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“It’s Very Extreme” – Drought & Drug Cartels Drain California’s Aquifers At Record Rate | Zero Hedge
“It’s Very Extreme” – Drought & Drug Cartels Drain California’s Aquifers At Record Rate | Zero Hedge. “If there’s no water for people to live, and you don’t have the basic necessities of life, your population is going to leave,” warns the emergency services manager of one California town, warning that as the drought continues (and […]
Tennessee Woman Sentenced to Jail for Not Mowing Her Lawn | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tennessee Woman Sentenced to Jail for Not Mowing Her Lawn | Liberty Blitzkrieg. The trend of average U.S. citizens being incarcerated by overzealous judges and prosecutors within the police state formerly known as America continues with reckless abandon. In fact, these sorts of cases are becoming so commonplace I simply cannot keep up with all of […]
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat. America has hung out a shingle: HELP WANTED. Offshore powers — powers beset by few if any overland threats — habitually do. But good help doesn’t come cheap, in world politics as in private industry. One hopes Washington gets this as it tries to accomplish big things […]
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch. Sometimes, if you want to catch the essence of a moment, however, grim, you need to turn tohumor. Recently, the New Yorker’s resident satirist Andy Borowitz produced one of his patented fake news stories that began this way: “The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, […]
ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire
ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire. A year and a half I wrote an essay on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled The Image of the Enemy. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations […]
19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy
19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy. Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve are lying to you. The “economic recovery” that we all keep hearing about is mostly just a mirage. The percentage of Americans that are employed hasbarely budgedsince the depths of the last recession, the labor force […]
Leading Contrarian Economist: “We Are Coming In On The End Game Here”
Leading Contrarian Economist: “We Are Coming In On The End Game Here”. To say that the U.S. economy is in trouble would be an understatement. According toShadow Stats economist John Williams, we may be on the very cusp of a crisis so severe that it promises to re-write the entire paradigm. Debt is out of control […]
The Pentagon Will Use 30 Person “Quick-Strike Team” To Deal With Domestic Ebola Patients | Zero Hedge
The Pentagon Will Use 30 Person “Quick-Strike Team” To Deal With Domestic Ebola Patients | Zero Hedge. President Obama may have been busy golfing this weekend, and his brand new Ebola Czar may have had more pressing matters to attend than the White House’s Saturday evening meeting on the US “response to domestic Ebola cases” (because clearly […]
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government Washington’s Blog
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government Washington’s Blog. Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading. Of the ten essays included, eight are on basically the same topic, resulting in some repetition and even some contradiction. But when things that need repeating are repeated this […]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East | TomDispatch. It was May 23, 2012, and President Obama was giving a graduation speech at the Air Force Academy when he told the assembled cadets that they should “never bet against the United States of America… [because] the United States has […]
Peak Oil Notes – Oct 16
Peak Oil Notes – Oct 16. The price plunge which began in mid-June when New York oil futures trading around $105 a barrel continued this week with oil touching $80 on Wednesday before recovering to close at $81.78. London’s Brent crude underwent a similar collapse to close yesterday at $83.46. Weak demand: increasing US shale […]
