The oligarchy has a face now
No longer is he hiding behind the curtain. The spirit of our genocidal exploitive system of greed and human abuse is out in the open for all to see. Not a pretty picture is it? Obama had it tucked well behind the curtain and everyone loved it.
The reality of Trump's coming administration is so stark that no one can miss it this time. Little is really changing but it is all there for us to see. Long ago the stress between the wages of American and other colonial powers' workers and the exploited world was putting pressure on the oligarchs to globalize and bring it to the lowest common denominator. You have lived through the various ploys used to hide this but now it is naked.
Long ago it was more than obvious that your holiday spending orgy was driving a system that is totally unsustainable. Letting yourself buy at a lower price was your way of telling the planet that you really did not care if the pollution and waste were never included in the price.
We are here now. We have it all in front of us. Guess what? It is too late now. We are going down and it will be faster than anyone thought.
Protest, fight, scream, whatever. You had your chance long ago and you blew it.
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Can I
call you an "Ender"?
I hope that doesn't offend you, as I too am one.
But to say "your holiday spending" and "You had your chance" applies to all. I'm as guilty as all for not recycling decades ago. For not understanding how limited fresh water was. The list goes on and on even for those of us that have learned.
We're all in this together and it's way past time to lay blame. Mother earth and mother nature don't care who did it. But they will see it corrected.
I will not shed a tear for humanity. Yet daily, I stand in awe of all the beautiful creatures that will perish for the folly of humans.
It hurts.
Peace.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
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....Looks to me like the Globalists, and the (International) Oligarchical Elites don't much like the incoming administration.
Trump recently gave a speech where he vowed that "there will be no global government, global currency, or global flag", and that we will finally work to put American interests (economic) first. It would be nice if he were to also formally End the reign of the disastrous "Federal" Reserve Bank Cartel as well, but I don't think that he will go quite that far.
But Trump's focus on terminating the existing TPP, NAFTA, China Trade agreements show here ... that badly needed change is actually on its way (something to look forward to), as well as having a new plan to re-Industrialize our Country once again, and revamp our crumbling Infrastructure. Good things.
So I am not gloomy. Had Hellery Kinton won I would be though. Under Hellery, there would be no change and no hope, and we would be escalating War in Syria (Regime Change) and militarily squaring off directly against Russia. The whole World would be a lit tinderbox ready to explode.
The fact that the entire Mainstream Media (and most of social media too) is fixated on portraying Trump as something ...worse than Dick Cheney was... shows that they are really worried. It is an act of total desperation now. They failed in their institutional power to stop something that has finally come along and is willing to expose to both the myth and the inherent corruption (and tyranny) behind "Globalism". They don't want to hear that. But they just expose themselves by this very public, and dogmatic hatred of Trump.
In the end, Trump may wind up disappointing, or he may be assassinated by this Oligarchy ... but at least he is out there now on the National stage ready to try to bring about a new policy framework, and a new dialog, and stop the endless running tide and sheep-like acceptance of Globalism.
Peace (relatively speaking) and Prosperity. That represents a change. A change I can finally believe in.
It's time to realize, that the Corporate Media has never been our friend. And none of these celebrities, pop-stars, and talk-show hosts out there now crying over the loss of Hillary Clinton?, and portraying Trump as an evil monster have ever recognized that the it is the status-quo system is what is really so evil and corrupt.
So let the dominoes fall down.
Let's revitalize our own Country for once, and wrest it back away from the Global Elites. And I'm going to smile while watching this.
... Mother earth and mother
Just to mention, the murder of the life on Earth - resulting from billions of years of evolution - by greed/power-blinded industrial/military pollution/destruction cannot be 'corrected', even though we perish with it. Once the oxygen production has reached a level too low to support oxygen-dependent life, the cycle is over and the nature that produced and sustained itself and us in an endlessly self-sustainable cycle will have been destroyed forever, in a very brief period of time and by the literally insane greed and ignorance of a relative few. The pathological stupidity of this is stunning.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Methane bomb: I think a rapid, explosive almost, release of
methane from the permafrost and muskeg regions plus even more from the oceans will be the proximal cause for a runaway greenhouse planetary event.
Photosynthesis shuts down at about 103F and that temperature is easily sustained in the corn, wheat, and soy regions of the earth.
Sustained heat is cumulative on mammals. If a person, say, cannot cool down at night, that person can suddenly drop dead.
