Odds ‘n Sods:

TV Ad Encourages German Women To Wear Hijabs – Submitted by Pat Cascio

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East Coast faces gas shortages, price hikes after pipeline leak. I Just went to top off my gas and talked with the good ole southern dude that runs the local gas station (not a chain) and he said “we’re not supposed to say anything but we’re figuring we’re going to run out of gas on Monday”. – T.S.

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Apology Issued After Officers Raid Wrong Home – DSV

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The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone – B.B.

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In a hungry Venezuela, buying too much food can get you arrested – G.L.

Hugh’s Quote of the Day:

“For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.” – Isaiah 54:7-8 (KJV)

Notes for Friday – September 16, 2016

September 16th is the birthday of “Mad Jack” Churchill (1906-1996), who was a true eccentric. He went to war in WWII armed with a broadsword and a longbow. (The latter was successfully used to dispatch several German soldiers.) He later became a devoted surfer. What a guy.

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Today, we present another entry for Round 66 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $12,000 worth of prizes for this round include:

First Prize:

  1. A Tactical Self-Contained 2-Series Solar Power Generator system from Always Empowered. This compact starter power system is packaged in a wheeled O.D. green EMP-shielded Pelican hard case (a $1,700 value),
  2. A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate that is good for any one, two, or three day course (a $1,195 value),
  3. A course certificate from onPoint Tactical for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses, excluding those restricted for military or government teams. Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795,
  4. DRD Tactical is providing a 5.56 NATO QD Billet upper with a hammer forged, chrome-lined barrel and a hard case to go with your own AR lower. It will allow any standard AR-type rifle to have a quick change barrel, which can be assembled in less than one minute without the use of any tools and a compact carry capability in a hard case or 3-day pack (an $1,100 value),
  5. Gun Mag Warehouse is providing 20 Magpul PMAG 30-rd Magazines (a value of $300) and a Gun Mag Warehouse T-Shirt; (an equivalent prize will be awarded for residents in states with magazine restrictions),
  6. Two cases of Mountain House freeze-dried assorted entrees in #10 cans, courtesy of Ready Made Resources (a $350 value),
  7. The Ark Institute is donating a non-GMO, non-hybrid vegetable seed package (enough for two families of four) plus seed storage materials, a CD-ROM of Geri Guidetti’s book “Build Your Ark! How to Prepare for Self Reliance in Uncertain Times”, and two bottles of Potassium Iodate (a $325 retail value),
  8. A $250 gift certificate good for any product from Sunflower Ammo,
  9. KellyKettleUSA.com is donating an AquaBrick water filtration kit with a retail value of $250, and
  10. Two cases of meals, Ready to Eat (MREs), courtesy of CampingSurvival.com (a $180 value).

Second Prize:

  1. A Glock form factor SIRT laser training pistol and a SIRT AR-15/M4 Laser Training Bolt, courtesy of Next Level Training, which have a combined retail value of $589,
  2. A transferable certificate for a two-day Ultimate Bug Out Course from Florida Firearms Training (a $400 value),
  3. A Model 175 Series Solar Generator provided by Quantum Harvest LLC (a $439 value),
  4. A Trekker IV™ Four-Person Emergency Kit from Emergency Essentials (a $250 value),
  5. A $200 gift certificate good towards any books published by PrepperPress.com,
  6. A pre-selected assortment of military surplus gear from CJL Enterprize (a $300 value),
  7. RepackBox is providing a $300 gift certificate to their site, and
  8. American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI) is providing a $300 certificate good towards any of their DVD training courses.

Third Prize:

  1. A Royal Berkey water filter, courtesy of Directive 21 (a $275 value),
  2. A $245 gift certificate from custom knife-maker Jon Kelly Designs, of Eureka, Montana,
  3. A large handmade clothes drying rack, a washboard, and a Homesteading for Beginners DVD, all courtesy of The Homestead Store, with a combined value of $206,
  4. Expanded sets of both washable feminine pads and liners, donated by Naturally Cozy (a $185 retail value),
  5. Two Super Survival Pack seed collections, a $150 value, courtesy of Seed for Security, LLC,
  6. Mayflower Trading is donating a $200 gift certificate for homesteading appliances,
  7. Montie Gear is donating a Precision Rest (a $249 value), and
  8. Two 1,000-foot spools of full mil-spec U.S.-made 750 paracord (in-stock colors only) from www.TOUGHGRID.com (a $240 value).

