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	SUBSCRIBE TO TRUTH TO POWER--IT'S FREE Click on "Join Email List" on home page. If you were a Truth To Power subscriber, today's stories would already be in your inbox--AND you would be sent breaking news stories as they develop	226
	JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER: THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S DEPRESSION	360
	MUST WATCH CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD HEINBERG ON PEAK MOMENT TV: THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM	367
	FLAT-EARTHER, THOMAS FRIEDMAN, BLIND TO OIL FACTS	269
	PEAK OIL WILL END STATE AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES	351
	U.S. PREPARING THE BATTLE FIELD FOR IRAN My comment: I'm not taking any bets on this either way because lunatics are fully in charge of the asylum	310
	ECONOMIC CHAOS IS ENGULFING THE WORLD	209
	CHARLES HUGH SMITH: WOULD THE COLLAPSE OF THE BANKING SYSTEM BE SO TERRIBLE?	224
	WHAT EXACTLY IS INFLATION?	139
	FAMILY STORMS PITTSBURGH BANK PROTESTING MORTGAGE CRISIS	265
	IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED, THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN WAS NO ACCIDENT	176
	RENT, DON'T BUY, YOUR HOME "Renting, meanwhile, has its virtues. It's cheaper in the short term, it offers maximum flexibility, and it pushes the headaches of maintenance and taxes onto landlords. It can also be a sound long-term investment."	179
	LENDERS CREATE A BANKRUPTCY MONSTER	212
	FOREST SERVICE SAYS CALIFORNIA FIRES COULD RAGE FOR MONTHS	160
	THE LINKS BETWEEN GLOBAL WARMING AND EXTREME WEATHER	236
	THE TODDLER KING'S INSUFFERABLE REIGN IS DOOMED	203
	FORTIS BANK PREDICTS U.S FINANCIAL MELTDOWN IN WEEKS My comment: OK, here's Number 3. First it was Royal Bank of Scotland, then Barclays, and now Fortis. Second Great Depression full speed ahead at twelve o'clock.	422
	FABULOUS: THE BANK IMPLODE METER--THE END OF MODERN BANKING	389
	THE GREATER DEPRESSION AND WHAT YOU SHOULD DO ABOUT IT	332
	CREDIT SCORES HIT BY NEW CREDIT CARD LIMITS Comment from subscriber: "If you can tell your readers to grab the offers that they have previously disregarded, it may be the last chance to acquire credit for a very long time.	272
	FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE DOW CRASH, GOLD, STRIKE ON IRAN, AND THE END OF DOLLAR HEGEMONY	409
	FOUR DOZEN GEORGIA BANKS ARE ON THE "PROBLEM" LIST "All things considered, the situation today is far worse. Fewer banks will fail, but those that do will be way larger on average."	173
	BUSH'S DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION--AMENDMENT BY AMENDMENT	170
	WALKING AWAY FROM YOUR MORTGAGE	175
	THE PLANET'S CLIMATE HEADING FOR A TIPPING POINT My comment: Ahem, excuse me, but we've already passed it. It now has a life of its own. I'm really weary of all these "if we don't do something fast, we're going to be in deep shit." Well, we didn't do anything fast enough, and now we are.	150
	THIS IS THE END OF THE AGE OF OIL	160
	HEADING STRAIGHT FOR $170 A BARREL	289
	DALE ALLEN PFEIFFER: SMELL THE ROSES--SUICIDAL TENDENCIES "...are rising prices and desperation invoking some lemming-like instinct to use up our energy resources as quickly as possible, accelerating global climate instability as we make a mad rush toward oblivion."	187
	THE COLLAPSE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION CONTINUES AND WORSENS	159
	DIDN'T PLANT A SUMMER GARDEN? NO, YOU'RE NOT DOOMED	191
	PETER SCHIFF: INTERVENTION WILL NOT STOP THE DOLLAR'S SLIDE	168
	WALL ST. JOURNAL: EXPECT $7 A GALLON AND A MASS EXODUS OF U.S. CARS	421
	BARCLAY'S BANK WARNS OF FINANCIAL STORM My comment: This is the second warning in two weeks from a major world financial institution regarding global economic meltdown. Last week Truth To Power reported the Royal Bank of Scotland's warning.	355
	WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT $200 A BARREL	376
	ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE BREAKS--38 SO FAR	218
	AMERICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE IS COLLAPSING TO THIRD WORLD STATUS	345
	CHARLES HUGH SMITH CRITIQUES "REINVENTING COLLAPSE" My comment: I'm a huge fan of Dmitry Orlov and have reviewed "Reinventing Collapse" on the Truth To Power website. What Smith notes in this review that I think is most worth noting is that the U.S. is in far worse shape than the Soviet Union was.	172
	NO ICE AT THE NORTH POLE? YOU MEAN THAT GUY HANSEN WAS RIGHT?	325
	WORST JUNE FOR THE DOW SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION--350 POINTS??	345
	FORBES MAGAZINE: SKY HIGH OIL PRICES WILL MAKE THE U.S. GO BROKE	350
	PEAK OIL WILL DRASTICALLY CHANGE OUR WAY OF LIFE	472
	THE AMERICAN FINANCIAL FIASCO COULD TAKE DOWN THE WORLD ECONOMY	395
	AMERICANS WHO DO NOTHING ARE GOING TO PAY THE PIPER	273
	DANNY SCHECHTER: HOUSE OF CARDS--THOUGHT THE HOUSING CRASH WAS BAD? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET	239
	OIL GOES ABOVE $140 A BARREL FOR FIRST TIME	217
	GM'S MARKET VALUE IS HALF OF AVON'S	250
	GOLD SOARS BACK INTO $900 TERRITORY	169
	ANOTHER OBAMA SHOCKER: OBAMA WAFFLES ON SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS My comment: OK all you hopeful progressives. There's something new in the news every day about how many more asses he's kissed from one day to the next. Time to rethink the election/voting charade????	157
