Howard Kunsler [ www..Kunstler.com] in his current article "Then All At Once"
who is never at a loss for words, usually eloquent words, seemed lost in this article.
On the other hand it is the time, the period of nothing going on that predicated his lament.
" It had been one of those eventless weeks when the world pretended to be a settled place. The collapse of Greece seemed like little more than a passing case of geo-financial heartburn. The 36,000-odd newly-unemployed were spun magically into a feel-good story for public consumption, and the stock markets ratified it by levitating over a hundred points. The news media was preoccupied with the Great Question of whether the first woman film director would win a prize, thus settling all accounts in the age-old gender war, and the health care reform bill lumbered around the congressional offices like a zombie in search of a silver bullet that might send it back to the comforts of the tomb.
All in all, it was the sort of quiescent string of days that makes someone like me nervous. I can't help imagining what it was like in the spring of 1860, for instance, when so many terrible questions of polity hung over the country, and hundreds of thousands of young men still walked behind their plows or stood at their counting desks or turned their wrenches in the exciting new industries -- not knowing that destiny was busy preparing a ditch somewhere to receive their shattered corpses in places as-yet-unknown called Spotsylvania, Shiloh, and Cold Harbor. Or else my mind projects to the spring of 1939, when men dressed in neckties and hats sat in a ballpark watching Joe DiMaggio and Charlie Keller play "pepper" in the pregame sunshine, and nobody much thought about the coming beaches of Normandy and the canebrakes of the Solomon Islands."
Every morning the internet is browsed, looking for a theme for today's comncents blog. Yet for the past couple of weeks or maybe months, there has been nothing of substance appearing. Just the same old stories, re-written, with the same old themes.
Is this the calm before the storm? Is doom just ahead? Catastrophic events are usually unpredictable, yet there is plenty of evidence of what lies ahead for America and the world. Plenty of warning about disasters in the making.
Earthquakes in U.S, and adjacent areas last 7 days
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| 4.6 | -37.456 | -73.467 | 35.0 | BIO-BIO, CHILE | ||
| 4.9 | -37.455 | -73.312 | 33.9 | BIO-BIO, CHILE | ||
| 2.9 | 40.271 | -124.549 | 2.5 | OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | ||
| 3.0 | 36.054 | -117.896 | 2.2 | CENTRAL CALIFORNIA | ||
| 3.3 | 36.064 | -117.890 | 1.6 | CENTRAL CALIFORNIA | ||
| 2.6 | 63.074 | -150.883 | 123.4 | CENTRAL ALASKA | ||
| 2.5 | 32.988 | -116.361 | 10.1 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | ||
| 5.2 | 11.253 | 125.457 | 40.9 | SAMAR, PHILIPPINES | ||
| 4.8 | -37.013 | -73.168 | 35.0 | OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE | ||
| 4.4 | 19.846 | -155.364 | 31.1 | ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII | ||
| 4.0 | 32.989 | -116.365 | 6.0 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | ||
| 4.6 | 38.840 | 23.546 | 29.9 | GREECE | ||
| 2.5 | 34.193 | -117.390 | 13.1 | GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA | ||
| 4.8 | -25.848 | -66.763 | 53.4 | SALTA, ARGENTINA | ||
| 3.0 | 59.687 | -152.648 | 95.8 | SOUTHERN ALASKA | ||
| 2.5 | 32.698 | -116.071 | 3.1 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | ||
| 4.9 | ||||||
With Love and Kindness,
THE HATMAN
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