Life After the Oil Crash

Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You

















Breaking News: Monday February 1st, 2010

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Situation in Haiti:

Global Research: Haiti Drama Masks Battle for Fateful Geological Prize

MSNBC: Ten Americans Detained in Haiti on Child Traffacking Charges

UK Telegraph: Desperate Haitians Offering Children for Homes in U.S.

U.S. Collapse:

Jim Kunstler: Obama a Glorified Cheerleader for the Jive Talk Economy

Reuters: White House to Paint Grim Picture of U.S. Future, Says Source

Washington Post: Obama Sends $3.8 Trillion 2011 Budget to Congress

Fox News: Bailout Watchdog: "U.S. heading towards another collapse"

Digital Journal: Economists Say "U.S. Poised for a Desperate Situation"

Financial Times: Paulson Feared Dollar Collapse, Implosion of Goldman

War on the Middle Class:

Bloomberg: Pennsylvania State Capital Pondering Bankruptcy Filing

Mish Shedlock: California, Nevada, Arizona Heading for Mass Layoffs

Lew Rockwell: The Coming Obama Retirement Trap Has Been Sprung

Los Angeles Times: Who Helped the Corporate Rich Get Richer? You Did

Real Estate Collapse:

Housing Wire: Option ARMs Loans Suprass Subprime in Loss Severity

Toyota Crisis:

Los Angeles Times: Business is Far From Usual at Toyota Dealerships

NY Times: Toyota Slow to Come to Grips with Scope of Fatal Problem

Time: Toyota Recall of Death Traps Considered an "Economic Stimulus"

Crimes, Conspiracies, Corporate Criminality:

Wired Magazine: CIA Officers Caught Moonlighting at Wall Street Banks

NY Times: Risky Derivatives Weren't Isolated at Insurance Giant A.I.G.

Bloomberg: At Davos Nobody Dared Question China's Hack of Google

NY Times: Survey of Executvies Finds Growing Fear of Cyber Attacks

CNBC: British Firms Targeted for High Level Blackmail by Chinese Spys

Environmental Catastrophe:

Scientific American: Genetically Modified Forest Planned for Southeast

CNN: Pentagon Report Predicts Cyber War, Environmental Catastrophe

Most Important Articles from Yesterday's Update:

UK Telegraph: Funds Flee Greece as Germany Warns of a "Fatal Crisis"

UK Independent: Brown Faces Nightmare of British Credit Downgrade

Wall Street Journal: Fears Grow that Venezuela is Near Banking Crisis

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Stateline.org: Governors Considering "Nightmare" Financial Scenarios

Alternet: U.S. State Unemployment Funds are in "Full Blown Collapse"

UK Telegraph: Britain Must Prepare for a Year of Social, Political Unrest

Preparation and Relocalization:

LATOC: Think You're Ready for When TSHTF? It's a Lot Scarier in Reality

LATOC: How Will You Afford Electricity if Prices Double or Quadruple?

Outside Magazine: Snow, Chill, Stupor, Letting Go (Freezing to Death)

Survival Blog: A Preparedness Plan for a Single Mothjer with Children

Survival Blog: 6 Survival Necessities That Don't Fit in Your Bug Out Kit

Survival Blog: Importance of Testing Dead Batteries Before Recycling

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

















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