Round 66 ends on September 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.

Bitcoins Are Now Available for Anyone to Buy, by G.S.

I saw an article today announcing PayPal will be accepting Bitcoins (BC) in the future through a BC payment platform called Coinbase. I am using Ebay sales to fund my preparations and supplement my income, so I already have a significant online signature. (I know, I know.) Many of you may be using Ebay and PayPal as well, so you may be interested in how you would also accept Bitcoins for your sales or purchases. Others out there might be interested in investing in Bitcoins, and Coinbase makes that possible for all on a limited scale.

You may be interested to read the article entitled PayPal to Accept Virtual Currency.

Coinbase allows you to buy small amounts of BC to make purchases online, and I am assuming if PayPal starts letting me accept BC payments for my Ebay auctions, BC payments would be deposited to my Coinbase account. Coinbase has made it possible to only buy a limited number of BC per day to keep high rolling investors from using their service (more below). They are interested in catering to the average Joe who is buying and selling on the Internet.

I thought some people might have questions about how the sign up and purchasing process works, and since I did not know for sure either, I decided to document the process as I went through it. Below you will find what is required of you, if you decide to give it a try.

A basic explanation is in order for those who do not know anything about BCs. Bitcoins are virtual currency existing only online. In the past it has been very difficult to buy and sell them with the money you have in the bank, and honestly most of the companies claiming to allow you to do this were unproven and a little sketchy. Before now, you typically had to “mine” the coins through a complicated process, requiring a high end computer. When I looked into this, it seemed many days of mining resulted in very little reward. You can read the basics about it in the article “How to Mine Bitcoins on Your Own”.

Coinbase is a virtual wallet for you to hold your Bitcoins or portions of coins, just like a bank account or PayPal. It lets you buy and sell Bitcoins from your real bank account after you have linked the two. Currently, Coinbase requires linked bank accounts to exchange Bitcoins for dollars, but I would bet in the future they will also accept PayPal account links. There is no fee for exchanging BCs with others or for paying merchants using BCs. There is a 1% fee for buying and selling actual Bitcoins from your personal bank account. The service is available in many, but not all, countries. A list of countries can be found online.

Not everything I have read online has been positive about Coinbase. At the end of last year, there were quite a few negative comments from people saying there were long lags between when orders were placed and when they were filled. Also, many people were denied, when trying to connect to their bank accounts for various reasons. I get the feeling Coinbase was simply not good about letting people know why they were denied or delayed, and this led to a lot of frustration. This lack of communication was probably due to the huge number of people trying to get a piece of the Bitcoin pie when it exploded in value last year. It does not appear Coinbase was staffed at the time to handle the number of customers trying to sign up.

In addition to accepting Ebay payments in Bitcoins, I decided to sign up now because Coinbase is going to need to be legitimate and responsive to customer needs if they are going to be working with PayPal. Their customer service seems to have improved. I am seeing a lot less complaining from customers in 2014, in addition to many people who are happy with their accounts. They are now more highly recommended than any other similar service within the Bitcoin crowd.

When I first clicked the Sign Up link in the top right corner of their welcome screen, it required my email and a password. A verification email was sent within seconds and allowed me to continue, once I clicked the link.

Next, it required my phone mumber and immediately sent a text with a confirmation number to my phone. Once I entered this number, I was able to continue with the sign up process. Coinbase will text you with a new number every time you log in and require you to enter it, unless you click on the “30 Day” box when you are entering the site. This is a nice security feature, since you have to have your phone to log into your account.

At this point I was surprised when they deposited my first $1 in Bitcoins into my account. I did not know this was going to happen, but I am now the semi-proud owner of .002659 Bitcoins. They also provided me with my unique personal Bitcoin Address, which I can send and receive Bitcoin transfers to and from. If you are interested in what this looks like, for me it is… 1HPW61f5CDRhCp8oANy4CN8ZAnVqc9nvLN

You will see a similar address on the Support page for SurvivalBlog. This site will happily accept Bitcoin for subscriptions and donations. Bitcoin has the advantage of being free of the entanglements of the Federal Reserve and the Central Banks, and it has been a favored alternative for SurvivalBlog support for a while now.

Next, it asked for my bank routing and account numbers. Two small deposits under $0.99 (99 cents) were sent to my account the next day. Once I verified the amounts, my account setup was complete. PayPal, and other similar online services, require the same information to connect a bank account to the wallet on their site.

