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Penny Wise And Pound Foolish [via The Hipcrime Vocab]

nebris wrote in the_recession May 20, 2012 22:13

Sunday May 20th, 2012

I've said several times on this blog that our leaders are aware of Peak Oil and it's implications, and that they dare not acknowledge it for the effect it would have on the general public. I came to this conclusion based on on several reasons. 1.) The embracing of austerity seems to be a tacit acknowledgement that future growth ( Read more... )

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Why Networked Resilient Communities won't need China

nebris wrote in the_recession Dec 12, 2011 07:18

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/links-december-11-2011.html
posted by John RobbHere's the simple version of the message ( Read more... )

societal breakdown, anatomy of a meltdown, macroeconomics, economic courses, climate change, economic collapse, alternate recovery plans, 'capitalism', technology

The Next 50 Years: Why I’m Optimistic Because Everything Will Be Terrible

nebris wrote in the_recession Dec 05, 2011 03:55

From io9
By John Shirley
Nov 28, 2011

( With everything rolling towards the abyss, our only hope for a bright future seems to be the Singularity, a technological transformation of what it means to be human. But in a talk for TEDx Brussels, science fiction and horror writer John Shirley argues that there are really two Singularities - and yes, everything will be terrible in the short term. So why is he optimistic about the future of the human race? Read on... )

societal breakdown, anatomy of a meltdown, macroeconomics, economic courses, climate change, economic collapse, alternate recovery plans, 'capitalism', technology

This Is The Self Destructive Cupidity of The Corporate State At Work

nebris wrote in the_recession Oct 03, 2011 20:05

Coming Apart: Inertia, Not Progress Defines the Decade After 9/11 ( Read more... )

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The China Superpower Hoax

nebris wrote in the_recession Sep 29, 2010 07:05

From TruthDigSep 23, 2010 ( Read more... )

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Water: Tibet, China, and Asia

nebris wrote in the_recession Sep 29, 2010 07:00

From The Epoch TimesSep 25, 2010 ( Read more... )

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What collapsing empire looks like

nebris wrote in the_recession Aug 07, 2010 21:16

By Glenn Greenwald

As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. But a ( Read more... )

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This Shows How Libertarianism Is A Pathetic Hoax [x-posted from my LJ]

nebris wrote in the_recession Jun 16, 2010 01:06

Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Did you ever wonder what environmental regulations the Marshall Islands had in place?

by Chris in Paris on 6/16/2010 01:30:00 AM

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macroeconomics, barack obama, global financial trainwreck of 2007-?, corporate profits, nationalization, libertarianism, bp oil spill of 2010, climate change, regulation, 'capitalism', economic shocks, deregulation, oil, bush administration, obama administration, 2012 presidential election

Collapse Gap Revisited

nebris wrote in the_recession Feb 20, 2010 14:49

From Club Orlov
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Richard Heinberg has done something that sorely needed doing: he has performed a Collapse Gap analysis for USA and China. In a lengthy and detailed article he argues that, just as the USA is less prepared for collapse than the USSR was, the USA is less prepared for collapse than China. This is perhaps ( Read more... )

societal breakdown, climate change, economic collapse, alternate recovery plans, house of cards, sustainable living, peak credit, sovereign defaults, china, peak oil

Rich v. Poor becomes global (X-posted from Talk_Politics and my own LJ):

underlankers wrote in the_recession Dec 14, 2009 09:36

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8411898.stm Just what in the name of all the Nine Circles of Hell did the rich countries expect? The poor countries are not going to stay poor and get poorer just to make things easier on the rich countries. This kind of detachment from basic understanding of human motivations, namely expecting poor non- ( Read more... )

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