Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Thursday January 28th, 2010

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Situation in Haiti:

Smart Economy: Haiti, HAARP, Very High Frequency Energy Emissions

War on the Middle Class:

HP: Why Are We Donating $2,000 Per Family to Wall Street Bonuses?

Yahoo News: Federal Deficit Pencils Out to $4,500 for Every American

Mike Chambers: With 30% Poverty, U.S. is Almost a Developng Nation

Zero Hedge: Economy About to Get "Black Swanned" Straight to Hell

ABC: Money Sent Home by Mexicans Abroad Falls Record 15.7% Drop

Collapse of State and National Governments:

Newsweek: California Considered to be "America's First Failed State"

Business Week: California Teacher Pension Fund Short $42.6 Billion

Business Week: New York's Mayor to Call for Cut of 4,300 City Workers

Bloomberg: Greece, Portugal Debt Worries Infecting Bank, Companies

British Financial Collapse:

UK Guardian: British Economy Sitting "On a bed of nitroglycerine . . ."

UK Guardian: Recession's Toll on Workers Far Worse Than is Reported

Real Estate Collapse:

Dr. Housing Bubble: Banks Masking Collosal Size of Shadow Inventory

UK Telegraph: Fear, Foreclosure in Las Vegas as Bust Takes Huge Toll

Associated Press: U.S. Housing News Keeps World Markets in Retreat

Bloomberg: Home Sales Continue Fall, Capping Worst Year on Record

Zero Hedge: Bottom for U.S. Housing Market at Least a Decade Away

Orlando Sentinel: 28% of Orlando Area Housing Unit Now Vacant

Kelowna.com: A Doomsday View of the Housing Market in Canada

Citizen Revolt:

Alternet: More Grassroots Groups Organize to Take On Monster Banks

Dallas Observer: People in Debt, Learn the Law, Now Labeled Terrorists

Most important articles from yesterday's update:

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

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

McClatchy: Schwarzenegger Says State May Send Inmates to Mexico

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Dmitry Orlov: Will Your Retreat, Supplies be Raided by Criminal Gangs?

Alternet: Have Americans Become a Psychologically Broken People?

Mike Whitney: Was Dick Cheney Preparing for Financial Collapse in '06?

Preparation and Relocalization:

Survival Blog: Beekeeping, Fur Trapping at Your Post Collapse Retreat

Survival Blog: Simple Off-the-Shelf Solar Power System for Beginners

Canary Press: Free Downloadable PDF of Book "How to be Invisible"

Palm Beach Post: Amid Haiti's Destruction, Strangers Come Together

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

















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