Weekly Dose of Doom and Gloom

Welcome Preppers and Survivalists,

We're Overdue
According to an article, I found at io9; our planet has a 'pulse.' This pulse causes the ...

Yeah, you will have to click the link to find out more.

PS.
I included another link, from the Discovery Channel, for a pretty neat mass extinction timeline.

Link:
io9 - The Earth Might have a "pulse" that Causes Extinctions Every 60 Million Years
http://io9.com/5887406/the-earth-might-have-a-pulse-that-causes-extinctions-every-60-million-years

Discovery Channel - Mass Extinctions
http://dsc.discovery.com/earth/wide-angle/mass-extinctions-timeline.html


Oil
There seems to be more going on with the high oil prices then the local and national news have been reporting.

Well, John Robb from Global Guerrillas gives us a quick lowdown on what he knows.

PS.
The alternative title for this blurb was "you ain't seen nothing, yet."

Link:
Global Guerrillas - Oil Disruption is Zooming and Global Panic Awaits
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/the-big-squeeze-oil-is-zooming-again.html


Financial
Needless to say, I can't remember who suggested it (Of Two Minds, Financial Armageddon, BlackListed News, or some link from a financial news site, like Daily Finance, Bloomberg, Market Watch, or ...), but it seems Greece is being set-up for failure.

The plan is for Greece to agree to a bailout with deep social service cuts; the ruling party is ousted because the bailout causes too much hardship for the country; the new ruling coalition 'defaults' on their debt; the Greeks get kicked out leave the Euro currency; other countries soon follow, then ... blah, blah, blah, nobody trusts anybody, so ...

Everything stops until we can trust our money, our banks, our debtors, our politicians, our trading partners, our neighbors, our ...


Trust Me on This
Folks, you need to be storing water, food, and if you live in the city, a place in the country to get away from it for a couple of weeks, if needed.