USA's War against the Dollar: The Moronic March to Omicron.

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

The Moronic March to Omicron.

UK faces new surge of COVID-19 infections due to Omicron variant ... well, not quite.

That statement reads like one of the headlines this morning in ZME science:

"The Salton Sea is the single greatest ecological disaster to have ever happened in the state."

Both of these items reflect the corpo-speak of the entirely-owned-by-corponationals' news machine, one designed specifically to cater to AS - Artificial Stupidity.

Just as the greatest ecological disaster in the State of California didn't just "happen", but was instead created by human beings, neither is the surge of infections in the UK "due to the Omicron variation," which would only be rampaging in South Africa if it were not for the airline industry. The same industry that spread the initial viral outbreak and every one of those that followed.

The surge in Covid cases in the UK is due to the pretense prevailing throughout the western world that the pandemic is over; so any variant will spread far faster, even if it were less infectious than the original Covid-19 virus, if for no other reason than that the species Homo Sapiens is intent on letting it run amok now; not only taking no precautions, but actually physically assaulting those who insist that they do take them ... but I have seen no "News" outlets mention that glaring difference. Being comfortable at the prospect of wiping out everyone over the age of sixty-five in order to return to "normal" is now normal; so as I said at the beginning of this plague: there is no returning to normal. And the fact that people accept mass infections over curtailing their vacation plans screams that fact, even as we put on our earmuffs to keep the moans of the dying from reaching our ears.

This is important. As South Sudan floods, and Euroland burns down American forests to produce electricity from "renewable" wood pellets (nevermind that it takes a century to "renew" what is torched in the blink of an eye) to keep the coddled comfy, it is imperative that every call to reduce one's carbon footprint fall on deaf ears, and the pandemic has pre-purposed the ears of the entire globe to a comfortable numbness.

The much-ballyhooed Glasgow Copout26 has yet to see its one month anniversary, yet every continent other than Antarctica has made clear its intentions to not only keep burning record amounts of fossil fuels for their own citizens, but, those that have the capacity, are exporting those fuels at a record pace even as supply chains for every other commodity are beset with clogged arteries, stuffed with goods robofactured for a global population whose incomes have been funneled to a billionaire class that has unconscionably amassed a glut of savings so massive it deprives their so-called essential workers the wherewithal to buy even the necessities of life.

Less than a month ago, Boris Johnson proclaimed it was "Time for humanity to grow up on climate change" (an entire generation already has, btw) forgetting about the party held in his own home in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, leading to the query, "How is humanity to 'grow up on climate change' when it can't bring itself to do so in the face of a pandemic?" ... where the casualties are directly attributable to a known virus? The news media, even after rampaging tornadoes ripped through a half dozens states, still must proclaim them as not being attributable to climate change lest they be excoriated for spreading "Fake News." How does that indicate that humanity has grown up the least little bit when it comes to Climate Change?

The stage has been set and the third act is already playing out. The poor of the world will be decimated while the rich nations, those most responsible for the havoc, will absorb more and more power, even as the atmosphere absorbs more and more heat. While Enron Musk absorbs the savings of the public to subsidize the "green machines" he calls Teslas, he uses the profits from the much-subsidized green EV's, a joke in and of itself, to start a company in Texas to build rockets that produce more carbon in one takeoff than entire counties produce in a year, that use machines that are impossible to build without the combustion of more fossil fuel for their specialized alloys and tons of metal than an entire fleet of his own robofactured scam-mobiles, all in order to make Gameboys work better in rural areas. Like crypto currencies, the entire network of satellites fElon is using taxpayer subsidies to hurl into space, are completely non-essential. Like much of the economies of every OECD country, it is considered a good idea because it creates jobs, and because the federal government, most governments, only tax income, the government supports ANY job creation, no matter how deleterious to either the local environment or to the global blanket of CO2 they inevitably thicken, so as to have a revenue stream from labor, even while capital has been given a free pass to fly out of the country and out of the reach of the taxing authorities.

Get my Grift?

Build Back Bigger: A "Green Machine" that weighs in at 10,000 pounds.

None of the what are laughingly called "provisions" of the Green New Deal even attempt to change this dynamic. The growth economy is in fact at the heart of the Green New Deal and exposes it for the fraud it is. If governments can't control capital, and they have capitulated all control over it to the all-knowing Free-for-all Market, then they can't control Capitalism. That should be obvious on the face of it. All they have left themselves as leverage against the mega-corporations that have no one but themselves and their shareholders to consider, is to funnel tax receipts straight from labor right into the coffers of Capitalistic Corporations that then use those funds to pretend they are building back better, but which are instead used to ensure their own future profits, not to bring about the Green Utopia promised. What they do deliver are the mayhem of F5 tornados as a regular feature of our everyday lives ... even in places where tornadoes never were a threat before. There is no stopping insanity such as this. Every disaster leaves the Mega Corporations further insulated, their executives further isolated from the workers they abhor, their profits distributed to an ever-shrinking coterie of what they still like to call investors, but are little more than insider traders, their dividends, as we learned, or should have learned, in 2008, all but government-guaranteed.

Which means that a climate regime that includes temperatures well above the 2 degrees Celsius are also all-but government-guaranteed. And in an investment environment that has already spent borrowed money that uses as collateral assets that are, even in the present, valued well above what they are actually worth, the funds we will need in the future to actually provision ourselves against the Mad Mad Mad Max World the Mega-Corporations and their compliant accessories after the fact, the world's governments, have planned for our future (I used to say, "Well, for your future, I'll be chum by then, buddy" (My own preference is burial at sea), but disastrous climatological events are ramping up so quickly, a direct result of our 40 billion ton annual contribution to them, that my own demise before things get completely out of hand can no longer be assumed) means that nothing will be left to borrow against that can actually support life once the fossil fueled regime has collapsed under the weight of its own internal contradictions.

It seems Joni had it right yet again:

I Wish I had a River.

It's coming on Christmas

They're cutting down trees

Exterminating reindeer

While singing songs of joy and peace

Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But its waters have been diverted

To fill the Salton Sea

Then dammed up and converted

To make Green electricity

Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on