Category Archives: Collapse of America

No social contract lasts forever. If government doesn’t last forever, what’s forever for?

War Games

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Vladimir Putin has cleared his schedule without an obvious reason. Stephen Cohen has made it increasingly clear that Putin feels he has little option but to directly engage the United States in directly military confrontation, because of both Syria and … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Global Instability, War and not War, War in Europe | 7 Comments

Would Trump quit after winning the election?

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Fred Stiening

NY Times (subscription) Presented in a recent interview with a scenario, floating around the political ether, in which the presumptive Republican nominee proves all the naysayers wrong, beats Hillary Clinton and wins the presidency, only to forgo the office as … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 election, Donald Trump | 1 Comment

Excitement at Infowars

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Alex Jones has said a number of times that the border patrol is being forced to help illegals invade the country. They are loaded onto buses and transported to locations run by the Democratic Party for resettlement (probably handed their … Continue reading →

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Oil industry needs to hire 600,000 workers

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Fred Stiening

According to Bloomberg, http://bloom.bg/29jlIrI The oil industry is facing a crisis – a large portion of the existing work force in the oil business is hitting retirement age about the same time. While young people have been learning how to … Continue reading →

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Doing the Macarena in Hooters in China on Christmas Day

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Fred Stiening

From the totally random department… https://youtu.be/qb3_Yzr-WVE The guy in this video is a Canadian who speaks fluent Chinese and wanders around trying food in local markets and an occasional restaurant. The people in China are not used to seeing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Global Instability | 7 Comments

Hillary Obama does Charlotte

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Fred Stiening

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article87726277.html Picture 11 of 41 is my favorite. Source: Dan Merica @ Twitter Consider for a moment that Democratic Party registration in the City of Charlotte is about 70% black. This crowd … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 election, Hillary Clinton | 14 Comments

The lie of “peak oil”

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Fred Stiening

The financial times of London is reporting the results of a global survey of oil reserves http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7525f1dc-41d6-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1.html The report estimates the world’s oil reserves at 2.1 trillion barrels, which is 70 years of production at current levels. In 1979, President … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Supply, Global Instability, US Economic Recovery | 8 Comments

Loretta Lynch meets with Bill Clinton to not have sex

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton, and husband of Presidential almost nominee Hillary Clinton at the airport in Phoenix, presumably to discuss recipes for fried catfish. http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/06/gross-appearance-of-impropriety-in-ag-lynch-private-meeting-with-bill-clinton/ The Democratic Convention in Philadelphia to coronate Queen Hillary … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 election, American Politics, Collapse of America, Hillary Clinton | 4 Comments

Puerto Rico defaults on GO bonds

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Financial advice radio host Bob Brinker used to say “no state has ever defaulted on General Obligation Bonds – don’t worry!”. That’s technically still true since Puerto Rico is not a state (yet). http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/01/investing/puerto-rico-defaults-general-obligation-bonds/index.html General Obligation Bonds are debt that … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Collapse of America, Global Instability | 6 Comments

Is Don King the new face of the Republican Party?

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Fred Stiening

You may remember him – the boxing promoter with the big head of hair… It’s a fact that if Republicans talked half of black Americans to return home to the party that ended Slavery and Jim Crow, Donald Trump would … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 election, American Politics, Donald Trump | 3 Comments