March 16, 2016 The Mayan Lesson Human nature does not change; it only repeats itself. The ancient Maya, a singularly gifted civilization that peaked, declined and collapsed almost simultaneously with the Roman Empire, left a vast historical record. It is the tale of an unholy alliance of kings, priests, and … Continue reading
Category Archives: REFERENCE
Jefferson’s Warning: Perpetual Debt, Trade Deficit, Bubbles, Derivatives
March 6, 2016 Two hundred years have passed since president Jefferson wrote this letter, and not only have we not acted to reduce the risk of total collapse of our financial system, it’s actually worse by many orders of magnitude -and there’s no relief in sight. Today our largest private … Continue reading
Water Crisis
February 12, 2016 A comprehensive research article published in Science Advances found that water scarcity is actually worse than first thought. The authors found that fully two-thirds of the global population suffer severe water scarcity at least 1 month per year, and nearly half of them live in India and … Continue reading
1st Prototype: Electricity From Solar, Sewater and Gravity -No fossil fuels or Fission
February 10, 2016 We are pleased to note that the first large-scale project to generate electricity around the clock using solar energy, seawater and gravity is now under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. While it bears some similarities to the design we have long recommended, it does … Continue reading
Resetting U.S.-Russian Relations
February 4, 2016 Henry Kissinger’s speech at the Gorchakov Fund in Moscow From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials, and military leaders from Russia and the United States, including some of you present here today. Its purpose was to … Continue reading
Job Losses Up 218% in January 2016
February 4, 2016 Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an outplacement firm, released its job cuts report for January. Layoffs increased by 218%, the highest since last summer, mostly due to a loss of 16,000 jobs at Wal-Mart, America’s biggest non-government employer, and 4,800 at Macy’s. The low-wage retail sector suffered cuts … Continue reading
Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Department’s Budget Request
February 2, 2016 Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter revealed the 2017 fiscal year budget request. Essentially it is a continuation of former Secretary Chuck Hagel’s view that the path forward for the U.S. is an open-ended arms race to safeguard the nation’s interests, even if they perpetuate our addiction … Continue reading
Doomsday Clock 2016
January 22, 2016 It is still three minutes to midnight Lynn Eden, Robert Rosner, Rod Ewing, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sivan Kartha, Thomas R. Pickering, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Ramamurti Rajaraman, Jennifer Sims, Richard C. J. Somerville, Sharon Squasson, David Titley From: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board … Continue reading
President Reagan Quotes on Disarmament
“I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of … Continue reading
President Kennedy on Disarmament
Address to the U.N. General Assembly, September 25, 1961 …“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at … Continue reading