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Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Manufacturing Dystopia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We live in a world of manufactured lack, manufactured enemies, manufactured crises and manufactured consent. We’ve had sufficient resources to care for everyone for generations. All our wars are based on lies. All our problems are cooked […]
These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months
These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months Photo by Connor Daylenko The U.S. and most of the world is at the threshold of what I would call a nexus point in history. There are establishment forces at play that seek to impose a permanent authoritarian presence within our nation in […]
Summer 2021 Hotter Than ‘Dust Bowl’ Of The 1930s, NOAA Says
Summer 2021 Hotter Than ‘Dust Bowl’ Of The 1930s, NOAA Says The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed in a new report that the average temperature during this summer for the contiguous U.S. was hotter than the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The meteorological summer between June 1 to Sept. 1 averaged 74F for the U.S., or […]
Lake Mead – The Largest Reservoir in the United States – Drops to a Record Low
Lake Mead – The Largest Reservoir in the United States – Drops to a Record Low August 7, 2000 August 9, 2021 The reservoir stands at its lowest level since the 1930s. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and part of a system that supplies water to at least 40 million […]
Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Fully Completed – Russia Celebrates ‘Failure’ Of US Efforts To Stop It
Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Fully Completed – Russia Celebrates ‘Failure’ Of US Efforts To Stop It Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom has announced on Friday it has completed construction on the Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline that the United States has long warred against through sanctions leveled by the Trump and Biden administrations. “Chairman […]
The World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The CIA just casually discussed sinking a boat full of Cuban refugees and planting bombs in Miami and blaming Castro, but you’re bat shit crazy if you suspect such agencies may have had similar discussions about […]
Can democracy survive peak oil?
Can democracy survive peak oil? Preface. This is a book review of Howard Bucknell’s Energy and the National Defense. University of Kentucky Press. Bucknell was amazingly prescient as you’ll see in this review, especially about why democracy might not survive the energy crisis. Though it turns out the U.S. may not need an energy crisis to […]
America’s Energy Strategy is Bonkers
America’s Energy Strategy is Bonkers “Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery. The price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic. While OPEC+ recently agreed to production increases, these increases will not fully offset previous production cuts […]
How long will the US dollar’s dominance last?
How long will the US dollar’s dominance last? 301 AD was a big year for the Roman Empire. That was the year that, amid spiraling inflation, Emperor Diocletian issued his Edict on Maximum Prices, essentially fixing prices of just about everything across the Roman Empire. The price of wheat, a day labor’s wages, a quart […]
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID Below, we ask a simple question: Is the war on COVID the needed pretext for even more centralized market “performance?” After all, who needs free markets when central bank liquidity determines price forces via endless COVID bailouts? The trend toward centralized controls and centralized markets was in play long […]
After the Gold Standard, Government Grew While the Dollar Shrank
After the Gold Standard, Government Grew While the Dollar Shrank Public-domain image via Picryl.com Why ending the gold standard led to a bigger government and a smaller dollar As The Hill’s Robert P. Murphy notes, most Americans associate the end of the gold standard and the ensuing dollar erosion with Nixon and his 1971 decision to […]
Potemkin Nation
Potemkin Nation There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just before other societies went through the important inflection points in their life cycle, you can tolerably often figure out when one of those is about to […]
Rabobank: Does The Fed Have The Intelligence To Prevent A Collapse
Rabobank: Does The Fed Have The Intelligence To Prevent A Collapse You came in like a wrecking ball “There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse in 11 days.” At some point ahead, if the Fed announces QE tapering at the September FOMC meeting –despite an evident economic slowdown, no […]
