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Inside The US Government's Plan To Survive Nuclear War (While The Rest Of Us Die)

Inside The US Government's Plan To Survive Nuclear War (While The Rest Of Us Die)

Authored by Sadie Dingfelder, originally posted at The Washington Post,

In 2011, a staffer at Washingtonian found a government ID in a Metro parking garage and gave it to Garrett M. Graff (the magazine’s editor-in-chief at the time) to track down its owner. “Since I reported about that world, he figured I’d know what to do with it,” Graff says.

Graff immediately noticed something strange.

US Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier Toward Korean Peninsula

US Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier Toward Korean Peninsula

One month ago, when we first discussed that in addition to the CVN-70 Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group, the US was deploying two more carriers toward the Korean peninsula, some took the Yonhap-sourced report skeptically: after all, what's the incremental symbolic impact of having two aircraft carriers next to North Korea when just one would more than suffice.

Mexico's Crime Wave Spirals Out Of Control As Auto Thefts Surge

Mexico's Crime Wave Spirals Out Of Control As Auto Thefts Surge

For a country that generates roughly 10% of its GDP from tourism, mostly from Americans, Mexico's surging violent crime rates, courtesy of its notoriously brutal drug cartels, is quickly becoming a 'yuge' economic issue.  As we recently noted, more Americans have been killed while traveling abroad in Mexico than any other country, by a staggering margin, no less.  

Source: data.world

 

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