A ground-breaking PBS documentary narrated by Danny Glover — A few years ago, I directed and produced a documentary narrated by Danny Glover called Redeeming Uncle Tom, about the epic little-known slave who inspired the blockbuster novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But Josiah Henson remains one of the most important humans in history that people don’t know. Luckily things are…

The Internet Of Things is a weapon of mass control — According to Virgil and Homer, the Greeks could not breach the mighty walls of Troy, so Odysseus masterminded a plot to get inside: He built a gift horse, loaded it with elite soldiers, and left it for the enemy as they “sailed” away. The Trojans foolishly brought it into their…

This Week in Money September 17–23 — This Week In Money helps you discover the history of economics. SEPTEMBER 17 1787 — CONSTITUTION DAY “The Congress shall have power to…coin money [and] regulate the power thereof” Section 8, US Constitution.” “Coin” is a verb used in this way, representing the power to issue money. We the People possess the constitutional…

Plus: UK bed bugs, 100 landslides in China, and killing climate activists for profit — Last Week in Collapse is a new weekly round-up, bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse. Get LWIC delivered directly to your email inbox for free. Environment Scientists are warning that planetary resistance is dwindling, and earth is moving towards…

The shelter crisis isn’t over… it’s just getting started — Today I’m going to show you why the average house will cost over $10 million in our lifetime, and why almost no one you know except top bankers, hedge fund managers, and billionaires will be able to afford a home unless they enslave themselves to a lifetime of seven or…

And food production is projected to decrease — Last Week in Collapse is a new weekly round-up, bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse. Get LWIC delivered directly to your email inbox for free. Climate change The architect of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is warning of global famine…

This Week in Money Sept 10–16 — This Week In Money helps you discover the history of economics. SEPTEMBER 10 2015–11TH ANNUAL MONETARY REFORM CONFERENCE, SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN MONETARY INSTITUTE The conference brings together some of the world’s most serious advocates of real and achievable monetary reforms. http://www.monetary.org/2015-ami-monetary-reform-conference “The banking disaster, created and facilitated by false economic and monetary ideas…

Good riddance. Thousands of families will get to live indoors again — Evidently I’m the Internet’s go-to anti-Airbnb guy, because I can’t tell you how many people emailed, messaged, and tweeted/X’d me in the past 48 hours to let me know what I’d already heard: “New York City just banned Airbnb.” Of course, NYC didn’t actually outright ban $ABNB. They simply made…

Last Week in Collapse: August 27-September 2, 2023 — Last Week in Collapse is a new weekly round-up, bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse. Get LWIC delivered directly to your email inbox for free. Climate This decade-old declassified file from 2013 is an 87-page document containing a prediction…