Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Egypt: Clashes Between Army, Protesters Kill 54
July 8th, 2013Via: CBC: Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military’s ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party for all-out rebellion […]
The New Warrior Cop Is Out of Control
July 8th, 2013Via: Salon: SWAT teams raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking? Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise. Book: Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko
Dozens Killed in Egypt as Gunfire and Running Battles Erupted in Several Cities
July 6th, 2013Via: AP: Egyptian officials say the country’s interim president has held talks with the army chief and interior minister following a deadly day of clashes across the country that killed at least 30 people. Adly Mansour met with army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is also the defense minister, as well as Interior Minister Mohammed […]
Standoff Between Egypt’s Army Commander and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi
July 3rd, 2013Update: Egyptian Military Ousts Morsi, Suspends Constitution Via: Washington Post: A year after coming to office, Egypt’s first democratically elected president was swept aside by the military leaders who long presided over this country and proved Wednesday in a series of extraordinary maneuvers that they never really left. President Mohamed Morsi’s dramatic fall from power […]
Anglo Irish Bank Executives: Financial Collapse as Piss Take
June 25th, 2013Via: Irish Independent: TAPE RECORDINGS from inside doomed Anglo Irish Bank reveal for the first time how the bank’s top executives lied to the Government about the true extent of losses at the institution. The astonishing tapes show senior manager John Bowe, who had been involved in negotiations with the Central Bank, laughing and joking […]
Nuclear Waste May Be Leaking Into Soil from Hanford Site
June 23rd, 2013Via: AP: An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site might be leaking into the soil. The U.S. Energy Department said workers at Washington state’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection Thursday. Spokeswoman Lori Gamache said the department […]
Beijing Pollution So Bad That International Schools Build Filtered Air Domes for Children
June 22nd, 2013How about if all the shit-for-brains politicians in New Zealand, who gladly bend over for China, send their kids over there to play in the domes? Hmm? John Key? How does that grab ya? Via: Los Angeles Times: After nearly two decades in Beijing, David Wolf knew it was time for a change when his […]
U.S. CIA and Special Forces Training “The Terrorists” in Syria
June 22nd, 2013Now that Uncle $cam is shredding million dollar MRAPs for scrap in Afghanistan, it’s time to get the party started all over again. Via: Los Angeles Times: CIA and U.S. military operatives have been secretly teaching Syrian rebels how to use anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, the Los Angeles Times has learned. The White House refuses […]
Brazil: Biggest Protests in Two Decades
June 22nd, 2013I read something back in the 1990s in one of the International Relations journals (apologies for not being able to recall the source) that put forth the theory that most people in the world would be living in situations resembling a Brazilian favela in the century ahead, and states needed to figure out how to […]
Singapore Smog Disaster
June 21st, 2013Via: Independent: Singapore has been hit by the worst air pollution crisis in its history, while government agencies try to induce rain in an attempt to stop forest fires spreading a smoky haze across three south-east Asian countries. The average Pollution Standard Index (PSI) – the measurement for air pollution – hit 401 at midday […]
