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Carol Roth: The Death of Property Rights
Carol Roth: The Death of Property Rights And the end of the US as we know it We all sense that our basic rights are under attack, but the nature of the enemy and the weapons at their disposal aren’t always clear. Here’s a video that spells out the who, what, and how of the […]
Impending System Failure
Impending System Failure Readying the war machine for what’s to come Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne, Kuwaiti desert, March 20, 2003. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju/National Journal) H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025 features the usual increase in “defense” spending to a record $883.7 billion. It takes […]
In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible
In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars We live in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled […]
The Thing About AI
The Thing About AI As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with economic, political and ecological collapse, genocides, grotesquely incompetent ‘leaders’, and nuclear brinkmanship, now we also have to worry about AI. To some extent, as Indrajit Samarajiva has repeatedly pointed out, we have had AI around for centuries, in the form of corporations — […]
Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced
Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced Subscribe to International Man In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church convinced the commoners to buy indulgences to alleviate their sins. And they made a fortune in the process. Similarly, today, our overlords—the mainstream media, central bankers, and their political allies—are working overtime […]
NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions
NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions NewsGuard is fully a product of a particular era – co-founded in 2018 by Steven Brill, and there to provide “a rating system” for news websites. Opponents of what NewsGuard, Brill, et al. stand for would say that era unfortunately continues. Critics sum it up as NewsGuard […]
Covid, Economy & Election: QTR On Peak Prosperity
Covid, Economy & Election: QTR On Peak Prosperity Last week I was interviewed by the great Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity in a wide ranging interview that covered topics like Covid, the economy and the political future of the country. Last week I was interviewed by the great Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity in a wide […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s… It seems nowadays we’re always trapped in the silly season of election campaigning. Perhaps my memory is foggy but where it used to be a short window of inane proclamations and ever-grander promises (that never […]
When All Crimes Are Those Against the State
When All Crimes Are Those Against the State “Do not encroach against others or their property.” The above principle is a simple one, yet it’s the basis for all criminal law. In turn, criminal law is the basis for Common Law, the legal system for English-speaking peoples and much of the rest of the world. […]
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World”
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites vs. the “normies” C.P. Snow in 1977. Photo: Bern Schwartz, National Portrait Gallery. In 1959, British novelist and physical chemist C.P. Snow gave a […]
Not Knowing
Not Knowing The verbs we use to confirm or refute our acceptance of the beliefs and worldviews of those we know, comprise a sort of code, like a hidden handshake, or a shaken fist. We are asked whether we condone or condemn a certain behaviour, but the meaning of condone (other than as a rarely-used synonym of gift) […]
Wikipedia: The Failed Experiment to Democratize Knowledge. “Character Assassinations,” Censorship, an Instrument of Global Corporatism
Wikipedia: The Failed Experiment to Democratize Knowledge. “Character Assassinations,” Censorship, an Instrument of Global Corporatism In this carefully researched article, Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null underscore the inadequacies of Wikipedia as a reliable source of information and knowledge. The free encyclopedia is created, edited and verified by an army of online volunteers whose credibility and integrity are unknowable, even questionable. The […]
Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To “Protect” People From “Misinformation”
Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To “Protect” People From “Misinformation” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week complained that governments have allegedly been left without the necessary tools to “protect people from misinformation.” This “dire” warning came as part of Trudeau’s effort to have the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) – one of the most controversial of its kind […]
