Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Britain: Planning Underway for Immigration Controls if Euro Collapses
May 26th, 2012Via: Telegraph: The Government is drawing up plans for emergency immigration controls to curb an influx of Greeks and other European Union residents if the euro collapses, the Home Secretary discloses today.
Secret, Emergency European Central Bank Aid Props Up Greek Banks
May 22nd, 2012Via: Financial Times: There has been no official announcement. No terms or conditions have been disclosed. But Greece’s banking system is being propped up by an estimated €100 billion or so of emergency liquidity provided by the country’s central bank — approved secretly by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. If Greece were to leave […]
Wisconsin Cops Tell Woman to Bring Cash to Bail Son Out of Jail, Then Steal Her Money
May 21st, 2012Via: Huffington Post: When the Brown County, Wis., Drug Task Force arrested her son Joel last February, Beverly Greer started piecing together his bail. She used part of her disability payment and her tax return. Joel Greer’s wife also chipped in, as did his brother and two sisters. On Feb. 29, a judge set Greer’s […]
Robert Reich to New College Graduates: ‘You’re F*cked’
May 20th, 2012I’ve excerpted what I think are the key sentences. Via: Robert Reich: So much of what was once considered “knowledge work” – the kind that college graduates specialize in – can now be done more cheaply by software. Or by workers with college degrees in India or East Asia, linked up by Internet. Related: The […]
Half of Florida High School Students Fail Reading Test
May 19th, 2012Via: Reuters: Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state’s new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday. Results this year from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed 52 percent of freshman students and 50 percent of sophomores scored at their grade levels. Students in the 10th grade […]
U.S. Military Provides Healthcare to Rural Alabama
May 19th, 2012Maybe they could get corporate sponsorship for attractive triage tents. “Brought to you by Brawndo – The Thirst Mutilator.” How about handing out pHoods that make people obese, give them high blood pressure and rot their teeth, along with the goody bags of drugs? You know, get your Pepsi, Poptarts and Plavix all at the […]
The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps
May 17th, 2012Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education: “I am not a welfare queen,” says Melissa Bruninga-Matteau. That’s how she feels compelled to start a conversation about how she, a white woman with a Ph.D. in medieval history and an adjunct professor, came to rely on food stamps and Medicaid. Ms. Bruninga-Matteau, a 43-year-old single mother who […]
NBC: Revolution
May 15th, 2012Via: YouTube: Semi-Related: The E-bomb: Defence Secretary Warns Of EMP Weapons Threat
The Urban Farming Guys in India
May 14th, 2012Via: Urban Farming Guys: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Florida Farm Workers Tell How Drugs, Debt Bind Them in Modern Slavery
May 14th, 2012Via: Tampa Bay Times: LeRoy Smith thought he had hit rock bottom when he found himself trolling Atlanta’s gay district, looking to exchange sex acts for a hot hit off a crack pipe. Then he wound up on a Florida farm near the small town of Hastings, being bilked blind, he says, by a man […]
