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Resistance to antibiotics risks health ‘catastrophe' to rank with terrorism and climate change

Britain's health system could slip back by 200 years unless the “catastrophic threat” of antibiotic resistance is successfully tackled, the Government's Chief Medical Officer warns today.

CDC charts the alarming rate of antibiotic resistant bugs

A strain of Salmonella bacteria traced to pork and beef sold at live animal markets is showing an alarming rise in antibiotic resistance, which the World Health Organization has warned is a growing global threat.

Phi Beta Iota: This is not news in one sense. Just as with cyber-security, peak oil, water catastrophe, the governments have had ample warning. Laurie Garrett, as a New York Times reporter, performed brilliantly in the 1990's on this topic.

Review: Betrayal of Trust–The Collapse of Global Public Health

2015/06/092015/06/08

SchwartzReport: 50% of Older Americans Have No Retirement Income

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society

401(k)s, a scheme devised by financial interests to milk the middle class and promoted by the Republic Party, like all trickle down Randian economic schemes, have proven to be a disaster. Here is the real story; it isn't pretty, and it is hardly acknowledged by American corporate media. But its impact is going to be tragically painful. I can find no example in the world where austerity conservative economic policies have produced increased wellness. But there are dozens of examples of their failure. Yet this is hardly mentioned in the campaigns — except by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

New study reminds us that Americans are woefully unprepared for retirement

2015/06/042015/06/01

Sepp Hasslberger: Nuclear Waste Piped Into Atlantic Ocean

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities

Not only is radioactive water from Fukushima poisoning the Pacific, they are doing it in the Atlantic ocean as well…

Plutonium being pumped into Atlantic ocean through miles of underwater pipes — Nuclear waste left lying on beach…

The dumping of nuclear waste in the sea was banned worldwide in 1993, yet the nuclear industry has come up with other ways. They no longer dump the barrels at sea; they build kilometers of underwater pipes through which the radioactive effluent now flows freely into the sea. One of these pipes is situated in Normandy [near] the French reprocessing plant in La Hague… The advantage for the nuclear industry? No more bad press… disposal via waste pipes remains hidden from the public eye, quite literally.

Video and transcript.

2015/06/032015/05/31

Mini-Me: 120,000 Antelope Drop Dead

03 Environmental Degradation

Huh?

Why have 121,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan suddenly dropped dead?

Just three weeks ago, there were thought to be about 300,000 saiga roaming the Kazakh steppes. Now, nearly 121,000 carcasses have been discovered.

An estimated 300,000 saiga roamed across the Kazakh steppes on May 11, when the first dead antelope was discovered. By May 27, nearly 121,000 carcasses had been found in three huge areas of their usual habitat, Agriculture Ministry officials said.

2015/06/032015/06/02

Marcus Aurelius: More Than Half World’s Countries Spawning Jihadists – Robert Steele: Is Anyone Getting This?

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Immigration, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence

From Newsmax; have not yet been able to verify:

U.N.: More Than Half of World's Countries Spawning Jihadists

A highly disturbing new report from the United Nations asserts that more than half of the world's nations are now producing jihadist fighters to join the ranks of terrorist organizations in the Middle East. More than 25,000 mujahideen have joined the al-Qaida network and the Islamic State (ISIS) in recent years, creating an “unprecedented” and long-term threat to international security, according to the U.N. The report, prepared by the U.N. Security Council's special permanent committee for monitoring Islamic violence, “amounts to one of the most bleak and comprehensive assessments of the global foreign fighter phenomenon compiled yet,” the Financial Times stated. The authors of the report said their findings are based on detailed evidence from 27 intelligence and security services from around the globe.

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2015/06/022015/05/31

SchwartzReport: Inside the People’s War on Coal

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, Civil Society, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

Here is some more on the decline of coal. This is largely a citizen action, and it shows what the concerted power of individual choice can accomplish. This is good news for the Earth and the beings that inhabit it.

Inside the War on Coal

2015/06/012015/05/30

Berto Jongman: Migration Explosion – When You Screw All the People All the Time, They Move to Your Neighborhood…

01 Poverty, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Immigration, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime

Migration: Are more people on the move than ever before?

From the Mediterranean to the Andaman, it's been a season of despair, the faces of migrants haunting television screens and dominating headlines.

Images and comment below the fold.

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Category: Threats

Antechinus: Antibiotic Resistance Risk Nears Catastrophic Possibilities