Citizens, Beware!

As many are saying these days, the transition to totalitarianism is not a rapid shift, but rather a gradual, step-by-step process which may pass unnoticed until it becomes too late to stop.

One major purpose of the mess and chaos produced in the United States in recent months is to obscure a few things: (i) massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the „average Joe's” to the ultra-rich billionaires - be it in tax cuts, military contracts or plain fraud; (ii) the climate issue, which becomes an ongoing disaster, too late to avoid; and (iii) a new arms race which will lead to a new world war, terminal for the civilization as we know it. Actually, (iii) may be just a side effect of the first two.

About climate, the new administration already took out USA from the Paris agreement, an agreement which was still too weak to avoid crippling average temperature increases. We also know a stupid ruling, that the EPA is only allowed to issue a new regulation after cancelling 10 previous ones (this is really one of the most stupid laws I've ever heard of!). The funding for research in general, and medical and weather/climate specifically, was severely cut (see also the continuous bullying of the administration against the top universities in USA, with new shocking episodes every week!). Related to this, here is an interesting article about the Unidata project - providing weather data, now halted because of fund cuts (and suspension of existing already signed funding contracts).

And it is quite obvious why - people do not have to see the real (very bad) status of climate, and that we are on a way to disaster with increasing speed. That we cannot afford anymore fossil fuel burning, that we must act immediately if we want to have the slightest chance to avoid climate disaster. We have to be instead induced to be afraid of Chinese, Russians, immigrants and build up military power, and eventually go to war - this is more productive for the billionaires who will retreat on their islands and in their bunkers and survive when billions of people will die.

Time is short, and becomes very short. The window of opportunity for „us, the people” to reverse the present direction on the „highway to hell” is almost closed already.