Disaster Preparedness

[Joanne98]

Sometimes I am asked how to prepare for a worst case scenario if we
experience a financial or political meltdown in the global banking
system. Some of the best material to help you imagine what such a
scenario would be like is to learn about the experiences of people who
have lived through such meltdowns as a result of economic warfare (Cuba,
Russia, Latin America) during the last two decades or as a result of a particularly lethal combination of natural disasters and economic warfare (New Orleans, Indonesia). Here is a selection of readings and videos we have found particularly useful.

Economic Warfare

Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR Was Better Prepared For Collapse Than The US
By Dmitry Orlov - Energy Bulletin (4 Dec 2006)

Life and Debt in Jamaica
A film by Stephanie Black
Participatory Budgeting ~ From Wikipedia

Post-Soviet Lessons For a Post-American Century
By Dmitry Orlov - SurvivingPeakOil.com (Archives)

Survival in Times of Uncertainty: Growing Up in Russia in the 1990s
By Legal Alien - Sott.net (24 Jan 2008)

The Experience of the Participatory Budget in Porto Alegre, Brazil
At Unesco.org

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
At PowerOfCommunity.org
The Rape of Russia ~ By Anne Williamson

“The Take” ~ A Documentary

The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
By Michel Choussudovsky

Transcript of Interview of Greg Palast, Journalist for BBC & Observer, London
Alex Jones Radio Show (4 Mar 2002)

Natural Disasters

The Year the Levees Broke
Greg Palast in New Orleans

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By Naomi Klein - The Nation (14 Apr 2005)

The Shock Doctrine ~ Short Film
http://www.solari.com/blog/

[spotbird]

1. Thanks.

Do you have links?

[Speck Tater]

2. Links are all found here...

http://www.solari.com/blog/

[cliss]

3. Thanks Joanne99

This is exactly what's needed now.
There's no doubt: we're going over Niagara Falls. We don't need to speculate any longer.
Now, the focus needs to shift to survival. What to do. How to survive and make it through the storm which is already on our doorstep.