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The MoA Week in Review – OT 2018-58
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
The SDF is very much in trouble. ISIS is still attacking. There is trouble between the locally recruited Arab footsoldiers of the SDF and the Kurdish command. The U.S. is again bombing but the defense front of the SDF has largely broken down.
The UAE and its mercenaries have renewed a large attack on Hodeidah. Should they capture it they will control all supplies to the Houthi areas. The Saudis and the UAE seem to use the 30 days Trump has given them for maximum gain.
Use as open thread …
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November 7th, Seattle
Today was a rare sunny one for the typical cold monsoon November of Seattle. Violent overnight winds had swept fallen leaves into drifts in doorways and kept away some voters, but up ahead, a Green Guard demonstration was already celebrating their victory with the Initiative 1631 Carbon Tithe passage.
Groups of Green Guard were explaining to passersby the meaning and purpose of the New Energy Revelations, telling people that they would be ‘liberated’ by the Green Revolution. Other Green Guards raced through traffic, distributing leaflets and pasting #NoOil stickers on passing busses. On the sidewalks, the Green Guards led onlookers in chanting slogans denouncing Carbon Capitalism.
Each intersection had Green Guards dressed as wikkans in rainbow-dyed tunics and bright green dyed hemp sneakers. Hang drums and congas throbbed in the chill air, as large banners and posters of Chairman Albertus Gore were paraded through the crosswalks, and at intervals, loudspeakers would howl with revolutionary chants.
Suddenly there was a commotion. A group of Green Guards had grabbed a pretty young woman in uptown clothes, and was pulling and tearing at her, shouting Capitalist Pig! One Green Guard had purloined her purse, found her car keys, then began to scream #NoOil in her face. Other activists threw mud on her clothes and shoes, dancing around her, “Why do you wear leather shoes, pig! Why do you wear foreign clothes, traitor!” The poor young woman pleaded for help but all the onlookers turned away, afraid for themselves.
Almost immediately two Green Guard grabbed a motorcycle stopped at the light, shouting #NoGas and Carbon Traitor! The motorcyclist tried to creep slowly forward as the light changed, but then in an instant, gunned the throttle and dragged the students across the intersection, before crashing into a tip bin.
Enraged Green Guard swarmed across the street and began pelting the motorcycle driver with fists, feet and bricks until his face was a bright red pulp. Then the howling mob began throwing bricks through business plate glass windows, chanting,”What are we fighting for? Chairman Gore!! What are we fighting for? Chairman Gore!!”
As the sun set over the Olympic Mountains on the first day of the New Energy Revelations, pillars of smoke rose from burning vehicles and business storefronts, as the Green Guard in their 10,000s unleashed a howling wave of destruction, and rainbow costumed wikkans dancing in celebration procession behind the carnage.
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I’m transcribing from Mao, pretzel, because you have no conception of what is really happening here, … and what could surely happen. There is nothing about ‘Climate Change’ in Initiative 1631, it’s a pure tithe revenue scheme for the State, County and City drones to engorge their coffers, and impose more draconian rules on their citizens and fatten their pensions.
This is their 3rd attempt at a carbon tax, a Stage 3 cancer. If we don’t stop the Green Charade, and defeat the Third Temple Carbon Tithe and Credit Swindle, none of us will live to see that 1/2° temperature rise by 2030 (they say). We will pay $8.67 a gallon carbon surcharge, be wearing ashcloth and hemp shoes, and praying in midnight masses fora heating oil dispensation, all the symptoms of a Global Carbon Catholic monarchy.
Read Cheng.
Read Soltzhenitzen.
Do you think that won’t happen here!?
It already has!
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 5 2018 0:06 utc | 127
Please bear with me, it takes a short explanation before getting to point, but move past “Tell me something I don’t know” into the awful but seemingly inevitable consequences. And yes I post this knowing that since it doesn’t feature the latest outrage few will bother to read it and much less give it credence – not because they neccessarily disagree with the conclusion, although any responses will be aimed that way in their nit-picking glory, but the reaction will mostly be determined by subjective attitudes to the poster.
From this point of view, I tried.
Growing up on planet earth, even those in rabidly capitalist societies were indoctrinated into the belief that the worst, most cancerous form of organisation is the monopoly.
“Lookit communist states like USSR & China, they have evil repressive governments which are run by monopolies called the Communist Party – evil see – this is why decent amerikans created ‘anti-trust’ legislation”.
That furphy about most monopolies and here I am particularly considering the plethora of state owned enterprises that existed in Aotearoa 50 years ago, is shown up simply because when something is the only game in town, nearly all interested parties join the monopoly, so that with everyone gathered in a single big tent, all sorts of factions and alliances form, making the alleged monopoly a gathering point for diverse ideas and policies many of which do in effect get taken on board. Yes it is slow and fraught with error, but a monopoly can work.
