For years now, I have scoured news sites, usually early in the morning, and found articles that I believe show trends; trends that indicate a direction that frankly scares the hell out of me.
Here and in Asia, I wrote pieces for a LA Mag about such things. Since the election and all that has happened since... I am exhausted, and frankly- disillusioned as hell.
I came home from Singapore jobless, insuranceless, and in absolute culture shock- my return predicated by my Mom being 94 and in her waning days, and to spend more time with my 5 sons here.
I believe we live in a perilous, poverty-bound time of Inverted Totalitarianism mixed in with Brave New World- a little 1984 thrown in for dessert.
I believe that while we're being bamboozled with bullshit,
distraction, and derision-
we might want to focus a bit on food clothing and shelter for 7 billion+
that the underreported most consequential issues of our time are:
-global warming
-global domination imposed on a newly emerging debtor class
by a global banking plutocracy
-the heretofore unseen demographic shift to massive aged and infirm populations.
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As I commented on the Senator Sander's diary earlier today:
My fear is that the big money 'has already left town.'
280 billion offshore lost tax revenue.
360 trillion in Libor derivatives
...with the rapid globalisation of the financial plutocracy...
D.C.'s primary constituency has been Big Money for years. And the acceleration of that devolution is reaching fruition- perhaps irrevocably compromising our bedrock of bottom up capitalism- and more important: Democracy.
As much as I enjoy the 'communion,' respite, rest, recovery, and security within the Kos-o-phere, I don't want to get too indoctrinated into battling a false enemy created for our amusement, disdain, distraction, and derision. I'm afraid of being hoodwinked... always paranoid of being even further bamboozled.
So here are some of the latest obscure news pieces i have drudged up (absolutely no pun intended):
Europe sees “grave risks” from US spy law http://www.salon.com/...
U.S. Climate Change Coverage Declined In 2012 Even As Year Set Major Record http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Overfishing causes Pacific bluefin tuna numbers to drop 96% http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Almost half of the world's food thrown away, report finds http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Mexico City Dog Attacks Leaves 4 Dead In Cerro De La Estrella, According To Authorities http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Wired: US Air Force Quietly Assembling Near Iran
http://www.benzinga.com/...
1000s Dead- Tehran Pollution Crisis: Thousands Dead In Iran's Capital As Government Warns To Stay Indoors
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Chris Hedges: New Documents on Activist Surveillance May Be "Just the Tip of the Iceberg"
http://truth-out.org/...
Judge: Texas school can force student to wear RFID badge
http://www.salon.com/...
5 ways Obama is just like George W. Bush
http://www.salon.com/...
Hypnotized into an endless dirty war
http://www.salon.com/...
What Would Aldous Huxley Say About Our Always-Connected Society?
http://www.slate.com/...
Drone-proof clothing shelters from surveillance
http://www.salon.com/...
Forget Overcrowding. The World Population Could Start Declining.
http://www.slate.com/...
This Simple, Legal Add-On Lets an AR-15 Rifle Fire 900 Rounds Per Minute
http://www.slate.com/...
America's Craziest Sheriff Sends Vigilantes To Arizona Schools http://thinkprogress.org/...
America's hottest year on record: a state by state map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Kathryn Bigelow Defends 'Zero Dark Thirty's' Torture Scenes
http://www.starpulse.com/...
What Does Biofuel Have To Do With the Price of Tortillas in Guatemala?
http://www.motherjones.com/...
Drone war picks up again in Pakistan
http://www.salon.com/...
Florida Governor Inflates Cost Of Medicaid Expansn By 2,500% To Avoid Implementing Obamacare
http://thinkprogress.org/...
* no wonder I'm tired.. And I'm probably the most bamboozled of all.