Spirit of America Bookstore U.S.  Timeline  –  The  Looming  Future? Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490 C.E.    •    1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950 •    1951-1968    •    1969-2000    •    2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018    •    2019-2020    • The Biden-Harris Era    •    RECENT EVENTS While the Democratic Party won many additional seats in Congress in the 2008 election, in addition to the White House and several governorships, the Bad Guys have not been shut down. The Federalists and neo-cons and war-profiteers left a horrendous fiscal and political mess for Barack Obama and other Democrats to clean up, and the Republicans are already conspiring behind closed doors to further destroy democracy and the middle class and the U.S. Constitution, and to rape & pillage the Commonwealth. Hope is very nice, but the Present still gives us all a Looming Future of struggle and rancor and anti-Reason. Then came Emperor Trump, whose minions actively worked to destroy the future of America, with serious collateral damage around the world. After his election, President-Elect Joe Biden quickly announced teams and individuals chosen to correct Trump's crimes, starting with the COVID-19 epidemic; once in the Oval Office, the real work begins, including battling blockage by the fascist Republicans of any correction or improvement. When George Dubya took office as President in January 2001, the United States had a budget surplus and the National Debt stood at $5,727,776,738,304.64. Mismanagement of government spending by the Bush administration increased that official debt to $10,626,877,048,913.08 as-of 20 January 2009, an increase of 51.5%. At the end of Bush 43's administration, the full Republican National Debt of TWENTY-FIVE TRILLION dollars breaks down as follows: 12 trillion dollars of official debt, 5 trillion dollars of subprime mortgage paper (owned by collapsed Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac), 3 trillion dollars of deferred infrastructure maintenance, one trillion dollars for bringing the troops home from Iraq, 2 trillion dollars of Wall Street bailout money, one trillion of Detroit automaker bailout money, and another trillion for contingencies. George Dubya Bush ran up more debt than any other human being in the history of Mankind. The current official National Debt is now •  • {moot} 2013/2014 Elections Page at Working Minds website Working Minds Essay #108: Civilization Is Imploding [July 2015] {moot} 2015/2016 Elections Page at Working Minds website Obama and his team had a very tough road ahead of them, and the relentless media and amoral political money machine of the Oligarchs and fascists and the Republican Party carried the day in November 2016, which has caused the end of democracy in America. {moot} 2017/2018 Elections Page at Working Minds website 2019/2020 Pre-Election Races at Working Minds website Next National Elections Page at Working Minds website {redirect} 2135: An asteroid named Bennu is currently hurtling towards our planet, and while the chance of it actually colliding with us is slim - 1 in 2,700 - N.A.S.A. is getting ready. Just in case. The asteroid is the size of the Empire State building and N.A.S.A. is working on a contingency plan because 'they don't want to die at the hands of a catastrophic fireball of annihilation', same as the rest of us. CLIMATE global warming / climate change / species extinction Earth's Biosphere Page at Working Minds website Books on the Subject of Earth's Biosphere Movies on the Subject of Earth's Biosphere, Climate Change, and the Water Crisis Working Minds essay #60 "Climate & Politics" [June 2006] Working Minds essay #66 "Cooling The Planet" [December 2006] WATER pollution / drought / The Water Cartel “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” — W.H. Auden [1907-1973] Earth's Biosphere Page at Working Minds website Books on the Subject of The Water Crisis Movies on the Subject of the Water Crisis Water Heritage Trust [est. 1985] FASCISM and The OLIGARCHY The Media Cartel / The Energy Cartel / The Water Cartel Big Oil / Big Media / Big Pharma / Agribusiness Working Minds 'Corporations vs. America' Page Books on the Subject of 'Corporations vs. America' Working Minds Business & Economic Monopolies Page Working Minds Philosophy's Barbarians & Fascists Pages Working Minds Philosophy's Fascists & Barbarians Pages Working Minds essay #42 "The Oligarchy" [April 2004] Working Minds essay #113 "No More July Fourth For Me" [June 2017] HEALTHCARE Big Pharma Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Health Care Issues Page Books on the Subject of Health Care Movies on the Subject of Health & Health Care WAR & PEACE Working Minds / Things To Worry About / War & Peace Page Books on the Subject of War & Peace MISCELLANEOUS DISASTERS The Wuhan coronavirus pandemic was a big surprise but it soon became obvious that it was not going away, so I started a coronavirus 2020 page in February; I also posted events in New Mexico USA, where I live now, and that section grew large enough to cut to a separate NM page in July. 2046 Valentine's Day: An asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has about a 1-in-560 chance of hitting Earth, per N.A.S.A. (2023). DIRE  CONSEQUENCES ?    "A Short History of Progress" bestseller [2004] by Ronald Wright Kindle Edition from Da Capo Press [2004 edition] for $9.99 Da Capo Press 8x5½ pb [3/2004] for $13.15 Canongate Books Ltd. 8½x5½ hardcover [3/2005] out of print/used    "2045: A Story of Our Future" [2009] by Peter Seidel A dystopian novel describing what life will be like when eight dominant mega-companies rule every aspect of the planet - commerce, politics, and even the internet. Kindle Edition from Prometheus Books [3/2009] for $10.31 Prometheus Books 9x6 pb [3/2009] for $15.00    "Collapse" documentary feature [Bluemark/Vitagraph Nov 2009] Author & blogger Ruppert's warning about the 2008 economic collapse happened as he predicted; he is now warning of a systemic & societal breakdown that may interrupt the food chain for humans • Co-produced & directed by Chris Smith; based on interviews and Michael Ruppert's book full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia M.P.I. Home Video widescreen color DVD [6/2010] for $12.12    "Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money In a Post-Peak-Oil World" [2009] by Michael Ruppert, Foreword by Colin Campbell, PhD Kindle Edition from Chelsea Green Publng [12/2009] for $9.75 Chelsea Green Publng 8¼x5¼ pb [12/2009] for $10.74    "Sic Semper Tyrannis: A Novel of Liberty and The American Future" [2010] by Seamus Branaugh Set in the early XXIIIrd Century; after the collapse of the U.S. federal government, walled city-state fiefdoms survive and compete, with vast lawless wastelands between them; one Florida CEO is unjustly banished and survives by teaching people to read, while forming them into 'companies' that are soon ready to attack Tampa. Kindle Edition from Silver Lake Publng [8/2010] for $5.99 Silver Lake Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2010] for $15.56    "The Reckoning: A Novel of The End of The United States" [2011] by Seamus Branaugh Described as the prequel to "Sic Semper Tyrannis", this book relates the bankruptcy and collapse of the U.S. federal government from four different perspectives: the President of the U.S.A., the heir of a Florida banking fortune, a Wall Street currency trader, and the head of a small California-based technology firm. Kindle Edition from Silver Lake Publng [6/2011] for $2.99 {sic} Silver Lake Publng 9x6 pb [9/2012] for $13.57    "Surviving Progress" documentary [Canada 2011, USA 2012] 'Inspired by' Ronald Wright's bestselling "A Short History of Progress"; shows how past civilizations were destroyed by 'progress traps' - alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future - and how civilization on Planet Earth may be approaching a similar fate • Written & directed by Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks; featuring Stephen W. Hawking, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki, J. Craig Venter & Ronald Wright First Run Features widescreen color DVD [9/2012] for $18.28 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch official trailer [2:02] at YouTube    "Lights Out: How It All Ends" for Kindle [2012] The editors of Scientific American look at several 'end of the world' scenarios – or at least, things that could make human life really difficult . . . 235-page Kindle Edition from Scientific American Magazine [12/2012] for $4.99    "America 2020" [2014] by Porter Stansberry Conspiracy theorist Porter Stansberry foments the idea that some group of oligarchs are definitely going to declare an 'America Jubilee' that wipes away all debt for the (disappearing) American Middle Class, which will disrupt the banking systems of the entire world. The project began in 2010 and is still paying for lame ads ('watch the captioned video, learn nothing, you gotta buy the book') "America 2020: The Survival Blueprint" [2014] Foreword by Dr. Ron Paul (in 2015 edition} self-publd 8½x5¾ pb [2014] out of print/used self-publd 8½x5½ hardcover [2015] out of print/hundreds used "America 2020, Volume II: How the Richest Men in America Are Protecting Their Wealth Right Now" [2016] self-publd 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2016] out of print/used    "Ten Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World" [2020]   by Fareed Zakaria the ten topics discussed are: buckling up, quality government, markets, experts, digital life, socialization, inequality, globalization, the bipolar world, and realism/idealism Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [10/2020] for $9.32 W.W. Norton & Co. hardcover [10/2020] for $17.64 Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. History Timeline Pages Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490    •    1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950 •    1951-1968    •    1969-2000    •    2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018    •    2019-2020    • The Biden-Harris Era    •    The Looming Future? {top of this page}

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