2/28/12 – SHIP OF FOOLS EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Not Ready to Do What’s Needed « how to save the world
  
• Limericks of Doom: Out of Gas
  
• On the Edge with David DeGraw – The Origin of the 99% Movement - Max Keiser
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: This Is Small Business in America: Burdened, Crushed, Doomed
  
• Wyoming Passes Doomsday Bill to Start own Government and Military in case the United States Collapses.
  
• Got BTU? Accounting for America's Energy and GDP | Gregor.us
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Perfection of Crony Capitalism: Use Regulation to Destroy Competitors
  
• EXTEND & PRETEND COMING TO AN END - Washington's Blog
  
• ClubOrlov: The Lifeboat Hour
  
• Rebuttal to the director of the US Geological Survey on peak oil | Energy Bulletin
  
• BBC This World 2012 Inside the Meltdown 576p HDTV x264 AAC MVGroup org - YouTube
  
• My Great Hope for the Future | Do the Math
  

WTF?

• FT Alphaville » MASSiVE insider SeCReT dealing scheme with STRATFOR and G Sachs, maybe [Updated]
  
• Matt Stoller: Towards a Creditor State – One in Seven Americans Pursued by Debt Collectors « naked capitalism
  
• 1/3 of Fukushima kids have lumps in thyroids: Arnold Gunderson | CollapseNet
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• A Sharp Deterioration In The Job Market - Decline of the Empire
  
• Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked | Video on TED.com
  
• Oil Caps Longest Rally in Two Years as Iran Tensions Spur Supply Concern - Bloomberg
  
• Gerald Celente, the Kleptocrat's Carry-Trade and the Revolution against Financial Occupation - YouTube
  
• Guy's Speech.mp4 - YouTube
  
• GPS 'spoofers' could be used for high-frequency financial trading fraud (Wired UK)
  
• Edible forests « naked capitalism
  
• Why oil prices are so high: Production shortfall, Iran concerns, and low interest rates | Our Finite World
  
• The imperial way: US decline in perspective - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
  
• Oil Disruption is Zooming and Global Panic Awaits - Global Guerrillas
  
• Cash Of The Titans: Against The Noxious Fantasy Of Limitless Growth | Common Dreams
  
• Wyoming Doomsday Bill Advances In State House
  
• Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America's Heartland | Truthout
  
• ClubOrlov: A Pile of Straw at the Bottom of the Cliff
  
• New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises « WEB OF DEBT BLOG
  
• leecamp.net/2012/02/should-hearing-from-god-disqualify-you-from-running-for-president-m-o-c-120/
  
• A Fog of Mendacity - Clusterfuck Nation
  
• The Downward Spiral: "Socialist" Chamber of Commerce Pressures Republicans Over Stalled Transportation Bill
  
• Some Thoughts On The GOP and Transportation - Peak Oil Matters
  
• Wikileaks Reveals Memo From Stratfor CEO
  
• Monsanto Wins Lawsuit While Food Justice Advocates 'Occupy' Food System | Common Dreams
  
• Our Depraved Future of Debt Slavery (Part III) | Finance
  
• The Shocking Statistic About Psychopaths On Wall Street
  
• Japan Considered Evacuating Tokyo During Nuclear Crisis, Report Says - NYTimes.com
  
• Anonymous: Operation V | CollapseNet
  
• The Corbett Report | Marks to Market: America’s Nuclear Time Bombs
  
• The Downward Spiral: So What Happens If Gasoline Hits $5.00 A Gallon This Summer?
  
• Two Beers With Steve - You Didn't Stumble Upon This Podcast... The Universe Has Sent You.
  
• Actually, Anytime Someone Tells You Not To Worry About Population Growth, Show Them THIS Chart
  
• Myrhvold finds we need clean energy yesterday (and no natural gas) to avoid being cooked | Grist
  
• Humanity has already had four major ecological collapses: how can we avoid a fifth? - The Ecologist
  

ECONOMICS

• Jesse's Café Américain: The Great Crash of 1929 - Bonfire of the Vanities
  
• Preparing for the Collapse of the Petrodollar System - Part 2 | FTMdaily.com
  
• John Williams: Warning - Monetary Base Spikes to Historic Level
  
• Debt ceiling: Doomsday may come sooner than expected - POLITICO.com
  
• S&P DOWNGRADES GREECE TO 'SELECTIVE DEFAULT'
  
• 3 doomsaying experts who foresee economic devastation ahead – USATODAY.com
  
• Keiser Report: Weed Out Wall St. Crooks! (E255) - YouTube
  
• The Athens Market Is Getting Clobbered, And Banks Are Getting Destroyed
  
• Michael Hudson: 2,181 Italians Pack a Sports Arena to Learn Modern Monetary Theory – The Economy Doesn’t Need to Suffer Neoliberal Austerity « naked capitalism
  
• How Goldman Sachs Helped Mask Greece's Debt - YouTube
  
• Financial Armageddon: Lookin' Real Good
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• New Folk Music Video On Impact of Mountain Top Removal | ThinkProgress
  
• RealClimate: Bickmore on the WSJ response
  
• As fracking boom hits Ohio, industry deceives landowners | Grist
  
• Fukushima radiation detected 400 miles away in Pacific Ocean at levels 1,000 times higher than previous readings
  
• Texas drought eases, but it’s too late for some – Drought worsens in western U.S.
  
• Must-Hear Podcast: John Cook of Skeptical Science on How to Debunk Climate Myths | ThinkProgress
  
• Climate change is screwing up bird migration | Grist
  
• Warming Arctic Fueling Cold, Snowy Winters, Study Says | Climate Central
  
• The Radio Ecoshock Show: Hot Earth: Science & Anti-Science
  
• Global warming feeds insatiable bark beetle - latimes.com
  

ENERGY

• Why are gas prices high? | Energy Bulletin
  
• Understanding The Current Oil Market - Decline of the Empire
  
• Rising Gasoline Prices & The Phony Blame Game - Peak Oil Matters
  
• Tapping SPR might bring only a little gas price relief - Feb. 27, 2012
  

CONFLICT

• Popular Media Personality: The U.S. Has the Moral Authority to Annihilate Iran Because They’re Evil
  

CONTROL

• One More Reason To Call It Faux News « LewRockwell.com Blog
  
• 2-minute video: FOX edits, fakes applause for John Bolton pro-war statement - Washington's Blog
  
• Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home - Yahoo! News
  
• WikiLeaks Goes Inside Corporate America's Wannabe CIA | Mother Jones
  
• WikiLeaks' Stratfor Dump Lifts Lid on Intelligence-Industrial Complex | Common Dreams
  
• Jesse's Café Américain: Are US Corporations Immune From Liability For Rape, Torture, Murder, and even Genocide?
  

RESOURCES

• Cooperatives Over Corporations | Truthout
  
• Solar Oven Uses | Preparedness Advice Blog
  
• Food Patriots Demo - 6.9.11 - YouTube
  
• Columbia prof makes documentary — about raising chickens in Northbrook - Chicago Sun-Times
  
• How to Build a Greenhouse from Used Windows or Storm Doors
  
• Creating Healthy, Sustainable Neighborhoods — Even in the Suburbs - Nature and Community - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
  
• Soap Making for the Beginner, Part I
  
• Presenting the Community Resilience Guides
  
• Jesse's Café Américain: Scientific Study Shows That The Powerful and Privileged Are More LIkely to Lie, Cheat, and Steal
  
• Triumph of the Generalist: Reading the Farming/Homesteading Encyclopedias : Casaubon's Book
  
• Little Libraries have people thinking (and reading) outside the box – USATODAY.com
  
• Cold weather gardens, for foodies and peak oilers alike — Transition Voice
  
• 6 Lessons from an Expanding Flock - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• UMASS Permaculture Garden : Casaubon's Book
  
• How to Run a Permablitz | Permaculture TV free video cooperative
  
• Vote 1 Permaculture President in Whitehouse | Permaculture TV free video cooperative
  
• Resilience.org | Building a nation of resilient communities
  
• Four Horsemen trailer: “You don’t know what’s been done to you” - National Nonpartisan | Examiner.com
  
• Best of Permaculture online February 2012 | Permaculture Magazine
  
• The Five Principles of Preparedness : American Preppers Network
  
• How much food and income can an urban farm produce?
  

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregation

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
•   Naked Capitalism  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/   
  
•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest

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SHIP OF FOOLS
Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
or drowning in the oceans of history
Traveling the world, you're in search of no good
but I'm sure you'll build your Sodom like you knew you would
Using all the good people for your galley slaves
as you're little boat struggles through the warning waves, but you don't pay

You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow

Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Where's it comin' from?
Where's it goin' to now?
It's just a It's just a ship of fools 

2/25/12 – TRAPPED EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• WATCH: It's Our Earth, We Can Drill Wherever We Want [Fiore Cartoon] | Mother Jones 
  
• National Security Begins at Home | Solutions 
  
• Our Depraved Future of Debt Slavery (Part I) | Finance 
  
• charles hugh smith-What Rising Gasoline Prices Do to the Economy 
  
• $200 Oil Coming As Central Banks Go CTRL+P Happy | ZeroHedge
  
• "Oil Won't Stop Until The Economy Breaks" | ZeroHedge 
  
• Peak Energy Animated - "There's No Tomorrow" | Energy 
  
• "Oh My Gawd! Fun With Big Bank Fraud!" - M.O.C. #119 - YouTube 
  

WTF?

• Now glyphosate found in people's urine 
  
• The Downward Spiral: Big Banks Charging Unemployed Debit Card Fees For Unemployment Benefits 
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Analysis: Can U.S. economy withstand gasoline price curse? - chicagotribune.com 
  
• Rocky Anderson discusses real issues o/xqbu4glj 
  
• Lee Brain, Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel Speaker, Delivers Stirring Message (VIDEO) 
  
• Throwing Out the Free Market Playbook: An Interview with Naomi Klein | Solutions 
  
• White House refuses to reveal ties with Monsanto 
  
• The Structure of Empires | Energy Bulletin 
  
• Why Does the Military Love Ron Paul? | Mother Jones 
  
• USPS Closings To Lead To Tens Of Thousands Of Job Cuts 
  
• Debunking the Myth that War Is Good for the Economy Once and For All 
  
• Why Renters Rule U.S. Housing Market (Part 1): A. Gary Shilling - Bloomberg 
  
• THE TRUTH ABOUT GAS: Here's How Much Of Your Life Every Year Just Goes To Filling Your Tank 
  
• The Downward Spiral: Will the Culture War Soon Turn Hot? 
  
• “Agent Orange” Corn: Biotech Only Winner in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail on Ecocentric Blog | Food, Water and Energy Issues 
  
• What Reporters Are Getting Wrong About Gas Prices | Media Matters for America 
  
• Rising gas prices, Keystone XL and the real solutions | The Price of Oil 
  
• Of course it’s true « The Cost of Energy 
  
• Why Gas Prices Are Actually Falling 
  
• Breaking News: Secret 3rd Gulf well evidence as BP trial to begin - National Human Rights | Examiner.com 
  
• Peak Oil: Why Gas Prices are Never Coming Down « American Endgame 
  
• Divine intervention: Lee Camp takes on GOP candidates’ direct messages from God - Countdown with Keith Olbermann // Current TV 
  
• Peak energy & resources, climate change, and the preservation of knowledge | Energy Bulletin 
  

ECONOMICS

• Here Is the Plain Truth About Greece | Grant Williams | FINANCIAL SENSE 
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: What's Next for Capitalism After the Current Version Implodes? 
  
• Kung-Fu Analyst Reggie Middleton Karate Chops the Troika's Numerical Farce in the Face! — RT 
  
• Home Prices Declined 2.4% in Fourth Quarter - Bloomberg
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Price of Oil Hits Record High in Euros and British Pounds; Oil Shock Coming; Nancy Pelosi Blames Speculators; What About Iran? Israeli Intelligence Concludes "No Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program" 
  
• [KR253] Keiser Report – Burning Bankers Pays and a Suicide Twinkies Vest Blows - Max Keiser 
  
• Occupy the SEC Discusses Volcker Rule on RT « naked capitalism 
  
• Keiser Report: Bubbling Economy (E254) - YouTube 
  
• Ben Davies: Greece is Just a Preview of What's Coming For the Rest of Us - Blogs at Chris Martenson 
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Wit's End: Tim DeChristopher is Still in Jail
  

ENERGY

• Obama mocks drill, baby, drill: ‘The American people aren’t stupid’ | Grist 
  
• China January Oil Imports Rise To Record | ZeroHedge 
  
• Activist coalitions helped stop XL Pipeline...for now — Transition Voice 
  
• Peak Oil Denial: Alive, Well, Still Not Helping (Pt 2) - Peak Oil Matters 
  
• Gas prices set records, soon to reach new highs | Energy Bulletin 
  

CONFLICT

• In Din Over Iran, Echoes of Iraq War - News Analysis - NYTimes.com 
  
• Iran talks failure sparks confrontation fears | Reuters 
  
• Russia warns against 'catastrophic' Iran strike - Telegraph 
  
• Obama's secret drone war explained by Reuters' David Rohde - Fast Forward - YouTube 
  
• AP IMPACT: study suggests drones kill far fewer civilians than many Pakistanis believe - chicagotribune.com 
  
• American Warfare Goes Corporate | Mother Jones 
  
• Iran War Watch: New Senate Resolution a Step Toward War? | Mother Jones 
  
• Iranian War Is Imminent.mp4 - YouTube 
  

CONTROL

• Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content 
  
• 9 Best Strategies to End Corporate Rule 
  
• Teachers: how are you teaching US War Crimes, destruction of US Constitution? - National Nonpartisan | Examiner.com 
  
• Leaders From Across Political Spectrum Unite to Oppose NDAA 
  
• Greece surrenders its gold and itself to creditors in the new deal | CollapseNet 
  
• The Downward Spiral: Police Armored Vehicle Purchase Causes Uproar in New Hampshire Town 
  
• Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem | | AlterNet 
  

RESOURCES

• Extreme Permaculture Survival – Steve Cran | Permaculture TV free video cooperative 
  
• Bread baking is easier than you think. — Transition Voice 
  
• The Community a Garden Builds: Edible Bus Stop | Sustainablog 
  
• Small-Space Gardening - Organic Gardening - MOTHER EARTH NEWS 
  
• The Essentials – Less with Less 
  
• 12 Preparedness Tips for Families with Children 
  

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregation

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
•   Naked Capitalism  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/   
  
•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest

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TRAPPED
Trapped in a world that I never made
We can't be slowed down by a big bunch of lip
And nobody cares about your paranoid trip
You know death and the devil sure got it easy today
Souls come so cheap some people give theirs away
You've got to break out, you've got to prove you're alive
What makes you think that the weak survive
And if you don't have the stomach
For all this radical crap
Then have the guts to stand for something
Or you're gonna be trapped
Trapped

2/22/12 – REASON TO BELIEVE EDITION
Note: I will now be posting to this site every few days, please check back often, I will discontinue email notifications.
  
MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Dangerous Ideas - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• Would You Support an Iran War If ...
  

WTF?

• 25% of super PAC money coming from just 5 rich donors – USATODAY.com
  
• The Downward Spiral: Corporatocracy In Action: Seeking Money, Texas Schools Turn to Advertisements
  
• Jon Stewart: Virginia ultrasound law ‘a TSA pat-down inside your vagina’ | The Raw Story
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
  
• Russian Oil Boom’s End Means Lower Tax That Risks Unrest: Energy - Bloomberg
  
• Anti-science threatens the world - Times LIVE
  
• Is Obama Getting Serious About Bank Fraud?
  
• The Downward Spiral: America's Shrinking Corporate Giants
  
• Caritas-Europa - Home page
  
• Why do political and economic leaders deny Peak Oil and Climate Change? | Peak Energy & Resources, Climate Change, and the Preservation of Knowledge
  
• Limits To Growth And Fractional Reserve Banking By John Scales Avery
  
• Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France | Truthout
  
• 'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World to Meltdown: Experts | Common Dreams
  
• Occupy Movement Targets Corporate Interest Group with Ties to Legislators | Common Dreams
  
• Fine Tuning the Great Transition | Transition Network
  
• Ron Paul: Hemp is a good product | The Raw Story
  
• The myth of sustainability – Guy McPherson's blog
  
• Anonymous Hacks Greek Ministry Website, Demands IMF Withdrawal, Threatens It Will Wipe Away All Citizen Debts | ZeroHedge
  
• OccuPodcast: 99% Movement Call to Action – A Conversation with David DeGraw | AmpedStatus
  
• A country in decay: Greece's youth pay bitter price for the wisdom of their elders - Telegraph
  
• Garth Lenz: The True Cost of Oil | Common Dreams
  
• Evolutionary Psychology of Climate Change – Eco Matters - State of the Planet
  
• When the Transition Movement & the Community Rights Movement Start Collaborating, Watch Out! | Paul Cienfuegos
  
• New book on Occupy gives peak oil its due — Transition Voice
  
• Peak oil, adapting for big changes ahead
  
• Keystone: the pipeline to higher gas prices
  
• charles hugh smith-When Risk Is Disconnected From Consequence, the System Itself Is at Risk
  
• Gonzalo Lira: Fearless Prediction: On March 20, Greece Will Default
  
• Mad, passionate love -- and violence: Occupy heads into the spring | Energy Bulletin
  

ECONOMICS

• Quelle Surprise! Servicers Rip Off Investors as Well as Homeowners « naked capitalism
  
• More Foreclosure Mischief: Bankruptcy Hijackings « naked capitalism
  
• Why The UK Trail Of The MF Global Collapse May Have "Apocalyptic" Consequences For The Eurozone, Canadian Banks, Jefferies And Everyone Else | ZeroHedge
  
• [KR252] Keiser Report – The Hang a Banker A Week Solution - Max Keiser
  
• charles hugh smith-What Happens When Phantom Profits Vanish?
  
• As US Debt To GDP Passes 101%, The Global Debt Ponzi Enters Its Final Stages | ZeroHedge
  
• The Greek Tragedy and Great Depression lessons not learned - Thoughts - Nomi Prins
  
• Europe's Latest Swiss Cheese Bailout Package | Finance
  
• As Dow Passes 13,000 In Nominal Terms, Here Is The "Real" Picture | ZeroHedge
  
• 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In Front Of Our Eyes
  
• Halftime in America? More like sudden death - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch
  
• Economy in recovery? Not so fast - Feb. 22, 2012
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Beach bummer: Time to kiss your coastal real estate goodbye | Grist
  
• Crossing the Line as Civilization Implodes: Heartland Institute, Peter Gleick and Andrew Revkin | ThinkProgress
  
• As Arctic Sea Ice Declines, Polar Bear Patrol Gets Busy By Ed Struzik
  
• NASA: Earth Is Losing Half A Trillion Tons Of Ice A Year | ThinkProgress
  
• GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change | InsideClimate News
  
• Ecoshock Show Notes: Hot Earth: Science & Anti-Science
  

ENERGY

• Peak Oil Denial: Alive, Well, Still Not Helping (Pt 1) - Peak Oil Matters
  
• Japan shuts down nuclear reactor
  
• TEDX — Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Video
  
• Peak? What peak? King coal is coming back! | Energy Bulletin
  
• The Way is Shut | Energy Bulletin
  
• Cameron’s own goal flop: gas prices in Britain have never been higher! ($8.11 per gallon) - Max Keiser
  
• Energy independence, or impending oil shocks? | SmartPlanet
  
• Oil: In perpetuity no more - Features - Al Jazeera English
  

CONFLICT

• The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran - Washington's Blog
  
• IAEA Departs Iran After Talks Yield No ‘Way Forward’ - Bloomberg
  
• Experts Say Iran Attack Is Irrational, Yet Hawks Are Winning the Debate - The Daily Beast
  

RESOURCES

• 4 Energy Sources for Off-the-Grid Living - Off The Grid News
  
• The questions and answers that followed the Totnes preview of ‘In Transition 2.0′ » Transition Culture
  
• Prepper For The Worst: How To Create An Off The Grid Source Of Water
  
• Sowing Revolution: Seed Libraries Offer Hope for Freedom of Food | Reality Sandwich
  
• Six steps to create your own organic permaculture garden
  
• Urban farming in Detroit gets the documentary it deserves | Grist
  

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregation

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
•   Naked Capitalism  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/   
  
•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest

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Reason to Believe 
Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
It struck me kinda funny, seemed kinda funny sir to me
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

2/20/12 - Money Go Round Edition
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MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Another March to War? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
  
• Toward Purpose And Meaning In A Too-Late World, By Douglas Carhart
  
• Guest Post: Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran | ZeroHedge
  
• The Ooooby Local Economic Model | Fleeing Vesuvius
  
• Keiser Report: Fat Cats Spy On You (E251) - CHS
  

WTF?

• Heartland Institute threatens 71-year-old veteran | Recorder Online
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• charles hugh smith-When Debt is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil
  
• Chris Martenson Interviews Jim Rickards: Paper, Gold Or Chaos? | ZeroHedge
  
• The Downward Spiral: Chicago Called Most Corrupt City...Ooh Look, Boobies!
  
• Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
  
• Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement: Who Pays?
  
• Occupy brief: Common Sense resources to end 1%’s War Crimes, looting, lies - Washington's Blog
  
• Can Rep. Bachus and His Money-Crazed Congressional Colleagues Be Stopped from Insider Trading? « naked capitalism
  
• Globalization: The Population-Energy-Debt Induced Economic Meltdown | Davos World Economic Forum – For Bloggers, Davos WEF 2012 for Economic Bloggers
  
• Why $200 oil is the subprime mortgage of energy | Energy
  
• How Citibank Dumped Lousy Mortgages on the Government - ProPublica
  
• Newsflash: Mainstream Media Does Real Reporting!
  
• Evangelical Christians Want to Start WWIII to Speed the "Second Coming" ... and Atheist Neocons are Using Religion to Rile Them Up to Justify War Against Iran
  
• 4 Signs the American Spring May Be Coming to Chicago | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
  
• Monumental Change is Coming for Most Americans – Here’s Why | munKNEE.com
  
• Climate and the psyche | Energy Bulletin
  
• Senate Passes Payroll Tax Extension, Gas Price Increase Has Already Offset Benefits | ZeroHedge
  
• Drones With an Eye on the Public Cleared to Fly - NYTimes.com
  
• We're Still Sinking With the Titanic | Finance
  
• Paul: U.S. "slipping into a fascist system" - CBS News
  
• "The Right Wing Is Taking Rights Away From Women, But Were They Really Using Them?" - M.O.C. #118 - YouTube
  
• charles hugh smith-Presidents Day: Why Can't We Nominate Our Own President? We Can, We Are
  
• As WTI Passes $105, Guardian Says Iran "Military Action Likely", Would Send Crude Soaring | ZeroHedge
  
• Iceland Erects Middle Finger, Wins in [Market-Ticker]
  
• Millennials Are Up The Creek Without A Paddle - Decline of the Empire
  
• The Choices We Make - Clusterfuck Nation
  
• U.S. Unemployment Increases in Mid-February
  
• AllGov - News - Locally-Grown Foods Account for Less than 2% of Total Sales in U.S.
  
• Canada building navy to patrol ice-free Arctic Ocean | ClimateSignals
  
• Torture Policy Paper - Rocky Anderson 2012
  

ECONOMICS

• San Francisco Foreclosure Audit Elicits Predictable Responses from Securitization Mess Deniers « naked capitalism
  
• Greece “Officially Defaults” March 23, Banks Close (NYSEArca:EWG, NYSEArca:VGK, NYSEArca:FXE, NYSEArca:EWQ, NYSEArca:GLD) | ETF DAILY NEWS
  
• Why Are So Many Economists So Unable to Help With the Ongoing Economic Crisis? | Neil H. Buchanan | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
  
• They're (Finally) Talking About It in [Market-Ticker]
  
• The Cancer Of Debt And Deficits
  
• “Memento”, the Meltdown and the Mainstream » TripleCrisis
  
• The Race To Debase In All Its Glory | ZeroHedge
  
• The Ugly Truth About The Greek Situation That'sToo Difficult Broadcast Through Mainstream Media
  
• How Greece could take down Wall Street | Energy Bulletin
  

ENERGY

• Iran Oil Ministry Cuts Off Exports To Britain And France
  
• Price of filling fuel tank hits £100 as diesel price races to record high of 143.05p a litre | This is Money
  
• Gas prices are highest ever for this time of year
  
• Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Output, Export: Industry Report - Business News - CNBC
  
• China January Oil Imports Rise To Record | ZeroHedge
  
• Resource Insights: How you can tell that the peak oil debate is (almost) over
  
• JPM Hikes Crude Price Forecast, Sees $120 WTI By Election Time | ZeroHedge
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• The Inside Story on Climate Scientists Under Siege | OnEarth Magazine
  
• In Heartland Institute Leak, a Plan to Discredit Climate Teaching - NYTimes.com
  
• Scientists Who Had Emails Stolen Ask Heartland Institute to End Attack on Climate Science | Union of Concerned Scientists
  
• Heartland Panics Over Leak: 71 Year Old Vet, Young Mom Fire Back at Threats « Climate Denial Crock of the Week
  
• Humanity’s Growing Impact on the World’s Freshwater – News Watch
  
• Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk
  

CONFLICT

• Israel’s Levant Basin—a new geopolitical curse?
  
• Hypnotized into an endless dirty war - War on Terror - Salon.com
  
• Scahill: US Needs to 'Back Away from Kill Your Way To Peace' | Common Dreams
  

CONTROL

• Why everyone should Occupy US 1% corporate media: they lie - National Nonpartisan | Examiner.com
  
• » BREAKING: Kurt Haskell Exposes Government False Flag Operation During Underwear Bomber Sentencing Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
  
• Hornberger's Blog - Torture, Assassination, and the American Way of Life
  

RESOURCES

• ‘First-Aid’ NOT Second Aid - (Survival First-aid Kit)
  
• Surviving The Coming Collapse with Survivalist James Wesley Rawles « Investment Watch Blog – 2012
  
• Free eBook - A Facilitator's Handbook for Permaculture | Green Shopping
  
• Peak Oil: Portable Battery Back-Up - YouTube
  
• Raising Gentle Bees for your Backyard | The Self-Sufficient Gardener
  
• Organic Insect Control for Your Container Vegetable Garden
  
• Automatic Earthships | Earth
  
• Living Off Grid - Masonry Heaters
  
• Unplugged: Entertainment Off The Grid - Off The Grid News
  
• Solving the Portable Knowledge Problem
  
• Honey makes the world go ’round | Grist
  
• Peak Oil Hausfrau: Ideas to cut your trash waste by 80%
  
• 5 Simple Ways To Get Your Garden Ready for Spring | Care2 Healthy Living
  

2/18/12 - THUNDER ROAD EDITION

Note: I will now be posting to this site every few days, please check back often, I will discontinue email notifications.

