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As #pluralistic has suggested, cutting off AI as early as possible will mitigate the economic pain that its inevitable crash will entail
That can be hastened even further by stopping the source of its funding
A fast switch to solar, wind, etc starves AI of its fossil fuel investment dollars (Might also save democracy & the planet too)
Koch Network has Trump raising tariffs on Chinese solar panels by 3500%. Get into the solar panel (smuggling) biz.
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The fossil fuel industry is funding AI.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub
The Saudis alone are spending $100 billion on it.
The oil industry is preparing to carry the AI bubble for as long as it takes, because the goal isn't just AI-enabled enshittification.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/
The goal is to keep burning fossil fuel.
The fossil fuel industry is indifferent whether AI ever generates revenue, the goal is double digit rate increases for everyone ...
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"You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion."
Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
"Zuckerberg unsure how much of a payoff he needs to pay the fossil fuel industry.
AI & cryptocurrency data centers are wasteful energy hogs
They are ripping off consumers, surveilling voters, & profiting the Gas & Oil Party's donors."
Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it
The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
: White House hosts back-slapping dinner for Tim Apple and co, datacenter grid connection relief promised by US Prez
(www.theregister.com)
At a White House dinner, Trump secured massive AI investment pledges from Zuckerberg, Cook, Pichai, Nadella, and others, while promising energy and tariff relief.
Deccan Herald (www.deccanherald.com)
Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
The fossil fuel industry does all it can to inflate gas demand.
Hyperthyroidal gas guzzlers are part of that.
The oil industry has some very reliable go-to consumers. Religious bigots. Fragile men. Price gouging billionaires. The superficial dark triad types.
Overcompensating masculinity?
https://sociology.stanford.edu/publications/overdoing-gender-test-masculine-overcompensation-thesis
Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho attitudes, according to a study by a Cornell University researcher.
Cornell Chronicle (news.cornell.edu)
Trucks are obtrusive, unnecessary and ugly. We are humans, not elephant seals. Males need to stop equating their worth with the size of the horns they honk.
Reveille (lsureveille.com)
MEN who love flashy cars really are just compensating for having tiddly todgers, research reveals.Fellas showed more interest in having a sporty motor
The Sun (www.thesun.co.uk)
Like the Marianas Trench, wonder if there are weird lifeforms in the borehole too?
The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.
HowStuffWorks (animals.howstuffworks.com)
From goblin shark to football fish and Dumbo octopus, the deep sea is one long spit-take.
IFLScience (www.iflscience.com)
Treachery to one's own nation used to be a backroom deal sworn to secrecy.
Why so public?
More stock market manipulation?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates
More oil price manipulation?
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-markets-wrapup-6-2025-08-15/
More election interference?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/trump-poll-russia-ukraine-00509843
We’re all waiting to see what comes of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday.
CNN (www.cnn.com)
More public corruption?
https://www.newsweek.com/why-reject-trump-its-corruption-stupid-opinion-2109105
Britain used to solicit money that the US would not touch – but with oligarchs and fraudsters on the rise, it must now uphold the law, says author Oliver Bullough
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
More preparation for a fossil fuel funded world war?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/
The US President also emphasized that a meeting with Russian dictator Putin in Alaska would be very important for Russia and the United States
LIGA.net (news.liga.net)
The EU is facing the same wealthy opponents destroying democracy in the USA & UK.
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures […]
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
The Heritage Foundation's six major dynastries want to dismantle the EU & keep captive oil markets.
1. To protect itself, the EU should accelerate its transition to solar, wind, etc. Continued fossil fuel usage is a national security vulnerability.
2. Consider sanctions on these six: Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
Feel better soon! Rest up, if you can.
The Puppet President has billionaires backing his fascist movement, in America and elsewhere.
Deal with the billionaires along with the despot.
Deal with the bigotry feeding the dictatorship with gullible supporters.
Deal with the urgently necessary fossil fuel phase out that floods Trump & his backers with cash.
Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
After flip-flopping on his support of Elon Musk’s bid for the social media company, the royal confirmed he followed through with his $1.9 billion equity commitment to the social media company’s new owner.
Forbes (www.forbes.com)
To be truly assured of the survival of democracy & the planet, we still need to address the funding behind far right fascist movements.
As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
The fossil fuel industry & its financiers
They are flooding elections with money to stop an increasingly urgent fossil fuel phase out, and they are prepared to wage wars to do it
Join us for an author event featuring New Yorker staff write Jane Mayer in conversation with Stanford Professor Rob Reich and scholar Lucy Bernholz. O
Stanford Law School (law.stanford.edu)
Elon Musk has encouraged right-wing political movements, policies and administrations in at least 18 countries.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
An excerpt from 'Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left' traces Thiel’s impact on the GOP and media.
Rolling Stone (www.rollingstone.com)
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, just used his political influence to shut down a bipartisan deal to keep the government open. It’s obscene — but it’s just one example of the ways billionaires dominate American democracy.
(jacobin.com)
Also, be aware of how pump & dump financial schemes funded WW2 & the Holocaust.
Deliberate devaluation of currency has a goal.
JP Morgan & Chase were only a few players in laundering the assets of Jews & the conquered nations to fund Hitler.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust
Swiss, UK, & Swedish banks too.
Chase Manhattan Corp. and two U.S.
Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
Same as then, axis forces invaded weaker nations first, Manchuria, Ethiopia, Austria, Czechoslovakia.
Elon Musk's startup xAI is paying Telegram $300 million to roll out its Grok chatbot.
CNBC (www.cnbc.com)
This partnership is yet another example of "spyware-as-a-service" between the fossil fuel interests of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and US tech companies.
1. Musk got investment from Alwaleed bin Talal, a Saudi oil oligarch. Three times.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-24/price-alwaleed-s-elon-musk-ties-are-boosting-his-comeback-bid
After flip-flopping on his support of Elon Musk’s bid for the social media company, the royal confirmed he followed through with his $1.9 billion equity commitment to the social media company’s new owner.
Forbes (www.forbes.com)
Elon Musk and his companies have deep ties to the kingdom’s billionaire royals.
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has led a group of investors pouring $6bn into Elon Musk's AI startup
AGBI (www.agbi.com)
Kingdom Holding Company also holds a stake in Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 (www.al-monitor.com)
2. Telegram is owned by Russian oligarch Pavel Durov. Telegram is based in Dubai.
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ICE officials are gettable just like the Nazis & Stasi were.
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-court-stasi-guilty-murder-czeslaw-kukuczka/
A former member of the secret police in East Germany is accused of shooting a Polish man in the back.
(www.bbc.com)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
Republican billionaires funded Project 2025 & bought a fascist coup to have their own Zersetzung.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Seid, Uihlein bought a nation ruled by ICE terrorism.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
Trump's trash talk has billionaires funding it for their own agenda.
Ending any democracy acting on climate.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/
More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to remake American government.
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
Ending any democracy raising antitrust investigations, privacy legislation, or tech reform.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/04/10/how-koch-cash-is-bankrolling-the-effort-to-kill-big-tech-reform/
A new documentary explores the harmful effects of social media on children, with growing calls for legal action and cultural shifts to limit tech's influence on young minds.
Deccan Herald (www.deccanherald.com)
Ending any democracy wanting to tax the rich or regulate financial fraud & scams.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks
The recent announcement that Jeff Bezos is donating the bulk of his vast fortune to charity should be recognizable to everyone at this point: it’s a tried-and-true scheme to rehabilitate his public image while avoiding paying taxes.
(jacobin.com)
Robberies without all that messy smashing-and-grabbing nonsense
Cracked.com (www.cracked.com)
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