Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
U.S. Considers Fencing Along Canadian Border
September 29th, 2011Yeah, keep criminals out. That’s the ticket. *wink* Via: CTV: Building fences along the Canadian border is one of the options the U.S. government is considering as it mulls how to handle “trouble spots” and keep out criminals and other threats. In a new draft report, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency includes among […]
Former Member of Bush Economic Team Thinks Germany Will Bring Back Deutsche Mark: ‘They Have Already Ordered the New Currency and Asked that the Printers Hurry Up’
September 29th, 2011Bio: Philippa Malmgren: Dr. Philippa Malmgren is the President and founder of Principalis Asset Management, a financial firm based in London. In short, she helps fund managers better understand how politics, policy and geopolitics will impact the financial markets. Investors use her insights to manage their portfolios more profitably. Her clients include many investment banks, […]
Gallery: Student Protests in Chile
September 29th, 2011Resistance… U.S. style: Lots and lots of iCrap-TwitFace connectivity, diabetes, obesity, people eating McDonalds food, limousine liberals, very expensive cameras, not many participants (sometimes more cops than protestors in other galleries and video)… vs. Chile: General strike, streets clogged with thousands of people from all walks of life, protestors attack cops, not just the of […]
Wisconsin Judge: ‘No, Plaintiffs do not have the right to produce and consume the foods of their choice”
September 27th, 2011Via: The Complete Patient: As if to show how pissed he was at being questioned, he said his decision translates further that “no, Plaintiffs to not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd; “no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their […]
Japan: Radioactive Zone Bigger Than That Left by Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
September 27th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. Takako Harada, 80, returned to an evacuated area of Iitate village to retrieve her car. Beside her house is an empty cattle […]
49% of Americans Believe Federal Government “Poses an Immediate Threat to the Rights and Freedoms of Ordinary Citizens”
September 26th, 2011Via: Gallup: A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years. … The findings are from Gallup’s annual Governance survey, updated Sept. 8-11, 2011. The same poll shows record or near-record criticism of Congress, elected officials, government […]
IMF May Need Bailout
September 26th, 2011*chortle* Via: Telegraph: Christine Lagarde has signalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have to tap its members – including Britain – for billions of pounds of extra funding to stem the European debt crisis. The head of the IMF has warned that its $384bn (£248bn) war chest designed as an emergency bail-out fund […]
Young Adults: America’s Lost Generation
September 22nd, 2011Via: AP: Call it the recession’s lost generation. In record-setting numbers, young adults struggling to find work are shunning long-distance moves to live with Mom and Dad, delaying marriage and buying fewer homes, often raising kids out of wedlock. They suffer from the highest unemployment since World War II and risk living in poverty more […]
Video Games Intruding on Reality: ‘Game Transfer Phenomena’ [???]
September 22nd, 2011Wow, if there was one for the top of your Not The Onion stack, this is it. Via: New Zealand Herald / AP: Some video-game players are so immersed in their virtual environment that when they stop playing, they transfer their experiences into the real world. A study found evidence of game transfer phenomena, which […]
Japanese Government to Invite Foreigners Who Have Large Facebook and Twitter Networks to Tohoku So That They Can Tell Their Followers “Japan Is Safe”
September 19th, 2011Do they get to bring their own dosimeters? Via: EX-SKF: Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have started to make preparations for inviting people from overseas who disseminate information via the social media such as Facebook and Twitter, as part of the countermeasures against “baseless rumors” that have damaged sales of Japanese agricultural products and tourism […]
