Preparing for disaster and infrastructure failure involves requires planning and provisioning. It is also important to foster an awareness of current events, and an understanding of how they directly or indirectly impact our lives. Whether it’s the financial crisis and potential disruption of commerce, an earthquake in China, tornados and flooding in the midwest, or a terrorist threat in Europe, this page will bring you relevant news, serving as a constant reminder that our lives can be dramatically affected by events that are geographically removed from our own day to day world. We select articles for you that illustrate at least these concepts:
- Disasters occur unexpectedly, with unexpected consequences, and the scope, severity, and duration cannot be gleaned from a single news source.
- We do not fully understand our world, and we do not control our environment.
- The government cannot be relied upon for protection, safety, or correct information; our nation is dangerously unprepared for the next disaster.
- Government regulation often has unintended and even harmful consequences.
- Technology can fail, despite our best efforts.
- Privacy is a lost concept.
- We have lost touch with our history and have rejected the difficult lessons it is capable of teaching us.
- We often fail to think through the consequences of our actions or inactions.
- There are people in the world who wish to harm us, and who are working hard to acquire the means to do so.
- It is impossible to prepare for an emergency after the fact.
Please bookmark this page and check it daily. Headlines are updated daily by 8:30 a.m. Central Time.
Today's Headlines
Sunday February 5, 2012
- Italy Crippled by Winter Storm; Snow in Naples
- 100 cruise passengers struck by norovirus
- Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.
- Mass slaughter in Syria: UN holds urgent vote - but Russia and China veto it - after Assad's troops massacre at least 200
- When Will The Government Quit Putting Out Fraudulent Employment Statistics?
- According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity
Past Headlines
Saturday February 4, 2012
- Huge snowstorm batters Colorado, disrupting 600 flights and closing schools and highway
- Infrastructure Problems In U.S. Go Far Beyond Dollars
- Taco Bell Linked To Salmonella Probe after 68 People Fall Ill in 10 States, Report Says
- Chna Food Safety Study Results "Alarming"
- Corpse Sits Among Oblivious Video Gamers For Nine Hours In Taiwan Internet Cafe
- Prisons in the U.S.
- THE CAGING OF AMERICA
- Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS as -36c temperatures across eastern Europe send death toll to 150
Friday February 3, 2012
- Natural tilts in earth's axis cause ice ages
- Concerns grow over volcanic eruptions
- Mind-reading device could become reality
- NATO Doesn’t Yet Know How To Protect Its Networks
- Flesh-eating bug spread by sneezes and coughs
- PG&E customers can opt out of SmartMeters -- for $75, plus $10 a month
- FAA: Meteor Falls Across Okla. City Night Sky
- US No-Fly List of Terror Suspect Doubles in 1 Year
- Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of Super Sunday
Thursday February 2, 2012
- San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closed After Radiation Leak
- US DEBT BALLOONS: $15,356,140,000,000...
- MONSTER ASTEROID HURTLES SAFELY PAST EARTH
- Threat from new virus-infected emails which take over your PC even if you DON'T open their attachments
- Sugar 'is toxic and must be regulated just like cigarettes', claim scientists
- Bird flu: 10,000 ducks to be put down
- Drug-Resistant Bugs Found in Antibiotic-Free Meat
- 19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
Wednesday February 1, 2012
- Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds
- Constitutional Work Around: New Jersey Legislators Move to Ban Ammunition
- Beijing ‘seven minutes from destruction’ when a 2.5 ton satellite crashed to Earth at 300mph
- Byron Illinois Nuclear Plant Loses Offsite Power, Tritium Leaks In Venting Steam
- Ranger zaps off-leash dog walker with shock weapon
- US Weapons for Future Include Key Relics of Past
- Britain Sending Air Defense Ship to Falklands
- Iran Now a ‘Top Threat’ to U.S. Networks, Spy Chief Claims
- Texas town forced to trunk in tanks of water after historic drought causes severe shortage
Tuesday January 31, 2012
- Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes
- Pentagon Confused by Its Own ‘Subs vs. Terrorists’ Plan
- Dozens freeze to death as temperatures plunge to MINUS 26C in parts of Eastern Europe
- Nearly 7 Million Bats Died Across Northeast From Mysterious Disease
- FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
- How Government Just Made Your Next Car Less Safe
- FBI would like to follow you on Facebook and Twitter
- HOW GOOGLE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU
Monday January 30, 2012
- Temperatures fall to 50 below in Fairbanks; small air carriers cancel flights
- Sanctions can only deepen the Iran crisis
- Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about
- Pentagon chief sees Iran bomb potential in year
