Dr. Strangelove — item 1.. It’s the end of the world as they know it: How growing numbers of American ‘preppers’ are getting ready for Armageddon (by stockpiling food and guns) — 23rd January 2012 …item 5b.. Vera Lynn – “We’ll Meet Again” … {yahooanswerstitle}
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Dr. Strangelove — item 1.. It’s the end of the world as they know it: How growing numbers of American ‘preppers’ are getting ready for Armageddon (by stockpiling food and guns) — 23rd January 2012 …item 5b.. Vera Lynn – “We’ll Meet Again” …
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Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers’ message when he tells listeners: ‘It’s never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it.’
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…..item 1)…. Mail Online …. www.dailymail.co.uk/news …. It’s the end of the world as they know it: How growing numbers of American ‘preppers’ are getting ready for Armageddon (by stockpiling food and guns)
By REUTERS REPORTER
Last updated at 8:57 PM on 23rd January 2012
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090586/Preppers-stockpi…
When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.
‘In an instant, anything can happen,’ she told Reuters.
‘And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared.’
Ms Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as ‘preppers.’
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Ready for anything: Chuck Izzo, a "prepper" sits in his basement where he stores wood pellets to fuel his woodstove, an alternative heat source in his home
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Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.
They are following in the footsteps of hippies in the 1960s who set up communes to separate themselves from what they saw as a materialistic society, and the survivalists in the 1990s who were hoping to escape the dictates of what they perceived as an increasingly secular and oppressive government.
Preppers, though are, worried about no government.
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Ms Tegeler, 57, has turned her home in rural Virginia into a ‘survival center,’ complete with a large generator, portable heaters, water tanks, and a two-year supply of freeze-dried food that her sister recently gave her as a birthday present.
She says that in case of emergency, she could survive indefinitely in her home. And she thinks that emergency could come soon.
‘I think this economy is about to fall apart,’ she said.
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Stocking up: Dennis McClung, of Mesa, Arizona, filled his basement with food to ride out the end of civilization, which he believes is coming December 12
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A wide range of vendors market products to preppers, mainly online. They sell everything from water tanks to guns to survival skills.
Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers’ message when he tells listeners: ‘It’s never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it.’
‘Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year,’ said author James Wesley Rawles, whose
Survival Blog is considered the guiding light of the prepper movement.
A former Army intelligence officer, Mr Rawles has written fiction and non-fiction books on end-of-civilization topics, including ‘How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It,’ which is also known as the preppers’ Bible
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Emerging market: Best Prices Storable Foods in Texas has seen a surge in customers looking to fill their pantries and basements with nonperishable foods to ride out any fall of civilization
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‘We could see a cascade of higher interest rates, margin calls, stock market collapses, bank runs, currency revaluations, mass street protests, and riots,’ he told Reuters.
‘The worst-case end result would be a Third World War, mass inflation, currency collapses, and long term power grid failures.’
—– HOW TO STOCK UP LIKE A PREPPER
You don’t have to own a fallout shelter and believe society is on the brink of collapse to store some extra supplies in case of a natural disaster or other emergency. Here are a few suggestions from the federal government:
….. Food – Three day supply of non-perishable food that requires no heat or refrigeration and little water to eat. Consider MREs (military rations), peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, canned ready-to-eat soup and energy bars. Be sure to include a can opener
….. Water – One gallon per person in your household per day. Keep enough for at least three days.
….. Light – Candles with matches and flashlights with fresh batteries
Communication – Battery-operated on hand-crank radio with NOAA weather radio function
….. Health – First aid kit as well as an prescription and over-the-counter medication you regularly use
….. Sanitation – Spare toilet paper, paper towels and plastic garbage bags
….. Documents – Be sure to keep important documents and family photos together in an easily-accessible place in case you need to leave home
A sense of ‘suffering and being afraid’ is usually at the root of this kind of thinking, according to Cathy Gutierrez, an expert on end-times beliefs at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Such feelings are not unnatural in a time of economic recession and concerns about a growing national debt, she said.
