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Faster Than We Thought
2012-05-24 03:56:00 Rainlover sent in this link: ‘Faster Than We Thought’: An Epitaph for Planet Earth Worth reading. My own views on the future of our grandchildren are even worse. Too many virtually unstoppable positive feedbacks already in motion. The picture to your left is not from the year 2100 — it’s from January 2012. It’s hard ...
JP Morgan: When basis trades blow up | Felix Salmon
2012-05-12 11:38:00 Bruno Iksil, the London Whale, had a massive long position on corporate CDS in general, and the CDX.NA.IG.9 index in particular. He was selling protection, betting that credit spreads would go down, rather than up. The position was meant to …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
Experts forecast imminent provocations by Kim Jong-un
2012-05-10 21:22:00 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is likely to keep tensions with Korea high and continue provocations against the South to help consolidate his power, experts in Seoul forecast Thursday. Kim would also be very reluctant to pursue reform or open …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
China Times: Ill omen of [Taiwan] society?s `grand collapse? ? CNA ENGLISH
2012-05-07 19:29:00 Former Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang issued a strong warning in his new book titled “Taiwan’s Grand Collapse” that Taiwan’s younger generation is in the middle of a grave crisis of “four nots” — not marrying, not giving birth, not raising …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
IAN BREMMER: If I?m Right, We?re Headed For A Fractured World
2012-05-04 14:26:00 Political risk strategist Ian Bremmer tells Business Insider that the most likely outcome of a period without politicial leadership is a world fractured along regional lines. His new book, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in A G-Zero World, describes a …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
After Bo and Chen: How Beijing?s Intrigues Will Impact U.S.-China Relations
2012-05-04 10:03:00 A leadership that prefers to shroud its decisionmaking in secrecy has been forced to deal with unexpected crises that speak to the manifold issues facing the incoming crop of communist rulers—massive abuse of power and corruption within party ranks, a …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
Fatal St. Louis tent collapse raises safety questions
2012-04-30 00:42:00 St. Louis officials are expected to more closely scrutinize the large tents commonly set up near downtown stadiums after one of the temporary structures collapsed in high winds Saturday, resulting in the death of an Illinois man and dozens of injuries after a baseball game.
Surviving the Horde
2012-04-29 00:28:00 They were munching, marching, stumbling, crowding through everything — eating their way down to the last grain and morsels to be found. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Death was arriving at my door, what was I to do? I’m afraid, very afraid, they’re going to find me, crunch my bones, eat my flesh, steal my ...
Surviving the Horde
2012-04-29 00:28:00 They were munching, marching, stumbling, crowding through everything — eating their way down to the last grain and morsels to be found. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Death was arriving at my door, what was I to do? I’m afraid, very afraid, they’re going to find me, crunch my bones, eat my flesh, steal my ...
Surviving the Horde
2012-04-29 00:28:00 They were munching, marching, stumbling, crowding through everything — eating their way down to the last grain and morsels to be found. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Death was arriving at my door, what was I to do? I’m afraid, very afraid, they’re going to find me, crunch my bones, eat my flesh, steal my ...
Let?s Make America Fail
2012-04-24 22:09:00 Would you like to watch another propaganda piece on why “America is failing”? Or what Big Oil would like you to believe, while protecting their absolutely obscene profit margins? Notice the narrative in this piece of crap video — a slick, well-funded presentation based on the assumption that making “America fail” is the real agenda (bullshit): Another ...
Let?s Make America Fail
2012-04-24 22:09:00 Would you like to watch another propaganda piece on why “America is failing”? Or what Big Oil would like you to believe, while protecting their absolutely obscene profit margins? Notice the narrative in this piece of crap video — a slick, well-funded presentation based on the assumption that making “America fail” is the real agenda ...
Global warming is a moral issue on par with slavery: NASA scientist
2012-04-06 18:55:00 Desdemona Despair posted an interesting article (original article here) on how global warming is as serious an issue as slavery was (and still is). In case you didn’t know, there are still over 25 million human slaves, more then at any other time in history. “We understand the carbon cycle: the CO2 we put in the ...
