Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Better Off Deadbeat: People Get Into Debt, Learn the Law, Become “Credit Terrorists”
January 27th, 2010Via: Dallas Observer: While most Americans with unpaid bills dread the collector’s call, Cunningham sees them as lucrative opportunities. Many collection and credit card companies, intentionally or not, violate little-known consumer rights laws, and Cunningham’s favorite pastime is catching them doing so and then suing them. In fact, it’s a profitable side job. Call it […]
Americans Sign Petition to Repeal the First Amendment
January 26th, 2010I need a Zombies category.
Ron Paul: “Great Danger Lies Ahead”
January 24th, 2010Here are several perspectives that you’ll never hear in a State of the Union speech:
Children Disappearing from Hospitals in Haiti
January 24th, 2010With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. Via: France24: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced Friday that several children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti in the aftermath of the killer earthquake, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad. “We have documented let’s say around 15 cases of […]
Computers Down at All 168 California DMV Offices
January 23rd, 2010Via: AP: A systemwide computer failure at the California Department of Motor Vehicles caused several hours of delays at all 168 offices Thursday. The offices remained open, but with computers unable to connect to the state’s network, DMV workers were forced to do everything by hand, such as processing driver’s licenses and registrations, DMV spokeswoman […]
Photo Gallery: Haiti Six Days Later
January 21st, 2010Via: Boston Globe: Haiti remains a place of profound need, anguish, desperation and danger, with a few glimmers of hope and slowly growing capabilities to receive and distribute the international aid now flowing in. Sporadic looting, sometimes violent, was met with force by security oficials and ordinary citizens, resulting in a number of further deaths […]
If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online
January 21st, 2010The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein Via: New York Times: The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from […]
Can You Do This With Your Tap Water?
January 19th, 2010Via: GaslandMovie: CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER? from JOSHFOX on Vimeo. When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area—the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States’ natural gas […]
Haiti: Dubya and Clinton to the Rescue?
January 19th, 2010One in Seven U.S. Mortgages In Foreclosure or Delinquent
January 19th, 2010Green shoots. Recovery. Via: Reuters: A record one in seven U.S. mortgages were in foreclosure or at least one payment past due in the third quarter, according to fresh data signaling the recovery in the housing market will be tepid at best. U.S. mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure […]