‘With our current dependence on things from the electric grid to the Internet, things that people have absolutely no control over, there is a feeling that a collapse scenario can easily emerge, with a belief that the end is coming, and it is all out of the individual’s control,’ she told Reuters.
She compared the major technological developments of the past decade to the Industrial Revolution of the 1830s and 1840s, which led to the growth of the Millerites, the 19th-Century equivalent of the preppers.
Followers of charismatic preacher Joseph Miller sold everything and gathered in 1844 for what they believed would be the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Many of today’s preppers receive inspiration from the Internet, devouring information posted on websites like that run by attorney Michael T. Snider, who writes The Economic Collapse blog out of his home in northern Idaho.
‘Modern preppers are much different from the survivalists of the old days,’ he said.
‘You could be living next door to a prepper and never even know it. Many suburbanites are turning spare rooms into food pantries and are going for survival training on the weekends.’
Like other preppers, Mr Snider is worried about the end of a functioning US economy. He points out that tens of millions of Americans are on food stamps and that many U.S. children are living in poverty.
‘Most people have a gut feeling that something has gone terribly wrong, but that doesn’t mean that they understand what is happening,’ he said.
‘A lot of Americans sense that a massive economic storm is coming and they want to be prepared for it.’
So, assuming there is no collapse of society — which the preppers call ‘uncivilization’ — what is the future of the preppers?
Ms Gutierrez said that unlike the Millerites — or followers of radio preacher Harold Camping, who predicted the world would end last year — preppers are not setting a date for the coming destruction. The Mayan Calendar predicts doom this December.
‘The minute you set a date, you are courting disconfirmation,’ she said.
Ms Tegeler, who recalls being hit by tornadoes and floods in her southwestern Virginia home, said that none of her ‘survival center’ products will go to waste.
‘I think it’s silly not to be prepared," she said.
‘After all, anything can happen.’
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…..item 2a)..,, web-link … Official Countdown Timer … Time until Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:11:11 AM (GMT time).
What time would 11:11 GMT be where I live?
I put this time zone conversion chart together to show what time it will be in other parts of the world at exactly 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
www.december212012.com/CDC.htm
Our countdown timer has been carefully calculated and verified to be accurate right down to the very last second.
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…..item 2b)…. website … time and date.com … Customized Counter
Time until Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:11:11 AM (UTC time)
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…..item 3)…. youtube video … Everything 2012 Earth Changes Part 2 of 3 … 9:54 minutes …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4hrd6To2k&feature=related
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…..item 4)…. youtube video … Dr. Strangelove trailer … 1:38 minutes …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXY3kuDvSU
Uploaded by scarface584 on Jun 5, 2007
This is the trailer of the classic Stanley Kubrick film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
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…..item 5a)…. youtube video … End of Strangelove … 4:18 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZJbJ4Mfis&feature=related
Uploaded by cmek1989 on Jul 20, 2008
End of Dr. Strangelove
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…..item 5b)…. youtube video … Dr. Strangelove … 1:58 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls
Ending of Dr. Strangelove, one of the best movies ever made.
Vera Lynn – "We’ll Meet Again"
We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where,
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through,
Just like you always do
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say "Hello"
To the folks that I know
Tell them I won’t be long
They’ll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song
We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where,
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
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1234567890 Day is nigh – 1234567890-Tag naht!
Image by schoschie
[English below!]
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Betriebssysteme, die auf UNIX basieren, wie z. B. Mac OS X und Linux, speichern die Uhrzeit (inklusive Datum) intern als eine Zahl. Diese Zahl zählt die Sekunden seit der sogenannten Epoche, dem 1. Januar 1970 00:00 h UTC.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unixzeit
Wie es sich begibt, erreicht diese Zahl sehr bald den lustigen Wert 1234567890. In meiner Zeitzone (CET) wird dieser Punkt exakt am Samstag, 14. Februar 2009 um 00:31:30 Uhr erreicht. Das ist zufälligerweise Valentinstag. In anderen Zeitzonen (z. B. in den USA) ist der Zeitpunkt ein paar Stunden früher, noch am Freitag, den 13.!
