Ideas merchant & teacher. Post-growth economics & working class green politics. Democratise, decolonise and decarbonise. Views my own. RTs are not endorsements.
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John Barry retweeted
Why we must severely restrict wealth and dismantle privately run monopolies.
Does the US need Musk’s money? No. Its central bank issues $$$s, not Musk.
But in a few days 360 million citizens will be voting. What’s the point if one man can do this?👇🏻
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvx2…
“Racism appears then , not as an incidental detail, but as a consubstantial part of colonialism. It is the highest expression of the colonial system, and one of the most significant features of the colonist.” P.140
Tonight’s reading : “everything would be perfect if it weren’t for the natives. But the colonialist realizes that without the colonized, the colony would no longer have any meaning. This intolerable contradiction fills him with a rage, a loathing, always ready to be loosed”p.132
John Barry retweeted
In which another BBC journalist ignores the BBC’s own guidelines on misrepresenting government constraints as household constraints.
The govt is never financially constrained; it creates its own fiscal headroom. Spending limits are political.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c65y…
John Barry retweeted
Money is created when government spends. Money is not the problem. The question is what we do with money and for whose benefit. Let's start with renewable energy, insulated homes, rent controls and council houses? Their economics has delivered poverty and billionaires. Enough!
“Next year he actually has to find the money that doesn’t exist.”
“There are things the Government can do that aren’t just about tax.”
Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the 2019 Conservative manifesto and Paul Nowak, TUC General Secretary, discuss the challenge facing Andy Burnham’s government, ahead of next week’s Budget
#Newsnight
John Barry retweeted
Yes tax billionaires- but not because we need their money, but because we don’t want them to have it.
O’Brien is plain wrong - the government fund and create markets - not taxes.
Where do @TaxJusticeUK think tax payers get the money to pay taxes?
#MMT
John Barry retweeted
Be clear what this is: A senior DUP politician wants to collapse the govt cause an extremist Protestant group wasn’t able to parade through a Catholic area in a majority Protestant town.
Supremacist thinking recognised for what it is the world over.
DUP MP @carlalockhart has addressed thousands at a rally in Portadown this evening.
“Profound consequences must mean profound consequences . Michelle O’Neill must go. That’s where I
stand and this lady is not for turning.”
Read more : bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6eq…
John Barry retweeted
A young Israeli (in her British accent):
"We should take it (Gaza) cause god commanded us to take it."
Palestinians should go to "any other Arab country except Jordan, Lebanon & Syria, they're ours....or we'll kill them."
The EU arms them.
And Shitter is offended by Beoga.
John Barry retweeted
If you listen to media commentators they'll tell you the Russians are a threat to our undersea infrastructure.
Meanwhile in the real world:
1. A Ukrainian (CIA linked) blew up EU energy security
2. The Brits are spying on our communications
Facts don't fit the narrative.
John Barry retweeted
Sound familiar? Wall Street is bundling AI data centre debt into bonds and selling it on to pension funds.
When the AI bubble bursts, and it will, guess who's going to be left holding the bag of shit?
#AIBubble
2/3 of the cause of the blue green algae blooms on Lough Neagh is agriculture, this misleading story in the @irish_news would have you believe the major cause is sewerage - which accounts for 25%. deflection from the need to change agricultural practices not impose water charges
John Barry retweeted
The British government creates pounds when it spends; it doesn't fetch them from taxpayers first. That's how the Treasury and Bank of England actually operate. 'Fiscal limits' is a self-imposed rule not a limit on what the state can afford, the only limit is inflation & resources
Not one mention of the #climatecrisis either from PM Burnham or the journalist who wrote this … so we’re left with a piece that addresses the effects and not the causes of the “unexpected events” … as if they ‘just happen’ … banning disposable barbecues all over again
John Barry retweeted
Good long read on how AI is only intensifying the commodification of higher education - dynamics that Mark Fisher pinpointed nearly 20 years ago.
'A drive-thru education fosters AI because it sucks all the satisfaction from learning and from teaching.'
theconversation.com/friday-e…
John Barry retweeted
735 staff applying for voluntary redundancy at Ulster University
Nearly a quarter of the workforce wants out!
You can blame the funding model, but when the exodus is this stark, University leadership cannot dodge the question: how did it get this bad?
timeshighereducation.com/new…
John Barry retweeted
DC! Oct. 30! Come to @busboysandpoets and hear @GabrielRockhill & Aymeric Monville discuss French Theory, from Foucault and Deleuze to the Nietzschean currents behind them, and how it has shaped how the Western left thinks about power, politics, and liberation. Ticket link below!
John Barry retweeted
For all those who still need the lesson:
Resistance to occupation is legal.
Collective punishment is not.
This is the outworking of zionist terrorism, enabled and fully embraced by the west.
Watch | Israeli occupation forces are flattening everything at the entrance to Farsh al-Hawa in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, following this morning’s shooting operation.
Israeli ministers, including war criminal Netanyahu, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, approved the mass demolition of the area as collective punishment for all Palestinians in the area and the city, in response to the shooting.
John Barry retweeted
The British policy of starvation that murdered overall a million Irish people, or the savage repression of our language, culture and religion is NOT part of education 🙃
But for the 0.5% Jewish population, total coverage of German crimes.
Holocaust school lessons to be improved after 'shocking' antisemitism review bbc.in/4i1Woug
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Basic education piece:
Not all Jewish people are Zionists.
Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.
The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.
The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.
Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName
John Barry retweeted
Far-right thugs launch failed attack on SWP meeting in Glasgow
morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
