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	<title>The Decline of American Civilization</title>
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		<title>The Decline of American Civilization</title>
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		<title>The other shoe is about to drop &#8211; preparing for uncertain times</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-other-shoe-is-about-to-drop-preparing-for-uncertain-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
Imagine this situation: All of the media outlets have gone to commercial-free coverage. They are reporting that the Dow has dropped 2,000 points and trading has been suspended on Wall Street.
The Chinese, along with other countries have transferred their reserves from the US Dollar. Oil futures climb $50 a barrel in hours. A national bank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=242&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter To A Dying Planet</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/an-open-letter-to-a-dying-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of humanity depends on awareness of its plight.  Without awareness, extinction is highly possible.  With awareness, a critical mass for change can happen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=239&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Economy left to Recover</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/can-the-economy-recover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can The Economy Recover? 
By 																						Paul Craig Roberts
July 15, 2009 &#8220;Information Clearing House&#8221; &#8212; -There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical “New Economy.”
The “New Economy” was based on services. Its artificial life was fed by the Federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=236&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial alarm: Mall, office building owners defaulting as loan rates double</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/commercial-alarm-mall-office-building-owners-defaulting-as-loan-rates-double/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ALAN ZIBEL
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 12, 2009
WASHINGTON — Owners of shopping malls, hotels and offices are defaulting on their loans at an alarming rate, and the commercial real estate market is not expected to hit bottom for three more years, industry experts warned Thursday.
&#8220;The commercial real estate time bomb is ticking,&#8221; said Rep. Carolyn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=234&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doom in the Wall Street Journal</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/doom-in-the-wall-street-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This doomer forecast is surpringly from an article by Peggy Noonan on the utter inadequacy of Sarah Palin as featured in the WJS.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s why all this matters. The world is a dangerous place. It has never been more so, or more complicated, more straining of the reasoning powers of those with actual genius and true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=231&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Will The Recovery Begin? Never</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/when-will-the-recovery-begin-never/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Will The Recovery Begin? Never
by Robert Reich
The so-called &#8220;green shoots&#8221; of recovery are turning brown in the scorching summer sun. In fact, the whole debate about when and how a recovery will begin is wrongly framed. On one side are the V-shapers who look back at prior recessions and conclude that the faster an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=230&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Officially “Out Of Control” &#8211; Jim Sinclair</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/officially-%e2%80%9cout-of-control%e2%80%9d-jim-sinclair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: Feb 14 2009     By: Jim Sinclair
Dear Extended Family,
I sent you a certain few emails that I consider to be the most important communications issued in my career that started in 1958.
I am the son of what I know to have been the greatest Lone Wolf trader in Wall Street history ever, Bertram J. Seligman. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=229&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Energy Boomtown Goes Bust</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/an-energy-boomtown-goes-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[energy, economic downturn, parachute, town<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=228&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peak oil? Global warming? No, it&#8217;s &#8216;Boomsday!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/peak-oil-global-warming-no-its-boomsday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five reasons &#8216;population explosion&#8217; is world&#8217;s biggest economic problem
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
Here&#8217;s how an exploding population will remain the key variable driving all other major economic issues in the next four short decades:
1. Global wars &#8230; over food, water and energy
Five years ago Fortune reported on &#8220;The Pentagon&#8217;s Weather Nightmare.&#8221; Yes, from inside our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=225&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Estimate 200,000 Stores Will Shut in 2009 as Recession Deepens</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/experts-estimate-200000-stores-will-shut-in-2009-as-recession-deepens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retailers were hoping against hope that door-busting sales could salvage the holiday shopping season. It didn&#8217;t happen.
The recession and factors like bad weather over the last two weeks contributed to the slowest retail holiday season in 38 years. With such dismal shopping numbers, Strategic Resource Group estimates that 160,000 stores will have gone out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=223&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forecast for 2009</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/forecast-for-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by James Howard Kunstler

