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3 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
We investigated ourselves and found we did not do a war crime.
AP, along with Reuters and AFP, is one of three giant news agencies who form the bulk of western news reporting because outlets which can't do much original reporting run their stories. Their propaganda and malpractice thereby gets spread far and wide:
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5 Nov
Few people get how fucked things are. It's not just that we're facing global disaster on multiple fronts and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it, it's that the public is being propagandized away from even WANTING to do anything about it.
Our abusive systems are so deeply locked in on so many levels that even people who see things kind of clearly can't really grasp how bad it is. They're still like oh okay they we need a new political party or a new voting strategy or whatever, and it just misses how bad it is.
We're so very, very sick and so very, very, VERY far from any kind of shift toward health and you look at what even the most awake people are talking about and it's often vapid sectarian bickering about nonsense that's light years from having any relevance to our current plight.
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4 Nov
Mass Media Hasten To Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike

"So the Pentagon literally did the 'we investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of any wrongdoing' meme, and the mainstream press is passing that off as a real thing."
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"AP was told by their source, a senior defense official, that the report is 'independent', and then they passed that claim on to their readers as though it's an objective fact."
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3 Nov
The review was done by the Air Force Inspector General. How in the fuck is that a "watchdog"? Image
Literally the only time the word "watchdog" appears in the article is in the headline. An AP editor deliberately inserted it to convey this message to the overwhelming majority who only read headlines. Image
apnews.com/article/afghan…
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"It's like if you knew you had a deadly but treatable disease, and not only did you not pursue treatment, you also didn't think about it much and didn't talk about it with anyone."
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"People bicker and argue about global warming and what should be done about it and if it even exists, but climate change is only one of the many ways our biosphere is moving toward death"
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They are. Land-dwelling insects like butterflies, ants and grasshoppers are now half as common as they were 75 years ago.
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1 Nov
The only reason anyone even believes it's possible to colonize space is because cognitive and perceptual biases cause us to assume that the human organism is separate from its ecosystem. It is not. The biosphere is one inseparably unified happening of which humans are part.
We developed these biases of perception out of evolutionary necessity; our recently-evolved prefrontal cortices gave us unprecedented capacity for abstract thought, but it couldn't help us advance our survival unless we thought of ourselves as separate from sabre-toothed cats etc
But really the biosphere isn't made up of separate "things" any more than a tornado or hurricane is. An organism is just a process, a happening, that is in nonstop interplay with the rest of the ecosystem on every level due to its need to eat, breathe, drink etc.
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