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- 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 still 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
- Part 5 Raven Rock. Hidey holes for government and military officials to carry on democracy after nuclear war destroys the planet
- Become a Bison rancher
- Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
- Prisoners are treated worse than slaves in America
- Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
- Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government’s plans to save civilians from nuclear war
- Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity
Category Archives: 1) Decline
Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization
Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization Nov 8, 2010. ASPO-USA Much of the article has been snipped below: It is easy to see how sub-prime mortgages blew up Wall Street; it is a little more challenging to see … Continue reading
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Ashvin Pandurangi on social disorder and the military
The Debt-Dollar Discipline: Part III – Future Reorganization Dec 13, 2010. Ashvin Pandurangi [giant snips and rearrangement of material] Machines of societal oppression, whether they are equipment or computerized devices, cannot continue to function at their current rates of activity … Continue reading
Posted in By People, Social Disorder
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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
Posted in Banking, Inflation or Deflation
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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
Posted in Planetary Boundaries, Water
Tagged climate change, drought
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A Flaw in the Hyperinflationary Argument
Dec 13, 2009 A Flaw in the Hyperinflationary Argument intothegreyzone.com People assuming hyperinflation are assuming that the cash injected into the system will be spread equally or nearly equally, resulting in competitive bidding with more dollars for the current pool … Continue reading
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Why Deflation is Inevitable
Perhaps someday inflation, but not until the 1.2 quadrillion of outstanding debt are resolved first. To understand deflation, you need to understand what money really is and how it’s created. And you also need to read the other articles in … Continue reading
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Biomass Electricity More Polluting Than Coal and Waste Incinerators
Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal Mary S. Booth, PhD Partnership for Policy Integrity April 2 , 2014 Executive Summary Highlights Because of a perfect storm of lax regulation and regulatory rollbacks , biomass … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Biomass, Hazardous Waste
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Unemployment
The Eternal Depression Oct 2009. Bill Bonner. DailyReckoning. Yesterday, we were calculating how long it would take to get the jobless number back down to ’90s levels…that is, around 5%. There are now about 131 million jobs in the United … Continue reading
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Economics 101: Liquidity is a Loan, Why prices can go UP in a Deflation, do not buy Gold, and Much More
December 29, 2007. Karl Denninger. The Year In Review And a Look Ahead for 2008. market-ticker [I’ve snipped out a lot of this article, which is no longer available on the internet. It was very prescient, and even though some … Continue reading
Posted in Gold & Silver, Inflation or Deflation, Money
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Why Deleveraging is so painful
Why a recovery is at least 7 years away: Economy Falling Years Behind Full Speed 6 Apr 2009. Louis Uchitelle. New York Times. As the recession grinds on, more and more of the nation’s means of production — its workers, … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Decline
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