Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands
Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands The Israel-Hezbollah war continues spreading and expanding along the border region, as on Wednesday the Shia paramilitary group backed by Iran fired some 160 missiles into Israel after the IDF killed a top Hezbollah commander, Taleb Sami Abdullah, in south Lebanon the day prior. According to details from […]
De-Dollarization Just Accelerated… And You Might Not Even Know About It
De-Dollarization Just Accelerated… And You Might Not Even Know About It BRICS in Nizhny Novgorod, Crickets’ Silence, Saudi Arabia, and Bridges (Away from the U.S. Dollar) This past week has been a real turning point in the de-dollarization trend we’ve been talking about in these pages. Funny enough, the media seems to be completely oblivious to most […]
Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced
Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced Subscribe to International Man In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church convinced the commoners to buy indulgences to alleviate their sins. And they made a fortune in the process. Similarly, today, our overlords—the mainstream media, central bankers, and their political allies—are working overtime […]
NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions
NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions NewsGuard is fully a product of a particular era – co-founded in 2018 by Steven Brill, and there to provide “a rating system” for news websites. Opponents of what NewsGuard, Brill, et al. stand for would say that era unfortunately continues. Critics sum it up as NewsGuard […]
The End Of The Petrodollar
The End Of The Petrodollar The Saudis, New Chapter in Energy Economics, De-dollarization, and the American-Made Pressure Cooker “Oil is too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” ~ Henry Kissinger Just last Sunday, one of the most significant economic deals of the century came to an end. The long-standing […]
Covid, Economy & Election: QTR On Peak Prosperity
Covid, Economy & Election: QTR On Peak Prosperity Last week I was interviewed by the great Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity in a wide ranging interview that covered topics like Covid, the economy and the political future of the country. Last week I was interviewed by the great Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity in a wide […]
California Wants Higher Gas Prices and EVs, Virginia Did, But Changed Its Mind
California Wants Higher Gas Prices and EVs, Virginia Did, But Changed Its Mind Common sense returns to Virginia as California Governor Gavin Newsom Struggles to defend inane policy. Let’s start with Newsom and gasoline prices. In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Newsom says “What people pay at the pump isn’t simple supply and demand but the result […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s… It seems nowadays we’re always trapped in the silly season of election campaigning. Perhaps my memory is foggy but where it used to be a short window of inane proclamations and ever-grander promises (that never […]
When All Crimes Are Those Against the State
When All Crimes Are Those Against the State “Do not encroach against others or their property.” The above principle is a simple one, yet it’s the basis for all criminal law. In turn, criminal law is the basis for Common Law, the legal system for English-speaking peoples and much of the rest of the world. […]
Science Snippets: Water Disappears as Earth Warms
Science Snippets: Water Disappears as Earth Warms Draft script: The title of this video makes an obvious statement. As Earth or any part of Earth warms, evaporation accelerates. As a result, surface water evaporates and goes into the atmosphere. Considering Earth is in the midst of the most rapid environmental change in planetary history, we must […]
The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage
The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage The feebleness of the US response to a Russian incursion into Kharviv, which was to prevent further strikes on civilian targets in the border city of Belgorod, and the quick Russian counter-moves, confirms how the Collective West has no good options, even […]
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World”
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites vs. the “normies” C.P. Snow in 1977. Photo: Bern Schwartz, National Portrait Gallery. In 1959, British novelist and physical chemist C.P. Snow gave a […]
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again If we build them out of wood, large wind turbines could become a textbook example of the circular economy. Illustration: Eva Miquel for Low-tech Magazine. For more than two thousand years, windmills were built from recyclable or reusable materials: wood, stone, brick, canvas, metal. When – electricity producing […]
Alien Planet Earth
Alien Planet Earth The world of just a few lifetimes ago Watching the climate change is like waiting for your hair to grow. You know it’s happening, but you can’t really tell from day to day. However, from a greater chronological distance, the damage humanity is inflicting on our planet is clear. Where I live, […]
