Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Blizzard Shuts Down Much of U.S. Northeast
January 27th, 2015Via: Reuters: A life-threatening blizzard barreled into the U.S. Northeast, affecting up to 20 percent of Americans as it kept workers and students housebound, halted thousands of flights and prompted New York to ban cars from roads and shut down subway trains. With memories still fresh of Sandy, a superstorm that ravaged the East Coast […]
Recovery: More Homeless Camps Are Appearing Beyond Downtown L.A.’s Skid Row
January 24th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: Over the last two years, street encampments have jumped their historic boundaries in downtown Los Angeles, lining freeways and filling underpasses from Echo Park to South Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county agency, received 767 calls about street encampments in 2014, up 60% from the 479 in […]
Doomsday Clock: It Is Three Minutes to Midnight
January 23rd, 2015Via: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, and world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger […]
California Is Going Through the Worst Drought in 500 Years
January 21st, 2015Via: Vice: In the first episode of our new show, California Soul, we investigate the state’s worst drought in nearly 500 years. From the driest towns in California to the empty reservoirs, we see just how screwed our world really is and what people are doing to carry on.
Brazil Orders Rolling Blackouts as Electricity Demand Spikes in Record Heat
January 20th, 2015Via: Reuters: Rolling blackouts swept across parts of Brazil on Monday as the grid operator ordered select power cuts to avoid a larger crisis, drawing attention to a fragile electric system that is buckling under the strains of record-breaking heat and dryness. Grid operator ONS said it orchestrated 2,200 megawatts of controlled outages in eight […]
Majority of U.S. Public School Students Are in Poverty
January 19th, 2015Via: Washington Post: For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. The Southern Education Foundation reports that 51 percent of students in pre-kindergarten through 12th […]
Russia’s Net Outflows Hit Their Highest Level Ever
January 18th, 2015Via: Business Insider: Net outflows by companies and banks reached $151.5 billion in 2014, more than two times as much as in 2013, according to the Russian Central Bank . The last time the level of outflows was this high was during the global financial crisis in 2008, when it reached $133.6 billion. The fourth […]
Venezuela: Military Supervises Food Distribution
January 9th, 2015The stores are full, comrades. Just form orderly lines and do what the soldiers say. Via: Bloomberg: Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as […]
Afghan Money Pit & The Pacification of Rio
January 8th, 2015Via: Vice:
Japan 2014 Births Fall to Lowest on Record
January 2nd, 2015Via: Financial Times: Deaths outnumbered births in Japan last year by the widest margin on record, underscoring the scale of the challenge facing the government as it tries to ensure a dwindling pool of workers can support growing ranks of pensioners. The urgency of getting the country’s finances in order was highlighted this week as […]
