Day: November 25, 2012

Notes from JWR:

Release day, tomorrow! The First Revised Edition of Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse will be released in hardback on Monday, November 26, 2012 . This will be the first time that the book has ever been printed with a cloth binding. I’ve updated the book slightly to remove some temporal incongruities that had built up in the course of previous editions. I’ve also added a new introduction. As with the later paperback editions, it will include a glossary and index. It should be priced at less than $14.25. — Today we present another two entries for …


Church After TEOTWAWKI, by Ear to the Ground, Eye to the Sky in Virginia

SurvivalBlog has always suggested if not promoted having a Christ-centered spiritual focus, and my wife and I had that focus even before the writing on the wall became clear and we started prepping. We’re in our 50s now and have attended church for the most part since we were kids, and have a personal relationship with our savior Jesus. I like reading the thoughts of other posters as they prep, and their spiritual questions. Is it trusting to prepare? Will not God take care of us whatever may come? What role does God play in the events that are unfolding? …


Networking as a Survival Skill by K.C. in New York

The ground smolders with the charred remains scattered across once-green fields now turned black from cinders and dried blood.  An electric pole lies on its side across an abandoned road, menacing with the occasional buzz and spark.  Your home is gutted, shredded like a soft chunk of cheese.  A stack of crisped tortillas lie uneaten on the hearth, abandoned in the chaos. The air is fowl and acrid though silence has now settled after the screams and destruction of the night before.  You were lucky, though.  Living on higher ground, you heard the mobs coming and you had time to …


Economics and Investing:

Why Changes In Tax Law Will Devastate Our Economy Enslave a Nation with Debt: Marc ‘Dr. Doom’ Faber’s 50 Economic Charts. (Thanks to B.B. for the link.) Steven M. sent: Food Stamp Recipients Outnumber Populations of 24 States Combined Items from The Economatrix: Billionaire Investors George Soros And John Paulson Load Up On Gold More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before 2012-The Tipping Point-The Results Are In-The Bankers Lost Euro Strengthens To Three-Week High As Oil Advances


Odds ‘n Sods:

Eric B. sent: Photos: The safety cavern under Apollo launch pads    o o o Loyal contributor K.A.F. sent: The drive for grass-fed beef    o o o Reader R.B.S. mentioned this clever American-made invention: The Spiral-Eye Needle    o o o $300,000 In Gold Dust Found In Sacramento Home During HVAC Installation    o o o U.S. food banks raise alarm as drought dents government supplies


Jim’s Quote of the Day:

“For [in] those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here [is] Christ; or, lo, [he is] there; believe [him] not: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible, even the elect. But take …