“The Survivalist” [1] mentioned this article: More than a million wait in icy darkness across US [2]
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As most SurvivalBlog readers surely deduced long ago, I am an inveterate scrounger. I scan through Craig’s List [3] with the same regularity as the Bald Eagles that cruise up and down The Unnamed River here at the Rawles Ranch do, at this time of year. So I was delighted that while doing some web wandering today, I found a link over at Keep and Bear Arms [4] to this inspirational article: Praxis: Scavenging as a Guerrilla Art Form [5].
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Eric flagged this update: Peanut butter recall expanded to two years’ worth of products [6]. Here is an FDA web page with a searchable list of hundreds of recalled peanut butter products [7].
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The latest huge dose of gloom-‘n-doomage from the Economatrix: Global Unemployment Nears 50 Million [8] — OPEC Warns of More Oil Output Cuts [9] — BP Sees Further Crash in Oil Demand [10] — Can the Market Avoid a February Fold? [11] — George Soros (the Billionaire) Selling Off Sterling [12] — Europe’s Winter of Discontent [13] — More Job Cuts [14] (Boeing 10,000; Starbucks 6,700, etc.) — Billions More Needed for Bank Rescues [15] — Millionaires Crisis Plan: Return to Bartering [16] — IMF: British Slump will be Worst in Developed World [17] — Sony’s Quarterly Net Profit Tumbled 95% [18] — Record Number in US Getting Jobless Benefits [19] — Despair Spreads Amid Mounting Job Losses [20] — Florida Beans and Corn Destroyed, Potatoes Delayed [21] (Expect higher prices)