Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Federal Workers Owe Billions in Unpaid Taxes
January 18th, 2007HA! Via: WTOP: As the 2006 tax season approaches, the federal government is still trying to recover nearly $3 billion from its own employees who failed to file income tax returns for 2005. More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, […]
Path to Freedom and the California Frost Disaster
January 17th, 2007UPDATE: Help Path to Freedom * * * Path to Freedom was the early inspiration for the life I’m now living. Sadly, the Dervaes have suffered terrible losses as a result of the freakish Arctic blasts that have recently hit California. I emailed them, asking how we can help; if there was a link to […]
Venezuelan Stock Market and Currency Collapse
January 11th, 2007The wheels are coming off the cart. The New World Order is going to look like every-man-for-himself for the foreseeable future. HA! Chávez should demand payment for oil in gold, and then back a new currency with that gold. Can you imagine how fast the U.S. bombers would be scrambled? Via: Times Online: Venezuela’s stock […]
Mexican Army Disarms Tijuana Police
January 9th, 2007That thing is D O W N. And it’s all happening within sight of the United States. Via: TVNZ: Local police patrolled without their guns in Mexico’s tough border city of Tijuana on Saturday after soldiers disarmed them to check if the weapons had been used in drug gang crimes. In the latest stage of […]
Iran Threatens to Block Strait of Hormuz
January 9th, 2007If you haven’t read The Strait of Hormuz: It’s Not That Bad, It’s Worse, it might be worth checking out now. Additionally, when oil was trading near record highs, I wrote that oil could, “Easily go to $45 before it goes to $200.” Oil is now trading around $55. Could the world go from relatively […]
The Private Arm of the Law
January 4th, 2007Yes, corporate pigs. Via: Washington Post: With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special […]
Work Outside D.C.’s Primary Blast Radius
December 27th, 2006Via: Washington Post: Winchester and its neighbors along Interstate 81 in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley have much to recommend themselves to potential employers, including a low cost of living, access to a major highway and views of the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains. More recently, though, the area has been successfully trumpeting another attribute: It is just […]
Nigeria: Hundreds of Fuel Scavengers Die in Blast
December 26th, 2006Fuel shortages in Nigeria, one of the most oil rich countries in the world… Meanwhile, in other news, the CEO of Exxon got a $2.8 million bonus and a raise. And GM squeals about a fuel efficiency law that mandates a pathetic increase in overall mileage of their fleet. Via: CNN: At least 200 people […]
Waiting for the Government to Save Us?
December 23rd, 2006Worried about savage city people invading your lifestyle block, hobby farm or remote compound? It’s not going to happen. In fact, the savage city people who are buying up rural property lately will most likely stay home; in the city. The reality is that nearly everybody in the cities will stay where they are and […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $20
December 21st, 2006KL sent $20. Thanks KL! All recent contributions are going toward paying my New Zealand immigration fees! And buying another backup shovel. I broke the handle on my primary shovel the other day. I wasn’t even working the thing very hard. When it snapped, the handle wasn’t bent much, and it broke cleanly and suddenly […]
