these people continue holding a gun to the collective head of the global population and global heart
The face of them all, and these words ring true, baby, ring true, but here just one template for the rich, the murderous, the maulers:
[Photo: John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, testifies during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability hearing.]
‘Under no circumstances’: John Kerry rules out U.S. paying climate reparations to low-income countries
Ahh, no reparations for corporations, for countries, for armies, for the military industrial complex? Now, some of what is in this piece below is more or less on target, but in the end, this fellow wants big capital and investment gurus and the like to run and rule the world:
In a June 10 Tweet, Elon Musk, the embodiment of the electric vehicle (EV) revolution, declared that “ESG is the devil”.
ESG stands for the “environmental, social and governance” principles which dictate that certain aspects of a company’s work must be taken into account when deciding whether to invest in it. An investment-worthy company must have a good score on things like climate change, sustainability, energy efficiency, diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as corruption and bribery prevention, among others.
Musk’s outburst was sparked by the shockingly low ESG scores assigned to Tesla by S&P Global, a ratings and market intelligence heavyweight. Tesla earned 37 points (out of a possible 100, where anything above 70 is considered “good” and anything below 50 is deemed “poor”) on its ESG scorecard while Philip Morris, the global tobacco giant, received a commendable score of 84. Similarly, as the Washington Free Beacon discovered, the London Stock Exchange gave British American Tobacco a score of 94.
Perhaps, lighting up 20.3 billion tobacco products daily worldwide does wonders for the environment and sustainability. (Why Is Big Capital Ditching the “Social, Environment, Governance” ESG Agenda? … Mathew Maavak is a Malaysian expert on risk foresight and governance)
But again, this son of a bitch is all in for capitalism running amok, capitalism gathering up the 92 percent of profits, power, politics and money. It is low hanging fruit to go after Greta or the anarchists, really, so easy to valorize the billionaires and the Fortune 10,000 companies that have stolen land, luxuries, language, and life from us, the 80 percent. Not one of these companies is in it — skin in the game — to help humanity and really draw down this unsustainable destructive story of stuff, this dirty game of predatory capitalism, throwaway consumerism, this insane buy buy buy bullshit that is the soul of capitalism. Their Eichmann’s are experts at getting people to psychologically depend upon shit and size and volume and usage that are killing the world.
We have let the rabid hyenas out of the bag, man, all the way back to the usury experts, the bandits of bodies and minds and souls, this sickness of fuedalism and inverted totalitarianism. Yes, there should be ZERO billionaires. Yes, there should be feet to the fire, i.e. deep learning about embedded energy, cradle to cradle planning, lifetime analysis of products, and durable goods, durable buildings, and durable social safety nets. That, my friends, will never be through the criminal enterprises of Vanguard or BlackRock, et al. This guy can call the thieves and murderers Big Capital, but it is a Mafia, a rip-off scheme, an economies of scale predicated on thievry and repo logic.
Well, maybe not hyenas —
While Big Capital dials down its social justice commitments, much of the emerging world will be stuck with ESG-dictated policy commitments and grant allocations that will rapidly lose relevance in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world. The Southeast Asia region, arguably sans Vietnam and Myanmar, may likely be the biggest losers in the global ESG sweepstakes.
The ESG agenda may have started off with good intentions but like similar initiatives, it has been thoroughly hijacked by vested interests. Leaders and “technocrats” in much of the emerging world were likely swooned by the promises of a bold new ESG-fueled global economy. According to one estimate compiled by Bloomberg in 2021, global “ESG assets are on track to exceed $53 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third of the $140.5 trillion in projected total assets under management”.
Those mammoth assets, where they exist, may be appropriated to rebuild smouldering Western cities after this decade is over. But then, who knows? $53 trillion can also be channelled to create a digitised global medical gulag for our “collective safety”. ESG scores for corporations may be replaced by social credit scores for every individual. In that case, the previous 30 months may have served as a trial run…
Life out of fucking balance:
And, in this dude’s world (article about ESG going nowhere), he sees nothing fucked up about the global military surveillence mercenary merchants of death complex. This is the up is down, lies are truth, fantasy is history thinking. Fucked up.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius stressed, “By doing this, we’re making a significant contribution to strengthening Ukraine’s staying power.” However, the pantomime playing out may have multiple motives.
Fundamentally, Germany’s motivation is traceable to the crushing defeat by the Red Army and has little to do with Ukraine as such. The Ukraine crisis has provided the context for accelerating Germany’s militarisation. Meanwhile, revanchist feelings are rearing their head and there is a “bipartisan consensus” between Germany’s leading centrist parties — CDU, SPD and Green Party — in this regard.
