Occidental Dissent

The latest from Jim Kunstler:
What’s happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. On the technical side, there has been unending controversy as to whether we’re gripped by inflation or deflation. It’s certainly deceptive. Food and gasoline prices are rising faster than the rivers of Iowa. [...]

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Flat earther Thomas Friedman is getting alarmed about the unfolding economic crisis:
My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline — not terminal, not irreversible, but in decline.
Yeah, the sprawl looks different when you aren’t whizzing down the Interstate at 90 mph. Try walking up and down the hideous spectacle of fast [...]

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A few weeks ago, I explored the idea of planting sugar cane here in the Black Belt to produce bioethanol. This is getting some traction in the Montgomery Advertiser.
The potential is exciting to contemplate. Alabama’s chronically impoverished Black Belt region has soil and climate suitable for growing sugar cane. The cane would have to be [...]

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I flipped out way back when oil hit $108 per barrel. I’m not sure what to do now. Stare in disbelief? Nothing at Hatewatch so far about this creeping increase in Southern poverty.

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Richard Spencer believes the Obamacon phenemonon is based entirely on revulsion with George W. Bush and the Republican Party. Personally, I think it runs deeper than that. The disillusioned racialists who are voting for Obama over McCain are doing so more out of alienation from Bill Buckley’s conservatism than anything else. A much broader swath of Gen X’ers/Gen [...]

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It turns out I was smart, not a schizo. I just got carried away back in April (bipolar mania) as my predictions started to come true. The drugs I was on had me believing all sorts of crazy shit. Pretty funny in hindsight.

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Even the evangelicals are dumping Bush at this point.

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The 1819 Alabama state constitutional convention apportioned representation in the state legislature on a white population basis. In other words, the earliest Alabama constitution based democracy on whiteness.

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Jim Kunstler on the cornocopian idiot Larry Kudlow. Robert Reich has already pointed out that drilling off the coasts of California and Florida will not put a dent into soaring crude prices.

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For once, I agree with John Zmirak: it is the strength of our communities that makes the West worth fighting for, not our capacity to produce wealth or love of universal reason. This is why activities and discourses which demoralize the community, which seem to make it not worth caring about (such as suburban sprawl or the [...]

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