Cashless World Signals a Global End to Privacy
Cashless World Signals a Global End to Privacy Countries are moving to digital currencies at lightning speed. This is the future of money. Digital currencies will replace cash on an ASAP agenda. We are witnessing Europe, Canada, Asia, and even China all moving toward this new digital world for (1) total control, (2) taxes, […]
5 Things To Consider Before Going Off Grid
5 Things To Consider Before Going Off Grid In light of the pandemic sweeping the lobe, many people are considering going off the grid. But here are five things you would consider before buying that piece of land and living a self-reliant lifestyle. In light of the pandemic sweeping the globe, and the overwhelming stress […]
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’ Today I’m going to begin my cycle of posts commenting on, expanding and perhaps occasionally qualifying the analyses in my book A Small Farm Future. You have bought your copy by now, right? Ah well … far be it from me to tell you what to do […]
A Small Farm Future: Review
A Small Farm Future: Review Chris Smaje has been a lecturer in sociology and is now a small farmer and writer, living in England. This book springs from his blog of the same name, and as posts from that blog have run on Resilience, many readers will already be familiar with Smaje and the kind […]
World’s Negative-Yield Debt Pile Has Just Hit a New Record
World’s Negative-Yield Debt Pile Has Just Hit a New Record $17 trillion of investment-grade debt now has sub-zero rates U.K. and Australian central banks expand bond-buying programs The world’s stockpile of negative-yielding debt has swelled to a record in the wake of the U.S. election, as investors lower expectations for a fiscal splurge and turn […]
State of the American Debt-Slaves, Q3 2020: The Stimulus & Forbearance Phenomenon
State of the American Debt-Slaves, Q3 2020: The Stimulus & Forbearance Phenomenon Auto loans jump after historic price spikes. Credit cards still in stimulus wonderland. Student-loan borrowers count on debt forgiveness, mmmkay. Consumers have undertaken an astounding project instead of consuming: Paying down their credit cards. In September, outstanding balances of credit cards and other […]
Thousands Gather Across UK To Denounce National Lockdown
Thousands Gather Across UK To Denounce National Lockdown England started its second covid lockdown on Thursday amid concerns of the virus pandemic’s reemergence over September and October has resulted in soaring hospital admissions across the country. Nearly three days into the lockdown, on Sunday, anti-lockdown protesters flooded the streets in several cities, denouncing the latest […]
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author Once more a comment posted in the Tyee in response to ongoing ‘debate’ with others in regard to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and some of the accusations of irregularities surrounding the process. While not obviously related to ‘collapse’ I will add some context […]
UK To Ban Protests Of Two Or More People Ahead Of National Lockdown
UK To Ban Protests Of Two Or More People Ahead Of National Lockdown U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a one-month lockdown beginning Nov. 5 through Dec. 2. Under these new measures, people will be confined to their homes except for essential travel, including medical reasons, education, and purchasing food. Two days before lockdowns begin, The […]
No Matter Who Wins
NO MATTER WHO WINS Modern elections—despite their social and political importance—have become more like sporting events than referendums around ideas. We so intensely identify with our partisan tribe, that we focus on the slogans, the rooting against the ‘other guy’ and other us-vs-them dynamics, and often lose sight of the issues, the context, and how […]
For Stocks, Any Election Outcome is Now the Best Outcome, Disputed Election, Long Legal Mess, Split Government Without Stimulus, Whatever…
For Stocks, Any Election Outcome is Now the Best Outcome, Disputed Election, Long Legal Mess, Split Government Without Stimulus, Whatever… This is funny in terms of stock-market “narratives” during these crazy times. At first, long ago, the narrative was that a Trump victory would boost stocks. And then when this became more uncertain, the narrative […]
How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?
How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart? Meet the scholars who study civilizational collapse. When I first spoke with Joseph Tainter in early May, he and I and nearly everyone else had reason to be worried. A few days earlier, the official tally of Covid-19 infections in the United States had […]
The Media is So Corrupt a Used Car Salesman Looks Far More Honest
The Media is So Corrupt a Used Car Salesman Looks Far More Honest Proof that the media has become so corrupt is that Nigel Farage has formed a new party, the Reform Party, to try to save Britain. Mainstream media is refusing to cover anything because it is anti-lockdown. These journalists are committing crimes against […]
What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government
What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government We’re Number One in wealth, income and power inequality, yea for the Fed and the Empire! If we avert our eyes from the electoral battle on the blood-soaked sand of the Coliseum and look behind the screen, we find the powers that matter […]
The Police Join Protestors in Naples, Italy
The Police Join Protestors in Naples, Italy This is what we need to desperately save our future. The police have to wake up and see that they are destroying, not just their own future, but that of their families for generations to come. I have always pointed out — tyranny ends when the police defend […]
