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US Banks Going Straight to Hell on $1.5trillion Eventual Loss :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
NAB, National Australia Bank, was just forced to write down over ninety percent of its exposure to US mortgages via so-called SIV’s or conduits last Friday, to the order of $830 million dollars. This was by no means a matter of choice for NAB. The bank had just issued and sold $850 million worth of new debt paper. Buyers of that debt are now screaming bloody murder. They are asking why this information, which surely must have been known to the bank at the time of the debt sale, was not disclosed to the market beforehand. They are now demanding their money back or some other way to back out of the deal.

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We are fairly prepared and often strategize on making our plan better. I see cigarette smoking as a weak link. Just when I am going to need his help the most, he will be in the fetal position with withdrawals from the inability to smoke. Or perhaps I will have to deal with lung disease when there are no doctors available. A person can’t successfully hide while smoking. There is extra tension and confusion from quitting cold turkey and that will come when a clear head is most needed.

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Don’t worry about redundancy, Joe. The importance of food storage cannot be overemphasized. Most of what you’ll need to know about food storage is available in Alan T. Hagan’s Food Storage FAQ, which available for free download. I may be biased, but I also recommend my own “Rawles Gets You Ready” preparedness course, available from Arbogast Publishing. It is geared toward stocking up with little more than what you can find at your local “Big Box” store or supermarket. It includes some extensive tables on the shelf lives of various foods.

One often overlooked aspect of food storage is how to cook and bake with the foods that you’ve stored. Three books on this subject that I strongly recommend buying are:

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I am working on a longer post which might get up this evening but since the wireless (mooched) internet around here is touch and go I figured I would post something while it was working.

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Secure your computer | Survivalist Blog
While not technically a survival topic, I feel that knowing how to better protect yourself while on line to be essential in today’s world of ID theft, hackers and government spies. The first thing you should understand is that there is no way to make your computer 100% safe from all potential threats. But taking a few simple steps will make you much less vulnerable to attack. Lets get started.