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http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/08/financial-crisis-called-off.html
Strangewalk August 24, 2009 7:15 PM

As usual I agree with JHK's interpretation of trends, except in his (and many other's) expectation that the masses will revolt. Stop the flow of food and gasoline and play the nationalism card, and Americans will become compliant puppy dogs. I also spend a lot of time reading about the problems faced by other areas of the world, and it's clear they're facing even more dire eventualities than we are! Japan and Europe have even larger, unservicable and unmanagable debt loads, and China is now blowing a credit bubble of epic proportions to maintain an illusion of growth until after the CCP anniversary in October. Anyone can see that we're facing a black hole, a dead end.

Surely the Masters of the Universe know this too. War has always been the way out, the solution, when has it not? The only way out this time is world war. All indications are pointing to Iran as the opening salvo. The US is now transferring massive amounts of armaments and personel into Iran's neighbor Afghanistan, equipment that has little use in Afghanistan's sparsely populated, rugged terrain. Then, the recent US acquisition of an unsinkable aircraft carrier in nearby Kirgistan over intense Russian oppositon, and was the recent social upheaval in Iran purely a coincidence?

Netanyahu has plegded to take out Iran's nuclear capability with or without US support, so war would happen anyway. Plus, if the US can neutralize Iran, they will control the flow of the world's oil, by far the most important source of power and wealth on earth. This is going to get ugly though--no holds will be barred and surely bio-weapons will come into play. It possibly explains why the US is now organizing a nation-wide system of rapid inoculation involving the military, ostensibly in reaction to the relatively mild Swine Flu. I'd say we really are staring down the barrel of Armageddon. Don't plan for this one--you can run but you can't hide. There's no way out this time, except as Solzhenitsyn used to say, "but upward".