Day: October 16, 2007

Note from JWR:

Congrats to E.M., the high bidder in the SurvivalBlog benefit auction, for a pre-1899 antique Mosin Nagant rifle. Today we are starting a new SurvivalBlog benefit auction, for four items: a Baygen Freeplay Summit AM/FM/Shortwave digitally-tuned radio, and a Baygen Sherpa hand crank flashlight. These were kindly donated by Ready Made Resources, one of our most loyal advertisers. Also included in the auction lot is a copy of my “Rawles Gets You Ready” preparedness course, from Arbogast Publishing, and an autographed copy of my novel “Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse”. These four items have a combined value of more than …


Letter Re: Dual and Triple Purpose Livestock

Memsahib: I just want to add a few comment toy our post “Dual and Triple Purpose Livestock, by The Memsahib”: My wife and I have raised many breeds of multi-purpose farm animals and have been members of the aforementioned American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) for years. A few comments for the prospective new animal owner. Point #1 – about modern stupid animals versus older potentially smarter ones. Yes, many modern breeds have lost the ability to do many important things – like giving birth and nursing, egg sitting and brooding, foraging, defending itself of hiding from a fox, et cetera. …


Letter Re: “Get Your Ark” Food Storage Pails

Hi Jim. A quick note regarding the question/comment from J.S.C. on serving size in the bucket of food. It is perhaps not commonly known, but it is an important fact to be aware of … that is, all foods sold in the US with nutrition labels have serving sizes based on definitions provided by the FDA. Each type of food is defined at the FDA web site. In simple terms, the FDA determines how much food is customarily consumed at one eating occasion. Typically, several different foods are eaten together during a meal (or eating occasion), so a single serving …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Mish Shedlock has recently posted some interesting items on his blog about Super SIVs and troubled Countrywide Financial’s ) CEO Angelo Mozilo bailing out of his own shares in the company.   o o o SHTF Daily (one of our daily “must read” blogs) recently posted links to seven sobering economics articles: Mass auction reveals depth of foreclosure crisis, Even the renters now feel the mortgage crisis, Subprime crisis won’t peak until 2009, The dollar era is over: a long, slow collapse and a central bank firesale, Meltdown still has plenty of steam ahead, Global finance leaders gather as economic clouds …