“The American economy is broken, ruined by the greed and irresponsibility of fabulously wealthy corporate chieftains and their shabby acolytes and enablers in government,” writes Bob Herbert in the New York Times. He’s watching the Thanksgiving Day parade and thinking about all the kids in the crowd. “While Wall [...]
AlterNet sees “15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams”: 1) Inequality of wealth unprecedented, 2) DOW hits 10,000 and big banks bailed out with taxpayer money give billions in bonuses, 3) Middle class collapsing, 4) While older workers lost big chunk of 401k needed for retirement, [...]
“It was drizzling lightly in late October when . . . untreated feces and industrial waste started spilling from emergency relief valves into the Upper New York Bay and Gowanus Canal,” reports the NY Times. “It happens anytime you get a hard rainfall,” said Bob Connaughton, one the plant’s [...]
A few days ago, “The Paradise Imperative” appeared as a comment on my “Contact” page. It was purportedly an essay by William H. Kötke, author of such works as The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future, and Garden [...]
“Financial innovation” is just Wall Street code for “gambling in the shadowy $670 trillion global derivatives market,” says Paul Farrell, in Marketwatch. Wall Street is “spending millions on lobbyists to kill financial-regulation reforms” because it “rakes in billions of dollars annually from their ‘financial weapons of mass destruction,’ as [...]
Time magazine reports that “in September, the European Commission recommended that the E.U. support a temporary suspension of the global trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna . . . . At current fishing rates, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates that Atlantic bluefin that spawn in the Mediterranean could disappear [...]
Survival+
Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
By Charles Hugh Smith
CreateSpace, October, 2009, $19.95 hardcover
Should some future archeologist stumble across a copy of Survival+ while rummaging through the detritus of Western civilization, he will have found a veritable Rosetta Stone, unlocking [...]
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reports that “17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction.” This includes “21% of all known mammals, 30% of all known amphibians, 12 per cent of all known birds and 32% of all known gymnosperms (conifers and cycads).” [...]
