Economics and Investing:

What Life Will Be Like After An Economic Collapse – G.G. o o o How US States Can Pave the Way for Greater Use of Sound Money o o o Powers That Be Desperately Trying To Keep Confidence Alive In Failing Fiat System o o o Late-August Calm A Breeding Ground For Bullion Bank Shenanigans o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.




Odds ‘n Sods:

Massive security breach hits popular web browser’s password manager – DSV o o o How To Disappear Completely – The Great Vanishing Act – G.L. o o o Hundreds of Aussies sign up for terror survival training. Isn’t the idea to NOT get yourself to be a hostage? So much for being in condition yellow and above! – A.S. o o o Video: MSNBC Host – The Borg Queen wanna-be. Your Kids Belong to the Collective o o o Controversy Erupts After NFL Quarterback Converts To Islam and Refuses To Stand for National Anthem… – W.C.







Notes for Monday – August 29, 2016

August 29th is a mournful day, as we remember the anniversary of the death of “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” – Isaiah 40:3. John, the Baptist, who heralded the first coming of our Lord and stood true to his belief in the face of death, was beheaded on this day in 29AD. In 1862, the Battle of Bull Run in Virginia began, along with the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.




Pat Cascio’s Product Review: Cold Steel Swift I & II

I’m one of these people who doesn’t sleep much at night. On a good night, I might get three or four hours of sleep. So, I spend a lot of time thinking. I sometimes come up with my best ideas in the middle of the night. I’ve often “written” my articles while in bed and put them down on paper later on. I’ve “designed” many knives while lying in bed wide awake, and then put the idea down on paper, and more often than not I can bring my idea to fruition. My long-time friend Lynn Thompson, who owns Cold …




Recipe of the Week: Old World Sauerbraten, by G.M.

Ingredients: 3½ to 4 lbs beef rump or sirloin tip 1 cup water 1 cup vinegar 1 large onion, sliced 1 lemon, sliced (unpeeled) 10 whole cloves 4 bay leaves 6 whole peppercorns 2 Tbsp salt 2 Tbsp sugar 12 gingersnaps, crumbled Directions: Place the meat in a deep ceramic or glass bowl. Combine water, vinegar, onion, lemon, cloves, bay leaves, pepper, salt, and sugar; then pour it over the meat. Cover and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours, turning the meat several times during marinating. Place beef in a slow-cooking pot. Pour 1 cup of marinade over the meat. …




Letter Re: Dehydrating Tray Solution

Hugh, I’ve noticed a couple of letters from people writing in and asking about the problem of smaller veggies falling through the trays with the tier-style hydrators. I wrestled with the same issue in the beginning and started out by using aluminum foil stretched across the racks. That proved to be impractical for long-term usage because each time you moved the rack in or out of the dryer the edges of the foil would catch on the sides and tear, not to mention the trick of getting them into the dryer without everything falling all over the floor. Additionally the …




Economics and Investing:

The Royal Bank of Scotland becomes the first bank to set negative interest rates. – G.G. o o o “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before” – The Housing Markets In The Hamptons, Aspen And Miami Are All Crashing o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Global Central Bankers, Stuck at Zero, Unite in Plea for Help from Governments – You have to read between some lines here, but what I read is Helicopter drops of money in some form will be needed and we have to make sure people understand what they have been doing to us is giving …




Odds ‘n Sods:

Grotesquely Incompetent Judge Won’t Suspend Mandatory Vaccination – DSV o o o The American Redoubt makes the Washington Post: A fortress Against Fear – M.S. o o o American Electorate Loses As Partisan Media Coverage Of Candidate Health Turns Outright Bizarre o o o Gun ownership rises to 44% of all home – GJM o o o Restoring Your Soil: Advice by an Old School Soil to Health Expert – DSV







Notes for Sunday – August 28, 2016

Readers of SurvivalBlog who use our RSS feed to stay up-to-date will notice that the entire article is no longer available via RSS. You must now click on the “Read More…” or the article title to actually read the entire article. We know this an inconvenience but we have had a series of copy-cat blogs who are posting the entire articles on their own sites using the RSS feed function. Most of these sites are little more than click-bait trying to get you to purchase products from their Amazon store or in their site. After dealing with a couple of sites that absolutely refused to adhere to our copyright and reposting rules on our provisos page, we have had to take the step of truncating the feeds. We’ve even had one site claim in our DCMA complaint against them that they are the originator and we are the poorly behaved competition. Perhaps we will loosen the feed restrictions again in a few months after these fly-by-night sites have collapsed and are gone.




My Tomato Process- Part 3, by Sarah Latimer

Freeze Drying Tomato Sauce I am absolutely thrilled with the results from our Harvest Right Freeze Dryer! I can not only dry fruits, vegetables, meats, and herbs, but I can freeze dry meals. With that accomplished, I began to think about sauces. Sometimes a recipe will call for just a tablespoon of tomato paste. Who wants to open a whole home-canned jar or even a store-bought can of tomato paste just to extract one tablespoon? Then, you have to figure out what to do with the rest before it spoils and (I almost can’t tolerate thinking of it) it has …




Letter Re: Low Tech Cooking

Hugh, One of your readers was asking about low tech cooking methods. He should search for Haybox Cooker. Articles will be found at Mother Earth News, Instructables, and elsewhere. It’s a very old method of first bringing food to a boil, then setting in an insulated box, and using fine hay to surround the cooking vessel. I’ve used blankets and towels, and it works wonderfully for soup, stew, making your own yogurt, and even for beans. Also, a sun oven is invaluable for low tech inexpensive cooking. Yes, you can and we did buy an expensive one, but our son …




Economics and Investing:

The sinister side of cash. Here comes the propaganda machine to attempt to take us to a cashless society. Why be concerned? Imagine a system where everything is cashless. You cannot do anything if the system is down for any reason. Moreover, who is to say that they cannot arbitrarily decide to restate the value of the number of “units” in your account(s)? – P.S. o o o Jim Rickards: “There Will Be A War On Gold” o o o GOLD & DEBT: The 1929 Great Depression vs The Next Great Collapse – It is truly amazing the amount of …