Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
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 and [...]
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 the Kaiser [...]
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 drilling boom. [...]
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 process also jumped [...]
U.S. Military Mobilizes Thousands for Haiti Relief
January 15th, 2010Via: Reuters:
The U.S. military is mobilizing thousands of soldiers, sailors and Marines along with members of the Air Force and Coast Guard for relief efforts in Haiti. Here are the main military components announced so far:
WHO’S THERE ALREADY?
* The vast majority of the forces announced for Haiti have not yet arrived, but the military has [...]
Haiti, Failed State: Gangs Armed With Machetes Loot Port-Au-Prince
January 15th, 2010Via: CBS:
The earthquake aftermath has brought out the best and worst of the people of Haiti.
Much like the days after Hurricane Katrina, looting has become a problem very quickly.
The looting appears to be isolated to Port-au-Prince’s old commercial center. It’s an area that under normal circumstances would be filled with many shops, markets and a [...]
Italy: Race Riots
January 12th, 2010Via: New York Times:
More than a thousand African workers were put aboard buses and trains in the southern Italian region of Calabria over the weekend and shipped out to immigrant detention centers, following some of the country’s worst riots in years.
The clashes began Thursday night in Rosarno, a working-class city amid citrus groves in Calabria, [...]
The Recession Generation
January 12th, 2010From the article below:
The situation could get even uglier if, as many predict, a depressed post-crisis landscape forces Americans to let go of the mythology of upward mobility.
Oh the horror.
Things will get worse if people live within their means and refuse to buy crap that they don’t actually want or need?
This can only be a [...]
2.4 Million Pounds of Plastic Pollution Enter the World’s Oceans Every Hour
January 6th, 2010Plasticalypse.
Via: Chris Jordan:
This new series looks at mass phenomena that occur on a global scale. Similarly to the first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. But this time the statistics are global in scale, rather [...]
