Stripped from the Headlines - My Favorite Sites

Welcome to another episode of the Be Prepared Channel. Today is just a real quick update on progress at the homestead over the weekend and today. The weather was kinda wet and cold here for once so I admit I stayed in the house and ate stuff I shouldn't have... Which just made me carb load and feel like I had the flu all weekend. It really was my own doing as I knew my binge on dried fruit and nuts was going to be more than my system could handle, but I did it anyway. Live an learn!

So yesterday afternoon I did wander outside to see that the snow/ice melting off the roof of the house was coming down the gutters and pooling and not going where I wanted it to go. I will get around to getting my gutter project with rainwater catchment system going this year, but in the mean time one of the gutters is perfectly lined up just above the swale we built so I began digging to make a channel for the water to follow away from the house and down into the swale. About 30 minutes later I had it working and I had a little trickle of water making its way down to the swale. I should have video taped it, but I will show it to you more later as I will definitely want to improve this so that I direct the water where I need it in the landscape.

Next project got underway today. I had the tree service guy back out to remove my second elm tree that will end up becoming the base for my hugelkultur bed, and will be the liner and mulch materials for a lot of other beds and swales here. So that tree has been cut down and now the real work begins for us around the house of moving it to where we want it and turning it into workable materials. I will get some shots of what this all looks like and get it posted up on the blog.

So that kinda wraps up the happenings around here at the moment. I am working on a project now to gather up some of the news and headlines from some of my favorite sites and make sure that they get the recognition they deserve. I am hoping to write a little script that will start scraping some of the headlines from these sites and post the links here so that you can quickly follow them from here. I don't know how successful I will be but let's give this a try and see how this works out. Let me know what you think.

Surivival Blog(Economics and Investing Headlines):
G.G. sent this: End of the Dollar?
Some severe gloomage, over at Zero Hedge: The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months
Dr. R. highlighted this item: Connecting the Dots … Grain Shortages & Food Inflation Quietly Accelerating Due to Perfect Storm
Greg C. flagged this: Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt
Of particular interest to SurvivalBlog readers in the hinterboonies: Postal Service to Cut 7,500 Jobs, Close Offices
Asian Shares Higher After Wall Street Closes
US Experiencing Uneven Job Growth Across States
Oil Hits Highest LevelG.G. sent this: End of the Dollar?
Some severe gloomage, over at Zero Hedge: The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months
Dr. R. highlighted this item: Connecting the Dots … Grain Shortages & Food Inflation Quietly Accelerating Due to Perfect Storm
Greg C. flagged this: Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt
Of particular interest to SurvivalBlog readers in the hinterboonies: Postal Service to Cut 7,500 Jobs, Close Offices
Asian Shares Higher After Wall Street Closes
US Experiencing Uneven Job Growth Across States
Oil Hits Highest Levels Since Recession
Private Corporation Official Admits Impending US Bankruptcy
US Consumer Confidence In US Falls More Than Forecast On Rising Fuel Prices
When Silver Investors Finally Wise Ups Since Recession
Private Corporation Official Admits Impending US Bankruptcy
US Consumer Confidence In US Falls More Than Forecast On Rising Fuel Prices
When Silver Investors Finally Wise Up


Patriot Radio News Hour(allamericangold.com - daily podcast is awesome!)
26th Bank Failure of 2011:
200 arrested as hardcore anarchists fight police long into night in Battle of Trafalgar Square after 500,000 march against the cut
Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The European Debt Crisis To Spiral Out Of Control?
NATO Takes Command of Libya Operation as Allies Step Up Attacks
Gadaffi's Curse Keeps Haunting Washington
Nicolas Sarkozy reignites row over Nato military role
Libya: a make-or-break moment for Nato
US hands command of Libya air strategy to senior female officer
What Will the World’s Tyrants Learn from the Libyan War? Get Nukes!
Yemen’s Saleh Describes Nation as 'Time Bomb' Nearing Civil War
Syria protests continue
Why The Euro Will Survive
US Dollar Under Acute Pressure
What's Really Driving the Gold Price?
Accumulate Gold and Japanese Shares
People’s Bank of China Positive On Gold Due To ‘Value Preservation’; Concerned About Euro, Dollar And Paper Currencies
Gold And Silver Are Thriving While The U.S. Dollar Is Dying
J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC May Have Gained Billions
How Can America Create Wealth If Our Industrial Base Is Destroyed? 50,000 Manufacturing Jobs Have Been Lost Every Month Since 2001
Temporary Unlimited Coverage for Noninterest-bearing Transaction Accounts -- FDIC.gov
Consumer Sentiment Sours, At Lowest Level in Over a Year
Fed's Fisher Sees Signs of Excessive Liquidity
Massachusetts job fair canceled because of lack of jobs
FDIC Proposal: Pay Borrowers $20,000 To Walk Away
Mortgage Servicers Resist But Cut Debts
Housing Market Cycle: Much Worse This Time
Nevada's boom and bust leaves 167,000 empty houses
It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know
Radiation forecasting links: WeatherOnline to check updates
Fukushima crisis:
Radioactive seawater surrounds stricken plant
Why 95% of Japanese May Not Suffer from Radioactive Iodine Exposure
Radioactive Cesium With A Half-Life Of Approximately 30 Year