July 9, 2024 Readings
July 9, 2024 Readings
The meme that is destroying Western civilisation Part V–Steve Keen
Food Ecomodernism And The Emptying Of Politics, Part 1–Chris Smaje
Global News Round-up: Let them Eat Bugs–Robert Malone
After Leftist Lobbying, German Bank Kills AfD Donation Account–Armageddon Prose
Weak Data Says a Recession Has Already Started, Let’s Now Discuss When – MishTalk
Corporate Media Is An Unreliable Narrator–Matt Orsagh
This Civilization Is Not Interested In Saving Itself–The Honest Sorcerer
OMG Haaretz Is Hamas Propaganda Now! – by Caitlin Johnstone
Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point–Bethan Davies
‘I had to downgrade my life’ – US workers in debt to buy groceries–BBC News
The Public Cost of Private Science–Nautil.us
No Reform or Leader Is Going to Save the Status Quo–We’re On Our Own–Charles Hugh Smith
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS – The Burning Platform
It’s All MMT: The Fraud Of ‘Monetary Policy’ | ZeroHedge
Master Class On Strategic Organised Resistance: Class 1–Collapse Curriculum
From Prosecutor to Censor: Barbara McQuade’s Call to Erode Free Speech–Reclaim The Net
100 Miles South Of Salt Lake City, A New Type Of Off-Grid Community | ZeroHedge
July 8, 2024 Readings
July 8, 2024 Readings
Let’s Stop Arguing About An Imaginary Energy Transition | Art Berman
The Normalization of Madness – by Geoffrey Deihl
“Overlapping Emergencies” Pushes Countries To Bolster Food Supply Stocks | ZeroHedge
A Revolutionary Library–Justin McAfee
The Meme That Is Destroying The World, Part IV–Steve Keen
July 7, 2024 Readings
July 7, 2024 Readings
War is Peace: Andrew Carnegie’s “Temple of Peace” in the Hague–Dr. Jacob Nordangard
Crash Or Bear Market, Either Way Stocks Going “Down, A Lot”: Mark Spiegel–Quoth the Raven
Communicative Resilience in a World-in-Crisis: It Gets Personal! Part 1–Reslience.org.
Google’s Net Zero Plans Are Going Up In Smoke–Robert Bryce
Earth’s Latest ‘Vital Signs’ Show the Planet Is in Crisis | Scientific American
Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks–Financial Times
July 6, 2024 Readings
July 6, 2024 Readings
The meme that is destroying Western civilisation—Part III–Steve KeenI
World’s Largest Fusion Reactor is Finally Completed, the Test Run Is 15 Years Away – MishTalk
Back in the USSR. Are We the Soviets Now?–Robert Malone
David Stockman on Why the Federal Reserve is Running Out of Monetary Oxygen–David Stockman
Finland gives US control over 15 military bases–InfoBRICs
Russia Finally Acknowledges That She Is at War with Washington – Global Research
Biden and Trump Battle over a Rattle – Edward J. Curtin, Jr.
Who Turned Off the Gaslight–James Howard Kunstler
War Games | how to save the world–Dave Pollard
Crash Or Bear Market, Either Way Stocks Going “Down, A Lot”: Mark Spiegel–Quoth the Raven
10 Signs That Global War Is Rapidly Approaching–Michael Snyder
The coming population collapse — Part 2 | by Subhash Kak
‘They’re Everywhere’: Common Foods Linked to Elevated Levels of PFAS in Body–Common Dreams
Russia Holds Mobile Nuclear Missile Launcher Drills Days Before NATO Summit In DC | ZeroHedge
July 5, 2024 Readings
July 5, 2024 Readings
Move Over, Disaster Capitalism–Make Room for Addiction Capitalism–Charles Hugh Smith
No Escape From Unchecked Government Spending and Deficits…Here’s The Proof–Crisis Investing
Doug Casey on Revisionist History and How the Good Guys Don’t Always Win
Cat 4 Hurricane Beryl Heads Towards Texas, Threatening Major Oil Refineries | ZeroHedge
Craig Murray’s Campaign Against Empire – Read by Eunice Wong
