Hawaiian K. mentioned a glow-in-the-dark paint product. This could have numerous uses at a retreat, such as painting firearms front sights. In my experience, luminescent paint is quite useful for painting light switch plate covers.
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There are now just 10 days left in BulletProofME.com’s special sale on Interceptor Body Armor and Kevlar helmets, just for SurvivalBlog readers.
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Chris Laird predicts economic and political trends by following precious metals market behavior. In Dangers – Danger period 2008 and 2009 posted at the Silver Bear Cafe. Laird writes: “…the US, the world’s biggest grain exporter, is seeing widespread damage to its grain crops. Without the US ability to continue huge grain exports into 2009, the world will face new grain export restrictions by many other grain exporters. This will lead to a real world food crisis into [20]09. There is no bigger factor that will lead to world destabilization than food shortages.” (A hat tip to Kevin A. for the link.)
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Several readers in the US wrote to mention that another bit of our privacy is at risk: Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government. If this bothers you, then please contact your congresscritters.