http://baconreport.blogspot.com/2007/07/top-100-items-to-disappear-first-during.html

Top 100 Items to Disappear First During a National Emergency

1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy…target of thieves; maintenance etc.)
2. Water Filters/Purifiers
3. Portable Toilets
4. Seasoned Firewood. Wood takes about 6 – 12 months to become dried, for home uses.
5. Lamp Oil, Wicks, Lamps (First Choice: Buy CLEAR oil. If scarce, stockpile ANY!)
6. Coleman Fuel. Impossible to stockpile too much.
7. Guns, Ammunition, Pepper Spray, Knives, Clubs, Bats & Slingshots.
8. Hand-can openers, & hand egg beaters, whisks.
9. Honey/Syrups/white, brown sugar
10. Rice – Beans – Wheat Read more

Thanks to: kiwiblog.co.nz

From: Jenny

My father worked in a coal mine when he was 12 (breaker boy). He told me that the miners would take a caged canary into the mines for safety and hang it on a peg near where they were working. Canaries have a lower tolerance of gas pollutants such as carbon monoxide. If the canary died the miners rushed out. Today we don’t have the common sense

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PRESS RELEASE GE FREE NORTHLAND (in Food & Environment) 26 July 2007

LOCAL AUTHORITIES EXPOSE FLAWS IN THE HSNO ACT WHICH MEANS THAT RESPONSIBILITY FOR GE CLEAN UPS WOULD FALL ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL
LAND OWNERS

GE FREE NORTHLAND congratulates the Inter-council Working Party on GMO Risk Evaluation and Management Options (comprising the Whangarei, Far North, Kaipara and Rodney District Councils, the Waitakere and Auckland
City Councils, along with the Northland Regional Council) for exposing central governments failure to address the serious flaws and gaps in the HSNO* Act.
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A novel form of genetically modified corn that poses serious health risks, but has been inadequately safety tested, looks set to be approved for human consumption on Monday – unless New Zealand stands aside from this decision.

New Zealand has the right to “opt out” of decisions made by the Trans-Tasman food safety regulator, FSANZ, and the spectrum of hazards this animal feed poses for humans fully justifies such a break.

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USS Enterprise?

New 9/11 target “Boldly Going” to be in the Persian Gulf?
Ian Brockwell July 19, 2007

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=32602

It was suggested a year ago, that the USS Enterprise was a likely “false flag” target to provide the Bush administration with an excuse to attack Iran. The ship’s last spell in the Gulf passed without incident (let’s hope it will again), but it is now returning to apparently replace the USS Nimitz.
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Sue Kedgley MP, Green Party Health Spokesperson
16th July 2007
http://www.greens.org.nz/searchdocs/PR11004.html

The announcement by Annette King today that the Therapeutic Products and Medicines bill is on hold is a victory for consumers and for democracy, and a major defeat for the Government, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today.
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