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The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024
The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024 Thousands Of Californians Lose Power After PG&E Protects Grid As Wildfire Risks Soar | ZeroHedge The Possible Relevance of Joseph Tainter – by Brink Lindsey The Recession of 2025 Will Be Backdated | The Epoch Times ‘Ecosystems are collapsing’: one of Australia’s longest rivers has lost more than half its […]
The Illusion of Debate
The Illusion of Debate Hanging Rock, Madison, Indiana I want to disclose a couple of facts regarding the constant focus in many people’s minds of what is considered healthy debate about “renewable,” “clean,” “green,” and “sustainable” energy, electricity, technology, and/or products and services. Those labels are marketing terms, not reality. In other words, they encourage […]
Pulling Back The Curtain On The Energy Transition Tale
Pulling Back The Curtain On The Energy Transition Tale OK, I am going to try to keep this quite short and to the point. Everyone familiar with me knows that I have been rather outspoken against what are commonly called “technofixes” for a considerably long time. Of course, this has always been for very good […]
Power Is An Illusion, Control Is A Facade
Power Is An Illusion, Control Is A Facade This past year in numerous countries the public is being bombarded with lessons in power and control that have been forgotten for generations. I think the majority of westerners in particular have long believed themselves “safe” from totalitarian government, from collectivist micro-management and from communistic cultism. They […]
The Illusion Is Failing
The Illusion Is Failing Trust in the system is vanishing fast Sometimes the magic fails. The secret to the trick is accidentally revealed. The woman was always in the box. The eye is no longer deceived. And there’s no getting the audience’s sense of awe back. Just like a bungled illusion, once trust is broken, […]
Democracy and the Illusion of Choice
Democracy and the Illusion of Choice Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The neoliberal logic of everything for the rich is now so deeply embedded in American political economy that its base assumptions appear untouchable, except in rare and extraordinary circumstances. With the Covid pandemic exacerbating the current crisis of capitalism, political and economic defense mechanisms […]
How the GDP Framework Creates the Illusion That By Means of Money Pumping the Central Bank Can Grow an Economy
HOW THE GDP FRAMEWORK CREATES THE ILLUSION THAT BY MEANS OF MONEY PUMPING THE CENTRAL BANK CAN GROW AN ECONOMY In response to a weakening in the yearly growth rate of key economic indicators such as industrial production and real gross domestic product (GDP) some commentators have raised the alarm of the possibility of a […]
The Essence of Control Is Its Concealment
The Essence of Control Is Its Concealment For thousands of years “control” of humans, both at the micro individual and macro collective level, was obvious and institutionalized. It was the way the world worked, with pharaohs, chiefs, kings and queens, along with their sycophant and supporting courts, wielding power and control at the top. Arrayed […]
The End of Illusion
The End of Illusion Photo Source Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 The following is the Epilogue from Jeffrey St. Clair’s and Joshua Frank’s new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink, available now from CounterPunch Books. In the spring of 2017, the carbon dioxide readings at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai’i cracked […]
Elections and the Illusion of Political Control
Elections and the Illusion of Political Control Photo Source Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 As if on special at Metaphors-R-Us, and just in time for the primary elections, CNN published an article on fake buttons that are provided to give people the illusion of control. It seems psychologists determined that fake buttons at crosswalks, […]
President Trump Confident in Missile Defense: In the Grip of Dangerous Illusion
President Trump Confident in Missile Defense: In the Grip of Dangerous Illusion The US is pushing ahead with expansion of the nation’s homeland ballistic missile defense (BMD). The effort enjoys strong bipartisan support in Congress and among experts. Many allies place a high value on BMD cooperation with the United States. However, there are ample […]
Bitcoin in an Illusionary Age
Bitcoin in an Illusionary Age It is altogether fitting that crypto currencies, in particular Bitcoin, have witnessed a meteoric rise in this illusionary age. Not only has their monetary value gone to dizzying heights, but they are now being touted as the destroyer of the current, crumbling monetary order and the next paradigm upon which a […]
Made For Each Other
Made For Each Other Don’t be fooled by the idiotic exertions of the Red team and the Blue team. They’re just playing a game of “Capture the Flag” on the deck of the Titanic. The ship is the techno-industrial economy. It’s going down because it has taken on too much water (debt), and the bilge […]
The Illusion of Freedom
The Illusion of Freedom A campaign rally last week in Michigan. In the current presidential contest, a frustrated white working class has been receptive to anti-democracy messages. (Carlos Osorio / AP) The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines […]
The Dangerous Illusion That Risk Can Be Offloaded Onto Others
The Dangerous Illusion That Risk Can Be Offloaded Onto Others This confidence in central banks raises a pernicious systemic risk. Do you drive carelessly because your auto is equipped with airbags? Perhaps not. But would you drive more cautiously if you were perched on the front bumper? If even the slightest collision would crush the driver’s […]
