Joseph Soler on Zeteo

[Joseph Soler]

Don't look up is a great film and a true parable of our times. Thanks for sharing this on Zeteo. I am subscriber to David Sirota's outlet "The Lever" (levernews.com) along with Zeteo, as I attempt to find media that is reliable and diligent (and I found it here and there!). I honestly forgot I was reading Zeteo as read this article.

I highly recommend that Zeteo readers subscribe to The Lever if they can, because its focus on the corruption that turns the "levers" of power really explains how we got here. Their podcast series Master Plan was genius, all about the plan, starting from the Nixon years, to get to exactly where we are today, a corporate bought and paid for government, and the ongoing reversal of "The Great Society' and "The New Deal".

That said, like many, my income took a huge hit this past year when my university began downsizing and failed to renew my adjunct contract, but I still continued and will continue to invest in these two news services, because there is comfort in knowing there is some sanity in this increasingly mad world.

As for LA, the scope of the horror there is mind boggling. I remember visiting SF and learning all about that great fire, and it is astounding and depressing to think that almost 120 years on, with all of our progress and technological developments our cities are still subject to the types of fire disasters that devastated SF in 1906, but also so many cities in the Middle Ages and deeper antiquity. That that fact is largely the result of choices we made, and choices made FOR us (AGAINST us?) by corrupt government and large corporations is all the more depressing. Oil companies, Republicans, most Democrats and Trump voters are all Neros fiddling while the planet burns.