The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.
The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It. Pandemic-related product shortages — from computer chips to construction materials — were supposed to be resolved by now. Instead, the world has gained a lesson in the ripple effects of disruption. Kirsten Gjesdal stopped ordering some products for her kitchen supply store in Brookings, […]
Can democracy survive peak oil?
Can democracy survive peak oil? Preface. This is a book review of Howard Bucknell’s Energy and the National Defense. University of Kentucky Press. Bucknell was amazingly prescient as you’ll see in this review, especially about why democracy might not survive the energy crisis. Though it turns out the U.S. may not need an energy crisis to […]
Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses As 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Damaged
Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses As 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Damaged More than a million customers across Louisiana are without power on Tuesday morning. Some reports indicate it could take weeks for the lights to come back on as thousands of miles of transmission lines were damaged after Hurricane Ida rolled through on Sunday. […]
America’s Energy Strategy is Bonkers
America’s Energy Strategy is Bonkers “Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery. The price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic. While OPEC+ recently agreed to production increases, these increases will not fully offset previous production cuts […]
Two new climate reports indicate what gardeners may expect in the future
Two new climate reports indicate what gardeners may expect in the future In the past week, two new major climate reports have been released. One is the latest (6th) report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the other is the State of the Climate 2020 report. Of the two, the IPCC report has garnered a lot […]
Australian Truckers Protest Mandatory Vaccines and Lockdowns, Block Major Highway
Queensland Police stop trucks at the Queensland border in Coolangatta, Australia, on Aug. 25, 2021 (Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Australian Truckers Protest Mandatory Vaccines and Lockdowns, Block Major Highway Australian truck drivers have blocked a major highway in the north-eastern state of Queensland in a protest against vaccine mandates and tough border restrictions, causing traffic to […]
History Warns – All Governments are the Same!
History Warns – All Governments are the Same! A man pawns himself off as a baby Kangaroo’s mother. Politicians have LEARNED that they too can pretend that they are your parent and are solely interested in taking care of you when their objective is really raw power. Government presents itself as if it truly cares about “We […]
Educating for the Prime Directive
Educating for the Prime Directive Recently, I was involved in a discussion about the things we do and do not teach our children. I’ve already said quite a bit on this subject. But after talking with a few other people about education, and especially secondary education, I realized I approached the subject from the assumption that the purpose […]
Propaganda Is The Source Of All Our Problems: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Propaganda Is The Source Of All Our Problems: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We don’t talk nearly enough about the fact that wealthy and powerful people are constantly pouring vast fortunes into manipulating the way we perceive our world and that this is the […]
How long will the US dollar’s dominance last?
How long will the US dollar’s dominance last? 301 AD was a big year for the Roman Empire. That was the year that, amid spiraling inflation, Emperor Diocletian issued his Edict on Maximum Prices, essentially fixing prices of just about everything across the Roman Empire. The price of wheat, a day labor’s wages, a quart […]
Fed Prints Money or the Whole Thing Blows Up-Craig Hemke
Fed Prints Money or the Whole Thing Blows Up-Craig Hemke By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post) Financial writer, market analyst and precious metals expert Craig Hemke says the Fed has all but said it was going to delay the so-called “taper” of easy money policies–forever. This is why gold and silver spiked as the dollar tanked […]
“Extremely Dangerous” – Hurricane Ida Almost Category 5 Strength As It Nears Louisiana
“Extremely Dangerous” – Hurricane Ida Almost Category 5 Strength As It Nears Louisiana Hurricane Ida has rapidly strengthened into a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 MPH, just seven mph shy of a Category 5. The storm is set to strike Louisiana later this afternoon/evening, and on the same day, 16 years ago, […]
Who Will be the Last Farmer Left?
Who Will be the Last Farmer Left? A dwindling number of GTA growers worry that aggressive provincial development plans will make it tough to survive …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID Below, we ask a simple question: Is the war on COVID the needed pretext for even more centralized market “performance?” After all, who needs free markets when central bank liquidity determines price forces via endless COVID bailouts? The trend toward centralized controls and centralized markets was in play long […]
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future Preface. This is another “Scientists Warnings to Humanity” by many famous scientists, including Paul & Anne Erlich, John Harte, Peter Raven, and Mathis Wackernagel. Some of the challenges they point to are loss of biodiversity and consequent 6th mass extinction, human population growth which has led to […]
