we haven't been dying fast enough

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Their depopulation methods really suck. We need to hurry with a better way to accomplish this without cruelty and harm or there will be no avoiding a bad end.

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love, 99
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greed

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I admire goldfish. They don't grow bigger than their tank or their pond will support. They get just as fat as is comfortable and no fatter. Their lives enhance the aquasystem in which they live. In fact, did you know that you can have a fish tank that never needs cleaning if you but put some goldfish, some freshwater snails and some water plants in it? Never goes stagnant or dirty. Stays healthy by itself. Outdoors it might be optimal to have some mosquito fish... well, and maybe some toxin-impervious snails... times being as they are... but these critters do not proliferate beyond the perfect balance, do not bloat to the point where there has to be a massive die-off for anything to survive.

I have been screaming about population control since I was a teenager. Legions believe that is a sin, an offense against life the size of Jupiter, but NEVER can answer the balance problem with anything nicer than wholesale slaughter or starvation.

Fucking hell.

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love, 99
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someone dared call alex jones a liar

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I can't believe it.

So, no matter what, even if Jones is being hysterical, you can't trust the Rhodes Scholar at Wired. Nossir. I'm serious. He called Alex Jones a liar. Whatever else he is, he is NOT a liar.

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9/11 guy going all hypothetical about everything

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I started listening because it was involving the Norway Spiral, and his 9/11 video. I probably wouldn't bother continuing to listen, since the guy's just blathering theories without having done any kind of work to support them, except that he's an example of an ordinarily bright guy having opinions and theories about everything. The man doing the interviewing is trying to educate him while being perfectly pleasant....

But the MAIN reason to bother is his notion of What are they going to do with all these millions of people walking around without a brain anymore? sounded too much like right this very now. Guillotines! Brilliant!

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realism abounds politics

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Something must be mentioned. The stock response to me from "activists" when I mention that they are not active, or when I mention that they are dwelling on completely beside-the-point folderol, or when I mention that we do not have decades, generations, to fix this stuff, is that there are political realities that simply cannot be ignored, that whether I like it or not, my idealism is only maniacal because these political realities ARE reality, that "realists" put their noses to the grindstone and never look up until the job is finally done.

This is COMPLETE horseshit.

And they can get away with saying it to me because there is so much agreement on this, a consensus, a veritable infinitude of citations from impressive named sources to bludgeon me with.

THEY ARE WRONG.

Reality does not give a fig for consensus. Oblivious to this fact, the culture wars are purely humans warring over what is most pleasing to CALL reality, to agree is reality, even if there's a huge population that doesn't agree. Once it is settled one way or the other, we can call the losing camp all kinds of names, completely secure in the idea that they are lesser beings for holding outlier views, while continuing to be vexed by how this did not solve the original problems. And once it is seen these original problems were not solved, the pendulum of public opinion is quite likely to devolve into some form of what we would by then have agreed was nothing more than brute ignorance out of which we thought we had already so manfully struggled. Demoralized thus, we will wonder again if wars are human nature, if racism is human nature, if feudalism isn't after all the only way humans can organize themselves... all sorts of things.

It isn't going to occur to us that we continue to have these lethal problems because we NEVER deal with the real... ONLY with establishing a ruling consensus that we find agreeable.

In one of my fabled vacations from legalese I was an innkeeper. I ran a very fancy bed and breakfast inn for an absent owner. He was, alas, not absent enough. He would show up fairly regularly because he had a girlfriend near the inn. This woman was a twit, a fairly attractive one. She thought very highly of herself, confessed to me once that she had fantasies of having a best friend servant who worshipped the ground she walked on. Her ideas about how to make this fancy inn cuter made me want to puke, but she would articulate these ideas to her boyfriend, who wished to be as accommodating as possible. Never mind that his contract with me stated that I was in charge. He would wheedle constantly for gewgahs his girlfriend was dreaming up. I developed such a hatred for her it's a wonder she's still alive.

It struck me some weeks into this roiling hatred that there was no reason on earth that such an idiot should merit this much loathing from me. WHAT was my problem that I was so obsessed by it that I could rarely even speak of something else, and even could rarely ever dream of anything else? I stepped outside myself to have a look.

