for - indigenous empowerment - Greenland - Trump

Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History by [[Chris Murphy]]

for - article - The Atlantic - Trump staff security breach - Yemen attack plans - shared on Signal

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/gulf-in-us-and-russian-expectations-marks-start-of-latest-ceasefire-talks

Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves by [[Elisabeth Bumiller]]

Free speech matters, and so does DEI (opinion) by [[Michael S. Roth]]

https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Letter-ED-DCL-022525.pdf

2025-02-25 letter from Ted Mitchell to Craig Trainor

Trump reportedly set to order dismantling of Education Dept. by [[Jessica Blake]]

Dem amerikanischen Historiker Künstlubodien zufolge ist ein Vorbild für die Trump-Administration weniger der historische Faschismus in Italien und Deutschland als die kapitalistische oligarchien Herrschaft in Saudi Arabien. Tramp Wolle die USA zu einem modernen Petro stattmachen. Er wolle dazu die Weltweite Abhängigkeit von den USA nicht nur beim Öl ausnutzen. Außerdem stütze er sich auf die enorm finanziellen Ressourcen Saudi-Abiens. Der S.A. in den New York Times stützt diese Tese mit einer Vielzahl von Einzelbeobachtungen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-saudi-arabia-america.html

for - adjacency - Trump totalitarianism threat - shifting - from individualism - to collectivism - native american genocide - to - native american genocide - https://hyp.is/k-wdTAHDEfC5o3MaWCAlmw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ddjSbnzS4

adjacency - between - Trump totalitarianism threat - shift - from individualism - to collectivism - native american genocide - adjacency relationship - The shift now required from individualism to collectivism is going to be difficult - The anglo-american model of society adopted by the US is one of individualism - The theft of land and genocide of native americans is based on destroying thousands of years of their cultural norms of collectivism and assimilating them into a foreign culture of individualism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/trump-fossil-fuels-oil-and-gas

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2025/03/07/news/usa_trump_musk_scienza_marcia_contro_tagli-424048624/

Im Standard berichtet Klaus Taschwer über die wissenschaftsfeindliche Politik der Trump-Administration und über die Protestkundgebungen österreichischer Forschender dagegen, die am 7. März in Wien und Salzburg stattfanden. Taschwer verweist auf historische Vorbilder für die US-Maßnahmen, darunter die Regime Orbáns und des Austrofaschismus. Er verlinkt aktuelle Quellen, darunter den „Trump Tracker“ des Magazins Science https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000260241/heute-wird-fuer-wissenschaft-und-gegen-trump-demonstriert

Trump-Tracker: https://www.science.org/content/article/science-trump-latest-news

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/donald-trump-executive-orders-signed-list

Bericht über die Schließung von Regierungswebsites mit Inhalten zur Klimakrise in den ersten Wochen der zweiten Amtszeit Trumps. Eine Richtlinie der Kommunikationsabteilung schreibt vor, jede auf den Klimawandel fokussierte Webseite zu archivieren oder zu depublizieren. Betroffen waren u.a. das Climate Change Resource Center, der Climate Action Tracker und und die National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change auf der Website des US Forest Service. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis

Die Trump-Rierung plant weitere 1000 Stellen bei der Klima- und Wetteragentur NOAA zu streichen. 1300 Angestellte wurden bereits entlasten. Damit würde das Personal einer der weltweit wichtigsten Institutionen für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung insgesamt um 20% gekürzt. Eine große Zahl von wissenschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen hat gegen den Abbau der Behörde protestiert, mit dem die Administation eine Forderung des „Project 2025“ umsetzt. Der Artikel der New York Times geht auch auf die Demonstrationen zum Schutz der Wissenschaft ein, die es in vielen amerikanischen Universitätsstätten gab. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/climate/noaa-layoffs-trump.html

Aufforderung wissenschaftlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen an den Kongress: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDwAWUPXeN5VPrLTu3wW6E7xMrJCu-a-/view

Yet, somehow it's the Christian Right that's voting for Trump?! How is this an argument? It's not for the liberals to make a critique of something the Christian Right should be doing better at.

for - quote - Donald Trump psychopathology - Mary Trump

for - Trump Zelensky Oval Office fiasco - analysis from Mary Trump

Summary - Mary Trump gives an insightful and thoughtful explanation of the psychopathology behind Donald Trump's immense insecurity streaming from his own childhood abuse from his father - Having a man in a position off power with this level of deeply unresolved psychopathology is incredibly dangerous for humanity

for - Trump Zelensky Oval Office fiasco - analysis from Mary Trump

for - quote - Trump is the backlash to globalization

quote - globalization - Trump is the result - Robert Kaplan - Globalization, - rather than unite the world - has split societies asunder: - creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and - an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. - It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. - What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.

