Moving Beyond Capitalism
May 30, 2012An article from new Diner Jaded Prole, reposted from his blog, coincidentally also named The Jaded Prole RE Discuss this article inside the Diner Moving Beyond Capitalism As I stated in the editorial of the Fall issue of Blue Collar Review, the many seemingly insurmountable issues, from unemployment to endless war, to the plundered economy and the unfolding ecological crisis are like the branches on a tree. They are connected at the root by a ...
Here Comes the SUN!
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Published on SUN4Living on November 12, 2013
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* Genesis of the Sustaining Universal Needs Project: Birth of the SUN *
A few years ago I became a Blogger on the topic of Economic Collapse. I did not start my own Blog back then, rather I blogged on Message Boards and Forums concerning themselves with the topics of Economic collapse and Energy Depletion issues, most specifically the PeakOil.com message board. I migrated around quite a bit over the intervening time, to OPBs (Other People’s Blogs) and my own little Yahoo Group Reverse Engineering before setting up the Blog & Forum Doomstead Diner in 2012 with my friend Peter and a few other friends I got to know over the years of Collapse Chat on the internet.
At first I saw the problem mainly through the lens of Economic Collapse of a Monetary System, I had not back then really worked through yet all the problems which accrue from that, particularly once you factor in Energy Resource Depletion. At first I thought of it something like the Great Depression of the 1930s, but after not [...] Continue Reading…
Why I Support the SUN Project
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Published on SUN4Living on November 6, 2013
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Back in the beginning, the promise of the internet was to allow the building of virtual networks to connect people with people, across broad reaches of real-world distance, to engage in mutually beneficial activities, communication and sharing.
Although those early dreams of connectivity seem to have devolved into something less than what many of us had hoped, it has allowed certain like-minded folks to find each other.
The SUN Project is an initiative that has arisen out of a world-wide discussion between people who read and write about subjects related to issues of permaculture, sustainable living, peak oil, climate change, population overshoot, alternative energy, and other related topics.
My own involvement with SUN is a continuation of my online friendship and connection with a number of courageous individuals from the blogosphere who write on the subjects I mentioned.
A few years ago now, soon after the economic near-collapse of 2008, I came to the web to search for the real truth about subjects that I felt were glossed over and avoided by major media outlets. I also began to [...] Continue Reading…
The SUN’s Youth Rebellion
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Published on Epiphany Now on October 23, 2013
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On my way to deliver the letter with the magic EIN number on it, I looked at my truck radio display and it read 3:33. My wife, whom was at home, looked at a digital clock at that same moment. The radio station 93.3, that I was listening to had decided to play Metallica’s “Sad But True” for the journey. I pulled into the post office and watched that letter go down the post office box memory hole as the last chord from that song rang out. That song from my youth, when I was angry about life. It was cleansing.
Days before my 32nd birthday I placed my resignation letter on my supervisor’s desk. This was more than just a resignation from the career I had worked for 6 years as a street medic for Piedmont EMS in the Upstate of South Carolina. This was my Resignation from the Matrix, which was picked up by Michael Ruppert and published on collapsenet as a free feature article for several months. It wasn’t particularly [...] Continue Reading…
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Thermodynamics & Evolution
How to Avoid Being Eaten Alive
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Published on 22 Billion Energy Slaves on December 4, 2013
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This last week I have had my eyes and ears assaulted every time I suffered accidental exposure to the mainstream media. It’s easy enough to ignore radio and television, but the internet is a different kettle of fish, and it was mostly via this that I learned about two major new consumer events that we are expected to partake in. The first is Black Friday. First came the emails telling me that certain bargains could be had on this auspicious date. Then came the overheard snatches of radio, and finally, last Friday, the internet went into fever pitch talking about this ‘Black Friday’.
But what is it? Neither I nor anyone else I spoke to had heard of it before. You probably already know. It’s when Americans, stuffed to the gills with undigested turkey and various chemical pseudo foods, fight one another to buy cheap Chinese junk on credit. People are often injured and sometimes killed in the melees that ensue – and now our political and media overlords would like us [...] Continue Reading…
The Creative Energy of Mother Nature
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Published on The Butterchurn on December 6, 2013
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Throughout my life, my creative energy has been a force I’ve had to learn to hold back. I constantly feel the need to create. I was once asked, “What is the one thing you have to do on a regular basis to avoid losing your mind?” My answer? “Create something.” That is the truth. I have an overpowering need to create.
