“This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities’ ability to deal with the adversity.” – Gideon Gono (Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, who helped orchestrate the world’s highest currency inflation rate of 89.7 sextillion percent per year.)
“‘Character’ may be defined as obedience to one’s sense of ought.” – Colonel Jeff Cooper
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." – John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)
“In 1868, our nation made a promise to the McDonald family; they and their descendants would henceforth be American citizens, and with American citizenship came the guarantee enshrined in our Constitution that no State could make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of American citizenship. The rights so guaranteed were not trivial. The Civil War was not fought because States were attacking people on the high seas or blocking access to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The rights secured by the Fourteenth Amendment were understood to include the fundamental rights honored by any free …
Medical Corps is running another Medical Response in Hostile Environments class, October 15-16-17. It is filling rapidly. Don’t miss out on this great training. o o o Reader Rod V. suggested a waterproof memory stick for archiving your most important computer files, such as e-books, and scanned family papers: Corsair Flash Survivor 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive. Rod’s comment: “This may be one of most important items in your Bug-out bag, so don’t be stingy. Get one that’s waterproof, bombproof, and kid-proof.” o o o Jeff M. told me about a good web site with free barn …
“The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.” – Arnold J. Toynbee
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.” Proverbs 27:23-27 (KJV)
“Despite the threat of asteroids and volcanoes I’m going to go with a definite certainty: Man’s un-doing will be his own doing.” – SurvivalBlog Reader Mike C.
"It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." – John Steinbeck
“We should do well to remember that, since time immemorial, gold has successfully acted as the ultimate extinguisher of debt — until it was forcibly removed from the international monetary system in 1971. Since 1971 governments have pretended that paying debt in U.S. dollars extinguished it, too. But in fact it did not. Debt was merely transferred from the debtor to the U.S. government and kept accumulating. Debt accumulation has a natural limit. This limit has now been reached.” – Dr. Antal Fekete, What You Always Wanted to Know About Gold
“When people lose everything, they have nothing left to lose. And they lose it.” – Gerald Celente
Conan The Objectivist: “Nay, to outwit your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to purchase their horses and goods at low, low prices, hear the lamentation of their women and to deliver a six-hour speech, exposing the shortcomings of their philosophy and worldview and establishing a sane and logical framework in its place. That is best.” – Conan The Objectivist, Blogger Roberta X.
"We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us." – Nick Nolte
“My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.” Job 27:6 (KJV)
“America faces a new culture war. This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country’s future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise–limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In the other, America will move toward European-style statism grounded in expanding bureaucracies, a managed economy and large-scale income redistribution. These visions are not reconcilable. We must choose.” – …