3/29/12 – THE PUNK AND THE GODFATHER EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• The industrial food system depends to its peril on cheap oil. | The National Fork
  
• The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost | Common Dreams
  
• Easy ways to a low energy lifestyle — Transition Voice
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 1: Our One Last Chance to Preserve the Bill of Rights
  
• The Phantoms I’ve Killed | Do the Math
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 2: Law-Abiding Taxpayers Are Treated as Criminals While the Real Criminals Go Free
  
• INVEST IN YOURSELF: Building Personal Economic Resilience & Community Strength | Energy Bulletin
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 3: We had to Destroy Democracy in Order to Save It
  
• leecamp.net/2012/03/where-did-dick-cheneys-new-heart-really-come-from-m-o-c-128/
  
• How Many Circles Does it Take to Make a Community? « how to save the world
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 4: "Consumer Protection" Just Another Federal Reserve Power Grab
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Secret Service Failures on 9/11: A Call for Transparency - Washington's Blog
  
• Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• Two Beers With Steve - You Didn't Stumble Upon This Podcast... The Universe Has Sent You.
  
• The Downward Spiral: The “Gun Nuts” Finally Went Too Far
  
• The First Crack: $270 Billion In Student Loans Are At Least 30 Days Delinquent | ZeroHedge
  
• Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US | Fairewinds Associates, Inc
  
• Tokyo Soil - Blanketed With Fukushima Radiation - Would Be Considered "Radioactive Waste" In the United States
  
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, Occupier Tries to Reason With Police | AmpedStatus
  
• Matrix of Rackets - Clusterfuck Nation
  
• Spot The Odd Labor Market Out | ZeroHedge
  
• A dark fracking future (response to Randy Udall) | Energy Bulletin
  
• Peak Oil: Capitalism & Sustainability (Pt 1) - Peak Oil Matters
  
• ClubOrlov: A Modest Health Care Proposal
  
• What Is The Economic Value Of Healthy Oceans? - Decline of the Empire
  
• The Downward Spiral: Converging Trends Porn: Few U.S. Cities Are Ready For Aging Baby Boomer Population
  
• The Coming Health Care Debacle - Decline of the Empire
  
• Peak Oil’s Impact: Sociological & Psychological Considerations (Pt 2) - Peak Oil Matters
  

WTF?

• Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate Minority
  
• Laurel Whitney | BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Moved To Isolated Confinement
  

ECONOMICS

• Ellen Brown: The Shadow Bailout: How Big Banks Bilk U.S. Towns and Taxpayers
  
• TBTF Get TBTFer: Top 5 Banks Hold 95.7%, Or $221 Trillion, Of Outstanding Derivatives | ZeroHedge
  
• [KR267] Keiser Report: Muppets Hunting Muppets - Max Keiser
  
• Financial oligarchy and the new robber barons w/derivatives guru Janet Tavakoli — RT
  
• Bill Gross: "The Game As We All Have Known It Appears To Be Over" | ZeroHedge
  
• 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The World Reserve Currency Is About To Come To An End
  
• Jesse's Café Américain: MF Global: Forbes Sums It Up Well, And My Take, 'Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here'
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Summer in March, 2012, draws to a close : Weather Underground
  
• RealClimate: Extremely hot
  
• Global Warming: What We Knew in 82 - YouTube
  
• Silent Snow, the invisible poisoning of the world | Earth
  
• Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point - environment - 27 March 2012 - New Scientist
  
• Global warming could explode ‘compost bombs’ all over the planet | Grist
  
• Climate scientists: It’s basically too late to stop warming | Grist
  
• The Radio Ecoshock Show: Summer in March
  

ENERGY

• The Oil Drum | Tech Talk - Saudi Arabian oil production part 2
  
• Guest Post: “Peak oil is real and will stunt any economic recovery” by Rex Weyler - Peak Oil Matters
  
• Hyping American Energy Independence - Decline of the Empire
  
• Total: may be months to stop N.Sea gas cloud | Reuters
  

RESOURCES

• How to store fuel properly
  
• Software can make it easier to run a Micro-Farm
  
• Solar phone charger an easy and cheap way to start with solar — Transition Voice
  
• Build This Predator-Proof, Portable Chicken Coop for Your Backyard - DIY - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
  
• Going to Seed?
  
• Did You Know? Vinegar Can Replace RoundupMid-Atlantic Gardening
  

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•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
•   Prepper Website  http://www.prepperwebsite.com/   
  
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3/24/12 – RUNNING ON EMPTY EDITION

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MUST SEE HEAR READ

• [ Episode #38 // Hard Times ]
  
• The Rolls Report—3.21.2012 | Davos World Economic Forum – For Bloggers, Davos WEF 2012 for Economic Bloggers
  
• Tom Murphy Interview: Resource Depletion is a Bigger Threat than Climate Change
  
• KILL KILL KILL KILL « The Burning Platform
  
• Nothing Shocks Us Anymore - Decline of the Empire
  
• The Resilient Family » Complexity Theory and System Collapse
  
• 90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like | The Nation
  
• "How To Stop Ourselves From Being Destroyed From The Inside" - M.O.C. #127 - YouTube
  
• MF Global’s Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JPMorgan, Memo Says - Bloomberg
  
• MF Global CEO Jon Corzine Personally Ordered Illegal Raiding of Customer Funds - Washington's Blog
  
• CHINA AND SAUDI ARE BUTT BUDDIES « The Burning Platform
  
• End of Empire News: Saturday Documentary! March 24, 2012
  
• The Downward Spiral: Spoiled Rotten Nation Not Sure Who To Blame For High Gas Prices
  
• Big Banks Continue to Suck at the Government Teat With Never-Ending Stealth Bailouts
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Peak oil realities are staring us in the face — Transition Voice
  
• Who Wants to Run the World? | Think Tank | Big Think
  
• Crude Declines on Stockpile Release Speculation, China - Bloomberg
  
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation | AmpedStatus
  
• Climate change could reduce economic value of oceans by $2 trillion per year
  
• The Downward Spiral: Public Opinion Poll on Energy Issues Shows How Clueless The Public Really Is
  
• CEOs Contemplate the Occupy Movement | The Nader Page
  
• David Crews: Our Contaminated World
  
• How much will it cost to save our economy’s foundation? | Energy Bulletin
  
• World Water Day: Valuing Water by Fixing the Leaks | Planetsave
  
• REAL UNEMPLOYMENT « The Burning Platform
  
• What $5 Gas Means For The American Economy
  
• The Deadly Scramble for the World's Last Resources | Julian Brookes | Politics News | Rolling Stone
  
• The Giant, Underestimated Earthquake Threat to North America -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net
  
• US Suburbs Face Twin Perils Of Climate Change And Peak Oil
  
• Founder of the Slow Money Alliance Tries to Remind Investors of a Place Called “Here” | The EnvironmentaList | Earth Island Journal | Earth Island Institute
  
• The Energy Omnivore’s Dilemma
  
• The new black gold: U.S. farmland - The Globe and Mail
  
• Keiser Report: Selective Amnesia for Brokers & Murderers (E266) - YouTube
  

WTF?