In an interview in the weekend, the CDU’s leading foreign and defence expert Roderich Kiesewetter (an ex-colonel who headed the Association of Reservists of the Bundeswehr from 2011 to 2016) suggested that if conditions warrant in the Ukraine situation, Nato should consider to “cut off Kaliningrad from the Russian supply lines. We see how Putin reacts when he is under pressure.” Berlin is still smarting under the surrender of the ancient Prussian city of Königsberg in April 1945.
Stalin ordered 1.5 million Soviet troops supported by several thousand tanks and aircraft to attack the crack Nazi Panzer divisions deeply entrenched in Königsberg. The capture of the heavily fortified stronghold of Königsberg by the Soviet army was celebrated in Moscow with an artillery salvo by 324 cannons firing 24 shells each.
Evidently, Kiesewetter’s remarks show that nothing is forgotten or forgiven in Berlin even after 8 decades. Thus, Germany is the Biden Administration’s closest ally in the war against Russia. The German government has stated its understanding for the Biden administration’s controversial decision to supply Ukraine with cluster ammunition. The government spokesman commented in Berlin, “We are certain that our US friends did not make their decision lightly, to deliver this sort of munition.”
These people — Nazis, Nazi sympathizers, collaborators, et al, should have been snuffed out, man, and they are in UK, in Canada, and USA:
One motivation for the German invasion of the Soviet Union was the desire to acquire Lebensraum (living space) for the German people to colonize, at the expense of the Russians, Belorussians, Ukrainians, and Baltic peoples. Hitler and other Nazi leaders thought of this goal in both racial and ideological terms. The conquest of “living space” meant not only German racial domination over the conquered peoples, but a crusade against Judaism and Communism. German military and police authorities intended to wage a war of annihilation against the Communist state as well as against the Jews of the Soviet Union, whom they characterized as forming the “racial basis” for the Soviet state.
The Commissar Order issued by the German Armed Forces High Command ordered the shooting of all political commissars of the Soviet army who were taken prisoner. In the summer of 1941 most members of the German armed forces complied with this order. The Commissar Order was rescinded in May 1942 at the urging of field commanders, who had come up against much stronger Soviet resistance when the regular shooting of Soviet army political commissars became general knowledge.
According to Nazi ideology, Slavs were useless subhumans. As such, their leaders, the Soviet elite, were to be killed and the remainder of the population enslaved or expelled further eastward. As a result of these racist fantasies, millions of Soviet civilians were deliberately killed, starved, or worked to death. Millions of others were deported for forced labor in Germany or enslaved in the occupied eastern territories. German planners called for the ruthless exploitation of Soviet resources, especially of agricultural produce. This was one of Germany’s major war aims in the east.
Shifting, man, shifting to . . . collective trauma, and the ability of the behaviorists and mind hackers to control the narrative, the stories, the news, the history, the way of thinking, the POV, the aspirations and hopes and dreams of the wannabe ‘millionaires.’
It’s the old bullshit game of forcing survey after survey on people, you know, the survey they give me everytime I go to see a doctor: how many drinks a day or week do you consume; thoughts of hopelessness; falling how many times in a month; how many friends do I have; have you lost weight or gained weight in the past month . . . . Etc.
And they (government, schools, medical arena, corporations, workplaces, etc.) have these surveys after surveys (facilitated by the Non-Profit Inductrial Complex — NPIC — for EVERYTHING) to engrain how fucked we are. Identify the problem, but never discuss the solution — END Capitalism:
But imagine, all this data, all these “results,” all the really terrible conditions of this or that group, this or that demographic, this or that community or country. Imagine that, all these factoids, man, for NAUGHT.
You can have a billionaire like Kerry (see image of that monster above) yammer on and on with his Al Gore bullshit, push this climate change mitigation lie, and again, but the world is heating up, the world is losing clean water access, wetlands are gone, mangroves are gone, ocean expansion is taking out (or will) coastlines and cities. Infrastructure is all about profits and is held hostage by finance and banking and debt criminals. All these Oxfam surveys, all these Amnesty International wankers spewing their NPIC crap are for NAUGHT. Look at this shit, all for NAUGHT:
It’s one report after another, one survey after another, white paper, documentary, investigative report after another, but there are no changes in the direction of how we the people, we the backbone of humanity, need to take control.
The Oxfam Poverty Report draws on Oxfam’s experience of working in over 70 countries, to examine the causes of poverty and conflict. It identifies the structural forces which deny people their basic rights, and gives a wide range of examples of the ways in which men and women are bringing about positive change at every level, from the household to the international arena.
Let’s get into the psychological babble, some of which is grounded in some rhetorical skill and reality, and, well, again, more and more reporting toward ZERO mitigation. Tax the rich? Fuck, again, Socialism or Savagery. Tax? Fuck.
We are looking at a term, temporal disintegration.