This put my account on Coinbase at Level 1, which gives me the ability to purchase or sell up to $3,000 in BC per day. It also will allow me to set up my account to automatically buy up to $100 in BC each week from the account. To move up to a Level 2 account requires some additional information, such as my address, as well as making a purchase of BC and waiting 30 days. Level 2 will allow me to purchase and sell up to $50,000 per day and automatically buy up to $1,000 per week. I will never have a reason to buy or sell that much that I can think of, so I will not be providing the additional information.

I am ready to buy my first Bitcoin. The price at this moment is $367.67 per coin. The current price is easy to find on Coinbase. Even if you are not logged in, the price is available at the top of the screen.

The value has been falling steadily since the end of last year, when the Bitcoin price exploded to over $1,100. On July 1st of this year, the price was $635. On August 1st, it was $581, and on September 1st, $478. Just like buying and selling other investments, there is a difference between the buy and sell price, but the difference is more pronounced than you might be used to with Bitcoin. When you submit a Buy Order, your BC has to be purchased by Coinbase through one of the BC exchanges, which is not as in-synch as the Nasdaq or DOW, so buy and sell prices can fluctuate more than a stock buyer would be used to. It currently costs about $1.50 more to buy than to sell, which is about 0.4% of the BC value. The Coinbase fee for buying and selling is 1%, so I would pay Coinbase $3.67 for a 1 Bitcoin purchase of $367.

As you can see above, the value of Bitcoin is getting killed, so if you are opening this account to invest some money in Bitcoin, you are going to want to do some research and make a decision on when is a good time for you to buy. If you are opening the account to be able to accept Bitcoin payments, there is really no reason to wait. There is not a fee for having an account. You would not even need to synch up your bank account until you were ready to withdraw your Bitcoin payments, and by then you may be able to transfer them to PayPal instead or have a check sent in the mail.

If you choose to buy Bitcoins, a basic purchase takes about four days to be completed from the time you place the order. Coinbase uses these four days to insure the money arrives from your bank before they credit your wallet with the BC. If you want to receive your coins faster, you have the option of entering a credit card number, which will let you instantly buy coins. If the bank account does not have the funds required, they will charge your CC for the remainder you owe on your purchase.

Letter Re: Clayton Moore

Hugh,

Regarding your top note on September 14th, this was an interesting story on The Lone Ranger and Houston. I worked for the Houston Post Newspaper at the time when this happened. A Southwest Airlines baggage handler stole his luggage, guns, and all. It was a slow news day I guess, so every newspaper and TV station covered it. The city of Houston had probably half the city detectives out looking for the luggage. The mayor, the governor, everybody was in an uproar. The governor even sent out some Texas Rangers to help on the case. Some years later I spoke with a customer who was a retired Texas Ranger and had worked on this case. He told me that the Rangers took this theft VERY personally, as Clayton Moore was very well thought of by the Texas Rangers, as you can imagine. Clayton Moore was hugely popular in Texas and always was. I’m surprised the thief wasn’t given a capital sentence! After the guns were recovered, the mayor, police chief, and governor were all there when he was given his guns back at a news conference. The trial was a hoot. You can read some of it in the attached article above. He was good people, as my father would say. N.S.

Economics and Investing:

The Hidden Costs Of Obama’s Cheap Gas. President Obama graciously thanked himself for cheap gasoline at a rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday, but he may be exaggerating just how popular cheap gasoline is.

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The US has signaled support for digital currencies – B.B.

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Former Treasury Secretary says banks may be riskier now than in the 2008 crisis

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Bayer Clinches $66 Billion Deal For Monsanto That Could Reshape The Farming Industry – RBS

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SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Notes for Thursday – September 15, 2016

On this day in 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division lands on the island of Peleliu, one of the Palau Islands in the Pacific, as part of a larger operation to provide support for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who was preparing to invade the Philippines. Within one week of the invasion, the Marines lost 4,000 men. By the time it was all over, that number would surpass 9,000. The Japanese lost more than 13,000 men. Flamethrowers and bombs finally subdued the island for the Americans, but it all proved pointless. MacArthur invaded the Philippines without need of Army or Marine protection from either Peleliu or Morotai.

