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How I Came To Believe That Civilization Is Unsustainable

How I Came To Believe That Civilization Is Unsustainable Part 2: A Practical Guide To Collapse Awareness Image credit: Jean Wimmerlin via Unsplash Warning! What follows is not easy to digest, let alone to accept. If you think that this is all crap, or the very thought of a potential end to this way of life […]

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‘Rogue Wave’ 2.0: US NatGas Futures Explode Higher Into Chaotic Expiration

‘Rogue Wave’ 2.0: US NatGas Futures Explode Higher Into Chaotic Expiration February U.S. natural gas futures violently surged Thursday in what appears to be a delivery squeeze into expiration. Bloomberg’s Javier Blas had some early insight that something was amiss… Around 1400 ET, natgas contracts for February jumped as much as 72% in minutes, the […]

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Inflation Is The Kryptonite That Will End Our Decades-Long Monetary Policy Ponzi Scheme

Inflation Is The Kryptonite That Will End Our Decades-Long Monetary Policy Ponzi Scheme “It means buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.” The linchpin that allows the world’s nefarious central banking model to be so effective is that the commonfolk – the plumber, the electrician, the teacher, the bartender, bus driver or barber […]

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The Folly of Pandemic Censorship

The Folly of Pandemic Censorship As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works Earlier this week, in the latest in a series of scolding campaigns, a Britain-based group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate gave a sneak peek at a research report on Substack to The Guardian and The […]

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Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total ‘Fiction’

A protestor gestures during an anti-nuclear demonstration on October 1, 2016 in Siouville-Hague, northwestern France. (Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images) Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total ‘Fiction’ “The reality is nuclear is neither clean, safe, or smart; but a very complex technology with the potential to cause significant harm.” As global […]

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Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns

Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns This is the last in a somewhat interrupted series of posts about property rights in small farm futures and small farm pasts, which started here, looked at the idea of work and self-ownership here, considered private property here and common property here. The missing piece in terms of standard definitions […]

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The Ideology of Human Supremacy

The Ideology of Human Supremacy The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming innate superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is […]

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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone, A Film Review

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone, A Film Review Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963 and it closes with his civil rights speech to the American people […]

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The Secret of Propaganda: Teaching Obedience

The Secret of Propaganda: Teaching Obedience A classic example of modern propaganda. It dates from the 1940s and it shamelessly exploits the principle of authority. Note that there is no proof or evidence that a majority of doctors smoked Camels more than any other cigarettes. And there is no proof or evidence that, even if […]

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Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public: Sharyl Attkisson

Sharyl Attkisson, a five-time Emmy Award winning investigative journalist and host of “Full Measure,” in Leesburg, Virginia, on Jan. 14, 2022. (York Du/The Epoch Times) Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public: Sharyl Attkisson Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and […]

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Millions Without Power After Blackouts Hit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

Millions Without Power After Blackouts Hit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan A massive power outage was reported on Tuesday across several Eurasia countries that left millions in the dark. Reuters reports Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan found themselves without power today. All three ex-Soviet republics have interconnected power grids connected to Russia. The source of the disruption could be […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVIII

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The following contemplation has been prompted by some commentary regarding a recent article by Megan Seibert of the Real Green New Deal Project. It pulls together a couple of threads that I’ve been discussing the past few months… * * * * * There is no ‘remedy’ […]

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Why Not Admit Our Energy Addiction?

Why Not Admit Our Energy Addiction? Bridge over Cataloochee Creek on the Old Cataloochee Turnpike; near Cataloochee Valley, North Carolina There are apparently many people who misunderstand my articles, why I write them, and what it all means at the end of the day. I read scientific articles – LOTS of them, and I read […]

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Fourth Turning 2022–Bad Moon Rising (Part 2)

FOURTH TURNING 2022 – BAD MOON RISING (PART 2) In Part 1 of this article I laid out how the global elite have used this covid flu to manipulate the weak minded into a fear induced mass psychosis as a key element in their Great Reset plan to control the world and keep you technologically enslaved […]

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How to fix our inland waterway system

How to fix our inland waterway system Preface.  As you can see in Table 1 below, water transport is far more energy efficient than land transport, especially once we’re back to muscle power after fossil fuels are gone. Kilojoules of energy used to carry one ton of cargo one kilometer Transportation mode 50 Oil tankers […]

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