Nothing normal.
— Read on theshot.net.au/economics/we-need-to-talk-about-the-rent/

@georgina_gustin provides the full Walter Cronkite-Alan Greenspan* era balanced report on the US Security & Exchange Commission’s dipping of a tentative toe into 21st century theory & philosophy of law** (under the inescapable growing onslaught of damages claims from storm, flood, fire, drought & aquifer-loss, extreme heat & prolonged ice storms and (before long) lethal or neurodegenerative infectious disease outbreaks in #climate zones previously unknown for the prevalence of these).

“The SEC has started from a baseline of asking for full scope reporting, which is where I think this needs to be,” said Ivan Frishberg, chief sustainability officer for Amalgamated Bank and a member of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, a framework for banks to disclose the climate impact of their lending. “The SEC then, in an effort to accommodate the transition to full implementation, worked to phase in or trigger some of the scope three elements in ways that make sense in some regards, but could create some loopholes for laggards…”

““We are concerned that the Commission’s sweeping proposal could require non-material disclosures and create confusion for investors and capital markets,” said Frank Macchiarola, API’s senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs, in a statement. 

“Tom Quaadman, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, suggested that the rule will ultimately end up in the courts. 

““The Supreme Court has been clear that any required disclosures under securities laws must meet the test of materiality, and we will advocate against provisions of this proposal that deviate from that standard or are unnecessarily broad,” he said.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22032022/sec-climate-change-risks/?utm_source=InsideClimate News

** jurisprudence

We shall electrify everything or render our own habitat & habitats plural unliveable for mammals – even as soon as 2032 by my own worst-case-scenario projections 19 years ago.

If we refuse to give up the vicarious comforts of nonsense-#science, the plethora of heavily corporate-funded irrelevant, marginal but politically-correct or unobjectionable-to-a-disappearing-neoliberal-regime “science” of counting stuff & modelling the arcane or immaterial, if we persist with obscenely costly (uneconomic with bells-on – alarm bells) delusions about #ccs, #nuclear #power and ALL #geoengineering not totally rooted or grounded in ecological & atmospheric reality, AND maintain fake credits & offsets schemes for carbon going to air for goodness’ sake, AND maintain #FossilFuels Business as Usual then we will have sold out our grandchildren to the 2-bit daytime TV publicists, the half-crazed podcasters, fruitloop narcissists, cognitively-impaired celebrities and hateful billlionaires.

Did I mention that hydrogen may only be economically, sanely & safely transported as electrons? Direct current. And that even the coldest cloudiest countries will ALL be producing their own within 3-4 years??

John

https://twitter.com/danielbleakley/status/1492956383867666432?s=21

FRIDAYS FOR CLIMATE

You could not find anywhere such a bunch of neo-absurdist sub-editorial junk as this primary-schoolers’* “The poor cute animals” #MadAsHell Shaun Micallef/ Chris Lorax crowd of latté sippers in paper cups/ avocado smashing leafy suburban characters’ w…Show. – Lorax is a supposed satiric character. #comedy has been virtually dead in our country for 30 years – it’s in the keep of pranksters, mostly affluent college-boys, at Morrison’s & Buttrose’s frankly ludicrous frozen-in-time (Hawke-Keating era) #ABC.

Since the only tools human beings have at their disposal to effect radical change in culture and economy are linguistic it is important to note that Australia is indeed in a 1980s – or perhaps even a 1950’s immediate post World War 2/ Marshall Plan era – time warp where public communications of all kinds especially news are thought to be matters for some bizarre neo-Freudian quasi-Shakespearean Renaissance-Man heroic folksy kiddie-cartoon narrative of mastery over all creatures great and small where student protests are only evaluated on their showbiz “production values” (colour, movement, singing & goofing off by screen-manageable groups of up to 25): NO reference is made to content or human – or animal, bird or fish – life & death policy matters at all (except by interviewees poor sad old rich people will enjoy sneering at), BUT business is business, technology is for experts and health is for the doctors & professors of medicine. So you will kindly not challenge or question any of the empowered political class on their quarter-million dollar & upwards incomes and least of all, last of all, the most dimwitted and cognitively challenged elite of book keepers, courtiers & acolytes (these are Sucks, in common parlance) ever to draw breath – and their inflated salaries – the neo Keynesian Friedmanite market economists under strict riding instructions from the gross accumulators, major accounting firms & c-c-crazy Dr Strangeloves of this half-broken world. And as these supply & demand free-market & adjusted interest rates monkeys assure us that fresh water & oxygenated air are in boundless inelastic supply and that all bad things like 500-year floods. coastal inundation, fires, droughts, 47-50 degrees C summer days, radioactivity-, plastics- & toxic synthetic farm/ domestic chemicals contamination, incomprehensibly vast man-made chemicals pollution, plunging fresh-water aquifer levels, dying eutrophic rivers & wetlands including the greatest on earth that in net quanta no longer absorb carbon dioxide or generate oxygen, Category 5 storms, ever more rapidly evolving virulent (even lethal) viruses, extreme poverty, food shortage, starvation and mass migrations..

