Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Journalism’s Gates Keepers
August 26th, 2020Via: Columbia Journalism Review: As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, […]
Hungry New Yorkers Form Quarter-Mile Line for Free Food in Queens
August 26th, 2020Via: New York Post: The line stretched a quarter-mile before the sun was barely up Saturday, snaking around corners like bread lines in the 1930s. But the hungry in Queens are today’s New Yorkers, left jobless by the coronavirus. Until the pandemic struck the city, La Jornada food pantry used to hand out groceries to […]
UK Government Scientist Admits Lockdown Was a “Monumental Mistake on a Global Scale”
August 26th, 2020Via: Summit News: A scientific advisor to the UK government says the coronavirus lockdown was a “panic measure” and a “monumental mistake on a global scale.” Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think […]
The Fatal Attraction of Techno-Fascism
August 26th, 2020Via: Off Guardian: Corporate media focuses on those stories they are paid to propagate, i.e., those which support the financial and ideological agendas of their owners, who themselves are all, without exception, central parts of the larger global ruling oligarchy. A key part of the propagandist’s handbook is to simply leave unexplored stories that they […]
Kenosha: Two Shot Dead, One Injured
August 26th, 2020Via: USA Today: Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, said early Wednesday that two people had been shot and killed and a third injured as protests over police brutality and the shooting of Jacob Blake continue to rock the country. For three nights, violent protests have torn through Kenosha after a police officer shot Blake from behind […]
Wisconsin Deploys National Guard After Riots
August 24th, 2020Via: Reuters: Wisconsin’s governor on Monday deployed his state’s National Guard to Kenosha following a night of sometimes-violent unrest that came after police in the lakeside city shot a Black man multiple times in the back.
“Linguistic Experts Are Now Investigating Why Teens Interpret a Correctly-Punctuated Text as a Signal of Irritation”
August 24th, 2020Via: Daily Mail: Full stops intimidate young people when used in social media communication as they are interpreted as a sign of anger, according to linguistic experts. Teenagers and those in their early twenties, classified as Generation Z, have grown up with smartphones which they use to send short messages without full stops. And a […]
Mexican Drug Cartel Attacks City with Consumer-Grade Drones Packed with C-4
August 22nd, 2020Via: Daily Mail: Mexico’s fastest growing cartel has allegedly deployed drones packed with C4 explosives as it battles against armed residents for control over a city. For over a year now, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has attempted to exert its influence on the western city of Tepalcatepec. However, a group of armed residents say […]
“National Debt To Surpass $78 Trillion By 2028: What It Means For Americans”
August 20th, 2020So it goes… Via: Forbes: The coronavirus pandemic pushed the government into the proverbial corner, prompting it to borrow heavily from the future to ward off a serious threat today. Without this intervention, the U.S. economy would be in a much worse recession or possibly even a depression. Even though borrowing excessively may have been […]
Historic Exodus from San Francisco
August 16th, 2020Via: SFGate: A new report confirms what many have been talking about for weeks: There is an exodus out of San Francisco, and the numbers are staggering. Online real estate company Zillow released new statistics shining a stark light on the issue this week. Their “2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report” reveals that inventory has risen a […]