Egypt Teeters On Brink Of Economic Ruin As Public Debt Mounts, Poverty Rate Soars | ZeroHedge
Green New Scam Is Dying – The Daily Reckoning
The Massive Harm of LNG Fracking, Tallied | The Tyee
The Status of U.S. Oil Production: 2024 Update Everything Shines By Dimming – resilience
From Milk Runs to MAD to Madness | Mises Institute
Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management–MongaBay
Brace for Peak Impact | Do the Math
It’s Too Hot For Trains In Canada–Guy McPherson
This Civilization Is Deeply Unnatural–Caitlin Jonstone
The Media Don’t Get Degrowth–Degrowth Is The Answer
From Milk Runs to MAD to Madness | Mises Institute
The Awesome, Terrifying Power of the Press
Scientists And Farmers Restore Aztec-Era Floating Farms That House Axolotls–MongaBay
Rebuilding the flax / textile industry as a commons: Fantasy Fibre Mill
Reporters Blame “Right-Wing Media” for Their Failure to Disclose Biden’s Infirmity – JONATHAN TURLEY
July 4, 2024 Readings
July 4, 2024 Readings
Petrodollar Panic: Separating Fact From Fiction – RIA
The Politics of Exhaustion–Aurelien
“Gaza Is Complicated.” No It Isn’t, Grow Up.–Caitlin Johstone
Germany expanding intelligence services amid its “preparation for war” with Russia–InfoBRICS
Large Maneuvers of War in Europe Under US Command. Manlio Dinucci – Global Research
The meme that is destroying Western civilisation–Part 1–Steve Keen
Iron In The Blood–Zero Input Agriculture
Drumbeats of a Greater Israel War – by David Haggith
Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes!–Caitlin Johnstone
Unveiling the Brennan-Clapper Files: How January 6 Shifted Surveillance Powers–Reclaim the Net
We’re All Living Season 5 of “The Wire” – by Matt Taibbi
Out-of-Control Government Spending Will Break America… And It Just Got Worse–Crisis Investing
How To Obtain REAL Independence… Minimizing the State’s Ability To Coerce You–International Man
The US Is A “Runaway Train” | ZeroHedge
Looking Back, Looking Forward–Chris Smaje
What Does Collapse Look Like? – David Moscrop
240,000 people evacuated in China rainstorms–Phys.org
Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks–Financial Time
July 3, 2024 Readings
July 3, 2024 Readings
2019: Peak (Western) Civilization–The Honest Sorcerer
Summer Reflections–Erik Michaels
The Long Forum June 2024 – by Shane Simonsen
Can The Law Drag Fossil Fuels Into Greener Pastures?
We Are All Joe Biden (And Malthus Was Not a Reptilian)–Ugo Bardi
The Coming US Budget Disaster Will Impoverish Americans | Mises Institute
Ongoing Propaganda From Corporate Media Outlets–Guy McPherson
Category 4 Beryl on collision course with Windward Islands
Hundreds Dying Everyday In Karachi As Pakistan Battles Brutal Summer–Independent
Tropical rains will shift northward in the coming decades – Earth.com
The True Catastrophe of Our Times – TomDispatch.com
Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution – resilience
I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
How World Leaders Are Scrambling to Secure Food in The Shadows | by Eric Lee | Jun, 2024 | Medium
China deploys aircraft carrier off Philippine coast amid tensions | World News – Business Standard
You Are Materials Blind–Matt Orsagh
Third Of Nuclear-Plant Owners In Talks With Tech Firms To Power Up AI Data Centers | ZeroHedge
NATO Mulls Imposing No-Fly Zone Over Western Ukraine | ZeroHedge
Biden’s De Facto EV Mandate At Risk After Supreme Court ‘Chevron’ Ruling
July 2, 2024 Readings
Groundwater Depletion Maps Reveal Depths of “Extreme” and “Exceptional” Mexican Drought
Saudi Arabia Breaks US Global Power?
