As you can see, I'm not as anal about posting here as I used to be. There is so much going on, both in the world situation and in my personal life. I'll not waste time on my personal trials and tribulations and stick entirely to what's happening in the world and how it will affect us in America.
Starting with the illegal immigration problem, it's getting both worse and maybe a little better these last few days. First comes the reports that a new disease brought here by the illegals and that has no cure is starting to appear around the nation. Coincidently these outbreaks are occurring where there has been massive dumps of illegals to the towns and cities, without incarceration or even supervision. I can't pronounce the name of the disease or even attempt to spell it out, but understand that it causes severe cramping and bone pain and can even lead to death. The next piece of frightening news is that maobama is releasing into society know, admitted gang members, from gangs such as MS-13 an acknowledged threat to our security. These gangbangers are freely saying they have killed, raped, robbed and otherwise acted like a rabid animal and still they are being called "kids" and released on their own. One illegal has been arrested for rape of a very young girl, he has been deported 4 times over the years. Yet these are the sort of "kids" maobama is allowing, no aiding, into our country. Another news report today says that the UN has taken control of our southern border, using the lie that these people are "refugees" instead if being criminal trespassers. That report is from an un-named border patrol agent and hasn't been verified, but it does fall neatly into the rhetoric that's been floating like a trial balloon for a few weeks now. However, all is not bad, even tragic news down south. Gov. Perry already had stationed additional state police along the border to back up the border patrol and, when that proved to be good, but not enough, he now has sent an additional 1,000 national guardsmen to further enforce our borders. They will be armed and allowed to return fire the next time the drug cartels gunmen give the illegals high powered rifle fire as cover to aid their crossing/wall climbing. This is a war waiting to happen, so stay tuned.
Now we turn our attention to the Ukraine. The plane that was supposedly shot down by Russia backed rebels is looking more and ore like another put up job. It seems that the passports of the victims are in pristine condition, not something you'd expect of something that was blown out of the sky by a high powered explosion. I don't fall for the party line on this, but it reminds me of the evidence" found so quickly after the Murrah building bombing in OKC back in the 90's. To refresh your memory, the feds "found" an axel from the truck that McVie supposedly used to transport that masterfully constructed fertilizer bomb. Not only did they find it, but they identified it as McVie's truck from it's serial number in only a couple of hours. Trust me, that would have been a masterpiece of detection if they'd done it in a couple of days, let alone hours. My point is that "evidence" can lie, especially in a maobama (or Clinton) reign. There are now reports that the plane was shot down by the Ukraine and not the rebels, but at this point I don't believe either side. Consider the report today that two Ukraine fighters were shot down by Russians who are actively assisting the rebels??? Ten stak it up against all the other red flags we've got since this whole business started months ago. Maobama seems to want open conflict with Russia and for the life of me I can't understand why. Russia has a history of being lousy soldiers when fighting outside their own borders, but real tigers when the battles are in their backyard. Which is where the fighting would be if/when we stick our nose in their business to far.
Now for the biggie. Israel and Gaza. The biblical place of Armageddon. That story will take an entire day to go over. Which means I won't be doing it here, today. I need to gather a few more facts, rumors and outright lies before I delve into that one. Perhaps tomorrow or the next day. Whatever, I will address it soon.
The entire world seems on the cusp of disaster and I do mean the entire world. There isn't one spot where things are tranquil, unless you count the south pole region. And that's just because there are no people living there to fight each other. So all I can advise is to try to sift through all the bravo sierra news reports to find even a kernel of truth. keep your eyes and ears open and try to be ready at a moments notice. Cause that's about how much time we'll get, if we're lucky.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Today's happenings
Today was a good day for me. Met with a group of dedicated patriots and taught a class on food storage and attended a class on formations and hand signals. I never realized how much I had forgotten of my old army skills until the younger vets taught the class and remembrances came flooding back. Then, as they got kitted up and headed out on a 5 mile hike that my knees won't let me even try to do, I packed up my show and tell items and headed into town to visit a couple of gun sores. One was closed, but at the other I found a fantastic deal, a used Glock 23 with night sights and 4 magazines for under $500. The gun is in excellent condition, almost new, and it is a Glock. They almost never break and, if they do, spare parts are available everywhere to fit it myself. Also ordered 2 extra extended round magazines from Glock to give my son and I a little extra firepower. He has a Glock 22, also in .40 S&W. All in all, a very good day.
