Notes for Saturday – August 27, 2016

On August 27, 1883, the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occured on Krakatau, a small, uninhabited volcanic islan located west of Sumatra in Indonesia. Hear 3000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120 foot tsunamis and killed 36,000 people. o o o Ready Made Resources is now an authorized re-seller of the Harvest Right Freeze Drier Machine. It’s on sale right now and the price includes shipping. If you are looking to pick one up, this may be the time. SurvivalBlog has been using this new machine for …


Economics and Investing:

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.


Odds ‘n Sods:

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? …



Notes for Friday – August 26, 2016

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 …


Economics and Investing:

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.


Odds ‘n Sods:

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.



Notes for Thursday – August 25, 2016

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. …


Economics and Investing:

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.


Odds ‘n Sods:

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 …



Letter Re: Dehydrating Food – A Low Tech Method

Hugh, Just wanted to mention that in the absence of electric power to run dehydrators, you can also dehydrate leafy greens and salted tomatoes in the back seat of a closed car on a hot day. I have had good success using a muslin dishtowel placed on a cookie sheet (do not allow greens and tomatoes to touch metal during the drying process as this will turn them brown and icky) and just place the washed and patted dry greens (preferably not touching each other, place each leaf or slice singly not overlapping) and put the tray(s) on the back …


Economics and Investing:

Barack Obama may have finally destroyed America’s #1 advantage o o o China Plans To Slash Crude Demand By 250,000 Bpd o o o Scottish economy to see 2-11 billion pounds Brexit hit, government says o o o Sweden Warns U.K. Against Aggressive Tax Cuts Amid Brexit Talks o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.


JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

Books Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli Preparedness Now!: An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded and Revised Edition) by Aton Edwards Fiction Vandenberg by Oliver Lange (Invasion scenario. Note: It was later republished under the title: Defiance: An American Novel) Movies Amazing Grace (Biography of the abolitionist William Wilberforce) The Thing (Has some horrific scenes, but it is thought-provoking. NOT for kids!)