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The recession is dead … long live the recession!
The world's first peak-oil recession has come to a close, according to third-quarter numbers invented by the federal government. Apparently flooding big banks, insurance companies, and automobile manufacturers with fiat currency interrupted the plummeting descent of American Empire. The stock markets skyrocketed expectedly. Predictably, so did the commodities markets.
Continue reading...Economic dominoes continue to fall
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The property of rich folks has always been more important than the lives of the poor, a fact that will continue to create misery for the "other" 99% of us until the entire industrial economy fails. Personally, I can hardly wait.
Continue reading...Feeding at the trough of television
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Joe Bageant's recent piece, Escape from the Zombie Food Court, is a classic. He clearly and concisely dismisses the notion that our lives are lived in anything resembling freedom. The corporate media and their primary brainwashing device, television, have taken care of that.
Continue reading...Staring into the economic abyss
Monday, April 13, 2009
We make sheep look well-informed and introspective.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
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