{"id":99183,"date":"2021-03-30T07:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=180258"},"modified":"2021-03-30T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T07:50:17","slug":"two-degrees-of-separation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/30\/two-degrees-of-separation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Degrees of Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoom Lockup!<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s this Zoom thing coming round the corner, once again \u2014 Earth Day 2021. The people on the Pacific Coast, Oregon, Central Coast with no industries, winds whipping up air vortices, and air as clean as what it might be in the middle of the ocean, and yet, we have the old white folk planning for some more Zoom Doom fun.<\/p>\n

And not only is this a Zoom Doom \u201csame old usual suspects yakking fest,\u201d but, in fact, some local yokel and state yokel politicians get to bullshit their way through five minutes of nonsense.<\/p>\n

The rules of Zoom like the rules of Earth Day 2021 are make nice, no contrarians, and alas, no one arguing. No criticism. Keep it upbeat and positive. Yep, we got Biden back in office \u2014 [Biden Backs Revival of His Brainchild<\/a>: Plan Colombia 2.0 Set to Begin Next Month \u2014 Colombia is set to return to a massive aerial campaign of spraying Monsanto\u2019s glyphosate across the country, a plan Biden once fought hard with his Republican colleagues to enact.]<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it, really, in the fake world of Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Clubhouse, Slack, and Zoom. There are a thousand major software peddlers readying the schmucks for a digital world of work, world of schooling, world of public engagement (disengagement), world of commerce,  world of culture, the world of arts, music, literature, world of medicine and health care.<\/p>\n

Earth Day 2021 . . . 2022 . . .  2030!<\/p>\n

On the one measly day of the year for celebrating ecosystems, waves, wind, soil, beach, harbor seals, eagles, gulls, cormorants, firs, pines and grasses, the decision to take this one indoors is emblematic of the colonized minds of the, shall I say, liberal class (sic). Neoliberal or demented Democratic minds.<\/p>\n

No use asking me to make an alternative earth day for Lincoln County, some gathering on the beach or along a river (we have limitless beaches and thousands of creeks and rivers). In a rural community, in a community based on retirement, and then making dollars from travelers clogging Highway 101, clogging hotels, restaurants, rest stops, you can\u2019t expect any solidarity. The fact that this school system and those white collar jobs are now Zoom Rooms\/Jobs, brought to us in the privacy of their closets or garages or fancy offices, that baseline has shifted big time since the lock down of a year ago.<\/p>\n

Talk about disruptive and destructive and killer technological shifts. No plan? Right!<\/p>\n

Earth Day is Indigenous People\u2019s Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, on a day of earth benediction, the day of bringing some socialist political zest to the table, a day when Native Americans and First Nations should be front and center, when consumerism-commercialism should be immolated in a symbolic burning of the sales receipts around a big fire, instead we have the Visual Display Terminal (as in terminal disease terminal) as our entry point and end point. One face to the crowd on the 14 inch screen, then our three minutes of Andy Warhol fame, and then, please move on. I am not on it this year, for sure, and last year I dragged myself to the thing.<\/p>\n

Again, no expletives, no anti-Americanism, no antiwar, anti-patriotism or anti-politician rhetoric or song or poem. Keep it quaint, upbeat, positive.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in this rodeo before \u2014 and I polemicized it too, here, at Dissident Voice<\/em>:  \u201cZooming Newport\u2019s Climate Awareness Earth Day 2020\/April 21st, 2020<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

It is, of course, deja vu<\/em>, and that\u2019s how the lords of capital want it \u2014 triangulation, and fear and, well, push those outliers out. I have found in the past year, more of the jobs, gigs, people I interface\/associate with, and other movements I have been a part of have turned into an \u201cus (them) against them (me)\u201d sick Nazi-like defamation of truth. Any critique of the one-party duopoly, any criticism of Harris or Biden, any criticism of the reality of this hegemon, USA, sick before Trump, sick during Trump, sick after Trump, and you not only get ostracized, but penalized. Stitched on Scarlet Letter A for \u2018anarchist,\u2019 red being the underpinning of what it means to be a \u2018communist-socialist.\u2019<\/p>\n

Take the money and run \u2014 that\u2019s the motto, and so, before introducing a short animated video about climate heating and those two degrees Celsius, we have a bit of Haeder banter.<\/p>\n

Particles<\/a> in the Atmosphere and Ozone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let them fool you that 100 or so rocket launches a year (thus far on average, about to go to 200 and then 500) don\u2019t emit much pollution and carbon dioxide in the scheme of things. How much embedded energy to mine that crap, all those wires, metals, plastics, strategic shit, and the electricity, and the transportation? All those human lifetimes expended for Whitey on the Moon, as opposed to stopping the eviscerations of the planet. Right, that isn\u2019t doled out as carbon dioxide emissions. Off-shored, out-sourced, embedded pollution. Forget about the destabilization of those countries where this shit is illegally mined and stolen. Again, science is broken when the capitalists hire scientists to help them steal, pollute, harvest, ruin, destroy, butcher.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

With that, how can we not rethink a 51-year-old poem, wisdom in a jazz bottle, Gil Scott Heron and Whitey on the Moon<\/em>. The point of the song-poem runs deeper now than what Gil was alluding to then, because, if you think about cooptation, think about how many other cultures and nationalities are racing for the moon, for the red planet, the song\u2019s updated title might be \u201cCapitalists on the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no getting around the fact China and USA are capitalist, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (devolution) is about mastering control of the entire populations of those countries (and that is now Canada, India, EU, Japan, Australia, et al<\/em>), outside the super-class of folk in the capital dictatorships.<\/p>\n

