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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 […]
Doug Casey on How Economic Witch Doctors Convince Everyone They’re Neurosurgeons
Doug Casey on How Economic Witch Doctors Convince Everyone They’re Neurosurgeons International Man: The average person doesn’t care about economics. But to the extent that he does, he only reads mainstream publications like The Economist and editorials in The New York Times. In these publications, the average person will find so-called economists advocating upside-down and destructive concepts like […]
The Performance is Over
The Performance is Over Even if the artists don’t realise it. Note: Last week’s comments got sidetracked into bad-tempered exchanges on climate change, which was not what the essay was about. I had several requests to delete comments that some people found offensive. I let them pass on that occasion, but as from now I […]
What If There Are No Politically Feasible Answers?
What If There Are No Politically Feasible Answers? Political Realism vs Ecological Realism At times, we are confronted with choices that demand us to pick between two undesirable alternatives, often known as a dilemma. The annals of history are brimming with such instances. When Hitler ascended to power in Germany and commenced his invasions across […]
The Rise Of Totalitarianism: Banks Denying Services Based On Political Views
The Rise Of Totalitarianism: Banks Denying Services Based On Political Views Then British Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage speaks during a visit at Dover harbour, in Dover, Britain, on Aug. 12, 2020. (Matthew Childs/Reuters) When the Berlin Wall fell, I naively supposed that freedom was now secure, that never again would the spectre of totalitarianism […]
The Fed Is a Purely Political Institution, and It’s Definitely Not a Bank.
The Fed Is a Purely Political Institution, and It’s Definitely Not a Bank. Those who know Wall Street lore sometimes recall that Fed chairman William Miller—Paul Volcker’s immediate predecessor—joked that most Americans believed the Federal Reserve was either an Indian reservation, a wildlife preserve, or a brand of whiskey. The Fed, of course, is none of […]
Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle
Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality, he says. He’s already […]
The Failure of Central Banking: Politics
The seal of the Federal Reserve on a U.S. banknote. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) The Failure of Central Banking: Politics The view was generally held that centralization of banking would inevitably result in one of two alternatives: either complete government control, which meant politics in banking, or control by ‘Wall Street,’ which meant banking in politics. – Paul […]
Politics Is Dead, Here’s What Killed It
Politics Is Dead, Here’s What Killed It Here’s “politics” in America now: come with mega-millions or don’t even bother to show up. Representational democracy–a.k.a. politics as a solution to social and economic problems–has passed away. It did not die a natural death. Politics developed a cancer very early in life (circa the early 1800s), caused by wealth […]
The End Of Venezuela’s Oil Era
The End Of Venezuela’s Oil Era Venezuela, once Latin America’s largest oil producer and a founding member of OPEC, has seen its economically vital oil industry collapse triggering one of the worst economic and humanitarian crises of the century. The pain is far from over for Venezuela’s people and the country’s failing economy. Before 1920, […]
Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Hi I’m a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars […]
Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor
Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor “Whistleblower” Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse. Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled ‘Protecting […]
The problem with climate change politics
The problem with climate change politics Climate change bears all the hallmarks of a state-sponsored crisis, useful to shift attention from other political failures. But the absence of financial accountability which characterises government actions also introduces behavioural errors. The absence of a profit motive in any state action exposes the relationship between governments and their […]
Commons and households in a small farm future
Commons and households in a small farm future As I mentioned in my previous post, The Land Magazine recently published a lengthy article from me, ‘Commons and households in a small farm future’. In this post I’m simply going to reproduce the article. The version here is my original draft which is slightly, but not very, different […]