MUST SEE, HEAR AND READ

• There's No Tomorrow? MUST SEE VIDEO
  
• The Fight of the Century?
  
• Jeff Biggers: Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home?
  
• Maddow: Proof Ron Paul Was Robbed In Maine?
  
• It All Comes Down to Compost in the End...? Casaubon's Book
  
• Printing Drones by the Sheet (or how we get to tens of billions of drones by 2020) - Global Guerrillas
  
• Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action Two Year Anniversary Book Release? AmpedStatus
  
• "We Are Nothing"? Lee Camp M.O.C. #117
  
• Human population overshoot–what went wrong? Our Finite World
  
• "The Climate Change Revolution Is Coming"? Lee Camp M.O.C. #116
  
• Charles Hugh Smith: It's Not Just Gasoline Consumption That's Tanking, It's All Energy?
  
• G. Edward Griffin  'The Federal Reserve is a Private Banking Cartel'? RT
  
• US economic collapse? Dmitri Orlov On the Edge with Max Keiser
  
• The United States Of Denial? Decline of the Empire
  

WTF?

• Obama Campaign To Wall Street: We'll Go Easy On You Guys?
  
• Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab sentenced to life? Read the Kurt Haskell comments
  
• Apple faces US inquiry over iPhone address book privacy? The Guardian
  
• Andrew Breitbart Loses It At Occupy Protesters?
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Financial Armageddon: One Ugly Picture, a Few Sad Words?
  
• Foreclosure abuse rampant across U.S., experts say? Reuters
  
• How We Work Now, In America? Gregor.us
  
• Young Adults In America Are Getting Angry For Good Reason?
  
• Could you ride out a Great Depression? CSMonitor.com
  
• The nature of empire? Energy Bulletin
  
• The imperial way: American decline in perspective? part 2 Noam Chomsky
  
• CAFO conviction: Court holds factory farm accountable for water pollution? Grist
  
• Jon Stewart Ripped Into The Congressional Insider Trading Rule Last Night?
  
• Population is 'our biggest challenge' says government chief scientist Sir John Beddington? The Ecologist
  
• The Grand Game of Perception Management? CHS
  
• Five Things American Youth Will Do To Change the World in 2012? John Perkins Official Web Site
  
• Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules' In Stop-Motion (VIDEO)
  
• 20 Times More Japanese Earthquakes in the 6 Months Following March 2011 than in the Previous 9 YEARS ... March Quake May Have "Awakened" Fukushima Fault
  
• Mt. Shastians bring Transition and Tea Party together? Transition Voice
  
• The Hot New Meme: Gas Prices Are Surging And Will Torpedo This Recovery?
  
• Monsanto found guilty of chemical poisoning in France? The Guardian
  
• This Kosovo Power Plant Has Been Turned Into A Bizarre Alien World As Europe Sits Under 15 FEET Of Snow?
  
• Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France? Natural Society
  
• The presidential super PACs: five takeaways? Sunlight Foundation
  
• Tombstone Austerity & the John Brown Moment? Max Keiser
  
• Thailand flooding costs Lloyd's of London $2.2bn? The Guardian
  
• Global suicide 2020: We can’t feed 10 billion? Paul B. Farrell
  
• Riot in Your Head?
  
• 300,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto in Federal Court: Decision on March 31st to Go to Trial? NationofChange
  
• Occupy the SEC’s Comment Letter Objects to Excuses for Watering Down Volcker Rule? naked capitalism
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Japan Announces $130 Billion QE Program, One Percent Inflation Target; 4th Quarter GDP Unexpectedly Contracts 2.3%; Lawmakers Threaten to Take Over Monetary Policy?
  
• A Doorway To Persia?
  
• The John Brown Moment? Clusterfuck Nation
  
• Facebook Likely To Pay No Federal Income Tax This Year, Despite $1 Billion In Profits?
  
• Advice to President Obama: Yes We Can, But Will We?
  
• We Can't Keep Growing Like This?
  
• Judge Napolitano.How to get fired in under 5 mins?
  
• What Does a Coup in the Maldives Mean for Climate Change?  Yahoo! News
  
• Tools for Living? The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• JUSTICE PARTY OFFICIAL WEBSITE?
  
• Nevada vote fraud official?
  
• 1% US banks gamble $5 million per US household; $532 trillion total?
  
• Riots in Greece? Miami Herald
  
• MONSANTO OWNS THE BEES? Writings and Rants
  
• The Beast: The 50 Most Loathsome Americans, 2011? The Downward Spiral
  
• Union Pacific plans billions in infrastructure investment? McClatchy
  
• The big banks win again? Salon.com
  
• A Rounding Error For Banks? Decline of the Empire
  
• Why Going 'Back To Normal' Is No Longer An Option for the American Economy -- And Where We're Headed Now? AlterNet
  

ENERGY

• Net energy yield from production of conventional oil? ScienceDirect.com
  
• Global oil risks in the early 21st century? Renewable Energy Global Innovations
  
• World energy consumption - beyond 500 exajoules? Energy Bulletin
  
• World Oil Supply Debate?
  
• What EROI tells us about ROI? SmartPlanet
  
• Fossil fuels: I’m not dead yet? Energy Bulletin
  
• Bumpy Ride Ahead: Gas Prices May Soon Hit $4 a Gallon?
  
• Keeping Reality In Mind? (Pt 2)  Peak Oil Matters
  
• Three Major Journals Publish Articles on Limited World Oil Supply? Our Finite World
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• DenialGate - Infographic Illustrating the Heartland Denial Funding Machine?
  
• Internal Heartland Institute Email Blasts "Lamestream Media" for Climate Leak? Mother Jones
  
• Heartland Institute threatens to sue journalists who covered 'Denial Gate' leak?
  
• Leaked docs: Heartland Institute think tank pays climate contrarians very well? (updated)
  
• Heartland Documents Leaked, Climate Skepticism Exposed? Climate Central
  
• Back by Popular Demand: Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds? Climate Central
  
• Heartland Documents Reveal Fringe Denial Group Plans to Pursue Koch Money, Dupe Children and Ruin Their Future? ThinkProgress
  
• Fukushima Nuclear Plant at High Risk for Major Earthquake? Common Dreams
  
• Media drops the ball on melting ice? The Cost of Energy
  
• Why a Likely Natural Event Could Cause Nuclear Reactors to Melt Down and Our Grid to Crash?
  
• How You Can Help Michael Mann, Author of the Must-Read Book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars? ThinkProgress
  
• After Fukushima Disaster, a Confused Effort at Cleanup? NYTimes.com
  
• A New Declaration? The Occupied Wall Street Journal
  
• Snow Blocks in Tens of Thousands as Cold Death Toll Rises, Articles? THISDAY LIVE
  
• Mining Industry Caught On Tape Plotting To Corrupt Media? 350 or bust
  

  
ECONOMICS

• Moody's Warns 17 Banks Could Be Downgraded? Credit Suisse, UBS And Morgan Stanley Could Fall 3 Levels
  
• Sprott's John Embry:“The Current Financial System Will Be Totally Destroyed“? ZeroHedge
  
• charles hugh smith-Do We Really Know Greece's Default Will Be Orderly?
  
• The Greek Experiment?
  
• Credit Suisse The Sequel: "Probability Of The Largest Disorderly Default Loss In History On March 20 Has Increased"? ZeroHedge
  
• MF Global: Where's the Cash? Part II  ZeroHedge
  
• Keiser Report: German Empire vs Greek Carthage? (E250) 
  
• Oh Oh: Greek Default IS COMING? in [Market-Ticker]
  
• Jesse's Café Américain: Chris Whalen: JPM and the Banks Have the MF Global Money And the Status Quo Is Protecting Them?
  
• Japan Announces $130 Billion QE Program, One Percent Inflation Target; 4th Quarter GDP Unexpectedly Contracts 2.3%; Lawmakers Threaten to Take Over Monetary Policy?
  
• Moody's warns it may cut AAA-rating for UK and France? Reuters
  
• Greece in Vicious Bailout/Austerity Cycle?
  
• Question Everything: When will truth dawn on economists?
  
• Greecefire Burns Athens; Prattling Continues? [Market-Ticker]
  
• US China Trade Deficit | Largest In World History? The Daily Caller
  
• Fed's EXPLICIT Goal Is to Devalue the Dollar by 33% ... and NEGATIVE Yield Bonds Are Coming?
  
• Charting The Federal Reserve's Assets - 1915-2012? ZeroHedge
  
• Occupy L.A. protesters have issue with $25 billion settlement? latimes.com
  
• John Williams of Shadow Stats "This is end of the world type stuff"?
  
• Charles Hugh Smith: The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, and Cascading Default?
  
• China Instructs Banks to Roll Over $1.7 Trillion in Debt to Avoid Mass Default?
  
• Keiser Report: FBI vs Gold Standard Extremists? (E248)
  

  
 CONFLICT

• Santorum Hypes Iran 'Threat'? Informed Comment
  
• ‘Anonymous’ stages dramatic take-down of FTC websites? The Raw Story
  
• Depsite the Hysteria, Experts Say that Iran Poses Very Little Threat to the West or Israel?
  
• The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read? Michael Hastings Rolling Stone
  
• AnonOps Communications?
  
• Athens Sees Worst Violence in Months as MPs Pass Austerity Plan?
  
• Iran Sanctions Tighten as OSG to Frontline Halt Crude Cargo? Businessweek
  
• Athens Burning: Tens of Banks in Flames After Athens Passes Austerity Bill?
  
• Greek Protests Continue As Lawmakers Pass Severe Austerity Measures?
  
• U.S. Navy: Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in Gulf? Reuters
  

  
CONTROL

• The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot? Salon.com
  
• How a government teacher easily proves Occupy’s claim of US War Crimes? Washington's Blog
  
• If a state were to liberalize its drug laws where will it come up with needed inmates?
  
• Why I'm Suing the FBI, the DoD and the CIA? Truthout
  
• Hillary Clinton Looking To Take Over The World Bank?
  
• Open Seeds: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Life?
  
• Fake Science, “Fox”perts, Funny Finance, Tax Free!? Climate Denial Crock of the Week
  
• "See Something Say Something" Campaign Could Allow People to Label ANY AMERICAN a Suspected "Terrorist" ... Just Like in Nazi Germany or Stasi East Germany?
  

RESOURCES

• Avoid Social Breakdown. Become Resilient
  
• PDFs for your Preparedness Library
  
• How To Make A Simple Water Filter
  
• Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Advice From Nine Modern Homesteaders
  
• The Challenge of Re-localisation
  
• Print Your Own Drone: Free Designs and Tools 
  
• How do I get my child to eat vegetables? 
  
• Speaker Post: Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm
  
• Collective Mindfulness Practices
  
• 5 Ways to Make Your Dollars Make Sense
  
• Household Needs
  
• DIY Food Resilience: Turning a Wheelchair in a P-Machine
  
• Sowing Revolution
  
• Collapse! The Game: Draft #2
  
• Peak Moment TV offers insights into a low energy future
  
• Living Off Grid - Water Cisterns
  
• Save Your Water
  
• Bay Area investment group connects socially responsible lenders, local farmers - Inside Bay Area
  
• TZM - Quickstart
  
• Disaster cooking 101: How to cook after a catastrophe [VIDEO] 
  
• Sprouting Basics: What You’ll Need
  

2/11/12 - CAN’T YOU SMELL THAT SMELL? B.S. EDITION

MUST SEE, HEAR and READ

•   How to prevent WW III? Peter Joseph VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mmMrx-yhaIA#
  
•   It’s time for a better narrative? Charles Eisenstein AUDIO http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/charles-eisenstein-time-better-narrative/71231
  
•   Heading for war? Gerald Celente interview AUDIO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B-3ySHMdxek#!
  
•   The mortgage settlement explained? Yves Smith VIDEO http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/we-speak-on-democracy-now-about-the-mortgage-settlement.html  
  
•   Tilling the soil in 2012? http://transitionvoice.com/2012/02/tilling-the-soil-in-2012-part-one/ Pt 2 http://transitionvoice.com/2012/02/tilling-the-soil-in-2012-part-2/
  
•   Why the Global System is killing trust? http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/why-the-global-system-is-killing-trust.html
  
•   The fate of new truths: peak oil appears on “Nature”? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-09/fate-new-truths-peak-oil-appears-nature
  
•   Are income and wealth inequality inevitable? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/02/are-income-and-wealth-inequality-inevitable.html
  
•   The impeded stream is the one that sings? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/02/impeded-stream-is-one-that-sings.html
  
•   Crimes rising against the economy? Bill Black on Dylan Ratigan http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/crimes-rising-against-economy/
  
•   Big Oil’s banner year: Higher prices, record profits, less oil? MUST SEE GRAPH http://grist.org/oil/big-oils-banner-year-higher-prices-record-profits-less-oil/
  
•   The corruption of America?  CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/fractals-corruption02-12.html  Pt 2 http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/pathology-of-power02-12.html
  
•   Repulsive progressive hypocrisy? Glenn Greenwald http://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/repulsive_progressive_hypocrisy/
  
•   How much is that election in the window? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFIdYGCci4o
  
•   A Terrorist is anyone who disagrees with government? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/ter%C2%B7ror%C2%B7ist-noun-anyone-who-disagrees-with-the-government-2.html
  
•   Climate Change in 10 minutes with a touch of humor? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M2Jxs7lR8ZI
  
•   PEAK EVERYTHING special section in Bloomberg? Can you say Tipping Point? http://topics.bloomberg.com/peak-everything/
  
•   Fewer Nonfarm Employees now than in Dec 2000? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/fewer-nonfarm-employees-now-than.html  Unemployment hits 22.5% in reality http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/02/john-williams-us-unemployment-hits-225.html
  
•   Illusion of recovery? Feelings vs Facts? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/illusion-of-recovery-feelings-versus-facts.html
  
•   Humans are the ultimate self-centered species? http://transitionvoice.com/2012/02/resources-and-anthropocentrism/
  
•   Factory Farming and how Oinky killed 18,000 people? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwq292tC8Cs&feature=youtu.be
  

BANK BAILOUTS CONTINUED! – SPECIAL SECTION

•   Top 12 reasons to hate the mortgage settlement? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/the-top-twelve-reasons-why-you-should-hate-the-mortgage-settlement.html
  
•   Final version worse than advertised? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/mortgage-settlement-as-attorney-general-sellout-deal-is-not-done-and-final-version-guaranteed-to-be-worse-than-advertised.html
  
•   There is no political solution to a math problem? Dylan Ratigan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-ratigan/mortgage-settlement_b_1267710.html
  
•   Settlement breakdown by state plus other official propaganda? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/settlement-breakdown-by-state-plus-other-official-propaganda.html
  
•   Only fools meet their financial commitments? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dick-bove-foreclosure-settlement-there-no-sanctity-contracts-only-fools-meet-their-financial-co
  
•   Obama lets mortgage abusers off the hook? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/09-5
  
•   Fraudclosure – you have been sold out? http://market-ticker.org/post=201723
  

WTF?

•   $6 Billion for a useless Nuke-building shed? http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/6-billion-nuke-building-cmrr
  
•   Radioactive Cesium in Earthworms in Fukushima, every organism is contaminated? http://enenews.com/japan-professor-every-organism-in-fukushima-prefecture-is-contaminated-with-radiation-1373000-bqkg-detected-in-worm-feces-60-km-from-meltdowns
  
•   Bill Gates backs scientist lobbying for Geoengineering? Let’s F^%$ with Mother Nature some more? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/06/bill-gates-climate-scientists-geoengineering
  
•   DOD and Homeland Security still unauditable? http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/GAO_Blames_Defense_Dept_for_Causing_Federal_Finances_to_be_Unauditable_111230
  

GENERAL INTEREST

•   Lee Camp at Zeitgeist Media Fest? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2oJv8g8zg&feature=endscreen
  
•   Peak Everything? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/in-demand.html
  
•   20 ways the recession has changed young adults views? http://www.businessinsider.com/20-ways-the-recession-has-changed-how-young-adults-see-the-world-2012-2#
  
•   Anonymous takes down CIA web site? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400140,00.asp
  
•   The new geography of trade? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-10/new-geography-trade-globalization%E2%80%99s-decline-may-stimulate-local-recovery
  
•   US presidential candidates owned by corporations? Chris Hedges VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=csW_WnIDQtw#!
  
•   Petroleum usage and shipping rates plunge? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/petroleum-3-month-rolling-average-turns.html and more from CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/gasoline-tanking02-12.html and the Downward Spirals take http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-globalization-now-blunting-effects.html
  
•   The cycle of Civilization? http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild100212.htm
  
•   Farmers advance against Monsanto? http://grist.org/industrial-agriculture/farmers-advance-in-their-suit-against-monsanto/
  
•   America has 40 million McMansions that no one wants? http://grist.org/list/america-has-40-million-big-houses-that-no-one-wants/
  
•   Rocky Anderson for President? http://majority.fm/2012/01/10/110-rocky-anderson-jeff-smith/
  
•   War with Iran and QE3 by this summer? Jim Rickards on Capital Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6HKu8guMl8
  
•   Peak Water – the rise and fall of cheap, clean H2O? Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-06/peak-water-the-rise-and-fall-of-cheap-clean-h2o.html
  
•   10 ways Monsanto and Big Ag are trying to kill you and the planet? http://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob314.htm
  
•   Corruption 101? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/02/corruption-101.html
  
•   Endings and Beginnings? http://guymcpherson.com/2012/02/endings-and-beginnings/
  
•   End of food prices always dropping? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-05/era-of-food-prices-always-falling-seen-at-end-on-population-cargill-says.html
  
•   The Seed Emergency – the threat to food and democracy? Vandana Shiva http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201224152439941847.html
  
•   Black Bloc – the cancer in Occupy? http://www.truth-out.org/black-bloc-cancer-occupy/1328541484
  
•   We are beyond mere policy tweaks? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/beyond-policy-tweaks02-12.html
  
•   The Sixth Extinction – Mya Lin’s What is Missing? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/02/the-sixth-extinction-maya-lins-what-is-missing.html
  
•   It’s too easy being green? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577198922867850002.html
  

ENERGY

•   My decade of beign “Peak Oil Aware”? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-hren/my-decade-of-being-peak-o_b_1268555.html 
  
•   Japan’s Tepco to suspend all nuclear operations? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japans-tepco-to-suspend-all-nuclear-operations-2012-02-09
  
•   Nuke dangers nowhere resolved in Japan? Japan Times http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120208f1.html
  
•   A new Oil boom? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-10/new-oil-boom
  
•   Everything you know about shale gas is wrong? http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/everything-you-know-about-shale-gas-is-wrong/341
  
•   The future of energy efficiency? James Hansen on Dylan Ratigan http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dylan-ratigan-show/46315840#null
  
•   Alaska Oil Production Chart of the day? http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/chart-day-alaska-oil-production
  
•   Peak Oil FAQ? http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/05-16/peak-oil-faq.htm
  
•   Why the fossil fuel industry fights so hard? http://www.postcarbon.org/article/704040-the-great-carbon-bubble-why-the
  
•   Magical thinking and fracking? JHK interviews Arthur E Berman AUDIO http://www.energybulletin.net/media/2012-02-06/arthur-e-berman-petroleum-geologist
  
•   The Alternative Energy Matrix? http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/02/the-alternative-energy-matrix/
  
•   Everything you know about Peak Oil is NOT wrong? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/02/06/businessweek-gets-it-wrong-everything-you-know-about-peak-oil-is-not-wrong/
  
•   Gas boom goes bust? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-06/gas-boom-goes-bust
  
•   Shale Hype? http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2012/02/shale_hype.php
  

    
ECONOMY

•   There is no housing bottom in sight? http://www.businessinsider.com/calculated-risk-is-wrong-there-is-no-housing-bottom-in-sight-2012-2
  
•   Why Wall St should stop whinning? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-wall-street-should-stop-whining-20120208
  
•   Black Holes and Gold Hills? Keiser Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8Dv15FtsM
  
•   Crumbling pillars of the Economy? Warren Pollock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEOKDzObqrA&feature=youtu.be
  
•   How your $ got to be worth 3.8 cents? http://www.businessinsider.com/how-your-dollar-got-to-be-worth-just-38-cents-2012-2
  
•   High Frequency Trading Machines visualized? Excellent VIDEO http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2804.HTML
  
•   MF Global collapsed in the face of one margin call by ‘undisclosed party’? http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/02/mf-global-collapsed-in-face-of-310.html
  

CONTROL

•   Movie Industry are hypocrites? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/hypocrisy-and-bullying-by-the-movie-and-music-industry.html
  
•   Makings of a Police State? Pt 4 AUDIO http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/02/10/podcast-show-76/
  
•   Government uses anti-terror laws to crush dissent? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/government-uses-anti-terror-laws-to-crush-dissent-and-help-big-business.html
  
•   Facebook’s timeline feature violating your privacy? http://www.offthegridnews.com/2012/02/08/new-timeline-feature-violates-facebook-users-privacy/
  
•   Drones over US get OK by congress? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/ & http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/02/faa_drones.html
  
•   Government may sanction use of nerve agents on rioters? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/government-may-sanction-nerveagent-use-on-rioters-scientists-fear-6612084.html
  
•   Hoe the FBI bends the Freedom of Information Act? http://www.corbettreport.com/blackballed-how-the-fbi-bends-foia/
  
•   IL eavesdropping law under scrutiny as NATO, G8 Summits near? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/illinois-eavesdropping-la_0_n_1258285.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
  
•   Doomsday Capitalists’ winning strategy? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/doomsday-capitalists-winning-strategy-2012-02-07?pagenumber=1
  
•   It’s all legal, folks? Keiser Report with Gonzalo Lira http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74DERg_aCI
  
•   Is Canada ignoring the signs of a coming collapse? Foss and Heinberg http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/02/01/Economic-Warning-Signs/
  

CONFLICT

•   Tracking the secret war on Iran? http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/iran-covert-war-timeline
  
•   Economic Hitmen hit the Maldives? http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/9/coup_in_maldives_adviser_to_ousted
  
•   Obama uses the NDAA to sign executive order on Iran? http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/must-see-videos/item/6378-obama-signs-executive-order-on-iran
  
•   Foreign troops enter Syria? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/foreign-troops-enter-syria.html
  
•   The Dogs of War are off the Leash? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29091
  
•   Please tell me again what the war in Afghanistan is about? http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/02/05/the-anti-empire-report-please-tell-me-again-what-is-the-war-in-afghanistan-about/
  

CLIMATE and ENVIRONMENT

•   How the credit crunch threaten environmental sustainability? Nicole Foss AUDIO http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/nicole-foss/3816458
  
•   2011 Earthquakes – all on video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a--NC4Nong&feature=player_embedded
  
•   The hockey stick and the climate wars? http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/02/forces-of-anti-science-descend-on.html
  
•   Fracking Chemicals are killing farm animals study? http://www.businessinsider.com/study-fracking-chemicals-killing-neutering-farm-animals-pets-2012-2
  
•   The great blinding? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/02/great-blinding.html
  
•   Dump the big six? VIDEO http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/viral-video-calls-mass-exodus-fossil-fuels.html
  
•   Halt Arctic offshore drilling? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/08/421360/congress-citizens-obama-halt-arctic-offshore-drilling/
  
•   What NASA’s blue marble photo reveals about climate change? http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/02/bill-mckibben-nasa-blue-marble-photo-climate-change
  
•   Climate Crocks goes Ivy league? http://climatecrocks.com/2012/02/07/this-is-very-cool-new-video-series-debuts-on-yale-climate-forum/
  
•   How to dispose of Nuclear Waste? VIDEO Humor http://www.grinningplanet.com/embed/funny-nuclear-waste-videos/herr-hoppe-and-the-nuclear-waste.htm
  
•   Not the atmosphere I know anymore? Jeff Masters http://climatecrocks.com/2012/02/06/jeff-masters-not-the-atmosphere-i-know-anymore/
  
•   Chevron Oil rig continues to burn and wreak havoc in Nigeria? http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/dead-fish-health-problems-emerge-as-chevron-rig-off-nigeria-continues-to-burn-after-accident/2012/02/06/gIQABUQYtQ_story.html
  
•   Climate Change bringing the Arctic to Europe? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/06/419154/climate-change-arctic-europe/
  
•   Insecticides found in dead bees? Purdue Study  http://www.hobbyfarms.com/farm-industry-news/2012/02/03/corn-soybean-insecticides-lead-to-bee-deaths.aspx
  

RESOURCES

•   Portable Solar Generators and Hybrid backup systems http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/portable-solar-generators-hybrid-emergency-back-systems/71154
  
•   Urban Chicken Movement http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/urban-garden-check-now-chickens/
  
•   More Herbal Cures http://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-home-living/herbal-cures-zb0z1202zkel.aspx
  
•   Herbal Teas, Infusions and Tinctures http://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/how-to-make-herbal-teas-infusions-tinctures-ze0z1202zhir.aspx
  
•   Dandelion Recipes http://blog.sustainablog.org/2012/02/dandelion-recipes/
  
•   Matt Stein on prepping, self reliance, and community http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-837-matthew-stein-on-prepping-herbals-self-reliance-and-more
  
•   Vertical Gardening http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/vertical-gardening-zmaz89jazsto.aspx
  
•   Why you need community to survive http://www.offthegridnews.com/2012/02/10/why-you-need-a-community-to-survive/
  
•   Permaculture Education Californian Style http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/permaculture-education-californian-style
  
•   Somewhere in New Mexico Before the End of Time movie preview #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lm0T-6RncE
  
•   SF Realtor likes the idea of Tiny Homes http://digitaljournal.com/article/319136
  
•   Grinning Planet Environmental Videos and Animations http://www.grinningplanet.com/environmental-multimedia.htm
  
•   Northern Lights Video Show http://grist.org/list/watch-a-jaw-dropping-northern-lights-display/
  
•   Community Tool Library http://www.resilientcommunities.com/a-community-tool-library/
  
•   The Modern Survivalist YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TheModernSurvivalist?feature=watch
  
•   Carolyn Baker with Mike Ruppert http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-lifeboat-hour/2012/2/6/the-lifeboat-hour-2512.html
  
•   How do we build local social capital http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/02/06/how-do-we-build-local-social-capital/
  
•   YERT YERT YERT! Inspire your community with this great movie  http://www.yert.com/screenings.php

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregators

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
•   Naked Capitalism  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/   
  
•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest

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CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK - "That Smell"

2/4/12 Super Bowl Sunday – Austerity vs Stimulus vs Plan C…Winner?

