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  • Sleeping Americans

    America is asleep today. Not falling asleep, not in danger of dozing off. Asleep. Deeply asleep.

    The MSM (Mainstream Media) is full of news of economic trouble, of credit drying up and blowing away, of oil prices climbing, of Gold flirting with a price of $1,000 an ounce where a few short years ago it was a third of that. Home prices are crashing (or depending on where you live, have crashed), foreclosures are popping up in every neighborhood in some cities and job losses are mounting. Yet Americans still sleep.

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  • The Slow Crash

    Source: WikipediaThe problem with studying history is that we get the story from beginning to end in a complete package. The price paid, of course, is that it’s generally a person or group’s perspective, with all the accompanying prejudices and axes to grind. But it all is made to look logical, linear and obvious.

    Real life though, isn’t anything like that. Read the rest of this entry »