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Back to Reality: We are All Children of Oil

February 28, 2022

Back to Reality: We are All Children of Oil Colin Campbell, founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), speaks in Pisa in 2006. Officially, the Powers that Be (PTB) ignored the ASPO message, but it could be that they understood it all too well. That would explain many things about the […]

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How we Became What we Despised. Turning the West into a New Soviet Union

February 13, 2022

How we Became What we Despised. Turning the West into a New Soviet Union For everything that happens, there is a reason for it to happen. Even for turning the former Free World into something that looks very much like the old “Evil Empire,” the Soviet Union. I understand that this series of reflections […]

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How much does it cost to buy a scientist? Less than you would imagine, and it is perfectly legal

January 31, 2022

How much does it cost to buy a scientist? Less than you would imagine, and it is perfectly legal Not a long, long time ago, in a region not so far, far away, a private company decided to set up a CO2 extraction plant. The idea was to extract carbon dioxide from the ground and […]

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The Secret of Propaganda: Teaching Obedience

January 26, 2022

The Secret of Propaganda: Teaching Obedience A classic example of modern propaganda. It dates from the 1940s and it shamelessly exploits the principle of authority. Note that there is no proof or evidence that a majority of doctors smoked Camels more than any other cigarettes. And there is no proof or evidence that, even if […]

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The Saga of Crude Oil. An Epic Story told by Douglas Reynolds

January 20, 2022

The Saga of Crude Oil. An Epic Story told by Douglas Reynolds The “bell curve” of oil production has been popularized together with the concept of “peak oil,” the point of the curve where the global crude oil production reaches its maximum, just before starting its irreversible decline. There is something universal in this curve […]

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Collapsing by Doubling Down: How Leaders Create Their Own Ruin

January 7, 2022

Collapsing by Doubling Down: How Leaders Create Their Own Ruin Napoleon won all the battles he engaged in, up to Borodino (1812), which was a non-victory, equivalent to a loss. From then, on it was all downhill from him. Napoleon had engaged in a task too big even for him: invading Russia. It is typical […]

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The Rise and Fall of Scientism. Do we Need a new Religion?

December 27, 2021

The Rise and Fall of Scientism. Do we Need a new Religion? What is religion, exactly? Hieratic monks singing their hymns? Fanatics performing human sacrifices? Old ladies praying the rosary? Pentecostals speaking in tongues? It is all that and more. And it is not something we can ignore. Religions are not old superstitions, but part […]

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Science, Forests, Bears, and Clouds

December 24, 2021

Science, Forests, Bears, and Clouds Last night at sunset, a big chill, dark red clouds to the west. And the half moon, above the black cypress trees to the right, silhouetted against the fire of the dying sun. Below Bellosguardo, that silent little wall where sometimes a black cat walks, and to the left you can […]

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Lessons from the USSR Crisis – What brought down the second largest empire of modern times?

December 13, 2021

Lessons from the USSR Crisis – What brought down the second largest empire of modern times? The collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, was seen in the West as a demonstration of the superiority of the Western economical and political system. In reality, the story was much more complex and the Soviet Union fell […]

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The Coming Global Food Crisis: Learning from the Great Irish Famine

November 17, 2021

The Coming Global Food Crisis: Learning from the Great Irish Famine A 19th century “soup kitchen” providing emergency relief for people without food. These kitchens could have saved millions in Ireland during the great famine of 1945-1850, but the British government refused to keep them open long enough. The main lesson we can learn from […]

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Limitarians and Cornucopians: what Surprises from Technological Progress?

November 16, 2021

Limitarians and Cornucopians: what Surprises from Technological Progress? Resource depletion, ecosystem disruption, population growth, and technological change are interacting with each other in a tsunami of changes that always take us by surprise. The surprises that technological progress may be bringing are among the most unpredictable drivers of change. Yet, it is not impossible to […]

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When Science Speaks in Tongues: The Unstoppable Rise of Gibberish

November 13, 2021

When Science Speaks in Tongues: The Unstoppable Rise of Gibberish I have no objections to the idea that God (or the Goddess) can speak to people. And maybe the Lord really spoke to the apostles the day of Pentecost. But if you plan to fool other people, then “speaking in tongues” (known also as “glossolalia” […]

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The Coming Age of Illiteracy: What Future for Science?

November 9, 2021

The Coming Age of Illiteracy: What Future for Science? One of the 16th century reliefs still existing at the monastery of “San Vivaldo,” in Tuscany. It is an early example of a purely image-based communication: an attempt to tell complex concepts, the stories of the gospels, to people who couldn’t read conventional text. It was a failure, but it […]

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The Propaganda Trap: How to get out of it?

November 5, 2021

The Propaganda Trap: How to get out of it? You probably saw the Hitler clip from the 2004 movie “Downfall.” And you may have noticed the detail of Hitler’s left hand trembling out of control. It is based on historical data: Hitler’s hand was really trembling in that way, a typical symptom of Parkinson’s disease. And he […]

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The Great Dying: Ireland as a Distant Mirror

October 30, 2021

The Great Dying: Ireland as a Distant Mirror After a series of six posts on the “age of exterminations” (one, two, three, four, five, and six) I wrote that I was moving to different subjects. But then I stumbled into this video on the Irish famine of mid 19th century. It is so fascinating (in a certain sense) that […]

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