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Shipping faces lengthy disruptions as Middle East fallout worsens

Shipping faces lengthy disruptions as Middle East fallout worsens Analysts see more upside for container shipping and tanker stocks  The fire on the product tanker Marlin Luanda was extinguished on Saturday. (Photo: French Navy) The Red Sea crisis — and the Middle East situation in general — is worsening. There’s growing conviction that shipping diversions […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVII–Faith in Government: A Misplaced Belief

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVII April 13, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Faith in Government: A Misplaced Belief Today’s contemplation has been prompted by an article by ecologist and educator Richard Heinberg (see link below). Infinite growth. Finite planet. What could possibly go wrong? As our awareness of the various existential […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI–Preparing For Collapse

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI April 4, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Preparing For Collapse A contemplation prompted by a couple of posts I read early this morning. One was a list of actionable ideas for preparing for Peak Oil and the other an article on the mainstreaming of ‘Doomsday Prepping’. […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLV–Chasing Maladaptive Strategies

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLV March 24, 2022 (original posting date) Knossos, Greece (1988) Photo by author Chasing Maladaptive Strategies Today’s very short contemplation was in response to a post I was asked to comment upon that calls for sociopolitical ‘leadership’ to ‘tackle’ natural disasters that have been linked to the climate crisis. I believe that most […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIV–Will Another Civilisation Rise From Our Ashes?

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIV August 15, 2022 (original posting date) Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Will Another Civilisation Rise From Our Ashes? Today’s contemplation has been generated in response to some comments on a Chris Hedges’ article I shared in the Peak Oil Facebook group I am a member of. Hedges’ article suggests our civilisation […]

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“Dangerous Game”: Chevron Warns California That Anti-Petrol Policies Could Result In Gas Price Spikes, Shortages

“Dangerous Game”: Chevron Warns California That Anti-Petrol Policies Could Result In Gas Price Spikes, Shortages Chevron is warning the state of California that its climate policies have consequences: namely, that the price of gas is going to continue to rise. Calling the state’s policies a “dangerous game”, it was reported by Bloomberg this week that Chevron is […]

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How Yemen’s ‘asabiyya’ is reshaping geopolitics

How Yemen’s ‘asabiyya’ is reshaping geopolitics The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIII–Primary Motivation For Society’s Elite

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIII August 11, 2022 (original posting date) Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Primary Motivation For Society’s Elite It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Anonymous[1] I’ve been reflecting a lot recently (for years to be honest) on the ever-present […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLII–Criticising ‘Renewables’ is Not a Sin

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLII March 1, 2022 (original posting date) Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Criticising ‘Renewables’ is Not a Sin The following ‘contemplation’ follows on the heels of a discussion I began with another within a Facebook group I am a member of. The post and dialogue can be found here. Suffice it to […]

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As China Stocks Crash, Beijing Proposes Multi-Trillion Market Rescue Package

As China Stocks Crash, Beijing Proposes Multi-Trillion Market Rescue Package Earlier today, we lamented the latest implosion in Chinese markets, which we discussed in “China Stocks Crash Through ‘Snowball Derivatives’ Trigger Levels Overnight“, in which we pointed out the unprecedented failure of the centrally-planned market to halt its collapse be it through short selling bans, […]

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Shocking Poll Exposes How Much the Elite Hate Us

Shocking Poll Exposes How Much the Elite Hate Us Three quarters want food and energy rationing, majority want to ban foreign holidays. A shocking poll exposes the utter contempt the elite holds the general public in, with more than three quarters wanting to ration food and energy to combat ‘climate change’ and a majority wanting […]

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A Renewable Energy Future Will Collapse the Financial System

A Renewable Energy Future Will Collapse the Financial System Energy is the economy. That’s a radical concept because most people think that the economy runs on money. It doesn’t. What is energy? It is the potential or capacity to do work. The economy runs on work. That’s why energy is the economy. That’s simple. What […]

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Never Ending War on Cash

Never Ending War on Cash In the last few decades, there has been a global shift towards a “cashless world,” a trend that continues to shape financial autonomy. Physical currency is becoming increasingly rare as the majority of the world’s money supply exists in electronic form. Governments and financial institutions are actively promoting a cashless […]

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Davos, Trust, and the End of “Comfortable Wolves”

Davos, Trust, and the End of “Comfortable Wolves” Last fall I poked the slumbering bear of the #ungovernble set by taking extreme umbrage with calling people “Sheeple.” For the record I absolutely detest that word. Instead I shot back with a very reflexive, “Bullshit!” There are very few things that trigger me more than consigning […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLI–More Bargaining: Doughnut Economics

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLI February 22, 2022 Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988) Photo by author More Bargaining: Doughnut Economics The following ‘contemplation’ was prompted by an article that was shared to a Facebook group I am a member of regarding ‘Doughnut Economics’ and its possible role in addressing our ecological overshoot. While I have not read extensively the […]

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