On the world situation, things haven't changed much and the little they did change was for the worse. The Israeli's are still kicking butt in Gaza and the Ukraine and Russia are still pointing fingers at each other for the blame in the downed Malaysian plane. The biggest news is sliding under cover and unnoticed by the generally dumb public, mostly because the lame stream media chooses to not publish or analyze the reports. But 5 countries have decided to go their own way and start their own version of the world bank. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have signed an agreement to form a new money source for 3rd world countries. Once that is in place, the attack on the dollar as the world's reserve currency will gain force and will, eventually, cause the dollar to collapse. When the dollar collapses, money you have in the bank, stock market or various mutual funds will be worthless. The dollar is already on life support and any move against it will cause it to go into cardiac arrest and the governments ability to revive it is suspect at the best and non-existant at the worst. That's why I am constantly advising all my friends to get as far out of greenbacks as possible. Get into stored foods, firearms and ammunition, precious metals such as gold and/or silver. Anything that will retain it's value after the crash. Personally I prefer silver over gold, better value in a smaller package, especially when the ability to get change from a vendor is nonexistent. The difference is buying a loaf of bread for a silver dime that costs less then $20 and using a 1/10 oz. gold coin to buy the same item, but at a cost of $60 or more. Do not expect the vendor to have the ability to make change so you can keep your costs within reason.
Keep a close eye on China. They are up to their eyebrows in most of the worlds trouble spots and no one is really looking at them. Period. This new BRICS group that the Chinese government helped organize without our media catch ever a whiff of it.
Everything going on right now seem to be parts of a well thought out plan. I'm not 100% sure what that plan is, but I am sure it ends in the destruction of America as we know it. So I stand by my original thoughts that we may not make it to the November elections and if we somehow do, I am positive that we won't see the elections in 2016 happen. This whole thing is coming to a head and, like a bad boil on our bottoms, will either burst on it's own or have to be lanced to drain it. And the lancing will need to be done by the steady hands of patriots. Either way it will end before we know or are really ready for it.
On the world situation, things haven't changed much and the little they did change was for the worse. The Israeli's are still kicking butt in Gaza and the Ukraine and Russia are still pointing fingers at each other for the blame in the downed Malaysian plane. The biggest news is sliding under cover and unnoticed by the generally dumb public, mostly because the lame stream media chooses to not publish or analyze the reports. But 5 countries have decided to go their own way and start their own version of the world bank. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have signed an agreement to form a new money source for 3rd world countries. Once that is in place, the attack on the dollar as the world's reserve currency will gain force and will, eventually, cause the dollar to collapse. When the dollar collapses, money you have in the bank, stock market or various mutual funds will be worthless. The dollar is already on life support and any move against it will cause it to go into cardiac arrest and the governments ability to revive it is suspect at the best and non-existant at the worst. That's why I am constantly advising all my friends to get as far out of greenbacks as possible. Get into stored foods, firearms and ammunition, precious metals such as gold and/or silver. Anything that will retain it's value after the crash. Personally I prefer silver over gold, better value in a smaller package, especially when the ability to get change from a vendor is nonexistent. The difference is buying a loaf of bread for a silver dime that costs less then $20 and using a 1/10 oz. gold coin to buy the same item, but at a cost of $60 or more. Do not expect the vendor to have the ability to make change so you can keep your costs within reason.
Keep a close eye on China. They are up to their eyebrows in most of the worlds trouble spots and no one is really looking at them. Period. This new BRICS group that the Chinese government helped organize without our media catch ever a whiff of it.
Everything going on right now seem to be parts of a well thought out plan. I'm not 100% sure what that plan is, but I am sure it ends in the destruction of America as we know it. So I stand by my original thoughts that we may not make it to the November elections and if we somehow do, I am positive that we won't see the elections in 2016 happen. This whole thing is coming to a head and, like a bad boil on our bottoms, will either burst on it's own or have to be lanced to drain it. And the lancing will need to be done by the steady hands of patriots. Either way it will end before we know or are really ready for it.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Things are happening to fast
I know, it's taken me more then a day to get back here and finish up my reopening post. In all honesty, I thought I'd be able to continue like I was before, but fate and world events have interfered. For the fate part of it, my cancers are still doing well and the chemo treatments seem to be working. But the liver and prostate cancers are not advancing and in some ways have begun to recede. Bt now I have a new tumor on my wrist that has my doctors concerned. It's thought to be something called a Shwannoma tumor and is impacting my ulnar nerve, causing me pain and numbness along the lower left arm. if it is what the doctors think it is, the likelihood of it being malignant are about 1 in a 100 in my favor. If it's something else, all bets are off. So, for all my Christian friends, please keep me in your prayers. For my non-believers, keep me in your thoughts. I can use all the help I can get.
