Month: July 2014

Notes for Tuesday – July 15, 2014

Today we present another entry for Round 53 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $11,000+ worth of prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good for any one, two, or three course (a $1,195 value), A course certificate from onPoint Tactical. This certificate will be for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses. (Excluding those restricted for military or government teams.) Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795, Two cases of Mountain House freeze dried assorted entrees in #10 cans, courtesy of Ready Made Resources (a $350 value), A $300 gift …



Home Brewing for SHTF, by C.K.

(Preface by HJL: SurvivalBlog neither condones nor condemns alcohol consumption. However, we stand by a biblical perspective that takes a strong stance against drunkenness. There are serious issues that must be weighed in regards to alcohol consumption and commerce, and each reader should measure them carefully to know whether home brewing is for you or not.) What is home brewing? I am not talking about brewing your favorite cup of coffee or tea; I am referring to the growing hobby of brewing beer, wine, and other spirits at home. There are many advantages of brewing in SHTF. However, like other …


Letter Re: Storage Without a Basement

I’m writing in response to the discussion about how to keep food in the Southeastern United States in the heat of the summer. My mother-in-law is in her 80s. I asked her how her parents and grandparents kept their food. For things like apples, potatoes, tomatoes, they would just store it above ground, sometimes packed in sawdust, usually in open air. For canned food, her mother had a little room off the house with shelves in it. It didn’t have a window, but it also got just as hot as the house. They would keep the canned food in jars …



Economics and Investing:

Gold Bugs Know That A Return To Gold Is Inevitable o o o Typical liberal logic… to even suggest this is outrageous. Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: ECB Interest Rates Too Low For Germany, Says Bundesbank Chief Gallup Slams Lid On Hopes For US Economy The Implosion Is Near: Signs Of The Bubble’s Last Days


Odds ‘n Sods:

A disturbing proposed rule change that would give the POTUS a kill switch on communications in the name of “sending an alert” nationwide. New alert system gives president special code for emergency messages. – E.A. o o o A SurvivalBlog reader sent in this amusing note: “Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 30/06 right in my doorway. I left six shells beside it, then left it alone and went about my business. “While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her …




Book Review: Ankara Fever: Homecomings

Author: Brian S. Vinson Copyright Date: 2014 Publisher: Left Brain / Right Brain Publishing ISBN: 978-1500242114 Amazon Link: Ankara Fever: Homecomings Suitable for children? Late teens and older This is the second installment in the Ankara Fever series, which appears to be scheduled as a trilogy. After reading book two, I’m really looking forward to book three! The first book– Ankara Fever: Journeys– was about Roger Westover trying to get himself, his new girlfriend, and his son to safety at a bug-out location. In book two– Ankara Fever: Homecomings– we get to see what is happening at the bug-out location. …


Scot’s Product Review: SimGar The Simple Garden

I have wanted to review a self-watering/fertilizing container gardening system ever since I started writing for SurvivalBlog. I was thrilled when SimGar contacted me and offered to let me borrow one of their SimGar Plus kits. It goes for about $150.00. SimGar stands for The Simple Garden, and it has only been on the market for about a month. I’ve gardened off and on for thirty plus years and have had both great and rotten results. While I’m lucky enough to have some decent space for a garden where we live now, my soil isn’t very good for vegetables without …


Recipe of the Week: Easy Meatloaf, by M.J.

Ingredients: 2 lbs 80% ground beef 2 cups Progresso Italian Style Bread Crumbs 2 cans Campbells tomato soup 2 lbs onions (3 lbs, if you love onions) butter flavored spray Directions: Combine beef, bread crumbs, and soup, thoroughly. Spray baking pan. (This is for the dish washer so the pan is easier to clean.) Put mixed ingredients in approximately 10 X 10 X 8 Pyrex or Corelle baking pan. (I don’t like metal baking pans, so this is a personal preference.) Cut larger onions in quarters and small onions in half. Place the onions in the outermost part of the …


Two Letters Re: So You Think Starting a Garden Will Be Easy After TEOTWAWKI

Onions are a winter crop, which speaks to planting for three seasons or even four. I am working on soil quality, as that would be hard for a looter to carry off, and I am working on it in more than one place with double digging and nitrogen-fixing cover crops like clover, black-eyed peas, buckwheat, and vetch. He mentioned 100 jars of food. I figured out that I need 400 jars (pint) for my family of six (grandma, husband, wife, and three children). I am using pints, because you can always open two; keeping half of a larger jar is …


Economics and Investing:

11 Disturbing Charts About The Chinese Economy o o o “Waiting For Armageddon” – Say It Isn’t So? – B.C. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Europe Tumbles As Banks Lose All 2014 Gains The Wall Street “Escape Velocity” Scam: GDP Forecasts Fizzling For Fourth Straight Year Time For Regime Change At The Eccles Building: Interest Rate Pegging Is Destroying Capitalism


Odds ‘n Sods:

The Office Of Refugee Resettlement – Facilitators For A ‘Manufactured Human Crisis’. – B.B. o o o An example of just how “out of touch” with reality the average person is. Steven Spielberg Slammed Online For ‘Killing’ Triceratops. – T.P. o o o Man Finds FBI Tracking Device on Car, Posts Photos Online, Gets Visit From FBI . – G.L. o o o Poor ATF. Too many guns… not enough “capacity” to track them all… Report: Government Agency Doesn’t Have Capacity to Track Illegal Gun Sales o o o Downloading Tor could have landed you on an NSA watch-list. – …