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www.whatfinger.com  is one of the most successful site’s with the latest news! The End of the World, Part One OK, so the power is out; and we presume it isn’t coming back on in the forseeable future. Maybe a solar storm has knocked the grid out, maybe something else has irrevocably damaged it.  An EMP from someone’s careless use of a stray nuke, maybe. Life in the world’s cities, great and lesser, very rapidly becomes very different and a whole lot less pleasant. Not only is there no power, but there’s no communications; the phone and cellphone networks are down as well, partly because there’s no power to run them, partly because their electronics have been fried by the same EMP that knocked out the grid. There’s no radio or TV, there’s no internet, no power to run computers anyway, or to charge cellphones or anything else. While there are batteries still to be had, some people may be able to use portable radios, and some stations may still be broadcasting on generator power; ...

  www.whatfinger.com  is one of the most successful site’s with the latest news! President Donald Trump's gangster-like shakedown of Ukraine for its rare earth minerals is a breathtaking deviation from decades of American global leadership, effectively recasting the United States as a global gun for hire. At the most vulgar level imaginable, this approach seems to have worked. According to reports, a deal is imminent in which Ukraine will indeed cede some of its mineral profits to a fund jointly owned with the U.S. for the right to continue fighting Russia. This arrangement appears to be less onerous than the original demand for $500 billion in revenues, but it remains a protection payment extorted from a country whose $5,000 per capita annual GDP is just 5 percent of America’s. One can hardly overstate the shock among allies and adversaries alike when it emerged last week that Trump seeks control over Ukraine's mineral wealth, including rare earth elements like lithium, which...