Ich habe das Herannahen des nunmehr als 1234567890-Tag bezeichneten Nerd-Ereignisses bereits am 29. Januar zufällig entdeckt, als mir die aufeinanderfolgenden Ziffern von Zeitstempeln in Datensätzen aufgefallen sind, mit denen ich bei der Entwicklung einer kleinen Web-Anwendung gearbeitet habe.
Die Entdeckung habe ich einer kurzen Notiz auf Facebook festgehalten (siehe Bild):
www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=63679920929
(Facebook-Login erforderlich)
Inzwischen haben sowohl das Nerd-Blog Slashdot als auch das Weblog kottke.org über den 1234567890-Tag berichtet, beide über eine Woche nach mir, und (leider) unabhängig 
Slashdot am 8. Februar:
tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206
Kottke am 11. Februar:
www.kottke.org/09/02/1234567890-day
Slashdot wiederum bezieht sich auf einen Blogartikel vom 1. Februar:
www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/blogs/paw_prints_writings…
– immer noch 2 Tage später als meine Notiz
Kottke bezieht sich auf diesen Post vom 11. Februar:
scribbling.net/post/77567164/1234567890-day
– und verlinkt www.1234567890day.com – eine Countdown-Seite, auf der sogar Partys zum Ereignis geplant werden!
Wer selber herausfinden will, welches Datum/Uhrzeit der UNIX-Zeit 1234567890 entspricht, kann dies am einfachsten tun, in dem er ein Terminal öffnet und folgendes Kommando eingibt:
date -r 1234567890
Alternativ auch über Perl und PHP:
perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";’
php -r ‘echo date(‘r’, 1234567890) . "\n";’
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Operating systems based on UNIX, like MacOS X and Linux, internally store the time (including the date) as a number. This number counts the seconds since the so-called Epoch, 1 January 1970, 00:00 h UTC.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
As it turns out, this number will very soon approach the funny value of 1234567890. In my timezone (CET), this point in time will be reached precisely on Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 00:31:30 hours. By co-incidence, this is on Valentine’s Day. In other timezones, for instance in the U.S., it happens a few hours earlier, on Friday, the 13th!
I noticed the advent of the nerdy event now referred to as 1234567890 Day inadvertently on January 29 while my eyes caught the sequential digits of timestamps in datasets that I was working on during development of a small web application.
My discovery was noted in a short note on Facebook (see screenshot above):
www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=63679920929
(Requires Facebook login)
Meanwhile, the nerd blog Slashdot as well as kottke.org have written about 1234567890 Day, both more than a week later than me, and (unfortunately) independently
Slashdot on February 8:
tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206
Kottke on February 11:
www.kottke.org/09/02/1234567890-day
Slashdot in turn cites a blog article from February 1:
www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/blogs/paw_prints_writings…
– still 2 days later than my note
Kottke cites this post from February 11:
scribbling.net/post/77567164/1234567890-day
– and links to www.1234567890day.com – a countdown page where they are having planning parties for the event!
If you want to find out for yourself what date and time correspond to the UNIX time 1234567890, the easiest way is to open a Terminal window and type in the following command:
date -r 1234567890
Alternatively, it can be done using Perl or PHP:
perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";’
php -r ‘echo date(‘r’, 1234567890) . "\n";’
Fukitol – When Life Just Blows …item 3.. Everything 2012 Earth Changes Part 2 of 3 …
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.’s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought.
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…..item 1)…. Yahoo! News beta … Citigroup says 360,000 affected by hackers …
By KELVIN CHAN – AP Business Writer | AP – 1 hr 45 mins ago……Thursday June 16, 2011
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.’s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought.
