Mayday Mayday Mayday

 

As we enter the first days of May, many will celebrate a version of May Day.  

May Day's history is multifaceted,  It originated in Europe as a celebration of spring, with traditions like Maypoles and May Queens, often connected to fertility and renewal. In the 19th century, it also became a day to honor workers and advocate for better conditions, particularly the eight-hour workday, with its most prominent event being the Haymarket Affair in Chicago in 1886.

At Haymarket Square,  a demonstration for an eight-hour workday led to violence and casualties, further cementing May Day's association with labor struggles.  

On the cultural side, May Day is a festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox and midsummer solstice.^[1][2] 

Festivities may also be held the night before, known as May Eve. Traditions include gathering green branches and wildflowers ("bringing in the May"),^[3] which are used to decorate buildings and made into wreaths; crowning a May Queen, sometimes with a male companion decked in greenery; setting up a Maypole, May Tree, or May Bush, around which people dance and sing; as well as parades and processions involving these.

Bonfires are also a major part of the festival in some regions.

But this is not the May Day of this post.

No, the May Day of this post is the May Day of the Seas and of the Sky.  It is derived from the French phrase "m'aider," which translates to "help me". It's a standard procedure word used to signal a critical situation needing immediate attention. And is should be repeated three times so that all who hear will know that someone or thing is in distress and in danger of losing its existence.

And so we here on the political ship named the "US America" call MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY not because of the angry political seas or the winds of unabated lies which are substantial, but because our skipper is lost on his private mission to destroy the  great white whale.  The one that once took his leg leaving him a wooden post to walk the decks at night with a foreboding thump as told by Ishmael.

He was injured and nearly killed by that voyage  and now his only mission is to seek revenge.  And no one or thing will stop him. And that must change.

Those of us on board only need a few officers to change their allegiances so our course and our dark destiny can be altered. We need to lock the skipper in his quarters as we turn the ship around to once again  become the light of the nations instead of the darkness of a thousand leagues. 

And so we call mayday mayday mayday to the other ships of the sea to come save us.

And to do that, we need our former  trade allies to stop trading.  Don't buy American,  Don't fly American (or to).  Boycott everything that is American...our movies, our music, our food, our phones, our computers and our institutions of learning. Show the crew of the US America that the continued serving of this Captain Ahab is a recipe for a  calamity not unlike Mellville's  tale of the Pequod.

Already, we have seen that other ships can make the difference.  In Canada just last week, the conservative leader not only lost the election after leading in the polls just 2 months ago, he lost his seat.  The same happened in Australia as the conservative leader lost his seat.  

Canadian shoppers are turning US products upside down in retail outlets so it’s easier for fellow shoppers to spot and avoid them. Canadian consumers can also download the Maple Scan app that checks barcodes to see if their grocery purchases are actually Canadian or have parent companies from the USA. 

And the Europeans see our Ahab clearly:

"Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. 

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, 

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. "(more)

The “liberation day” tariffs were higher than most observers expected. But many US corporations will now be worrying about how consumers in the US and around the world might respond. Drump could see a mass mobilisation of consumer power in ways that will give the president something to think about.

And yes, the shelves may grow thin and our Christmas tree may be a little bare.  But, there must be a global effort to rid the world of this meddlesome tyrant.

We stopped the reign of King George 250 years ago, and we must stop this wanna-be dictator now.

But this time, 

it will take the whole democratic  globe.

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Superpower

 

Several years ago, a few of us went to the opening of the Tesla plant in Austin, Texas.  Since we had VIP passes, we watched the spectacle from the raised VIP section in front of the main stage.  The whole event was called the Cyber Rodeo.  From rock concerts to renewable energy conferences,  I have a long history of producing events. But this event was way beyond almost anything (except for the Paris Olympic opening) with its drone light show floating outside in the sky while the sounds,  laser light, and music filled the inside to the brim.