Introduction
There are two realities &#8220;out there&#8221; now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let&#8217;s call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a &#8220;consumer&#8221; economy to resume in &#8220;growth&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=217&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping malls are a thing of the past. It’s time we closed them all down.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Mall
By Chadwick Matlin Posted Friday, December 26, 2008
Malls are a testament to the kind of consumer thinking that got us into this recessionary mess. And that&#8217;s why we need to close every single one of them.
Already, malls are in a considerable amount of trouble. Shopping centers on the block are selling for 25 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=214&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to all Americans (Dec 27, 2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Fellow Americans
The mass media (talking heads on the television) would try to sugar-coat the depressing news they have to deliver night after night.
They would also have us subscribe to the naive notion: &#8220;Obama will fix it.&#8221;
This is very misleading. The media want to be able to say &#8220;The worst is over&#8221; / &#8220;The housing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=212&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kunstler on: What will U.S. suburbs look like in 40 years?</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/kunstler-on-what-will-us-suburbs-look-like-in-40-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Kunstler, the author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century, World Made By Hand, and three books about suburbs and cities: The Geography of Nowhere, Home From Nowhere, and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition.
“The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as materials salvage, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=209&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Times indeed &#8211; tent cities, shelters, food lines (11/08)</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/hard-times-indeed-tent-cities-shelters-food-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In hard times, tent cities multiply



RENO, Nev. &#8211; A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
Then others appeared &#8211; people who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy or newcomers who had moved to Reno [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=200&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes the Era of Conspicuous Thrift</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/here-comes-the-era-of-conspicuous-thrift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people say they are cutting back on restaurants, travel, and luxuries, the paper reports. Instead, they&#8217;re staying at home and renting movies for entertainment.
Here in London, we went out to a restaurant last night and found it almost empty. &#8220;Where are the customers?&#8221; we asked the waiter, thinking we were too early. &#8220;Oh&#8230; it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=197&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sea of Unwanted Imports (New York Times) &#8211; 18 Nov.2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONG BEACH, Calif. — Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier. Ordinarily the cars would be loaded on trucks within hours, destined for dealerships around the country. But these are not ordinary times.
For now, the port itself is the destination. Unwelcome by dealers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=193&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s a Depression, Daddy? (New York Times) &#8211; 7 Nov.2008</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/what%e2%80%99s-a-depression-daddy-new-york-times-7-nov2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money talks, but in a good economy, it tends to do so using signs and symbols like cars and clothes and real estate. When times get hard, though, money loses its mouthpieces, and people must speak out loud about their finances, using actual words. “My 401(k) is in the toilet.” “I can’t believe I’m about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=191&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Formerly Middle Class (New York Times) &#8211; 17 Nov.2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of every recession, there are people who see the downturn as an occasion for moral revival: Americans will learn to live without material extravagances. They&#8217;ll simplify their lives. They&#8217;ll rediscover what really matters: home, friends and family.
But recessions are about more than material deprivation. They&#8217;re also about fear and diminished expectations. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=186&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Shipping Woes</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/more-shipping-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Asian shipping slows as crisis strangles demand from US, Europe
KUALA LUMPUR: The ports and shipping lanes of Asia, the arteries of world trade through which goods and commodities surged in the boom times, are starting to seize up as the financial crisis strangles demand.
The Baltic Dry Index, a signpost of economic trends which tracks the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=181&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Faces Serious Risks of Brownouts or Blackouts in 2009, Study Warns</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/the-us-faces-serious-risks-of-brownouts-or-blackouts-in-2009-study-warns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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A new study released this week highlights what experts have been saying for years:  the U.S. faces significant risk of power brownouts and blackouts as early as next summer that may cost tens of billions of dollars and threaten lives.
The study, &#8220;Lights Out In 2009?&#8221; warns that the U.S. &#8220;faces potentially crippling electricity brownouts and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=179&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Dirty Debt Collection Practices</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/beware-of-dirty-debt-collection-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Getting the Money at All Costs Causes Some Debt Collectors to Break the Law
By JENNIFER PIRONE and LEE FERRAN
Nov. 1, 2008 —
In tough economic times, millions of Americans are in debt. Some of them have been contacted by collections agencies.
Many of those interactions have been far less than pleasant for the consumer and, sometimes, they&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=176&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Letters of Credit (L/C) means No Shipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the $13.6 trillion of goods traded worldwide, 90 percent rely on letters of credit or related forms of financing and guarantees such as trade credit insurance, according to the Geneva-based World Trade Organization.
Letters of credit are centuries-old instruments that allow far-flung partners to complete large transactions. An importing company gets its bank to issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=174&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decline USA BREAKING NEWS 31 October</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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1.) VANCE, Ala. (AP) &#8211; With the economy slowing and demand for new vehicles shrinking, Mercedes-Benz is offering buyout packages to the nearly 4,000 workers at its Alabama plant for the first time since the factory opened 11 years ago.
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_7732/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=cSRACTOk
2.) MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) &#8211; Halloween is on Friday, but Alabama school administrators got their frights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=170&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NO Govt money for GM, Chrysler Merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is not supporting the bail-out of the American automobile industry. GM desperately needs outside financing to handle the merger deal.
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/27465743
Discussion: http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,29631.0.html
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		<title>GMAC Repossesing GM Dealers Inventories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Weaver Truck and Auto Center in Grass Valley
Photo for The Union by John Hart

