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Capital #Climate Warming

Posted: January 11, 2024 in Frackishima
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When one has little to no life experience in the “real” world, that of the world outside of high school and home life; climate change seems like a no brainer issue. We know what’s wrong. We know what’s causing it. So let’s fix it. Or at least do something of substance about it.

One only needs to spend a minimal amount of time working in first world, developed nations to understand why little to anything gets done about climate change that isn’t performative at best.

The foundation of all developed countries is that of waste and pollution. Capitalism in the late stage form we’re currently living in, demands infinite growth with finite resources. Throw out your old thing and buy this new thing, for every thing, for every one, ever, forever.

There is so much pollution that even the most ardent activists can’t comprehend and would prefer to not think about, for the sake of being able to sleep or have relationships.

That is the scale of the problem. Not that it’s inconceivable, but it is so vast that a human being with emotions and a soul can’t handle taking in a full account of the negatives vs the positives.

How many cargo ships sink, spill, or lose their cargo in the ocean every year? How many of those ships are moving across the ocean every day? Even the ones that don’t spill anything, which is beyond commonplace, how much oil is polluting the ocean just in day to day business?

Now include airplanes. Now include cars. Now buses. Now boats. Now cargo trucks. Now private jets. We haven’t even gotten to non recyclable plastic or styrofoam yet.

We can change all of this. But not you and me. Sorry, too much wealth inequality. This change has to come at the top. Capitalism is the cancer killing the planet. To deny that is to deny the law of gravity. We at the bottom certainly can’t give up, we know that in our bones. But what we also need to know, admit aloud, and talk about publicly is that the narrative of personal responsibility in combating climate change only need apply to those who pull the levers of capitalism. Not our neighbors driving an SUV or using plastic bags at the grocery store.

Humanity is a Never Ending #War

Posted: December 20, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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How many wars have their been since December 2017? That was the last time I wrote about current events/hard news.

How many battles fought using weapons from the United States?

How many bombs dropped?

How many civilians killed?

How much collateral damage?

The more things change the more they stay the same. The people with the currency and the weapons have been the leaders of civilization since the dawn of man.

Always has been, always will be.

It’s all the same, only the names will change.

#Oxfam Enlightens Excess of #Economic Elites

Posted: February 11, 2017 in Excess and Algorithms
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If half of the world has less money than less than ten people, something is either wrong or rigged. There is no middle ground or shade of gray. Either we are living in a world of kings and peasants or we are living in a world where all people are created equal. The very idea that there will always be poverty at a time of mega yachts, vacation homes, million dollar cars, Botox and private islands is to spit in the face of reason.

A very real present day consequence of this growing, institutional, massive wealth disparity is seen in the rise of populism politics in the industrialized world. Brexit, Donald Trump in America, the growing  Made in France movement, and so on. It has finally caught on that globalism doesn’t work for the common man, because it wasn’t designed or put in place by the common man. It was put in place by the elite, to benefit the elite. The manual labor workers of the first world have been forgotten and left behind. Whether on purpose or on accident no longer matters, they have made their voice heard by organizing and getting behind far right political parties and candidates.

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The political consequences of the wave of populism that we are currently in the beginning of, are just now starting to take shape. But politics is just the tip of what is going on. Follow the money, because neither political populism nor big philanthropy will be enough to stem the tide of the rising groups of people with no jobs, no homes, nothing to lose but debt.

They are going to the voting booth for now, protesting in mass on the streets for now. But the history of the world shows that concentrated wealth and power are the planted seeds for rebellion.  And unless the elite share the love as well as their wealth, it is not a question of if but when their favorable debt to liquidity ratio can no longer save them from the ratio of have-nots to haves that are past the point of no return.

Eight men possess more wealth than half the world combined? That doesn’t happen on accident. This has been done on purpose. This is long-term, purposeful, monetary migration. The problem is known. The solution is known. But the money keeps going the same direction, up. These super charged capitalists have certainly skirted some laws to amass their obscene wealth concentration. But nothing skirts Newton’s Third Law of Motion. What goes up, must come down.

