Not a lot of news today, but what there was bothered me to no end.
First lets go to the emperor in waiting, maobama. Seems he's feeling some pressure concerning the upcoming elections and has ordered his minions running the various agencies to "step up' the writing of new rules and regulations to further restrict Americans from conducting their lives as they see fit, before his regime ends. Guess the polls are starting to sink in and he knows he stands a very good chance if losing the senate as well as the house and, therefore, has to see that he will face impeachment proceedings. Watch out for a false flag event to happen that will give maobama the opportunity to declared martial law and send both houses of congress home and suspend the elections. For the sake of the publics safety of course. How congress and the citizenry will react is the big question and, for now, unanswered. He is also is stepping up his attacks on our military. His tame Sec. of Defense has announced plans to cut the size of our military back to where it was BEFORE the start of WW2. The size of the army will be at approximately 400,000 men and the marines will suffer similar cuts. No statements concerning the Navy and Air Force were made so far. That will make our ground military smaller then his private army of thugs, the DHS and the JSOC which just happens to be under his personal command and is as well armed as our soldiers are in everything but tanks. He's also scrapping an entire class of fighters. Granted they're A-10 warthogs and have been around since Nam, but they are also our best ground attack planes and the best weapon to use against his thugs if/when the time comes and we're out-numbered and out-gunned. Next he's taking away from the air national guard all the Apache attack helicopters and replacing them with older, less well armed Blackhawk helicopters, again reducing our ability to hit his private army from the air, while placing our air assets in greater danger. Then he's going to increase the cost of healthcare for the serving troops families by increasing the deductibles and at the same time raising the costs to shop at the base exchanges. Most lower ranked soldiers are already on food stamps, struggling to make ends meet and have to seek medical care for their families off base at civilian low cost clinics and this will just further their plight. In my opinion this is all a well thought out plan to reduce the ability of individual states to resist any of his take-over plans by cutting out their national guards ability to fight his private army on anywhere near equal terms. At the same time he's cutting the hearts out of our full service troops by further pushing them into the poverty lines and thereby destroying their moral. He wants a smaller, more easily controlled military and this is a good way to get it by forcing the well trained troops to refuse to re-enlist and thus deprive us of the small unit leaders we need in the service at this critical time. For those who stay in anyway, a trooper who is more worried about his family then the political situation, is likely to follow orders he knows are wrong because the family is on base, under political control and probably hungry, sick or both. This is a brilliant plan, but very sick at the same time. However it might fail maobama in the long run. All the troops he drives out will more then likely join us when TEOTWAWKI occurs and we'll have the advantage of all those years of training and experience on our side. Back in the 90's Clinton fielded the idea of eliminating the Marine Corps, but it didn't fly. Someone must have told him that the end result would save a few dollars, but give the militias several hundred thousand new, well trained and highly motivated men in their ranks. We, the militia, at the time were holding our breath, hoping Clinton would make such a stupid decision. But somehow, someone finally got through his bubba burger soaked brain and convinced him that openly chasing interns in the oval office was a better idea then recruiting good troops for the militia. Lets see if a voice of reason keeps maobama from making an even bigger mistake this time around. And lets all pray he doesn't listen.
Venezuela's president Madura must have decided that his claim that all the violence was caused by Columbian ex-president Uribe and his drug pusher gang wasn't working. It didn't seem to have any traction, either at home with the protestors or in the international view. So he's changed his tack and now claims the cause is all Sec. of State Kerry's doing. I know it's rediculas on the face of it, but then again maybe not. Knowing how stupid Kerry really is and what a liar he's proved himself to be, it's not much of a stretch to see him trying to covertly influence the protestors. Kerry sees himself as a great statesman while the rest of the world outside his circle sees him for what he is, a poor excuse of a statesman, let alone a man. We'll keep an eye on Maduro's latest ploy to see if it gains any support outside those who already hate America and by extension, Kerry. In the mean time, things are getting more volatile in Venezuela. Food transfers have come to a complete stop by the barricades put across all the main roads and streets in the capital and in the outlying areas the protestors have formed human chains to block access to their barely held areas. All the while evidence is showing up that the military has been quietly targeting protestors and shooting them in the streets without any legal standing for such actions. This can very easily turn into the Ukraine in South America with open warfare between both sides. As for arming the protestors, getting guns and ammunition ANYWHERE in south or central America is as easy as buying a coke in Atlanta or a gun and bag of dope in Chicago, LA or NYC. Or buying a politician in DC. I suggest we keep our eyes open and look for another increase of illegal border crossers as the warfare continues in Venezuela. After all, the DHS has other priorities then doing it's assigned job. Like harassing legal firearms owners in their home states or demanding your "papers" as you travel, legally, down the nations highways.
As for the Ukraine, there seems to have been a coup of sorts there. The president is on the run and charged by the parliament with multiple counts of murder. Why not add child pornography to it while they're at it? The rioting seems to have calmed down somewhat, but if the ousted president isn't caught, tried and executed quickly, he may get support from others and start his own little revolution to "get my country back". And with the new Ukraine government testing the waters to join the EU, Putin of Russia can't be to happy either. Remember what happened a few years ago when the Georgia Republic tried the same thing, without the riots of course? Putin sent Russian troops in the force the country to remain a "trusted ally of the Russian Federation". In effect he, by force, disallowed Georgia the right to choose it's own path and to remain a Russian puppet. I can easily see him repeating that action in the Ukraine if the ousted president makes it to Moscow and strikes a deal with Putin. And remember that the Ukraine has a oil and Russia doesn't want the EU or America getting a shot at it. That was the real reason Hitler invaded Russia in WW2.
A couple of quick notes here about a variety of things. First the news that the longest sitting congressman in the history of the congress is not running for re-election. John Dingell, D-MI, has announced his retirement at the end of this term. No reasons were given in the press release, but something tells me that Johnny boy sees the handwriting on the wall and is getting out as quickly and gracefully as he can, while the getting is good. Next the Supreme court has refused to hear a number of cases concerning gun rights this session. The cases concerned various states ability to refuse to enforce un-Constitutional federal laws as well as their own right to set their own laws concerning gun rights for their citizens. Guess it's too close to elections to handle hot topic cases like these. And finally the good news. Pierce Morgan has been fired from his job at CNN. The stated reason is his ratings are too low. But I think the lightning rod he's become and the anger he brings out in most thinking people had a lot to do with it as well. Now if we can just get immigration to revoke his citizenship and send him back to good old England, all would be well with the world. Maybe not the whole world, England has said on several occasions that they don't want him back. Maybe we could send him to Iran? They already hate us and things between us couldn't get any worse. In six months they'd behead the useless sucker, to shut him up if for no other reason and the world would be a better place.
