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Sacrifice Zones
Sacrifice Zones As our problems mount, more of Earth’s people will be seen as disposable. Source: Encorenature.org A “sacrifice zone” refers to when one community’s health is sacrificed for the sake of another, often for profit or maintaining a way of life in that more fortunate community. A sacrifice zone is often a community […]
New Inflation Floor Will Be 3%: Mark Spiegel
New Inflation Floor Will Be 3%: Mark Spiegel Mark’s updated take on the market’s valuation and his longstanding bet against Tesla. Friend of Fringe Finance Mark B. Spiegel of Stanphyl Capital released his most recent investor letter on April 30, 2024, with his updated take on the market’s valuation and his longstanding bet against Tesla. Mark is a […]
Discovering Power’s Traps: a primer for electricity users
Discovering Power’s Traps: a primer for electricity users In magazines like Mother Jones and Sierra Club, environmentalists who aim to reduce harmful impacts to public health, wildlife habitats and climate systems propose “electrifying everything.” I don’t get it. Already, most of our food, shelter, communications and transportation systems depend on electricity. Replacing vehicles, stoves, heaters, water heaters and […]
There’s a Sniper on the Roof of the School Where I Studied Authoritarianism
There’s a Sniper on the Roof of the School Where I Studied Authoritarianism On student protests and principled defiance. There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA. There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD. At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how […]
Do U.S. Presidents Matter for Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction?
Do U.S. Presidents Matter for Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction? The answer is not what most people will expect Rare glimpse of the Energy Policy control panel in the White House Situation Room Pop Quiz! Before reading on, please provide your best guesses matching the presidential administration with with the annual rate of carbon dioxide emissions […]
The Great Experiment
The Great Experiment Is stratospheric aerosol injection inevitable now? A government test of solar radiation management (SRM) was conducted from the deck of the retired aircraft carrier, Hornet, the first of its kind, on April 2. “Desperate times breed desperate measures.” ~ William Shakespeare Democracy has been referred to as the Great Experiment. As it teeters […]
Recession Watch: Why isn’t “inevitable” becoming “imminent”?
Recession Watch: Why isn’t “inevitable” becoming “imminent”? Because “fiscal dominance”… So that recession I keep whining about still hasn’t arrived. What’s going on out there to keep “inevitable” from becoming “imminent”? It might be as simple as a government borrowing insane amounts of money and giving it to arms makers, banks, and AI companies. This […]
Economy Plunges into Stagflation with Both Feet
Economy Plunges into Stagflation with Both Feet Talk about a one-two-three punch to the ground! Stagflation came in perfectly on target for The Daily Doom’s predictions today. Real GDP is now falling much harder than was expected yesterday by two-faced Jamie Dimon when he spoke out of his second face, saying the economy is “booming,” backed by “healthy consumer finances.” He […]
The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation
The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation Censorship academic Claire Wardle helps guide the journal’s descent into authoritarian, censorship hell. Medical authorities and like-minded charlatans address public failure with several strategies. One method is to deny error, feign outrage at critics pointing to the screwup, […]
How Far Can The Yen Fall Before Japan Goes Bankrupt?
How Far Can The Yen Fall Before Japan Goes Bankrupt? We may be about to find out Japan’s ongoing march to national bankruptcy has been a recurring theme here. See: Japan Is In That Box Japan Takes Another Step Towards the Cliff How a Country Goes Bankrupt, In 10 Steps Now the death spiral has […]
This really is World War III
This really is World War III It’s Team Tyranny vs. Team Freedom in the fight of our lives I’ve seen some crazy things over the last few years but this is off-the-charts insane. Last week, Michael E. Mann spoke at the EcoHeath Alliance: Green Planet One Health Benefit 2024. Just to recap who each of these […]
Pinning down climate change’s role in extreme weather
Pinning down climate change’s role in extreme weather and did climate change contribute to the flooding in Dubai? In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat […]
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us There is certainly more coming to eat away at your finances as infamous bankster Jamie Dimon laid out quite broadly and plainly this week. Photo by Abhishek Singh on Unsplash Jamie Dimon never saw a dying bank he didn’t want to eat. Yet, […]
“Degrowth” is a tough sell
“Degrowth” is a tough sell We need positive language to work toward positive outcomes The seeds of Big-seeded Biscuitroot (Lomatium macrocarpum), a traditional First Food of western North America. Photo taken in eastern Oregon, Aug. 15, 2022. March 14th was “Earth Overshoot Day” for the United States. What that means is that, if every country in the […]
