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Senate to Vote On Bailout Package Wednesday - October 1st | Know The Lies - Controlled from cradle to grave… Sick of it? Stand up before it’s too late!!!
In a surprise move to resurrect President George W. Bush’s $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan, Senate leaders slated a vote on the measure for Wednesday — but added a tax cut plan already rejected by the House.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky unveiled the plan Tuesday. The Senate plan would also raise federal deposit insurance limits to $250,000 from $100,000, as called for by the two presidential nominees only hours earlier.

So, we are giving away $700 billion dollars to the elite AND a nice tax break. The stupidity still shocks me. WE SAID NO

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As this is not a competition entry, it has not been reviewed by an outside set of eyes yet, and I’m sure its kind of disorganized, but this is some info about third world life, as I can see it here, after things stabilize.

My wife is from Peru. She was born during the Peruvian hyperinflation and transition to its next fiat currency, the Nuevo Sol. (Yeah, we’re young whippersnappers) She recently started to help out in getting ready. What helped her was comparing the current economic climate here to Peru. This allowed her to correlate things that occur in her former patria with our situation. She is a source of info on the Third world medium sized city way of life.

In Third world Peru, everyone cooks with propane camp stoves, with big seven gallon bottles. There is no space built for an American style range, even in nice houses. All water is boiled before ingestion, except [commercially] bottled water. Trucks come with semi-clean water and people line up to fill up their buckets for washing and drinking. (after boiling) Hopefully you have a big tank on your roof to gravity feed it through your pipes, as the power goes out regularly, and your personal well and pump wont work.

Staying Alive: THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW
I am what is called a child of the 60’s. The 60’s were a turbulent time. Our President, John F. Kennedy, was killed in Texas. There was controversy over who killed him from the very start of the incident. There was a guy in Texas named Billie Sol Estes who was charged with some kind of fraud involving grain storage, grain that was not there.

Backpacking as a SHTF Preparedness Technique?
Where was I? Yes, I like the outdoors, mountains, and SHTF subject matter. Add it all together and you get this post. Fall is in the air. Can you smell it? *sniff . . sniff* I knew you could. If you haven’t been hiking of late, maybe this fall is YOUR time to . . . . TAKE TO THE HILLS!

I see a number of reasons why backpacking is good for SHTF preparations:

Financial Tsunami: The End of the World as we Knew it :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
The unexpected US Congress’ rejection of the Bush Administration financial rescue plan, TARP on September 29 has opened up the spectre for the first time of a 1931-style domino wave of worldwide bank failures. That is already underway across the US banking spectrum with the failure, nationalization or forced liquidation in the past two weeks of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, of the giant Washington Mutual mortgage lender, of the nation’s fourth largest deposit bank, Wachovia. That was on top of a wave of smaller bank failures that began with IndyMac in the spring. For some it is appealing and more simple to grasp the magnitude of these titanic events in the US-centered financial world by assuming it is all part of a pre-planned grand conspiracy by the Money Masters, what in the 1920s in the USA was termed the Money Trust, to control the entire financial world.

As the details of the present crisis reveal, there are huge ideological fault lines making for chaos and a potential meltdown of the Laissez Faire financial system. That present system, which was built on the back of Wall Street financial and banking deregulation since 1987 when Alan Greenspan, a devout follower and close friend of radical individualist Ayn Rand, became Wall Street’s man at the Federal Reserve for almost 19 years, is over now with the failure of the Henry Paulson $700 billion bailout scheme. Governments worldwide now face no alternative but to begin the painful process of putting the financial genie back in the bottle and re-regulating an out-of-control financial system. The failure of the UK Government and the US Government to address that fundamental issue is behind the present crisis of confidence.