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https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/addicted-debt
Why is Sears closing stores in Canada when Dollar stores are opening new locations?
Dhuuuu!
Middle class workers do not have enough money left over from their paychecks after their monthly loans payments.
That well is going dry in the middle of the summer, and without any resolution to the debt ceiling debate, the country will not be able to borrow more to pretend that it’s solvent.
Is printing called borrowing?
Can anyone smell what hit the fan?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-40321287
UN refugee agency: Record 65.6 million people displaced worldwide
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Syrians fleeing conflict account for 12 million of the world’s displaced people
A record 65.6 million people are either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced across the globe, the UN refugee agency said.
The estimated figure for the end of 2016 is an increase of 300,000 on 2015, according to its annual report.
It is a smaller increase than 2014-15, when the figure rose by five million.
But the UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi said it was still a disheartening failure of international diplomacy.
“The world seems to have become unable to make peace,” Mr Grandi said.
“So you will see old conflicts that continue to linger, and new conflicts erupting, and both produce displacement… forced displacement is a symbol for wars that never end.”
Uganda: The ‘best place’ to be a refugee?
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The village of Bidi Bidi has been transformed into one of the world’s largest refugee settlements
In 2016, some 340,000 people fled the violence in South Sudan into neighbouring Uganda. That was more than any other country – even more than the 200,000 people estimated to have fled Syria.
Just 36 hours after crossing the border by a simple wooden plank bridge, refugees are given a small plot of land and the materials they need to start growing their own food.
A year ago, the village of Bidi Bidi was just that, but now it is one of the biggest refugee settlements in the world – home to more than a quarter of a million people and covering 250 square kilometres.
The wooden bridge between death and safety
Uganda: ‘One of the best places to be a refugee’
A woman’s world for South Sudanese refugees
The UN said it hoped Monday’s record breaking numbers of displaced would encourage wealthy countries to think again: not just to accept more refugees, but to invest in peace promotion, and reconstruction.
Mr Grandi also warned of the burden being placed on many of the world’s poorest states, as some 84% of the world’s displaced people are living in poor and middle income countries.
“How am I to ask countries with far less resources, in Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia, to take millions of refugees if the richer countries are refusing to do so?” he said.
The world’s displaced people – in numbers
There are 65.6 million displaced people in the world – more people than live in the UK. Of these:
22.5 million are refugees
40.3 million are displaced in their own country
2.8 million are seeking asylum
Where do the refugees come from?
Syria: 5.5 million*
Afghanistan: 2.5 million
South Sudan: 1.4 million
Who is hosting the refugees?
Turkey: 2.9 million
Pakistan: 1.4 million
Lebanon: 1 million
Iran: 979,4000
Uganda: 940,800
Ethiopia: 791,600
*Another 6.3 million Syrians are internally displacedIt’s time for a joke …
She will stop printing so slow, in the background, that you won’t even notice the lack. Of money.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-14/feds-balance-sheet-reduction-schedule-yellens-words
Keep pretending. Keep printing. Our economic system need the cash flow from the money tree.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-12/record-wealth-america-72-us-businesses-are-not-profitable
The crime of our times. There’s nobody to stop it.
It’s too late to stop the cash flow.
If the money tree stops making money …
If worthless assets are not used to get money from the money tree …
Any one who believe that the socio/economic situation will be better than Greece, or maybe will it be better than a war zone is not living on this planet.
Don’t stop the cash flow.
I took the time to read the comments of the article and I agree the most with the following ….
Is there a magic money tree?…………..Yes, but its exists only for the benefit of the 1% of the population who own mostly all the wealth.
If I had the power to make a magic money tree, I would not use an helicopter to give everyone money …. Unless the majority of the benefits ended with ME.
Hummmm That sounds like the way our social/economic system is presently structured.
Gov. and Banks, all over the world, print and loan money.
What do we, in the west, call loans with pretend collateral?
China calls it ghost-collateral.
So said the boiling frog:
Now that the USA has Trump, you now have a good idea of how a social/economic revolution would progress in the USA.
The majority of people sleep in the dark.
All kinds of activities flourish in the dark.
TAE is spotlighting the dark activities of our societies.
Predators flourish in the dark.property managers, service providers, loan providers, insurance providers are the none traditional scammers of the following class of people.
uneducated …
Overmedicated …
Mentally challenged …
Low income …
Isolated …The Retirees
When the shit hits the fan, people don’t give up hope.????
Received: September 10, 2015 Accepted: October 19, 2015 Published: November 10, 2016
Fentanyl-related cases. The situation in Greece
Results: Eight cases, lethal or not, have been recorded the last 4 years in Greece, where fentanyl blood concentration was found up to 22.7 ng mL. Five of the cases concerned the therapeutic use of fentanyl, and three were related to abuse of the drug. Furthermore, six of these cases concerned fentanyl transdermal patches.
What happens when the shit hits the fan?
What should I do/prepare for when the shit hits the fan?I don’t know!
Ask the Greeks.I’m really ignorant about the softwood lumber.
