News Roundup

• Backyard gardens become income generators in lean times
• Generate Hot Water With Your Compost Heap
• Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills
• Get Medieval: How to Build a Metal Forge
• There Is No Such Thing As Too Much Backup
• Systematically Pay Creditors (and Yourself) to Escape Debt
• What Does It Mean To Be A Survivalist?
• Personal Finance 101: What Does FDIC Insurance Really Mean?
• Places and Things I think are worth the time to visit or read
• I Forge Iron
• The First Sign Of Corruption
• Make Your Own Shaving Cream
• The future is Amish
• Whatever Germany does, the euro as we know it is dead
• Public Pensions Headed for Disaster
• The economic effects of disenfranchisement
• One Longs For 1776, The Other For 1936
• A Very Disturbing, Job-Killing Trend
• America's new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government control
• The War of Art: An Interview with Steven Pressfield
• The Perfect Storm: Six Trends Converging on Collapse
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Dow Theorist Richard Russell: Sell Everything, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year
• The call
• Intellectual Steam
• Socialism does not work.
• Is There a Culture War, or What?
• Astronomer Copernicus reburied as hero in Poland
• Nouriel Roubini said the bubble would burst and it did. So what next?
• A Guide to Complaints That Get Results