Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Philadelphia Requires Bloggers to Pay $300 for Business License (Not The Onion)
August 23rd, 2010Via: NBC: Taking a step closer to an eerie Orwellian state where creativity is crushed in the name of “the greater good,” the city of Philadelphia is demanding that bloggers pay $300 for the privilege of writing on the Internet. This $300 “business privilege license” is for all local bloggers – even the ones that […]
Hardship Withdrawals from 401(k) Retirement Plans Rose to Highest Level in Decade
August 22nd, 2010Via: CNN: Hardship withdrawals from 401(k) retirement saving plans rose to the highest level in 10 years during the second quarter, Fidelity Investments said on Friday, in the latest sign of a dismal economy. Fidelity reported that, as of the second quarter, 2.2% of all 401(k) participants had made a hardship withdrawal at some point […]
Nearly 50 Percent Leave Obama Mortgage-Aid Program
August 20th, 2010Oh man, what a cluster f*@#. Via: AP: Nearly half of the homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration’s flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly mortgage payments lowered through the effort have been cut […]
Gerald Celente on Goldseek Radio
August 20th, 2010Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Ecological Disaster
August 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Long before BP’s blowout menaced the Gulf of Mexico, an oil industry-related coastal crisis of another kind began unfolding all over the Mississippi River coastal delta. Dredging for navigation, oil and gas drilling and pipeline construction has ripped apart the estuary’s fragile system of fresh and saltwater marshes. Between 1901, when drilling began […]
Big Picture Gallery: Landslides Strike Zhouqu County, China
August 18th, 2010Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: At midnight on Sunday, August 8th, a temporary lake caused by a recent landslide broke loose above the town of Zhouqu, in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China. The outflow slid down the valley as a wall of mud, wiping out houses and muli-story buildings, and killing at least 1,144 […]
Dock Owners Asking Fishermen to Sign Waiver Stating That They Would be Responsible for Contaminated Fish?
August 18th, 2010I’m not able to find any confirmation on this one, but here it is, just in case. See Kindra Arnesen at seven minutes in: Related: projectgulfimpact.org
Illegal Immigrants Account for 8% of U.S. Newborns
August 16th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: As many as 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to a Pew Hispanic Center study of Census Bureau data. Unauthorized immigrants, who make up a little more than 4 percent of the population, are for the […]
Oakland: Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong
August 16th, 2010It’s right out of Snow Crash. Where are the Kong Bucks? Via: New York Times: In a basement office that serves as a police headquarters and community center, Oakland Chinatown leaders pored over maps of the neighborhood with representatives from a private security firm last week. “Many of our merchants are already installing cameras,” said […]
Another Threat to Economy: Boomers Cutting Back
August 16th, 2010See the Bloomberg piece, U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: We have 78 million baby boomers who, when fully retired, will collect benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that, on average, exceed per-capita GDP. The annual costs of these entitlements will total about $4 trillion in today’s dollars. Yes, our economy […]