..WILL magically evaporate under clinically psychotic neoliberal belief/ carpetbagger robber-baron gross-accumulator government funding policy – outrageous fiscal handouts and tax exemptions, of course, but also flatly genocidal ecocidal post Bretton Woods 1944 monetarism and its now completely exploded derivatives markets for all those satanic rentiers on earth who crave the 1890’s London ‘Bloomsbury Set’ or “Roaring Twenties” orgiastic patrician or aristoi lifestyle.

We teach our innocent kids that all environmental evils and lethal disruption, right down to air with sufficient oxygen for breathing (not mentioned above but shortly coming to a theatre near you & me), will go away if only we working people and leaners like assets-poor age pensioners (obviously not clever or intelligent enough to be millionaires and therefore to be harshly judged – well let’s face it, condemned under this new economic order – in this broken world of Trumpian Evangelical Christian neofascism – would try harder – summoning up a fortitude, a #resilience, an #adaptation, structurally adjusting ourselves on the recommended International Monetary Fund lines and evincing a #capacity #building #power usually defeated by our native indolence & laziness – if we would seek, strive, find and not yield until we had mitigated or ameliorated these multifarious but utterly mysterious divine global heating impacts, or indeed rather accept ostracism, exile, home-invasions, random road-rage assaults by other battlers or, dammit, just lie down and die, OK?

Thus we go about our forlorn public duties, not for example trashing entire river systems, wetlands, riparian & marine hatcheries, pioneer-zone & mangrove ecosystems in toto and, er, reefs, which means we get into even more trouble with this zany postmodern neoliberal authoritaryans & their tribe of insanely overpaid political class hatchet-people. Our economists and the noted education reformers Christopher Pyne, Alan Tudge, Dan Tehan, Bridget McKenzie & Stuart Robert did not say this would be easy work and we are of course grateful for their advices. What, Nationals business creep Larry Anthony’s Indue cards? The front of my house sprayed with automatic fire? Again?? Gets a bit rocky, hmm?

Toughen up Princess.

In this culturally re-engineered and politically corrected space, where protest against the man-made global heating apocalypse rapidly and more commonly exponentially or “feedback-loop” unfolding* as 10,000 year-old wet-dry hot-cold weather systems correct atmospheric heating with retarded movement east with the rotation of the earth (as all currents atmospheric & oceanic are warmed up, weakened, or in this hemisphere shifted southward (SAM/ AO since the massive warm air updraft above Antarctica of Spring 2019 at the exact historical moment the subsoil moisture loss, vegetation desiccation and huge ambient heat fires of 2019-20 began) is greeted by official anger, hostility and crude censorship befitting a Third Word military autocracy, women & their bodies give rise to much public controversy & darker skinned people, non-evangelicals and children/ teens who dare venture an opinion about the future viability of life on earth – all of it or any specific micro aspect of it – are problematised, otherised & excluded or even judicially excised from all or any public conversation!

Astoundingly at a moment in #history as this #SARSCoV2 + say 7-8,000 year-old stable and reliable #weather #systems failure, #Mariupol & rising worldwide hatred & contempt for neofascism & its bedmate unregulated/ disregulated neoliberalism tears at the hearts of 3 or 6 billion people, the morally unanchored & largely intellectually bereft Australian political class has spent 2 weeks now on a dull right-wing MP & factional warrior who died suddenly at 52 – riveting schoolyard Sky News questions like why were people mean to her? Jesus would have surely wept copious tears for early 21st century Australia.