MUST SEE, HEAR and READ

• Austerity vs Stimulus vs Plan C? http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/02/04/rescuing-the-economy-austerity-vs-stimulus-vs-plan-c/
  
• Farmers vs Monsanto? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzkd8-bbRo&feature=player_embedded & http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/31-0
  
• Why Occupy? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/why-occupy-a-governmenteconomics-teacher-explains.html
  
• Louis CK comments on Civilization? VIDEO HUMOR http://guymcpherson.com/2012/01/comedian-louis-ck-comments-on-civilization/
  
• Rewind: Carlin on foreign policy? VIDEO HUMOR http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dDw-zFFhFgc#!
  
• The price of growth? http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/price-growth/70617
  
• SEC fails to sanction big banks for fraud? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/quelle-surprise-sec-fails-to-sanction-big-banks-for-fraud.html
  
• Clinging to economic growth suffocates the imagination? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/01/limits-to-economic-growth
  
• We are incapable of understanding reality? Kunstler interviewed by Warren Pollock VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dcNUHqOm-8g
  
• The recovery of the human? John Michael Greer http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-02/recovery-human
  
• Mini Drones to change the world? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/swarms-of-mini-drones-to-forever-change.html & http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/drone-swarms-are-here-1-minute-to-midnight.html
  
• Fraudulent Debt = Counterfeit Money? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/counterfeit-debt02-12.html & Policy http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/counterfeit-policy01-12.html
  
• Economic Comedy? VIDEO this guy nails it! http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-night-video-stand-up-economist.html
  
• Local Future Network? VIDEOS http://www.youtube.com/user/newculture/videos
  
• Toward an economy of Earth? http://guymcpherson.com/2012/02/toward-an-economy-of-earth/
  
• Obama Administration prefers politic and propaganda to prosecutions? Bill Black http://www.neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/01/holder-obamas-propaganda-is-belied-by.html
  
• How to destroy the environment, steal money and look good doing it? Lee Camp http://leecamp.net/2012/01/how-to-destroy-the-environment-steal-money-look-good-doing-it-m-o-c-112/
  
• Rewind: Animated Economic Hitmen? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ
  
• The Great Awakening? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/the-great-awakening-humanitys-emperor-has-no-clothes-breakthrough.html
  
• Freddie Mac betting against struggling homeowners? http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/145995636/freddie-mac-betting-against-struggling-homeowners
  
• The most important resource for our future? Inexpensive Oil? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/02/01/the-most-important-resource-for-our-future-inexpensive-oil/
  
• Saudi Arabia on Oil, Global Warming, and renewable energy? http://grist.org/oil/even-the-saudi-oil-minister-says-oil-doesnt-create-jobs/
  

WTF?

• Romney classics continue? http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-when-i-said-i-dont-care-about-poor-people-i-didnt-really-mean-it-that-way-2012-2
  
• 27 of 35 Bush articles of impeachment apply to Obama? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/27-of-35-bush-articles-of-impeachment-apply-to-obama.html
  
• MSNBC shocked CEOs rake in the $$ when their companies go bankrupt? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/msnbc-shocked-shocked-to-learn-that.html
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Corporations have no use for borders? Chris Hedges http://www.nationofchange.org/corporations-have-no-use-borders-1328021762
  
• Forever Planting for Peak Oil and Climate Change? AUDIO http://www.postcarbon.org/audio/694211-forever-planting-for-peak-oil
  
• Parents risk retirement caught in $100 Billion College Debt Trap? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/parents-snared-in-100-billion-u-s-college-debt-trap-risking-retirement.html
  
• When will the government quit putting out fraudulent employment stats? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/i-cant-take-it-anymore-when-will-the-government-quit-putting-out-fraudulent-employment-statistics
  
• The report that will blow up the Eurozone? http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/report-that-will-blow-up-eurozone.html
  
• The Health Insurance Downward Spiral? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/health-insurance-deductibles-nearly.html & http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/six-months-later-cbo-confirms-tds.html
  
• What happens with less affluent youth move back home? http://www.mybudget360.com/coming-demographic-financial-crisis-baby-boomers-median-income-retirement-savings-young-american-incomes/
  
• What is a smart species like us doing in a predicament like this? http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2012/02/what-is-a-smart-species-like-us-doing-in-a-predicament-like-this.html
  
• Key Internet operator Verisign hit by hackers? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-hacking-verisign-idUSTRE8110Z820120202
  
• Anonymous message to World Leaders? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BXzpSBZpmRM
  
• Fort Knox? Still Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ixGAXme_qHI#!
  
• Monsanto new seeds could be a tech dead end? http://grist.org/industrial-agriculture/monsantos-new-seeds-could-be-a-tech-dead-end/
  
• JP Morgan makes more money when food stamps go up? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/making-money-on-poverty-jp-morgan-makes-bigger-profits-when-the-number-of-americans-on-food-stamps-goes-up
  
• Jive Talkin? Kunstler has had enough of Obama http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/jive-talkin.html
  
• Government dependence at an all time high? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/16-statistics-which-show-that-the-number-of-americans-dependent-on-the-government-is-at-an-all-time-high
  

ENERGY

• Peak Oil Crisis: Election 2012? http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/11048-the-peak-oil-crisis-election-2012.html
  
• Oil supply limits and the continuing financial crisis? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/01/31/oil-supply-limits-and-the-continuing-financial-crisis-paper-available-free/
  
• The Hydrogen Dream? http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8884
  
• Peak Oil: Yes, still a serious issue? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-30/peak-oil-yes-still-serious-issue
  

ECONOMY

• Jobs actually lost in Jan? http://market-ticker.org/post=201495 & http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/contrary-to-government-claims-of-243000-jobs-created-almost-1-million-jobs-were-actually-lost-in-january.html
  
• A Massive Debt Bomb? To be rolled in 2012 http://etfdailynews.com/2012/01/25/the-massive-debt-bomb-7600000000000-dollars-of-debt-must-be-rolled-over-in-2012/
  
• What happens when Banks control the Economy? http://www.alternet.org/economy/153971/doomsday_scenario%3A_what_happens_when_banks_control_the_economy/
  
• Econ 101 with Steve? AUDIO http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/episode-110-part-2-of-economics-of-one-lesson
  
• Implied Unemployment rate rises to 11.5%? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/implied-unemployment-rate-rises-115-spread-propaganda-number-surges-30-year-high
  
• States seek currencies in gold and silver? http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/03/pf/states_currencies/index.htm
  
• Tickerguy with Warren Pollack? VIDEO http://market-ticker.org/post=201492
  
• They are coming for your 401K? http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/basics/story/2012-02-02/401-k-plan-changes/52938678/1
  
• Dylan Ratigan speaks on Greedy Bastards? VIDEO http://www.dylanratigan.com/2012/02/02/dylan-visits-rts-the-alyona-show/
  
• World Trade Volume craters? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/unprecedented-global-monetary-policy-world-trade-volume-craters
  
• Worst yet to come for China growth? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-china-economy-policy-idUSTRE8110NL20120202
  
• Stock Market over valued 33-44%? http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-overvalued-33-and-44-percent-2012-2
  
• California broke in one month but we are worried about Greece? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/california-run-out-cash-one-month-controller-warns
  
• Starving the Economy? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/31/kr243-keiser-report-starving-the-economy/
  
• Financial System built to fail? Capital Account with Karl Denninger http://rt.com/programs/capital-account/financial-system-2008-crisis/
  
• The Central Bank vs American People? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/the-central-bank-versus-the-american-people.html
  
• Privatizing Gains and socializing losses? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/privatizing-of-gains-and-socializing-of.html
  
• MF Global money found? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-mfglobal-idUSTRE8100FJ20120201 but Vaporized and Deleted? Keiser Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8PyxceA_8
  
• On the Edge with Michael Hudson? http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/29/on-the-edge-with-michael-hudson/
  
• The truth is in the housing numbers? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/truth-is-in-housing-sales-numbers-not.html
  

CONFLICT

• What the people want in the Middle East? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/less-than-one-fifth-of-all-americans-favor-military-or-covert-action-against-iran-less-than-half-of-israelis-want-to-attack-iran-and-65-want-the-entire-middle-east-including-israel-to-be-a-n.html
  
• Panetta won’t dispute Isreal may attack Iran? http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-02/panetta-israel-iran-attack/52939426/1
  
• The Department of War and Dept of Exterior? http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/02/02/national-defense-the-department-of-the-interior-inside-looking-out/
  
• Smart Bullets? http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/journal-smart-bullets.html
  
• Risk of Accidental Gulf War on the rise? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,812199,00.html
  
• Third aircraft carrier group coming to Iran? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/third-aircraft-carrier-group-coming-iran
  
• No exit on the Persian Gulf? http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175496/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_no_exit_in_the_persian_gulf/
  

CONTROL

• ACLU sues Obama over assassination secrecy? http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/singleton/
  
• A quarter of Romney’s contributions come from 41 people? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02/1061054/-A-quarter-of-Mitt-Romneys-campaign-funds-come-from-41-people
  
• ALEC exposed for 24 hours? http://www.commonblog.com/2012/01/31/alec-exposed-for-24-hours/
  
• Stop former VP of Monsanto from taking top post at FDA? http://www.naturalnews.com/034847_Michael_Taylor_Monsanto_FDA.html#ixzz1lEk1xhjZ
  
• A few major Jewish donors push candidates to support Netanyahu on Iran? http://www.onearth.org/blog/usda-plant-hardiness-map-gardening-climate
  
• Chicago to arrest anyone recording protestor arrests? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/01/recording_police_making_arrests_the_outrageous_illinois_law_that_makes_it_a_felony_.html
• Gasland Film Maker arrested? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/house-republicans-order-j_n_1246971.html
  
• End Prohibition? http://radioornot.com/site/?p=5415
  
• The War at Home: Occupy Oakland? http://exiledonline.com/the-war-at-home-amazing-video-from-this-weekends-police-attack-on-occupy-oakland/ & http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/january-28th-oakland-police-fire-tear-gas-flash-bang-grenades-and-rubber-bullets-at-occupy-oakland-protesters.html
  

CLIMATE and ENVIRONMENT

• Even oil companies are preparing for climate change? http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/despite-denial-even-oil-companies-are-planning-inevitable-climate-change.html
  
• Jack Mackerel – Another epic fisheries collapse? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/jack-mackerel-another-epic-fisheries-collapse.html
  
• 30 below and 100 dead? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/thirty-degrees-below--and-at-least-a-hundred-dead-europes-big-freeze-6348751.html
  
• Record floods in Australia? http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/02/record-floods-create-inland-sea-in.html
  
• Wall Street Journal slammed for giving platform to deniers? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/01-6
  
• Ocean Acidification? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/02/ocean-acidification.html
  
• Warmer Winters uproot garden planting map? http://www.onearth.org/blog/usda-plant-hardiness-map-gardening-climate
  
• US escapes Winter but fails to mention global warming? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/31/415942/la-times-us-escaped-winter-global-warming-journalistic-malpractice/
  
• Coldest Jan for some parts of Alaska? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/coldest-january-on-record-for-parts-of-alaska/2012/01/31/gIQAQVyIfQ_blog.html
  
• Destructive environmental impact of cruise ships? http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2012/02/01/the-costa-concordia-and-the-destructive-environmental-impact-of-cruise-ships/
  
• Toxic spill threatens Chinese water? http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/01/31/Toxic-spill-threatens-Chinese-water/UPI-85671328038040/
  
• Scientist answer the Wall St 16? http://climatecrocks.com/2012/02/01/scientists-answer-the-wall-street-16/
  
• Did global warming destroy my hometown? http://www.climatecentral.org/news/did-global-warming-destroy-my-hometown/
  
• Get ready for Super-Extreme Weather? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/30/414188/super-extreme-weather-co2/
  
• Cowards in our Democracies? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/28/413955/james-hansen-on-cowards/
  
• USDA ignores pesticide ravaging bee population? http://naturalsociety.com/usda-ignores-pesticide-ravaging-bee-population-threatening-global-environment/
  

RESOURCES

•   Upside down Milk Jug Planter http://www.instructables.com/id/Upside-Down-Milk-Jug-Planter/
  
•   100Fires Books http://www.100fires.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi
  
•   Mother Nature is the greatest designer http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.178712605543944.45206.100002156186911&
  
•   Peak Moment TV Newsletter http://www.peakmoment.tv/newsletter/120201/index.htm
  
•   The Good Stuff Podcast with Annie Leonard http://info95906.podomatic.com/
  
•   Sunflowers: Spoken Word from Billie Perry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZlhTaQ0hQ
  
•   Rawles Essential Links and Resources http://95.143.198.20/links.html
  
•   Moment of Clarity Book http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/129035
  
•   Food storage packing http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/food-storage-packing-do-it-yourself-facts-myths/70714
  
•   Efoods blog http://www.efoodsdirect.com/Blog/
  
•   Yurts http://transitionvoice.com/2012/02/the-house-that-freedom-built/
  
•   Why we should be all drinking toilet water http://grist.org/list/why-we-should-all-be-drinking-toilet-water/
  
•   Transition Towns You Tube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TransitionTowns
  
•   Teaching soldiers to farm http://grist.org/sustainable-food/new-agtivist-colin-archipley-is-teaching-soldiers-to-farm/
  
•   The Cost of seeking Invulnerability to Pain http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/01/31/the-cost-of-seeking-invulnerability-to-pain/
  
•   Preserving leather boots http://preparednessadvice.com/survival/preserving-your-leather-boots/
  
•   7 ways to green your event http://peakoilhausfrau.blogspot.com/2012/02/seven-ways-to-green-your-event.html
  
•   Crisis of Civilization Movie Review http://transitionvoice.com/2012/01/peak-kitsch-review-crisis-of-civilization/
  
•   Care and cultivation of permanent garden beds http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/permanent-garden-beds-zm0z12fmzhun.aspx
  
•   Exploring the ingredients of Transition http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-25/exploring-ingredients-transition-rob-hopkins-transcript
  
•   How to save the world Jan 12 links http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/01/29/links-for-the-month-january-29-2012/
  
•   Downward Spiral Book http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/like-blog-buy-book.html

CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK - GOV'T MULE "BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN" and missed "War Pigs" version that should have been included last week

1/28/12 - WAR PIGS EDITION

MUST READ, HEAR and SEE

• Why will we always be at war? Lee Camp http://leecamp.net/2012/01/why-we-always-be-at-war-m-o-c-111/
  
• More reasons we are reaching Limits to Growth? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/01/25/more-reasons-why-we-are-reaching-limits-to-growth/
  
• How to be a good consumer? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UFyFUEuSsGk#!
  
• The Age of Stupid clip: Resource Wars? ANIMATION http://peakoil.com/generalideas/the-age-of-stupid-resource-wars/
  
• This will be a dangerous collapse and endgame? James Dines http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/1/20_James_Dines_-_This_Will_be_a_Dangerous_Collapse_%26_Endgame.html & Kunstler’s take http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/murmuration.html
  
• The Globalization of War: The military roadmap to WW III? Online Interactive Reader http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28254
  
• Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition? AUDIO http://soundcloud.com/ianmackenz/charles-eisenstein-money-gift 
  
• The Downward Spiral? Documenting the insanity http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-oil-europe-2012-1#ixzz1kh8DtRy2 & Newt http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/newt-gingrich-leader-america-so-richly.html & Dodd http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/white-house-threatens-to-investigate.html
  
• Banks weren’t meant to be like this? Michael Hudson http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/michael-hudson-banks-weren%E2%80%99t-meant-to-be-like-this.html
  
• Davos shocked to hear that poor people exist? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-davos-shocked-hear-poor-people-exist
  
• The Onion suggest we figure out who to kill pretty fast?  http://grist.org/list/the-onion-suggests-we-figure-out-pretty-fast-who-we-need-to-kill/
  
• 2012 – the year of the world’s geopolitical swing? http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-61-is-available-Global-Systemic-Crisis-2012-The-year-of-the-world-s-great-geopolitical-swing_a8770.html
  
• Between various rocks and various hard places? CHS http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2012/01/between-various-rocks-and-various-hard.html
  
• Nature Journal says Oils Tipping Point has passed? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-26/commentary-nature-can-economy-bear-what-oil-prices-have-store & http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/oil-supply-as-a-strategic-risk/?src=tp & http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=has-peak-oil-already-happened & http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/01/weve-hit-peak-oil-now-comes-permanent-price-volatility.ars
  
• We must address the Climate-Security Nexus? AUDIO http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/26/412543/podcast-we-must-address-the-climate-security-nexus/
  
• Beyond GDP? http://www.demos.org/publication/beyond-gdp-new-measures-new-economy
  
• Occupy your own space? The Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-25-2012-occupy-your-own-space.html
  
• The Path of the US monetary system? Mike Maloney on Capital Account http://rt.com/programs/capital-account/capital-12012/
  

GENERAL INTEREST

•   The original 99% movement? VIDEO http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/the-original-99-movement.html
  
•   Just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/01/just-because-you-cant-see-it-doesnt.html
  
•   What would Jo Bageant do? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/what-would-joe-bageant-do.html
  
•   Occupy Chicago during G8 and NATO summits? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/26/protesters-urged-occupy-chicago-g8-nato
  
•   Spain unemployment nearly 1 of 4? http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/markets/spain-jobless-rate-soars-past-5-million-mark-government-promises-to-bring-in-reforms-faster/2012/01/27/gIQAbv3VVQ_story.html
  
•   Kill Hollywood? And other topics with Mike Ruppert on the Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/26/kr241-keiser-report-kill-hollywood/
  
•   Wall Street blows all other political donors away? Graph http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/wall-street-campaign-spending
  
•   Obama disconnect from the state of the union? Nomi Prins VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnbqAnbq-vM
  
•   Hypocrisy and Devil’s Advocacy? KMO http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/294-hypocrisy-and-devils-advocacy/
  
•   The New American Divide? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/american-divide01-12.html
  
•   10 skirted issues in the SOTU? http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2012/1/24/president-obamas-state-of-the-union-ten-skirted-issues.html
  
•   The State of the Union is not good….? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/the-state-of-the-union.html
  
•   What have we learned in the last 13 years? CHS http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-have-we-learned-in-past-13-years.html
  
•   Biodiversity crisis worse than climate change? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120120010357.htm
  
•   Radiation spikes at Fukushima? http://enenews.com/radiation-spikes-thoughout-tokyo-area-after-yesterdays-quake-charts & http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/tepco-admits-that-radiation-levels-from-fukushima-are-rising.html
  
•   Ex Wall Street power player embraces Occupy? http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/occupy-wall-street-west-warren-langley-occupy-courts
  
•   Suppressing volatility makes the world more dangerous? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-22/suppressing-volatility-makes-world-more-dangerous
  
•   12 trends in 2012? http://www.ecocentricblog.org/2012/01/20/12-in-2012-food-water-and-energy-trends-for-a-new-year/
  
•   Seeds of Freedom – what will our future be? http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/seeds-freedom-%E2%80%93-what-will-our-future-be
  
•   Civilization? http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=2303
  
•   Thank You for Standing Up? Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/thank_you_for_standing_up_20120123/
  

WTF?

• “It’s going fast,” he said as he looked at the 57-foot boat. “We’ve got to fish harder before it’s all gone.” Asked what he would leave his son, he shrugged: “He’ll have to find something else.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/science/earth/in-mackerels-plunder-hints-of-epic-fish-collapse.html?_r=1
  
• H.R. 1981 is a turd wrapped in cotton candy? http://www.webpronews.com/h-r-1981-is-a-turd-wrapped-in-cotton-candy-2012-01
  

ECONOMICS

•   The ‘muddle-through’ economy with Mish on Capital Report? VIDEO http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/capital-account-snow-stories-from-davos.html
  
•   It’s time to make the hard decisions? John Mauldin AUDIO http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/john-mauldin-its-time-make-hard-decisions/70550
  
•   How big banks are rewriting the Rules of our Economy? Moyers VIDEO http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/01/28
  
•   Living in a QE world? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/living-in-a-qe-world/
  
•   If the economy is improving….? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/if-the-economy-is-improving
  
•   Another day of surreality on Wall Street? CHARTS http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2012/01/another-day-of-surreality-on-wall-street.html
  
•   Apparel Import Data? CHART http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/chart-of-day-apparel-import-data-in.html
  
•   Welcome to Japan? http://market-ticker.org/post=201037
  
•   Germany loses grip? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/germany-loses-its-grip.html
  
•   The sham and shame of Davos? Max Keiser http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/18/max-keiser-interviewed-for-bbc-the-sham-and-shame-of-davos/
  
•   The end is the beginning is the end? http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-22-2012-end-is-beginning-is-end.html
  
•   SOTU in Charts? http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/obamas-16-tons-state-of-the-union-address-you-owe-your-soul-to-the-government-store/
  
•   Obama to use Pension Funds to pay the Bank Mortgage “Settlement”? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/obama-to-give-banks-mortgage-get-out-of-jail-almost-free-card-pressures-state-attorneys-generals-to-capitulate.html & http://www.thenation.com/blog/165806/obama-brink-settlement-big-banks-and-progressives-are-furious
  
•   The catastrophe of our economy for young America? http://www.mybudget360.com/catastrophe-of-economy-for-young-american-worker-college-debt-wages-loss-of-pensions-401k-gambling/
  

ENERGY

•   Where is US Oil production going? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/where-is-us-oil-production-going.html
  
•   Fossil Fuels vs Renewables: The key argument that environmentalists are missing? http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2012/01/fossil-fuels-vs-renewables/
  
•   From Suburban Sprawl to Peak Oil? Kunstler http://www.realitysandwich.com/talking_james_howard_kunstler
  
•   Am I living in a nightmare? Question Everything http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2012/01/am-i-living-in-a-nightmare.html
  
•   Big Oil’s civilization ending pollution push? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/big-oils-civilization-ending-pollution-push-2012-01-24
  
•   Marcellus shale gas reserves estimate cut by 66%? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-23/u-s-reduces-marcellus-shale-gas-reserve-estimate-by-66-on-revised-data.html
  
•   India to pay gold for Iran oil? http://www.debka.com/article/21673/
  
•   Australian Peak Oil Report: Long term trends and projections? http://www.countercurrents.org/gargett220112.htm
  

CONFLICT

•   Iran could turn off EU oil supply early? http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-oil-europe-2012-1#ixzz1kh8DtRy2
  
•   The Future of Warfare? http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/01/the-future-of-warfare.html
  
•   Italy on verge of a full revolt? http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2012/1/25/italy-on-the-verge-of-a-full-revolt.html
  
•   Even Israel admits Iran not building a nuclear bomb? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/even-israel-admits-that-iran-has-not-decided-to-build-a-nuclear-bomb.html
  
•   Plot thickens in Iran war propaganda? http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/25/bfp-developing-story-war-on-iran-propagandas-new-azeri-plot-thickens/
  
•   There is NO EVIDENCE that Iran is building nuclear weapons? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/contrary-to-widespread-claims-there-is-no-evidence-that-iran-is-building-a-nuclear-weapon.html
  
•   Obama sending forces to Libya? http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/01/20/obama-sending-us-forces-to-libya
  

CONTROL

•   Makings of a police state? AUDIO http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/27/podcast-show-74-2/
  
•   Urgent need to protect the global supply chain? http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/01/27/the-urgent-need-to-protect-the-global-supply-chain/
  
•   The real reason why MegaUpload was shut down? http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/01/24/is-this-the-real-reason-why-megaupload-was-shut-down/ 
  
•   US drops in Press Freedom Rankings? http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/25/reporters_without_borders_press_freedom_index_slams_us_for_occupy_wall_street_arrests.html
  
•   Nader astonished by ‘lawless militarism’ in Obama’s address? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/25/nader-astonished-by-lawless-militarism-in-obamas-address/
  
•   Geoengineered Food? Climate fix? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/01/20/145535536/geoengineered-food-climate-fix-could-boost-crop-yields-but-with-risks?ft=1&f=1025
  
•   Tea party founder calls for movie boycott? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/tea-party-founder-calls-for-movie-boycott.html
  
•   The World War on Democracy? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28753
  
•   Do Drones undermine Democracy? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/opinion/sunday/do-drones-undermine-democracy.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=pete
  
•   Yet another reminder that Democracy is an illusion? http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/yet-another-reminder-that-democracy-is-an-illusion/
  

CLIMATE

•   Where is the climate headed? Dr Jeff Masters http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2022
  
•   NASA video show 130 years of Global Warming? New Global temp record within 3 years? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/27/413227/nasa-video-global-warming/
  
•   Another terrifying drought paper? Early Warning http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-terrifying-drought-paper.html
  
•   Animals cannot keep up with Climate Change? http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/animals-cant-keep-up-with-climate-change-6292874.html
  
•   New map for what to plant? http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120126/ap_on_sc/us_sci_planting_zone_map
  
•   The Climate Pandemic connection? http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/pandemics
  
•   Arctic temps break 2010 record? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/23/409099/arctic-temperatures-continue-rapid-rise-2011-breaks-record/
  

RESOURCES

•   Group Works Card Deck http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/01/27/group-works-card-deck-a-joyful-announcement/
  
•   Little Library http://www.shareable.net/blog/so-you-want-to-make-a-little-free-library
  
•   In Transition 2.0 http://transitionculture.org/2012/01/27/five-questions-for-emma-goude-producer-of-in-transition-2-0/
  
•   Stand up for family farmers http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/farmersvs_monsanto/
  
•   Avoiding prepper burnout http://modernsurvivalonline.com/avoiding-prepper-burnout/
  
•   Using beans instead of fat in baking http://preparednessadvice.com/recipes/using-beans-instead-of-fat-in-baking/
  
•   Folks this ain’t normal – Joel Salatin http://folksthisaintnormal.com/
  
•   Should I get an education or a degree? http://www.resilientcommunities.com/should-you-get-an-education-or-a-degree/
  
•   Storing Honey http://preparednessadvice.com/food_storage/storing-honey/
  
•   Sam Penny’s Was a Time When http://crash-watcher.blogspot.com/2012/01/sam-pennys-was-time-when.html
  
•   Heirloom Solutions http://www.heirloomsolutions.com/
  
•   Growthbusters review http://transitionvoice.com/2012/01/growthbusters-hooked-on-growth/
  
•   The Decline of the American Empire http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/23/the-decline-of-the-american-empire-2
  
•   Gifting, Paying Forward and Other Ideas for the New Economy  http://conflicteddoomer.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/gifting-paying-forward-and-other-ideas-for-the-new-economy/
  
•   Somewhere in New Mexico before the end of time – trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsPqtWfIQoQ
  
•   Time Lapse: the Milky Way and storms over Africa http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/space-time-lapse-video-milky-way-africa_n_1217451.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
  
•   Free book Gaian Economics http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/books/ebooks/free-ebooks/gaian-economics-ebook-edition.html
  
•   The Occupied Wall Street Journal http://occupiedmedia.us/2012/01/occupied/
  
•   Illustrated guide to the state of sustainability http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/23/408258/an-illustrated-guide-to-the-state-of-sustainability/
  
•   Resilient Communities http://www.resilientcommunities.com/
  
•   Japan considers a Green Future http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1044

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregators

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
•   Naked Capitalism  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/   
  
•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest

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MUST SEE, HEAR and READ

•   Returning to Simplicity – Whether we want to or not? Gregor Macdonald http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/returning-to-simplicity/70143
  
•   On the Edge with Gonzalo Lira and Max Keiser now banned in Britain? Why? Watch this VIDEO http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/21/ote141-on-the-edge-with-gonzalo-lira/
  
•   Our road ahead says RISE! Peaceful Non-Compliance? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0DF_xKAO8aM#
  
•   Corporate rule is not inevitable? http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/sarah-van-gelder/corporate-rule-is-not-inevitable
  
•   What is SOPA and PIPA? VIDEO Khan Academy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc&feature=player_embedded#!
  
