People have gone to deserts for more than 2000 years to find solitude, inspiration, meditation, and freedom. This website delves into some aspects of desert life in the early 21st century with a geographical focus on Newberry Springs, California. The front page is my blog and the links on the right deal with a few resources in a local context. Books Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; why Europeons overwhelmed the First Americans and not the other way around. Collapse by Jared Diamond; how and why societies fail. The Party's Over by Richard Heinberg; oil, war, and the fate of industrial societies. Twilight in the Desert by Matthew Simmons; do you think OPEC has lots of oil? Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth Deffeyes; one of the best descriptions of peak oil by a colleague of M. King Hubbert. Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; how shit happens that we have no way of predicting and it makes a big impact. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton; one of the best descriptions of the fix we're in -- a classic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ay Caramba!20 September 2008
So
this is how it happens. We have to kill the country to save it. If you've
ever wondered how the Rothschild and the Rockefeller families take over
governments, now you will get to watch it in action. When this maneuver of
the financial elite is over Hank Paulson, head of Goldman Sachs, will be
your new dictator. The courts, formerly the last bastion of civil rights,
will be powerless to intervene. You, the taxpayer, will be even more of a
debt slave to the financial system, and the only things left of our former
Republic will be history. Don't expect much from Congress except a quick
rush to do their master's (the financial elite) bidding. Parliaments in
empires are mostly hereditary luxury clubs anyway. It's all peeled grapes
and Roman baths for the Senators. For us little people, though, this is
the beginning of a very long term debt slavery. The lid is coming off the
national debt. That debt will never be paid back so the question is: what
assets will go into foreclosure. For many now out on the streets it was
their homes. It will most certainly be our natural resources. Don't look
for much concern about your environment in the new world order. For the
proletariat it will be a lifetime of labor for a daily bowl of
gruel.
These two articles in the mainstream media are rather bleak. Next week, most likely, Congress will cede it's last wee bit of power to the Federal Reserve, a clique of private bankers. That will leave us with two branches of government: the Executive Branch and the Federal Reserve and no constitution. These two branches, one of them unelected and the other chosen by an odd system of the electoral college, will make up the rules and change them at will. Congress will be relegated to deciding whether or not gay marriage is legal while the courts will be responsible only for punishing petty crimes of the people. Welcome to the Union of Socialist Republic Corporations. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDhH0TDoeFaY&refer=home |
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