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Will Obama the White Knight ride to the rescue? Time To Get Ready For The Storm. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01387.html

Rumour has it that Thursday and Friday will be very bad. A devaluation of the Greenback is underway I think. http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123 ... ns&page=sp

About the same kind of preps as most others so far, I find it helpful to get others idea's. It helps me to see what I have forgotten about.

This could be a useful design for using small twigs etc to cook a meal. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3830833401

I agree with Barney. The pollution caused by creating a new car is quite a bit more than recycling an old car. And they are much more user friendly.

Bedrock, why did you ditch the Prius for an old Landrover?

Blizzards shut down more than 1,000 village roads in Turkey 25 Dec 08 - Cold weather and heavy snowfall brought daily life to a standstill in rural parts of Turkey, forcing closures of more than 1,000 village roads in the country’s eastern regions. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=...

What kind of preparations have you made in the last year?

Rants about what? A question about why you need a license to operate a chainsaw?

What does the farmer have to give up, for accepting the money from the state?

Average home price $18,513 - Unemployment rate 21% December 21, 2008 The Great Depression has reached Detroit. The average price of a home is now $18,513 and unemployment has reached 21%, and it’s expected to get worse. Detroit is facing a crisis of epic proportions that officially puts Detroit stat...

Well I don't know what to say. I guess if you are from a city, you should probably have someone go over the basics with you. I have been using chainsaws and felling trees of everynature from one side of Canada to the other for over 40 years. Even did a winter logging in the mountains of British Colu...

Are you folks serious about needing a license to operate a chainsaw, or are you just having fun? I can understand needing to learn how to fall a tree if you have never done that, my father taught me how. But then he ran logging camps many years ago. Sounds like a scam.

http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14582 Out of food, Zimbabweans eating cow dung Political leadership needed to overcome crisis Harare, Dec 10, 2008 / 08:01 pm (CNA).- Caritas Internationalis is warning that the crisis in Zimbabwe is so grave that people facing crushing food shortages are mixi...

As a rancher from Alberta, my observation is that most great famines were manmade and usually at the hands of Gubmint. Keep in mind that you do not learn to farm or ranch in 5 minutes. The smartest thing a person could do given the energy/peak oil/financial crisis would be to get to know your local ...