Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 5, 2020

• The Automatic Earth composed by Steven Bryant from his website.

The Automatic Earth, for wind ensemble + electronics, addresses the ongoing climate catastrophe and evokes the psychological effect of the impending disruptive change to our entire way of living on the planet, even under a best-case scenario. Our way of life is unsustainable, therefore it will not continue. The piece weaves together two threads: the climate crisis, and the technological transformation of what it is to be human. The tandem acceleration of technological wonder and ecological catastrophe means, at best, a strange, unrecognizable future, likely within our own lifetimes. I do not know if we will survive as a species: if we continue as we are now, average world temperature will increase around 8ªC within eighty years, which would result in runaway warming and a Venus-like atmosphere that virtually no life on earth can withstand. If we do survive, it will be via monumental feats of geo-engineering and human re-engineering, surpassed only by an extraordinary change in our willingness to cooperate with each other. Humanity will be forever altered. This way of life will die. The question is whether or not we will die with it.

• ClearCut – The Wages of Dominion by John Riggs from Edge Effects. The title implies reference to the mythology of Judeo-Christian religions:

... God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

• Scott Morrison's duty is to protect the Australian people. There is no greater threat than climate disruption. By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop from Climate Code Red (based in Australia). (Note: Scott Morrison is Prime Minister of Australia.)

• Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud? by Justin Mikulka from Desmog.

• The Long History of Elite Rule: What Will It Take To End It? by Chuck Churchill from CounterPunch. (Note: My translation: "The Long History of Ruling Classes: ...")

• Stop Calling It A “Stutter” :  Here Are Dozens Of Examples Of Biden’s Dementia Symptoms by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Bernie Needs New Strategy For Biden His “Good Friend” featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube). (Note: Because Dore is once again (like in 2016) disillusioned by Bernie's (Sanders) namby-pamby (def.) campaign, he goes off on a rant against Sanders and his advisors for running such a campaign. Also, see this about another such comedian.)

• Putin-Erdogan meeting: a storm is expected over the “mother of all battles” in Idlib; Ayn al Arab is at stake by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.