Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
“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 […]
What’s Up With The Italian Mortality Rate?
March 31st, 2020Via: Corbett Report:
10 More Experts Criticizing the Coronavirus Panic
March 31st, 2020Via: Off Guardian: Following on from our previous list, here are ten more expert voices, drowned out or disregarded by the mainstream narrative, offering their take on the coronavirus outbreak.
Macy’s Will Furlough 130,000 Employees
March 30th, 2020Via: Reuters: Macy’s Inc said on Monday it would furlough most of its 130,000-strong workforce starting this week as all stores of the department chain operator have been temporarily shut due to the coronavirus pandemic. Like many retailers, Macy’s has already said it would suspend quarterly dividend and withdrew its 2020 sales and profit forecasts […]
Fed: Unemployment Rate Could Reach 32%
March 30th, 2020Via: CNBC: Millions of Americans already have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis and the worst of the damage is yet to come, according to a Federal Reserve estimate. Economists at the Fed’s St. Louis district project total employment reductions of 47 million, which would translate to a 32.1% unemployment rate, according to […]
Trump Authorizes DoD to Bring Reservists and Some Former Troops on Active Duty for COVID-19 Response
March 30th, 2020Up to one million. Via: Military.com: President Donald Trump signed an order Friday allowing the U.S. military to bring members of the selected reserve and some former service members on active duty to support the government’s response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard can now order units […]
