Posts Tagged ‘ civilization ’

Reality Receding Across America

Sep 17th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the "recession" over, is exactly the moment when what's left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they'd be starting ...read more

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Why Dueling Should Be Reinstated

May 13th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
From long before Revolutionary times through the Code of the West there was a simple method of resolving conflicts.  Men backed their actions and words with public apologies, sometimes humiliating, or defended them with their lives when others did not agree.  Alexander Hamilton used it several times, and only lost ...read more

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Zombie Pandemic Preparation

May 4th, 2009 | By Gary Gibson | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I was more than a little thrilled to hear about a new potential pandemic. I was more than a little disappointed when I found out it didn't involve zombies. I should admit up front that I am a doom-and-gloom sort through and through. I'm also a fan of spectacular collapses, disasters...and ...read more

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Foundations of Crisis, Part III: War (So What’s Next?)

Jan 21st, 2009 | By Doug Casey | Category: Featured, Politics
The real watersheds in history, crises that make or break a civilization, occur roughly every 100 years. The most recent ones in American history that will resonate without looking up the facts in a reference book are the Revolution, circa 1782; the Civil War, circa 1863; and WW II, circa ...read more

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