The Rumination Compilation cuts past headlines and distractions. Mainstream outlets compress reality into soundbites and polished scripts. Here, the focus is on what they leave out: buried contracts, engineered shifts, environmental and economic maneuvers that rarely reach daylight.

This isn’t analysis for comfort. It’s for clarity.

From the blog

  • CANOPY
    A shift from nonfiction into speculative fiction. CANOPY is a collection of interconnected stories exploring the systems and assumptions that shape everyday life.
  • When a Story Finally Lands Somewhere
    Ideas you’ve been quietly exploring can suddenly find their stage. That’s what happened when Seed was accepted into Tales from the Unknown.
  • Digital Identity in the UK: The Hidden Architects Behind the Framework
    Governments are quietly translating social contracts into code. The UK’s proposed Digital ID bill, sold as efficiency and fraud prevention, mirrors a global shift toward behavioral governance. Beneath the branding lies a deeper story: institutions like Tavistock and oversight groups warn that identity itself is becoming programmable.
  • Painted Quarters Cattle Company: Where Soil and Sound Money Meet
    At Painted Quarters Cattle Company, Greg Flewelling proves that agriculture can be regenerative and resilient, for soil and money. From pasture-raised cattle to transactions in Goldbacks and silver, this is a farm redefining value in an age of ecological and economic uncertainty.
  • When Code Replaces Congress: AI, Expiring Law, and the Disappearing Line of Accountability
    As CISA 2015 expires, H.R. 5079 hands decision-making over to AI “threat classification engines,” shifting authority from human oversight to opaque code. Accountability disappears, and the rationale of the machine fills legal gaps on its own terms. What once could be debated in Congress now evolves in algorithms—and the stakes for civic sovereignty have never been higher.
  • Civic Ineptitude: Signals in a Nation of Noise
    Civic ineptitude isn’t ignorance. It’s engineered overload. How politics, commerce, and media drown out the signals that matter.
  • H5N1: When the Wild Whispers Across Continents
    From Antarctic penguins to goats in Asia, H5N1 is moving quietly yet relentlessly across species and continents. Once called “bird flu,” it has slipped through the cracks of global attention; yet its spread is a mirror to our selective awareness. How do we respond when the wild can suddenly turn contagious?
  • When Ledgers Rewrite Culture: The Social Side of Sound Money
    Money is not only math; it is story and ritual, habit and trust. As balance sheets quietly favor physical gold and financial gravity bends eastward, the real change will be lived in kitchens, schools, neighborhoods and prayer halls, not trading floors. This is how lives and narratives rewire themselves when money’s rules change.
  • Basel III and the Return of Gold: A Comparative History
    Basel III quietly restores gold’s role, shifting value from paper to bullion. History repeats: rules change, wealth moves and the world adapts.
  • When Trees Bear Witness
    When forests are wired with sensors and satellites, they stop being wild and start becoming feeds. What begins as stewardship can harden into control; the line between monitoring and policing is thinner than we think.
  • Critical Minerals: The Silent Tell of a War Economy
    Behind bureaucratic language, the USGS 2025 critical minerals update signals a shift in national priorities. Copper, silver, silicon, rhenium, lead and potash are strategic tools for distance warfare, industrial mobilization and the federal government’s alignment of corporate resources with military objectives.
  • The Human Appetite for Metals and the Cost Incurred
    Tracing metals through history reveals appetite itself (survival, wealth, expression, morality) with each era reshaping the hunger but never fulfilling it.
  • America’s Warpath Towards Corporate Control
    The United States has taken a ten percent stake in Intel, a move that signals more than industrial policy. It suggests a reemergence of state hands in corporate machinery, where ownership becomes a form of armament and resource control replaces open conflict. From silver in missiles to rare earths in supply chains, the war economy is being built quietly, piece by piece, through boardrooms rather than battlefields.
  • The Volumes on Vitality: Part Four
    Bats, bees, cattle, and poultry are vanishing, driving up costs and straining ecosystems. The hidden price of food is higher than we think.
  • Bird Flu & The Great Disappearing Act
    In the midst of rising beef prices, trade disputes, and H5N1 outbreaks in dairy herds, a quiet rebranding effort seeks to rename bird flu in cattle. What disappears first in a crisis: the virus, or the truth?
  • Precision Consumer 2030
    Sparks & Honey’s “Precision 2030” isn’t just a forecast—it’s a roadmap backed by the World Economic Forum and global brands. This post breaks down how biometric data, wellness apps, and predictive tech are converging to reshape privacy, autonomy, and the future of care. Commodification of biodata is here & will rapidly progress over these next five years.
  • Shadow Inflation & the Price of Freedom
    You’re not losing your mind, you’re losing your purchasing power.…
  • An Ounce of Silver & More than An Ounce of Delusion
    We rarely hear about silver in the climate conversation even though without it, the dream of a fully green grid looks less like inevitability and more like wishful thinking.
  • Something to share
    When I spoke at a city council meeting in Vista, California, I expected dismissal but what I received instead deserves attention. Watch the full response below, then ask yourself whether your own “Climate Action Plan” is rooted in civic participation or pressure from outside forces.
  • Offspring Offsetting an Inherited Carbon Footprint
    What if your carbon footprint became your child’s inheritance? Some debts aren’t financial, they’re environmental.
  • Mamagotchis & Digital Dependents
    From ancient agriculture to digital dependencies, humanity’s relationship with technology and each other is still evolving.
  • Analyzing the City of San Diego Climate Action Plan
    A closer look at San Diego’s Climate Action Plan reveals ambitious goals and wonky science.
  • Virtues in a Virtual Reality
    Our ability to write has allowed us to transcend ourselves, time and space. What are the limits and what are the rules?
  • The Products of a New Environment
    In a world where genetic ownership blurs the line between cultivation and control, are we truly free to reap what we’ve sown?
  • Market Forces: Foreign Factors & Domestic Actors
    Exploring how international agreements bypass national legislation, empowering external entities over domestic governance.
  • A Thought about Trees
    I use trees to metaphorically delve into the layers of truth, deception and awareness in our world.
  • Environments & Requirements
    The Supreme Court’s recent decision limiting the EPA’s regulatory power raises questions about the influence of external forces on domestic environmental policies.
  • “Ramparts & Revolution”
    Exploring the mind as a system of stored ideals and reactive impulses, this post delves into how external pressures manipulate our focus, actions, the values we uphold and what we’ll do for them.
  • A Moment of Stillness
    I just got off the phone with my mother; all…
  • The Volumes on Vitality: Part Three
    Exploring the commodification of water, from speculative futures markets to philanthropic ventures. There’s plenty of questions unanswered about access and equity.
  • A Somber Scot Pine
    For the past year & change, I’ve been attempting to…
  • The Volumes on Vitality: Part Two
    A musical interlude before diving into the depths of water’s role in our world.
  • The Volumes on Vitality: Part One
    A reflection on the journey of water.
  • The New Three R’s:
    Rates, Restrictions, Representation.