Did you also check this 2008 thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994684/posts
Your link for today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305604/posts
On this, I can comment all day, but will stick to a few facts:
We were standing in front of the bank building in downtown Yuma, while Mary Rohrbaugh explained how they couldn’t open the door and then a hand hung a sign in the window that said “This Bank is Closed”.....
During the 1930’s, that is how quick a bank closed.
They had come to Yuma for money to pay the cotton pickers in their fields......and were too late.
They lost one baby, for Mary’s milk was not good enough and the food available did not save the life of a baby.
With 5 children, they were down to the day that Mary cooked the last hen they owned and cooked the last pound of flour.
They asked for help from the gov and were told that first they had to eat the milk cow.
They were not the kind of people who asked the gov for anything, they were farmers who worked the land.
When your kids are hungry, you do what it takes.
The day they cooked the old hen, a rancher came and asked Jay to come and work a day with his caterpillar, paid him one dollar, but it bought food.
She still had the cat and It was a small one from the 1920’s.
That is real life.
Dr. Bill Wattenberg, a nuclear weapons designer and scientist, who does the the science radio program on kgo.com radio, has warned us for years to be prepared.
He has pages at kgo.com and pushback.com, Dr. Bill is also a planner/problem solver for Homeland Security, or was for President Bush. I have not been able to get him on the radio, since all mine went crazy this spring, he is on at 10 pm Saturday and Sunday nights.
Dr. Bill says that the first thing that will go out is electricity if we are attacked.
When that happens, you cannot shop, get gas, use the atm or banks, the world will stop.
Today we know that the terrorists infiltrate the computers of anyone they choose to.
Therefore, the punk with a key board can close the banks, or the electric company, as a lark or as an act of war.
So yes to being prepared, both money and food / medicine supplies.
Thanks for the link...
for the scoffers who think this is tin foil, or not feasible, lets look at a thread from March ‘08 and notice that the posts stop about April and then resurged in mid July: with an urgency
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994684/posts
also may want to keep a look at this site of failed banks updated each week by the FDIC:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
5 last week, 7 week before..