In the eastern heatwave of 1911, in New York City alone, over 100 draft horses a day died. The Chicago heatwave of 15 or 20 years ago killed 600.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
This ^^^^ is what I have been thinking about. I wonder if
there will be enough methane released to actually set the atmosphere on fire wiping out all life living above ground? If we don't burn to death we'll asphyxiate from lack of oxygen. I wouldn't be surprised, just dead. With the water temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic being so high, I'll bet there won't be any sea ice within the next decade. A friend of mine opened a cabana bar in Miami Beach recently. Think he will literally be under water in no time.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Not a fire hazard
except possibly in small local areas. Not concentrated enough.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Virtually no life on the
Virtually no life on the planet is equipped to breath any amount of methane, and with reduced and reducing oxygen we are, in any event, toast. Probably crispy.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I think this was planned.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I think it's planned to the extent of the de-population
…which is scheduled to begin this century.
I've seen the maps where survivable areas are designated from projections of the warming trends. The tipping points had already come and gone in the 1980s. Earth was re-imagined on these models as a naturally "hot" planet where some naturally temperate zones would appear that can sustain open ecosystems that do just fine. Early on, I would look for these. Climate scientists in Berkeley would pass them around.
One of the reasons the models we discuss now are so filled with doom is that we start from the reality of a massively overpopulated world of 9 billion people, which cannot survived even without climate change. (There are a number of natural catastrophes waiting in the wings that can step up and wipe out complex life as a result of the over-population vulnerability humans created. Planetary warming simply got there first.) Human population reached doomsday levels some time ago. It's systemically engaged now and running on automatic. But there is so much chaos in the fabric of nature, It's impossible to rule out species survival completely. Didi you know that during one massive drought, the Earth's population of humans dropped to fewer than 1,000? Interestingly, the founders of this country were actually aware of the projected model of the warming side effect of over-population. That science was contemporary to them.
I recall the huge land buys oligarchs made in Paraguay, the Bushs were among them. Those massive aquifers are in projected temperate zones for the future. When you get Earth's population down to fewer than a billion, there are possibilities.
For that reason, nothing is done to prepare. In the US, people are not being relocated inland. I've always wondered why people don't move to areas projected to be mild and wet in the worst of the drought. Put down roots while they can. It seems like reverse-lemming behavior.
If this passive extinction is instinctive, however, from some deep biological knowing, I can certainly respect that. If it is denial, then not so much.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
Love it.
Many believe it dropped to less.
That right there is the fallacy. You can't argue with those who believe differently.
Science is only in charge of what happens. Not what people believe.
Great post!
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Didi you know that during one
Early inbreeding potentially explains a lot, doesn't it?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Of course it is planned depopulation
And has been in the works for many decades. Look at how many cities have contaminated water supplies, the bad drugs that get pushed on to the market before they're properly vetted and not removed until after they have killed thousands of people.
The fracking corporations get to contaminate large bodies of water or thousands of people's wells while our government does nothing to make sure what they're doing is safe. Look at how many earthquakes in Arkansas, Oklahoma and the other states where they are fracking.
The list of the essentials that the corporations are contaminating is endless.
Wars are another way to depopulate the earth. Since 1945, 1.3 billion people have been killed by the wars.
Look at the weapons that the USA uses in their war zones.
Bombs with depleted uranium wer left in fallujah and countless other areas that the USA has bombed. What possible reason was there to make bombs with depleted uranium in them except to contaminate the countries they were dropped on.
The birth rates have declined in all of those areas and the birth defects are horrendous.
Obama has pissed away doing anything about climate change during his two terms after that was one of the things he ran on.
The ACA could be another part of the agenda. Look at how many people still can't afford to see a doctor because their premiums and deductibles are too damned high.
Pharmaceutical companies keep raising the prices of the drugs so that people can't afford to buy them.
Finally (or not) in the poor areas around this country the corporations store their poisonous byproducts like the huge piles of the tailings from the Koch brothers in south Chicago and when the wind blows it gets all over people's houses, inside them, on their food and in their lungs.
Most definitely, it's depopulation.
But I disagree that it was hidden during Obama's terms. I saw it coming out of the shadows but with Trump's cabinet picks, it's totally out in the open.