A short tip your survival preparations and that is to test everything you have, including yourself, in real life situations. My group goes on bug out bag (BOB) weekends where we spend a weekend living out of our BOB's. It allows us to see where our shortcomings are and lets us fix them before we have to use them for real. We do this 3 or 4 times a year, in different climates as we find tune the kits to match the season. No BOB is right for every season or every person or it would be too big to tout around on human shoulders. I should mention that we park our vehicles a ways away from out trail retreat area and walk in using techniques we've learned in various classes and fine tuned in FTX's. Our retreat location for the exercise changes for each test, never the same place twice in a row. Each retreat area is chosen for it's remoteness and it's LACK of social amenities, like outhouses or wells of potable water. While at the retreat we practice things like personal hygiene, shelter building, food gathering and camp security. BTW, if on public land we DO NOT carry firearms, even though we are legally allowed to do so by way of our CCW's. If on private land we dress and act as if TEOTWAWKI had occurred and are fully armed. We also usually have a mock medical emergency that all of us take part in to "save a life". Don't wait until the big one hits to see if your really as ready as you think you are. Test your gear and, especially test yourself in as close to actual situations as you can safely find. You'll be amazed at what you thought you knew compared to what you really know. And what your capable of that you never expected. Bring the whole family, they need to be ready also. But even if it's just you and a few like-minded people, get out there and test yourselves. It could mean the difference between life and death when it's for real.
A quick thought just hit me as I was about to wrap this post up. Everyone knows that they need lots of toilet paper and should have a stockpile of the precious stuff at the retreat. But it won't last forever. What do you do when the last roll is gone? In primitive societies they use water and their left hand, saving the right hand for eating. With modern day soaps and other cleaning products, that isn't a consideration and we could us either hand. But there is a certain mental hesitation do use our hands for that purpose and, for me anyway, rightly so. My suggestion is to do as "they" did in the middle ages Europe and use a wet cloth and, when done, soak the cloth in bleach or some other cleaning solution and very hot water. Then rinse it out and allow to to dry overnight to use again the next day. But if that's the solution you choose, mark each cloth somehow so it is used only by one person and that person is the one to clean it afterwards. This will reduce the chance of spreading any diseases among the whole group. If a person is ill, then burn the cloth and start over with a new cloth and continue this regime until the illness is gone. Again this is to prevent the spread of diseases in the group. The Spanish Flu back in the early 1900's showed us that disease can spread among a population faster then anyone can anticipate. And a group trying to survive using primitive techniques and living in close proximity to each other will simulate the exact same conditions that allowed the Spanish Flu to travel around the world in weeks and kill 1 in 5 people it infected, well over 10 million just in America. So don't sit on your laurels thinking you've got the hygiene situation covered. T.P. won't last forever and finding some more to trade for will be almost impossible or extremely expensive to buy. Figure out what your going to do and then plan for it and train for it, nasty as it may be. Your groups success will depend on it.
Tomorrow is Tuesday and you all know what that means. So this could very well be the last post ever on this blog. It all up to you, assuming there are "yous" out there reading this after all. Come on, I can't be that good a writer that NO ONE has any questions or comments. If nothing else comment on my spelling, I know I suck at spelling and my spell check is sometimes as bad as I am. But I have broad shoulders and thick skin, I can take it. I'll cry in private, but you won't see my tears or anger in the blog. So what if I kick the dog or beat my wife again. Actually I don't own a dog anymore and my wife would kick my butt if I ever raised a hand against her. She made that plain to me when we were married 41 years ago and I NEVER DOUBTED HER FOR A MINUTE. She is small, but tough and real quick. And swings a broom handle or soup ladle with real authority.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Lots of depressing items today
Today is Sunday and it is sunny and fairly warm. Not the kind of day we'd expect to have our good attitudes depressed by more bad news from around the world. But here goes.
With the democrats facing the real possibility of losing the senate in the November elections, a surprising cavalry is riding to their rescue. Or maybe not so surprising. The U.S. Communist party is allying themselves with the democrats and "helping them unite the left and stave off the right-wing extremists". That's us in case you didn't know. Now why they think the democrats need the help is beyond me. Even if the GOP sweeps ALL the running democrats out of office, what difference would that make in the grand scheme of things? The two party system is a farce and has been for quite a while now. All it really does is give the illusion that the voter has a choice when in actuality the democrats and GOP are just two heads of the same snake and that is causing conservatives to become divided and easily conquered. So my advise is not to vote party labels, but do your research and vote the man/woman who best seems to represent your goals.
China is almost ready to make its move against the dollar. As China continues to reduce it's holdings of the dollar and build trading ties to other countries using their own respective currencies or actual trading of goods, it's further weakening the dollar as the worlds reserve currency. Once the dollar has been rejected by most of the countries in the world and loses its status as the reserve currency, the dollar will crash and massive price increases will occur. Interest rates will soar as will inflation. The interest on our debt will reach historic levels and that will make the crash even more crippling as we will be unable to borrow anymore money to keep all the social responsibilities like S.S. payments or obamacare afloat. Expect even more and worse riots then we're currently seeing in the Ukraine and Venezuela. A well respected economics expert warned back in January that there was a coming event or events that would change the entire world and it would happen on or around March 4th. I didn't write about his predictions because they seemed even to me to be too far fetched and I decided to keep them under my tin hat. Well as things progress those warnings seem less crazy and my tin hat is getting pretty tight. I've telling everyone here as well as within my group to work even harder and faster on building their stockpile of goods and gear for months now and I hope they've been listening and following my advise. Cause the troubles that are coming are just about here and they aren't and won't be a little sneeze or hiccup in our lives. This is going to be a raging avalanche and we're standing right in the middle of it's path.
A closet liberal shows his true colors. Former supreme court justice Stevens wrote a book recently that says we need to change several of the amendments to "make them clearer" and less likely to be misunderstood. He wants the 2nd amendment to read that citizens have the right to bear arms "while serving in the militia". He doesn't seem to understand that if that was the only way citizens could own and bear arms was while they were under the control of the government and give the government total control over ALL levels of force. He also equates the national guard to be the militia and not the classical definition of all able body citizens between the ages of 16 and 65 years of age. So this man, a universally considered conservative republican, shows himself to really be an eggheaded liberal. But then almost everybody who resides or works in DC is or becomes quickly a liberal. If they don't, they don't seem to last very long in the land of unicorns and pink shaded eye glasses.
A quick survival tip today, I'm a little depressed and want to throw the computer in the trash and cry myself to sleep after a stiff glass of scotch. There is a new blog out that everyone might find interesting. It's about a family that's starting it's own farm and orchard business while developing their self sufficiency. It seems to be pretty interesting and we all could learn a lot form their experiences. Go to sweeneysfarmandorchards.blogspot.com After you've checked it out, let me know what you think of it and I'll post your thoughts here.
This is the final reminder that this blog ends on Tuesday unless you let me know your out there and I'm not writing to myself. I don't mind the work getting the blog ready daily, but have other things to do if no one is reading and profiting from it.
With the democrats facing the real possibility of losing the senate in the November elections, a surprising cavalry is riding to their rescue. Or maybe not so surprising. The U.S. Communist party is allying themselves with the democrats and "helping them unite the left and stave off the right-wing extremists". That's us in case you didn't know. Now why they think the democrats need the help is beyond me. Even if the GOP sweeps ALL the running democrats out of office, what difference would that make in the grand scheme of things? The two party system is a farce and has been for quite a while now. All it really does is give the illusion that the voter has a choice when in actuality the democrats and GOP are just two heads of the same snake and that is causing conservatives to become divided and easily conquered. So my advise is not to vote party labels, but do your research and vote the man/woman who best seems to represent your goals.
