Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Forced to Eat Higher Food Prices
June 1st, 2007Via: Kitco: What I am in a panic about is that from the Financial Times we read the terrible news that “Retail food prices are heading for their biggest annual increase in as much as 30 years, raising fears that the world faces an unprecedented period of food price inflation. Few countries have not felt […]
The Sack of Washington
May 31st, 2007Maybe the author covers this somewhere in the book, but the most important difference, in my opinion, is that Rome didn’t go down with a ready and deployed arsenal of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. Same primate consciousness as in Rome, but now with nuclear weapons. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed and yes, some number […]
Mayday 23: World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural
May 24th, 2007Via: ncsu.edu: There’s no big countdown billboard or sign in Times Square to denote it, but Wednesday, May 23, 2007, represents a major demographic shift, according to scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia: For the first time in human history, the earth’s population will be more urban than rural. … […]
California to Spend More on Prisons than on Higher Education
May 21st, 2007Via: San Francisco Chronicle: As the costs for fixing the state’s troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone — for the first time the state will spend more on incarcerating inmates than on educating students in its public universities. Based on current spending trends, California’s prison budget will overtake spending […]
Woman Lies Dying on Hospital Emergency Room Floor, Janitor Cleans Around Her, Cops Arrest Her, She Dies
May 21st, 2007Via: Los Angeles Times: In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer. “Thanks a lot, officers,” an emergency room nurse told Los Angeles County police who brought in Rodriguez early May 9 after finding her in front of the Willowbrook hospital yelling for help. “This […]
Why the U.S. Doesn’t Stop Importing Tainted Food from China
May 21st, 2007Always low prices. Always. At least a crock of shit would be useful. You can compost it and put it on your garden. “Typical Americans” are nourished on increasing amounts of petroleum, empty calories and toxic slag from slave labor camps in China. I wouldn’t allow what “typical Americans” are eating everyday into my compost […]
U.S. Military Begins Planning for Avian Flu Pandemic
May 18th, 2007I don’t offer much advice on here, but I will now, as it appears that time is running out: Do not allow yourself to be taken alive. I know. Even now, a few of you still don’t get it. You’re thinking, “It’s not going to come to that,” and maybe there’s more time for politics […]
How Safe Is The Food Supply?
May 17th, 2007This article should be called, “How Well Prepared Are You for Collapse?” Via: Business Week: That powder keg hasn’t exploded–yet. But every month there are a surprising number of near misses. Europe just had a scare from harmful bacteria in vitamin A from China that nearly got into infant formula. And in the past few […]
Massachusetts Electricity Infrastructure Facing Possible Collapse this Summer
May 15th, 2007Via: Boston Herald: With temperatures already surging into the 80s and a scorching summer on tap, many Massachusetts communities could face a spike in blackouts – and possibly even explosions – from thousands of potentially dangerous overloaded electrical transformers. Documents obtained by the Herald show more than 12,000 transformers from Attleboro to Ayer are operating […]
Government Working on Plan for Aftermath of Nuclear Bombing of Major City
May 14th, 2007In, Waiting for Clarity on the Brink of Oblivion, I wrote: 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. Many Cryptogon readers think that they’re going to hedge their bets, and stay put for as […]
