Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Roundup-Resistant Super Weeds
May 5th, 2010The New York Times piece below states the following about glyphosate: “It kills a broad spectrum of weeds, is easy and safe to work with, and breaks down quickly, reducing its environmental impact.” Please see: Study Released in Argentina Puts Glyphosate Under Fire: Criticism of the soy farming model intensified recently when research released by […]
Oil Slickonomics
May 3rd, 2010Via: The Big Picture: Three scenarios lie ahead. They rank as bad, worse, and ugliest (the latter being catastrophic and unprecedented). There is no “good” here. The Bad. Containment chambers are put in place and they catch the outflow from the three ruptures that are currently pouring 200,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf every […]
Third of U.S. Bee Colonies Did Not Survive the Winter
May 3rd, 2010Via: Guardian: Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter. The decline of the country’s estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder […]
A ‘Catastrophic’ Rupture Hits Boston’s Water System; Two Million Ordered to Boil Drinking Water
May 2nd, 2010Via: Boston Globe: About 2 million Greater Boston residents lost their supply of clean drinking water when a huge pipe burst yesterday, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency and to impose a sweeping order for homeowners and businesses to boil the untreated water now flowing through their pipes. Governor Deval Patrick said residents […]
GOVERNMENT FEARS DEEPWATER HORIZON WELL COULD BECOME UNCHECKED GUSHER
May 2nd, 2010Via: al.com: ‘The following is not public’ document states A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. “The following is not public,” reads the National Oceanic […]
Crisis, Martial Law, and Black Market Operations
April 28th, 2010Via: Knowledge Is The Killer of Fear: In the coming years, I think there is a strong possibility that there is going to be crisis and martial law in the United States and in other nations as well. During such periods, the items you need to survive will become increasingly scarce, especially if the crisis […]
Greece Debt Rating Cut to Junk by S&P
April 28th, 2010Via: BBC: Global stock markets tumbled after Greece’s debt was downgraded to “junk” by rating agency Standard & Poor’s over concerns that the country may default. It makes the struggling nation the first eurozone member to have its debt downgraded to junk level. Portugal’s debt was also lowered on fears of “contagion”, adding to the […]
The Next Empire: China in Africa
April 28th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Africans’ attitudes toward China’s recent initiatives on their continent are perhaps inevitably riddled with ambivalence. Many African intellectuals bridle at Western criticism of China’s African full-court press. The West, they say, has long patronized their continent, and since the end of the Cold War, has subjected it to outright neglect. And all […]
New York: Tent City Springs Up as Over One Thousand People Try to Receive an Application for a Single Elevator Mechanic Job
April 27th, 2010Can you feel the Recovery? Via: CBS: Desperate times call for desperate measures – even if it means camping out in the rain for a chance at a job application. Hundreds of job-seekers did just that in Queens in the hopes of landing a coveted union job. Construction workers, engineers, electricians — hundreds spent the […]
Company Building Underground Bunker Communities for Those Looking to Survive TEOTWAWKI
April 26th, 2010Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear apocalypse that devastated the game’s world in a future where international conflicts culminated in a Sino-American war in the second half of the 21st century. The game places the player in the role […]
