Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
The Generation of ‘Damaged’ Girls
February 21st, 2007Via: Telegraph: A generation of very young girls is being psychologically damaged by inappropriate “sexy” clothing, toys and images in the media that are corrupting childhood, leading psychologists warn today. They say marketing takes unfair advantage of children’s desire for affection and the need to conform, leading to eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression. Related: […]
Britain and U.S.: The Worst and Second Worst Places for Children
February 21st, 2007Just put up a few more surveillance cameras. Sorted! Via: Yahoo / Reuters: Britain is the worst country in the industrialized world in which to be a child, closely followed by the United States, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Wednesday. The UNICEF charity looked at 40 indicators to gauge the lives of children […]
Ocean ‘Dead Zones’
February 20th, 2007Via: Guardian: A few months ago, the clear blue Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Oregon suddenly turned a thick greenish brown. A swell of nutrients produced a bizarre blooming of plankton that reached levels never seen before by scientists. Then the plankton died and sank, causing oxygen levels in the water to plummet […]
How Extreme Is Your Job?
February 20th, 2007Hamster on the wheel? It’s more like out of the frying pan and into the fire. Via: MSNBC: “The hamster-on-the-wheel analogy is the best way to describe how I felt,” she says. For Agoglia, quitting felt like her only option. It’s a feeling shared by many Americans who know that simply working hard isn’t enough […]
UNKNOWN DISEASE WIPING OUT BEE POPULATIONS
February 13th, 2007Via: ABC News / Reuters: A mysterious disease is killing off U.S. honeybees, threatening to disrupt pollination of a range of crops and costing beekeepers hundreds of thousands of dollars, industry experts said on Monday. Beekeepers in 22 states have reported losses of up to 80 percent of their colonies in recent weeks, leaving many […]
NSA Electricity Crisis Gets Senate Scrutiny
February 9th, 2007Via: Baltimore Sun: The National Security Agency’s impending electricity shortfall is “sort of a national catastrophe,” Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said yesterday. Rockefeller, who took over as head of the panel when Democrats regained control of the Senate this month, called the power shortage a symptom of […]
HSBC WARNS OVER U.S. MORTGAGE BAD DEBT
February 9th, 2007Via: Times Online: HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, last night gave warning that bad debts in its troubled US mortgage lending business would be 20 per cent higher than forecast. The bank blamed the impact of slowing house price growth, which it said is being reflected in accelerated delinquency trends across the US sub-prime mortgage market. […]
Strong Angel III
February 8th, 2007I started poking around to see if I could find any indication of the military response to the events of a couple of days ago involving the root DNS nodes. There is, without a doubt, a military response. Of course, who actually did the thing vs. who gets guns pointed at their heads are really […]
Poor Among Plenty
February 6th, 2007Via: MSNBC: Once prized as a leafy haven from the social ills of urban life, the suburbs are now grappling with a new outbreak of an old problem: poverty. Currently, 38 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defines as an annual income of $20,000 or less for a family of […]
Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
February 4th, 2007This is great! I only included a few of them, click through and pass it around. Via: Common Dreams: You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring […]
