The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Don’t Be Too Sure Don’t be too sure that the coronavirus will blow over and have no effect on global growth. If there is anything that characterizes this moment in history, it’s complacency: everyone’s so sure that current trend lines will continue, onward and upward, and risk has been tamed for the foreseeable future. Don’t …
America’s Fragmentation Accelerates What’s striking is the complete absence of economic class loyalty or identity: Few if any feel any shared identity with other workers, or feel any loyalty to a class that shares economic interests.
Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse The frantic efforts of am exploitive elite to eliminate dissent only accelerates the regime’s path to collapse. Regimes that are losing public support always make the same mistake: rather than fix the source of the loss of public trust–the few enriching themselves at the expense of the many– the …
The Unraveling Quickens Even if we don’t measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all sorts of ways. The central thesis of my new book Will You Be Richer or Poorer? is the financial “wealth” we’ve supposedly gained (or at least a few of us have gained) in …
What We’ve Lost This is only a partial list of what we’ve lost to globalism, cheap credit and the Tyranny of Price which generates the Landfill Economy. A documentary on the decline of small farms and the rural economy in France highlights what we’ve lost in the decades-long rush to globalize and financialize everything on …
How Deep Is The Rot In America’s Institutions? How deep has the rot of corruption, fraud, abuse of power, betrayal of the public trust, blatant criminality and insiders protecting the guilty penetrated America’s key public and private institutions? It’s difficult to tell, as the law-enforcement and security agencies are themselves hopelessly compromised.
America’s Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can’t Get Rid Of Them Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken. Changing elected officials does nothing to dislodge our managerial elite overlords. The new mayor, governor …
