Reader “Hawaiian K.” mentioned this article on a sub-prime mortgage woes in Britain. [1] K’s comment: “We have a tendency to think of the sub-prime meltdown as being an American phenomenon when it’s happening in Great Britain too.”
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It’s not even vaguely related to survival or preparedness, but I found this news story weird, wacky, and wonderful: Oregon man takes lawn chair up to 13,000 feet, travels 193 miles [2]
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Sounds like something out of one of those survivalist novels: Desperate times in Zimbabwe – A country at the end of its tether [3]. You will note that I’ve been highlighting Zimbabwe ever since the first month that SurvivalBlog was launched. (Mostly links to Cathy Buckle’s free newsletter [4]. Her July, 2007 newsletter [5] was particularly powerful.) I’ve done so because that once prosperous nation typifies of what can happen in a “slow slide” collapse. We can learn from their sad experience.