My husband and I are in a sort of ballistic space in which we are free to do just that: create. Our youngest son, Harper, has finally battled through colic. My husband has decided to stay at home and chase his dream: “Ecological design”. It is up to our combined efforts to try to pay our bills without either one of us having a “real” job. We’re diving in head first.
I have crafting material that could probably stretch all the way back to our Rock Hill house. Crafties for eons. I’ve finally been handed the opportunity to make all sorts of things, and these things are erupting like fire. Recently, I made [...] Continue Reading…
Can an Empire Fall Without Either an External or Internal Threat?
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Published on Global Economic Intersection on November 30, 2013
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Random Thoughts from the High Desert
There have been many alarmist predictions recently. Some of those I have paid close attention to are by Scott Brown, Leap/Europe 2020 and John Hussman. These articles suggest that the U.S. and the World in general may be heading for really hard times.
Follow up:
The Raymond James piece by Scott Brown is pretty much the standard fare that the economy has not been performing very well and we may have become increasingly dependent on bubbles for what growth we have been achieving. This is pretty much a call for a War on Bubbles.
I am not very familiar with LEAP but their article is far more upsetting. They show a particularly interesting set of data:
Number of prisoners, engineers, nurses, secondary school teachers, etc., in the US.
Source : Huffington Post.
More prisoners than engineers! That is a dynamic economy – NOT. Much of the paper deals with the threats to the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency. Along these lines and separate from the LEAP article we see that Russia [...] Continue Reading…
The Anti-Empire Report #123
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Published December 4, 2013 by William Blum on The Anti-Empire Report
“If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.” – Eduardo Galeano
What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don’t accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made?
Well, we can proceed in one of two ways:
We can do our best to limit the greenhouse effect by curtailing greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) into the atmosphere, and if it turns out that these emissions were not in fact the cause of all the extreme weather phenomena, then we’ve wasted a lot of time, effort and money (although other benefits to the ecosystem would still accrue).
We can do nothing at all to curtail the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and if it turns out that these emissions were in fact the cause of all the extreme weather phenomena (not simply extreme, but getting downright freaky), then we’ve lost the earth and life as we know it.
So, are you a gambler?
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Earth Moving
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Published on Epiphany Now on December 3, 2013
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I’ve got a lot of opinions about the world. Opinions about what is real and what is propaganda in service of the Matrix. Opinions about spiritual matters and meaning, about the best way to raise children, how a hole is best dug and what a good beer should taste like. Opinions are like assholes in this world full of them. So, due to my particularly cranky, old jaded man like attitude towards the state of affairs in the world, I’ve decided to just start being the change as an MO. So expect more pictures and videos in the future…and probably less opinion about the world. Less social criticism…more doing as William Hunter Duncan has recently propounded.
So I dug that swale out and then it rained.
I know I sound like an idiot, but I can assure you that I am no idiot. When I moved to this property in February of 2012, all that you see in the above two videos, at least in the fenced in section, was nothing more than bermuda grass, [...] Continue Reading…
Aglebert’s Aerobatic Adventure
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on December 3, 2013
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Agelbert’s Aerobatic Adventure – In A NON-Aerobatic Aircraft
Once upon a time, I was young and a newly licensed Private Pilot. I had racked up about 53 hours of flying time, passed my 4 hour written test and my one hour flight test so I fugured I had most of this flying stuff all figured out. I was now starting my commercail pilot training which required a total of 160 hours. A lot of this time was solo flying practicing advanced maneuvers such as chandelles, lazy eights, pivotal altitude hold while circling a ground reference point, several kinds of stalls, engine out procedures, emergency landing procedures and some extended cross country flights.
But most of that was in the future. I had already flown my mother as my mandatory first passenger now that I was a bona fide licensed pilot and could legally carry passengers (without charging for it, of course).
I modified the last part of the tail number on the cherokee 140 above. It’s not the one I flew but is [...] Continue Reading…
Between a Rock and a Squishy Place
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Originally Published on Clusterfuck Nation December 2, 2013
The rock is reality. The squishy place is the illusion that pervasive racketeering is an okay replacement for an economy. The essence of racketeering is the use of dishonest schemes to get money, often (but not always) employing coercion to make it work. Some rackets can function on the sheer cluelessness of the victim(s).