Soon Elon Musk would drive up on stage in his stainless steel cybertruck to the cheers of thousands. Since it was Texas, he sported a big black western hat.  My partner commented that he had to take it off to get out or in this new version of a pick-up truck.

Later,  Elon joined us in a special roped off section of the VIP loft and we had a chance to visit with him.  We talked for a while about energy and my work in the renewable energy sector,  but I later talked with his brother's partner who was instrumental in getting the huge facility built.  Amazingly, the whole project went from an idea to reality in not years but months.  

It was then that he told me that Elon Musk's superpower is the ability to execute.

That stuck with me.

We are all well versed in superpowers thanks to Stan Lee and the other comic book makers of our childhoods.  And of all the superpowers, being able to get shit done was not in the pantheon. 

Superheroes have changed how modern pop culture thinks about superpowers after countless stories of gods, titans, and heroes shaping the world.  Comics, TV, and movies have explored and deconstructed extraordinary abilities but fans still love fantasizing about wielding incredible superpowers like flight or telepathy.

Of course, the best superpowers in comics and movies are the ones that help superheroes win battles and save lives. Superheroes are a kind of modern mythology, and their great powers define characters like Spider-Man and The Flash as much as their decisions and personalities.

Generally superheroes with superpowers fight evil, but some times they are evil themselves.  And in our world, sometimes they transform from fighting for good to simply scheming for themselves. It was only a year or so after I met Musk that I realized that he had  turned into a Batman villain

Gone are the days of him talking about Climate Change and the importance of electrifying the transportation sector.  Gone are the days when he considered his satellite network to be a public utility for all to share. And now as he deconstructs the most powerful and effective government force on the planet so that it can be privatized and placed in the hands of a non-benign plutocracy, he is using his superpower to ultimately enslave millions under another form of human order.

For him and his fellow billionaires, the time of democracy has passed, and we need to get more comfortable with CEO dictators. It is after all, almost 250 years old.

And to make it happen, he had to join forces with another creature who has a superpower that is also unknown to the Marvel world,  although it is a marvel.  And of all the superpowers, it stands out because it transforms the minds of those who fall under its spell. 

That superpower is the power to lie.

Many of us can lie rather well, but no one but the orange felon can lie with impunity over and over and over again.  The fact that any newspaper, reporter, or media personality would repeat anything he says as being truthful is downright mystical.  But there are reasons.

Dan McAdams, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, wrote this about Drump’s approach: “Truth is effectively whatever it takes to win the moment, moment by moment, battle by battle — as the episodic man, shorn of any long-term story to make sense of his life, struggles to win the moment.

“Among the many reasons that Drump’s supporters excuse his lying is that they, like Drump himself, do not really hold him to the standards that human persons are held to. And that is because many of his supporters, like Drump himself, do not consider him to be a person — he is more like a primal force or superhero, more than a person, but less than a person, too.”

Another factor is the sheer depth of the anger among many Drump supporters. Anger, it seems, encourages deception.

Jeremy Yip of Georgetown and Maurice Schweitzer of the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated through a series of experiments that, they said: “Anger promotes the use of self-serving deception. 

When individuals feel angry, they continued, “They are more likely to deceive others. We find that angry individuals are less concerned about the welfare of others, and consequently more likely to exhibit self-interested unethical behavior.

Many of his supporters have become so angry and alienated that they act like part of a cult. They regard this as a time of war, one to be fought day-by-day by a superhero who uses lies as an acceptable weapon. 

The Truth is, Fox makes their viewers angry.

And Rachel and Jon make us laugh.

And the lies flow out of the sewer untreated.

And into our lives. 

There are demonstrations in the streets today in all 50 states.

That is our Superpower

 

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Pot Luck Vibewave

  

 "Respect is the Hub" asked that an old post that he wrote 9 years ago be republished as Pot Luck Vibewave.  He believes that the time to eat together is well upon us given the political landscape we all now face:

Part of our primate/hunter-gatherer heritage is to sit around and share food, preferably with some small children running around.