	OBAMA'S DRACONIAN DEATH PENALTY STANCE	182
	AIRLINE INDUSTRY COULD COLLAPSE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR	293
	CALIFORNIA BURNING, SMOKIN' AND CHOKIN' My comment: Over 800 fires are burning in the state, many as a result of lightning. Lightning is normally rare in the Golden State as is drought. Once again, maybe that guy Hansen was right!	283
	THE NEW FACE OF THE AMERICAN HOMELESS My comment: This article is downright scary. It suggests that homelessness is becoming epidemic and that it's impacting all American institutions, especially schools.	214
	CREDIT CRUNCH IS FORCING U.S. MIDDLE CLASSES TO LIVE IN THEIR CARS	297
	JAPAN CALLS FOR 5000 TONS OF EMERGENCY BUTTER	218
	SHARON ASTYK: IS ELECTRICITY REALLY THE LIFEBLOOD OF CIVILIZATION?	205
	HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION--GROWING FOOD MAY BE THE MOST DANGEROUS AND EMPOWERING THING YOU CAN DO	378
	TOTALLY WORTH 2 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME--FEEDBAGS FOR AMERICANS My comment: This clip is quite compatible with the story below regarding dumbing down.	392
	BIG JUMP EXPECTED IN FUEL AND ENERGY DEMAND IN NEXT 50 YEARS "Despite persistently high oil prices, global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, the government predicted Wednesday."	194
	PEAK OIL OVERVIEW: My comment: Excellent coverage of Peak Oil issues including: U.S. oil story; world oil story; 5 myths about oil production	316
	GLOBAL WARMING COULD HURT U.S. SECURITY My comment: Gee, how do you suppose the powers that be will respond to increasing chaos? Tell everyone to form straight lines and talk quietly? How about tasers and other excruciating crowd control weapons followed by FEMA camps?	240
	SHOCKER: OBAMA TILTS TOWARD THE CENTER My comment: People tend to tilt toward the things and people that own them.	153
	OBAMA'S FISA BETRAYAL	148
	OIL PRICES: SPECULATION OR PEAK OIL? HOW ABOUT BOTH/AND? My comment: This article tells you why both Peak Oil and speculation account for skyrocketing oil prices. Can you handle both/ and?	160
	CALIFORNIA SUES COUNTRYWIDE This the day after Illinois announced its suit of Countrywide. Let's see who follows	192
	ALL BIG 3 AUTOMAKERS HAVE BEEN PLACED ON CREDIT WATCH	203
	CHRYSLER TAPS $2 BILLION LINE OF CREDIT	143
	PEAK CREDIT "It is not coming back and there will be no bigger bubble to replace it. Consumers and banks have both been burnt, and attitudes have changed."	185
	THE COLLAPSE OFHEALTHCARE--MORE PEOPLE DELAY IT	156
	JAW-DROPPING LIST OF STORES BEING CLOSED ACROSS U.S.	348
	HOUSE BILL HAS HIDDEN PROVISION TO TRACK FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF SMALL BUSINESSES	134
	OXYGEN STARVED OCEANS ARE RAPIDLY DYING	184
	WHEN HORSES ROMP, THE SUN ALSO SHINES "Over the past decade articles and investigations by a small but determined new breed of scientists have pried the barn door open yet wider in an effort to show an old guard of scientists...thinking that yes, animals do have consciousness."	154
	STEMMERS, PART 1 "Bodies of evidence by the millions make the dumbing-down of Americans the most successful federal program of all time…. "	207
	MIDDLETOWN, RHODE ISLAND RFID CHIPPING KIDS	181
	DOWNSIZE! THE HIGH PRICE OF TOO MUCH STUFF	267
	KATHY MCMAHON: 26 THINGS YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO MANAGE YOUR ANXIETY	273
	RALPH NADER: STARVING AMTRAK	288
	HOME PRICES POST RECORD 15% DROP	277
	FASTER INFLATION MAY RELEASE FINANCIAL TSUNAMI "Rising consumer prices will leave more U.S. consumers unable to pay their debts and may lead to a ``financial tsunami,'' according to Bennet Sedacca, president of money manager Atlantic Advisors LLC in Winter Park, Florida."	339
	ILLINOIS SUES COUNTRYWIDE	379
	MORE THAN 800 CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES--CAUSED BY LIGHTNING SPARKS My comment: Drought + lightning = fires = Climate Chaos	215
	CLIMATE CHANGE COULD DESTROY 2/3 OF CALIFORNIA'S UNIQUE PLANTS	213
	MORE CHAOS ERUPTS IN THE MIDWEST IN FLOOD AND FOOD ASSISTANCE LINES	223
	GEORGIA WOMAN LOCKED IN ROOM BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T PAY HER MEDICAL BILL	214
	EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS SETS AN EXAMPLE FOR OUR ECO-NOMICALLY CHALLENGED TIMES "The example Eureka Springs is setting demonstrates how we can address the eco-nomic anxiety and concerns gripping our country by making simple changes in our personal lives and joining locally with others to preserve, restore, and create communities	169
	THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE OF U.S. PUBLIC EDUCATION A 4-day school week? Gee, now testing will be 4 days a week for 8 hours instead of 5 days a week for 4 hours!! Sounds like it's time to shut their doors forever!! Oh, I forgot, Peak Oil is already doing that	237
	UNITED AIRLINES TO LAY OFF 950 PILOTS	162
	NATURAL GAS PRICES SET TO JUMP 52%	279
	MILLIONS FACE ENERGY SHUT OFFS	195
	UTILITIES CUTTING OFF MORE CUSTOMERS WHO CAN’T PAY BILLS	162
	SHARON ASTYK: ELECTRICITY AND GAS MOVE MORE AND MORE OUT OF THE RANGE OF ORDINARY PEOPLE My comment: In the not too distant future we will look back on these things as incredibly precious artifacts that we can no longer afford unless we create our own renewable energy systems now.	192
	ECONOMISTS IN DREAMLAND—THEY SHOULD LISTEN TO CONSUMERS	202
	KUNSTLER: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HASN'T ANYTHING NEAR A CLUE!	319
