Day: July 22, 2016


Guest Article: The Best Oils For A Worst Case Scenario- Part 2, by Melissa Mink

#4- Cedarwood (Organic-Atlas) This is a very useful but tricky oil that I would not recommend any pregnant women use. It can be ingested but needs to be an Atlas variety only. Others are toxic and cannot be ingested, so know your oils! This one is also an amazing calmer and is much more powerful, in my own experience, at soothing bug bites and stings than Lavender. If you have ever owned a Cedar chest, you know how amazingly effective it is at repelling bugs. It is also not an oil that will give away your presence if needing to …


Two Letters Re: Prepper Axioms

Hi Jim, It’s been a while, but I thought I’d comment on this two-part article. This guy really nails it! A total realist. I like his understanding regarding the fallacy of “bugging out” for the average survivalist, along with other realities. His emphasis on physical fitness is locked-on, just for starters. Arguably, I even have to admit that in my efforts to be a Gray Man, I’m even standing out a little bit, at present (with a flat-coyote truck, and coyote and OD green clothing). I haven’t archived anything from the site in a couple years, due to the storehouse …


Economics and Investing:

Video: Danger – Divergence Greatest On Record – Mike Maloney (Quoting David Stockman and pointing to charts, Mike shows how the markets are being pumped up to record highs by the central banks with artificial liquidity.) o o o 19.4 Trillion Dollars In Debt – We Have Added 1.1 Trillion Dollars A Year To The National Debt Under Obama – B.B. o o o Are Americans Finally Getting Smarter About Money? o o o Britain’s Minimum Wage Short-Changes Young Workers o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for …


Odds ‘n Sods:

A mother’s diary of collapse in Venezuela – Link sent in by T.K. o o o Massachusetts Attorney General “Reinterprets” Law, Banning Thousands of Semi-Auto Rifles o o o Here is a small sampling of some of the new listings at SurvivalRealty.com: Off grid homes in Arizona (Bug Out in Style, Well, Solar, Back Up Generator), Idaho (Luxury in the Wild! Offgrid Lodge, Springs, Pond), Montana (Off the Grid in Montana), Texas (Complete Nacogdoches County Retreat) A 4,600 acre cattle ranch in Wyoming – space and water for a whole community! Secluded acreage available in Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming, …


Jim’s Quote of the Day:

“Negative interest rates are Mammon’s Götterdämmerung. The money cult is bolstered by the idea that its huge and all-powerful deity will be even more huge and all-powerful tomorrow; if the opposite is demonstrably the case, then people’s faith in it begins to falter and fade. Negative interest rates are like an icy-cold bath for Mammon, causing its godhead to shrink a little more with every dip. People see that, and think, ‘I don’t want to worship his shrinking yarbles.’ Then they go and spend their own yarbles on anything they can find—fallow land, vacant houses, golden calves, boxes of brass …