My roving eye-for-apocalypse scans the immediate environment and detects — imminent meltdown in Eastern Europe! In a word (or actually two), holy hell. The financial situation in Eastern Europe has gotten absolutely insane over the past few days. Here’s a small sampling of the mass-mediated intel that’s available to us mere mortals — as distinguished…
Tag: apocalypse watch
Economic doom indeed: Fantasy, SF, and horror publishers and publications scaling back and shutting down
Okay, so this developing trend doesn’t rank up there in severity with things like peak oil, spiking unemployment, riots around the globe, and dead bees. But it’s still quite interesting, at least to somebody like me, who has written horror for years, spoken on panels at several genre conventions, and made a lot of personal…
Apocalypse-check, January 2009: Yep, the sky’s falling
It’s the end of the first month of 2009. The apocalypse, or at least the human race’s version based on hubris and greed, began in earnest last year. So how’s it looking now, 31 days into the new year? A sampling of prominent headlines will sketch the picture: America’s economy is worse than it looks,…
After G20, Bush openly refers to “the Greater Depression”
Color me shocked. Seriously. Today, George W. Bush openly mentioned the possibility that the U.S. may be staring down the barrel of what various parties have been referring to for months and even years as “the Greater Depression.” And it’s all on video. The big moment came in the wake of today’s G20 summit in…
A meltdown still in progress (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: The meltdown has not been cancelled America’s economic crash and fall from international supremacy are still proceeding nicely, notwithstanding the proliferation of early calls for “the end of the credit crisis,” which seems to be bandied around as a psychological euphemism for “Everything’s great again!” and also notwithstanding the proliferation of…
America’s bill has just come due (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: America’s bill is due. Are you ready to pay? For those of you who still don’t know — and just where in Godâs name have you been? â- Richard Heinberg is a major voice in the collective peak oil/economic meltdown/peak civilization conversation. He’s awesomely smart, insightful, sensitive, educated, and well informed….
Say goodbye to business as usual (Headlines from the Meltdown)
CARDIN COMMENTS: Bye-bye to Business As Usual If thereâs a single theme that unites the past weekâs crop of news, analysis, commentary, and prophetic utterances, it is that Business As Usual â a term that surely deserves the proper-noun caps by this point â is altogether dead. Okay, that may be jumping the gun a…
Slow bleed or spurting wound? (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: An economic bleedout or a swift death? I’ve written such an extended assortment of commentary to go with the assembled items below that I’ll let them do most of the talking for me this week. Just scroll through and look for my introductory comments, which are clearly marked. But I’ll pause…
The end of the future as we knew it (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: It’s the end of the future as we knew it (and I feel fine) What a week! From food riots to fuel prices to more evidence of financial and economic meltdown, it was one for the history books. But in fact what’s more important to notice than the significance of all…
Food riots in Egypt
Here’s the link and associated description: Global Food Crisis April 9, 2008 In some countries, food inflation is turning violent, with Divya Reddy, Eurasia Group; Victor Lespinasse, GrainAnalyst.com; and CNBC’s Erin Burnett. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=707473516 The video stream takes a bit of time to load — or at least it does through my satellite Internet connection —…