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 […]
The dark side of Tesla: gigafactories need gigamines
The dark side of Tesla: gigafactories need gigamines The production of electric vehicles requires vast amounts of raw materials such as nickel: Around 32 kg of this metal are needed for the lithium batteries of a mid-range car. To secure access, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is encouraging global nickel mining and is considering investing in […]
Othering Unvaccinated Persons
Othering Unvaccinated Persons In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I observe and give feedback following these practice lessons. Whether coincidence or a reflection of the times, this fall […]
Year of Darkness: The Climate Cataclysm of 536 You’ve Never Heard Of
Year of Darkness: The Climate Cataclysm of 536 You’ve Never Heard Of During 536 the world was beset by a long winter. Dubbed “the year of darkness” in the New Scientist , temperatures plummeted and the sun was dimmed by a vast fog which blocked its rays from hitting the earth during 24 hours a day over […]
Peter Schiff: The Fed Can’t Do What It’s Saying It Will Do
Peter Schiff: The Fed Can’t Do What It’s Saying It Will Do The Fed FOMC minutes came out last week, signaling tighter monetary policy. Peter Schiff talked about the minutes in his podcast, arguing that the Fed can’t do what it says it’s going to do. If it does, it will crash the markets and the economy. […]
New report outlines how Canada’s top CEOs raked in “boundless bonuses” in 2020
New report outlines how Canada’s top CEOs raked in “boundless bonuses” in 2020 The report recommends five policy solutions to tackle extreme wealth inequality. — No 2810 by fw, January 10, 2021 — “Every year we [Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives] examine trends in CEO compensation in Canada. General trends show that compensation for the highest-paid […]
Another Chinese City Goes Into Lockdown Over Omicron
ANOTHER CHINESE CITY GOES INTO LOCKDOWN OVER OMICRON A major Chinese city near Beijing has placed its 14 million residents on partial lockdown after 40 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant. Remember when this scariant was first announced that it was “mild,” according to “scientists,” so […]
European LNG Imports Hit Two-Year High As US Flotilla Delivers Much-Needed Supplies
European LNG Imports Hit Two-Year High As US Flotilla Delivers Much-Needed Supplies A flotilla of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US has finally arrived in Europe, increasing LNG imports on the fuel-starved continent to a two-year high. The fresh injection of natural gas is helping to offset declining Russian shipments. Prices of European natural […]
Global food prices rose ‘sharply’ during 2021
Global food prices rose ‘sharply’ during 2021 © WFP/Fredrik Lerneryd A rwandese farmer holds a handful of beans after the harvest. The UN’s benchmark food and commodity prices index rose sharply on average through 2021, compared with the previous year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) informed on Thursday. The agency’s Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes […]
Fourth Turning 2022 — Bad Moon Rising
FOURTH TURNING 2022 – BAD MOON RISING “Try to unlearn the obsessive fear of death (and the anxious quest for death avoidance) that pervades linear thinking in nearly every modern society. The ancients knew that, without periodic decay and death, nature cannot complete its full round of biological and social change. Without plant death, weeds […]
#BareShelvesBiden Trends As Alarming Number Of People Report Empty Stores
#BareShelvesBiden Trends As Alarming Number Of People Report Empty Stores Before Christmas eve, President Biden declared his administration’s efforts to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks ahead of the holiday season had succeeded. Ten days into the new year, we can firmly say that is not the case. The hashtag “BareShelvesBiden” has been trending on Twitter for the last 24 hours. […]
Millions of Americans live near abandoned, toxic oil and gas wells. What does the government plan to do about it?
Millions of Americans live near abandoned, toxic oil and gas wells. What does the government plan to do about it? Stephen Foulger, an environmental scientist with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, uses a Flir gas detection camera during an inspection of an oil pump site near Roosevelt on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Scott G Winterton, […]
Honest Government Ad: We Make Everything Good Sh!t
Honest Government Ad: We Make Everything Good Sh!t
Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse
Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – CC BY 2.0 Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers. […]
