Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Monday March 8th, 2010

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Peak Oil, Water, Food:

Jim Kunstler: Oil Back Over $80 Should Serve as an Ominous Warning

UK Guardian: How Food, Water Crisis are Driving a Land Grab in Africa

Global Financial Collapse:

Zero Hedge: Next Financial Crisis Could Level Everything in 12 Hours

Business Week: Greek Default Could Mean Infection of Spain and Italy

UK Telegraph: Greece a Harbinger of Global Collapse as Cash Runs Out

U.S. Financial Collapse:

Wall Street Journal: Repurchased Home Loans Putting Banks in the Red

NY Times: U.S. Government to Pay People to Sell Their Homes at a Loss

Bloomberg: On the Edge Banks Face Writedowns on Eve of FDIC Action

Bloomberg: FDIC Encourages Pension Funds to Invest in Failed Banks

State, Municipal Shutdowns:

Zero Hedge: State Tax Revenues Plunge by $87 Billion, Steepest Ever

Associated Press: Kansas City Wants to Close Half Its Public Schools

NY Times: With Stimulus Money All Gone, Schools Laying Off Teachers

Psychological Crack Up:

Jan Lundberg: Is Our Society's Breakdown Process Now Out of Control?

Jan Lundberg: Runaway Toyotas a Perfect Metaphor for U.S. Collapse

Seattle Times: Is the Teaparty Movement a Sign of Collective Insanity?

War on the Middle Class:

LATOC: Turns Out Film "I.O.U.S.A" Funded by Billionaire Hedge Funder

LATOC: IRS to Begin Tracking Online Payments Made by way of Paypal

Wall Street Journal: Decade Old Defaults Could Haunt Senior Citizens

CNN Money: For Job Market, Short Term Hope and Long Term Despair

Mish: Construction Developer Says Banks Suddenly Playing Hard Ball

Mish: Credit Union Paying Customers to Close Their Savings Accounts

Mish: "Putting Off Retirement" Means Boomers Working at Wal Marts

Real Estate Collapse:

Detroit Free Press: More Michigan Homeowners Walk Away from Loans

St. Petersburg Times: In Tampa, Foreclosure Means You Live Rent Free

Press Democrat: Vast "Shadow Inventory" Will Deep Six Any Recovery

SF Chronicle: Radical Weather Patterns Cracking Homes' Foundations

LA Times: High Cost of Quake Insurances Will Rock Your Bank Account

Daily Telegraph: Couples Work Twice as Long to Own Home as in 1960

Crimes, Conspiracies, and Corporate Criminality:

Wall Street Journal: Porn Nightmare Never Ends for Former SEC Official

Wall Street Journal: From Big Firm Attorney to Purveyor of "Mancakes"

Mad Cow Productions: Sixty Years of Drug Trafficking at Venice Airport

The Hill: Microsoft Executive Says Net is Dangerous, Should be Taxed

Health, the Environment:

MSNBC: Your Television is Killing You A Lot Faster Than You May Think

Most Important Articles from Yesterday:

Bloomberg: New York to Take Extraordinary Cash Management Actions

Washington Post: Greek Debt Collapse to Raise Major Problems for U.S.

From the LATOC Archives:

USA Today: IRS to Be Deployed to Force Americans to Buy Health Care

ABC: "U.S. intelligence agencies now have a license to kill Americans"

The Exiled: Wealthy Elite Plan to Use Suburbs as "Gulag Archipelagos"

Preparation and Relocalization:

Survival Blog: Defending Your Home from an Invasion, A Basic Outline

Rogue Turtle: How Single Moms Can Prepare for Disaster, A Checklist

"Do you have enough food and supplies on hand?"

















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