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Due to an error in our Editorial Calendar, SurvivalBlog did not post part 2 of one of the contest entries. Today, we present the second part of this entry for Round 66 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $12,000 worth of prizes for this round include:

First Prize:

  1. A Tactical Self-Contained 2-Series Solar Power Generator system from Always Empowered. This compact starter power system is packaged in a wheeled O.D. green EMP-shielded Pelican hard case (a $1,700 value),
  2. A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate that is good for any one, two, or three day course (a $1,195 value),
  3. A course certificate from onPoint Tactical for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses, excluding those restricted for military or government teams. Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795,
  4. DRD Tactical is providing a 5.56 NATO QD Billet upper with a hammer forged, chrome-lined barrel and a hard case to go with your own AR lower. It will allow any standard AR-type rifle to have a quick change barrel, which can be assembled in less than one minute without the use of any tools and a compact carry capability in a hard case or 3-day pack (an $1,100 value),
  5. Gun Mag Warehouse is providing 20 Magpul PMAG 30-rd Magazines (a value of $300) and a Gun Mag Warehouse T-Shirt; (an equivalent prize will be awarded for residents in states with magazine restrictions),
  6. Two cases of Mountain House freeze-dried assorted entrees in #10 cans, courtesy of Ready Made Resources (a $350 value),
  7. The Ark Institute is donating a non-GMO, non-hybrid vegetable seed package (enough for two families of four) plus seed storage materials, a CD-ROM of Geri Guidetti’s book “Build Your Ark! How to Prepare for Self Reliance in Uncertain Times”, and two bottles of Potassium Iodate (a $325 retail value),
  8. A $250 gift certificate good for any product from Sunflower Ammo,
  9. KellyKettleUSA.com is donating an AquaBrick water filtration kit with a retail value of $250, and
  10. Two cases of meals, Ready to Eat (MREs), courtesy of CampingSurvival.com (a $180 value).

Second Prize:

  1. A Glock form factor SIRT laser training pistol and a SIRT AR-15/M4 Laser Training Bolt, courtesy of Next Level Training, which have a combined retail value of $589,
  2. A transferable certificate for a two-day Ultimate Bug Out Course from Florida Firearms Training (a $400 value),
  3. A Model 175 Series Solar Generator provided by Quantum Harvest LLC (a $439 value),
  4. A Trekker IV™ Four-Person Emergency Kit from Emergency Essentials (a $250 value),
  5. A $200 gift certificate good towards any books published by PrepperPress.com,
  6. A pre-selected assortment of military surplus gear from CJL Enterprize (a $300 value),
  7. RepackBox is providing a $300 gift certificate to their site, and
  8. American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI) is providing a $300 certificate good towards any of their DVD training courses.

Third Prize:

  1. A Royal Berkey water filter, courtesy of Directive 21 (a $275 value),
  2. A $245 gift certificate from custom knife-maker Jon Kelly Designs, of Eureka, Montana,
  3. A large handmade clothes drying rack, a washboard, and a Homesteading for Beginners DVD, all courtesy of The Homestead Store, with a combined value of $206,
  4. Expanded sets of both washable feminine pads and liners, donated by Naturally Cozy (a $185 retail value),
  5. Two Super Survival Pack seed collections, a $150 value, courtesy of Seed for Security, LLC,
  6. Mayflower Trading is donating a $200 gift certificate for homesteading appliances,
  7. Montie Gear is donating a Precision Rest (a $249 value), and
  8. Two 1,000-foot spools of full mil-spec U.S.-made 750 paracord (in-stock colors only) from www.TOUGHGRID.com (a $240 value).

Round 66 ends on September 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.

Quick Reference Manual Regarding Disaster Survival and Recovery on the Road- Part 2, by J.P.R.

C. MASSIVE EMP (ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PULSE) ELECTRICAL FAILURE

Identify Level of Failure

  • The power grid is down
  • Your cell phone is dead
  • Your land line may not work
  • Most electronic devices do not work or are impaired
  • Your car will not start or stopped running
  • Airplanes are falling from the sky
  • Small fires or explosions may be observed

This is a different event than a regular power failure. In this case, the power grid and many electronic devices have been permanently damaged. This is more serious than a power grid failure, depending on whether it is in a small or large area. If this is in a large region, say a prayer and know that your way of life is going to change for a very long time to come. You need to begin thinking in terms of surviving in a world of extremely limited resources, #1 of which is going to be clean drinking water. Be aware that if you are in a region with a nuclear power plant, you will need to also go to Disaster Plan #3 to learn how to respond.