It's not just the calories It's the social energy, as essential to our health as sleep and exercise. These gatherings should never be confused with work where food is present, such as a lecture, meeting or group work sessions.

Feeling depressed about current events?

Plan on regular get together's with like minded family, friends and neighbors: lunches, potlucks and even Tuesday night dinners. Schedule these islands of respite, warmth, sanity and love into your life now.

Remember, some of the best ideas are famously drawn on napkins or start as joking conversation.

Suggestion: Keep these regular and informal gatherings entirely off line. They may become so very important in the future.

Let us remember the wisdom that we have learned from South Park.

"There's no internet to find out why there's no internet!"

Groups of kind people sharing may become our only reliable internet.

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The vote at the UN a few days ago was a momentous and disconcerting occasion. This from CNN:

"The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

The vote against the Ukrainian and European-backed resolution saw the US at odds with its longtime European allies and instead aligned with the aggressor in the war on the three-year anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine."

The vote in the General Assembly was 93 FOR, 16 NO, and 65 abstentions.  Other NOs were North Korea and Belarus.  China, India, Iran, and Iraq did not vote on the issue.

"The US again voted the same way as Russia later Monday on a US-proposed UN Security Council resolution that did not call the Kremlin the aggressor or acknowledge Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The resolution passed without the support of five European members of the Security Council" 

Note, Great Britain and France, the two European permanent members of the Security Council did not veto the resolution which is perplexing if not revealing.

The US’ shocking alignment with Russia at the United Nations came as the Trump administration has pursued discussions with Moscow about ending the war. 

But not only did the US do a 180 on Ukraine at the UN, we announced through our Fox News Weekend Host now Secretary of Defense that we now oppose Ukraine's entry into NATO.  And in the last few days it appears that Zelenskyy will respond to our immoral blackmail for their natural resources in trade for some security agreement with the US. Oddly, most of the resources we want are actually in Russian controlled Ukraine, so Zelenskyy is giving up resources he currently does not even have.

Putie Pute, the KGB operative and  Russian dictator, is  obviously toasting his gains in his gold Kremlin opulence with the success of his 38 year old  Russian asset named Krasnov. 

According to Newspapers in Europe and Asia, Krasnov's name was revealed by a former KGB operative named Mussayev:

In 1987, I worked in the 6th Department of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of ​​work of the 6th Department was the acquisition of spies and sources of information from among businessmen of capitalist countries. It was in that year that our Department recruited the 40-year-old businessman from the USA, (DJDrumph), nicknamed "Krasnov".

This from the Kiev Independent:

"Questions about U.S. President's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled, even culminating in a special counsel investigation during his first term in office.

Though that investigation found evidence of "extensive criminal activity" by Drumph, his associates, and some of his family members, it found no evidence that he was working for, or had ever been recruited by, Russia's security services."

Yet despite this, the topic refuses to go away.

Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Drumph’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia stretching all the way back to the 1980s, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. 

People are shocked today that Drumph is betraying Ukraine, he's betraying Europe, he's siding with Putin. Well, he did it as early as 1987, when he was starting to run for the presidency in 1988. And that is very well documented, it was printed in the NYT.

It's exactly the foreign policy he is acting out today that is so horrifying. This is the end of NATO, it's the end of the Western alliance. Drumph is allying with Vladimir Putin, and against Ukraine and all of Western Europe.

And with the help of his henchmen and the R's it will be the end of Democracy as we know it. 

As Jerry Garcia once said, someone has got to do something, and it's incredibly pathetic that it's us.

But if you boil this all down to the fundamentals, we just need 3 Rs in the House to vote for impeachment and 21 R's in the Senate to convict to get rid of Krasnov once and for all.  And why we are at it, we make it clear to Mr. Hillbilly Elegy that he's next if he doesn't change his ways.