China is almost ready to make its move against the dollar. As China continues to reduce it's holdings of the dollar and build trading ties to other countries using their own respective currencies or actual trading of goods, it's further weakening the dollar as the worlds reserve currency. Once the dollar has been rejected by most of the countries in the world and loses its status as the reserve currency, the dollar will crash and massive price increases will occur. Interest rates will soar as will inflation. The interest on our debt will reach historic levels and that will make the crash even more crippling as we will be unable to borrow anymore money to keep all the social responsibilities like S.S. payments or obamacare afloat. Expect even more and worse riots then we're currently seeing in the Ukraine and Venezuela. A well respected economics expert warned back in January that there was a coming event or events that would change the entire world and it would happen on or around March 4th. I didn't write about his predictions because they seemed even to me to be too far fetched and I decided to keep them under my tin hat. Well as things progress those warnings seem less crazy and my tin hat is getting pretty tight. I've telling everyone here as well as within my group to work even harder and faster on building their stockpile of goods and gear for months now and I hope they've been listening and following my advise. Cause the troubles that are coming are just about here and they aren't and won't be a little sneeze or hiccup in our lives. This is going to be a raging avalanche and we're standing right in the middle of it's path.
A closet liberal shows his true colors. Former supreme court justice Stevens wrote a book recently that says we need to change several of the amendments to "make them clearer" and less likely to be misunderstood. He wants the 2nd amendment to read that citizens have the right to bear arms "while serving in the militia". He doesn't seem to understand that if that was the only way citizens could own and bear arms was while they were under the control of the government and give the government total control over ALL levels of force. He also equates the national guard to be the militia and not the classical definition of all able body citizens between the ages of 16 and 65 years of age. So this man, a universally considered conservative republican, shows himself to really be an eggheaded liberal. But then almost everybody who resides or works in DC is or becomes quickly a liberal. If they don't, they don't seem to last very long in the land of unicorns and pink shaded eye glasses.
A quick survival tip today, I'm a little depressed and want to throw the computer in the trash and cry myself to sleep after a stiff glass of scotch. There is a new blog out that everyone might find interesting. It's about a family that's starting it's own farm and orchard business while developing their self sufficiency. It seems to be pretty interesting and we all could learn a lot form their experiences. Go to sweeneysfarmandorchards.blogspot.com After you've checked it out, let me know what you think of it and I'll post your thoughts here.
This is the final reminder that this blog ends on Tuesday unless you let me know your out there and I'm not writing to myself. I don't mind the work getting the blog ready daily, but have other things to do if no one is reading and profiting from it.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Lots of little things beginning to add up
No one major thing on todays menu, but lots of little tidbits to get one thinking and beginning to understand just where the world situation sits.
First we go to the Ukraine where their parliament has announced new elections for this May. The problem is that the current president hasn't resigned or been impeached as yet. He stated that he will not abide by the parliaments announcement or anything else they have to say. Sounds like the violence there is just beginning and that a real life civil war between the parliament and the president (as well as their supporters) is about to erupt over the current unrest. Stay tuned, this is far from over, no matter what maobama and Putin have to say about it.
I wonder why the violence in Venezuela isn't being as widely reported as that in the Ukraine? There have been 12 straight days of riots and violent clashes between the citizens and police/army forces. These riots are over the lack of security in the face of rapidly rising crime and the high cost of food in addition to the scarcity of the overpriced food and, to top it all off, a high rate of inflation. The citizens want to know why a country like Venezuela with all it's oil export money can't control the crime and keep prices lower. As one protestor put it "I have to wait in line for 5 or 6 hours to get a kilo of flour and then pay 2 or 3 times what it cost last month. Venezuela president Maduro blames the troubles and high crime on ex-president Uribe of Columbia and his private army of thugs and drug dealers, saying Uribe wants to break part of Venezuela off and form his own country and that Venezuela will fight to it's last breath to preserve all its lands. Sounds to me like Maduro is looking to deflect anger away from him and his botched policies and towards Columbia. Maybe even start a small scale war to hike up patriotic fever and get the citizens looking for someone else to blame. But none of this answers the original question, why are the MSM ignoring or under reporting Venezuela's troubles?
With all the countries around the world in political or economic trouble and their citizens marching to get changes made and new leadership running the country, it was inevitable that a similar call would be issued here in America. A respected conservative online news service today wonders of it's time for America to stage demonstrations, riots and/or violence to get rid of maobama and his cohorts. There is already a planned march on DC, scheduled for next month, by a bunch of hot-headed militia members to shutdown the city, surround the capital and the white house until maobama resigns and we get a new congress installed. I was against the idea as soon as I heard it and NOTHING I've heard since then has changed my mind. It was a stupid idea then and a worse one now. If a number of militia members from across the country march on DC while carrying weapons, loaded or not, someone will fire the first shot and then it will katey-bar-the-door and the devil take the hindmost. Nor will it matter who actually shot first, the militia will get the blame. That will be all maobama and his pet congress needs to declare ALL militia organizations as terrorist groups and have them all arrested. It will also give them the needed leverage to force through more anti-guns laws and to pass the UN treaty banning small arms. Then maobama's thug army, aka the DHS, and it's spear tip known as the JSOC to begin a rain of terror across the country that will make the Ukraine or the Arab Spring look like a high school prom. I pray the Lord brings some sanity to these individuals who are eager to start the next American revolution.
For all you liberal pro-abortionists who think the rest of us are racists for opposing abortion, consider this. There are more black babies killed every year in NYC then are allowed to be born. So tell me, who's the racist now?
Just in, Syria has approved a "new" 100 day plan top get rid of its chemical weapons. What happened to the old plan? And how does anyone know this new plan will work any better then the last one? In regards to Syria, Iran is increasing the number of "advisors" it's loaning to Syria. These advisors are specialists in intelligence and training. This is in addition to the Iran backed Hezbollah terrorist group fighters and Basji paramilitary volunteers who are already assisting Syrian forces. Seems that the Iranian and Russian military help is all that's keeping Assad in power. Iran is supplying the manpower and Russia is sending all the military equipment, including small arms and ammunition, attack helicopters and tanks.
Seems like the news rooms are safe for now. Maobama's FCC had backed off, for now, their plan to install "monitors" in every news room to see what sort of news they are putting out. If that sounded like 1984's big brother to you, your right. But the key words are "for now". That tells me they haven't given up on the idea, but are just looking for a way to make it sound better, more palatable to the public and the news media.
Enough of the gloom and doom for today. Here's the survival tip of the day. Most survivalists/preppers forget one simple thing as they build the supplies and that is vitamins and minerals. In a TEOTWAWKI situation food will be scarce and may not have all the ingredients a person needs to keep healthy. The stress we'll be under in such a situation will deplete our energy reserves faster then any of us can imagine. And someone who isn't maintaining a proper balance in they're food intake are prime subjects for a debilitating illness and that is a burden on both themselves and their group that can be easily avoided by just keeping vitamins and minerals on hand. A simple "1 a day" vitamin/mineral pill will help stave off illness and keep the prepper functioning at the highest level. So be sure you add enough vitamins and minerals to your stash for you and your loved ones, spouses and children need them also.
Finally a reminder that this blog will exist for only 3 more days unless I hear from you. You all have the e-mail address so let me know your out there and want the blog to continue.
