Culture
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The Risk Economy (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- As the West's industrial regime sputters toward a cheap-energy-crackup conclusion, there have been attempts to recast what our economy is actually about, how to account for ...
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Belief System (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- A friend asked me how come the public apparently grasps the reality of climate change but can’t seem to wrap its collective brain around the unfolding oil crisis.
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Blind Spot (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- I happened to be flying into Minneapolis the very day that Northwest Airlines announced its merger with Delta -- Delta to be the more senior (more equal) partner -- in ...
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Media Shit Storms and Heartland Reality -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 17, 2008 There seems to be no end to the media mediocrity we must suffer in this country. Now we have the Obama Guns, God and Bitterness shit storm, ...
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Rust and Sun (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- Last week I sojourned in two parts of the country that might have been separate nations: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and Austin, Texas.
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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant at Innies CafeRage fatigue, plastic dirt and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America Joe Bageant -- World News Trust April 3, 2008 One of the best things about the hundred or so book ...
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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 2, 2008 Rage fatigue, plastic dirt, and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in ...
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A 'perfect storm' of hunger (Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson)
The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger. April 2, 2008 -- KHARTOUM, ...
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Upscale (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- Things continue to slip, slide, and shift strangely Out There.
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Black Swans Everywhere (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- After a one-day reprieve from total meltdown in the financial markets, news media cheerleaders for the most reckless gang of bankers in world history declared the crisis over ...
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A Real Freak Out (James Kunstler)
Things are getting very weird very fast -- and will probably get even weirder, faster, as the train wreck of bad debt meets the Saint Paddy's Day Parade of bacchanalian excess at the grade-crossing ...
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