Now on to world events. Man, where do I start? Well lets go with the big news today, a civilian air liner was shot down today in the Ukraine, by person or persons unknown. The why such a civilian plane was doing flying over a combat zone hasn't been answered and is beyond my ability to understand. The tally of dead stands at 295 with, supposedly, 23 Americans on board. No one claiming responsibility as yet, lots of finger pointing and no real answers. Sort of like that Korean jet, flight 007, the Russians shot down back in the 1990's. Oh! Oh! My bad.
Next is the recent report that several nations are joining forces and forming their answer to the world bank. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have formed a group knows as BRICS to do the exact same job as the world bank, under American leadership has provided for decades. This is another attempt to undermine the dollar and kick it off the stage as the replacement currency for so many countries. If/when the dollar collapses, the economic chaos that will follow it here will be breathtaking to behold. I envision unemployment to soar as high or higher then it did in the big crash of 1929. Prices for food are already skyrocketing, some items are up over 19% since January of this year, as well as gas and electricity. If this doesn't scare you into getting busy or busier preparing, nothing I can say will change your mind. Me, I'm stocking up on more food, ammo and medical supplies. And getting more silver as a hedge for when the greenback is no longer acceptable for anything except toilet paper. Gold is OK, but not as useable in that sort of situation.
Israel and Gaza are still at it. You'd think that after losing every war they started against the Israeli's since 1948, even the ragheads would see that it's pointless and either learn to accept the Isreali's as neighbors or just to ignore them entirely. I'm certain those in Israel would love for either option to become fact.
Finally, the count of dead international bankers is still climbing. Not sure what the current count is, but it has to be over 30 by now. Way to many suicides and unexplained deaths to be random acts or coincidence. Something is going on in the international banking industry and it's scaring the bejeezes out of a lot of people. Maybe they got world on the BRICS group? Don't know, but this has been going on sine the end of last year and shows of sign of slowing down.
A couple of changes to the way the blog will work. I will post some survival news and techniques, from time to time. But mostly I'll have news that may be "overlooked" by the lame stream media or under emphsized by them. For whatever reason. Everything is now out in the open, if we keep our eyes open and brain in gear. It's scattered across the news, both conventional and conservative, but it's there. All we need to do is collect it, put it together and present it in a rational form. To do that I need everyone's help. I need that feedback I was not getting the last time I tried this and I need you questioning my conclusions. I'm not all seeing or all knowing, so I'll need and rely on feedback from my readers. Again, you can not comment here in the blog itself. However, you can e-mail me at either of my e-mail addresses and I'll answer them here and quote the source of the response back to you. Unless you wish to remain unknown, at which time I'll say the question/comment comes from and un-named source. So, lets try this again and, hopefully, I'll get more back from you guys and keep the blog lively and relevant.
Now on to world events. Man, where do I start? Well lets go with the big news today, a civilian air liner was shot down today in the Ukraine, by person or persons unknown. The why such a civilian plane was doing flying over a combat zone hasn't been answered and is beyond my ability to understand. The tally of dead stands at 295 with, supposedly, 23 Americans on board. No one claiming responsibility as yet, lots of finger pointing and no real answers. Sort of like that Korean jet, flight 007, the Russians shot down back in the 1990's. Oh! Oh! My bad.
Next is the recent report that several nations are joining forces and forming their answer to the world bank. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have formed a group knows as BRICS to do the exact same job as the world bank, under American leadership has provided for decades. This is another attempt to undermine the dollar and kick it off the stage as the replacement currency for so many countries. If/when the dollar collapses, the economic chaos that will follow it here will be breathtaking to behold. I envision unemployment to soar as high or higher then it did in the big crash of 1929. Prices for food are already skyrocketing, some items are up over 19% since January of this year, as well as gas and electricity. If this doesn't scare you into getting busy or busier preparing, nothing I can say will change your mind. Me, I'm stocking up on more food, ammo and medical supplies. And getting more silver as a hedge for when the greenback is no longer acceptable for anything except toilet paper. Gold is OK, but not as useable in that sort of situation.
Israel and Gaza are still at it. You'd think that after losing every war they started against the Israeli's since 1948, even the ragheads would see that it's pointless and either learn to accept the Isreali's as neighbors or just to ignore them entirely. I'm certain those in Israel would love for either option to become fact.
