The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How Nations Fail: Elites See No Reason to Sacrifice Anything If we don’t understand how complex social systems such as nation-states lose stability and fail, then we can’t possibly know how to fix what’s broken, i.e. design a replacement system that re-establishes stability and maintains in via dynamic homeostasis, the same model embedded in ecosystems …
Answering the question, why does one system survive crises and another does not? The answer lies in what author Geoffrey Parker termed Fatal Synergies and Benign Synergies in his book Global Crisis. I think we can distill the difference between Fatal Synergies and Benign Synergies into two questions:
Free Online: The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine Subscribers Only ($10 a Month): A Happier Path: Summary of Michael Goldhaber’s insights on the true cost of the “Attention Economy” ROBERT STEELE: I only subscribe to Ben Fulford, Matt Taibbi, and Charles Hugh-Smith. I pay to attend …
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Our Phantom Middle Class What happens when America finally admits its middle class is a phantom of feel-good fantasy? We may well find out in the next four years. This transfer has accelerated rapidly in the 21st century as virtually all the real income gains of the past 20 years have flowed to the top …
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Covid Is Toppling America’s “Points of Failure” Dominoes 01 Physicians increase by 100% over 40 years while administrators increase by 3000%. 02 Physician salaries increase by 100% (keeping up with inflation) while administrator salaries increase by 3000%. 03 Wages increase by 16% while GDP increases by 168% and national health expenditures increase by 818%. Phi …
There’s No Vaccine for a Terminally Ill Economy Concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many and you guarantee collapse. Phi Beta Iota: A brilliant overview. For related books see below.
