Kunstler: forget the bailout, the real problem is oil

Never one to shy away from apolalyptic prose, James Kunstler sees an even deeper problem in America.  Forget the banks, the real fundamental problems with the economy are even deeper..."What the mainstream is...

Are the Republicans the party that wrecked America?

That is the view of James Kunstler in his most recent blog entry.  Kunstler has been forecasting the current financial crisis for a long time now."      We should be frightened...

Kunstler Reviews Batman

"How appropriate, since we have become a cartoon of a society living on a cartoon of a North American landscape, that the deepest source of our mythos comes from cartoons. We're so far gone that real human emotion...

Peak Oil Mania

Wow.  That didn’t take long.  Back in December when everyone was compiling lists about what the best gadgets of the year were or other nonsense, Jim Kunstler was predicting that 2008 would be the year...

Can you feel peak oil yet?

Jim Kunstler is sensing something in the air.  Could it be the symptoms of peak  oil?" We're in a strange collective psychic bubble. We'd like to forgetabout all these troubling rumors of hardship and...

Kunstler: Market meltdown just the beginning

James Kunstler warns us that this week's market reprieve will be shortlived.  He contends that the real threat to the American economy and the suburban lifestyle it has promoted and mass marketed is peak oil."It's too bad the current presidential candidates have been...

Jim Kunstler in Vancouver tonight

Jim Kunstler, creator of clusterfucknation and prophet of peak oil driven doom is at SFU tonight.  If you can, you should give him a listen.  Here is a sampling of his latest blog entry:"George W. Bush, tried to appease the beast by offering each American adult the...

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