Structurally Unsound: Tipping Points in the State of Denial.

 A mere two days after the state of Florida voted to re-elect their own little "Climate Change is a Hoax", aficionado, Marc-o-Lardo Rubio, the diminutive Presidential wanna-be and Trump lackey, a tropical storm that barely reached hurricane status raked the coast of Florida as though it were a Zen garden, demonstrating the Jenga-style condition of the entire Real Estate industry as McMcansions and condos that were built where even a beach house would  have been a gamble, revealed the shifting sand onto which Banks, realtors, and Appraisers conspired to put their seal of approval, but were exposed for money-grubbing charlatans; that is who our "Globalized" economy has left in charge of our most precious commodity: Our Homes.

Tipping Point

Here is the result of a conservative policy, rigidly maintained by Republicans that goes against every instinct and tradition, that used the awesome might of the federal purse to fling itself into a rapid career of Globalization (a term that was never more than a euphemism for Imperialism) for which we possessed neither the material nor moral equipment; sacrificing the principles and practices of liberty and equality by the establishment of militarism and the forcible subjugation of sovereign states for no other reason than to find a home for the speculative investments and the global lies of the Keptocracy. For it was their imperious demand for a place to put their speculative oversavings, with which they flooded the Communist State of China in the last century, that is responsible for the adoption of the Globalization policies that gave rise to such catastrophes as the wholesale building of profits, profits guaranteed by the federal government via various agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie MAC, to name but two, of which you never hear a word about since the crash in 2008, yet whose portfolios are replete with properties such as those you have been watching fall into the ocean. Property which, should those “investing” in the securities that their mortgages are bundled into, and then purchased by federal agencies, would never have been built on such precarious perches were they not guaranteed repayment should their speculation prove, as it has, as disastrous as every non- “Climate Change is a Hoax” businessman knew quite well it would.

 

The rush was on to have a safe place to pile their hoards into to get a return  of the same magnitude they'd gotten used to before the country hit Peak oil in the 70’s. For this and various other reasons the US economy wasn’t delivering to them the returns to which they had become accustomed. This had made future commitments hard to honor in the new environment, so they envisioned China, in which they saw a vast country to play the vast liabilities of the upper classes. But what honor is for a Monarchy, Virtue is for a Republic; so they made vice a virtue and declared untrammeled Greed as good; sneering at any nod to Virtue as Liberal hypocrisy. 

But, Globalization, you see, secures the use of the machinery of the federal government by private interests, mainly capitalists, to obtain for them economic gains  from outside their country, once they are no longer able to realize them within their own borders. This dominance in public policy had an effect upon both expenditure and taxation, the most salient feature of which is the diminishing proportion of the national revenue expended for what used to be regarded as the legitimate and productive purposes of government. Instead, vast sums are spent for naval and military, (always propagandistically referred to as “Defense”) spending, such that, during the Reagan era when unions were being destroyed and federal outlay for social programs cut to the bone, our direct military, naval and Air Force expenditures were increased at an unprecedented pace, all with "borrowed" money, while no war was being waged nor was one even on the horizon; and this feat was accomplished, also so as not to tax the public, making them question the necessity for such an outlandish outlay, but by the raising of vast sums via the sale of the future to the monied interests via the onerous assumption by the entire polity, of high-interest-paying, tax-free, Treasury Bills: a no-risk investment paying stellar returns unavailable to all but the most closely connected insider traders, the best connected of them sitting in the next office, the Vice President and  Ex-CIA director, George Bush, together with his cronies from previous Nixon administrations, including not only Ollie North and his cadre of crooks, but Rumsfeld, Cheney, and the list of Neo-cons who would eventually put their names to the PNAC, outlining the entire GW Bush putsch to imperialist expansion via the “Manifist Destiny” (sic) of the 21’st century, envisioned as the Full-Spectrum Domination by the Soulless Super Power over every other nation on the face of the earth. This is not Globalization, but Imperialism; this is no longer an economic system, but a War Machine; a

Weimar Wehrmacht Enterprises: WWE forever: 

“We are the World."

Although it is right there in front of our noses for all to see, we prefer to ignore the fact that it was under the Neo-Con sway of the major Corponations and the TBTF banking firms that fashioned the Imperious Imperialism whose yoke the poisonous Red Tide of Republicans and Their Blob and his attendant mob, were handed the broad discontent in the polity it needed, as it was they who needed Imperialist adventures, newly dubbed "Globalization" by a fawning press, led by that snarky sniper of sedentary sedition, Paula Krugman. No one was more seduced by Imperialist dreams of plunder more than the Krugmaniac, who knew quite well that the New Imperialism was not only a tool of particular capitalists, such as Enron's Ken Lay and his coterie of crooks, but was also a tool for the complete militarization of the economy that Reagan  had initiated by funneling the largest deficits in the history of the country into the militarization of every aspect of the US economy, while the NSA was deliberately reconfigured via DarpaNet to enable the unwarranted and unsuspected surveillance state that has been dubbed the Deep State by the very REDs who created it ("better Dead than Red" is an old GOP rallying cry before they started adopting every aspect of Soviet totalitarianism those other Reds were well-known for; even going so far in the fifties as to propose legislation to strip any native-born American of their citizenship should they have the temerity to join the Communist Party: that's what they consider Free Speech and "Freedom": their freedom to shut down every one else's opinion). 

