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Breaking News: Thursday December 31st 2009

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Editor's Note: Big End of the Year Sales at The Ready Store, Nitro Pak

Just a reminder that LATOC Affiliates The Ready Store and Nitro Pak are both having big end of the year inventory reduction sales:

Year End Sale on Storable Food, Supplies at LATOC Affiliate Nitro Pak

Year End Inventory Clearance Sale at LATOC Affiliate The Ready Store

Collapse of State, National Governments:

PressTV: Cash Strapped U.S. Running Out of Money for Unemployment

Wall Street Journal: California Pushing for a Massive Federal Bailout

NY Times: Fears Grow that Greece May Default on its Sovereign Debt

Wall Street Journal: Municipal Tax Revenues Declined 7% in Past Year

Wall Street Journal: Blizzards Put Additional Pressure on Local Budgets

War on the Middle Class:

MSNBC: More College Students Turning to Bread Lines and Food Banks

Wall Street Journal: Upper Middle Class Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man

NY Times: Billions to Fight Foreclosures but Very Little for New Loans

Calculated Risk: Fannie Mae Financial Disaster Going "Hockey Stick"

Bloomberg: Barney Frank Hands $4 Trillion Check to Financial Industry

Collapse of Financial Markets, Technology:

George Ure: Some Thoughts, Notes on My Upcoming Forecast for 2009

Reuters: Chinese Firms Tell Goldman Sachs to "Go Screw Themselves"

NY Times: Stock Market's '09 Heart Stopping Fall, Breath Taking Rally

Business Insider: Tiger Woods Scandal Costs Shareholders $12 Billion

Business Insider: Top Ten Biggest Internet Catastrophes of the 2000s

Gold and Oil:

CommodityOnline: Gold Rush Grips China as People go on Buying Spree

London Times: Demand for Gold Coins So High, U.S. Mint Has Run Out

Associated Press: Oil Back over $80 for the First Time in Seven Weeks

Business Insider: Dwindling Oil Production Threatens to Blow Pipelines

Conflict, War:

London Times: Bomber Kills 4 CIA Agents in Heroin Soaked Afghanistan

Time: U.S. Troop Deaths in Heroin Soaked Afghanistan Soared in 2009

Wired: Vladimir Putin Vows, "We'll overwhelm the U.S. missile shield"

Exiled Online: "The Saudis are mixed up in Yemen past their noses . . ."

Exiled Online: Mexico Special Forces Kill the "King of the Drug Lords"

Crimes, Conspiracies, and High Weirdness:

Chris Hedges: "One day the government will label all of us terrorists"

Alternet: The Last Decade Has Totally Destroyed the American Psyche

Wired: Pentagon Prepares Push for High Tech Telepathy for Military

Preparation and Relocalization:

Alternet: How to Get Your Money Out of the Hands of Global Banksters

Green Joyment: The Top 7 Resources for Learning to Forage in the Wild

NY Times: Alaska Couple Turns Yurt in the Wild Into Home for Family

Survival Blog: What My Time In Bosnia Taught Me about TEOTWAWKI

George Ure: "How will economic collapse affect function of the net?"

Most Important Articles from Yesterday:

Silicon Valley: Derivatives Bubble Over $190K Per Person on the Planet

MyBudget360: How Average Americans are Lured Into Debt Servitude

Business Insider: Baltic Dry Index Has Gone Into a Complete Nosedive

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Business Week: "Less than 10% of citizens will have access to credit"

LATOC: Does Your Boss Want You Dead? ("Dead Peasants Insurance")

Seeking Alpha: U.S. Has Actually Been Losing Two Million Jobs a Month

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

















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