- State Emergency Managers Usher in IMF-style Governance
- 20 Signs That Europe Is Plunging Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression
- Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free Cell Phones And Free Cell Phone Minutes To Welfare Recipients
- All Your IP Address Be Known To Us
Sunday January 29, 2012
- At World Economic Forum, Fear of Global Contagion Dominates
- Mystery Illness Leaves Upstate N.Y. Teens With Twitches, Spasms And No Answers
- 'Dr Doom' - economist who predicted financial meltdown of 2008 - now warns Iran conflict 'could spiral economy into global recession'
- 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Americans Dependent On The Government Is At An All-Time High
- ACTA = Global Internet Censorship – Now Even Foreign Governments Will Be Able To Have Your Website Shut Down
- NLRB WANTS TO FORCE COMPANIES TO TURN OVER
Saturday January 28, 2012
- U.S. seems to have largely escaped winter
- Why Is Type 1 Diabetes Rising Worldwide?
- Bridge collapses in Kentucky after being rammed by hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts
- Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor
- WINTER THAW: OCCUPY PLOTTING SPRING CHAOS
- Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea
- Pentagon Cuts Would Dramatically Reshape Military
- F-22 Bad Air Mystery Remains Unsolved
Friday January 27, 2012
- ‘I’m sorry judge, it’s genetic’: How your genes could lead you into a life of crime
- HOMESCHOOLERS SAVE DAD WITH CPR FROM SCOUTS
- LAPD And Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In The Skies Above Downtown LA
- Teen steers runaway school bus to safety after driver keels over in fatal heart attack blocking the brakes
- Why a mother's love really is priceless: It prevents illness even into middle age
- THE CAGING OF AMERICA
Thursday January 26, 2012
- Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics … Not Science
- Delinquent: Feds, military owe $3.4B in unpaid taxes
- Heavy storms pound Texas...but don't drop enough water to make up for the state's historic drought
- Leaked Japanese Report Details 'Worst-Case' Nuclear Scenario
- Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank Purposely Trying To Scare The Living Daylights Out Of Us?
- Legality of Mobile Phone Tracking Still Unclear Despite Supreme Court GPS Decision
- Cairo Contagion: Military Tracks Uprising’s ‘Infectious’ Ideas
- Invisibility’s Next Frontier: Scientists Cloak 3-D Objects
Wednesday January 25, 2012
- Solar storm's effects to lash Earth until Wednesday
- Delta Reroutes Flights As Solar Storm Hits Earth
- Tax Evaders Renounce U.S. Citizenship
- IRAN PREPARING NOW FOR ARMAGEDDON
- Google Privacy Policies Get Major Revamp
- Spread the Wealth Around: 48.5% of American Households Receive Government Benefits; $6,640 For Every Member Of the Population
Tuesday January 24, 2012
- Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years
- Justices Rein In Police on GPS Trackers
- Tokyo 'has 70% chance of powerful earthquake within four years'
- 'We have major, major damage': At least two people dead and thousands without power as storms rage across the South
- America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Rampant Human Trafficking And Millions Of Criminal Predators Searching For A New Victim
- If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Like This We Are Doomed And If The U.S. Government Stops Spending Money Like This We Are Doomed
- Court rules Americans can be ordered to decrypt data
Monday January 23, 2012
- Scientists study world's fastest-growing volcano to find out what causes deadly eruptions of Super Volcano
- Nuclear critic says Health Canada should have issued warning on radioactive raindrops
- SYMANTEC ADMITS IT WAS HACKED: SECURITY SOURCE CODE NOT TAKEN FROM THIRD-PARTY AS ORIGINALLY STATED
- Bird flu claims another victim in China
- Translating Zero Hedge: Your Wages Will Be Cut In Half
- Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear
- How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
Sunday January 22, 2012
- Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization's collapse
- Adventurer who wanted to live like Bear Grylls in Scottish wilderness for a year found dead in less than a month
- Obama to give US missile defense secrets to Russians
- Monsanto’s Best-Selling Herbicide Roundup Linked to Infertility
- The Establishment Cover-up of Chronic Lyme Disease
- Radioactive material stolen in Egypt
- 1.4 MILLION Gang Members And More Pour Into The United States Every Single Day
Saturday January 21, 2012
- U.S. considering closing Syrian embassy after escalating car bombs and dissolving security around capitol
- How to Tell if You Live in a Flu Hot Spot
- BIRD FLU RESEARCHERS STAND DOWN FOR 60 DAYS
- Alaska Man Cited For Illegal Bartering: “I Need Some Firewood and I’m Willing to Trade Some Moose Meat”
- Marc Faber: 'World War III Will Occur in the Next Five Years,' but Relax, Equities Will Not Collapse
- Doctor Calls Police, Child Services on Mother Who Refuses to Vaccinate Son
- Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?