Global warming is a moral issue on par with slavery: NASA scientist
2012-04-06 18:55:00 Desdemona Despair posted an interesting article (original article here) on how global warming is as serious an issue as slavery was (and still is). In case you didn’t know, there are still over 25 million human slaves, more then at any other time in history. “We understand the carbon cycle: the CO2 we put in ...
Contemplating the Collapse of the Communist Party in China | Society | Chin
2012-04-04 21:05:00 Epoch Times: Why is succession a problem for authoritarian governments, and for the CCP in particular? Mr. Chang: Because they don’t have rule of law, they don’t have constitutions that mean anything, and the transfer of power is merely a …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
The Food of Civilization
2012-04-04 20:34:00 The main point, indeed the entire purpose of every civilization throughout all of human history is to ensure a full belly for its participants. This essential need for all human life is the primary and fundamental driving force for the creation of everything that we know as civilization. Roads, cities, villages and towns, highways, freeways, ...
The Food of Civilization
2012-04-04 20:34:00 The main point, indeed the entire purpose of every civilization throughout all of human history is to ensure a full belly for its participants. This essential need for all human life is the primary and fundamental driving force for the creation of everything that we know as civilization. Roads, cities, villages and towns, highways, freeways, ...
Peter Schiff: Market-Crushing Treasury Collapse To Hit Around 2013 ? Forbes
2012-03-29 10:11:00 Peter Schiff, the divisive investor and commentator that predicted the subprime/real-estate bubble, is forecasting a U.S. dollar and bond crisis over the next couple of years. Schiff blames intervened bond markets, where rates are artificially and excessively low, and expects …Read more »
By: 1913 Intel
Executive Order ? National Defense Resources Preparedness Issued
2012-03-18 16:37:00 The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release — March 16, 2012 Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 ...
Executive Order ? National Defense Resources Preparedness Issued
2012-03-18 16:37:00 The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release — March 16, 2012 Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, ...
Mexico Food Production Drops 40%
2012-03-11 12:41:00 Today’s notice from Fire Earth: Food production has gone down by 40 percent across Mexico because of the drought, according to the National Confederation of Peasants. Full article in the Christian Science Monitor here. Extreme drought, the worst in 71 years, is causing almost nothing to grow. “We have no water”. But it’s not just Mexico of ...
Climate Catastrophe
2012-03-09 05:47:00 A pretty important update on climate change from Dr. James Hansen (video): Why I must speak up about climate. (TED) A “must watch” if you care to listen to one of the world’s leading scientist on climate. The updated estimates (by 2100, your children will still be alive then, maybe) are 50% species loss (extinction), are up ...
Destroying An Entire Generation of Life
2012-02-25 07:21:00 North of the American border, up in Alberta, is one of the most toxic environmental wastelands on the entire planet. This place is called the Alberta Tar Sands. Dante would have described this region as a descent into hell, with toxic smoke billowing from hundreds of smokestacks throughout the region, and an entire forest razed ...
The Collapse of Primetime Television: Where Are Television Shows Going Wron
2012-02-23 15:19:00 February is a make-it-or-break-it month for a lot of television shows. It is a sweeps month where ratings for all television show are vital to determine the longevity of any show. Sweeps occur in November to test the viability of new and returning shows; then in February, to test new mid-season shows and again check the pulse of existing shows; and in May, to show advertisers and networks that they are getting their money’s worth and demonstrate that there is an existing audience willing to come back the following Fall after the usual 3-4 month hiatus. The average viewer has no real awareness of “sweeps” months — other than it guarantees some really cool guest appearances, big stunt episodes and a possible heads-up that there may be a hiatus period afterwards in which television shows are M.I.A. as they play catch-up. This February, however, has been a blood-bath for most TV shows, new and existing alike. This is typically the time of year when viewership i...
By: the TV addict
Beckett admits ?mistakes? amid collapse (AP)
2012-02-19 18:04:00 Boston Red Sox ace Josh Beckett says he had “lapses in judgment” in the clubhouse last season during the team’s historic September collapse. Beckett spoke on Sunday, the day Red Sox pitchers and catchers reported to spring training. He was asked about a Boston Globe report that alleged starters, including himself, Jon Lester and John ...
By: MLB News Blog
Indian Banking System in danger of collapse..What are the solutions?
