{"id":1250,"date":"2022-04-17T01:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2022-04-17T01:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:12:30","slug":"three-crises-any-one-of-which-can-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Crises<\/b><\/p>\n

Any one of which can kill you<\/b><\/p>\n

April 16th<\/sup>, 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

There are three situations that are edging closer and closer to flash points that could create immense damage and in one instance, kill a sizable percentage of the human race.<\/p>\n

The first is Putin and the Ukraine. The invasion and war has not gone well for Russia. Ukraine not only failed to fall in days to a Russian blitzkrieg, but the blitzkrieg itself flopped, something that was self evident the moment we saw that forty-file long convoy of tanks and other mechanized units along that two-lane highway. Poland and France didn\u2019t fall because the Germans approached in single file. And at that, the Russians got off lightly; Ukraine could have turned it into a \u201chighway of death.\u201d As it stands, reports are that Russia has lost a full 10% of their overall military might in the seven weeks that they have tried to smash Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Adding to Putin\u2019s woes is the sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of the Russian navy. While the military impact is negligible (the Russian flotilla in the Black Sea was there to look intimidating, since there was little in the way of practical military applications to be brought to bear. Turns out you can\u2019t sink a country) the morale damage was massive.<\/p>\n

Additionally, and of far greater impact strategically and tactically, Putin\u2019s declared aim of pushing back on perceived encroachment by NATO on Russian borders has backfired massively. Finland, historically a thorn in the side of the Russian bear, is expected to petition for membership in the pact in the next couple of weeks, and Sweden is likely to be not far behind. Putin has made it clear that nearby nations not servile to Russia that aren\u2019t in NATO are targets.<\/p>\n

So speculation that Putin may resort to nukes both as part of his campaign of terror against Ukraine and his efforts to intimidate the west is growing. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind that Putin has the requisite viciousness. Is he that insane, though?<\/p>\n

The west, including the US, must make it clear that nuclear strikes against Ukraine or anywhere else is a line that cannot be crossed without dire and immediate consequences. We\u2019ve managed to avoid a nuclear holocaust partially through dumb luck (we\u2019ve had some really scary close calls, and those are just the ones we know about) and partially through the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction. Any country that launches nukes dies. Much, and perhaps all of the world dies with it. Putin must be reminded of this, and be aware that a first strike will result in global nuclear war on the grounds that all is lost anyway. The last thing the world needs or can tolerate is a dictator that gets away with a nuclear strike. Perhaps, once again, we can step back from the abyss. Putin must know that we aren\u2019t bluffing because we can\u2019t afford to bluff.<\/p>\n

The second is the behavior of the fascist right in America. Have you ever heard the term, \u201cblood libel?\u201d It\u2019s a hateful story that first grew in medieval Britain and has spread throughout much of the world over the centuries. The most common variant is that Jews capture and kill a young Christian boy at Easter in order to put his blood in matzo balls. Supposedly, if Jews do this each year, in a different land, they will get the Holy Land back. If you\u2019re thinking about 1947 and the State of Israel and how that might have diffused the libel then you don\u2019t know conspiracy theorists very well. They still believe Jews drink the blood of virgin Christian boys. Who needs a reason when you\u2019ve got a hobby?<\/p>\n

The thing about conspiracy theorists is that they are gullible and easy to manipulate. To them, the world is a dark and dangerous place, filled with looming, sneering villains who stop at nothing to augment their power. Giving them \u201csecret knowledge\u201d of such horrors both allays and augments their fear and credulity.<\/p>\n

All you need to do is invent an unspeakable act by a minority or adversarial group and then promote the hell out of it.<\/p>\n

Claims that the Clintons and various other liberals run child sex rings have been making the rounds since about 2015, which was about when Trump and Putin decided America needed Trump. Supposedly, the sex ring was run in the basement of a pizza parlor. Never mind that the pizza place in question didn\u2019t have a basement\u2014weren\u2019t you paying attention when I asked if you knew what conspiracy theorists were like? One guy even went in there with a semi-automatic and shot up the place.<\/p>\n

Republicans have been deliberately electing\u2014there\u2019s no other phrase for it\u2014the most vicious and stupid trash they can find to public office. People too stupid and too gullible to know they are being played, or the worse variant, the ones who know the truth and are part of the plan. That\u2019s why the Jackson nominating process was smeared with political porn about how she was \u201csoft on child pornographers\u201d and why some of the louder specimens of the trash-American GOP have been calling teachers and supporters of Ukraine \u201cchild abusers.\u201d Blood libels are great for the libelers, since they can pretend to a position of \u201cprotecting the children\u201d while simply sinking to about the same level as a child molester.<\/p>\n

The third flash point rapidly approaching is the climate. The physical climate. True to the models, as it gets warmer on average, it is also becoming wilder and more unpredictable. Antarctica saw temperatures last month that went a full SEVENTY DEGREES above normal. Yes, that\u2019s Fahrenheit, but still… This time of year the normal day time high in New York City is 63 degrees. In order to replicate what happened in Antarctica, it would have to reach 133. In Mid April. Let\u2019s not even think about July or August.<\/p>\n

We all remember the heat dome that hit the Pacific Northwest last summer, sending temperatures as high as 118 in British Columbia. That was only 40 degrees above normal.<\/p>\n

