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We Need to Shut Them Down
We Need to Shut Them Down We need to shut them down. Governments that is. At least the ones that cannot pay their bills because of unnecessary economic lockdown orders. I have tried just about everything in these pages to induce politicians to see that they are pushing the worst policies since at least the New Deal […]
The New COVID-19 Authoritarians Will Only Give Up Power If They Fear Blowback
The New COVID-19 Authoritarians Will Only Give Up Power If They Fear Blowback It was autumn 1989. Momentous things were taking place in the world. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The people of the Eastern Bloc had succeeded at getting to the West through Hungary. The firm line between east and west was wavering. The […]
The PM’s Pandemic Power Grab
The PM’s Pandemic Power Grab Trudeau has pushed for lifted restraints, less transparency. Why we should be deeply concerned. “Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis.” — Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli’s words, borrowed by Rahm Emanuel during the 2008 financial crisis when he was Barack Obama’s chief of staff, offer a stark warning about […]
The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Some conspiracy-type people say the world is messed up because we’re ruled by illuminati or reptilians, but I’m way more out there than that: I say our entire society is made of imaginary thought stories with little relation to objective reality, and some clever manipulators have […]
The Propaganda of Terror and Fear: A Lesson from Recent History
The Propaganda of Terror and Fear: A Lesson from Recent History The ongoing and unfolding reactions to the Corona Virus look set to have wide-ranging and long-lasting effect on politics, society and economics. The drive to close down all activities is extraordinary as are the measures being promoted to isolate people from each other. The […]
Be wary of overreaching government responses to coronavirus: Ron Paul
Be wary of overreaching government responses to coronavirus: Ron Paul Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow […]
Understanding The Keys To Power
Understanding The Keys To Power Will be a survival requirement for the coming decade The past decade was undoubtedly shaped by the policy adopted by the global central banking cartel to flood the world with massive amounts of liquidity (over $15 trillion) to “rescue” markets following the Great Financial Crisis. It’s becoming increasingly clear who […]
Farewell to Paper Money?
Farewell to Paper Money? A decade or more ago, I began to discuss with associates the possibility of governments and banks colluding to eliminate physical cash. Back then, the idea struck most everyone as poppycock, that governments could never get away with it. I didn’t write on the subject until 2015, when several countries had […]
A Surefire Cure For Despair
A Surefire Cure For Despair “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”~ Samuel Beckett Sometimes it just gets to be too goddamn much. You just finished a soul-draining argument with a family member who insists that Putin controls all major world events because that’s what the TV said so it must be true, then you […]
The Origins of the Thought Police—and Why They Scare Us
The Origins of the Thought Police—and Why They Scare Us In a sense, “1984” is largely a book about the human capacity to maintain a grip on the truth in the face of propaganda and power. There are a lot of unpleasant things in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Spying screens. Torture and propaganda. Victory Gin […]
Peak Hubris
Peak Hubris “Hubris” is defined as rash and foolish pride, a dangerous overconfidence, manifested with arrogance. The Deep State vaunts our “exceptionalism”, and since Reagan’s “City on a HIll” trope Americans have been assured by all succeeding Presidents that ours is the “indispensible nation”. The word describes the way America sells itself to the world, […]
All It Takes Is a Slipup or a Nudge
All It Takes Is a Slipup or a Nudge Just prior to a war, the majority of people in the nations that are about to become involved tend to assume that another nation is threatening theirs, whist their own leaders are doing all they can to avoid conflict. This is almost never the case. The […]
On Psychopathy And Power
On Psychopathy And Power Due to a very painful and disturbing revelation in my personal life I have had the unfortunate occasion to spend the last several days thinking a lot about psychopaths and what makes them tick. I don’t want to get into the hairy details at this time, but I would like to share some […]
California Hit By Dual Shock: LA Gas Prices Spike Above $5 As Residents Learn Solar Panels Don’t Work In Blackouts
California Hit By Dual Shock: LA Gas Prices Spike Above $5 As Residents Learn Solar Panels Don’t Work In Blackouts Millions of Californians may have just suffered an unprecedented, induced blackout by the state’s largest (and bankrupt) utility, PG&E, just so it isn’t blamed for starting even more fires causing it to go even more […]
Can concentrated solar power be used to generate industrial process heat?
Can concentrated solar power be used to generate industrial process heat? This post is based on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) paper: Kurup, P., et al. 2015. Initial Investigation into the Potential of CSP Industrial Process Heat for the Southwest United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. *** Industries use enormous amounts of fossil fuels […]