As amerikans have since discovered there is something about much worse than a monopoly to confront. That is the duopoly.
A duopoly once created can make it appear that genuine competition actually exists, but it really thrives when it permits alliances and deals at the peak of the organisation, whilst below that everyone else is indoctrinated into believing that enemy number one is the other arm of the duopoly.
The most easily observable example of this perverse abuse of citizens’ emotional and intellectual resources is the amerikan political duopoly.
In amerika deals are made between the bosses of the democrat party and the bosses of the republican party every day.
This is no longer hidden, it is lauded whilst all of those lower down the structure are exhorted to loathe their opponent – never give em an inch & fight the good fight.
In this way through separation of politically aware amerikans into two separate but largely similar yet intensely partisan structures, no substantive change can ever occur.
For example:
If a dem comes up with a solution to corruption such as term limits an obvious solution to a grave issue, one that requires all amerikans to fight for if a change is to be made, 50% of the citizens who are politically aware will oppose it on principle. Not because it is a bad idea, many rebublicans also see the need for term limits, but because the idea was put forwards by a ‘soldier’ for the enemy and must be dismissed out of hand. The following year a group of republicans may offer the same solution term limits under a different name and the dems who fought for that the year before, will now oppose it because it is a rethug notion and must therefore be ‘bad’.
Aotearoa was once dominated by state owned monopolies which were prevented from indulging in too egregious excess by the political structure, now it is dominated by privately owned duopolies across production, media, retail, services and more. The small scale of the markets means that the usual trick, an unfortunately recent development, brought about by fealty to global entities, of doing what the big fellas do, encourages & enables duopoly within Aotearoa.
In fact the only place we don’t have a duopoly is in politics. This is because a citizen revolt against 1980’s neolib excess forced major changes to the balloting system. Chiefly they are proportional representation and public funding of campaigns. It is far from perfect and the forces pushing for a return to duopoly never cease their striving.
Now I’m not writing this to highlight a truism that many MOA readers will already be aware of – no point in that, but to highlight something else, a set of circumstances where capitalism’s bosses, fully aware of the power of the duopoly are actively resisting such an arrangement from developing between two other nations who could conceivably resist economic imperialism and take control of their resources by developing just such a duopoly.
I am talking about Saudi Arabia and Iran whose combined oil resources could destroy amerikan hegemony if they formed such a duopoly.
I for one, don’t believe amerika is likely to ever get into a direct shooting hot war conflict with Iran. The risk of destroying valuable assets is too great, plus of course the level of antipathy created by such a war would make phase two of the great oil rip-off much more difficult.
The way it is at the moment, by the time KSA’s oil gradually peters out and amerikan citizens’ antipathy to KSA and its more notorious citizens has been carefully nurtured into a hatred verging on the intensity required to crank up a tar and feather mob, the Iranian political leaders who differ in no way from the scum of that ilk existing across our planet, will be positively begging for amerika to cut a deal with Iran. So phase two.
A deal will be cut, but not on the terms which one would expect in a situation where Iran has the only game in town big enough to accommodate amerikan dominated corporations’ greed, but in the same way that a silk encased arsehole tosses a handful of small change to a beggar as the arsehole saunters to the opera.
The easiest way to influence a nation is to interact with it, particularly major economic interaction. This sad reality was taught to the Libyan leadership a few years back.
Once they let the neolibs in, Libya the wealthiest leader in all education, health and anti-poverty indicators across Africa and the ME, was screwed. Libyan oil was good but unfortunately for Libyans, the oil doesn’t exist in sufficiently large quantities to force the pigs to keep the iron fist concealed beneath their velvet glove. “Only the euros would lose out and they needed much comeuppance anyway”, would have been the attitude among the amerikan elite.
If the objective which amerika/israel has for Iran was truly about bringing about a change in Iran’s behaviour vis a vis the zionist state or, anything else that Iran is currently denigrated for, the fastest and easiest way to modify that behavior would be to engage with Iran and then use the wealth generated by Iran to subvert its own political structure. Quick & easy – happens every day in the empire of blood and gold.
Yet this doesn’t happen. Why not?
Because Iran and KSA both selling the same shit to the same greedies would rapidly work out that if they worked together as a duopoly, they could gain the upper hand over amerika’s obese, hubristic and mendacious greedies.
So instead, a decision that one arm of the potential duopoly is favoured has been made, making KSA feel gratitude towards amerikan patronage as the foolish & greedy ‘princes’ luxuriate in remote comfort, insanely believing that this will last forever. As soon as the oil gets low all of KSA’s crimes will be exposed and all the nation’s wealth which is largely held by individual factions of the KSA ‘royal family’ will be confiscated as punishment for alleged ‘crimes against humanity’, crimes which amerika did just enable, they insisted upon them. Any public wealth remaining will be confiscated as ‘fines’. See what happened to Iran after the savaak torturers were tossed out.
