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The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come
The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come The timing of finally embracing risk and sacrifice as the only option left is exquisitely sensitive: finally caving in a moment too late leads to the system collapsing beyond recovery. The sense that we’re approaching a tipping point into a crisis with no easy resolution is pervasive, a […]
Greed and Its Offsets
Greed and Its Offsets Farmland shouldn’t be used to expiate the carbon guilt of the rich, argues Simon Fairlie. — Bill Gates’s recently published book on climate change tells us little that anyone who is averagely well read on the subject didn’t know anyway.1 As one might expect, he advocates technological fixes, most of which have […]
Three Major Imbalances – Financial, Trust and Geopolitical
Three Major Imbalances – Financial, Trust and Geopolitical But greed is a bottomless pitAnd our freedom’s a jokeWe’re just taking a pissAnd the whole world must watch the sad comic displayIf you’re still free start running awayCause we’re coming for you! – Conor Oberst, “Land Locked Blues” It’s hard to believe 2020 is just around […]
Mad World
MAD WORLD And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take When people run in circles it’s a very very Mad world, mad world The haunting Gary Jules […]
Cult Of War, Violence And Greed
Cult Of War, Violence And Greed America is a unique class of humans from any perspective, with the recent school shootings it seems a reminder is needed that America is a country, and a culture, built on blood, violence, greed, and the most carnal instincts of the bottom of the Maslow pyramid. First let’s start […]
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo If integrity means more than any of these baubles, then prepare to fail. The theme this week is The Rot Within. The sordid story of Harvey Weinstein is being presented as an aberration. It is not an aberration; it is merely a […]
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s)
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s) We have seen several explanations for the financial crisis and its lingering effects depressing our global economy in its aftermath. Some are plain stupid, such as greed for some reason suddenly overwhelmed people working within finance, as if […]
World’s Climate Threatened by Greed and Militarism, Official Canada Remains Part of the Problem, Not Solution
World’s Climate Threatened by Greed and Militarism, Official Canada Remains Part of the Problem, Not Solution A leading columnist in Canada’s Globe and Mail daily newspaper known in the past to voice concern about the global warming emergency has penned two columns recently in support of Alberta tar sands pipelines, including praising the efforts of the premier […]
Democracy Sold Out to Greed
Democracy Sold Out to Greed While the “free Western media” cheers, the Western “democratic” governments sell out the peoples of the Western world to corporate tyranny John Massaria has turned my interview with Julian Charles into a video. The video helps me to bring home that “Western democracy” is a sham, a total lie. Every […]
Hawking: Greedy capitalists may pocket wealth as robots replace human workers
Hawking: Greedy capitalists may pocket wealth as robots replace human workers © Issei Kato / Reuters Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s latest Apocalyptic prediction involves neither colonizing aliens nor malicious artificial intelligence – just plain old human greed. The scientist was commenting on so-called technological unemployment, a trend of automatization taking over the jobs that previously […]
The Worst Part Is Central Bankers Know Exactly What They Are Doing
The Worst Part Is Central Bankers Know Exactly What They Are Doing The best position for a tyrant or tyrants to be in, at least while consolidating power, is tyranny by proxy. That is to say, the most dangerous tyrants are those the people do not recognize: the tyrants who hide behind scarecrows and puppets […]
US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described perfectly by Roman historians
US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described perfectly by Roman historians The ancient Greek historian, Polybius, celebrated the Roman republic of ~ 150 BC under its constitution with balance of powers among the Senate, two elected consuls, and the general citizens: “Such being the power that each part has of hampering the others or co-operating with them, their union […]
Our Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma
Our Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma All those angered by the mere question of the viability of this predatory pillaging in the name of capitalism are incapable of even admitting this cultural crisis exists. Somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to distinguish between earning a profit and maximizing private gain by […]
Resource Insights: Greed explained: J. Paul Getty, Aristotle and the Maximum Power Principle
Resource Insights: Greed explained: J. Paul Getty, Aristotle and the Maximum Power Principle. Greed explained: J. Paul Getty, Aristotle and the Maximum Power Principle Regular readers know I often write about energy, and while this piece may not at first blush seem like an energy story, you’ll soon see that the quest for an ample […]