IF IT HAPPENS ON A TRIP:

  • If you are on a trip, your primary goal is to get home or to a safe long-term location. If your car stops running but you still have dash power or lights, try the following:
    • Open the hood and unhook the battery cables. You may need a wrench or pliers for this. Wait five or ten minutes, then hook them back up and try the ignition. If it works, your next challenge is fuel.
    • Unless you find a gas station with a working generator for the pumps, there will be no gas available from gas stations. You will need to aggressively seek it elsewhere, preferably before the rest of the population realizes what’s going on. You have about 48 hours until panic time.
    • If your car runs, you will need to buy gas from whatever source will sell it, be it another car owner, a gas can in someone’s garage, or even from a lawnmower. Offer a lot, if you have it. Offer to drive someone home in return for all of their gas. You can puncture a plastic gas tank under a car with a large screwdriver and collect it for transfer. DON’T HESITATE TO TRY IT! If you are near an auto parts store, immediately purchase a siphon pump!
  • DO NOT STOP for people flagging you down. Keep moving! Look down the road to anticipate blockages. After about six to eight hours, do not get anywhere near or stop for blockades. Turn around and drive away before getting close to them. As soon as people figure it out, they may want to commandeer (STEAL) your car from you. Avoid using the air conditioning, if you think your fuel will run low before arriving home.
  • Your best gas mileage is under the speed of 63 miles per hour.
  • You need to get water and food immediately. Stock up as much as you can, as soon as you can, and then keep going until you get home.
  • If you won’t make it and know somewhere else to go, go there to wait it out. Otherwise, check into a hotel, fire, or police station, and wait it out. Just know that if the power does not come back on, the world will become crazier by the day after supplies run out.
  • Remain extra cautious if you plan to travel at night. You must have sufficient fuel, food, and water. Understand that emergency response services will be strained already if you had a problem, and things are not what they usually are without traffic signals. Traveling at night, in the winter raises the odds against you.
  • As soon as the power comes on, gas up and get home. Plan for additional interruptions on the way home. Keep your tank half full or more, and keep your family well supplied.

My car won’t start. No battery power. . . it’s all dead! What now?

  • To begin, if it is winter and the weather is cold or unreliable, you will need to locate warm shelter and negotiate heated lodging as soon as possible. Next, you need to pursue clean water to carry and food.
  • The car will probably not be fixed anytime soon, because every car has the same problem. While you are waiting to see if there is any hope, you will want to be pursuing the things below as soon as possible. It might already be too late. If you can’t find a store, go up to safe-looking homes and start making generous offers immediately. Do not worry if they don’t get it. They soon will! Feel free to offer your entire car for something.
  • Stock up on water and food. Buy as much water (gallon jugs) as you can carry back to your car. Buy all the lightweight, storable food you can. The only canned goods carried should be canned meat, like spam. While at the store, if they sell anything with wheels, buy it! Start with a bicycle for everyone, bicycle trailer, or a toddler wagon with a handle, or even a wheelbarrow. Buy or barter for anything you need to prepare you for living out in the elements. You are going to be living like a refugee until you make it home. Don’t forget a big bicycle lock and a roadmap too!
  • Buy pepper spray for protection, sun screen, blister pads and band-aids, ponchos baby wipes, toilet paper, a good hunting knife, lighters, a small pot for cooking, and a tarp or small tent. Be prepared to not find a hotel room available.
  • Bring these things back to the car, because they will most likely be getting you home soon. You now must decide when to abandon your vehicle and move on toward home. The longer you wait, the more brutal life will get, so don’t wait too long.
  • Make your first goal to find shelter and rest up for the first day’s journey.
  • Know that as you travel, the supplies of food and water will become increasingly scarce by the hour. If your trip is long, clean water will be the most difficult thing to find. Do the best you can to keep the food and water out of view from others.
  • There will be sources of clean drinking water many people will be unaware of, such as hot water heaters, full toilet tanks, and clean objects that fill with rainwater immediately after it falls. (Avoid old standing water.)
  • Many farms or rural homes have generators on wells to pump clean water.
  • Old windmills pump clean water for cattle.
  • As you go, cut open a gallon water jug to make into a funnel. You will want to collect rainwater whenever it rains. If you have a clean tarp, use it to collect water!
  • Keep all of your gallon jugs for when you find a clean water supply. Keep your smaller water bottles too. Do not collect surface run-off water or standing pond water. Only collect lake or stream water if you have to and if the lake has fish or frogs in it.
  • To sterilize water, you have to rapid boil for one minute.
  • Travel in early morning hours, when many are still asleep.
  • While sleeping, have one person keep watch if possible.
  • After several days, begin to avoid populated areas whenever you can.
  • If you come across a running vehicle, no matter what it is, consider making an offer if you can, but know you will need fuel also.
  • If you sense danger, go away from the source as quickly as possible.
  • If you see a roadblock or guarded barricade, do not approach it. You may lose all of your belongings.
  • As time progresses, you need to become less and less visible to stay safe.
  • If you make it into an area with power or running vehicles, spend whatever it takes to get home or to a safe and supplied location.
  • Know that if you are traveling downwind from any nuclear plants, that within days there is a high risk of meltdown, radiation exposure, and fallout. See Nuclear Catastrophe or Attack response below.