In this same utterly explosive period on top of the East Coast floods and the Lismore calamity, the leader of the party about to be swept into power if only it had policies it was unafraid to present – or even had the essential technical grasp of policy areas especially #energy – a proposed “World’s Best Ever” NET (phoney, that is) 43% C emit-to-atmosphere reduction over NINE years from a report by a media-massaging outfit called Reputech – literally ‘reputation protecting’ – the “43” derived on Mr Albanese’s own admission from a new JOBS Target of 604k – but in point of accurate #historical #fact made 2% less than publicly-rejected CMMFEU muppet, #climate denialist & damaged Australian Labor Party goods Bill Shorten’s May 2019 assertion of 45% so as not to alarm wealthy old voters afflicted by short-term memory loss or other symptoms of vascular dementia.

Albanese is shy about Australia’s rooftop solar figures, which are phenomenal, & truly world leading – and will likely get us to a 43% cut to atmospheric devastation – at least HALF of what we need to escape a 2degrees + Celsius rise in average temperatures.

– No technical information either of a home batteries subsidy announced last year of the tech which is ONLY wind, solar and battery, and alas the appalling gas transition for the fiscally endangered gas reliant Snowy Mountains Hydro & the ludicrous internationally offensive Kurri Kurri pork barrel, Newcastle. Technical facts are considered too bewildering for voters. But every 12-year-old kid in Australia is excited by futures. – Although catastrophically kids are still being taught the Carl Sagan pseudo-#science of “no-single-weather-event-may- be-attributed-to-global-heating” and the even more deranged solopsistic nonsense (reinforced by Tory cranks in positions of political-class influence like the former Howard government attorney-general & Ambassador to the Holy See Amanda Vanstone) to the effect that “burning-fossil-fuels-is-not-only-cause-of-[global heating]”..

So that’s the national scorecard on what #Instagram, #Facebook & #Tumblr time wasters, doodlers & business criminals the world over love calling by its sneaky ambiguous greenwashing*** name “climate-change,” with special inescapable irreversible reference to #AGH..

But wait, the failure and corruption of professional journalism & honesty in public life encompasses food & agriculture, genuine research dedicated to the advancement of human society, truly bad science, public health, mental health AND economic reform..

But no, we obedient kiddie ‘Behind the News’ “Triple J” (a rich kids radio network) – or Anne Ruston or Sarah Henderson Sunday School children – get more stuff reminiscent of 1930’s Victorian ALP working class historical struggle or irrelevant 1980’s assertions on behalf of misconceived & unexplained “#jobs #growth” – 1 hour a week for $8, my dears – all the while chatting with daytime television & podcast clowns, unwatchable dopes & misanthropes..

Are we Australians completely crackers?

#apocalypse #fraud – #scienceandtechnology #publicsector #corruption #neoliberalism #impactful #globalleadership #globalbusiness #globalhealth & #globaleconomy #catastrophes

*pity the kids & rue the #mentalhealthandwellbeing #nuclear #scale #health AND #healthcareindustry #crisis as it unfolds – down every street & in every family

** eg the five hurricanes in quick succession arising in the hot -water Caribbean in Fall 2016

*** choose your own expletive – this writer got a 7-day @Twitter suspension for the humorous suggestion that a barking-mad climate-causation contrarian in California & the notorious reverse-rotating eyeballs #SciFi man Sen Rand Paul ought to do the world an enormous estimable favor and ponder voluntary self removal from its geographical domain

2 days ago

“Yes but there was only 1mm in the last 8 days,” they go.

Catastrophic anthropogenic global heating weather systems (caused primarily by excessive solar radiation due to CO2 NO2 & CH4 atmospheric pollution eg 425+(?) ppm CO2) (eg NW Cape Tasmania #CSIRO – the government-guy Larry Marshall) move slower eastwards with the rotation of the earth. 

What took 2-3 days for 10,000 years now may indeed take 8.

John Blundell, South Australia 

#climate #Antarctica

“Yes but there was only 1mm in the last 8 days,” they go.

Catastrophic anthropogenic global heating weather systems (caused primarily by excessive solar radiation due to CO2 NO2 & CH4 atmospheric pollution eg 425+(?) ppm CO2) (eg NW Cape Tasmania #CSIRO – the government-guy Larry Marshall) move slower eastwards with the rotation of the earth.

What took 2-3 days for 10,000 years now may indeed take 8.

John Blundell, South Australia

#climate #Antarctica

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/severe-storm-warning-as-sydney-rain-set-in-for-the-afternoon/536244

Just ask the Shadow Minister for “environment” Terri Butler what Antarctica is all about and she will cite Bob Hawke’s 1980s heroic mining ban. Nothing else.

