Author Archives: Shawn

By the author of Be Ready for Anything and Three Miles via The Organic Prepper blog, Everyone I know has a story about the increase in violent crime. Where a family member lives in Georgia, someone recently opened fire in the middle of an upscale family neighborhood. The culprits fired 13 shots into a Jeep stopped at aContinue reading “Violent Crime Is A Collapse Indicator”

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse). When the fundamentals of life change, every organism must evolve or die. This is equally true of human organizations, societies and economies. Evolution requires conserving what still works and experimenting until something comes along thatContinue reading “Peering Into The Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading To Collapse”

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Global food production rests on soil and rain. Robots don’t change that. Of all the modern-day miracles, the least appreciated is the incredible abundance of low cost food in the U.S. and other developed countries. The era of cheap food is ending, for a variety of mutually reinforcingContinue reading “The End Of Cheap Food”

Authored by Chris Menahan via InformationLiberation.com, A new YouGov/Economist poll asking Americans about the likelihood of various “dire political scenarios” found that half the country think that within ten years the US will no longer be a global superpower and there will be a “total economic collapse.” From YouGov: Judging by the actions of the BidenContinue reading “Half Of Americans Think US Will No Longer Be A Global Superpower Within Ten Years; New Poll Finds”