War is a bad thing. Most people will agree. Often a war is perpetrated for an ostensibly good cause. It is seen as an unfortunate side effect that regular people are killed, maimed, scarred and diminished – whilst the ‘baddies’ somehow remain at large. Well then, if war is bad, and often ineffective, why does it continue? In this article we will delve into the private corporations who insidiously overlap with their governmental and media counterparts to promote, fund and facilitate endless conflicts. We will also assess the case for acts of war and explore the theory that war is often perpetrated for financial profit rather than any moral cause.

Israel’s secret nuclear programme is the unspoken backstop to all of their negotiations. When threatened, Israel will take the ‘Samson Option’ and take the whole Middle East with them. The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how many, or what type of nuclear bombs that Israel manufactures and holds.

In a recent discussion with Patrick Henningsen of 21^st Century Wire, we debated the instigation of digital currencies and compared them with the writing up of the Domesday book. Here is a follow up to that conversation. It includes an academic investigation into the creation of the Domesday Book itself and a comparison to the ‘unified ledger’ proposed by the Bank of International Settlements.

We are in a ‘Crypto Winter’. There has been a huge decrease in the dollar value of all cryptocurrencies. Even those people who can barely unlock their phone, let alone invest in a DeFi protocol, have heard about the collapse in cryptocurrency price. It is the perfect time to evaluate the landscape. It may not be the bottom of the dip, but it is certainly a juncture for the industry. From here, many paths are open and thus we have a war for the future of cryptocurrency.

This series delves into the thriving industry based on Carbon Credits. Part One here develops an understanding of Carbon offsets and takes a couple of case studies to show how they can end up harming the environment and native Amazon tribes.

The only ‘green’ part of this fusion of venture capitalism and government regulation is the wads of cash that are doled out to suitably obscure corporations. And the only net-zero is the zero-sum game where the global poor continue to be exploited and poisoned for the enrichment of a small cadre of oligarchs.

We must see the tools being used by bad actors to manipulate us, and not stand for them. We should not be re-framed into a war mode of thought – for that dehumanises us and creates an ‘other’, to whom we can commit unspeakable crimes. It is the same lexical skulduggery that has preceded so many bad political decisions and cascading consequences over the years. It is time to get wise to it before it’s too late, and call off the hounds, call off the war.

The ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ gained popularity in the expanding Catholic Empire of the Middle Ages. We’ll treat it as a tool to shed some light into the murky miasma of shifting values brought about by ‘the crisis’. It is interesting to note how many of the actions of society line up with the sins. And before we cow our heads too low we will later show that there is reason to hope in the promulgation of virtuous behaviour.