2012-02-09 04:42:00 In yet another disturbing news, MidDay reported that three more phishing complaints have been registeredyesterday in Pune in which a total of Rs 17.50 lakhs have been lost by three customers of the banks. Irrespective of the cause, it is to be recognized that this news reflects yet another nail being driven down the coffin signifying ...
Invest in Body Bags
2012-01-29 19:14:00 From the Onion: WASHINGTON?Saying there’s no way around it at this point, a coalition of scientists announced Thursday that one-third of the world population must die to prevent wide-scale depletion of the planet’s resources?and that humankind needs to figure out immediately how it wants to go about killing off more than 2 ...
Minneapolis Bridge Collapse ? A Complacency Problem
2012-01-24 17:33:00 From a reliability standpoint, would you be more inclined to trust a standard, familiar design or something daring and new? While the old and familiar would seem to be the more tried and trusted, that's not always the case. In fact, the Minneapolis bridge collapse indicates that sometimes it is
Year Zero - Starting Over - The Way out of Economic Collapse by Evan Palmer
2012-01-08 17:16:00 This may seem naive or ignorant but it seems to be clear that an almost complete government intervention would be needed if a full-scale economic collapse occurs. Do governments have plans in place? And not just plans to control, incarcerate and pacify the general population. Plans to help people and right the economy.Plans that control all financial and related transactions and seal all borders - physical and electronic. Plans that freeze all current financial obligations and do not permit closures, seizures or foreclosures by anyone except the federal government.The next step is to issue a new currency. All assets will have to converted into the new currency, They would be tabulated and scrutinized as to propriety and legality. The new currency would be based on the size of the economy, number of consumers, and other relevant factors.All financial institutions would come under supervision and, potentially, governement control to ensure that accounts are kept open and that credit i...
Lessons for Europe From America?s First Great Depression: Echoes ? Bloomber
2012-01-04 20:08:00 The European Union is in trouble. Some governments are teetering on default, and even German creditworthiness is questioned. Interbank lending in the euro area is increasingly strained. The entire project of European economic integration, wrought through six decades of delicate negotiation, seems at risk of collapse. In the U.S., meanwhile, European leaders are being criticized ...
By: 1913 Intel
Mandelbrot Beats Economics in Fathoming Markets
2012-01-04 19:38:00 The possible collapse of the European monetary union, at least in its current form, brings home the truth that there’s little in economics that is certain. We’re again “thinking the unthinkable,” as we were a few years ago when we suddenly realized that financial engineering hadn’t banished financial crises, and that 70 years of relative ...
By: 1913 Intel
Chris Hedges: ?Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is
2012-01-04 15:10:00 Common sense assessment of what happens now:
Dissent From the Web
2012-01-03 22:10:00 Views from the web. First up, William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report: Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget. “Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. ...
The Coming Collapse of the European Union :: Stonegate Institute
2012-01-03 18:10:00 How could so many clever people get it so wrong? The question was recently asked by the British politician Daniel Hannan in an article on the collapse of the euro; in the coming months, the same question will be asked more and more often about Europe itself. Europe as it has been built may appear ...
By: 1913 Intel
The Coming Collapse of China: 2012 Edition- By Gordon G. Chang | Foreign Po
2011-12-31 18:53:00 In the middle of 2001, I predicted in my book, The Coming Collapse of China, that the Communist Party would fall from power in a decade, in large measure because of the changes that accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) would cause. A decade has passed; the Communist Party is still in power. But ...
By: 1913 Intel
Global Food Grab - The Effort To Control The World?s Food Supply
2011-12-30 18:08:00 Two food articles worth paying attention to. First up: Government to government plan to seize control of all food. And we also have this: New Zealand law mirrors US and Canada, fake food safety bills. New Zealand is about to witness what we have here in the US; small retailers, family farms and ranches raided by agency ...
Mass Extinctions Now Guaranteed
2011-12-27 19:46:00 Some big developments many of you probably haven’t heard about yet: Expect 67% - 84% percent biodiversity loss by 2080 ? Holocene Mass Extinction within this century. It’s a short read, and includes a 75% extinction of all mammal species within 300 years. This is a doozy. And there’s more: According to the same study most of the land ...
