Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Forty-Nine Headless Corpses Found Along Highway in Northern Mexico
May 14th, 2012Via: Reuters: Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway […]
Radio Interview: Arnie Gundersen on KGO – Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4
May 13th, 2012Reposted on YouTube:
‘Iceland Holds the World Record in Household Debt Relief’
May 7th, 2012This story has been circulating for weeks in the form of this Spanish language video clip. I was not able to find any confirmation of the story when it first appeared. I just tried to confirm it again and found this Bloomberg piece. Via: Bloomberg: Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their […]
Fascism Rises from the Depths of Greece’s Despair
May 6th, 2012Via: Independent: Entering its fourth year in recession, Greece now outstrips even Spain for youth unemployment with the new statistics published yesterday showing joblessness among the under-25s at 51.2 per cent. The headline unemployment rate is 21.7 per cent while the real rate is believed to be closer to 25 per cent. It’s in this […]
More Americans Stashing Cash in Home Safes
May 4th, 2012My guess is that the chances of people being robbed by the police are much higher than the chances of being robbed by more traditional criminals. Remember: In the eyes of the police, cash is evidence of criminal activity. Via: Smart Money: One thing that isn’t driving the safe boom, apparently, is crime. Indeed, U.S. […]
Young Italians Flock to Become Shepherds
May 4th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Pay is poor and the hours are long, but there is job security, fresh air and as much pecorino cheese as you can eat. As Italy’s unemployment rate topped 10pc this week, it emerged that young people are flocking to become shepherds. Traditionally the preserve of older men, the profession has recently attracted […]
Spanish Unemployment Hits Record 24.4%
April 27th, 2012Via: BBC: Spanish unemployment has hit a new record high, official figures have shown. The number of unemployed people reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, the national statistics agency said. The figures came hours after rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Spanish sovereign debt. Official figures due out […]
Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors’ Prisons
April 24th, 2012Via: CBS: How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. “She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. “But the bill […]
Many Portuguese Returning to the Land
April 22nd, 2012Via: RTE: Disillusioned by the unfulfilled promise of the cities and feeling stifled by tough austerity measures aimed at coping with an economic downturn, some Portuguese are opting out and returning to the land. Jose Diogo, who spent two years in Lisbon working as a technical advisor at a meat company, was one who fled […]
Food Stamp Rolls Increase 70% from 2007, Projected to Keep Increasing Until 2014
April 20th, 2012Green shoots pushed out to 2014? Via: Wall Street Journal: The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. Spending for the […]
