100 Things You Can Do To Prepare Yourself for Peak Oil
100 Things You Can Do To Prepare Yourself for Peak Oil Home: 1. If you live in a place where it gets hot in the summer, consider building a screen room (a room with screened windows all around or almost always around), either attached to your house or seperate. You can put a wood cookstove […]
Doomsday ‘Preppers’ Warn of Hard Times Ahead As Preparedness Goes Mainstream
Texas-based food scientist Mike Adams, known online as the “Health Ranger,” sees food shortages and heightened security later in 2022. (Courtesy of Mike Adams) US Doomsday ‘Preppers’ Warn of Hard Times Ahead As Preparedness Goes Mainstream Food scarcity. Food vouchers. Food riots and flash mobs. All of that’s coming—and soon, says Texas-based food scientist and […]
I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too.
I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too. Editor’s note: Luddism is often dismissed as “backwardness,” but it is actually a more advanced, considered, and wise position on technology. To be a Luddite is to stand with workers and the natural world against the death march of technology. This essay is a general introduction to the […]
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and […]
Sri Lanka Cabinet Offers To Resign As Out-Of-Control Inflation Sparks Widespread Social Unrest
Sri Lanka Cabinet Offers To Resign As Out-Of-Control Inflation Sparks Widespread Social Unrest Update (1535ET): Bloomberg reports that Sri Lanka’s cabinet has submitted its resignation, a ruling party member said, amid rising public anger about the government’s economic policies that have led to soaring living costs and a foreign exchange crisis. “We gave resignations to the Prime Minister […]
#225. Gravitational pull
#225. Gravitational pull MANAGING THE REALITY OF ‘LIFE AFTER ORTHODOXY’ A new ‘heavenly body’ has entered the cosmology of political and corporate decision. This new influence is the emerging reality that the economy is turning out, after all, to be an energy system, and that long-accepted ideas to the contrary are fallacious. The concept of limits is […]
What War in Ukraine Means for Energy and Money
What War in Ukraine Means for Energy and Money
Easier said than done: National self-sufficiency in a changed world
Easier said than done: National self-sufficiency in a changed world In the wake of a rapidly evolving realignment of the world trading system resulting from the economic equivalent of World War III, President Joe Biden last week took the first of what are likely to be many steps toward building greater self-sufficiency for the United States. […]
Could climate change make humans go extinct?
Could climate change make humans go extinct? There’s good news and bad news. A digital illustration of someone watching a climate change simulation. (Image credit: boscorelli/Shutterstock.com) The impacts of climate change are here with soaring temperatures, stronger hurricanes, intensified floods and a longer and more severe wildfire season. Scientists warn that ignoring climate change will yield “untold suffering” for humanity. But if […]
What Is The “Great Reset” And What Do The Globalists Actually Want?
What Is The “Great Reset” And What Do The Globalists Actually Want? I first heard the phrase “Great Reset” way back in 2014. Christine Lagarde, who was head of the IMF at the time, was suddenly becoming very vocal about global centralization. It was an agenda that was generally only whispered about in the dark […]
Russian Ruble relaunched linked to Gold and Commodities – RT.com Q and A
Russian Ruble relaunched linked to Gold and Commodities – RT.com Q and A With Russia’s central bank having just profoundly altered the international trade and monetary system by linking the Russian ruble to both gold and commodities, the journalists at RT.com in Moscow asked me to write a Q and A article on what these developments mean, […]
Gazprom Halts Gas Shipments To Europe Via Critical Pipeline
Gazprom Halts Gas Shipments To Europe Via Critical Pipeline After European nations imported the most gas from Russian sources yesterday in months, scrambling to stock up on supplies as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deadline to either pay for gas in rubles (or be cut off) came and went, Russian gas giant Gazprom has officially halted all deliveries to […]
Desperation And Austerity Hit Global Energy Markets
Desperation And Austerity Hit Global Energy Markets We are starting to see the makings of energy curtailments in Europe – an exceedingly unpopular step that governments would be unlikely to take if there were any other choice, highlighting the acute desperation that exists over oil and gas supplies. Another signal of this desperation is Biden’s […]
False Dichotomies…in an age of a planetary crisis
False Dichotomies…in an age of a planetary crisis Ouch. Whoever thought that this was a good idea, haven’t had a second thought. Image: Rodolfo Clix via Pexels Environmentalism, and thinking about our future in general has become a victim if false dichotomies (1). These deeply dividing questions are mere distractions however, steering attention away from the underlying predicaments […]
“Fertilizer Is Out Of Control” – US Farmers Ditch Corn For Soy To Save On Costs
“Fertilizer Is Out Of Control” – US Farmers Ditch Corn For Soy To Save On Costs Fertilizer prices are at record highs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts massive pressure on American farmers to transition to crops that need less fertilizer. A Bloomberg survey found that farmers will plant 2 million more acres of soybeans and about […]
