Economic Collapse

Charlie Kaufman Will Write a Superhero Movie (If Asked)

Edit The Wrap 04 Jul 2016

While many — myself included — think of it as a modern classic (Roger Ebert called it the best film of the 2000s), the expensive, intricate film lost money just as the entire industry was buckling down in the wake of that year’s economic collapse. Also Read. Toronto. Charlie Kaufman's 'Anomalisa' Digs Into Human Meaning With Stop-Motion ... It, too, underperformed at the box office ... Also Read ... When the economy collapsed....

The Decline and Fall of the United Kingdom

Edit Newsweek 03 Jul 2016

Like the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fallout from Brexit could have momentous consequences ... Instead of presiding over a period of Russian independence, Boris Yeltsin muddled through a decade of economic collapse and political humiliation ... from Europe institutionally, politically and economically could be as wrenching as pulling apart the USSR....

Washington’s Not-So-Invisible Hand: It’s Not Economics, It’s Empire

Edit CounterPunch 01 Jul 2016

It is Washington that uses engineered capital strikes, commodity price collapse, and debilitating sanctions to cobble together sufficient isolated data points (price of bread, rise in poverty, etc.) to lay the target nation’s economic woes at the foot of imbecile socialists who naturally blaspheme the free market faith by using the heavy hand of the state to steer the economy ... Economic collapse is promised....

By Jason Hirthler

Edit Information Clearing House 01 Jul 2016

It is Washington that uses engineered capital strikes, commodity price collapse, and debilitating sanctions to cobble together sufficient isolated data points (price of bread, rise in poverty, etc.) to lay the target nation’s economic woes at the foot of imbecile socialists who naturally blaspheme the free market faith by using the heavy hand of the state to steer the economy ... Economic collapse is promised....

‘The Purge’ And Election Year Are The New American Horror Story [Video]

Edit Inquisitr 01 Jul 2016

The Purge. Election Year is a fictional horror movie that is about to drop in theaters, but it echoes sentiments of society that are currently taking place ... In ONE WEEK, #KeepAmericaGreat ... ICYMI ... In a society of laws, are there any that put the poor at a disadvantage? In a society of mass-shootings, do the wealthy ever really fall victim? In a society of economic collapse, do the wealthy still survive… and pay themselves big bonuses?....

Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse

Edit New Yorker 30 Jun 2016

If you think times are tough now, just wait until 2029 ... an economic collapse set in motion by the introduction of the bancor, a new global reserve currency meant to replace the dollar on the international market and backed by a coalition of countries led by Russia’s ruler-for-life, Vladimir Putin ... Hello, hyperinflation ... ....

The Millennial Generation Is a Perfect Fit for Socialism

Edit Alternet 30 Jun 2016

Some pundits have been eager to denounce such surveys as momentary aberrations, stemming from the economic crash, or due to lack of knowledge on the part of millennials about the authoritarianism they say is the inevitable result of socialism ... But millennials, in the most positive turn of events since the economic collapse, intuitively understand better ... They question whether “economic growth” should even be the ultimate pursuit....

People Freak Out Over UN Trucks In Virginia

Edit Opposing Views 28 Jun 2016

Conservative websites have been buzzing with conspiracy theories over some United Nations (UN) vehicles that were recently photographed in Lexington, Virginia ... Are these UN troops here preparing for economic collapse in America? Is this related to Iran ships approaching the US border? Is this tied to this warning from John Moore via Susan Duclos ... UPDATE. BREAKING ... is preparing [to respond to] economic collapse in America." ... ....

The 4 Big Takeaways of Brexit That the Media and Pundits Missed

Edit Alternet 28 Jun 2016

for Economic Frustrations ... By the 1990s, when the European Economic Community became a more tightly knit European Union, it too became an agent of neo-liberalism ... In the 1960s, when Europe had full employment, there was little backlash against foreign “guest-workers.” Anti-Semitism was never far below the surface in Europe, but it took the German economic collapse of the 1920s and early 1930s to produce Hitler....

Cooperation of U.S., Russian scientists helped avoid nuclear catastrophe at Cold War’s end, Stanford scholar says (Stanford University)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jun 2016

(Source. Stanford University). By Clifton B. Parker. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the worry in the West was what would happen to that country's thousands of nuclear weapons ... Video by Steve Fyffe ... Economic collapse, political turmoil ... 'The challenge that Russia faced with its economy collapsing was enormous,' he said in an interview ... The U.S ... When the Soviet Union collapsed, the nature of the nuclear threat changed, Hecker said....

Why Brexit Is Tearing British Politics Apart

Edit Slate 28 Jun 2016

Why are we here? ... Oh good Lord, no ... Got it ... So the Conservative government has collapsed and no one knows who’s going to lead the party—right before a possible election ... The Tories will try to convince “Leave” voters that they’ll faithfully implement the will of the people and pull out of the EU—while also trying to convince “Remain” voters, and everyone else worried by the post-referendum economic collapse, that they won’t be too hasty....

Bayonne library to open summer film series with 'The Big Short'

Edit NJ dot com 27 Jun 2016

He, along with banker Jared Vennett, played by Ryan Gosling, hedge fund specialist Mark Baum, played by Steve Carell, as well as other greedy opportunists make a fortune by taking full advantage of the impending economic collapse in America ... 17 ... ....

Are These Military U.N. Trucks In Virginia?

Edit Opposing Views 27 Jun 2016

Military vehicles labeled "UN" have been seen on Virginia highways, inspiring conspiracy theories and causing a stir on social media ... The trucks, which appear to be Alpine Armoring's Pit-Bull VX SWAT Trucks, have "UN" printed on the side, which some have speculated to mean that the trucks belong to the United Nations ... troops here preparing for economic collapse in America? Is this related to Iran ships approaching the U.S ... ....

Illuminati Preparing The Biggest Economic Collapse in 2016 - 2017