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Financial Sense
by James Quinn

08/02/09

As was the case in the final stages of the Roman Empire , the unsustainable military, social, and political excesses have reached the point that, in combination, they are now likely to prove catastrophic...

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/quinn/2009/0802.html



Change you can freak out about

San Francisco Chronicle
by Mark Morford

07/31/09

This is the amazing thing about rabid global economic recessions combined with volatile environmental collapses combined with a tasty national identity crisis combined with a truly historic, revolutionary president combined with a gnawing sense that our species might not be long for this world after all combined with the overwhelming sense that something, somewhere, something big and meaty and interesting and maybe even profoundly and butt-shakingly unexpected, has got to give. This is the feeling: anything can happen. Nearly every day in this New Millennium Wonderland, we are swarmed by distressing, heartbreaking tales of woe and hardship and layoff, only to spin right around and read about something positive and uplifting and innovative emerging from it all, some unanticipated, rise-from-the-ashes kind of thing that whipsaws your perspective and pinches the nipples of your worldview...

http://tinyurl.com/nkbd5d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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