Mr. Lima mentioned a site with some useful videos on basic homesteading skills like gardening, fruit trees, growing grains, beekeeping, and so forth. They’ve promise to add more videos coming about alternate energy, raising rabbits and chickens, food storage and more.
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Philip N. flagged this: Depression survivors: ‘We lived the hard way’
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Jack B. sent this: Lights are on, but banks increasingly closed: James Saft. And meanwhile, several readers mentioned this ominous prediction: Credit crunch may take out large US bank warns former IMF chief.
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Susan Z. sent this from the ever-cheery journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Dollar surge will not stop America feeling the effects of a global crunch
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Our friend John (“Commander Zero“) up in Montana mentioned in his Notes from The Bunker blog an article about leaking FEMA fuel tanks. John’s comment: “The fact that the tanks themselves are leaking isn’t noteworthy to me. What is noteworthy is why those tanks are there in the first place. Years ago the girlfriend [now his wife] and I looked at buying one of these communications bunkers and it had originally been equipped with a 3,000 gallon fuel tank. The tank had been removed when the place was decommissioned but you could see the hole where it used to be. So, if a person were to get hold of this list of tanks that need attention you would also have, de facto, a list of hardened facilities and sites since no one was gonna dedicate a resource like fuel and storage to a facility that would crumble at the first bit overpressure.”