By Michael Snyder EndOfTheAmericanDream.com January 21st, 2014 Did you know that 2013 was the driest year ever recorded in the state of California? And did you know that so far this is the driest January that the state of California has ever experienced? The worst drought in the history of California is happening right... »
Archive for January 21st, 2014
Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Bottom Half And The Global Elite Like It That Way
By Michael Snyder TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com January 21st, 2014 Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does? In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do. This shocking statistic comes... »
Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013
By Ali Meyer CNSNews.com January 21, 2014 A record 20% of American households, one in five, were on food stamps in 2013, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The numbers also show that there were a record number of individuals on food stamps in 2013 and that the cost of... »
Guest Post: A System Doomed To Fail
by mickeyman ZeroHedge.com 01/21/2014 The system is doomed to fail, because the resilience of natural complex systems requires freedom of action for its individual components. We do not observe resilient complex systems with central control. Yet central control is the dominant ideology of our present political and economic systems. Total control, with a vanishingly... »
H1N1 spreading in Florida flu ‘epidemic’
BayNews9.com Tuesday, January 21, 2014 WINTER PARK — Health officials are officially calling the rise of flu cases an “epidemic” as a strand of H1N1 — the same type of strain as the so-called “swine flu” that spread nationwide in 2009 — continues to affect two crucial groups: pregnant women and people under 40... »
Utah Police Obtain Grenade Launchers, Riot Gear From Feds
Like FEMA, local police are also preparing for mass panic Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com January 21, 2014 Police departments across Utah have been receiving surplus military gear well-suited for riot control, such as grenade launchers and armored vehicles, through a U.S. Department of Defense program that is far more prevalent than what was previously... »
Airport-Style Security For Super Bowl XLVIII
Super Bowl continues role as poster child for police state Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com January 21, 2014 The Super Bowl’s annual role as a poster child for the police state will continue uninterrupted this year with low flying helicopters, airport-style security and checkpoints throughout New York and New Jersey. “The U.S. National Nuclear... »
Europe Finally Admits A Monetary Union Leads To “Increased Unemployment And Social Hardship”
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 01/21/2014 “The latest review shows how the seeds of the current divergence were already sown in the early years of the euro, as unbalanced growth in some Member States, based on accumulating debt fuelled by low interest rates and strong capital inflows, was often associated with disappointing productivity developments and... »
The Greatest Threat To The Entire Global Financial System
KingWorldNews.com January 21, 2014 With continued uncertainty around the globe, today a man who has been involved in the financial markets for 50 years, and whose business partner is billionaire Eric Sprott, spoke with King World News about the greatest threat to the stability of the entire global financial system. John Embry also discussed... »
EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Water’s Secret Poison: Scientists Race to Identify What Gov. Is Not Testing
By Deborah Dupre BeforeItsNews.com Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Independent scientists are racing Tuesday to identify what the government is not testing, a secret ingredient in the chemical that Freedom Industries leaked into water supplying of 300,000 people, Nalco’s “Crude MCHM’. They are determined to find the ingredient that government is not testing, yet advising... »