	CHARLES HUGH SMITH: WELCOME TO THE 13TH CENTURY	346
	NASA SCIENTIST WARN: THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE ""We're toast if we don't get on a very different path," Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. "This is the last chance."	234
	L.A. SEES MORE PEOPLE LIVING OUT OF THEIR CARS	219
	STATE AND CITY LAYOFFS--45,000 AND COUNTING	363
	U.S. CITIES CUT SERVICES AND RAID RESERVES ON FUEL COSTS	182
	CAN ANYONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN CONTINUE TO EXIST INDEFINITELY? SCHOOLS RUNNING ON EMPTY My comment: Their "solutions"? Get rid of teachers, increase class size, make kids walk to school. Yeah right. It's called the collapse of public education folks, and I for one couldn't be more delighted.	202
	WHAT "BROWN" CAN'T DO FOR YOU: UPS SLASHES OUTLOOK ON SOARING FUEL COSTS	169
	FUEL COSTS COULD DEVASTATE AIRLINES My comment: Fuel costs WILL devastate airlines, and we should all regard air travel as a thing of the past which it most likely will be in five years. As I've been saying, travel and/or relocate now while you still can.	240
	THE INSANITY OF OFFSHORE DRILLING "If drilling our brains out offshore—aka burning the furniture--is really part of the plan, for my kids’ sakes I would like to know what the hell we plan to do after that."	162
	GAS PRICES COULD FALL BY $2 IF CONGRESS ACTS TO REGULATE SPECULATORS???? Indeed they might--and then, let the shortages and rationing begin!	188
	ECONOMIC MELTDOWN IS PUSHING MORE PEOPLE TO THE EDGE	236
	CHANGE WE CAN'T BELIEVE IN: OBAMA HAS CLOSE TIES TO ETHANOL BIZ Industry endorsed by candidate has provided some of his top advisers	225
	THE CLUELESS CANDIDATES: THEY'RE REALLY GONNA DEAL WITH ENERGY ISSUES--MCCAIN WANTS A BETTER CAR BATTERY AND OBAMA WANTS TO CRACK DOWN ON SPECULATORS My comment: But of course: Talking about peak oil and climate change and massive conservation programs and mass transit projects--all of those are very bad for corporate profits. God forbid we should drastically curtail growth!	247
	ARE WE READY FOR THIS FINANCIAL STORM?	209
	MIDDLE CLASS EXODUS FROM SAN FRANCISCO	189
	THE DAYMARE THAT REMAINS IN NEW ORLEANS	164
	COMMUNITIES SUFFER AS FORECLOSURE RATES RISE "lonely streets, rundown homes, service cutbacks"	197
	IS EVERYTHING SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL? IS COLLAPSE HAPPENING IN FAST MOTION? DUH!!	547
	MIKE WHITNEY: THE GAME IS OVER, THERE WON'T BE A REBOUND "In academic economic terms, America has never been in as “optimum” a position as it is today. That’s the bad news. An optimum position is, mathematically speaking, one in which you can’t move without making your situation worse."	360
	FAMILIES HIT HARD AS FOOD STAMPS BUY LESS	341
	WHEN WILL WALL ST. FACE REALITY? "Oil prices are soaring, inflation is raging, a recession is taking hold, and Wall Street continues to pretend the worst is over. But these problems won't just disappear."	332
	IOWA FACES $3 BILLION CROP LOSS Ya think this just might affect food prices????	320
	GOT GOLD? HIDE IT FAST	268
	VERMONT'S POTENTIAL STATE OF EMERGENCY REGARDING WINTER HOME HEATING	221
	GAS PRICES UP 10 CENTS IN 2 WEEKS	202
	AMTRAK SETS RECORD IN MAY	182
	RAY MCGOVERN SEES IRAN ATTACK BEFORE U.S. ELECTIONS	206
	SHARON ASTYK: MINIMIZING WASTE	175
	BANK OF AMERICA NOW WRITING U.S. LAWS	184
	DID B OF A AND COUNTRYWIDE WRITE THE HOUSING BILL?	176
	HOMEOWNER BEGS BANK TO FORECLOSE	181
	GEORGE CARLIN ON THE AMERICAN DREAM	208
	PEAK TRAVEL	485
	GM DUMPS 18,000 WORKERS	297
	STOCKS TANK AGAIN ON BANK & OIL WOES--DOW BELOW 12,000	273
	RISE IN RENTING ERASING GAINS IN OWNERSHIP "The percentage of households headed by homeowners, which soared to a record 69.1 percent in 2005, fell to 67.8 percent this year, the sharpest decline in 20 years..."	267
	KUNSTLER SPEAKS ABOUT THE END OF SUBURBIA & NOTES THAT THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. IS TOAST	583
	FORBES MAGAZINE: VIRTUAL WATER "Water is not about to run out. Thanks to nature's water cycle of evaporation and rainfall, water is the most renewable of all resources. But today, humans are affecting that natural cycle on such a scale that some of the great rivers of the world ar	173
	MEXICO FREEZES FOOD PRICES IN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL CRISIS	247
	MEXICO RAISES LENDING RATE TO 7.75	215
	BANGALADESH SET TO DISAPPEAR UNDER THE WAVES BY THE END OF THE CENTURY	176
	CATASTROPHE AWAITS MAINE--AND MANY OTHER NORTHEASTERN STATES	276
	OBAMA BACKS BILL THAT GIVES IMMUNITY TO TELECOMS THAT SPY ON AMERICANS	182
	OBAMA NAMES FOREIGN POLICY PANEL My comment: There you have it folks--the best of the CFR/Bilderberg/Trilateral gang of globalist ghouls--Clinton administration retreads of NAFTA fame. Oh yeah, this is "change we can believe in"--really "different" but exactly the same.	209
	RALPH NADER: BARACK OBAMA IS PANDERER IN CHIEF	265
	ARE YOU ONE OF THE BLUE PILL PEOPLE?	295
	THE BEST FARMLAND IN THE USA IS FLOODED--GOT FOOD? "Whatever your plans are, I hope that you’re ready to execute them (or, better yet, are executing them). I’m pretty sure that most people have done nothing, and I don’t know why this continues to amaze me."	341
	EXCELLENT: ARE WE ALL NORTH KOREANS NOW? "As we sit in the dark in the deep hole that we've dug for ourselves, will we finally heed its warning?"	295
