Tuesday 22 January 2019

Headlines - 01/22/2019

Rick Davis

 to Davis
## Global Ponzi meltdown/House of Cards/global cooling/deflationary collapse ##
Visualizing The Snowball Of Global Government Debt
4 Months of Carmageddon in the EU Wipe Out Gains for 2018
Small electric cars may be unaffordable for some: VW chairman to newspaper
The move to electric vehicles will make cars significantly more expensive, meaning they may 
become unaffordable for people on low incomes in the future, the chairman of Volkswagen said in an interview published on Sunday.


## Fault lines/flashpoints/powder kegs/military/war drums ##
Army’s long-awaited Iraq war study finds Iran was the only winner
At last the US defense establishment has officially admitted what everyone knew from the 
beginning. -- RF
Talk of Western intervention in the Black Sea is pure fantasy
Crimea is essential to Russia strategically and economically, but speculation over Ankara 
helping to boost the US presence in the Black Sea is far-fetched given Turkey's energy deals with Moscow.
Morrison misconnects across the South Pacific
Australian leader's recent tour of Fiji and Vanuatu fell mostly flat and likely did little to break 
China's firming grip on the region.

## Migrants/refugees ##
The remains of 127 dead migrants were recovered in southern Arizona in 2018

## Global unrest/mob rule/angry people/torches and pitchforks ##
Zimbabwe again forces 'total internet shutdown' amid unrest

## Energy/resources ##
Low Oil Prices Are Not The Only Problem For The Permian
While low oil prices are beginning to slow the growth of U.S. shale, in the years ahead oil and 
gas drilling could be curtailed by a different problem: a shortage of water.
Not everyone is convinced hydrogen power will prove viable, however. Tesla CEO Elon Musk 
Is fond of calling the technology "fool cells," and he isn't the only critic. Skeptics note that 
there is no ready source of hydrogen and no distribution network as there is for either electricity or diesel fuel.
Top Reasons to Support Groundwater Preservation
Water scarcity is getting worse around the world as aquifers are drained faster than they can 
be refilled. The most significant contributor to the problem is industrial farming, due to its 
heavy use of potable water for irrigation.
Europe’s new-generation nuclear plants stagger over the start line
Years late and massively over-budget, Europe’s first EPR nuclear plants in Finland and 
France are on the verge of “energizing”, as the sector jargon goes.

The Rhine waterway, critical to moving coal, car parts, food and thousands of other goods, 
New Zealand's clean, green image took a beating this summer as tourists travelling through 
the countryside posted pictures of lakes and rivers off limits due to contamination by farm 
effluent, garbage and human faeces.
They Spy with Their Little Eye
The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network,” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand.
Seymour Hersh: George H.W. Bush Team Leaked To Media To Reveal CIA's Iran-Contra Affair
This Is The Reason Smart TVs Are So Cheap 
A significant reason why a smart TV, or perhaps a new 65-inch 4K smart TV with HDR capability, can be purchased for about $500, is because some manufacturers are harvesting data from users.
To block certain gun sales, banks and credit card companies determined they'd need to 
require retailers to give even more information so they could see the difference between, say, 
someone buying a semiautomatic rifle and someone purchasing a vacuum cleaner.  Getting 
Into the censorship business, as it turns out, takes a lot of Big Brother data.

## Propaganda/censorship/fake news/alternative facts ##
The revelation is not merely an embarrassment to some factions within the British intelligence 
community, but represents a glimpse into the inner workings of the propaganda machine that 
keeps the plutocratic class in control of the public.
Netflix and Hotstar will now be self-censoring some of their content in India
Don't think this concerns only people in Venezuela. When the SHTF, a city anywhere in the 
world will suddenly transform into a hornets' nest. -- RF
The Price of Empire
Why America and Britain Are Self-Destructing (And What the World Can Learn From it)


## China ##
Even if the second-largest economy resolves the current slowdown, it will remain mired in a 
debt-driven slump.
"Debt-driven slump"? Sounds just like some other countries I know. -- RF

## UK ##
Rising Credit-Card Use Shows Consumers Are Strapped
Americans are increasingly reaching for the plastic in their wallets to cover what their paychecks won’t.
Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?
While a noisy Supreme Court fight captivated America last fall, an obscure federal accounting 
body quietly approved a system of classified money-moving

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