What China or USA or UK or Japan or Musk or DoD or any of them want on the moon or mars, well, it\u2019s not for the good of mankind, womankind, children-kind.<\/p>\n

The inverse is the actual affect \u2014 more 5 and 6 G, more wasted and polluting energy. More rockets and blasting satellites and millions of human lifetimes spent on this project, and the outcome\/outflow are less solutions for the commons here on terra firma<\/em>. There will be no reversing ocean acidification or ocean inundation or blasting heat waves, or deluges or dwindling snow-pack, or melting ice with these money-drenched projects of megalomania in space.<\/p>\n

The fact is, food can be grown agro-dynamically. People can live off a much much smaller energy footprint. Industries can be owned by the people for real durable goods that last, hmm, half a lifetime or more? Public trains and trolleys and light-rail, that\u2019s not what the Musk-DoD-China projects are about.  Fisheries can\u2019t be restored, Fukushima isotopes can\u2019t be corralled in, human global health and universal \u201ccorrect\u201d education can never be the end product of these space flights. They are a complete and utter contradiction.<\/p>\n

We know it, and they know it, and we the people have been bamboozled into disbelieving what we see-hear-touch right in front of us. They (masters of finance) are in it for more money, power, wealth, control.<\/p>\n

You can have atom splitters, neutrino collectors, sunspot probes, but, again, don\u2019t try to pull the bullshit capitalist-militarist wool over my eyes: none of that stops the toll of poverty-hunger-war physically weathering billions of people\u2019s lives to the point of lifespans cut down by 10 years or more compared to the stem-cell sucking, human growth hormone eating great white hopes in the Lizard Clan.<\/p>\n

Water on mars? Asteroids with ancient ice? Club Meds in orbit?  You know, none of that is for humanity.<\/p>\n

[Drifting plumes created by the Space Shuttle Atlantis]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alumina and black carbon from rockets can stick around in the stratosphere for three to five years. As these materials collect high above the Earth, they can have interesting effects on the air. Black carbon forms a thin layer that intercepts and absorbs the sunlight that hits Earth. \u201cIt would act as a thin, black umbrella,\u201d says Martin Ross, a senior project engineer at the Aerospace Corporation who studies the effects of rockets on the atmosphere. That may help keep the lower atmosphere cool, but the intercepted energy from the Sun doesn\u2019t just go away; it gets deposited into the stratosphere, warming it up. This warming ultimately causes chemical reactions that could lead to the depletion of the ozone layer.<\/p>\n

The reflective alumina particles can also affect the ozone but in a different way. Whereas the soot acts like a black umbrella, the alumina acts like a white one, reflecting sunlight back into space. However, chemical reactions occur on the surface of these white particles, which, in turn, destroy the ozone layer, Ross says.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Diet for Parasites of Capitalism \u2014 8 by 10 condo on Devils Island<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s sort of like the anti-diabetes diet \u2014 cut down on white food (rice, bread, pasta, potatoes), walk more, drink water, take a few natural herbs, suck on cinnamon, get flavonoids, pig out on leafy vegetables, stop the EMF\u2019s in  your sleeping space, stop the anxiety of TV-Movies-Facebook. Or, what about the real process of land reclamation? It takes removing the trash, the toxins, and then rebuilding the soil, replanting with native plants, readjusting the land to its natural eco-state.<\/p>\n

Simple solutions. And, it\u2019s never going to be rocket science that helps the planet, people or others in the animal and plant kingdoms.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled by Netflix, the Dystopia Stories, the Bizarre Bumbling Cop-Spy-Soldier-Super Hero soap operas. None of that is reality, and, the shortcuts that capitalism has exacted on Mother Earth, well, after more than 300 years of the trillions of lies, here we are, Whitey on the Moon<\/em>, 51 years after Gil Scott Heron sang it\u201d !!<\/p>\n

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We have a poem here
It\u2019s called \u201cWhitey on the Moon\u201d
And, uh, it was inspired, it was inspired
By some whiteys on the moon
So I wanna give credit where credit is due<\/p>\n

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey\u2019s on the moon<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t pay no doctor bills
But whitey\u2019s on the moon
Ten years from now, I\u2019ll be paying still
While whitey\u2019s on the moon<\/p>\n

You know, the man just upped my rent last night
\u2018Cause whitey\u2019s on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But whitey\u2019s on the moon<\/p>\n

I wonder why he\u2019s uppin\u2019 me
\u2018Cause whitey\u2019s on the moon?
Well I was already given him fifty a week
And now whitey\u2019s on the moon<\/p>\n

Taxes takin\u2019 my whole damn check
The junkies make me a nervous wreck
The price of food is goin\u2019 up
And as if all that crap wasn\u2019t enough<\/p>\n

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey\u2019s on the moon<\/p>\n

With all that money I made last year
For whitey on the moon
How come I ain\u2019t got no money here
Hmm, whitey\u2019s on the moon<\/p>\n

You know I just about had my fill
Of whitey on the moon
I think I\u2019ll send these doctor bills
Airmail special (to whitey on the moon)<\/p>\n

To whitey on the moon
Thank you<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Old whitey now ready to build millions of carbon dioxide sucking machines. Old whitey ready for terra-forming on Mars. Old whitey looking to mess with the water cycle, the cloud systems, the first 15 meters of biological life on the oceans with iron shavings. Old whitey and his and her geoengineering.<\/p>\n

Whitey is way beyond just blasting to the moon. Old whitey is messing with DNA, genetically engineering not just crops. Welcome the GMO human, a la<\/em> vaccines.<\/p>\n

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