Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Sugar as a Source of Disease
January 2nd, 2015Here’s an excerpt from an email to my sister: As for us being weird by American standards: We’re weird by NZ standards too. For example, we go to almost no birthday parties for other children because people are drinking Pepsi and eating baked atrocities with sprinkles on top. MSG sausages, etc. One of Owen’s friends […]
Nearly Half of Brits on Prescription Drugs
December 31st, 2014Via: Russia Today: Nearly half of all Britons are taking prescription medication on a regular basis according to new figures produced by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) According to the HSCIC, 50 percent of women and 43 percent of men are taking specialised drugs to combat physical and mental illnesses, with cholesterol-lowering […]
Monsanto’s Roundup and Autism
December 30th, 2014Via: The Complete Patient: Correlations are not causation, but when they plot out as clearly as Stephanie Seneff has plotted them out with regard to autism and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, they are impossible to ignore. Seneff is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who has […]
Fish Farming in Aquapods
December 30th, 2014Via: Vice: Whether it’s found on a plate of sushi, grilled in our backyard, or thrown on pasta, seafood is a staple for many diets around the world, and demand is growing. And as the commercial seafood industry booms, fish stocks worldwide face perilous declines. We’ve surpassed our capacity to sustainably fish wild caught fish, […]
The Kirsten Dirksen YouTube Channel
December 27th, 2014Inexpensive dwellings. Vehicle living. Small scale food production. Off grid. Kirsten Dirksen YouTube Channel
Urban Farming Guys MakerSpace
December 24th, 2014Via: Urban Farming Guys:
Russia: Ex-Minister Kudrin Warns of ‘Full-Fledged Crisis’
December 22nd, 2014Via: Reuters: Russia’s government has pushed the country into an economic crisis by not tackling its financial problems fast enough, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, as evidence mounted of trouble spreading through the economy. The central bank bailed out its first victim of the collapsing currency, authorities announced a tax on grain […]
Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
December 21st, 2014This Los Angeles Times series looks and reads like distopian sci-fi. High tech green houses stretch across the land to the horizon. Workers exist in abject squalor. Or are they slaves? It depends on the the facility and the arbitrary whims of the crooks in charge. (View the image galleries, if you dare.) And when […]
Russians Flock to Stores to Pre-Empt Price Rises
December 17th, 2014Via: AP: Russian consumers flocked to the stores Wednesday, frantically buying a range of big-ticket items to pre-empt the price rises kicked off by the staggering fall in the value of the ruble in recent days. As the Russian authorities announced a series of measures to ease the pressure on the ruble, which slid 15 […]
Russia Tries Emergency Steps for Second Day to Stem Ruble Plunge
December 17th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Russia tried for a second straight day to reverse a rout in the ruble with emergency measures, narrowing President Vladimir Putin’s options in confronting the country’s deepest financial crisis since 1998. The ruble rose after the Finance Ministry announced that it bought the currency. The rebound came after a plunge yesterday in the […]
