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What happened to the Costa Concordia revealed by AIS
Costa Concordia on the rocksNOTE: if you go to the Log of Wendaway this story will make more sense, because it has a live map of the last moments of the doomed ship. I cannot figure out how to get the photos here. It is different these days.CNN quotes an Italian...
created by Actual News Geezer | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
6748 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
6748 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
Thousands struggle with aftermath of Hurricane Jimena
You probably saw something on the news about Hurricane Jimena - a monster storm that supposedly ended up blowing out to sea, causing less harm than expected.Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the... 1496 views | 31 recommendations | 1 comment
OhMyNews to contributors: Show Me the Money
Korean-based citizen journalism site OhMyNews has asked its 100,000 contributors to pony up some hard cash, not just more stories, a blog on Forbes has just reported. The posting comes from PlanetSizedBrain,...
created by Actual News Geezer | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
335 views | 55 recommendations | 5 comments
335 views | 55 recommendations | 5 comments
Southbound Net Is Alive and Well
Southbound Net is Alive and Well! Southbound Net now has it's own website...you can find it by either Googling for Southbound Net and looking for the link to it - or by clicking here. Here are the coordinates:...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
1088 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
1088 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
Downwardly: "By the time you foreclose on my house, I'll be dead."
Associated Press has a new story up identifying recent victims of violence connected to the financial crisis. Here is a brief police blotter account of one of the most recent: Pamela Ross, who had been given a...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
593 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
593 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Downwardly: 19 year woman loses medical insurance, faces gangrene
It's everywhere you look on the web: stories of ordinary Americans in a steep downwardly descent. A doctor tells the Washington Post of the disgusting hardships people who have lost their medical...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
417 views | 11 recommendations | 4 comments
417 views | 11 recommendations | 4 comments
Downwardly: homeless dogs abandoned by foreclosed owners
I've heard of the yoga pose Downward Dog, but downwardly mobile dogs?Animal control officers in this suburban Chicago community have been rounding up dogs that have been abandoned by folks who have lost their...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
999 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
999 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
Downwardly: crooked loans officer loses own house
Now this downwardly story has a sweet sense of justice about it. A mortgage loans officer from Waterford, Conn., was just convicted of defrauding over 200 borrowers. He's now downwardly too:"Jose M. Guzman, a...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
282 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
282 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Downwardly: Olivia, Bill, Joe and Tammy
Good on Salon.com - they're profiling people who are caught up with the deep financial slide. In this article meet Olivia, once an accountant, now trying to support her kids on fewer working hours as the...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
287 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
287 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
Downwardly: Dave Cantrell and his midnight U-Haul
MSM seems to be doing a better job of finding human faces to illustrate the personal cost of the financial crisis. Here's a poignant one from The Mercury News. Consider adding your own."MANTECA — Dave Cantrell...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
344 views | 27 recommendations | 7 comments
344 views | 27 recommendations | 7 comments
Still Waiting for Hurricane Norbert
OK, 6pm and no Norbert - looks like we may have dodged a bullet. Fred on sailing vessel Sojourn did a 5pm briefing, and says the worst is already passed.Worst? what do I do with the 500 t-shirts I ordered...."I...
created by Actual News Geezer | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
563 views | 40 recommendations | 16 comments
563 views | 40 recommendations | 16 comments
The burning of our houses
Two days ago I was visiting friends nearby. I will call them James and Jeanie."Since September," James said slowly, "we have lost about $250,000 from our retirement account. It's like our house has burned down and... 757 views | 18 recommendations | 8 comments
Millions of baby sardines shock old timer
San Carlos, Mexico -Millions of baby sardines have emerged around the sailing vessel Sol Mate whilst she is at anchor in Bahia San Carlos, just south of the busy fishing port of Guaymas, on the mainland side of...
created by Actual News Geezer | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
1150 views | 25 recommendations | 5 comments
1150 views | 25 recommendations | 5 comments
US rushes icebreaker to counter Ruskie threat to North Pole
News that the US government is rushing a Coast Guard icebreaker to the north to coutner Russia's claim to the North Pole will surely annoy Canadians.The Healy icebreaker of the U.S. Coast Guard Service leaves...
created by Actual News Geezer | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
3098 views | 36 recommendations | 6 comments
3098 views | 36 recommendations | 6 comments
