A bad premise? I hardly think so.

It is taking as a given that we are going to expend our finite resources, clean water, etc., and absorb the pollution and the cost of cleanup so the Big Oil moguls can sell fuel overseas (at record untaxed profits, of course.)

You just described one of a very small number of reasons the federal government exists. If the Fed ever asked, "Is you is, or is you ain't my constituency?" the only affirmative answers should come from Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, members of the MIC and, of course, the largest constituency in terms of money, Wall Street.

It isn't surprising in the least that the State Department (and true-believers in "Change We Can ...") are building the case for the inevitability of Big Oil making even more money, just as they hand-waved away a Single Payer plan because, well, "Big, Wall Street backed health insurance companies are here to stay and are going to make even more money anyway. To all but the most glassy-eyed "change believers" the motive for reports like this one are self-evident. I can already hear the "it was the best we could do" arguments coming from Bam-Bam's useful idiots.

but also too: those separate Hives you delineate contain n% of bipeds with decent jelloware, most (I'd bet) even better informed about each's place/power? within the maze.
In past (as with the AG et al threatening mass-Resignations over one of Decider-Shrub's wild-ass directives) sub-groups have demonstrated both their existence and their power.
(While we'd be gullible to count-on such counters to the general direction towards wholesale discorporation, just this one facet.. may have more leverage than most suspect.)

OTOH, my little-grey-cells find a dearth of material on which to chew, within the daily newsfotainment; within the surreal there's little point in spinning the cylinders
of one's personal Enigma Decoder in foolish attempt to find any plain-text whatsoever: it is bogus-by-design.
Even simpler than your summary: Corruption is so rampant that, it is impossible to find any message which isn't compromised-by-design.

Thus the grey-cells punt. As do I; 'they' and I can.. do triage on, say, how much to spend (?) on a vet for some critter [with even less-Representation than mine.]
Since I can't have the grey-cells eating-each-other like a Repo at NRA HQ, shall eschew any Pol-donations whatsoever, to keep those cells purring,
(ever-reinforced when one supposed to die.. didn't, and the purring in each: synchronize.)
Screw the perpetual appeals to send-$$ to Neutralize! [is that not a Hah!! ?] the rich+brain-dead yada yada. Karma will have to/will do that sort-out. Not moi.

The cognizant minority Must preserve their equanimity; RAGE, on the Scale of This-much corruption..? simply wastes energy and can turn one as psychotic as the lumpenproletariat. No?
We Built It; They Came and polluted it All. Now it;'s Clean-the-Augean Stables time: (it worked for a demi-god.)

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