Very Hard Times are Coming – Charles Nenner | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
Debt Brakes and Treaty Requirements About to Smash the EU – MishTalk
Brazil’s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters
EU’s Mass Surveillance Faces Fierce Resistance
The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica
‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits | Science
David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly – International Man
Episode 61: Psychological Warfare in Pharma Marketing ft: Robert Malone
U.S. Government Historical Debt – by Lau Vegys
Ticking Time Bomb: Space Junk Is Eating Away at Earth’s Ozone Layer
Big Tech Coalition Partners With WEF, Pushes “Global Digital Safety” Standards
World Economic Forum Pushes For AI Use and Collaboration in Fighting “Misinformation”
Wellbeing: UNCONNECT – by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Big Brother on Board: UK Train Stations Use Amazon-Powered AI to Read People’s Mood
The Confiscation of Reality ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Science Snippets: The Ability to Grow Food is Threatened by Climate Change
Red Sea Diversion Causes Congestion at World’s Busiest Port | OilPrice.com
As Inflation Rises, Prepare for Crime | SchiffGold
“Remarkably Lopsided”: NYT Bestseller Bias Laid Bare | ZeroHedge
July 1, 2024 Readings
Common Household Cleaning Product Found To Release Trillions of Microplastic Fibers
Widespread floods in Bangladesh leave over 2 million people stranded – The Watchers
Neo-Nazi Junta’s F-16s Flying From NATO Countries – Great Way to Start WW3 – Global Research
Amazon Sparks Outrage with “Do Not Promote” Book Ban List Following Biden Admin Pressure
Russia promises retaliation against US for Ukraine strike on Crimea | Reuters
Massive sewage spill prompts beach closures along California’s Central Coast | KTLA
New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
Is Globalization Dead? Two Views, Brad Setser’s and Mine – MishTalk
You Can’t Taper a Ponzi Scheme – International Man
Inflation Keeps Coming in Waves, but Economist Can’t Even Get on their Surfboards
Yet Another Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop Ensures the Irreversibility of Climate Change
The Big Squeeze: Inflation as a Cover for Profiteering
What happened to Canada? – Lean Out with Tara Henley
Norway starts stockpiling grain again, citing the pandemic, war and climate change | AP News
From Black Sea to US Midwest, extreme weather threatens crop output | Reuters
Ending Growth Won’t Save the Planet
A Conservative Wins in Toronto for the First Time in Over 30 Years – MishTalk
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled. – by Aurelien
Assange’s Plea: A Controversial End to a 14-Year Legal Struggle and the Impact on Free Speech
Weekend Reads: Big Media’s Big Mistake
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? – Nautilus
Delhi Police Deploys Water Cannons on Water Shortage Protesters, Netizens Respond – Thar Tribune
Climate Code Red: 1.5 degrees Celsius is here and now
The “EU Defense Line” Is The Latest Euphemism For The New Iron Curtain
Hurricane Beryl To Intensify Into “Extremely Dangerous Cat. 4” Storm | ZeroHedge
More Than 40% of U.S. EV Buyers Want To Go Back To Combustion Engine Cars, McKinsey Study Says
13 Nations Sign Agreement to Engineer Global Famine by Destroying Food Supply – News Addicts
June 30, 2024 Readings
Up to half a million NATO soldiers waiting to enter Ukraine
Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy
Doug Casey on Insider Trading… Why Politicians Can Do it and You Can’t
You Keep Using the Term ‘Authoritarian’ ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Over 80 UK war planes deployed from Cyprus to Lebanon since 7 Oct: Report
Dam In East Texas On ‘Potential Failure Watch’ | ZeroHedge
Lithium: A Clean Energy Solution with a Dirty Secret | OilPrice.com
Iran Threatens Israel With ‘Obliterating War’ If It Attacks Lebanon | ZeroHedge
Low snow on the Himalayas threatens water security: Study
Groundwater Depletion Maps Reveal Depths of “Extreme” and “Exceptional” Mexican Drought
The Supreme Court Punts on Censorship – by Matt Taibbi
Sky’s the Limit For Our Debt and the Money Supply
It was the media, led by the Guardian, that kept Julian Assange behind bars
Are Humans Worth More Than Other Organisms?
Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East
Panama Canal agency warns water shortage “is not over”
From Assange to 9/11 to Supply Chain Failures: When Can You Believe Government Explanations?
Pyongyang Says It Will Send Troops to Ukraine Within a Month
Electing the Next Dictator: Ugly Truths You Won’t Hear from Trump or Biden – Global Research
Trade War Between Europe and China Is Creeping Closer – Global Research
US, UK and EU Preparing for War Against Russia. Reinstating the Draft – Global Research
America’s Dark Day – Scott Ritter Extra
Big Banks Pass an Extreme Stress Test Including 10 Percent Unemployment – MishTalk
As Putin floats peace terms, US-Ukraine call for prolonged war
G3P: Global Public-Private Partnerships and the United Nations
Here’s Why These Troubling Trends Mean Mass Chaos is Likely Coming to the West…
Chaos is Spreading Everywhere! – by David Haggith
Where and Why Tornado Risk is Growing as Climate – and Communities – Change
How To Stay Cool Without Air Conditioning
We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality | Scientific American
Scientists “Puzzled and Concerned” – by Guy R McPherson
Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick
What Would Happen If This Event of 41 Years Ago Happened Today? – Global Research
June 29, 2024 Readings
Attempting a new format (that I will probably fiddle with for a week or so) for sharing articles of interest. Below you will find a number of links to those articles. Note that I may add a few before the day ends so check back. Hope this works for everyone…
First-Responder Trauma: A New Framework for Activists
Climate Disaster Preparation Guide | by Climate Survivor | Jun, 2024 | Medium
The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame
How Does Anyone Still Care About This Bullshit?
