Nobody could have seen it coming
Nobody could have seen it coming Eighteen months ago, the UK average annual combined gas and electricity bill was £1,287. Later this week, we expect to learn that it will rise to £3,582 in October and to £4,266 in January 2023. Not, in reality, that anybody is going to pay that amount. All but those […]
Net zero is dead – so what now?
Net zero is dead – so what now? There is a deep irony that Europe’s wind turbine factories were among the first to close in the face of our growing energy crisis. Nevertheless, it goes a long way to demonstrating the fundamental flaw in the net zero project – while the harvested energy of the wind may be renewable, […]
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: My state of mind
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: My state of mind Dire Evolutionary Timeline by Blu This is an essay from reader wis.dom project who describes his painful personal journey of connecting dots to achieve awareness of our overshoot predicament. I was born in 1969, at a time when everything still seemed possible. On July 20, two people walked on […]
Stone Age Economics, Marshall Sahlins (1972)
Stone Age Economics, Marshall Sahlins (1972) Beginning as a presentation in 1966, what Sahlins challenged was the historic prejudice which dismissed the rights and value of ‘undeveloped’ societies and their ‘state of nature’. Ramblinactivist’s ‘A Book in Five Minutes’: No.16, 20th August 2022 View the YouTube video of this post ‘A Book in Five Minutes’ Index ‘The […]
“Blackouts Imminent” – 75,000 Powerless As Record California Power Usage Sparks ‘Demand Response Event’
“Blackouts Imminent” – 75,000 Powerless As Record California Power Usage Sparks ‘Demand Response Event’ Update (2030ET): As was expected earlier, California power usage surged to a record high this afternoon raising the emergency status of the state’s electrical system to the highest possible level amid a blistering heat wave, which means rolling blackouts are imminent. This triggered […]
Russia Admits Weaponization Of Gas, Halts NS1 Shipments “Until Sanctions Lifted” As EU Prepares Response To Energy Crisis
Russia Admits Weaponization Of Gas, Halts NS1 Shipments “Until Sanctions Lifted” As EU Prepares Response To Energy Crisis Putin is done playing around. Two days after Russia indefinitely halted nat gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for the amusing reason that there was an “oil leak” (shown below)… … on Monday Russia finally admitted what […]
Czech PM Blames Russian Propaganda For Mass Protests In Pragu
Czech PM Blames Russian Propaganda For Mass Protests In Prague Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala is blaming pro-Russian forces for mass demonstrations this weekend that saw tens of thousands of people protest against the government, the European Union and NATO amid soaring energy prices and inflation. The “Czechia First” demonstration saw 70,000 people gather to […]
‘Worst Yet to Come’ as Global Civil Unrest Index Hits All-Time High
An opposition activist shouts slogans holding up bread as he protests along with others against rising living costs, at the entrance of the president’s office in Colombo on March 15, 2022. (Photo: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images) ‘Worst Yet to Come’ as Global Civil Unrest Index Hits All-Time High “Over the coming months, governments […]
This Winter, Collapse Is Coming to Britain
This Winter, Collapse Is Coming to Britain Britain Is Standing at the Edge of Social Collapse’s Abyss — And It’s About to Jump Image via Mark Thompson on Twitter These days, my British friends ask me the same question, with the same faint tinge of terror in their voices. “So. How bad is it going to […]
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades FILE PHOTOS. (Credit: Facebook / @kamnapp; Saudi Media Ministry) Saudi Arabians are using a mobile app sold by both Apple and Google to snitch on their fellow citizens for dissenting against government authorities. As a result, activists and others are going to prison for […]
Alan Jones: Net Zero
Alan Jones: Net Zero https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1172852053278410
G7 Russian Oil Price Cap, Admission of Defeat From Collective West–Part 2
G7 Russian Oil Price Cap, Admission of Defeat From Collective West–Part 2
Sweden, Austria Start Bailing Out Energy Companies Triggering Europe’s “Minsky Moment”
Sweden, Austria Start Bailing Out Energy Companies Triggering Europe’s “Minsky Moment” Last weekend, Credit Suisse repo guru published what may have been the most insightful snippet of the entire European energy crisis (to date) when he extended the infamous “Minsky Moment” framework to Europe, and specifically Germany, which he said “can’t cover its payments without Russian gas […]
“Exorbitant Rise In Energy Prices” Forces Europe’s Top Steelmaker To Close Plants
“Exorbitant Rise In Energy Prices” Forces Europe’s Top Steelmaker To Close Plants Even though European power and natural gas prices have subsided this week, Germany, the largest economy in the bloc, still faces historically high energy costs that have forced cuts in industrial output. The latest example is the world’s largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, which released […]
