"We have entered the age of the faceless, agile enemy. From London to Madrid and Nigeria to Russia, stateless terrorist groups have emerged to score blow after blow against us."

Nigeria? What did they do to us except lay claim to their oil? Russia? What has Russia done to us -- except resist opening up their gas and oil to us on our terms?

London and Madrid? I'd rather start with 9-11. What did they do to us? Well, it wasn't necessarily they as has been recognized by, most recently, Charlie Sheen; for some time, Ed Asner; several officials from Bush and Reagan administrations (Paul Craig Roberts, Morgan Reynolds, Katherine Austin Fitts); several retired AF Lt Colonels (George Nelson, Robert Bowman, Karen Kwiatkowski); and many others. And once again, the case has been made by theologian David Ray Griffin in his two books: New Pearl Harbor and 9-11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. And of course, Colin Campbell, in a chapter of his Oil Crisis, adds his voice. But Griffin is the Colin Campbell of 9-11, maybe even the Campbell, Deffeyes and Simmons.

The ones doing the dirty work around the globe right now are all too often major corporations and agencies of the US gov't. That's a reality that cannot be talked away.

There rest of the picture painted by Robb is totally bizarre. The idea that cities (and /or corporations) will somehow become self-reliant in face of societal collapse is -- well, I have no words. He somehow imagines that collapse means we'll transit to some kind of high-tech feudalism. He has no idea of the pre-requisites for our current social structure and way of life, nor any idea of the consequences of collapse. His is sort of a high-end type of  survivalism. He's not all that different from Mike Ruppert in some respects, except that Mike is more realistic about some of the things our gov't is up to -- but totally unrealistic in thinking they won't come and pull up our vegetables.