[deMolay]

Sums up pretty good. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Arc ... dgame.html

[Novus]

Good article that tells it how it really it is:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hen the collective imagination becomes obsessed with the dream of a sudden cataclysm that sweeps away the old world overnight and ushers in the new, even relatively rapid social changes can pass by unnoticed. The twilight years of Rome offer a good object lesson; so many people were convinced that the Second Coming might occur at any moment that the collapse of classical civilization went almost unnoticed; only a tiny handful of writers from those years show any recognition that something out of the ordinary was happening at all.

Reflections of this sort have been much on my mind lately, and there’s a reason for that. Scattered among the statistical noise that makes up most of today’s news are data points that suggest to me that business as usual is quietly coming to an end around us, launching us into a new world for which very few of us have made any preparations at all.

[rangerone314]

I'm hoping a slow-decline occurs with enough time for me & my own to get prepped... although I am thinking since we are in the early stages of a decline, it may only take one major black swan event to tip things into a free fall collapse--I am hoping this does not happen.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I')'m hoping a slow-decline occurs with enough time for me & my own to get prepped... although I am thinking since we are in the early stages of a decline, it may only take one major black swan event to tip things into a free fall collapse--I am hoping this does not happen.

[rangerone314]

What could the US realistically do to China if China decided to invade Taiwan? (And China has paratrooper divisions that actually practice in China capturing a precise mockup of the main airport on Taiwan)

I suppose we could send carriers steaming towards Taiwan straights like we've done before, only to run into theses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-270_Moskit

And Iran may have a few of these also.

[mos6507]

Here is a story about what's going on in Colorado that I plucked off the homepage of google news.

This backs up what Greer is saying about state and local cutbacks in basic services.

[mefistofeles]

We're too late the collapse has already begun this from the government's own official January TARP Report

http://www.sigtarp.gov/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he substantial costs of TARP — in money, moral
hazard effects on the market, and Government credibility — will have been for
naught if we do nothing to correct the fundamental problems in our financial system
and end up in a similar or even greater crisis in two, or five, or ten years’ time.
It is hard to see how any of the fundamental problems in the system have been
addressed to date.

[lahmanwokard]

I have always been a big fan of Greers, he gets the mechanisms of collapse very well...what he does not get but seems to be grasping now...is the speed at which it can all transpire.If you read his academic treatises from 5 years ago and compare to todays night and day difference in tone and urgency.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '[')url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473]Here is a story[/url] about what's going on in Colorado that I plucked off the homepage of google news.

This backs up what Greer is saying about state and local cutbacks in basic services.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '[')url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473]Here is a story[/url] about what's going on in Colorado that I plucked off the homepage of google news.

This backs up what Greer is saying about state and local cutbacks in basic services.

[sittinguy]

I can't believe nobody posted the best part,, so here it is.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hose of my readers who haven’t already been beggared by the unraveling of what’s left of the economy, and have some hope of keeping a roof over their heads for the foreseeable future, might be well advised to stock their pantries, clear their debts, and get to know their neighbors, if they haven’t taken these sensible steps already. Those of my readers who haven’t taken the time already to learn a practical skill or two, well enough that others might be willing to pay or barter for the results, had better get a move on. Those of my readers who want to see some part of the heritage of the present saved for the future, finally, may want to do something practical about that, and soon. I may be wrong – and to be frank, I hope that I’m wrong – but it looks increasingly to me as though we’re in for a very rough time in the very near future

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mefistofeles', 'T')his information isn't exactly secret anyone can find it. What really frightens me is that the press is simply too dumb...