Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Scared Mexicans Turn to Bogus Tracking Chip Implants
August 29th, 2011Via: Washington Post: Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip that the kidnappers allegedly cut from his body. Lurid Mexican media accounts reported that […]
Artist’s Depiction of a Bank on Fire Drew Attention L.A. Police
August 29th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: Alex Schaefer’s depiction of a Chase branch going up in flames drew the attention of L.A. police, who asked if he was a terrorist. He said the work was a metaphor for the havoc banking practices have caused the economy. Standing before an easel on a Van Nuys sidewalk, Alex Schaefer […]
4 Million People Without Power in Northeastern U.S.
August 28th, 2011Via: CNN: Trees toppled and streets flooded Sunday morning as Irene lashed some of the biggest cities in the Northeast with wind gusts and torrential rains. Even as Irene weakened to a tropical storm, authorities in the region warned that its impact was not waning. “We’re not out of the woods yet. Irene remains a […]
The Slow Disappearance of the American Working Man
August 27th, 2011What’s the solution? Hmm. War: Now Even Better for Wiping Out Excess Men (and Women and Children and Elderly). Buy Now! Via: Business Week: A smaller share of men have jobs today than at any time since World War II As President Barack Obama puts together a new jobs plan to be revealed shortly after […]
Irene: Utilities Bracing for Widespread Power Outages
August 26th, 2011Via: AP: Hurricane Irene’s strong winds and heavy rains threaten to deliver long-lasting power outages to millions of customers along the East Coast, utility officials and weather forecasters say. An unusually large number of people may be affected by Irene because it is forecast to stay just offshore — and thus retain much of its […]
Japan Triples Airborne Radiation Checks as ‘Hot Spots’ Spread
August 24th, 2011Ok, so a diabolical regime with no credibility at all is going to step up monitoring efforts. That’s nice. Via: Bloomberg: Japan will more than triple the number of regions it checks for airborne radiation as more contaminated “hot spots” are discovered far from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power station. The government […]
Washington DC Martin Luther King Memorial Made in China
August 23rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers. Standing in the shadow of the […]
Large Zone Around Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant Will Be Declared Uninhabitable for Decades
August 22nd, 2011Via: New York Times: Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday. The formal announcement, expected from the government in coming days, would be the first official recognition […]
Japanese Researchers Trying to Find Rice Varieties that Absorb Less Cesium from the Soil
August 22nd, 2011Grim. Via: Kyodo: A research agency in Fukushima Prefecture recently began examining some 110 varieties of rice from in and outside Japan in search for strains that absorb less radioactive cesium from soil. The project, which the Fukushima Agricultural Technology Center initiated in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, […]
Social Security Disability Fund Swamped by Requests for Benefits; ‘It’s Primarily Economic Desperation’
August 22nd, 2011Broke, desperate, sick people flooding the government for requests for benefits…. Man, sounds like Recovery Double Plus Good and another reason for Obombya to go golfing. Via: AP: Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are […]
