Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
-Carl Sandburg
Spike 2030: The Countdown To Global Catastrophe published in 2003 (interesting book to say the least)
I know most will be reluctant to click on the original pdf link since it's directly from the CIA website but this pdf is of a book entitled:
"2030 spike the countdown to global catastrophe"
First published in the UK and USA in 2003 by Earthscan Publications Ltd
Blurb About Book:
The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe.Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization.This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
I really am influenced by this idea of Berdyaev. The idea is a powerful one which explains much . Our era is one which the Russian philosopher Berdyaev describes as the realm of Caesar. The Greek and Roman world did not know the principle of freedom of spirit which arose in Europe after Christianity, their world was totalitarian. For Berdyaev, a Russian Orthodox Gnostic, the realm of Caesar is always at war with the human spirit and the social world we inhabit bends and obeys Caesar in what he describes as a “terrible socio-morphism” where each free spirit decides in their tragic necessity of being dual, man and spirit, how to be in this world.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/tyranny_by_the_numbers_the_government_wants_your_money_any_way_it_can_get_it
Americans have also been made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, military empire, welfare state, roads to nowhere, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense of those who are barely making ends meet—that is, we the taxpayers.
According to the number crunchers with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in order to spend money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, the government is borrowing roughly $6 billion a day.
Basically, the U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card.
Let’s talk numbers, shall we?
The national debt (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and must pay back) is more than $34 trillion and will grow another $19 trillion by 2033.
The bulk of that debt has been amassed over the past two decades, thanks in large part to the fiscal shenanigans of four presidents, 10 sessions of Congress and two wars.
It’s estimated that the amount this country owes is now 130% greater than its gross domestic product (all the products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the citizens).
In other words, the government is spending more than it brings in.
The U.S. ranks as the 12th most indebted nation in the world, with much of that debt owed to the Federal Reserve, large investment funds and foreign governments, namely, Japan and China.
Interest payments on the national debt are more than $395 billion, which is significantly more than the government spends on veterans’ benefits and services, and according to Pew Research Center, more than it will spend on elementary and secondary education, disaster relief, agriculture, science and space programs, foreign aid, and natural resources and environmental protection combined.
Ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
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Interesting book. I never thought that the Australian Democrats had any substance (now disbanded) and I cannot even remember Colin Mason and I was in Australia at the time. I guess the 2nd is due to the first.
Nice niggers song as well.