In addition to all the myriad problems we\u2019re expecting in the near future, heat domes seem to be a New Thing, and a potentially hideous one. Few cities in the world are prepared for temperatures in summer that are 40 degrees above the local norm. The death toll could be in the millions. Kim Stanley Robinson, in his recent novel \u201cMinistry of the Future\u201d had a three week heat wave strike India that was only 15 degrees above normal, and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Suddenly we have to consider possibilities like 145 in Los Angeles, 120 in London, 145 in Sydney. We aren\u2019t prepared for it because we can\u2019t prepare for it.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the oil plutocrats\u2014many are the same people who underwrite the blood libel crowd and are profiteering off the Ukraine war\u2014are doubling down on fighting any effort to reduce fossil fuel consumption. And yes, that includes the oil companies that run those expensive ads about how green and responsible they are. They\u2019re corporations; they exist to lie to us for profit. They are what prop up the disgraceful anti-American whores in congress, and they have think tanks devoted to the nomenclature used by conspiracy theorists and Putin about how \u201cwoke\u201d child molesters spread \u201cfake news\u201d and the press cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n

They are authoritarians, and they are herding us towards the edge of some very large cliffs, thinking they can control the situations and profit from them at the same time.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all coming to a head, and no, they won\u2019t be able to control it when it does.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, nobody will be able to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Crises Any one of which can kill you April 16th, 2022 Bryan Zepp Jamieson There are three situations that are edging closer and closer to flash points that could create immense damage and in one instance, kill a sizable percentage of the human race. The first is Putin and the Ukraine. The invasion and … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,577,5,60,18,799,735],"tags":[1369,14,258,1367,1368,459,780,496],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-psyche","category-climate-change","category-foreign-affairs","category-politics","category-science","category-technology","category-terror","tag-blood-libel","tag-climate-change","tag-gop","tag-heat-domes","tag-nuclear-war","tag-qanon","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"yoast_head":"\nThree Crises -- Any one of which can kill you · Zepp's Commentaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Crises -- Any one of which can kill you · Zepp's Commentaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three Crises Any one of which can kill you April 16th, 2022 Bryan Zepp Jamieson There are three situations that are edging closer and closer to flash points that could create immense damage and in one instance, kill a sizable percentage of the human race. The first is Putin and the Ukraine. The invasion and … Continue reading "Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zepp's Commentaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/zepp.jamieson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-17T01:12:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zeppjamieson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@zeppjamieson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@zeppjamieson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zeppjamieson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"zeppjamieson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3fb34fecb9ef3dcfda9cca949be94d94\"},\"headline\":\"Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-17T01:12:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250\"},\"wordCount\":1322,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"blood libel\",\"climate change\",\"GOP\",\"heat domes\",\"nuclear war\",\"QAnon\",\"Ukraine\",\"Vladimir Putin\"],\"articleSection\":[\"American Psyche\",\"Climate Change\",\"Foreign Affairs\",\"Politics\",\"Science\",\"Technology\",\"Terror\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250\",\"name\":\"Three Crises -- Any one of which can kill you · Zepp's Commentaries\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-17T01:12:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3fb34fecb9ef3dcfda9cca949be94d94\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?p=1250#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/\",\"name\":\"Zepp's Commentaries\",\"description\":\"Opinions from a liberal\\\/leftist perspective\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/zeppscommentaries.online\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3fb34fecb9ef3dcfda9cca949be94d94\",\"name\":\"zeppjamieson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/769e3df482cc849a6cea52069f6da8fe200551b922190cafd5af414dc0713143?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/769e3df482cc849a6cea52069f6da8fe200551b922190cafd5af414dc0713143?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/769e3df482cc849a6cea52069f6da8fe200551b922190cafd5af414dc0713143?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"zeppjamieson\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Three Crises -- Any one of which can kill you · Zepp's Commentaries","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Three Crises -- Any one of which can kill you · Zepp's Commentaries","og_description":"Three Crises Any one of which can kill you April 16th, 2022 Bryan Zepp Jamieson There are three situations that are edging closer and closer to flash points that could create immense damage and in one instance, kill a sizable percentage of the human race. The first is Putin and the Ukraine. The invasion and … Continue reading \"Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you\"","og_url":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250","og_site_name":"Zepp's Commentaries","article_publisher":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/zepp.jamieson","article_published_time":"2022-04-17T01:12:30+00:00","author":"zeppjamieson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@zeppjamieson","twitter_site":"@zeppjamieson","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"zeppjamieson","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250"},"author":{"name":"zeppjamieson","@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/#\/schema\/person\/3fb34fecb9ef3dcfda9cca949be94d94"},"headline":"Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you","datePublished":"2022-04-17T01:12:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250"},"wordCount":1322,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["blood libel","climate change","GOP","heat domes","nuclear war","QAnon","Ukraine","Vladimir Putin"],"articleSection":["American Psyche","Climate Change","Foreign Affairs","Politics","Science","Technology","Terror"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250","url":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250","name":"Three Crises -- Any one of which can kill you · Zepp's Commentaries","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-04-17T01:12:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/#\/schema\/person\/3fb34fecb9ef3dcfda9cca949be94d94"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1250#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Three Crises — Any one of which can kill you"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/#website","url":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/","name":"Zepp's Commentaries","description":"Opinions from a liberal\/leftist perspective","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/#\/schema\/person\/3fb34fecb9ef3dcfda9cca949be94d94","name":"zeppjamieson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/769e3df482cc849a6cea52069f6da8fe200551b922190cafd5af414dc0713143?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/769e3df482cc849a6cea52069f6da8fe200551b922190cafd5af414dc0713143?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/769e3df482cc849a6cea52069f6da8fe200551b922190cafd5af414dc0713143?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"zeppjamieson"}}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7aNw-ka","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}