Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Headlines

## Global Ponzi meltdown/House of Cards ##
On 19th May 2014, the European Central Bank and 20 other European central banks announced the signing of the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement. This agreement, which applies as of 27 September 2014, will last for five years and the signatories have stated that they currently do not have any plans to sell significant amounts of gold.

## Airline Death Spiral ##
Experts have warned that enhanced screening is unlikely to stop Ebola arriving in Britain and will bring 'huge disruption' to travellers

## Fault lines/flashpoints/powder kegs/military/war drums ##
America’s plans to fight Islamic State are in ruins as the militant group’s fighters come close to capturing Kobani and have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.
NATO allies Turkey and the United States differed Monday on where they stand on the use of a key air base, with Turkish officials denying reports from the United States that there was a new agreement on its use for operations against Islamic State militants.
Stuart Bowen, who investigated corruption in Iraq, says US and Iraqi governments ignored appeals to recover money

## Global unrest/mob rule/angry people/torches and pitchforks ##

## Energy/resources ##

## Infrastructure scavenging ##

## Got food? ##

## Environment/health ##
A state judge signed an order Monday temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim's belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site.
This is looking more and more like a zombie apocalypse in the making. It's no wonder the US government is recommending that citizens prepare for one. -- RF

## Intelligence/propaganda/security/internet/cyberwar ##
After an avalanche of data breaches, South Korea's national identity card system has been raided so thoroughly by thieves that the government says it might have to issue new ID numbers to every citizen over 17 at a possible cost of billions of dollars.
"We roughly know who they are. If we can take them out of the equation, then the rest will fall down," Troels Oerting, the head of the Europol Cybercrime Centre, told BBC's Tech Tent radio program.
You bet! As everyone knows, the War on Drugs, War on Poverty, and War on Terror have all been spectacularly successful. So we know the War on Cybercrime will be a similar success. -- RF
The National Science Foundation earlier this month awarded a $4.8 million grant to a coalition of prominent research universities aiming to build a massive repository for storing, sharing, and analyzing the information students generate when using digital learning tools.
Why is this important? Read Glenn Greenwald's commentary to find out. -- RF

## Systemic breakdown/collapse/unsustainability ##

## Japan ##

## China ##

## UK ##

## US ##
Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly facing a new foreclosure nightmare: debt collectors are chasing them down for the money they still owe by freezing their bank accounts, garnishing their wages and seizing their assets.

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