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Breaking News: Monday August 3rd, 2009

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Editor's Note: Sale on Storable Food at the Ready Store Ends Tomorrow, Peak Oil Back on the Mainstream Media's Radar with Oil Over $70

Just a reminder that LATOC Affiliate The Ready Store is having a pretty substantial sale on storable food that ends tomorrow:

Sale on Year Supply of Freeze Dried Vegetables ***Ends Tomorrow***

Also, as might have noticed, Peak Oil is back on the news. Last week, Forbes and the Los Angeles Times both published articles about gasoline going to between $8 and $20 a gallon. Today, the UK Independent and Wall Street Journal are covering it:

Jim Kunstler: It's Official, "The Long Emergency" is Now in Full Effect

Wall Street Journal: Oil Prices Back Over $70, Just Wait for Peak Oil

Front Page of the UK Independent: Oil Supplies Running Out Quickly

UK Independent: Will the World Act to Prevent the Coming Oil Crash?

Market Oracle: Why Food Prices are Set to Rocket in the Short Term

Financial Collapse News:

NY Times: Cash for Clunkers Program So Popular Its Run Out of Money

NY Times: General Motors Plans to Layoff Another 6,000 Employees

NY Times: Two-Thirds of Jefferson County Public Employees Laid Off

NY Times: More Americans Living in Tents, Homeless, Under Bridges

NY Times: Inside Midwestern America's Automobile "Ghost Factories"

New Yorker: State Budget Catastrophes Sabotage Stimulus Program

Wall Street Journal: States, Cities Hire Lobbyists for Stimulus Dollars

NY Magazine: Condo Bust Leaves Town Littered with Empty Buildings

London Times: Banks Swamped by Failed Mortgages, Personal Loans

USA Today: Middle Aged White Men Hit Particularly Hard by Recession

USA Today: Punished by Recession, Millions Make Drastic Job Changes

New Yorker: What America Can Learn from Argentina's Coin Shortage

Wall Street Journal: Even Bonds, Money Market Funds Facing Dangers

George Ure: "Why aren't you fleeing paper assets as fast as you can?"

Safe Haven: Don't Be Fooled, We're Still Barreling Towards a Collapse

Sweet Juniper: Detroit Homes Going Feral (*Must-See Photographs*)

Citizen Rage and Class War Terror:

New York Magazine: Inside the Shadowy World of Goldman Sachs Inc.

New York Magazine: Meet the Man Who Sold Off New York's Pensions

London Times: Robotic Soldiers to be Unleashed Upon the Middle Class

Most Important Articles from Over the Weekend:

Market Watch: Insiders Selling Stock at Highest Rate Since Market Top

Der Spiegel: Foreign Investors Snapping Up Farmland at Record Pace

Yahoo: Town Halls Turn into Houses of Horror for Congressional Reps

The Exiled: Are Subprime Cities the New American Gulag Archipelago?

Peak Oil and Economic Collapse Preparedness:

Chelesa Green: Road Kill, It's What's for Dinner, It's Organic and Local!

Carolyn Baker: Real People Make Real Preparations for Econo-Collapse

Salon.com Interview with Author of "How Cooking Made Us Human"

From the LATOC Archives:

BBC: U.S. Will Become Nation of Abandoned Cities, Ruined Landscapes

UK Guardian: Interconnected Capital Flows Will Collapse the Economy

LATOC: "Where are things likely to go in the short-to-medium term?"

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