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Millionaire and Modern Slavery
2008-06-27 13:10:00 This probably happens a lot more then we realize, this time the dirtbags got caught: A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal ... More About: Slavery , Millionaire , General , Modern
Starship Gardena
2008-06-26 18:04:00 In the book, “Starship Gardenena“, (warning: plot spoiler) author Michael Krispin describes a futuristic world that is confined to a spacecraft hurtling through space. The Hopelexians having left their home planet long before due to resource depletion, outfitting a very large near-planet sized ship with a living biodome environment. Contributing to every conceivable need they ... More About: Environment , Collapse , General
Senator Dodd?s Speech at the U.S. Senate
2008-06-26 14:53:00 Suggested reading, just so you can keep everything in proper perspective: But when you?re through, the facts will still be waiting for you. Controlled death. Outsourced torture. Secret prisons. Month-long sleep deprivations. The president?s personal power to hold whomever he likes for as long as he?d like. It is as if we woke up in the ... More About: Politics , General , Tyranny , Senate , Dodd
Oceans In Collapse
2008-06-26 13:14:00 The number of ocean dead zones has grown from 44 areas reported in 1995 to more than 400, with some of the worst oxygen-starved areas extending over 22,000 sq km. Recent figures from the United Nations Environment Program estimate fertilisers, sewage and other other pollutants, combined with the impact of climate change, have led to a ... More About: Collapse , General , Oceans
Quote
2008-06-26 12:53:00 It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet ... More About: Environment , Collapse , General , Peak Oil , Sustainable Living
?the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed?
2008-06-26 11:09:00 Today’s decision by the black robed thugs still demonstrates that “shall not be infringed” is still not understood, even though most gun owners are going to claim this interpretation of today’s events as a “victory”. Shall not be infringed means that the Federal government and the State’s cannot infringe upon your individual rights to “keep and ... More About: People , General , Tyranny , Arms , The People
Middletown, Rhode Island Planning to Put RFID Chips On Children
2008-06-25 17:40:00 This is apparently a true story, happening right now: ACLU ISSUES ALARM ABOUT MIDDLETOWN PLAN TO ELECTRONICALLY MONITOR SCHOOL CHIDREN There are two methods of tracking, school buses and children’s backpacks (what are they going to do about the kids without backpacks? Hand implants? Got room on your forehead?). Kids don’t carry backpacks everywhere anyway. Mark of ... More About: Children , Rhode Island , General , Planning , Tyranny
Utilities Shut Off Middle America
2008-06-25 13:02:00 A sure sign of collapse: Electricity and natural gas shutoffs are up at least 15% in several states compared with last year. Totals for some utilities have more than doubled. “We’re seeing a record number of shutoffs,” says Mark Wolfe, head of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association, which represents programs that subsidize energy bills. An NEADA survey ... More About: America , Utilities , Collapse , General , Middle
Know Thy Enemy
2008-06-25 12:52:00 Apparently, 132 million Americans want to be tortured, according to the new poll conducted by Raw Story. What they don’t know if that they are the terrorist suspects. Too bad, because there appears to be a ready supply of torturers too, no less then 3,000,000 are willing to do the job for “any ... More About: Terrorism , General , Tyranny , Enemy
Exxon Fucks Over Alaskans With the Help of The Supreme Court
2008-06-25 11:50:00 The black robed thugs pretending to rule over the law just slashed the Exxon Valdez damage aware by several billion dollars. This is from the same company that posts record quarterly profits of $11.7 billion dollars. This is unbelievable. The Supreme Court is corrupt to the core, the jury of our peers (the people) decided ... More About: Environment , General , Tyranny
Peak Phosphorous Too!
2008-06-24 11:01:00 Phosphorous may not seem like “much”, but it is a critical element used in many different products, including food production. A global phosphorous battle may be “on” now, as prices have risen 700% in the past 14 months. ?Peak phosphorus?, say scientists, could hit the world in just 30 years. Crop-based biofuels, whose production methods and ... More About: Environment , Collapse , General
Something For Nothing
2008-06-24 00:00:00 This might be remembered as one of America’s first food riots: Scuffles began breaking out around 7 a.m. with people shoving, pushing, and taking a door off its hinges, bringing police in dozens of cars, authorities said. There were no serious injuries or arrests, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said. Nor did police ask people to leave. Charline ... More About: Environment , Collapse , General
Climatic Genocide
2008-06-23 21:23:00 This a great article. I asked them if the sea levels were rising here. Rezaul Karim Chowdry, a 34-year-old who looked like he is in his fifties, said plainly: “Of course. In the past 30 years, two-thirds of this island has gone under the water. I had ... More About: Environment , Collapse , General , Genocide
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says James Hansen
2008-06-23 12:19:00 James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and ... More About: Environment , General , Trial , James , Chiefs
YOU. WILL. NOT. BE. ABLE. TO. GET. FOOD.
