Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Shell’s $30 per Barrel Oil Shale Process
January 3rd, 2008For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn’t ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves. Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. […]
Suburban Tent Cities
December 26th, 2007Via: Reuters: Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California. The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers 200 […]
UN: World Food Stocks Dwindling Rapidly
December 18th, 2007If you look at the ongoing crises involved with food production, you see not just a perfect storm, but multiple perfect storms. — Cryptogon November 28, 2007 Via: International Herald Tribune: In an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food […]
New Zealand: Bags Packed for Doomsday
December 14th, 2007“This isn’t the lifeboat you’re looking for.” * Subtle hand gesture * Some people didn’t get my lame Star Wars humor. Sorry about that. See: Jedi Mind Trick Via: Stuff: The ‘twin tsunamis’ of global warming and peak oil could spell TEOTWAWKI – the end of the world as we know it – and already, […]
U.S. DOLLAR HOLDERS MAY BE FORCED TO ACCEPT IMF RESERVE ASSETS IF THEY WANT TO DIVERSIFY; FLOOD OF DOLLARS THREATENS GLOBAL ECONOMY
December 12th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. “This is the warning I’ve been repeating for years: You do not want to try to reach the exit as millions of other people attempt to do the same thing. Waiting for clarity is not often rewarded. — Cryptogon: Waiting for […]
Cleveland: 6000 Applicants for 300 Jobs… At WalMart
December 11th, 2007Via: Plain Dealer: As the world’s largest private employer, Wal-Mart is used to being greeted by large numbers of applicants almost every time it opens a new store. But the 6,000-plus people who applied for jobs at the new Supercenter in Cleveland’s Steelyard Commons took everyone, even Wal-Mart, by surprise. “We had to recount [the […]
Foreclosure Wave Sweeps America
November 6th, 2007Via: BBC: A wave of foreclosures and evictions is about to sweep the United States in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage lending crisis. This could destabilise the US housing market and may also lead to further turmoil in financial institutions, who collectively own $1 trillion (£480.6bn) worth of sub-prime debt. Cleveland, Ohio, is an […]
China: Birth Defects Soar Due to Pollution
November 1st, 2007These are just the numbers released by the diabolical Chinese regime. What are the real numbers!? Via: Guardian / Reuters: Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China’s worsening environmental degradation. The rate of defects had risen from 104.9 per […]
Much of U.S. Could See a Water Shortage
October 27th, 2007Via: AP: An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. Across America, the picture […]
Army Medics Train at Miami Trauma Center
October 27th, 2007Via: AP: For two weeks, 28 Army medics, nurses, doctors and nurse anesthetists have been learning trauma medicine and teamwork under pressure at the Ryder Trauma Center at downtown Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, a place that sees such carnage it often resembles a war zone. Ryder is one of the busiest trauma centers in the […]