Finally, the count of dead international bankers is still climbing. Not sure what the current count is, but it has to be over 30 by now. Way to many suicides and unexplained deaths to be random acts or coincidence. Something is going on in the international banking industry and it's scaring the bejeezes out of a lot of people. Maybe they got world on the BRICS group? Don't know, but this has been going on sine the end of last year and shows of sign of slowing down.
A couple of changes to the way the blog will work. I will post some survival news and techniques, from time to time. But mostly I'll have news that may be "overlooked" by the lame stream media or under emphsized by them. For whatever reason. Everything is now out in the open, if we keep our eyes open and brain in gear. It's scattered across the news, both conventional and conservative, but it's there. All we need to do is collect it, put it together and present it in a rational form. To do that I need everyone's help. I need that feedback I was not getting the last time I tried this and I need you questioning my conclusions. I'm not all seeing or all knowing, so I'll need and rely on feedback from my readers. Again, you can not comment here in the blog itself. However, you can e-mail me at either of my e-mail addresses and I'll answer them here and quote the source of the response back to you. Unless you wish to remain unknown, at which time I'll say the question/comment comes from and un-named source. So, lets try this again and, hopefully, I'll get more back from you guys and keep the blog lively and relevant.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Been a while since my last post
I've been gone for a long time and I owe my readers an explaination. Actually I don't have a reason or an acceptable excuse. I just lost interest when I was getting no feedback and stopped writing. And a lot has happened in these last few months, both to me personally as well as within our country. The survival group I belonged to has broken up. Several members decided to also join a militia group that has proven in the past to be untrustworthy and full of spies, thus possibly harming the our security. Especially after one of them became a "leader" within that militia group. So I left and, from what I've learned since then, the rest of the group have drifted away. As for that rogue militia group, it's following it's usual pattern and also falling apart. So I'm not sure just where the rest of the old group are as far as preparing anymore. My health is still the same, both my cancers are still with me. But a recent CT scan showed that the liver cancer was showing signs of shrinking and my doctor thinks that if that trend continues surgery to remove the remaining tumors within the liver is very possible. That news made my day and cause the wife to break out in a big smile.
That takes care of the molasses, now for the sulfur. Maobama is still doing his level best to destroy America. Now he's allowing thousands of diseased illegals in the country and having his pet private army, aka the DHS, transfer them from border holding facilities all around the country. From CA to MA to MI. These illegals, which he describes as "children without parental supervision" are more like gang bangers from the streets of Chicago, New York or Los Angles. Many are said to be members of a terror gang known as MI-13, a well known and feared gang from central America that deals in drugs, prostitution, armed robbery, kidnapping and murder for hire. Their tactics are brutal and their name strikes fear in almost every member of the Hispanic community, legal and illegal. In addition there are rumors of agents from various terror groups, mostly from the middle east, scurrying across the southern border like cockroaches in a cold water flat. Again, they are allowed to enter, given food, clothes, medical attention and a free ride to a bus stop inside our country and then released. What happens to them and where they go after that is an unanswered question. A very disturbing report came out today that border patrol found a tunnel across the border that contained home-made armored vehicles and "thousands" of rounds of ammunition. All destined for use within our borders.
I's getting late and I'm getting tired as well as really pissed off over what's happening to our country, so I'll end for today and continue this rant tomorrow. And I'll pray again tonight that we, me and America, have a lot more tomorrows.
That takes care of the molasses, now for the sulfur. Maobama is still doing his level best to destroy America. Now he's allowing thousands of diseased illegals in the country and having his pet private army, aka the DHS, transfer them from border holding facilities all around the country. From CA to MA to MI. These illegals, which he describes as "children without parental supervision" are more like gang bangers from the streets of Chicago, New York or Los Angles. Many are said to be members of a terror gang known as MI-13, a well known and feared gang from central America that deals in drugs, prostitution, armed robbery, kidnapping and murder for hire. Their tactics are brutal and their name strikes fear in almost every member of the Hispanic community, legal and illegal. In addition there are rumors of agents from various terror groups, mostly from the middle east, scurrying across the southern border like cockroaches in a cold water flat. Again, they are allowed to enter, given food, clothes, medical attention and a free ride to a bus stop inside our country and then released. What happens to them and where they go after that is an unanswered question. A very disturbing report came out today that border patrol found a tunnel across the border that contained home-made armored vehicles and "thousands" of rounds of ammunition. All destined for use within our borders.
I's getting late and I'm getting tired as well as really pissed off over what's happening to our country, so I'll end for today and continue this rant tomorrow. And I'll pray again tonight that we, me and America, have a lot more tomorrows.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Short, but disturbing news day
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.
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.
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.
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