Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

This is in the Guardian tonight. The fact that taxpayers are paying greedy banksters and corporations £93billion in subsidies, not to mention the lax laws on tax evasion.
It doesn't even include the £35 billion bank bailouts, so that is a total of £128 billion :eek::eek::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/07/corporate-welfare-a-93bn-handshake

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

auntymabel

Here's a link to the first 100 things to disappear:

http://planet.infowars.com/preparcdness/the-top-100-items-to-disappear-first-in-a-crisis://

craigywv

read that list loads I don't have ,moost I have in small amounts ,got me thinking again ,sister had a few generators as their company is tree felling/landscape and plan always was if shtf we all contribute what we possess together as she lives on farm has poly tunnels etc chickens etc so we would all live and work it, this came up after watching walking dead one night she wanted to know what we can all donate ,immediate family between us we have 6 healthy adults 2 pensioner s and 7 g kids aged from 0-11 so plenty of help,3 tractors/farm equipment and all that goes with a farm. a painter decorator a forensic scientist think csi you be on the right track a hairdresser an accountant and 2 shop assistants so no life saving doctors/dentists. think im going to start prepping more medical bits that wont go out of date like bandages etc cos mines running low.also seen sugar quite high up the list so things I can get easy enough and store will be getting prepped for again.

1Tonsil

Thank you for the list, I will browse through it later and see if I am lacking anything. At the moment, the only thing I am desperate for is a nice cool breeze. We are in the middle of a real heat wave and despite living here for years, its too hot for me. Kept the fan on all night in the bedroom, then had to put the dehumidifier to take away some of the humidity as well. I finally got to sleep at four thirty this morning.

I stopped watching the EU updates around ten last night and watched tv instead. I watched British tv on the satelite as most of the Greek stations are being taken to court and journalists jailed for spreading lies about Greece and the Greek people before the referendum. They were paid to support the yes vote. Ironically, they owe the most corporation tax in Greece.

I am dismayed that the bloody EU gang are still not listening to Greeces proposals. I dont see what Greece can do to please them . It is called reaching agreement...but what it means is that we agree to more pensioners losing their pension and more old folks eating out of the bins in the winter, with no meds for cancer patients....

Greece needs to come out and start again, before the whole thing falls to pieces. Whether we are in or out of the euro..its going to happen and its not far away. I think the euro has just months left, along with some other currencies.

Does anyone know why the chief of Barclays was sacked this morning?

Here are a couple of interesting articles

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/07/angela-merkel-must-act-now-for-greece-germany-and-the-world

http://www.hangthebankers.com/how-greece-was-robbed-by-the-bankers/

ivyleaf

1Tonsil There's a feature about the Barclays CEO sacking on the BBC website; it mentions that the investment bank is seen as under-performing, cost cutting too fast, other things too.

dandy-candy

1Tonsil wrote: »

as most of the Greek stations are being taken to court and journalists jailed for spreading lies about Greece and the Greek people before the referendum. They were paid to support the yes vote

I've tried to find more about this but nothing is coming up on google. If it is happening then it is shocking. Journalists not supporting the incumbent government being jailed? Spreading lies and taking bribes? Says who, the same government who didn't like the journalists disagreeing with them?

It sounds more like Russia than the Greece I remember.

maryb

There is a suggestion that the governor of the Central Bank will be sacked for breaching political neutrality by warning of apocalyptic consequences for leaving the Euro. It may be that if Greece comes out of the Euro, The bank would have to be taken under direct Government control anyway but it does sound a bit Marxist kneejerk reaction

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Whatever the budget brings today good, bad or indifferent we'll manage a good life and develop coping strategies that will enable ALL of us to live as well as is possible on the means we have available to us. WE ARE STRONG and WE WILL LIVE not just EXIST!!! We have knowledge, we have mindset, we have practical skills and innovative thinking but best of all those things we have each other to ask, help, talk to and support each to the other. I'm not particularly religious but in times like these I always remember the 24th Psalm Not forever by still waters but the rugged pathway is not easy but worth the challenge isn't it?

sb44

Re stocking up on food for a SHTF scenario.

I have read that it is best to put dry goods in the freezer for 72 hrs to kill any kind of bugs.

So, rice, flour etc. Do members put dried pasta in the freezer, including packets of dried pasta ie Batchelors etc.

If so, do you just put it in as is, ie in the plastic wrapping?

Ta.

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I put anything like that inside the biggest freezer bag I've got and seal it, just to keep the dry goods dry, if that makes sense? rather than just pop it in with only the original packaging.