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Breaking News: Wednesday January 20th, 2010

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Editor's Note: Situation in Haiti a Reminder on Being Stocked, Ready to Go

Just a reminder that, given the state of America's finances, if a Haiti scale disaster hits your region, it will be at the very least weeks if not months before any significant help arrives, assuming it ever does. So if you're not already stocked up, now is a good time to get going:

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On to the day's news:

Mike Ruppert: Official Explanation for Haiti Quake Coming Unraveled

Alternet: U.S. Mercenaries, IMF Rushing into Haiti to Profit from Crisis

Associated Press: Haitians Flee in Fear as 6.1 Large Aftershock Hits

War on the Middle Class:

Time: Pawn Shops, Loan Sharks Thriving in Hollowed Out U.S. Economy

Lew Rockwell: Is the Economy Being Crashed with Malice Forethought?

Bloomberg: Unfunded Benefits Blow $3 Trillion Hole in States' Budgets

Charles Hugh Smith: U.S. Citizenry Being Stripmined by Banking Cartel

UK Independent: Citibank Execs Intensify Looting as Losses Mushroom

Financial Collapse:

Zero Hedge: Democrats Seeking to Blow National Debt Past $14 Trillion

Money and Markets: At Least 200 Bank Collapses Expected this Year

Reuters: One in Seven U.S. Mortgages in Foreclosure or in Delinquency

Financial Times: China Telling Banks to Halt Lending Amid Crash Fears

Collapse of Britain:

UK Telegraph: Record Jump in Inflation Pressuring BOE to Raise Rates

UK Telegraph: British Families Should Prepare for "Years of Hardship"

UK Independent: Almost Half of Young Black People in UK Unemployed

Most important articles from yesterday's update:

UK Telegraph: Haitian Police Say Gangs Have Control of Port Au Prince

Survival Blog: "America is a lot more like Haiti than you want to know"

MSNBC: Could a Haiti Scale Disaster Happen Here in the United States?

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs Executives Loading Up on Guns, Ammo

Zero Hedge: It's "Do or Die" Time for Goldman Sachs Vampire Squid

Zero Hedge: Degree That Global Trade Has Collapsed Will Shock You

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

















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