Friday January 20, 2012
- Two reported dead and hundreds of car slide off-roads in icy conditions as Pacific Northwest battles twin snowstorms - and thousands left without power
- Radiation, rusty metal seen in tsunami-hit reactor
- How "totally drug-resistant" is a misnomer - for now
- Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
- The Titanic Effect
- Good Deeds Go Unnoticed: NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
- Too Much Is Enough
- Hoping to Teach a Lesson, Researchers Release Exploits for Critical Infrastructure Software
- $356 Million Later, the Justice Department’s Wireless Network Still Sucks
Thursday January 19, 2012
- Can Fluoride Calcify Your Arteries?
- Region comes to a halt as twin snowstorms blanket Pacific Northwest in 16 inches of snow and bring howling 100mph winds
- Pentagon’s Ex-Mideast Chief: We Might Need Nukes to Deter Iran
- Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
- UK spied on Russians with fake rock
Wednesday January 18, 2012
- American caffeine addiction races full speed ahead
- The fat of the land: A THIRD of U.S. adults are obese
- Worst blizzard in nearly 30 years heads for Seattle as city faces DOUBLE its annual snowfall in just two days
- Did a U.S. radar mistakenly send Russia's $170m Mars probe into the Pacific?
- US police developing infrared body scanner to detect guns in the street
- Red gold rush: Once-in-a-lifetime rain of meteorites from Mars yields 15 pounds of rocks 10 times as valuable as gold
Tuesday January 17, 2012
- After Fukushima, fish tales
- Will it spark an earthquake? Fears over plans to pour 24 million gallons of water - and $43 MILLION - into Oregon volcano to see if it can create electricity
- Up to 20 businesses destroyed in huge blaze at converted mill/a>
- TSA to test its airport scanner operators for radiation exposure
- IRAN CLOSER TO BOMB THAN WORLD REALIZES?
- Killer flu doctors: US censorship is a danger to science - Dutch lab that created deadly bird flu virus attacks America for redacting its research
- 'The Senator' falls: Fire destroys world's 5th oldest tree, not believed to be arson
Monday January 16, 2012
- Russia: “Should Anything Happen to Iran … This Will Be a Direct Threat to Our National Security”
- Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the dark
- Company hoarding license-plate data on US drivers
- Europe’s $39 Trillion Pension Risk Grows as Economy Falters
- Revealed: Doctors Routinely Cheating Exams in Uncovered Scandal
- US Believes Israel May Strike Iran Soon
- 11 Shocking Home Invasion Horror Stories That Are Almost Too Creepy To Believe
Sunday January 15, 2012
- The looming war with Iran
- ISRAEL HOODWINKING THE ‘BIRD’?
