Year: 2017

Economics and Investing:

Mexico Sees Its First International Offshore Drilling Success. Eni has drilled the first well by an international oil company in Mexican waters, finding a meaningful volume of oil. o o o Podcast: Urban Agriculture (Peak Prosperity). Those living in cities/suburbs may find this podcast on urban agriculture of particular interest. o o o Warning: Three Major Bellwethers Are On Red Alert. I’m not much for charts in these turbulent economic times, but this is interesting. o o o It’s time to start believing in the Impossible (Article but includes a podcast.) o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Second Amendment Attacked by Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court – Scary stuff! – G.P. o o o File under “Only in California”: Stone Brewing creates beer with recycled water. The use of treated sewage water can only be a source of pride in the Mickey Mouse State of California. o o o Foundation And Empire: Is Donald Trump The Mule? o o o Reader C.F. sent in this article from the BBC: The milk that lasts for months. o o o Robert Griswold, from Ready Made Resources, sent in the link to this article for our readers: The Civil War Is …




Wertz’s Farm Market Canned Meat, by Pat Cascio

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I’d like to clear up a misconception that some readers have. Number one, I’m still not Jim Rawles; many readers just refuse to understand this. I am who I say I am, and you can Google my name if you’d like. Secondly, neither Jim Rawles nor Hugh Latimer have ever once demanded that I write an article on any product or, for that matter, ever asked me to not write about any product. Third, I am not an employee of SurvivalBlog. I am an independent journalist. I write articles for SurvivalBlog, and if Mr. Rawles or Mr. Latimer like my …


Saying Goodbye to the Worst Camo Pattern, Ever

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In 2015, with the rollout of Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP)—a slight variation of the Crye Multicam pattern, the U.S. Army announced that it is nearing the end of issuing the much-hated Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP, also known as the Army Combat Uniform or ACU), a conspicuous grayish blob pattern that is actually prominent against most natural backgrounds. The transition from the UCP to OCP Multicam is taking four years. The last day that the UCP uniforms are still authorized for wear for the U.S. Army will be September 30th, 2019. All that I can say is, good riddance to the …


Recipe of the Week: Deer Stew, by ALC

Ingredients: 3-4 pound deer roast 2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 1 clove garlic, minced 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can of tomato sauce 2 onions, chopped coarsely 1 lb baby carrots 4-5 medium potatoes, quartered Directions: In a slow-cooking crock pot, combine deer with salt, pepper, garlic, and onions. Add cream of mushroom soup, tomato sauce, and enough water to cover meat. Cover and cook on low for 4 to 6 hours. (I usually cook overnight.) Add potatoes and carrots, cook an additional 3-4 hours until carrots and potatoes are tender. o o o Useful Recipe and …


Letter Re: Making a Bible

Hugh, I have long wanted a homey Bible, one that I don’t have to be careful with, something to take when traveling, on camping trips, accidentally left in a hotel room or airplane, or just something comfortable to read while sitting on the easy chair. The typical Bible, being a book, is bulky, and I don’t always want the whole works, from Genesis to Revelations, there with me. I only want the books that I am going to be reading at the time. I’ve tried digital versions, but no matter how developed they have become, and there are some good …


Economics and Investing:

Pension Crisis Too Big for Markets to Ignore. Unfunded pension obligations have risen to $1.9 trillion from $292 billion since 2007. – G.G. o o o Just a quick reminder: the Federal Reserve is almost insolvent. Excerpt: “So if bond prices fall by just 0.9%, i.e. interest rates go up just slightly, the Fed will be insolvent.” o o o ‘Real’ Performance Comparison o o o Video: US Debt of $20 Trillion Visualized in Stacks of Physical Cash – H.L. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Brussels and Soros ‘Defeated’ in Macedonia After Anti-Soros Protests Sweep the Country. This is how you deal with EU bureaucrats and Soros minions! I’m so proud of my country and people! Each day, for 26 days, thousands of people in all cities in Macedonia have been… – H.L. o o o From Mike Williamson, SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large: Gun-Totin’ Left-Wingers Demonstrate at the Arizona Capitol: Is Bloodshed on the Horizon? This has potential to be terrifying or hilarious. They’ve been to a range and learned gun safety, which is good. I see no evidence they’ve learned how to actually fight. …


Hugh’s Quote of the Day:

“[W]hen you recall that one of the first moves by Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler was to outlaw individual ownership of gold, you begin to sense that there may be some connection between money, redeemable in gold, and the rare prize known as human liberty.” – Howard Buffett (1903 – 1964), Congressman from Nebraska, father of investor Warren Buffett, writing in The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, May 6, 1948



Household Basics in TEOTWAWKI- Part 8, by Sarah Latimer

I’m continuing my journey to consider some of the pantry basics (beyond meat, eggs, dairy, grains, fruits, and vegetables) that I will want to have available in the event of TEOTWAWKI. We’ve covered other pantry essentials, including baking soda, yeast, vinegar, salt and pepper (and other spices and herbs), coffee, and sugar/sweeteners to determine how we will provide them for our families in a TEOTWAWKI scenario. Some of these we will have to have stock piled, barter for, or find alternatives for, until they are manufactured again. Yet, other items are those we can make or produce for ourselves. This …


Letter Re: Surviving Custer

HJL, Almost all vehicles have a purely mechanical lock in the door for when the battery is dead or similar failure, and these are the simple flat keys which you can just keep with you in your wallet or keychain or hidden somewhere instead of the fat remotes and can be duplicated most places that do other keys. If you get a spare security key, you can keep it in the (locked) glove compartment or some other secure place; you’ll need the anti-theft feature of the fat key to start the car. There is also the common scenario where you …


Economics and Investing:

Why This Market Needs To Crash – And likely will. – G.G. HJL’s Comment: As the article points out, since 2009 over $12 trillion of new money has been injected into the world creating a massive price bubble everywhere. When it finally pops, it will be impossible to hide data, and the financial markets will implode. Eventually the bankruptcy will happen. o o o Interview: Bix, Bitcoin, and the Bigger Picture. William Lehr had Bix on his show for an analysis of the bitcoin fork as it applies to the bigger picture of the impending banking collapse and the need …