Southern History Month 2019: Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
Energy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveils Nutty Green New Deal
Revolutions are sparked by state modernization programs
Ryan Zinke Resigns As Secretary of the Interior
Turnover continues in the Trump cabinet
Live Thread: Gilets Jaunes March On Paris
The French are rising up against globalism
BREAKING: Macron Permanently Suspends Fuel Tax Increase
Macron has surrendered to the Yellow Vest movement
Macron Backs Down On Fuel Tax Hikes For Six Months
Emmanuel Macron is desperate to deflate the Yellow Jackets uprising
Paris Riots Beginning To Turn Anti-Jew, Police Mutinies Reported
“Macron pute à juif!”
France’s Carbon Tax Ignites Working Class Revolution
Macron is deaf to middle class and working class economic anxiety
France Is Rising Up Against Macron’s Globalist Fuel Taxes
ACKSHUALLY, Drill, Baby Drill Worked!
Black History Month 2018: The Only Miracle
Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s most ridiculous nation
Trump Administration Moves To Massively Expand Offshore Drilling
A big victory for energy corporations
Textbook Subversion: White House Court Jew Gary Cohn Resurrects “War On Coal”
Remember the massive crowds that greeted Candidate Trump throughout the Appalachians and Rust Belt? Remember how many had tears in their eyes when they were […]
President Trump Signs Bill To Protect Coal Miners
Last minute Obama regulation blocked
Trump’s Economic Policy Speech
Trump revives America First economics
Cuckservatives: Cruz Victory Strikes Huge Blow Against Ethanol Subsidies
Jesus wants you to oppose ethanol subsidies
Stand For Coal: Middlesboro and Harlan Demonstrations
Editor’s Note: The coal industry is shifting its operations from Appalachia to the Interior West, but this is driven in part by EPA regulations. H/T SNN […]
Obama’s War on Coal Comes To Alabama
It’s not enough to open the borders and give millions of illegal aliens work permits to compete for Southern jobs in a depressed economy … […]
Stand for Coal Demonstration in Prestonburg and Pikeville, KY
While thousands of Americans in hundreds of cities protested the border surge which is a direct result of President Barack Obama’s executive order that bypassed […]
Energy, Secession, and Leverage
Texas This is worth sharing here: “Author Bob Smiley says even if the demands of nearly 100,000 rebels from Texas aren’t being taken seriously in […]
Republic of Dixie: Natural Gas Production
Dixie The South dwarfs the rest of the United States in natural gas production: Note: The value of Wyoming in terms of coal and natural […]
Republic of Dixie: Nuclear Power
Dixie The South generates nearly half of America’s nuclear power: South Carolina – 49,869 Texas – 38,162 North Carolina – 37,775 Georgia – 33,681 Florida […]
Republic of Dixie: Projected Coal Production (2011)
Dixie Here’s the numbers for U.S. coal production by state: Dixie would walk away with 31% of U.S. coal production, and if the Far West tagged […]
Republic of Dixie: Projected Crude Oil Production (2011)
Dixie H/T Chuck Thompson If the Blue States get Oprah and Harvard’s Department of African-American Studies, the Red States walk away with +82.7% of U.S. […]
Limits To Growth: California’s Dysfunctional Political System
California H/T Walter Russell Mead While there are geological limits to growth (such as Peak Water in Saudi Arabia), OD has always been fascinated by […]
Limits To Growth: Neo-Slavery
Malthusian World As I mentioned in the comments, Richard Heinberg speculates that slavery might be restored in his book Peak Everything: “In the U.S., as […]
Limits To Growth: 3 Trillion Barrels of Oil
Canada How do you know American policymakers are asleep at the helm on the energy question? “While the chattering classes yammered on about American decline […]
Limits To Growth: Mining Asteroids
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
Limits To Growth: Review: Too Much Magic
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
“Up With Chris Hayes”
New York In spite of all our differences, I am confident that everyone who reads and comments on this website can agree on how satisfying […]
The Export Crisis
BRA IMO, this will be much more effective than state based immigration laws anyway. We have already seen that the biggest deterrent to illegal immigration […]
The 2008 Economic Collapse
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
Prophets of Doom
History Channel Kunstler mentioned that he appeared on this program in the book. I haven’t seen this before. Watching now. Note: The water crisis is […]