She was not the problem. He was. It was completely unacceptable to me to be that angry with him because that meant I could no longer work for him. So I'd transferred all that feeling over onto her, a far safer to my happy position object for my ire.

Of course, upon seeing this, it meant I had to quit. It meant I would not keep living in my blissful situation and doing something I really enjoyed, spending a great deal of my time so angry and full of hate that it would peel off my freckles. It meant that I had preëmpted living a quantum of wasted years thinking up ways to call whatever deserved decapitating the owner by some more acceptable name... like calling them his girlfriend's bottomlessly perfidious tricks... or, I'm sure, a whole cosmos of other excuses. Instead, I just left. I realized my idyl would never truly be any such thing and the best I could ever do was to keep repainting it as one, wasting my life and talents on CALLING reality something else.

Take the immigration wars. The right is righteously angry about this huge influx of people and all the social costs, and the left is righteously angry about the right's xenophobia, and generally wanting to treat the starving hordes pouring in something akin to how we treat stray dogs. The ire is always pointed either at the immigrants themselves or at those in the opposing political camp. The ENTIRETY of the problem lies with the plutocrats starving them out at home, and exploiting them here, but NONE of us ever do ANYTHING to fix that. Fucking with those guys can make one VERY sorry. So we pick on someone more our own size. WE DON'T DEAL WITH THE REAL. We figure out what is safer and can seem to address the problem, and then throw all our weight behind THAT... just CALLING it dealing with the immigration problem.

At the image link is a discussion that shows the weakness of the IPCC, the mistakes, the wobbly basis for what is the most solid science we have... and it puts on display this human tendency to shift attention from the actual to a less threatening to our comfort theoretical basis over which to fight to the not actual death. [Ignoring, of course, that there may be no way our deaths from this won't be actual this time....]

It is true that climate science can only give us best guesses. It is true that what we fear might not actually happen, that some mechanism of which we are still ignorant might kick in and save the day. It is true that we don't 100% know, and even truer that the whole thing has been turned into something that cannot be settled lucidly since it is not lucid now.

The big boys, the plutocrats, the apocalyptically powerful do not want to lose the cash cows that would have to be killed in order to act in accord with what our science tells us. What in the hell would make them deny this stuff? If nothing else, it is already abundantly clear that we have turned our planet into a sewer and living things are being harmed by it egregiously. We wonder how in the hell they could ignore this, ignore that their kids will sicken and die from it exactly as ours will. Being as how I know these guys are NOT as stupid as to ignore the threat to their own existence, I'm pretty sure the truth is something akin to my original sardonic take on it... that they plan to obviate the climate catastrophe—which might only be the manmade toxicity catastrophe—by drastic population reduction. Do the math. That keeps them in the driver's seat, makes the world more livable AND leaves them in control. Game. Set. Match.

THEY are dealing with the real.

WE are finding ways to fight them that are safer than fighting them... which... by the way... is Obama's approach to "fighting" them on our behalf... and they heavily approve of this. They also heavily approve all media outlets—INCLUDING BLOGS—SNAP THE FUCK OUT OF IT—that keep the polemics and the distractions front and center. You are SO unlikely to wake up from it and point your ire at the true problem, move with the speed and accuracy that is mandatory to save the whole world, as long as you're so heavily engaged in the culture wars and the prurient interest distractions are coming so hard and fast that it is kaleidoscopic.

You are showing them that you will stay safely on your consensual acid trip, sparing yourself the exposure of dispositive action—the kind of stuff likely to get them REALLY mad—and their approach to averting the mass extinction event will be the dispositive action that really IS mandatory to a healthy planet with any people on it.

If you can't tear yourself away from yourself long enough to see this, then their solution truly is the best one open to us, and it will, IN FACT, be a good—albeit extremely unfair, extremely harsh—thing.

Chew on that.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

The most perfidious fucks ever born might actually save Planet Earth because you're too self-absorbed, too obsessed with safer polemics, to get it done. They have taken this to the bank, and it has made them fabulously wealthy. I don't care what your EXCUSE is. Even if it's perfect, even if it's the most understandable and even laudable excuse ever conceived, it's an excuse.