• Poll: Belief in U.S. military power dips - POLITICO.com
  

ECONOMICS

• TBTF Sheriff Bill Black on MF Global cover-up — RT
  
• Wall Street Confidence Trick: The Interest Rate Swaps that Are Bankrupting Local Governments « WEB OF DEBT BLOG
  
• FedEx Growth Outlook
  
• Guest Post: The One Chart That Says It All | ZeroHedge
  
• [KR265] Keiser Report – Unbanked & Unworthy - Max Keiser
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Atlantic Magazine Cover Proclaims Ben Bernanke "THE HERO"
  
• Financial Armageddon: So High
  
• charles hugh smith-About That $20 Trillion in Public Debt....
  
• 10 Signs That America Is On The Verge Of A Horrible Municipal Debt Crisis
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• ‘Dangerously High’ Tree Pollen Makes For Miserable Allergies « CBS Chicago
  
• Flora and Fauna Feel the Effects of an Early Spring | Climate Central
  
• Extreme Weather Becomes the Norm in a Warming World | Global Warming is Real: Climate - Energy - Sustainability
  
• Two Speed Spring – Warm and Hot « Climate Denial Crock of the Week
  
• Our Hero: Josh Fox, director of Gasland on Ecocentric Blog | Food, Water and Energy Issues
  
• Wit's End: Ringside Seats at the Finish Line
  
• Image of the Day: Cherry Blossoms Hit Premature Peak | Climate Central
  
• Manmade Climate Change Accelerated In 2001-2010, World Meteorological Organization Reports | ThinkProgress
  

ENERGY

• Oil production and gas prices – Associated Press Interactive
  
• Scoring the rhetoric on Obama’s energy policies | SmartPlanet
  
• The Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing the Bakken | Energy Bulletin
  
• Peak Oil Denial: Looking Left and Right (Pt 3) - Peak Oil Matters
  
• CHARTS OF TRUTH « The Burning Platform
  
• 20 Experts Who Say Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices | ThinkProgress
  
• Oil Prices at $200 a Barrel? Some Think It's Coming - US Business News Blog - CNBC
  
• Crash_Watcher: Part 3: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum in North America
  
• U.S. plans funding for small reactors - UPI.com
  

CONFLICT

• Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War | Watch Now
  
• Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate Minority
  
• THE MILITARIZATION OF THE FAR-EAST: US Threatens China's Major Cities: America's Strategic Naval Base in Korea
  

CONTROL

• Chinese leaders order internet whitewash amid rumours of attempted military coup | Mail Online
  
• Zakaria: Incarceration nation – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
  
• 6 months later: no White House, DOJ explanation for assassinating Americans at will - Washington's Blog
  
• Obama Administration Releasing New Rules To Expand Ability To Hold Citizens' Data
  

RESOURCES

• 302: Beautiful, Glorious Limits | C-Realm Radiant Sun
  
• Links of the Month: March 21, 2012 « how to save the world
  
• Koch Brothers Exposed
  
• End of the Road Documentary Trailer | CollapseNet
  
• Rocket Stove | Preparedness Advice Blog
  
• The (En)Rich List | A Wealth of Inspiration!
  
• 81 things you can compost | MNN - Mother Nature Network
  
• All Circuits Are Busy: Emergency Collapse Communications | Ready Nutrition
  
• Succession Planting: Lettuce, Carrots, and More
  
• The five best home remedies for colds, coughs and the flu
  
• New Documentation At My Resources Page | Country Consultant - Living The Good Life
  

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•   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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3/20/12 – STUPEFACTION EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Obama Executive ‘Order’: US can seize any person, any resource, any time - Washington's Blog
  
• Guest Post: Who Is Really Paying The $25 Billion TBTF Mortgage Settlement | ZeroHedge
  
• Films For Action Presents: The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm
  
• The Downward Spiral: Media Shocked, SHOCKED, To Learn That Millennials Are Less Environmentally Conscious
  
• Resistance to antibiotics could bring "the end of modern medicine as we know it", WHO claim - Telegraph
  
• Edwin Black: Barack Obama Prepares for War Footing
  
• Fun with Trends
  
• Commentary: I. Collapse? Really? | Energy Bulletin
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Robert Bales, Afghan Killing Suspect, Plagued By Money And Job Strife
  
• France bans GM corn amid mass US protests against Monsanto « Food Freedom
  
• Analysis: Melted fuel completely penetrated concrete in under 15 hours at GE Mark I — Shows little decline in speed (CHART)
  
• “We Are Fearful of a Cascading Credit Event; Wide-Scale Market Collapse.”~Anonymous to CFTC who claims to be JPM whistle-blower | Davos World Economic Forum – For Bloggers, Davos WEF 2012 for Economic Bloggers
  
• [KR263] Keiser Report: Rip out eyes, tear off head - Max Keiser
  
• Gerald Celente
  
• Greek financial contagion: only local economies can stop the spread — Transition Voice
  
• A Wall Street Insider's Response To Greg Smith | ZeroHedge
  
• Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle-Blowers | Common Dreams
  
• Robert Fisk: Madness is not the reason for this massacre - Robert Fisk - Commentators - The Independent
  
• Wit's End: The Big Kahony - Is This a Wag the Dog??
  
• ‘Pink slime’ is the tip of the iceberg: Look what else is in industrial meat | Grist
  
• $4 Gas Average Is Here | ZeroHedge
  
• Chris Answers Your Questions (Part 2) - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• Even if Obama cared about peak oil, he'd never give a speech about it — Transition Voice
  
• "How To Sneak To A Strip Club And Commit Bank Fraud At The Same Time!" - M.O.C. #126 - YouTube
  
• What should the average citizen know about US War Crimes? - Washington's Blog
  

WTF?

