Part of the problem with being a literacy junkie is the number of publications that offer yearly subscriptions below that dollar-per-issue threshold. Succumb and you’ve soon got a mailbox full of questionable uses for pulp. This month’s rankings are now in and it’s time for the “Kudos and Dodos Awards”.
A frequent winner of the Dodos Award has been Popular Mechanics. This Hearst owned propagandist screed has reversed their Dodo trend with the excellent article in their October issue titled, “How BP Blew It’. If you have questions about America’s largest oil ‘spill’ then this is a must read and this month’s clear Kudos Award winner.
Millions of Americans have worked for over a century to provide safe and reliable use of Earth’s hydrocarbon legacy. To have a ‘disaster’ of this magnitude requires multiple violations of established safety protocol and violations of just plain common sense. The PM article takes the reader through the twisted logic of systemic failure that is British Petroleum and the nightmare of this predictable, preventable event.
This article is a ‘must read’ for any plaintiff lawyer planning a tort in court. Runner up in the Kudos Award is Rolling Stone for the Matt Taibbi article, “BP’s Shock Waves” which introduces another bit of organic waste in the banking cesspool. Under the crapola known as ‘derivatives’ were the ‘credit default swaps’ and now we learn there are ‘collateralized synthetic obligations’ rotting beneath those fiat financial instruments.
When you thought it couldn’t possibly get worse, the progenitors of the S &L crisis, the Dot Com bust, the Fannie-Freddie Fraud and the TARP rip-off have displayed their talents again. This time, as Taibbi says “Selling not just actual debt, but bets on the debt”. All of these frauds were created by the products of the drunken orgy that passes for Ivy League education.
What qualifies Rolling Stone for this month’s “Dodo Award” is the ridiculous “On Thin Ice” which attempts to amplify the lame ice cap/sea level threat. What Matt has done over the last year is to lay out excellent proof that Wall Street bankers have formed into a giant “Vampire Squid” and are sucking the world's monetary blood supply dry.
What the editors of Rolling Stone have failed to grasp is that the bankers are just the greedy eyes of this squid. Like all Cephalopods, this squid has ten tentacle laced arms waving in a constant search for prey. The banking tentacle is just one arm, wrapping its victim in debt and pulling it into the crushing jaws.
The same Franklin Reines that presided over the Fannie-Freddie Fraud also bought the patent rights to the carbon credit market which were paid for WITH TAXPAYER MONEY. He then filed an amended patent naming himself and fellow insiders as holders of OUR patent. This arm of the squid then uses taxpayer money to pay ‘green scientists’ who say that we must buy carbon credits to save the planet.
The link between all of these players and the common methods of larceny is beyond obvious. As the pocked bodies of every adult whale show, squid tentacles are covered with powerful suckers that can rip your flesh. The longer you ignore the carbon credit tentacle, the more flesh you will have ripped away and the closer you are drawn to the life ending mandibles.
The dilemma for true science is how to counter a powerful tentacle covered with deadly suckers. These suckers may just be over-paid, lab-coated believers or knowing accomplices in fraud, but they will not turn lose of the victim easily. To be freed you must be informed. To understand you must be educated beyond the layman level of science. The best way to do that is to have a visit with your trusted big brother, not the Orwellian type, the loving ‘Leave It to Beaver’ type who is highly trained in science.
The AGW Mirrored Hall of Horrors
The carnival is in town and so is your idolized Big Brother, home for the weekend from college and willing to share time and knowledge with his Little Brother at the sideshow. First stop is the AGW Horror House where every mirror shows some horrid image of humanity. The uplifting and enlightening conversation might go like this:
LB: This mirror says that gases humans make when things burn is warming the planet.
BB: The Sun is 330,000 times bigger than Earth and over 10,000 degrees hot. The Earth is 2500 degrees hot just 40 miles below our feet. When mom is cooking with the pressure cooker on the stove, it is the temperature of the burner and the weight of the pressure cap that determines the cooking time. If you laid a feather on top of the cooker it might change the cooking time by micro-seconds. The carbon gas that people put in the air is no more that a feather to this giant system.
LB: This mirror says that human gases will melt the ice caps and flood the world.
BB: When we get home we’ll google ‘Last Glacial Maximum’ and I’ll show you where the shorelines were just 20,000 years ago when half the planet was covered with ice and the oceans were 450 ft lower than today. People did not do anything to make that change happen.
LB: This mirror says that using fossil fuels will make the animals go extinct.
BB: Scientist Doug Hoffman has a great article “The Developing Diversity Scam” which covers the six biggest mass extinctions in Earth’s history. Humans did not even exist when the planet lost those plants and animals. Earth also has had partial extinctions that are a mystery. Just 12,000 years ago North America had mammoths bigger than elephants, saber toothed tigers bigger than bears, dire wolves bigger than lions and European settlers that made the Clovis arrowheads. All of these disappeared here in an instant, but there was no extinction in other places. People did not cause any of these extinctions. Sorry Bro, but sometimes people lie.
LB: These mirrors just say what our science books say at school.
BB: Most of the mirrors that people make are flat and show the way things really look. But if you want to pay the mirror man to make funny or scary looking mirrors he can. The same way with science. Most science shows you the way things are, but sometimes scientists get paid to show you scary things. But they are only scary if your believe them. When you know the way things really are, then a lot of scary things become funny. All of these mirrors look the same. Let’s go play some Laser Tag for a while.
So ends this session at the park with our science illiterate little brother, The Rolling Stone magazine. RS may claim the moral high ground for only printing on recycled paper with carbon neutral presses. RS may claim solidarity with the sanctimonious hoards of Hollywood and the loony leftist Democratic Party. RS may ignore that ‘climate science’ is in fact just one tentacle of the monstrous banking squid.
But the longer that you ignore this evil reality, the closer humanity is drawn to that crushing beak. When the vampire squid sucks blood, it is from all of us. The RS greenie fig leaf will offer no protection IF the monopolist machine completes their plan. RS will have been the useful and expendable idiots that the ‘art’ nurtured population has historically been. Continued subscription to the green creed is prolonged insanity.
[I hope this article is helpful to those of you in contact with today’s impressionable young minds in peril. This information may also be helpful to those with adult lusts, adult bodies but only juvenile science minds. This appears to be the Rolling Stone target audience.]
