Month: September 2014

Letter Re: Protecting Your Home, BOL, and Supplies from Pests

Hugh, Regarding Protecting Your Home, BOL, and Supplies from Pests, A cheap mousetrap can be made from a 5-gallon bucket, some sweet feed (molasses and grain), and a board. Take your 5-gallon bucket, add some sweet feed, and use the board as a ramp for the mice. The mice will climb up the board and jump into the bucket. Once in, they can’t get out. There can only be one mouse in the bucket, otherwise they kill and eat each other. The wonderful smell of the molasses will draw the mice in quickly. I’ve seen eight mice in the bucket …


Economics and Investing:

Tax Man Uses Drones to Root Out Wealthy Tax Evaders o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Standard & Poor’s Warns on Germany Triggering the Next Debt Crisis, Investors Would Lose their Shirts Bubble Finance At Work: Asset Inflation For The 1% This Is About As Good As Things Are Going To Get For The Middle Class – And It’s Not That Good Silver Tumbles To 4 Year Lows As Massive Sell Order Hits At Market Open


Odds ‘n Sods:

Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General. JWR’s Comments: Only National Pravda Radio (NPR) could couch Holder’s departure in such glowing terms and avoid any specific mention of the many impeachable scandals that the man got himself into, including the Fast and Furious gunrunning plot. Holder should be serving a long stretch in a federal pen, rather than collecting a federal retirement check. o o o Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car – T.P. o o o 11-Year-Old Girl Saves Mother’s Life By Shooting Violent Intruder Multiple Times. – J.W. o o o For Gun Shop Owners, …


Hughs Quote of the Day:

“Five-hundred channels and there ain’t much on tonight Except reality shows about some folk’s so-called lives A pretty girl cries ’cause she don’t get a rose But she’ll find love next year on her own show And they call that real Real is a hand you hold fifty-seven years Real is a band of gold tremblin’ with fear It’s the first long tear down an old man’s face, watchin’ his angel slippin’ away His heart’s so broke, it’s never gonna heal I call that real Where I live, housewives don’t act like that And the survivors are farmers in John …


Notes for Thursday – September 25, 2014

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Communications for When SHTF, by N.M.

Communications is a key element in our everyday lives. If you don’t believe me, try going a whole day with no cell phone, Internet, television, or any other means of communications (COMMS). So it stands to reason that having COMMS, when SHTF, is essential to gaining intelligence (COMINT), the safety and security of your family, keeping informed, and keeping at least one step ahead of anybody with bad intentions. Like any skill, it is essential to practice; that means practicing before SHTF, so that you have the necessary skills. While most of the communications methods discussed in this article are …


Two Letters Re: Covert Communications

Hugh, Reading H.R.’s correction on the Covert Communication article I must correct him. He cites 146.00MHz as the National Calling Frequency. That is incorrect. The generally agreed upon simplex frequency (there is no law or regulation requiring the use of any frequency as a National Calling Frequency) for calling others known and/or unknown is 146.52MHz. Do a Google search for “amateur radio national simplex frequency” and navigate to any of the top five or ten citations and you will find that 146.52 is listed in each as the 2 meter national simplex frequency. (There are many National Simplex Frequencies on …


Economics and Investing:

Is U.S. Gas Really Expensive, And Will It Get Cheaper? o o o 5 U.S. Banks Each Have More Than 40 Trillion Dollars In Exposure To Derivatives. – D.B. I can’t even comprehend those numbers! o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Peter Schiff – A New Fed Playbook for the New Normal ECB to Keep Loose Policy ‘For Long Time’: Draghi Home Prices Rise Less Than Expected The Glaringly Obvious Guide to the Next Crash


Odds ‘n Sods:

The Burning Platform blog recently posted a cogent letter clipping about U.S. intervention in Syria (from what appears to be Navy Times), titled Clear As Mud. o o o Seattle mandates residents separate food waste from trash or pay $1 fine – T.P. o o o Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates o o o Apparently there really are zombies (other than those found at *Mart on Black Friday): Liberia: Dead Ebola Patients Resurrect?. It is stories like this that make me really question the level of medical care available in some …



Notes for Wednesday – September 24, 2014

In 1493AD, Columbus set sail with 17 ships on his 2nd voyage to the Americas. Also on this date in 1775, Ethan Allen was captured by the British. o o o Yesterday, SurvivalBlog ran an article that had a list of Emergency Frequencies that might be important to know. At the time, we did not have a source for attribution and stated such. Thanks to our readers, the original link has been found at Graywolf Survival, and it contains much more useful information. Check out How to communicate when the world goes silent. o o o Today, we present another …


The Mindset and Experience of a Single Competent Female Prepper, by Skylar

For the majority of my adult life– 34 years– I have taught, lived, worked, and recreated in wilderness settings. I appreciated JMS’s call for articles from single female preppers, as it has been a frustration of mine for many years. My early years were spent trying to prove that women can be effective and competent in a survival setting without having to become “one of the guys” or Rambo-esque. It took me a couple of tries before I found an organization to work for that shared this view. I spent the next 10 years working for Outward Bound, and I …


Three Letters Re: Covert Communications

Dear Hugh: Regarding the captioned article posted 23 September 2014, I call your attention to the following quote, pulled from near the middle of the second paragraph: “These radios do have ‘Privacy Codes’, but anyone can switch around until they find the code you are on, as they all use the same codes and scanners will hear them, coded or not. Switching codes every hour or time you decide will help not being discovered by other FRS/GMRS radio users, but others will scan the codes. It may help but will get you found if others find which code channel you …


Economics and Investing:

The Ponzi Economy. – J.W. o o o Why Are The Ultra-Rich Rushing To Buy Gold o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: The Dow And S&P 500 Soar To Irrational Heights – Meanwhile The Ultra-Wealthy Rush To Buy Gold Bars Minimum-Wage Blowback; The De-Humanization Of Fast-Food Has Begun Billionaires Are Hoarding Piles of Cash – Disagree with the authors analysis but the facts of how much cash is being withheld is interesting