• The TSA Strikes Again: Now They Are Harassing A Child With A Broken Leg
  

ECONOMICS

• Jesse's Café Américain: When the Abuse of Insider Information and Control Grows So Large as to Become the Market
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Global Health and Wellness News: Mild winters may shift spread of mosquito-borne illness
  
• The Glass House Effect: Heartland Institute Tried To Steal Documents From Greenpeace | ThinkProgress
  
• ‘Extreme, unprecedented' heat wave reaches fifth day - DailyHerald.com
  
• Study: GMO crops are killing butterflies | Grist
  
• Mutant Heat Wave Shattering Records | Mother Jones
  
• Melting Arctic ice could poison ecosystem, experts say | CTV News
  
• Spring Gets Ahead of Itself - NYTimes.com
  
• Six billion trees lost to pine beetles surviving in warmer winters | ClimateSignals
  
• CU-Boulder: Pine beetles now breeding twice a year instead of just once - Boulder Daily Camera
  
• It's a Broken Record of Record-Breaking Heat | Climate Central
  

ENERGY

• Obama says concerned about global oil output | Reuters
  
• Toward Energy Literacy The Santa Barbara Independent
  
• Michael Klare: GOP Promises of Lower Gas Costs Belied by Dwindling Supply of World’s Oil
  
• Peak Oil: The Race for What's Left - YouTube
  
• Peak Oil Denial: Not Understanding Doesn’t Help - Peak Oil Matters
  

CONFLICT

• Strike On Iran, A Green Light From Washington (NYSEArca:RSX, NYSEArca:UUP, NYSEArca:GLD, NYSEArca:USO, NYSEArca:EWJ, NYSEArca:FXI) | ETF DAILY NEWS
  
• Iran threatens Hormuz and world oil supply after trade links cutoff | Peak Oil News and Message Boards
  
• Blood Money: US Well-Practiced in 'Apologizing for Carnage' | Common Dreams
  
• International Institute for Strategic Studies Figure: Comparative Defence Statistics - Defence Budgets and Expenditures
  
• Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War | Common Dreams
  
• ABC Reports Russian Troops Have Arrived In Syria, Russia Denies | ZeroHedge
  

CONTROL

• Occupy 6-Month Anniversary Protest Ends With Zuccotti Park Arrests
  
• Outlaw Occupy: US set to strangle protests with jail threats - YouTube
  
• OWS Re-Occupation Arrests: Protester Has Seizure in Handcuffs | AmpedStatus
  

RESOURCES

• Spring Planning
  
• Shareable: In The Sharing Economy
  
• Natural Swimming Pools - A Guide to Designing and Making Your Own | Permaculture Magazine
  
• Encounters: A Little Patch of Ground urban/rural 2011 on Vimeo
  
• How Much Land You Need To Go Off The Grid? | Survival Spot
  
• Foundation Concepts: What Is Sustainability? | Energy Bulletin
  
• Slippery Slope
  
• Utopia Project Earth :: OneCommunityRanch.org | One Community
  
• Preparing for the Unimaginable « how to save the world
  
• Compost: The Other Prize from the Business End of a Chicken
  

3/17/12 – WHITE LIES EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? | The Nation
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Executive Director of Goldman Sachs Resigns Over Parasitic Behavior of Goldman to Its Clients; Reflections on Chasing Performance
  
• We Speak on RT TV About Goldman’s Predatory Culture and the Latest Stress Tests « naked capitalism
  
• The Downward Spiral: Study: Health Care Premiums Will Surpass Median U.S. Incomes By 2033
  
• Wit's End: What's the Use?
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: We Have No Other Choice
  
• The Oil Drum | World Energy Consumption since 1820 in Charts
  
• $h!t Lobbyists $ay | AmpedStatus
  
• charles hugh smith-In Praise of Horrendously Costly Lessons
  
• The Crisis of Civilization: Full Film on Vimeo
  
• The Johnny Appleseed Method
  
• 1970: The Peak of Everything By Peter Goodchild
  
• Japan's economy & global economic crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-03-16-2012 - YouTube
  
• Chris Martenson And Marc Faber: The Perils of Money Printing's Unintended Consequences | ZeroHedge
  
• Marc Faber: The Perils of Money Printing's Unintended Consequences - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• Brent At $126 As Israel Security Cabinet Votes 8 To 6 To Attack Iran | ZeroHedge
  
• Obama Executive Order: Peacetime Martial Law! | Before It's News
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• The Downward Spiral: Americans Elect Is Raising Money To Repay Its Millionaire Founders
  
• Killing the competition: How the new monopolies are destroying open markets—By Barry C. Lynn (Harper's Magazine)
  
• Matt Taibbi Slams Bank Of America
  
• Athens-Clarke County, GA Republican Delegate Fraud - YouTube
  
• Song of the Satyrs « how to save the world
  
• Monsanto plans massive biotech experiment in the US — RT
  
• The Astounding World Of The Future — Part II - Decline of the Empire
  
• Exclusive: U.S., Britain set to agree on emergency oil stocks release | Reuters
  
• What Closing The Straits Of Hormuz Will Mean In 3 Simple Charts | ZeroHedge
  
• Rising Fuel Costs and the Next Revolution | Clif Droke | FINANCIAL SENSE
  
• Gus Speth Envisions America the Possible (Podcast) : TreeHugger
  
• Energy, environment, enlightenment « The Cost of Energy
  
• DeGraw & Papantonio: The 99% Movement, Anonymous & Get Money Out (Ring of Fire Radio) | AmpedStatus
  
• Obama's Strategy — The Long Game - Decline of the Empire
  
• Wit's End: "The Guns That Smoked" - how the 1% stays in power
  
• Earth out of balance: The challenge of controlling corporate greed | Grist
  
• Newsletter : John Perkins Official Web Site
  
• charles hugh smith-In Praise of Hedging
  
• The Downward Spiral: Saturday Night Video: Louis CK on Currency, Economic Collapse and "White People Problems"
  
• All facts prove US War Crimes, there is no refutation, so where are the arrests? - Washington's Blog
  

WTF?

• The Corbett Report | Corbett Report Radio 089 – Why in the World are They Spraying? with Michael Murphy
  

ECONOMICS

• Jesse's Café Américain: Bill Moyers Journals: 'Crony Capitalism' Part Two with Gretchen Morgenson
  
• A Hard Landing In China? - Decline of the Empire
  
• Nigel Farage On The Euro (ROFL!) in [Market-Ticker]
  
• Barofsky: Don't Believe Hype About $25B Mortgage Settlement - YouTube
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Rising sea levels could put millions at risk by 2030 - Video on msnbc.com
  
• Are We Running Out of Water? – News Watch
  
• Surging Seas: A Project of Climate Central
  
• Australia climate is warming at an alarming rate
  
• Heat Wave Sizzles On, Toppling More Than 2,000 Records | Climate Central
  

ENERGY

• The peak oil crisis: surging gasoline
  
• Peak oil is real and will stunt any economic recovery - Public Service Europe
  
• Analysis: Tapping oil from reserve may be trickier than ever | Reuters
  
• Saturday Oil Report -- March 17, 2012 - Decline of the Empire
  

CONFLICT

• Chomsky: Are We About to Get Embroiled in a Nightmare War With Iran? | World | AlterNet
  
• The Navy Is Getting Its Forces Ready For Iran In The Strait Of Hormuz
  
• Iran cut off from global financial system | Peak Oil News and Message Boards
  
• Explosions rock Syrian capital - CNN.com
  

CONTROL

• Occupy Miami raided by SWAT teams (VIDEO) — RT
  
• Bain Capital Tied to Surveillance Push in China - NYTimes.com
  
• The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com
  
• Private corporation to U.S. states: “We’ll buy your prisons if you guarantee 90% occupancy rate” « The Teeming Brain
  
• Daily Kos: Hello! You've been targeted for a U.S. drone assassination!
  
