Reflections on democracy
There is a global war on democracy underway, and if it is not addressed, our future will be bleak. But let us start with the ground work of democracy, and…
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Rising prices, falling wages, and the emerging economic trends: Currency wars, hyper-inflation, currency devaluation, and how to prepare for the coming storm
120% of the wealth created since the economic crisis began in 2007 has gone to the top 1% – meaning, the bottom 99% have fallen and have lost real income…
Credit card size sheets of gold for uncertain times
A Swiss-based company has introduced credit card size sheets of gold that can be broken like a chocolate bar into 1 gram pieces, and they are rapidly growing in popularity…
The New Blackberry 10 – Time to ditch Apple and Google both
The Blackberry 10 has just been unveiled, and the question returns: Blackberry, iPhone or Google-based Android smart phone? Here are some thoughts, techno-weenie talk aside. We’re talking pure functionality and…
The Mayans, the ecological crisis and the end of the world: a little sanity please
It seems like a lot of people are going to extremes with regards to the Mayan predictions – and I mean the skeptics as well as the fanatics. Some are…
An open letter to the Green Party
Dear people in the Green Party, I will be blunt. Parliamentary politics have failed. We are clearly at an impasse, and we are fighting an advancing forest fire with a…
Money, savings and interest: The real deal – protecting yourself and your family from the coming collapse
Yes, it is the end of the world as we know it – meaning, we are about to witness the final liquidation of the middle class across Europe and North…
Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body
Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body – a very good motto that is. The saying comes from the Roman Juvenal, and it applies as…
Thought for a day – or a life
Don’t live for what you can get – live for what you can give. Better the thought left for reflection -but if we need a musical accompaniment, or…
BBC speechless as trader tells truth: “Collapse is coming… and Goldman Sachs rules the world”
Move your money now – put it into gold, silver, and if you can, more importantly, a piece of land that can feed your family, tools for self-reliance such as…
Message to the ruling 1%….. When Popular Science runs a story about the global domination of the corporate elite, you know you’re fucked
Science confirming the obvious: a recent study by systems analysts shows a tight knot of control over the global economy by a handful of corporate giants, mostly banks – and…
Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base…
The struggle is not between left and right – it’s between democracy and corporatism
We must unite the people now, or the people and democracy both will lose. Not only are partisan loyalties and divisions increasingly irrelevant and out-moded, but divisions along ideological lines…
Occupy Wall St. – Letters to friends and family, and an overview of what is unfolding now
What is happening is momentus. It could go wrong, it could fizzle out, or it could be co-opted, but at present, by all I can see, it is hopeful: here…
Obama, Kucinich and Class Warfare: civil war in America or democratic renewal – these are the choices at hand
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to…
Reclaiming democracy for the common good – and for the survival and future of our children: the political economy of environmental sanity and democratic renewal
Yesterday, September 27, the Global Footprint Network declared as Earth Overshoot Day: the day that humans have used up all renewable resources available for the year. Not good. This obviously…