Yesterday I posted a Thinking in Symbols about Water and Antarctica.

/u/SemperSupra posted this article and I agree, it reeks of comms:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/22/world/antarctica-human-pollution-causing-more-snow-melt-climate/index.html

Let's try using what we learned yesterday for a decode, shall we?

This line especially caught my eye.

Bugs = Electronic Listening Device

Penguin = Tuxedo Spy (James Bond-ish types)

As waters get warmer and sea ice depletes, some Antarctic creatures are finding their homes more and more unlivable. Penguin colonies in Antarctica, for example, rely heavily on krill in their diets, and the krill rely on sea ice. Scientists have seen a shocking decline in penguin colonies recently, as krill becomes harder to find.

Krill = Filter Feeding Water Bug = Internet Bots that scour data, trends, and high-profile comms internet chatter on forums, and in-game chats.

In other words, tuxedo spies that rely on established history (including historically notable families / governments / figures / tycoons) are running out of intel gathering programs that scour the internet for comms they can use as leverage against high-profile peoples' business dealings. The bugs (programs) are being taken out and their ability to reliably sabotage or circumvent deals is falling apart.

Think of it like this:

Two entities are about to make a super-secret deal that absolutely cannot risk being bugged in a corporate office or have a definite paper-trail in anyway. They fire up a game like World of Warcraft and use terms and characters in the game to represent their business deal. They go off to Feralas and have a chat while killing some gnolls(hyena-like-humanoids). During the chat they code everything to look like game speak. "I got a 4 Strength 4 Stam leather belt! trade u for some bronze tubes?"

Feralas = Where the deal will go down, South America for Feralas for example.

The Belt = 4% stake in investment deal.

The Bronze Tubes = Servers for storage infrastructure in setting up a new corporate money-making scheme.

Enemies killed in-game = Those who might be against this deal or interested in a racketeering cut. Gnolls might be a stand-in for the Cabal while Ogres are local Crime Lords. If they avoid the ogres, it means to avoid ever involving local crime organizations while actively nipping at the Cabal's endeavors.

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Krill would be bots in the game listening into this conversation, flagging it, and offering it to the tuxedo spy's "scientists" who try to interpret the potential comms, give a direction to the tuxedo spy, and the tuxedo spy goes to one of the entities involved in the game-comms deal in order to extort their endeavor. I'd wager that more deals get successfully made than are snooped on with krill, otherwise it wouldn't be worth all the effort to hide the deal from prying eyes.

Of course, the WoW scenario is just one example. These deals can take place in just about any high-traffic game or casual chat lobby.

So, if the krill are going down, and penguins by association, it means that extortion efforts of these types of high-profile deals are losing funding because the ice is melting, which is to say all this talk of conspiracies is leading people to be generally more suspicious of any and all shady activities.

As a result, entities like above are far less likely to make their risky deals, which means the krill starve which means the penguins starve.

It seems like CNN is trying to call this apprehension by their typical corporate "prey" as "Black Carbon."

Slap it all together, and we see the "real" story come into frame.