Monthly Archives: April 2018

Is Evil Google Destined for a Mighty Fall?

Posted on 30 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Stormy Seas for Google and Other Giant Corporations It is not only Google that is facing the peril of capitalism’s “creative destruction,” it is every corporation that thinks it has made it into the safe port of the S&P 500. … Continue reading →

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Is Trump Bringing Latin America to Its Senses?

Posted on 29 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Not so long ago, Latin America was riding a big red wave of leftist triumphalism — from Cuba to Venezuela to Ecuador to Brazil to Nicaragua … But leftism in Latin America seems to have fallen on hard times recently: … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Ideology, Politics | Tagged | 1 Comment

Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”

Posted on 25 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich published the book of doom “The Population Bomb” 50 years ago, with his wife. According to Ehrlich, catastrophic global collapse was inevitable by the 1970s — or the 1980s at the latest. Ehrlich has managed … Continue reading →

Posted in Doom, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Environment, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Green Quagmire | Tagged | 4 Comments

Jordan Peterson vs. the “Mad Dog Atheists”

Posted on 20 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Conscious Intelligence is Not a Logical Proposition Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has staked out a large territory in the sphere of public discussion, which borders on several distinctly different areas of thought and belief. These multiple “boundary lines” have become … Continue reading →

Posted in Cognition, Jordan Peterson, Knowledge, Machine Intelligence, Science | Tagged | 8 Comments

Russia Backs Away from International Space Launch Market

Posted on 19 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Russia Once Called SpaceX “A Nice Trick” But now Russia is running up the white flag and surrendering to SpaceX — and you don’t surrender to “a nice trick.” You surrender to a force that has defeated you. As recently … Continue reading →

Posted in Brain Drain, Russian Decline, Space Future | Tagged | 5 Comments

Still Waiting for Peak Oil?

Posted on 16 April, 2018 by alfin2101

In 1920, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that “the world’s supply of recoverable petroleum” was no more than 60 billion barrels. It was wrong. The world has already produced 1,400 billion barrels of oil. Worldwide, there is about 1,700 billion … Continue reading →

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What to Eat When All the Food is Gone

Posted on 14 April, 2018 by alfin2101

After TSHTF, most stored food supplies will rapidly dwindle and vanish. Livestock will be quickly butchered and eaten — although without freezers and food preservation skills, most of the meat will be wasted. Wild game will quickly disappear, and most … Continue reading →

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On Putting the Freeloaders Back to Work

Posted on 11 April, 2018 by alfin2101

In case you still believe that Donald Trump is not accomplishing important work behind the Twitter smokescreen, consider the issue of “welfare reform,” otherwise known as putting the freeloaders back to work. According to government statistics, there are about 6.9 … Continue reading →

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A Warning About Antidepressants

Posted on 9 April, 2018 by alfin2101

We Already Knew About This: … most of the perpetrators of mass murder over the past fifteen to twenty years had been taking prescription medicines at the time of their killings, and the drugs they had been taking were usually … Continue reading →

Posted in Cognition, Human Brain, Medicine | Tagged | 1 Comment

Forced Sterilisation of African Women: Can We Stop It in Time?

Posted on 8 April, 2018 by alfin2101

If the people of one continent of Earth continue to pursue exponential population growth over the next century, the population of the planet could easily double or even triple. Radical environmentalists are feeling increasingly threatened by the inability of African … Continue reading →

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First Blood: Sam Harris Confronts the Echo Choir

Posted on 6 April, 2018 by alfin2101

First Blood: In Which Sam Harris Offends Ezra Klein As long as author and provocateur Sam Harris only attacked Christians, violent Muslims, and Donald Trump, he was mostly left alone by the curtained overlords of politically correct public discourse. But … Continue reading →

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Mike and Jordan: Unlikeliest Revolutionaries

Posted on 4 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Mike Rowe and Jordan Peterson are two of the unlikeliest revolutionaries that you can meet. Both born into relatively humble circumstances, each followed diverse and unlikely paths to become North American icons-in-revolt against the modern tyranny of incompetence — especially … Continue reading →

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First Educate the Child to Thrive in the World

Posted on 2 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Then if He Wants More Schooling, He Can Pay for It An education into broad personal competence has nothing to do with a college education. College is “schooling,” and most modern degrees in the US are less valuable than a … Continue reading →

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