And it is insufficient in the face of reality.

In fact, this is SO ultimately irrefutable, this explains how they can all still consider themselves good people while so cruelly treating their brothers and sisters. THEY don't want to think of this global herd of clever but useless consensual hallucination junkies and abjectly destitute progenitors of mud cookie eaters as kin. In a sense, that isn't even nice. If none of us can rise up out of the herd to FORCE kinder solutions, theirs is cosmically, if not karmically, beautiful.

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[Completely ON topic: The straight answer is they are raising their rates so outrageously to force the vote to mandate healthcare insurance. This makes pressure to pass it, even if it's wrong, and it IS, much more intense, AND signals what they can do to any bill that tries to put in any competition or any other impediments to maximum profitability. I mean... duh... and don't think for a moment Obama needs straight answers. He knows them all by heart.]
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i'm beginning to think wwiii is the only way

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Do not mistake that for me wishing it upon us, but I don't think certain of our more intractable problems will ever be solved without it. Just... uhm... whoever wins... please get on the climate thing... or make sure a minimum of two thirds of us are dead.

Thank you.
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how many?

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Must watch documentary.
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General Information:

The good old html search button gizzy here has been working for shit for quite a while. It seems this is because Blogger has given us a new search widget, which also, thus far, works for shit, but, going off the premise that it is new and they will be hassled to improve it, fix the frickin' code, whatever, I replaced the search mechanism for this blog. It quite probably will end up working really well. A few weeks ago I added what they call a "label cloud" to the bottom of the page. So these changes improve your chances of retracing your steps, or investigating the history, of this blog.

If you think it irritates you, just THINK how it is for ME when trying to link back to prior posts I know damn well are back there... somewhere. I have a little list of things of my own I hope to stumble upon again myself....

I am sorry that my way of blogging things does not lend itself to searching and finding stuff very well. Part of me wants to get obsessive about helping you find again stuff that you found here to begin with and want to revisit, but the part of me that does not want to coöperate with strictly popularity-enhancing protocols bucks and bucks and bucks. I am not doing this for popularity. Yes, I could look at it that what I bring up is frequently important for EVERYONE to know and there is a pat bodhisattva rationalization for making sure all my post titles contain key search terms, being conventionally precise with my labels... yadda yadda yadda... but I remain a staunch believer in the workings of karma. Not personal karma. Cosmic karma. YOUR karma. So people who should stumble upon me will, and if they want to alert friends and other denizens of the tubes, they bloody well will. If they don't, they won't.

I had started to cede some of this basic outlook to the needs of my fellow bloggers to be raised in the estimation of certain stats mechanisms, popularity gauges, being as how so many were so concerned with them, but NONE of the services for this sort of thing are the least reliable. You get different measures from each of them—wildly different—they are there for the sole purpose of generating ad revenue off bloggers' ego problems, contribute to the dread human propensity for group think, and they are monstrously repellent to me. So. I'm sorry if I test your patience with this stubbornness.

And, something everyone ought to know, sidebar links to other blogs do not count toward their popularity anymore. They only did less than half the time before, because we had to have our feeds set to "full" in order for our links to others to count for those others, but now they don't count if they are in the sidebar. Stats services ignore sidebars. Also, even linking in the main body of your posts doesn't count for anyone unless your feed is set to "full" and so mine is. Plus, with the craze for shortening URLs, lots of people link using link shortening services and those links never show up on any stats service either. So. If you are a blogger, give up on trying to measure up in the stats wars. They have always been based on nothing, unreliable in the extreme, easy to game by the stats people themselves... and... I don't think this is even marginally better for those who PAY for fancy stats measurements.

This last bit should make those wishing to make a living at their blogging cease sleeping immediately.

If you are not a blogger, the badge of good citizenship of Blogistan is to recommend blogs you like wherever you comment, when it is applicable to the discussion in point, and to email your friends with the links.

