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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.
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Airline Death Spiral ##
Experts
have warned that enhanced screening is unlikely to stop
Ebola arriving in Britain and will bring 'huge disruption'
to travellers
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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
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Global unrest/mob rule/angry people/torches and pitchforks ##
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Energy/resources ##
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Infrastructure scavenging ##
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Got food? ##
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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
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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
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Systemic breakdown/collapse/unsustainability ##
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Japan ##
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China ##
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UK ##
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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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