And then we have to solve some real problems.  Like how are we to manage our $36 Trillion debt  that is now about a trillion dollars in annual interest. That is slightly more than we pay for the biggest most deadly war making force in the universe.  (hopefully)

And before we allow the richest nation in the universe to increase the hurt to its poor through medicaid cuts,  headstart stops, and whatever else must be chopped off by the richest of the rich in order for our ruling plutocracy to get a renewal of their tax breaks, we need to think about that. And we need to ask ourselves "why does the Nation have any debt"?

If our  National banking system is allowed to create money in our fractional reserve banking rules, why can't the government do the same? 

We can.

We just need to see that the National Debt from a different perspective.  Why should the bankers and the well healed profit off the National Debt when the nation needs to care for those at the bottom of the ladder while defending all of us from those who plunder and subjugate? Why can we not have  affordable health care and life enhancing opportunity for us all ?

Maybe we shouldn't raise the debt ceiling.

And stop paying interest on our own money

Oh you say, Inflation.

We've got that already. 

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In a digital storm of speculation and intrigue, social media is ablaze with allegations that Donald Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years, secretly operating under the codename "Krasnov." The claim, which first surfaced in a Facebook post by former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev, has now been supercharged by a viral tweet thread from an X (formerly Twitter) user, @anthony7andrews.

What started as whispers of Cold War espionage has now turned into a full-blown internet conspiracy theor ..

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/donald-trumps-russian-spy-connection-social-media-explodes-with-evidence-about-krasnov-is-it-just-another-wild-conspiracy-theory/articleshow/118504492.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

In a digital storm of speculation and intrigue, social media is ablaze with allegations that Donald Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years, secretly operating under the codename "Krasnov." The claim, which first surfaced in a Facebook post by former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev, has now been supercharged by a viral tweet thread from an X (formerly Twitter) user, @anthony7andrews.

What started as whispers of Cold War espionage has now turned into a full-blown internet conspiracy theor ..

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/donald-trumps-russian-spy-connection-social-media-explodes-with-evidence-about-krasnov-is-it-just-another-wild-conspiracy-theory/articleshow/118504492.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

In a digital storm of speculation and intrigue, social media is ablaze with allegations that Donald Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years, secretly operating under the codename "Krasnov." The claim, which first surfaced in a Facebook post by former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev, has now been supercharged by a viral tweet thread from an X (formerly Twitter) user, @anthony7andrews.

What started as whispers of Cold War espionage has now turned into a full-blown internet conspiracy theor ..

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/donald-trumps-russian-spy-connection-social-media-explodes-with-evidence-about-krasnov-is-it-just-another-wild-conspiracy-theory/articleshow/118504492.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

The Putsch Push

 

 

The previous government we have all known for the many decades is now gone.  The Putsch occurred on January 31st when the elected government run by the Rs with the help of their henchmen took over the constitutional government of the United States.  Here is the story:

The New York Times reported over the weekend that the Treasury Secretary "gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to five people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending."

Politico reports that Secretary Scott Bessent "privately reassured Republican lawmakers Monday that Elon Musk and his team do not have control over a sensitive government system that manages the flow of trillions of dollars in payments, according to five lawmakers in the room for a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill."

Based on that meeting, Musk and his coders were only given "read only" access.

Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall on Tuesday morning dropped this bombshell: He alleges a Musk associate has made changes to the Treasury's payment systems at the code level.

"Overnight, Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to ‘read only’ access to department payment systems, this is not true," Marshall wrote. "A 25 year old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the US government including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments."

“Elon just grabbed the controls of our whole payment system, demanding the power to turn it on for his friends or turn it off for anyone he doesn’t like,” said U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday (video below). “One guy deciding who gets paid and who doesn’t.”

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, "rejected the idea that Musk allies’ access to the payments system was as limited as Republicans and the administration are claiming," as Politico reported.

