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The Balkanization of Europe
The Balkanization of Europe Danae Stratou, Ilargi, Yanis Varoufakis and Steve Keen Feb 16 2016When my mate Steve Keen took me to meet Yanis Varoufakis for dinner last week when we all happened to find ourselves in Athens together, I at least sort of regretted not having the time and space to talk to Yanis about […]
Norway Warns Sweden Will Collapse, PM Will Defy Geneva Convention To Protect Border
Norway Warns Sweden Will Collapse, PM Will Defy Geneva Convention To Protect Border As you might have heard, Sweden has a refugee problem. We’ve spent quite a bit of time documenting the country’s trials and travails over the course of the last 12 months during which time Sweden has taken on more than 160,000 asylum seekers. […]
Germany’s Refugee Crisis is Starting to Explode
Germany’s Refugee Crisis is Starting to Explode The Arab sexual assault in Cologne, Germany, occurred on New Year’s Eve when hundreds of male refugees robbed and carried out sexual assaults against over 100 girls. This illustrates one of the huge problems with allowing such a mass migration of a starkly different culture. But what has become […]
Europe – Here we GO Again
Europe – Here we GO Again The European economic crisis just keeps getting worse. The European Commission is now planning to pool all money for bank bailouts among nations. That means the funds set aside in Germany to weather German bank failures can be used in France. Meanwhile, the EU is preparing for relaxing the stability policy (austerity) because […]
The Paris Attacks Are Being Used to Justify Agendas They Have Nothing to Do With
The Paris Attacks Are Being Used to Justify Agendas They Have Nothing to Do With Georgie Pauwels / CC BY 2.0 The aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks has “devolved into a dark and dishonest debate” in which governments consider banning encryption and barring Syrian refugees from entering their countries—even though the attackers were neither Syrian nor […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VI
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VI Suppose your situation is such that you need to effect a swift change of venue. The circumstances that prompt this relocation can be quite varied, but the common and foreseeable ones are: 1. There is no fresh water where you are. The reservoirs are dry and dusty, the artesian wells […]
As The World Rolls Over
As The World Rolls Over Brutal news is pouring in from pretty much everywhere. US retail sales are flat and wholesale prices are falling. Big retail chains are missing on earnings and seeing their shares plunge. Chinese nonperforming loans are soaring while imports, car sales and steel production are way down. Oil is flirting with […]
Merkel Must Call Highest Level UN Emergency Summit Over Refugees
Merkel Must Call Highest Level UN Emergency Summit Over Refugees German Chancellor Angela Merkel needs to do something, urgently, that should have been done months- if not more- ago. There has to be a UN emergency summit on the European refugee crisis, it has to involve leaders at the very highest levels, and it has […]
What does Climate Change Look Like?
What does Climate Change Look Like? “Our goal is not to amass information or satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it” –Pope Francis Several weeks ago, I […]
Somebody Will Do Something Stupid
Somebody Will Do Something Stupid Is it just me, or does it seem like we are moving inexorably towards a global confrontation? China claims some islands in the South China Sea and we attempt to provoke a military response by sending a US warship within 12 miles of the disputed islands. We accuse both China […]
Europe Will Never Be The Same. Neither Will The World.
Europe Will Never Be The Same. Neither Will The World. RLOppenheimer New flag for EU 2015To reiterate: People are genetically biased against change, because change means potential danger. People are also genetically biased against acknowledging this bias, because they wish to see themselves as being able to cope with both change and danger. Put together, this means […]
Ontario to increase Syrian refugee targets to help meet Trudeau’s goals, Kathleen Wynne says
Ontario to increase Syrian refugee targets to help meet Trudeau’s goals, Kathleen Wynne says Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government will try to expedite the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the province to coincide with Justin Trudeau’s bold commitment to bring in 25,000 refugees by the end of the year. “We need to align with […]
The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won’t Hear About in the Media
The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won’t Hear About in the Media There’s a meme going around that the refugee crisis in Europe (the largest since World War II) is part of a secret plot to subvert the West. I completely understand why the locals in any country wouldn’t be happy about waves […]
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling EU Is Abandoning U.S. on Overthrowing Assad Obama Cannot Defeat Assad without EU’s Help EU Also Rejects Obama’s TTIP & TISA Demands Obama’s Presidential ‘Legacy’ Heads to Failure Europe is being overrun by refugees from American bombing campaigns in Libya and Syria, which created a failed state in Libya, and which threaten […]
Greater Fools and Bigger Liars
Greater Fools and Bigger Liars Societies in decline have no use for visionaries – Anaïs Nin The moment we heard that John Boehner would resign, the first thing that came to mind was: the next one will be a Greater Fool and a Bigger Liar. For all of his obvious faultlines, Boehner is human. As was evident […]