	FINANCIAL SENSE ONLINE: DANGER PERIOD 2008-2009 "Overall, we believe that this Summer will lead to moderate market turmoil, followed by severe market turmoil in the Fall and Winter 08 as market sentiments deteriorate..."	230
	CAR DEALERSHIPS ARE DOOMED	283
	MAIL OVERNIGHTING IS SO OVER	209
	BEAR STEARNS BROKERS BUSTED My comment: History will prove that the number of people busted for this is only a drop in the bucket compared to the number involved in nationwide blatant fraud and theft which created the largest mortgage meltdown in the history of the world	226
	WHY THE ECONOMY IS GLOOMIER THAN WE ARE My comment: This article documents all the elements of financial collapse and the coming Second Great Depression.	255
	THE TOTAL COLLAPSE OF HEALTHCARE AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN HEALTH	232
	WORLD POPULATION TO HIT 7 BILLION BY 2012	192
	GOLD MAY RISE TO $5000 ON INFLATION	239
	HIGH GAS PRICES CHANGING LAWN MOWING HABITS My comment: The moral of the story is, don't mow--GROW--your own food that is. When people are starving in this country, they just might understand how over lawns are and that they will need to use every inch of space in their yards to grow food in o	173
	WALL ST. DOWN AS OIL SURGES AGAIN--DOW DROPS BELOW 12,000 BRIEFLY	259
	MORGAN STANLEY PROFITS PLUNGE	305
	MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS PLUNGE ON SOARING RATES	343
	WHEN GAS STATIONS RUN OUT OF GAS	409
	EX-BRITISH ARMY CHIEF CONFIRMS PEAK OIL AS MOTIVE FOR WAR	172
	MORE LEVEES FAIL AS MISSISSIPPI FLOODS MOVE SOUTH	297
	ARE HUMANS TO BLAME FOR MIDWEST FLOODING? "But some Iowans who study the environment suspect that changes in the land, both recently and over the past century or so, have made Iowa's terrain not only highly profitable but also highly vulnerable to flooding."	130
	DALE ALLEN PFEIFFER: WHERE SHOULD I GO? THE PROS AND CONS, IN'S AND OUT'S OF RELOCATION	243
	WRITE-DOWNS GLOBALLY FROM THE CREDIT CRISIS MAY REACH $1.3 TRILLION	257
	GREAT STRIDES IN FOOD SECURITY: WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON'S BEAN AND GRAIN PROJECT	174
	WILLAMETTE VALLEY PREPARES FOR A POST-PETROLEUM WORLD	161
	CAN YOU LOWER YOUR FOOD BUDGET WHILE RAISING THE NUTRITION OF YOUR FOOD?	189
	POLITICAL PARTIES WHORE THEMSELVES TO CORPORATE JOHNS AT PARTY CONVENTIONS	147
	NAOMI KLEIN: WHAT DOES OBAMA'S "LOVE OF MARKETS" MEAN FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE? The head of Obama's economic policy team is one of Wal-Mart's most prominent defenders....Obama--who taught law at the University of Chicago for a decade -- is thoroughly embedded in the mind-set known as the Chicago School."	158
	EXCELLENT--MUST READ: "THE NEW GILDED AGE"	215
	AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL: SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THIS	204
	ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH SPEECH OF 12 YEAR-OLD GIRL TO THE U.N. IN 1992 My comment: This speech hits them hard--in fact, it hits all of us hard. It is some of the greatest wisdom I have ever heard from a human voice.	424
	BOONE PICKENS: WORLD OIL PRODUCTION HAS PEAKED	406
	MATT SIMMONS: RAISED SAUDI OUTPUT IS A DROP IN THE BUCKET	317
	COLLIDING BUBBLES: CREDIT CRISIS, UNEMPLOYMENT, OIL PRICES	300
	ELECTRICITY BILLS ARE SKYROCKETING My comment: In an article posted on the Truth To Power website earlier this week, Peak Oil researcher Tom Whipple explains how oil and natural gas depletion will cause soaring electricity prices and eventually massive blackouts and shortages.	246
	AN EPIDEMIC OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WOUNDS: THE BRAIN TRAUMA VETS	165
	'08 KANSAS TORNADOES TRIPLE AVERAGE	153
	THERE IS A GOD/GODDESS: DOG FROM MICHAEL VICK CASE NOW SOOTHES CANCER PATIENTS "Leo — rescued from heavy chains that confined him as one of the pit bulls in former NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring — is a lover, not a fighter. He now happily...brings comfort to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy."	251
	WALL ST. JOURNAL: GLOBAL INFLATION	161
	KATRINA IN SLOW MOTION: STATUS QUO-OH--JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER	229
	36,000 HOMELESS IOWANS	319
	27 LEVEES COULD OVERFLOW IF SANDBAGS FAIL My comment: The Big Muddy is on the rampage, and Midwest flooding seems to have just begun. This is truly Katrina in slow motion, and at this point, we can't even wrap our minds around the consequences if the flooding exacerbates.	219
	OIL HITS $140	218
	WHY SHOULD YOU CARE HOW YOUR MEAT (OR ANY OTHER FOOD) IS RAISED?	215
	OUR DIET OF DESTRUCTION	179
	RUPERT CORNWELL: AMERICA'S BASIC ASSUMPTIONS ARE BEING CHALLENGED	247
	WHAT CAN REGULAR PEOPLE DO TO PREPARE?	227
	HOW BREAST CANCER BECAME BIG BUSINESS	178
	BANKRUPTCY RISING AMONG SENIORS "Swamped by debt and rising medical bills, elderly Americans have been seeking bankruptcy-court protection at sharply faster rates than other adults, a study to be released Tuesday indicates."	173
	THE END OF SUBURBIA UNFOLDS BEFORE OUR EYES: GAS PRICES ARE THE LATEST WORRY FOR THE REAL ESTATE MARKET My comment: Everything "The End Of Suburbia" told us would happen, is happening. Long commutes are over, and the "slums of the future" the suburbs, are the slums of now.	225
	10 FAMILIES DECIDE TO CUT UP THEIR CREDIT CARDS--HERE'S HOW THEY DID IT	244
	BREAKING: OIL HITS $140	242