If the USA imposes a 20% cost, who pays it?
I was under the impression that the consumer always pays?
Why would the seller absorb the cost increase?
If the seller cannot make money on the sale of the soft wood, why would they keep selling?
Duhhhh!This sound like the Mexican import border tax … The USA consumer pays the higher price.
/trump-said-to-plan-20-tariff-on-canadian-softwood-lumber
The $C is already at a 30% disadvantage.
Don’t give away the lumber.
Don’t negotiate.
Sell more lumber to China.Therefore, Canada should charge 20%, or match the charge by the USA, on all the companies selling lumber to the USA.
Use the money collected to help the lumber workers.
Shopping centers are closing … Investors won’t be able to go on a vacation
Businesses cannot pay their increase in rent … Owners won’t be able to go on a vacation
Shoppers are being ask to pay more for less … Shoppers won’t be able to go on a vacationI hit the wall and bought a haircutting kit for $20.00
With the money saved because I cut my hair, I’m planning to go on a cheap vacation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
Sarin without the residual acid removed degrades after a period of several weeks to several months. The shelf life can be shortened by impurities in precursor materials. According to the CIA, some Iraqi sarin had a shelf life of only a few weeks, owing mostly to impure precursors.
Sarin has a high volatility (ease with which a liquid can turn into a gas) relative to similar nerve agents, therefore inhalation can be very dangerous and even vapor concentrations may immediately penetrate the skin. A person’s clothing can release sarin for about 30 minutes after it has come in contact with sarin gas, which can lead to exposure of other people.[28]
Did anyone hear of any exposure that caused the death to birds, cats, dogs, rats, or any domestic animals?
Were there any samples taken of soil etc. to prove that sarin was used?
What should I think? Bad investigating and reporting or just plain propaganda.
With today’s modern medicine …..
Women have many other ways of avoiding producing starving babies.
Patricia,
I’ll be able to answer your question after I figure out why women continue to have babies when they cannot get enough food for themselves.“For a continent that has been at war with itself for 10 centuries and only managed to play nice for the last 30 or so years, it’s foolish to expect these bailouts to last forever.”
The EU continent is trying to figure out a different population control (extermination) and generational wealth transfer mechanism (stealing).
The best metaphor I can think of is: Austerity is like bloodletting in the Middle Ages, only with a lower success rate.
Who should operate the knife/printing press?
I find that the printing press is bleeding me to death.
I glad that I’m not in Greece and even more lucky not to be in Yemen.
There are too many organization helping to solve the Yemen “problems”
(There must be undeveloped secret oil field as a prize for all the help)20m The number of people in need throughout Yemen
1m Internally displaced people since the conflict began
1,976 Registered deaths resulting from conflict
8,034 Registered injuries resulting from conflict
12m People who have become food insecure since the escalation of conflict
The desperate shortage of food, water and medical supplies raises urgent questions over US and UK support for the Arab coalition’s intervention in the Yemeni civil war since March. Washington provides logistical and intelligence supportthrough a joint planning cell established with the Saudi military, who are leading the campaign. London has offered to help the Saudi military effort in “every practical way short of engaging in combat”.
It’s worth repeating.
Because the CIA has acquired the capability, both through hacking Russian files and through coding, to leave ‘footprints’ that make it look like the Russians left them. And the only ‘proof’ there ever was for all these accusations was based on these footprints.
“The “shortage” has made local home owners wealthy overnight, but it comes at the cost of turning lively cities into empty shells.”
Hehehe
…. Filled with homeless people who are bad renters.
China has cities with less than 10% occupancy.income divorced from work- already exists. It is called capital income.
It’s also called… Welfare …. Pension ….. Disability income … Unemployment income …. Gambling …. Stock market … interest …. dividends … Debt slavery
Those that are falling through the cracks need a minimum living income
Therefore, what are you promoting for a solution?
Massive starvation and death or The universal basic income
Remember it’s zero sum
@Dr. D.
Thomas Paine neglects to observe that for a man to eat and not work, another man must work and not eat.Therefore, you must be promoting massive starvation and death.
income divorced from work- already exists. It is called capital income.
It’s also called… Welfare …. Pension ….. Disability income … Unemployment income …. Gambling …. Stock market … interest …. dividends … Debt slavery
Those that are falling through the cracks need a minimum living income
The universal basic income
income divorced from work- already exists. It is called capital income.
It’s also called… Welfare …. Pension ….. Disability income … Unemployment income …. Gambling …. Stock market … Debt slavery
Those that are falling through the cracks need a minimum living income
<>The universal basic income
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-01/prominent-hedge-fund-trader-jumps-his-death-manhattan
someone is stealing your money
ZerosumDuh!!!!!
I told you … Keep your eyes open … Someone is stealing your money
Today, I’m listening to the “experts” trying to make the “Americans” believe that the gov. is not going to increase the speed of the printing press.
Old fart advise:
Keep your eyes open. 60% of the population are living pay check to pay check. There is a major push to transfer/steal the wealth of the old farts that are over medicated, senile, and wearing diapers.
