Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Children to be Banned from Blowing Up Balloons, Under EU Safety Rules
October 11th, 2011Better require them to wear those reflective-vests at all times as well. And helmets. And… Via: Telegraph: Children are to be banned from taking part in traditional Christmas games, from blowing up balloons to blowing on party whistles, because of new EU safety rules that have just entered into force.
Japan: Food Radiation Checker
October 7th, 2011Send the bill to Tepco? *groan* Via: Cnet: For many Japanese, food safety is an urgent concern in light of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, from which radiation has entered the food supply. Kyoto-based scientific equipment maker Horiba is trying to help with a radiation detector kit that can tell users […]
Bank of England Governor: World Facing Worst Financial Crisis in History
October 7th, 2011So, the green shoots are off then? Via: Telegraph: The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever”, the Governor of the Bank of England said last night. Sir Mervyn King was speaking after the decision by the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to put £75billion of newly created […]
IMF Advisor: Could See Eurozone ‘Meltdown’ in 2 Or 3 Weeks
October 7th, 2011“The US investment banks and the rating agencies are now attacking these French banks. They know where the bodies are buried, and they are using the weapons they sold them to attack them… This is part of a new era on Wall Street – they go after sovereign debt. Wall Street and rating agencies are […]
Geek Fight Club
October 5th, 2011Uppercut from California is a place. on Vimeo.
‘Sesame Street’ Unveils Muppet to Teach Kids About Hunger
October 5th, 2011Via: Entertainment Weekly: Sesame Street has a new muppet who is hungry for more than just cookies. The iconic kids show is set to unveil a new impoverished puppet named Lily, whose family faces an ongoing struggle with hunger issues. Lily will be revealed in a one-hour Sesame Street primetime special, Growing Hope Against Hunger, […]
Japan to Remove Some Restrictions on Fukushima Evacuation Zone
October 4th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Japan’s government may lift restrictions this week on some areas outside the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear where residents had been told to prepare for evacuation. The so-called Emergency Evacuation Preparation Zone was set up in April for areas 10 kilometers beyond the 20 kilometer (12.6 mile) no-go zone. The area […]
Britain: Sharp Rise in Demand for Food Handouts from Poverty-Stricken Families
October 2nd, 2011Via: Guardian: Britain has seen a sharp increase in the number of people unable to afford to feed themselves at the most basic level, thanks to the worsening economic climate and changes to the benefit system, according to a survey by a leading food charity. In the past year FareShare, which redistributes waste food from […]
Germany Must Hit the Eject Button
October 1st, 2011Absent significant monetary instability or an injunction for use of bancor for the making of an important set of payments (e.g. payment of taxes), surmounting the barriers to wide acceptance would be a key and perhaps prohibitive challenge. —IMF on the Proposed Global Currency Called the Bancor, Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability, April 13, […]
Japan: Kan Considered Evacuation of Tokyo in Wake Nuclear Disaster, but Feared Chaos and Collapse of the State
September 30th, 2011Via: ABC: Japan’s former prime minister Naoto Kan has revealed he contemplated evacuating as many as 30 million people from Tokyo and surrounding areas during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Speaking to Japan’s Kyodo News, Mr Kan, who was prime minister during the nuclear crisis, said evacuations on such a scale may have led to Japan […]
