":::Just for the record, I believe that The Artist has written an excellent review of the situation as it stands.  Just a little aside information, way too little to get my point across, I have been around the block a few times and I remember back in the 70's that my group of friends and I (the ""Back to the Earthers"") were convinced that ""The Great Depression"" was just around the corner.  We were reading Mother Earth Magazine like crazy to prepare for it.  Actually my dad had written a book in the 50's predicting the fall of Capitalism. Batra is part of this New Age thinking, but he did not invent it as Plankto seems to think.  The only thing that surprises many of us, is that it took so long to come about!   

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