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It's never a good sign when Americans can't afford to shop at the big box store known for the lowest prices...

-- This happened in Boise almost a month ago and it makes several points. First, no part of North America is any more or less at risk than any other. The entire Northern Hemisphere is at risk, especially as long as Fukushima remains uncontrolled. High radiation levels have turned up in France and Norway. Media silence over Fukushima is as alarming as a recent Japanese law making it illegal to say or publish overly negative opinions or information about the incident. Trying to keep up with all the information available is too much for us just yet. Around the country there are many National Weather Service/NOAA public monitoring stations and many universities and hospitals are equipped with sophisticated detection equipemnt. It just all needs to be pulled together and analyzed for immediate local access and response. The U.S. government is most certainly tracking all of this very carefully as a national security issue. But it seems as if they don't want us to see it. Collapsenet isn't big enough to pull this off. Hopefully this will emerge ad hoc as we choose to confront collapse. There's a really big hole in what we're able to find out about how...

Boeing profits as middle east governments stomp out protests calling for democracy. Boeing expects to generate greater sales on order from the middle east as Arab states place orders for aircraft to support border control and counter insurgency operations. Sound familiar? Look up "Prescott Bush profited off Nazi Germany"

Unspecified amounts of toxic gas spewed from smoke stacks as schools closed and residents advised to stay indoors.

This is an interesting article that was recently posted that suggests that a decline in US employment will cause a decline in demand for oil and extend the life of the world's oil - Demand destruction. Would this then suggest that the reason US politicians do little to improve unemployment is because they know there is no oil to support continued growth and they are just stalling?

Good News!!! All we have to worry about is Peak Oil! "The American economy is now strong enough to withstand Middle East turmoil and the Japanese nuclear crisis. Only a big rise in the price of oil could stop it now. Those are the findings of an Associated Press survey of leading economists, who are increasingly confident in a recovery that is nearly two years old. They expect the economy to grow faster every quarter this year."

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks gained momentum Tuesday, with all three indexes up 1%, as investors pored through earnings results and and a better-than-expected report on consumer confidence. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 118 points, or 1%, the S&P 500 (SPX) rose 14 points, or 1%, and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) added 29 points, or 1%.

NEW YORK — Mixed corporate earnings reports sent stock indexes wobbling Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 26.11 points, or 0.2%, to 12,479.88. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 2.13, or 0.2%, to 1,335.25. The Nasdaq composite edged up 5.72, or less than 0.2%, to 2,825.88.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Bad decisions and a sour economy combined to leave 31 states below the safety line set for investing money to meet future pension costs, according to a study released Monday. The double-whammy also has increased the chance that officials may eventually have to fix the problem by cutting benefits or raising taxes.

Scarce water supplies in the western US will probably dwindle further as a result of climate change, causing problems for millions in the region, a government report has said.