Don’t Look Up! There’s Nobody There!
Don’t Look Up! There’s Nobody There! On December 24, 2021, Netflix released a new film titled “Don’t Look Up.” It is an apocalyptic thriller about an earth-killing asteroid and is being rated among the top 10, along with a monster flick, an art crime flick and a snuff film. As a piece of entertainment it is […]
Losing It
Losing It Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart? No wonder journalists have slated it. They’ve produced a hundred excuses not to watch the climate breakdown satire Don’t Look Up: it’s “blunt”, it’s “shrill”, it’s “smug”. But they […]
Australia Ties Record for Hottest Southern Hemisphere Day
Australia Ties Record for Hottest Southern Hemisphere Day It topped 123 degrees Fahrenheit in Western Australia, tying the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the southern hemisphere A map showing the misery index in Australia on Thursday. Gif: Earth Wind Map It is really, really, really hot in Australia right now. On Thursday, Onslow, a coastal […]
Global Economy Heading For “Mother Of All” Supply Chain Shocks As China Locks Down Ports
Global Economy Heading For “Mother Of All” Supply Chain Shocks As China Locks Down Ports Over the past month, as Wall Street turned increasingly optimistic on US growth alongside the Fed, with consensus (shaped by the Fed’s leaks and jawboning) now virtually certain of a March rate hike, we have been repeatedly warning that after […]
No Bubble Here, Folks!
No Bubble Here, Folks! Anyone see a bubble anywhere? This is short and sweet because the picture says it all: We’ve just seen the fastest, highest rocket ride in stocks in the history of the world! Because that makes sense during a time of global plague and global economic lockdowns, creating extreme labor shortages, resulting […]
Coming Market Madness Could Take 70 Years to Recover
COMING MARKET MADNESS COULD TAKE 70 YEARS TO RECOVER Cervantes famous classic novel Don Quixote can in simple terms be described as a fight for liberty and freedom against oppression and against the state. This book is from 1605 and considered to be one of the best books ever written. In the midst of market […]
Oceans Break Heat Record for Third Year in a Row
Oceans Break Heat Record for Third Year in a Row 2021 broke the record from 2020 by about 14 zettajoules, or 20 times the world’s annual energy consumption An Arvor float is deployed from the RV Pourquoi Pas to capture ocean temperature data. The oceans are absorbing more heat as climate change advances. Credit: Argo Program […]
Ending Fiat Money Won’t Destroy the State
Ending Fiat Money Won’t Destroy the State A certain meme has become popular among advocates of both gold and cryptocurrencies. This is the “Fix the money, fix the world” meme. This slogan is based on the idea that by switching to some commodity money—be it crypto or metal—and abandoning fiat currency, the world will improve […]
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It
An American flag in front of a damaged school area in Dayton, Ohio on May 28, 2019. (Photo: Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images) Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It As with climate change, inequality, and our other collective problems, solutions will entail confronting and reining in power—whether the power of wealth, of outsized […]
The Tipping Point That Will Destroy the World
The Tipping Point That Will Destroy the World
It’s okay to look up
It’s okay to look up I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep, and for exactly the same reason: “We’ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading straight for […]
Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age
Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the harrowing rigors of reality, spiked with shocking losses, reckonings, and not a little retribution for the rogues and […]
US Consumer Prices Soar At Fastest In 39 Years, Real Wages Tumble For 9th Straight Month
US Consumer Prices Soar At Fastest In 39 Years, Real Wages Tumble For 9th Straight Month Consensus was convinced – with barely any outliers – that this morning’s consumer price index would print with an astonishing 7.0% YoY (and notably 7 of the last 9 releases have come in above consensus) and they nailed it […]
