http://slowlyfadingaway.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 18 May 2008 21:40:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and World Made by Hand appears on The Colbert Report (funny, must-see) The Glenn Beck Show (luckily Glenn interviewed him before finding out Kunstler had called him an idiot-maniac just days before, thus allowing thousands of people to be exposed to the idea of ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=16 When all hades breaks loose, it helps to have a man cave! http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=15 Lost cities of the future -- It's sad how close they are to us. And how close we are to the future. What Rome can teach us about the decline of civilizations -- In some ways we have tougher challenges than Rome. We have one key advantage -- we can talk ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=14 IMF Warns of Great Crisis -- We keep seeing the "Depression" word come up more and more in the mainstream.  The mainstream media wasn't even worried about a recession this year. And who is the IMF? Read more here, and be sure to check out the criticisms. The Black Death of ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=13 The New Survivalism -- Dear lord, this is the stuff being found in the NY Times Fashion & Style section. Britney Spears move over. The US Oil Supply -- a dire prognosis getting worse by the day. http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=11 The Federal Express plows forward aiming for your loot. Don't get on the boxcar. Slate tells us why Fed reform won't work. Duh. When the end is so very nigh, which straw breaks the camel's back? When trouble strikes, you're on your own. The Collapse Party becoming the most honest party in government. ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=10 Nobel Prize winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, says we're in big trouble. Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute and energy expert says the Global Depression is here...we just don't know it yet. Sobering case study of Peak Oil affecting a pump near you very soon. The Canterell oil field has gone into decline recently. ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=9 The conning of America, says Guardian. That's why it's called the eCONomy, stoopid! This article asks, why does Bush seem happy? Today, by the Smashing Pumpkins, is also happy. I'm clearly learning about our impending depression from non-American media outlets today. Another oddly cheerful rumination of everything coming to the end. You might ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=8 One issue that seems to get conservatives understandably concerned is any threat to America's economic or political sovereignty. As the dollar weakens, gas prices soar, immigration rages, and concern for our future continues to rise, the ideas of a NAFTA Superhighway, a North American Union, and a replacement currency called ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=6 Stocks make a rebound -- Enough articles like this, and one almost believes all is OK in the world. It's not. Are you on a terrorist watch list? -- Apparently 1 out of 300 Americans are. Which I guess I can believe, given that 1 out of 100 of us is ... http://slowlyfadingaway.com/?p=5