Too bad about the strip mining & denudation of 40,000 year-old vital ice & snow cover by MAN-MADE and unsurvivably excessive solar radiation.

Too bad about us little human animals all over the world.

John Blundell, South Australia

What’s driving record heatwaves in Antarctica and the Arctic, and how they’ll affect wildlife | The New Daily https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2022/03/22/record-heatwaves-antarctica-arctic/

I’m still struggling to get my head around THEIR siloed idiocy but my #Twitter account was shut down for a week in March 2022 for humorously reflecting on barking-mad climate & human health deniers of the #Trumpian ilk committing acts of figurative harakiri on their OWN mental faculties – not to mention the future life expectancies of all young adults and children today. The same Joseph McCarthy era papal politburo garbage greeted a similar tweet telling astounding senator Rand Paul to cease flooding Twitter with kryptonite nonsense and go get comprehensively lost in 2019..

Writing that these sociopaths would better disappear than indirectly continue to promote misery and despair for the entire human race is amazingly a @Twitter offence. To add insult to injury, Twitter gratuitously suggests the reprobate scribbler seek counselling (from pious church-folk, dropout Morrison-Howard school chaplains who got in strife on account of their fascination with girls’ breasts & stuff or punters who “do” recreational’ #drugs..) in case he, she or they want to top themselves, right? ~

In this era of wildly falsely represented realities (called #art and done by people who fancy the title Creatives) inconsequential narco-, narci- narrative / Shaun the Sheep morality-fables splatter, Penguins of Madagascar, “Sole Destroyer” and the entire internet panoply of “roaring” 1920’s Hollywood cultural tsunami wash-up of violent male characters with Jimmy Cagney gangster-voices and bossy-boots female ones with a determined resilient glint in their eyes, THIS ERA of #history as the exquisitely b-o-r-i-n-g* 16th &17th century romance^-driven yarns & re-runs of supposed events, lives & human values, notably in the Mediterranean & Middle East 3-5k years ago (with all the brown- & black-skinned people written out of these derivative concocted story-lines and “Alexander the Great” [Alexander III of Macedon (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC) was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon..] getting his men to capture all the young women for ethno-cultural rejuvenation purposes (Deutsch., Aust, NZ, Canada, USA &c racial hygiene eugenics & ethnic cleansing) while destroying the self-managing & self-sufficient food, fibre & fuel producing economic regions with city centres that thrived 5k years ago right across the temperate climate regions central Asia from the Persian Gulf to East Turkestan and will certainly in my view to be revived as #Belt&Road- and “Comprehensive TPP-related Policy Framework” promoting the utilization of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP)-style globalising economic hegemonies collapse under their own dead weight, waste and ecological calamity.

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when

We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form shade without color,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us–if at all– not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

‘Heads full of fluff,’ the man was meaning (TS Eliot). Please spare many educational policy thoughts for our kids at this time, having their sensibilities and active ‘being & doing’ living culture jumbled & nonsensised by the catastrophic ascendancy of “#science, #technology, #engineering, #mathematics” “#education…” ..re this huge issue we’re thankful for the efforts of #SCMP and others who have confronted #creation “science” lunacy and dog-eat-dog #social #Darwinism alike.

And why in this brief age of resurgent ideological Stalinism – and yes, #Mariupol – would the agents, dupes and apparatchiks of utterly abhorrent genocidal, ecocidal Iussuf Dzhugashvili-(as STATE oligarchs’ gross accumulation of course), Lyndon Baines Johnson-, Ayn Rand-, Paul Samuelson-, Norman Bourlag-, Milton Friedman-, Alan Greenspan-#neoliberalism try to shut down fact- and evidence-based independent journalism? – There’s a blindingly obvious @NASAClimate @NASAEarth @ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF #C3S @NSIDC @NOAA_ESRL @NOAANCEI #BritishAntarcticExpedition #climate #apocalypse in the offing and they want to.. whatever, guys. – Have fun or something, crack jokes about Joe #biden’s cognitive #health in the age of #SARSCoV2, whatever.