First we go to the Ukraine where their parliament has announced new elections for this May. The problem is that the current president hasn't resigned or been impeached as yet. He stated that he will not abide by the parliaments announcement or anything else they have to say. Sounds like the violence there is just beginning and that a real life civil war between the parliament and the president (as well as their supporters) is about to erupt over the current unrest. Stay tuned, this is far from over, no matter what maobama and Putin have to say about it.
I wonder why the violence in Venezuela isn't being as widely reported as that in the Ukraine? There have been 12 straight days of riots and violent clashes between the citizens and police/army forces. These riots are over the lack of security in the face of rapidly rising crime and the high cost of food in addition to the scarcity of the overpriced food and, to top it all off, a high rate of inflation. The citizens want to know why a country like Venezuela with all it's oil export money can't control the crime and keep prices lower. As one protestor put it "I have to wait in line for 5 or 6 hours to get a kilo of flour and then pay 2 or 3 times what it cost last month. Venezuela president Maduro blames the troubles and high crime on ex-president Uribe of Columbia and his private army of thugs and drug dealers, saying Uribe wants to break part of Venezuela off and form his own country and that Venezuela will fight to it's last breath to preserve all its lands. Sounds to me like Maduro is looking to deflect anger away from him and his botched policies and towards Columbia. Maybe even start a small scale war to hike up patriotic fever and get the citizens looking for someone else to blame. But none of this answers the original question, why are the MSM ignoring or under reporting Venezuela's troubles?
With all the countries around the world in political or economic trouble and their citizens marching to get changes made and new leadership running the country, it was inevitable that a similar call would be issued here in America. A respected conservative online news service today wonders of it's time for America to stage demonstrations, riots and/or violence to get rid of maobama and his cohorts. There is already a planned march on DC, scheduled for next month, by a bunch of hot-headed militia members to shutdown the city, surround the capital and the white house until maobama resigns and we get a new congress installed. I was against the idea as soon as I heard it and NOTHING I've heard since then has changed my mind. It was a stupid idea then and a worse one now. If a number of militia members from across the country march on DC while carrying weapons, loaded or not, someone will fire the first shot and then it will katey-bar-the-door and the devil take the hindmost. Nor will it matter who actually shot first, the militia will get the blame. That will be all maobama and his pet congress needs to declare ALL militia organizations as terrorist groups and have them all arrested. It will also give them the needed leverage to force through more anti-guns laws and to pass the UN treaty banning small arms. Then maobama's thug army, aka the DHS, and it's spear tip known as the JSOC to begin a rain of terror across the country that will make the Ukraine or the Arab Spring look like a high school prom. I pray the Lord brings some sanity to these individuals who are eager to start the next American revolution.
For all you liberal pro-abortionists who think the rest of us are racists for opposing abortion, consider this. There are more black babies killed every year in NYC then are allowed to be born. So tell me, who's the racist now?
Just in, Syria has approved a "new" 100 day plan top get rid of its chemical weapons. What happened to the old plan? And how does anyone know this new plan will work any better then the last one? In regards to Syria, Iran is increasing the number of "advisors" it's loaning to Syria. These advisors are specialists in intelligence and training. This is in addition to the Iran backed Hezbollah terrorist group fighters and Basji paramilitary volunteers who are already assisting Syrian forces. Seems that the Iranian and Russian military help is all that's keeping Assad in power. Iran is supplying the manpower and Russia is sending all the military equipment, including small arms and ammunition, attack helicopters and tanks.
Seems like the news rooms are safe for now. Maobama's FCC had backed off, for now, their plan to install "monitors" in every news room to see what sort of news they are putting out. If that sounded like 1984's big brother to you, your right. But the key words are "for now". That tells me they haven't given up on the idea, but are just looking for a way to make it sound better, more palatable to the public and the news media.
Enough of the gloom and doom for today. Here's the survival tip of the day. Most survivalists/preppers forget one simple thing as they build the supplies and that is vitamins and minerals. In a TEOTWAWKI situation food will be scarce and may not have all the ingredients a person needs to keep healthy. The stress we'll be under in such a situation will deplete our energy reserves faster then any of us can imagine. And someone who isn't maintaining a proper balance in they're food intake are prime subjects for a debilitating illness and that is a burden on both themselves and their group that can be easily avoided by just keeping vitamins and minerals on hand. A simple "1 a day" vitamin/mineral pill will help stave off illness and keep the prepper functioning at the highest level. So be sure you add enough vitamins and minerals to your stash for you and your loved ones, spouses and children need them also.
Finally a reminder that this blog will exist for only 3 more days unless I hear from you. You all have the e-mail address so let me know your out there and want the blog to continue.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Some not so odds and ends
As promised a few new thing, or should I say a few more facts were revealed today concerning previous posts. So here is the second post of the day.
China is about ready to lower the boom on US debt. They dropped $50B in US debt in Dec. 2013 and the ONLY reason we didn't hear about it or feel it in our pocket books was because the European Union picked up the slack and saved America's bacon. China will continue to drop anywhere from $30 to $50B US debt every month and use the money instead to continue buying gold. They, unlike the head-in-the-sand idiots running DC, understand that gold is THE only real world currency and are actively continuing to build their stockpile. They are thought to hold more the 5,000 tons of gold, but that isn't a confirmed number since China stopped announcing their holdings years ago. According to Bloomberg 80% of all the gold exported from the Swiss last month went to Asia and of that China received 44% with India a distant second place at 14%. As China and the world moves away from the US dollar, expect interest rates to skyrocket and inflation to follow suit. Don't be surprised to see interest rates as high as 13% or even more in the near future as the Fed tries to interest buyers in treasury notes. When that happens the cost of US debt will be around $1T a year just for maintenance.
Additional non-nerve tonic. As it stands right now 4 large US banks (JP Morgan and Chase are among them) are holding over $40B each in derivatives and when China and the rest of the world burst our financial bubble the carnage will be considerable. That begs the question "is this why there has been a sudden spate of banker deaths due to unusual circumstances in the last 2 months?" Wouldn't surprise me. For those who are financially challenged, like me, derivatives are important because the banks use them to leverage their bottom line and lets them loan out more money at better interest rates. A smarter man then me once said that every economic crash has come as a surprise to the masses since we're always the last to know when something is rotten in Denmark. So take this warning to heart and get ready. The ride is just beginning and it's going to be real rough and the bumps will be bone breaking if your not prepared. The big money people are aware of what's coming and are positioning themselves to ride out the storm as comfortably as possible while maintaining as much of their wealth as possible. You should do the same. None of us can afford to sit back and watch the economy of the world disintegrate before our eyes, but we can do our part to see that we are around when the smoke clears to be 100% certain that this sort of situation NEVER happens again. And to be as ready as possible we need to make sure or stocks of food, medical supplies and ammo are up to par. Also a nice supple of gold or silver coins wouldn't hurt either. If, like me, you want to be around to sit on the jury when these criminals come to answer for their many crimes against the American people, you need to be alive and well. So get busy, if you aren't already, and get yourself positioned to survive.
