Climate change is a Narrow View of the Human Predicament
Climate change is a Narrow View of the Human Predicament A transition away from fossil fuels seems like a sensible approach to climate change but what are the correct ingredients? Wind, solar, hydrogen, electric vehicles, carbon capture, nuclear, geothermal, heat pumps, hydropower? It’s like a doctor treating a patient without examining the source of his […]
Rationalizing, Storytelling, and Narrative-Generating Apes
Rationalizing, Storytelling, and Narrative-Generating Apes Falling Spring Falls, Falling Spring, Virginia First off, before I get started with the heavy stuff, I hope that you and yours have had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you a Happy New Year! OK, now onto less celebratory and more serious material. There are people who […]
The End of the Colombian Age
The End of the Colombian Age Dusk over Oceania. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash We are witnessing the end of an era in history spanning half a millennium; the end of Western dominance in geopolitics. For those who understand the role of resources and energy in economics, culture and politics, it comes as no surprise that […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIV–To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 2.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIV Knossos, Greece (1988). Photo by author. To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 2. In Part 1 of this two-part Contemplation I argue that the recent trumpeting of electric vehicle (EV) car sales as a prologue to their imminent mass adoption and possibly […]
Will The Texas Power Grid Survive Next Week’s Polar Vortex?
Will The Texas Power Grid Survive Next Week’s Polar Vortex? The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center forecasts extreme cold weather “across the heart of the country this weekend and is expected to continue into next week.” We previewed this cold blast in a note titled “Gobsmackingly Bananas”: Weather Models Predict Polar Vortex Invasion Into US. […]
Poland’s Obstruction In Nord Stream Pipeline Probe Raises Alarm For Investigators
Poland’s Obstruction In Nord Stream Pipeline Probe Raises Alarm For Investigators At this point, one might be forgiven for thinking that the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage is already ancient history. After all, mainstream media and prime time TV news coverage has by and large ‘moved on’ as soon as it became clear that Russia had nothing […]
Iran Warns Against US ‘Adventurism’ After Parking Cruise Missile-Armed Warship In Red Sea
Iran Warns Against US ‘Adventurism’ After Parking Cruise Missile-Armed Warship In Red Sea The Red Sea continues to grow busy with the presence of naval assets, as the West and its allies attempt to keep international shipping lanes open despite the threat of Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen. This has lately included nations such as […]
More Golden (and Black-Gold) Proof: The Dollar is Totally Screwed
More Golden (and Black-Gold) Proof: The Dollar is Totally Screwed Ever since day-one of the predictably disastrous and politically myopic insanity of weaponizing the world reserve currency against a major power like Russia, we warned that the USD had reached an historical turning point of slow demise and increasing de-dollarization. We also warned that this would be […]
Today’s Contemplation CLXXIII–Human Ecological Overshoot: What to Do?
Today’s Contemplation CLXXIII Monte Alban, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Human Ecological Overshoot: What to Do? Today’s Contemplation is a very short comment I posted on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece. Yes, the grieving process must be travelled through to the end to reach ‘acceptance’ of our human ecological overshoot predicament. Some are just beginning this […]
Report: Lab Leaks Have Increased By 50% Since COVID Pandemic
Report: Lab Leaks Have Increased By 50% Since COVID Pandemic “The apparent lab leaks in the UK alone show we are all sitting on a ticking time bomb.” The Telegraph reports that it has found a FIFTY PERCENT increase in leaks and accidents at laboratories in the UK since the outbreak of COVID in 2020, warning of […]
The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game
The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity – barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition – of their material possessions and their ‘immaterial’ freedom, was published fairly recently. It is accurately titled The […]
US Debt Hits A Record $34.001 Trillion
US Debt Hits A Record $34.001 Trillion The US Treasury has a morbid habit of revealing big, round numbers of debt around major calendar milestones, and the new 2024 year was no different because according to the latest Treasury Daily Statement published after the close today and reflecting the US Treasury’s financial statements as of […]
2024: The Year Global Government Takes Shape
2024: The Year Global Government Takes Shape Global government is the endgame. We know that. Total control of every aspect of life for every single person on the planet, that’s the goal. That’s been apparent to anyone paying attention for years, if not decades, and any tiny portion of remaining doubt was removed when Covid […]
Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay
Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay The tricky part is distinguishing the critical dependencies–those resources the empire literally cannot do without–from longer-term sources of decay and decline. In response to my recent post What If There Are No Analogs for 2024?, an astute reader nominated the Roman Empire as a fitting analog. Longtime […]
Dr. Mattias Desmet: Technocratic Totalitarianism
Dr. Mattias Desmet: Technocratic Totalitarianism The Importance of Truth Speech. The parallel Rise of Propaganda-dependent Elites and Lonely Masses, and need for a new type of politician. In my opinion, one of the more important speeches provided at the recent Fourth International COVID/Crisis Summit, held last November 2023 in Bucharest Romania, was delivered by my […]