Is it fair to suppose that money management is at the heart of the sort of advanced, complex economy that developed early in the 20th century? I think so. Money is the lifeblood of trade and of investment in productive activities that support trade. Of course, in order for money to have meaning, to function in such transactional relations, the people must be convinced that it legitimately represents its face value. Otherwise, money must be labeled “money” — that is, a medium of exchange suspected of false value. An economy that uses “money” — especially an economy of rackets — is an economy in a lot of trouble, and that is where ours is in December 2013.
The trouble reached escape velocity in the fall of 2008 when [...] Continue Reading…
Black Friday Melee
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Published on Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto on November 30, 2013
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There have been reports of inappropriate behavior at stores and shopping centers on Black Friday in the past, but this is the first time there has been a nationwide wave of consumer-driven violence on the day after Thanksgiving reminiscent of the Festival from the old “Star Trek” episode “The Return Of The Archons”. And if you think I’m exaggerating, keep in mind that there have been reports of shootings and stabbings attending this madness.
Now, everybody who isn’t being an ostrich with their head in the sand (and in the USA, that isn’t very many folks at all, really) knows that we’re heading toward a collapse of some kind. Exactly what form it will take and when it will happen is not for me to say. But some kind of mass-reversal of American society’s fortunes is on the horizon from environmental degradation, resource depletion, and financial over-exploitation. The form and severity of any such event will always and inevitably be shaped by the moral condition of the society in question. This Black [...] Continue Reading…
The Week In Doom December 1, 2013
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on December 1, 2013
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When Black Friday Comes . . .
When Black Friday comes
I’ll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor.
When Black Friday comes
I’ll collect everything I’m owed
And before my friends find out
I’ll be on the road
When Black Friday falls you know it’s got to be
Don’t let it fall on me . . .
When Black Friday comes
I’m gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it ’til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop’s gonna sanctify me
And if he don’t come across
I’m gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I’m gonna stake my claim
I’ll guess I’ll change my name
― Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan
I was in my 20s when I first heard Steely Dan’s magnificent tune, “Black Friday” on the “Katy Lied” album. For my part, I thought the song was about seeing a looming catastrophe (economic crisis, war, social upheaval or riot) and running like hell to a simpler life in a secure backwater where one could hunker down and ride it out in safety– a familiar theme on [...] Continue Reading…
Winter Garage Greenhouse
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Three scrap sliding glass doors, recycled lumber and some acrylic glass I found in a dumpster. The rack is covered with 3 and 4mil poly sheeting, a greenhouse within a greenhouse.
This old radiator I inherited from the blogger @ Eighth Acre Farm. The idea is, one more thing to collect solar energy. The effect is probably not negligible, but probably not that effective. It should be facing the other way, the long side facing the sun, but there isn’t room.
The view from inside the garage. I had been pulling the rack inside every evening, as it has wheels. But the garage tends to be like an icebox, and it occurred to me, perhaps the concrete of the driveway is radiating heat somewhat during the night. I’ve been leaving the rack outside now in the greenhouse, just opening it up to add water, every third day.
The temperature at floor level inside the rack seems to stay around 40 degrees, no matter what, cooling somewhat in the evening when it is exceptionally cold outside: 3F the lowest outside this year. The [...] Continue Reading…
The Oil Shell Game
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on December 1, 2013
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No, not the Shell Oil Game. Although the difference is sometimes hard to make out.
Two very interesting pieces of Geopolitical Newz tonight, on another of those frustration filled occassions with the Diner Down, this time apparently due to a DDoS Attack. NSA? Disgruntled Diner Hacker? Ruskie Spammers? Who knows? Techies are changing the IP addy, and I am twiddling my thumbs waiting/hoping to get back up. So with nothing better to do, time to start another article!
First piece of interesting Newz is that finally after much Posturing on both sides, the Iranians have apparently capitulated and agreed to some type of halt to their Nuclear development program. In return for this, NATO supposedly will begin lifting the Sanctions that have been strangling the Iranian economy. Or have they?
In theory here according to the Experts in the Biz, Iran coming back online will bring a lot of Oil back on the market, and will depress the prices back down below the $100/bbl mark, which would make Oil Importing countries very happy. However, was this [...] Continue Reading…
The Black Friday Konsumer Orgy
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Published on Economic Collapse on November 29, 2013
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Black Friday: A Shameful Orgy Of Materialism For A Morally Bankrupt Nation
It has been called “America’s most disturbing holiday”. Black Friday is the day when millions of average Americans wait outside retail stores in the middle of the night in the freezing cold to spend more money that they do not have for more cheap Chinese-made products that they do not need. It is a day when the rest of the world makes fun of Americans for behaving like “rabid animals” and “zombies” as we indulge in a tsunami of greed. It truly is a shameful orgy of materialism for a morally bankrupt nation. It is being projected that approximately 140 million Americans will participate in this disgusting national ritual this year. Sadly, most of them have absolutely no idea that they are actively participating in the destruction of the economic infrastructure of the United States. If you don’t understand why this is true, please be sure to read this entire article all the way to the end.
