Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
UN Soldiers Brought Superbug Strain of Cholera to Western Hemisphere
January 15th, 2012Via: ABC News: Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera — a super bug — into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010. Leading researchers […]
Haiti: Two Years After the Earthquake, Where Did the Money Go?
January 13th, 2012Via: Global Post: Where those billions went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left a government-estimated figure of 220,000 people dead β and at least 1.6 million more homeless β remains a confounding mystery. … βIn the end,β says Robert Fatton Jr., professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and a son […]
More of Greek’s Poor Abandoning Their Children
January 10th, 2012Via: BBC: Greece’s financial crisis has made some families so desperate they are giving up the most precious thing of all – their children. One morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils. “I will not be coming to pick up Anna today […]
Arnold Gundersen: Fukushima Update
January 9th, 2012This is Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewing Arnold Gundersen. The audio is from Fairwinds Associates on December 26, 2011. Hint: This is very grim. Related: Dr. Helen Caldicott
Shipping Container Home: Behold, the Reason for Nonsense Building Codes and Zoning Laws
January 2nd, 2012There’s a reason why they don’t mention where this is with any greater precision than, “California.” It’s because banks and maniac filth don’t get to draw as much energy from people who live in outlaw dwellings. Via: Fair Companies: Lulu is a single mom who’d gone back to school and didn’t have the time or […]
Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Without Trial Bill Into Law; Claims His Regime Won’t Use It
January 1st, 2012Whatever you say, Mr. Hopey Changey. What about the next resident of the White House and the next? Via: AFP: The measure, which passed by wide majorities in Congress, says the US military has the power to detain terror suspects without trial for as long as the US global anti-terror campaign is waged. Obama was […]
50 Economic Numbers From 2011
December 19th, 2011Via: Economic Collapse Blog: #1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty. #2 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished. #3 If the number of Americans […]
North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il Dead
December 19th, 2011Via: Reuters: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program. … South Korea, still technically at war with the North, placed its troops and all government workers on […]
Egypt Intensifies Crackdown on Street Protesters
December 19th, 2011WARNING: EXTREME VIOLENCE. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Egypt’s military rulers escalated a bloody crackdown on street protesters over the weekend, chasing down and beating unarmed civilians, even while the Prime Minister was denying in a televised news conference that soldiers were using any force. In a highly incendiary development, video cameras captured soldiers stripping the […]
Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30% of Americans
December 15th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The brand-new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the small northwest Arkansas city of Bentonville is the creation of Alice Walton, the daughter of the late Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the largest retailer in the world. Alice Walton, who is worth about $21 billion, has achieved her dream […]
