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A risky maneuver of the melted Fukushima Daiichi reactor could cause a significant risk for uncontrolled global nuclear radiation, say experts: After repeated delays since the summer of 2011, the Tokyo Electric Power Company has launched a high-risk operation to empty the spent-fuel pool atop Reactor 4 at the Dai-ichi (No.1) Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. […]
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As the crisis forces local governments to seek new sources of revenue, due to a deteriorating financial situation for many of them, facing bankruptcy or worse; local governments are getting creative. Some have imposed strange new taxes, but many have fallen back on the age old industry; gambling. Gambling has had an interesting history in […]
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“Prepping” as it is commonly known, is a community of people who prepare for various kinds of systemic meltdown, whether it be social, financial, planetary (asteroid strike), natural disaster, or EMP event. The idea has gained so much interest it’s nearly an industry in itself, with trade shows attracting vendors and middle class consumers with […]
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President Obama issued an executive order Friday directing a government-wide effort to boost preparation in states and local communities for the impact of global warming. The action orders federal agencies to work with states to build “resilience” against major storms and other weather extremes. For example, the president’s order directs that infrastructure projects like bridges […]
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“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.” – Hendrik Willem van Loon The levels of ignorance are multi-dimensional and diverse, crossing all educational, income, and professional ranks. The stench of ignorance has settled like Chinese toxic smog over […]
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There is a mathematical formula created by a professor at the University of Connecticut which appears to be predicting a huge social shift – and which may explain why we’re in the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis. Professor Peter Turchin has spent years developing a model that uses numbers to explain historical cycles – like […]
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David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation [79], summarizes the last quarter century thus: What has been growing is the wealth of the rich, the remit of the state, the girth of Wall Street, the debt burden of the people, the prosperity of the beltway and the sway of the three great branches of government […]
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The article below is the most comprehensive analysis available of “Obamacare” – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author, a knowledgeable person who wishes to remain anonymous, explains how Obamacare works for the insurance companies but not for you. Obamacare was formulated on the concept of health care as a commercial commodity and […]
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Catastrophic Shocks Through Complex Socio-Economic Systems: A Pandemic Perspective David Korowicz Summary The globalised economy has become more complex (connectivity, interdependence, and speed), de-localized, with increasing concentration within critical systems. This has made us all more vulnerable to systemic shocks. This paper provides an overview of the effect of a major pandemic on the operation […]
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In the early days of artificial intelligence research, it was commonplace for the well-educated academics in the field to (mistakenly) think that being “intelligent” meant being good at things that other well-educated academic researchers struggled at, like playing chess. We now know, however, that it’s far harder to get robots to do things that come […]
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