Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
New Crime in Britain: Eating Meat?
September 23rd, 2019Via: Telegraph: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, one of Britain’s foremost barristers has predicted, as he called for the offence of ‘ecocide’ to be introduced to prosecute those who damage the nature on a massive scale. Michael Mansfield QC warned that the farming of livestock for meat was destroying the planet and called […]
Sacramento McDonald’s Tries to Drive Homeless Away with Siren
September 22nd, 2019Via: CBS Sacramento: A Sacramento McDonald’s is going to extremes to curb outside loitering. It’s playing a loud, strange sound on speakers outside the restaurant. The property at 30th and K streets appears to be a popular homeless hangout site. The siren is intended to annoy and reduce the number of people standing around the […]
“Robot Priests Can Bless You, Advise You, and Even Perform Your Funeral”
September 22nd, 2019You head on down to your local Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchise, hoping for a pleasant sermon from a robot that looks like it stepped out of Ghost in the Shell, but you find that there have been… Upgrades. Here’s Geordie Rose talking about, “These things that we’re summoning into the world now.” Via: Vox: […]
American “Economic Refugees” Are Increasingly Retiring Abroad
September 21st, 2019Via: CBS News: The number of retirees who draw Social Security outside the U.S. jumped 40%, to more than 413,000, between 2007 to 2017, according to the Social Security Administration. To be sure, that’s a fraction of the nation’s 42 million retirees. But it reflects the financial realities for a growing number of baby boomers […]
NY Fed to Pump $75 Billion Into Money Markets Daily Through Oct 10
September 20th, 2019Via: AFP: The New York Federal Reserve Bank said Friday it will inject billions into the US financial plumbing on a daily basis for the next three weeks in an effort to prevent a spike in short-term interest rates. The Fed will offer up to $75 billion a day in repurchase agreements — exchanging secure […]
Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels Of Plastic Found In Children
September 19th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: The study, conducted by the German Environment Ministry and the Robert Koch Institute, found an alarming 97% of blood and urine samples from 2,500 children tested between 2014 and 2017 had traces of microplastics. Der Spiegel, the German weekly magazine, published the findings over the weekend, which were part of a national study […]
Plan to Kill Off Mosquitoes Backfires Spectacularly, Making the Disease-Carriers Even More Resilient
September 18th, 2019Imagine my shock. And Now: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join The Fight To Stop Zika Virus” Woman Behind Effort to Stop Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Found Dead in Swimming Pool Via: New York Post: Life has found a way. In what sounds like the plot to a Syfy channel original movie, a plan to curb […]
Last Month, 53 Americans Died in Mass Shootings While 40,000 Died from Obesity
September 18th, 2019Via: The Sun: IN his fascinating book Unnatural Causes, forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd observes how, over the years, the dead bodies he examines have changed. One of the most noticeable is the rapid increase in body fat. He says: “Unless a patient is homeless or has died of cancer or is so old or […]
ICE Is Building State-Of-The-Art Urban Warfare Training Facility, Hyper-Realistic Simulations Of Homes In Chicago And Arizona
September 15th, 2019Via: Newsweek: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is looking to build a “state-of-the-art” “urban warfare” training facility that will include “hyper-realistic” simulations of homes, hotels and commercial buildings in Chicago and Arizona. In an acquisition form for the procurement of “hyper-realistic training devices” for a new training facility for its expanding Special Response […]
South Africa’s Xenophobic Crisis
September 15th, 2019Via: serpentza:
