“We Are Teetering On The Edge”: Food Shortage Worries Mount As PA Farms “Crushed” By Record Diesel Prices
“We Are Teetering On The Edge”: Food Shortage Worries Mount As PA Farms “Crushed” By Record Diesel Prices There’s nothing like the sweet smell of Building Back Better… Pennsylvania farmers are being “crushed” by the record cost of diesel – so much so, that questions about a food crisis are starting to loom, the Morning Call reported. […]
Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy
Chris Bowen, Labor Party’s minister for energy and climate change, speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on June 16, 2022. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy Energy Minister Chris Bowen has blamed Australia’s current electricity shortage on a supposed […]
Running on Empty, Part IV
Running on Empty, Part IV How the War between Russia and Ukraine is Destroying the Petrodollar System Welcome to Part IV of Running on Empty, my four-part analysis of the Petrodollar system. Part I of this series explained that the US dollar is the world’s first reserve currency that is not backed by precious metals. Instead it is […]
ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil
ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil Last week, shortly after the ECB’s latest meeting disappointed markets and concluded without a discussion of Europe’s growing bond market fragmentation (which is to be expected since QE – the glue that held the Euro area’s bond market together – is ending) and which has since sent […]
The Harsh Reality of Energy TINA Strikes the US and Europe
The Harsh Reality of Energy TINA Strikes the US and Europe Hello EU and President Biden “There Is No Alternative” to Russian energy. Natural gas chart courtesy of Trading Economics, annotations by Mish. Some European Factories, Long Dependent on Cheap Russian Energy, Are Shutting Down The Wall Street Journal reports Some European Factories, Long Dependent on […]
U.S. Midwest may have summer power shortages for years
U.S. Midwest may have summer power shortages for years June 10 (Reuters) – The power grid operator in the Central United States warned on Friday that problems it may experience keeping the lights on this summer could also occur during the summers of 2023, 2024 and beyond. The region’s grid operator, Midcontinent Independent System Operator […]
Science Snippets: Peak Oil Has NOT Gone Away
Science Snippets: Peak Oil Has NOT Gone Away The video embedded below is scheduled to Premiere on YouTube at noon Eastern time on 13 June 2022. An online conversation will ensue shortly before, during, and slightly after the video is shown. Professor Guy McPherson’s AVID Audio Course Described and Available Here The Washington Post, 7 […]
This is how civilisations collapse
This is how civilisations collapse Last week, in an attempt to explain away the supply chain woes that are increasingly leading to goods shortages in America, President Biden cited a popular neoliberal fable. He observed that to make a pencil, wood and graphite must be sourced from the other ends of the world before the finished product can […]
Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics
Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy calls on Big Tech to censor renewable energy critics in the name of “public health” Biden Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy last week demanded that Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies crack down on those who are “seeding doubt about […]
Thousands of Homes in Sydney Plunged Into Darkness As Energy Shortage Plagues Australia
A stock image of an electricity tower going through a rural property in Sydney, Tuesday, October 17, 2017. (AAP Image/Brendan Esposito) AUSTRALIA Thousands of Homes in Sydney Plunged Into Darkness As Energy Shortage Plagues Australia Thousands of homes on Australia’s east coast were plunged into darkness on Monday as electricity suppliers struggled to meet demand […]
The Market Is “On The Edge Of A Huge Collapse”
The Market Is “On The Edge Of A Huge Collapse” This week I had a chance to interview my friend Andy Schectman, President & Owner of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, a company that has done more than $5 billion in sales. Andy is a world-renowned expert in the field of precious metals and took the […]
Pitchforks soon in Europe?
Pitchforks soon in Europe? Dear Europeans For your own children´s sake — on my knees and with my saddened eyes humbly looking downwards — I beg of you to please stop the current self-destructive nonsense dead in its tracks by immediately demanding from your political class to import the bloody Russian oil normally once again […]
Summer Outages Are Coming. Is Your Facility Prepared?
Summer Outages Are Coming. Is Your Facility Prepared? On-site microgrids provide facilities with reliable energy during extreme weather that threatens utility blackouts and price increases. Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal — almost every week we see news articles warning of more summer outages than ever before. The U.S. is experiencing more outages than other industrialized nations. […]
The Inflation Crisis Is Worse Than Admitted – Will Interest Rates Go To Record Highs?
The Inflation Crisis Is Worse Than Admitted – Will Interest Rates Go To Record Highs? Inflation is not a new problem in the US; there has been a steady expansion of price inflation and a devaluation of the dollar ever since the Federal Reserve was officially made operational in 1916. This inflation is easily observed […]
Kim Dotcom Breaks Down the True Scale of US Government Debt
KIM DOTCOM BREAKS DOWN THE TRUE SCALE OF US GOVERNMENT DEBT New Zealand tech CEO, Kim Dotcom did the math on the United States’ sovereign debt and he tweeted a thread about it, saying it may the most important thread that he may ever make. Kim explains that US spending and debt have spiraled out of control […]
