Here's an article related to a new book that came out last week called Crisis, Pursued By Disaster, Followed Closely By Catastrophe. It's a pretty interesting memoir. picked by zion 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Food crisis - what food crisis!! picked by topofall 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share politics |
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that financial losses stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis might approach $1 trillion, citing a "collective failure" to predict the breadth of the crisis. picked by deEPCHill 2 years ago 6 comments edit related share world |
The countryside is in crisis. But for once it isn't the threat of disease to livestock, the purchasing power of the supermarkets or house building plans that is ruining rural England. It is the extinction of that species so integral to a thriving village life - the eligible young woman. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase. Lingering hopes that the damage could be contained to a handful of financial institutions that made bad bets on mortgages have evaporated. New fault lines are emerging beyond the original problem in areas like credit-default swaps, the credit insurance contracts sold by American International Group Inc. and o... read full post picked by bingo 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 161 comments edit related share plime.com |
A scan of Google Earth shows a large swath of Central Africa trimmed in orange. Zoom in and the words "Crisis in Darfur" appear, along with icons of flames marking 1,600 villages destroyed in fighting. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
“So many things have happened – all of a sudden, the economy goes south at that moment, and then McCain,” Lee replied. “There were so many things. It was almost a movement that had to be ordained, I think.” picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago 4 comments edit related share weird |
Microsoft has released Vine, software aimed at helping friends & relatives connect during times of crisis. Apparently inspired by Hurricane Katrina. 0 comments edit related share technologyAlternate Article picked by Ankabout 6 months ago |
- 20 million laid off - half of all toy factories have closed - government plans 4 trillion yuan ($USD 585 million) stimulus package. - risk of "mass incidents and social unrest" as jobless migrants return to the countryside. I have also heard that the factories are just closing their doors - no back pay, no severance packages. We are not talking wealthy people here but they all contri... read full post picked by aclister 9 months ago 4 comments edit related share world |
The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK’s food security suggests today. Even though the nation is 73 per cent self-sufficient in food production, higher than during the 1950s, the food chain is at risk from global influences such as a global increase in population, climate change which brings ext... read full post picked by kakana 3 months ago 3 comments edit related share world |
Real estate agent Jeffrey Dolfinger was making a routine occupancy check on a foreclosed home near Poughkeepsie, New York, when he made a heart-wrenching discovery: two bedraggled cockatiels nearly starved to death. picked by suebe 11 months ago 7 comments edit related share world |
An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share science |
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution 1 comments edit related share politicslong article, but worth reading picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago |
It may be a hoax that George Carlin wrote this... I'd like to congratulate the man who did and nominate him for President in 2008 picked by sfeldner 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
As if you needed more proof that the fan is on and the monkeys are winding up... picked by fugazi 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
This is a National Geographic photo gallery of drought scenes from Australia. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
The economic crisis action that is. picked by suebe 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
This has been brewing for several years, the following details the timeline of events from 2002 leading up to this picked by teaya21 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
"In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that he does not really exist." picked by hisidea 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |