There is always something hidden behind every news headline. Take this one for instance: Prolonged oil slump sparks second wave of cuts to 2016 budgets And it is only early February. Photo credit: A pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson It has been over a year now,... Continue Reading →
Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
Debt, defaults, and devaluations: why this market crash is like nothing we've seen before Photo credit: The S&P 500 trading pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - owner unknown. I began this year with the thought, and sort of prediction, that we were or are heading into a Dark Age of human experience. I admittedly... Continue Reading →
No Way Back… From Big Oil
Beware the contraction (shrinkage, huge financial losses, asset sales, withdrawal from risk, withdrawal from exploration) of Big Oil. Photo credit: A Chevron gas station is seen in Cardiff, California January 25, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Modern society is entirely dependent solely on Big Oil for its existence. Big Oil goes (and it will; and it must),... Continue Reading →
Playing With Fire
Well, there you go. You play with fire, eventually you will get burned fingers. New York investigates radioactive leak in groundwater near city Photo credit: The Indian Point energy center in Buchanan, New York. Ricky Flores/AP This could be considerably worse that they are currently admitting. And... just to put it in context, what happens... Continue Reading →
Why Would You…?
Why would you vote for someone who is shafting you without your consent? Oh, and why would you just stand there and let it happen?
Will The Empire Of Evil Touch Assange?
I have said many times that Julian Assange (alongside Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning) is a modern day hero whose rights to freedom of movement have been abused by the British government for years now. The UN agrees, at least with the fact that he is being restrained illegally. http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzA1LzA0L2FkLzJzdHJ1Nzhhc2RmLjhkMjZkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/23c69b9f/396/2stru78asdf.jpg Image credit: mashable.com 2stru78asdf.jpg Does... Continue Reading →
Confucius, he say… not
Image credit: Unknown source You mean to say, Confucius had a sense of humour? I'm sure he had. Actually it wasn't Confucius who said this or even something similar to this (I think everyone knows the old saying). This may be the most incorrectly credited saying of all time. I have even seen it attributed... Continue Reading →
15 Essential Homestead Kitchen Tools
Get a load of this. Excellent advice. I can't recommend this highly enough. There are even a few pointers there for myself. I don't, for instance, have an Oil Press or a food mill. Must look into that. I also don't have a meat grinder but, having been a vegetarian for the past twelve years,... Continue Reading →
Syraq – Cradle Of Civilisation
Syraq, that recently named new proto-nation, an unofficial joint venture between Syria and Iraq, facilitated by there being no recognisable joint border separating them from one another and having at least some form of organised structure in the shape of Daesh, the so-called Islamic State in charge of at least parts of both countries. And... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 
