Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Is the retail apocalypse in the United States about to go to a whole new level?
That is a frightening thing to consider, because the truth is that things are already quite bad. We have already shattered the all-time record for store closings in a single year and we still have the rest of November and December to go.
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
My personal Facebook account, which has the maximum 5,000 friends and an additional 5,000+ followers, has been blocked from posting for three days.
My page hasn’t been blocked yet, but we’ll see; I shared the article there, too.
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
If we felt empowered in daily life, would we be so enamored of superheroes constantly saving our world from destruction?
Via CaseyResearch.com,
“America is a marvelous idea, a unique idea, fantastic idea. I’m extremely pro-American. But America has ceased to exist.”
Longtime readers will recognize this. It’s one of Doug Casey’s more memorable quotes.
I’m sharing it with you today because Doug said something last week that touched on this radical idea. He said the United States could break apart due to racial tensions.
Yang Xiadou is the Party’s number two man in Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption in the Chinese Communist Party – although some have seen this, in part, as a convenient way for Xi to bolster his power base.