Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Argentina’s Central Bank Hikes Rates to 60% as Currency Collapses
August 30th, 2018Via: CNBC: Argentina is struggling to cope with yet another financial crisis. Investors are increasingly concerned Latin America’s third-largest economy could soon default as it struggles to repay heavy government borrowing. This comes after Argentina’s government unexpectedly asked for the early release of a $50 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday. […]
To Understand America’s Neofeudal Economy, Start with Extortion
August 28th, 2018Via: Of Two Minds: Let’s spin the time machine back to the late Middle Ages, at the height of feudalism, and imagine we’re trying to get a boatload of goods to the nearest city to sell. As we drift down the river, we’re constantly being stopped and charged a fee for transiting one small fiefdom […]
Top Item Bought with Food Stamp Money: Soda
August 28th, 2018Via: ZeroHedge: The top item purchased by food stamp recipients is likely to raise some eyebrows among those who fret about people using benefits to buy junk food. Spending on soda and other sweetened beverages is “slightly higher for SNAP households compared to non-SNAP households (5 cents versus 4 cents per dollar),” the researchers note. […]
Air Pollution Causes Huge Reduction in Intelligence
August 28th, 2018Via: Guardian: Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air is far deeper than the well-known impacts on physical health. The research was conducted in China but is relevant across the world, with 95% of the global population breathing unsafe air. It […]
Skim Reading Is the New Normal, the Effect on Society Is Profound
August 25th, 2018Via: Guardian: Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don’t read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds. Unbeknownst to […]
Japan: Drones Helping Aging Rice Farmers
August 23rd, 2018Via: Reuters: The next generation farmhand in Japan’s aging rural heartland may be a drone. For several months, developers and farmers in northeast Japan have been testing a new drone that can hover above paddy fields and perform backbreaking tasks in a fraction of the time it takes for elderly farmers. “This is unprecedented high […]
Doctor’s Orders: Let Children Just Play
August 22nd, 2018Thanks, Captain! Via: AP: Imagine a drug that could enhance a child’s creativity, critical thinking and resilience. Imagine that this drug were simple to make, safe to take, and could be had for free. The nation’s leading pediatricians say this miracle compound exists. In a new clinical report, they are urging doctors to prescribe it […]
The Stock Market’s Latest Sell Signal Has Happened Only 5 Other Times Since 1895
August 22nd, 2018Via: Marketwatch: The “Sound Advice Risk Indicator” … the brainchild of Gray Cardiff, editor of the Sound Advice newsletter, is derived from the ratio of the S&P 500 SPX to the median price of a new U.S. house. For the first time since the late 1990s, and for only the sixth time since 1895, this […]
San Francisco “Poop Patrollers” Make $185,000
August 22nd, 2018Via: ZeroHedge: We wish we could say this was a satire piece, but a new story in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals just how lucrative collecting shit actually is. It’s but the latest in a string of shocking revelations to hit headlines throughout the summer exposing how deep San Francisco’s crisis of vast amounts of […]
Front Hole?
August 22nd, 2018Via: Yahoo News: A new safe sex guide for the LGBTQIA community includes the term “front hole” as an alternative to “vagina.” The health website Healthline, along with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and Advocates for Youth, has published the LGBTQIA Safe Sex Guide, which expands current safe sex terminology.
