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Presto Change-o (James Kunstler)
Nov. 10, 2008 (World News Trust) -- As the election campaign ground on like a 3000-mile race between a greyhound and an armadillo, the media kept harping on Barack Obama's vague promises of ...
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A Nervous Nation (James Kunstler)
Nov. 3, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is a nervous nation. Though I'm usually allergic to paranoia, something makes me think that there's a back office in the U.S. Treasury that is buying the ...
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Easthampton Burning? (James Kunstler)
Oct. 27, 2008 (World News Trust) -- In the typhoon of commentary that's blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that's wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously ...
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What Now? (James Kunstler)
Oct. 20, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It's fascinating to read the commentators in mainstream journals like The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal all strenuously pretending that "the worst ...
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The Nausea Express (James Kunstler)
Oct. 13, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The G-7 world, the club of "developed" western nations plus Japan, has commenced an ordeal of suddenly waking up much poorer.
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The Ponzi-Plus Plan (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- To paraphrase the late and great old war-horse of the senate, Everett Dirkson of Illinois (1896 - 1969), a trillion here, a trillion there, sooner or later you're talking about ...
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Falling Into Fall (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- So many shoes are poised to drop this week that the American scene might be confused for the world's greatest-ever clog dancing festival, but a closer look will reveal a circle ...
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A Ripe Moment (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- It turns out the real hurricane blew through Wall Street last week, not Galveston. This morning, Manhattan is strewn chest-deep with the debris of banking and at this hour ...
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Coup de Grace (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- As I write at 6:30 Eastern Daylight Time, Hurricane Gustave grinds out of the Gulf of Mexico to make landfall on the Louisiana Coast at Port Fourchon, the marshalling yard for ...
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The Abyss Stares Back (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- As the political conventions descend like the soggy forces of nature they have become -- the tropical depressions of politics -- the Republican party will be seen, with growing ...
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Reality Bites Again (James Kunstler)
The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus of Central Asia was appropriate, since our claims of influence in that part of the world are laughable.
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