Weaver Truck and Auto Center has furloughed 22 workers, and its GMAC-bankrolled vehicles are being removed from the lot Friday as expected. But owner Tom Weaver said he still is negotiating to line up financing or fill his lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=164&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I wrote When Technology Fails (Matthew Stein)</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/why-i-wrote-when-technology-fails-matthew-stein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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By Matthew Stein, P.E., Author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival, ISBN #978-1933392837, published by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT (800) 639-4099  http://www.chelseagreen.com 
http://www.whentechfails.com/
You might wonder what an MIT engineer is doing writing about the failure of technology. 
I doubt that we will see technology fail in one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=160&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the pulse on the global situation as monitored by the doomsday community:
http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,29537.0.html
http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,29441.0.html
http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,29608.0.html
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		<title>Decline USA Breaking News for MONDAY 27 October 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[.
Henry Paulson closes door on hopes of bailout for UK insurers
British insurance companies will not be bailed out by the United States, The Times has learnt. It is understood that, although Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, was prepared to listen to appeals for cash from British and American insurers, he is adamant that US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=141&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the Grid Fails – Zero Growth</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/when-the-grid-fails-%e2%80%93-zero-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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by Ted Ollikkala
Sunday, 26 October 2008
THE END OF STOCKS, CASH, AND CREDIT

What will happen when the recession firmly kicks in, and businesses that cannot expand their growth and/or make increasing long-term profits see their stock worthless (stock has no intrinsic value anyways, it’s just a piece of paper) as there will be no investors willing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=132&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decline USA &#8211; Breaking News for SUNDAY 26 October 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Why U.S. banks still aren’t lending
Many are hoarding cash, don&#8217;t expect credit climate to improve until 2010
Simply put, banks are hoarding cash, and the influx of government money won&#8217;t necessarily change their plans. That&#8217;s the case with Citigroup, which has shrunk the size of its balance sheet by 13 percent over the past year and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=120&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 2008 Meltdown. What&#8217;s ahead &#8211; the next 5 years</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/october-2008-meltdown-whats-ahead-the-next-5-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trickle down Economics
What goes on in Washington, Wall Street, and behind closed doors in the Halls of Europe will be affecting the average American in just a few short weeks. Be prepared and do the needful, as they say in India!
Are you grasping the scale of the October 2008 economic crisis? Once the damage takes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=107&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 2008 fear panic meltdown crash &#8211; It&#8217;s real</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/october-2008-fear-panic-meltdown-crash-its-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a series of current (7 Oct 2008) articles which spell out the global economic crisis in black and white, with some superlative moribund adjectives thrown in to make you sit up and take notice. Indeed, ask yourself when have you heard any of these phrases in your lifetime?
Financial Meltdown: We&#8217;re on &#8220;the Edge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=102&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Financial Crisis is official &#8211; the scope of the problem</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/americas-financial-crisis-is-official-the-scope-of-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 19,  2008 &#8211; The president of the USA, George Bush simply said, &#8220;
“America&#8217;s economy is facing unprecedented challenges, and we are responding with unprecedented action&#8220;

And the solution sounds like a shotgun wedding. Shoot now; ask questions later.
“As a result we must act now to protect our nation&#8217;s economic health from serious risk. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=97&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airline Crashes Imminent; Time to re-organize transportation</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/airline-crashes-imminent-time-to-re-organize-transportation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been confirmed; due to rising fuel prices, the airline industry is starting to go belly up. Acquisitions, mergers, downsizing, cutting routes, grounding planes and raising ticket prices are insufficient measures to deal with the enormity of the situation and prolonged, permanent high fuel costs.
Something has got to give, and it will come in two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=92&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WeCanSolveIt.org</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/wecansolveitorg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Print ads and videos from Al Gore&#8217;s website. SPREAD THE WORD!



