Anyway, a fellow working for the county came by in the mowing machine and talked a bit. He was asking did I have anything along the road planted that I didn't want mowed, I told him no, I try to keep stuff out of the way for them. It's nice he stopped to ask too.
We got to talking and he told me he farms 250 acres over in Clear Springs. That's a small town near to here. He's got cattle and hay. Been farming his whole life. We're talking about cattle breeds and things and then he starts laying the doom on me. Says that nature is changing and that it's our fault for polluting and messing with nature.
I tell you about this because we think sometimes that no one notices what's going on. That we're alone in seeing the collapse of nature and civilization, but we're not alone.
Farmers, because they spend so much time out working with nature, are the first to see changes. I'll bet if you talked to some small farmers in your areas, you'd hear something similar.
It actually gives me hope knowing that people like this man are seeing the changes, that they know something is wrong.
Just wanted to share that with you guys. I'm beginning to think that doomers are everywhere! LOL
I don't want to forget to thank rj for links he sent this morning. Be sure to visit him at Global Glass Onion.
and do take time to visit the great forums at the bottom of the post and the wonderful blogs that are written by forum members listed on the left.
Oh, and here's another story from the great state of Tennesssee. Sad but true, makes me embarrassed, but this just shows how the war on drugs has become an institutionalized money making machine.
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Japan
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WSJ: Fresh Tales of Chaos Emerge From Early in Nuclear Crisis
Global Conflict
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TheAtlantic: Refugees Stuck in Limbo at Desolate Egypt-Libya Border
LegitGov: US drone strikes kill eleven in Pakistan
USAToday: Egyptian replaces bin Laden atop al-Qaeda
WashingtonPost: Death of the War Powers Act?
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CreditWriteDowns: Consumers Come to Terms with Frugality
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WSJ: Budget Talks by 'Gang' Falter Negotiations among a group of senators seeking a deficit-reduction deal threatened to collapse Tuesday as a key lawmaker pulled out, endangering what many in Washington had considered the best chance for a comprehensive, long-term budget agreement this year
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Reuters: IMF sounds alarm for Greece, more reforms needed
Peak oil and Energy News
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WSJ: With $4 Gas, More Folks Skip the TripWal-Mart and Lowe's Say Rise in Pump Prices Gives Some Consumers Pause About Shopping—and Sales Receipts Suffer
WashingtonPost: Senate rejects measure to end subsidies for big oil companies
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DesdemonaDespair: China ‘hit by power crunch’ amid drought, forced to ration electricity
LAT: Can natural gas fuel the U.S.?
Environmental News
NECN: River closing could cost millions
YahooNews: Flooding hinders shipping on the Mississippi River
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NPR: Cargo Ships Trickle Down The Mississippi River
MotherJones: How KFC and the Tea Party Kill Tigers
NYT: Dot Earth: In ‘Earth v. Humanity,’ Nobelists Issue Verdict
BBC: Quakes 'could rupture glacial lakes'
PBS: Farm Runoff in Mississippi River Floodwater Fuels Dead Zone in Gulf
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Discovery: National Plan to Fight Bat Killer Unveiled
America in Decline
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BlackListedNews: 10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship
WashingtonPost/Bloomberg: Facebook,Twitter,Google oppose law that would make personal information private by default
TreeHugger: Cost of Repairing the US's Crumbling Infrastructure? $2 Trillion
TPM: Santorum Backtracks On McCain Comments: I Respect His Service But Torture Still Works
Food and Water
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WiredMagazine: Liquid Gold: The Booming Market for Human Breast Milk
Guardian: Water firms upbeat amid UK dry spellEnvironment secretary reviews drought plans after England and Wales sees warmest and driest March/April in decades
Science and Technology
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WiredScience: The Original Noah’s Ark: Pond Scum
TechEye: Anonymous turns to UFO hoaxing
NewScientist: Mars rock: Win a piece of the Red Planet
NewScientist: CERN press chief: We'll never plug blockbuster leaks A recent blog post reported that the Higgs boson had been found, based on information leaked from one of the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Are leaks really such a bad thing?
What happened is that an early stage of an analysis was leaked. If something is leaked and then turns out to be untrue, it gives the impression that we don't really know what we are doing, whereas this is just part of the normal analysis process.
SlashDot: Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language
Medical and Health
MotherJones: How Safe Are TSA's Porno Scanners?
Doomsteading, Gardening, Urban Farming
WikiHow: How to Naturally Deter Scorpions
SHTFPlan: Preparing for Economic Collapse
TreeHugger: How to Grow King Stropharia Mushrooms in Your Garden (Video)
Permaculture.co.uk: A Loo with a View - Build your own Treebog
TreeHugger: Garden Mulch Makes the Simplest Composting Toilet of All
Urine Contains Valuable Nutrients
Whether we are talking about gardening with urine or large-scale urine separation for fertilizer, we've already covered many ways to utilize our bodily wastes in the fight against peak fertilizer.
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The Forums
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