“Some Republicans are trying to suggest that Musk only has ‘viewing access’ to Treasury’s highly sensitive payment system as if that’s acceptable either. But why on earth should we believe that—particularly when he is saying the exact opposite loudly and repeatedly for everyone to see?” Murray declared.

Controlling the payment process is Control. 

And there is so much more.

USAID, the Congressionally created foreign aid agency, was illegally shut down:

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said it would lock U.S. Agency for International Development workers out of their headquarters in downtown Washington DC for a second day on Tuesday as it moved to shutter the agency, prompting two Democratic senators to vow to block confirmations of State Department nominees in protest.

And the Education Department is next:

The Education Department is responsible for distributing federal financial aid for education, and for collecting and disseminating data and research related to schools. The department is also tasked with enforcing non-discrimination policies in schools.

Generally, it supports federal college loan programs and Pell Grants, and also vocational training.

And there are the Firings of the FBI agents who worked up the prosecution of this criminal president.  And the Firings of the Inspector Generals without cause or notice to Congress

Firing Civil Service workers without cause is illegal. 

The Spoils system which is now being reintroduced by this administration is no longer the law.  Under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty.  Sound familiar? And its change took a Presidential assassination and an energized vice president named Teddy Roosevelt to later change the spoils policy of Andrew Jackson to the non-partisan civil service of today.

Two major unions representing U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Wednesday aimed at slowing the new administration's effort to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers and make it easier to fire them.

 

The American Federation of Government Employees and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said Trump in a Jan. 20 executive order improperly attempted to block a Biden administration rule shielding federal workers from being stripped of job protections.

 

Last week, a Federal judge ruled that the actions at OMB are unconstitutional.  Yet, the payments have not returned. And who can enforce the orders of the court when the orders are ignored?

There are those who say that the D's bring a knife to a R gunfight.  Truth is, it's worse, they  bring a Thesaurus.  More words, different words, fancier words, harsh words if they are really mad. Soon, they will bring their Constitutions.

Perhaps the words of Andrew Coyne from our Ally to the North says it better than they do:

Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. 

We are living in the time of Nero.

And the Putsch Push is On. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We Are Not Afraid

  

 

As we go into the New Year, there is a majority that did not vote for a soon to be convicted felon, and we certainly don't look forward to the parade of Halloween appointments that he is insisting be confirmed with  no debate or for that matter, no hearing. The new Senate will likely be more of a toilet bowl than a fine confirmation filter of assessing the character and competence to do the job well.  Most have a different mission in mind.

And when you consider that much of the government is going to be run by billionaires, it becomes clear that the day of the Plutocrats has come. This from ABC news:

"President-elect Donald Trump has assembled the wealthiest presidential administration in modern history, with at least 13 billionaires set to take on government posts.

They include a wrestling magnate, a private space pioneer, a New York real estate developer, the heir to a small appliance empire, and the wealthiest man on the planet -- with several being donors and close personal friends of the incoming president.

In total, the combined net worth of the wealthiest members of his administration could surpass $460 billion, including Department of Government Efficiency co-head Elon Musk -- whose net worth of more than $400 billion exceeds the GDP of mid-sized countries.

Even discounting Musk, Trump's cabinet is still expected to be the wealthiest in history, with reported billionaires Howard Lutnick nominated as commerce secretary, Linda McMahon nominated as education secretary, and Scott Bessent nominated as treasury secretary. Together, Trump's expected cabinet is worth at least $7 billion.

Trump's ambassador picks also include several billionaires, including financier Warren Stephens, who has been tapped to serve as the ambassador to the United Kingdom, Conair executive Leandro Rizzuto Jr., tapped to serve as the ambassador to the Organization of American States, Charles Kushner, named the ambassador to France, and Tom Barrack, named the ambassador to Turkey."

So let us consider the veneer of democracy in the United States to be sanded off to the core.

The good news is that the bad news is even worse.

