Mapped: The United States of Debt

by howmuch Is there a state debt problem in the U.S.? A major part of President Biden’s $1.9T economic stimulus package is $350B in direct aid to states. The idea is that states need additional revenue to deal with the pandemic and supplement their …

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How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps

by Charles Hugh-Smith The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies. There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, …

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THE NEW NORMAL: The United States Government Will Be Installing Full Facial Recognition Scanning Machines In America’s Top 20 Airports

by Geoffrey Grider In March 2017, President Trump issued an executive order expediting the deployment of biometric verification of the identities of all travelers crossing US borders. That mandate stipulates facial recognition identification for “100 percent of all international passengers,” including American citizens, in …

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