Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Sacramento Girl Needed Amputations After 5-Hour Wait at Emergency Room
January 1st, 2011Via: Sacramento Bee: As his tiny daughter’s skin turned blotchy and her body went limp during a lengthy wait at Methodist Hospital’s emergency room, Ryan Jeffers panicked. “This wasn’t a simple flu,” he said. “My daughter needed help.” Little did he know that the girl was near death from a common infection that had invaded […]
‘Crash Taxes’ Are Growing in Popularity Among Cash-Strapped California Cities
January 1st, 2011Let me understand this: There’s no discount on all the other taxes people pay to the state, and then they get charged by the state when there’s an emergency? Maniac fascists have no concept of enough. There’s one voice of sanity in this article: “To me, it’s an outrage. We’re already paying these people — […]
200,000 Australians Affected by Floods Covering Larger Area than France and Germany Combined
January 1st, 2011Via: Telegraph: Some 200,000 Australians have been affected by flood waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined. Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods as rising rivers inundated or isolated 22 towns in the state of Queensland. … Officials say half of Queensland’s 715,305 square miles is affected, after […]
Empathy Declining: ‘The American Personality Is Shifting In An Ominous Direction’
December 30th, 2010Via: Scientific American: Humans are unlikely to win the animal kingdom’s prize for fastest, strongest or largest, but we are world champions at understanding one another. This interpersonal prowess is fueled, at least in part, by empathy: our tendency to care about and share other people’s emotional experiences. Empathy is a cornerstone of human behavior […]
80% OF ANTIBIOTICS SOLD IN U.S. USED FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
December 29th, 2010Via: Center for a Livable Future: Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in […]
Number of Multifamily Households at Record as People Try to Avoid Becoming Homeless
December 29th, 2010Obviously, the economy is playing a big part in this, but I wonder how many households choose this route even though they aren’t broke? This is the default setting for billions of people. Update: Pew Research Center: The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household: Another factor has been the big wave of immigration, dominated by […]
Water Pipes Freeze Then Burst in Northern Ireland: Tens of Thousands Left Without Water
December 29th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Frustration and fears of disease mounted in Northern Ireland Wednesday as tens of thousands of people were left without water after much of the supply drained away through broken pipes following a deep freeze and a sudden thaw. In many towns and cities water supplies were cut off as residents turned to […]
Baby Boomers’ Retirements in Jeopardy
December 28th, 2010What is this ‘Retirement’ you speak of? —Generation X Also, Pookie sent me this set of age distribution charts for the U.S. If we didn’t know anything else about political and economic doom, this alone should be enough to indicate that bad trouble is ahead. Look at those charts and then consider the unemployed, underemployed […]
Nearly 1 in 4 Students Too Stupid to Pass U.S. Army Entrance Exam
December 22nd, 2010It’s actually much worse than the headline indicates. Check out this sentence: Pentagon data shows that 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don’t even qualify to take the test because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn’t graduate high school. Via: AP: Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to […]
Weak Update; More Later; Telecom Hell Continues
December 21st, 2010Update: After Being Down for Three Days… It came back up a few hours after I posted this. Thanks, Telecom. Love ya. Really. *wink* —End Update— I’ve been driving around the wopwops, documenting another Telecom XT outage in this area. This time, I borrowed another XT user’s sim card to try, in addition to my […]
