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The Weekly Flail — January 11, 2025

Mike Meyer
18 min readJan 11, 2025

OVERVIEW

2025 brings some changes to The Flail. The escalation of the climate disaster plus the assent of a convicted felon with severe personality and mental dysfunction to the US presidency will have profound disastrous effects on America and the planet.

To deal with that, we are changing our coverage categories to consolidate problems under DISASTERS. The goal continues to winnow the ignored or minimized disasters from the American imperial media. As our reality now is a hyperobject-based polycrisis, this should reduce confusion.

We should also be able to more easily ignore the gusher of lies and misinformation that the Trump administration will produce.

Please let us know how we are doing.

DISASTERS

Understanding the LA wildfire disaster without the abovementioned lies and misinformation is essential. The article below covers the reasons for California’s inadequate water systems, and it has nothing to do with imaginary giant faucets in Canada or equally imaginary agreements for mythical water supplies.

How Big Oil Hindered The Fight Against L.A.’s Wildfires

California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been…

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Mike Meyer
Mike Meyer

Written by Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here and at https://rlandok.substack.com/

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