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This news letter is one of the best that I have found for documenting the collapse - please excuse this dose of doom and gloom. However if you know what's actually happening you can either avoid it or take corrective action. Thanks CCSS / John

http://carolynbaker.net

KUNSTLER: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HASN'T ANYTHING NEAR A CLUE!

http://www.jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/

CHARLES HUGH SMITH: WELCOME TO THE 13TH CENTURY

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjun08/wave6-08.html

NASA SCIENTIST WARN: THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NLY5naFMJIsbKHNeiWIKMTsEiQD91G3IBG0

""We're toast if we don't get on a very different path," Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. "This is the last chance."

STATE AND CITY LAYOFFS--45,000 AND COUNTING

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/23/news/economy/local_government_layoffs/in...

U.S. CITIES CUT SERVICES AND RAID RESERVES ON FUEL COSTS

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Oil/idUSN2048442020080620

CAN ANYONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN CONTINUE TO EXIST INDEFINITELY? SCHOOLS RUNNING ON EMPTY

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25333552#25333552

My comment: Their "solutions"? Get rid of teachers, increase class size, make kids walk to school. Yeah right. It's called the collapse of public education folks, and I for one couldn't be more delighted.

WHAT "BROWN" CAN'T DO FOR YOU: UPS SLASHES OUTLOOK ON SOARING FUEL COSTS

http://www.cnbc.com/id/25336756

FUEL COSTS COULD DEVASTATE AIRLINES

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/23/news/economy/airlines/index.htm

My comment: Fuel costs WILL devastate airlines, and we should all regard air travel as a thing of the past which it most likely will be in five years. As I've been saying, travel and/or relocate now while you still can.

THE INSANITY OF OFFSHORE DRILLING

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45477

"For years, our slowly sinking energy story has begged for a balanced, science-based energy policy. If drilling our brains out offshore—aka burning the furniture--is really part of the plan, for my kids’ sakes I would like to know what the hell we plan to do after that."

GAS PRICES COULD FALL BY $2 IF CONGRESS ACTS TO REGULATE SPECULATORS????

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gas-could-fall-2-if/story.aspx?guid={2673C102-68E0-41D9-9C9A-10EE2E723948}&dist=msr_13

Indeed they might--and then, let the shortages and rationing begin!

ECONOMIC MELTDOWN IS PUSHING MORE PEOPLE TO THE EDGE

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080622/ARTICLE/806220305/0/COLUM...

CHANGE WE CAN'T BELIEVE IN: OBAMA HAS CLOSE TIES TO ETHANOL BIZ

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25324195/

Industry endorsed by candidate has provided some of his top advisers

"Mr. Obama is running as a reformer who is seeking to reduce the influence of special interests. But like any other politician, he has powerful constituencies that help shape his views. And when it comes to domestic ethanol, almost all of which is made from corn, he also has advisers and prominent supporters with close ties to the industry at a time when energy policy is a point of sharp contrast between the parties and their presidential candidates."

THE CLUELESS CANDIDATES: THEY'RE REALLY GONNA DEAL WITH ENERGY ISSUES--MCCAIN WANTS A BETTER CAR BATTERY AND OBAMA WANTS TO CRACK DOWN ON SPECULATORS

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/23/politics/main4201682.shtml

My comment: But of course: Talking about peak oil and climate change and massive conservation programs and mass transit projects--all of those are very bad for business. God forbid we should drastically curtail growth!

ARE WE READY FOR THIS FINANCIAL STORM?

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/featuresopinon/display.var.2357294.0...

MIDDLE CLASS EXODUS FROM SAN FRANCISCO

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/22/MNJJ10NPSK.D...

THE DAYMARE THAT REMAINS IN NEW ORLEANS

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=761

COMMUNITIES SUFFER AS FORECLOSURE RATES RISE

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25217565/

"lonely streets, rundown homes, service cutbacks"