No Money, No Water!

FAILING ECONOMIC, POLITICAL & SOCIAL  SYSTEMS
MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY
UNEMPLOYMENT
POVERTY
CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE
COLLAPSE
SCENARIOS 244, 109, 049, 047, 031, 028, 02
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Detroit Denying Water and Sewerage to ½ Million Citizens

Officials at the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) have cut off service to 7,556 customers in April and May and are now speeding up the service denial to as many as 3,000 delinquent accounts per week.

“That the water department’s shutoff policy is uncompromising, making no exceptions for households with infant children, elderly or disabled residents, said a report.

Detroit!

About 40% of Detroiters live in poverty. Some 83% of population are black, and the reported unemployment rate is edging close to 15%.

“Assisting low-income residents with paying their water bills would help avert a public health crisis,” U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), said in a letter to Obama Thursday, while asking Health and Human Services Secretary to declare a public health emergency, calling the shutoff campaign “draconian.” Said the report.

“Regardless of the rationale for these cutoffs, the human consequences are unacceptable and unsustainable,” said Conyers on Friday.

“Last week, the Detroit City Council approved an 8.7% increase in the water rate, contributing to a total increase of 119% over the last decade,” Conyers said.

“As roughly half the city is now eligible for shutoffs, we believe that immediate action is necessary to stem the consequences of this counterproductive and coldhearted policy,” he said.

“It is utterly unacceptable to put the most vulnerable members of our population through severe hardship, utilizing a method that clearly violates their basic human rights, as a collection practice.”

United Nations

Detroit: Disconnecting water from people who cannot pay – an affront to human rights, say UN experts

“Disconnection of water services because of failure to pay due to lack of means constitutes a violation of the human right to water and other international human rights.”

Related Links

• Purpose of Business to Enrich Lives? August 3, 2013
• Detroit’s long-term liabilities exceed $14 billion February 21, 2013
• Lawmakers consider dissolving Detroit as bankruptcy looms December 1, 2012

• Dissolving Detroit! December 1, 2012
• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

 

Young people in the UK “feel they have nothing to live for”

The Loss of Will to Live
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32 percent of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated suicide, 24 percent had self-harmed: Report

Up to three quarters of a million young people in the UK may feel that they have nothing to live for, said a report.

Of the 2,161 long-term unemployed 16 to 25-year-olds interviewed, 281 were classified as Neet (not in employment, education or training) with 166 of the Neets being unemployed for more than six months.

Some 9% of all respondents agreed with the statement: “I have nothing to live for” and if 9% of all youngsters felt the same, it would equate to more than ¾ million young people feeling they had nothing to live for.

“Among those respondents classified as Neet, the percentage of those agreeing with the statement rose to 21%,” said the report.

About 40% of jobless young people had experienced symptoms of mental illness, including suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, and  feelings of self-hatred as a direct result of unemployment.

The long-term unemployed young people were more than twice as likely as their peers to have been prescribed anti-depressants, said the report.

More than 440,000 young people are facing long-term unemployment in the UK.

The report is posted here.

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A Most Powerful Mechanism of Collapse:
The Loss of Will to Live

Posted by edro on November 4, 2008

The will to live is the ultimate human phenomenon maintained by a fine balance between the four interrelated elements:

• Health of the environment
• Physical and mental well being
• Nature’s supplies and services
• Societal vigor

As the demands on nature multiply,  the environment progressively deteriorates and civilization becomes increasingly dysfunctional, the balance exponentially declines and the future of human species, entirely by their own making, becomes rapidly bleaker.

Global Disasters/ Significant Events – 31 May 2013

Unemployment in Eurozone reaches new record high in April

Unemployment in the eurozone,  has hit yet another record high, with the seasonally-adjusted rate for April climbing to 12.2%, up from 12.1% the previous month, according to official statistics.

• Some 95,000 additional people were out of work in the 17 countries that use euro (€), raising the total to 19.38 million.

• Jobless rates were worst in Greece (27.0% in February 2013), Spain (26.8%) and Portugal (17.8%), Eurostat reported.

