How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject: Weekly World News
If you read it in Weekly World News, it must be true.
I was at the grocery store today, and saw this week's cover. It predicts a "second great depression," arriving this July. The picture showed George Bush holding a tin mug in his hands, like one of those '30s "brother can you spare a dime" types. The sub headline said, "You'll never guess who'll be in the soup line."
Quote:
"An economic tsunami is about to slam into America," warned top Wall Street financial analyst Susan Lurkowitz, who has multiple contacts on the council.
"According to the council's projections, 3.2 million Americans will starve to death within the first year of the Second Great Depression -- and 68 million more will perish in the social upheaval spawned as our country falls apart."
No, I don't think the economy will collapse in July, and I certainly don't think President Bush will be in any soup lines. But they may be more right than they know when it comes to the "second great depression" part.
The Council of Economic Advisors has delivered a secret report to President Bush warning that the United States is on the brink of a Second Great Depression, due to arrive in mid-July!
If the report is "secret", how WWN knows about it?
EDIT: I just browsed the site and it's full of fake news. It's worse than rense.com
Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 39 Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject:
Hello there...
Well.... I just Googled "Susan Lurkowitz". And surprise, surprise! Google came up empty, nada, zilch, big goose egg. If she is a big financial analyst why does she not show up? Heck even I show up when I Google myself, and I take great pride on being an absolute nobody.
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3334 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject:
Mo_Oil_Dave wrote:
Hello there...
Well.... I just Googled "Susan Lurkowitz". And surprise, surprise! Google came up empty, nada, zilch, big goose egg. If she is a big financial analyst why does she not show up? Heck even I show up when I Google myself, and I take great pride on being an absolute nobody.
Maybe Google is just having a bad day.
Peace
For all those overseas or just out from under a rock, Weekly World News is agreat fun paper to read, but every item in it is a pun or joke on the news. Nobody but the way out lunatics take anything WWN says as serious, they routinely report "President X of Country Y is really a space alien and we have the pictures to prove it!"
I read it about once a year for humor, never ever ever for news! _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Its the sterotype for tabloid, though it really has little in common with gossip rags like the enquirer. They are put under to same classification, but completely different pubs.
Joined: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 2663 Location: Vancouver Island
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject:
WWN is great. I'd vote for BatBoy as president. And the 50 lb grasshopper picture was classic. _________________ shame on us, doomed from the start
god have mercy on our dirty little hearts
Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 1603 Location: Springsteen Country (NJ)
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:03 pm Post subject:
Leanan wrote:
FWIW, I read the article in the grocery store. They blame the "second great depression" on our runaway debt.
I read WWN while on line in the grocery store too. Does anyone actually buy it? _________________ Joe P. United Political Debate
"Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb
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