Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Japanese Monitor Radiation On Their Own
August 1st, 2011Via: Times Union: Kiyoko Okoshi had a simple goal when she spent about $625 for a dosimeter: She missed her daughter and grandsons and wanted them to come home. Local officials kept telling her that their remote village was safe, even though it was less than 20 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power […]
Japan’s Largest Supermarket Chain Tests Beef for Radiation
July 30th, 2011Via: International Supermarket News: Aeon, Japan’s largest supermarket chain, has carried out independent tests to ensure the safety of the beef products it sells. The move comes as the Japanese government requested a ban on shipments of cattle from a second prefecture, after detecting caesium levels as high as twice government-set limits in beef from […]
Malnourished American Children Face Long Term Learning and Developmental Problems
July 28th, 2011Via: Boston Herald: Doctors at a major Boston hospital report they are seeing more hungry and dangerously thin young children in the emergency room than at any time in more than a decade of surveying families. Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children, say the Boston Medical Center doctors. […]
Are You Raising a Douchebag?
July 25th, 2011Via: Details: Let us begin with the assumption that if you are a parent, you wish for your child every advantage and opportunity. From the ergonomic high chair to that all-important first sushi experience and beyond, life should be as golden for your little one as it is for, say, Pax Jolie-Pitt. But inevitably the […]
SOS Again from Minamisoma, Fukushima
July 22nd, 2011Via: Time: Another disgruntled Japanese official has taken to the interwebs to air his grievances about the inadequate attention being paid to the welfare of residents of Minamisoma, a town about 25 kilometers away from the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Minamisoma last grabbed international headlines when the town’s mayor posted an earnest appeal […]
Famine in Somalia
July 21st, 2011Via: Guardian: By officially declaring parts of Somalia to be in the grip of famine, the UN will be hoping to galvanise governments and the public into action to address the food crisis in east Africa. The UN estimates that 12 million in the region are now in need of emergency help and warns that […]
Did the USDA Just Deregulate All New Genetically Modified Crops?
July 18th, 2011Via: Mother Jones: In a surprise move, the agency green-lights Roundup Ready lawn grass—and perhaps much, much more. It’s a hoary bureaucratic trick, making a controversial announcement on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend, when most people are daydreaming about what beer to buy on the way home from work, or are checking movie […]
Japan’s ‘Throwaway’ Nuclear Workers
July 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: A decade and a half before it blew apart in a hydrogen blast that punctuated the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant was the scene of an earlier safety crisis. Then, as now, a small army of transient workers was put to work to […]
Contagion
July 15th, 2011Via: YouTube:
Recovery: Hundreds Scramble for Dallas County Rental Vouchers
July 15th, 2011Zombie Apocalypse News Presents… Via: WFAA: Research Credit: matt
