Mother Nature Is An International Woman - 2

Some Can't Get Their Life Back

In the first post of this series we pointed out that Mother Nature, like other women, is being persecuted in the U.S.eh? as much or more than ever before.

During the greatest U.S. environmental catastrophe, so far, the Dredd Blog System followed the Deepwater Horizon dirty oil corruption in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), with many posts, such as Danger Lurks In The Deep Water and From Deepwater I To Deepwater II.

Now, a portion of MOMCOM, the mortal enemy of Mother Nature, is "returning to the homeland" to finish her off.

So, now that the journalists have left the GOM, now that the president has brought his two children to swim in those waters as if to say "all is now well", and now that Republicans, who think that global warming is a hoax, have taken the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, what does the future look like for the GOM and Mother Nature in general?

More than likely it will be more of the same, that is, the U.S.eh? will become more and more like a third world country:

"I want my life back."

A new study of dolphins living close to the site of North America's worst ever oil spill – the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe two years ago – has established serious health problems afflicting the marine mammals ... The research follows the publication of several scientific studies ... which all suggest that the environmental impact of the five-month long spill may have been far worse than previously appreciated ...

The study of the dolphins in Barataria Bay, off the coast of Louisiana, followed two years in which the number of dead dolphins found stranded on the coast close to the spill had dramatically increased. Although all but one of the 32 dolphins were still alive when the study ended, lead researcher Lori Schwacke said survival prospects for many were grim ...

(GOM Still Dying, emphasis added). So, after assaulting Mother Nature, what does the MOMCOM gang now have in mind?

The answer is "the typical psychopathic double down", it would seem:

The “curse” of oil wealth is a well-known phenomenon in Third World petro-states where millions of lives are wasted in poverty and the environment is ravaged, while tiny elites rake in the energy dollars and corruption rules the land. Recently, North America has been repeatedly hailed as the planet’s twenty-first-century “new Saudi Arabia” for “tough energy” -- deep-sea oil, Canadian tar sands, and fracked oil and natural gas. But here’s a question no one considers: Will the oil curse become as familiar on this continent in the wake of a new American energy rush as it is in Africa and elsewhere? Will North America, that is, become not just the next boom continent for energy bonanzas, but a new energy Third World?

The Jingoist Bucks Reality

Once upon a time, the giant U.S. oil companies -- Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, and Texaco -- got their start in North America, launching an oil boom that lasted a century and made the U.S. the planet’s dominant energy producer. But most of those companies have long since turned elsewhere for new sources of oil.

Eager to escape ever-stronger environmental restrictions and dying oil fields at home, the energy giants were naturally drawn to the economically and environmentally wide-open producing areas of the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America -- the Third World -- where oil deposits were plentiful, governments compliant, and environmental regulations few or nonexistent.

Here, then, is the energy surprise of the twenty-first century: with operating conditions growing increasingly difficult in the global South, the major firms are now flocking back to North America. To exploit previously neglected reserves on this continent, however, Big Oil will have to overcome a host of regulatory and environmental obstacles. It will, in other words, have to use its version of deep-pocket persuasion to convert the United States into the functional equivalent of a Third World petro-state.

Knowledgeable observers are already noting the first telltale signs of the oil industry’s “Third-Worldification” of the United States. Wilderness areas from which the oil companies were once barred are being opened to energy exploitation and other restraints on invasive drilling operations are being dismantled. Expectations are that, in the wake of the 2012 election season, environmental regulations will be rolled back even further and other protected areas made available for development. In the process, as has so often been the case with Third World petro-states, the rights and wellbeing of local citizens will be trampled underfoot.

(U.S. To Become A Third World Energy Nation, emphasis added). I am reminded that Obama told Medvedev he would be able to be more flexible after the election, as well as being reminded of The Elections of Pontius Pilots post a while back.

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Quote from Hansen Video, at about 7:25 into it:

"The total energy imbalance now [not enough heat radiating into space because of green house gasses] is about .6 watt per square meter. That may not sound like much, but when added up over the whole world, it's enormous. It's about 20 times greater than the rate of energy used by all of humanity. It's equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year. That is how much extra energy Earth is gaining each day. This imbalance means, if we want to stabilize climate, we must reduce CO2 ..."

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Rush Limbaugh Helps Democrats

Pig Headed Potty Mouth On Steroids

On Morning Joe of MSNBC, today, Willie Geist pointed out that republicans are down 25 points with women, following what Joe Scarborough calls the "chain the women to the stove in the kitchen" plank in their ugly ongoing platform.

A real loser strategy, a real FAIL strategy for sure, thanks in large measure to Rush "Xanax The Spud" Limbaugh, who went pig-time potty mouth several weeks ago, picking on a woman college student with words that damaged the republicans, and sparked outrage in sensible people around the nation.

