Phase Shift — Part 1
Phase Shift — Part 1 Loosing polar ice, the Amazon and the fight against a coming recession Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash News stories and popular narratives on recent — and not so recent — events like how the economy got broke or why inflation is soaring focus too much on human decisions. As if ‘choices’ leading […]
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics”
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics” On this episode, we meet with Economist, Author, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London, Steve Keen. Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and […]
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Oil and Gas: The Next Meltdown?
A Winter of Anger
A Winter of Anger Vincent van Gogh Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather 1882It is very simple: if you’d ask most citizens of whichever EU country if they are willing to risk being unable to feed and heat their children in order to support Ukraine and Zelensky, they would say NO. Hell no! But that is what […]
“Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm
“Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm The resistance is growing as more than 75,000 irritated people in the UK have pledged not to pay their electricity bill this fall when prices jump again. “75,000 people have pledged to strike on October 1st! If the government & energy companies […]
Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control (“The News”), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own
Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control (“The News”), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own Now that globalization and financialization are finally unraveling, people are slowly awakening to the national security foundations of localizing production. What exactly is “the news” other than an inducement to passivity, despair and […]
Groupthink: we are all victims
Groupthink: we are all victims US HHS response to COVID was textbook, in all the wrong ways “Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.” Fredrich Nietzsche We all seek to understand the root causes of the COVIDcrisis. We crave an answer, and hope is that we can find some sort of […]
“Situation Is Really Precarious”: World’s Largest Rice Exporter Faces Output Decline Amid Heatwave
“Situation Is Really Precarious”: World’s Largest Rice Exporter Faces Output Decline Amid Heatwave The effects of elevated food prices have rippled worldwide and forced governments to impose price controls and trade restrictions. Price increases are due to supply constraints driven by several variables, including high energy prices, geopolitics, and weather. Ukraine restarted maritime transport of […]
Collapse Won’t Just Reset Society, It Will Destroy It
Collapse Won’t Just Reset Society, It Will Destroy It I The collapse of techno-industrial civilization is likely to occur on the present business-as-usual mode of social functioning, probably by 2030, but there are scenarios where it could be before Christmas 2022, if the West and Russia slide into nuclear war; that is our position, supported […]
Green technocracy’s dirty secret
Green technocracy’s dirty secret Germany is in trouble. The IMF has revised its projected growth figures down to just 1.2 percent for 2022. Even this may prove to be optimistic now that gas imports from Russia have dropped to just 20 percent of what was anticipated prior to the EU sanctions. With autumn approaching, German industry is anticipating […]
Norway Considers Limiting Electricity Exports To Prevent Domestic Crunch
Norway Considers Limiting Electricity Exports To Prevent Domestic Crunch Norway may soon introduce a rule to reduce its vast electricity exports if levels at reservoirs for hydropower generation drop to critically low levels in a bid to prevent power shortages and further rises in energy bills domestically. Norway’s Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Norwegian media, […]
UK Water Restrictions Go Into Effect As Heatwave Persists
UK Water Restrictions Go Into Effect As Heatwave Persists Britain has recorded one of its hottest and driest summers on record. Rivers and reservoirs are drying up as towns in the southern part of the country imposed the first hosepipe ban on Friday. The country’s record heat in July — above 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) — melted […]
“Widespread Civil Unrest” Looming in UK Over Cost of Living Crisis
“Widespread Civil Unrest” Looming in UK Over Cost of Living Crisis Movement to stop paying bills snowballs. SOPA Images via Getty Images The chance of “widespread civil unrest” occurring in the UK as a result of people being unable to afford to pay their bills due to the cost of living crisis is “inevitable,” according […]
World population is growing faster than we thought
World population is growing faster than we thought We’ve all heard the aphorism ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics.’ Statistics are an invaluable tool for understanding and responding appropriately to the world, but when the numbers say one thing and the headlines say another, it’s a cause for concern. TOP takes a dive into World Population Prospects […]
UN Secretary-General Blames Global Economic Crisis On Ukraine War
UN Secretary-General Blames Global Economic Crisis On Ukraine War NATO governments and globalist institutions have put on a good show acting as if they hate Putin and the Russian advance in Ukraine, but the reality is that the war acts as an all encompassing distraction from the greater agenda at hand. It offers globalist organizations, […]
