This edition of the survival podcast covers a breakdown of the current U.S. total national debt including classification of debt and who we owe 53 trillion dollars to.

Dave Duffy is great, cutting right through the confusing crap to "So we're going to get another bozo. Another bozo while we have a recession looming on the horizon." Great Artticle

This is a pretty cool podcast (by Mixxer Jack Spirko) about the coming downward spiral of the oil based economy. No alarmism here, just well thought out logical reasons we should have long term concerns on many levels.

The E85 scam is about taking money from the people and giving it to a startup industry designed to leech federal subsidies. It's a classic example of the government picking winners and losers with little regard for anything other than political gain

It's lovely," Dr. Sarah Sallon said of the date palm, whose parents may have provided food for the besieged Jews at Masada some 2,000 years ago. The little tree was sprouted in 2005 from a seed recovered from Masada.

The text and photographs of this article are from Organic Gardening and Farming November, 1973. One of the coolest little sustainability projects I have ever seen. Grow fish, grow worms to feed the fish & take up about 4 square feet for the whole thing.

Screw volunteering to lie down for days for NASA the National Space Society is offering a job as a Space. This is awesome, I am wondering if they will want me after seeing my resume.

Most people would tell you Google is not in any way scared of Social Media, they are capitalizing on it and acquiring some of the most successful examples. If we look both a decade into the past & into the future as well though a different image emerges.