for - comparison - Trump - Hitler - Mussolini comment - Hitler and Mussolini didn't commit atrocities early on in their careers. - Trump is busy deconstructing democracy. Give him a chance. He may soon evolve into one.

for - article - Counterpunch - Trump and the Conservative U.S. Counter-Revolution

Reuters-Bericht über die bisher mindestens 800 Entlassungen bei der amerikanischen Wetter- und Klimaagentur NOAA, die am Donnerstag begannen. Betroffen sind unter anderem Wissenschaftler:innen, die sich mit Klimamodellierung beschäftigten. Leidtragen sind nicht nur Gruppen, die auf präzise Wettervorhersagen angewiesen sind, sondern auch arme Länder, die sich keine ähnlichen Einrichtungen leisten können. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-firings-us-weather-agency-will-put-lives-risk-scientists-say-2025-02-28/

Überblicksartikel von 2019 zu den Angriffen auf die Wissenschaft während der ersten Trump-Regierung und ihre kurz- und langfristigen Folgen. Forschungen zur Klimakrise und öffentlichen Gesundheit wurden behindert, weil sie den Interessen der fossilen Industrien schaden. Der Kampf gegen Foschung, die Interessen bestimmter Unternehmen und Branchen bedroht, ging aber weit über die Klimathematik hinaus und dient u.a. auch der Chemie- und Agroindustrien. Zu den Maßnahmen gehörten: - Beendigung von Forschungsprojekten - Abbau des Einflusses von Wissenschaftler:innen auf regulatorische Entscheidungen - Verhinderung von öffentlichen Stellungnahmen von Wissenschaftler:innen - Behinderung von Forschungen zum menschengemachten Klimawandel - Vorschreiben erwünschter Forschungsergebnisse - Overruling von Experten durch politische Funktionäre bei Begutachtungen und Regulierungen - Einstellungsstopps und Entlassungen - Entfernung bestimmter Wissenschaftler:innen aus Beratungsgremien - Verbot der Berücksichtigung bestimmter Wissenschaftstypen bei Regulierungen - Druck auf Forschende, unwissenschaftliche Aussagen des Präsidenten zu unterstützen - Schließung von Forschungszentren und -büros und Auflösung von Ausschüssen - Umsiedlungen von Behörden und Forschungseinrichtungen in unattraktive Gegenden

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/climate/trump-administration-war-on-science.html

Nach den Erfahrungen mit den Angriffen der ersten Trump-Administration auf die Wissenschaft haben Wissenschaftler:innen in den USA verschiedene Maßnahmen zum Schutz wissenschaftlicher Institutionen ergriffen. Die New York TImes berichtet ausführlich über diese scientific integrity policies, die wissenschaftliche Arbeit öffentlich beobachtbar machen, aber politische Einflussnahme ausschließen sollen. Die Biden- und schon die Obama-Administration haben scientific integrity policies gefördert. Zu den Maßnahmen gehören die Benennung von Verantwortlichen für wissenschaftliche Integrität in Behörden und Kollektivverträge, die die Disziplinierung von Forschenden erschweren.

Zum „War on Science“ schon der ersten Trump-Regierung gehörte außer Entlassungen von Wissenschaftler:innen auch die Anordnung der Verfälschung von Forschungsergebnissen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/climate/trump-government-scientists.html

Die Redaktion von Nature verurteilt die Angriffe der Trump-Regierung auf die Wissenschaft und fordert die internationale wissenschaftliche Community auf die bedrohte US-Wissenschaft zu unterstützen. Die US-Regierung arbeite an der Zerstörung der bisher führenden Rolle der amerikanischen wissenschaftlichen Institutionen. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00562-w

650 Angestellte der US-Klima- und Wetterbehörde NOAA haben in dieser Woche Kündigungsschreiben erhalten, das sind etwa 5% des Personals. Die Behörde soll sich sich offenbar auf die Wettervorhersage konzentrieren, während u.a. Klimawissenschaftler:innen Ziel einer Säuberung sind. Das Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory der NOAA stellt seine Öffentlichkeitsarbeit wegen Personalkürzungen ein. Durch den Personalabbau, auf den NGOs und viele Wissenschaftler:innen mit Entsetzen reagierten, werden Services unmöglich, die u.a. für Landwirtschaft, Fischerei und Meeresschutz essentiell sind. Die Abwicklung der NOAA gehört zu den im „Project 2025“ vorgesehenen Maßnahmen. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-27/mass-firings-noaa-national-weather-service-ignite-fury

Die Trump-Administration will 65% der 15.000 Angestellten der Umweltbehörde EPA entlassen. Die Zahl geht auf den von Trump ernannten neuen Chef der Behörde Lee Zeldin zurück.