Yes, as we move into this new year, the "Day after Tomorrow" might be in the next few years.  This from Live Science:

Forty-four of the world's leading climate scientists have called on Nordic policymakers to address the potentially imminent and "devastating" collapse of key Atlantic Ocean currents.

In an open letter published online Monday (Oct. 21), University of Pennsylvania climatologist Michael Mann and other eminent scientists say the risks of weakening ocean circulation in the Atlantic have been greatly underestimated and warrant urgent action.

The currents in question are those forming the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a giant ocean conveyor belt that includes the Gulf Stream and transports vital heat to the Northern Hemisphere. Research shows the AMOC is slowing down and could soon reach a tipping point due to global warming, throwing Earth's climate into chaos.

An AMOC collapse would lead to major cooling and extreme weather in Nordic countries, according to the letter. This would enlarge and deepen a strange "cold blob" that has already developed over the eastern North Atlantic due to the slowdown of heat-carrying currents. Collapsing ocean currents are also likely to precipitate climate impacts across the Northern Hemisphere, threatening agriculture in Northwestern Europe, according to the letter.

Halted ocean currents could also further heighten sea levels along the American Atlantic coast and send marine ecosystems and fisheries into a state of "upheaval."

Scientists have been genuinely concerned about the increase of the drunk high level jet stream winds that have brought inordinate cold and heat to much of the planet over the last several years. 

But even as we face the certainty of our climate changing radically as a result of our carbon burning ways led by a government that will once again deny it, we face another radical change that is more unknown, more human changing, and just as likely to have profound influence on our economy and the way we manage ourselves.  It is AI and ultimately, it is the Singularity.

 

The Singularity

The concept of a technological singularity as it is known today is largely credited to Dr. Vernor Vinge, a mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel, A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.

Vinge's essay contains the following frequently-quoted statement:

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly thereafter, the human era will be ended."

The Singularity is seen not only as the end of human civilization, but as the birth of a new one. In his essay, Vinge asks why the human era should end, and argues that humans will likely be transformed in the process of the Singularity to a higher form of intelligent existence. After the creation of a superhuman intelligence, according to Vinge, people will necessarily be a lower lifeform in comparison to it. 

If the Singularity is real then the following scenario is totally plausible:

In the near future, individuals and corporations will become super beings as the rest of us slowly but surely become "lessers". Thus, the need for cybercoops which can compete on this new playing field is not just a good idea, it will be a necessity.

We will need the very best communicators and the best, most democratic unifying agency we can find just to keep from becoming slaves. The geographic state will not be able to help us. We will need a cyber state. 

You are capable of competing with the big guys.

Because you have joined with others to form a new human organism.

You have joined with People of Conscience and People of Vision.

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It was twenty years ago that I started publishing Earthfamilyalpha.

It was November of 2004 and a corrupt, war mongering R had been reelected POTUS. We were all crestfallen.  Four more years of Bush was simply unimaginable. And yet it came with "You are doing a heck of a job Brownie" as the residents of New Orleans fled their homes as waters submerged them entirely.  Bush did a flyover.

So I decided I would start a blog and write almost every day until the situation changed. And in 2008, a half black man, raised by white grand-parents became the first man of color ever elected as president.  And he beat his formidable challenger and partner of former President Clinton in the primary as a first term senator.  McCain was washed out to sea by the collapse of Wall Street and the housing and mortgage crisis that came with it.

Bush was elected in 2004 over John Kerry by a margin of 35 electoral votes (286-251) with a 3 million popular vote lead. ( 62 to 59 million) He beat Gore by 5 electoral votes in 2000 yet lost the popular vote by 1/2 million.

