Source – oftwominds.com – “…States / empires fail and expire when they elevate the fatal synergies created by self-serving elites. Rather than encourage the dynamics of adaptation–competition, transparency, accountability, experimentation and dissent– the elites suppresses these forces as threats to their monopolies, cartels and wealth. Stripped of adaptability and beneficial synergies, the state / empire…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…Whether we have recognized it, and acknowledged it, or not – reality has split. And it is time to choose our positions. How we take ourselves forward from this moment on will determine what form and arrangement of life, as well as energetic and emotional states, we are going to experience. Not…
Source – theburningplatform.com “…They believe they are safe and secure behind their golden gates and unscalable walls, with armed guards securing their perimeter. Many monarchs have felt the same level of safety, to find out they were dreadfully wrong….We are about to enter the most challenging and dangerous chapter of this Fourth Turning. Summon your…
Source – scheerpost.com “…Joyce, who wrote much of the book in Zurich during the suicidal slaughter of World War I, as well as the doomed Easter Rebellion against the British occupiers of Ireland in April 1916, detested the intoxicating poison of nationalism and seduction of violence. He watched as European intellectuals, artists and writers, including…
Source – bitcoinmagazine.com “…Bitcoin will positively adjust the calculus of violence by which states decide how and where to project power and secure their respective interests. By shifting a large portion of national wealth from easily seized and vulnerable tangible assets into digital form, the incentives to violent conflict – as a means of confiscating…
Source – scheerpost.com “…Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States…There is a growing consensus – 68% in a recent Gallup poll with that number climbing to 77% of those between the ages of 18 and 34 – that the only way left to alter the balance…
Source – jpost.com “…Earth is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event, this time caused by human hands, a new study suggests. The five previous ones were caused by natural phenomena, either due to natural climate shifts or asteroid impacts. This sixth one, however, was anything but natural, according to a study published in…
Source – oftwominds.com “…We’ve transitioned from an era of abundance to an era of scarcity…This delusional pursuit of endless “growth” that is no longer possible due to resource depletion and soaring costs of extraction, transport, etc. also leads to collapse. This is the modern-day equivalent of squandering the last resources available on ever-more elaborate (and…
Source – yesmagazine.org “…The process of reparations—the means by which long-standing wrongs are made right—must take place in a way that is defined by those most harmed. Doing so is the right thing to do, and it also helps rebalance power and establish the equity that has been missing from society for so long” Desmond…
Source – zerohedge.com “…The betting market becomes a bigger part of the economic system. We’re not a manufacturing economy anymore, the US is a casino….next year we will enter a political dynamic unlike anything we’ve seen in a 100yrs,” continued the same CIO…“It’s almost like the housing crisis. In 2006 it was obvious that the…
Source – mises.org “…Those who can, given their economic and family situations, are voting with their feet. Regionalism has a new energy not seen for many decades. Among those nations, two broad paths forward present themselves. One America intends to make 2022 another covid year, complete with business and school lockdowns, mask requirements, and vaccine…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…It is critical now that we each maintain a mental balance as we move forward. Also, it is important in these times that we neither stagnate nor fall too much into the uncertainties of chaos: it is now the fine line we seek between these extremes of solidification and stagnation, and chaos…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…The antidote is for the hitherto quiet majority to speak out; to amplify the voices of tolerance, the voices of humor, the voices of compassion. This is a form of resistance even more important than resistance to medical tyranny. It is resistance to division. It is resistance to hatred. It is resistance…
Source – goldswitzerland.com “…The financial, economic and moral devastation which is about to hit the world will for more than 99.5% of the people come out of the blue like a flash from a clear sky. For most people, coming events will thus be like the definition of the word CHAOS: “A state of total confusion…
Source – off-guardian.org “…The human family was not in right relationship with nature, God, source, our higher selves…We lazily pretend the colonial era somehow ended with the British Empire. The central-bank-perpetual-war-story arc (that Catherine Austin Fitts talks about) connects the founding of the British and Dutch East India companies four centuries ago with the moment…
Source – renegadeinc.com “…When you have a growth addicted capitalist economy that must perpetuate capital accumulation, then you have to sabotage, privatise and enclose. We, therefore, end up with a system where production is organised, not around meeting human needs, but where these needs are subordinated to the interests of capital. Degrowth calls for the…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…The U.S. empire, like the USSR, is imploding out of its own corruption. America is polarized….Germany became fascist because when its capitalism failed and wild inflation wiped out the livelihoods of the mass of workers, although Germany had a powerful Communist Party at the time, the German corporate wealth supported fascism as…
