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Thriving in the Age of CollapseThriving in the Age of Collapse by Dmitry Orlov A while ago Matt Savinar proposed that I write an article that specifically addresses the situations and concerns of some of the visitors to his Web site. He was also kind enough to provide me with three profiles, each of which is a composite of ...
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Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US | Energy BulletinClosing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
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The Five Stages of Collapse | Energy BulletinA must read on how societies can fail
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1Paul Abrams: Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax CreditPassed under Ford and expanded ever since - INCLUDING under Reagan AND with his "blessing" / signature, the Earned Income Tax Credit is surely a "share the wealth" / "redistribution of wealth" program ... AS ARE payroll taxes, social security, and excise taxes (gasoline, etc.). The latter taxes ...JDP added to Must Read: Important Items of Broad Interest 13 months ago
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Foreign Bondholders [China, Japan, Russia, etc.] - and not the U.S. Mortgage Market - Drove [and will benefit from] the Fannie/Freddie BailoutThe U.S. government’s decision to take control of foundering mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was driven not by worries about the fading U.S. housing market, but by concerns that foreign central banks in China, Japan, Europe, the Middle East and Russia might stop buying our bonds. As ...
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Heading for global recession | The Japan Times OnlineThe probability is growing that the global economy — not just the United States — will experience a serious recession. Recent developments suggest that all Group of Seven economies are already in recession or are close to tipping into one. Other advanced economies or emerging markets (the rest ...
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A War Worth Fighting | Print Article | Newsweek.comIs there any one shared principle or assumption on which our political consensus rests, any value judgment on which we are all essentially agreed? Apart from abstractions such as a general belief in democracy, one would probably get the widest measure of agreement for the proposition that the ...Twine added 18 months ago
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China: A Partner or Adversary? - FPRI (Foreign Policy Research Institute)Sent to you by David Scott Lewis via Google Reader: E-Notes: China: A Partner or Adversary? - FPRI via www.fpri.org on 5/31/08 China: A Partner or Adversary? by Richard Baum May 2008 Richard Baum, a professor of political science at UCLA, was a panelist in the FPRI Asia Program...
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State Inc. - The Boston GlobeIT WAS THE biggest corporate deal in the history of sub-Saharan Africa: Last October, a foreign firm spent nearly $6 billion for a chunk of Standard Bank, the South African company that has long dominated finance on the continent.Yet the foreign suitor was not , or UBS, or some other titan of ...
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Foreign Affairs - Us and Them - Jerry Z. MullerSummary: Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. But in fact, it corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, it is galvanized by modernization, and in one form or another, it will drive global politics for generations to come. Once ethnic ...
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