•   We are the 1%? VIDEO HUMOR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrGdEwV-efs&feature=player_embedded
  
•   Infinite Rehypothecation? Nicole Foss on C-Realm AUDIO http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/293-infinite-rehypothecation/
  
•   Security by Design? http://www.postcarbon.org/article/675949-security-by-design
  
•   Japan, Canadian, US officials have betrayed their citizens by hiding radiation…”Akin to Murder”? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/japanese-canadian-and-american-officials-have-betrayed-their-citizens-by-hiding-radiation-akin-to-murder.html
  
•   10 reasons the US is no longer the Land of the Free? Jonathan Turley http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-turley/constitutional-rights_b_1213234.html?ref=tw
  
•   Dancing on History’s Edge: Why this is an amazing time to be alive? http://carolynbaker.net/2012/01/18/dancing-on-historys-edge-why-this-is-an-amazing-time-to-be-alive-by-dianne-monroe/
  
•   ALEC and the circumventing of our Democracy? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y2nZPe48Ms
  
•   Humanity Overdue? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjgYXBI7T7I
  
•   Nuclear Aftershock? Frontline http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/frontline-nuclear-aftershock-full-video/
  
•   Debt Limit – A guide to debt made easy? VIDEO HUMOR http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Li0no7O9zmE
  
•   How flawed economic theories fail to account for financial fraudsters? Bill Black http://www.alternet.org/economy/153756/greenspan%27s_laissez_fairy_tale%3A_how_flawed_economic_theories_fail_to_account_for_financial_fraudsters/
  
•   Carl Levin arrested for NDAA? VIDEO http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/01/occupy-congressand-chris-hedges-sues.html
  
•   Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/fukushima-radiation-spreads-worldwide.html
  
•   Decentralization is the only plausible Economic solution left? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-decentralization-only-plausible-economic-solution-left
  
•   How much of US Consumables are Made in China? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/how-much-of-us-consumables-are-made-in-china/
  
•   Gangsters and Banksters? Dave Pollard http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/01/14/gangsters-and-banksters/
  
•   The life you live? http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=2300
  

WTF?

•   Atlanta Jewish Times has suggested assassinating Obama? http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2012/01/trial-ballon-floated.html & http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/uproar-after-jewish-american-newspaper-publisher-suggests-israel-assassinate-barack-obama-1.408429
  
•   Obama’s nominee to World Bank President explains why Africa is “vastly underpolluted”? http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=6394
  
•   Foxconn (Apple gadget manufacturer) CEO says “Managing one million animals gives me a headache”? http://www.businessinsider.com/foxconn-animals-2012-1 
  

GENERAL INTEREST

•   The Cloud is dead? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/did-the-feds-just-kill-the-cloud-storage-model.html
  
•   Italy risks worst environmental disaster in decades? http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/43886
  
•   This is why they will not prosecute financial crimes? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/is-this-why-they-wont-prosecute-top-justice-officials-represented-big-banks.html
  
•   Global Elite are hiding 18 Trillion dollars in offshore banks? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-global-elite-are-hiding-18-trillion-dollars-in-offshore-banks
  
•   The revolution will be bottom-up? Chris Nelder http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/the-revolution-will-be-bottom-up/296
  
•   Cancer Risk to children near Fukushima underestimated? Arnie Gundersen http://vimeo.com/35212151
  
•   Home ownership is a fraud? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/time-to-concede-home-ownership-is-fraud.html
  
•   Chris Hedges sues Obama over NDAA? http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_his_lawsuit_against_the_president_20120120/  & http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/pulitzer-prize-winning-reporter-sues-government-over-indefinite-detention-bill.html
  
•   They tried to teach my baby science? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/they-tried-to-teach-my-baby-science.html
  
•   The coming decentralization of manufacturing? http://www.theresilientfamily.com/2012/01/the-coming-decentralization-of-manufacturing/
  
•   Occupy Parenting..fighting corporate greed at home? http://moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10182734-occupy-parenting-aims-to-fight-corporate-greed-at-home
  
•   Romney loses cool with Occupier? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/19-5
  
•   Why Marijuana should be legalized? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkzJM0iCdZ4&feature=youtu.be
  
•   The Downward Spiral? Documenting the decline daily http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/
  
•   Warning signs we should prepare for the worst? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/warning-signs-that-we-should-prepare-for-the-worst
  
•   Big Banks pick a WINNER – It’s Willard Romney? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/the-big-banks-pick-the-winner-its-willard-romneyt.html
  
•   The limits to growth at forty? http://www.universitytimes.ie/?p=7760
  
•   Gaze into the exploding universe of dark money? http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/super-pacs-501-c-groups-chart
  
•   You can’t fool Mother Nature for long: Mainstream Media? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/corporate-media01-12.html
  
•   Is your garden pesticide killing bees? http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/bee-killing-pesticides-not-just-corn-fields
  
•   The new story of stuff: Can we consume less? http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-community/story-of-stuff-zwfz1201zhun.aspx
  
•   How the GOP stealth money machine works? http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/interactive-explainer-republican-governors-association-money-machine
  
•   MLK debates Romney? VIDEO http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/martin-luther-king-v-mitt-romney.html
  
•   Colbert Super PAC? http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-16-2012/colbert-super-pac---strict-separation?xrs=synd_twtbutton
  
•   Mitt the Ripper? Colbert VIDEO  http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/405930/january-15-2012/colbert-super-pac-ad---attack-in-b-minor-for-strings?xrs=playershare_twitter
  
•   The Romney Rate – 15%? http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-tax-rate-closer-to-15-percent-2012-1
  
•   Save Wall St or Save the World? Only one can survive? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/save-the-world-join-our-new-investing-mission-2012-01-17?link=home_carousel
  
•   What’s really in and out for 2012? http://transitionvoice.com/2012/01/whats-really-in-and-out-for-2012/
  
•   Occupy the neighborhood? Land Banks and Eminent Domain http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/occupy-the-neighborhood-how-counties-can-use-land-banks-and-eminent-domain-2/
  

ENERGY

•   Iran oil to be sanctioned by Europe Monday? http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/news/international/Iran_eu_sanctions/index.htm?iid=HP_LN
  
•   Australian Peaky Leaks goes mainstream? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-20/australian-peaky-leaks-goes-mainstream
  
•   $4 gas likely this spring? CNN http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/travel/spring-gas-prices/index.html
  
•   Cold Fusion Update? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-19/peak-oil-crisis-cold-fusion-update
  
•   Where do continued high oil prices lead us? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/01/18/where-do-continued-high-oil-prices-lead-us/
  
•   Energy Subsidies: Oil vs Renewables, FAIL? http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2012/01/18/energy-subsidies-oil-versus-renewables/
  
•   Wealth and Energy consumption are inseparable? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-consumption-are-inseparable.html
  

ECONOMICS

•   Economics in one lesson? AUDIO Two Beers with Steve http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/episode-109-book-club-economics-in-one-lesson-part-1
  
•   Visualizing the World’s Black Market? National Geographic http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/18/black-market-infographic/
  
•   Yet another Reality Check? 3 GRAPHS http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2012/01/yet-another-reality-check.html
  
•   Local Economies for a Global Future? http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/local-economies-for-a-global-future
  
•   Don’t be fooled, nothing is priced in? http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-19-2012-dont-be-fooled-nothings.html
  
•   Pimco’s El-Erian says World at Tippping Point? http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Pimco-El-Erian-World-Economies/2012/01/18/id/424596
  
•   You can’t fool Mother Nature: The Substitution of Debt for Productivity? CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/productivity-debt01-12.html
  
•   Jumping the Shark? http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2012/01/jumping-shark.html
  
•   World Bank warns of Global Growth Slowdown? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/world-bank-warns-global-growth-slowdown-15383869#.TxcrRCMyx1A worse than 2008? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46036397/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/#.Txd2BG8S26M
  
•   Re-hypothecation on the whiteboard? VIDEO http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/whiteboard/re-hypothecation-how-its-related-mf-global#story-content
  
•   Europe on the Rocks? http://www.economic-undertow.com/2012/01/18/europe-on-the-rocks/
  
•   Treasury dips into pensions to avoid debt? http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-dips-pension-funds-avoid-debt-limit-202850021.html
  
•   Americans raid savings http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/us-recovery-risk-idUSTRE80G08320120117
  
•   Bailouts + Downgrades = Austerity and Pain? Nomi Prins http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2012/1/17/bailouts-downgrades-austerity-and-pain.html
  
•   Economics of Suicide? Keiser Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PpEuzBmfH3g
  

CONFLICT

•   New desperate concoction for War on Iran? http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/21/bfp-breaking-news-the-new-desperate-concoction-for-war-on-iran/
  
•   Pentagon outsources War on Drugs to Blackwater? http://rt.com/usa/news/pentagon-war-drugs-blackwater-217/
  
•   Russia planning Iran war games? CSM http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0117/Why-Russia-is-planning-Iran-war-games
  
•   Israeli hackers bring down Saudi and UAE stock exchange sites? http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-hackers-bring-down-saudi-uae-stock-exchange-websites-1.407846
  
•   US funded the Iranian terror group that found the documents upon which the warmongers are relying? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/the-u-s-government-funded-the-iranian-terrorist-group-which-found-the-documents-upon-which-the-warmongers-are-basing-their-case.html
  

CONTROL

•   How and why Anonymous took down the FBI’s website? http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/inside-anonymous-largest-attack-ever-FBI-megaupload-mega-upload & http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9027246/Anonymous-attacks-FBI-website-over-Megaupload-raids.html
  
•   SOPA and PIPA explained? http://radioornot.com/site/?p=5388
  
•   Senators fee from PIPA due to Internet blackout? http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/19/internet-blackout-causes-18-senators-to-flee-from-pipa/
  
•   Rahm Emanuel’s new regime and version of the “Shock Doctrine”? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/19/outlawing-dissent-rahm-emanuel-new-regime?CMP=twt_gu
  
•   The real meaning of the Megaupload Takedown? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/the-real-meaning-of-the-take-down-of-megaupload.html
  
•   The Globalization of the Police State? http://www.corbettreport.com/police-state-international-the-globalization-of-control/
  
•   DHS shreds Constitution to monitor dissent? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/homeland-security-shreds-constitutional-right-to-anonymous-political-speech-not-to-protect-our-security-but-to-monitor-dissent.html
  
•   Racism rebranded as war on drugs? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/16/dylan-ratigan-racism-was-rebranded-the-war-on-drugs/
  

CLIMATE

•   He who controls the spin controls the universe? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/21/1056605/-This-week-in-science:-He-who-controls-the-spin-controls-the-universe
  
•   Globally 9 of the 10 warmest years occurred since 2000? http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/43880
  
•   Billion dollar weather disasters in 2011 raised to 14? http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20120119_global_stats.html
  
•   Climate disasters jack up Insurance Rates? http://climatecrocks.com/2012/01/19/climate-disasters-jack-insurance-rates-up/
  
•   Risk of extreme climate events largely underestimated? http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/01/risk-of-extreme-climate-events-is.html
  
•   China warns of Extremely grim ecological and environmental conditions? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/18/405795/china-global-warming/
  
•   Why emissions need to drop off a cliff? http://www.climatecodered.org/2012/01/why-emissions-need-to-drop-off-cliff.html
  

RESOURCES

•   Solution Revolution http://www.puppetgov.com/category/solution-revolution/
  
•   Small Scale Farming is the Solution http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/for-farmers-everywhere-small-is-still-beautiful
  
•   Khan Academy http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy?feature=watch#p/c/7A9646BC5110CF64
  
•   Backyard Aquaponics http://www.theresilientfamily.com/2012/01/backyard-aquaponics/
  
•   How farms are using Permaculture http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/how-farms-are-using-permaculture-survive.html & http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how-farms-are-using-permaculture-design-survive-and-prosper
  
•   Living Off Grid – Home and Energy Options pt 2 http://www.motherearthnews.com/the-happy-homesteader/living-off-grid-home-energy-options-part-2.aspx
  
•   Time to start those Veggie Gardens http://www.motherearthnews.com/basic-country-skills/its-time-to-start-those-veggie-gardens.aspx
  
•   Million pounds of Organic Food on 3 Acres http://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/14/how-1-million-pounds-of-organic-food-can-be-produced-on-3-acres/
  
•   Sacred Economics Conclusion http://www.realitysandwich.com/sacred_economics_ch24_conclusion
  
•   Surviving Bed Bugs http://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-shelter-trick-for-surviving-bedbugs-diatomaceous-earth-2010-01
  
•   Sourcing Textile Locally http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/fibershed-case-study-sourcing-fibers-locally/70296
  
•   What we like vs what we want http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/01/19/what-we-like-vs-what-we-want/
  
•   11 local Currencies http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/pf/1201/gallery.community-currencies/?iid=HP_LN
  
•   Urban farming essentials http://grist.org/urban-agriculture/urban-farming-essentials-authors-of-a-new-definitive-guide-tell-all/
  
•   Waking up, Walking away http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/waking-up-walking-away.html
  
•   Fire: The Happy Hoarder http://transitionvoice.com/2012/01/the-happy-hoarder-fire-in-the-belly/
  
•   One Acre feeds a person http://www.farmlandlp.com/2012/01/one-acre-feeds-a-person/
  
•   How to grow Shiitake Mushrooms http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/iphone-timelapse-of-shiitake-mushrooms-how-to-grow
  
•   Free Permacuture Book http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/designing-ecological-habitats-creating-a-sense-of-place-ebook-edition.html
  
•   How to build a hoop style greenhouse http://www.motherearthnews.com/the-happy-homesteader/how-to-build-a-hoop-style-greenhouse.aspx
  
•   Use Less http://www.lessconsumption.com/Ideas_to_consume_less_energy.aspx
  
•   Open Market Sustainability http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1039
  
•   The Victory Garden of Tomorrow http://www.cityfarmer.info/2012/01/16/the-victory-garden-of-tomorrow/
  
•   Free Online Class: Metro Agriculture http://www.cityfarmer.info/2012/01/16/free-online-course-strategies-for-value-creation-in-metropolitan-agriculture/
  
•   Tools to Increase local food distribution https://attra.ncat.org/calendar/br_news.php/2012/01/17/illinois-announces-tools-to-help-increase-local-food-distribution
  
•   How to make a backpacking wood gasifier stove http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/diy-how-make-backpacking-wood-gasifier-stove
  
•   Stock up on these http://hillbillymom08.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-is-imperative-to-stock-up-on-these.html
  
•   Hugelkultur instead of irrigation http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/
  

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregators

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
•   Naked Capitalism  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/   
  
•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest

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1/15/12 - MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT EDITION

MUST SEE, HEAR and READ

• Kunster’s 2012 New Year’s Resolution? AUDIO http://kunstlercast.com/shows/kunstlercast-188-forecast-2012.html
  
• The Year of Living Dangerously – 2012? The Burning Platform http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=27063
  
• Doomsday Clock moved one minute closer to midnight? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-2
  
• The secret to how our society’s owners get away with everything? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1OnDHySL98
  
• War with Iran has begun? Jim Rickards on King World News AUDIO http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/1/13_Jim_Rickards_-_War_With_Iran_has_Begun,_Gold_to_Break_$2,000.html
  
• Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’? http://www.grist.org/food/2012-01-13-honey-bees-problem-nearing-a-critical-point#.TxFwE1_Sz2U.facebook
  
• Peak Oil, Energy Descent, and the Fate of Consumerism? http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-energy-descent-and-the-fate-of-consumerism/  & http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-can-fuel-a-change-for-the-better/
  
• The High Price of Materialism? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw&sns=em
  
• Wall Street Gangsta? Keiser Report with Zero Hedge’s Michael Kreiger http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/14/236-keiser-report-wall-street-gangsta/
  
• Why the Military Industrial Complex supports oppressive regimes Sibel Edmonds http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/14/why-the-military-industrial-complex-supports-oppressive-regimes/
  
• Habituating to Contraction? CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/habituation-contraction01-12.html
  
• PIMCO says QE3 is coming? Capital Account with Keiser commentary http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/14/mohamed-el-erian-tells-us-that-he-believes-qe3-is-coming-and-that-the-age-of-credit-is-at-risk/
  
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man? Old video but more relevant everyday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8&feature=g-wl&context=G2ea2045AWAAAAAAAnAA
  
• 24 stats to share with your optimistic friends? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/24-statistics-to-show-to-anyone-who-believes-that-america-has-a-bright-economic-future
  
• Fear of Genetically Modified Food? Too late GRAPH http://www.fastcoexist.com/1677871/fearful-of-genetically-modified-crops-youre-too-late
  
• Perception Management? KMO interviews Mark Robinowitz AUDIO http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/292-limited-hangouts-and-perception-management/
  
• Tea party and Occupy debate? VIDEO http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/11/watch-live-tea-party-and-occupy-members-debate/
  
• Why I am Racist? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmhDtAg8UVc
  
• Iran: Oh, No; Not Again? Chris Martenson http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/iran-oh-no-not-again/69355
  
• Protecting against indefinite detention may get you detained? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/in-a-tyranny-even-pointing-out-the-fact-of-tyranny-is-grounds-for-harassment.html & http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-ndaa-protests-end-ironic-swarm-arrests
  
• The Post Empire Survival Guide? http://prorev.com/postempire.htm
  
• As Centralized systems devolve, the solution is Localism? CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/localism-is-solution01-12.html
  
• More proof of Obama policy of covering up for Elite Financial Criminals? Bill Black http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/bill-black-more-proof-of-obama-policy-of-covering-up-for-elite-financial-criminals.html
  
• The Geopolitical Implication of “Peak Everything”? Richard Heinberg http://www.postcarbon.org/article/660520-geopolitical-implications-of-peak-everything
  
• Population and Peak Oil? Mish http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/population-elephant-in-room-peak-oil.html
  
• Next steps for the 99%? David Degraw on Dylan Ratigan http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-dylan-ratigan-show/45933204#null
  
• Personal choices in uncertain times? http://guymcpherson.com/2012/01/personal-choices-in-uncertain-times/
  

GENERAL INTEREST 

• Bain Capital owns Clear Channel? Get onboard with Mitt or find another job\media outlet! http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/bain-capital-owns-clear-channel-rush.html
  
• King of Bain? VIDEO http://nationaljournal.com/pictures-video/watch-king-of-bain-video-that-s-causing-a-stir-20120113?mrefid=election2012
  
• The continued Downward Spiral? Social Security http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/social-security-blues-2012-shaping-up.html & National Guard Tuition http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/thanks-for-your-service-guardsmen-now.html & Hostess http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/11/news/companies/hostess_bankruptcy/ 
  
• Engineered Inequality? Bill Moyers VIDEO http://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/ 
  
• Back to the Robber Barons? NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/opinion/back-to-the-robber-barons.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211
  
• America’s incredible shrinking Labor force? http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2012/01/12/americas-incredible-shrinking-labour-force/#axzz1jJYbmbIc
  
• Peak Choice? http://www.peakchoice.org/index.html
  
• Global Risks of 2012? http://www.businessinsider.com/wef-global-risks-2012-2012-1#
  
• Doomsday Clock ticks louder? But who’s listening? http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/doomsday-clock-ticks-one-minute-closer-to-midnight 
  
• Revolving Door? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/revolving-door-from-top-futures-regulator-to-top-futures-lobbyist-20120111
  
• Jon Corzine – Lives of the Rich and Famous? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/jon-corzine-lives-of-the-rich-and-famous.html
  
• Farmers sue Corzine over missing millions? http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/farmers-sue-jon-corzine-missing-millions/story?id=15321298#.TxLneW8S26N
  
• Zuccotti reoccupied? http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/occupy-wall-street-re-occupies-zuccotti-park/47259/
  
• 40% of Americans now Independents? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/a-stunning-40-of-americans-are-now-independent-ron-paul-polls-highest-among-independents-and-independents-would-vote-for-paul-over-obama.html
  
• Revisiting prophecies of Collapse? http://www.countercurrents.org/mackenzie100112.htm
  
• Why now, what’s next, occupy? Naomi Klein http://www.thenation.com/article/165530/why-now-whats-next-naomi-klein-and-yotam-marom-conversation-about-occupy-wall-street
  
• What if we elected Ron Paul in 2000? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-if-we-could-turn-back-hands-of.html
  
• The Cassandra club? http://www.dharmagaians.org/6-6%20Cassandra%20Club.html
  
• This ripe moment? Kunstler http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/this-ripe-moment.html
  
• What love looks like? Conversation with Tim DeChristopher http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6598
  
• Is Ron Paul the 2012 Black Swan? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ron-paul-2012s-black-swan
  
• Nations must choose between pain and disaster? John Mauldin http://www.businessinsider.com/mauldin-2012-hard-choices-2012-1
  
• Dance of the Marionettes? Orlov http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2012/01/dance-of-marionettes.html
  

ENERGY

• Oil unlikely to fall below $70? http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-shows-why-oil-will-never-fall-below-70-again-2012-1
  
• The Blood of the Earth, or Pulp Nonfiction? John Michael Greer http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/blood-of-earth-or-pulp-nonfiction.html
  
• Keystone is not a jobs plan but an Oil export plan? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/13/403443/keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-jobs-plan-oil-export/
  
• Why Oil prices are about to collapse? http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Why-Oil-Prices-Are-About-to-Collapse.html
  
• Where does Car energy go? Graphic http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2012_fotw709.html
  
• Political stand-off in the US Energy Policy? Chris Nelder AUDIO http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2012/01/13/chris-nelder/political-stand-off-in-us-energy-policy
  
• Petro-tyrants now face perniciously low oil prices? http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/11/on_top_of_the_arab_spring_petro_tyrants_now_face_perniciously_low_oil_prices?page=full
  
• Peak Oil Crisis: Gasoline in 2012? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-11/peak-oil-crisis-gasoline-2012
  
• The job myth of gas drilling? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-10/fracking-nonsense-job-myth-gas-drilling
  
• The Faustian bargain that modern Economists never mention? http://peakoil.com/consumption/the-faustian-bargain-that-modern-economists-never-mention/
  
• ASPO 2011 presos for download? http://www.aspo-usa.org/conference/2011/presentations/
  
• Energy Differentiation? Robert Hirsch http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2012/01/energy-differentiation/
  
• Fracking Moratorium urged by US Doctors? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-09/fracking-moratorium-urged-by-u-s-doctors-until-health-studies-conducted.html
  

ECONOMY

• 2012 – Year of Fat Tails? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/2012-year-of-the-fat-tails.html
  
• Regional Misery Distribution? http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/01/regional-misery-distribution.html
  
• Oh Look, we are still selling out our kids to debt slavery? http://market-ticker.org/post=200331
  
• On the Edge with Danny Schechter? http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/14/on-the-edge-with-danny-schechter-2/
  
• A new Economic Era? Michael Shuman VIDEO http://www.postcarbon.org/video/668156-outside-in-with-michael-shuman-and
  
• Financial Armageddon goes mainstream? http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2012/01/in-good-company.html & http://www.bloomberg.com/money-gallery/2012-01-14/apocalypse-how-dire-2012-forecasts.html
  
• Social Security cannot keep up the pace? http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/01/13/ponzi-scheme-or-not-social-security-cant-keep-up-the-pace/
  
