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• Oil Markets Were Unwise But Right in the Israel-Iran Crisis

• Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy

• The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here

• US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases as Part of Anti-China Buildup

• Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs

• China issues highest-level rainstorm warning after fatal Guangdong floods

• ‘So hot you can’t breathe’: Extreme heat hits the Philippines

• A powerful volcano is erupting. Here’s what that could mean for weather and climate

• Ocean waves contain more ‘forever chemicals’ than industrial pollution. That’s bad news if you live on the coast

• Should we tweak the atmosphere to counteract global warming?

• New Delhi chokes as trash mountain fire spreads hazardous fumes

• Greece: Orange Sahara dust haze descends over Athens

• Oil prices aren’t the Fed’s biggest problem right now — American demand is, says an economist

• Pandemics in Roman Empire correlate with sudden climate changes

• Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of civil war

• Letting Your Grass Grow Wild Boosts Butterfly Numbers, UK Study Says

• Childhood: Conditioned to Pretend to Know

• Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average rate, report says

• FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure

• Cities are often 10-15 °C hotter than their rural surroundings

• Plastics industry heats world 4 times as much as air travel, report finds

• Water extraction and weight of buildings see half of China’s cities sink

• Wave Goodbye to Another Set of Freedoms With the New Digital ID

• What the Rising Gold Price Signals

• Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra

• Russia warns the world is on the brink of a ‘direct military clash’ between nuclear powers

• Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin

• Ex-Manchester City Player’s Police Visits: Joey Barton’s Troubling Encounters Raise Questions About UK Speech Police

• Oedipus: the Discovery of the Future

• Hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in Burundi

• ‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city

• Humans may have nearly gone extinct.

• I Saw the Future of Europe… In India

• Put Government Press Secretaries Under Oath, Subject Them to Perjury Charges

• A $250 Million War Game and Its Shocking Outcome

• Australian Senator Says Elon Musk Should Be in Jail and The “Key Be Thrown Away” Over Free Speech Clash

• War, fear of war spur global military spending to new record: SIPRI report

• Black swan hedge fund says Fed rate cuts will signal market crash

• Oil Companies Must Set Aside More Money to Plug Wells, a New Rule Says. But It Won’t Be Enough.

• The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world

• The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up

• The Strait of Hormuz and ‘the Spice’

• The Age of Hyper-Imperialism

• Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions

• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt

• Kick Back, Watch It Crumble

• Among the ancestors

• Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

• Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other

• A World At War (Again)

• California cracks down on water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’

• Living on Uneasy Street

• Oh, The Irony: Congress Passes FISA-702 Extension, Allowing Warrantless Document Searches & Electronic Surveillance Of Americans, On Patriots Day 2024

• Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos

• Hidden threat: Global underground infrastructure vulnerable to sea-level rise

• Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture?

• EROEI and Civilization’s Forced Decline

• Israeli Missiles Hit Iran, the Price of Oil Jumps 3 Percent

• Is There a Road Map for What’s Ahead?

• Almost Everything is About Oil in the Middle East

• AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says

• Shipping Industry Pleads With UN For “Enhanced Military Presence” As Maritime Choke-Point Chaos Spreads

• Scientists finally solved chilling mystery of why the Mayans vanished after thousands of years

• Severe energy crisis paralyzes Ecuador for two days

• Climate crisis: average world incomes to diminish by nearly a fifth by 2050

• Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the “Source of Truth”

• Northern Permafrost Region Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It Captures

• Why Is Gold Rising Now, Where Is It Headed Tomorrow?

• Russian Refineries Install Nets as Protection From Drone Attacks

• What are Mises’s Six Lessons?

• Telegram Founder Reveals US Government’s Alleged Covert Maneuvers to Backdoor The App

• Homesteading: A Journey of Self-Sufficiency

• The world’s economic myths are hitting limits

• What Would a New Civil War Look Like?

• Bank of America Accused of Political Debanking

• Draining the World of Fresh Water

• Getting to the other side of the biodiversity crisis

• The distinct danger of being naive

• Flooding in Central Asia and southern Russia kills scores and forces tens of thousands to evacuate to higher ground

• “The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped”: Lawrence Lepard

• Iran on the Rise: Retaliation, “Important Military Targets”. Peter Koenig

• A Blameless Explanation of Why Everything is Falling Apart, for Schoolkids

• “Weasel Words” – Stella Assange Challenges US Over Julian’s Fate

• Let’s talk about Civil War

• Great Campaign Against the Great Reset

• EU Officials Dodge Their Own Surveillance Law

• Heatwave updates: IMD issues warning for Mumbai, Bengal, Goa; respite for Delhi-NCR

• More climate-warming methane leaks into the atmosphere than ever gets reported – here’s how satellites can find the leaks and avoid wasting a valuable resource

• Humans: the Movie

• The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984)

• 2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face

• IMF Warns Biden’s Fiscal Profligacy Poses “Significant Risks” To Global Economy ‘In Great Election Year’

• The longest — and probably largest — proof of our current climate catastrophe ever caught on camera.

