The world is exploding in protests

Everyone around the world is getting fed up.

• The New York Post 10/21/2019: Inside the protests rocking nations around the globe 
• Business Insider 10/03/2019: 13 major protests happening around the globe right now, from Chile's deadly riots to Hong Kong's face mask demonstrations 
• USA Today 10/22/2019: Bolivia says Evo Morales almost has the votes to avoid runoff; riots erupt as US raises election concerns 
• The Times of Israel 10/18/2019: Lebanese PM gives gov’t 72-hour ultimatum as riots bring country to standstill 
• NPR 10/06/2019: Hong Kong Demonstrators Continue Anti-Government Protests, Clashes With Riot Police 
• Financial Post 10/22/2019: Riots, state of emergency in Chile force Scotiabank to postpone investor day 
• Los Angeles Times 10/21/2019: Opinion: Riots around the globe are linked by a common thread: frustration 
• Bloomberg 10/20/2019: Political Risk Is Revived in Latin America as Protests Spread 
• Time 09/30/2019: Thousands of Indonesian Students Protest Law Restricting Anti-Corruption Agency 
• News 18 10/22/2019: Thousands Protest Against Bangladesh Police After it Shot Dead 4 in Deadly Riots 
• Washington Post 09/27/2019: In Egypt, dissent is silenced by masked men, riot police and blocked roads 
• BBC News 10/22/2019: Do today's global protests have anything in common? 

The end is nigh!

The Border Wall and Climate Change

There is a humanitarian crisis going on at the U.S. Southern border, but there is also a humanitarian crisis along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. There are humanitarian crises along the southern hemisphere borders between the temperate climate zones. When all is said and done about the southern border wall of the United States, how much difference will it make?

• VOX 01/30/2017: 9 maps and charts that explain the global refugee crisis 
• University of Richmond 09/27/2017: A World Ravaged by Global Warming 
• NASA Earth Observatory 01/03/2007: Defining Desertification 
• Invasive Notes 12/15/2008: Climate Change - Invasive Species 
• Climate Central 

I believe the biggest security threat of all is to our clean fresh water. If there's a chance that the U.S. will suddenly find itself in a national humanitarian crisis, would the rest of the world sympathize? Maybe some, but not likely most.

The Final Recession was in 2008

I received an email from the U.S. Census Bureau today as part of preparations for the 2020 Census. There was a special report on the problem of under counting young children. One factor listed was that families with small children had moved since the previous Census, into or out of what they called "complex households."

Included in many of the data sets was one called Geographic Mobility. I had just the previous day finished a blog post over at Safe Work Space called Job Losses in 2019 which focused on the Retail Apocalypse of stores closing. It got me thinking about why the stock market keeps going up and the main-stream media keeps reporting how good the economy is, but things are not as they seem.

It occurred to me that the geographic mobility of families over time might be evidence of the truth, so I downloaded the data and made this chart:

This demonstrates that geographic mobility has been declining since the mid-1980's. It didn't seem to make sense, until I came across a YouTube video of the Jimmy Dore Show with featured guest Michael Hudson, who until this moment I never heard of, despite my familiarity with Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges. After watching it, another video interview of Michael Hudson popped up from Democracy at Work including this quote I made into a graphic which explains everything about the above chart:

Michael Hudson is the author of J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception