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Odds 'n Sods:
SurvivalBlog reader Norman in England mentioned this piece in The
Times of London; Thousands
to Test Flu Emergency Response. Norman's comments: "If this thing
does mutate and get world wide then it will be very difficult if not
impossible for society to hold together as it is now. What will come
from this exercise will be bulls**t. I’ll try
to keep you posted but I expect most of it to be kept under wraps.
The systems that hold our society together have very little fault tolerance
and it will not take much to bring society down. Once we are on the
conveyor belt of collapse there will be nothing to stop total collapse.
We must think seriously of how any who survive this will live without
our current systems which includes electric power. As I have stated
before how are we going to replace those broken or worn out part of
generators, motors, pumps etc. How are we going to be able to forge
the metal for those parts? What about such things resistors, transistors,
etc. We who call ourselves ‘survivalists’ must
use what little time we have left to plan for this eventuality. Not
just with stocks
of food and equipment but by planning to revert to a standard of living
where if we can not make an item ourselves, or at least within a small
community, we will have to do without."
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Fred the Valmet-meister wrote to tell us about this
web site in England on collecting anti-tank rifles. Fred calls
it "a
really cool web site for reading on a winter's
day:"
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A web search yielded this interesting product web page: LINE-X – Blast-Proof,
Anti-Terror Paint Saves Building in New Mexico Explosion Tests.
