Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants
Image by author Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants A Summer Update from Shipka This summer has been incredibly hot and dry, and even some of the older and more established trees have looked under strain. With increasing periods of hot and dry weather and pressure on both the mains water supply and our perennial […]
Why No Politician Is Willing to Tell Us the Real Energy Story
Why No Politician Is Willing to Tell Us the Real Energy Story No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion. The real story is that we are already running short of oil, coal and natural gas because the direct and indirect costs of extraction are reaching a point where the […]
Cheap Places to Get Quality Preps
Cheap Places to Get Quality Preps By the author of The Ultimate Guide to Frugal Living and the online course Build a Better Pantry on a Budget If you’re like most folks, getting a good deal on your preps is of the utmost importance right now. With the economy collapsing around our ears, many of us are working to […]
The Fed Can’t Stop Supply-Side Inflation
The Fed Can’t Stop Supply-Side Inflation The Fed and other central banks have zero control of supply-driven inflation, period. America’s financial punditry is bewitched by four fatal fantasies: 1. Inflation is demand-driven. If the Federal Reserve (or other central banks) reduce demand with monetary tools like raising interest rates, inflation will cool. 2. Substitution of […]
Belgian PM Warns “Next 5-10 Winters Will Be Difficult” As Energy Crisis Worsens
Belgian PM Warns “Next 5-10 Winters Will Be Difficult” As Energy Crisis Worsens Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo might have spilled the beans about the duration of Europe’s energy crisis. He told reporters Monday, “the next 5 to 10 winters will be difficult.” “The development of the situation is very difficult throughout Europe,” De Croo told […]
Finland Braces For Rolling Blackouts This Winter
Finland Braces For Rolling Blackouts This Winter Finnish grid operator warns of rolling blackouts this winter. Gazprom stopped in May all gas deliveries to Finland. Norway is considering limiting its electricity exports. Finland should be prepared for possible power outages this winter in case of shortfalls in electricity supply, the Finnish grid operator said on Tuesday, in […]
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years Besides the news of record high electricity prices, a troubling new crop failure report about Europe’s upcoming harvest was published Monday. The bloc’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources forecasted corn yields could drop by nearly a fifth due to a devastating drought, according to Bloomberg. Before […]
The Pause…
The Pause… I have frequently described “Project Zimbabwe” as a highly inflationary cycle where both fiscal and monetary stimulus go into insanity mode. While I sincerely hope we don’t go hyperinflationary like Zimbabwe, I certainly think we see an elongated period of substantial and debilitating inflation. When this cycle finally ends, society and our financial […]
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot …or how proposed solutions only deepen the problem What hole…? Bah, gotta keep on diggin’… Image credit: Dominik Vanyi via Unsplash For those of my readers who follow this blog for a while now it has probably become pretty much clear that this global capitalist high-tech industrial civilization is slowly over. […]
The Great Rehash, Part Three: Unsafe and Ineffective
The Great Rehash, Part Three: Unsafe and Ineffective In the first two parts of this sequence of posts (1, 2), I’ve outlined the background of the Great Reset, Klaus Schwab’s dreary rehash of the last half century or so of fix-the-world schemes, and used the creation and destruction of the Georgia Guidestones as a lens through […]
Physical Preps and Tools
Physical Preps and Tools This is the article about “stuff” you can buy. What we are facing is not going to be short term, and it’s not going to affect one small area. The duration is forever. It will affect literally everything, in progressively compounding ways. First we’ll go through ever-increasing, and unending, scarcity […]
Geopolitics: the world is splitting into two
Geopolitics: the world is splitting into two While we are being distracted by Ukraine, President Putin has advanced his geopolitical goals materially. Aided and abetted by President Xi, Putin is taking the Asian continent into his control. That mission is well on its way to being achieved. He now awaits the winter months to finally […]
Hitler’s Scuttled Black Sea Fleet, Centuries-Old ‘Hunger Stones’ Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe
Hitler’s Scuttled Black Sea Fleet, Centuries-Old ‘Hunger Stones’ Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe Extreme droughts across Europe are revealing thousands of years of lost history. In some regions, centuries-old warning messages etched into boulders have been exposed. As StrangeSounds.org reports, these rocks – known as “Hungersteine” or “Hunger Stones” One stone, embedded in the Elbe […]
Carbon-Tinted Glasses
Carbon-Tinted Glasses Most of us have heard the phrase rose-tinted glasses, meaning a tendency to view the world from an optimistic, rosy, point of view. As we also know, when we look at things through only one perspective, we can gain an unrealistic view of reality. There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but if that blinkers us […]
Investors Have Now Spent $5 Billion Pursuing The “Holy Grail Of Energy”
Investors Have Now Spent $5 Billion Pursuing The “Holy Grail Of Energy” When it comes to nuclear fusion, the joke is that it is always just decades away, but that hasn’t stopped investors from spending $5 billion on chasing the holy grail of energy. In 2022, investors spent twice as much money as has ever […]
