Category: Politics

climate change note book — what next?

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I’ve decided not to write daily entries in my climate change note book. It became too depressing for me to document, especially with stories flooding in about the impact of climate change and global warming here in the US as well as around the world. I stopped on Sunday, Juneteenth/Flather’s Day, just to have a day off from writing and to celebrate, in my own small way, Juneteenth. I am no fan of Father’s Day which is nothing more than a cynical appeal to our sentimentality by major corporations and for those corporations to grab ever more cash out of our wallets.

When I tried to add another entry to my climate change note book on the following Monday I just could not do it. Nor can I do it today. What I’ll probably do is add an entry once/week, like my Caturday and Friday Funnies entries. Maybe a Sunday entry.

Besides the problems with global warming there’s Russia’s unlawful ongoing war in Ukraine, and Russia’s threats against those who oppose that unlawful war. If Europe thinks they can ignore or appease Russia, meaning Putin, then they’re out of their pea pickin’ minds.

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It goes without saying that the January 6 committee has finally, devastatingly, and with small enough words that even the Magats can understand, shown without doubt Trump was responsible, and more damningly, he knew every step of the way he was lying. As a side note, Liz Cheney is a Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney. Like her daddy she has a steel backbone and knows no fear. And like her daddy, you mess with her and you get a face full of (metaphorical) buckshot.

Cryptocurrencies are the latest Ponzi scheme. In case you haven’t paid attention this week, the value (in US dollars!) have plunged dramatically and still continue to drop and drop… Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows failed to meet its margin calls. That triggered Finblox to impose a US$1,500/month withdrawal limit. And the biggest and latest failure is Celsius, a major crypto financial services company, blocked all withdrawals from crypto funds. Celsius is for big “institutional” investors, which has attracted the unwanted attention of state security regulators in Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, Texas and Washington. Which should be of concern for those 401(k) funds that “diversified” into crytocurrencies.

We all raised a big stink with the Trump administration when journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally assassinated at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman inside the Saudi consulate in Instanbul in 2018. The Biden administration pretty much pushed him and Saudi Arabia off to the side when he came into office. Until now. The rising cost of gasoline due to the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine has put the entire oil market into chaos, and if there’s anything that oil market investors love, it’s chaos because the price of oil always goes up. I suppose Biden is trying to get the Saudis to increase production to help bring down the cost of crude, but I don’t think the Saudis have excess production, and if they did, why should they? They benefit from these high prices as well. I hope Biden comes away with something positive from this trip, but at this point, all this trip does is show him (and America) as weak. Just remember, we got here because of four years of Trumpism.