Thus was imperialism, in the form of military aggrandizement, become the mode of capitalist expansion planned for and executed while all the while the addled electorate was easily convinced by the star power of the paid shill of the Keptocracy, to undertake such an enormous expenditure of money we did not have was necessary to "fight Communism," while the Red Party conspired to spy on every America household and citizen in a way that Stalin and Hitler could only have dreamt of, meanwhile "Opening China" to the deluge of US FDI dollars used to De-Industrialize the US economy. In other words to bring it back to the stone age. China, eg, was an LDC, low development country, and the stated goal was to make the USA a low developed country, as a mechanism for the billionaire class to dispose profitably of their economic windfall by using the power of the Federal Government to secure for their own particular use the undeveloped economy of foreign countries to use as a risk-free market for their own success, while building an enemy for their future growth via even more militarization, this time of the  entire globe, but more specifically, China. 

 Yesterday Mike Pence, in a CBS interview, stated the maxim that: 'It doesn't take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law;" basically calling out his former boss as the spineless coward he is. Standing with arms folded to block the mad rush of a mob incited to violence by a demagogic ruler takes backbone, something The Blob who would be King, by definition, simply doesn't have. To step aside and relish the destruction wrought by their perfidy when you are the Commander-in-Chief of the country's military is an act of cowardice so profound only that cacophonous crowd of conspiracy theory-addled collaborationist clowns could countenance it. 

Then, the authors of a report published by COPout27 attendees declared that "The (current) global energy crisis sparked by the Russian war in Ukraine clearly shows how dependent the world still is on fossil fuels.” 

If it weren't so pathetic, it would be comical that it takes a War that was begun during the year of the hundredth anniversary of the start of WW1, with nary a reference to the Imperialism that ruled the world then and the Imperialism, dubbed "Globalization," that rules it now, demonstrates the utter fecklesseness of the entire circus of the annual COPout conference roadshows. Yet it is this unquestioned imperialist expansion that has been glossed over by a scurrilous reference to it as a "Global Village," even as we hammer distant outposts of our "Village" with the most advanced weapons of our outsized, deficit-enabled, unaccountable armamentaria that is given their silent approbation by the same hypocrites that simply avert their gaze from the derelicts and homelessness such a policy creates.  

Now to use the word hypocrite in a world whose every government is now so corruption-riddled as to make real governance unrecognizable, I would normally consider too obvious a reality to bother stating; but when the murderous "King" of bone-Saudi Arabia  accuses Europe of hypocrisy on energy and climate policy, it is impossible to ignore. Saudi Arabia is the center of hypocrisy. The land of the "holy" sites of one of the major religions yet has as the only source of its "kingdom's" wealth a cadre of royal assholes who behead anyone not in their liking on trumped-up charges, holds sway over an impoverished population of religiously-addled sheep, (the religious flock ... in other words, not my characterization, but one that they themselves are proud to embrace) eager to be fleeced, half of whom aren't even allowed to pilot the very vehicle that is responsible for the mad accumulation of all that unearthed wealth, a simple ICE machine. Even as "The West" is being held responsible for Climate Change, it is Only Asia that has Trillionaires ... and only that section of it called the "Middle East" has a Keptocracy so entrenched it can concentrate into the hands of but a few potentates such undeserved, unshared Wealth.

A royal flush would not only be the best thing for the polity of Saudi Arabia, but for that of the whole world. Problem is, so much ill-gotten cash has been stuffed into the plumbing of the global economy, that the Plunger Protection Team would be on hand to suck the clog thus created right back out again to spread once again their miasma of privilege to which you will never be made privy. Meanwhile the Climate change is a Hoax, Rubio, who nixed funding for FEMA, will continue to demand more FEMA funds even while clamoring for the cessation of funding for the very  agency disbursing it. That method of piracy has worked so well when done clandestinely by those who have put him in power, that he has utterly forgotten the fact that even in Fox Fake News America, there is an opposition party that still has a smidgen of press coverage to publish such outré hypocrisy as the Cuban catastrophe of the Senate broadcasts; and for no other reason than that his lobbyists, who own him, wish to continue the mindless, but very profitable, expansion of Federally-funded mortgages to people who will continue to build multi-million dollar McMansions right on the beach. Only by continually assuring them that "Climate Change is a Hoax" can such hypocrisy continue. Even before the last remnant of the House of Cards of the construction, mortgage, and insurance industries is swallowed by the waves, the drive to "Return to Normal" is underway; the fact that it will soon enough be under waves providing not the least bit of hesitation, nor the slightest amount of retribution for those who made a killing building them and who now stand in line to make yet another killing as the way is paved for the tragedy to repeat itself, only this time in the form of farce.