Citi said last week that about 1 percent of its credit card customers had account information hacked online but did not say exactly how many. The actual number of customers affected was thought to be about 200,000, based on Citi’s 2010 annual report, which said the company had roughly 21 million North American credit card customers.
But the true number was actually 360,083, the bank said in a statement posted on its website late Wednesday.
The bank said it discovered on May 10 that hackers used its Account Online system to access the data for North America Citi-branded credit cards issued in the U.S.
The bank said last week that hackers accessed customer names, account numbers and contact information, including e-mail addresses.
But they weren’t able to get their hands on social security numbers, dates of birth, card expiration dates or card security codes, information that can be useful in identity theft.
Internal fraud alerts and enhanced monitoring were placed on all accounts deemed at risk as soon as the breach was discovered, Citi said.
Letters were sent starting June 3 to people affected, and 217,657 customers have also been sent new cards, Citi said. Replacement cards were not sent to the others because the accounts were closed or they had already been sent new cards for other reasons.
Citi said it has notified police and government officials.
"For the security of our customers, and because of the ongoing law enforcement investigation, we cannot disclose further details regarding how the data breach occurred," it said.
Citi reassured customers that they weren’t liable for any unauthorized use of their cards and urged them to review account statements to report any suspicious transactions.
It’s the latest in a series of high-profile data attacks against big companies and institutions. The International Monetary Fund said Sunday that it was investigating an attack on its computer system.
Google Inc. said earlier this month that Gmail accounts of several hundred people had been breached. In April, Sony Corp.’s Playstation Network was the victim of a massive security breach that affected more than 100 million online accounts.
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…..item 2a)…. web-link … Official Countdown Timer … Time until Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:11:11 AM (GMT time).
What time would 11:11 GMT be where I live?
I put this time zone conversion chart together to show what time it will be in other parts of the world at exactly 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
www.december212012.com/CDC.htm
Our countdown timer has been carefully calculated and verified to be accurate right down to the very last second.
Add our Official December 21 2012 Countdown clock to your website, blog, MySpace page, Facebook wall, or other social networking site.
To add our Official Countdown Clock, simply copy the code below and paste it on your site, blog or social networking page.
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…..item 2b)…. website … time and date.com … Customized Counter
Time until Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:11:11 AM (UTC time)
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…..item 3)…. youtube video … Everything 2012 Earth Changes Part 2 of 3 … 9:54 minutes …
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……item 4a)…. FLICKR … The Help Forum
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157626232720912/
Eric in SF says: Cut your losses and move on. Delete your account if it makes you feel better, but expecting detailed answers is unrealistic. Flickr is a private business and is not answerable to you. Your only power in this game is the press and your continued business.
No, Flickr reserves the right to delete an account for no reason. Seriously. Read the Terms and Conditions before you go too far with this.
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…..item 4b)…. FLICKR … THE HELP FORUM
www.flickr.com/help/forum/72157625954981158/?search=2011+…
Eric in SF says:
“Hi there,
Like I said before, we saw behavior in your account that
went against our guidelines and required us to take action –
which was to delete your account. Our guidelines apply to
any and all content you post on Flickr – photos you upload,
comments you make, group discussions you participate in,
etc.
I am afraid I cannot give you any more specific information
than this.
Thank you for your understanding,
Cathryn”
Can’t get any clearer than that.
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…..item 5)…. marsmet47 … Fukitol..When Life Just Blows !! …..item 13..First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US (12/27/2009) …..item 14..Hulu..an evil plot to destroy the world..ENJOY !! …..item 15B..Everything 2012 Earth Changes Part 2 of 3…
www.flickr.com/photos/31473156@N02/2949311476/in/photostream
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…..item 6)…. AS NOTED IN LIFE .. >>>>> .. “FACT OF LIFE: After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F”
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