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Category Archives: Corruption & Finance
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth
Preface. Obviously endless growth on a finite planet is impossible. Clearly the main “benefit” of debt is being able to rape and pillage the planet immediately. The accumulating debt can never be paid off, because energy is required to grow … Continue reading
Nothing is true & everything Is possible: the surreal heart of the new Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
Preface. In light of how greatly Russia influenced the election of Trump, it’s worth reading this book to see how Russia has used propaganda to control their own people, keep Putin in office, and in general how the rule of … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption & Finance, Critical Thinking, Financial
Tagged critical thinking, Russia
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How United Nations scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism
Preface. The article below was written by Nafeez Ahmed, who wrote one of my favorite books “Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence“. Ahmed writes: “Most observers have no idea of the current biophysical realities – that the driving … Continue reading
Posted in Crash Coming Soon, Organizations
Tagged biophysical economics, captialism, collapse, EROI, Nafeez Ahmed, United Nations
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Richard Heinberg: Our bonus decade
Preface. Because of the bonus oil and gas fracking brought us starting in 2005, Heinberg says “I’ve titled this essay “Our Bonus Decade” because the past ten years were an unexpected (by us peakists, anyway) extra—like a bonus added to … Continue reading
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks
Preface. I’m fascinated by system risks, so I’ve included this, though there’s no awareness at all of peak oil or limits to growth or that energy, not money, is the basis of civilization and foundation of every single widget made … Continue reading
Posted in Crash Coming Soon, Financial
Tagged banking, contingency, finance, systemic risk
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Crash alert: China’s resource crisis could be the trigger
Preface. Way to go Nafeez Ahmed, your second home run of reality based reporting on the energy crisis this week. There are countless economists within the mainstream media predicting an economic crisis worse than in 2008, but they totally ignore … Continue reading
Posted in Crash Coming Soon, EROEI remaining oil too low, Peak Oil
Tagged china, debt, EROI, financial crisis, peak oil
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Book review of “White Trash. The 400-year untold history of class in America”
Preface. This book makes the case that the poor arrived 500 years ago when America was first settled, and most of them never rose to the middle or upper classes because “land was the principal source of wealth, and those … Continue reading
Posted in Distribution of Wealth, Financial, Politics, Poverty
Tagged distribution of wealth, poverty, white trash
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Who is Joe Arpaio? His Arizona women’s prisons are reminiscent of Nazi death camps
[ You may remember back in August 2017 that President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio. But most left out an even bigger reason why he is truly evil: his Arizona women’s tent city prisons. Below is a description of one from … Continue reading