	BAND AID FOR CANCER: SAUDIS MAY BOOST OIL PRODUCTION My comment: Before anyone gets excited about this, check out Matt Simmons' book "Twilight In The Desert" at: http://www.twilightinthedesert.com/	191
	WATCH MATT SIMMONS POWER POINT ON RISING OIL PRICES	334
	ONE WAY TO HANDLE GAS PRICES: PICK UP AND MOVE My comment: This is a great idea--while one can still do it. I say that within a year, moving will be so expensive that for most people, it will be impossible.	291
	NEARLY HALF OF WALL ST. BANK PROFITS ARE GONE	182
	MIDWEST FLOODS WILL CAUSE HIGHER PRICES AS A RESULT OF SHIPPING COSTS	142
	TOWNS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI EXPECT THE WORST FLOODING IN HISTORY	243
	TEXAS CORRIDOR HIGHWAY SCRAPPED All those people laying awake nights worrying about a NAFTA superhighway from Mexico to Canada should perhaps do their research on Peak Oil. In the face of oil depletion and global economic meltdown, whaddaya gonna build a mega-highway with?	366
	WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO GAIN FOOD AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE?	183
	RELINKED: SACRIFICE AND SCAPEGOATING IN AMERICA--AND FATHERS WHO EAT THEIR YOUNG	220
	FOR EXAMPLE: ANTONIN SCALIA AND POLICE STATE RULE	255
	MIKE BYRON: WILL THE OUTCOME OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MATTER? "I want to stress that we are, so to speak, already rolling “downhill” to whatever fate awaits us. Moving “uphill” away from the peak oil-climate change-corporatized government attractor is no longer possible."	216
	FLOODS THREATEN THE WORLD'S CORN Don't eat a lot of corn? Why should you care? If you read food labels you'll quickly notice that almost all non-organic foods bought in mainstream grocery stores contain corn syrup. Devastation of the corn crop spells skyrocketing food prices.	250
	GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: SURGING OIL AND FOOD PRICES THREATEN THE WORLD ECONOMY	263
	PROTESTS SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE AS FOOD PRICES SOAR	204
	THE MAKING OF A HOUSING BUBBLE IN 4 CHAPTERS	151
	CHARLES HUGH SMITH: FORGET $4 PER GALLON FOR GASOLINE--LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW THINGS WILL BE--OR COULD BE--WHEN IT'S $25 PER GALLON AND STRICTLY RATIONED: 5 GALLONS PER HOUSEHOLD PER MONTH "Maybe we'll do nothing except stick our heads in the sand and whine about what a rotten deal life gave us, or blame some distant land for our entirely self-created woes; or maybe we'll wake up and make what seems "impossible" and "horrible" like rid	313
	BRITAIN'S SHELL STATIONS CLOSE TO RUNNING OUT OF PETROL	294
	DUH--FUEL PRICES COULD BANKRUPT AIRLINES	215
	AIRLINE CATASTROPHE LOOMS UNDER RECORD OIL PRICES	200
	PAUL ROBERTS: THE END OF FOOD MAY BE COMING	358
	WINTER HEATING OIL WORRIES COME EARLY	212
	NAOMI KLEIN: BARACK OBAMA IS A SHILL FOR DISASTER CAPITALISM "Now is the time to worry about Obama's Chicago Boys and their commitment to fending off serious attempts at regulation."	168
	DES MOINES EVACUATED DUE TO FLOODS	183
	APOCALYPTIC WEATHER: FLOODS, TORNADOES, LOCUSTS	225
	WE ARE NOT THE MASTER SPECIES	169
	WORLD CLOCK--HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THIS SINCE I POSTED THE LINK FOR THE FIRST TIME 6 MONTHS AGO? YIKES!	222
	100 CITY BLOCKS OF IOWA FLOODED	175
	BANKING BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRS TIED TO SPECIAL MORTGAGE DEALS My comment: The reach of the tentacles of corruption will boggle the mind when it is fully revealed, and very few of the crooks and liars we elected to Congress will prove to have clean hands.They helped make the housing bubble happen.	127
	DON'T BE FOOLED BY BANKS' HAPPY TALK	206
	FROM PANIC TO ORGANIC: FOOD, CLIMATE, ENERGY CRISES DEMAND IT	148
	BILL MCKIBBEN: FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT FOR ALL	191
	THE PRICE OF OIL WILL DOUBLE--AT LEAST	353
	CLIMATE CHANGE IS INEVITABLE: WE CAN ONLY AVERT OBLIVION "If current policy continues to fail - along the lines of the "agree and ignore" scenario - then 50% to 80% of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabi	203
	LEVEE BREAKS IN IOWA--THOUSANDS FLEE The Midwest continues to be pummeled by floods and tornadoes, all of which are wreaking havoc with America's food supply. Peak Oil, climate change, and economic meltdown have now converged to form the perfect Terminal Triangle and the perfect storm o	262
	RAILROAD BRIDGE SPANNING CEDAR RIVER (IOWA) COLLAPSES My comment: I'm really going out on a limb here, but do you think America's infrastructure is in shambles with no money to restore it?	259
	EUROPEAN TRUCKERS STRIKE MEANS EMPTY SHELVES IN GROCERY STORES AND JETS WITHOUT FUEL--PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS HERE? My comment: This is what total societal chaos looks like, and we will be seeing the same pattern in the U.S.	246
	GRIDLOCKED CITIES, EMPTY SHELVES AND BLOODSHED AS FURY AT SOARING COSTS SPREADS AROUND THE WORLD	266
	MICHAEL KLARE: AMERICAN OCCUPATION AT THE PUMP--IS $250 A BARREL OIL ON THE WAY? Either the U.S. admits the reality of Peak Oil and takes drastic measures to end a policy of growth, implementing massive conservation, both of which will mean the end of our way of life, or we use the military oil protection service in conquest for	185
	STUNG BY SOARING TRANSPORT COSTS, FACTORIES BRING JOBS HOME AGAIN My comment: As Peak Oil researchers have been telling us for years, PO will reverse globalization. In my opinion, this is one its mixed blessings.	159
