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Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order
Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 One of the most confounding aspects of Donald Trump’s election as 45th President of the United States is that in the space of a year – indeed less than a year – a man with zero political experience has destroyed two […]
How Researchers Could Miss the Real Energy Story
How Researchers Could Miss the Real Energy Story I have been telling a fairly different energy story from most energy researchers. How could I possibly be correct? What have other researchers been missing? The “standard” approach is to start from the amount of resources that we have of a particular type, for example, oil in the ground, […]
The Coming Collapse of the World’s Biggest Economy
The Coming Collapse of the World’s Biggest Economy The stage is set for the collapse of the world’s largest economy—the European Union. The trigger: Italy’s exit from the euro currency. The Financial Times recently put it this way: An Italian exit from the single currency would trigger the total collapse of the eurozone within a very short […]
What to Do to Prepare for Financial Collapse: “Get Out of Debt. Store. Prep. Cash. Gold.”
What to Do to Prepare for Financial Collapse: “Get Out of Debt. Store. Prep. Cash. Gold.” Prepare by balancing debt. Before you max out your credit cards on top notch gear, make sure you can survive the economic conditions that are coming. Mass unemployment. Loss of income. Heavy dependence on assistance. And the biggest strain […]
Corrupt and Deranged
Corrupt and Deranged Contemporary governance embodies corruption within deranged systems resting on foundations of theft and fraud. Corruption makes reform impossible; derangement assures eventual collapse. “Defense” spending is a misnomer. The US could defend itself at a small fraction of what it spends on its military and intelligence. The US government’s foreign intervention and maintenance […]
Collapse Fatigue
COLLAPSE FATIGUE When we initially awaken and realize life is not what we were taught, inner alarms scream for our attention. Even though we can sense a danger we didn’t previously perceive, we cannot judge how close it is. There is no scale to measure proximity, only the palpable fear of a real and present […]
Charting The Epic Collapse Of The World’s Most Systemically Dangerous Bank
Charting The Epic Collapse Of The World’s Most Systemically Dangerous Bank It’s been almost 10 years in the making, but the fate of one of Europe’s most important financial institutions appears to be sealed. After a hard-hitting sequence of scandals, poor decisions, and unfortunate events,Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes that Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank shares are now down -48% on […]
Death to All Zombies!
Death to All Zombies! Wait a minute. They’re already dead. Brexit just reveals that not everybody’s brains have been eaten. A viral contagion now threatens the zombified institutions of daily life, especially the workings of politics and finance. Just as zombies exist only in the collective imagination, so do these two principal activities of society […]
Brexit and the Crisis of Capitalism
Brexit and the Crisis of Capitalism If you collapse these extractive, debt-dependent crony-capitalist cartels, you collapse the entire status quo. Thousands of commentaries have been issued about Brexit in the past week.I’ve written four myself. Most discuss Brexit as the result of immigration issues, class war, political theater, a reaction against the European Union’s bureaucratic […]
It’s All Over As “Leave” Wins Brexit Referendum: Markets Everywhere Are Crashing
It’s All Over As “Leave” Wins Brexit Referendum: Markets Everywhere Are Crashing Final update to this historic post, just to make it official : BREXIT VOTE-LEAVE HAS WON MORE THAN 16.784 MLN VOTES, ENOUGH TO GUARANTEE VICTORY IN EU REFERENDUM – BBC FIGURES * * * Update 12:15 PM – Turmoil… Dow Futures are down […]
Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra
Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra DPC White Star liner S.S. Olympic, sister ship of Titanic, NY 1911The reason the Brexit debate has gotten so out of hand is nobody understands what it’s about. The Brexit campaigns have started anew in the UK, and from what I’ve seen here from left field barely a thing has […]
What Would Happen If Humans Vanished From the Planet? Video Shows “Lights Out. Nature Takes Over.”
What Would Happen If Humans Vanished From the Planet? Video Shows “Lights Out. Nature Takes Over.” After the crisis, there could be nothing left of human populations. There is no doubt that a disaster big enough to wipe out humanity exists – the threat of an EMP, a plague-level outbreak event, a total nuclear war, […]
The Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019
The Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019 Leaders face a no-win dilemma: any change of course will crash the system, but maintaining the current course will also crash the system. The end-state of unsustainable systems is collapse. Though collapse may appear to be sudden and chaotic, we can discern key structures that guide the processes of collapse. Though […]
Why You Need to Become More Self-Reliant NOW, No Matter Where You Live
Why You Need to Become More Self-Reliant NOW, No Matter Where You Live Recently, I spoke with Rory from The Daily Coin about the potential for economic collapse and why we need to pay attention to what’s going on in Venezuela. We discussed how to prepare for it, why everyone needs to work on becoming more […]
