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If you have never thought of preparing for a disaster or have a mild interest in learning the very basics to survive a disaster then this report is for you. This is for the person who does not want to spend much and would like simple easy things to do in case of an emergency. We also go to in the detail of how to make your first Bug Out Bag and how to choose safe a place to bring your family to during chaos.

Now that Mark and Ian have fervently fearmongered with their scathing report about the UK heath care system and for the record, I have zillions of Brit friends and this that article was not the norm. So, please provide another viewpoint please because Americans are not getting a fair perspective and will end up rejecting anything that even resembles socialized medicine based on false info. There is a 4 minute radio clip from NPR you can play on the air. Thanx, luv you! Signed ApocaLisaNow.

I heard some discussion on environmental issues with regard to property rights on the 17 Feb podcast. I would suggest looking into work done by the Property and Environemnt Research Center (www.perc.org). I would also suggest the book Free Market Environmentalism, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal, which describes how markets and recognition of property rights protects the environment more efficiently than does government regulation.

Not surprisingly, main stream media promotes BP oil disaster good for Mobile, AL's economy. Once this is all over Mobile will suffer an economic crash...then how will MSM portray the oil disaster as something positive?

After German blog "All is Smoke and Mirrors" floated an idea of an organized bank run (something attempted previously in the US without much success) in France in response to French austerity protests (which have resulted in no gains), the effort has since expanded to a pan-European organized bank run day on December 7, 2010, and has metastasized to Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Greece.

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said the Commercial Mobile Alert System that Congress approved in 2006 will direct messages to cellphones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other serious emergency. There will be at least three levels of messages, ranging from a critical national alert from the president to warnings about impending or occurring national disasters to alerts about missing or abducted children.

For nearly five months, the BP oil disaster has consumed the minds of millions of people worldwide. In addition to the horrific impacts that the crude oil and chemical dispersants have daily on the environment and the economy, a fatal threat has quietly slipped by the public’s proverbial radar. The harm dealt by this silent enemy is beginning to creep into the lives of those living and working in the Gulf. The problem has been lurking in the Gulf since the first days of the BP oil spill and now has the potential ignite a disaster unlike any this country has ever seen

Not only does the U.S. government spend more on health care than Canada, it also spends more than the U.K., Japan, Germany, and France!