Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Implications of Japanese Earthquake
March 14th, 2011J writes: Kevin, Would you comment on what the situation in Japan means for the rest of the world. I have been trying to get my head around what has happened, and what is still happening, but I’m not able to do it. Millions of Japanese are without water, food and electricity. Some of the […]
EMERGENCY JAPAN: 9.1 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE
March 11th, 2011Rolling Blackouts Begin Monday Via: Reuters: Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday that it would conduct its first-ever rolling blackout from Monday to help prevent an unexpected large-scale power outage after a powerful earthquake shut two nuclear plants indefinitely on Friday. Blackouts will be conducted in turns at five areas in nine prefectures that […]
Utah Legislature Backs Gold and Silver as Legal Tender; Full Value of Metal, Not Just Face Value
March 11th, 2011Via: Salt Lake Tribune: The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill taking the first step to recognize gold and silver as legal tender in the state. It voted 16-7 to pass HB317, and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature. The measure would recognize as legal tender gold and silver coins […]
Hard Times Generation: Homeless Kids
March 9th, 2011Via: CBS / 60 Minutes: The government considers a family of four to be impoverished if they take in less than $22,000 a year. Based on that standard, and government projections of unemployment, it is estimated the poverty rate for kids in this country will soon hit 25 percent. Those children would be the largest […]
Secret FBI, CIA Documents, Sex Videos Found at Egypt’s Secret Police HQ
March 9th, 2011Via: Gizmodo: This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police’s headquarters in Cairo on March 5, when hundreds of angry people invaded it. They called this day their Bastille Day. An enraged population liberated prisoners still in their isolation cells, no larger than phone booths. In the […]
Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages
March 9th, 2011Via: CNBC: Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement. Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 […]
U.S. Farmers Fear the Return of the Dust Bowl
March 7th, 2011Via: Telegraph: For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry.
U.S. Looking at Tapping Strategic Oil Reserve
March 6th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Reuters: White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on Sunday the Obama administration is considering tapping into the U.S. strategic oil reserve as one way to help ease soaring oil prices.
With a Heavy Heart… The Dervaes Family’s Apparent Descent Into Madness
March 5th, 2011Path to Freedom inspired me to change my life. Early last decade, it was a candle in a dark room for me, so to speak. I can’t make similar statements about too many other things. Over the years, I’ve read their sites, sent them traffic with links from my sites, made several cash contributions to […]
Orange County: Pack of Snarling Imbeciles Released from Their Kennels, Given American Flags
March 4th, 2011To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one […]