https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/les-agences-gouvernementales-promis-a-des-licenciements-massifs-saignee-pour-lagence-de-protection-de-lenvironnement-20250226_IIZTZD44KZBJZADBASG6M4QWNA/

Kurzer Kommentar zum „War on Science“ der Trump-Regierung. Dazu gehören die Kürzung von 65% des Budgets der Umweltbehörde EPA, die Entlassung Hunderter von Wissenschaftller:innen bei der Klima- und Wettterbehörde NOAA und die Streichung des Worts „Klima“ aus Regierungsdokumenten. Der Untertitel „The Performance of Power over Truth“ trifft such die Bloßstellung Selenskyjs gestern.

https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/the-war-on-science

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• adjacency
• between
  • Trump policy
  • bankruptcy of rural farmers
  • big ag land grab
  • big ag takeover of small rural farms
  • emergency fnancing for regenerative farming
• adjacency relationship
  • Trumps defunding of critical agricultural support programs will result in large scale bankruptcy of small rural farms
  • Big ag will swoop in and buy up these farms for pennies on the dollar
  • There needs to be a national plan for emergency financing for regenerative, community-owned farming businesses to prevent this huge wealth transfer to the elites

Why Are Some Of Our Most Successful Leaders Mentally Ill? by [[Ian Leslie]]

suggested by ES

Fits into an earlier theory about insane leaders... where's the source?

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/

Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump by [[Isabel van Brugen]]

It’s time for Americans to withhold their taxes by [[Judith Levine]]

‘Very, Very Bad’: Ex-Government Economist Makes Bleakest Trump Prediction by [[Lee Moran]]

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/02/18/news/ucraina_condizioni_durissime_trump_telegraph_bozza_accordo-424011582/?ref=RHLF-BG-P3-S2-T1

Überblick über die gegen Klimaschutz und Energiewende gerichteten Maßnahmen der Trump-Regierung (33 vor Mitte Februar). Anders als bei der ersten Amtsübernahme Trumps ist die Administration diesmal bereit, das Verwaltungsrecht zu brechen. Executive Orders betreffen u.a. die Bereitstellung von Land in Bundesbesitz für Öl- und Gasprojekte, Behinderungen von Windenergie-Projekten und einen Stop der Bereitstellung von Ladeinfrastruktur und der Auszahlung von Subventionen für Wärmepumpen und Fotovoltaik an Einkommensschwächere. Ein Tool zum Verfolgen der Maßnahmen ist der Climate Backtracker der Columbia University.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-second-trump-administration-takes-aim-at-the-climate

Climate Backtracker: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/climate-backtracker

Zusammenfassender Bericht zu den Klimadaten zum Januar 2025, dem wärmsten Monat Januar seit Beginn von Temperaturaufzeichnungen. Die anhaltend hohen Temperaturen nach dem Beginn des La Niña-Einflusses schockieren Forschende. Es gibt dafür bisher keine Erklärungen. Der Klimawissenschaftler Bill McGuire spricht angesichts dieser Daten, den Überflutungen in Valencia und den Waldbränden bei Los Angeles davon, dass ein „allumfassender Klima-Zusammenbruch“ eingesetzt hat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/hottest-january-record-global-warming-climate-change-b2693479.html

Pressaussendung zum Copernicus Bulletin für Januar 2025: https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-january-2025-was-warmest-record-globally-despite-emerging-la-nina

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-college-academia-woke.html

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interesting results returned - The Ghost of the F.C.C. Fairness Doctrine in the " by Ian Klein The FCC Fairness Doctrine required that all major broadcasting outlets spend equal time covering both sides of all controversial issues of national importance. The Fairness Doctrine remained the standard for decades before it stopped being enforced during the Reagan administration, and was - https://hyp.is/TWb98uqdEe-6KbN9-DbjWw/repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1809&context=hastings_comm_ent_law_journal

for - Trump - Gaza - ammunition for Jihad - article - NBC - Trump's Gaza comment hand Jihadist terrorist a "rallying cry" - 2025, Feb 7

for - Charlie Angus - quoting Robert D. Kaplan - Weimar moment - SOURCE - Substack article - Weimar and the Super Bowl - Trump 2.0 - Weimar republic - rise of Hitler - Charlie Angus - 2025, Feb 7

Comment - This is a very appropriate quote as it is not just a national threat, but a global one - Steve Bannon and others have been criss-crossing the globe priming other far-right movements - It is also the case that most people are underestimating the slippery slope we are sliding down, - just as the people supporting Hitler at the time of Hitler's ascendency were not aware that he was going to cause a genocide - Would these people have gone along with Hitler if they knew in the early days what we now know?

