The El Paso-Juarez-Las Cruces Borderplex was a major center of industry, higher learning, research and development, military training, healthcare, and tourism with over three million citizens when the Second Great Depression began. Many corporations had offices on the American side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Social Distancing is a phrase most of us never heard of before this recent unpleasantness. Though as an introvert, I have always practiced it. Few things annoy me more than people who feel the need to walk into my personal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The vaunted American military, famous for following the chain of command no matter what, did not survive the federal leadership crisis that accompanied the Second Great Depression intact. Many American military units dispersed and their soldiers drove off to their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One historical note of relevance is that the American federal government never truly dissolved. There was always someone claiming the Presidency, though historians do not typically recognize the non-elected Presidents of the time. There was a Congress, though its majority[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The reasons for the final collapse of the American federal government were many. China’s formal announcement that they would collect the foreign debt America owed them. America renouncing the debt in its entirety, after adjusting the cost of dealing with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Bliss, Holloman Air Force Base, and the other military reservations around White Sands housed some of the smartest and brightest of minds in the world, gathered from all over America. They were ambitious and capable, intelligent and relentless in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Bliss had an important part to play in stabilizing the old Mexican-American border in the decades before the Second Great Depression. A joint task force based there fought the drug cartels and terrorists seeking to the cross the border,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Bliss was one of three major United States Army Forts in Texas when the Second Great Depression began. It spread out from its headquarters in El Paso into New Mexico to the White Sands Missile Range where the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is amazing how much the world can change in two weeks. Two weeks ago I forecasted a minor economic bump and some late kickstarters if the Wuhan Virus continued as it was. Slightly more deadly or around the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Borderplex, as the region around El Paso, Juarez, and Las Cruces was known, had a long history of fighting the drug cartels and various gangs. Some of their history was good. Some was bad. The Second Great Depression deprived[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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