Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Britain: Libraries Lose a Quarter of Staff as Hundreds Close
March 29th, 2016Via: BBC: Almost 8,000 jobs in UK libraries have disappeared in six years, about a quarter of the overall total, an investigation by the BBC has revealed. Over the same period, some 15,500 volunteers have been recruited and 343 libraries have closed, leading to fears over the future of the profession. Children’s author Alan Gibbons […]
Some Japanese Elderly Attempting to Get Into Prison for, “Free Food, Accommodation and Healthcare”
March 28th, 2016Via: Financial Times: Japan’s prison system is being driven to budgetary crisis by demographics, a welfare shortfall and a new, pernicious breed of villain: the recidivist retiree. And the silver-haired crooks, say academics, are desperate to be behind bars. Crime figures show that about 35 per cent of shoplifting offences are committed by people over […]
“Who Can Stop Trump? Republicans May Have Little Choice But To Vote Clinton”
March 20th, 2016Imagine my shock. Via: Guardian: Just a few steps from the White House, the latest secret gathering of Republicans seeking an answer to the question of who can still stop Donald Trump reached a demoralising answer for their party on Thursday night: Hillary Clinton. A bleak mood has swept over the Grand Old Party in […]
Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis
March 16th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Venezuela is shutting down for a week as the government struggles with a deepening electricity crisis. President Nicolas Maduro gave everyone an extra three days off work next week, extending the two-day Easter holiday, according to a statement in the Official Gazette published late Tuesday. Maduro had originally said over the weekend that […]
NSA Intercepts for Law Enforcement
March 16th, 2016I said it back in 2013 when we learned about parallel construction. It’s NSA’s infrastructure. The cat was completely out of the bag back then. Via: Privacy SOS: The wall separating “foreign” intelligence operations from domestic criminal investigations has finally, fully collapsed. The FBI now plans to act on a rule change initiated by the […]
Britain: Number of Children Prescribed Anti-Depressants Increases by 50% in Seven Years
March 9th, 2016Fill children with metals, feed them GMO food, sit them in classrooms for most of the day, make them do lots of homework at night, which does nothing except make them hate school… And then, when little Johnny is feeling a bit down… Via: Independent: The number of children in the UK prescribed anti-depressants increased […]
Bezos Plans Off World Colonies
March 9th, 2016Via: al.com: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ vision of “millions of people living and working in space” drives his space company Blue Origin. … “We’re not going to find another Earth,” Bezos said, “and we can’t cover the whole surface of the Earth with solar cells. We only have a few hundred years to figure this […]
Fukushima Disaster Nearly Destroyed Japan, Government Nuclear Safety Adviser Majored in Economics
March 5th, 2016Most nuclear power plants in Japan remain offline. Via: NZ Herald: Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has revealed the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million people. In an interview to mark the fifth anniversary of the disaster, Naoto […]
Iraq: Mosul Dam Engineers Warn It Could Fail at Any Time, Killing 1 Million People
March 3rd, 2016Via: Guardian: Iraqi engineers involved in building the Mosul dam 30 years ago have warned that the risk of its imminent collapse and the consequent death toll could be even worse than reported. They pointed out that pressure on the dam’s compromised structure was building up rapidly as winter snows melted and more water flowed […]
13.5 Percent of the Japan’s Housing Stock Vacant or Abandoned
February 26th, 2016I’ve been interested in Japan since I was a child, but I’ve never been there. The closest I’ll probably ever get to Japan is looking around on Google Maps. I pick a random spot and use the Street View function to see what there is to see. So right up front, this is my disclosure: […]
