Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
For Tech-Weary Midwest Farmers, 40-Year-Old Tractors Now a Hot Commodity
January 6th, 2020Via: Star Tribune: Kris Folland grows corn, wheat and soybeans and raises cattle on 2,000 acres near Halma in the northwest corner of Minnesota, so his operation is far from small. But when he last bought a new tractor, he opted for an old one — a 1979 John Deere 4440. He retrofitted it with […]
How the Pentagon Was Duped by Contractors Using Shell Companies
January 5th, 2020Duped. *wink* Missing $21 trillion? Yep, still missing. Via: Bloomberg: Shell companies have come under attack for obscuring illicit money flowing into real estate. But it turns out they’re also a problem for the Pentagon. Some Defense Department suppliers have used such front companies to fraudulently win manufacturing bids, according to a U.S. Government Accountability […]
How Long Will It Take For The U.S. To Collapse?
January 5th, 2020Via: Alt Market: There are a number factors that cause mass blindness to economic and social reality. First and foremost, establishment elites deliberately create the illusion of prosperity by rigging economic data to the upside. In almost every case of economic crisis or geopolitical disaster, the public is conditioned to believe they are in the […]
“Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems
January 5th, 2020Via: Counterpunch: For most of these low-wage workers, Hutton notes: “Finding meaning in life is close to impossible; the struggle to survive commands all intellectual and emotional resources. Yet turn on the TV or visit a middle-class shopping mall and a very different and unattainable world presents itself. Knowing that you are valueless, you resort […]
Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
January 2nd, 2020Via: Time: Australia has deployed military planes and ships to provide aid as hundreds of wildfires rage across Australia, forcing residents to flee and destroying homes. The Australian Defense Force is sending ships to the Victoria town of Mallacoota on a two-week supply mission and using helicopters to bring in more firefighters since roads were […]
Exploring Ruins of Coal Fired Power Plant in Chicago
January 1st, 2020They don’t mention it in the video, but you can clearly see that this is Crawford Generating Station: Crawford Generating Station is a decommissioned coal?fired power plant built in 1924. It is located in South Lawndale community of the West Side district, in Chicago, Illinois. It was closed in 2012 after a long battle with […]
Visualising the Amount of Microplastic We Eat
December 31st, 2019Via: Reuters: Microscopic pieces of plastic have been discovered in the most remote locations, from the depths of the ocean to Arctic ice. Another place that plastic is appearing is inside our bodies. We’re breathing microplastic, eating it and drinking plastic-infused water every day. Plastic does not biodegrade. Instead, it breaks down into smaller pieces, […]
Deteriorating U.S. Atomic Waste Dump in Marshall Islands to be Investigated
December 30th, 2019Via: BBC: The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed “the tomb”, it holds tonnes of radioactive debris from dozens of US atomic bomb tests carried out during the Cold War. Congress wants the Department of Energy to […]
Hepatitis C Kills More Americans Than All Other Reportable Infectious Diseases Combined [???]
December 26th, 2019Via: Stanford: The hepatitis C virus now kills more Americans than all other reportable infectious diseases combined — including HIV. Acute cases of HCV have increased 3.5-fold over the last decade, particularly among young, white, injection drug users. Women aged 15 to 44 have also been hit hard by the virus that is spread through […]
88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV. Why?
December 26th, 2019Via: Ars Technica: According to data from Nielsen, the TV metrics company, 88 percent of Americans “use a second digital device while watching TV.” Seventy-one percent of Americans “look up content related to content they are watching,” while 41 percent of Americans are busy messaging “friends/family about content they are watching.” Can this possibly be […]