• “We Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State" - Big Brother Goes Live September 2013 | ZeroHedge
  

RESOURCES

• The Ultimate Bug Out Kit | Ready Nutrition
  
• Growing Potatoes Indoors in a Five Gallon Bucket » Catastrophe Network
  
• Hillbilly Mom: Worm Composting
  
• Where Is Your Food Coming From? The Bullseye Evaluation : Casaubon's Book
  
• Spudly : Casaubon's Book
  
• Five Reasons to Consider Acupuncture - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• Amazon.com: Disaster Preparedness
  
• Antibiotics And Their Use in Collapse Medicine, Part 4 | Preparedness Advice Blog
  
• Sustainability a Choice to Consider
  
• The Challenge and the Goal

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•   Energy Bulletin  http://www.energybulletin.net/   
  
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•   Climate Ark http://www.climateark.org/ 
  
•   Chris Martenson Daily Digest  http://www.chrismartenson.com/category/blog/daily-digest
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3/14/12 - NATURE'S WAY EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill — RT
  
• Revisit - Renaissance 2.0 | COUNCIL on SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL & ECONOMIC RENEWAL | Damon Vrabel
  
• The Downward Spiral: The National Football League Is A Nonprofit Organization
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 1)
  
• Washington's high-powered terrorist supporters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
  
• Of God, Peak Oil and Turkeys … | Economic Undertow
  
• leecamp.net/2012/03/anti-occupy-law-passed-by-congress-white-house-nearly-unanimously-m-o-c-124/
  
• Question Everything: Revision to My Systems Science Slides
  
• 10 reasons Wall Street will hit bottom, crash - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch
  
• Toward Energy Literacy: Our "Peak Oil" Reality | Renewable Energy News Article
  
• The Rolls Report—March 13, 2012 | Davos World Economic Forum – For Bloggers, Davos WEF 2012 for Economic Bloggers
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Four Charts of Interest on Fed-Speak Day
  
• "Is This The End Of The American Empire?" - M.O.C. #125 - YouTube
  
• Keiser Report: Hackers & Pirates - true GDP boosters (E260) - YouTube
  
• High oil prices: Fortunately and unfortunately | SmartPlanet
  
• Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - NYTimes.com
  
• Doomsday Survey: 51% of Americans Believe a Financial Collapse Is Imminent; 85% Say Country Is Overwhelmingly Under-Prepared
  
• Poof! The Government’s 9 Million Jobless Vanishing Act | Daniel Amerman CFA | FINANCIAL SENSE
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• How America Is Making the Whole World Fat and Unhealthy | Food | AlterNet
  
• Words to give by – Guy McPherson's blog
  
• Reagan budget director discusses ‘crony capitalism’ with Bill Moyers | The Raw Story
  
• World News - Tens of thousands demand democracy in huge Bahrain protest
  
• Greece Has Defaulted: Here Is Where We Stand | ZeroHedge
  
• Demand for 'survival services' rises in US cities | Reuters
  
• Civil society rising | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  
• Utah Follows Iowa in Factory Farm Video Ban | Mother Jones
  
• Oil speculators are right: a war with Iran would devastate the economy. - Slate Magazine
  
• Clean Energy Opponents Attack Super-Efficient Light Bulb Because The Washington Post Can't Do Math | ThinkProgress
  
• The Land of the Mega-rich: No Jobs For Americans
  
• The narrowing window for a transition to a sustainable industrial society | Energy Bulletin
  
• The Kingdom Of The Blind - Decline of the Empire
  
• 70% of all Ground Beef Contains "Pink Slime" ... and USDA Bought 7 Million Pounds of the Stuff for School Lunches
  
• Dennis Kucinich: heroism to end US War & Economic Crimes, initiate peace - Washington's Blog
  
• We Lied But You Can't Hold Us To Account! - MarketTicker Forums
  
• Santorum: My Opponents Believe in the "Pseudo-Religion" of Global Warming | Mother Jones
  
• Humanity needs to write a whole New Story — Transition Voice
  
• The Audacity of Bonuses at MF Global - Thoughts - Nomi Prins
  
• Your Next Car Might be Built Locally
  
• The Downward Spiral: Niall Ferguson Warns Of Possible Collapse--And Gets It All Wrong
  
• Occupy the Garden « naked capitalism
  
• The Downward Spiral: Medicare Cracks Down On Power Wheelchair Claim Fraud
  
• How climate change and peak oil made one scientist drop out — Transition Voice
  
• Taibbi: "Bank Of America Is A Raging Hurricane Of .. Fraud" in [Market-Ticker]
  
• Monsanto Threatens Global Food Supply | It's Our Economy
  
• Rage grows over mortgage settlement - Mar. 13, 2012
  
• Is Ron Paul Taleb's New Black Swan? | ZeroHedge
  
• Goldman Sachs Insider Resigns Over 'Toxic And Destructive' Culture That Mirrors The Global Ponzi Scheme | ThinkProgress
  
• Ben Harper and Tom Morello: There’s A Better Way | AmpedStatus
  
• The Daily Mash - Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader
  
• Governments Spent $409 Billion Subsidizing Fossil Fuels In 2010 - Business Insider
  
• Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Doomsday?
  
• Question Everything: Do You Believe in Magic?
  
• The Only Honest Man At Goldman Sachs Resigns - Decline of the Empire
  
• The Downward Spiral: Education Advocate SHOCKED That Standardized Tests Are About Corporate Profits And Not Learning
  

WTF?