It is equally outrageous and tragic that two men, in obvious fear of being sacked by the Trumpites or their obvious & all-powerful successors, may produce a statement as fundamentally wrong as this: “Both Lazzara and Meier said what happened in Antarctica is probably just a random weather event and not a sign of climate change. But if it happens again or repeatedly then it might be something to worry about and part of global warming, they said,” a statement no credible or vaguely honest politician has made anywhere on earth since at least 2015, and nobody roughly aware of what #atmospheric #science and #thermodynamics even ARE (that is state) has made since #COP3 #Kyoto 1997 – or at the very least since #COP15 #Copenhagen 2009.

Can I just express some righteous anger here (without getting arrested?): This stuff is putrid! In terms of Murray-Darling wetlands, #Pantanal & Okavango Delta to name but three, it’s eutrophied and soon to burn. If that sort of hideous and lethally dangerous voluntary self-delusion is not #billioinaire #Corruption with a death-rattle you tell me what it is. Or ask 7 out of ten 12 year-olds (not tragically those who attend schools run by ant-#science nutters).

Here’s the article @Nature supplied: https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-colorado-arctic-antarctica-eda9ea8704108bdab2480fa2cd4b6e34 It’s not high-quality. It is only typical of the censorship & greenwashing oil-economy regime that has global news media and obviously ALL the kids who never paid attention – or the hundreds of millions who tragically never had the chance to be exposed to non-religious #neo-classical #liberal #enlightenment #arts & #humanities #education – who are bewildered or angry #app users & most podcasters as well by the throat. This vile un-news #tyranny means lethal or at least career-ending and personal security-ending ending harm to transgressors of their truly psychotic Cogito-ergo-sum, Manichaean, barking Bishop Berkeley solopsist/ Equal-time-for Father-Brown-‘n-Hannibal-Lecter (“balanced-reporting”) opinion-free, values-free, free-for-all #beliefs & #philosophy, the Australian cookers’, bikers’ & 2- bob political thugs’ Iron Fist in Velvet Glove regime.

Have you got that?? Seriously?? This is your own children’s future health & safety here, not some faintly ridiculous growly adversarial interview by Stephen Sacket at @BBCWorld.

This is hard stuff. It’s for others. Do the work and be rewarded. Make change now.

John

~ I won’t be distracted from my central argument in this piece, which is that global neoliberal “let her rip”/ Pamerite-Trumpian “Your (#consumer) #Freedom” newsmedia are catastrophically corrupted by the oil economy billionaires to disguise, gloss over and criminally lie about a now blindingly obvious looming apocalypse (just as they’ve generally made a complete public education & public support balls of #Covid_19 – which of course must boost pharmaceuticals corporate profits and be tailored into election campaigns where the iron neo-Keynesian laws of #retail #politics dictate that parties only offer fun, good times and fiscal reward to voters), but it is terribly important that we animate and indeed impassion public discussion and awareness that the ideological fountainhead/ citadel (Ayn Rand/ Alan Greenspan of course) of this fundamental and fundamentalist patriarchal assault on humanity is the #CatholicChurch.

ABC soldier-ants & myrmidons on $100k + salaries are not allowed to so much as mention sadness without pulling a gloomy face or recommending a call to the caring services, for example. Will they in a later stage of this dumb-down be leading us in prayer for the glorious leader – brought to us by the miracle of his persuading raving lunatics in the federal LNP (in late 2018!) that he would approve the opening of hundreds of #gas fields & coal mines and even the construction of new #coal-fired power stations not only in Australia but all over South-east Asia for mercy’s sake and the love of little fishes? Amen.

*re my frankly snitchy use of the term “exquisitely boring.” I point out that I am a well-read person with a big library, not Oscar the Grouch or any sort of curmudgeonly contrarian (though 90% of the epochal titles I had were pinched by the friends of the South Australian police – outlawed motor-cycle club nasties, lie, cheat & steal grifters in the political parties & people perhaps best described as the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Commission mafia (abolition announcement 15/4/2004). Just ask yourself how many dumbarsed @SBS or Morgan Freeman NITV ancient Egypt/ the You-knee-verse/ Con-she-us-ness documentaries (delivered with much repetition and faux drama as if they were all written for flighty distracted underslept 11year-old kids on sugar-highs – while also busy googling useless tourism industry, pseudo-#science & celebrity vanity tosh) you are supposed to mentally digest in one lifetime before something really bad happens??

^a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life. “the romance of the sea” synonyms:mystery · glamour · excitement · colourfulness · colour · exoticism · mystique · appeal · allure · fascination · charm [Powered by Oxford Languages · Bing Translator]

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