Michael Panzner, the editor of the widely-read Financial Armageddon blog (and the the author of the book of the same name) recently quoted SurvivalBlog in this piece: Worse This Time. Take a look through Panzner’s archives. You’ll see that he has his head on straight.
Sir, I have been checking a few other sites this morning that I frequent, and while at the Viking Preparedness Forum, I was checking the food and water storage board and came across these canned food shelves. It is a good set of shelves, making the best use of space, and allowing them automatic stock rotation. We live in a house with a monolithic slab foundation, and the footprint, does not give us a great deal of room to work with, but I think that we can do something similar ourselves. I liked the way that they were set against …
Dear Mr. Rawles, I read Mr. Romeo’s retreat plans, and I would like to add a couple of things to his preparations list. The one glaring omission I see in his list is a lack of HF communications gear. VHF radios are line of sight communications, which is great if you’re planning on staying within range of the coast. If he plans on heading out to deeper waters though, HF gear becomes a lifeline to Pacific maritime nets, weather information, and other useful resources. Even if he doesn’t plan on transmitting, an HF receiver would allow him to listen to …
KAF bookmarked this one for us: FuturePundit: Face Masks And Hand Sanitizers Slash Flu Risks o o o From our Economic Editor comes another big batch of news and commentary: Gun Sales Thriving In Uncertain Times — Europe On Brink Of Currency Meltdown — Iceland: IMF Cash Not Enough — Current Volatility Hints At Next Crash — Financial Crisis: Latin America Hit Hard — Customer Panic And Bank Run In Kuwait — Dow Up Almost 900 Points, But No Sighs Of Relief — Iceland Raises Interest Rates To 18% — White House To Banks: Start Lending Now, Stop Hoarding …
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