ca. 1100 neue Angestellte mit Arbeitern, Mitarbeiter der amerikanischen Umweltbehörde EBA haben vom neuen Chef der Behörde ein Mail erhalten, in denen in Mitgeteilt wird, kann man, dass sie jederzeit entlassen werden können. Alle wurden für Maßnahmen gegen die globale Erhezung bzw. ihre Ursachen und Folgen eingestellt. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-epa-workers-zeldin.html

Die Trumpadministration entfernt systematisch Hinweise auf die Klimakrise und die globale Erhitzung von amerikanischen Regierungswebseits. Der Klimaforscher Michael Mann sagt, dass man mit dem schlimmsten Rechnen müsse, weil die Verschwurzer jetzt an die Macht gekommen sein. Fachleute gehen davon aus, kommen, dass die neue Regierung systematisch versuchen wird, kommen Informationen über die Ursachen und die Folgen der Klimakrise zu unterdrücken. Gleichzeitig werden Regierungsmaßnahmen zur Klimaanpassung und zur Reduzierung von Treibhausgas Emissionen blockiert. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-climate-change-federal-websites

Angehörige des von Ellen Maske geleiteten zungenanden, D-O-G-E, haben sich Zugang zu Diensträumen der amerikanischen Behörde für Atmosphäre und Ozeane verschafft. Fachleute befürchten, kommen das in die Arbeit der Behörde zerstörerisch eingegriffen werden soll, kommen bevor die möglichen rechtlichen Schritte dagegen ergriffen werden können. Im für die neue Administration offenbar maßgeblichen Projekt 2025 wird eine radikale Verkleinerung dieser Behörde gefordert. Die sei für die amerikanischen Wirtschaftsinteressen schädlich. Schon länger versuchen Interessengruppen, die Behörde zu untersagen, ihre Daten zu publizieren und sie zu zwingen, die Daten stattdessen privaten Anbietern für kommerzielle Produkte zu überlassen. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

for - adjacency - tea party - Trump - Steve Bannon interview

Denn wo jetzt, komm mal, der während der ersten Amtszeit Trumps Minister war, sieht den Unterschied in der Energiepolitik zwischen Trump und seinem Vorgänger als geringer an als es nach außen scheint. Wo jetzt zufolge wird es Trumpvereinbarum gehen, In den USA so viel Energie wie möglich zu produzieren. Es sei vor allem wichtig den wachsenden Energiebedarf zu befriedigen. Dafür werde Trump auch erneuerbare Energien weiterverdähen. https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2025/02/04/news/brouillette_energia_trump-423980508/

for - potential Trump scam - intentional market crash from Tariffs - Scott Bessent suspends scam police

for - Trump scam - short the market - make billions in a day

for - Trump - Hitler - generals

for - Project 2025 - Trump - Hitler - Atlantic article - Atlantic article - How Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days

for - Project 2025 - Trump - Hitler - Atlantic article - quote - Joseph Goebbels - quote - The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction" - Not actually from Joseph Goebbels. He said something similiar though: - We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.

to - misquote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2Fwiki%2FJoseph_Goebbels&group=world

for - adjacency - occupy - trump - article - Occupy is not the reason why Trump won

adjacency - occupy wall street - Donald Trump

for - adjacency - occupy wall street - Donald Trump

Im Standard-Interview mit Alfred Stern wird deutlich, dass die OMV weiter auf fossile Expansion setzt. Stern begrüßt die Steigerung der LNG-Produktion und -Exporte in den USA und setzt zugrleich auf die eigenen Projekte im Schwarzen Meer und auch in Österreich selbst. Der Interviewer Gerold Riedmann – der Chefredakteur des Standard – stellt diese Argumentation und die Standardfloskeln Sterns zur Abhängigkeit der Wirtschaft von fossilen Energien und zukünftigen technischen Lösungen an keiner Stelle in Frage.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000254260/omv-chef-stern-trump-als-chance-sehen-nach-vorn-zu-blicken

for - Trump enabler - Cape Town born Joel Pollack - Daily Maverick

for - Trump - South African broligarch connection - Daily Maverick

for - youtube - Trump's Epstein Problem just got much worse! - polycrisis - misinformation - conspiracy theory - inconsistency with Trump now in power - If Deep State cabal existed and had all this power, why allow Trump to win? - Luke Beasley - 2025, Jan 30

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress

Report: https://climatepower.us/research-polling/big-oil-spent-450-million-to-influence-trump-the-119th-congress/

for - metaphor - Trump second term - blatant oligarchy - lancing the boil - SOURCE - Youtube - Hope in Spite of Trump - Robert Reich - 2025, Jan 20

