Posted on 04/09/2009 5:53:23 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K
Bread Lines, Food Riots, Revolts: Apocalyptic Economic News Draws Eyeballs Online
People are logging onto the Internet to read all sorts of dire economic predictions: a new Great Depression, bread lines, riots, you name it. And with the recession taking hold, many have become addicted to apocalyptic news about the economy.
This sky-is-falling content online has the same sort of can't-look-away quality as a car crash or porn, for which New York magazine has coined the term "pessimism porn."
One of the stars of this new genre is Gerald Celente, a trends forecaster who's credited with predicting the fall of the Soviet Union, the war in Iraq, the crash of 1987, the dot-com bust and, very early on, the housing collapse.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
This nutcase needs to check on the astronomical record firearms and ammo sales in the last six months.....
ABC carries water for ‘The One?’ Tries to tell us, ‘All is well?’
Surprise, surprise! ;)
Even a friend of mine who saw the crisis coming back in January ‘08 and took all his money out of the market and put it in gold doesn’t quite get it.
If the dollar collapses and the riots start, he won’t be able to get his “gold” (really gold certificates). And even if he does manage to get some, he’d do better to immediately invest it in lead.
Labeling a point a view as porn is pretty much akin to Godwin’s Law (invoking Hitler/Nazism).
Almost guarantees that the writer’s argument is full of crap.
Promise?
Let’s remember who it was who called the Iraq war “a quagmire”, “unwinnable”, “immoral”, etc not to mention the ones who predicted doom for our soldiers when it came to invading Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
Those Pessimism Pimps in the media are now all sunny optimists because their boy is in the White House and they have to don rose-colored glasses to view everything their savior does.
Melting Glaciers, Drowning Polar Bears. Disappearing island nations.
People are logging onto the Internet to read all sorts of dire climate predictions: new killer heatwaves, droughts and starvation, riots, you name it. And with the hurricane season coming on, many have become addicted to apocalyptic news about the weather.
This sky-is-falling content online has the same sort of can't-look-away quality as a car crash or porn, for which Hinckley Buzzard has coined the term "climate-change porn."
One of the stars of this new genre is James Hansen, a NASA bureaucrat who's credited with predicting extreme hurricanes, heat waves, the drowning of coastal cities, the death of agriculture and, very early on, the sticky nasty weather in DC during Congressional hearings with the air conditioning off, for effect...
See how well it works when appropriately applied?
Hey - I was just checking on handguns available at two large midwest wholesalers.....THEY ARE OUT OF STOCK of almost EVERYTHING except long guns?!?! What?! Even some shotguns are in short supply. My local gun shop isn’t showing but two handgun models (well, I’m in CA -duh) Is it due to what you just mentioned?? Or is this a communist conspiracy?!? I stocked up on ammo a couple of years ago... I gotta bad feelin about this. Take care, KM
Don’t tell anyone where your stash is...
The rich stashed their gold in overseas accounts, until Eisenhower and Kennedy put a bounty on that too!
It ain't gonna work that way this time around. A common viewpoint will be that the government itself is comprised of criminals - criminals with badges and guns, but criminals nonetheless.
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