehab. #uppers
• ‘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.