• Lean finely textured beef (aka pink slime) makes up 70 percent of ground beef
  
• Financial Armageddon: Thieves Expanding Their Horizons Even More
  

ECONOMICS

• Bank Of America Throws Up All Over Friday's Jobs Number | ZeroHedge
  
• Keiser Report: Cosa Wallstra (E258) - YouTube
  
• [OTE148] On the Edge with Steve Keen - Max Keiser
  
• [KR260] Keiser Report: Hackers & Pirates – true GDP boosters - Max Keiser
  
• US Debt Worse Than Greece
  
• If Economy is Recovering, Why Are U.S. Cities Going Bankrupt? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
  
• The Fed's Manipulation Of The Market Is Driving TrimTabs' Charles Biderman "Even More Nuts Than He Already Is" | ZeroHedge
  
• Greece is 'likely to need third bail-out' - Telegraph
  
• BBC News - Security: UK 'must plan for euro collapse'
  
• The Financial Fingerprint Of Instability
  
• Benjamin Franklin, William Jennings Bryan on monetary reform - Washington's Blog
  
• Meredith Whitney was right - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet
  
• What, Me Worry? - Decline of the Empire
  
• The Global Liquidity Peak | Finance
  
• Is Germany Actually Preparing To Leave The Euro?
  
• Jesse's Café Américain: John Williams on the Retail Sales Number - A Brief Interlude on Hyperinflation and Deflation
  
• charles hugh smith-Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 2)
  
• Juking the Stats: Our Culture of Manipulation | Finance
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Fourth Warmest Winter On Record For The U.S. | ThinkProgress
  
• After quakes, Ohio plans tough gas-drilling rules - The Denver Post
  
• Record Warm Week Ahead East of the Rockies | Climate Central
  
• Gundersen: One Year Anniversary of Fukushima Daiichi on Vimeo
  
• The Radio Ecoshock Show: Fukushima Disaster - One Year Later
  
• Can An Early Spring Confuse Nature's Clock? : NPR
  
• Shale Shocker: How Gas Drilling Companies Shift Risk to Landowners on Ecocentric Blog | Food, Water and Energy Issues
  
• Report: Global Warming Doubles Extreme Coastal Flood Risk Across U.S., Seas Projected to Rise a Foot by 2050 | ThinkProgress
  
• Radiation, Coverups and the Legacy of Fukushima | Global Research TV
  

ENERGY

• #238: Coal, Pipeline Politics, and $5 Gas | Richard Heinberg
  
• Peak Oil: Keeping Reality In Mind (Pt 3) - Peak Oil Matters
  
• Peak Oil Denial: How Does This Help? - Peak Oil Matters
  
• World Energy Consumption Since 1820 in Charts | Our Finite World
  
• Understanding the New Price of Oil - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• U.S. asks Saudis to lift oil output from July | Reuters
  
• Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay | Mother Jones
  
• On This Day In History.... Gas Prices Have Never Been Higher | ZeroHedge
  

CONFLICT

• I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream | Common Dreams
  

CONTROL

• John W. Whitehead: Criminalizing Free Speech: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
  
• 75 Years of a Pointless, Disastrous War Against Marijuana | | AlterNet
  
• NSA refuses to disclose its links with Google — RT
  
• Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate Minority
  
• The Corbett Report | Stratfor and the Privatization of Intelligence
  

RESOURCES

• Ensuring Access to Safe Drinking Water - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  
• 19 Climate Games That Could Change the Future | ThinkProgress
  
• The Seven Circles of Preparedness - YouTube
  
• 'Saving Seeds For Survival When The Food Supply Chain Breaks Down' Was Published Today by The Absolute Rights Newsletter
  
• Education For a Sustainable Future (2012) | Watch Full Documentary Online
  
• U.S. Sees More Female Farmers Cropping Up : NPR
  
• Amazon.com: The Moron's Guide to Global Collapse (9781469965390): Jenna Orkin: Books
  
• 4 Simple Detox Tips « Food Freedom
  
• Antibiotics And Their Use In Collapse Medicine, Part 2 | Preparedness Advice Blog
  
• The 5 best snacks for grown-ups | MNN - Mother Nature Network
  
• Your March Peak Moment TV Newsletter
  
• TED launches learning initiative at YouTube | The Raw Story - StumbleUpon
  
• Here are three ingredients. Now form an initiative » Transition Culture
  
• How To Build Raised Garden Beds ~ Gardenfork.TV - Off The Grid News
  
• 10 Best Heirloom Seed Companies as Selected By Readers : TreeHugger
  
• The Resilient Family » Why opting out of assembly line education may be the best decision you make
  

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
•   Sign up for the Post Peak Living Newsletter   http://www.postpeakliving.com/newsletter/2012-03-14 

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3/9/12 – KOKA KOLA EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Guest Post: Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend Student Loans Are About Education | ZeroHedge
  
• Congress Votes to End Protesters' Rights | AlterNet
  
• James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change | Video on TED.com
  
• This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Criminalizing First Amendment Rights | AmpedStatus
  
• The Archdruid Report: America: Origins of an Empire
  
• 300: Theater of the Mind | C-Realm Radiant Sun
  
• 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Economy Over The Next 12 Months
  
• charles hugh smith-Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend Financialization Hasn't Killed the Economy
  
• James Hansen's Must-See TED Talk: Starting To Reduce CO2 In 10 Years Is Too Late | ThinkProgress
  
• There's Nothing "Fair" about it | ZeroHedge
  
• You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid - Global Guerrillas
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Fox News in 2008 – “No President can Control Oil Prices” « Climate Denial Crock of the Week
  
• Obama Moves G-8 Summit from Chicago to Secluded Camp David | Common Dreams
  
• Peak Shrink helps people fight pathological optimism about oil — Transition Voice
  
• Students Eating "Pink Slime" for Lunch? Fast Foods Have Ditched the "Meat" But Schools Are Still Stuck With It | Food | AlterNet
  
• The United States Is Living On Borrowed Time - Decline of the Empire
  
• 8 Ways to De-Corporatize Your Money — YES! Magazine
  
• 35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In America
  
• Iowa State Spiderman Discovers Super Heat Conducting Properties of Spider Silk : TreeHugger
  
• Would the Kochs Rather Attack Me Than Stop Cancer? | Truthout
  
• Gas Prices Explained - YouTube
  
• Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; Occupy News Roundup; American Police State; Move To Amend | AmpedStatus
  
• #GetMoneyOut News Roundup: Abolish Corporate Personhood; It’s Not Just Citizens United; Super Tuesday’s Big Winner; Will Lawmakers Return Stolen Money? | AmpedStatus
  
• Hot List: Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains; Robber Barons Continue to Rake in Billions; Market Recovery Is Illusion | AmpedStatus
  
• Huge Solar Flare's Magnetic Storm May Disrupt Satellites, Power Grids | Space Weather | Space.com
  
• The Word - Due or Die - The Colbert Report - 2012-06-03 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
  