- CRUISE SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, AT LEAST 3 DEAD
- Bed Bath and Beyond recalls radioactive tissue holders after they set off police radiation monitors aboard a delivery truck
- Feds hide data on domestic use of drones
- Captured by Nasa space satellite: Thick blanket of pollution covering much of China
- Russia: “Should Anything Happen to Iran … This Will Be a Direct Threat to Our National Security”
- China/South Africa Build Relations: Slowly Strangling What’s Left of the West
Saturday January 14, 2012
- Russian Mars Probe to Crash Soon, With World Watching
- Use of force tops agenda on Iran
- TSA Makes $400K Off Loose Change
- Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges in India
- Former National Security Adviser Hadley: Chance of US-Iran Conflict 'Very High'
Friday January 13, 2012
- Military Networks ‘Not Defensible,’ Says General Who Defends Them
- 12 Infected With New Swine Flu Strain
- Trapped in ice: Alaska fuel convoy moves just 50 FEET in ONE DAY as giant ice wall blocks harbour for crucial delivery
- U.S. Debt Nears $15.194 Trillion Ceiling
- Dumb As A Rock: You Will Be Absolutely Amazed At The Things That U.S. High School Students Do Not Know
- The breakfast cereal with the same calorie count as three bags of Swedish Fish: New book reveals unhealthiest starts to the day
- 11 Shocking Home Invasion Horror Stories That Are Almost Too Creepy To Believe
- Navy readies for Chinese power grab on shipping
- IS CHLORINE RUINING COMPETITIVE SWIMMERS’ LUNGS?
- Cyber-Crimes Pose 'Existential' Threat, FBI Warns
Thursday Janaury 12, 2012
- U.S. IS 1 STORM AWAY FROM ENERGY CRISIS: American power supply faces stunning weakness
- Greek Crisis Has Pharmacists Pleading for Aspirin
- Children 'dumped in streets by Greek parents who can't afford to look after them any more'
- US denies killing Iran nuclear scientist with magnetic bomb
- Rare Legal Fight Takes On Credit Card Company Security Standards and Fines
- Two U.S. Aircraft Carriers Near Iran, With A Third On The Way
- 24 Statistics To Show To Anyone Who Believes That America Has A Bright Economic Future
- Mystery of Car Battery's Current Solved
Wednesday January 11, 2012
- Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight
- Cyberattacks likely to escalate this year
- Gulf states brace for unwanted US-Iran war
- How To Prepare For The Difficult Years Ahead
- Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water
- Buying asteroid-proof bunkers, killing their pets and planning mass suicide, the families convinced this ancient calendar predicts the world will end in 2012
- REPORT: HIDDEN EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH WIND FARMING CANCELS OUT ‘GREEN’ BENEFITS
- YOUR GOOGLE SEARCH JUST GOT A LOT MORE ‘PERSONAL
Tuesday January 10, 2012
- Iran Has Ability to Block Strait of Hormuz, U.S. General Dempsey Tells CBS
- Next ice age not likely before 1,500 years: study
- Feds find failures in Cook Co. homeland security project
- Hackers Get Symantec Anti-Virus Source Code
- Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimming Scam
- Alaska towns deal with cruel grip of winter
- DNA McSpray to foil thieves - McDonalds to use new anti-theft spray
- Hong Kong air pollution at worst levels ever: report
- Size of U.S. debt is now the same as its entire economy: $15.23 TRILLION
Monday January 9, 2012
- THE REAL DEAL ON THE U.S.-ISRAEL JOINT MEGA-DRILL SENDING MILITARY MESSAGE TO IRANIANS
- STUDENT REPORTS OWN KNIFE, GETS DISCIPLINED
- How Moscow and Washington avoided the threat of nuclear doomsday after Soviet breakup
- They're now a super-fast power: How the Chinese built a 30-storey hotel from scratch in just FIFTEEN days
- Homeland Security monitors journalists
- Hopes rise for new cancer treatment after tests with electromagnetism
- Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read
Sunday January 8, 2012
- Global Economy Could Endure Disaster For a Week
- Fracking cited as the official cause of Ohio's 11 earthquakes last year
- 'Impossible crystal' found in Russia may be space rock older than anything on Earth
- TSA reveals knives hidden inside books, flare guns and seven small snakes among 10 weirdest items confiscated last year
- Greece to 'sell bonds backed by state property'
- ASKING FOR I.D. BEFORE VOTING IS ‘RACIST’, BUT YOU NEED A GOVT. I.D. TO BUY DRAIN CLEANER?
