Archive for the 'Kill Off' Category
Oil Experts See Supply Crisis in Five Years
July 10th, 2007I’ve got to admit something: With each passing day, this issue bores me more and more. I’ve seen this thing coming for so long, and writing about it, that I’m quite simply sick of it. I’m content to stop posting stories like this until actual, no-shit collapse events begin to unfold. You know? Wake me […]
The Ants of Gaia
July 9th, 2007Joe doesn’t seem to acknowledge the kill off of the die off, but I’m not sure that it matters anymore. Via: Joe Bageant: The hearts of even our most avowedly thriving cities are just a dead, reduced to nothing more than designated spending zones, collections of bars and banks and overpriced eateries lodged at the […]
Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation
June 30th, 2007Simulex Inc.’s Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation system is almost certainly how the priests of the technocracy are now maintaining “normal” operations. The system allows for terra scale datasets with granularity of results down to one node (individual). It has a physics engine for tracking any number of people (or other elements) in virtual […]
International Energy Agency Chief Economist on Oil: “If Iraqi Production Does Not Rise Exponentially by 2015, We Have a Very Big Problem”
June 28th, 2007Kill off, plain and simple. Via: DailyKos: If Iraqi production does not rise exponentially by 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia fulfills all its promises. The numbers are very simple, there’s no need to be an expert…
Vertical Farming in the Big Apple
June 20th, 2007I know. Urban hipsters want iPods, free love and electric SUVs. Absolutely any technology or policy that offers a glimmer of hope of keeping things going will be embraced with religious ferocity, regardless of the level of absurdity. As more and more people give up on the political process, they will seek comfort in the […]
Oil Industry Scales Back Refinery Plans
June 18th, 2007Everyone knows that the biofuel scam only results in higher food prices, and now, the oil cartel is saying, “With all the biofuel, we don’t need to invest if more refining capacity.” The food and energy scarcity issues are being engineered into a kill off mechanism that also generates massive profits. Anyone who can’t see […]
Clean Energy and Turning What’s Left Into Trash
June 8th, 2007What if a genuinely viable clean power source became available to people everywhere? What would happen? My guess is that the pace of collapse would accelerate. The clean green energy would allow scenes like the one below to be repeated wherever there are raw materials waiting to be turned into trash. It would, in other […]
The Power Crisis Mythology, the 40% Efficient Solar Cell and the Cost of the War in Iraq
June 5th, 2007Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, has developed a solar cell technology that has a conversion efficiency of 40.7%. They accomplished this with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The annual budget of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory: $210 million The cost of America’s war […]
Some Soft Drinks Cause Cell Damage
May 27th, 2007Remember DCA as a possible cancer therapy? That targeted functioning of the mitochondria: Scientists and doctors have used DCA for decades to treat children with inborn errors of metabolism due to mitochondrial diseases. Mitochondria, the energy producing units in cells, have been connected with cancer since the 1930s, when researchers first noticed that these organelles […]
Toddler Hospitalized After Contracting Infection from Father’s Smallpox Vaccination
March 18th, 2007Extremely ominous. Do I need to add a “Kill Off” category? Via: Chicago Sun Times: A 2-year-old boy stricken with a rare infection from the smallpox vaccine is improving but remained in critical condition Saturday at the Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. The boy was infected by his father, a U.S. soldier […]