• Financial Bombs just got dropped all over Europe? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/bam-bam-bam-huge-financial-bombs-just-got-dropped-all-over-europe
  
• Fitch warns of Euro collapse? http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/fitch-warns-of-cataclysmic-euro-collapse-20120112-1pw7s.html
  
• All you need to know about Wall Street in one brief tale? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wall-street-in-one-brief-tale-20120113
  
• Accident at 2nd Japan complex? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/accident-at-second-japanese-nuclear-complex.html
  
• MF Global and a possible bank holiday? Warren Pollack and Ann Barnahrdt http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/01/warren-pollock-interviews-ann-barnhardt.html?spref=tw
  
• Death by 1000 Revalations? Keiser Report with Nomi Prins http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/12/kr235-keiser-report-death-by-thousand-revelations/
  
• Dear USA: Your account is overdrawn? CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/US-overdraft01-12.html
  
• Houston, we have recoupling? Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/houston-we-have-recoupling-initial-claims-back-over-400000-post-next-weeks-revision-retail-sale
  
• Colbert digs into capitalism with Moyers? http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers-capitalism/1326300624
  
• Nearly 10 Million Shadow Inventory Housing Market? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/michael-olenick-10-million-shadow-inventory-says-housing-market-is-a-long-way-from-the-bottom.html
  
• US Debt Ceiling is back? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-debt-ceiling-theater-back-think-issue-autopilot-think-again
  
• Mafia is Italy’s largest Bank? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mafia-now-italys-largest-bank
  
• Challenging the Tarp made money claim? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/gao-goes-after-administration-tarp-made-money-claim.html
  
• Not Flush? Consumer GRAPHS http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2012/01/not-flush.html
  
• Prime age men crawling back to work? http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/01/prime-age-men-crawling-back-to-work.html
  
• As home prices fall, more walk away? MSNBC http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/21/9614305-as-home-prices-fall-more-borrowers-walk-away
  
• QE3 won’t produce the outcomes we want? PIMCO’s El-Erian http://www.zerohedge.com/news/pimcos-el-erian-qe3-wont-produce-outcomes-we-want
  

FOOD

• How resilient is the food system? http://contraposition.org/blog/2012/01/11/how-resilient-is-the-food-system/
  
• Monsanto Roundup Resistance spreads to Canada? http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/monsanto-roundup-resistance-spreads-in.html
  
• Whole Foods sells out to Monsanto? http://rickthehealthsleuth.blogspot.com/2011/01/whole-foods-sells-out-to-monsanto.html
  
• Too many people and too little food = Social Unrest? http://oakshirefinancial.com/2012/01/13/a-provisions-shortage-sparked-the-arab-spring/
  
• The very real danger of GMO? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/
  
• Want local food, stop criminalizing farmers? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/10-0
  

CONTROL

• Corrupt Regimes crumble when the foot soldiers refuse to carry out orders? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/corrupt-regimes-crumble-as-soon-as-the-foot-soldiers-refuse-to-carry-out-the-tyrants-draconian-orders.html
  
• TSA Air Marshal arrested in mugging of Occupier? Very strange circumstances http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/air-marshal-arrested-occupy/
  
• Right wing documentary to take on Occupy? Citizen’s United is back http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/right_wing_lens_for_occupy_documentary/singleton/
  
• Obama’s new Chief – Smells like change? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/hopey-changeys-new-chief-of-staff-smells-like-change.html
  
• The hidden dark agenda of public education? http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/hidden-dark-agenda-public-education
  
• Mainstream media is the Weapon of Mass Destruction? CARTOON http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/mainsteam-media-weapon-of-mass-distraction.html
  
• Dear Gitmo, Happy 10th? Indefinite Detention CARTOON http://motherjones.com/media/2012/01/mark-fiore-cartoon-guantanamo-anniversary-indefinite-detention
  
• Media’s manipulative influence over your morals? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZkC_fNxmQk&feature=youtu.be
  
• Why Americans are getting hosed? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-why-308127404-americans-are-going-get-hosed
  
• Everything you need to know about SOPA and PIPA? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sopa-and-pipa.html
  
• It’s Viral? Citizens United to be overturned? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmZmI4eP7cc
  
• Sen Wellstone: They Killed Him? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-bmmpoDndw
  
• 2012 Terrorist Identification Chart? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvSFBVojjU&feature=player_embedded
  

CONFLICT

• Russia response to an attack on Iran? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/russia-should-anything-happen-to-iran-this-will-be-a-direct-threat-to-our-national-security.html
  
• Remote Controlled War at Home? http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/the-remote-controlled-war-at-home
  
• This is really about forcing the world into dollars and private central banking? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/are-the-middle-east-wars-really-about-forcing-the-world-into-dollars-and-private-central-banking.html
  
• The Oil chess game? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-12/japan-considering-gradual-cut-in-iran-oil-imports-as-sanctions-calls-rise.html
  
• The NeoCONS are at it again? http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/12/iran-the-neocons-are-at-it-again/
  
• War clouds darken? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/12-5
  
• US carrier fleet moving in? http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/iran-aircraft-carriers/
  
• Oil gets cheaper for China and the US picks up the tab on Hormuz patrols? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-12/china-gets-cheaper-iran-oil-as-u-s-pays-tab-for-hormuz-patrols.html
  
• Stepping up covert actions? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/world/middleeast/iran-adversaries-said-to-step-up-covert-actions.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
  
• STRATOR Annual Forecast 2012? Whole site is free http://www.stratfor.com/forecast/annual-forecast-2012
  
• War Watch 2012? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-215_162-57356114/war-watch-2012-welcome-to-a-very-edgy-world/
  
• The War Dance is in Full Swing? Asia Times http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA11Ak05.html
  
• The Strait of Hormuz isn’t the only place of rising tension? Michael Klare http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/energy-wars-strait-hormuz-iran-sanctions
  
• The Great Innovation Wars? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-vs-usa-wwiii-great-innovation-wars-2012-01-10?link=MW_popular
  
• US overthrew Iran’s democracy? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/us-overthrew-irans-democracy-1953-1979-armed-iraq-to-invade-1980-1988-now-lies-for-more-war.html
  
• An Iran attach probability and Mid East outlook? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/presenting-iran-attack-probability-timetable-and-complete-geopolitical-outlook-middle-east
  

CLIMATE

• Glacier Time Lapse Video? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/glacier-time-lapse_n_1205642.html
  
• Massive ecological change for Canada? NASA http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2012/01/13/19239786.html
  
• Vast Methane Plums seen? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vast-methane-plumes-seen-in-arctic-ocean-as-sea-ice-retreats-6276278.html
  
• The runaway Greenhouse Effect? James Hansen http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1uxfiuKB_R8
  
• Wet and Dry Extremes graphed? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/11/402460/2011-unprecedented-rains-wet-dry-extremes-global-warming/
  
• An emerging hockey stick? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/10/401186/climate-change-sea-level-rise-hockey-stick/
  
• Climate change moves the Doomsday Clock closer to Midnight? http://www.treehugger.com/culture/atomic-scientists-move-doomsday-clock-five-minutes-midnight.html
  
• Greenland Ice Sheet getting darker? http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2011/greenland-ice-sheet-getting-darker-2
  
• Driest week in recorded history? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/07/399708/masters-driest-first-week-of-january-us-recorded-history/
  
• Get paid $500 for climate denial? http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/01/how-much-does-it-take-buy-climate-denial#brunch
  

RESOURCES

• Sunflowers inspire improved solar power plant http://futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/11/10118661-sunflowers-inspire-improved-solar-power-plant?chromedomain=cosmiclog
  
• Charge your phone with a bike http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/how-make-bike-phone-charger-old-wind-radio
  
• Planting Seeds for a new society. Peak Moment TV http://www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/?p=474
  
• Prepping for Women http://www.survivorjane.com/
  
• Rehab a pasture http://preparingyourfamily.com/rehabilitate-pasture/
  
• Baking Soda is another wonder substance http://preppingtosurvive.com/2012/01/13/baking-soda-another-wonder-substance/
  
• Unethical suppliers http://preparednessadvice.com/food_storage/unethical-suppliers-of-preparedness-gear-and-foods/
  
• Back in the day, urban gardens everywhere http://transitionvoice.com/2012/01/back-in-the-day-urban-gardens-everywhere/
  
• Packaged foods you do not need to buy http://www.grist.org/sustainable-food/2012-01-11-5-packaged-foods-you-never-need-to-buy-again
  
• Practical skills 101: Understanding Emergencies Updated http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/practical-survival-skills-101-understanding-emergencies-updated/69372
  
• Crisis of Civilization http://crisisofcivilization.com/the-fundamental-issue-is-land/
  
• The Reality of Me – 12 hour documentary http://www.tromsite.com/
  
• Built on Stilts Sol Duc Cabin http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/built-stilts-tom-kundigs-sol-duc-cabin.html
  
• Electricity free flower pot fridge http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/chill-food-without-electricity-flowerpot-fridge
  
• Passive House Documentary http://www.grist.org/list/2012-01-11-passive-house-documentary-is-the-last-word-on-zero-energy-buildi
  
• Visualizing a Plentitude Economy http://permaculture-media-download.blogspot.com/2011/10/visualizing-plenitude-economy-animation.html
  
• How to prepare for the difficult years ahead http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-to-prepare-for-the-difficult-years-ahead
  
• 7 steps every couple should take to prepare http://www.businessinsider.com/how-couples-save-emergencies-2012-1
  
• Why I’m going back to the Farm http://www.motherearthnews.com/the-happy-homesteader/why-im-going-back-to-the-farm.aspx
  
• Depression Cooking http://www.backdoorsurvival.com/index.php/2012/01/09/depression-cooking
  
• Best of Permaculture 2011 http://permaculture-media-download.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-of-permaculture-media-2011.html
  
• Rough Guide to Community Energy http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/06/free-book-guide-community-energy?CMP=twt_gu
  
• Going back the Land – Guy McPherson http://guymcpherson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Conservation-Biology-October-2011-Going-Back-to-the-Land.pdf
  
• Free Permaculture Book http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/books/ebooks/free-ebooks/essence-of-permaculture.html 
  
• Bees thrive in Chicago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/beehives-thrive-in-chicag_n_913030.html
  
• What is Resilience http://www.theresilientfamily.com/2012/01/so-what-is-resilience-anyway/
  

CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO of the WEEK “ MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT” MIDNIGHT OIL

1/7/12

MUST SEE, HEAR and READ

• 10 easy resolutions for 2012? Transition Voice http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/ten-easy-resolutions-for-2012/
  
• Young Student makes Peak Oil Video? http://peakoil.com/generalideas/peak-oil-student-video/
  
• Chinese Government plans to cause 10% more rain by 2015? http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-12/china-aims-modify-weather-producing-more-rain-produce-more-crops
  
• Relinked – FREE online MIT College Classes! Not a degree but you can still get a certificate of completion http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2011/12/21/m-i-t-game-changer-free-online-education-for-all/
  
• Rap News X - #Occupy 2012 with Chomsky and Anonymous? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j-rxe9Ayb8c
  
• In depth with Chris Hedges? Amazing 3 hour interview with call in questions http://www.c-span.org/Events/In-Depth-with-Author-and-Journalist-Chris-Hedges/10737426679-1/
  
• Hydraulic Fracking causing Fracking Earthquakes? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_6wvzc7Gkc
  
• The NDAA’s historic assault on American Liberty? Jonathan Turley http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/02/ndaa-historic-assault-american-liberty?newsfeed=true & http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-signs-legislation-killing-bill-of.html
  
• Which disaster is most worthy of our attention? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/which-disaster-is-most-worthy-of-our-attention.html
  
• 11.6 million more people unemployed than in 2007? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/employment-trends-since-1955.html
  
• The Economy on a population-adjusted basis lost 532K jobs? http://market-ticker.org/post=200174
  
• US Oil Production graph – Bush vs Obama? http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/obama-vs-bush-the-oil-chart-that-will-surprise-you/11859
  
• OIL OIL OIL, most important factor in 2012? http://www.odac-info.org/newsletter/2012/01/06
  
• The final word on 2011? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4McrdRm21rk
  
• The Storm Surge of Decentralization? Nicole Foss http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-3-2012-storm-surge-of.html
  
• Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky discuss 2012? BBC http://www.energybulletin.net/media/2012-01-06/heinberg-kunstler-foss-orlov-chomsky-public-affair
  
• OMG, Saudis dare to use own oil? Sharon Astyk http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2012/01/omg_-_saudis_dare_to_use_own_o.php & http://www.marketwatch.com/story/saudis-use-more-oil-exporter-status-threatened-2012-01-04
  
• Welcome to the 5th year of the Long Emergency? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-to-fifth-year-of-long-emergency.html
  
• Is this the country we want to keep? http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=7755
  
• 2012 Kunstler Forecast: Bang and Whimper? http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/2012-forecast-bang-and-whimper.html
  
• The peak oil crisis: closing out the year? Tom Whipple http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-05/peak-oil-crisis-closing-out-year
  
• USDA quietly approves new GMO corn with Agent Orange ingredient? http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/usda-quietly-approves-new-gmo-corn-safety-agent-orange-ingredient.html
  
• Three deformations of the apocalypse? Chris Nelder’s 5 year scenarios http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/three-deformations-of-the-apocalypse/269
  
• There is more to it than Oil? Nonrenewable natural resources http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-04/there-more-it-oil
  
• The Streets of 2012? Naomi Wolf http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/wolf43/English
  
• The very Heart of Denial? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/the-very-heart-of-denial.html
  

    
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MORE. MORE. MORE

• Parallel Wargames US-Israel & Iran? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-hold-new-massive-naval-exercise-near-straits-hormuz-run-parallel-joint-us-israel-wargame
  
• Edison would Puke? http://climatecrocks.com/2012/01/05/edison-would-puke-2/
  
• Global Economy could endure disaster for only one week? CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/45899109
  
• Maybe the World will really end in 2012 evidenced by Dick Clarks Rockin Eve show? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/maybe-world-really-is-going-to-end-in.html
  
• The untold story of the GE’s subprime debacle? Michael Hudson http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/01/05/7802/fraud-and-folly-untold-story-general-electric-s-subprime-debacle
  
• Over half of Germany’s renewable energy owned by citizens and farmers? http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/over-half-germany-renewable-energy-owned-citizens-not-utility-companies.html
  
• Decline of the American Good? CSM http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2012/0105/The-decline-of-the-American-public-good
  
• Monsanto’s Millions of $$ in lobbying efforts? http://www.naturalnews.com/034583_Monsanto_lobbying_Congress.html
  
• Real Jobless rate is 11.4%? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/real-jobless-rate-114-realistic-labor-force-participation-rate  
  
• Peter Joseph goes Zeitgeist with Joe Rogan? http://vimeo.com/34697252
• Yet another battery breakthrough? http://www.grinzo.com/energy/2012/01/07/yet-another-battery-breakthrough/
  
• The Danger Debt poses to the Western World? Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,806772,00.html
  
• Surprise, banks continue to steal? Naked Capitalism http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/quelle-surprise-banks-plan-to-fob-off-some-of-the-costs-of-multi-state-mortgage-settlement-on-to-investors.html
  
• A Peak Oil conversation with Dr Colin Campbell? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn5l8e_in-conversation-with-dr-colin-j-campbell-ballydehob-west-cork-ireland_news?#from=embediframe
  
• 2011 closes with $15.22 Trillion in debt? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-closes-2011-record-1522-trillion-debt-officially-1003-debtgdp
  
• China buying huge stake in Canadian Oil Sands? http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203462304577138644252057100.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter
  
• The Corn Identity? Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-4-2012/indecision-2012---the-corn-identity?xrs=synd_twitter
  
• Stop being cynical about Corporate Money in politics, get ANGRY? Bill McKibben http://www.truth-out.org/armed-naivete-time-stop-being-cynical-about-corporate-money-politics-and-start-being-angry/132577596
  
• A shiny New Year? Economic Undertow http://www.economic-undertow.com/2012/01/01/a-shiny-new-year/
  
• US can only suppress democracy for so long? Glenn Greenwald VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoYjUkBEYY&feature=g-u&context=G2ae5ceeFUAAAAAAAFAA
  
• The Great Turning? Hartmann interviews David Korten http://livingeconomiesforum.org/Media-Interview
  
• Fukushima birds unable to fly? http://enenews.com/fukushima-birds-unable-fly-allow-humans-approach-like-sickened-alaska-seals-video
  
• Americans make up ½ of the world’s richest 1%? Only takes $34K a year after taxes, median world income is $1225 year  http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm?iid=GM
  
• The debt bomb in 2012? http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-debt-bomb-7600000000000-dollars-of-debt-must-be-rolled-over-in-2012
  
• Wall Street saints above God and law? Keiser Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Efw8ntVLKj8
  
• 100 years in 10 minutes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxh-sS8Qoco&feature=player_embedded
  
• Zombie Bees? http://www.grist.org/list/2012-01-05-zombie-bees & http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/parasite-found-be-turning-bees-suicidal-zombies.html
  
• Big Corporations in the food supply push retail costs up? Vandana Shiva http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/20121411147631271.html
  
• Why did Japan attack us? http://www.sott.net/articles/show/239974-Why-Did-Japan-Attack-Us-
  
• What happened to regulating the banks? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/whither-volcker-rule-and-other-options-for-reining-in-big-bad-banks.html
  
• What’s the matter with the Electric Car? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-matter-with-electric-car.html
  
• Latest on Oil? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/saturday-oil-report-january-7-2012.html
  
• We must arrest the current War Criminals to end the history of murder? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/us-war-history-in-2-minutes-arrest-us-war-criminals-to-stop-war-on-iran.html
  
• How might humanity survive a radically changing world? The Path II – Question Everything http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2012/01/the-path-episode-ii-and-some-surprises.html
  
• The Debtwatch Manifesto? Steve Keen http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/01/03/the-debtwatch-manifesto/
  
• Give me liberty or give me death? 2012 NDAA http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-2012-ndaa.html
  
• US interest expense? Almost a half Trillion? http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm
  
• Former petroleum expert for IEA says there will be inevitable decline of oil production 2015-2020? http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8797
  
• West readies oil plan in case of Iran crisis? Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-iea-contingency-idUSTRE8051FV20120106
  
• Iowa’s meaningless sideshow? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/iowa-the-meaningless-sideshow-begins-20120103 
  
• We walked on the moon, we can solve the energy crisis? Sharon Astyk http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2012/01/why_the_lessons_of_the_moon_sh.php
  
• I Vote 4 Energy? VIDEO Spoof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-NadlTFIA&feature=youtu.be & original campaign info http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/oil_industry_2012/index.htm
  
• Iran’s real weapon of mass destruction is oil prices? Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/01/04/irans-real-weapon-of-mass-destruction-is-oil-prices/
  
• Predicting the psychological response of Americans to Peak Oil? http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/11/2129/
  
• US $25M away from debt ceiling breach? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-we-go-again-us-25-million-away-debt-ceiling
  
• Sanders to overturn Citizens United decision? Colbert Report http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/405042/january-03-2012/bernie-sanders
  
• Bill Gross warns of financial implosion? http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-financial-markets-are-imploding-2012-1
  
• Exposing American banks umbilical cord with Europe? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/exposing-american-banks-multi-trillion-umbilical-cord-europe
  
• Oil price will skyrocket if Iran closed Strait of Hormuz? NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/business/oil-price-would-skyrocket-if-iran-closed-the-strait.html?_r=2&src=tp
  
• Lock Up everyone? Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-3-2012/lockup-everyone
  
• Economic Predictions? Truth-out http://www.truth-out.org/economic-predictions-2012-2013/1325703812
  
• 8 Strategic Factors in 2012? http://oilprice.com/Geo-Politics/International/Eight-Strategic-Factors-to-Consider-in-2012.html
  
• Waiting for the Great Pumpkin? John Michael Greer http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-04/waiting-great-pumpkin
  
• ASPO 2012 Predictions? http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2012/01/2012-predictions/
  
• The ministry of propaganda declares Ron Paul unelectable? http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2012/01/ministry-of-propaganda-declares-ron.html
  
• Psychopaths caused the financial crisis and will do it again? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/psychopaths-caused-the-financial-crisis-and-they-will-do-it-again-and-again-unless-they-are-removed-from-power.html
  
• From Russia Oil with Love? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/03/kr231-keiser-report-from-russian-oil-with-love/
  
• The circling Black Swans of 2012? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/black-swan01-12.html
  
• 2012 could be the year the Germans let the Euro die? Ambrose Evans-Pritchard http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8987846/Ambrose-Evans-Pritchard-2012-could-be-the-year-Germany-lets-the-euro-die.html
  
• You can’t solve a debt problem with more debt? John Mauldin http://www.businessinsider.com/mauldin-collateral-damage-2011-12#ixzz1iLJahfMT
  
• Outrageous Predictions for 2012? Keiser Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ9ZEXm2aAM
  

CLIMATE CHAOS

• Why Libertarians must deny climate change? George Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/06/why-libertarians-must-deny-climage-change?intcmp=122
  
• 2010 and 2011 Extreme Heat waves caused by Global Warming? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/06/399350/hansen-extreme-heat-waves-texas-oklahoma-moscow-were-caused-by-global-warming/?mobile=nc
  
• Disastrous Climate Change? http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/01/tamino-whats-probability-that-man-made.html
  
• Cost of Climate Change? http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/plehner/clean_air_safeguards_dont_kill_1.html
  
• Deniers deny but Insurers are paying out? http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2012/01/05/deniers-cling-to-their-denial-but-insurers-are-paying-out-taking-action-to-mitigate-climate-change/
  
• GOP Climate Hawks caught on Video? http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/gop-climate-hawks-new-hampshire-primary
  
• Lots more killer summers on the way? http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/01/lots-more-killer-summers-on-way.html
  
• IEA: World on pace for 11 degree warming? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/04/379694/iea-world-11-degree-warming-school-children-catastrophic/
  
• Climate change and extinctions? http://www.grinzo.com/energy/2012/01/04/climate-change-and-extinctions/
  
• Climate Change: going beyond dangerous? Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/DFID/professor-kevin-anderson-climate-change-going-beyond-dangerous
  
• Myth of the Mini Ice Age http://climatecrocks.com/2012/01/04/new-crock-video-the-myth-of-the-mini-ice-age/
  
• Dr. Jeff Masters explores damage losses and climate change? http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2009
  
• Hansen still argues 5m sea level rise by 2100? http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/01/hansen-still-argues-5m-21st-c-sea-level.html
  
• Top 10 Global Weather Events of 2011 http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/02/396307/top-10-global-weather-events-of-2011/
  
• Tree Migration? http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2012/01/02/climate-change-and-tree-migration/
  
• The Smiling Gardener http://www.smilinggardener.com/
  

RESOURCES

• Harnessing the Sun’s Energy for water and heating http://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/solar-water-space-heating-zwfz1201zhun.aspx
  
• Research and Planning Off Grid Living http://www.motherearthnews.com/the-happy-homesteader/living-off-grid-step-1-research-planning.aspx
  
• Sacred Economics: Community and the Unquantifiable http://www.realitysandwich.com/sacred_economics_ch22_community_unquantifiable
  
• What to do just after a mega disaster http://modernsurvivalblog.com/preps/the-mega-disaster-just-happened-what-do-i-do/
  
• Rainwater Harvesting http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/water-supply-through-rainwater-harvesting/69128
  
• Hard Core Resiliency http://www.theresilientfamily.com/2012/01/hard-core-resiliency/
  
• In Transition 2.0 Movie http://transitionculture.org/2012/01/06/everything-you-could-possibly-want-to-know-about-in-transition-2-0/
  
• 37 ways to join the gift economy http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/money-print-your-own/37-ways-to-join-the-gift-economy
  
• Challenges of community organizing http://transitionvoice.com/2012/01/the-blind-men-and-the-elephant/
  
• Keep it cool in summer http://preparednessadvice.com/food_storage/keep-food-cool-in-summer/
  
• Occupy  Movie http://occupymovie.com/
  
• The New Farmer School http://www.newfarmer.ca/
  
• 10 Top World Changing Documentaries of 2011 http://www.filmsforaction.org/Articles/The_Top_10_WorldChanging_Documentaries_of_2011/
  
• 10 things to do to survive 2012 http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/10-things-to-do-to-survive-2012.html
  
• Better ways to deal with foreclosed homes http://www.treehugger.com/culture/there-goes-neighborhood.html
  
• Homeless Shelter for less than $100 http://preparednessadvice.com/survival/homeless-shelter/
  

CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO of the WEEK “Let’s Roll” The Darlings

12/31/11 - 2011 Year End Special Edition

QUICK NOTE
Happy New Year to all. This site started as just an email newsletter to friends and family and to my surprise is now a globally visited website with over 1000 recurring visitors every month. I will continue to do my best and filter down the important links in 2012 and hope you find it a valuable resource. A very special thanks to the actual content creators, especially the regulars I link. Best of luck to you and your personal transition in 2012.
  -ThreeEs
Occupy 2012  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8SY5aZbbJqE 

MUST SEE, HEAR and READ

• Signs of an American Spring and a Fourth Turning? http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/2011-year-review-david-collum/67586 (more year in reviews below)
  
• As economic growth fails, how do we live? Pt 3 http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-30/new-part-iii-economic-growth-fails-how-do-we-live
  
• FDA will not limit the use of Human Antibiotics fed to healthy animals? Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/29/fda-u-turn-antibiotics-animal-feed?newsfeed=true
  
• Pick a President, not a Party? http://www.americanselect.org/
  
• What’s wrong with this graph? http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/inflation/headline-core-comps.html?inflation-since-2000.gif
  
• Fly your own Spy Drone for $300? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/fly-your-own-spy-drone-for-300.html
  
• What truly offends the Masses? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA4MhY2VXz4
  
• A year of Extreme Weather? PBS and Jeff Masters http://climatecrocks.com/2011/12/30/2011-a-year-of-extreme-weather/ & http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/29/395730/pbs-covers-link-between-2011s-mind-boggling-extreme-weather-and-global-warming-its-like-being-on-steroids/
  