Health Prepping: Microbiome Maintenance is Key to…Everything
The Coming US Budget Disaster Will Impoverish Americans | Mises Institute
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: 10 Geopolitical / Financial Risks to the Global Economy
Welsh Police Pay Home Visit To Man For Displaying Reform UK Political Sign
American Pravda: JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame, by Ron Unz
Fact-Checking Network Says Online Face Checks Aren’t Censorship
US Readies To Evacuate Americans From Lebanon If War Erupts, Marines En Route | ZeroHedge
The UN: “We must all work to eradicate (hate speech) completely.
UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left
Where is the Sense of Urgency? – by Matt Orsagh
A water war is looming between Mexico and the US. Neither side will win | CNN
Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index
Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index
Obscure but historically accurate crash signal
Not that we need any more scary statistics, but here’s one that might be worth watching. From the Brave browser’s AI summarizer:
Government liquidity index
The government liquidity index is a metric that measures the ease or difficulty of trading in government securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. It is a gauge of deviations in yields from a fair-value model, indicating the level of liquidity in the market.
Measures of liquidity in the Treasury market are near crisis levels, raising concerns about underlying fragility in the functioning of the market. This can lead to historically large daily swings in yields, making it difficult for traders to carry out trades.
Government Intervention
In response to these concerns, the U.S. Treasury has announced that it will begin regularly buying back its bonds starting May 29, for the first time in over two decades. This move is aimed at improving liquidity in the market and reducing the risk of market mayhem.
In a recent tweet, market analyst Tavi Costa explains what this means:
The liquidity index for US government securities is deteriorating significantly, now at its worst levels since the European debt crisis in 2011.
Notably, it’s already more severe than the environment during the Covid crash in 2020.
What is even more alarming today is that this is all happening while the US currently has one of the largest interest rate differentials compared to other developed economies in history, yet liquidity appears to be eroding.
This situation is setting the stage for the US to experience its own “Bank of England moment” as we approach elections.
In September 2022, UK yields saw one of the steepest increases in history after the announcement of £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts, which raised concerns over increased borrowing needs and debt sustainability.
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The pervasive belief in the eternal progress of mankind has been a crucial, driving element of Western liberalism for generations. It is starting to break down.
The most powerful force in Western politics today is a cultural virus that is always chewing away at our instincts for self-preservation. It is why millions of people support infinity wind turbines and infinity solar panels, even if these make their electricity more expensive and less reliable. It is related to out-group identification and the cultural fetish for victim minorities, and thus explains the popular impulses that permit mass migration. At the broadest level, this force accounts for an important phenomenon in modern politics, whereby millions of people support policies that make their lives objectively worse, while parties responsible for these policies appear utterly immune to their own failures, if they are not actively rewarded for them.
You might call this force “expectant progressivism.” It is the quiet, unstudied belief that things are always getting better, more just, more abundant, more enlightened, more advanced and more human-rightsey. Expectant progressives view the past teleologically, as one massive Whig-historical fable, and they regard their political preferences as investments in moral futures. They aim to put their names on the next brave innovations in social and economic justice while these are still culturally cheap – that is to say, controversial and disputed. Once these innovations become new cornerstones in the liberal consensus, the expectant progressives will be able to cash in on their far-sighted, humanitarian convictions. They will enjoy the privilege of proclaiming that they were, once again, on the right side of history.
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Bring Back Capitalism
Bring Back Capitalism
A new generation of unscrupulous political leaders and Wall Street hucksters has come up with a brilliant plan to outwit the populist revolt: pretending to be critics of capitalism
Raise your hand if you saw this headline from the New York Times last week coming:
The name of Bret Stephens may be the one most associated with “markets” in media. Even his struggle-sessionish “I was wrong about climate change” piece in 2022 came with a caveat that witnessing melting glaciers in Greenland just reinforced “my belief that markets, not government, provide the cure.” Seeing an article about capitalism failing the middle class above his byline is like reading “Grammer is Overrayted” by William Safire, or “Globalism: It Doesn’t Float My Plane” by Thomas Friedman. In the end Stephens tried to say something in defense of markets, but in a bizarre reversal from 15 years ago, such protestations now need to be couched as indictments of the profit motive, especially in papers like the Times, whose upscale readers are continuing their preposterous pose of socialist chic.
The mainstream press was once home to reflexive, often hysterical defenses of the free-market system. Op-ed pages saw even the CEOs of firms caught trading against their own clients defended as “wealth creators” who did “God’s work” for a “social purpose.” No more. Now, even the very wealthy give performative speeches about the pitfalls of capitalism, corporate-funded think-tanks routinely decry its failures, and polls on sites like Fast Company even show that 35% of “C-suite executives” react negatively to the word, “capitalism.” What gives? The only headline I recall in recent years that unironically cheered the capitalist idea was a Washington Post op-ed from last summer: “Elon Musk’s Twitter Failure Shows Capitalism is Working.”
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