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Higher food prices are spurring a rash of thefts from community gardens, This has to be at least the 5th or 6th such article that I've seen this season. Vegetable thieves steal from community farm

IMF advisor says we face a Worldwide Banking Meltdown "Dr. Robert Shapiro who advised Presidents Clinton and Obama and who currently advises the IMF predicts a cascading meltdown of the World's banking system starting with Sovereign debt in the Eurozone, affecting the UK then finally bringing...

Currently you can find them on eBay, although in nowhere near the quantities of a few months ago, and the larger internet dealers like mintproducts.com. But, the premium is usually over $5 per ounce. Even the eBay auctions of multiple coins are selling on average $5 above spot per coin. I am...

The Silver Snowball (not to be confused with the business by the same name). People are flocking to precious metals. With the Euro falling, and the resulting rise of the dollar, the metals markets have been taking a hit (at least from a dollar perspective). Silver is currently down $10 an ounce...

Yep, I do love the Onion. :lol:

:yuckyuck Yep, I had forgotten about that. :lau

It wasn't too long ago when banks were pushing people to use debit cards and ATM's, and some were putting fees on teller transactions, because it was so expensive to pay tellers. Now it's too expensive to process the ATM transactions. :somad

Thanks for the link Britesea, I'll look it up. Social Security is indeed an entitlement. It was never intended to be and we were promised that it never would be, but when the trust fund was emptied and placed into the general budget and then benefits started being paid to those that never put...

And now the latest of the Gloom & Doom Report... Nearly Half of U.S. Lives in Household Receiving Government Benefit US's Geithner warns Europe crisis a global threat Protectionism beckons as leaders push world into Depression World facing worst financial crisis in history, Bank of...

Geeze guys, when I went to bed last night there were three posts following my OP. I didn't check in this morning, as I had to go to a neighboring town for the day. I get home tonight and check the thread and wow, y'all have been busy. :D Ok, where to start.... Yes, water is going to be a BIG...

After several PM discussions and my cluttering up of other people's threads with my Gloom and Doom ramblings, I thought that I'd start a separate thread where I, and my fellow "Doomers", can discuss our apocalyptic visions and revelations without scaring or annoying the group as a whole. As most...

As Toulle wrote: "The original Q was:" Society may not actually breakdown regardless of what happens, but given the realities of our society these days, I find it hard to believe. If it does, I believe that is would be an economic crisis that will be the cause. I agree with fact that to a...

I couldn't agree with Toulle more. We have been experience a steady decline for some time, and I feel that it is accelerating. As a wise person once said, "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."

Odd. I would think that such a well designed and built box would be working for you. What type of insulation between the inner lining and the exterior? Was there any wind? These are the only other variables that I can think of at the moment, that may have affected the temperature.

Around here about $3 per pound.

Around here people sell wood by what they call a "Rick", which is actually a Face Cord, 4 ft. high x 8ft. long and cut to the length that you want. It works out to around a half Cord (a Cord being 4ft. x 4ft. x 8ft.), and usually sells for $45 or $50, which equals about $90 - $100 per cord. It...

Yeah. :plbb :lol:

I'm not sure that I understand the point of some of the recent comments. I have not read any post in this thread that advocates isolating themselves from the world, nor anyone saying that society is going to devolve into anarchy or some type of post apocalyptic Mad Max scenario. If you want to...

Long post alert! Readers may want to fortify their system with lots of caffeine before attempting to read. :caf Yes, we have weathered bad times before, and I believe that we will in the future. We have made it through a severe economic crisis, skyrocketing fuel prices, social unrest, food...

What she said. :D When you look at the current situation in Greece, with the rioting and mass protests over entitlement and budget cuts, I believe that you are looking at the US in the not too distant future. Our situation is no different, and in some ways worse, than that of Greece. With the...