I'm looking for some good new reads. Besides the blogs on my blog roll on the right, what blog(s) do you recommend HP'ers check out and why?
And is it me, or is the MSM getting even worse (as in poor journalism skills, good PR-copy-and-paste skills) than ever before?
October 30, 2006
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crooksandliars
mediamatters
googlenews
njrereport
housingdoom
bigpicture
calculatedrisk
Nouriel Roubini
I never realized how many different reporters put their names on the same story at different newspapers until I started blogging. Or a different twist is they adapt a story to their locale and then repost it...
Keith, what about Ben's Blog for a news source? (LMAO)
There is an new RE blog out of Tampa with a lot of local information. Florida-Paradise Lost.
Excellent blog:
http://bidinotto.journalspace.com/
www.charlestonmarketreport.com
www.trendocracy.com
Uh, david, I think keith wants you to post the whole address.
DOH!
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/
the 2nd great depression.
http://www.depression2.tv
/week/index.php
Order of Favorite first to least, or visiting order of each day. If you want more, let me know.
Number 1:
http://www.rense.com/
News from all over the world about everything. Also, always check his source. Some Rants, mostly good compelling Stuff, my favorite before I found HP last year.
number 2:
http://www.cagle.com/
Political Humor, check weekly for a good chuckle.
Number 3:
http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html
Similar to Rense, but different focus, also features Mogambo, the angry guy. {:
Number 4:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
All around fun and just OUT THERE. Great Radio program great PICS.
Number 5:
http://www.recombinomics.com/founder.html
Follow Bird FLU. World maps and medical info.
Number 6:
http://florida-paradiselost.blogspot.com/
Follow the Bubble in Florida.
Number 7:
http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/
Money Origami, because money is what we all love to discuss.
Number 8:
http://tinyurl.com/y23frx
If you really have a lot of down time, fridge magnets for your pleasure.
How about Paranoid Ben's Boring Nazi Circle Jerking Mutual Admiration Society and Internet Club of Low-Life Loser Scum Blog?
Hi xsparta,
Missing Jersey, or are you glad to be in FL?
Excellent economic analysis.
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/
Political
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/
http://www.rawstory.com/
Both, see Gabor Steingart's essays
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,,00.html
You know keith maybe it is time to take the site up a notch and host your own web page, e-blogger/google has sucked lately, I can offer my services as i have built many web pages, just a thought..would be nice to have control of your own page would it not?
"And is it me, or is the MSM getting even worse (as in poor journalism skills, good PR-copy-and-paste skills) than ever before?"
You want copy, paste, edit? Go over to Gestapo Ben's Blog of Never-ending Monotony. The only sentence he ever wrote for himself is: "My thanks to those who support this blog" What a moocher, he should pay the MSM royalties or something.
Keith,
The greatest blog on the entire internets is The Rude Pundit.
http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
He's right up your alley with funny, honest and scathing comentary on Politics.
Other runner-ups
Wonkette
Consumerist
Anonymous said...
Hi xsparta,
Missing Jersey, or are you glad to be in FL?
To tell the truth, we do miss living in Sparta. We were thrilled to get out of the NE 10 years ago, but have grown disenchanted with FL. Too crowded, too expensive, not very much "Community" spirit that we had in Sparta. Maybey that has also changed over the years in Sparta.
check out sofiaspeaks.blogspot.com - there was a post yesterday about how the housing meltdown is showing up in fashion trends
Got BLOGs?
Charles Hugh Smith
Here are excerpts from a random sampling:
Housing's Stairstep Descent: the "39 Steps"
"Sounds like an excellent description of the real estate market. The market might well end up tracing far fewer than 39 such stairsteps down to its ultimate low in 2011 or 2012, but in the spirit of innocents plunged into financially deadly troubles and smooth sharpies playing hidden hands to the detriment of said innocents, here is an informal chart of the steps the housing market has already begun descending...(Outstanding chart follows, with descriptive analysis).
The Housing Market - Plateau of Denial
"I have drawn a chart of the current housing market, showing both the current "Plateau of Denial" (prices remaining stubbornly lofty) even as inventory and foreclosures are rising. Please note the "Cross of Doom" which looms just ahead." (Another outstanding chart follows, with descriptive analysis).
The anonyous was me. I was on a different PC. Sparta is pretty much the same, still has the cold snowy winters but the people and the beauty are the same.
Keith - alasbabylon at yahoo groups.
Note to idiot ANONs - Scott Meredith (moderator) does not tolerate idiots.
from alasbabylon:
http://nymag. com/realestate/ features/ 21675/
"But since 1997, real home prices have increased by about 90 percent.
There is no economic fundamental—real income, migration, interest
rates, demographics— that can explain this. It means there was a
speculative bubble. And now that bubble is bursting."
