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Economist Peter Schiff Forecasts Second Crisis to Hit Around 2013

Sat, 2013-06-22 15:20 — Maeryn Obley

Peter Schiff

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ivn.us - October 28th, 2012 - W. E. Messamore

Do a YouTube query for “peter schiff was right” and you’ll find dozens of videos with montages of the investment broker and financial commentator making accurate predictions about the financial crisis that struck in 2007 while other analysts not only disagree, but insinuate that Schiff’s predictions were completely nuts.

In one particular video, uploaded in November of 2008 and clocking in at over 2 million views, it’s easy to see what an independent voice Peter Schiff is in the realm of economic analysis and forecasting. Schiff– a Republican who sought out his party’s nomination during Connecticut’s 2010 U.S. Senate race, a self-described capitalist who believes in free-market economics, and who says he’s proud to be a member of “the 1%”– spends most of that particular video montage arguing with many respected Republican analysts as they deride his predictions and say that the economic boom would continue with no end in sight.

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Video - Dr. Michael D. McDonald - The Resilience Systems - Conversations With Great Minds - The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann

Fri, 2013-06-21 22:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - The interview with Dr. Michael D. McDonald begins at the 30:00 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/TheBigPictureRT

Thom Hartmann of The Big Picture interviews Dr. Michael D. McDonald in a segment of Conversations With Great Minds.  This interview focuses on the Resilience Systems.  What is resilience?  Why is it important?  An important discussion on resilient communities and networks is included.

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Why Social Media Is the Front Line of Disaster Response

Fri, 2013-06-21 18:50 — Maeryn Obley

mashable.com - May 21st, 2013 - Zoe Fox

Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6 billion. Helping respond to these cataclysmic events, social media is now a go-to tool for those effected by disasters.

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Climate Change And The Nile: Floods From Major Rivers Around The World May Increase

Fri, 2013-06-21 18:45 — Maeryn Obley

huffingtonpost.com - June 9th, 2013

Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led scientific study said on Sunday.

The findings will go some way to help countries prepare for deluges that have killed thousands of people worldwide and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage every year in the past decade, experts wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Given enough warning, governments can bring in flood barriers, building bans on flood plains, more flood-resistant crops and other measures to limit damage.

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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef

Fri, 2013-06-21 18:39 — Maeryn Obley

Chart showing that farmed fish production is overtaking beed production

Image: Chart showing that farmed fish production is overtaking beed production

earth-policy.org - June 12th, 2013 - Janet Larsen and J. Matthew Roney

The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production. The gap widened in 2012, with output from fish farming—also called aquaculture—reaching a record 66 million tons, compared with production of beef at 63 million tons.

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Dr. Michael D. McDonald - The Resilience Systems - Conversations With Great Minds - The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann

Fri, 2013-06-21 18:12 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Please join us on Friday, June 21, 2013 from 7:30pm-8:00pm (ET) as Thom Hartmann of The Big Picture interviews Dr. Michael D. McDonald in a segment of Conversations With Great Minds. This interview will focus on the Resilience Systems. What is resilience? Why is it important? An important discussion on resilient communities and networks will be included.

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Canada Floods 2013: Rising Waters May Force 100,000 From Their Homes

Fri, 2013-06-21 15:53 — admin

Canada Floods 2013

Kevan Yaets crawls out the back window of his pick-up truck with his cat Momo as the flood waters sweep him downstream after submerging his truck in High River, Alberta, Canada, on June 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jordan Verlage)

 

 

 

 

CALGARY, Alberta — The flooded western Canadian city of Calgary says it has ordered the evacuation of the entire downtown area.

About 230,000 people work downtown on a typical Friday.

However, officials say very few people need to be moved out, since not many showed up for work Friday.

Twenty-five neighborhoods in the city, with an estimated population of 75,000, have already been evacuated due to rising floodwaters.

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Eurozone Recession Now Longest In Currency's History

Thu, 2013-06-20 23:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

huffingtonpost.com - By PAN PYLAS and SARAH DiLORENZO - May 15, 2013

PARIS -- The eurozone is now in its longest ever recession – a stubborn slump that has surpassed even the calamity that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-2009.

The European Union statistics office said Wednesday that nine of the 17 EU countries that use the euro are in recession, with France a notable addition to the list. Overall, the eurozone's economy contracted for the sixth straight quarter, shrinking by 0.2 percent in the January-March period from the previous three months.

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Infographic: What Climate Change Means for Africa and Asia

Thu, 2013-06-20 19:08 — Gina Angiola

 

Climate Change Infographic for Africa and Asia

 

SOURCE OF INFOGRAPHIC HERE

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TDR - the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases

Thu, 2013-06-20 18:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

who.int/tdr

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps coordinate, support and influence global efforts to combat a portfolio of major diseases of the poor and disadvantaged.

Established in 1975, TDR is based at and executed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and WHO.

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