Friday, 7 November 2014

Headlines

## Global Ponzi meltdown/House of Cards ##
After Oslo, Norway, bowed out in early October, only two cities remain in the race to become the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics: 2008 Summer Olympics host Beijing and the considerably lesser-known Almaty, Kazakhstan.

## Airline Death Spiral ##

## Fault lines/flashpoints/powder kegs/military/war drums ##
The Kurdish Peshmerga were making some gains against ISIS in late September and early October, backed by US warplanes. The gains began to reverse with an ISIS counteroffensive in mid-October.
A Saudi citizen suspected of organizing the attack on Shiite worshipers in the oil-rich Eastern Province returned from fighting in Iraq and Syria, according to Saudi-owned newspapers.
"There's a sizable portion of the (Iranian) political elite that cut their teeth on anti-Americanism. Whether they can manage to say 'yes' is an open question," Obama said Wednesday.
That's just absolutely shocking. I cannot imagine why Iranian political elites would "cut their teeth on anti-Americanism." Can you? -- RF

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

## Energy/resources ##
Waste of time. -- RF
African maritime boundary disputes are expected to rise dramatically, potentially curbing exploration and creating uncertainty in ownership over tens of billions of barrels of oil, industry experts say.

## Got food? ##

## Environment/health ##
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $6 billion to fight Ebola both in the United States and in West Africa, administration officials said Wednesday. If he got the money, it would be an overwhelming boost to the U.S. efforts to fight the virus, which has infected at least 13,000 people and which is killing 70 percent of them.
A new study says hydraulic fracturing and other new energy-extraction techniques are emitting vapors of toxic chemicals, poisoning not only nearby underground and surface water, as was already suspected, but also fouling the atmosphere.
The absurdity of taxing us to health is obvious.

## Intelligence/propaganda/security/internet/cyberwar ##
We should not have to channel surf worried that the TV is recording our behavior for the benefit of advertisers and police.

## Systemic breakdown/collapse/unsustainability ##

## Japan ##

## China ##

## UK ##

## US ##

And finally...

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