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		<title>ECOBAGS &#8211; An idea whose time has come</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/ecobags-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A simple mind-shift like bringing your own bags to the market can cause a revolution.







 






Welcome to Eco-Bags
Our reason for creating ECOBAGS® is simple: We exist to provide products, information and inspiration that help people reduce, re-use and recycle.







Canvas Bags

Classic String Bags

Woven Bags


 



GreenBag®

Produce Bags

Totes With Quotes







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		<title>Concerned People</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/concerned-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fuel protests are breaking out.
Indonesia (source)
Srinagar, India (source)
Chandigarh, India (source)
 Philippines (source)
Brussels (source)
Barcelona (source)
U.K. Biofuel Protests (source)
Sonepat, India (source)
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		<title>Recycling? You&#8217;re already doing it</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/recycling-youre-already-doing-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What a Way to Go: life at the end of empire</title>
		<link>http://declineusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/what-a-way-to-go-life-at-the-end-of-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The independent film-makers are at it again. And they&#8217;re doing a bang-up job! Who? Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett.

This movie, &#8216;What a Way to Go: life at the end of empire&#8217; should be seen in every high school classroom in the USA.

Community screenings are indeed being organized around the world as this unique two hour documentary hits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=81&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Killed the Electric Car &#8211; sonypictures documentary 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 04:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=80&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$4 a gallon Not the End of Rising Gas Prices &#8212; &#8211; chicagotribune.com video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 20:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It&#8217;s not going to be a 1-year blip and go away&#8217;
full article
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		<title>Take the Oil Safari (Interactive Flash) &#8211; from the Chicago Tribune</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 19:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   from a630.g.akamai.net  posted with vodpod

This is a preview &#8211; view the full size Flash movie
The Chicago Tribune has published a very nice Interactive Presentation entitled Travelogue of Addiction by Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek. His safari reveals how America&#8217;s oil addiction binds it to some of the most violent corners of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=78&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why would Ted Turner mention the word cannibalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t listen to the bloggers. Don&#8217;t listen to OPEC. Or politicians &#8211; especially politicians!
Listen to the big three: American billionaires Ted Turner, Richard Rainwater and Warren Buffet. These men sit on top of the world, and watch it with respect to their own interests. But what would these interests be?
Once a man has accumulated such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=77&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suicidal thought of the day: They&#8217;ve just discovered more oil &#8211; now I can relax!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have we heard this one?
It seems that every time someone tries to publish an optimistic article either denouncing peak oil or predicting that prices &#8216;must&#8217; go down, the inevitable arguments begin in the comment section.
In a world where peak oil theory is gaining respected acceptance at all levels (including government), such an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=76&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Car Awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my definition of a car (has been for quite some time):
CAR &#8211; A piece of metal with four wheels that gets you from point A to point B.
No more, no less! No need to compare it to anyone else&#8217;s car. Strictly practical, affordable &#8211; I&#8217;ve got enough hassles in my life without worrying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=75&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austerity Measures for 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the word &#8216;austerity&#8216; (wikipedia) is mentioned, people think back to the Great Depression and a temporary reduced standard of living brought on by economic consequences. They also think of Wartime Austerity; rationing, victory gardens, and saving rubber, nylon, etc.
In 2008 the New Austerity (Time Magazine) basically means having a tighter budget due to recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=74&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Girl TV :: Urban Sustainable Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston&#8217;s Patti Moreno (a.k.a. Patti the Garden Girl) shows us some urban street smarts; as in Permaculture Design, producing basic necessities at home, and generally having a good time with an old way of life! She calls it: Urban Sustainable Living

Patti: &#8220;Urbanites act is if organic food is something new, when in fact, factory farming is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=73&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11th Hour Action; the movie, the community, free screenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all; you need to know about the full-feature film documentary, &#8220;The 11th Hour&#8220; (what a beautiful website!) released at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007, and now available on DVD in the USA. 

Much wider in scope than Al Gore&#8217;s &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221;, this one takes on all of the demons that humanity has created and will convince you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=declineusa.wordpress.com&blog=3438445&post=70&subd=declineusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Americans gear down for $6/gallon gasoline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s finally sinking in; Americans have begun implementing fuel conserving measures. Although economically inspired, as opposed to coming from a sense of compassion about dwindling resources, all-in-all this is a good thing for the planet, and for an American civilization that is totally dependent on cheap oil.
THE WAKE UP CALL IS $4 / GALLON
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