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The Bulletin: April 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: April 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How Climate Change Fuels Increasing Wildfire Disasters Extended Heatwave in India, Pakistan To Test Survivability History Will Not Repeat Itself – George Tsakraklides Zero-Based Extinction: Nature’s Life Support Gets a Sunset Clause The Structure […]
Video: Canadians Plunged Into Poverty. Can’t Afford to Eat! Sign of Major Economic Collapse
Video: Canadians Plunged Into Poverty. Can’t Afford to Eat! Sign of Major Economic Collapse This video vividly describes economic collapse and the plight of poverty in Canada, without however focussing on the underlying causes, nor the historical context. Remember the March 11, 2020 Lockdown. Destabilizing the social, political and economic structure of 190 sovereign countries cannot constitute […]
Days of reckoning
Days of reckoning Here’s something which will likely be universally unpopular: The government shouldn’t do anything to subsidise energy prices. I say this in the face of a £700 or so increase on annual bills announced today. And this is just the beginning, because, as Nils Pratley at the Guardian points out, when the price cap is raised again […]
We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of Poverty
WE CAN’T GROW OUR WAY OUT OF POVERTY For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on […]
West Faces “Social Bomb” As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest
West Faces “Social Bomb” As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest The next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic could be a flare-up of social unrest across major Western cities as millions have lost their jobs, economies have crashed into depressions, and the military is being called up to maintain order. The Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) […]
Population wrapped up: a response to Jane O’Sullivan
Population wrapped up: a response to Jane O’Sullivan And so we come to Small Farm Future’s final blog post of 2018. Time for some seasonal goodwill and an offer of peace to all? Nah, time to settle old scores – in this case my debate with Jane O’Sullivan about population and poverty that’s been rumbling […]
Breaking the Chains of Debt: Lessons from Babylonia for Today’s Student Crisis
Breaking the Chains of Debt: Lessons from Babylonia for Today’s Student Crisis Societies have tended to polarize between creditors and debtors since ancient times, but this tendency can and must be reversed. Today, the wealthy depict inequality in glowing colors as a byproduct of economies pulling ahead, “creating wealth” by innovations that add to prosperity. […]
Britain’s enemy is not Russia but its own ruling class, UN report confirms
Britain’s enemy is not Russia but its own ruling class, UN report confirms Police officers search an area next to a homeless man, Windsor, Britain, October 11, 2018 © Reuters / Darren Staples As the UK political establishment rips itself to pieces over Brexit, a far greater crisis continues to afflict millions of victims of […]
Debating population, poverty and development
Debating population, poverty and development Last week, Small Farm Future chalked up yet another first – the first vehement critique of one of our posts by a working academic with apparent expertise in the matter at hand. The post was this one about global population and its entailments that I published in June, and the […]
How Globalists Plan To Use Technology And Poverty To Enslave The Masses
How Globalists Plan To Use Technology And Poverty To Enslave The Masses Tyranny is often seen as a sudden and inexplicable development in a society; the product of a singular despot that rockets to power for a limited window of time due to public fear or stupidity. This is one of the great lies of […]
The Root of It All
The Root of It All Steven Pinker wrote, “In almost every year from 1992 through 2015, an era in which the rate of violent crime plummeted, a majority of Americans told pollsters that crime was rising. In late 2015, large majorities in eleven developed countries said that “the world is getting worse.” But crime isn’t […]
Pool of Funding the Heart of Economic Growth
POOL OF FUNDING THE HEART OF ECONOMIC GROWTH Most experts are of the view that massive monetary pumping by the US central bank, the Fed, during the 2008 financial crisis saved the US and the World from another Great Depression. If increases in money supply is an important catalyst for economic growth then the World […]
A World Hangs in the Balance
A WORLD HANGS IN THE BALANCE The overwhelming number of well-funded groups “fighting for change” in this world are misdirected. Intentionally so. These groups are designed to go off track, eliminate freedom, and produce answers that bring about more top-down control. I can’t emphasize that strongly enough: —The use of dupes and pawns, organized into […]
58 Facts About The U.S. Economy From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
58 Facts About The U.S. Economy From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe The world didn’t completely fall apart in 2015, but it is undeniable that an immense amount of damage was done to the U.S. economy. This year the middle class continued to deteriorate, more Americans than ever found themselves living in […]