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Shoulder Season (James Kunstler)
America is on vacation from its financial, fiscal, and economic problems, having left the centers of power in Wall Street and Washington for a Nantucket-of-the-mind, where, in a haze of artisanal ...
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Dark (K)night (James Kunstler)
Aug. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The most striking thing about the new Batman movie, now smashing the all-time box office records, is its emphasis on sado-masochism as the animating element in ...
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The Coming Re-becoming (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- Everywhere you turn in this nation, you see a society primed for implosion.
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Pretend-O-Rama (James Kunstler)
July 20, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The comprehensive bankruptcy of the United States, at every level, in all corners, atop each hill and mole-hill, and down not a few rat-holes, is preceding like ...
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Event Horizon (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- There's a particular moment known to all Baby Boomers when Wile E. Coyote, in a rapture of over-reaching, has run past the edge of the mesa and, still licking his chops and ...
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Where We're At (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- Every time I saw a car towing a motorboat this holiday weekend, I wondered what was going through the head of the towee. Did they have a sense that darkness was falling on ...
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Not Your Grandma's Depression (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- This isn't so funny anymore. Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The New York Times and CNN pulled ...
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Penetration (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- The telling moment last week was Robert Hirsch's appearance on the CNBC morning "Squawkbox" financial show in which he proposed the probability of $500-a-barrel oil within "a ...
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Status Quo-oh (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa floods, we'll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather ...
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A Harsh Season (James Kunstler)
June 9 (World News Trust) -- The banking “industry” slept like a dog through the climax of the political primary season. Meanwhile, the banks sucked in scores of billions in cheap loans from the ...
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"We Were Lied To" (James Kunstler)
June 2 (World News Trust) -- This meme, which has been the mantra among supposed political "progressives" for years now, was reignited over the weekend with the publication of a memoir by former ...
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