Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Monday March 15th, 2010

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Editor's Note: Lack of an Update Last Friday

I'm in the process of moving LATOC's center of operations to an undisclosed location and was unable to publish an update on Friday.

In related news, the doomstead next door to LATOC Forum moderator Old Horseman is up for sale. If you're looking for a place to do some serious doomsteading, check out his post about it.

Peak Oil:

Jim Kunstler: "Disintegrating nation too distracted by Ipads to notice"

Tom Whipple: Peak Oil Crisis Means a Looming Financial Catastrophe

Live Science: Kuwait Oil Company Says Peak Oil to be Reached in 2014

World Science: Why Do Oil Boomtowns Tend to Attract Sex Offenders?

Collapse of States, Cities:

UK Telegraph: Single Family Homes in Detroit Selling for Less than $10

Toldeo Blade: Toledo Likely to Face a Financial "State of Emergency"

Fox Busines: States Facing Financial Doomsdays as Debts Go Soaring

NY Times: Aging Sewers and Water Infrastructure Too Costly to Repair

NY Daily News: FDNY Facing 1,000 Layoffs, Closure of 62 Fire Stations

War on the Middle Class:

USA Today: Cash Desperate States Seizing Citizens' Tax Refund Money

NY Times: Miss Just One Payment? Change Jobs? Bank Will be Calling

NY Times: In Hard Times, Banks Luring the Poor Into Trade School Debt

Sacramento Bee: "Deadly Serious" IRS Agents Visit Business for $0.04

ABC News: Borrower Arrested, Thrown in Jail for Overdue Library Book

U.S. Financial Collapse:

CNN Money: Iceland's Financial Sinkhole Very Similar to that of the U.S.

CNN Money: Why the U.S. Can't Inflate It's Way Out of the Debt Crisis

Associated Press: Social Security to Begin Cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs

Yahoo: We're Doomed and There's Little Washington Can Do About It

Overseas Financial Collapse:

Globe & Mail: Why Italy is Facing Detonation of Derivatives Timebomb

UK Telegraph: Britain Facing a Second Collapse As Banks Go Into Red

UK Telegraph: Vast and Dangerous CDS Market Threatens New Panics

CNN Money: Entire World Now Facing a Day of "Financial Reckoning"

Real Estate Collapse:

Mother Jones: Housing's Foreclosure Shadow Market Continues Growth

MSNBC: More Home Owners Accepting Cash for Keys to Escape Debt

Washington Post: New Round of Home Foreclosures Threaten Market

Huffington Post: U.S. Housing Market Collapse Has Resumed In Earnest

Gold, Silver, Precious Metals:

Byron King: Peak Gold plus a Weak Dollar Equals Gold at $2,000/Ounce

Bloomberg: Gold May Gain on Debt Rating, China's Credit Tightening

Crimes, Conspiracies and High Weirdness:

UK Independent: Scientists Identify Opium Poppy Genes for Morphine

UK Independent: Experiment Allows Scientists to Read People's Minds

UK Telegraph: Pentagon's "Telepathic Computer" Can Read Your Mind

UK Telegraph: Large Hadron Super Collider to be Shuttered for a Year

Wired: DARPA Working to Weaponize the "Quantum Effects" of Nature

Wired: Barack Obama Supports Seizure of Citizens' DNA Upon Arrest

Preparation and Relocalization:

Survival Blog: The Benefit of Carrying a Survival Slingshot in Your Bag

Charles Hugh Smith: Benefits of Being Around as Things Falling Apart

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Jim Kunstler: "America entering a deadly swamp leading to a civil war"

Business Insider: Citigroup Warns Customers It May Limit Withdrawals

Market Watch: Nearing a Tipping Point Towards Collapse of Law, Order

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