Lastly, my dearest and most beloved Trisha is coming to visit me tomorrow, and I'm going grocery shopping and getting the guest bedroom straightened out for her today. I don't know how long she's staying, probably only a day or two, but we should have a number of things to do, which means there won't be much blogging going on here for the next couple two or three days. Not none. But probably not much.
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dazzling theory

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I have resumed my attention to the paranoid schizophrenia end of the UFO/conspiracy purveyors on the tubes. I watched a video last night about a whistleblower who purports to have mistakenly attended some Illuminati meeting or other... like you could get into something like that accidentally... but does not give his name or their names. Just passes the word up to us that the plan is to get Israel to nuke Iran, and then have a limited nuclear exchange in the ME. He says the Iranians already have nuclear weapons. The Chinese have given them to them. That when Israel nukes Iran, Iran will nuke Israel. And, of course, we will get in on the action. Then there's a long and contorted scheme for killing off most Chinese with a specially-designed-for-their-DNA virus, too. The joke being, "The Chinese will catch a cold." And, supposedly, it's not until after all that that WWIII will start. The urgency is great. These Illuminati are behind schedule. The intention is to first reduce the world population by 50%... before pressing on to get the global population well under a billion people.

Fascinating how all this inscrutable evil excites the mind, innit?

Anyway, I was struck by the notion of the Chinese already haven given nuclear warheads to Iran... or going to have given them before this comes to a head. That is, I think, a distinct possibility I never took into consideration before. I have thought their open defiance was based on spiritual superiority to the murderating fucks in charge here, but it could well also be that they are feeling secure for other, less enlightened, reasons. Still they would be spiritually superior because they have not used them, nor threatened anything but self-defense, despite some darn dire provocations....

So, anyway, you will understand why I don't link some of this stuff I come across on my field trips out the tubes, but I wanted to mention this notion to help keep our brains from hardening around what we can make of the crap we're being fed. I know that even when I know there is something filthy or fishy behind something, waaaaay too often I turn out to have fallen short in my estimation of what that might be. You can't omit the quiet ones. China and Iran are allies. China feels very, very little allegiance to us, and no reason on earth we should assume it would properly be otherwise. So this point is well worth contemplating.

Plus, I feel compelled to add, if we don't get busy reversing all this shit we already know is going on, this Illuminati plan is a FINE solution to the manmade climate change problem. Personally, I still don't understand what is wrong with just sterilizing masses of people and letting natural attrition take it from there... except that there's not much profit in that route... and it's not very exciting... but, for a time, there'd at least be the manpower to deal with the specific infrastructure needs of the surviving population....
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not a theme park

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not enough people dying

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Anti-capitalist as it is, you really have to stop having kids. This is completely out of hand. If you look at India or China too long, you can become bin material very easily... or you could look and look and look until you put it together just how terrifying this scene really is and then get carted off to the bin. Anyway, you should get it over with so you can come back out and stop blowing it so badly.

our abundance is being cut off

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Pay close attention. It is now.

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[I'm not including MSM links of the cops defending themselves and denying the claims because both the MSM and the cops are complicit, proven liars, and so should not be trusted, maybe not even heeded at all.]

maybe we end up with the guidestones' advice come to pass

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The hard way.

No, really....

you already know about my tree thing

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Until they clocked me three years ago with major spine surgery, I was out planting trees by the thousands every winter. That was the only question I had for my surgeon. Will I be able to go back to planting trees? He assured me I would. And... now that a few of the unforeseen, and maybe unforeseeable, sequela are being dealt with effectively, there is a real possibility I could go back to it... or, even oversee a crew on industrial timberlands. They do a really shitty job of replanting, and I had the highest percentage survival rate of all the people working on nonindustrial timberlands. So that is something vitally important I might be able to further substantially in the rest of my life... wouldn't hurt with the weight gain thing either!

Sometimes I think I should stop bucking the plutocrats' obsession with solving the climate crisis by massive population reduction policies, and just concentrate on restoring the planet's resilience. I mean, I had been screaming about over-population for decades, and nobody seems to be exhibiting the kind of altruism it takes to accomplish that painlessly... and we'll definitely be extinct before that bit of evolution occurs. So. Damn. I'm going to think about this.

* is bent on wwiii

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...but were completed only as old memories and new fears surfaced in recent days.

