The West Must Never Again Go Totalitarian
The West Must Never Again Go Totalitarian The West can never again go totalitarian. We saw it happen generations ago. We fought two of humanity’s most destructive wars and faced the horror of industrial-scale extermination. Never again, said the world’s peoples in the late 1940s, and they began the difficult task of uncovering all that had […]
Are You the Collateral Damage of Central Planners?
Are You the Collateral Damage of Central Planners? The Conference Board – a nonprofit think tank that delivers cutting edge research – recently published its latest Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the United States. The findings were a giant bummer. In December, the LEI dropped for the tenth consecutive month. The LEI, if you’re unfamiliar with it, […]
Sunshine Might Be Free But Solar Power is Not Cheap
Sunshine Might Be Free But Solar Power is Not Cheap Mississippi residents are consistently told that renewable energy sources, like solar panels, are now the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity, but these claims are based on creative accounting gimmicks that only examine a small portion of the expenses incurred to integrate solar onto the grid […]
The Most Egregious Mistake
The Most Egregious Mistake The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood… It is the miscalculation of this era – one that may begin the collapse of dollar primacy, and therefore, global compliance with U.S. political demands, too. But its most grievous content is that it corners the U.S. into […]
World War III: Has It Begun?
World War III: Has It Begun? Has World War III already begun? That’s a serious question and deserves serious consideration by investors. A wave of analysts and commentators have warned that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control and escalate into World War III. One variation on that theme is that the war […]
Soaring Food Prices Prompt Eurasian Nations To Ban Food Exports
Soaring Food Prices Prompt Eurasian Nations To Ban Food Exports The harshest winter since 2008 is contributing to shortages of staple vegetables across Central Asia and sending prices north in a region still suffering from COVID-induced food inflation. In Uzbekistan, record frosts have highlighted the shortcomings of the national energy system as even residents of the capital […]
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab Technocracy – a 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay. Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process Another doozy from the Canadian government. Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom… Bill C-11 regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized […]
Highly-Cited ‘Hamilton 68’ Russiagate Tracker Is Total Hoax: Taibbi
Highly-Cited ‘Hamilton 68’ Russiagate Tracker Is Total Hoax: Taibbi Out of the caterwaul of cries proclaiming that Russian collusion, and Russian influence operations, were the only reason Donald Trump won the 2016 US election (a hoax funded and promoted by his opponent, Hillary Clinton), a website which claimed to track said Kremlin efforts sprung forth, and was used […]
A Dollar Collapse Is Now In Motion – Saudi Arabia Signals The End Of Petro Status
A Dollar Collapse Is Now In Motion – Saudi Arabia Signals The End Of Petro Status The decline of a currency’s world reserve status is often a long process rife with denials. There are numerous economic “experts” out there that have been dismissing any and all warnings of dollar collapse for years. They just don’t […]
Renewable Power Projects Slow In US Over High Costs And Community Opposition
Renewable Power Projects Slow In US Over High Costs And Community Opposition The installation of wind and solar power projects is slowing down in the United States, with some projects being canceled over persistent cost issues and community animosity. Solar panels are seen next to a Southern California Edison electricity station in Carson, Calif., on […]
Europe’s Energy Crisis Leaves Almost All Of Pakistan Without Power
Europe’s Energy Crisis Leaves Almost All Of Pakistan Without Power Pakistan faced an almost nationwide power outage on Monday. A significant energy shortage is one of the main drivers of the nation’s current economic crisis. The energy crisis in Europe has made Pakistan vulnerable to high fuel prices. The long-awaited winter energy crisis has finally […]
NATO’s ‘war against Russia’ inches ‘closer to direct conflict’
NATO’s ‘war against Russia’ inches ‘closer to direct conflict’ “We are fighting a war against Russia,” German’s Foreign Minister says, as the US and Germany authorize tank shipments, and new dangers, in the Ukraine proxy war. (US M1 Abrams tanks at a training site in Germany, 2018. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sharon Matthias […]
Germany Still Years Away From Replacing Russian NatGas, Official Admits To “Unspoken Strategy To Pay Crazy Prices”
Germany Still Years Away From Replacing Russian NatGas, Official Admits To “Unspoken Strategy To Pay Crazy Prices” Some European politicians and economists are breathing a sigh of relief after mild temperatures, increasing liquefied natural gas shipments, and above-average natural gas stockpiles have so far averted a worsening energy crisis this winter. Other politicians believe the energy […]
German Foreign Minister Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud On Ukraine
German Foreign Minister Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud On Ukraine German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock bluntly stated in fresh remarks that Western allies are fighting a war against Russia. The remarks came during a debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday amid discussions over sending Leopard 2 […]
Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities
Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities my now-slightly-outdated map of worldviews about collapse; right-click and open in a new tab to see it full-sized It’s interesting to listen to social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger try to reconcile his assessment of the state of the world with his vehement insistence that we have to try as hard […]