	PLANTING AFTER JUNE MAY CAUSE YIELDS TO SHRINK BY HALF	149
	10 ASSININE ASSUMPTIONS OF ENERGY ADDICTS AND PEAK OIL DENIERS	223
	FORECLOSURES ROSE 48% IN MAY WITH U.S. BANK REPOSSESSIONS DOUBLING	223
	FABULOUS--TIME MAGAZINE: HOW TO LIVE WITH JUST 100 THINGS	249
	DISCOUNT FLYERS: YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED	173
	OIL JUMPS $6 ON SUPPLY DROP	222
	WALL ST. BATHED IN RED	289
	CENTRAL BANKS WARNS OF GREAT DEPRESSION "The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the organisation that fosters cooperation between central banks, has warned that the credit crisis could lead world economies into a crash on a scale not seen since the 1930s."	290
	MUST READ BY DAVE COHEN: BLACK FRIDAY: THE DOLLAR DEVALUATION/OIL PRICE DEATH SPIRAL	280
	DOW OFF 206 AS OIL SURGES ABOVE $136	174
	DEADLY CONVERGENCE OF PEAK OIL, CLIMATE CHANGE: COMMODITY PRICES SHOW NO SIGN LETTING UP "The higher commodity prices are likely to add to a worldwide inflationary picture that seems to worsen by the day."	200
	FORGET PAIN AT THE PUMP: BRITAIN TO LOSE 40% OF ITS ELECTRICITY SUPPLY WITHIN 6 YEARS	279
	AMERICANS FEAR GAS SHORTAGES AND RATIONING--WITH GOOD REASON!	263
	HOUSE REFUSES TO EXTEND JOBLESS BENEFITS My comment: Unemployed? Think the government is going to help? What government? We have no government. You're on your own.	162
	LEARNING FROM THE COLLAPSE OF EARLIER SOCIETIES	196
	WHY GOLD COULD HIT $8500 AN OUNCE	181
	NATURE LAID WASTE: THE DESTRUCTION OF AFRICA	253
	TOMATO SALMONELLA REPORTS IN 17 STATES--GOT FOOD?	140
	CUBA'S URBAN FARMING PROGRAM IS A STUNNING SUCCESS	199
	A FAILED PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY	185
	PETER DALE SCOTT: 9/11 DEEP STATE VIOLENCE AND THE HOPE OF INTERNET POLITICS	160
	BILL BONNER: POPULATION IS GROWING 10 TIMES THE RATE OF CROP YIELDS	188
	OIL WILL HIT $250, AND THAT IS ONLY $50 (OR LESS) FROM TOTAL, GLOBAL, ECONOMIC COLLAPSE	389
	CRUDE OIL RISES ON SPECULATION OF INVENTORY DECLINE	266
	ASIAN MARKETS RUMBLE: THE PLUNGE TOWARD GLOBAL RECESSION	244
	AIRLINES SPENDING $300-$500 ON $400 TICKET	187
	JAMMED TRANSIT SYSTEMS RUNNING ON FUMES My comment: This is called, "what you sow, you reap." In the 50s, we were so busy falling down and worshipping our cars, that we scrapped and negelected transit systems so we could ride around in our isolation booths on wheels.Now we pay the piper."	239
	MORE FINANCIAL LANDMINES AHEAD	269
	GLOBAL CONFIDENCE DECLINES AS BANKS SIGNAL HIGHER INTEREST RATES	237
	HI, MY NAME IS FRED, AND I'M ADDICTED TO CREDIT CARDS	159
	THE GREAT SEDUCTION OF DEBT	251
	CHRIS HEDGES: THE IRAN TRAP & OBAMA " Barack Obama, when we need sane leadership the most, has proved feckless and weak. He, and the Democratic leadership, is as morally bankrupt as those preparing to ignite our funeral pyre in the Middle East."	161
	POSSIBLE SUICIDE BY HEDGE FUND CHEAT	249
	LOCALVORISM IS GOING MAINSTREAM!	202
	GOURMET EATING AND FOOD STORAGE TRAINING	159
	GULF OF MEXICO DEAD ZONE GROWING	247
	BRITAIN'S CLIMATE TARGET "IMPOSSIBLE"	274
	FLASH FLOODS INUNDATE WISCONSIN TOWN FOR SECOND TIME	229
	MY 2007 ARTICLE: "THE SWITCH HAS BEEN FLIPPED"	237
	PEOPLE ABANDON CARS BECAUSE OF GAS PRICES	241
	SPECULATION SCHMECULATION: HIGH OIL PRICES NEEDED TO CAP DEMAND This is not to say that speculation is completely irrelevant, but more attention needs to be paid to demand destruction.	155
	GET A CLUE FOLKS: OBAMA INTENDS TO CONTINUE OIL WARS	193
	IT WILL SOON BE OBAMA'S WAR	143
	BARACK O'BILDERBERG Will Bilderberg pick Obama's VP?	191
	FOOD: THE U.S. IS UP A CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE	257
	WORRIES MOUNT AS FARMERS PUSH FOR BIG HARVEST "In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that they will be average at best. Some farmers are starting to fear disaster."	217
	KUNSTLER: SOON THE BANKS WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO PAY THEIR ELECTRIC BILLS	237
	WHOLESALE ELECTRICTY PRICES IN TEXAS SOAR 1000%	160
	FLORIDA AT THE PRECIPICE OF DEPRESSION	229
	OIL COULD PASS $450 IN A DECADE My comment: Yes, and remember the commentary recently posted by Truth To Power from Ken Deffeyes who states that $300 a barrel will shut down the entire global economy. (http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html)	206
	A PERMANENT DECLINE IN OIL IMPORTED INTO THE U.S. HAS BEGUN	178
	GLOBAL MILITARY SPENDING SOARS 45% IN 10 YEARS	121
	U.S.DEMANDING 58 PERMANENT MILITARY BASES IN IRAQ	145
	PHILLY SHERIFF REFUSES TO ENFORCE FORECLOSURES	191
	HEALTHCARE COLLAPSE: MEDICAID SEEKS TO CURB NON-ESSENTIAL EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS	127
	LEADERS WITH NO CONSCIENCE AND MORE ON POLITICAL PONEROLOGY My comment: When one understands that sociopathy is the underlying factor in becoming a ruthless, hardcore politician, one no longer expects such individuals to behave differently, and one no longer naively assumes that voting or protest will make a	171
	WHY HIGHER PRICES ARE HERE TO STAY	136
	4 GREAT REASONS TO RENT	230
	EXCELLENT BY DALE ALLEN PFEIFFER: DEALING WITH GAS PRICES	290
	GAS TAXES TO RISE IN SOME STATES SPIKING PRICES EVEN HIGHER	155
	OIL PRICES AND THE DECLINE OF NORTH SEA OIL	216
	ASIAN GOVERNMENTS STEP UP RELIEF MEASURES AS OIL SOARS	196
	LEHMAN POSTS $2.8 BILLION LOSS	172
	DANGER AHEAD FOR U.S. MARKETS	260