• Peak Oil Update 2011? Food Gap? GRAPH http://www.solarcarandtractor.com/scat_4/Peak_Oil_Update_2011.html
  
• The real reason the GOP primary is pathetic? Glenn Greenwald  http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/153587/glenn_greenwald:_the_real_reason_the_gop_primary_is_a_pathetic,_incompetent_clown_show
  
• Help, you have been indefinitely detained? http://boingboing.net/2011/12/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-so-yo.html
  
• Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn? AP http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45807933/ns/business-retail/#.TvyfItQS26N
  
• Thinking about Risk? Crash Watcher http://crash-watcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/thinking-about-risk.html
  
• Revisit: The Story of 5 Kings who rule America? Thom Hartman http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Thom_Hartmann_The_story_of_the_5_Kings_who_rule_America/
  
• Why do we care about the Strait of Hormuz? World Oil transit chokepoints http://www.eia.gov/cabs/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints/Full.html
  
• Joe Rogan interviews Mike Ruppert, understanding the real Fear Factor? http://vimeo.com/34275981
  
• Time to Attack Iran? Council on Foreign Relations http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MrdVqgt0Dwk#! & http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136917/matthew-kroenig/time-to-attack-iran
  
• America runs the “Special Olympics for Financial Fraud”? Max Keiser on Capital Account http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYybxYD3BtY
  
• A message for all of humanity? Charlie Chaplin http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CsgaFKwUA6g
  
• The future needs and attitude adjustment? Do the Math http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/12/the-future-needs-an-attitude-adjustment/
  
• 2012 Resolutions? RESIST! http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/resist.html
  
• Two beers with Lee Camp? http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/episode-107-a-thinking-mans-comedian-lee-camp
  

MORE, MORE, MORE

• Top Downward Spiral Posts of 2011? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/tds-top-10-posts-of-2011.html
  
• Millions of Americans realize they can default on their mortgages? http://www.businessinsider.com/foreclosure-record-long-waits-2011-12
  
• White House refused to inform Lawmakers about Drone Operations? http://publicintelligence.net/white-house-refuses-to-inform-lawmakers-of-drone-operations/
  
• United Bases of America? Ginormous Chart http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/projecting-us-military-power/
  
• Growing wealth widens distance between Lawmakers and Constituents? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/dr-obvious-reports-growing-wealth.html
  
• Insane levels of leverage caused the Financial Crisis? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/insane-levels-of-leverage-by-the-too-big-to-fail-banks-not-deadbeat-borrowers-caused-the-financial-crisis.html
  
• Did Bankers deliberately crash MF Global? http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/did-bankers-deliberately-crash-mf-global-crash-gold-and-silver-prices-0 & author interview on next lines Keiser Report
  
• Jamie Dimon suckles on Ben Bernake’s QE? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/29/kr229-jamie-dimon-suckles-on-ben-bernankes-quantitative-easing/
  
• Mr. Smith is not going to Washington anymore? http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/mr-smith-not-going-washington-any-more
  
• Occupy Wall Street Lego set? http://www.businessinsider.com/parody-lego-occupy-wall-street-commercial-2011-12
  
• Grandma got indefinitely detained (A Very TSA Christmas)? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ek1uqrwLmQk
  
• A run on the Global Banking System, how close are we? Gonzalo Lira http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/12/run-on-global-banking-systemhow-close.html
  
• New Video Surveillance system tags, tracks and follows? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsf1VhZ9L7c
  
• NDAA assures a descent into totalitarianism? http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/201335-rep-paul-says-defense-bill-assures-descent-into-totalitarianism
  
• America’s credit card is maxed out again? Raise the limit http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-hits-credit-ceiling-again-treasury-raise-debt-limit-another-12-trillion-december-30
  
• Our Economy has failed: Until we admit that, we're screwed?  http://www.alternet.org/economy/153614/our_economy_has_failed_--_until_we_admit_that%2C_we%27re_screwed/
• How to save the World? Current Links http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/12/27/links-for-the-month-december-27-2011/
  
• Anonymous hacks SRATFOR? What will come of the data? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079262/Anonymous-hackers-publish-U-S-security-firms-2-7m-client-emails--providing-smoking-gun-number-crimes.html#ixzz1hq1J0NO0 & more commentary http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us.html
  
• Judge finds Iran responsible for 9/11? http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2011/12/27/228737.htm
  
• Spoiled Rotten Nation...fretting over losing the payroll tax cut? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/spoiled-rotten-nation-fretting-over.html
  
• Scientists make killer flu virus even deadlier? http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/scientists_make_killer_flu_even_deadlier_20111227/
  
• America’s best kept secret? Rising Suburban Poverty? http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/12/27/Americas-Best-Kept-Secret-Rising-Suburban-Poverty.aspx#page1
  
• $123 Billion Saudi Arms Plan? http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2011/12/30/Saudi-F-15s-tip-of-123B-gulf-arms-plan/UPI-37131325269906/
  
• Corporate Monopolies may dominate Green Economy? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/29-8
  
• Banks can’t keep up with foreclosures anymore? http://rt.com/usa/news/mortgage-foreclosure-homeowners-free-963/?source=patrick.net
  
• America’s New Poor? VIDEO http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/12/29/n_new_poor_america.cnnmoney/?iid=HP_LN
  
• It’s 2012 and its absurd we are still addicted to Mid East Oil? http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-eastern-oil-addiction-2011-12#ixzz1hsi13ql1
  
• Ruin Porn? http://rustwire.com/2011/12/27/things-are-broke-can-ruin-porn-help/
  
• 2 big myths about non-OPEC oil production? http://www.businessinsider.com/under-the-surface-of-non-opec-supply-2011-12
  
• The Answer: Erect the Finger? http://market-ticker.org/post=199855
  
• China’s ticking local debt bombs? http://www.businessinsider.com/beijings-great-bailout-to-defuse-ticking-local-debt-bombs-2011-12
  
• Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone in photos? http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/japans_nuclear_exclusion_zone.html
  
• War Imminent? $200 Oil? http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/War-Imminent-in-Straits-of-Hormuz-$200-a-Barrel-Oil.html
  
• Is there really 100 years of natural gas in the US?  http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tense/2011/12/is_there_really_100_years_worth_of_natural_gas_beneath_the_united_states_.html
  
• 14 year old Occupier arrested? http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/occupy-protesters-arrested-iowa-democratic-party-headquarters
  
• Is the OCC the most corrupt US Bank Regulator? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/is-the-occ-the-most-corrupt-us-bank-regulator.html
  
• Changing the World in 2012? John Perkins http://www.johnperkins.org/?page_id=23
  
• Foreigners dump record amount of US Treasurys? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/foreigners-dump-record-amout-us-treasurys-past-month
  
• Occupy geeks building a new Facebook? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/
  
• Can the 2012 Farm Bill protect the Ogallala Aquifer? http://www.grist.org/farm-bill/2011-12-29-can-the-2012-farm-bill-protect-the-ogallala-aquifer
  
• Groundwater depletion around the World? http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2011/12/27/satellite-studies-reveal-groundwater-depletion-around-the-world/
  
• Why Ron Paul challenges Liberals? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/matt-stoller-why-ron-paul-challenges-liberals.html
  
• Ready for 70% haircut in your 401(k)? http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/elliott-wave-theory-elliott-wave-market/12/30/2011/id/38620
  
• The New World Disorder? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/29-1
  
• This got printed? “There will be Violece”? http://market-ticker.org/post=199868
  
• Military vs Education spending, bang for the buck? http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7763
  
• American retirement assets drop $1.4 Trillion? CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57346985/american-retirement-assets-drop-$1.4-trillion/
  
• Seals sick from Japan radiation? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45800485/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tv84UdQS26N
  
• Pink slips are flying again? Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/after-one-month-respite-pink-slips-are-flying-again
  
• Canadian Medical Assoc says Japan response worse than Russian response to nuclear disasters? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/canadian-medical-association-journal-japanese-response-to-fukushima-even-worse-than-communist-russian-response-to-chernobyl-the-japanese-government-was-lying-through-its-teeth.html
  
• US and Israel discuss triggers for bombing Iran? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/28/u-s-israel-discuss-triggers-for-bombing-iran-s-nuclear-infrastructure.html
  
• The Ongoing MF Global DISASTER? http://market-ticker.org/post=199790
  
• Island of Japanese Debris the size of California to hit US West coast? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/japanese-debris-to-hit-america.html
  
• While Iran baits the US – Russia beefing up nukes? http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-ballistic-missile-tests-borei-class-subs-2011-12
  
• EU Credit Implosion? Gordon T Long http://www.gordontlong.com/Articles/art-2011-12-cc.asp?sid=agr
  
• Turboparalysis? http://www.salon.com/2011/12/27/the_age_of_turboparalysis/
  
• Cops ready for War? $34 Billion in riot gear and pepper spray http://news.yahoo.com/cops-ready-war-094500010.html and more here http://exiledonline.com/berkeley-police-threaten-to-shoot-protesters-with-same-deadly-tear-gas-bazooka-used-against-palestinian-protesters/
  
• Occupy Rigged Elections? http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-rigged-elections-call-second-american-revolution-2012/1323891807
  
• Naomi Wolf was dead right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLSeD19m3UE
  
• World’s 2nd and 3rd largest economies to bypass the dollar? Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/worlds-second-and-third-largest-economies-bypass-dollar-engage-direct-currency-trade
  
• Most. Tragic. Species. Ever.? Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-25-2011-most-tragic-species.html
  
• Softening up Iran for the final attack?  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28416

2011 IN REVIEW

• Guideposts on the Road back to Factville? http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-best-of-cbpp-graphics/
  
• Ten Top Bankruptcies 2011? http://www.cnbc.com/id/45607114
  
• Get ahead of forecaster folly? Barry Ritholtz http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/investing-in-2012-get-ahead-of-forecaster-folly/2011/12/29/gIQAGx2OQP_story_1.html
  
• Catch 22 Year in Review? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/2011-catch-22-year-in-review.html
  
• Closing out 2011 in 6 graphs? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/closing-out-2011-six-graphs.html
  
• The Year in Crazy? Mark Fiore CARTOON http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/29/1049448/-Mark-Fiore-The-Year-in-Crazy
  
• 50 doomiest graphs of 2011? http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/12/50-doomiest-graphs-of-2011.html & 50 doomiest stories  http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/12/50-doomiest-stories-of-2011.html
  
• 10 winning moments for the 99% in 2011? http://www.alternet.org/story/153548/10_winning_moments_for_the_99_in_2011?page=entire
  
• The year governments lost credibility?  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/business/economy/the-year-the-governments-lost-their-credibility-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&ref=business
• Top Energy Stories of 2011?  http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/What-Were-The-Top-Ten-Energy-Stories-of-2011.html

2012 PREDICTIONS

• Sharon Astyk http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2011/12/2012_predictions.php
  
• Extreme Predictions? Naked Capitalism http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/extreme-predictions-2012.html
  
• Financial Apocalypse? CNN Money http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/1112/gallery.2012-financial-apocalypse/index.html
  
• The problems facing the World in 2012? Steve Keen http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-keen-on-the-problems-facing-the-world-in-2012-2011-12
  
• Rick Ackerman http://www.rickackerman.com/2011/12/nine-predictions-for-the-new-year/
  
• What’s in store for 2012? C-Realm with Nicole Foss and Steve Keen http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/288-ask-the-oracle/
  
• The end of the Euro and the end of the Investor? Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-29-2011-trends-2012-end-of.html
  
• Terra Incognita? Chris Nelder http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/2012-terra-incognita/263
  
• Decline of the Empire? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/dote-predictions-for-2012.html
  
• Stocks up 10% or Doomsday scenario? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/2012-stocks-up-10-or-doomsday-scenario-2011-12-27?link=home_carousel
  
• Record setting gas prices? http://www.grist.org/list/2011-12-26-2012-will-probably-best-record-setting-2011-for-gas-prices
  
• On the Edge with Mish? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/mish-2012-predictions-2011-year-in.html & more http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/additional-2012-predictionstrade-wars.html
  

CLIMATE CHAOS

• Global maps show human impact on Earth? http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/28/tech/world-population-boom/index.html
  
• The Arctic will burn? http://www.newint.org/blog/2011/12/21/climate-change-arctic/
  
• South Pole Records Warmest Temperature on Record? http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/article.html?entrynum=55
  
• Ecosystems to flip? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/26/394489/nasa-climate-change-may-flip-40-of-earths-major-ecosystems-this-century/
  
• 2011 Extreme Weather Map http://www.nrdc.org/health/extremeweather/
  
• Climate scientists still hampered by political reality? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/science/earth/climate-scientists-hampered-in-study-of-2011-extremes.html?_r=2
  

RESOURCES

• 6 steps for planning Next Year’s Garden http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/6-steps-planning-next-years-garden.html
  
• Selecting a Greenhouse http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/selecting-optimal-greenhouse-suit-your-needs/67589
  
• 10 Top FREE Survival downloads you should have http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/top-10-survival-downloads-you-should.html
  
• Coming Home: The Reinvention of Localized Economies MOVIE http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Coming_Home_The_Reinvention_of_Localized_Economies/
  
• There Presidents once gazed – post peak fiction http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/where-presidents-once-gazed/
  
• The Debunking Handbook http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/29/392266/the-debunking-handbook-part-4-the-worldview-backfire-effect/
  
• 500 heated showers from a small compost heap http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/500-showers-heated-one-small-compost-pile-how-tutorial
  
• Occupy: Embrace what you are http://guymcpherson.com/2011/12/occupy-embrace-what-you-are/
  
• How to get the best firewood http://www.motherearthnews.com/modern-homesteading/how-to-dry-firewood-zm0z11zkon.aspx
  
• An Economy of Gifts http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/to-build-community-an-economy-of-gifts
  
• Ralph Nader’s recommended reading http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2339-Recommended-Holiday-Reading-for-the-Caring,-Agitated-Mind.html
  
• Anonymous’ Survival Guide for Citizens in a Revolution http://www.zerohedge.com/news/presenting-anonymous-survival-guide-citizens-revolution
  
• Preparedness Book List http://preparednessadvice.com/food_storage/4391/
  
• New Carpet? Insulate first http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/new-carpet-insulate-first
  
• The farmer who beat Monsanto http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/25/percy-schmeiser-farmer-who-beat-monsanto.aspx?e_cid=20111225_SNL_Art_1
  
• Take back the Commons MOVIE http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/D17_Take_Back_the_Commons_Occupy_Wall_St/
  
• How not to alienate people when learning economics http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/the-trouble-with-principles-or-how-to-not-lose-friends-and-alienate-people-when-learning-economics-occupywallstreet-ows.html
  

CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO OF THE MONTH “2011 Singing Year in Review” Uncle Jay

12/24/11

MUST SEE, HEAR & READ

• YOU ARE HERE: The Oil Journey? VIDEO (please forward this link to all) http://www.energybulletin.net/media/2011-12-21/you-are-here-oil-journey-presentation
  
• A Christmas Message from America’s Rich? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-christmas-message-from-americas-rich-20111222
  
• Iran launching 10 day War game near US carrier and includes Strait of Hormuz now? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-launching-massive-ten-day-war-game-tomorrow-close-proximity-cvn-74-john-stennis & http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-naval-drills-strait-of-hormuz-december-24-2011-12
  
• You are the Battlefield? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WKppSQospqI
  
• Occupy Peace on Earth? http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/occupy-peace-on-earth-good-will-towards-men/
  
• National Association of Realtors off an average of 14% since 2007 on home sales? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/lies-damn-lies-and-nar-statistics.html more http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/12/21/unreliable-housing-statistic-of-the-day/
  
• Unplugging our Economic Ponzi Scheme? http://www.motherearthnews.com/print-article.aspx?id=2147498019
  
• Simplifying Complexity? Dr. Joseph Tainter AUDIO http://www.energybulletin.net/media/2011-12-20/simplifying-complexity
  
• Beyond Petroleum…….BP axes solar business?   http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/21/bp-axe-solar-power-business
  
• Capitalism without Capital? Max Keiser and Steve Keen VIDEO http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/22/kr226-keiser-report-capitalism-without-capital/ and more Steve Keen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm9c-zmK_N8&feature=youtu.be&a
  
• Handy Guide to Bankster Fraud? Bill Black http://www.alternet.org/economy/153524/bill_black%27s_handy_guide_to_bankster_fraud%2C_from_%27small_fraudulent_fry%27_to_%27septic_tank_scum%27_/?page=entire
  
• Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/obama-and-geithner-government-enron-style-20111220#ixzz1hD5StrTi
  
• 2012 to be much worse than 2008, here is the evidence? Chris Martenson http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/worse-2008/67136
  
• The TRUTH about war with Iran? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbUtQoNc60
  
• Whole lotta arresting going on? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/whole-lotta-arresting-going-on.html & One THIRD of Americans arrested by age 23? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076173/US-youth-crime-revealed-THIRD-young-adults-arrested-23.html#ixzz1h2jdZ3qI
  
• The Last (Debt-Consumerist) Christmas in America? CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/TLCIA12-11.html
  
• Inner Preparation? Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker http://vimeo.com/33870113
  
• Jon Corzine, MF Global and Unaccountability? Nomi Prins http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2011/12/18/jon-corzine-mf-global-and-unaccountability.html
  
• Uncle Jay Explains: 2011 Singing Year in Review? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oatDG4nTNfE
  
• STRATFOR Hacked? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/stratfor-hacked-200gb-emails-credit-cards-stolen-client-list-released-includes-mf-global-rockef
  

MORE, MORE, MORE

• The foundation for a US attack on Iran?  http://www.businessinsider.com/us-builds-case-to-attack-iran-2011-12
  
• All I want for Christmas is my Civil Liberties?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/ndaa-civil-liberties_b_1168736.html  
• OPEC says “don’t count on us” for more supply? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-19/opec-says-dont-count-us-more-supply
  
• Watching Americas decline and fall? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/watching-americas-decline-and-fall.html
  
• The Occucopter, who is watching who? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/21/occupy-wall-street-occucopter-tim-pool
  
• The Global Balance Sheet’s Negative Feedback Loop of Debt? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/summarizing-global-balance-sheets-negative-feedback-loop-debt
  
• The Spanish Implosion coming up? Mish http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/spanish-implosion-deficit-up-receipts.html
  
• The Bitter Harvest of Fear? Dan Carlin http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive/Show-214---The-Bitter-Harvest-of-Fear/freedom-Constitution-liberty
  
• The History of Energy in one chart? Discovery Channel http://dsc.discovery.com/energy/infographics/energy-history-timeline.html
  
• The coming collapse of China? MSNBC Gordon Chang http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000061734
  
• Why Oil prices are killing the economy? Gregor Macdonald http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/why-oil-prices-killing-economy/67016
  
• There goes the neighborhood? The Insanity of tearing down perfectly good homes CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57344513/there-goes-the-neighborhood/
  
• Risk and Indentured Servitude of Student Loans? CHS  http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2011/12/risk-and-indentured-servitude-of.html
  
• Keystone XL would ship Foreign Oil to Foreign lands? http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/12/20/393247/fact-check-keystone-xl-would-ship-foreign-oil-to-foreign-lands/
  
• Shell gears up for Arctic drilling while having another massive spill in Nigeria? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/23/394815/shell-arctic-drilling-spill-nigeria/  & Worst spill in a decade http://www.businessinsider.com/shell-oil-spill-in-nigeria-2011-12
  
• WWIII updates? http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/news-alerts/item/5771-wwiii-updates-friday-morningransition
  
• Fukushima achieved Cold Shutdown? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/announcement-of-cold-shutdown-of-fukushima-reactors-is-based-on-a-political-decision-rather-than-science.html
  
• The downward spiral continues? Hostess http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/hostess-brands-on-verge-of-bankruptcy.html  Park Rangers http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/washington-state-laying-off-nearly-half.html  Congress http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/congress-ending-2011-with-worst.html Money Tree http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/money-tree-is-out-of-money-declares.html
  
• 1% of Russia’s Oil production is spilled? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/18/ap-enterprise-russia-oil_n_1156030.html
  
• Demanding Less? Why we need a new politics of energy http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-19/demanding-less-why-we-need-new-politics-energy-report-excerpt
  
• The Kazakhstan massacre that everyone ignored? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/mark-ames-the-massacre-everyone-ignored-up-to-70-striking-oil-workers-killed-in-kazakhstan-by-us-supported-dictator.html
  
• 99% plan new tax war on super rich in 2012? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/99-plan-new-tax-war-on-super-rich-in-2012-2011-12-20?pagenumber=1
  
• Torture’s other victims: US Soldiers? http://www.truth-out.org/tortures-other-victims/1322783647
  
• SureFire way to get a $23M contract? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/19/1046972/-Anonymous:-Night-Raid-Equipment-Maker-Lobbied-for-NDAA,-Singles-Out-Sen-Rob-Portman 
  
• Congress insider trading run amok? Henry Blodget http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-insider-trading-2011-12
  
• The Corporations that occupy Congress? http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2011/12/20/the-corporations-that-occupy-congress/
  
• US Chamber of Commerce influence horribly inflated? http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/wsj-politico-still-horribly-inflating-size-us-chamber-commerce
  
• Vulture Funds? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZkrVjLOShc
  
• MF Global collapse reveals Systemic Risk? Barry Ritholtz http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/mf-global-collapse-reveals-systemic-risk/
  
• Trends for 2012? Gerald Celente AUDIO http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/12/20_Gerald_Celente.html
  
• US Debt-to-GDP passes 100%? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-us-debtgdp-passes-100
  
• Nothing but Fraud? Nathan’s Economic Edge http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/12/morning-update-market-thread-1221.html & Narcissistic Asshats? http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/12/morning-update-market-thread-1220.html
  
• Happy New GIABO? Max Keiser X-Max http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/24/kr227-keiser-report-christmas-2011-special/
  
• Rendition for US Citizens?  http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/watch-mojo-reporter-nick-baumann-explains-american-rendition-democracy-now & http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/did-congress-just-endorse-rendition-americans & http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/new-bill-authorizes-rendition-of-american-citizens-living-within-the-united-states-to-other-countries-for-torture.html
  
• NYPD continue to harass and arrest OWS journalists? http://exiledonline.com/domestic-war-on-press-freedom-nypd-continues-to-harass-arrest-video-streamers-journalists-covering-the-occupy-movement/
  
• If a global recession is not looming, why all the continues bailouts? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/if-a-global-recession-is-not-looming-then-why-are-bailouts-flying-around-as-if-the-end-of-the-world-is-coming
  
• EROEI explained? VIDEO http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2011/12/22/r-squared-energy-tv-episode-6-%E2%80%93-eroei-explained/
  
• Proof that OCC foreclosure reviews are a sham? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/michael-olenick-the-administration-likes-foxes-in-charge-of-henhouses-%E2%80%93-proof-that-occ-foreclosure-reviews-are-a-sham.html
  
• 14,000 US deaths linked to Fukushima? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/study-fukushima-radiation-has-already-killed-14000-americans.html & http://peakoil.com/enviroment/study-connects-u-s-deaths-to-fukushima-contradicts-epa-reports/
  
• Q3 GDP misses as personal consumption drops big? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/final-q3-gdp-misses-personal-consumption-drops-big
  
• Dear Jamie Dimon? http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/12/20/dear-jamie-dimon/
  
• FBI seeks to prosecute factory farm activists as terrorists? http://blog.friendseat.com/fbi-to-prosecute-factory-farm-activists-as-terrorists
  
• Is China’s economy unraveling? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/is-chinas-economy-unraveling.html
  
• Can we manage without growth? http://transitionculture.org/2011/12/20/can-we-manage-without-growth-an-interview-with-peter-victor-part-one/  pt 2 http://transitionculture.org/2011/12/21/can-we-manage-without-growth-an-interview-with-peter-victor-part-two/
  
• Reasons for war with Iran obvious lies? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/all-reasons-for-war-on-iran-are-emperor-has-no-clothes-obvious-lies.html
  
• Can we invest our way out of an energy shortfall? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/12/19/can-we-invest-our-way-out-of-an-energy-shortfall/
  
• (In)Famous Last Words? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/infamous-last-words.html
  
• Risk is necessary for adaptation, innovation and success? http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2011/12/risk-is-necessary-for-adaptation.html 
  
• Anti-Statism, book challenge and Parenting? Two Beers with Steve http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-106-anti-statism-book-challenge-parenting
  
• JP Morgan got its MF Global money before bankruptcy? http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/12/jp-morgan-managed-get-its-mf-global-money-bankruptcy/46496/ & http://www.businessinsider.com/james-koutoulas-jp-morgans-involvement-in-mf-global-is-suspicious-2011-12
  
• Peak Oil Crisis: 2012? Tom Whipple http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10733-the-peak-oil-crisis-2012-apocalypse-now.html
  
• Top Legal Expert..President can kill any American without charge or jail you indefinitely at his own discretion? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html
  
• How much Dam energy can we get? Do the Math http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/12/how-much-dam-energy-can-we-get/
  
• Plan B – How to loot nations and their banks legally? http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/12/plan-b-how-to-loot-nations-and-their-banks-legally/
  
• Can they, will they and why would they? http://conflicteddoomer.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/can-they-will-they-and-why-would-they/
  
• QE3 is guaranteed as income growth declines? TrimTabs http://www.zerohedge.com/news/qe3-guaranteed-income-growth-declines-bidermans-obama-bummer
  
• 3 myths about NDAA? Glenn Greenwald http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/singleton/
  
• Why ‘We the People’ must triumph over Corporate Power? Bill Moyers http://freespeechforpeople.org/node/286
  

CLIMATE CHAOS

• The Ghost of Climate yet to come? Joe Romm  http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/24/394877/ghost-of-climate-yet-to-come/
  
• Half Billion Trees killed in Texas drought? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/up-to-half-billion-trees-killed-by.html
  
• Arctic Methane: Is Catastrophe Imminent? http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/arctic-methane-is-catastrophe-imminent/
  
• Climate Stories of the year? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/21/393127/climate-story-of-the-year-warming-driven-drought-extreme-weather-emerge-as-threat-to-global-food-security/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
  
• Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief ran the show? http://www.thenation.com/article/165155/durban-where-climate-deniers-chief-ran-show
  
• Congressional inaction threatens 37K alternative energy jobs? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/20/392401/video-middle-class-wind-jobs-america/
  
• Climate Change vs Peak Oil http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-18/climate-change-vs-peak-oil
  
• Climate Change may bring Big Ecosystem Shifts? NASA http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111218221321.htm
  
• Extreme Weather 2011, a year for the record books? NOAA http://www.noaa.gov/extreme2011/index.html
  
• Is Arctic Sea Ice loss partly to blame for extreme weather? Jeff Masters http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/17/391462/our-extreme-weather-arctic-changes-to-blame/
  

RESOURCES

• Why I am Hopeful http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-i-am-hopeful.html
  
• Empowering Public Wisdom http://www.realitysandwich.com/empowering_public_wisdom
  
• YERT at TED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxbcQ1pOVe4
  
• Planting seeds for a new society PEAK MOMENT TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0OJ0ilXVnJE
  
• From the Farm to the Occupation http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/shannon-hayes/from-the-farm-to-the-occupation
  
• Farmers Markets go year round http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2011-12-21/year-round-farmers-markets/52128314/1
  
• Test dead batteries http://preparednessadvice.com/uncategorized/the-importance-of-testing-dead-batteries-before-recycling-them/
  
• Creating an artificial leaf http://climatecrocks.com/2011/12/22/bubble-wrap-photosynthesis-from-caltech/  
  
• Learn from a dog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/21/learn-from-a-dog_n_1162572.html
  
• Backyard farmers out of necessity http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/backyard-farmers-out-necessity-53-years-they-show-no-signs-stopping-video.html
  
• Brandwashed http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385531737/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20 watch the video down the page
  
• Solar Sound System http://www.permaculture.co.uk/readers-solutions/build-your-own-solar-wind-sound-system
  
• Nomi Prins Holiday Book List http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2011/12/20/my-2011-holiday-book-list.html
  
• Collapse the board game http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/12/20/collapse-the-game-early-draft/
  
• Vinegar http://preparednessadvice.com/cooking/vinegar/
  
• 2012 Calendar http://www.hobbyfarms.com/hobby-farms-web-exclusives/2012-hobby-farms-calendar.aspx
  
• Transforming landscapes with water http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/how-transform-landscapes-water-sepp-holzer
  
• Old ways to leaven bread http://preparednessadvice.com/recipes/old-ways-to-leaven-bread/
  
• Edible Education 101: The complete collection of lectures from Michael Pollan’s Berkeley class! http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/edible-education-101-a-complete-course-on-modern-food-production/249691/
  
• Choosing a knife http://preparednessadvice.com/survival/choosing-a-knife/
  

CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK “Hallelujah Corporations" & "O, Damn Ye Wall St. Gentlemen"

12/18/11 

MUST SEE, READ, HEAR

• Life, Liberty, & Indefinite Detention without a Trial? Lee Camp Moment of Clarity #100 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6bvfGPqiOk
  
• Census shows 1 in 2 Americans are poor or low-income? AP http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LOW_INCOME_AMERICA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
  
• Frack ‘em? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2011/12/frack-em.html
  
• Capital Account on the 3Es with Chris Martenson? Lauren Lyster sits through the Crash Course? http://www.chrismartenson.com/forum/chris-rts-capital-account-today/66882
  
• Realtors: We overcounted Home Sales for 5 years? CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/45659547  more here http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/michael-olenick-nars-big-miss-on-home-sales-underscores-lack-of-transparency-and-accuracy-in-mortgagehousing-data.html
  
• The Financial Crisis was entirely unforeseeable? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/the-financial-crisis-was-foreseeable-a-long-time-ago.html
  
• How Banks extract from the Economy? Yves Smith http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/12/12/extractionism-with-yves-smith-of-naked-capitalism/
  
• The Last Refuge of Wall Street: Marketing schemes? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/Wall-Street-marketing12-11.html
  
• Top 10 Peak Oil books of 2011? http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/top-10-peak-oil-books-of-2011/
  
• Top 10 films that explain why Occupy Wall St. exists? http://www.filmsforaction.org/Articles/The_Top_10_Films_that_Explain_Why_Occupy_Wall_St_Exists/
  
• Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/our-decade-from-hell-will-get-worse-in-2012-2011-12-13?link=home_carousel
  
• A Story of Transition in 10 objects? http://transitionculture.org/2011/12/13/a-story-of-transition-in-10-objects-all-gathered-together-in-one-place/
  
• How MF Global collapsed by over Hypothecating and who is next? http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article32087.html
  
• US Banks’ Derivative Exposure? Nomi Prins Bloomberg VIDEO http://www.bloomberg.com/video/82673734/
  
• Old Oil Depletes and the New Oil is Slow? Gregor Macdonald http://gregor.us/fossil-fuels/old-oil-depletes-and-the-new-oil-is-slow/
  
• Child homelessness up 33% in 3 years? USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-12/homeless-children-increase/51851146/1?loc=interstitialskip
  
• Breaking away and Transitioning? Guy McPherson http://guymcpherson.com/2011/12/mixed-media/
  
• We are staring directly into an Energy Storm in the next 2-3 years? Dr Robert Hirsch http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2011/12/15/robert-l-hirsch-phd/we-are-staring-directly-into-energy-storm-in-next-2-3-years
  
• The Bugs that ate Monsanto? Grist http://www.grist.org/industrial-agriculture/2011-12-13-the-bugs-that-ate-monsanto
  
• The Wal-Mart Fortune in the new Gilded Age? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/the-wal-mart-fortune-in-the-new-gilded-age.html and more here http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/political-new-math-6-100000000.html
  
• A really disturbing way of looking at the income inequality explosion? Joe Weisenthal http://www.businessinsider.com/a-really-disturbing-way-of-looking-at-wealth-inequality-2011-12
  
• A look into our Climate and the Climate Denial debate? Michael Mann TED Talk http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/14/389450/michael-mann-tedx-climate-science-and-deniers/
  
• The truth hurts and heals? CHS http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2011/12/truth-hurts-and-heals.html
  
• Soaring oil and food prices threaten affordable food supply? Richard Heinberg http://richardheinberg.com/235-soaring-oil-and-food-prices-threaten-affordable-food-supply
  
• We already have infinite detention? A Dangerous Woman: Indefinite Detention at Carswell? http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/12/11/a-dangerous-woman-indefinite-detention-a
  
• The final colonial pillage? Naomi Klein interview by Occupy Vancouver VIDEO http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/15-0
  
• Dante’s Divine Comedy? Banksters Edition – Bill Black http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/bill-black-dante%E2%80%99s-divine-comedy-%E2%80%93-banksters-edition.html
  
• 50 Economic numbers from 2011 that are too crazy to believe? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/50-economic-numbers-about-us-are-almost-too-crazy-believe
  
• As Economic Growth Fails, How do we live? http://www.energyeconomyonline.com/As_Growth_Fails_Part_I.html
  

• Check out excellent daily postings at http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/ as well!

MORE, MORE, MORE

• 20 top Environmental Stories of 2011? Desdemona Despair http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/12/20-most-popular-stories-of-2011.html
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission controlled by Nuclear Industry?  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/congressman-theres-been-an-attempted-coup-at-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission.html 
  
• Egypt Military still beating protestors? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1xF5ENPIuAk#! 
  
• Indefinite Detention Law Hall of Shame? http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/indefinite-detention-law-hall-of-shame-list-of-senators-who-voted-yes-on-the-ndaa-bill
  
• Too Big to Stop? Banks keep breaking the law and getting away with it? Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/too-big-to-stop-why-big-banks-keep-getting-away-with-breaking-the-law/249952/
  
• High oil prices threaten global economy? IEA http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/14/iea-high-oil-prices-global-economy?CMP=twt_gu
  
• PwC survey warns of mineral shortage’s harmful effects? http://www.theengineer.co.uk/pwc-survey-warns-of-mineral-shortages-harmful-effects/1011215.article#ixzz1gMJDQmrA
  
• Retail sales growth weak in November? Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/13/us-usa-economy-retail-idUSTRE7BC0Y420111213
  
• Headwinds for Housing? CHS http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/headwinds-housing/66577
  
• Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial? Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-obama
  
• Mobius Strip of Fraud? Keiser Report with Reggie Middleton http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/15/kr223-keiser-report-mobius-strip-of-fraud/
  
• Cash for Christmas? TAE http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-11-2011-cash-for-christmas.html
  
• Europe’s blithering idiots? Telegraph  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100013758/europes-blithering-idiots-and-their-flim-flam-treaty/
  
• A Rich American destroys the myth of rich creating jobs? Business Insider  http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-do-not-create-jobs-2011-12
  
• Everything happening now was planned before 9/11? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/educationgram-copy-the-body-of-this-post-and-send-it-in-an-email-all-browsers-allow-you-to-do-it-to-everyone-you-know-and-your-elected-representatives-and-local-law-enforcement-agencies.html
  
• Being prepared makes you a terrorist? http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/preppers-are-now-considered-to-be-potential-terrorists
  
• Stupid Liberal Tricks? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-liberal-tricks-portland-oregons.html
  
• FBI estimates 80% of mortgage fraud involves industry insiders? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/the-fbi-estimates-that-80-percent-of-all-mortgage-fraud-involves-collaboration-or-collusion-by-industry-insiders.html
  
• Farmers march with OWS? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-murphy/video-farmers-march-with-_b_1149622.html
  
• Debtors Prison is back? http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/debtors-prison-back
  
• Fukushima – Could it have a China Syndrome? http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-could-it-have-china-syndrome
  
• The questionable economics of shale gas? Chris Nelder http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/the-questionable-economics-of-shale-gas/243?tag=content;roto-fd-feature
  
• Oil Companies investments in dirty fuels outpace clean by 50 times? http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/smui/oil_companies_investments_in_d.html
  
• A list of Corporate Criminals Ravaging the World? Lee Camp VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypc6zdp5Bo
  
• Google’s $29 Billion in perspective? Barry Ritholtz http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/googles-29-billion-revenue-in-perspective/
  
• What if Chinese troops occupied Texas? Ron Paul http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/ron-paul-what-if-chinese-troops-occupied-texas.html
  
• Feds falsely censor blog, deny all due process? Techdirt http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml
  
• Obama will not go down in history, not in a good way? Human Rights Watch http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/human_rights_watch_says_obama_wil_go_down_in_history_--_and_not_in_a_good_w/
  
• Dylan Ratigan Rant, in case you missed? http://market-ticker.org/post=198966
  
• Domestic Drones coming to your backyard? http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9476623-domestic-drones-coming-soon-over-a-home-near-you
  
• The Black Swan of Cairo? http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/the-black-swan-of-cairo.html
  
• Indefinite Detention hurts National Security? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/indefinite-detention-hurts-our-national-security-and-increases-the-risk-of-terrorism.html
  
• Can Tides turn the Tide? Do the Math http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/12/can-tides-turn-the-tide/
  
• China’s deserted fake Disneyland? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/chinas-deserted-fake-disneyland.html
  
• Hanging with the Family Guy in jail? http://exiledonline.com/hanging-with-a-family-guy-writer-in-jail-and-realizing-that-the-raid-on-occupy-la-was-meant-to-keep-other-family-guys-from-joining-the-movement/
  
• Retail Sales spin was BS? Davos http://www.psychopathiceconomics.com/DavosEconomicForum/2011/12/13/retail-sails-retail-spin-was-bee-sss/
  
• Carbon bubble? http://www.carbontracker.org/carbonbubble
  
• China’s epic hangover begins? Ambrose Evans-Pritchard http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/8957289/Chinas-epic-hangover-begins.html
  
• Saudi Woman beheaded for ‘sorcery’? http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/RestOfAsia/Saudi-woman-beheaded-for-sorcery/Article1-781301.aspx
  
• Iran practicing closing the Strait of Hormuz? ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-military-practising-straights-hormuz-closure
  
• Healthcare CEO replace Bankers as highest paid? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/healthcare-ceos-replace-bankers-as.html
  
• Landowners left out the loop on fracking risk? LA Times  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fracking-land-20111212,0,5168236.story
  
• The social contract is unraveling? OECD http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/oecd-the-social-contract-is-unravelling.html
  
• American privilege rots an empire from within? MarketWatch  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/american-privilege-rots-an-empire-from-within-2011-12-11?pagenumber=2
  
• Are US troops deploying on the Jordan-Syrian Border? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/are-us-troops-deploying-on-the-jordan-syrian-border.html
  
• The Cookie Crumbles? Kunstler http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/12/the-cookie-crumbles.html
  
• WWW III updates? http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/news-alerts/item/5597-ww3-updates-paving-the-way-for-the-us-and-nato?m_content=peakoil,+collapse,+transition & http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/news-alerts/item/5649-world-war-iii-updates-saturday-morning
  
• Occupy the Dream? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/its-time-to-occupy-the-dream-african-american-faith-community-joins-forces-with-occupy-wall-street-first-day-of-action-on-mlk-day-jan-16-at-federal-reserve-banks.html
  
• Land Grabs threaten the poor even more? http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/12/land-grabs-threaten-worlds-poor-even.html
  
• Techno-Optimists Running Wild? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/techo-optimists-running-wild.html
  
• Land of the………..? US Martial Law? http://market-ticker.org/post=199272
  
• Exotic Pet Banking Fraudsters? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/17/kr224-keiser-report-exotic-pet-banking-fraudsters/
  
• The coming European Train Wreck? David Stockman http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/lee-adler/2011/12/14/david-stockman-on-the-coming-euro-train-wreck
  
• Predator Drones participating in civilian arrests on US soil? http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/first-us-citizens-have-been-arrested-help-predator-drone
  
• Household electricity bills skyrocket? USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2011-12-13/electric-bills/51840042/1
  
• World Currency War 1? Keiser Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8FIXhDJ8o0
  
• The squidding of Goldman Sachs? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/occupy-wall-street-the-squidding-of-goldman-sachs-20111213
  
• Google street view of devastated Japan? http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-12/homeless-children-increase/51851146/1?loc=interstitialskip
  
• The European Death Spiral? ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/european-death-spiral
  
• 17 signs the Euro Financial System is heading for Implosion? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/mega-fail-17-signs-that-the-european-financial-system-is-heading-for-an-implosion-of-historic-proportions
  
• Why near term danger of systematic crisis is far greater today? Martin Weiss http://etfdailynews.com/2011/12/14/why-new-danger-of-a-systemic-collapse-is-far-greater-today-than-at-almost-any-time-tza-faz-fas-tna/
  
• Groundhog Day again? Washington kicks the can again? http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/12/16/is-this-groundhog-day-or-just-another-day-for-can-kicking-in-washington/
  
• China’s Rare Earth Monopoly? http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/15/chinas-rare-earth-monopoly/
  
• Public School teachers reflect on growing poverty rate? http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2011/12/12/columbia-public-school-teachers-staff-reflect-growing-poverty-rate/
  
• Occupy Endgame? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/occupy-endgame-law-enforcement-arrests-1s-war-economic-criminals.html 
  
• Bernie Sanders explains Why Congress fears Citizens United? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bernie_sanders_explains_why_congress_fears_citizens_united_20111216/
  
• The network of corporate control? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28235
  
• Fed bailout bombshell, it was $29 Trillion? http://www.alternet.org/economy/153462/bail-out_bombshell%3A_fed_%22emergency%22_bank_rescue_totaled_%2429_trillion_over_three_years/
  
• Trillion Dollar Jet fighter? http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/trillion-dollar-jet-fighter-has.html
  
• Corporate Personhood, when convenient? http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/12/16/mad-as-hell-special-report-corporate-personhood-when-convenient/
  
• Time Magazine’s Kiss of Death? DOTE  http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/time-magazines-kiss-of-death.html
  
• Understanding Peak Water? Jack Keller http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/jack-keller-understanding-peak-water/66952
  

CLIMATE CHAOS

• Hotter, Drier, Meaner? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/11/386800/hotter-drier-climate-trends-agriculture/
  
• 2 big utilities debunk Wall Street’s lies on clean air reliability? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/12/387641/two-big-utilities-debunk-wall-street-journal-industry-lies-about-clean-air-reliability/
  
• Map of extreme drought and extremely wet conditions? MAP http://water.weather.gov/precip/index.php?yday=1323734400&yday_analysis=0&layer[]=0&layer[]=1&layer[]=4&time&loc&units=engl&timeframe=year2date&product=dep_normal&loc=conus
  
• Melting Arctic sea ice releases astonishing fountains of methane? Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/shock-as-retreat-of-arctic-sea-ice-releases-deadly-greenhouse-gas-6276134.html
  
• Rate of manmade warming since 1979 “remarkably Steady”? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/13/388527/deniers-study-true-global-warming-signal-rate-of-manmade-warming/
  
• A slow awakening? http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2011/12/slow-awakening.html
  
• Durban and everything that matters? The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/12/climate-change?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/durbanandeverything
  
• We messed up, but you can still save the planet? http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/we-messed-up-but-you-can-still-save-the-planet/
  
• Why is it so easy to save banks but not the planet? http://www.countercurrents.org/mobiot161211.htm
  
• Earths 9 threats to humanity? http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2011-12-12/don-t-panic-earth-s-nine-threats-to-humanity.html#slide1
  
• As Permafrost thaws? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/science/earth/warming-arctic-permafrost-fuels-climate-change-worries.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
  

RESOURCES

• Cold Frames, Fresh Greens, Home Grown Roots  http://www.motherearthnews.com/gardening-in-the-southeast/cold-frames-fresh-greens-home-grown-roots.aspx
• Kunstlercast Book Review http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/talkin-peak-oil-blues-review-the-kunstler-cast/
  
• Nine Knots to know for farming http://bigpictureagriculture.blogspot.com/2011/12/nine-knots-to-know-for-use-in-farming.html
  
• The subversive farmer who is changing the World http://www.theresilientfamily.com/2011/12/the-subversive-farmer-who-is-changing-the-world/
  
• How much work is small scale farming? http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2011/12/how_much_work_is_small-scale_f.php
  
• Community Energy Companies, Farms and Resource Centers, Transition Podcast http://transitionculture.org/2011/12/15/its-the-december-transition-podcast-community-energy-companies-farms-and-resource-centres/
  
• 3 ways to Compost http://www.motherearthnews.com/city-farming/3-ways-to-compost.aspx
  
• Meet the future of farming http://flavormagazinevirginia.com/young-farmers/ 
  
• Occupy Love http://www.indiegogo.com/Occupy-Love
  
• Occupy the Constitution http://owsnews.org/occupy-the-constitution-get-money-out-of-politics/
  
• Fundamental breakthrough for Solar http://www.grist.org/list/2011-12-16-fundamental-breakthrough-could-double-electricity-produced-from-
  

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CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO of the WEEK "The Revolution Starts Now"

12/11/11

MUST SEE, READ, HEAR

• Sapient Governance depends on the Sapient Brains possessed by the Governed? http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2011/12/sapient-governance-depends-on-sapient-brains-possessed-by-the-governed.html
  
• Shale Gas drilling’s dirty secret is out? Josh Fox http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/10-1 and more here http://www.businessinsider.com/federal-report-water-contamination-frackig-2011-12
  
• My Occupy LA Arrest? http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/
  
• The most important story of the Millennium? Bill McKibben http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/carbon-emissions-report_b_1129812.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
  
• Feckless Parents and Reckless banks? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/06/kr219-keiser-report-feckless-parents-reckless-banks/
  
• Free your mind? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-your-mind.html
  
• GET IT DONE! Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks the UN Climate Summit http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/9/get_it_done_urging_climate_justice
  
• When things fall apart? Wall St. is becoming little more than a glorified crack house? CHS http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/disorientation-chaos12-11.html
  
• Is terminating the industrial economy a moral act? Guy Mcpherson http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/is-terminating-the-industrial-economy-a-moral-act/
  
• Peak Oil, Europe and the Global Economy? Two Chris Martenson interviews – unlisted link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftC04LlrjGE&feature=player_embedded & http://www.goldmoney.com/video/martenson-turk-interview.html
  
• How to pick the GOP nominee? Fiore Animated Cartoon http://motherjones.com/media/2011/12/mark-fiore-cartoon-who-will-be-gop-nominee-2012
  
• See Coal Production Grow? Animated Chart http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=4210 
  
• What Peak Oil looks like? John Michael Greer http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-08/what-peak-oil-looks
  
• Time to give up on Mainstream Economics? Gregor Macdonald http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/time-give-up-mainstream-economics/66001
  
• Arrested Development? Daily Show  http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-7-2011/arrested-development pt 2 http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-7-2011/arrested-development---one-way-train-to-gitmo
  
• The magnificence of spider silk? TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/cheryl_hayashi_the_magnificence_of_spider_silk.html
  
• Is Occupy Wall Street having an effect? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4p1Y1CUm_s
  
• Look Back, Look Forward and Look Down, way down? Automatic Earths 1000th post! THANK YOU for you brilliant work http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-5-2011-look-back-look-forward.html
  
• Psychopathic Economics 101? http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/davos-sherman-okst/2011/12/03/psychopathic-economics-101
  

MORE, MORE, MORE

• Pulling back the curtain on the Wall Street money machine? Ellen Brown http://itsoureconomy.us/2011/12/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wall-street-money-machine/
  
• US calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/hypocrisy-porn-us-calls-on-russia-to.html
  
• On the Edge with the Euro Crisis? Keiser with Greg Hunter http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/10/euro-crisis-on-the-edge-with-max-keiser-12-09-2011-guest-greg-hunter/
  
• Gold for Bonds & Debts for What? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/10/kr221-keiser-report-gold-for-bonds-debts-for-what/
  
• The issue of fraud and the attempt to cover up a wider circle of involvement than MF Global? http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/12/mf-global-issue-is-fraud-and-attempt-to.html
  
• Grayson’s analysis of the GAO report on the Fed? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/alan-grayson-on-gao-report-on-the-fed.html
  
• Beware of Black Friday hype? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/beware-the-black-friday-retail-hype/
  
• American justice: Peaceful protesters go to jail and forced to post bail, Jerry Sandusky walks free? http://exiledonline.com/this-is-what-injustice-looks-like-accused-serial-child-rapist-jerry-sandusky-walks-free-without-posting-bail-while-peaceful-occupy-la-protesters-forced-to-post-5000-to-10000-bail/
  
• Japan to bailout TEPCO? http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-tepco-idUSTRE7B70CP20111208
  
• Ex Countrywide Exec blows the lid off systematic fraud? http://www.businessinsider.com/countrywide-mortgage-fraud-60-minutes-2011-12
  
• Save the Post Office? Ralph Nader http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/07-10 and here is how to have the banks help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlxbKtBkGM
  
• Another bad year for Social Security? Bruce Krasting http://brucekrasting.blogspot.com/2011/12/social-security-2011-another-bad-year.html
  
• Rare earth metals scarcity a ticking timebomb?  http://peakoil.com/alternative-energy/rare-earth-metals-scarcity-a-%E2%80%98ticking-timebomb%E2%80%99/
  
• War on Iran has already begun? The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/07/iran-war-already-begun
  
• Hanes buys American factory then moves it to Mexico? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/hanes-buys-missouri-factory-then-plans.html
  
• The Best Government Money can buy? K St. Documentary film maker interview http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2011/12/08/francis-megahy/the-best-government-money-can-buy
  
• Next steps in escalating Middle East? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-are-next-steps-escalating-middle-east
  
• Your choice Europe: Rebel against the banks or accept debt serfdom? http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/euro-debt-serfdom12-11.html
  
• World War III updates? http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/news-alerts/item/5433-world-war-iii-updates-sunday
  
• MF Global collapse has slammed farmers across America? http://www.businessinsider.com/the-mf-global-collapse-has-slammed-farmers-and-ranchers-across-america-2011-12
  
• How Steve Keen saw it coming and others did not? http://ineteconomics.org/blog/inet/steve-keen-why-he-saw-it-coming-and-others-did-not
  
• How to buy an Election? Flow Chart http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/campaign-finance-flow-chart
  
• Class war will explode? Paul Farrell http://www.marketwatch.com/story/super-rich-vs-99-class-war-will-explode-2011-12-06?link=home_carousel
  
• Has the Global Business Cycle ended? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/has-the-global-business-cycle-ended.html
  
• Iran prepares for war? The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8936797/Irans-Revolutionary-Guards-prepare-for-war.html
  
• Naomi Klein’s inconvenient climate conclusions? http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/naomi-kleins-inconvenient-climate-conclusions/?src=tp
  
• Lawless? Nathan Martin http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/12/morning-update-market-thread-128.html
  
• Heil Cororatocracy? http://guymcpherson.com/2011/12/seeking-refuge-and-reason-in-a-world-gone-mad-when-%E2%80%9Cjust-following-orders%E2%80%9D-is-akin-to-%E2%80%9Cheil-corporatocracy%E2%80%9D/
  
• Who’s playing the Iran war drums? Monty Python’s Terry Jones http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/06/iran-war-drums-terry-jones?intcmp=239 
  
• $400 a gallon Gas? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204903804577080613427403928.html
  
• Corzine’s statement brilliant, says former SEC Counsel? http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/12/08/corzines-statement-brilliant-says-former?videoId=226485461&newsChannel=topNews
  
• Another reason for stocks to tank in 2012: Jobs?
  
