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The US economy is falling apart: 18 big signs

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:11 UTC

Virtually every piece of hard economic data is telling us that the U.S. economy is slowing down dramatically. Many of the pundits have been warning that we could officially enter recession territory later this year or next year, but these numbers seem to indicate that it could happen a whole lot sooner than that. But the stock market has been surging over the last two months, and at this point stocks are off to their best start to a year since 1987, and as long as stock prices are rising a lot of people are simply not going to pay much attention to the economic alarm bells that are ringing. But everyone should be paying attention, because things are really starting to get bad out there. The following are 18 really big numbers that show that the U.S. economy is starting to fall apart very rapidly...

#1 Farm loan delinquencies just hit the highest level that we have seen in 9 years.

#2 We just learned that U.S. exports declined by 4 billion dollars during the month of December.

#3 J.C. Penney just announced that they will be closing another 24 stores.

#4 Victoria's Secret has just announced plans to close 53 stores.

Celebrated Girl Power t-shirts made by exploited Bangladeshi women working in sweatshops

RT
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:28 UTC

An 'empowerment' oriented clothing brand has stopped selling its "girl power" T-shirts after a report revealed they were being made by exploited women in a sweatshop in Bangladesh. But at least the cotton they used was organic!

In a case of robbing Patty to pay Pauline, the UK-based F= sold cheap shirts made at DIRD Composite Textiles in Bangladesh in order to raise money for Worldreader, a charity that provides e-books for impoverished children in Africa. The prints themselves were done in the UK.

F= said that there was a "huge demand" for the shirts, even getting celebrity endorsements from TV presenter Holly Willoughby and former Spice Girl Emma Bunton.

Meanwhile, scores of the machinists who actually made the shirts were sacked after they went on strike to protest their paltry wages and horrific working conditions.

Big Brother in the air: Major airlines have cameras in their seat-backs

Huff Post
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:57 UTC

Now there is one more place where cameras could start watching you - from 30,000 feet.

Newer seat-back entertainment systems on some airplanes operated by American Airlines, United Airlines and Singapore Airlines have cameras, and it's likely they are also on planes used by other carriers.

American, United and Singapore all said Friday that they have never activated the cameras and have no plans to use them.

However, companies that make the entertainment systems are installing cameras to offer future options such as seat-to-seat video conferencing, according to an American Airlines spokesman.

A passenger on a Singapore flight posted a photo of the seat-back display last week, and the tweet was shared several hundred times and drew media notice. Buzzfeed first reported that the cameras are also on some American planes.

Comment: Standard operating procedure for a surveillance state. No matter how many people object they will keep pushing their technology.

Philoso-fight! Slavoj Zizek to debate Jordan Peterson in the most anticipated bout of 2019

RT
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:08 UTC

After several months of verbal sparring and rumor, the hotly anticipated debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson has been arranged, with the philosophers scheduled to go tete-a-tete later this year.

Announcing the intellectual bout in a YouTube video on Thursday, the media-savvy Peterson said he would face off against the reclusive Slovenian Marxist in Toronto's Sony Center on April 19. The topic? Happiness: Capitalism versus Marxism.

The philoso-fight comes after Zizek fired the first shots against Peterson during a Cambridge Union event last November. Labeling the Canadian best-selling author as his "enemy," Zizek went on to slam Peterson's ideas as "pseudo-scientific,"and took umbrage with Peterson's obsession with cultural Marxism.

Virginia's first lady ridiculously criticized for "racially inappropriate" mansion tour

WLRN
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:05 UTC

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Virginia first lady Pam Northam is facing criticism after asking Senate pages to imagine being enslaved cotton-pickers during a tour of the Executive Mansion.

Virginia's first lady, Pam Northam, has apologized after aggravating the recent racial scandals begun by her husband, the governor.

During a Feb. 21 tour of the Executive Mansion hosted by the Northams for the 2019 class of Senate pages, Pam Northam allegedly handed out raw cotton to two of the three black students present and asked them to imagine being an enslaved cotton-picker.

In a statement, Northam said she has given the same educational tour for months and "used a variety of artifacts and agricultural crops with the intention of illustrating a painful period of Virginia history."

"I regret that I have upset anyone," she wrote. "I am still committed to chronicling the important history of the Historic Kitchen, and will continue to engage historians and experts on the best way to do so in the future."

The governor's office told the Washington Post that the first lady didn't target the black children present but rather just handed the cotton to whoever was nearby her so they could feel its raw texture and imagine how hard it was to handle all day.

