Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Haiti Cholera: UN Peacekeepers to Blame
December 8th, 2010Wow. I actually didn’t think much of a cholera outbreak in Haiti. Thousands of people, packed close together in camps without proper sanitation—it’s not much of a stretch to think that cholera could result. Weirdly, though, my dad was cryptically trying to tell me something about cholera on the phone a few weeks ago, but […]
Why Farmers Are Flocking to Manure
December 5th, 2010I’d be extremely careful with manure from industrial livestock operations in the U.S. Most or all of what those animals eat is genetically engineered and they are pumped full of antibiotics and injections containing heavy metals. Animal manures can be wonderful fertilizers that build soil structure and increase beneficial biological activity in the soil. Just […]
The New Poor: Unemployed, and Likely to Stay That Way
December 3rd, 2010A new cafe opened up out at the coast from where I am here in New Zealand. I was eating there, using my netbook, and the owner offered to get me on the Wi-Fi network he had running in there. We chatted about our past lives. That dude did nearly THREE DECADES of wrench turning […]
Atlanta: Hundreds Line Up For Help Heating Homes
December 3rd, 2010Via: Atlanta Journal Constitution: As metro Atlanta’s temperatures grow colder, the demand for heat is, well, heating up. A day after hundreds of people queued up outside a Marietta community center to apply for assistance with heat and power bills, hopeful applicants began lining up again around midnight, waiting in the sub-freezing temperatures for the […]
No More Unemployment Checks for Two Million Americans by End of December
December 2nd, 2010Via: USA Today: About 2 million Americans stand to lose their unemployment checks by the end of December after Congress failed to extend benefits Tuesday, threatening to crimp consumer spending in a fragile recovery and critical holiday shopping season. A motion by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., to pass an extension on a voice vote fell […]
NAB Computer Debacle Finally Fixed
November 30th, 2010*shaking head* Via: PerthNow: THE last of millions of National Australia Bank (NAB) customers left cashless and embarrassed by a massive computing failure have had their accounts restored. NAB said today that the remaining 19,155 affected customers could now access money in their accounts – six days after the debacle began. Accounts are all up […]
Rio Violence Creeps Toward the Beach
November 29th, 2010Update: Big Picture Gallery: Rio’s Drug War Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: A small war took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between Brazilian forces and hundreds of drug traffickers holed up in the shantytown complex dubbed Complexo do Alemão. After recent efforts by officials to pacify Rio’s drug and gang-related violence […]
IRELAND: ANGLO IRISH BANK, NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY TO BE CLOSED BY GOVERNMENT?
November 27th, 2010Via: Irish Examiner: Amid speculation last night that the rate of interest to be charged on the EU/IMF bailout could be as much as 6.7%, Fine Gael’s finance spokesman Michael Noonan said that kind of rate was “far too high” and unaffordable on any reasonable projection of growth. The Department of Finance said the interest […]
Jim Corr : Message to the People of Ireland
November 27th, 2010Via: Jim Corr:
Could Millionaires Fleeing the U.S. Cause a Wildcard Economic Event?
November 21st, 2010For years, I’ve received emails from people who want to move to New Zealand. Some young, some old. Some well off, some not so well off. Over the last month or so, three millionaires have emailed me about moving to New Zealand. The three people who emailed me were all going to invest their way […]
