Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns
May 26th, 2020Via: Real Clear Politics: In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be known as […]
U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
May 18th, 2020Via: Krebs on Security: A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service. A memo seen by KrebsOnSecurity that the Secret Service circulated […]
Anti-Lockdown Protest in London’s Hyde Park
May 17th, 2020Do you think there were there enough cops? [Sarcasm, by the way.] Via: Urban Pictures UK: More from RT:
Trump Will Mobilize Military to Distribute Coronavirus Vaccine When It’s Ready
May 14th, 2020Via: CBS: President Trump says he would “rapidly” mobilize the U.S. military to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it’s ready, focusing first on nursing homes and the elderly most vulnerable to deadly complications from the virus. Mr. Trump made the comments during an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. “We’re mobilizing our military and other […]
The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing
May 14th, 2020I don’t know where I got this, but I want to put it on a T-shirt. Via: The Rutherford Institute: No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state. That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every […]
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino
May 14th, 2020American capitalism. *chortle* That’s a really good one. Plutocrats create fiat money, by typing some number, followed by nine to twelve zeros, into a computer. Then they send it around to each other, with the help of their kleptocratic minions in the government. Finally, they nail a bill into the backs of the victims and […]
McConnell Patriot Act Expansion, “Would Explicitly Permit the FBI to Collect Records of Americans’ Internet Search and Browsing Histories Without a Warrant”
May 13th, 2020I could link to dozens or hundreds of posts. Talk about beating a dead horse… For decades. Anyway, here’s one from just a few years ago: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants …if you think that place is only used to store information gleaned from taps on foreigners, I’ve got a bridge to sell […]
L.A. County Could Keep Stay-at-Home Orders in Place for Three More Months
May 13th, 2020Via: LA Times: Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday. Ferrer later added that even if the orders remain in place through the summer, restrictions will be “gradually relaxed” under a five-step […]
Deployment of Military Inside Mexico to Continue
May 12th, 2020Via: Reuters: Mexico’s president has ordered the armed forces to tackle security on the streets for another four years, extending a policy he had previously criticized as the government struggles to curb runaway violence. In a notice published in the Official Gazette, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered that the Armed Forces (FA) participate “in […]
90,000 Cruise Workers Stranded on Ships for Two Months
May 12th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Carrick and Harrison are among the more than 90,000 cruise workers in U.S. waters stranded on ships two months after the coronavirus pandemic began forcing cruise lines to halt operations and repatriate crew. While companies work through a thicket of shifting rules on returning workers to their home countries, recent deaths of crew […]