• Iran – Possible implications of an Oil Embargo? Oil Drum http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8683
  
• Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply? Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-cyber-oil-idUSTRE7B71FO20111208
  
• Monsanto still denies super insect problem, despite evidence? http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/12/superinsects-monsanto-corn-epa
  
• No Fly Zone over Syria imminent? http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/news-alerts/item/5537-nato/israeli/arab-league-no-fly-zone-over-syria-imminent
  
• Time to start freaking out about Oil prices? Henry Blodget http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-prices-2011-12
  
• Covert Intelligence War against Iran? STRATFOR http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20111207-covert-intelligence-war-against-iran
  
• Game of Drones? Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-7-2011/game-of-drones?xrs=synd_twitter
  
• The only food pyramid that matters in a Peak Oil future? http://www.businessinsider.com/peak-oil-food-pyramid-2011-12#ixzz1fzzt63Kf
  
• Government could get kill-switch for cell phones? http://rt.com/usa/news/fcc-bart-cell-mobile-197/
  
• Little Neuter? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/equal-time-bashing-little-neuter.html
  
• Deconstructing Obama’s brand? DOTE http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/12/obamas-new-brand.html
  
• Shoplifting up 6% from last? http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/steal-136712
  
• Karl Rove attacks Elizabeth Warren with outright lies? http://www.truth-out.org/karl-roves-latest-attack-elizabeth-warren/1323439618
  
• Total Carnage and Meltdown? Evolution Securities http://www.zerohedge.com/news/evolution-warns-total-carnage-and-meltdown-european-bank-sales-cds-european-sovereign-debt-soar
  
• Legal loophole will screw MF Global customers? http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Securities/Insight/2011/12_-_December/MF_Global_and_the_great_Wall_St_re-hypothecation_scandal/
  
• Destroying the Internet as we know it? Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvNgvKoBhP8
  
• Chinese Ghost Towns? PHOTOS http://www.businessinsider.com/china-ghost-cities-2011-11#ixzz1fsvxpEJ8 
  
• 30 big profitable corporations paid more in lobbying than taxes? http://publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/ReportTaxDodgerLobbyingDec6.pdf
  
• Ecological Economics? http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-08/economy-ecological-economics
  
• US Petroleum and Gas usage plunges? Economy to follow? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/petroleum-and-gasoline-usage-plunges.html
  
• 6 members of the Wallmart Walton family worth more than the bottom 30% of Americans? http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/the_insane_wealth_of_walmarts_founding_family/
  
• Economics is the new Rock n Roll? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/08/220-keiser-report-economics-is-the-new-rocknroll/
  
• Corzine is clueless? Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-mfglobal-corzine-idUSTRE7B70ET20111208
  
• BP says Haliburton hid evidence in Gulf Oil disaster? http://www.grist.org/list/2011-12-06-bad-guys-bicker-over-gulf-oil-spill
  
• The public will not wake up until at least 1 million private accounts are stolen? Jim Willie http://bullmarketthinking.com/exclusive-interview-jim-willie-the-public-will-not-wake-up-until-at-least-1-million-private-accounts-are-stolen/
  
• Saudi Arabia may join Nuclear Arms Race? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-may-seek-nuclear-weapons-prince-says.html?_r=2&src=tp
  
• European banks dash for Fed cash? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/european-banks-dash-fed-cash-dollar-swap-usage-soars-funding-squeeze-now-shifts-euros
  
• 46.3 Million Americans on Foodstamps? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/over-46-million-americans-foodstamps-first-time-ever 
  
• Foodstamp enrollment avg 400K a month for past 47 months? TDS http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/food-stamp-enrollment-surpasses-46.html
  
• Nuke’s EROEI? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/the-energy-put-into-mining-processing-and-shipping-uranium-plant-construction-operation-and-decommissioning-is-less-than-the-energy-a-nuclear-plant-can-produce-in-its-lifetime.html
  
• Occupy stronger than ever? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/occupy-movement-stronger-than-ever.html
  
• Super Virus Recipe: keep secret or publish? http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/armageddon-super-virus-recipe-keep-secret-or-publish-20111206-1og76.html#ixzz1fnGlyANJ
  
• EC could be empowered to impose austerity? http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/06/eurozone-shakeup-voting-rights-confidential-paper
  
• Death of AAA Assets? http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/chart-day-death-aaa-assets
  
• LAPD’s abusive and potentially illegal detention of Occupy protesters? http://exiledonline.com/kpfk-radio-talks-to-yasha-levine-mark-ames-about-lapds-abusive-treatment-potentially-illegal-detention-of-occupy-la-protesters/
  
• The myth of renewable energy? http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/dawn-stover/the-myth-of-renewable-energy
  
• End of growth in the US? Gregor Macdonald http://gregor.us/oil/the-end-of-growth-in-the-united-states/
  
• Has the war with Iran already begun? Michael Hirsh http://www.nationaljournal.com/has-the-war-with-iran-already-begun--20111204?page=1
  
• Saudi Arabia – headed for a downfall? Our Finite World http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/12/05/saudi-arabia-headed-for-a-downfall/
  
• The greatest water crisis in the history of civilization coming to the American West? http://www.alternet.org/story/153312/the_greatest_water_crisis_in_the_history_of_civilization:_coming_to_the_american_west_/
  
• Many have little to no savings for retirement? USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/retirement/story/2011-12-02/retirement-not-saving-enough/51642848/1
  

CLIMATE CHAOS

• Death Sentence for Africa? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/10-0
  
• Mexico faces worst drought in 70 years? http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2011/12/2011129222012703612.html
  
• Sen Inhofe tells US Climate Summit ‘You are being ignored’? http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/9/lauding_collapse_of_global_warming_movement
  
• Blue Carbon? Role of the Oceans in climate change http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/09/385855/blue-carbon-oceans-in-climate-change/ 
  
• Extreme Weather Map? http://www.nrdc.org/health/extremeweather/default.asp
  
• Weather weirding in New England this fall? http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/record-breaking-snow-warmth-weather-weirding-new-england.html
  
• The young and the restless: kids sue over climate change? http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-08-the-young-and-the-restless-kids-sue-government-over-climate-chan
  
• Climate changing 100 Xs faster than species can adapt? http://www.grist.org/list/2011-12-07-study-the-climate-is-changing-100-times-faster-than-species-can-
  
• 2011 record year? http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/new-details-on-2011-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters/
  
• World heading for 3.5 C warming? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/world-heading-3-5-c-warming-study-103107727.html
  
• Sea levels will rise faster than predicted? http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/new-data-indicates-polar-ice-melt-antarctic-could-cause-faster-global-water-level-rise.html
  
• The Brutal logic of climate change? http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-05-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change
  
• No, it’s not only the hockey stick? http://climatecrocks.com/2011/12/05/new-video-no-its-not-about-the-hockey-stick/
  
• New ‘Hockey Stick’ Video? Mike Mann http://climatecrocks.com/2011/12/05/perfect-timing-new-hockey-stick-videomike-mann-in-wsj/
  
• Record Carbon Emissions reach 10 Billion Tons, threaten 2 degree traget? http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2011/December/globalcarbonproject
  

RESOURCES

• Growing your own Potatoes http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/growing-your-own-potatoes/66508
  
• What Localized Food Systems might look like http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/what-localized-food-system-might-look-tales-across-britain-video.html
  
• Orwell Rolls in his grave MOVIE http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-documentary-orwell-rolls-in.html?spref=tw
  
• Do you have an emergency plan? http://preparednessadvice.com/seventy-two-hour-kits/do-you-have-an-emergency-plan/
  
• How to choose the right Woodstove http://www.motherearthnews.com/modern-homesteading/how-to-choose-a-woodstove-zm0z11zphe.aspx
  
• A course to keep you from crashing http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-12-08/course-keep-you-crashing
  
• How to position yourself for the future: Financial Security http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-how-position-yourself-future-step-1-financial-security
  
• Magic Mushrooms return? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/-magic-mushrooms-return-to-psychology-labs-40-years-after-leary.html
  
• Data backup http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/considering-data-backup
  
• Of Forests and Men Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSaAlPRN-c
  
• Transition Thrive Course http://transitionculture.org/2011/12/06/transition-thrive-%E2%80%93-our-new-sustaining-momentum-course-has-its-first-outing/
  
• Lethal Trajectories Book Review http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/one-way-saudi-oil-could-start-world-war-iii/
  
• Prosecuting Wall Street – 60 minutes Report http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Prosecuting_Wall_Street_2011/
  
• Occupy the Movie http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Occupy_the_Movie/
  
• Forks over Knives Movie http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Forks_Over_Knives_2011/
  

CARTOONS and MUSIC VIDEO of the WEEK "Waiting for the End of the World" Elvis Costello

12/4/11 The Exponential Function Edition

MUST SEE, READ, HEAR

•  Occupy Economics? VIDEO  http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/01-0
  
•  Secret Federal Reserve Bailout? Daily Show and more VIDEO  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/jon-stewart-on-secret-federal-reserve-bailout-of-big-banks.html
  
•  The Ugly Reheated Undercooked Truth About #GMO Foods? VIDEO Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYg1TJ9PZiQ
  
•  Ratigan rips Europe Bailout? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#45498050
  
•  The Fed’s European Rescue: Another back-door US Bank / Goldman bailout?  Nomi Prins http://www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2011/11/30/the-feds-european-rescue-another-back-door-us-bank-goldman-b.html
  
•  Life after the end of economic growth? Richard Heinberg http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/30/end-of-growth
  
•  Day X? The Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-30-2011-day-x.html
  
•  Countdown to $100 Oil - High Energy Prices Suppressing Growth? http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8645
  
•  Your New American Dream? Kunstler http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/11/your-new-american-dream.html
  
•  What Are We Truly Willing To Fight For? VIDEO Lee Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_tYazSKk4
  
•  A Species with Foresight II? Vancouver Peak Oil  http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2011/11/16/a-species-with-foresight-ii/#more-2477
  
•  Grayson on the Fed: Corporate Welfare Pure and Simple? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWimQrBU5rY
  
•  The 99 percent movement & Wall Street? On the Edge with Max Keiser and David DeGraw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjgiDZvzZQ&feature=colike
  
•  Appalling treatment of Occupy protesters in jail? http://exiledonline.com/yasha-levine-released-from-jail-exposes-lapds-appalling-treatment-of-detained-occupy-la-protesters/  and more here http://exiledonline.com/a-visit-to-the-raided-occupy-la-camp-updates-from-freed-protesters-and-bad-news-about-our-legal-situation/
  
•  Senate wants to lock up US citizens without trial? http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/senate-military-detention/
  
•  Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity though Debt Forgiveness? Multi part series, scroll down for all links http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/Zeus-unleashing-future5-12-11.html
  
•  Chris Martenson Lecture On Why The Next 20 Years Will Be Marked By The Collapse Of The Exponential Function? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/chris-martenson-lecture-why-next-20-years-will-be-marked-collapse-exponential-function
  

MORE, MORE, MORE

• Never before has the World been so close to war with Iran? Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,801333,00.html
  
• The Dominos have begun to raid Pension Funds? Going MF Global? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/portugal-latest-country-go-mf-global-raids-pensions-funds-delay-fiscal-death
  
• Peak Oil and the Effects on Public Health? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EgddbbdtxFw 
  
• Employment Report is an intentional fabrication? http://market-ticker.org/post=198461
  
• Warning to banks on Eurozone crisis? Bank of England Governor http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/warning-to-banks-on-eurozone-crisis-6270332.html
  
• 96 hours to the stone age: How quickly our connected lives crumble when the power goes out? http://gigaom.com/2011/11/23/96-hours-to-the-stone-age-how-our-connected-lives-crumble-when-the-power-goes-out/ 
  
• A second Iranian nuclear facility has exploded, as diplomatic tensions rise between the West and Tehran? http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/a-second-iranian-nuclear-facility-has-exploded-as-diplomatic-tensions-rise-between-the-west-and-tehran/story-e6frg6so-1226209996774 
  
• What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/what-have-the-central-banks-of-the-world-done-now
  
• GM Channel Stuffing Surges To All Time Record? ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/gm-channel-stuffing-surges-all-time-record
  
• Simon Johnson on the Financial Crisis? http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/11/simon_johnson_o.html
  
• We are already in the 2nd Great Depression, we just don’t realize it yet? http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-keen-the-best-we-can-hope-for-is-japanese-style-stagnation-2011-12
  
• ABC Headline: Fukushima fuel rods eating through solid concrete - Just 37 cm away from outer casing? http://enenews.com/abc-fukushima-fuel-eating-concrete-37-cm-away-outer-casing
  
• No matter what the Banksters always Win? Nomi Prins on Alex Jones http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel#p/a/u/2/_n2SPeJ7hh4 pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel#p/a/u/2/nneN-Zs2ODk
  
• 5 ways to make banks pay for their secret $7 Trillion free ride? Spitzer http://www.alternet.org/economy/153291/eliot_spitzer%3A_5_ways_to_make_banks_pay_for_their_secret_%247_trillion_free_ride/
  
• Black Friday Best Seller, Guns? http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/black-friday-best-seller-guns/
  
• Egypt imports 21 TONS of tear gas from US? http://bikyamasr.com/49799/egypt-import-tear-gas-from-us/
  
• Bipartisanship strikes again? The Downward Spiral http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/friday-rant-bipartisanship-strikes.html
  
• Entire US is now a war zone with massive Senate support? http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/entire-united-states-is-now-war-zone.html
  
• Americans Are MILITARY Targets in the War on Terror? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/americans-are-military-targets-in-the-war-on-terror.html
  
• Massachusetts AG Lawsuit: Five Major U.S. Banks Accused Of Deceptive Foreclosure Practices?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/massachusetts-ag-foreclosure-lawsuit-banks_n_1123393.html
  
• Real scoop on the jobs report? http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/us-payrolls-rise-modest-120000.html
  
• Mission Accomplished: Baghdad is not the Worst City in the World? The Downward Spiral http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/12/mission-accomplished-baghdad-is-now.html
  
• Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong About Inequality? Washington’s Blog http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/both-the-left-and-the-right-are-wrong-about-inequality.html
  
• "They have to keep the Ponzi scheme going." Gerald Celente on the coordinated central bank action? http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/12/1_Gerald_Celente_-_Back_Door_Deals,_Gold_Zoom,_Silver_Bam%21.html
  
• Shameful Media Blackout on National Defense Auth Act? http://www.businessinsider.com/the-medias-blackout-of-the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-shameful-2011-12
  
• US Debt/GDP Hits Post WW2 High 99.5% Following $55 Billion Overnight Debt Increase: Total Debt Now Over $15.1 Trillion? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-debtgdp-hits-post-ww2-high-995-following-55-billion-overnight-debt-increase-total-debt-now-o
  
• A 'frightened to death' Frank Luntz offers Republicans advice on Occupy Wall Street?  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/01/1041485/-A-frightened-to-death-Frank-Luntz-offers-Republicans-advice-on-Occupy-Wall%C2%A0Street
  
• How The U.S. Will Become A 3rd World Country? (Part 1) ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-how-us-will-become-3rd-world-country-part-1  (Part 2) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/how-us-will-become-3rd-world-country-part-2
  
• Uberdebten? Keiser Report with Karl Denninger interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5qomm4g2rk
  
• Fukushima Meltdown in Japan May Have Been Worse Than Thought? NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/world/asia/meltdown-in-japan-may-have-been-worse-than-thought.html?_r=1
  
• Battlefield US: Americans face arrest as war criminals under Army state law? http://rt.com/usa/news/senate-mccain-battlefield-graham-429/
  
• Funds, refiners ponder oil Armageddon: war on Iran? Reuters http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/30/iran-oil-idINDEE7AT08720111130
  
• The Failure to investigate 9/11 has Bankrupted America? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/the-failure-to-investigate-911-has-bankrupted-america.html
  
• Translating the European Financial Mess, in plain English? NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/adam-davidson-european-finance.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1
  
• PIMCO’s  El-Erian on central bank action? http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/11/30/773511/guest-post-el-erian-on-central-bank-action/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
  
• Ron Paul Statement On The Fed's Bailout Of Europe? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ron-paul-statement-feds-bailout-europe
  
• The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System? http://www.alternet.org/story/153212/the_shocking_ways_the_corporate_prison_industry_games_the_system/
  
• We are in trouble? VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mBeakzniA58
  
• Not Made in America? Ralph Nader http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/30-7
  
• Why energy journalism is so bad?  Chris Nelder http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/why-energy-journalism-is-so-bad/219
  
• Saudi Arabia Finally Gives Up? http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/saudi-arabia-finally-gives
  
• Dylan Ratigan And Eliot Spitzer Go Off On Secret Fed Loans, MF Global, And The Citigroup Settlement? http://www.businessinsider.com/dylan-ratigan-eliot-spitzer-2011-11
  
• No oil find for Cairn in Arctic? BBC News  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-15960028
  
• Central Banks' Latest Move Shows Desperation? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/central-banks-latest-move-shows-desperation.html
  
• Thoughts on why energy use and CO2 emissions are rising as fast as GDP? Our Finite World http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/11/30/thoughts-on-why-energy-use-and-co2-emissions-are-rising-as-fast-as-gdp/
  
• LSU Study: Fish harmed by oil exposure?  http://www.wrkf.org/batonrouge&newsID=2225
  
• BP Admits to New Activity at Deepwater Horizon Site? http://www.stuarthsmith.com/breakthrough-in-the-macondo-mystery-bp-admits-to-new-activity-at-deepwater-horizon-site
  
• US Government Trying To Censor The Internet? http://www.marketskeptics.com/2011/11/us-government-trying-to-censor-the-internet.html
  
• Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement? Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/federal-judge-pimp-slaps-the-sec-over-citigroup-settlement-20111129
  
• Alison Rose Levy: Is New York's Governor Opening a Pandora's Box? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-rose-levy/fracking-new-york_b_1115095.html
  
• Satellite Image Confirms Iranian Missile Base Was Destroyed? ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/satellite-image-confirms-iranian-missile-base-was-destroyed
  
• Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, Potent Enough to Kill Millions, Be Published? Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-11/should-recipe-engineered-bird-flu-potent-enough-kill-millions-ever-be-published
  
• $7.7 Trillion to Wall Street: Anything to keep the Banksters Happy? Thom Hartmann http://www.truth-out.org/77-trillion-wall-street-anything-keep-banksters-happy/1322841741
  
• We the People' versus 'We the Corporation': Sentiment Builds for Banning Corporate Personhood, But Tough Road Ahead? Alternet http://www.alternet.org/story/153185/
  
• Financial red alert: Europe stands on verge of 'apocalyptic' debt crisis with only days remaining? http://www.naturalnews.com/034270_debt_crisis_police_state_tyranny.html
  
• Global systemic crisis: 30,000 billion US dollars in ghost assets will disappear by early 2013? http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-59-is-available-Global-systemic-crisis-30000-billion-US-dollars-in-ghost-assets-will-disappear-by-early-2013_a8148.html
  
• The Pepper-Spraying Cop Who Made History? http://motherjones.com/slideshows/2011/11/uc-davis-police-casually-pepper-spray-iconic-images-history/banksy
  
• Pimco's 4 "Iran Invasion" Oil Price Scenarios: From $140 To "Doomsday"? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/pimcos-4-iran-invasion-oil-price-scenarios-140-doomsday
  
• Euro Zone on the Brink: A Continent Stares into the Abyss? SPIEGEL ONLINE http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,800285,00.html
  
• An honest & informative search 4 common ground between TeaParty & OWS? http://vimeo.com/32677208
  
• Senate Moves Forward On Domestic Indefinite Detention? http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/senate-begins-debate-bill-would-authorize-indefinite-detention-americans
  
• Pepper spray has become America's new car horn?  Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-28-2011/spray-it-forward?xrs=synd_twitter
  
• How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word? Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-29/how-henry-paulson-gave-hedge-funds-advance-word-of-2008-fannie-mae-rescue.html
  
• French President warns of dire consequences? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/world/europe/french-president-warns-of-dire-consequences-if-euro-crisis-goes-unsolved.html
  
• Naomi Wolf vs Joshua Holland: was there an coordinated crackdown on Occupy? http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153296/naomi_wolf_versus_joshua_holland%3A_was_there_a_coordinated_federal_crackdown_on_occupy_wall_street/
  
• Have we passed peak travel? http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2011/11/have-we-passed-peak-travel/
  
• The Return of Debtors Prisons: Collection Agencies Now Want Deadbeats Arrested? The Downward Spiral http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/11/return-of-debtors-prisons-collection.html
  
• The entire Futures/Options Market has been destroyed by the MF Global collapse? http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2011/12/01/ann-barnhardt/entire-futures-options-market-destroyed-by-mf-global-collapse 
  
• Romney’s Billionaire threatens a BBC reporter? http://www.truth-out.org/romneys-billionaire-threatens-bbc-investigative-reporter/1322851521
  
• The Future of Jobs? CHS  http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/future-jobs/65443
  
• Getting Ready For 'Peak Oil'? Seeking Alpha http://seekingalpha.com/article/310502-getting-ready-for-peak-oil
  
• No, Black Friday Sales Were Not Up 16% (not even 6%)? The Big Picture http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/no-black-friday-sales-were-not-up-16-not-even-6/
  
• Are we there yet? The Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-28-2011-are-we-there-yet.html
  
• Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B? Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income.html
  
• Gulf oil, Corexit oyster deaths, illnesses cover-up? http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/gulf-oil-corexit-oyster-deaths-illnesses-cover-up
• Average New House Price Drops To Lowest Since 2003? ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/average-new-house-price-drops-lowest-2003
  
• This Changes Everything: How the 99% Woke Up? Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/changes-everything-how-99-woke/1322072869
  
• Fed "Secrecy" Slowly Falls...? Karl Denninger http://market-ticker.org/post=198193
  
• 65 microsieverts per hour in front of Tsushima junior high school? (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/watch-65-microsieverts-per-hour-in-front-of-tsushima-junior-high-school-video
• Dealers See Fed Buying $545B Mortgage Bonds? Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-27/bond-dealers-see-fed-buying-545-billion-of-home-loan-debt-in-third-easing.html
  
• Big Bazookas, Dead Whistleblowers and hanging Paulson? Keiser Report http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/03/kr218-keiser-report/
  
• A Reality Check on Oil Supply for Newt Gingrich? http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8646
  
• Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa 20 Years Ago? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/neoconservatives-planned-regime-change-throughout-the-middle-east-and-northern-africa-20-years-ago.html
  
• Military Detention Versus We the People? Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/military-detention-vs-we-people/1322380800
  
• The Mega Banks: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, et. al. Control Europe's Political Landscape? Bob Chapman http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27890
• $707,568,901,000,000: How (And Why) Banks Increased Total Outstanding Derivatives By A Record $107 Trillion In 6 Mo? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/707568901000000-how-and-why-banks-increased-total-outstanding-derivatives-record-107-trillion-6
  
• Jackson Browne: Occupy having a real effect? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/02/musician-jackson-browne-occupy-having-a-real-effect-on-politics/
  

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Arctic Sea Ice Hockey Stick: Melt Unprecedented in Last 1,450 Years? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/30/377844/arctic-sea-ice-hockey-stick/
  
• Hard Science? [Fiore Cartoon] http://motherjones.com/media/2011/12/mark-fiore-cartoon-climate-change-skeptics
  
• Climate Change Boosts a Lethal Disease: Hendra Virus? http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/29/377394/climate-change-boosts-a-lethal-disease-hendra-virus/
  
• Myth of 'Global Cooling' Debunked in 4 Minutes? VIDEO http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/myth-global-cooling-debunked-4-minutes-video.html
  
• Two thousand people stranded by Australian floods? Telegraph VIDEO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8918567/Two-thousand-people-stranded-by-Australian-floods.html
  
• Arctic Report Card from NOAA? http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/12/noaa-arctic-report-card-3-fs-2-cs
  
• Good News For Mother Earth And You: When Our Division Is Over? Jan Lundberg http://www.countercurrents.org/lundberg301111.htm
  

RESOURCES

• December 2011 Transition Network newsletter http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-12-01/december-2011-transition-network-newsletter
  
• Sacred Economics: Nonaccumulation - Charles Eisenstein http://www.realitysandwich.com/sacred_economics_ch_19_nonaccumulation
  
• How to Install a DIY Rainwater-Flushing Toilet System (Video) http://www.treehugger.com/bathroom-design/how-install-diy-rainwater-flushing-toilet-system-video.html
  
• Stress kills, so try a new action-meditation - Paul B. Farrell  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stress-kills-so-try-a-new-action-meditation-2011-11-30?link=home_carousel
  
• The Big Fix Movie Trailer http://www.thebigfixmovie.com/Home.html
  
• Occupy Educated - Working to Educate & Unite 100% of the 99% http://occupyeducated.org/
  
• YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip documentary reviewed - Transition Voice http://transitionvoice.com/2011/11/a-different-kind-of-ecotourism/
  
• Documentary on end of world as we know it is surprisingly uplifting | Grist http://www.grist.org/list/2011-11-29-documentary-on-end-of-world-as-we-know-it-is-surprisingly-uplift
  
• Uses of Diatomaceous Earth on the Homestead http://www.motherearthnews.com/the-happy-homesteader/uses-of-diatomaceous-earth-on-the-homestead.aspx
  
• Eco-shocking the airwaves | Grist http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-11-28-eco-shocking-the-airwaves
  
• November's Peak Moment TV Newsletter  http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/404363/9d6f588bcf/ARCHIVE
  
• Ecology Action: Self Teaching Course http://growbiointensive.org/Self_Teaching.html
  
• Economic Justice Petition: Legalize Local Investment! | http://www.change.org/petitions/legalize-local-investment
  
• How to convert a washing machine into a water powered generator | Permaculture Magazine http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/how-convert-washing-machine-water-powered-generator
  
• A (short) Documentary about Living Small http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house/%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-a-short-documentary-about-living-small/
  
• Bootstrap Funding a Resilient Community  http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/is-this-bootstrap-funding-for-a-resilient-community.html  
  
• Building an Income ‘Lifeboat’ http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/resilient-income-how-to-build-and-open-source-venture-before-you-get-fired.html
  
• Plant a Square Foot Garden  http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/square-foot-gardening-ze0z1111zkon.aspx
  
• Popular Permaculture http://paper.li/mygreenweb/1314935541
  
• Joe Rogan and the Momentum of Ideas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eykz4_mUC5w&feature=player_embedded# 
  
• http://transitionvoice.com/2011/12/getting-it-together-review-the-empowerment-manual/  The Empowerment Manual
  
• GrowthBusters Update https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1408289.7360838578/rid:b8e8d8e62f918d3ccf663d38991b0917
  

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Cartoons and Music Video of the Week "When the Wheels don't Move" (h/t The Downward Spiral http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2011/11/saturday-night-music-video-when-wheels.html - the first peak oil music video?)