There’s a clinical diagnosis called body dysmorphia, where people think there’s something wrong with their body when it’s fine. Colloquially, some people refer to “reverse body dysmorphia” where someone thinks their body is better than it is. In late middle aged men this often exhibits itself as thinking that they’re stronger, tougher and better in […]
End of American Empire
It turns out that Trump’s plan to help ships go thru the Strait was ended when both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait refused to let the US use their airspace or US bases in their countries to launch attacks. The reason is obvious—Iran has repeatedly said that if the war restarts they will hit the Gulf […]
There’s a lovely quote in the WSJ that encapsulates everything wrong with America in the last 50 odd years: Many of the investors, bankers and corporate chieftains who took over the Waldorf and Beverly Hilton this week have become desensitised to President Donald Trump’s whims. The stock market hitting new records, even if investors are […]
Update 3: Attacks continue on Lebanon and Iran, from Israel. Iran let two ships thru, then closed the Strait again. The original announcement from Pakistan said that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire, but then Israel said it didn’t, and now Trump says the same. As ceasefires go, this isn’t one. I’ll probably write a new […]
Guest Post by Nat Wilson Turner Last Fall, I posited that the US and greater West are in the grips of an Interregnum of Unreality that began when Barack Obama successfully papered over the Great Financial Crisis while addressing none of the causes and leaving the very same banksters whose antics caused the crisis in […]
Not precisely a surprise, given they sent Kushner, Witkoff and Vance to negotiate. Apparently Vance talked to Trump six times and Iran says that the negotiations were going OK until Netanyahu called Vance, then suddenly it seemed like the American delegation was negotiating for Israel. More to the point, the US wanted the Strait open […]
Near the start of the war I noted that the real issue with petroleum shortages wasn’t gasoline, it was diesel, bunker fuel (ships) and jet fuel. Diesel is, despite what many say, feasible to get off of: even some of the massive machines used for mining are already being switched over, and China is moving […]
~by Sean Paul Kelley How does the way an individual perceives time affect the way they approach risk? And can the way individuals perceive time and risk be applied on a macro scale? Let’s take a look. Sociologist Phillip Zimbardo developed a five way typology of how individuals perceive time. People who inhabit certain zones […]
The core reason for America and Europe’s decline (and, in a way, Japan’s) was the belief by our elites that money was the only thing which mattered. Money is the ability command resources from anyone who will, or must, sell. People who need to sell their labor or starve—Marx’s famous “whip of hunger.” Countries who […]
This “issue” has flaired up again as Trump attacks Canada again. The short answer is that in the short term Canada is moderately dependent on the US and the long term it is hardly dependent on America at all. Right now we (Canada) have a lot of trade with the US. We buy mostly finished […]