Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Bayou Corne: The Biggest Ongoing Disaster In The U.S. You Haven’t Heard Of
August 26th, 2013Via: Mother Jones: What could possibly go wrong when miners, frackers, and drillers reshape the geology beneath our feet? Talk to the evacuees of Bayou Corne, Louisiana.
Fukushima: Radioactive Groundwater Nears Pacific
August 23rd, 2013Via: AP: Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific. Now, 2 1/2 years later, experts fear it is about to reach the ocean and greatly worsen what is […]
The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
August 23rd, 2013Via: Vice: When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots […]
Fukushima Leak Is ‘Much Worse Than We Were Led To Believe’
August 22nd, 2013Via: BBC: A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated. Mycle Schneider is an independent consultant who has previously advised the French and German governments. He says water is leaking out all over the site and there are no […]
Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans Dwindle
August 21st, 2013Via: Bloomberg: As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, menacing humans who remain and overwhelming the city’s ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths. Dens of as many as 20 canines have been found in boarded-up homes in the community of about 700,000 that […]
Japan Nuclear Agency Seeks Fukushima Alert Level Upgrade
August 21st, 2013Via: BBC: Japan’s nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale. Highly radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank into the ground at the plant on Monday. It was first classified as a level […]
Egypt: At Least 149 Killed as Troops Clear Pro-Morsi Camps
August 14th, 2013Update: Egypt Declares State of Emergency Via: Al Jazeera: A state of emergency has been declared across Egypt, as security forces and supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi continue to clash around the country. The announcement on Wednesday came amid a deadly crackdown by security forces on two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo. The health […]
Americans Giving Up Citizenship Jump Sixfold
August 10th, 2013Update: Forgot to Mention I recently received an email from an American who is attempting to renounce his or her U.S. citizenship in New Zealand. I don’t want to get into any details, because NZ is like a small village full of people who take great pleasure talking about other people in the village. The […]
‘Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?’
August 9th, 2013Via: BBC: As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes – sometimes for decades at a time. Why? For Hide, the problems started when he gave up school. “I started to blame myself and my parents also blamed me for not going to school. The […]
Britain: Prices Collapse for Prostitution Services
August 8th, 2013Via: The Economist: In part, this reflects the sluggish economy. Overall consumer spending at the end of 2012 was almost 4% lower than its 2007 peak. And Vivienne, an independent escort in the south who works part-time to supplement her income as a photographer, says paying for sex is a luxury: “Food is more important; […]
