Alt-Market reports: International Monetary Fund Recommends Stealing Americans’ Wealth Now! 3D Printed Gun Inventor Embarks on New Project: Dark Wallet Today, America’s Foodstamps Program Gets A 6% Haircut: What Happens Next? (Thanks to B.B. for the link.) Items from The Economatrix: Medicare docs face 24% pay cut … again Manufacturers Shake Off Effect of Budget Impasse Manufacturing in U.S. Expands at Faster Pace Than Forecast
Next on my reading pile is Richard J. Johnson’s book Redoubts: Paleopopulism at Twilight. Though ranty in spots, this looks like a cogent collection of essays. o o o Several readers mentioned a propaganda piece in the Washington Times that quotes Chinese military planners boasting about their nuclear strike capability on the United States. In my estimation this blustering is more about China’s economic goals than it is about actual military plans. China aims to crush the United States economically in the long term, but in the near term they need the American consumer market, to keep their many …
"Inter arma enim silent leges." – Cicero (Usually translated: "In time of war the law falls silent".)
Wow! The benefit Redoubt silver coin auction for Orange Jeep Dad in the aftermath of his traumatic house fire brought a high bid of $1,709! My sincere thanks for everyone’s generous bids. Since the bidding was so strong, I threw in a lot of bonus items, plus an hour of free consulting. — Today we present a guest article by Dr. Philip J. Goscienski. I’m sure that this article will be controversial, because there are two sharply divided camps in American prepperdom regarding vaccines. The continuing threat of vaccine contamination and the strange side effects (which are sometimes sudden) and …
If the nation’s infrastructure should crumble at TEOTWAWKI more than two centuries of medical advances in immunology will go down with it. The loss of the power grid in a massive solar flare or EMP will eliminate our capacity to make vaccines that protect us against serious, often fatal illnesses. The physicians who survive will face infectious diseases that they have never seen because they have been eliminated by vaccines. Survivalblog readers are aware of the need to stock up on beans, Band-Aids and bullets but it is vital to acquire a supply of immune substances within the body. We …
James, I concur with your desire to purchase items made in America, but I have had some trouble finding wood splitting items made here that are of the same quality as made in Europe. I also split my wood by hand and I have found these items very helpful: This great maul, and this Gränsfors splitting maul, and The spiral twist in this wedge makes it very effective with increased mechanical advantage. If you know of any American made wood splitting devices that are of the same quality as these, please let me know, because I …
Sir, I’m a suburbs dweller, living about 25 miles out of Milwaukee. I’ve gotten my mom–who lives nearby–into prepping. (Loaning her my copy of your “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It” book worked!) So what do I do next, to get her farther down the road [to prepping]? I bought her a Kat[adyn water] filter. She has no clue about storage of foods. (We aren’t one of those “canning” families.) I bought myself a bunch of MREs and Mountain House foods, but she can’t afford to [do likewise], since she’s a retired school teacher. …
Fascinating Maps: Deserted America: The maps that show how 60 years of white flight and brain drain have sucked the population from the Midwest. It will be interesting to see migration patterns in the next 20 years. I predict that most of the Redoubt will continue to benefit from net in-migration. o o o Reader Tom L. mentioned: Mayor Mike Bloomberg sends $1,000 campaign contribution to Moscow. (Idaho, that is.) Needless to say, Chaney, who is running for re-election, is one of the handful of members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns in the American Redoubt region. I’m tired of …
Ed in Michigan suggested: Paul Singer: Obamacare rollout a ‘fiasco’. (In a recent parody, even Hitler was furious.) Man throws away $500,000 in gold to spite ex-wife Meet the American Nomads of Walmart’s Plentiful Parking Lots Items from The Economatrix: Are Constitutional Conservatives Really The Boogeyman? Weekly Consumer Comfort Index Tumbles To Lowest Since October 2012 Initial Claims Miss As California Catches Up With Claims Backlog
Sometimes, the “crude, but effective” approach will work: How to open a can without a can opener o o o Diana V. pointed out this important article: In United States v. Bond, The Supreme Court Could Be Ruling On The Safety Of All American Rights o o o Does this look familiar? “Strawberry” sent us a video link, showing a couple of carags casting off. (You can skip the first minute or so.) A carag is of course featured in my most recent novel, and shown on the cover. Note that gas engine carags tend to be much …
“We have staked the whole future of America’s civilization, not upon the power of the government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions…..upon the capacity of each and all of to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” – James Madison
Last day! The benefit Redoubt silver coin auction for Orange Jeep Dad in the aftermath of his traumatic house fire ends today at 2:58 PM PST. ( Monday, November 4, 2013.) You can be assured that 100% of the gross proceeds will go to OJD’s family. The auction ends at 2:58 PM PST on Monday, November 4, 2013. Thanks, folks, for your very generous bids for this worthy cause. Note: Once the bidding got up above $1,200, I decided to also include three autographed books and two of the SurvivalBlog Archive DVDs as bonuses for the winning bidder. UPDATE! Monday …
I was recently hired by a consulting client from Wilmington, Delaware. Like most of my other clients, we had our conversations by phone. He spent a lot of time quizzing me about various towns and microclimates in The American Redoubt. He was stunned when I mentioned that the county where I live has less than 20,000 residents, yet it is larger than the entire state of Delaware, which has around 917,000 residents. To put the demographic differences in focus, the following are some comparisons. For privacy reasons, instead of my own county I’ll use Idaho County, Idaho as a point …
Back in the day, when I was in the military, we had C Rations or “C-Rats” as they were called, when we were out in the field. And, quite honestly, they were really pretty bad tasting, and lacking in much of anything. I served in the Illinois National Guard, as well as the US Army, and have quite a bit of experience with C-Rats. While in the National Guard, when we went on weekend maneuvers, a bunch of us would bring our own food along. And, we’d bring, cheeses, pepperoni, olives – gourmet foods, instead of eating C-Rats, or on …
77 Days in September by Ray Gorham. (Published in 2011.) 306 Pages. Note: Possible spoilers ahead. On June 16, 2013, “Retired Rev”. wrote a SurvivalBlog article entitled “Prepping For Seniors” and referred to the e-book “77 Days In September.” I made a note-to-self on my iPad to read it in the future. However, in the months in between, I’ve read several self-published End Times-type print books sold on Amazon, and those turned out to be somewhat painful experiences. A piece of advice to writers: If you are not positive that you can punctuate and follow standard grammatical rules, either hire …