Many of us see it, but most Americans don't, Hillary's supporters or Trump's don't and even if we tell them, we are called stupid libtards.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
"If this passive extinction is instinctive,"
For what it is worth, I've have and have had that nagging feeling about this for a very long time.
I think it's manifest in large cities around the world. Put too many rats in a confined space having to compete for resources -- that takes zero imagination to figure that out.
People in the U.S. arming themselves in great and great numbers. People that ordinarily would have nothing to do with a gun.
Some kind of innate self-destruct mechanism expressing itself. This could be a species survival mechanism in ourselves operating on a level that is difficult to accept much less detect.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
I am glad to see you know what I was saying
…about this. Some concepts are very difficult to express objectively. I am warmed by that.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
You've made me think of a poster I drew in the 5th grade
It was the byproduct created by my anxiety after experiencing the lessons taught my teacher, Mrs. Liptrot. A truly fantastic teacher. She had explained to us the result of over population, large scale pollution of air and water, etc. It was a part of the first Earth Day. The poster I drew depicted a boy (myself I suppose) donning a gas mask and looking out the mess. The drawing was replete with smog, a Concord aircraft flying along, endless rows of empty warehouses, highways gorged with automobile traffic. Mrs. Liptrot allowed me to do this as all of this caused me to become a class room disturbance.
And here we are today, some 40 years or so, later. A population that has more than doubled in the United States and hitting the 7 billion plus global pop as predicted by Mrs. Liptrot. Mrs. Liptrot was an unparalleled grade school teacher.
The world is ending as we know it, whatever your politics are. Though I do believe there will people for many generations to come but in tiny numbers and probably those few will be the remaining the indigenous peoples hopefully ensconced in deep forests.
I will miss J.S. Bach the most.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
I'm not sure...
But it doesn't sound like there's much discussion to suss out after this quote:
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
If we want to change the world ...
we can do it in a hurry by stopping our support of capitalism --
Intellectually we know it's over -- now we have to pull the actual plugs.
We know our MSM is fake news-- sign off from cable TV.
Our planet is in trouble -- even our states are looking at domestication of animals -- animal-eating and dairy-eating and realizing the mess and problems it causes. It also creates a long chain of violence. That change would be healthier for humans and for the planet.
The human self defines itself and grows through love and work -- all psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Maybe the oligarchs will realize their terrible errors
and profusely apologize to us and repatriate all their money from the Caymans and spend it on huge investments in solar and wind energy and education and ensuring the integrity of elections and community banks.
Beware the bullshit factories.
You forgot the /s snark tag.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
I thought the snark tag would make it too obvious
and less funny. Conveying such things in these text boxes is an art I hope to get eventually. 10% of that post is NOT snark.
Beware the bullshit factories.
You forgot to click your heels three times.
This echoes Don's "No longer is he hiding behind the curtain."
So much wishful thinking that
So much wishful thinking that we have the time to fix what is breaking hard and fast, and as Don said, it is likely to become faster than expected, even passing the expectations of the Oligarchs, catching them as well unawares.
We may not go out in a fast Nuclear fire ball, but this song pretty much sums up what has happened, maybe folks can slow things and buy more time, but not sure.
[video:https://youtu.be/N7Fpp2VT5lk]
Many of the tipping points and chances have been let to pass us by. That the Oil Companies had to go and hide information from us all, information that they themselves commissioned regarding climate health of the planet, all so they could stuff their pockets longer. And all of us as well for falling for the consumerism and buying stuff up each sales cycle like this end of year is now in gear to swing us all about.
Thank you Don for bringing this kind of information to the majority of us here.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
This is why
I asked you why you were optimistic the other day. I see nothing changing. Maybe people are waking up(slowly) and trying to effect some kind of change, but will it be enough soon enough?
Yeah, we ALL built this, or at least Allowed it to be built in our names. Sure, people will say 'not Me!' but it don't matter 'cause it still got built.
Can we dismantle this power structure?
Can we do it quick enough to make a difference?
What do we replace it with?
Respect, don, but I can't see it happening.
And I Still enjoy(?) your posts, Sir.
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Thanks for the post Don. I don't believe humanity will wake up
in time to avoid the coming apocalypse. All we can do is try our best as individuals to live a greener life. Mother natures wrath will wipe out the parasitic human race along with all other life sooner rather than later.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
And here I am planting trees, is that a mistake?
