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Odds 'n Sods:

"The Survivalist" mentioned this article: More than a million wait in icy darkness across US

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As most SurvivalBlog readers surely deduced long ago, I am an inveterate scrounger. I scan through Craig's List with the same regularity as the Bald Eagles that cruise up and down The Unnamed River here at the Rawles Ranch do, at this time of year. So I was delighted that while doing some web wandering today, I found a link over at Keep and Bear Arms to this inspirational article: Praxis: Scavenging as a Guerrilla Art Form.

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Eric flagged this update: Peanut butter recall expanded to two years' worth of products. Here is an FDA web page with a searchable list of hundreds of recalled peanut butter products.

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The latest huge dose of gloom-'n-doomage from the Economatrix: Global Unemployment Nears 50 Million -- OPEC Warns of More Oil Output Cuts -- BP Sees Further Crash in Oil Demand -- Can the Market Avoid a February Fold? -- George Soros (the Billionaire) Selling Off Sterling -- Europe's Winter of Discontent -- More Job Cuts (Boeing 10,000; Starbucks 6,700, etc.) -- Billions More Needed for Bank Rescues -- Millionaires Crisis Plan: Return to Bartering -- IMF: British Slump will be Worst in Developed World -- Sony's Quarterly Net Profit Tumbled 95% -- Record Number in US Getting Jobless Benefits -- Despair Spreads Amid Mounting Job Losses -- Florida Beans and Corn Destroyed, Potatoes Delayed (Expect higher prices)

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