	FOOD CRISIS KEEPS GROWING "Food riots. Scores of panicked people protesting, burning effigies and chanting. Shops being ransacked, supplies running out as soon as they come in..." All of this is coming to your neighborhood soon.	339
	WHY THE RICH GET RICHER AND WE NEVER DO "Our whole system is a ghost, it doesn’t exist, it’s like the Emperor’s new clothes." DID YOU GET THAT FOLKS? YOU HAVE NO GOVERNMENT!! YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.	220
	CORN CLIMBS TO RECORD PRICE ON MIDWEST WEATHER AND OIL PRICES	255
	WEALTH EVAPORATES IN U.S. AS FUEL PRICES CLOBBER MCMANSIONS AND SUV MAKERS	258
	THE NEXT REAL ESTATE CRISIS "By April, 2009, hundreds of thousands of option ARM mortgages will begin resetting, bringing on a fresh wave of foreclosures."	246
	STEPHEN LENDMAN: POTENTIAL FUTURE HYPERINFLATION	194
	EXPERTS SAY INFLATION IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE ECONOMY	323
	POLICE STATE: BLACKWATER'S PRIVATE CIA	157
	AS WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOREVER THAT IT WOULD, PEAK OIL IS NOW AFFECTING THE PRICE OF A WHOLE RANGE OF GOODS "Companies that make hard goods using raw materials derived from oil, like tires, toiletries, plastic packaging and computer screens, are watching their costs skyrocket, and they find themselves forced into unpleasant choices..."	265
	CONSUMER NATIONS PLEAD FOR MORE OIL	273
	BILDERBERG GROUP MEETS AND OBAMA'S OFFICE REFUSES TO DENY THAT HE ATTENDED MUST READ: "The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group" which may be ordered on the home page of this site	245
	LIFE, LIBERTY AND WATER "Clearly, the powers that be in the United States have decided that water is not a public good but a private resource that must be secured by whatever means."	154
	FOOD CRISIS: BRITAIN IS JUST 9 MEALS FROM ANARCHY	217
	OUR MEDICATED, STRUNG OUT, TRAUMATIZED, SUICIDAL U.S. MILITARY	231
	HEATING OIL STICKER SHOCK HITS NEW ENGLAND	168
	EXCELLENT: PANEL DISCUSSION WITH JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER AND NIKOS SALINGAROS Part II: http://www.energybulletin.net/45544.html The anthropologist Jerrod Diamond writes about that [in his book Collapse]. Civilizations can see the coming collapse, they just cannot bring themselves to make any change...	200
	WILL NEWSPAPERS SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST?	194
	NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAY GIVE BADLANDS BACK TO OGLALA SIOUX	209
	SECRET LIST OF CITIZENS TO DETAIN UNDER MARTIAL LAW?	260
	MUST READ: TOM WHIPPLE--THE PEAK OIL CRISIS : ON SLOWING DOWN "Slowing down is what it will take if we want to continue to eat."	258
	$45 TRILLION NEEDED TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING	147
	CORPORATE AMERICA IS GETTING NERVOUS (AS WELL THEY SHOULD BE!)	302
	STOCK PRICES PLUNGE 400 POINTS	233
	22,000 JOBS CUT ACROSS WALL ST. WITH MORE TO COME	127
	RECORD NUMBERS USING FOODSTAMPS IN OHIO AND MICHIGAN	197
	A REMINDER FROM JOHN WILLIAMS ON SHADOW GOVERNMENT STATISTICS REGARDING UNEMPLOYMENT	173
	CONSUMER DEBT JUMPS 8.9 BILLION	170
	OIL PRICES SKYROCKET--BIGGEST JUMP EVER	211
	OIL SURGES $11 TO $138	206
	$150 A BARREL BY JULY 4?	148
	EXCELLENT INTERVIEW WITH DAVID STRAHAN ON THE LAST OIL SHOCKS My comment: If you accept the reality of Peak, you must accept that something drastical, radical, and off the charts must be done NOW. You either CHOOSE to take these radical steps, or radical steps will be taken for you.	252
	SO WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE DRIVING ON IN 5 YEARS, ROADS? NOT LIKELY. MAYBE DIRT ROADS. AND WHAT ABOUT THAT RUBBER THAT MEETS THE ROAD CALLED TIRES? THOSE THINGS THAT REQUIRE FOUR BARRELS EACH TO MAKE	193
	RICHARD HEINBERG: SO HOW DO YOU LIKE COLLAPSE SO FAR?	320
	UNITED AIRLINES CUTS 1100 JOBS	274
	U.S. ECONOMY LOST 49,000 JOBS IN MAY--UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 5.5% Bogus statistics:The bottom line is that job loss is spreading across America like the plague, and within the next decade, we are likely to see teeming masses of homeless, unemployed American citizens.	243
	ONCE AGAIN, THE FDIC SEES BIGGER BANK FAILURES	186
	MUST READ BY MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY: GLOBAL FOOD, WATER, AND FUEL CRISIS--3 FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE IN JEOPARDY "The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" are killing our children. The act to kill is unpremeditated. It is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges..."	307
	HOW WATER HAS BECOME A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE	174
	WATER CRISIS TO BE THE BIGGEST WORLD RISK	203
	IS FAMINE INEVITABLE? "These inconvenient truths generate a logical but nevertheless callous question: Who will starve, and who will survive? "	209
	THE ANATOMY OF A HOMESTEAD LANDSCAPE	212
	EQUITY IN AMERICAN HOMES FALLS TO HISTORIC LOW	249
	RENTERS MAY BE THE BIG WINNERS IN THE HOUSING CRASH	204
	SHARON ASTYK: TEN TIMES THE PRICE AND TEN TIMES CRAPPIER	203
	SF GATE: STAY HOME, READ, HAVE SEX--WILL GAS PRICES FINALLY PUMMEL US INTO EVOLVING? HOW BAD WILL IT GET?	350
	FUEL PRICES COULD CREATE SUBURBAN GHOST TOWNS	273
	THE LATEST GAS PAIN--MORE JOB LOSSES	215
	WORLD FACES HIGHER FOOD PRICES FOR YEARS TO COME	187
	FOOD IS GOLD-INVESTORS POURING BILLIONS INTO FARMING	248
	CLIMATE CHANGE WILL ADD TO FOOD AND UTILITY BILLS	164
	GOVERNOR DECLARES DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA	205