New Danger of a Systemic Collapse
2011-12-13 16:37:00 Some stock investors never seem to learn. They hope and pray for a new government rescue from Washington or Brussels. They wait with bated breath for each official sign of money printing, interest-rate cuts, or financial bailouts. Then, as soon as something is finally announced, they breathe a sigh of relief, applaud with enthusiasm, even buy a stock or two. But it’s a fool’s game. Because within a few months — or even just a few days — the government rescue crumbles, investors run for cover, and, ironically, they begin a whole new cycle of hoping and praying for the NEXT big rescue. Just this year alone, European authorities have held 19 high-level emergency . . . → Read More: New Danger of a Systemic Collapse
By: Jutia Group
Controlled Collapse returns with 'Distorted Dreams' album
2011-11-28 16:55:00 1st of December will see the release of new EP by the Polish band Controlled Collapse, "Distorted Dreams". The album will come as a digital download release only that features 9 songs of which 4 were...
By: Side-Line Music
Federal Reserve Passed out $16 Trillion Dollars
2011-11-16 12:23:00 In the first audit ever “allowed” (seriously) by the Federal Reserve, a whopping $16 trillion dollars has been “loaned out” throughout the world: The Fed Audit Among the investigation’s key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according ...
Doom News - Trouble Ahead
2011-11-10 01:19:00 Hurricane Force Winds Pound Alaska Alaska Coast Hit By Major Storm International Energy Agency Bombshell Warning: We?re Headed Toward 11F Global Warming Jump in emissions exceeds “worst case scenario” I disagree that we still have time to try and fix this. This is proving to be more and more true all of the time.
Congress, Corruption, Collapse
2011-11-09 21:57:00 Interesting article here on what Congress is really up to (money): 12 Facts About Money And Congress That Are So Outrageous That It Is Hard To Believe That They Are Actually True #1 The collective net worth of all of the members of Congress increased by 25 percent between 2008 and 2010. #2 The collective net worth ...
Video: Adrian Gonzalez Talks About Collapse On NESN Daily
2011-11-03 03:33:00 Fresh off of winning his first career Silver Slugger Award, Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez called into the NESN Daily set to talk about the end of the season among other things. I have to wonder when the Boston media is going to let this go. After all, free agency starts at 12:01 on Thursday morning.
By: Random Thoughts
Video: Adrian Gonzalez Talks About Collapse On NESN Daily
2011-11-03 03:33:00 Fresh off of winning his first career Silver Slugger Award, Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez called into the NESN Daily set to talk about the end of the season among other things. I have to wonder when the Boston media is going to let this go. After all, free agency starts at 12:01 on Thursday morning.
By: Random Thoughts
A Force Of Nature - The Signs of Our Collapse
2011-10-30 19:49:00 I am now deep into the book, “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman, and I must say, this has been an incredible read. The author takes us on a journey of human history and our relationship (attack) upon the natural world. He poses the thought experiment, “what would the Earth be like if we ...
Rangers? bullpen center of late collapse (AP)
2011-10-28 08:02:00 One strike away. One strike away. If the Rangers don’t win Game 7, that could become the franchise mantra for years to come, maybe decades. Instead of popping champagne corks and bringing Texas the title, Neftali Feliz, Scott Feldman and Mark Lowe became a pitching trio that will live in infamy. Feliz and Feldman came ...
By: MLB News Blog
The High Cost Of Inaction
2011-10-22 17:44:00 In the High Cost of Inaction, Jim Gavin outlines the latest thinking on climate stabilization by Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow. As expected since 2004, things are much worse. Much, much worse. The window of opportunity is far smaller now then ever, and the likelihood of failure much greater. What follows however, is my own commentary to ...
The Significant Generation
2011-10-15 18:18:00 In the many years that I have been in this “collapse theme”, regarding our society and civilization and the future that lies before us all, I have come to fully embrace the viewpoint that future planning is an absolutely essential and critical activity — for each and every one of us. We do not live in ...
AUDIO: Dustin Pedroia reacts to Boston Globe "Inside the Collapse" Article
2011-10-13 03:57:00 Terry Francona and Dustin Pedroia were a duo all of Red Sox Nation felt akin to. You can hear Dustin Pedroia's interview with the WEEI's "The Big Show" below, and I find it seriously signifigant that Pedroia's the only, or...
By: SawxBlog.com
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