Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
California on ‘Verge of System Failure’
June 20th, 2010Via: Globe and Mail: Arnella Sims has seen a lot in her 34 years as a Los Angeles County court reporter, but nothing like this. Case files piling up by the thousands, phones ringing off the hook, forced midweek courthouse closings and occasional brawls as frustrated citizens queue for hours to pay parking fines. “People […]
North Korea Lifts Restrictions on Private Markets as Last Resort in Food Crisis
June 20th, 2010Centralized agriculture will result in famine. Whether it’s Dear Leader or Monsanto, it’s doomed. Call it communism (which results in statist plutocracy) or capitalism (which results in corporate plutocracy), it doesn’t matter. Fascism is fascism, regardless of the mask it happens to be wearing. To understand the effects of statist plutocracy on your belly, see: […]
Damaged Well Billowing Methane Into Gulf of Mexico
June 18th, 2010Maybe this one deserves a re-read: Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result. Via: AP: It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem. […]
Around 300,000 People Displaced Inside Kyrgyzstan
June 17th, 2010Via: CNN: About 300,000 people are now estimated to be internally displaced in Kyrgyzstan by ethnic violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, citing information from the Kyrgyz interim government and non-governmental organizations. Families and host communities were sheltering many of them, but at least 40,000 people were in need of shelter, according to the […]
Greece: Junk
June 14th, 2010Via: CNBC: Moody’s on Monday downgraded Greece government bond ratings into junk territory, citing the risks in the euro zone/IMF rescue package for the debt-laden country. The agency downgraded the rating by four notches to Ba1, placing it one notch into junk status.
Obama Pleads for $50 Billion in State, Local Aid
June 13th, 2010Via: Washington Post: President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery. In a letter to congressional leaders, Obama defended last year’s huge […]
Deadly Ethnic Unrest Escalates in Southern Kyrgyzstan
June 13th, 2010Via: BBC: Violence is spreading in southern Kyrgyzstan on the third day of ethnic fighting which has claimed at least 80 lives. Witnesses speak of armed Kyrgyz men shooting ethnic Uzbeks and setting property alight. Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have been fleeing the city of Osh, where a BBC correspondent reports hearing gunfire. On Saturday […]
The Oil Spills You’ve Never Heard Of
June 13th, 2010Via: The Star: Deepwater Horizon. Exxon Valdez. How many other oil spills can you name? Perhaps some Canadian accidents stick in the mind. There was the 41.8 million gallons that leaked from the American tanker Odyssey off Nova Scotia in 1988, and the 42,000 gallons that gushed from the Petro Canada-owned Terra Nova platform in […]
BP NOW BURNING THE OIL ON THE SURFACE
June 12th, 2010The article below states that BP, “Plans to burn hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil.” They have already started burning the oil. The latest Big Picture includes this image from the U.S. Coast Guard: I found this photo on a KATU.com gallery. This woman has the right idea: Whether or not that mask will […]
FAA Imposes Flight Restrictions Over Oil Spill Area
June 12th, 2010In other words, no media related aircraft below 3000 feet. Via: FAA: All aircraft operations are prohibited except those flights authorized by ATC, routine flights supporting offshore oil operations; federal, state, local and military flight operations supporting oil spill recovery and reconstitution efforts; and air medical and law enforcement operations.
