Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Realtor to Residents Who Remain in Neighborhoods with Forclosed Properties: Protect Vacant Homes from Looters and Vandals
May 10th, 2007Via: Real Estate Journal: For those homeowners fearing that the “low-ballers” and banks trying to unload foreclosed homes will sap the value of their own properties, Kent suggested that residents could band together to watch out for a property. “They could try forming a little neighborhood watch where people watch over that house to make […]
Council on Foreign Relations on U.S. Dollar: “An Absurdity… Supported Only by Faith”
May 9th, 2007The End of National Currency is the most astonishing thing that I have read since Zbigniew Brzezinski’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this year. Foreign Affairs is the most important and influential journal of International Relations in the world. It is the mechanism by which the Council on Foreign Relations disseminates the […]
Organic Food Production Could Secure Global Food Supplies with Reduced Environmental Impacts
May 8th, 2007Here’s one for your No-Shit-Rocket-Science-Brain-Surgery file. The problem, of course, is getting there from here. Conventional farmers walk a fine line that is so close to ruin that it’s mostly unthinkable for them to switch to organic methods. They are under incredible pressure to perform because they often don’t own the land that they’re farming […]
China Exporting Antifreeze Component as Common Sweetener
May 7th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: Regulators in the U.S. are warning drugmakers, suppliers and health professionals to be on the alert for counterfeit medicine additives that substitute a poison used in antifreeze for a common sweetener. The Food and Drug Administration knows of no contamination cases in the U.S. like those that caused deaths in Panama, Haiti and […]
Please Lord, Not the Bees
May 6th, 2007Everything you didn’t want to know about Colony Collapse Disorder… Via: GNN: Among the various mythologies of the apocalypse, fear of insect plagues has always loomed larger than fear of species loss. But this may change, as a strange new plague is wiping out our honey bees one hive at a time. It has been […]
Wheat Super-Blight
May 4th, 2007Keep the “glorified bread-and-water diet” quote from the bee dieoff story in mind as you read this one. Via: New Scientist: “This thing has immense potential for social and human destruction.” Startling words – but spoken by the father of the Green Revolution, Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, they are not easily dismissed. An infection is […]
Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
May 3rd, 2007Via: Yahoo / AP: Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. Honeybees don’t just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering […]
FDA ORDERS DETENTION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTIEN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA
May 3rd, 2007The “Typical American Diet” amounts to a perpetual, slow moving genocide. But that’s on the best of days. What you have here is a cluster f*&% of unimaginable proportions. Via: U.S. Food and Drug Administration: IA #99-29, 4/27/07, IMPORT ALERT #99-29, “DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA FOR ANIMAL OR […]
TANKER CRASH COLLAPSES SECTION OF HIGHWAY NEAR SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE
April 30th, 2007UPDATE: Schwarzenegger Delares State of Emergency Any guesses on the indirect costs of this one? Via: CBS News: A stretch of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed Sunday after a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames, a loss that officials said could leave freeways leading to one of the nation’s busiest spans […]
Wal-Mart to Open 400 In-Store “Health” Clinics
April 25th, 2007Will people show up to be diagnosed for diabetes and high blood pressure and then waddle over to the in-store eatery to dine on some tasty freedom fries, reconstituted chicken parts and 100% synthetic cheeze food? Wash it all down with a slurpee? Pick up prescriptions for ineffective and dangerous pharmaceuticals from the in-store pharmacy […]