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Hundreds Evacuated as Major Brush Fire Burns Out of Control in Calif.

A brush fire is burning out of control in the Angeles National Forest north of Castaic, officials said. The so-called  Powerhouse Fire, had burned about 1,300 acres and was uncontained, said the U.S. Forest Service.

Authorities were forced to evacuate hundreds of people on Thursday as the flames threatened homes and high-voltage power lines.

The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in Francisquito Canyon, near Drinkwater Reservoir, said a report.

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Iraq Body Count Continues Climbing

At least 38 more people were killed across Iraq on Thursday bringing the civilian death toll for May to 881 so far.

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US: Risk of Severe Thunderstorms

Tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds from central Okla. to parts of the Ozarks forecast for Friday afternoon and evening; a Moderate Risk area is in place across extreme northwest Ark., extreme southeast Kan., extreme southwest Mo. and central and northeast Okla. Severe storms are also possible from northwest Texas to the Great Lakes. —NWS Storm Prediction Center

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DISASTER CALENDAR – May 31 2013 — 
SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,016 Days Left 

Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

• SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,016 Days Left to ‘Worst Day’ in the brief Human  History
• The countdown began on May 15, 2011 …

GLOBAL WARNINGS

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID PLANETARY DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

Global Disasters/ Significant Events Headlines – 2 April 2013

Eurozone unemployment rate hits new record high

The official number of people unemployed in the 17 member states rose by 33,000 in February, surpassing 19.07 million, said Eurostat.

• The highest rate was 26.4% in Greece (December 2012 figure).
• Spain’s unemployment rate rose to 26.3% in February.
• The rate in Portugal was largely unchanged at 17.5%.

CHINA

China’s Coal Addiction Claims More Lives

Two explosions in three days at the same Chinese coal mine have killed at least 34 miners and left  24 others missing, said a report.

The blasts occurred at a state-owned colliery operating under the name of Tonghua Mining (Group), located at the Babao Coal Mine in Jiangyuan District, city of Baishanin in China’s northeastern Jilin Province

The first blast occurred on late Friday, killing 28 people and injuring 13 others.

NIGERIA

19 killed, 4,500 displaced in Nigeria’s ethnic violence

Attacks on three communities in ethnically divided central Nigeria have left 19 people dead and 4,500 others displaced, reports said.

• The gun attacks followed a long-running dispute between a mainly Muslim Fulanis and the mostly Christian Atakar ethnic groups in the Kaura district, a remote region of Kaduna state, AFP reported.

• “Apart from the gun attacks, the assailants also set fire to homes,” a local government official told AFP.

• “There has been some misunderstanding between the Fulani and the Atakar communities for some time,” Kaduna state police commissioner said.

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DISASTER CALENDAR – April 2, 2013 — 
SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,075 Days Left 

Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

• SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,075 Days Left to ‘Worst Day’ in the brief Human  History
• The countdown began on May 15, 2011 …

GLOBAL WARNINGS

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID PLANETARY DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

Rhode Island: Step Nearer Collapse?

Serial No  1,527. If any posts are blocked in your country, please drop us a line.

Storm, Rain, Flooding and Unemployment

The ultimate cost of damage in RI could reach a billion, or more, but the military needs the money in Afghanistan.

Unemployment stood near 14 percent even before the deluge began. Many more people now fear losing their jobs and livelihood in the aftermath of the disaster.

President Barracks Obama has already declared a major disaster in all but one Rhode Island county.

The impact of worst flooding in the state’s history, however, may prove a lot costlier than money can afford. How many more seasons like this could Rhode Island survive the collapse?

U.S., the world, stake their future on High-Energy Strategies. Energy models’ simulations show all such strategies end in collapse. EDRO

Related Links:

• US East Coast Inundated by Major Flooding
• A Dry Run for Climate Chaos Heading Our Way
• Global Weather Chaos
• 2010: Year One of Human-Enhanced Disasters
• Continued addiction to oil: More intense, faster paces of climate change