Marc Faber: S&P is Set to Crash 50%, Giving Back 5 Years of Gains – H.L. o o o “Things Are Worse” – Dollar Stores’ Startling Admission: Half Of US Consumers Are In Dire Straits – G.M. o o o Gold Prices And Miners Are Dropping, As Expected o o o The Woodbury Banking Company Closed by Regulators – G.G. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
Turkey’s Exhausting Zigzagging between East and West o o o Imposing Liberty – Excerpt: “Charity is rightfully the Christian way and should remain there. It should be important to us as believers, it should be our driving force, but it should never be put in the hands of bureaucrats.” – B.B. o o o Improving Global Food Security with a Device That Sweats – G.G. o o o Australian man caught up in Italy earthquake describes lucky escape – A.S. o o o Proportional Response: Understanding Self-Defense Statutes. How many of our concealed-carry compatriots have force alternatives besides their sidearm? …
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.” – Isaiah 49:15-16 (KJV)
August 26, 526, is the official anniversary of the invention of toilet paper by the Chinese. We celebrate this, though not because of its convenience. In fact, it has many shortcomings, some which are described within the articles and letters of SurvivalBlog. Our celebration of it is primarily because we now have an official metric of just how hard core of a prepper you are as well as a metric for just how economically unstable your country is. August 26, 1946 is also the official release date of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. o o o Today, we present another entry …
I/we Will Hunt! You answer, “My brother knows how to hunt!” You’re not in a position to learn or keep your skills up-to-date, but you think he will do it for you. I live in Florida, so let me give you the numbers for my state. There are approximately 20,271,272 people in the state of Florida. If half of one percent of the people in Florida survived a major catastrophe (that’s a death rate of 99.5%), there would be 101,356 people left or 1.5 people per square mile! Doing some research on primitive living, I read that it takes about …
I found this article to be profound. I think it’s valuable to get into the head of potential enemies, as well as to understand how history has shaped their culture and especially their view of outsiders. Over the years, the author, Dimitri Orlov, has had some fascinating, insightful, and useful observations about the ongoing and accelerating collapse of the United States, and I respect his opinion. I also recognize that he might have a positive bias toward Russia, which is understandable, but if this article is biased I don’t think it’s by very much. What most fascinates me with Orlov’s …
Most Millennials Have Less Than $1,000 In Savings, Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck – G.G. o o o Federal Debt to Hit $28.2 Trillion Over Next Decade – B.B. o o o UBS: U.S. Stocks Could Enter a Bear Market This Year – D.M. o o o Can The Various Pension And Benefit Ponzis Survive The Coming Wave Of Baby Boomer Retirements? – R.G. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
Chicago’s detective force dwindles as murder rate soars – S.L. o o o A $67,000 Home Robbery Exposes $500 Billion Problem in Argentina – G.S. o o o EpiPen price quintuples in US, but CEO pay goes up much more o o o Baltimore cops using private company’s aerial cameras to conduct secret surveillance – B.B. o o o How To Survive With Nothing But “Primitive Technology” – H.L.
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” President John F. Kennedy
August 25th is a birthday shared by novelist Frederick Forsyth (born 1938) and American humorist Patrick F. McManus (born 1933). Forsyth was the author of The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil’s Alternative, and many others. McManus was born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho, so his books could be classified as American Redoubt humor. When I met Pat a few years ago, Pat very kindly autographed my entire battered collection of his books. Some of these books had been so well-loved that the pages were falling out of their bindings. …
Food “My brother has a farm! We’ll have plenty of food.” When I hear this I ask, “What kind of farm?”. You can get any kind of answer here. Most people don’t realize that most professional farmers are specialized; they only grow one or a few things. There are farmers that raise only cattle, or corn, or fruit trees, et cetera, sometimes with smaller sets of supplementary crops. Farms that can be lived off of completely, which are very rare, are almost always small and provide for a small number of people. Each crop or type of livestock take special …
Hugh, The article about dehydrating foods was very well written, thanks. Subsequent comments about preventing small foods from falling through the trays prompts me to offer my solution. I use an ordinary American Harvest dehydrator with stacking trays. I line the trays with parchment paper that I have ventilated by punching holes through the paper, using an ordinary hole punch with the paper folded prior to punching, like making paper “snowflakes.” I lightly oil the paper with coconut oil, and find I can reuse them many times before they need to be replaced. Thanks for all the very informative articles. …
Can The Various Pension And Benefit Ponzis Survive The Coming Wave Of Baby Boomer Retirements? – H.L. o o o Four more mega-banks join the anti-dollar alliance – G.S. o o o The US National Debt Load is Second-Worst in the World – M.N. o o o Viktor Shvets: ‘The Private Sector Will Never Recover’ – C.F. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
Where are the BOB bags? Italy earthquake: 159 dead, many missing as magnitude-6.2 tremor wipes out towns – A.S. o o o Venezuela Will “Purge” All State Workers Who Sign Maduro Recall Petition – H.L. o o o Here’s a video that shows you just never know when TSHTF. Stop for gas, end up in the middle of a gunfight, and get wounded. It’s a crazy world already, and society hasn’t even “collapsed”! The terrifying moment a woman bystander is caught in the crossfire of terrifying machine gun shootout at Atlanta gas station – T.P. o o o The American …
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