The amount of merchandise that is [...] Continue Reading…
The Future of Evolution?
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Published on Question Everything on November 28, 2013
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The Major Transitions in Evolution
This last year, having completed work on the systems science textbook, I have immersed myself in the emerging and growing literature on this subject. Evolution as used here refers to the universal dynamic of change, specifically the increase in levels of organization and complexity1 over time (McIntosh, 2012; Morowitz, 2004). I devoted an entire chapter to the phenomena of auto-organization and emergence as underlying the process of evolution involving selection, descent with modification, competition, and cooperation. The latter was covered in the following chapter (the two chapters form a unit section titled Evolution). My co-author and I sought to present the concepts in the most general forms possible, as applicable to all levels of organization in the universe. The reason is that there is emerging a general understanding that evolution is much more than just the neo-Darwinian biological paradigm that has dominated thinking and investigations for the past hundred years or so. The theories of evolution have been evolving! One of the most exciting discoveries (still somewhat [...] Continue Reading…
Chinese Debt Binge
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Published on Economic Collapse on November 26. 2013
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China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen Before
When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king. Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars. This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen. According to a recent World Bank report, the level of private domestic debt in China has grown from about 9 trillion dollars in 2008 to more than 23 trillion dollars today. In other words, in just five years the amount of money that has been loaned out by banks in China is roughly equivalent to the amount of debt that the U.S. government has accumulated since the end of the Reagan administration. And Chinese bank assets now absolutely dwarf the assets of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England combined. You can see an [...] Continue Reading…
The market for delusion on climate change
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Published on FEASTA on October 7, 2013
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The 5th Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change was published while I was writing this book. It is the consensus assessment of the world’s scientists of the state of their knowledge about climate change and what they think is likely to happen. What happened in the mass media at this time, and even in statements by a government environment minister in the UK, Owen Paterson, was a clear attempt to downplay the message of the scientists and the impact of the report. In the opinion of Paterson:
“People get very emotional about this subject and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries…I see this report as something we need to take seriously but I am relieved it is not as catastrophic in its forecast as we had been led to believe early on. What it is saying is that it is something we can adapt to over time, and we are very good as a race at adapting.”
Climate scientists responded angrily – for example, Professor [...] Continue Reading…
Trojan Horses, Recipes, and Permaculture
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Published on Pattern Literacy on September 1, 2013
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The Transition movement seemed to catch fire right from the beginning, and I confess that its success made me, as a permaculturist, a bit envious. Here was a program for converting to a post-oil society, created by a permaculture teacher using permaculture principles, and it seemed to be becoming better known and more highly regarded than permaculture itself. Over a thousand towns have adopted Transition plans, national Transition organizations have sprung up in dozens of countries, and the Transition Handbook offers a clear implementation plan for energy descent, while permaculture lacks formal national and even regional centers in most places, and is a word that not only few people have heard, but one that many practitioners can barely define well enough for others to grasp. What was it that made Transition so comprehensible, exciting, and respectable, while permaculture seemed diffuse, slow-growing, and smelling a bit of patchouli oil?
In a recent article in Permaculture (UK) Magazine, Transition founder Rob Hopkins is quoted as saying that Transition is “a Trojan horse for permaculture,” a way [...] Continue Reading…
The Week In Doom November 24, 2013
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on November 24, 2013
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A Strange Unease
“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn’t much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.”
― Albert Camus, L’etranger
“How can the polls be neck and neck, when I don’t know one Bush supporter?”
― Arthur Miller (2004)
Certainly a weekend of reliving the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination and the fractures it has exposed in the various limbs of the body politic has been sobering. For the many thousands who have sorted and sifted through the second and thirdhand “evidence trail,” leading to little but distrust in Official Authority wherever it may be constituted, it’s far too late for catharsis. Bust as we sift through the record, as I did for my recent recollection for the 50th, one becomes reacquainted with the virulent strain of right wing hatred mobilized whenever someone discusses policies that lead in any [...] Continue Reading…
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