• The Downward Spiral: More Housing Crash Porn: Huge Spike In Foreclosures In January
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: LPS Home Price Index Shows U.S. Home Prices Accelerated Decline; Psychology Change and Demographics Suggests Bubble Mentality Shattered for Decades to Come
  
• Bottom Line - 10 companies profiting most from war
  
• The Screwing Of The American People Continues - Decline of the Empire
  
• The Most Important Film In The World | CollapseNet
  
• Oil Implications And Fed Policy | ZeroHedge
  
• Chicago Kicks Out G8, Prepares for NATO | Truthout
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Gallup Reports Large Jump in Unemployment to 9.1%, Underemployment to 19.1%
  
• The Monsanto Monopoly - YouTube
  
• Thinking About Drones - Global Guerrillas
  
• Econbrowser: Oil prices and the U.S. economy
  
• NUCLEAR POWER: The Dream Is Dead
  
• Your Government Is Killing You (Really) in [Market-Ticker]
  
• charles hugh smith-Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend "Job Growth Is Best Since 2006"
  
• The Downward Spiral: Friday Rant: Bush Family Appalled By A Political Climate They Did So Much To Help Create
  
• Did BP Cause Damage to the Gulf Sea Floor Which Is Leading to Larger and Larger "Natural" Oil Seeps from the Giant Macondo Reservoir?
  
• leecamp.net/2012/03/is-this-the-true-republican-motivation-m-o-c-123/
  
• Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse | World | AlterNet
  

WTF?

• $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners « TSA Out of Our Pants!
  
• The Downward Spiral: Pink Slime: It's What's For Lunch At Your School
  
• Island nation of Kiribati plans mass relocation due to climate change | The Raw Story
  
• MF Global Still Set to Pay Bonuses - WSJ.com
  
• Jesse's Café Américain: MF Global Trustee Freeh Asks Court to Pay MF Global Executive Bonuses
  

ECONOMICS

• New Economic Perspectives: Wall Street's Broken Windows
  
• US and World Economic Conditions - Summing it up - YouTube
  
• “Capitalism is an alternative for what we have now. I highly recommend it.”~Jim Grant | Davos World Economic Forum – For Bloggers, Davos WEF 2012 for Economic Bloggers
  
• Fed Z1 Update: They Failed in [Market-Ticker]
  
• Public Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Global Leaders « WEB OF DEBT BLOG
  
• So, What's Next Step Towards The Eurocalypse?
  
• Robert Mish: Front-Line Evidence That We are Nowhere Near a Gold Bubble - Blogs at Chris Martenson
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Women Are The True Face of Climate Change | Climate Central
  
• Nature's Solutions: how to lock up carbon and tackle climate change | Permaculture Magazine
  
• Latest CO2 numbers « The Cost of Energy
  
• onsanto’s Roundup Shown to be Ravaging Butterfly Population | NationofChange
  
• Nuclear Fallout - Map of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants | NRDC
  
• Why Not Frack? by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
  
• ABC News Explains Warm Winter, 'Wild Swings In Weather', Driven by Global Warming, Only Going to Get Worse | ThinkProgress
  

ENERGY

• Saudi oil minister - then and now | Energy Bulletin
  
• Oil demand shift: Asia takes over | SmartPlanet
  
• China Coal Update
  

CONFLICT

• Guest Post: War With Iran Is Coming | ZeroHedge
  
• Obama Promises Bunker Busters To Israel If Netanyahu Delays Iran Invasion Until After US Elections | ZeroHedge
  

CONTROL

• www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/legal-experts-destroy-obamas-assassination-policy-and-slam-democrats-for-supporting-it.html
  
• Ecoshock Show Notes: Private Spies: WikiLeaks Outs Stratfor
  
• Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power | Truthout
  
• FBI Director: I Have to Check to See If Obama Has the Right to Assassinate Americans On U.S. Soil - Washington's Blog
  
• Russel Means Interview - YouTube
  

RESOURCES

• MP3/Audio News Downloads for two weeks ending 02 MAR 2012
  
• GMO Film USA | Permaculture TV free video cooperative
  
• Build a Pole Barn: I Built A Pole Barn For Under $3,000
  
• ‘In Transition 2.0′ is here! So now what happens? » Transition Culture
  
• Janaia’s Journal » Blog Archive » What I’m Reading: Dreams by Derrick Jensen
  
• USDA Encourages Local-food Initiatives - Hobby Farms
  
• New Infographic! GMOs -- We Have a Right to Know!Just Label It
  
• Designing the Future of Resilience
  
• Seven Garden Activities to Help Kiss Winter Goodbye
  
• Getting Real About It: Meeting The Psychological And Social Demands Of A World In Distress
  
• On Growing All Your Own Food
  
• The Truth About Expiration Dates : American Preppers Network

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

  also check out the Links tab at the top of this website   

3/6/12 - REDEMPTION SONG EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• Government for the Super Rich: Top 0.01% Control Political Process #GetMoneyOut | AmpedStatus 
  
• Question Everything: Preview: Systems Science Core Course 
  
• Wit's End: Risk Your Heart 
  
• Reckless: The Inside Story of How the Banks Beat Washington (Again) - Jesse Eisinger/ProPublica - Business - The Atlantic 
  
• BBC: Poor America | The Big Picture 
  
• So Will That Be the Wild or Patented Salmon? on Ecocentric Blog | Food, Water and Energy Issues 
  
• The United States Is Living On Borrowed Time - Decline of the Empire 
  
• Japan Is Now Another Spinning Plate in the Global Economy Circus - Blogs at Chris Martenson 
  
• Reality Check - Clusterfuck Nation 
  
• David McWilliams » Punk Economics – Lesson 2 
  
• "The Only Way To Make Congress Act Ethically?" - M.O.C. #122 - YouTube 
  
• CAUSE, EFFECT & THE FALLACY OF A RETURN TO NORMALCY - Washington's Blog 
  
• The Downward Spiral: Student Loan Delinquency Hits $85 Billion 
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Erik Townsend: Expect A US Price Shock As Black Swans Come Home to Roost - Blogs at Chris Martenson 
  
• Illinois judge rules state eavesdropping law unconstitutional | The Raw Story 
  
• Dear Rush Limbaugh: Birth Control Doesn't Work Like Viagra | Mother Jones 
  
• Limbaugh, Fox News, Tea Party Get What They Want With False Attacks on Chevy Volt: 1300 GM Lay-Offs | ThinkProgress 
  
• Guest Post: Americans Will Need “Black Markets” To Survive | ZeroHedge 
  
• Ruppert Forecasting a collapse | Peak Oil News and Message Boards 
  
• Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Violent tornado rampage in 11 states leaves 31 dead : Weather Underground 
  
