Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
“Should BP Nuke Its Leaking Well?”
July 3rd, 2010Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result Via: Reuters: His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf […]
Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead
July 2nd, 2010At least they have some nice accommodations: Banned FEMA Formaldehyde Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster. Via: Business Insider: Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many […]
Schwarzenegger Orders Minimum Wage for State Workers
July 2nd, 2010Via: Sacramento Bee: The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers. The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to […]
21 Dead in Mexican Gang Gun Battle Near U.S. Border
July 2nd, 2010Via: AP: A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant-trafficking gangs near the U.S. border left 21 people dead on Thursday, prosecutors said. The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border — a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling. Sonora’s Attorney General’s Office said […]
Independent Video and Images from Gulf of Mexico Disaster
July 1st, 2010Via: bpslick:
So Far, 400 Have Sought Medical Care After Visits to Escambia County Beaches
June 28th, 2010Via pnj.com: The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. But the advisory was not lifted for Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens beach, immediately west of Pensacola Beach or Johnson Beach on […]
Eating Leaves and Lizards to Survive in Niger
June 27th, 2010Via: BBC: Aid organisations are warning that millions of people are facing starvation from drought and crop failure in the West African country of Niger, and some people are turning to desperate measures to survive. If you look up “bo” on the internet, nothing that makes sense comes up. But we were looking at a […]
Oil Spill: The Situation Off Bon Secour
June 21st, 2010Via: Press Register:
Los Angeles Lakers Post Game Riot and Vehicle Arson
June 21st, 2010Ahhhh, Los Angeles. I can’t say I miss ye’. Maybe the tourism board should start up a new campaign: Headed Downtown? Don’t Forget Your Marshmallows!
Fannie and Freddie Tab is $146 Billion and Rising
June 20th, 2010Via: New York Times: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year. They owned 163,828 houses at the end of March, a virtual city with more houses than Seattle. The mortgage finance companies, created by Congress to help Americans buy homes, […]
