What crisis means

| March 13, 2010

We watched an interesting speech by Ian Mitroff broadcast on CSPAN last weekend. Mitroff is a writer and a consultant to governments and corporations who are experiencing crisis or want to prevent crises. Mitroff is an expert in managing crises, a social scientist and a systems analyst. We want to credit Mitroff with a couple […]

Around the globe

| February 11, 2010

Today a quick snapshot of recent events around the world. Increasing drug violence in Mexico and the phony “guns come from U.S.” propaganda. Catastrophic fire warnings in Australia.

China turning?

| January 21, 2010

Very interesting article in the New York Times about the possibility of a Chinese stock market crash by a leading short-seller. “The Chinese,” he warned in an interview in November with Politico.com, “are in danger of producing huge quantities of goods and products that they will be unable to sell.” James Chanos’ opinion is currently […]

Economic snapshot

| January 4, 2010

The world economy is still operating under the master paradigm we outlined in our October post, How to interpret trends. The global economists and speculators on TV talk happy talk about how the Depression scenario was avoided by massive infusion of central bank stimulus, and they are predicting that the world economy is on the […]

Postdemocracy

| December 5, 2009

NWOU is always delighted when we come across a piece of writing that we can endorse. Unfortunately, that seldom happens, so we usually have to write the posts ourselves. But today we are going to send you to a piece that describes what has happened to democracy in the media age, Postdemocracy by E.R.E. Knutsson. […]

Climategate

| November 30, 2009

They are calling the email scandal at East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit “Climategate.” OK, we’ll go with that name. There has been a lot of media coverage, but we’ll cover it here as there are new developments we don’t want you to miss. Phil Jones, director of the CRU, admitted that he had altered climate […]

Global Impact Investing Network

| November 3, 2009

The global elites are linking their foundations and their banks into a capital pool that will direct their future investments. RogueGovernment has the story. This group will invest in global green initiatives, meaning, they will profit from the carbon trading schemes. These elite opinion makers are in bed with the UN, the WHO, and other […]