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From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath
From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath “Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is […]
One Step Closer to Blackouts
One Step Closer to Blackouts On Thursday 24th March, Longannet Power Station closed down. This 2.4 GW, coal fired giant, was the beating heart of Scottish Electricity supply. The station opened in 1970 and was arguably past its sell by date. The Scottish supply is now based on nuclear, wind and imports with a little […]
Is it Government or Oligarchs?
Is it Government or Oligarchs? QUESTION: Martin, I am a capitalist and what we have today is the least efficient form of capitalism. Actually it is quite a destructive and dangerous form of capitalism when the concentration of power reaches this level. I think that in all these years that I thought we were talking about different […]
Rights, Privileges, & Immunities Always Vanish in the Shadow of Government
Rights, Privileges, & Immunities Always Vanish in the Shadow of Government The cyber police are monitoring everything. Anyone who appears to be organizing any type of protest in Germany is visited by the police. This is the new national security and slight statements are being targeted as “troublemaker speech.” We are heading into the dark land of government […]
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 3
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 3 … [T]here is no intellectually honest way to believe that the world can continue its near-total reliance on fossil fuels for much more than another decade — a paltry window of opportunity. We also know that we cannot wait until they go into decline before reaching for renewables […]
If Knowledge Is Power, Is It Also Wealth?
If Knowledge Is Power, Is It Also Wealth? Ironically perhaps, the ideas that are scarce are those that disrupt “business as usual” by automating what has not yet been automated. Let’s consider a syllogism: Knowledge is power, power equals wealth, so knowledge equals wealth. Is this true? Author George Gilder thinks so. His book Knowledge and Power: […]
Peak Oil: One-Sentence Problem-Solving
Peak Oil: One-Sentence Problem-Solving As is still the case—unfortunately, for all of us—there remains a sizeable number of individuals, organizations, and other associations determined at all costs [literally] to preserve the primacy of fossil fuels to power us into the future. Facts: good when they can be massaged to fit the partial-truth narrative required to […]
Bringing WiFi Connectivity To Your Off Grid Home: “We Can Do It Ourselves”
Bringing WiFi Connectivity To Your Off Grid Home: “We Can Do It Ourselves” This off grid couple faced a dilemma – their hard earned sustainable life is supported by income earned from the Internet, yet they worked so hard to get away from it all. Until they figured out this solution, they were driving back […]
More Droughts May Mean Less Power
More Droughts May Mean Less Power The powerful flow of rivers such as the Columbia in Oregon, US, could be greatly reduced. (National Weather Service Forecast Office via Wikimedia Commons) LONDON—Climate change could threaten the electricity supply around the world, according to new calculations. That is because the power generation depends on a sure supply of water. […]
We Need to Talk About Saudi Arabia
We Need to Talk About Saudi Arabia Canadians may decry its executions and power moves, but we’re locked in an alliance. Iranians protest executions outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran, Jan. 3, 2016. Raheb Homavanti, Reuters Media Express. Dealing with Saudi Arabia is becoming a mug’s game for almost everyone in the West — […]
2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy
2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy This week I am addressing themes I see playing out in 2016. A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the hollowing out of democracy globally. Democracy has three distinct states of being: formal, in actual practice and informal. Nations that claim the mantle […]
2016 Theme #1: The Loss of Great Power Leverage
2016 Theme #1: The Loss of Great Power Leverage This week I am addressing themes I see playing out in 2016. A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the decline of Great Power leverage. Once a nation’s civil society–broadly speaking, the institutions of social cohesion–has been shredded so that power […]
Re-branding Dissent
Re-branding Dissent I am one of those who thinks that democracy is being destroyed. I know its fashionable to play cynical one-upmanship and say – ‘we’ve never had democracy’, or, ‘it was destroyed long ago’, but that game aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how, many forms of democratic expression, effective dissent and peaceful self-determination are […]
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared (NaturalNews) There is growing alarm among defense planners about the uptick in nuclear weapons development taking place among the various great powers, including the United States, Russia, India and China, as well as lesser powers like North Korea and […]