And two are arriving this week! Snow expected today, but not more than a few inches. The ground is not yet frozen. And moist, the drought is (temporarily) over here. One, a swamp oak, is not native, but I don't think that matters now. I used to think native plantings only, but fast-adaptation by relocating more southern spp. seems right. Planting wee things in the woods is a scary thought, but what the hell?
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Please keep planting trees
More southern varieties too
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Somewhere I have an old soil map of my 21 acres.
There are at least 4 soil names, all over shale bedrock and not too deep to rock. The zone nearest the road (I am in the middle of a rectangle+triangle lot) is crap soil, water-retentive. Construction uphill from my property opened up an old artesian well, and there is constant movement of water down the hill. The trees slide down hill. And fall, or die and then fall, on my driveway (think butter-side down). Really only suited to understory trees, like hawthorn. Not white pine or white oak. A flat area uphill from that is where the swamp oak will go, once I can clear out some 40' leaners.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
you have 21 acres of land?
wow, are you by yourself to manage that much land? What kind of frui trees, vegetables and nut trees do you have? Some animals too?
Currently deer hunting season, I don't do that
but allow two hunters on my property. Haven't seen deer since the season started. Wild turkeys, also rarely seen. Squirrels, oh yes. My dog has a thing for hating squirrels, she has yet to get one. I am barely managing my property, have not walked to the top line for over a year.
Too shady for apples, and none were planted here. Not a good year for acorns, so not a good winter for deer. I have planted pawpaws (eventually a tropical fruit-bearer) and honeyberry, a relative of blueberries. There are wild, several species of hickory, the not-so edible ones near the house.
I am barely hanging in with land preservation, but all energy goes to that. I have to get a Colorado Blue Spruce in the ground today, the high is going to be near 30F. Spot is picked, "just" dig the hole.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I just purchased a "Garden Anywhere Box"
One of those late nights reading all of the apocalyptic posts, I ordered one online. Woke up the next morning to discover it was a local pickup only deal. So I wrote to cancel but the owners replied that there son would be traveling near my home over the weekend, do I still want one?
So tomorrow I will drive 25 miles to meet this guy in the Walmart parking lot, to pick up my "Garden Anywhere Box."
That is my response to the facts that lay before us.
I think it is good that the oligarchy has a face.
Edit to add ...http://gardenanywherebox.com/
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
The concept seems good.
I compost some in a regular trash can with holes drilled all around. It can be rolled for mixing.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Thanks for the link!
I'll be looking into this further.
Despair is NOT an option!
We need everybody on board
including Trump and Hillary supporters. Maybe shaming them would work because I think they don't realize how ugly they are being. All Americans need to come together and stop hating on each other. Then the initiative would be all ours.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Anybody see
or hear, Trevour Noah on Community Arts and Lectures? He talks about how the Italian opposition finally got Berlesconi(sp?) out. Also, how the world changed tactics and used shame on apartheid S. Africa. The interviewer sounds a little awestruck, but Noah is right on it.
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
This always made me contemplate
are they really trying to get rid of the deplorables en mass.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/200pm-water-cooler-1282016-2.html
“The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves the world’s agricultural heritage” [PRI]. “Inside the vault, rows of shelves hold boxes; each box contains about 400 to 500 seed samples, all in individual packets. Each packet has 500 seeds. Currently, the vault stores about 500 million seeds. Most of these seeds will stay viable for several thousand years. ‘You have to walk down the aisles with some humility, because what you’re seeing is the results of agricultural evolution over the last 15,000 years,’ [founder Cary Fowler] says. ‘It’s essentially a biological history of agriculture. Everything that agriculture can be in the future is represented in that diversity.'” If you believe agriculture wasn’t a terrible mistake. What about wild seeds?
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
If we live and act as if there is hope,
then there may be hope. If we give in to the idea that it is futile to hope, or to work for peace, or to work for a living planet, then we might, in futility, add to the destruction that truly may not have been inevitable.
While there is life, there's
While there is life, there's hope, they say. I'd like to think it true, someday.
Though there are times belief is hard, hope seems an empty, pointless word
we live until we die and hope - propels us on the way.
(A little doggerel told me this, one of the puppies downstairs, while trying to get out of the pen to pee on the carpet, actually.)
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Reminds me of WalMart ads...
The yellow-smiley face sales with prices going from say $1.87 to $1.46... all I could think about seeing those was what was the real cost of that .40$ savings... now we are starting to find out....
Progressive to the bone.