• Warning as Microplastics Escape Gut to ‘Infiltrate’ Brain

• AI, Gold and Nuclear War

• Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and “Bringing Discredit” on the Entire Industry

• Nuclear Weapons Are the Biggest Single Danger for Humanity and All Forms of Life

• Predicting the Future: How Good is the “Earth4All” Model?

• State Violence Is The Norm

• Europe’s Metacrisis Just Got Worse

• Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference

• A world war in waiting: After Iran’s attack, it’s almost here

• Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don’t Be Naive

• Thermal Storage Hopium

• On the Move

• “Live Fast, Die Young”: USDA Shifts Plant Hardiness Zones

• What About Prices?

• AI, Cryptocurrency Will Double Data Center Energy Consumption by 2026

• Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us

• David Stockman on How the US Federal Debt Has Gone Parabolic…

• What Optimism and Pessimism Are in the 21st Century, a Reflection on “Are We Doomed?,” And Two Narratives of the Human Journey

• Did UAE’s Cloud-Seeding Operation Flood Dubai?  

• “Degrowth” is a tough sell

• Water in Texas: A Window Into Water Problems Across the US

• The Palestine Congress

• The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

• U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices

• Iran Threatens America’s Military Bases Across Middle East If US Supports Israeli Counterattack

• The largest renewable energy project in history fails: only desert is left and we have lost $2 billion

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CIII–We All Believe What We Believe…Evidence Be Damned.

• Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different, Part 6

• Inflation is Causing Tectonic Shifts

• Acceptance, Forgiveness, Gratitude

• Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?

• Biden Tells Bibi: US Will Not Support A Counterattack Against Iran After Hundreds Of Drones, Missiles Sent

• Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails

• Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI–Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh C–Grieving: A Natural Response To Recognition Of Growth Limits

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIX–Energy Future, Part 4: Economic Manipulation

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCVIII–‘Inevitable’ Growth: Helping To Keep the Profiteer Gravy Train Pumping

• Middle East Crisis: Container Ship Hijacked Near Strait Of Hormuz Amid Soaring Iran Tensions

• Iran Says If US ‘Interferes’ In Retaliation On Israel, American Bases Will Be Struck

• Anti-Science? Scientific Reporting RE: Covid-19 mRNA vaccines

• We have two years to save the planet: UN climate chief

• What Farmers Say About Climate Change

• Can Our Veggie Gardens Feed us in a Real Crisis?

• Study identifies atmospheric and economic drivers of global air pollution

• The “Business” of Central Banking—Usury and Tax Farming

• Only 57 producers are responsible for 80% of all fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions since 2016 – new report

• World’s biggest economies pumping billions into fossil fuels in poor nations

• Large-scale factory farms have become the biggest source of water pollution in the U.S.

• Is nuclear energy the answer?

• The CPI Rose Sharply in March Led by Shelter and Gasoline

• Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time

• Staving Off Revolution

• How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer

• We’re Supposed To Be Done Finding New Oil and Gas. We’re Not.

• Post-Modernity

• Yale Study Unveils Asteroid Strikes As Possible Trigger for Earth’s Ice Ages

• IMF Prepares Financial Revolution – Say GOODBYE to the Dollar

• Iran Blames UN Security Council ‘Inaction’ For What Comes Next

• Biden’s Inflation Narrative Dies as Price Growth Rises to a Seven-Month High

• ‘Devastating to See’: Russia’s Orenburg Region Battles Historic Flood

• Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn’t Censorship. Here’s Why It Is.

• This Double Whammy Will Unleash Unprecedented Money Printing… or Break the U.S. Economy

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCVI–Technological ‘Breakthroughs’, Ponzi Schemes, and ‘Green’ Energy

• Crude, Food Prices Jump As Looming Israel-Iran Conflict Spark 1970s Oil Shock Fears

• Video: Canadians Plunged Into Poverty. Can’t Afford to Eat! Sign of Major Economic Collapse

• Something Broke In Markets On Thursday

• Global ‘Game Of Chicken’ Continues – MOAB >> NFP