Orwellian CFTC, which ignored years of silver price manipulation, now going after Reddit Apes
Orwellian CFTC, which ignored years of silver price manipulation, now going after Reddit Apes On Monday 1 March, an article in Bloomberg Law by CFTC connected lawyers from law firm Clifford Chance revealed that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reportedly investigating retail silver trader activity in the silver price and that the US Department of […]
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation? Epidemiologist Shanna Swan projects that on current trends sperm counts will reach zero by 2045. That shocking conclusion comes from a new book by Swan and her colleague Stacey Colino. Is this nature’s way of bringing human population under control? (More on that later.) In a 2017 study Swan and colleagues looked at […]
28 trillion reasons to have a Plan B
28 trillion reasons to have a Plan B At the close of business on Monday March 1st, just a few days ago, the US national debt crossed $28 trillion for the first time in history. To the penny, in fact, the national debt hit $28,004,376,276,999.35. And bear in mind that figure doesn’t include the $1.9 […]
Weekly Commentary: Regime Change
Weekly Commentary: Regime Change Ten-year Treasury yields closed out a tumultuous week at 1.41% bps, pulling back after Thursday’s spike to a one-year high 1.61%. Ten-year Treasury yields are now up 49 bps from the start of the year and almost 100 bps (1 percentage point) off August 2020 lows. More dramatic, five-year yields jumped […]
Utility scale energy storage limited by minerals and geography
Utility scale energy storage limited by minerals and geography Preface. Natural gas is finite, but aside from (pumped) hydropower, natural gas is the main way wind and solar are balanced now. Therefore, a tremendous amount of energy storage will be needed in the future as natural gas declines. The current total energy storage capacity of […]
What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum
What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum We are all aware of the environnmental crisis that humanity (and all life on Earth) faces, characterised by the term ‘climate change’. Much of the current thinking in the scientific community is promoting the idea that our planet is rapidly warming due to excess CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas […]
Exxon Dumps Tar Sands/Oil Sands Holdings, Slashes Estimate of Recoverable Reserve
EXXON DUMPS TAR SANDS/OIL SANDS HOLDINGS, SLASHES ESTIMATE OF RECOVERABLE RESERVES Greenpeace / Jiri Rezac Colossal fossil ExxonMobil has dropped virtually all its tar sands/oil sands holdings from its list of recoverable assets, and its Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil followed suit by cutting a billion barrels of bitumen from its inventory, in what Bloomberg News […]
Sustainability Metrics
Sustainability Metrics There is growing evidence that agriculture and food is one of the most significant contributors to the transgression of ‘planetary boundaries’, especially in the area of greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, soil, water, and nitrogen use. As Professor Johan Rockström pointed out at the World Economic Forum, “A transition to sustainable agriculture and forestry […]
The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story
The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story How data visualizers are helping to plan to support Cascadia’s most vulnerable communities. Next in a series. UBC researcher Michael Brauer is mapping how everything from flooding to heat to smoke will harm some communities more than others in the province. Photo via Peter Wall Institute for Advanced […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2) This is part two of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of […]
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision BC Liberals accuse NDP of mismanagement; Greens warn public to brace for higher costs. Premier John Horgan confirmed today that construction of the Site C dam will once again go ahead. ‘I know there are a lot of British Columbians who have […]
In Defense Of Substack
In Defense Of Substack UCLA professor Sarah T. Roberts mourns the good old days of gatekeeping and credential-worship UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, co-leader of something called the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry — media critics whose stated goal is “strengthening democracy through culture-making” — went on a lengthy Twitter tirade against Substack last night, […]
Sisphean Printing Will Kill Dollar & Bonds
SISYPHEAN PRINTING WILL KILL DOLLAR & BONDS Understanding four critical but simple puzzle pieces is all investors will need to take the flood that leads to fortune. Why then will the majority of investors still take the wrong current and lose their ventures? Well because investors feel more comfortable staying with the trend than […]
