Showing posts with label US Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Economy. Show all posts
Monday, December 21, 2009
Have A Clusterfuck (Nation) Christmas - Blue Christmas, James Howard Kunstler
Blue Christmas
By James Howard Kunstler
December 21, 2009As the end-credits rolled for James Cameron's new movie, Avatar, the audience burst into rowdy applause. It seemed to me that they were applauding the sheer computerized dazzlement of the show -- but in the story itself they had just watched the US suffer a humiliating defeat on a distant planet. In the final frames, American soldiers and the corporate executives they had failed to protect were shown lined up as prisoners-of-war about to embark on a death march.
More to the point, the depiction of our national character through the whole course of the film was of a thuggish, cruel, cynical, stupid, detestable, and totally corrupt people bent on the complete destruction of nature. Nice.
And the final irony was that Cameron had used theatrical technology of the latest and greatest kind to depict America's broader techno-grandiosity -- as the army's brute robotic warriors fell to the spears and arrows of the simple blue space aliens.
Altogether, it was a weird moment in entertainment history, and perhaps in the American experience per se. No doubt audiences overseas will go wild with delight, too, but perhaps with a clearer notion of what they are clapping for than the enthralled masses of zombie Americans.
The infatuation with technology, and the disgusting cockiness that goes with it (so well-captured in Avatar), is but one facet of the psychosis gripping the nation -- and by that I mean the profound detachment from reality.
We have no idea what is happening to us and, naturally, no idea of what we are going to do.
I sat in a bar Friday evening with a financial reporter from a national newspaper, trying to explain the peak oil situation and what it implied for our economy.
He had never heard it before. The relationship between energy resources and massive debt was new to him. (It also came up in conversation that he could not tell me what the Monroe Doctrine was about, despite a history degree from Yale.)
There you have a nice snapshot of the mainstream media in this land...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
You Are Being Lied To - That Describes Everything You Need To Know About The State Of The "Federal Reserve Bank"
It SHOULD make your hair stand on end...
There ARE NO RESERVES.
NOW... go to the fed's link with the updated chart (Gleaned December 2009):
You will immediately note it has been updated, and 'weighted' to 'flatten' it by a simple illusion... The scale has been dramatically increased. But STILL, despite their best efforts, the fact that they are requiring that scaling AT ALL... publishing it in such a manner instead of the chart-typical "_ ~" "broken scale" charting method illustrates a frantic scramble (or appearance thereof) to restore those looted reserves.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Tis' The Season To Ask Ourselves... "What Would Jesus Buy?"
"Join the joyous gritty anti-consumerists Reverend Billy, Savitri D and the 40-voice Life After Shopping Gospel Choir, as they tour the country trying to stop the shopping frenzy.
From Buy Nothing Day in Times Square... to Christmas Day in Disneyland in 30 days.
Produced Morgan Spurlock (Where In The World Is Osama bin-Laden) and directed by Rob Van Alkamade. Created in 2005, before the Great Recession, the film conjures much of the tragedy that has happened since. Amen!"
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