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Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going?
Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going? Something doesn’t smell right. The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day has been declining, as has the number of deaths. This is great news, and we should be hoping that the falling numbers are a […]
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E)
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E) Waste-to-energy (W2E), particularly incineration, is being promoted as a good alternative to landfills – it gets rid of all that plastic we use and generate energy, right? In this article I’d like to first outline what’s wrong with W2E and then talk about permaculture alternatives. So What Is Wrong With […]
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System Introduction This review is a critique of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus. The review adopted a multi-theoretical framework that combines insights from socio-cognitive terminology theory (STT), legitimation code theory (LCT) and critical discourse […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions Editorial Note: This is Part 6 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, Part 3 on Agriculture here, Part 4 on Buildings here. and Part 5 on Geoengineering here. It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real […]
Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards Climax
FOURTH TURNING ACCELERATING TOWARDS CLIMAX “At some point, America’s short-term Crisis psychology will catch up to the long-term post-Unraveling fundamentals. This might result in a Great Devaluation, a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets. This devaluation could be a short but horrific panic, a free-falling price in a market […]
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’ COVID-19 is making many bearish about bitumen. Deborah Lawrence’s past pessimism has proven unpopular, and correct. Deborah Lawrence used to be a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. Over the past decade, the independent economic analyst has developed a reputation for telling oil investors what they don’t want […]
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 […]
