In Brief: The Silent Threat of Canada to World Peace
In Brief: The Silent Threat of Canada to World Peace Responsibility for war crimes attaches most to national governments along with the arms makers and military services they finance. The same is true of crimes against humanity. Citizens become responsible with their governments if they are blind to what their governments are doing in their name in […]
Why M1 Money Supply (Cash) is Skyrocketing Like No Time in History
Why M1 Money Supply (Cash) is Skyrocketing Like No Time in History In my last Patron Post, which I eventually made available to everyone, I revealed a little-known (at the time) fact that M1 money supply (the most liquid forms of cash — bills, checks and basic savings accounts) had grown faster than any time in […]
Inviting Nuclear Disaster
Inviting Nuclear Disaster Photograph Source: Brad.K – CC BY 2.0 Nuclear power plants when they began being constructed were not seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise causing safety problems. But in recent decades, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the operating licenses of nuclear power […]
The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs
The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs Psychopathic neocon Nikki Haley is greasing the wheels for her 2024 presidential campaign by screaming that America has been taken over by socialism. “2020 was the year socialism went mainstream,” Haley tweeted today. “The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere […]
Are We Really Going to Build Back Better After a Dark Winter? Part Two
ARE WE REALLY GOING TO BUILD BACK BETTER AFTER A DARK WINTER? (PART TWO) In Part One of this article I laid out the case the “dark winter” narrative and how an experimental vaccine marketed like a tech product by Big Pharma and their cronies are part of a globalist scheme to reset the world and force […]
2020 Ends as It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With Iran
2020 Ends as It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With Iran 2020 began and ended with high-profile assassinations of Iranians, a buildup of the US military on Iran’s borders, and fears of another major war in the Middle East. Amid increasing hostility towards Tehran, the United States is building up its […]
The priest, the engineer and the economist
The priest, the engineer and the economist I was exchanging economist jokes over the holiday and heard this one that seemed apropos both to our resource predicament and the seeming abundance of the holiday season: A priest, an engineer and an economist were stranded together on a desert island. Given their location, fish seemed to […]
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same Like BC, the federal government is better at talking about Indigenous rights than it is at actually respecting them. The BC government’s claimed commitment to adopting United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples didn’t stop it from ignoring the […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: American Debt Slaves in the Weirdest Economy Ever
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: American Debt Slaves in the Weirdest Economy Ever During the Financial Crisis, consumers deleveraged by walking away from their debts. And now, with 20 million people still claiming unemployment insurance? (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts).
2020 the “Worst Year Ever”–You’re Joking, Right?
2020 the “Worst Year Ever”–You’re Joking, Right? So party on, because “the worst year ever” is ending and the rebound of financial markets, already the greatest in recorded history, will only become more fabulous. Of the lavish banquet of absurdities laid out in 2020, one of the most delectable is Time magazine’s December 14 cover declaring that […]
Are We Really Going to Build Back Better After a Dark Winter?
ARE WE REALLY GOING TO BUILD BACK BETTER AFTER A DARK WINTER? “It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to […]
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom. (L-R): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon […]
IHS Markit: Oil Demand Won’t Fully Recover Until 2022
IHS Markit: Oil Demand Won’t Fully Recover Until 2022 Global oil demand will likely take another year or so to return to pre-pandemic levels—by late 2021 or early 2022, energy expert and IHS Markit vice chairman Daniel Yergin told Al Arabiya English in a video interview on Monday. Yergin’s expectations for oil demand are roughly […]
Inflation Expectations Solidly On The Rise
Inflation Expectations Solidly On The Rise Expectations Can Drive Inflation Inflation expectations appear to be solidly on the rise and that spells big problems for the financial system. For years the central banks across the world have claimed deflation has driven or allowed their QE policies to remain. This is central to their ability to […]
