Kunstler: America Is “A Headless Horseman Riding Blindly Into Chaos” | ZeroHedge

Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

The Shadow of the Shadow

You have to wonder: has there ever been a country that marched off to war with no head-of-state at the top of its war machine? It’s exactly that bad in our country, with a broken animatronic Halloween scarecrow popping in-and-out of the White House to yell incoherently at election campaign events for a putative successor too scared of the predicament she’s in to think straight. Really, no one is in charge — and if any (more…)

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Votes For 3rd-Party Presidential Candidates Won’t Count: Georgia Supreme Court | ZeroHedge

Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,

Votes in Georgia for third-party presidential candidates Cornel West, an independent, and Claudia De la Cruz, a socialist, will not count because the two are not qualified to appear on the ballot, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled unanimously on Sept. (more…)

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IMF: Carbon Taxes Hurt The Poor; Also The IMF: We Need A Global Carbon Tax | ZeroHedge

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,

File between “No Sh*t Sherlock” and “You Don’t Say?”

The IMF’s “Chart of the Week” just dropped, promising a glimpse into how carbon taxes can be “less regressive”, “socially fair” and “economically efficient”.

Citing a new research paper, the chart of the week comes from research findings that carbon taxes inordinately penalize the poors,

Finding that low-income households pay anywhere between (more…)

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