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Potential For Social Unrest With Rising Commodity Prices –Jim Rogers
2 posted on 01/16/2011 3:55:56 PM PST by blam
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Prepping is now even on Popular Mechanics!

Rise of the Preppers: Survivalists Get a Makeover

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“As a truck driver hauling produce and food up and down the West Coast, Tom Martin knows first-hand how vulnerable the U.S. food supply is to disruption. “I know what our supply chains are like,” he says. “I know grocery stores rely on just in time services; they only have three days worth of food in any grocery store.”

In a disaster, that food will be gone in less than a day, and if you don’t have food stored up, you’ll be stuck, says Martin, who is one of a growing number of “preppers,” or people who are prepping for large-scale disaster. The American Preppers Network, an online forum Martin started in 2009 that quickly grew to 4000 members in nearly all 50 states. “

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7 posted on 01/16/2011 4:06:55 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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food price bump


157 posted on 01/17/2011 11:53:10 PM PST by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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