Saturday January 7, 2012
- New PC virus doesn't just steal your money - it creates fake online bank statements so you even don't know it's gone
- Mount Etna bursts into life spewing lava and ash cloud that reaches 5,000m into the sky
- How 'data hogs' are swamping the phone networks: Just 1% use HALF the world's data, say researchers
- No Doctor For You: How The Federal Government Is Chasing Millions Of Good Doctors Out Of The Medical Profession
- New Facebook attack has stolen passwords from 45,000 users - and could be spreading through infected links
- Feds Want Judge to Force Suspect to Give Up Laptop Password
- DHS Officers Armed With Semiautomatics Set Up Unannounced ID Checkpoint
- New Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Drain Cleaner
Friday January 6, 2012
- 34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger
- Justified Self Defense: Mom Kills Armed Intruder with Shotgun; 9-1-1 Operator Gives Her the OK To Shoot
- Boy, 15, becomes youngest to escape murder charge on 'stand your ground' law after stabbing school bully 12 times
- Who you gonna call? Detroit police stations to close to the public for 16 hours a day
- US Defense Cuts Force Radical Pentagon Strategy Shift
- After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.
- Welcome to a brave new world: Genetic scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws
- U.S. Defense Strategy Plan Focuses on Thwarting China, Iran
Thursday January 5, 2012
- Hong Kong Keeps Ban on Some Chinese Poultry Imports After Flu Link Found
- Obama plans to cut tens of thousands of ground troops
- ANALYST: BORROWING CAN’T CONTINUE FOREVER
- 2011 medication shortages set new record at 267
- Comcast Cable Box Comes With Cockroach Suprise
- Exposed: The Military’s Freakiest ‘Non-Lethal’ Weapon Ideas
- National Park Service has new land-grabbing tool
- World’s Biggest Economies Face $7.6 Trillion Bond Tab
- Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria
Wednesday January 4, 2012
- Iran Warns U.S. Aircraft Carrier Not to Return to Gulf
- Tap Water in Neti Pot Kills Two People
- New 'silent camera' apps cause plague of voyeurism in Japan - and some are on sale in West
- Humble People Are More Helpful
- Natomas Wells Fargo Bank Left Unlocked For 48 Hours
- Drinks giant Pepsi says man who claims he found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew must be wrong... because it would have dissolved
- Mysterious phenomenon that has decimated honey bee populations across the globe linked to parasitic fly
- The Debt Bomb: 7,600,000,000,000 Dollars Of Debt Must Be Rolled Over In 2012
Tuesday January 3, 2012
- FED COURT GRANTS LEGAL IMMUNITY TO TELECOMS IN WIRETAPPING CASE
- Severe Storms Led To Sewage Spills Across State
- Are we witnessing the final disintegration of Iraq?
- New Study Exposes the '60% Effective' Flu Shot as 98.5% Uselessx
- Snow hits the midwest as 24-vehicle pile-up is blamed on icy blast
- What Really Happened in Malta This September When Contagious Bird Flu Was First Announced
- Formerly Great Cities All Over America Are Turning Into Open, Festering Sores
Monday January 2, 2012
- Thousands of blackbirds fall to their death in Arkansas town for second New Year's Eve in a row
- Lettuce removed from hundreds of stores across seven states after salmonella scare
- L.A. arson wave grows to about 40 fires; most since 1992 riots
- Swedish woman finds wedding ring after 16 years, on a carrot
- Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Japan
- Obama’s Signing Statement on NDAA: I have the power to detain Americans… but I won’t
- Warning to America: 'We are at crossroads'
- Average American consumes one ton of food a year while equating a gallon of soda a week
Sunday January 1, 2012
- Now cops can enter homes to shut off natural gas valves
- Could You Stomach These Great Depression Meals?
- The Number One Catastrophic Event That Americans Worry About
- Shot Marine Used Fingers to Plug Bullet Holes
- Scientists Downgrade Threat From Alaska Volcano
- Underwater Cannon May Help Protect Great Lakes
- Golf cart horns, efficient light bulbs and the end of happy hour: The 40,000 new laws set to go into effect at midnight
- Have you got change? Man attempts to go shopping at Walmart- with a million dollar bill
- MDC-T senator died of bird flu
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