2008-06-22 21:27:00 From Culture Change site: You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food . Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famine. We have “innocently” accommodated rising population with greater and greater food production via technology and the profit motive. But now we have ... More About: Collapse , General
The Power of Nightmares
2008-06-22 21:20:00 This is a GREAT series of videos worth watching. The Power of Nightmares This highly revealing BBC documentary digs deep into the roots of the war on terror, only to find that much of the widespread fear in the post-9/11 world has been fabricated by those in power for their own interests. The intrepid BBC team presents ... More About: General
The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder
2008-06-22 20:15:00 Submitted by logarithmic, this is well worth watching: Vincent Bugliosi is one of the most successful prosecutors in this country, with a record including twenty-one murder convictions without a single loss. With a new book, he outlines his case for the prosecution of George W. Bush for murder. Citing Iraq War, Renowned Attorney Vincent Bugliosi Seeks ... More About: Murder , Terrorism , George W Bush , General
Open Thread
2008-06-22 20:05:00 Been working my little tail off, so here’s a chance to post some of your own commentary / links / thoughts / musings. More About: General , Open , Thread
Wheat?s Tidal Wave
2008-06-21 20:59:00 Another find from Lonewolf, wheat’s “tidal wave”. More About: General , Wheat , Wave , Tidal Wave
Torture Is Treason
2008-06-21 16:45:00 Lonewolf shared this ‘find’ with me, these are comments made to a Truthout article linked below, but something I think everyone should read, especially that ‘cowboy’ guy I kicked off this blog for advocating torture: “To hell with impeachment; I say we use “enhanced interrogation techniques” on the terrorists who did violence to our nation - ... More About: Terrorism , General , Tyranny , War , Torture
More Police Brutality
2008-06-20 19:44:00 Sent in by Vaughn, this video speaks for itself. But the question that (still) needs to be answered, is what are YOU going to do about this? One of the people that got banned from this blog was advocating torture as being an acceptable technique to use on ‘terrorists’ (anybody the government decrees). I disagreed and ... More About: General , Police , Tyranny , Police Brutality
Eco Surrealism
2008-06-18 16:33:00 An important read: The Age of Eco Surrealism ?You Australians are just playing around with the results of climate change?, she said, ?you haven’t mentioned guns or fences?? As a child raised in war wrecked East Germany, she recalled how city dwellers thronged to her rural town and stole anything portable, including vegetables, petrol, oil ... More About: Terrorism , Environment , General , Tyranny , War
Riots!
2008-06-18 14:54:00 Hat tip to the Fall of Civilization for this video of riots and protesters over food and fuel prices. It’s kind of weird (to me anyway) you don’t see Amerikans rioting (yet). More About: Collapse , General , Peak Oil , Riots
Police State News
2008-06-18 12:20:00 More police state news: At least one-third of people shot with Tasers require medical attention Speeders to pay extra for police fuel Nice example how you are going to pay for your ‘protection’, both now and into the future. Military Choppers Buzz Denver Tie this in with this disaster drill for thousands of injured in Denver. Maybe ... More About: News , General , Police , State News , Tyranny
Planetary Collapse = Death By Paralysis
2008-06-17 14:47:00 So this is my dilemma, and my paralysis. It’s not every day you get to spectate the real-time collapse of a planetary civilization and biosphere. (Or, I suppose I should say, I remember a time when it wasn’t.) But watching this unfold with fascination feels complicit and worse than if I were blithely ignorant, and ... More About: Environment , Collapse , General , Death
We?re Going To Run Out MUCH Faster Then Expected
2008-06-16 16:50:00 [Contribution by Lonewolf] Back by (necessary) demand, “Arithmetic, Population and Energy” aka “consequences of the exponential function”. You MUST understand this to understand the rest of this blog entry. Video, produced in 1994, based on Albert Bartlett’s paper dated from 1973 (which I revisit annually). HEREhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?doc id=2376190597731898896 [oops! Google has removed it] The Most Important Video You Will Ever See ... More About: General , Peak Oil
Walking In The Truth - The Destiny Of Man
2008-06-15 17:52:00 I have spent the majority of my adult life seeking after the “truth of things”. This investigative journey has led me down many paths, including philosophy, religion, politics, history, the environment, and ultimately to ‘civilization’, which is the forefather and foundation to it all. I have discovered and eventually uncovered many things of great interest, ... More About: Truth , Environment , Destiny , General , Sustainable Living
American Aristocrats Among The Most Clueless
2008-06-12 11:52:00 More stupidity hard at work: In Beverly Hills, a 32,000-square-foot beaux-arts mansion that will be sheathed in Portuguese limestone and adorned with gold-plated doorknobs fashioned in France is rising on Sunset Boulevard. A few miles away in Bel-Air, businessman Eri Kroh has requested permits to lop off the top of a hill, fill in a canyon and ... More About: Collapse , General , American , Clueless
Headlines We Should All Be Reading
2008-06-12 10:10:00 These are some headlines we should all be reading and hearing about right now, but aren’t: Runaway Global Climate Change Now Unstoppable World Food Crisis Deepens Threatening Global Starvation Worldwide Methane Gas Release Increasing Polar Ice Will Soon Be Gone Sea Levels Rise Flooding Coastal Cities Global Oil Inventories Collapsing Desertification Now A Fact Of Life For Much Of The World Disappearing ... More About: Collapse , Reading , General , Headlines
Only 1 in 10 - A Prescient Figure Of The American Situation
More articles from this author:2008-06-11 02:13:00 I hope you all read this and understand what this means: At a moment when the country?s corn should be flourishing, one plant in 10 has not even emerged from the ground, the Agriculture Department said Monday. The Food Chain - Worries Mount There goes your bioethanol. And your hogs, and your tortillas, and your chickens. ... More About: Collapse , General , American , Figure , Situation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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