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Harvest at Chez Cog
HARVEST AT CHEZ COG It became obvious to Mrs. Cog and I by early February of this year (2020) that the next phase of socioeconomic crumble/chaos was being implemented both here in the USA as well as throughout the world. The rabbit hole just got deeper. Or more accurately, the deeper rabbit hole was just […]
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts Preface. Venezuela is experiencing a double whammy of drought and low oil prices, which has lead to blackouts and inability to import food, ultimately due to their oil production peaking in 1997. The same fate awaits the U.S. someday when oil declines. Related posts: Nafeez Ahmed: Venezuela’s collapse is a window […]
Selco’s Guide to Looting and Scavenging When the SHTF
Selco’s Guide to Looting and Scavenging When the SHTF Through the media, we have gotten a picture of scavengers, so there are movies and book about guys who ride motorcycles while wearing helmets with horns. These guys are looting and scavenging after the SHTF. And then, in this fantasy, there are good guys who do […]
The Disaster Myth Narrative: No One Panics, No One Loots, No One Goes Hungry
The Disaster Myth Narrative: No One Panics, No One Loots, No One Goes Hungry “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ~ George Orwell A few years back, I was doing some research about the aftermath of some natural disasters that took place here […]
Hurricane Harvey Looters Targeting Fuel Tanks As Google Searches For “How To Siphon Gas” Soar
Hurricane Harvey Looters Targeting Fuel Tanks As Google Searches For “How To Siphon Gas” Soar Texas resident Joe Roan woke up to a rather unpleasant surprise yesterday morning as he discovered the remnants of a would-be thief attempting to steal gasoline from his Jeep Wrangler tank. Unfortunately, as a local CBS affiliate pointed out last […]
Houston Reeling Amid Outbreak Of Looting, Armed Robberies; Vigilantees Emerge
Houston Reeling Amid Outbreak Of Looting, Armed Robberies; Vigilantees Emerge Inevitably every major metropolitan crisis brings out the best and worst of what humanity has to offer. While hundreds/thousands of people have rushed into Houston following the epic destruction of Hurricane Harvey to help in any way possible, others have once again predictably chosen to […]
Corrupt Elites and the Looting Machine
Corrupt Elites and the Looting Machine Can corruption be controlled by reform or is it so much the essential fuel sustaining political elites that it will only be ended – if it ends at all – by revolutionary change? The answer varies according to which countries one is talking about, but in many – particularly […]
Watch Venezuela, Because Food Shortages, Looting And Economic Collapse Are Coming To America Too
Watch Venezuela, Because Food Shortages, Looting And Economic Collapse Are Coming To America Too The full-blown economic collapse that is happening in Venezuela right now is a preview of what Americans will be experiencing in the not too distant future. Just a few years ago, most Venezuelans could never have imagined that food shortages would […]
Do Any of the Current Rallies Pass “The Sniff Test”? No.
Do Any of the Current Rallies Pass “The Sniff Test”? No. But you can’t tame the monster of speculative, legalized looting and financialization. Everything from iron ore to copper to the Baltic Dry Index to stocks to bat guano is rallying. The problem is not a single rally passes “the sniff test:” is the rally the […]
The Public Is Being Looted By Privatization And Deregulation
The Public Is Being Looted By Privatization And Deregulation The privatization movement and the deregulation movement have turned out to be failures. Privatization in Britain under the Thatcher government had its origin in the belief that the absence of incentivized managers and shareholders with a stake in the bottom line resulted in nationalized companies operating […]
Central Banks Are Trojan Horses, Looting Their Host Nations
Central Banks Are Trojan Horses, Looting Their Host Nations A Nobel prize winning economist, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and chairman of the President’s council of economic advisers (Joseph Stiglitz) says that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank loan money to third world countries as a way to force […]
The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself
The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself Myself, Michael Hudson, John Perkins, and a few others have reported the multi-pronged looting of peoples by Western economic institutions, principally the big New York Banks with the aid of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Third World countries were and are looted by being inticed into development plans […]
Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting
Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting In the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting …when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that […]
‘It’s our money’ podcast: be educated on monetary/credit reform or continue looting by oligarchs
‘It’s our money’ podcast: be educated on monetary/credit reform or continue looting by oligarchs Human beings are looted by asset-hole oligarchs literally by the trillions every year. These lying sacks of spin are the .01% banksters, and “leaders” of government and corporate media. Human beings will either continue being looted and lied-to, or earn voices for justice from basic education that […]