#3 Disaster Response: Nuclear Catastrophe or Attack

A national alert is issued over the emergency broadcast system or you hear the take cover sirens, and they aren’t stopping. If they warn you that a nuclear attack is imminent for your area, you will most likely have less than 10-20 minutes at best to seek shelter. You will know by the wavering siren (up and down sound).

  • If you are in a building, you need to get to the lowest level and find an area that is covered with at least 6-12 inches of concrete or several feet of dirt. Be careful about choosing a boiler room. Many public buildings have shelters in them.
  • If you are on the road, you will need to seek a low shelter ASAP!
  • If you sense the flash, do not look at it! Seek cover at once. Begin counting slowly to 200.
  • If you are driving and see a flash, even if far away, drive the car into a culvert or ditch. If you can get out and flatten yourself in a ditch or pipe, do so. You may experience extremely high winds within seconds that could lift, toss, or crush the vehicle (200-2000 mph wind burst). Duck away from windows!
  • If the blast wave does not hit you by the count of 200, look for a shelter quickly, bring enough water for at least a three-day stay and plastic bags for waste. You probably have under an hour before fallout radiation exposure. Around one gallon per adult per day is best to aim for.
  • To survive fallout and radiation sickness, you need to stay in a shelter that has walls thick enough to repel a bullet slug from a deer hunting rifle from any direction. Anything less allows radioactive particles to penetrate. A full waterbed mattress on the floor above you can block it as well.
  • Stay inside the entire time. A formula for radiation sickness is below:
    • 4 teaspoons salt
    • 2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 1 small package of jello
    • 1 gallon of water
  • If you have access to Potassium Iodide tablets, this is the time to use them. They protect or block radiation from getting to your thyroid.
  • Keep radioactive fallout dust out of the shelter. Breathe clean air or wear a dust mask. Stay at least three days or up to a week. You may need to stay up to two weeks or more, if large fallout areas that are coming your way are downwind, until they pass. This might be the case with Chicago fallout reaching the Detroit area in about eight to twelve hours. Most deadly radiation is blown downwind within 36 hours, unless more is incoming.

Nuclear Fallout Exposure Time

If you need to go out of a fallout shelter, below is an exposure guide for typical fallout.

  • Complete isolation from 2 to 4 days following the last explosion.
  • You could go to get water on the third day, but keep it under 30 minutes.
  • One exposure of less than 30 minutes on the seventh day.
  • One exposure of less than 1 hour on the eighth day.
  • It’s okay to be exposed 2 to 4 hours between the ninth and twelfth day.
  • Resume life, followed by rest in a protected shelter, from the thirteenth day on.
  • Always be sure your exposures are as brief as possible. Only go out for life sustaining, valid reasons. Decontaminate at every stop or exposure.

Using a crank weather radio or shortwave radio will enable you to find out when to shelter, evacuate, or leave

Fallout Info from: www.ki4u.com

Letter Re: Offensive Against ISIS

Hugh,

Regarding ysterday’s posted story:

Another potential mass shooter at the Oregon Clackamas Mall turned the long gun on himself, after killing two, when confronted by one civilian armed with a pistol.

With a new administration, if we can stop subsidizing those of the do-nothing immigrants with undeserved and costly welfare, many of them will self-deport. Also, fewer of that type would come in the first place. They have no reason to assimilate if they don’t have to work. Why are you and I financing this?

Syrian refugees are not only potentially very dangerous, but our government is purposely not approving Christians from Syria and also deporting illegal Christian immigrants though not deporting illegal Muslims.