During and immediately after a traumatic event, individuals may perceive time as slowing down or stopping, focusing only on the present moment with little awareness of the past and future. This distortion of time, called temporal disintegration, can isolate people in a stressful moment and disrupt the linear flow of time that weaves our life story together, affecting personal identity.
Temporal disintegration has been linked to long-term psychological adjustment following exposure to disasters. It can make individuals fixated on past negative events, leading to diminished well-being and increased distress over time. However, there is a lack of information about how trauma-related distortions in perceived time may be associated with our perceptions of the future, creating a gap in understanding the lasting impacts of temporal disintegration. (source)
So, the temporal disintegration is applied to an event, say, Virginia Tech shooting and the lockdown and media coverage. But as I press time and time again here, the collective trauma, the massive media murder 101 constant bombardment without compelling voices discussing how to solve these issues NOW; the endless reports about collapse, about ecosystems on the edge of destruction; documentaries and news reports on the opioid or fentynal crises, or the lack of affordable housing crises, or any number of the top 100 or 1,000 collapse-breakdown-apocalypic topics, we are in that whiplash — spiritual, intellectual and ethical whiplash.
We are in a constant breaking and entering crime scene, all of us, victims of the capitalists, assault victims of the AI-VR-AR Mafia, psychologically morphed from all the war drumming and war making, mutated physical health and minds from all the Parasetic Things that Make Capitalism Deadly, and we’re almost vegetative morally from all the constant dead or zombie-like or violent-tinged shit in our day.
To measure temporal disintegration related to the shooting event, participants were asked to what extent they experienced specific reactions during the lockdown. These reactions included feeling as though time had stopped, nothing was real, they were in slow motion, they had no future, they were unsure about time or day, and they had difficulty remembering events.
Fuck, it gets deep, man, if you are really engaged with the culture, listening to the background noise, exposing yourself to the unimaginable criminality of the media propping up these stories without any sense of judging this human stain for what he is — undeserving, narcissistic, insane, crummy, uninteresting, and one of the big time TAKERS of the world.
Read, and then what is your reaction, man, as you see the Oxfam report on poverty and hunger and lack of healthcare globally:
Bryan Johnson takes 61 pills every day, and eats 70 pounds of vegetables every month. He wakes up at 4:30 a.m. and goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. Every hour of his day is regimented by an algorithm built from rigorous bodily monitoring and the science of over 2,000 academic publications.
The 45-year-old American tech entrepreneur spends around $2 million a year to halt his body’s aging process and has a team of doctors constantly studying him as he works out and finishes the “protocols” or activities of his intense schedule. (source)
Does this make you seethe with anger? Hate for these people, the magazine (Fortune), the entire system of exploitation? No?
An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
In a separate report also released today, the group found that 1.9 million babies were stillborn during the same period. Tragically, many of these deaths could have been prevented with equitable access and high-quality maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health care.
“Every day, far too many parents are facing the trauma of losing their children, sometimes even before their first breath,” said Vidhya Ganesh, UNICEF Director of the Division of Data Analytics, Planning and Monitoring. “Such widespread, preventable tragedy should never be accepted as inevitable. Progress is possible with stronger political will and targeted investment in equitable access to primary health care for every woman and child.”
Ahh, two million dollars a year (I am sure it is more than that — since he has a series of homes, transportation vehicles, lifestyle enhancers, trips, etc) to extend his cells, his age? Fucking $3.65 a day? Or, $6.85 a day? The global medium income is $7.60 a day? You not pissed off yet?
In 2019, many more people lived in poverty at these higher poverty lines than at the extreme poverty line. Almost a quarter of the global population, 23 percent, lived below the US$3.65 poverty line, and almost half, 47 percent, lived below the US$6.85 poverty line, as reported in the 2022 Poverty and Shared Prosperity report. This also means that the global median income (US$7.60 per person per day) is very close to the UMIC line. These absolute poverty lines represent a basic floor in economic wellbeing for LICs and MICs. The fact that half of the global population is still poor under any of these definitions is of great concern for poverty reduction efforts over the coming decade. (source)
Has any of this created some temporal disintegration? Vicarious trauma? Views on the future? Distorted your ideas about what is up and what is down, seeing that right is left, lies are truth,and war is peace? No expectations that we can take the pitchforks — all 6 billion of them — and skewer the rich and the bastards?
The researchers hypothesized that temporal disintegration, caused by trauma, may influence individuals’ views of the future by filtering them through the lens of a painful past. Distortions in perceived time and related distress may color future expectations, leading to fear that similar negative events will occur in the future.
Daily, people are locked in lala land, locked in consumer hell, locked in refab, remodel, retrofit hell. Their stories — our stories — are the story of Stuff:
Paul Haeder, Author 