By the time this happens the Iranian political structure will be tearing itself apart fighting for the few crumbs left behind after the introduction of amerika’s sanctions and therefore Iran be ripe for the plucking.
I’m wasting energy saying this because there are none so blind as those who refuse to see, but KSA and Iran need to get their acts together and quit being led via the nose by the mob of greedy, duplicitous arseholes who call the shots for the current gang of amerikan thieves.
Yep p1ssin in the wind, but sometimes ya gotta try to point out the coming horror.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Nov 5 2018 0:36 utc | 129
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I just got done responding to a climate scientist on Reddit, whose urgent epistle to the masses was that, of all of the institutions of commerce and government, “only Science deserves their trust.”
My response was simple: There is no scientific basis, whatsoever, for trust in Science! None. Science is amoral, and will research and development whatever those who sign their paychecks tell them to. Napalm, Dr Mengele, Electro Shock, Depleted Uranium, White Phosphorus, NoviChuk, …all from Science.
The climate scientist gave a weak reply, yes, but at least scientists are honest. I could only laugh. Neither Al Gore, nor Bill McKibben, nor James Hansen, nor Michael Mann are scientists. There are politicians, journalists, agency administrators and mathematicians. McKibben calls himself an author, and educator and an environmental scientist! That’s not honesty, that’s self-engrandizement.
40 years ago I traveled through Morrocco and remember distinctly (because I’m a degree-F American) the Sidi Ifni thermometer showing 50C. It made me laugh, because 50 is ‘cold’ in F, but ‘hot’ in C. But then this summer, ‘environmental scientist’ Bill McKibben, the End Times shock jock exponent of Myth of Arrhenius 97% of Climate Scientists, screamed ‘Hottest Temperatures Ever Recorded! 50.2C!!
What a bunko artist, with multiple journalism awards and 18 honorary climate degrees, oh sweet Jesus! 50.2C is 50C under the old mercury thermometers. That’s ZERO warming in 40 years. And as I posted on the 1st, the PacNW winter monsoon blew on the same time, to the day that it did 40 years ago! That confirms, on two places on the earth, in both temperate rainforest and tropical desert, there is no climate change for the past 40 years. Magic CO2!
The reason Michael Mann refuses to release his data set is that data record is thumb-on-the-scaled and skewed. Where 40 years ago 5,000 US towns recorded temperatures, after Bush II, he de-funded most of those rural reporters, and left an urbanized data set! Nobody said nothing! That’s not Science, that’s Bad Statistics. You can’t take a rural temp data set, and compare it to an urban-sprawl skewed data set 40 years later! You can’t claim 50.2C digital temperature is higher than 50C analog temperature! You can’t ignore zero climate change in PacNW and Sahara in your Global Climate Change screed.
Don’t trust Science! Trust Science? Fahhh. Science won’t be running the Gore Carbon Tithe and Credit Scheme, Wall Street and WADC and local government bureaucrats will. Let me share a horror story:
One morning back when the first WA State carbon tax was on the line, I had fired up our Monarch wood stove, a true classic wood cook stove we saved from the farmhouse when we moved to the city. It was a good morning to bake bread and sip coffee and split firewood for winter.
Suddenly there was an urgent pounding on the front door. A bearded Green in hemp sandals started right in on me without any introduction, “HAVE YOU SEEN THE SMOKE FROM YOUR CHIMNEY!?”
I asked who he was, and why he felt it appropriate to lecture me this early in the morning.
“I AM FROM THE PUGET SOUND AIR AUTHORITY AND YOU ARE VIOLATING THE LAW!”
So I calmly reminded this Junior G-Man Scientist (sic) that PSAA had approved the coal strip mine and coal power plant just south of Olympia, had approved four oil refineries, several toxic metal smelters and a big chemical complex. That just made him furious.
“THOSE WERE ALL PERMITTED! WHERE IS YOUR WOOD STOVE PERMIT?”
At that point, I’d had it. “Get … the fuck … off my property.”
And if I1631 passes, you can bet there will be 10,000s of these Junior G-Men in their hemp sandals out issuing citations for Carbon Treason, and #NoOil and #NoGas, then a whole body of judicial law, then penalties, fines and perhaps prison for non-payment of your Carbon Tithe to Olympia, or WADC.
Gore’s Climate Tithe and Credit Scheme has NOTHING to do with Science. It has to do with supra-governmental Third Temple Carbon Catholicism, of the One True Science Given Wisdom, and the genocide of the 3W bought with those Carbon Credits.
Trust no one.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 5 2018 17:08 utc | 169
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