Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The Earth is Looking Trashy, Rise of Fascism in Europe



So, all of the warnings from the past are coming true, and it ain't pretty. We have no place left to bury our trash, and it is swallowing the surface of the earth. Take Moscow, for instance. The trash dump at the city's outskirts has caused people living near-bye to become nauseous and sending children to the hospital. Vladimir Putin heard a complaint about this site on his call-in radio show, and immediately closed down the dump site, making the trash trucks go to a couple of sites a few miles away from Moscow... Only, these sites are already full, and their operators were looking for new sites to fill. Unfortunately, over 9000 pounds of trash per day is being trucked to these sites and it has reached crisis level, which Mr. Putin has chosen to ignore...

The problem of what to do with the huge amounts of trash that we produce has become a global
problem. China used to accept boatloads full of trash from several countries, the US being one of them. They are no longer accepting trash for landfills, and there has been no alternative developed. Over ten million tons of trash is dumped into the ocean each year. In the Pacific Ocean is the Great Trash Heap consisting of over 3.5 million tons of trash, including a lot of plastic. Fish, turtles, dolphins, and even whales are eating the small pellets that are a result of the breakdown of petroleum products by saltwater, and is showing up in the food we eat...






With the victory in the Hungarian election, right-wing extremism is on the rise. In the US, white-wing fascist groups are complaining that they are going broke, but it has become quite clubby and high spirited from France to Greece to Poland. There is also the rise of Nazi pride, with all of its anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant splendor... One culmination was the stabbing to death of an 88 year old Holocaust survivor in France. A really brave move by some 19 year old, who had to take methamphetamines to jack himself up to do the deed...

Victor Orban campaigned on the premise that allowing more immigrants into Hungary would
facilitate the destruction of Hungarian society. It was ultra-nationalistic and he won an unprecedented third term by playing on those fears, and set the more liberal members of the EU to worrying about the future. The rallying of these fascist groups are aimed at the Muslim immigrants, and it does not bode well unless the economies improve and there are more job opportunities for everyone. It could end in a blood-bath and another world war, but these right wingers usually end up fighting each other and could cancel each other out, especially if this problem is met with now... One solution is to get all of these new Nazis and fascists to immigrate to Russia, where the leader is comfortable with these extreme beliefs, and should welcome them with open arms, getting them jobs making much needed nerve gas for places like Syria...








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