#long emergency

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Stop Buying Bottled Water! Get A Berkey Now

Stop Buying Bottled Water! Get A Berkey Now

Everyone should have one of these – a Berkey water filter, that is a whole other standard for clean water. We simply can’t be using bottled water. Bottled water causes massive pollution and waste and is killing the oceans with plastic. The plastic bottles also leach toxic chemicals into the water that you are drinking. And the source of the bottled water is highly questionable to begin with.…

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Max & Stacy Nail It: The Long Emergency Begins In Earnest

Max & Stacy nail it. This time more than usual. Few see the historical significance of the coronavirus lockdown event. They seem to better than most.

What is happening? In a nutshell, I would say that elite power games are backfiring due to imperial hubris:

Lockdown and social distancing cause economic meltdown leading to social rebellion and techtonic shift.

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Over here, in this sorry-ass edition of America, the election will look more and more like a World Wrestling Federation staged dumb-show between two catamite hostages of a foul corporate oligarchy. Imagine that horse's ass Mitt Romney spending the next four months denouncing Obama-care, modeled on his own health care reform in Massachusetts, while Obama pretends he has a grip on an economy where the rule of law is absent due to Obama's own omissions and negligence. And if you can't stand that spectacle, just look around at America itself: a wasteland of futile motoring and discount shopping populated by depressed, overfed clowns bedizened with sinister tattoos, pretending to be Star Warriors. No nation ever seen in human history ever laid such a disappointing egg. Only to have it fry on the sidewalk.

James Howard Kunstler

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This song came to me after having just moved back into my childhood home in the suburbs of Chicago as an adult. There's a quiet stillness to everything there — huge elm and maple trees, neighborhood block parties, garage sales, morning joggers, lots of church goers — but there's also this sort of underlying unease when strange things happen. The phrase "Slow Emergency" as a way of describing that sense of anxiety when everything around you looks perfect and serene. The title is a play on the book "Long Emergency", which my brother had read in high school and had a huge impact on him.

Greta Morgan on the writing process of "Slow Emergency."

[azspot]

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk on hedonism, accumulate vast fortunes through exploitation, speculation, fraud and theft. Reality, at the end, gets unplugged. We live in an age when news consists of Snooki’s pregnancy, Hulk Hogan’s sex tape and Kim Kardashian’s denial that she is the naked woman cooking eggs in a photo circulating on the Internet. Politicians, including presidents, appear on late night comedy shows to do gags and they campaign on issues such as creating a moon colony.

Chris Hedges