All around very good and to the point.
you know NBC is laying off mor e and more people, guess where they are from the NEWS division.
Thats o.k. richard, I dont think anybody here wants to go to your websites thank you.
Boston Bubble
www.bostonbubble.com/
Its name is what its about.
Richard,
what is the url for alas babylon, i want to vist.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlasBabylon/
ha! dinky cant post a linky.
Don't try to pimp the pic at alasbaylon - copywrited.
Thank you Richard.
Trolls can die.
Bubble blogs all in one spot:
http:/bubble.mynn.com
thanks rich I am going to check it out to.
Please have a look at Cryptogon for an amazingly lucid look at world events as they unfold. From an expat that has moved off the grid in New Zealand.
http://cryptogon.com/
"Thats o.k. richard, I dont think anybody here wants to go to your websites thank you."
Fuck off
bigpicture.typepad.com
A good investing blog by Barry Ritzholtz
This is about personal experiences looking for something afforable in the Bay Area:
http://housingarmageddon.blogspot.com/
conspiracypenpal.com is another.
Ok - I think I have it now:
http://tinyurl.com/yged5v
alasbabylon on yahooo groups.
The tolling of the Gion temple bells
Echoes the impermanence
of all things.
The brilliant colored flowers
of its double-trunked tree
Reveal the truth that
to flourish is to fall.
Like a passing dream
on a springtime evening,
The strong are finally destroyed,
To end as dust
before the wind.
-- Opening of the Heike Monogatari (13th century)
~ ~ ~
As graphs for population, fossil fuel depletion, disease, topsoil loss, and desertification continue their implacable trajectories, there's bound to be trouble. Rather than suffering the boredom of a slow decline, it's more than likely that humanity will give itself the bum's rush out of this vale of tears. Feel free to share any hypothesis or speculation as to how we prideful chimps will lash out, in our greed and madness.
While many discussion groups cover practical survival tips, policy options, political gamesmanship, technological panaceas, and so on, this group is primarily focused on the aesthetic, artistic, and literary aspects of the end of Industrial Civilization (and the psychological and spiritual underpinnings thereof).
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read every paper posted at:
www.dieoff.com
www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
www.peakoil.net/
www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Malthus/Index.htm
The AlasBabylon Prime Directive:
~ NO advocacy - ONLY analysis ~
We are neither the sheep nor the wolves, but only irrelevant crows,
watching from the forest.
Furthermore, I would advise all readers here to consider personally adopting the principle of AHIMSA - non-harmfulness to all living things. That's the only advocacy that is acceptable in this group.
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city!
For in one hour is thy judgment come.
(Revelation|18:10)
Have a Nice Dieoff!
- Scott Meredith
[AlasBabylon list owner
americandefenseleague.com/fathers.htm
I've posted this before, but all of you need to read the words of these fine gentlemen in order to understand what we are now going through as a nation. They warned us of it at its inception.
oops, thats /fathers.htm
I might as well plug my blog, AutoDogmatic, here:
http://www.autodogmatic.com
Lots of original commentary (along with my co-blogger, Neal). We don't give Wall Street or the government a moment's rest.
The latest piece is commentary of mine entitled "Banks and Government vs. Payday Lenders: Hypocrisy Trumps Public Welfare".
Enjoy!
The perfect Wall Street crime: Stock Counterfeiting and Naked Short Selling
TheSanityCheck.com
InvestigateTheSEC.com
Nouriel Roubini is the best!!! (rge: Roubini Global Economics) He is the only economist out there with a brain who is not of the take.
http://www.rgemonitor.com
The best breaking news site on the web, just now back in prdouction:
Orangutan Behavior
And is it me, or is the MSM getting even worse (as in poor journalism skills, good PR-copy-and-paste skills) than ever before?
Yes. Journalism sucks. Not only does a proofreader get huffy when corrected about apostrophes in plural nouns, or incorrect usage of "it's" for "its" (English speakers in other countries know the difference by second grade: what's wrong with the US), but MSM will carry articles blindly reporting satirical blog pieces as fact, like Ken Jennings's "Jeopardy!" blog piece where he "confides" Alex Trebek is really a robot.
I am thinking the grads that pick up newspaper jobs aren't chosen so much for their college journalism credits and internships, as they are for their ability to plagiarize -- comes in handy for when the White House gives them material.
cryptogon.com
Because it's not that bad, it's worse.
Tabasco,
Is that the site that tracks black african americans chimping out and commiting violent crime against whites?
www.fulfilledprophecy.com
Maybe it's already been mentioned, but visit here and sign up for his free news service. Click on "Unfiltered News" and then www.realityzone.com:
http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/
BTW, the PDFs under "The Issues" are GREAT.
I got roids!
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