I recently wrote about a terror group in America that is pals with the FBI. Jamaat al-Fuqra is an African-American muslim group that has been linked to over 17 terror acts in the US alone in the last decade (including the under ware bomber and the DC sniper) and yet the FBI would rather have lunch with them rather the investigate and lock the whole group of raghead thugs in prison for the rest of their natural lives. I just found out they have a training compound near Rockford, IL under the name "Muslims of America" or "MOA" The nearest other compounds are outside Detroit MI and Kansas City, MO. At these and their other 14 compounds across America they conduct, (as they proudly announced) the "most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare" in the world. Neighbors report hearing weapons fire often at these compounds and, as told previously, there are videos of women receiving firearms and martial arts training as well as instruction in various military techniques. And the FBI knows all about this group, yet refuses to do more then have lunch with them. As a concerned America I have to ask why? But I doubt you or I will be happy with the answer. As for the Rockford compound, that's a little to close to home for me to be comfortable here ever again.
It's been a week since I withdrew my announcement that I was dropping the blog due to no response from readers. I withdrew my original decision when I was told that someone was reading it. But I cautioned that I would reinstate my decision if I didn't get some responses, either pro or con. Well I'm still waiting and it's been a week. So I'm now saying I'll give it another few days before I pull the plug. So here is your last chance to keep the blog going. E-mail me with questions or comments and the blog stays, no response by Tuesday and the blog dies. BTW, I have NEVER been known for my patience, ask my wife.
China is about ready to lower the boom on US debt. They dropped $50B in US debt in Dec. 2013 and the ONLY reason we didn't hear about it or feel it in our pocket books was because the European Union picked up the slack and saved America's bacon. China will continue to drop anywhere from $30 to $50B US debt every month and use the money instead to continue buying gold. They, unlike the head-in-the-sand idiots running DC, understand that gold is THE only real world currency and are actively continuing to build their stockpile. They are thought to hold more the 5,000 tons of gold, but that isn't a confirmed number since China stopped announcing their holdings years ago. According to Bloomberg 80% of all the gold exported from the Swiss last month went to Asia and of that China received 44% with India a distant second place at 14%. As China and the world moves away from the US dollar, expect interest rates to skyrocket and inflation to follow suit. Don't be surprised to see interest rates as high as 13% or even more in the near future as the Fed tries to interest buyers in treasury notes. When that happens the cost of US debt will be around $1T a year just for maintenance.
Additional non-nerve tonic. As it stands right now 4 large US banks (JP Morgan and Chase are among them) are holding over $40B each in derivatives and when China and the rest of the world burst our financial bubble the carnage will be considerable. That begs the question "is this why there has been a sudden spate of banker deaths due to unusual circumstances in the last 2 months?" Wouldn't surprise me. For those who are financially challenged, like me, derivatives are important because the banks use them to leverage their bottom line and lets them loan out more money at better interest rates. A smarter man then me once said that every economic crash has come as a surprise to the masses since we're always the last to know when something is rotten in Denmark. So take this warning to heart and get ready. The ride is just beginning and it's going to be real rough and the bumps will be bone breaking if your not prepared. The big money people are aware of what's coming and are positioning themselves to ride out the storm as comfortably as possible while maintaining as much of their wealth as possible. You should do the same. None of us can afford to sit back and watch the economy of the world disintegrate before our eyes, but we can do our part to see that we are around when the smoke clears to be 100% certain that this sort of situation NEVER happens again. And to be as ready as possible we need to make sure or stocks of food, medical supplies and ammo are up to par. Also a nice supple of gold or silver coins wouldn't hurt either. If, like me, you want to be around to sit on the jury when these criminals come to answer for their many crimes against the American people, you need to be alive and well. So get busy, if you aren't already, and get yourself positioned to survive.
I recently wrote about a terror group in America that is pals with the FBI. Jamaat al-Fuqra is an African-American muslim group that has been linked to over 17 terror acts in the US alone in the last decade (including the under ware bomber and the DC sniper) and yet the FBI would rather have lunch with them rather the investigate and lock the whole group of raghead thugs in prison for the rest of their natural lives. I just found out they have a training compound near Rockford, IL under the name "Muslims of America" or "MOA" The nearest other compounds are outside Detroit MI and Kansas City, MO. At these and their other 14 compounds across America they conduct, (as they proudly announced) the "most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare" in the world. Neighbors report hearing weapons fire often at these compounds and, as told previously, there are videos of women receiving firearms and martial arts training as well as instruction in various military techniques. And the FBI knows all about this group, yet refuses to do more then have lunch with them. As a concerned America I have to ask why? But I doubt you or I will be happy with the answer. As for the Rockford compound, that's a little to close to home for me to be comfortable here ever again.
It's been a week since I withdrew my announcement that I was dropping the blog due to no response from readers. I withdrew my original decision when I was told that someone was reading it. But I cautioned that I would reinstate my decision if I didn't get some responses, either pro or con. Well I'm still waiting and it's been a week. So I'm now saying I'll give it another few days before I pull the plug. So here is your last chance to keep the blog going. E-mail me with questions or comments and the blog stays, no response by Tuesday and the blog dies. BTW, I have NEVER been known for my patience, ask my wife.
More Odds and Ends
This post is coming out very early today, so, as always, if anything important happens later today I'll add a second post or modify these post.
A worrisome notice was issued today by Russia. They will be adding an undisclosed number of "stealth" subs to their Mediterranean task force. These subs are nicknamed "black holes in the ocean" by our navy because they are so difficult to spot while submerged. They carry 36 torpedo's and 6 or 8 surface to air or surface to surface missiles. This addition to the task force will be a major escalation of force in the region where Russia already has 12 ships that include a nuclear powered missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier. Plus their Black Sea fleet is in close proximity. The stated purpose for this escalation is to further protect Russian interests in the area as well as assist in the removal of WMD from Syria. But no one can explain how the addition of subs will better their ability to remove all those chemical weapons that Syria has been using freely on it's own citizens.
Maobama was going to announce cuts to our Social Security payments in this years budget to be posted by 3-4-14. But democrats who are looking at a difficult election in Nov. asked him to delay the cuts until next year to help keep them in office. Further maobama is putting his monitors in news rooms across the country. And no one is really complaining about it besides various conservative pundits on the internet. The news has been slanted to favor maobama ever since he announced his candidacy and now he wants to be sure he actually controls what the sheeple hear. And since most Americans make their decisions on important items based totally on what their favorite talking head tells them, maobama can have even more mind control over everyone. Oh happy days!
This comes under the heading of things to come. White Plains N.Y. has passed an ordinance requiring all stores to install video surveillance cameras at all their locations and allow police to view the stored video upon request, no warrant needed. I wonder if this is how big brother in the story "1984" started?
If you've been following the reports of all the turmoil in the Ukraine you have to ask yourself if this is what America's future looks like. Just like America is becoming, the citizens of Ukraine have had enough and won't take it anymore. The rioting has escalated from non-violent protests to rock throwing to now open warfare as the citizens and police are shooting at each other and the citizens are coming out armed and in make shift body armor including helmets. I can easily see this scenario playing out in America's near future, except that the citizens here will be better armed and have much better armor to assist them in forcing the maobama regime to follow the laws as outlined in the Constitution. Note that I am NOT advocating such an action, just saying that it wouldn't surprise me if/when it happens. I see where the government of Ukraine and the protestors have reached some sort of agreement to end the violence, but details are sketchy. I hope it works out for all so people will stop dying unnecessarily. But, like the "arab spring" in Egypt that didn't last to long because the new leaders were as bad as the old ones, I'll withhold my comments until things have had time to shake out.
