The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know
The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know [Update: How do we know Matt and crew are over the target? Facebook won’t allow this post…] Introduction by Matt Taibbi On January 17, 1960, outgoing President and former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower gave one of the most consequential speeches in American history. Eisenhower for eight years […]
The US Banking System Is Sound?
The US Banking System Is Sound? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen keeps insisting that the banking system is “sound.” Is it though? Because it doesn’t look particularly sound. In fact, we just witnessed the second-largest US bank failure ever. Government regulators seized control of First Republic Bank over the weekend and sold the majority of the […]
Global Rice Shortage Looms, Set To Be The Biggest In Decades
Global Rice Shortage Looms, Set To Be The Biggest In Decades Rice is the primary food source for over half of the global population, especially in emerging markets, where it plays a crucial role in feeding people. Last year, we highlighted the potential for a severe global rice shortage. A new report reveals that rice […]
America’s empire is bankrupt
America’s empire is bankrupt The dollar is finally being dethroned Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of […]
World War Three Chronicles, Part 2
World War Three Chronicles, Part 2 As World War Three progresses with the proxy war in Ukraine grinding the nation and its war weary people into dust, we need to pay close attention to the second front. The systematic demolition of US Dollar Hegemony. Part one of this series is embedded here: World War Three Chronicles, Part1 We […]
“No Way Out” for Global Markets Trapped in a Doom Loop of Debt
“No Way Out” for Global Markets Trapped in a Doom Loop of Debt In this compelling conversation with Wealthion founder, Adam Taggart, Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses the current and vast range of headline market topics, signals and risks. Inflation, deflation, risk assets, bond stress, cryptos, war, bank failures, CBDC’s rise, trapped policy […]
Europe’s Energy Troubles Continue: Hydro And Nuclear Output Declining
Europe’s Energy Troubles Continue: Hydro And Nuclear Output Declining Europe’s hydro and nuclear output is declining, leading to mopre energy troubles. Renewables are struggling to fill the gap as wind and solar output increase. The EU may require increased LNG imports from the US to meet energy demands. Last year, Europe was on the brink […]
MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths
MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths A new MIT study indicates that retiring U.S. nuclear power plants could lead to an increase in burning fossil fuels to fill the energy gap, resulting in over 5,000 premature deaths due to increased air pollution. Nearly 20 percent of current electricity in the U.S. […]
Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization
Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization Highlights •The stable climate of the Holocene made agriculture and civilization possible. The unstable Pleistocene climate made it impossible before then. •Human societies after agriculture were characterized by overshoot and collapse. Climate change frequently drove these collapses. •Business-as-usual estimates indicate that the climate will warm by 3°C-4 °C […]
A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises
A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking CrisesThe original vicious circle starts with inflationary interventions in an up-to-then well-anchored monetary regime. Consequent asset inflation spawns a banking crisis. That leads to the installation of anticrisis safety structures (one illustration is a novel or enhanced lender of last resort). Alongside a […]
Facebook Censors Seymour Hersh’s Article About US Involvement in Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Facebook Censors Seymour Hersh’s Article About US Involvement in Nord Stream Pipeline Attack Using a biased ‘fact check’ with direct links to the Norwegian government. NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook is censoring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s story about US involvement in the destruction of Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines using a ‘fact checker’ with links […]
Stable Electricity: A Long Slow Goodbye
Stable Electricity: A Long Slow Goodbye Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash Electricity shortages are looming for the UK and Europe, and then later for the rest of the overdeveloped world as well. Blackouts will become common, and you will get power only for a couple of hours a day — just like in countries with a less favorable economic […]
The Green Growth Delusion
THE GREEN GROWTH DELUSION Advocates of “Green Growth” promise a painless transition to a post-carbon future. But what if the limits of renewable energy require sacrificing consumption as a way of life?A tree is surrounded by solar panels in Los Arcos, Spain, on Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File) In the annals of industrial […]
Project Icebreaker: The Beginning Of A One World Digital Currency System?
Project Icebreaker: The Beginning Of A One World Digital Currency System? There has been extensive discussion in the past couple of years within alternative media circles about the dangers of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs); a currency framework very similar to blockchain based products like Bitcoin but directly controlled by central bankers. It’s a threat […]
Time to trash Triffin
Time to trash Triffin The dollar-based credit bubble is imploding, and emerging economies are seeking protection by accepting trade settlement in other currencies. The US policy of threatening regime change, currency destabilisation, or other means of ensuring nations remain in its sphere of influence are now failing. Mainstream economists in the West insist the dollar […]
