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  "Modern Economy Rests On Single Road" In North Carolina Where Hurricane Collapsed Bridges  by Tyler Durden In March, a Wharton professor who studies artificial intelligence and start-ups claimed on X,  "The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina . The road runs to the two  mines that are the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers ."  Ethan Mollick noted at the time, " There are no alternative sources known " if supply disruptions were seen in Spruce Pines.  Fast-forward to this past weekend across the Western North Carolina area, where a  major disaster continues to unfold  after tropical system Helene dumped torrential rains and unleashed devastating floods that  pulverized entire towns , destroyed roads, highways, and bridges, and left tens of thousands without power.  Back to Mollick. He shared with his followers a detaile...

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this article... The Trigger For WWIII Just Arrived – What Are The Implications For Americans? By Brandon Smith If the year of 2024 has proven anything so far, it’s that our worries about the potential outbreak of WWIII are absolutely reasonable. The skeptics making accusations of “conspiracy theory” and “doom and gloom” have been proven wrong yet again. The geopolitical atmosphere is turning sour fast. I still don’t think a lot of people realize how truly volatile the situation is globally right now. From my point of view, WWIII has already begun, at least in economic terms. Let’s not forget the fact that Ukraine is essentially a proxy for all of NATO against Russia. And, the situation in the Middle East is about to become much worse. Because of the alliances involved and the fragile nature of global energy exports there is a danger of systemic collapse should a wider war break out between Israel and multiple Arab nations. It appears that such...

  Deindustrial Warfare: A First Reconaissance January 31, 2024 John Michael Greer Leave a comment This January has five Wednesdays, and in the usual way of this blog, the fifth Wednesday gets an essay on whatever topic the readers select by vote. As usual, it was a lively contest, but this time one of the perennial underdogs—warfare in the deindustrial age—came out on top. That didn’t surprise me greatly.  The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have been on many minds recently, not least because neither of them has been working out the way that our politicians and pundits insisted they would. A genuine revolution in military affairs is taking place right now, and no, it’s not the one that was so loudly ballyhooed in intellectual circles a couple of decades back. The claim in the 1990s was that computer technology had opened the way to a new kind of war, in which information would flow from the battlefield to headquarters and back, giving commanders total control over hypercom...

  How Yemen’s 'Asabiyya' Is Reshaping Geopolitics PEPE ESCOBAR The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza. When there is a general change of conditions, It is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered, as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew. — Ibn Khaldun Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance forces have made it very clear, right from the start, that they set up a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb and the southern Red Sea only against Israeli-owned or destined shipping vessels. Their single objective was and remains to stop the Gaza genocide perpetrated by the  Israeli biblical psychopathy . As a response to a morally-based call to end a human genocide, the ...