A little good news for a change. A proposed New Hampshire law will prevent ANY local, county or state law enforcement agency from acquiring "military style equipment" without the citizens from agreeing to it by vote. Is this the first step in stopping the turning of our cops into paramilitary thugs? I hope so and that other states or at least counties follow suit.
Todays survival tip concerns your moral code of conduct while in a SHTF situation. My take on it comes from my Christian beliefs in that we should be as the Good Sumariton and help our neighbors as best we can and that we follow the 10 Commandments to the best of our ability in such circumstances. By that I mean we will need to share our food with those less fortunate, but only to a limited extent. My thoughts are that we give refugees enough food to last them for several days and then send them on their way. To try to take every refugee in and feed and cloth them will eat up our limited supplies in a short time. Much as we'd like to, we can't take 5 fish and 7 loaves of bread and feed the multitude forever. So we do what we can without taking anything critical away from our families or group. If we know where they can get additional help, we share that with them and if they are trying to become self-sufficient we teach them what they need to know to grow or harvest their own foods and give/loan them the seeds/tools needed. We do everything we can to make these new survivalists successful without fatally damaging our own abilities to survive. Next we keep from fouling our own nest. We don't chase after another person's mate, we don't fornicate outside our maritial bed and we don't steal from each other. A family is inviolate in ALL it's members and a group pulling together to survive is a family, only extended. The "due unto others" rule should be our guiding light both with dealing with refugees or people within your group. I assume your already laying down some rules within the group that covers offences such as drunken behavior, sleeping on duty, hoarding food, etc. Those are all good, practical rules to make living together safer and easier for all. But you also need to get some moral rules in place too. There should be no misunderstandings about messing with another mans wife or daughters, or trying to undermine another person for any reason. Again use the 10 Commandments as your guide and you can't go wrong. And do it NOW. During a crisis you can't discover that one member is a drunkard or that another is a hound dog in heat all the time. Or that some members are uncomfortable with any sort of moral rules. Get this talked through and agreed on by all the members before you all have to live together in close confinement. It will make trying times more bearable if it's all settled before it's really needed. If any of you have had similar thoughts or don't agree with mine, let me know via an e-mail and we can get a discussion going and maybe we'll all learn something.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
A few survival/prepping tips
I almost did not write todays post. Took the wife shopping earlier today and then took my third grand daughter shooting tonight and, at my age, those activities wore me out. However I was thinking about some simple and fairly inexpensive ways to get yourself better prepared.
First covers a question that every new survivalist has and it's "where/how do I begin to prepare?". The simple answer is just to begin, but that's copping out on an honest question. My suggestion is to pick a time frame, let's say a week. You want enough goods on hand to keep your family secure and well fed. So look at what you'd need to take care of ALL your needs for a week and then build up your stockpile to cover it. But don't stop with a weeks worth of food, that isn't the complete answer. You also need a weeks worth of personal hygiene products, including and especially the venerable toilet paper. Yes there are alternatives to T.P., but somehow I just don't see any modern America using them right from the git-go. Then you'll need a weeks worth of cleaning supplies, disease is right around the corner of every emergency and keeping your area clean, most importantly the food prep and eating areas, is essential. In every emergency I know of, power is gone immediately. So can you light up your home for a week without electricity? The same question covers cooking. If the basic services are gone, can you cook the food your family needs without the use of your stove? Water, the average amount of water a person needs per day for drinking and cooking is 1 gal. Notice that doesn't include personal hygiene or simply flushing the toilet. have you access to a good water supple and is it clean? If not, how will you purify it? What if someone sees the light in you house and decides he needs your supplies more then your family does? Can you protect you family and life saving supplies? For that matter, what will you do if a small fire ignites into one that consumes the entire house, including ALL your supplies? If a small fire starts, do you have a fire extinguisher on hand to keep it from destroying everything. These are just some of the things you need to consider when you begin prepping and need a starting point. So, using these hopefully helpful questions and applying them to you plan for survival and make sure you have as many avenues covered as you can. Once you have enough to cover your family's needs for that time span, increase the time span and start all over again. But do not skimp on anything or skip over something non-glamorous like cleaning supplies and over stock in the sexy areas like guns or ammo. An unbalanced stockpile means that when it comes time to use those items you've been keeping won't be there when needed. Last I heard they haven't revoked Murphy's Law yet, so plan for a visit, or two, from the little imp when TEOTWAWKI occurs.
Speaking of water, you have more on hand then you may realize. Every home I know of has both a water heater and a water pressure tank. Each holds anywhere from 20 to 60 gallons of clean water and are fairly easy to tap into if you have the right tools to do so. There are several gallons available in the toilet tank, NOT THE BOWL. Myself I'd use the toilet tank for cleaning up a mess someplace along with bleach, but never for cooking or drinking. Anyway, the two tanks mentioned above may hold as much as 80 or more gallons of useable water. For a family of 4 that means you have 20 days of drinking/cooking water at your fingertips. If the event lasts longer then those 20 days, how will you get more good drinking water for your family. The easiest way is to get it from a near by stream, river or lake and then purify it. Just make sure the water is from a fresh water supply and isn't salt water. Salt water can be cleaned so it is drinkable, but the process is long and fairly labor intensive. My suggestion is to get a good water filter system that uses either charcoal filters or reverse osmosis to purify the water. Or strain out as much of whatever is floating in the river water and then boil it for 15 minutes minimum at a roiling boil. Whatever method you decide on, and I'd suggest you have several ways to purify the water, you need to do sample runs of the system to be sure you understand what your doing and to become proficient at it. As a matter of fact I think every prepper should hold practice sessions for every level and method of survivalism before the use of that technique becomes needed. Practice makes perfect after all.
An inexpensive method of carrying extra ammo with you is to utilize items like stripper clips to carry ammo of a different caliber then they were intended for. As an example the stripper clips for the M16 in 5.56 will also hold 9MM pistol rounds. The rounds will slide in just like the original ammo and allows it to be carried in a pants pocket quietly and still gives you quick access to it. Or use the stripper clips for an AK47 in 7.62X39 to carry extra rounds for your .38/.357 pistol ammo. It functions just like a Bianchi stripper clip, but costs pennies compared to the Bianchi. Also it will carry 10 rounds while the more conventional Bianchi stripper clip holds just 6 rounds. BTW, the M16 stripper clip will hold 9 rounds of 9MM ammo. Both clips are inexpensive and easy to use for this new purpose. Those are two methods of carrying extra ammo for when/if you ever need it. I'm sure there are other methods available that I am unaware of. If you have any suggestions, e-mail them to me and I'll put them in my next post and give you credit for the idea.
