Can’t live with them, can’t live without them: The age of fossil-fuel abundance is dead
Can’t live with them, can’t live without them: The age of fossil-fuel abundance is dead Dwindling investment in oil, gas and coal mean high prices are here to stay For much of the past half-decade, the operative word in the energy sector was “abundance”. An industry that had long sought to ration the production of fossil […]
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a lucrative market has emerged for post-apocalyptic novels, […]
Don’t Underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech
Don’t Underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else. The reasons […]
Sri Lanka economists tell government to default on bond, buy food
Sri Lanka economists tell government to default on bond, buy food $500m should be redirected to pay for fuel, medicine and other essentials, experts say Sri Lankan rupee banknotes sit in a bucket at a fruit stall in Colombo. The country is running out of imported food, fuel, medicine and a key ingredient of milk […]
Politics Is Dead, Here’s What Killed It
Politics Is Dead, Here’s What Killed It Here’s “politics” in America now: come with mega-millions or don’t even bother to show up. Representational democracy–a.k.a. politics as a solution to social and economic problems–has passed away. It did not die a natural death. Politics developed a cancer very early in life (circa the early 1800s), caused by wealth […]
Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision
Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision Photo by Vadim Sadovski The U.S. economy teeters between two catastrophes: wild and untamed hyperinflation that turns cash into wallpaper, or an epic crash that would make 2008 look like a day at the beach. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has led the U.S. government’s monetary policy to this […]
Canada’s offshore wind resources are huge
Canada’s offshore wind resources are huge Nuclear energy is not the solution to achieving Canada’s emission reduction targets. Offshore wind power is safer, less costly, and carries none of the risks of nuclear technology. Canada’s offshore wind could deliver more energy than nuclear power. The aging CANDU nuclear reactors are being refurbished at substantial cost […]
Marti’s Corner – 49
Marti’s Corner – 49 Hi Everyone, NOTES: * And…….just like that…….it’s cold. Okay, it’s not Indiana cold, just California cold. Even though we’ve had frost on the lawn, my tomatoes have not died yet. I have maybe 2 dozen green tomatoes and I’m just hoping they will ripen (at least blush so I can bring […]
Is Powell Again Pulling Strings From “The Shadows”?
Is Powell Again Pulling Strings From “The Shadows”? Recently, we have seen stocks rally while the dollar falls. Some of us are wondering why the dollar is falling at the same time currency traders are busy penciling in as many as four interest rate increases. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index, a measure of the currency […]
Must-see video: In the Dutch Parliament, speaking truth to power
Must-see video: In the Dutch Parliament, speaking truth to power As with other European Union countries, the Dutch government has been reveling in the power COVID bestowed on it. In response, the Netherlands has seen huge and violent protests against those draconian strictures. I’m betting that some of those protesters were among the people who […]
It Has Been 7% Inflation Since 1996
It Has Been 7% Inflation Since 1996 And so finally, now fiat $USD financial authorities are being forced to admit we have at a minimum 7% price inflation annualized. The issue, as per usual, is the real value loss truth is like twice that amount in terms of real purchasing power disappearances over the last twelve months. To […]
False Flags Suddenly No Longer A Crazy Conspiracy Theory
False Flags Suddenly No Longer A Crazy Conspiracy Theory Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations of false flag operations as conspiratorial nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented imagination of Alex Jones, the US political/media class is proclaiming with one voice that Russia is currently orchestrating […]
100 Million Americans In Path Of Dangerous Winter Storm
100 Million Americans In Path Of Dangerous Winter Storm A massive winter storm could impact upwards of 100 million people across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast during the latter part of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. National Weather Service (NWS) issued winter storm warnings for 19 states, with some areas over the Appalachians could experience […]
Labor Shortage And Surging Shipping Costs Are Biggest Drivers Of US Food Inflation
Labor Shortage And Surging Shipping Costs Are Biggest Drivers Of US Food Inflation Setting aside the ever-present issue of the global supply chain crunch presently gestating in the PROC, where factories and ports are struggling with the most restrictive lockdown measures since the (Fauci-funded) “China virus” first burst forth out of Wuhan, the US is still facing […]
China Set To Release Crude From Strategic Reserve In Early February
China Set To Release Crude From Strategic Reserve In Early February China has agreed with the United States to release crude from its SPR around the Lunar New Year holiday on February 1 The volume of the release may depend on actual crude prices China has agreed with the United States to release crude from […]
