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Breaking News: Wednesday September 16th, 2009

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Editor's Note: Today's Update

I'm unable to do a usual update today so I'm going with a best of. Tomorrow's update (Thursday) will be published around 5:00 PM Pacific Time. -Matt

Collapse of Energy Production:

LATOC: British Year 2000 Fuel Riots Offer Chilling Previw of U.S. Future

Macleans: "Fascists will rise, feeding on the anger of the newly poor"

LATOC: "Suburbs will become militarized, the poor will be rounded up"

Collapse of the Environment:

UK Guardian: Pentagon Says Climate Change Could Produce Anarchy

Best Life Online: "Our oceans are being turned into seas of plastic . . ."

Out of Control Corporations:

L.A. Times: Keeping the Unemployed Busy is a Means of Social Control

Vanity Fair: Monsanto Dispatches Goon Squads to Intimidate Farmers

Rolling Stone: "U.S. now a gangster state run on gangster economics"

Military Industrial Surveillance:

Radar Online: Government's "Final Round Up" List has 8 Million Names

Yahoo: Pentagon Running Simulations of Economic Warfare Strategies

UK Register: DOD Running Computer Simulations of You (Yes, *You*)

Annals of the Formerly Upper Middle Class:

The Atlantic: Veal Calve Investors Got Fattened Up & Led to Slaughter

LATOC Forum: Discussion of Atlantic Article on Veal Calve Investors

New York Magazine: Privileged Class Rages as It Loses its Privileges

Scary Statistics:

Associated Press: 40% of Working Age Californians Now Unemployed

San Francisco Chronicle: Teen Unemployment at 25.5%, New Record

Reuters: Over 35 Million Americans (1 in 8) Receiving Food Stamps

Collapse of the Cities:

Los Angeles Times: Abandoned Suburbs Getting Taken Back by Nature

Alternet: U.S. Cities Increasingly Resort to Mercenaries to Keep Order

UK Telegraph: 50 American Cities May Need to be Bulldozed to Survive

Collapse of California:

Tremble the Devil: Jobs will Soon be the Least of California's Problems

Economist: California Turning Into an "Ungovernable No Man's Land"

UK Telegraph: California Holds Giant Online Garage Sale to Raise Cash

Collapse of the United States:

Wall Street Journal: U.S. Dollar Faces End as World's Reserve Currency

CNN: IRS Won't Collect Enough in Taxes to Make Ends Meet This Year

Business Week: "U.S. is on an untraveled road to an unknown place"

Collapse of Industrial Production:

NY Times: Huge Swaths of America's Means of Production Mothballed

Reuters: Many Key Industrial Suppliers are Effectively Out of Business

Economist: Collapse in Global Trade Devastating Shipping Companies

Citizen Rage:

Wall Street Journal: Fear, Greed Drive Sales of Ammunition to Record

Wall Street Journal: Unemployed May Turn to Violent Forms of Protest

Kunstler: "We have no experience with the amount of unrest coming"

Asset Protection: Gold

Newsweek: Wealthy Investors Secretly Hoarding 100 Oz Bars of Gold

UK Telegraph: Gold to Break $1,000 as People Sell Jewellery for Cash

UK Telegraph: Gold Will Hit $1,000 an Ounce Again as Supply Dwindles

Asset Protection: Silver

UK Telegraph: Now May be a Good Time to Consider Investing in Silver

Whiskey & Gunpowder: "I'm stuffing silver rounds under the mattress"

Health, Wellness, Alternative Medicine:

Newsweek: Science Behind the Mental Resilence of Elite Military Units

Boston Globe: How Living in the City Hurts Your Psychological Health

NY Times: Nature Therapy Found to be Effective for Children with ADD

Discover Magazine: Enzymes in Soil Found to Fight Depression, Pain

Relocalization and Preparation:

USA Today: Towns Printing Own Currencies to Keep Economies Afloat

George Monbiot: "We need a license to print our own money" (relink)

NY Times Magazine: 7-Page Special on the Transition Town Movement

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