The Pentagon is weighing its options in the war the United States started, and on the table are “weeks” worth of ground operations against Iran. The U.S. is also busy plotting a ground attack despite publicly engaging in diplomatic efforts allegedly aimed at finding a ceasefire. A Saturday night report […]
Cloaking a fake “market” with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world. I often refer to the dynamics of self-correction and self-liquidation. Systems that use feedback to rebalance extremes are self-correcting: rather than accelerate as they approach a cliff, they […]
The most profound realities of human existence are often the ones that can never be measured or quantified. Wisdom. Beauty. Truth. Compassion. Courage. Love. Loneliness. Grief. The struggle to face our own mortality. A life of meaning. But perhaps the greatest conundrum is the concept of a soul. Do we […]
Metaplanet entered the top ranks of corporate bitcoin holders after buying 5,075 BTC for about $398 million in Q1 2026. Tokyo-listed Metaplanet has moved into the top tier of corporate bitcoin holders after acquiring 5,075 BTC during the first quarter of 2026, a purchase valued at roughly $398 million. The […]
Fresh off Anarchapulco 2026, Dave Alcock stops by to recap his week in Puerto Vallarta that started with a harmless interaction with the Policia, and ended with taxis exploding after the cartel retaliation. As the 12th annual event began its first year in Puerto Vallarta, we recap the week that […]
Introduction A group of international scientists has called on United States and European regulators to urgently tighten restrictions on glyphosate, citing what they describe as strong and growing evidence linking the world’s most widely used herbicide to cancer and other health problems. The scientists, who gathered at a symposium at […]
The last time global energy markets witnessed a shock similar to what we might see this year was during the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. Tensions were escalating in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War when the Arab Coalition launched a surprise attack against Israel. OPEC nations joined forces to […]
Even if the Strait of Hormuz opened tomorrow, and that is certainly not going to happen, we are being warned that the economic impact of this war will be felt all the way through the end of this decade. A lot of energy infrastructure has already been destroyed during this […]
On February 5, 2026, in the Canadian Parliament, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis tabled Bill C-260, which prohibits civil servants or others with authority from recommending assisted-suicide to anyone who has not asked about it. Genuis cited “examples such as Canadian Armed Forces veteran David Baltzer…who was offered MAiD by Veterans Affairs […]
Farmers all over America are on edge right now, and I certainly can’t blame them. The war in the Middle East has created a fertilizer crisis at the worst time possible. As you will see below, if nitrogen fertilizer is not applied to wheat, corn and rice at the proper […]