Book review of Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild & Americas Plant Hunters
Book review of Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild & Americas Plant Hunters Preface. Botanist David Fairchild is one of the reasons the average grocery store has 39,500 items. Before he came along, most people ate just a few kinds of food day in day out (though that was partly due to a lack of refrigeration). I have longed […]
Former New York Times Editor: “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.”
Former New York Times Editor: “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.” We have been discussing the movement in journalism to discard out-dated notions of objectivity and define journalism as a form of advocacy. Now, Lauren Wolfe, the recently fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her […]
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders I
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders I Abiotic factors cause harm to plants resulting in symptoms. Abiotic disorders can look like damage caused by pests but do not spread in the same ways since the disease agent is not alive. Insects and pathogens cause damage and disease in garden plants, but damage can also occur in absence of […]
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom Amid another heat wave across the Western half of the US, California issued a stage-2 power-grid emergency alert Friday and urged customers to conserve power as temperatures surpassed 100 degrees, according to The Sacramento Bee. The state’s grid operator, California Independent System Operator (ISO), issued the alert on Friday, […]
The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control
The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Julian Assange once said, “The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.” As someone whose life’s work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he’d have […]
When Inflation is really Deflation
When Inflation is really Deflation QUESTION: Why is the Fed doing so much Reverse Repo? Do you think it will hit $2 trillion? JE ANSWER: I understand that people seem to be talking up the reverse repo activity as doom and gloom. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates and boosted the return to fight inflation. […]
What If The Next Major Cyberattack Targeted The Internet?
What If The Next Major Cyberattack Targeted The Internet? Over the past few months I have been writing analysis on a planned crisis war game organized by the World Economic Forum called “Cyberpolygon.” The event will be held this week on July 9th, and it’s allegedly designed to simulate a massive cyberattack that somehow disrupts […]
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos Interview with Professor Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos, by Facing Future TV. In 2018, a climate paper by Jem Bendell went viral, being downloaded over a million times. It helped to launch a worldwide movement of people seeking to reduce harm in the face of […]
A looming oil price super cycle will likely be the last
A looming oil price super cycle will likely be the last After a pandemic and a price war sent petroleum prices tumbling in 2020, they are again on the rise. A new oil price super cycle — an extended period during which prices exceed their long-term trend — seems to be in the making. That’s being […]
Dry Corn Belt Ahead Of Pollination May Spell Disaster For Farmers
Dry Corn Belt Ahead Of Pollination May Spell Disaster For Farmers Kirk Hinz, a meteorologist with BAMWX, published an agriculture note Thursday which outlines “persisting rains” in some parts of the Southwest but “expanding dryness” in the north. Hinz concentrates on the corn belt, which spans the Midwest. He said, “expanding drought into a crucial […]
Grocery Stores Are Masking Price Hikes Via “Shrinkflation”
Grocery Stores Are Masking Price Hikes Via “Shrinkflation” The continued decline in Treasury yields has prompted many short-sighted arm-chair analysts to declare that the Fed was right about inflationary pressures being “transitory”. Of course, as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen herself admitted, a little inflation is necessary for the economy to function long term – because without “controlled […]
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time The last few weeks have demonstrated that we have arrived at the climate change catastrophe long prophesied by climate scientists—a catastrophe that many thought we still had decades to avert. In the Pacific Northwest high temperatures broke records day after day. In my former […]
We Are Entering The Age Of “Full John Galt”
We Are Entering The Age Of “Full John Galt” We are entering the age of “Full John Galt.” This is a time where society and politicians are rapidly dismantling the rights of ownership. This transfer of rights constitutes a transfer of wealth whether we wish to call it by that name or not. This is […]
Wells Unexpectedly Shuts All Existing Personal Lines Of Credit, Hinting US Economy On The Edge
Wells Unexpectedly Shuts All Existing Personal Lines Of Credit, Hinting US Economy On The Edge Wells Fargo just announced that it’s shutting down all of its existing personal lines of credit – a popular product offered by the retail-focused Wall Street giant – a move that will likely infuriate legions of customers. The revolving credit […]
Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy
Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy [Being masters or possesors of nature] has no meaning – except to enslave society to an absurd project and to the structures of domination embodying that project.~Cornelius Castoriadis[1] The debates surrounding climate change almost always contain a certain urgency, and, it couldn’t be otherwise as it […]
