This will break your heart..

[dixiegrrrrl]

and hopefully piss you off, too.

Short online doc. about the Argentina collapse a few years ago.
and guess what?
Step by step by step....it is identical to what is happening here.

I urge you to watch...recognize...see the future.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4353655982817317115#

[Newest Reality]

1. I've been aware of this for a while ...

It depends on who and what your read these days. Carolyn Baker, Joe Bagaent, Kunstler, etc. Dimitry Orlov has a been comparing our situation to the collapse of the Soviet Union and noting that the difference is, we don't have the socialist/communist-style features in place that ended-up keeping their people more stable.

I don't know if posting that will go over well or not. It is a very prickly thing that will burst bubbles of hope and optimism that people find comforting, (along with other, more palpable drugs) in these times. Being too "realistic" can be overwhelming, but the upside is being more prepared and having time to cope with the end things as we are used to them.

The only reason I would hope more thinking people would latch onto this is that they might realize that their Status Quo is going bye-bye and do something about moving on to something more practical. At the very least, they won't waste their time and effort to enable the PTB to keep their cushy little Status Quo going or to resuscitate a dying way of life.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Re-learning the same lesson over and over is such a waste of time, no?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. so what would be more practical?

ok that sounded snarky, but I don't mean to be.

Seriously, where can we go for guidelines or best suggestions?

[Mojorabbit]

8. I have been aware of it too

I think it can go either way.This global financial collapse is still in the early stages of playing itself out. I have no idea what will happen. I look at Greece, Ireland, Portugal, etc. If they go down it could cause a domino effect. I am being prudent and have doubled my garden size this year to boot. I don't know what else to do.

[thecrow]

3. kick for later

[Mira]

4. Will listen in my kitchen in a minute... for now I kick it because

you know too much, Dixiegrrrrl to post it with that caveat if it is not important to everybody.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. You are too kind, Mira.

It is almost...scary..to see the exact parallels, tho .

[earth mom]

7. Thanks for posting. Bookmarked to watch later tonight.

People around here used to talk about how the U.S. would go the way of Argentina, but all that talk disappeared even though NOTHING has changed and only gotten worse.

The denial around here just blows my mind. :wow:


Btw-perhaps you could post this in GD?

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. How about I do that in am, when the HCR thing has died down abit?

Note to self......

[earth mom]

10. Great idea!

:thumbsup:

[Hawkowl]

11. The difference in the US situation

Is that the US is so LARGE, that we will take the entire world down with us. We have our tentacles into everything and everyone. No country will escape the economic cataclysm. We are literally at a pivotal time like no other certainly since the 1930's, perhaps not since the disintegration of the Roman Empire.

[pa28]

12. Great doc

I've seen it once and I'll watch it again. This is what happens when you combine excessive national debt, equity stripping capital predators and submissive politicians.

[New Dawn]

13. K&R

[AnneD]

14. The difference between the US and Argentina....

The citizens of the USA are armed to the teeth.

[upi402]

15. The Argentine media failed, it appears...

to inform people that there is nothing to see and that it's time to move along.

There was a coup in Thailand against a corrupt corporatist too. We don't see that here, however. Palin and Biden's F-bomb gets 24/7 coverage from the traitorous media outlets. They will love the fact that we have so many more guns than pots&pans.

What will come will be an epic catastrophe in human history.

[cutlassmama]

16. How much longer do you think we have? Pretty soon, no?

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Funny you should ask. Look what I just found.

Dateline today:
Matthew Greenburgh, the man dubbed Fred Goodwin’s banker after advising on a string of deals for the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, has today quit Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Mr Greenburgh recently played a key role in the £21 billion Lloyds Bank rights recapitalisation process which included a £13.5 billion rights issue.

His exit leaves the bank without a head of its key financial institutions group.

Mr Greenburgh confirmed this evening that he was stepping down from the firm within the next few weeks.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/exclusive-fred-goodwinrsquos-banker-quits-for-retirement-1928622.html

I am thinking ""rats and sinking ship".
The bank is not doing well.

I am looking for news of other rats leaving.