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/trump-climate-change-la-fires

for - youtube - CNN - oligarchy - tech bosses sucking up to Trump

President-elect Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Here are the rights he is set to lose by [[The Associated Press]]

for - key insight / quote - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

key insight / quote - (see below) - Returning to Bevan’s brilliant question, today it is easier to see how - wealth persuades poverty to give up its freedom and, instead, - to serve the broligarchs-in-charge: via their cloud capital - that has a capacity, - unlike any hitherto form of capital or government department, - to shape our behaviour - automatically and - directly. - Nothing short of a revolution can restore any hope of personal agency, - let alone of democracy.

for - five roles of cloud capital - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - monopolizes the attention economy - manufactures desire - sells directly to us that which it has made us desire - controls labor - creates a system of free voluntary behavior to sustain the behavioral modification system, turning us into cloud serfs

for - progress trap - cloud capital - behavioral modification - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - comparison: robber barons of the past and today's broligarchs - cloud capital / technofeudalism - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - relevant quote - the more things change, the more they remain the same - seems to apply to this statement - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - further research - Oligarch's favorite book - The Sovereign Individual - Author - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - Trumps three gifts to lobbyists - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - 1. Huge government contracts - 2. Deregulation will enable a free-for-all - 3. State-sanctioned power over labor

for - stats - return on investment - in supporting Trump's 2024 presidency with a few hundred million dollars: - Musk's Tesla stock - 40% increase - Peter Thiel's Palantir Investments - 23 % increase

source / to - article - ABC News - Trump allies' company stock prices soar after election - 2024, Nov 20 - https://hyp.is/qsUg-s2wEe-aTpO80r5Mag/abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-allies-company-stock-prices-soar-after-election/story?id=115963216

for - further research - Aneurin Bevan - 1952 - liberal democracy's greatest paradox - How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - inequality - elites - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - key insight - inequality - elites - How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

for - from - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - https://hyp.is/n7kI1M2wEe-jUutC8gY3WQ/www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/musk-trump-and-the-broligarchs-novel-hyper-weapon-le-monde-4-1-2025-full-original-english-version/

for - geopolitics - Trump threat to make Canada 51st state - Elizabeth May response - 2025, Jan

Donald Trump reagiert auf Meldungen, dass sich amerikanische Ölkonzerne aus der Förderung von Nordseeöl zurückziehen, mit der Aufforderung, Großbritannien solle die Windräder dort abbauen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000251383/trump-fordert-von-gro223britannien-nordsee-von-windr228dern-befreien

for - quote - to my surprise, Trump supporters I talked to also cared about the climate crisis - from TED Talk - Can curiosity heal division? - Scott Shigeoka - 2024 Dec

for - progressive queer visits Trump rally - genuine and open curiosity of the other is reciprocated - from TED Talk - Can curiosity heal division? - Scott Shigeoka - 2024 Dec

for - climate crisis - impact of Trump tariff strategy - increasing economic and carbon inequality and precarity for the masses - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec

// - SUMMARY - Richard J Murphy provides us with a big picture of Trump's objective in his calculated Tariff strategy - It's not that it makes no sense and is a strategy of a madman - On the contrary, he has a very calculated and maniacal strategy that will result in significantly increasing the wealth of the elites - By creating high tariffs, he will bring about a global economic crash - Like the 2008 and 2020 crash, central banks will print trillions of dollars of money and handout bailouts - It is the elites who will receive these bailouts and inflate the value of their assets - This will - substantially increase the wealth of the rich - substantially increase the precarity of the vast majority of people - increase global inequality - financial inequality and - carbon inequality - This increased precarity is bad news for the climate crisis as a precarious population have less flexibility in reducing their carbon footprint and are more dependent than ever on whatever remain job and resources they still have - Given we have this knowledge of the elite's hidden strategy, can we the people intervene in any way? - We need to have an understanding of how elites see the world - The entire worldview of externalizing investment as a game of accumulation must be understood deeply - in order to find leverage points for rapid system change

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for - quote - economic crashes are profitable for the elites - Trump plans to crash the global economy so that subsequent Quantitative Easing bailouts will inflate value of assets of the rich - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec

quote - economic crashes are good for the elites - Trump plans to crash the global economy so that subsequent Quantitative Easing bailouts will inflate value of assets of the rich - Trump expect if he creates another world financial crisis - he believes there will be a bailout and - he believes that he and his cohort the world's wealthy will benefit from there being vastly more money in circulation with very little to use it on except the inflation in the value of the assets that they own - That is what he's banking on - This is literally I think his Economic Policy - This is what he expects as a consequence of his trade Wars - He doesn't care that we suffer - He won't care about the countries in the developing world - the vast majority of countries in the world in fact who have their debts denominated in dollars who will suffer enormously as a result of their struggle to find the means to repay those debts - As for the time being, the dollar is inflated in value and interest rates are too high he won't care that people are thrown out of work - All he cares about is the inflation in asset values and that is what the whole of the world economy is now geared to create - for the benefit of a few - at cost to the vast majority - Trump's Economic Policy makes sense if you see it in this way - He runs a bailout economic strategy that is going to work for him and his friends because - it will result when the world economy crashes and yet more money being made available through the central banking system to inflate the value of the assets that they own - And they'll say thank you very much we did very nicely out of that when can we have another crash?

