CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Fossil fuel dependency is now a house of cards. Production and distribution have become so concentrated that stopping the system is not as difficult as it has been in the past.

@amalia22 it is off the scale. The article mentions Ruslana Korshunova...."settling her estate". Ruslana took her own life after being abused by these monsters.

#Epstein led an industrial sized sex slave network..

Model agent begged Epstein to have sex with young woman, emails show:

Model agent begged Epstein to have sex with young woman, emails show

Ramsey Elkholy introduced the financier to women as young as 18 in correspondence over almost a decade.

(www.bbc.com)

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? | The New Yorker

One of the few things that Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918, had a talent for was causing outrage. One of the many things that Wilhelm was convinced he was brilliant at, despite all evidence to the contrary, was “personal diplomacy,” fixing foreign policy through one-on-one meetings with other European monarchs and statesmen. In fact, Wilhelm could do neither the personal nor the diplomacy, and these meetings rarely went well. The Kaiser viewed other people in instrumental terms, was a compulsive liar, and seemed to have a limited understanding of cause and effect. He was susceptible but never truly controllable. He asserted his authority unpredictably, as if to prove he was still in charge, staging rogue interventions into his own advisers’ policies and sacking ministers without warning. Sound familiar? Revisit Miranda Carter on the lessons of Kaiser Wilhelm II:

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

Miranda Carter draws comparisons between President Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose touchiness, unpredictability, and narcissism helped precipitate the fall of the German Empire.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

@Richard_Littler I would argue that it's more about a system of value than what individual people do or have accumulated. In turn it is a system that directs all that we do and how society is organised. Perhaps the most obvious measure of value in this system is money. But there are other measures of value. To borrow from Pierre Bourdieu, these measures include social, cultural and symbolic capital. All these forms of value drive the hierarchical division of humanity and unequal distribution of resources and wealth. Aliens are more likely to see us as prisoners of our own childish desires and irrational fears, than as simply slaves to a privilege class. The wealth isn't so much the issue as the ridiculous and cruel system that produces it (along with hunger, homelessness, war, militarism, nationalism, poverty, wage slavery, colonialism, child labor, mass consumption, resource exploration, environmental destruction, global warming, hoarding, super yachts, gated communities....... and so on).

A video of the 2023 performance with Devil Buddha that I posted earlier

https://vimeo.com/885010008

@amalia22 greed?

Per many reports, Trump has been (1) guessing the foot size of various White House officials, and (2) ordering the same Florsheim wingtips for them.

That Marco Rubio (and evidently plenty others) feel obliged to wear shoes that don't fit is a great way to understand everything else that's happening.

The mad king is never wrong and must be placated, even if it requires your debasement. Cowards and court jesters, the whole lot.