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Before I get into a particular discussion on the new business opportunities afforded by a rapidly melting Arctic, I need to preface it with a short explanation and history of who wrote the article in question and what this group’s agenda is. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was established after the First World War to formulate and plan the imperial ambitions of the U.S. as the world’s new superpower. The CFR is composed of top officials in the banking, manufacturing, commerce, and finance industries, as well as lawyers, university bureaucrats, and public figures from the media networks. CFR meetings are often held in secret. The primary funders of the CFR have been The Ford Foundation, the federal government, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation. There exists a revolving door between positions held in the CFR and those in the government. The CFR represents the U.S. financial oligarchy and the wealthy elite of America. Lawrence H. Shoup wrote a seminal book on the CFR entitled ‘Imperial Brain Trust – Council on Foreign Relations’. I have a link to it under “Notes and Documents’ on the left side of this website. A quote from page 278 of that book best summarizes what the CFR is truly about:
A recent article by Shoup puts some familiar faces to the CFR with Democratic Party politician Dianne Feinstein and her husband finance capitalist Richard C. Blum, both members of the Council. In the following selection from that article, you can see how environmental protection is subverted for the financial interests of the power elite:
So now we go to the ecological catastrophe unfolding in the Arctic which the CFR and the ruling class see as simply another doorway through which capital accumulation can be carried out via environmental exploitation. The title of the CFR’s article is ‘The Coming Arctic Boom‘ published in the July/August 2013 edition of their journal ‘Foreign Affairs’.
In this deranged essay, the CFR gushes over the busine$$ opportunitie$ afforded by such a once-in-a-lifetime event as the melting of the Arctic:
[My comments are highlighted red and in brackets]
Yeah that’s who forms foreign policy for this country. The Mack Truck of climate chaos is barreling full speed ahead with mankind straight in its path, but all Homo Stupidicus can see are dollar signs.
Collapse of Industrial Civilization 
Great post mike! Continuing along with more of the same is the plan, climate change be damned. There are no words to adequately express the depths of human greed and stupidity, short-sightedness and the abject failure of the human species.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
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“If your in a 100 foot deep hole, then stop digging” sounds like good advice, but Homo Stupidicus is deaf, dumb, and blind, and he’s using a jackhammer.
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Apparently many people at CFR only see the world in terms of capitalistic competition between expanding tumors. We have to grow into the unexploited tissue first before some other cancer wins the race and obtains the nourishment. This is like an area of the body cleared of immune cells (ice) and the cancerous capitalists eyeing the last frontier before moving in to grow upon any available energy. They just don’t give a damn, they’re cancer, it’s what they do. Their most pathetic initiatives will be geoengineering, spending prodigious sums to slow the descent of the ecosystem into its disorderly homeostatic unraveling while pumping out unlimited amounts of monetary tumor growth factor.
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Beautiful! Well, maybe that’s not an appropriate adjective.
Anyway, great analogy.
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The arctic gives mankind hope for the future. We are going to be hearing that a lot. Our CFR controlled journalists will throw that in anytime an honest writer admits we are heading into a brick wall of converging environmental and resource crises. “Oh, yeah, some tough stuff going on, but now we have the arctic with its vast resources, and technology is giving us opportunities we never even imagined before, like fracking……what a bright future awaits us…..”
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Yeah I can see all of the greedy little MBA’a running around the Arctic in their J.Crew Parkas. There is a bright spot in all this though. With these parasites running things it guarantees a fast extinction.
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Ahem. Those would be *Canada Goose* parkas.
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CFR talks out of both sides of its mouth on the issue of climate change. This particular bit of insanity was quite disturbing, to say the least.
CIA and the NAS are funding a geo-engineering research survey to assess the potential for atmospheric carbon capture and ‘solar radiation management’ via stratospheric aerosols. Sounds to me like they’re getting their ducks in a row in the event that Arctic feedbacks get out of hand.
