Crash Course - Chris Martenson

Just watched the last few chapters of this - heavy stuff but clearly done:



From here:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-17a-peak-oil

JOIN THE FUCKING ARMY!

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Pork's Dirty Secret: Rolling Stone

In case ya wondering why they called it 'swine flu':

Saw this article linked while reading up on the Mexican farms where the flu was born. Nice...

Pork's Dirty Secret: Rolling Stone

CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | Climate Wars

Wow I just listened to 3 hours of climate change! Gwynne Dyer talks like some posh character in Futurama but he's done some amazing research here and is an amusingly droll host:

Listen to Part 1 of Climate Wars


Listen to Part 2 of Climate Wars

Listen to Part 3 of Climate Wars

From here:

CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | Climate Wars

Sally Cruikshank - Quasi at the Quackadero

omg wtf! Amazing 70's cartoon, just saw a bit of it in Futurama "Bender's Game" (also excellent! -- a feature length animation that doesn't suck what the hell?)

YouTube - Quasi at the Quackadero

Kunstler on Michael Jackson

"America was a fat man jerking off on the sofa watching a vampire of no particular sex 'vogue' deliriously on the boob tube."

The Man in the Mirror - Clusterfuck Nation

ClubOrlov: The Slope of Dysfunction

Dmitri Orlov laying it down like he does:

"Ever eager to present a hopeful vision, I will say here and now that I believe this scenario to be entirely plausible... but it requires alien intervention. As Russian oil production was saved by foreigners, so Earthling oil production must be be saved by aliens from outer space."

ClubOrlov: The Slope of Dysfunction

Three Wolf Moon "Official" T-Shirt 100% Cotton Short Sleeve Shirt KIDS - TEENS & ADULTS: Apparel

Go here and read some reviews. Then check the 'Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought' section!

2,251 of 2,300 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great compliment for my skin art, May 19, 2009
By overlook1977 (Raleigh, NC United States)
"Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather."

Amazon.com: Three Wolf Moon "Official" T-Shirt 100% Cotton Short Sleeve Shirt KIDS - TEENS & ADULTS: Apparel

DEAD WAYS

Wanted to post up some photos from recent visit to New York but rather than fill this whole page with them I started a new photo blog: Dead Ways


ENJOY - AMERICAN DREAM


AMERICA'S MOST CONVENIENT BANK

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Life Inc. The Movie on Vimeo

Didn't this guy write 'Cyberia'? ... ah well, this one might be a bit better...

Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles

Mind-blowing photo essay!

"SHOP GIRL: This is shopping in North Korea. The clerk sits in the dark, unheated special store, waiting to turn on the lights for foreigners, the only permitted customers. “She’s wearing a ski jacket or parka; the rest of this time they’re sitting there with the lights off, freezing,” van Houtryve says. The goods—toys, televisions, and the like—are imported from China. The store only accepts euros."

"When van Houtryve approached North Koreans, they walked off or averted their eyes. He never once photographed a smile. Even children ran away from him. “They’d turn and notice me and immediately bolt off—as if a wolf had come up to them.”

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles

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NEOMEDIEVALISM

"The world is fragmenting, badly. Gird yourself for a new Dark Age."

Nice article by Parag Khanna:

"Many see the global economic crisis as proof that we live in one world. But as countries stumble to right the wrongs of the corporate masters of the universe, they are driving us right back to a future that looks like nothing more than a new Middle Ages, that centuries-long period of amorphous conflict from the fifth to the 15th century when city-states mattered as much as countries."

(more)
Foreign Policy: The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism

The Onion: Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013

Forget oil - it's teen stars I'm worried about:



Nice also - Brasscheck on how the markets work - from 2007!



Also some scary time-lapse videos here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/watch-earth-disappear-in_n_210790.html

The Powerdown Show - Transition Towns and Energy Descent Pathways

The Powerdown Show - Transition Towns and Energy Descent Pathways from Rob Carr on Vimeo.

Enough already

Doug Stanhope - Deadbeat Hero

I'm not down with all his politics but this guy is a f*ckin genius!

Feels good

My mates videos go from fnar to lulz. So wrong it's right:

The End of Capitalism

Ammo Scarce: Americans Prep For Gun Bans, Chaos, Terrorism, Civil Unrest, Economic Collapse

Wow... glad I'm not in the U.S. There's rumours of a tax on ammunition! Imagine the pain! How could I get buy without firing off my assault-rifle every day at pictures of our dumb commie president??

YouTube - Ammo Scarce: Americans Prep For Gun Bans, Chaos, Terrorism, Civil Unrest, Economic Collapse



Checkout the collapse... heard the other day from these guys that we can expect the stock-markets to go down 90% over the next 10 years of the depression! (on Radio Ecoshock - MP3 of the show here)

Fun playlist here with footage from California and Detroit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeOUFNXPCi8&feature=PlayList&p=40E44861DDE22523&index=65&playnext=3&playnext_from=PL

Link Gets Hungry For Japanese McDonald's

This one is so wrong!



In fact, ads are just plain wrong in general...






Goddamn I think I wanna kill myself... Ok I'll stack some food on animals:

USA

In America for kicks... right now listening to Son House 'Empire State' and it's blowing my mind... got limited internet access so here's a log:

5th April
NY is a bizarre place - feels like I'm witnessing the end of an era right in the heart of the Empire here... as the oil price creeps back up again and the high-streets get boarded up - already! Seems like a
quarter of the shops have foreclosed downtown.

Fascinating city though, Chinatown and Little Italy are bursting with colour and you get the feeling the people aren't going to quit no matter how bad things get... be interesting to see how things pan out
for the 150 million suburban folk in this country as the energy runs out..

7th April
Visiting my mate Christian Nold's art project in Bethlehem PA, an excellent community focused physiological stress map something along these lines... it's a post-industrial town and the current development plan focuses around, can you believe it - a CASINO, in this economic climate! Interesting to see the wider community's thoughts on the situation develop.

8th April
Just been chatting onna email with Caryl Johnston who I will visit next week in Philly - she wrote a very interesting post-peak-oil book, "After the Crash"...

Also, will be playing a matinee solo gig at Silent Barn in Brooklyn on Friday:

Friday, April 10th
Matinee show! - doors 4pm
$5 cover

MRS. (Brooklyn)
http://www.myspace.com/houseghosts

Doog (Indiana)
http://www.myspace.com/brotherdolphin

Bill Infant (London)
http://www.myspace.com/billinfant

The Cook Sisters from Brooklyn:
http://www.myspace.com/safebankaccounts


Directions:

915 Wyckoff Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11385
L train to Halsey
M train to Myrtle/Wyckoff