Comment: Call-out culture strikes again with virtue-signalers who have nothing better to do getting themselves worked up in tizzy over absolutely nothing.

'Sanctuary state' California refused to honor over 5,600 ICE detention requests

Immigration Reform Law Institute
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:07 UTC

Roughly half of those arrested by deportation officers have convictions for assault and battery, crimes against children, weapons charges and DUI.

IRLI investigation shows state released detained aliens with previous convictions or pending criminal charges

An investigation by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has revealed that California law enforcement agencies have refused to honor a shocking number of immigration detainer requests for illegal aliens charged with serious felonies, an indictment of the state's deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary laws.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by IRLI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released records regarding law enforcement agencies that failed to honor ICE detainer requests. For a 27 month period ending on December 31, 2017, many California police and sheriff's departments refused to honor over 5,600 immigration holds, of which over 3,400 were classified by ICE as threat level 1 and 2 offenses. These included, but were not limited to, homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, drugs, burglary, and fraud.

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UPS stops delivering to Swedish neighborhood as drivers get attacked in 'no-go zone'

RT
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 18:53 UTC

The American shipping company has reportedly stopped delivering parcels to a notorious neighborhood in Malmo, Sweden, often labeled a "no-go zone," following a wave of attacks on their drivers.

Providing postal services for Rosengard, a neighborhood in the southern city of Malmo, proved to be too dangerous for UPS, according to local media. The revelation came to light after a local man, Marco Padoan, ordered delivery of business cards to his home address.

Instead, he received a UPS message saying they failed to deliver the parcel to the door and diverted it to the company's office in central Malmo. The company that printed out his business cards explained in an email that UPS stopped servicing the area because the drivers risked being exposed to robberies or other crimes.

The postal service itself did not respond to Padoan's queries. However, Sydsvenskan newspaper did manage to get the following confirmation: "Our drivers have been attacked and therefore we have decided not to hand out packages at [the district]."

Cuba snubs Trump's anti-socialist crusade with massive constitution vote

Pablo Vivanco
RT
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 18:00 UTC

Cuba's new Magna Carta reinforces the island's revolutionary model, even as Washington ramps up its efforts against leftist governments in Latin America.

As Cubans lined up to cast their ballots over what is arguably the most significant reform seen by the country in half a century, US officials insisted on dismissing the vote.

"Today, through its forced constitutional referendum, the Communist Party renewed the legal pretext to deny the people of Cuba the change they desire," Kimberly Breier, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, tweeted.

In a densely populated Central Havana neighborhood adjacent to the famed Malecon, Rodolfo Abram begged to differ.

"Voting isn't mandatory, whoever wants to vote, comes of their own volition and votes," said the 57-year-old self-employed worker. "Everyone here votes, for the yes side, for the revolution."

Russia may crack down on Visa and Mastercard over abuse of dominant market position

RT
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:41 UTC

Russia's trade associations have filed a request to the country's antitrust authority on bringing action against international payment systems Visa and Mastercard over alleged abuse of market power in Russia.

The appeal was brought by a group of trade societies, including the Association of Internet Trade Companies, the Retail Companies Association (ACORT), and the Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Electrical Household and Computer Equipment, according to the Federal Antimonopoly Service, as cited by TASS.

The complaint is reportedly focused on interchange fees set by the payment systems.

Pilot dies as ANOTHER plane crashes into condo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Second in one week

Emily Shapiro, Rachel Katz, Jeffrey Cook
ABC News
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:42 UTC

A small plane crashed into a condo building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday, killing the pilot, according to local fire officials.

The plane was a single-engine Piper PA-25 aircraft, which typically only carries one person, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The pilot, who was not identified, was the only person on board, officials said.

Comment: Whoa. Just five days prior, this happened:

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Society's Child

The US economy is falling apart: 18 big signs

Celebrated Girl Power t-shirts made by exploited Bangladeshi women working in sweatshops

Big Brother in the air: Major airlines have cameras in their seat-backs

Philoso-fight! Slavoj Zizek to debate Jordan Peterson in the most anticipated bout of 2019

Virginia's first lady ridiculously criticized for "racially inappropriate" mansion tour

'Sanctuary state' California refused to honor over 5,600 ICE detention requests

UPS stops delivering to Swedish neighborhood as drivers get attacked in 'no-go zone'

Cuba snubs Trump's anti-socialist crusade with massive constitution vote

Russia may crack down on Visa and Mastercard over abuse of dominant market position

Pilot dies as ANOTHER plane crashes into condo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Second in one week

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