Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Thursday February 11th, 2010

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Collapse of U.S. and Britian:

UK Telegraph: Wall Street Revels as America Plunges Into a Depression

Market Watch: "Prepare for an apocalyptic ending to Wall Street party"

John Michael Greer: U.S. Becoming Impoverished Third World Country

UK Guardian: Thousands to Lose Jobs as Universities Make Drastic Cuts

USA Today: Tsunami of Retirements is Pushing Social Security to Brink

UK Telegraph: Chinese May Be Close to Dumping California Muni Bonds

Reuters: Chinese PLA Officers Urge Economic Punishment for America

Collapse of Europe:

Der Spiegel: How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece Hide It's Massive Debt

Der Spiegel: Brussels Intervenes In Attempt to Slow Plunge of Greece

Der Spiegel: Greece's Problems Attracting Cannibalistic Hedge Funders

UK Guardian: Super Wealthy Investors Pull Their Billions Out of Greece

UK Guardian: Greek Debt Implosion May Mean IMF Takeover of Europe

Yahoo Finance: Why Sovereign Debt Implosions Have Only Just Begun

Peak Oil, Energy:

Wall Street Journal: Think EU Debt Default is Bad? Peak Oil to be Worse

UK Telegraph: You Don't Need to be a Survivalist to Believe in Peak Oil

Miller McClune: "Peak Phosphorus" the Terrifying Sequel to "Peak Oil"

Crimes, Conspiracies, Corporate Criminality:

UK Telegraph: China Threatens West by Unleashing Wave of Superbugs

Wired: China's Attack on Google was Ultra Sophisticated, Details Show

AFP: Goldman Sachs Wants You to Pay by the Mile to Drive U.S. Roads

The Exiled: Video of a Human Plasma Donor Cow (on Cerberus Capital)

Out of Control Government:

Wired: With DARPA's "Transparent Earth" Underground Not Out of Sight

UK Daily Mail: Child Spies Encouraged to Report "Anti Social" Behavior

Raw Story: U.S. Justice Department Seeks to Hire Retarded Attorneys

Health, the Environment:

AP: Even Pharmaceuticals Thrown in Trashbin End Up in Drinking Water

BBC: Attractive Women, Particularly Blondes, Found to Anger Quicker

Most Important Articles from Yesterday:

The Atlantic: Joblessness Radically Altering Young Americans' Psyches

Associated Press: Job Openings Plunged by 25% While Layoffs Soared

Business Week: Companies Now See Americans as Disposable Workers

Best of the LATOC Archives:

LATOC: A *Must Read* Article on the Literal Bloodsuckers at Cerberus

Jim Kunstler: "American economy has six months or less to live . . . "

Alternet "Jobs were lost in December at ten times the expected rate"

Preparation and Relocalization:

Survival Blog: My Experience Setting Up a Community Survival Group

Are you prepared for civil unrest, martial law, and the day the trucks stop rolling to the grocery store?

















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