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- The staggering destruction of knowledge by Christians in the Roman Empire
- The staggering cost of Net Zero in Britain
- Why the R/P Reserves to Production ratio does not show when oil will run out
- Catton on Collapse “Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse”
- Book Review of Grain Brain: Extraordinary claim not backed up by evidence
- Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?
- What would happen if trucks stopped running?
- How to survive a nuclear winter
- The insect apocalypse will kill billions more people than climate change
- The war on drugs. A book review of “Chasing the scream”
- Peak crude oil did not happen in 2018. But we are running out of time
- Sheriffs have too much power
- Book review “They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals”
- John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
- Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
Author Archives: energyskeptic
Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt blog
Brown’s Web of Debt blog and books are well researched and worthwhile reading, but she isn’t aware of the energy and resource crises, so her work isn’t fully informed. But still, you can see that even without those larger issues, … Continue reading
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The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives Posted on September 17, 2013 by Ellen Brown Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow … Continue reading
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Credit Cards
Usurious Returns on Phantom Money: The Credit Card Gravy Train February 14, 2014 by Ellen Brown The credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees. You pay off your credit … Continue reading
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How to survive the coming century
Excerpts from 25 Feb 2009 How to survive the coming century http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126971.700-how-to-survive-the-coming-century.html?full=true All of the world’s major deserts are predicted to expand, with the Sahara reaching right into central Europe. Glacial retreat will dry Europe’s rivers from the Danube to … Continue reading
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Bill Moyers & Bill Black on Ponzi schemes, Fraud, & Liar’s loans
Bill Moyers talks to Bill Black about the fraud that pervades the financial industry and the Obama government April 3, 2009 pbs.org William Kurt Blackis an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. His expertise is white-collar crime, … Continue reading
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Joe Bageant : We’ve Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls–It’s Time to do something Meaningful
[One of the best books that explains why poor people go against their own interests by voting for Trump and Republicans in general is Joe’s highly entertaining “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War“. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author … Continue reading
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Stock Market Bubbles and Rallies
I have a theory that the rich milk the middle class like cows by deliberately driving up the prices of stocks and skimming the cream off by selling before the market goes down, as described in Matt Taibbi’s The Great … Continue reading
Goldman Sachs has manipulated markets since the Great Depression and still is
The Great American Bubble Machine From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they’re about to do it again 9 July 2009 Matt Taibbi The first … Continue reading
Pensions of millions of Americans Threatened
Thought Secure, Pooled Pensions Teeter and Fall 12 April 2014 Mary Williams Walsh New York Times The pensions of millions of Americans are being threatened because of trouble in a part of the retirement world long considered so safe that … Continue reading
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The most greedy, fraudulent banks continue to loot
Too Big to Fail banks continue to behave like they did before 2008 and are making the most money because they’re perceived as safer. The Looting of America’s Coffers March 10, 2009 David Leonhardt. New York Times Sixteen years ago, … Continue reading
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