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Why Trump Is Desperate To Secure This Rare Metal
Why Trump Is Desperate To Secure This Rare Metal While the United States is slowly working towards ending the lockdown and restarting the economy, the federal government is quietly fighting a second war with China over critical metals. One of those critical metals in particular is the extremely rare key to global technological dominance because […]
This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity
This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity “To create an event is thus to reject whatever is now nothing more than a ‘thirdworlding of human societies’, representing a shift from the EXOCOLONISATION of erstwhile empires to the ENDOCOLONISATION of the terminal empire”. – Paul Virilio, City of Panic, 2005 “There will be in […]
The People are Rising Up – Journalists & Politicians Beware
The People are Rising Up – Journalists & Politicians Beware A former respected journalist has come out quite angry and has called for the people to overthrow the Merkel government. He states he is willing to go to prison but begs everyone for the sake of the country and their families to reject Merkel and […]
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios Empty roads, grounded aircraft, falling tourist and international student numbers, plunging car sales, empty super market shelves, disrupted supply chains… Fig 1: Empty roads in Wuhan in February 2020 China Car Sales Slump 92% in First Half of February on Virus 21 Feb 2020 […]
Water and Cadillac Deserts
Water and Cadillac Deserts California Aqueduct near Kettleman City. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. My lengthy experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency brought me face to face with the terrors of our “modern” times. One of those awful realizations was that the leaders of America – and the leaders of other countries — are not […]
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic Throughout the U.S., institutions that have no real interest in public health are exploiting our sense of vulnerability to benefit their public images and their bottom lines, says Dr. Mike Pappas. We have all likely seen or heard the commercials. They typically start with slow music and maybe […]
China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence
China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence German intelligence has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Thebreyesus to cover up the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in January, according to Der Spiegel. During a January 21 conversation – one week after the WHO assured […]
Green Energy Delusion – We Can Never Get to Zero CO2
Green Energy Delusion – We Can Never Get to Zero CO2 This interesting documentary exposes the falsehood about green energy and the outright lies we are told that somehow this will save the planet. They call it BioMass energy which is cutting down forests and burning trees that consume CO2. The carbon dioxide released when burning wood (about […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 3
Permaculture and Money – Part 3 The Practice of Being Open In part 1(1) of this series, we explored the relationship between money, psychology and violence, while in part 2(2) we looked at some ways in which the stories we tell as a culture to do with money could be seen as encouraging destructive patterns of behaviour. Looby […]
Oil Producers May Ditch Old FPSO Offshore Projects In This Downturn
Oil Producers May Ditch Old FPSO Offshore Projects In This Downturn The swift oil price crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will reduce the combined free cash flow of FPSO fields, which have produced above three quarters of their original resources at just $2.20 per barrel this year. This is a jaw-dropping decline from 2019’s […]
Will covid-19 delay peak oil?
Will covid-19 delay peak oil? With global demand having fallen by about 29 million barrels per day from a year ago, it seems like this pandemic might delay peak oil production while the pandemic and consequent depression lasts, since so much less oil is being consumed. Since storage is getting full, many oil producers are […]
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: The corruption of science, the falsification of science, and we […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings Editorial Note: This is Part 4 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, and Part 3 on Agriculture here. Part 4: Buildings Estimations for the percentage of greenhouse gases emitted by the buildings sector vary wildly. But […]
Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture
Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture listen to the author read this post: or watch on YouTube It’s early days yet, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already proven to be revelatory, exposing much that is ugly about the “normal” functioning of the US: the sorry state of health care, the unresponsiveness […]
