Looking to Windward

A Certain Loss of Control...

• 12/20/04 Feral Cities
• 11/19/07 The writ of state in New Jersey is losing out to gangs

...the Empire strikes back

• 2/4/06 New York Times Halliburton to build detention centers for Homeland Security
• 1/7/08 Thinking For Yourself Is Now A Crime
• 1/10/08 Tom Dispatch Homeland Security on Campus

Coping?

• 4/1/08 Resilient Communities

Credit Cycle

• 3/23/08 The end of capitalism as we know it? Why "free" markets fail.
• 12/4/07 This is it! Long Wave cycle predicts a major downturn. "Mr. Greenspan told Teddy during that same conversation that if he failed to thwart the Kondratieff winter, it would make what followed 1929 look like a ‘Sunday school picnic.’ This is what we have to expect."
  • Wikipedia on Ate the Greek goddess who punishes hubris.
  • Wikipedia on Kondratieff Cycles
• 12/29/07 Market Ticker Year in review and look ahead

Peak Oil, Gold, Food...

• 12/4/07 Guardian: Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring
• 12/31/07 Jim Kunstler Forecast for 2008. Will "Peak Oil" become a household word?
• 1/6/08 Safe Haven Global Food Crisis -- Credit Crunch Could Pale in Comparison
• 1/7/08 more of the same

Plutosocialism

• 11/16/07 The Money Party Part 3
• 7/18/08 Crisis exploitation Interview with Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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