Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
In Spain, Locksmiths Refuse to Cooperate with Foreclosures and Evictions
January 5th, 2013Via: The World: In Spain, in 2012, more than 50,000 families were evicted from their homes when they failed to pay their rent or mortgage. As the year wound down a handful of people committed suicide after learning they would be evicted. Now, in Pamplona, a group of experts who help carry out the evictions […]
U.S. Sailors Sue Japan Over Fukushima Lies
December 30th, 2012Well, unless we’re expected to assume that a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier isn’t equipped to measure radiation levels (which would be a totally absurd assumption), the plaintiffs should name the U.S. Navy in the lawsuit as well. Hint: Good luck. Via: Courthouse News Service: The Fukushima nuclear disaster exposed Navy rescue workers to dangerous levels […]
New MRSA Superbug Strain Found in UK Milk Supply
December 27th, 201280% were reserved for livestock and poultry: In fact, according to new data just released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), of the antibiotics sold in 2009 for both people and food animals almost 80% were reserved for livestock and poultry. A huge portion of those antibiotics were never intended to fight bacterial infections, […]
Looting At Several Supermarkets in Argentina; Two Dead, Hundreds Arrested; Military Deployed
December 22nd, 2012Via: Reuters: Two people were killed in Argentina on Friday as looters broke into supermarkets in several cities, stirring memories of the country’s devastating economic crisis 11 years ago. Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to stop dozens of stone-throwing youths from looting a supermarket owned by French retailer Carrefour near the capital, a day […]
‘American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals’
December 22nd, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. Average incomes for individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult population’s total drop, since the recession began in December 2007. Their unemployment […]
Guns and Magazines: Panic Buying
December 20th, 20124K for an AR-15??? Really? Via: Bloomberg: With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay (EBAY) and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) locations. … On EBay Inc.’s auction website, shoppers have […]
Recovery: More Homeless Young Adults
December 19th, 2012Via: New York Times: Across the country, tens of thousands of underemployed and jobless young people, many with college credits or work histories, are struggling to house themselves in the wake of the recession, which has left workers between the ages of 18 and 24 with the highest unemployment rate of all adults. Those who […]
Eurozone Crisis Has Pushed Millions Into Poverty
December 10th, 2012Via: AFP: Crushed by an austerity squeeze and towering unemployment, millions of Europeans joined the ranks of the newly poor in 2012 in a crisis that showed no mercy for the old, women or children. An arc of misery spread pitilessly across southern Europe’s middle classes, engulfing bailed-out nations Greece and Portugal and tottering heavyweights […]
Egypt’s Army Given Power to Arrest Civilians
December 10th, 2012Via: AFP: President Mohamed Morsi has ordered Egypt’s army from Monday to take on police powers — including the right to arrest civilians — in the run-up to a divisive constitutional referendum that has triggered mass street protests. The decree, published in the government gazette, takes effect on the eve of mass rival protests on […]
Over 1 Million Americans Enter Poverty In Last Two Months
December 10th, 2012Via: ZeroHedge: And we thought last month’s delayed foodstamp data was bad. The just reported foodstamp number for September was a doozy, with 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for foodstamps, as a record 47.7 million Americans are now living in poverty at least according to the USDA. The monthly increase was the highest since May […]