Finally I was recently asked how a fairly intelligent person like me can still believe in the old fable of a "Supreme God over the whole universe". I gave them the standard answer that my faith is what's helping me cope with the many medical problems I am now facing, that the love God showed when he sent his Son down to cover my many sins, etc. yadda-yadda, ad nauseum. Then I told her that my belief was ironclad and if I was wrong, so what? If I died tomorrow and there is now afterlife, what happens then? I'm dead and pushing up daisy's in some small box until I disintegrate. And what have I lost? Absolutely nothing. To cover my belief that God has a plan for me as well as a place in Heaven when He calls me home, I've lived as best I can to the teachings in the Bible. I've not stolen anything from anyone since I was a young, very young boy. I haven't killed anyone other then in time of war, nor have I committed adultery or coveted my neighbors anything. I've honored my parents and placed no god before my God. In other words I've lived a good life for the most part and God has seen fit to recognize that and blessed me with many bounties. And at what cost to me? Well I don't wake up with a hangover or in a strange bed. I don't look over my shoulder when a cop car goes by, nor am I afraid to look other people in the eye because I never cheated them out of anything. I'm not deeply in debt, in fact I owe no one anything anymore. So there was a cost for my beliefs after all. I couldn't live as recklessly or stupidly as others, nor did I spend money that I didn't have on things I didn't need. My wife has been the only woman in my life for the last 43 years, but I don't consider that a cost at all. So if I place all the things I DIDN"T do against all the things I did do and add in what I've received, the scale is strongly tipped towards a belief in God. So in the end that's what living as a Christian did cost me, I had to live a good life with a good woman and enjoy the multitude of bounties God gave me. WOW!!! What a price I had to pay and I'd do it all over again in a New York minute. Compare that to the many who live a life apart from God and see what that costs them and you'll understand why I'm a Christian and why I believe in the old wives tale of a supreme God. Call me foolish, stupid or brainwashed if you want, but I'm happy in my beliefs and have no regrets at all about any of those decisions.
First covers a question that every new survivalist has and it's "where/how do I begin to prepare?". The simple answer is just to begin, but that's copping out on an honest question. My suggestion is to pick a time frame, let's say a week. You want enough goods on hand to keep your family secure and well fed. So look at what you'd need to take care of ALL your needs for a week and then build up your stockpile to cover it. But don't stop with a weeks worth of food, that isn't the complete answer. You also need a weeks worth of personal hygiene products, including and especially the venerable toilet paper. Yes there are alternatives to T.P., but somehow I just don't see any modern America using them right from the git-go. Then you'll need a weeks worth of cleaning supplies, disease is right around the corner of every emergency and keeping your area clean, most importantly the food prep and eating areas, is essential. In every emergency I know of, power is gone immediately. So can you light up your home for a week without electricity? The same question covers cooking. If the basic services are gone, can you cook the food your family needs without the use of your stove? Water, the average amount of water a person needs per day for drinking and cooking is 1 gal. Notice that doesn't include personal hygiene or simply flushing the toilet. have you access to a good water supple and is it clean? If not, how will you purify it? What if someone sees the light in you house and decides he needs your supplies more then your family does? Can you protect you family and life saving supplies? For that matter, what will you do if a small fire ignites into one that consumes the entire house, including ALL your supplies? If a small fire starts, do you have a fire extinguisher on hand to keep it from destroying everything. These are just some of the things you need to consider when you begin prepping and need a starting point. So, using these hopefully helpful questions and applying them to you plan for survival and make sure you have as many avenues covered as you can. Once you have enough to cover your family's needs for that time span, increase the time span and start all over again. But do not skimp on anything or skip over something non-glamorous like cleaning supplies and over stock in the sexy areas like guns or ammo. An unbalanced stockpile means that when it comes time to use those items you've been keeping won't be there when needed. Last I heard they haven't revoked Murphy's Law yet, so plan for a visit, or two, from the little imp when TEOTWAWKI occurs.
Speaking of water, you have more on hand then you may realize. Every home I know of has both a water heater and a water pressure tank. Each holds anywhere from 20 to 60 gallons of clean water and are fairly easy to tap into if you have the right tools to do so. There are several gallons available in the toilet tank, NOT THE BOWL. Myself I'd use the toilet tank for cleaning up a mess someplace along with bleach, but never for cooking or drinking. Anyway, the two tanks mentioned above may hold as much as 80 or more gallons of useable water. For a family of 4 that means you have 20 days of drinking/cooking water at your fingertips. If the event lasts longer then those 20 days, how will you get more good drinking water for your family. The easiest way is to get it from a near by stream, river or lake and then purify it. Just make sure the water is from a fresh water supply and isn't salt water. Salt water can be cleaned so it is drinkable, but the process is long and fairly labor intensive. My suggestion is to get a good water filter system that uses either charcoal filters or reverse osmosis to purify the water. Or strain out as much of whatever is floating in the river water and then boil it for 15 minutes minimum at a roiling boil. Whatever method you decide on, and I'd suggest you have several ways to purify the water, you need to do sample runs of the system to be sure you understand what your doing and to become proficient at it. As a matter of fact I think every prepper should hold practice sessions for every level and method of survivalism before the use of that technique becomes needed. Practice makes perfect after all.
An inexpensive method of carrying extra ammo with you is to utilize items like stripper clips to carry ammo of a different caliber then they were intended for. As an example the stripper clips for the M16 in 5.56 will also hold 9MM pistol rounds. The rounds will slide in just like the original ammo and allows it to be carried in a pants pocket quietly and still gives you quick access to it. Or use the stripper clips for an AK47 in 7.62X39 to carry extra rounds for your .38/.357 pistol ammo. It functions just like a Bianchi stripper clip, but costs pennies compared to the Bianchi. Also it will carry 10 rounds while the more conventional Bianchi stripper clip holds just 6 rounds. BTW, the M16 stripper clip will hold 9 rounds of 9MM ammo. Both clips are inexpensive and easy to use for this new purpose. Those are two methods of carrying extra ammo for when/if you ever need it. I'm sure there are other methods available that I am unaware of. If you have any suggestions, e-mail them to me and I'll put them in my next post and give you credit for the idea.
Finally I was recently asked how a fairly intelligent person like me can still believe in the old fable of a "Supreme God over the whole universe". I gave them the standard answer that my faith is what's helping me cope with the many medical problems I am now facing, that the love God showed when he sent his Son down to cover my many sins, etc. yadda-yadda, ad nauseum. Then I told her that my belief was ironclad and if I was wrong, so what? If I died tomorrow and there is now afterlife, what happens then? I'm dead and pushing up daisy's in some small box until I disintegrate. And what have I lost? Absolutely nothing. To cover my belief that God has a plan for me as well as a place in Heaven when He calls me home, I've lived as best I can to the teachings in the Bible. I've not stolen anything from anyone since I was a young, very young boy. I haven't killed anyone other then in time of war, nor have I committed adultery or coveted my neighbors anything. I've honored my parents and placed no god before my God. In other words I've lived a good life for the most part and God has seen fit to recognize that and blessed me with many bounties. And at what cost to me? Well I don't wake up with a hangover or in a strange bed. I don't look over my shoulder when a cop car goes by, nor am I afraid to look other people in the eye because I never cheated them out of anything. I'm not deeply in debt, in fact I owe no one anything anymore. So there was a cost for my beliefs after all. I couldn't live as recklessly or stupidly as others, nor did I spend money that I didn't have on things I didn't need. My wife has been the only woman in my life for the last 43 years, but I don't consider that a cost at all. So if I place all the things I DIDN"T do against all the things I did do and add in what I've received, the scale is strongly tipped towards a belief in God. So in the end that's what living as a Christian did cost me, I had to live a good life with a good woman and enjoy the multitude of bounties God gave me. WOW!!! What a price I had to pay and I'd do it all over again in a New York minute. Compare that to the many who live a life apart from God and see what that costs them and you'll understand why I'm a Christian and why I believe in the old wives tale of a supreme God. Call me foolish, stupid or brainwashed if you want, but I'm happy in my beliefs and have no regrets at all about any of those decisions.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
More odds and ends
More signs of the approaching collapse of the dollar. Major funds like K.K.R. are spending big bucks to reposition themselves into the resources sector. K.K.R. recently spent $1.5B to set up shop in Calgary, Canada so they could be closer to the action and away from the impending doom that will be America. Foreign governments are still buying into gold as well as the gold production and mining sectors. China and Russia have an agreement to abandon the dollar and trade their currencies between themselves. To sum up, the world is beginning to get away from the petrol dollar and into trading either their own currencies or commodities. And when that happens the American dollar, and you by definition, will have your goose cooked. Unless your already into precious metals and have beau coup trading items. And if your not as yet, why not?
