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We Are Witnessing Economic Carnage Like We Have Never Seen Before, And The Economy Is Going To Continue To Bleed Jobs
We Are Witnessing Economic Carnage Like We Have Never Seen Before, And The Economy Is Going To Continue To Bleed Jobs Now we are up to 33.5 million jobs lost. In just 7 weeks, the U.S. economy has been completely turned upside down, and the numbers are unlike anything that we have ever seen before. […]
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios Empty roads, grounded aircraft, falling tourist and international student numbers, plunging car sales, empty super market shelves, disrupted supply chains… Fig 1: Empty roads in Wuhan in February 2020 China Car Sales Slump 92% in First Half of February on Virus 21 Feb 2020 […]
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic Throughout the U.S., institutions that have no real interest in public health are exploiting our sense of vulnerability to benefit their public images and their bottom lines, says Dr. Mike Pappas. We have all likely seen or heard the commercials. They typically start with slow music and maybe […]
China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence
China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence German intelligence has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Thebreyesus to cover up the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in January, according to Der Spiegel. During a January 21 conversation – one week after the WHO assured […]
Will covid-19 delay peak oil?
Will covid-19 delay peak oil? With global demand having fallen by about 29 million barrels per day from a year ago, it seems like this pandemic might delay peak oil production while the pandemic and consequent depression lasts, since so much less oil is being consumed. Since storage is getting full, many oil producers are […]
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself?
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself? If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires. The coronavirus pandemic is, among other things, a tribute to human ingenuity and our relentless pursuit of globalization, an impulse thousands of years old. Previous civilizations, from the […]
Mutation! Are We Now Dealing With A More Contagious Covid-19 Strain?
Mutation! Are We Now Dealing With A More Contagious Covid-19 Strain? The G clade of the virus may explain why certain regions have been hit harder than others. Well, it seems we are closer to solving the mystery of why some regions of the world exhibit higher covid-19 infection rates than others. New research is […]
China Warns Of Possible Armed Conflict With US Over Coronavirus Backlash
China Warns Of Possible Armed Conflict With US Over Coronavirus Backlash An internal report presented to Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders concludes that global anti-China sentiment is at a level not seen since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, and recommends preparing for a worst-case scenario of armed conflict with the United States, according […]
Why Lockdowns Work
Why Lockdowns Work There was another comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday questioning the function and wisdom of various lockdowns. I thought I’d explain this in more detail. Ilargi if you or anyone else could explain what the exit strategy is from a lockdown I’d be interested in hearing it. As it is, this lockdown […]
Will Civilization’s Response to COVID-19 Lead to a More Sustainable, Equitable World?
Will Civilization’s Response to COVID-19 Lead to a More Sustainable, Equitable World? What better time to shift our thinking and actions away from a hyperconsumptive, inequality-widening, environmentally-detrimental era than the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Having been shaken to our collective core by the COVID19 pandemic, can we muster the will to make major changes […]
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger As Cargill prepares to reopen, voices from the frontlines of Canada’s largest COVID-19 outbreak. They fear the virus. They are concerned about the futures. They worry for their communities. And they say neither the government nor two foreign-owned companies, which account for 70 per cent of […]
Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It’s Got Nothing To Do With Icke)
Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It’s Got Nothing To Do With Icke) Within 48 hours both Facebook and then Youtube have deleted the accounts of David Icke for posting “content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS.” Other platforms may soon fall in suit, as they did […]
“The Dam Has Burst”: Why David Einhorn Thinks The Coronavirus Shock Will Lead To Soaring Inflation
“The Dam Has Burst”: Why David Einhorn Thinks The Coronavirus Shock Will Lead To Soaring Inflation One of the bizarre aspects of the global depression resulting from the coordinated shutdown of most world economies due to the coronavius pandemic, is that we have experience a collapse in both aggregate supply and demand which, almost absurdly, […]
