Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Thursday February 24th, 2010

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Overseas Financial Collapse:

Wall Street Journal: Nationwide Strike Plunging Greece into Paralysis

Associated Press: China Restricts Bank Lending to Local Governments

Global Research: Debt Dominoes and the Coming Fiscal Catastrophe

U.S. Financial Collapse:

CNN Money: Number of American Banks at Risk of Going Bust Tops 700

Bloomberg: Junk Debt to Trigger U.S. Defaults, Says Bank of America

Wall Street Journal: Lehman's Corpse May Lose Another $900 Million

Wall Street Journal: Jittery Consumers Deep Sixing Retailers' Hopes

Wall Street Journal: GM to End Hummer After China Deal Falls Through

War on the Middle Class:

Seeking Alpha: Wealth Disparities in U.S. Reaching Levels of the 1920s

Wall Street Journal: California Still Getting Hit from Lehman's Collapse

CBS13.com: Residents of Tracy, California Now Pay $300 to Call 911

Washington Post: Banking Industry Sharply Reduced Lending in 2009

Associated Press: Big Banks Own Government, Small Banks Left to Die

Real Estate Collapse:

Bloomberg: Commercial Mortgage Defaults in U.S. More Than Double

Wall Street Journal: Realtors Group Want Guaranteed Commissions

Crimes, Conspiracies, Corporate Criminality:

Wall Street Journal: Internet Becoming Key Part of Digital Dictatorship

Statesman: Baby DNA Sent to Military Lab for Use in National Database

LA Times: From Suburban Cubicles, Drone Pilots Kill and Count Bodies

LA Times: Lethal Mexican Business Model Targeting Middle Americans

Most Importnat Articles from Yesterday:

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 Capitalism

Best of the LATOC Archive:

James Howard Kunstler: "Obama is holding us hostage to Wall Street"

Shadow Stats: "U.S. has no way of avoiding financial armageddon . . ."

Reuters: "U.S. must control debt or face panic in the financial markets"

Preparation and Relocalization:

London Times: "Time to buy farmland and gold bullion" says Dr. Doom

Washington Post: Goldman Sachs Banker Bugs Out to Rural Doomstead

Reuters: Jobs Collapse Means Multiple Generations Living in One Home

Low Tech Magazine: How to Convert Your Car to Run on Firewood Fuel

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

















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