Not Just For The Primary Anymore

Rick "3 Is The Loneliest Number" Perry implemented a state of Texas version of this loser strategy, which cost the state tens of millions in federal dollars, not to mention the votes of sensible people there in the state of secession.

And now, Rick "Science Is A Hoax" Santorum, who is not satisfied with having been crushed in his loser election that removed him from the Senate, is developing a strategy that may net him a loss in the upcoming primary in his home state.

That strategery was enough to trigger several endorsements for Mitt "I Laugh When Factories Close" Romney.

One of those endorsers, Bush I, said: "it is not time to hold 'em, it is time to fold 'em", evidently thinking that there are already enough six-shooter holes in the "foot area" of cowboy boots worn by republican candidates; holes put there by republican candidates themselves.

Now, they are all walking around scared, thinking "what could be worse?", to suddenly cringe when they realize what could be worse ("an endorsement" from a certain ex High Priest In Chief).

Then they strongly pray for hope they can believe in: Bush "Childruns Do Learn" II endorsing the other guy.

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Secular Secrecy Cults In Government - 3

In the first post of this series Dredd Blog discussed the growing, mad obsession government insiders have with secrecy.

In the second post of this series we pointed out that scientists want to name this current civilization "The Anthropocene Epoch", but the government wants that to stay out of the national news.

The Carbon Map, @Historical View, shows that the U.S. has polluted the Earth's atmosphere much more that its per capita amount. That is, our population being only about 5% of the world, has done more atmospheric pollution, historically, than any of the other 187 relevant nations of the world.

The government does not want us to know that emerging science revolutionizes what we know of ourselves, seeing as how "human cells" are only 10% of our bodies, and 90% of the cells in our body are microbe cells.

The government does not want us to know that what is termed "reason", in today's government policies, is actually an 18th century concept which science now knows is false.

The government does not want us to know the new meaning of sanity, which comes with the new territory of knowing where we fit in the cosmos, because knowing these new things shows that the government is psychopathic.

The previous post in this series is here.

Here Come De Conservative Judges - 3

An Olde Ruling In My Flavor

The history of posts on this subject of a very conservative federal judiciary was laid out in the previous post in this series.

That post also happened to present a history of evolution from left to right within the federal judiciary, concluding with the point that currently the federal judiciary is more right-wing than at any time since ~1937.

The federal Supreme Court this week is doing what Dredd Blog expected to be one result of this "natural evolution" one would expect from that ongoing metamorphic phenomenon.

As was pointed out in the post Conservative Judiciary vs. Obama, we identified a phenomenon that is "down stream" from their coronation of Bush I, which said coronation began this current acceleration of the national demise, which we said would eventually also engender "confrontation" with the Obama folks.

The term "get backs" comes to mind, especially after Obama castigated The Supreme Five, for their Citizens United v FEC decision, in a State of The Union Address.

Now they are considering health care reform, which evidently the Obama Regime considered to be the crown jewel of "the first four years."

Be all that as it may, in today's post I wanted to point out how all of this "reasoning" is psychologically detached from reality.

Fundamentally, what is happening is a clash of what the opposing parties consider to be a clash of "reason", but what modern scientists now know is not reason at all.

The parties' concept of reason is so 18th century, as we pointed out in yesterday's post concerning social dementia:

What we see, hear, smell, taste, and experience via other sensory input, goes through our amygdala before it ever reaches the area of our conscious brain (see e.g. The Toxic Bridge To Everywhere, a post with some focus on fear-based damage to the amygdala as one source of social dementia.)

The amygdala can and does sometimes actually become like a PR (public relations) firm within the brain, which "spins" everything to fit our culture's world view, in effect to deceive us, or to render us socially demented (which can be simply defined as "becoming a member of a culture, meme complex, group, or society that is out of touch with reality").

I mean this in the sense of a meme complex or group, that has been affected by ruling group mind (RGM), for example.

This explains, for another example, why conservatives deny global warming, in the sense that they are a group, a sub-culture, or a meme complex. One which does not understand how to reason, because they actually don't know what reason is.

Let's finish this post with a video of Professor George Lakoff discussing some cultural out-of-touch issues, especially our society's utterly false notion of "reason" based on 18th century academics ...

(Etiology of Social Dementia). That link to the post "Why Conservatives Deny Global Warming", in the above quote, discusses conservatives who now have the majority on the Supreme Court, on federal appellate courts, and in the federal district courts.

They have a "special" way of doing what they call "reason."

That faux form of reasoning, according to formal logic (since it begins with a false premise), must end up with a false deduction, a false conclusion.