Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
U.S. Government Funding Program to Train Foreign Workers So American Firms Can Outsource Jobs
August 5th, 2010In other news: The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. Via: Information Week: Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English […]
The Death of Paper Money
August 5th, 2010Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations by Jens O. Parsson: Amazon, HTML, PDF. Via: Telegraph: As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974. Ebay is offering a well-thumbed volume of […]
China: Garbage Islands Threaten Three Gorges Dam
August 3rd, 2010Via: Reuters: Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation, told the China […]
After Armageddon
August 1st, 2010I doubt that there’s going to be any escape from the emerging machine world and we will probably see autonomous terminator robots before some plague takes down the global prison system of governments and the corporations that they serve. The scenario in Jericho seems more probable to me than the one below, but both pieces […]
Big Picture Gallery: Cleaning Dalian Harbor
August 1st, 2010* shaking head * Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th is being cleaned up by a small army of fisherman, locals, and government workers manning over 250 oil-skimming vessels and 8,000 fishing boats – much of the work […]
After Losing Home to Foreclosure, “I Bought Myself an iPad”
July 30th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The more he thought about the money he was losing, the more it stressed him out. Finally, Ronzio enlisted the help of a firm called You Walk Away and did exactly that from the remaining $319,000 on his condo mortgage. When the bank foreclosed, he says he felt a sense of relief. He […]
Doomers in New Zealand
July 29th, 2010Interestingly, the piece doesn’t mention Transition Towns New Zealand, which would make much more sense to average New Zealanders than wealthy British and American people, like the ones featured in the video. The 2012 woowoo element doesn’t help either. *sigh* Via: 3news: Many people believe that a great world catastrophe is going to happen in […]
Mexico: Prison Official Sent Inmates to Conduct Birthday Party Massacre
July 27th, 2010Via: Christian Science Monitor: A prison director is suspected of arming inmates and sending them on the July 18 Mexico birthday party massacre that killed 17. To some, Mexico’s drug war seems ‘the script of a science fiction movie.’ When gunmen burst into a private birthday party on July 18 and opened fired on guests, […]
What I Did When I Couldn’t Find a Job
July 27th, 2010Via: Chronicle of Higher Education: It was a bit of a shock, losing all expectations. For years—all my life, really—parents, teachers, and guidance counselors had told me that if I went to a good college and did well, I would be able to find a job after graduation that would, with a little ladder-climbing, keep […]
Cities Give Land Away In Attempt to Gain Taxpayers
July 26th, 2010Via: New York Times: Give away land to make money? It hardly sounds like a prudent scheme. But in a bit of déjà vu, that is exactly what this small Nebraska city aims to do. Beatrice was a starting point for the Homestead Act of 1862, the federal law that handed land to pioneering farmers. […]
