Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Sweden Distributes ‘Be Prepared for War’ Leaflet to All 4.8 Million Homes
May 21st, 2018Via: Guardian: The Swedish government has begun sending all 4.8m of the country’s households a public information leaflet telling the population, for the first time in more than half a century, what to do in the event of a war. Om krisen eller kriget kommer (If crisis or war comes) explains how people can secure […]
New Zealand: Northlanders Living in Cars as Housing Crisis Hits Hard
May 21st, 2018We had a couple with five children turn up to Playcentre. They’re living in tents. They fled Wellington with a plan to build some sort of shack on a small piece of land that they bought a couple of valleys over from us. Until that happens: Tents. Both mum and dad had been in the […]
Recovery: 51 Million U.S. Households Can’t Afford Basics
May 18th, 2018Via: United Way: There are 50.8 million U.S. households that can’t afford a basic monthly budget including housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone, according to new data released by the United Way ALICE Project. This calculation includes the 16.1 million households in poverty as well as another 34.7 million families […]
U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low
May 17th, 2018Via: LiveScience: The number of babies being born in the United States continues to fall, with the birth rate reaching a new record low in 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, about 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S., which is 2 percent lower […]
Israeli Forces Kill Dozens, Wound Thousands in Gaza as U.S. Embassy Opens in Jerusalem
May 14th, 2018Update: Photos (WARNING: GRAPHIC) Via: Daily Mail: Israeli snipers have killed scores of Palestinians and wounded thousands more as 35,000 protesters rallied against the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem overseen by Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka. A 14-year-old was among 52 shot dead along the Gaza border on what is […]
China: Multi-Story Pig Factories
May 11th, 2018Via: Reuters: Privately owned agricultural company Guangxi Yangxiang Co Ltd is running two seven-floor sow breeding operations, and is putting up four more, including one with as many as 13 floors that will be the world’s tallest building of its kind. Hog farms of two or three floors have been tried in Europe. Some are […]
Europe: Plastic Trash Piling Up, China No Longer Wants It
May 11th, 2018Via: Reuters: Europe has sent just over half the plastic waste it used to ship to China to other parts of Asia since Beijing’s environmental crackdown closed the world’s biggest recycling market in January. The knotty problem is what to do with the rest. … In an overcrowded continent where landfills are much more restricted […]
Plans Moving Forward for Miami-Dade Mega Mall: The American Dream
May 9th, 2018Ski slopes in gator country… I wish Hunter S. Thompson was here to tackle this one. Via: CBS: A mega mall and entertainment complex in Northwest Miami-Dade that would dwarf any other appears to be on course for approval, but not without controversy. It’s called the American Dream. It would be the largest mall in […]
Drug Users Take Over Corridors of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station
April 30th, 2018#zombieapocalypse Via: CBS: Shocking video is calling attention to what’s going on in one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area: drug users blatantly shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by, others slumped along filthy corridors. It’s a gauntlet commuters walk through every morning at the Civic Center BART and […]
Britain: Students Can’t Read Analog Clocks, Traditional Clocks, “Could Be a Cause of Unnecessary Stress”
April 29th, 2018Prediction: Students won’t be able to write, so they will need screens to take the exams. Via: Telegraph: Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said. Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained […]
