Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
August 21st, 2018Via: NPR: Plastic trash is littering the land and fouling rivers and oceans. But what we can see is only a small fraction of what’s out there. Since modern plastic was first mass-produced, 8 billion tons have been manufactured. And when it’s thrown away, it doesn’t just disappear. Much of it crumbles into small pieces. […]
South Africa Begins Seizing White-Owned Farms
August 20th, 2018Via: news.com.au: THE South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers. Local newspaper City Press reports two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are the first to be targeted for unilateral seizure after negotiations with the owners to purchase the properties stalled. While the government says it intends […]
Venezuela, Gallery: Stacks of Nearly Worthless Cash Required to Buy Common Items
August 17th, 2018I’ve been teaching my children about inflation, fiat currencies and the end result of the scam. This photo gallery is excellent for that purpose. Via: Reuters: Jittery Venezuelans on Friday rushed to shops and formed long lines in preparation for a monetary overhaul that will remove five zeros from prices in response to hyperinflation that […]
Uncle Sam Wants You: Treasury Depends More on Domestic Bond Buyers
August 17th, 2018Mmm hmm. Keep in mind, the Fed can simply monetize the debt, if enough suckers/bond buyers can’t be found. This is similar to check kiting, but since it involves trillions of dollars, they came up with a more innocuous sounding term for the practice: Open Market Operations. Via: Wall Street Journal: The U.S. government has […]
The San Onofre Nuclear Plant Is a ‘Fukushima Waiting to Happen’
August 17th, 2018Via: San Diego Union Tribune: Southern California Edison is keeping 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in San Clemente. The waste poses a significant threat to the health, safety and economic vitality of the region’s more than 8 million residents. But Edison’s plan for storing it is […]
Turkey’s Lira Weakens More than 6 Percent on Threat of More U.S. Sanctions
August 17th, 2018Via: Reuters: Turkey’s battered lira weakened more than 6 percent against the dollar on Friday, after a U.S. warning that Ankara should expect more economic sanctions unless it hands over the detained American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson. It has lost nearly 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, hit by both the […]
Inflation: Venezuela Will Cut Five Zeros from Currency
August 16th, 2018Ah yes, ye ole Zimbucks solution: Via: WRAL: Faced with nearly incomprehensible inflation — 32,714 percent as of Wednesday — Venezuelan officials thought they had a solution: They changed the color of the bank notes and increased their denomination. Then they said they would lop off three zeros. And when that didn’t seem enough, they […]
Resisting the Ideology of Screen-Based Learning
August 12th, 2018Via: Aeon: As a parent, it is obvious that children learn more when they engage their entire body in a meaningful experience than when they sit at a computer. If you doubt this, just observe children watching an activity on a screen and then doing the same activity for themselves. They are much more engaged […]
Millennials Try to Explain the First Amendment
August 7th, 2018Via: Campus Reform: A recent survey found that many Americans are unable to name a single one of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Would Ivy League students do any better?
Massive Wildfire Becomes Largest in California History
August 6th, 2018Via: Reuters: The Mendocino Complex became the largest wildfire in Californian history on Monday as it raged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest where crews battled to keep flames from descending into foothill communities. The Mendocino Complex Fire, made up of two separate conflagrations that merged, grew to 283,800 acres (114,800 hectares) […]