• Greg Palast | Investigative Reporter 
  
• Keiser Report: D.I.C.s and Hackers (E257) - YouTube 
  
• Mic Check: The People Speak – Part 1: Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp | AmpedStatus 
  
• Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: Death to My Hometown (Live) | AmpedStatus 
  
• Geithner arrested? 116 major bank resignations? What The Finance is this? - Washington's Blog 
  
• Bank of America In Trouble? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone 
  
• Two Scenarios for Our Post-Petroleum Future By Peter Goodchild 
  
• Australian, Canadian & US Oil & Gas & Coal Threaten Great Barrier Reef , Humanity & Biosphere By Dr Gideon Polya 
  
• SHIPPING CEO: Iran Could Send Oil To $440/Barrel 
  
• The Oil Drum | Tactics and Strategy at the Strait of Hormuz 
  
• Local Dollars: New book shows how to take your retirement account local — Transition Voice 
  
• Video: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown | Watch FRONTLINE Online | PBS Video 
  
• AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent | Common Dreams 
  
• Check Out This Hilarious Video Spoof About Breaking Up Bank Of America And Merrill Lynch 
  
• New Mapping Tool Shows How Severe Nuclear Accident Could Look in U.S. « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement 
  
• The Richest 1 Percent Captured 93 Percent Of Income Gains In 2010 | ThinkProgress 
  
• Know your bites: Does the USDA’s local-farms program have a chance? | Grist 
  
• What The Worst-Case Scenario In Iran Would Mean For World Oil Prices 
  
• Jon Stewart compares Limbaugh to pungent bucket of raw sewage | The Raw Story 
  
• FtheBanks: Take Action to Foreclose the Banks & Move Your Money! 
  

WTF?

• Codex Alimentarius 1 of 4 - YouTube 
  

ECONOMICS

• Financial Armageddon: Four Charts... 
  
• Presenting The Truth Behind America's Fiscal And Employment Picture | ZeroHedge 
  
• In case you thought we were alone ... | Finance 
  
• George Monbiot – A Manifesto for Psychopaths 
  
• Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded - NYTimes.com 
  
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Greek 1-Year Bond Yield Hits 1,006% 
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Costs of Climate Change Touching Down All Around: Insurers | Common Dreams 
  
• Michael Mann, From The Trenches Of The 'Climate War' : NPR 
  
• Climate Change: Insurers Confirm Growing Risks, Costs-Insurance Networking News 
  
• Climate change will shake the Earth — literally | Grist 
  
• We have years, not decades to avoid a catastrophic 2C temperature rise. 
  
• A comprehensive list of Rush Limbaugh ad sponsors : politics 
  
• Overfishing Leaves Much of Mediterranean a Dead Sea, Study Finds – News Watch 
  
• Stunning Pictures Of Tornado Devastation In Middle America 
  
• New Research on Ocean Acidification and Warming Oceans Reveals Heavy Toll on Marine Life : TreeHugger 
  
• Looking Catastrophe in the Eye | Common Dreams 
  
• Tornado record? A month's worth of tornadoes strike in 1 day | MNN - Mother Nature Network 
  
• Two dead in flood crisis gripping parts of Victoria, NSW and Queensland | Adelaide Now 
  
• The EPA Says Pennsylvania Is Screwing Up The Fracking Investigating And It's Taking Over 
  
• Scientists see rise in tornado-creating conditions | Reuters 
  
• Fakegate: Heartland's Hypocrisy | Global Warming is Real: Climate - Energy - Sustainability 
  
• Raw Video: Huge Glacier Collapse in Argentina - YouTube 
  

ENERGY

• Saudi Arabia Fire News Oil-Price Swing Shows Global Supply Vulnerability - Bloomberg 
  
• Saturday Oil Report -- March 3, 2012 - Decline of the Empire 
  
• Peak oil: Meet the frackers | Peak Oil News and Message Boards 
  
• Peak Oil Denial: Alive, Well, Still Not Helping (Pt 3) - Peak Oil Matters 
  
• Maybe there's something to this 'peak oil' business? - March 5 | Energy Bulletin 
  
• Crash_Watcher: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum Part 1: Introduction 
  

CONFLICT

• The incomplete media debate on Iran - Salon.com 
  
• McCain Calls For US To Lead Effort To Begin Syrian Air Strikes | ZeroHedge 
  
• AFP: Sweden 'helping plan secret arms factory in Saudi' 
  
• NOTE: US Attn General Eric Holder on The US Killer Drone Policy - Global Guerrillas 
  
• Attorney General Holder Says Murder Is Legal - Washington's Blog 
  

CONTROL

• Keiser Report: Copyright Dictatorhip (E256) - YouTube 
  
• The Private Social Network For The Extremely Rich And Powerful | Disinformation 
  
• When States Abuse Women - NYTimes.com 
  
• Congress Passes Bill Severely Curtailing First Amendment Liberties 
  
• Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: Inside the Out-Of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State | | AlterNet 
  
• How police privatisation was recast as common sense | John Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 
  
• Attorney General Holder degrades US to fascist ‘Assassination Nation;’ 99% response…? - Washington's Blog 
  

RESOURCES

• Prepared for the Peak - March 2, 2012 | Post Peak Living 
  
• ‘Waking Mars’ is the most amazing game about gardening you’ll ever play | Grist 
  
• How to turn one piece of recycled cloth into 14 outfits and a bag | Grist 
  
• Gardening With Children – Starting Seeds | The Self-Sufficient Gardener 
  
• Aspartame withdrawal and side effects explained - Here's how to protect yourself 
  
• Living Off Grid - Reduce Your Electrical Use in Two Easy Steps 
  
• The Transition Companion | Browse by Type | Library | The Centre for Welfare Reform 
  
• Eco-Cinema and Film Genre: YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip 
  

3/2/12 – SAVAGE EARTH HEART EDITION

MUST SEE HEAR READ

• America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I | Orion Magazine
  
• The 2% : Casaubon's Book
  
• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Eye-Witness History of Occupy Wall Street Movement Now Available
  
• Knowmore.org - Question Your Goods. Vote With Your Wallet.
  
