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The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025
The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Witness to Collapse Climate Change: The Crisis Management Model – Ecosophia Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action Building a Mycelial Network of Resistance and Resilience Gazprom CEO Sounds […]
The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024
The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024 Persecuted Former FBI Specialist Urges Americans to Stock Up on Food and Prepare For Hardship – modernity Our Violent Future New Book Investigates the Trudeau Government Response to the Freedom Convoy, by Using the Emergencies Act – Global Research US War Profiteers Bring World To Brink Of Armageddon | […]
The surveillance state will be a power hog
The surveillance state will be a power hog The amount of power required for the data centers that underpin the control grid and AI is overwhelming. From ChatGPT to autonomous vehicles, the ever-expanding demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and data storage is sending power consumption in the US through the roof. Power consumption for data […]
A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle
A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle We all want solutions to the world’s many crises but do we understand the underlying problems? Everything in nature, including human society, relies on energy for production, consumption, recycling, and sustainability. Therefore, to understand things, we must first examine how energy is turned into work and […]
Money’s Grim Future
Money’s Grim Future Prepare for total control of your economic life. That is the message from Brownstone Fellow Aaron Day at his 4-hour workshop in San Jose, California last Saturday, May 11th. Day has written the excellent book The Final Countdown, which carefully describes the increasingly aggressive assaults on our freedoms by our government and by the global elites. […]
Walking Away From The Marketplace
Walking Away From The Marketplace The recent sequence of posts here on lenocracy (from Latin leno, a pimp)—that is, the form of political economy in which productive economic activity gets squeezed dry by various kinds of legally mandated pimping—has fielded a response I find interesting. Next to nobody has tried to argue that lenocracy is […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX–Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX September 21, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses Today’s post has been prompted by some thoughts regarding the inability of our political systems to respond in a timely manner to our plight of ecological overshoot penned by Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace, and posted by Alice […]
The Performance is Over
The Performance is Over Even if the artists don’t realise it. Note: Last week’s comments got sidetracked into bad-tempered exchanges on climate change, which was not what the essay was about. I had several requests to delete comments that some people found offensive. I let them pass on that occasion, but as from now I […]
Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing
Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing Would a ‘Climate Emergency’ Open the Same Door to Authoritarian Governance as the ‘COVID Emergency?’ I am always happy to welcome new content from The Brownstone Institute, one of the last few beacons of common sense left in the world. This week they published a new piece on how, as […]
They’re Not Worried About “Russian Influence”, They’re Worried About Dissent
They’re Not Worried About “Russian Influence”, They’re Worried About Dissent Listen to a reading of this article: Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years […]
Huge Swathes Of Ukraine Without Power & Water After New Russian Strikes
Huge Swathes Of Ukraine Without Power & Water After New Russian Strikes Ukraine’s energy operator Energoatom has announced Wednesday emergency power shutdowns in effect across all regions of the country amid a new large wave of Russian airstrikes. Sirens have been sounding throughout the day across the country. President Volodymyr Zelensky in follow-up estimated that 10 million Ukrainians now […]
A quarter of America could experience LONG BLACKOUTS this winter due to energy supply problems
A quarter of America could experience LONG BLACKOUTS this winter due to energy supply problems (Natural News) Large parts of North America could face long blackouts and other energy emergencies this winter as supplies of natural gas and coal begin to tighten. According to the latest seasonal assessment of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), a large […]
Power Blackout Risks Loom For Quarter Of All Americans
Power Blackout Risks Loom For Quarter Of All Americans The US heating season has officially begun, and new warnings show that a quarter of all Americans could experience energy emergencies this winter if temperatures fall below average due to tight fossil fuel supplies. Power grids from the Great Lakes to Louisiana, New England, Carolinas, and […]
Richard Heinberg: Limits and prospects for human survival
Richard Heinberg: Limits and prospects for human survival