for - quote - YouTube - Meidastouch - governance - US - Trump government strategy - is oligarchy strategy

governance - US - Trump 2nd term strategy

• Great short description of Trump's strategy
• I wonder why Wall Street looks at this and goes
  • wait a minute things may be Grim
    • but then why is it that they're saying all these things and trying to pump it up?
• because
  • they want to pump it
  • they want to dump it
  • they want to tax shelter it
  • they want their tax cuts and
  • they want to keep us in this Loop:
    • have a democratic Administration fix it but then
      • blame the Democratic Administration that fix it
      • blame the firefighter for putting out the fire
      • bring back in the arsonist
  • plunder pillage rinse repeat
    • that is the strategy of the oligarchy

for - authoritarianism - Donald Trump second term - adaptation to 2nd win is common - and historically leads to terrible results

for - post - LinkedIn - question - Trump-proofing climate change research in the US

Kurze Darstellung der ersten Maßnahmen gegen Dekarbonisierung und zur Förderung der Öl- und Gasindustrie, die von der Trump-Administration zu erwarten sind. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/briefing/donald-trump- climate-policies.html

Die New York Times über die klimapolitischen oder eher anti-klimapolitischen Positionen des Führungspersonals der kommenden Trump-Administration. Auch wenn die Positionen variieren ist deutlich, dass sie für eine weitere Expansion der US-Öl- und Gasindustrie eintreten und Bundesbehörden die Kompetenzen nehmen wollen, die Emissionen zu regulieren, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/climate/trump-cabinet-stefanik-zeldin-wright.html

for - Andrea Chalupa - fighting fascism - from - webcast - Political Girl - interview with - Andrea Chalupa - how to organize against the threat of the Trump regime

from - webcast - Political Girl - interview with - Andrea Chalupa - how to organize against the threat of the Trump regime - https://hyp.is/M5BenrJpEe-CKJ870PrrJA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLhJgOeR9N0

for - quote - US politics - one party state - Yanis Varoufakis - observation - Trump was groomed by toxic US corporate culture and only now is the US is experiencing the blowback of that - new meme - hostile corporate takeover of the US government - from - Climate doomsday 6 years from now - Jerry Kroth

quote - US politics - one party state - Yanis Varoufakis - (see below) - The United States is not a democracy - It's an oligarchy with elections that are providing the legitimacy for this one part state to continue to exist

comment - With Trumps win and the nomination of a slate filled with many billionaires to lead major US departments, it's more obvious than ever that what Trump is doing is:

new meme - A hostile corporate takeover of the US government - We shouldn't be surprised as Trump was groomed by the out-of-control corptocracy in the United States - Remember that NBC made him famous with his show "The Apprentice" and during that time, he was celebrated by American corporate culture. Why else did his show reach top position in Nelson ratings? - Trump is the child of the toxic corporate culture of America where money is king, the metric that rules over everything - people and the environment - Trump is merely running the government the way he ran his companies (into the ground), with total control. - On the apprentice, he made famous the phrase "your fired" - We should not be surprised that he is making the US government in the image of himself that he has well publicized for decades.

from - Climate doomsday 6 years from now - Jerry Kroth - from - Youtube - Climate Doomsday 6 years from now - Jerry Kroth - https://hyp.is/OfL17KukEe-u2rfUpknrTg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0JDk1p6Zg

for - fascism, polarization and climate crisis - interventions - love and listening strategy for climate crisis - Roger Hallam - Trump winning US election - is an opportunity - Roger Hallam - perspectival knowing - Deep Humanity - mini assemblies - Roger Hallam - listening - fascism - social intervention - from - Illuminem article - Proximity: The antidote to fascism - Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjorkskov - on horizontal and vertical decision-making

