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It’s Not About Saving the Planet, It’s the Big Daddy We Need To Look For
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXII–Greenwashing, Fiat Currency, and Narrative Management: More On Climate Change and Elite Confabs
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI–Beware the Snake Oil Salesmen: Climate Change and Elite Confabs
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July Non-OPEC and World Oil Production
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India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October
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The Censorship Began Earlier and Went Further Than We Thought
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The World Has Already Ended
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Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online
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Coming Soon: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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The First Signs of Civilization’s Collapse?
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Simon Michaux: The Green Energy Myth
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Confetti Dollar End of Ponzi Scheme – Bill Holter
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Putting Science in its Place
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Why Do Today’s Realities Escape Society?
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXVII–The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LI–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Two — Deference to Authority
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh L–Cognition and Belief Systems in a ‘Collapsing’ World: Part One
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Deutsche Bank Economists Say the Fed Will Create More Inflation in 2024
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The Dieseleuro: Europe Is Guzzling Russian Oil In The Form Of Indian Diesel Imports
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The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA
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The West Is Inching Closer to More Insanity in the Baltic Sea
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The Financial System Has Reached the End
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The Great Simplification Ahead
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When The Lights Go Out
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It Will Happen Suddenly
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXVI–Societal Collapse: The Past is Prologue
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The Harsh Truth: We’re Using More Oil Than Ever
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Financing the End of Modernity
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Humanity’s End Was Determined from the Start
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The Crash Will Be Spectacular
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JFK Assassination Doctors Break Silence, Dispute Key Government Claim
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David Stockman on Washington’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine
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U.S. Financial Death Spiral – John Rubino
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Defying Authority
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXV–Rackets: Keeping the Curtains on Reality Drawn
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX–Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIX–Are We Being Duped Regarding Global Warming?
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Dutch Central Bank Admits It Has Prepared for a New Gold Standard
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OPEC+ Considering Additional 1 Million Barrel Oil Production Cut Amid Outrage Over Gaza War
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Leaving Blobtopia
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIV–Growth and Denial: A Bad Combination
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII–The Predicament of Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’, Especially Via ‘Renewables’
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVII–Ecological Overshoot, Hydrocarbon Energy, and Biophysical Reality
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Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate Change
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Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us
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What Are GeoDestinies?
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIII–Keep Calm and Carry On
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The Apocalypse Is Not What I Expected
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The Debt Reaper
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Doug Casey on the Imminent Bankruptcy of the US Government
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Europe Is Burning
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“UK Files” Reports Show: Both Left and Right Can Be Targets of Censors
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Why are “Solutions” Really Just Bargaining?
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The Psychological Pain of Inflation
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Our Energy “Needs” Are Driving a Mass Extinction
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Watchdog Has Grim Winter Warning: There May Be Blackouts
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White (Hydrogen) Lies
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXII–Reality is an Inconvenience to Beliefs
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The Polycrisis
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The Entanglement Hypothesis Revisited
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The Globalist Vision: “15 Minute” Prison Cities And The End Of Private Property
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CII–That Uncertain Road, Part 1.
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Snarled Supply Chain? Drought Prompts U-Turn Of Two Gas Tankers At Panama Canal
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXI–A Self-Sufficient Community — Better Than Precious Metals or Fiat/Digital Currencies
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Today’s Contemplation: CLX–Solace Will Not Be Found Within Our Sociopolitical Systems — Biogeophysical Limitations Cannot Be Overcome By Way Of Policy
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The Future for Fiat
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVI–Is it Too Late For Pessimism?