And now, 20 years later, we have another corrupt, hate mongering R reelected into the Presidency.  His campaign of misogyny and racism, combined with his xenophobic war mongering prevailed over an electorate that barely knows the name of both their senators. And for the first time in American history, a convicted Felon will also become the oldest president in our history. And even though the Rs consider this a mandate to paint everything red, he didn't even get a majority of our votes. (49.8%)

This from the New Republic:

"CNN’s Harry Enten reports that Trump is now under 50 percent for the popular vote, and his margin is the forty-fourth worst out of 51 presidential elections since 1824. Four Democrats won Senate seats in states that Trump won (Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada), compared to zero in the 2016 and 2020 elections. And while Republicans held on to their House majority, if results hold, their 221–214 margin will be the smallest majority in the 50-state era. "

So, as this R takes his oath this January, he is lame. And his so called mandate is a myth.

But as  Albert Einstein once quipped, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."And the reality of a mandate may also be a very persistent one. And as the first convicted criminal to be returned to office, his criminal nature will also return.  And this makes him different from the Bushes and Reagan.

It may be more like Nixon. Even though he eked out a victory in 1968 by 20 electoral votes, he crushed McGovern in 1972 by 503 votes.

Less than 2 years later he resigned.

But Nixon didn't have Fox news.  And today's R's do not have the character of Barry Goldwater. And our legacy media does not have the moral clarity or the ownership that allows it. Our R friends love to love their Bibles.  And the Bible says that the Love of money is the root of all evil.

Evil's roots are in the garden.

Humankind is on the precipice. 

Climate Change must be addressed now if not by the Nations then through the Cities by organizations such as C 40, and in time, by Cyberstates. Because our governments and our corporations have delayed for so long, strategies will have to include Mitigation and Adaptation.

Solar, Wind, and new innovative energy production must be accelerated to replace fossil fuels.

Stationary and Mobile Energy Storage must become ubiquitous and transportation of all modes must become electric.

Human habitation must evolve to reduce consumption and increase comfort.

Plutocratic Corporations must be replaced by Democratic Cooperations so that consumers become buyers and producers become providers.

Artificial Intelligence must be removed from profit taking and controlled by limiting the enormous amounts of energy that they require so that this tool is used for the good of all of Earth's inhabitants.

Nuclear weapons must be banned and destroyed.

Human population must be managed to sustainable levels.

We must Respect Self, Others, and Place.

In essentials,  we must have Unity.

In non-essentials, we can enjoy our Liberty.

And in all things, we practice Charity

And so, rather than writing every day, or starting a pod cast, or beginning a hunger strike,  or continue to grieve the naivety of our geographic democracy, I'm going to actually start what I started here 20 years ago.

Since its inception, the primary thesis of Earthfamilyalpha has appeared on the home page.

With the advent of advanced global communication, new forms of social contract can be created which transcend the geographic state. These new cybercoops or cyberstates will bring humankind to higher levels of cooperation and understanding.

We as people of conscience can come together using the communications network and devices that didn't even exist when this blog was born. We are no longer bound by geography. We are cyberbeings.  And for now, we are free to choose our future.  We participate in our geographic state, but do not identify with it.

The new Earthfamilyalpha website will be up in a few days.  Our plan is to have a global convention next November.  At this convention, we will write our Declaration of Dependence and our Constitution.

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The Man Wave

 

It was All Saints Day and it was like a light switch.  I have had enough of DJ Drumph.  I don't want to hear his voice or watch his accordion hands, or gaze upon his dragging right leg, or the orange powdered face of a broadway player in a truly disgusting role.  I don't want to hear one more lie, one more mean spirited characterization of  his former Chief of Staff, the Joint Chief of our armies, or his Secretary of Defense.

And I don't want to see him give his microphone a blow job  after stroking it. He is gross and he has brought American political discourse to a realm somewhere below Hades.

Talking Points Memo said it well:

As Clear A Referendum As Ever Could Be

"Donald Trump slogged through the final weekend of his third presidential campaign as the Republican Party nominee demonstrating in blatant ways nearly every facet of the misbegotten character that makes him unfit for public office at any level.

