Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Petition to Let Texas Secede from the U.S. to be Reviewed by the White House
November 13th, 2012Comedy Gold. Via: Houston Chronicle: Well, Texas, you have done it. As of 3:40 p.m. ET, more than 25,000 Texans have already signed the petition on The White House website to let Texas peacefully secede from United States of America and “create its own NEW government.”
SPAIN SUSPENDS HOUSE EVICTIONS FOR TWO YEARS
November 12th, 2012Via: BBC: Spanish banks are to suspend evictions for the next two years for the most vulnerable people. An estimated 350,000 families have been evicted from their homes since Spain’s property market crashed in 2008, at the beginning of the economic crisis. The announcement comes three days after a woman in northern Spain took her […]
Sandy Aftermath: Description of Situation Inside FEMA Camp
November 12th, 2012Via: Reuters: Inside the giant billowy white tents, the massive klieg lights glare down from the ceiling all night long. The air is loud with the buzz of generators pumping out power. The post-storm housing — a refugee camp on the grounds of the Monmouth Park racetrack – is in lockdown, with security guards at […]
Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record, In Delayed Release
November 11th, 2012Via: Zerohedge: There was, however, another closely tracked number which perhaps is far more indicative of the economic “growth” in the past 4 years, which certainly had a delayed release. The number of course is that showing how many Americans are on foodstamps, and usually is released at the end of the month, or the […]
Foxconn Sees New Source Of Cheap Labor: The United States
November 9th, 2012Since MIT did it with Open Courseware years ago, I suspected that the point of the “free education” offerings was to create a pool of relatively skilled workers in some of the poorest countries in the world. You know, places with open sewers where people sleep on dirt floors… and where lots of these people […]
Odd-Even Gas Rationing System Coming To New York City, Long Island
November 9th, 2012Via: CBS: New York City and Long Island are following in New Jersey’s footsteps in instituting an odd-even gas rationing system. In an effort to ease long lines associated with the the fuel crunch taking place in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a rationing system will go into effect on Friday. Beginning at […]
U.S. Crashes Out Of The Top 10 In World Prosperity Index
November 7th, 2012Via: Business Insider: The United States is no longer one of the world’s ten most “prosperous” countries for the first time according to the Legatum Institute. The Legatum Prosperity Index assessed and ranked the prosperity of 142 countries based on eight sub-categories: economy, entrepreneurship and opportunity, health, governance, education, safety and security, personal freedom, and […]
The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm
November 7th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: In 2007, Jakubowski began working on a minimum set of machines necessary to sustain a modern civilization. It comprises bread ovens, aluminum smelters, tractors, brick presses, and 46 others. Factor e Farm has already built 15 of these devices, including a computer-controlled torch table that can cut intricate patterns on metal with a […]
Up to 40,000 May Need Relocation
November 6th, 2012Via: CBS News: Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan region — and another powerful storm forecast for the middle of the week — added to their misfortunes and deepened the gloom. With overnight temperatures sinking into the 30s […]
‘Trillions of dollars worth of stock certificates and other paper securities that were stored in a vault in lower Manhattan may have suffered water damage’
November 4th, 2012[???] Via: CNN: Trillions of dollars worth of stock certificates and other paper securities that were stored in a vault in lower Manhattan may have suffered water damage from Superstorm Sandy. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., an industry-run clearing house for Wall Street, said the contents of its vault “are likely damaged,” after its […]
