Climate Change - Entering a New Phase?

Bill McKibben, amongst others, has recently written about the next stage of climate change, one which we are rapidly entering. This isn't unexpected. It's going to take more, much more, work to even reduce, let alone stop, the steep and rapid progression of climate change. And we aren't at that level of 'work', and perhaps, unfortunately, never will be (says the pessimist in me).

So, Fox and Tucker Carlson have parted company. Upon mutual agreement apparently.
I'm not really surprised as Carlson has grated against the ideology of The Fox narrative for sometime now.

Is it 1984?

TPTB are now prosecuting wrong thought and "unacceptable" speech. Four members of the Africa Socialist Party have been indicted for spreading Russian propaganda...in other words, they are speaking out against the Ukraine proxy war. What about the first amendment? Tucker did a short piece (4 min) about it. Aaron and Katie interview a member of the party.

Then there's the guy who has been convicted with a prison term for posting an anti-Hillary meme. That's why I suggest we've arrived in 1984.

The book is set in 1984 in Oceania, one of three perpetually warring totalitarian states (the other two are Eurasia and Eastasia). Oceania is governed by the all-controlling Party, which has brainwashed the population into unthinking obedience to its leader, Big Brother. The Party has created a propagandistic language known as Newspeak, which is designed to limit free thought and promote the Party’s doctrines. Its words include doublethink (belief in contradictory ideas simultaneously), which is reflected in the Party’s slogans: “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength.” The Party maintains control through the Thought Police and continual surveillance.

Afternoon folks!

We've got piano great Otis Spann this week and a compilation of earlyish Detroit Blues featuring John Lee Hooker, Eddie Kirkland, Eddie Burns and Sylvester Cotton. Following that, on the harmonica we've got a great album by James Harman. Then there's a boatload of blues rock with Foghat, The J. Geils Band and Chris Youlden (formerly of Savoy Brown). After that there's one of my favorite Van Morrison albums, one by piano pounder Marcia Ball and we finish up with a later album by Steeleye Span.

Enjoy!

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

It seems time to contemplate placing one's hope in the courts to moderate a just society to live, work and maintain a government for the people. One of the methods to change government styles around the world in addition to trade, diplomacy, corporations and military conquest.

In 1644 the Manhattan colony in New Netherlands sent a letter to The Hague court complaining of an incompetent governing official assigned by West India Company and requested authority to create a more liberal form of government - a republic. In 1647 the official answer came with a newly appointed leader and four ships of soldiers to enforce the rules. (The Island at the Center of the World, 2004)