Summary - Roger Hallam advocates for a new strategy for the rise of fascism, populism, polarization and the climate crisis - love - He believes that we need a new social strategy based on love, on reaching out to the other side with compassion and listening to them - He cites numerous research studies that show that this can be transformative, for instance, citing pyschologist Carl Rogers - SRG complexity mapping tool, Deep Humanity and Indyweb could be synergistic to this program because both depend on: - diversity and - perspectival knowing

from - Illuminem article - Proximity: The antidote to fascism - Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjorkskov on horizontal and vertical decision-making - https://hyp.is/0Tv_Rqr3Ee-_-X8fKkCfpg/illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/proximity-the-antidote-to-fascism - Medium article - An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s Next - Otto Scharmer - cutting across political lines / https://hyp.is/exS8dKtNEe-pfz-IhQFiZA/medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/an-emerging-third-option-reclaiming-democracy-from-dark-money-dark-tech-3886bcd0469b

for - to - example of Status Quoism - Why Harris lost to Trump - from Youtube - So Trump won? What's next? - Roger Hallam

to - Why Harris lost to Trump - from Youtube - So Trump won? What's next? - Roger Hallam - https://hyp.is/aRrY5KsEEe-yezeexHETqg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKWCHAcS7E

for - commons - new definition - pathological conservatism - new definition - benign conservatism - new definition - beneficial conservatism - adjacency - citizen assemblies - cosmolocal - community organization - horizontal and vertical decision-making as cosmolocal - Fair Share Commons - FSC - pathological conservatism - hypocrisy of modern conservatism that cannot acknowledge first nations - TPF as a vehicle for citizen assembly in each ward and district of a city - to - Youtube - Trump won, now what? - Roger Hallam - to - Substack article - - A global history of societal regulation - metacrisis, polycrisis - role of the commons and cosmolocal coordination - Michel Bauwens

adjacency - between - citizen assemblies - cosmolocal - community organization - citizen assemblies - horizontal and vertical - Fair Share Commons - FSC - town anywhere - TPF - one per city ward or district - progress traps - wicked problem - pathological conservatism - deep conservatism - ECOnomy is a subset of ECOlogy - Modernity has many forms of shallow, pathological conservatism - Indigenous and first nations peoples practice deep, beneficial conservatism - adjacency relationship - One of the biggest progress traps is pathological conservatism when - a technology has become popular and ubiquitous but an unintended consequence becomes exposed - In that case, incumbents who profit from the established supply chain will defend it at great cost, even if the harm it causes becomes increasingly obvious. - They will do this until it reaches a point that the harm is so great that it can no longer be defended. - Often, great harm is done before that point is reached, if it is reached. - Misinformation, gaslighting and fascism can emerge as a form of pathological conservatism in an attempt to preserve the harmful aspect of the status quo. - Fossil fuels, internal combustion engines and the climate change they cause are an example of this, creating a wicked problem in which those trying to solve the problem are also contributing to it - Citizen assemblies are a bottom up response and counterweight to centralized power that is driving pathological conservatism - In contrast to the pathological conservatism, environmental awareness is a practice of benign and beneficial conservatism - the conservation of our natural environment - In fact, many who call themselves conservatives and nationalists are hypocritical because - if they went further in their conservativism logic, they would have to acknowledge the first nations people who came before them - The natural resources that were part of indigenous peoples lives for millenia that colonialists have built their entire fortune on represents even greater degree of conservatism, yet the hypocrisy is that - modern conservatives often cannot acknowledge this reality of a deeper form of conservatism as it threatens their false entitlement - This brings into question their claim of practicing conservatism - pathological conservatives act as if the ECOlogy is subordinate to the ECOnomy when in fact, the ECOnomy cannot exist without a functioning ECOlogy - citizen assemblies can be implemented in each ward and district of a large city - On top of these, Fair Share Commons and community cooperatives can be built as formal structures to drive specific projects - In order for participatory democracy to work effectively requires education on Deep Humanity and conflict resolution, otherwise risks low resiliency due to internal conflicts and derailment of vision - In order to scale, it requires both horizontal and vertical components or organization. This implies a cosmolocal strategy: - horizontal decision-making with local group is local, whilst - vertical decision-making with non-local groups based on broader issues is cosmo - A global Tipping Point Festival that employs social tipping point theory to emerge a global network of citizen assemblies / commons assemblies / people's assemblies in each ward and district of a city to relocate healthy power back to the people

to - Youtube - Trump won, now what? - a love-based approach to replace power-based approach for dealing with fascism and polarization - Roger Hallam - https://hyp.is/wUDpaKsAEe-DM9fteMUtzw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKWCHAcS7E - Substack article - A global history of societal regulation - metacrisis, polycrisis - role of the commons and cosmolocal coordination - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/wlywbqkTEe-ROXfhSmA3bA/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/a-global-history-of-societal-regulation

for - adjacency - Trump government - Current political-economic order - possibility of crumbling and self imploding - due to populous controlled government holllowing itself out - Michel Bauwens

for - depolarizing politics - Democrats - why they lost to Trump - 2024 US elections - Why Trump won - Ananpour & Co. - interview - Michael Sandel - Why Trump won - Why the Democrats lost