BTW, the U.S. national marketable debt has more then doubled under maobama, it's up 106% since 2008.
Interesting news item, the new director of ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency resigned after only 5 months on the job. Either he wasn't aware of all the ramifications that went with the position or he found out how crooked the maobama regime really was and couldn't stomach their plans as he was fully integrated into them. Either way he's gone and who knows who maobama will appoint next to fill that important DHS arm. When questioned as to why he was quitting, he gave no answer????
Warren Buffets favorite ratio of Dow to the GDP points to an imminent 50% crash in the Dow. Is that why he and so many other big money people are deserting the market and running to precious metals and other commodities???
Troubling news about America's ability to deal with terrorists within our borders. Seems that the FBI thinks making friends with them will make them like America better. The muslim group Jamaat al-Fuqra has a series of training camps across America, in almost every state. They claim to be peaceful and say they are not terrorists. Yet video shows them training women in martial arts, weapons handling and combat techniques at their Hancock, MA facility. By coincidence that was the same facility where there is video showing misc. FBI agents having a friendly lunch with these non-violent ragheads. BTW, the lunch took place AFTER the FBI had placed the group on the terror organizations watch list that was sent to EVERY FBI field office. Sort of makes you wonder if the FBI has target identification problems. Maybe they're to busy watching home grown terrorists like the tea party to watch these peaceful (?) muslims. Or were they told to lay off these boy buggers by someone higher up? Like maybe in the oval office???
Just in, the federal government strikes again. Seems a federal judge has struck down the Neb. law OKing the Keystone to be built across it's territory. The reason hasn't been announced as yet, but this is just another way for maobama to try to roadblock the pipeline and still divert blame away from him or the Democrats in this crucial election year. And you wanted to know why your gas prices are surging, again.
To get away from all the gloom and doom news, there are some survival tips I hope you can use.
First concerns a question I got about which method was better for storing food long term, dehydrating or freeze dried. The short answer is freeze dried. Dehydration foods will keep for up to several months or slightly longer, depending on how dry you get it. The dryer the better and you'll know because very dry foods have a brittle texture. While freeze dried foods will last a number of years. Both foods storage life depends on how and where they are stored. The quickest way to destroy your stored foods is to let high temperatures, moisture or light touch them. Contamination, bugs and rodents complete the spoilage list. And always rotate your stored foods using the oldest first. So be sure to date all your stored foods and use FIFO as your motto, first in-first out.
The second tip concerns using canning jars to allow access to frequently used items like salt, rice, sugar, etc. while minimizing contamination possibilities. Someone suggested using lids from salt containers with the pour spout and that will work. However in my house a box of salt lasts a real long time right now. So instead I use the plastic tops of milk or juice bottles. I cut the tops off, completely clean and drain dry the tops, then using the outer ring from my canning jar as a template I draw a line where I want to cut off all the excess plastic. Then I attach the top to the jar and hold it in place with the ring. Works like a charm and is reusable for many times. If it's very humid and your worried about the humidity entering the jar, use a small piece of plastic wrap under the bottle cap and that will keep the contents nice and dry.
BTW, the U.S. national marketable debt has more then doubled under maobama, it's up 106% since 2008.
Interesting news item, the new director of ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency resigned after only 5 months on the job. Either he wasn't aware of all the ramifications that went with the position or he found out how crooked the maobama regime really was and couldn't stomach their plans as he was fully integrated into them. Either way he's gone and who knows who maobama will appoint next to fill that important DHS arm. When questioned as to why he was quitting, he gave no answer????
Warren Buffets favorite ratio of Dow to the GDP points to an imminent 50% crash in the Dow. Is that why he and so many other big money people are deserting the market and running to precious metals and other commodities???
Troubling news about America's ability to deal with terrorists within our borders. Seems that the FBI thinks making friends with them will make them like America better. The muslim group Jamaat al-Fuqra has a series of training camps across America, in almost every state. They claim to be peaceful and say they are not terrorists. Yet video shows them training women in martial arts, weapons handling and combat techniques at their Hancock, MA facility. By coincidence that was the same facility where there is video showing misc. FBI agents having a friendly lunch with these non-violent ragheads. BTW, the lunch took place AFTER the FBI had placed the group on the terror organizations watch list that was sent to EVERY FBI field office. Sort of makes you wonder if the FBI has target identification problems. Maybe they're to busy watching home grown terrorists like the tea party to watch these peaceful (?) muslims. Or were they told to lay off these boy buggers by someone higher up? Like maybe in the oval office???
Just in, the federal government strikes again. Seems a federal judge has struck down the Neb. law OKing the Keystone to be built across it's territory. The reason hasn't been announced as yet, but this is just another way for maobama to try to roadblock the pipeline and still divert blame away from him or the Democrats in this crucial election year. And you wanted to know why your gas prices are surging, again.
To get away from all the gloom and doom news, there are some survival tips I hope you can use.
First concerns a question I got about which method was better for storing food long term, dehydrating or freeze dried. The short answer is freeze dried. Dehydration foods will keep for up to several months or slightly longer, depending on how dry you get it. The dryer the better and you'll know because very dry foods have a brittle texture. While freeze dried foods will last a number of years. Both foods storage life depends on how and where they are stored. The quickest way to destroy your stored foods is to let high temperatures, moisture or light touch them. Contamination, bugs and rodents complete the spoilage list. And always rotate your stored foods using the oldest first. So be sure to date all your stored foods and use FIFO as your motto, first in-first out.
The second tip concerns using canning jars to allow access to frequently used items like salt, rice, sugar, etc. while minimizing contamination possibilities. Someone suggested using lids from salt containers with the pour spout and that will work. However in my house a box of salt lasts a real long time right now. So instead I use the plastic tops of milk or juice bottles. I cut the tops off, completely clean and drain dry the tops, then using the outer ring from my canning jar as a template I draw a line where I want to cut off all the excess plastic. Then I attach the top to the jar and hold it in place with the ring. Works like a charm and is reusable for many times. If it's very humid and your worried about the humidity entering the jar, use a small piece of plastic wrap under the bottle cap and that will keep the contents nice and dry.
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