Thursday 18 April 2019

Headlines - 17 April, 2019

In the next financial panic, GoldMoney founder James Turk tells King World News today, hard assets will be safe and secure but financial assets that are essentially debt instruments may disappear. Turk adds that worldwide debt is becoming overwhelming, and he advocates patience in accumulating undervalued assets.

## Fault lines/flashpoints/powder kegs/military/war drums ##
The U.S. Is Losing Influence In The World’s Biggest Oil Region
The Top Five Special Interests Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela
Think about who gets rich off of the Venezuela regime-change agenda. It’s the same people that said we had to invade Iraq in order to prevent nuclear apocalypse. It’s the same people who said the world would stop turning on its axis if we didn’t carpet bomb Libya and Syria.


## Global unrest/mob rule/angry people/torches and pitchforks ##
Sudan protesters demand 'immediate' civilian rule
Pemex, World’s Most Indebted Oil Company, Gets Government Bailout as Suppliers Gripe About Unpaid Bills
“Once. Only this year. Later on, that’s their problem”: Finance Minister. $3.4 billion in fuel was stolen in 2018, including by insiders. Crackdown now underway.
Plenty of room for more humans, though. -- RF

## Intelligence/security/internet/cyberwar ##

## Julian Assange ##
Last week’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the US Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. It is an attack on our right to know what our government is doing with our money in our name.
VIDEO: How the Pentagon and CIA Push Venezuela Regime-Change Propaganda in Video Games
The US military and CIA launder coup propaganda through popular first-person shooter video games like Call of Duty, simulating assassinations of Venezuela’s socialist leader and sabotage of its electrical infrastructure.CIA Director Used Fake Skripal Incident Photos To Manipulate Trump

## Systemic breakdown/collapse/unsustainability ##
Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation
This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out
Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease.
OECD says Japan's consumption tax rate should be more than doubled
Japan should more than double the consumption tax rate to as high as 26 percent to ensure its fiscal sustainability, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday.
The people at the OECD need to have their heads examined. They certainly don't understand (or won't admit) that industrial civilization is unsustainable. If a consumption tax rate of 26% is needed, it's clearly Game Over. -- RF
Next in Bubble-Crazy China: EV Manufacturing Bubble Faces Getting Bludgeoned
There are now 486 EV manufacturers in China, triple from two years ago. Most will disappear.
And blames the problem on China. -- RF

## US ##
Because the Republicrats and Demopublicans are actually two arms of the War Party. America's dirty little secret is its China-style one-party system. You're voting for whom? The joke's on you! -- RF
Charts and Words...blah blah blah
The Problem: The Fed and major central banks believe they are fighting a deflationary spiral battling ongoing misses to their inflation targets.  But in truth their misguided policies are contributing to a depopulation spiral.

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