Feudalism

Dystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell's "1984" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias—for example, Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games," Veronica Roth's "Divergent," Lois Lowry's classic, "The Giver" – were best-sellers even before. And with COVID-19, dystopias featuring diseases have taken on…

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Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank It was another risk-off day in Asia with stocks generally down and oil prices most decidedly so. WTI was trading at USD10.89 at the time of writing when it started the year at around USD60, and Brent at USD18.89 when it began around USD64.…

For nearly a century, Los Angeles’ urban form has infuriated urbanists who prefer a more concentrated model built around a single central core.Yet, in the COVID-19 pandemic, our much-maligned dispersed urban pattern has proven a major asset. Los Angeles and its surrounding suburbs have had a considerable number of cases,…

by Amy S.   The Banks are in trouble because people are defaulting on their loans. If people aren’t earning as much money as they were when they were working, especially small businesses, they’re not paying their loans. So, the banks are not getting interest payments. They’re getting defaults. In fact,…

Skip to comments. Peru: riot police block highway as people attempt to flee amid lockdown Guardian ^ | 4/20/20 | Dan Collyns Posted on 04/20/2020 4:49:12 PM PDT by Libloather Riot police in Peru have blockaded a major highway and fired teargas into crowds of people attempting to flee the…

The answer to the question is “YES.”  The large bailed-out creditors will end up with the property of the non-bailed-out debtors who are being pushed deeper into debt with “bail-out loans” and fees and penalties for missed debt payments. Write-offs for the One Percent, and more indebtedness for everyone else.…

Skip to comments. Bill Maher: Media’s Coronavirus ‘Panic Porn’ Is Going To Get Trump Re-Elected dailywire,com ^ Posted on 04/18/2020 11:08:56 AM PDT by Conserv Bill Maher went off on the media Friday night during his show “Real Time” on HBO, saying that they need to cut back on their…

On 13 March Xi Jinping dusted off his Maoist vocabulary textbook and called on the Chinese people to wage a “People’s War” against Covid-19. China's leader appeared resolute for the television cameras despite confronting an unprecedented crisis coming immediately after a tumultuous year.  “The trade war with America has hit everyone,” Xue Ye,…

Photo: author’s private collection. A few weeks ago, a German women did something illegal. She bought a book called 1984 in a local bookstore. The bookseller was crying because he had not seen a customer for ages. Just a few months ago, these three rather unassuming sentences would have been…