Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Wednesday January 27th, 2010

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Situation in Haiti:

LATOC: Turns Out Haiti Has Massive Deposits of Gold, Oil, and Uranium

Bill Moyers: Haiti's Problems are Rooted in Legacy of U.S. Colonialism

AP: Government of Haiti Getting Only One Cent of Every U.S. Aid Dollar

War on the Middle Class:

Charles Hugh Smith: Wall Mart Model Of the Self Destructing Consumer

Reuters: Record Number Young Americans Now Jobless, Disconnected

Alternet: 1 in 5 Americans Went Hungry in 2009, 1 in 8 on Food Stamps

The Exiled: Americans Can't Even Afford to Bury Their Dead in Coffins

Alternet: Kentucky Fried Chicken Might Own Your Town's Fire Hydrants

McClatchy: Schwarzenegger Says State May Send Inmates to Mexico

CNN Money: Consumers Still Slaves to Big Banks Despite Bailout Rage

Financial Collapse:

The Atlantic: Horror of the 2010 CBO Budget Report ("We're Trapped")

Charles Hugh Smith: End of Cheap Oil, Jobs, Collapse of Savior State

Market Oracle: Economic Stagnation, War, Pandemic, a New Dark Age

MoneyMorning: Wall Street's Stranglehold is Choking the U.S. Economy

Real Estate Collapse:

The Atlantic: Commerical Real Estate Market Going Into a "Meltdown"

McClatchy: It Only Gets Worse for Commerical Real Estate This Year

Transportation Breakdown:

London Times: Air Tavel Industry Sputters in Worst Year Since the War

Wall Street Journal: Toyota Halts All Sales on Eight of Its Car Models

NY Times: Toyota's Safety Woes in America Raising Concern in Japan

LATOC Forum: 14 Pedestrians Turned to Roadkill in Toronto in 15 Days

Out of Control Police State:

The Exiled: Creepy Murder of the "James Bond of the World of Money"

Wired: New Pentagon Report Calls for  "Office of Strategic Deception"

Wired: Paging James Cameron, DOD Wants 3-D Surveillance Systems

Wired: Pentagon Wants "Digital DNA" to Track Down Computer Hackers

Wired: Neuroscientists Say Brian Scans Can be Used to Identify PTSD

Crimes, Conspiracies, High Weirdness:

UK Telegrpah: Author Calls for Euthasia Booths to Deal with the Elderly

UK Telegraph: Narcotics Revenue Brings More Cash to Mexico Than Oil

UK Telegraph: Internet Explorer Loaded With New Set of Security Flaws

UK Telegraph: Digital Revolution Making Earth Invisible to Space Aliens

Most important articles from yesterday's update:

Silver Seek: IRA and 401K Theft Being Plotted by the U.S. Government

NY Times: Obama Plans to Gut Any Programs for the U.S. Middle Class

Business Week: "Tranch Warfare" Erupts as Owners Slide Into Default

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Associated Press: 40% of Working Age Californians Now Unemployed

San Francisco Chronicle: Teen Unemployment at 25.5%, New Record

USA Today: Taxpayers Getting Yoked for Additional $55,000 Per Person

LATOC Forum: Upper Middle Class Veal Calves in Complete Freak Out

Preparation and Relocalization:

Survival Blog: Letter Regarding Clothes and Shoes During TEOTWAWKI

The Atlantic: Illegal to Keep Chickens in Toronto? We Go Contraband!

General Discussion:

LATOC Forum: New FEMA Manager Has a Very "Doomer" Like Attitude

LATOC Forum: Deconstructing "Avatar" from a Peak Oil Perspective

LATOC Forum: Automated Computer Systems are Controlling Your Life

LATOC Forum: Deeply Disturbing NY Times Article on Kids, Technology

LATOC Forum: "Underground employment rate is collapsing as well"

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

















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