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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