Those fears were codified to some degree in what Polish and American officials characterized as unusual aspects of the final deal: that at least temporarily American soldiers would staff air defense sites in Poland oriented toward Russia, and that the United States would be obliged to defend Poland in case of an attack with greater speed than required under NATO, of which Poland is a member.

Polish officials said the agreement would strengthen the mutual commitment of the United States to defend Poland, and vice versa. “Poland and the Poles do not want to be in alliances in which assistance comes at some point later — it is no good when assistance comes to dead people,” the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said on Polish television. “Poland wants to be in alliances where assistance comes in the very first hours of — knock on wood — any possible conflict.”

A case could be made that all of the saber rattling in Iran has been meant by those rattling the sabers, all except for Israel, who's just paying for it, to draw out Russia. And getting nowhere with this or their bullshit about missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, * and Fudd and friends encouraged the not tightly wrapped Saakashvili to piss off Russia enough to make their naked aggression missile bases and occupation of the Persian Gulf seem warranted.

I've been meaning to gripe about the stuffy old poops out there calling my Cold Cold War the "Arctic Cold War" and so I guess this is as good a time as any. Don't kid yourself it's just the Canadians and the Russians either. While I'd be happy enough to have our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, it creeps me out that it would only be to be deployed to bases ringing Russia and China so that arms dealers and oil barons could continue to suck us dry.

These assholes are fucking stupid cave men, and think only in terms of greatest possible profit that they might rule the world throughout posterity, while there will be no posterity if they don't cut this shit out. The only possible sense in their actions is to kill off a big enough percentage of the population to obviate the need for both laws and new technology to reduce our carbon emmissions. And I'm sorry to always be yelling at you, but, you fuckers, you're not stopping them, and I'm beginning to think that, since liberal altruism is so fucking limp and bottomlessly lame in addressing the problems of inhumanity and global catastrophe, the filthy pig plutocrats should speed this shit up!

God DAMN it!

the never ending battle between selfishness and altruism

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... between eating and starving, thriving and failing, living and dying....

my fascist mailman

...is dead. Damn! He was a screaming liberal nazi who proudly voted Republican in every election since 1984 because "abortion is murder". I'd almost talked him into stopping that stuff, had been holding my new "decline to state a political party" registration form to show him that he could at least punish the Republicans by not showing up on their rolls of the faithful. I was certain I could get him to do this much. He's off their rolls now anyway. Here one minute, squabbling his fool head off about stuff he had no business deciding for himself and enforcing on others, and stone dead the next.

given what i have realized

...I believe they will kill Al Gore if he runs... maybe wait till he'd win, depending on who was his running mate. Given that such a loss would be much greater for posterity than that of almost anyone alive today, I no longer want Al Gore to run for president, and have adjusted certain things on neufneuf accordingly. It's enough that we revere him, listen to him, use his work to beat the bad guys. [I'm not even going to think about if he'd sell out and stay alive in the job.]

i am finally answered

And, this finally answers the question of why they would sustain spending so much more on think tanks, media whores and lobbyists than they could save in fifty lifetimes full of no taxes. They really do care about their legacies, their descendents. They want a less populated world that exists completely in service of their every whim, with armies of well-paid protectors from their carefully-bred slaves. Somebody should do the math on how fast the human-caused global warming might reverse with just a few more nukes and a halved population. You gotta do it, because if the greedheads have made any mistakes in their math, the whole planet will die with them, with us.

of course

...there are others who weigh the significance of your life too, and they have no trouble whatever making your decision for you. Nosirreebob, not a lick of trouble with that. Plain as day. You can't even start to disagree, but still you refuse to see, to choose, to act, to stop these evil bastards and make a better world. You're waiting for a venue, right? Waiting for terminal cases of real sense to spontaneously break out across our nation? Hiding your head under the covers so the bogeyman won't see you?

i know i know i know

Life is already hard enough, and one does not want to die. So whenever contemplating the insignificance of one's life when held up next to the good of the whole world it is vital it be kept an abstraction, not truth itself. When one is fully aware of one's actual significance, one will be called upon to risk everything, so one makes excuses, opines furiously on monster blogs, dooms everything instead.