Maybe CIA and NAS should have a friendly chat with CFR to let them know that celebrating potential resource grabs in the Arctic might not be such a great thing after all…
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‘American belief in climate change hots up
Americans’ belief in the existence of climate change is more closely linked to the thermometer than previously thought, a survey reveals. Following a winter of record snowfall in 2010, the US public’s acceptance of climate change fell to a low of 52 per cent. By March this year it had staged something of a recovery, rising to 65 per cent. In the July heat, climate change acceptance is now at 70 per cent, according to the poll by the University of Texas.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wildfire-warning-heatwave-death-toll-as-high-as-up-to-760–and-farms-at-risk-8716639.html
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Climate Change Acceptance. Really? I had almost given up hope but now I can freely hope again because joe-six-pack has figured out that having scorching hot summers is bad for tire-wear.
A decade ago I watched a show with the douche-bag Dennis Miller and he joked: “Saving the Alaska wilderness…c’mon let’s admit it. We don’t give a crap about saving the Alaska wilderness. We might make it down to Yukon Pete’s on the Strip for a shrimp cocktail but the polar bears will have to wait.”
Morally reprehensible as it was Dennis was right: We aren’t going to do anything to slow the ecocide. Everybody has their personal bucket-list that somehow keeps them hanging on. But the amazing-techno-dream-fulfilling machine is a mindless lawnmower and it’s going to run faster and faster until it runs out of fuel to burn or it seizes up. “Danger: keep feet and hands away from blade”
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That lawnmower metaphor would make a great cinematic visual. Or a meat grinder.
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“We Are All Aboard the Pequod” “Our country is given shape in the form of the ship, the Pequod, named after the Indian tribe exterminated in 1638 by the Puritans and their Native American allies. The ship’s 30-man crew—there were 30 states in the Union when Melville wrote the novel—is a mixture of races and creeds. The object of the hunt is a massive white whale, Moby Dick, which, in a previous encounter, maimed the ship’s captain, Ahab, by biting off one of his legs. The self-destructive fury of the quest, much like that of the one we are on, assures the Pequod’s destruction. And those on the ship, on some level, know they are doomed—just as many of us know that a consumer culture based on corporate profit, limitless exploitation and the continued extraction of fossil fuels is doomed. ”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_are_all_aboard_the_pequod_20130707/
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10456
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Reblogged this on Gaia will prevail.
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Add the Economist to the list of formerly respected journals for business people all around the world (The WSJ, Reuters, Forbes) that are purposely minimizing the risk that global warming poses to humans and the rest of the biosphere. Their articles show a lot of work by the journalists to misconstrue what the scientists are saying quite clearly, all in an effort to confuse the public. I can hardly think of any crime more horrific in their consequences.
Nonsense And Sensitivity: Top Climatologist Slams The Economist For Yet Another ‘Flawed And Misleading’ Piece
By Joe Romm on Jul 18, 2013
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/18/2323721/nonsense-and-sensitivity-top-climatologist-slams-the-economist-for-yet-another-flawed-and-misleading-piece/?mobile=wt
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Shhh, don’t fight or protest the knife of climate chaos.
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And Forbes does again, today.
Really, go read this crap. Forbes is respected by the big capitalists of our time.
And go to the comments…I made a few. Just for fun. Sign up and write and spin their heads!
You Can’t Deny Ezra Klein Knows Next To Nothing About The Global Warming Debate
“In summary, humans are causing the type of global warming crisis that demands serious action if and only if each and every one of the following conditions apply: (1) the earth is warming, (2) temperatures are exceptionally warm relative to the past several thousand years, (3) humans are causing most of the warming and (4) the net effects of the warming are substantially, and indeed catastrophically, negative. Unfortunately for global warming activists but fortunately for human welfare, three of the four necessary preconditions of a human-induced global warming crisis do not exist.”
More:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/07/18/you-cant-deny-ezra-klein-knows-next-to-nothing-about-the-global-warming-debate/
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“…University of Minnesota undergrad Daniel Crawford has crafted an innovative way of interpreting graphs and data into a one-man concerto—his composition allows its listeners to feel the planet’s toasty metamorphosis.
According to Ensia, the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment magazine, Crawford used surface-temperature data from NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies to create a data sonification that transforms climate records into musical notes.