	BANKS FEAR $55 TRILLION BALANCE IMPACT	252
	U.N.SAYS 50% MORE FOOD NEEDED BY 2030 Hello! It's not gonna happen, and millions of people are going to die.	215
	STUFFED AND STARVED: THE HIDDEN BATTLE FOR THE WORLD'S FOOD SYSTEM "Hunger and obesity stem from the same problem -- the corporations that sell our food determine what we eat and how we think about food."	198
	SLEEPWALKING INTO A RECESSION (ACTUALLY, OFF A CLIFF!)	243
	FOR THOSE WHO THINK IT'S OVER, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET--A MEGABUBBLE WILL POP IN 2011	373
	AMERICANS SOLD INTO DEBT SLAVERY WHILE CEO'S WALK FREE	235
	CREDIT CARD USE IS SURGING RISKING ANOTHER DEBT CRISIS	242
	LAYOFFS RISE 15% IN MAY FROM APRIL	214
	ARE YOU A FRUGALIST? FOR FRUGALISTS, BARGAIN HUNTING IS A LIFESTYLE	250
	TOO MUCH STUFF: AMERICA'S NEW LOVE AFFAIR WITH SELF-STORAGE	195
	CHRIS HEDGES: AMERICA'S DEMOCRATIC COLLAPSE My comment: In a dramatic speech, Chris Hedges warns that the nation is on the verge of becoming a full-blown corporate state. Sorry to say Chris, the corporate state is decades old. We are now living in a full-blown, fascist empire.	309
	GETTING PAST THE PROTEIN MYTH THAT KEEPS PEOPLE EATING DAIRY AND MEAT	241
	AUTO SALES PLUNGE IN THE FACE OF $4 GAS--BIG THREE SHUTTING PLANTS, AND GM DUMPING HUMMER	263
	WHY A SMALLER GM IS A HUGE DEAL My comment: Duh--it means the car is OVER!	232
	PEAK OIL PARENTING BACK TO THE FUTURE STYLE "The first and perhaps most obvious change is that as fuel becomes precipitously expensive, two car families are likely to become one car families."	172
	PEAK EVERYTHING CONFIRMED: 8 THINGS WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF AND WHY	273
	50% OF ALL MORTGAGES COULD END UP IN FORECLOSURE	155
	BEHIND THE FALSIFICATION OF U.S. ECONOMIC DATA	217
	THE SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION HAS DEFINITELY COME TO DETROIT	204
	GLOBAL WARMING IS AFRICANIZING SPAIN	237
	HOW BAD IS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING CRISIS? THIS BAD: BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE	180
	SOARING ENERGY COSTS ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE EVERYTHING "All signs suggest that planning for real change won't come until it's too late. 'People don't wake up until things are flying apart,' says Matt Savinar, a California lawyer who runs the website Lifeaftertheoilcrash.net."	253
	KUNSTLER: THE REMORSELESS ALGEBRA OF A DEFLATIONARY DEATH SPIRAL, BY MIKE WHITNEY "The world's most prosperous consumer society is in terminal distress and no amount of "free market" gibberish will keep it from crashing."	265
	THREE BIG WALL ST. BANKS ARE DOWNGRADED BY S&P	295
	EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON THE SUBURBS AS THE NEW SLUMS	269
	ABANDONED HOMES--LENDERS FOOT THE BILL "Foreclosures have an immediate, sometimes devastating impact on nearby property values.	187
	READY OR NOT, A REDUCTION IN HUMAN NUMBERS IS INEVITABLE "The planet isn't threatened and our species will survive. However, billions will die. Get over it."	265
	2008 TRILATERAL COMMISSION ATTENDEE LIST	204
	VILLAINS IN THE MORTGAGE MESS--START AT WALL ST. AND KEEP GOING	143
	EUROPEAN AND U.S. DEBT MARKETS FLASH NEW WARNING SIGNALS	177
	CORPORATE BANKRUPTCIES INCREASE AS MORE NEAR FINANCIAL DISASTER	152
	DERRICK JENSEN DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE WORKSHOP, ITHACA, NY RESCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER	209
	INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE GROUP SEES "DESPERATE TIMES"	266
	THE TRIPLE THREAT: FOOD, WATER, CLIMATE CHANGE "Why the recent food and water shortages are making the climate crisis even worse."	189
	HOW TO AVOID GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS	261
	EXCELLENT--BOB CHAPMAN: AMERICA'S DEBTS ARE UNPAYABLE, AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS BANKRUPT	286
	LOCAL FOODS AS A COST SAVING STRATEGY IN VERMONT	243
	KEEP IT IN VERMONT "Instead of shopping at big-box stores, where the money flies out of our state and we end up with products made in China, we “keep it in Vermont!”	147
	MUNICIPAL BOND DEFAULTS TRIPLE	191
	AMERICAN CONSUMERS NOW SCRAMBLING FOR CASH My comment: A debit (not credit) card or little green pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them makes for a far more secure way of life.	206
	TROUBLED HOUSING TRICKLES UP My comment: So much for the yah-yah that the housing crash is only about poor, uneducated people who think they can get a free lunch.	195
	HURRICANES COULD MEAN $6 GAS	276
	JOHN HAGEE'S NOT SO BRIGHT VISION "Hagee is not just an anti-Semite; his views are largely anti-human."	229
	SOME HOME SELLERS DON'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING "In some areas of California, so many foreclosed homes are available to buy on the cheap that real estate agents are discouraging prospective sellers from even putting their houses on the market."	234
	KUNSTLER ON REACTIVATING SMALL CITIES James Howard Kunstler believes that many small cities across North America are waiting to be reactivated. These places would benefit from having more people living in them	261
	DRIVING'S DIM FUTURE "People say the car will soon disappear - priced out of the reach of all but the rich. Yet it's tough work imagining life without the car."	306

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