Well, at least you didn't focus on any of the hyperbole :)

"Already, IMF mascots like Christine Lagarde and MSM pundits have begun suggesting that the EU is failing not because of centralization, but because the union is not centralized ENOUGH!"

Both centralization and decentralization work. It is the compromise between them that usually fails. When you live on an island in the middle of a river, and the river starts to flood, BOTH banks are plausible escapes. Suggesting the left bank over the right bank, or vice versa, is not evil.

"Both cultures are being strong-armed through the removal of options and funneled into a waiting net like so much oblivious trout."

Power begets power. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy when powerful entities take advantage of disaster to advance their interests. That's just how things work. What else would you expect them to do? Just because several different entities are successful doesn't mean they're working together or planning anything at all. It doesn't take a genius to buy when prices are low.

"With modern technology, including space and energy saving methods, self sustainability is possible even in urban surroundings."

Really? I'd love to see more than a single hand-waving sentence on that. Cities exist because they produce an order of magnitude more economic benefit. That synergy comes at the cost of specialization. The density of non-farmers is too great for self-sufficiency.

" The goal here is to do for yourself whatever you can, whenever you can, making you less vulnerable to mainstream economic chaos.  The more insulated you are, the better equipped you will be to help build or participate in an alternative market."

This is a good example of his lack of clarity on centralized vs decentralized. Apparently he is advocating isolation so that one can better network? I think he's confusing decision-making structures with resource distribution networks. It's entirely possible for a bunch of people who are totally resource independent of each other to participate in a strictly hierarchical decision making system. They aren't mutually exclusive.

"Some essentials cannot be provided by one’s self"

See? Even he is qualifying "self sustainability" to mean something less than providing all of one's own resources. So, really, his problem seems to be with the abuse of power, not with centralization. Centralization leads to lower costs, which means everyone can get those essentials they can't provide for themselves more cheaply. It can ALSO lead to abuse that is easier to instigate and get away with. But the two are not the same thing.

Anywho...I more or less agree with his prescriptions.