In Crawford’s resulting “Song of Our Warming Planet,” each ascending halftone represents about 0.03°C of planetary warming. Each note represents a year from 1880 to 2012, and the notes are portrayed over a range of three octaves. The coldest year, 1909, is embodied by the lowest possible note on the cello, open C.
The culmination of the cellist’s conversions is a two-minute song that begins in the cello’s lowest range, progresses through to the 1940s in the mid-register and peaks in the highest recorded temperatures of the 1990s to now.
If scientists’ predictions are correct—that global temperatures will rise by 1.8°C by the end of the century—the resultant musical notes, according to Crawford’s calculations, will be beyond the range of human hearing.
In laymen’s terms? Only dogs can hear the notes of our screeching fate.”
– link
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I hate reading this sort of crap. Maybe it’s just a clash of perspectives, but it’s infuriating to read that black is white, down is up, death is life, and loss is profit from these jokers who spin every signal around backwards to perpetuate the growth paradigm. James Taylor and CFR both argue details that don’t add up to form a full picture, which is where I tend to look. We just can’t keep growing and growing to infinity, and with all the building blocks obviously crumbling beneath us, the silver linings playbook is something worse than tiresome. The usual metaphors of cancer, virus, plague, parasite, addict, and destroyer all apply, but they don’t seem to have much power when they can be brushed off so easily (but not convincingly) in the MSM. Arrrgggghhh!
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My sentiments exactly, but I have no other weapons left at my disposal except to reveal them as they truly are – complete buffoons, jokers, and half-wits mindlessly extinguishing life. The horror of their crime screams in my face. It just struck me how much of a sad, sick, perverse joke this all is. We’re being ‘extinctified’ by clowns and most of the populations is oblivious to their fate…
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‘The Mack Truck of climate chaos is barreling full speed ahead with mankind straight in its path, but all Homo Stupidicus can see are dollar signs.’
great summation. in case anyone here has missed this less than 1 hour long documentary (awesome, fascinating, beautiful, artistic, and very informative nature/ human biological and cultural evolution). very relevant: SELFISH APE
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I watched this and one other New Atlantis documentary, both a little under one hour. Very curious mix of information. It’s pretty easy to dismiss the approach, with heavy-handed music, hyperbole, and the ridiculous make-up on the main character, whose self-hatred is a bit of a mystery considering how asleep at the wheel most of humanity is shown to be. Sorta makes misanthropy look pointless. That said, direct comparisons with other large primates and indeed other mammals roots the presentation in truth (zoological and evolutionary in nature), making the ham-fisted result a very poor style choice. In comparison, What a Way to Go is a more effective approach to documentary, traversing a different history but coming to the same conclusion: knowing the inevitable end to homo sapiens will be a fate we engineered for ourselves.
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Surely we all know by now that mainstream publications and sources of ‘news’ are simply outlets for propaganda, and that most writers/presenters are peddlers of fantasy. Most of what is printed/broadcasted is garbage. What goes to print/air HAS to be garbage; no mainstream media can possibly acknowledge the truth about anything, because to do so would destroy their business model, probably overnight.
Arguably, that is the main reason there is no hope for most people living in western nations in the short term, and no hope for anybody in the long term.
I have been trying to break down the web of deceit for over a decade, and have failed miserably. The Empire is too strong. And most people seem to like being lied to.
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Self-delusion, willful ignorance, and sociopathic business interests trump all else, especially when the threat cannot be visibly seen.
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Of course more snow is often indicative of warming, not cooling (warmer oceans and seas = more evaporation), but few people seem to understand that.
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Very true. We need a national dialogue and education on climate change, but that’s not going to happen.
Texans warm to climate change
Americans’ belief in the existence of climate change is more closely linked to the thermometer than previously thought, a survey reveals. Following a winter of record snowfall in 2010, the US public’s acceptance of climate change fell to a low of 52 per cent. By March this year it had staged something of a recovery, rising to 65 per cent. In the July heat, climate change acceptance is now at 70 per cent, according to the poll by the University of Texas… – link
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Maggie’s ghost: what is haunting Europe
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/07/maggies-ghost-what-is-haunting-europe.html
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