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  • The American Crash

    According to the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, a crash of our global economy is expected this fall, in September of 2008. The report cites the progression of the collapse of our economy, including the housing bubble and most recently, municipal bonds. It also lays out the process of “decoupling” taking place around the world, designed to protect other regions and economies from being taken down by our crash.

    It’s compelling reading. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Cycles

    What humans tend to understand very little about, is the cyclical nature of civilization, and more specifically, society. Apparently, evolution of our species has built into it the assumption that things will either a)stay the same pretty much forever, or failing that, b) improve a little or a lot (depending on just how grand your sense of optimism is).

    But that’s sadly, a misreading of how it all works. Everything in our world and universe, for that matter, works through the machine of cycles. It’s built into the source code of our existence, and to deny it, is just self-delusion. We see it and teach it in our educational institutions, study it in our labs and think-tanks and even applaud it in our entertainment (Think The Lion King’s ‘Circle of Life’. But when it comes to life in the U.S. and the Western World, we think it can only get better, bigger and faster, forever and forever.

    We are wrong. Read the rest of this entry »