Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming
April 2nd, 2020Via: The Nation: Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds, according to a 2017 Pentagon plan obtained by The […]
RECORD 6.6 MILLION SEEK U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AS LAYOFFS MOUNT
April 2nd, 2020Via: LA Times: More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus. The stunning report Thursday from the Labor Department showed that job cuts are mounting against the backdrop of […]
100,000 Body Bags for “Mortuary Contingencies”
April 2nd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The Pentagon confirmed that it’s seeking to provide as many as 100,000 military-style body bags for potential civilian use as the U.S. warns that deaths could soar in the coming weeks from the coronavirus pandemic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested 100,000 body bags, known as Human Remains Pouches, through an interagency […]
Boarding Up Stores
April 2nd, 2020Beverly Hills Chicago San Francisco New York Vancouver
World Economic Forum: Strategic Intelligence Covid-19
April 1st, 2020“How many levels does this operation have?” Uh… Via: World Economic Forum:
“Will the Coronavirus Kill the Oil Industry and Help Save the Climate?”
April 1st, 2020How many levels does this operation have? I’m having a very hard time trying to grasp the scale and sophistication of what’s unfolding so rapidly before us. At the individual level, Bill Gates, et al will be coming at us with needles. (Not happening, Bill.) There are countless middle range, police state/dictatorship/surveillance related measures going […]
Las Vegas Marking Parking Places for Homeless Encampment
April 1st, 2020Any bailout trillions over here? Nope, none here. But how about a white rectangle painted on a parking lot? Good for whatever ails ya. Via: PBS: Homeless people in Las Vegas have been directed to sleep in rectangles painted on the pavement in a makeshift parking lot camp as a way to limit the spread […]
The GitHub Arctic Vault Program
April 1st, 2020First seeds, now code. GitHub is owned by Microsoft, by the way. Via: Github: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a very-long-term archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain. The archive is located in a decommissioned coal mine in the […]
“If the Virus Hadn’t Caused the Crash, Something Else Would Have”
April 1st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The novel coronavirus has already had a significant impact on the global economy, which will worsen if the outbreak and the shutdowns designed to contain it continue for very long. But it’s only an accelerant: If not Covid-19, as the disease caused by the virus is known, something else would have started the […]
Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University, Perspectives on the Pandemic
March 31st, 2020If Covid-19 hadn’t been identified as a novel disease, and it caused 10,000 deaths in the U.S., this would be, “Well within the range of statistical noise,” of routine deaths from influenza. Without the current hype, this would attract less attention than a professional basketball game, according to Dr. Ioannidis. And yet, somehow: A billion […]
