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The New Global Oil Market Order Hangs In The Balance After Hamas Attacks Israel
The New Global Oil Market Order Hangs In The Balance After Hamas Attacks Israel Palestinian political and military organisation Hamas launched coordinated multi-pronged attacks by land, sea, and air against Israel last weekend. The potential for the Hamas attacks on Israel to suck in other Arab states into the conflict, and for it to then […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XI–Fiat Currency, Infinite Growth, Finite Resources: A Recipe For Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XI Knossos, Crete (1993) Photo by author Fiat Currency, Infinite Growth, Finite Resources: A Recipe For Collapse Yet another in an increasing collection of comments I have posted to the online media site The Tyee. This time it is a commentary on an article that reviews a book arguing in favour of […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV–Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years Today’s very brief Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece. U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler stated it so clearly in his treatise on war some 100 years ago. War […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh X–Who Do Representative Governments Actually Represent?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh X April 29, 2021 Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Who Do Representative Governments Actually Represent? Circumstances have kept me sidetracked from writing for a few months. As life has settled a bit, although the spring weather keeps me busy working in the food garden, I felt it time to post […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX–Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX November 7, 2020 Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse 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 […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIII–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIII October 6, 2023 Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 3 As ecologist Howard T. Odum argues in the quote above, human ‘progress’ has been the result of our species’ leveraging of available ‘power’[1]. Humans are not unique in this but for a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VIII–Peak Oil and Sociopolitics
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VIII Oct 30, 2020 Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Peak Oil and Sociopolitics Once again, a comment I posted in response to an article on The Tyee. Where to begin? I realise this article is primarily about a federal political party and its future but there are two underlying […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII–Science: It May Not Be All You Think It Is
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII Oct 12, 2020 Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Science: It May Not Be All You Think It Is Ha! It’s poetry in motion Now she’s making love to me The spheres are in commotion The elements in harmony She blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) And […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI–Infinite Growth, Finite Planet; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI October 9, 2020 Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Infinite Growth, Finite Planet; What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Tyee commentary…(https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/09/Australian-Invasion-Big-Coal-Plans-Alberta/) _____ It’s truly unfortunate that our society pursues such self-evidently egregious exploits on our environment. You can’t continue to pollute your backyard without eventually destroying the complex ecological systems that […]
Hersh Reveals Motive For Covert Nord Stream Sabotage Attack, One Year On
Hersh Reveals Motive For Covert Nord Stream Sabotage Attack, One Year On On the one-year anniversary of the September 26, 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage bombings under the Baltic Sea, legendary journalist Seymour Hersh has provided more context and color based on his intelligence sources. Hersh’s original bombshell reporting in his How America Took Out The […]
Ukraine Was Always the UK’s War First
Ukraine Was Always the UK’s War First “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” — Verbal Kent, the Usual Suspects For more than a year we’ve been regaled with headline after headline about how the War in Ukraine is a US war. It’s easy to think that, certainly. We’re […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V–Electrify Everything: The Wrong ‘Solution’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V Oct 2, 2020 Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Electrify Everything: The Wrong ‘Solution’ Yet another of my comments for an article on The Tyee regarding energy and how we should approach our coming dilemmas. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/10/02/BC-Needs-Wartime-Approach-Climate-Emergency/ _____ While I certainly appreciate the need to ‘correct’ our global industrial civilization’s path from […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV–Fiat Currency: Debasement and Infinite Growth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Fiat Currency: Debasement and Infinite Growth Sep 24, 2020 My comment on an article in The Tyee about our federal government’s latest throne speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/09/24/Throne-Speech-Stew/). _____ The idea that a sovereign nation can never run into trouble financially because […]