• The Downward Spiral: Foxconn Versus An American Online Retail Warehouse
  
• Must-Watch Video On Unsafe American Nuclear Plants
  
• Anonymous Leaks Documents Revealing Homeland Security Monitoring of Occupy Wall Street | AmpedStatus
  
• The Perfection of Crony Capitalism: Buying Regulation to Destroy Competitors | AmpedStatus
  
• Archive of David DeGraw’s Reports | AmpedStatus
  
• Climate denial plan by Heartland Institute makes news — Transition Voice
  
• Watch the Film | Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein
  
• Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
  
• $5 Gas = Long, Hot, Crazy Summer | Energy Bulletin
  
• My name is Drone, James Drone - Global Guerrillas
  
• Markets react to explosion which destroys oil pipelines in Saudi Arabia's Awamiya | CollapseNet
  
• Oil Rises to $110 on Report of Pipeline Explosion - Businessweek
  
• "Citizen Privacy Vs. Corporation/Government Privacy" - M.O.C. #121 - YouTube
  
• Two 30-second MTV ads warn Americans what NDAA authorizes under ‘law’ - Washington's Blog
  
• Ocean Acidification Rate May Be Unprecedented, Study Says | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  
• More Drilling Won’t Lower Gas Prices | ThinkProgress
  
• Heartfelt Letter To The Farmers, Seed Growers And Farm Groups Whose Court Battle Was Dismissed Against Monsanto
  
• TEDx talks in Tempe, Arizona – Guy McPherson's blog
  
• Ocean acidification on track to be among the worst of the last 300 million years
  

GENERAL INTEREST

• Corseted Minds: Does Fear of Irrelevance Send Conservative Men Fleeing to the Victorian Age? | News & Politics | AlterNet
  
• Wyoming narrowly defeats measure to prepare for apocalypse | The Raw Story
  
• TACTICAL BRIEFING #26 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
  
• The Downward Spiral: U.S. Job Quality Crashes During The "Recovery"
  
• Wyoming could become the first survivalist state — Transition Voice
  
• Rpt-Iran to accept payment in gold from trading partners | Reuters
  
• Matt Taibbi: The Mortgage Crisis Was Like Banks Selling Oregano And Calling It High Grade Weed -
  
• Chicago goes coal-free | Grist
  
• Peter Joseph: "Defining Peace" | Watch Now
  
• Paul Gilding: The Earth is full | Video on TED.com
  
• The Archdruid Report: The Trajectory of Empires
  
• On the real price of oil, built a tiny, mortgage-free house, students and stuff, and the coffeeshopification of our lives.
  
• Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon - NYTimes.com
  
• Diet Soda, the Silent Killer? | Mother Jones
  
• Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Misdirect Is Widespread in Occupy (Part I) | Truthout
  
• Foreclosure Homes Hit 24% of U.S. Purchases - Bloomberg
  
• Only 54% Of Young Adults In America Have A Job | ZeroHedge
  
• Clean Energy Economy - Rocky Anderson 2012
  
• The 99% Are Not For Sale – AmpedStatus Stays True to Its Roots, 100% United to Get Money Out, March 1 Relaunch | AmpedStatus
  
• Greedy Bastards Antidote: Occupy & Tea Party Find Common Ground? Dylan Ratigan Talks with David DeGraw & Mark Meckler, 100% United (Video) | AmpedStatus
  
• From Russell Simmons to Ben and Jerry: The Would-Be Sponsors of Occupy Wall Street - The Daily Beast
  
• Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Video on TED.com
  
• Post Carbon Newsletter - Is Obama Sweating Oil?
  
• Two Thirds Of All Nevada Mortgages Are Underwater | ZeroHedge
  
• Reality Check: The Fiat Dollar is the real reason for high gas prices - YouTube
  
• Timothy L. O'Brien: Introducing "Breakdown: Americans on the Edge"
  
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple Up From Their Entertainment-Induced Comas
  
• Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics: How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture
  
• Study says insecticide used with GM corn highly toxic to bees | Food Freedom
  
• Oil Companies Earn Billions While Americans Pay More | ThinkProgress
  
• charles hugh smith-If This Is Such a Strong Economy, Why Does This Chart Look Recessionary?
  
• Rare Opening of World's "Doomsday Vault" - YouTube
  
• iFoodstamps | ZeroHedge
  

WTF?

• Psycopath Geoengineers Artificially Melt Antarctic to Drill for Oil - YouTube
  

ECONOMICS

• Steve Keen on the transmutation of Zombie Banking into Zombie Government! - YouTube
  
• Another Shot to the Bow of Fed Money Printing | Finance
  
• charles hugh smith-If The Market Rolls Over Here....
  
• CHART OF THE DAY: 'Total Collapse' In Greece
  
• Next Leg Of The Ponzi Revealed - Foreign Central Banks To Begin Buying US Stocks Outright Starting Today | ZeroHedge
  
• Credit unions hit record membership - Mar. 1, 2012
  

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Fakegate: Heartland-Backed 'Scientist' Misinforms Students, Is Utterly Debunked | ThinkProgress
  
• Poll: Americans' Understanding of Climate Change Increasing With More Extreme Weather, Warmer Temperatures | ThinkProgress
  
• NASA Finds Thickest Parts of Arctic Ice Cap Melting Faster | ScienceBlog.com
  
• The Radio Ecoshock Show: Free the Climate Scientists!
  
• 4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006, Study Finds | ThinkProgress
  

ENERGY

• The Price of Gas - YouTube
  
• Saudi Oil-Rig Use Soars as Obama Pressed on SPR: Energy Markets - Bloomberg
  
• Dr. Colin Campbell on Global Oil Production: “Playing With Fire” There is very little spare oil capacity left in the world | James J Puplava CFP | FINANCIAL SENSE
  

CONFLICT

• Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war with Iran - Salon.com
  
• The Obama Doctrine - By David Rohde | Foreign Policy
  
• Drone-Strike Survivors Ask, "What Kind of Democracy Is America?" | Truthout
  

CONTROL

• Top 5 Stratfor Revelations | Informed Comment
  
• Government Power Being Used to Stifle Dissent ... Not to Keep Us Safe
  
• The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American liberty | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  

RESOURCES

• CiteULike: Group: Transition Towns - library 121 articles
  
• PeaceUp CoRR | Communities of Resilient Resistance
  
• Taming the Zoning Monster : Casaubon's Book
  
• How to Clear Your Google Browsing and Video History Before the New Google "Privacy" Policy Is Implemented
  
• Incredible Video Shows the Beauty of Urban Beekeeping : TreeHugger
  
• Homemade laundry detergent | MNN - Mother Nature Network
  
• Small Farmers Create Jobs. Here's Why. : TreeHugger
  
• Wyoming to Consider Buying an Aircraft Carrier - Forbes

MORE INFO SOURCES - daily and weekly news aggregation

•   Global Glass Onion http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com/
  
•   End of Empire News http://endofempirenews.blogspot.com/  
  
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•   Boiling Frogs  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/   
  
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