#Fukushima + #Robots = Death

Posted: April 9, 2016 in Frackishima
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Robots aren’t radiation proof? Who woulda thunk it? Are humans radiation proof?

I guess we all think we are invisible until death touches our lives in some way.

Fukushima always grabs my attention whether I want it to or not. I just feel that nuclear meltdowns effect us all because we don’t live in a vacuum. I feel like living on a planet with so much irradiated material must in some way have an effect on our lives and our health.

When the radiation is strong enough to kill robots, designed to clean up nuclear waste…well I guess you could say my concerns haven’t quite been put at ease.

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Fukushima is on the other side of the world and no one seems to be panicking about it so why worry? I think people are just not thinking about it, because it is so worrying to think about the ramifications of Fukushima for just half a second.

I suppose that’s a part of life isn’t it? Not thinking about the things that scare us so that we can keep our shit together and keep moving forward on our own path.

There are some issues and events however that warrant the attention of the masses not just the few. I believe both the initial nuclear disaster, as well as the ripple effects in the wake of Fukushima warrant attention and media coverage on par with presidential elections and pro sports.

There is too much of a connection with nuclear accidents and cancer as well as nuclear power sites and cancer for Fukushima to limited to the island country of Japan.

 

 

 

Not to #Drone On About the US #War in #Syria, But…

Posted: October 2, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
10/2/2014

So is the US at war with Syria or what?

This question and the “counter terrorism campaign” that the United States is engaging in with ISIS/ISIL is a teaching lesson for both entire world. The lesson is that the definition of war is different than it was before the year 2000. War is now, predominately, airstrikes and bombings from remote-controlled, unmanned, flying drones.

The reason President Obama and the media have been using the term “boots on the ground” so early and often recently, is because boots on the ground is how most people think of war. People think of war as ground troops, trenches, tanks, hummers and so on. Men fighting men, or person fighting person on the ground with swords, guns, etc is what people envision when a war is being fought since the beginning of time. That is no longer the case, or perhaps a better way to put it is, ground troops are no longer required for America to be at war.

How/Why? Because America’s wars are now fought with drones.

A formal declaration of war is no longer required to go to war. We have learned that over the past half century with America’s involvement with North Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. What we are learning over the past decade is that human soldiers or boots on the ground, are also no longer required to go to war. We now send unmanned, weaponized, flying drones.

But war is war no matter what we or the government may like to call it. 30 dead school children is not a by-product of an airstrike gone awry, it is collateral damage of a war.

We’ve also learned in the last decade that we don’t need a country to go to war with. That’s not liberal sarcasm. Al-Qaeda is not a country and neither is ISIS. Remember in 2001 when George W. Bush declared a “War on Terror”? Well that wasn’t a metaphor. We were at war in Afghanistan before the end of 2001 and by mid 2003 we were at war in Iraq. Under Obama we have been at war in Yemen and Somalia. The difference between Bush and Obama’s wars? Bush’s involved human soldiers, Obama’s involve drones.

So now in addition to our drone wars in Yemen and Somalia, we are carrying out additional drone wars in Syria and Iraq.

Although those drones are physically unmanned aircrafts, they are still piloted by humans via remote control. Did you know that remote control drone operators suffer from post traumatic stress disorder just like ground troops do? Why wouldn’t they? They’re soldiers engaging in the hell that is war.

Let us not be fooled or fool ourselves, America is at war. America is perpetually at war. America is constantly at war. Why? Well there are those in the world that if left unchecked would commit a 9/11 style attack on our country every hour on the hour. That fact can’t be denied. Pandora’s box has been opened in regards to the militarized, religious radicals of the middle east trying to jihad America until the country is nothing more than rubble and ashes. The other reason we are perpetually at war however, is the Military Industrial Complex.

Make not mistake and don’t let yourself be fooled. There are real threats to America’s safety in the world AND the Military Industrial Complex is in the business of keeping America engaged in military action for the same reason McDonald’s wants as many people to eat hamburgers as humanly possible. Drones help keep the body count down, and keeps the money coming in. Until the latter somehow changes, America will always be perpetually at war regardless of the size or severity of any and all threats against us.

 

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