Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Global Groundwater Extraction a “Ticking Time Bomb”
October 4th, 2019New Zealand: Council in Drought Prone Canterbury Consents to Foreign Company Extracting 40 Billion Litres of Water Via: Cosmos Magazine: A glimpse into the sustainability of global groundwater extraction for rivers, streams and lakes in the next few decades has revealed a worrying picture. The hydrological model, published in the journal Nature, shows that in […]
Woman Pushed Emergency Alert Button On Police Robot, It Told Her To Step Out Of The Way
October 4th, 2019An absolute classic. Via: NBC: When a fight broke out recently in the parking lot of Salt Lake Park, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, Cogo Guebara did what seemed the most practical thing at the time: she ran over to the park’s police robot to push its emergency alert button. “I was […]
China Quietly Doubles Troop Levels in Hong Kong
September 30th, 2019Via: Reuters: Three of the envoys said the contingent of Chinese military personnel in Hong Kong had more than doubled in size since the protests began. They estimated the number of military personnel is now between 10,000 and 12,000, up from 3,000 to 5,000 in the months before the reinforcement. As a result, the envoys […]
Consumers Increasingly Using Buy-Now-Pay-Later Services for Shoes, Sweaters, Makeup
September 30th, 2019Via: Wall Street Journal: Gone are the days when special financing plans were mostly reserved for big-ticket purchases like TVs and refrigerators. Now, sweaters, makeup or other everyday items can be paid for in installments with loans or other payment plans offered at checkout with thousands of merchants in the U.S., including Walmart Inc., Urban […]
Pod People
September 30th, 2019Via: Paul Watson: Related: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
Trump Tweets Civil War Warning Over Impeachment
September 29th, 2019Via: Donald Trump – Twitter: ….If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
Auto Workers Fear for Jobs with Rise of Electric Vehicles
September 28th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The milkman went missing thanks to the rise of refrigerators. Switchboard operators were done in by the dawn of direct dialing. And in the car industry, auto workers are deathly afraid the engine assembler will give way to battery builders. Dread over the prospect that plug-in cars — which have fewer parts and […]
Study Shows Massive IQ Decrease in Males with Fluoride: JAMA Pediatrics Journal Editors Stunned
September 25th, 2019Via: James Lyons-Weiler: In reference to a study, entitled “Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offsprings in Canada”[1], published in JAMA Pediatrics, the journal editors were stunned by a finding that fluoridated water exposure in mothers during pregnancy reduces the IQ of their sons. The study found that in boys, […]
Pelosi Launches Formal Trump Impeachment Inquiry
September 25th, 2019Via: CBS: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House is launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, setting up a dramatic constitutional clash just over a year before the presidential election. “Today I’m announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry,” Pelosi said at the Capitol late Tuesday afternoon. The […]
Prepare for the Weirdness
September 23rd, 2019Earlier today, when I sat down in front of the computer with a cup of coffee, I had a flashback to Joe Biden’s recent bleeding eye incident. An ancient Hunter Thompson essay, Prepare for the Weirdness, came to mind. “What would Thompson think about these times?” I mumbled to myself. These times. Which reminds me, […]
