Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Long Island School Bans ‘Footballs, Baseballs, Lacrosse Balls, or Anything that Might Hurt Someone’
October 7th, 2013Via: CBS: Worries about injuries at a Long Island school have led to a surprising ban. As CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might […]
Recovery: ‘Families Hoard Cash 5 Years After Crisis’
October 6th, 2013Voluntary simplicity, or, living well on very little money, kicks evil people in the nuts and gouges out their eyes… Doing this in the U.S. has a force multiplier effect because the U.S. is the largest source of the funds that keep the global ponzi scheme running. When people in wealthy countries opt out, the […]
On the Possibility of Social Security Payments Not Going Out
October 6th, 2013I’m almost sure that they won’t let this situation hit the wall, but beware: If the dole train stops running for any reason, the U.S. will be facing a large scale internal collapse situation very fast. Again, my guess is that the Social Security and Food Stamp band will keep playing on for now. Via: […]
Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law
October 3rd, 2013Via: New York Times: A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an […]
Recovery: More Americans Are Struggling to Afford Food
October 2nd, 2013Via: Gallup: More Americans are struggling to afford food — nearly as many as did during the recent recession. The 20.0% who reported in August that they have, at times, lacked enough money to buy the food that they or their families needed during the past year, is up from 17.7% in June, and is […]
Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion by Bankrupt French
September 30th, 2013[???] Via: Telegraph: Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their “stolen” money — such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend. Carried out in August, the apparently outlandish army exercise was based on the premise of an attack by a financially […]
Venezuela Takes Over Toilet Paper Factory
September 21st, 2013This is where price controls will eventually land a country. All wiped out. Here’s what the crooked Venezuelan regime could do if it wants to provide competition in the market for toilet paper: Build a toilet paper factory and (try to) offer the products at a cheaper price. Via: Reuters: A Venezuelan state agency on […]
Fukushima Forever
September 21st, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO. The announcement that the Japanese government will step in is also not reassuring since it was the Japanese government that failed to […]
Directed Energy Device Disables Vehicles
September 16th, 2013The same company is developing, “High altitude electromagnetic pulse weapons.” Via: Telegraph: An energy beam that can be fired to disable vehicles and electronic devices has been developed by Nato scientists. The device uses an intense pulse of electromagnetic energy that can be directed at a moving vehicle to interfere with the electronics on board. […]
Recovery: Widest Gap in Employment Rates Between Rich, Poor in a Decade
September 16th, 2013Via: AP / Newser: The gap in employment rates between America’s highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press. Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families _ those earning less than $20,000 […]
