Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Holding Your Breath in India
June 6th, 2015Via: New York Times: We gradually learned that Delhi’s true menace came from its air, water, food and flies. These perils sicken, disable and kill millions in India annually, making for one of the worst public health disasters in the world. Delhi, we discovered, is quietly suffering from a dire pediatric respiratory crisis, with a […]
Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue”
June 3rd, 2015Via: Zerohedge: Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world. It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption is undermining science. The editor in chief of Lancet, Richard Horton, wrote last month: Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, […]
Fatal Police Shootings in 2015 Approaching 400 Nationwide
June 2nd, 2015Via: Washington Post: In an alley in Denver, police gunned down a 17-year-old girl joyriding in a stolen car. In the backwoods of North Carolina, police opened fire on a gun-wielding moonshiner. And in a high-rise apartment in Birmingham, Ala., police shot an elderly man after his son asked them to make sure he was […]
Hundreds Gather in Arizona for Armed Anti-Muslim Protest
May 30th, 2015Armed two minutes hate. Via: Washington Post: About 250 mostly armed anti-Muslim demonstrators — many wearing T-shirts bearing a profanity-laced message denouncing Islam — faced-off against a crowd of roughly the same size defending the faith in front of a Phoenix mosque Friday night. Demonstrators yelled and taunted one another across a line of police […]
America’s Trailer Parks: The Residents May Be Poor But The Owners Are Getting Rich
May 24th, 2015It’s harvest time. Via: Guardian: It’s an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: billionaire Warren Buffett is heavily invested, and his and others’ success is prompting ordinary people to attend Mobile Home University, a ‘boot camp’ in trailer park ownership. Related: Wall Street’s Hot New Financial Product: Your Rent Check
Britain: 1,400 Investigated in Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, Including 261 High-Profile Individuals
May 21st, 2015Via: Guardian: Police across the country are investigating more than 1,400 men – including 261 high-profile individuals – over allegations of child abuse in the past, a senior officer running the national operation has revealed. The scale of alleged child abuse across society – both recent and non-recent – was stark, said Ch Const Simon […]
Los Angeles: Minimum Wage Going to $15 Per Hour by 2020
May 20th, 2015This is definitely a dire situation: CEOs Make 373 Times Average Worker Pay. Increasing the minimum wage, while politically expedient, is going to spell doom for many small businesses. A relative earnings limit, on the other hand, could bring sanity to the wage inequality situation without destroying businesses that operate on smaller profit margins, thus […]
Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
May 20th, 2015Via: Harvard Law Review: It did not surprise me that almost every child in the D.C. public high school class raised a hand when I asked if any of them had been stopped and searched by the police. When I told them that being stopped without reasonable suspicion that they were committing a crime is […]
CEOs Make 373 Times Average Worker Pay
May 19th, 2015Via: CNBC: The average S&P 500 company CEO made 373 times the salary of the average production and non-supervisory worker in 2014, up from 331 times in 2013, according to the AFL-CIO.
You Are Looking at the Last Male Northern White Rhino
May 13th, 2015Via: Guardian: What is it like to look at the very last of something? To contemplate the passing of a unique wonder that will soon vanish from the face of the earth? You are seeing it. Sudan is the last male northern white rhino on the planet.
