Half England Open To Fracting: Hobbits Will Be Destroyed By Saruman And His Orcs

This is why Prince Charles suddenly sent letters to all the villages he owns informing the subjects who erroneously thought they owned the land they bought!  He haughtily informed them they owned nothing below the skim surface of their properties, he owned all that lay below and was expecting to exploit this to the hilt, too.  And they had zero say in how he does this.  The fact that he sent this letter claiming his mineral rights should scare Brits enough to overthrow the House of Hanover.  So the news is finally out: Half of Britain to be offered for shale gas drilling as fracking areas face 50 trucks passing each day – Telegraph

Overpopulation Rapidly Turning Philippine Islands Into Haiti

Typhoon that smashed houses to smithereens: Full horror of destruction in Philippines revealed as rescue workers says two thirds of dead are children | Mail Online: click on this Brit story to see many sad pictures.  Which immediately reminded me of Haiti.  The Philippines also recently had a major earthquake, too.  These one-two punches to countries where the majority of the people live in flimsy shanties or easily tumbled slums usually leads to social collapse and there is looting going on as survivors beg for food aid while others focus on stealing neat stuff to put in the remaining homes that survived these disasters.