2024 wird – den neuesten Copernicus-Daten zufolge – mit sehr großer Wahrscheinlichkeit das erste Jahr mit einer Durchschnittstemperatur von über 1,5° über dem vorindustriellen Durchschnitt und damit das wärmste Jahr der Messgeschichte werden. Im Oktober lag die durchschnittliche Meerestemperatur über 20° – der zweithöchste Wert nach 2023.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000243806/2024-wird-so-gut-wie-sicher-erstmals-die-15-grad-schwelle-uebertreffen

Copernicus-Meldung: https://climate.copernicus.eu/year-2024-set-end-warmest-record

Allein das Rollback der klimapolitischen Maßnahmen der Biden-Administration durch die Trump-Regierung wird bis 2030 zu 4 Gigatonnen CO2-Äqivalenten an zusätzlicher Emissionen führen (bis 2050 zu 27GtCO2e). Die Analyse verschiedener Modellierungen der von Trump geplanten Maßnahmen durch Carbon Brief ergab im März, dass die USA damit weltweit fast eine Billiarde USD zusätzlicher „social costs of carbon“ verursachen würden. Die geplante weitere fossile Expansion unter dem Motto „drill, Baby, drill!“ ist dabei nicht einberechnet https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen will nach einem Gespräch mit Donald Trump offenbar zusätzliches LNG aus den USA beziehen, um Schutzzölle zu verhindern. Das Gas solle LNG aus Russland ersetzen. LNG aus Russland wird von der EU bisher nicht mit Sanktionen belegt. Die USA sind bereits der größte LNG-Lieferant der EU.

https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/nachrichten/Von-der-Leyen-sieht-nach-Telefonat-mit-Trump-Deal-Option-4a617d13-03f8-403e-82be-f98ab02483b5

ARD-Artikel zu LNG-Importen aus Russland: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/monitor/russland-fluessiggas-lng-eu-100.html

Zu den LNG-Importen aus den USA: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/infographics/eu-gas-supply/

Die New York Times über die Pläne des Trump-Teams zur Beendigung der Klimapolitik der Biden-Administration. Dazu gehören der Austritt aus dem Pariser Abkommen, die Verlagerung (zwecks Entmachtung) der Environmental Protection Agency und die Aufhebung des Verbots von Bohrungen in bisherIgen Naturschutzgebieten und Territorien von Native Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/climate/trump-transition-epa-interior-energy.html

for - political polarization - common ground with trump voters - example of democrat winning the rural vote - this is a good lesson for climate communication - climate communication - reaching rural communities

Don’t lose sight of why Trump won by [[Megan McArdle]]

Trump’s mandate isn’t as ‘powerful’ as he suggests. Here’s why. by [[Aaron Blake]]

for - post comment - LinkedIn - polarization - Trump 2024 win - lack of collective - adjacency - Deep Humanity - deep time, species-wide singularity - conservativism vs progressiveness - progress - political polarization - progress trap

adjacency between - Trump 2024 win - Deep Humanity - anthropocene as deep time species-wide singularity - progress traps reaching a climax - conservatism vs progressiveness - adjacency relationship - This fits into a Deep Humanity explanation: - We are moving through a deep time, species singularity in which - once isolated pockets of cultural seeking and interpretative systems for explaining reality have been rapidly mashed-up via: - communication and - transportation technology - There is a singularity now where two forces are battling each other: - conservative that values old traditional cultural values and norms and - progressive that values the future possibilities - There are different cultural flavors of this. Whether it is - political polarization that pits authoritarian vs democratic ideologies or - climate change that pits traditional fossil fuel systems vs new renewable energy systems - the way we've always done things is in conflict with new ways of doing things through natural human evolutionary change - progress - In fact, we can look at the deep time, species-wide singularity that is now happening across all fields in the anthropocene as a predictable progress trap arising from progress itself

for - article - Nature - We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win - Nov 6, 2024

for - future annotation - article - The Musk-Trump Plan for Total American Collapse - Nafeez Ahmed

for - post comment - LinkedIn - Trump 2024 win

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

via https://www.azquotes.com/author/4490-Ralph_Waldo_Emerson/tag/hate

A brief summary of Donald Trump’s plan for America by [[Kevin Drum]]

Die Fossilindustrie in den USA fürchtet einen Paradigmenwechsel weg vom Primat von Öl und Gas vor allem, weil er Kapital aus ihrem Sektor abziehen würde. Deshalb unterstützt sie Trump gegen Harris, obwohl die USA unter der Biden-Administration zu einem Rekord-Ölproduzenten und zum führenden Gas-Exporteur wurden. Analyse von Jonathan Mingle mit Details zur interessenverquickung von Big Oil und Republikanern https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/opinion/oil-gas-exports-climate-change.html