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Over 100 Americans Killed In Washington State Landslide And Near Zero Headlines For Three Days In MSM

The beautiful but dangerous landscape of Washington State

It is amazing how much is being kept out of the news these days.  Hysterical reports of us all roasting to death make headlines constantly while a landslide in Washington that probably killed over 100 people makes near zero headlines with the Hopes for Washington mudslide survivors fade after more bodies are pulled from debris | Mail Online being the first to speculate that many died there.  It is a strange feeling, seeing so-called news services failing to inform us about life and death issues while whining about computer projections based on erroneous assumptions making headlines and occupying the brains of our oligarch rulers who want desperately to tax our energy consumption.

 

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High Risk Pro Skiers Killed In Avalanche: How Our Banking System Destroys Itself

Miss Risky and Miss Safety and the Bank Wizard argue

The NYT has a very interesting article about a group of exotic, hard-living ski experts and sales people who stupidly decided to ski in the wild country rather than at a ski resort area and ended up causing an avalanche that killed several of these pros.  What struck me the most was the various comments they made to the writer.  They sounded exactly like the bankers and dealers who destroyed our banking system by taking grotesque risks which are well known to be very destructive during previous asset and lending bubbles. Continue reading

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