Source – internationalman.com “…The Universe 25 experiment offers insight into the demise of humankind. The beautiful ones in particular show us that individuals will not assume a productive role in society if they do not have proper relationships or role models in the environment they grow up in. It is worth noting that the extreme…
Source – resilience.org “…Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they…
Source – taiwannews.com.tw “…On Aug. 5 (1994) reportedly after police tried to block a ferry hijacking hundreds of Cubans spilled onto Havana’s seaside Malecon boulevard, picked up rocks and debris from crumbling buildings and hurled them at police. Chants of “Liberty!” rose from the crowd….Castro arrived in an army jeep to quiet the disturbance, and…
Source – resilience.org “…As nations struggle to feed and shelter their people, as people flee failed, violent states, our leaders will be under increasing pressure to ‘fix’ what is wrong. The only way to fix our problems is to change our lifestyle. We need to buy less stuff, travel fewer miles, consume less resources, live…
Source – naturalblaze.com “…WIRED TECHNOLOGY: Wired technologies such as fiber or coaxial cable are faster, more reliable, resilient, energy-efficient, and more easily defended from cyber-attacks. Above all, wired technologies are significantly less hazardous to our health and would better ensure the survival of other life forms with whom we share this precious planet” 5G —…
Source – renegadeinc.com “…The economist also advises that students avoid enrolling at economics faculties, thus enabling them to die out on their own. “A dozen years after the financial crisis”, says Keen, “they’re still using the same stupid models to not predict the future. So go and just study something else. Go and do System…
Source – charleseisenstein.org “…Whether the degeneration of online communication is a cause or an effect of society’s intensifying polarization, I cannot say. Regardless, I know it is possible to host dignified, respectful, nuanced, and evolutionary conversations on large online participatory platforms. I know it because I’ve seen it, or glimpsed it, anyway. You probably have…
Source – naturalblaze.com “…Shortly after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the new rules on Aug. 3, a sign appeared in the front window of Pasticceria Rocco, a pastry shop and diner in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: ‘We do not discriminate against any customer based on sex, gender, race, creed, age, vaccinated or unvaccinated. All customers who…
Source – charleseisenstein.substack.com “…The purpose of this essay series is to illuminate a path toward the transcendence of the ancient pattern that Rene Girard called sacrificial violence, in which society discharges its rage, its anxiety, and its rivalries upon a dehumanized victim class. This latent force swells in times of social stress as in an…
Source – zogbyanalytics.com “…When it came to race, whites (43% likely and 44% unlikely) were not as convinced that there will be another civil war, while Hispanics (53% likely and 43% unlikely) and African Americans (49% likely and 39% unlikely) thought another civil war could happen” SM:..War in any of its incarnations is in a…
Source – charleseisenstein.substack.com “…The truth is that society doesn’t have a lot of ready-made places for the new generation, because existing institutions embody an old story, an old consciousness. So they have to create a new place for themselves, which often involves stretching or leaving the old structures. If the “real world” means a continuation…
Source – zerohedge.com “…The idea that the nation’s political divide has become so toxic that we should prepare from some sort of “national divorce” has largely been left to clever thought experiments best left for dinner parties and ironically detached columns. However, we’ve now arrived at a point where more than half of Trump voters…
Source – economicprism.com “…Rare is the revolution ignited by a populace with a full stomach. Historically, surges against an oppressive regime are sparked by a steep and extended rise in food prices…a decade ago food inflation triggered the Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. And food shortages were commonplace in Communist…
Source – mises.org “…The country was overthrown a hundred years ago—beginning with Woodrow Wilson and reaching full form in FDR’s New Deal. But America’s second revolution was managerial, a seizing of jurisdiction over every aspect of life by a centralized federal bureaucracy. So by soft secession we mean a counterrevolution within the form: aggressive federalism,…
Source – transcend.org ‘…In essence, these critiques document extensive evidence of an elite coup that seeks to comprehensively restructure human society into a technocratic dystopia in which such previously fundamental concepts as human identity, human liberty, human rights (such as freedom of speech, assembly and movement), human privacy and human volition are not just notions…
Source – oftwominds.com “…Clueless economists are wringing their hands about the labor shortage without looking at the underlying causes, one of which is painfully obvious: the American economy now only works for the top 10%…As a result the Smart Crowd is opting out of the conventional workforce’s debt-overwork-deadend-treadmill“ Now That The American Dream Is Reserved For…
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