Friday, 5 December 2014

Headlines

## Global Ponzi meltdown/House of Cards ##

## Airline Death Spiral ##

## Fault lines/flashpoints/powder kegs/military/war drums ##
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday demanding that Israel "renounce possession of nuclear weapons" and open its arms to global regulation.

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

## Energy/resources ##
Crude sold at the wellhead in the Bakken shale region in North Dakota fell to $49.69 a barrel on Nov. 28, according to the marketing arm of Plains All American (PAA) Pipeline LP. That’s down 47 percent from this year’s peak in June, and 29 percent less than the $70.15 paid for Brent, the global benchmark.
The United States is banking on decades of abundant natural gas to power its economic resurgence. That may be wishful thinking.

## Infrastructure scavenging ##

## Got food? ##

## Environment/health ##

## Intelligence/propaganda/security/internet/cyberwar ##

## Systemic breakdown/collapse/unsustainability ##

## Japan ##

## China ##

## UK ##
The chancellor, George Osborne, set out dramatic plans to move Britain from the red into the black that will see public spending as a percentage of GDP fall to its lowest level since the 1930s and could require cuts in non-protected departments such as police, local government and justice amounting to a further £60bn by 2019-20.

## US ##

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