He mimed stroking and fellating a microphone on a rally stage in Milwaukee. He talked favorably of the press corps in attendance taking bullets intended for him at a rally in Pennsylvania. He said he should have never left the White House after his 2020 election defeat, contemplating a coup by intransigence. He bizarrely claimed that the counting of votes should be over by 9 p.m. on election night, thus stoking anew bogus election fraud conspiracies centered on the time it takes to count votes.

It wasn’t that long ago that the most persistent challenge Republicans in public life presented to reporters, watchdogs, and the sanctity of the English language was disguising their unpopular, often cruel, and elaborately expensive policy preferences under layers of double talk, misdirection, and word play. With Trump it is all undisguised. 

Perhaps we can count that as a small blessing.

On the margins of this campaign, Trump and his surrogates have muddied the waters around health care policy, Medicare, tariffs, and taxation. Political reporters still fall for this gamesmanship. But where it counted most – trying to soften the edges of Republicans’ brutal abortion policies – the political press was largely on point and unfooled.

For the most part though, what you see with Trump is what you get. 

It is why his defeat will be so cathartic and represent a genuine repudiation of the man and his movement. 

It is also why a Trump victory would be so devastating. As unfathomable as a Trump win would be after the last decade of Trumpism and especially the past three weeks of his careening, unhinged campaign, it remains a real possibility. History will show that we knew everything we needed to know. Ignorance will be no excuse.

But, I believe that it will be the former.

And so does Michael Moore:

As you know, I have been loathe to predict how I really feel the election is going to turn out on Tuesday. But I’m guessing by now you’ve picked up a basic sense from me that, contrary to the breathless punditry of how “dangerously close” this election is — It’s a tie! It’s a 50-50 country! It’s neck-and-neck! It’s kneecap-to-kneecap! Trump’s gonna win!

I have felt for a long time that not only is Trump going to lose (because, yes, I have a lot of faith in the goodness of my fellow Americans), but Kamala Harris is going to win, and win big. With crowd-size numbers that even Trump will be blown away by, meaning this is the last that we will see him (unless Dr. Phil does a live special from Epstein Island a few years from now). "

Moore goes on to quoting from his favorite pollster, Rachel Bitecofer:

"And what we see in these data is overwhelmingly positive for Harris.

As I have documented in previous posts, the Trump Team’s theory of the 2024 case was that since Dobbs was political kryptonite for Trump, they would build their strategy around men.

It probably took being a woman political scientist to fully recognize the folly that is designing your entire electoral strategy around getting men who don’t normally vote, to vote.

During football season, no less.

Here’s how it’s going: (more)

"Now, to be clear, the gender gap we see in early voting and registration data is not dissimilar from what we saw in both 2020 and 2022. But Democrats didn’t need an even bigger gap, it was already huge and Joe Biden won with that gender gap.

What Democrats needed was to maintain that advantage in the face of 2 years and millions in investment from Trump and Republican superPACs to drive more men to the polls to maximize their own gender gap to offset ours.

And there is not one iota of evidence that suggests they have been successful in this effort.

And don’t forget: the Man Wave strategy was not without costs for the Trump campaign, Trump further isolated a key part of the voting universe: college educated whites.

Sneer at the White voters all you want but you should know there is one group of White Americans who actually like multicultural, pluralistic democracy, and every cycle Democrats have made additional inroads with them: college educated White voters. (clip)

But there are strong signs that Democrats will continue to make inroads among college educated White voters, as they have every cycle since Trump descended down his golden escalator to debut his special brand of hate politics.

But in this cycle, the Harris campaign specifically targeted these voters with messaging designed to break their brand loyalty to the Republican Party.

As far as the Selzer poll this weekend in Iowa shows, it’s working."

Obviously, I'm thoroughly disgusted with my fellow XYs and Drumph will still win men.  And although this will be the first successful XX presidential election in this country,

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