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The Cycle of Evil
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Peter Schiff: A Crisis Is Already Playing Out Under the Radar
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The Writing’s on the Great Wall for a China Crash
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Big Brother Unchained: UK Government to Abolish Biometrics and Surveillance Safeguards As It Embraces Facial Recognition
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German Defense Chief Says Public Must Get Used To Possibility Of ‘War In Europe’
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIX–Ruling Elite Rackets Everywhere…
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This Energy Crisis Is Here To Stay
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVIII–Most People Don’t Want Their Illusions Destroyed
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March 9, 2022
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The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy
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Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon’s Censorship End-Around
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVII–Overshoot, Hydrocarbon Energy, and Denial: Avoiding the Pain
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVI–Peak Oil, Complexity, Psychology, Magical Thinking, and War
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Today’s energy bottleneck may bring down major governments
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This “Unprecedented” Fiscal Doom Loop Is Getting Worse
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV–More Greenwashing: ‘Sustainable’ Development
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIV–Climate Change and Narratives to Support Continued Economic Growth
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII–‘Clean Energy’ and the Stages of Grieving
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Israel A ‘Nuclear Wildcard’ On ‘Dangerous Road To Armageddon’: Macgregor
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Debt, Currency Debasement & War—The Timeless Pillars of Failure
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXI–Loss of Trust in Government: A Stage of Collapse
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIX–Fossil Fuels: Contributing to Complexity and Ecological Overshoot
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Collapse Is An Outcome, Not A Problem To Be Solved
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLV–Planetary Boundaries, Narrative Management, and Technology
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Some Call It Conspiracy Theory – Part 1
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De-Dollarization? China Completes First Digital Yuan Purchase For Cross-Border Oil Transaction
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The System Isn’t Designed to Help You
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI–Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV–Finite Energy, ‘Renewables’, and the Ruling Elite
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The Westminster Declaration
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Is It Worth Fighting For?
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World’s Electric Grids Incapable of Supporting Renewable Energy Goals: Agency
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The Sword of Damocles
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIV–Reducing Population: Degrowth or Enrich Everyone?
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The Myth of the Invincible Dollar
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US Confirms 2nd Carrier Group En Route To “Deter Hostile Actions Against Israel”
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Fukushima Daiichi adds Insult to Injury for the Pacific’s Coral Reefs.
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXII–‘Net Zero’ Policies: Propaganda to Support Continued Economic Growth
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The World’s Top Industrial Countries Are in Treacherous Waters
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The Disastrous Inseparability of Western Science and Capitalism
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Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX–Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVIII–‘Renewables’, Electrify Everything, and Marketing Propaganda
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII–‘Renewables’ and the Overton Window That Ignores Biophysical Realities
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIII–Electrify Everything: Neither ‘Green’ Nor ‘Sustainable’
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XII–Growth Greenwashing: A Comforting Narrative
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Exxon Becomes King Of Shale With Blockbuster $60 Billion Purchase Of Pioneer
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The Last Gasps of a Dying Empire
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What do the Rich Have in Mind? First, Their own Survival
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Thoughts on Proclamation 7463, or ‘Digital McCarthyism’ on the Move
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The New Global Oil Market Order Hangs In The Balance After Hamas Attacks Israel
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XI–Fiat Currency, Infinite Growth, Finite Resources: A Recipe For Collapse
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV–Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh X–Who Do Representative Governments Actually Represent?
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX–Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIII–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 3
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The Costs and Casualties of Government’s Information Total War
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VIII–Peak Oil and Sociopolitics
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The clean energy economy turns out to be the metals energy economy
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Unwinding the Financial System
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII–Science: It May Not Be All You Think It Is
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI–Infinite Growth, Finite Planet; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Hersh Reveals Motive For Covert Nord Stream Sabotage Attack, One Year On
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Ukraine Was Always the UK’s War First
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V–Electrify Everything: The Wrong ‘Solution’
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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds
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On Being Reasonable
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV–Fiat Currency: Debasement and Infinite Growth
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh III; Grieving: There Are No ‘Solutions’ to Overshoot
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Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative
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By Preston Howard: The Maximum Power Principle and Why It Underscores the Certainty of Human Extinction in the Near Future
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Solutions Are Scary: Part 2 – Economic Rebellion And Black Markets
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh II; Feeding the Growth Monster: Fiat Currency and Technology
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh; Mythical Narratives Everywhere to Avoid Reality
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What alternatives are there REALLY for fossil fuel use? – Dialogue with Mark Taylor
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Slouching Towards 1984
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Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online ‘Disinformation’
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Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War
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War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy
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Oil Can Push Higher As Cushing Stockpiles Collapse
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Report: majority of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk”
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Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide
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Oil Exploration Grows But Discovered Volumes Fall To New Lows
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The Coming Ukraine Collapse and the “Rebuilding” Headfake
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The Rise of Huxwell
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Governments Start Calling For Price Controls – Rationing And CBDCs Come Next
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Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine’s Destruction
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The Hard Asset Inflation / Paper Asset Deflation Theory
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Russia: The United States Is At War Against Us
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The Coming Collapse of the Global Ponzi Scheme
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New energy bill could see Brits jailed for failing to comply with ‘cultish’ Net Zero regulations
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Don’t Dismiss the Possibility of Gold Confiscation