The next mass casualty attack might very well be similar to and build on the unfortunate success of the hijackings of 9/11/01 except using easy to train, steal, and fly Cessnas, which can be quickly fueled up and stuffed with gasoline cans and propane bottles and flown into stadiums full of 90,000 people by the dozen airplanes. Unfortunately, very hard to stop. The training could occur way in advance anywhere in the world.

We must immediately and completely defeat this 1,500 year old violent hating aggressive ideology, whether ISIS or not, and stop the immigration Jihad.

L.F.P.

Economics and Investing:

Here’s a great example of how they’ll default on Social Security

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The Gold To Housing Ratio As A Valuation Indicator

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Venezuela’s “Death Spiral” – B.B.

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Forget Alpha: Billionaires Deliver Bedlam Warnings Instead! – B.H.

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CRUSH THE STREET: SRSrocco, Will We See A 10/1 Gold-Silver Price Ratio?

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SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Odds ‘n Sods:

You know that Facebook holds to much power over your life when you have to sue your parents to get them to remove embarrassing childhood photographs of you – all 500 of them. Woman sues parents for sharing embarrassing childhood photos – DSV

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FBI Director says to cover up your webcam – P.S.

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State Dept: ‘Senate must ratify UN Arms Trade Treaty for it to be legal.’ – H.L.

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If Islamic terrorists don’t scare you, Tuberculosis should! – B.B.

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Gun Rights Group Sues Veteran Journalist Katie Couric for ‘Disregarding the Truth’ in Documentary – DSV

Notes for Wednesday – September 14, 2016

Today is the birthday of actor Clayton Moore (1914–1999). His name is almost synonymous with Lone Ranger. It is also the birthday of James Wilson, a lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1742 – 1798).

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Today, we present another entry for Round 66 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $12,000 worth of prizes for this round include:

First Prize:

  1. A Tactical Self-Contained 2-Series Solar Power Generator system from Always Empowered. This compact starter power system is packaged in a wheeled O.D. green EMP-shielded Pelican hard case (a $1,700 value),
  2. A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate that is good for any one, two, or three day course (a $1,195 value),
  3. A course certificate from onPoint Tactical for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses, excluding those restricted for military or government teams. Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795,
  4. DRD Tactical is providing a 5.56 NATO QD Billet upper with a hammer forged, chrome-lined barrel and a hard case to go with your own AR lower. It will allow any standard AR-type rifle to have a quick change barrel, which can be assembled in less than one minute without the use of any tools and a compact carry capability in a hard case or 3-day pack (an $1,100 value),
  5. Gun Mag Warehouse is providing 20 Magpul PMAG 30-rd Magazines (a value of $300) and a Gun Mag Warehouse T-Shirt; (an equivalent prize will be awarded for residents in states with magazine restrictions),
  6. Two cases of Mountain House freeze-dried assorted entrees in #10 cans, courtesy of Ready Made Resources (a $350 value),
  7. The Ark Institute is donating a non-GMO, non-hybrid vegetable seed package (enough for two families of four) plus seed storage materials, a CD-ROM of Geri Guidetti’s book “Build Your Ark! How to Prepare for Self Reliance in Uncertain Times”, and two bottles of Potassium Iodate (a $325 retail value),
  8. A $250 gift certificate good for any product from Sunflower Ammo,
  9. KellyKettleUSA.com is donating an AquaBrick water filtration kit with a retail value of $250, and
  10. Two cases of meals, Ready to Eat (MREs), courtesy of CampingSurvival.com (a $180 value).

Second Prize:

  1. A Glock form factor SIRT laser training pistol and a SIRT AR-15/M4 Laser Training Bolt, courtesy of Next Level Training, which have a combined retail value of $589,
  2. A transferable certificate for a two-day Ultimate Bug Out Course from Florida Firearms Training (a $400 value),
  3. A Model 175 Series Solar Generator provided by Quantum Harvest LLC (a $439 value),
  4. A Trekker IV™ Four-Person Emergency Kit from Emergency Essentials (a $250 value),
  5. A $200 gift certificate good towards any books published by PrepperPress.com,
  6. A pre-selected assortment of military surplus gear from CJL Enterprize (a $300 value),
  7. RepackBox is providing a $300 gift certificate to their site, and
  8. American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI) is providing a $300 certificate good towards any of their DVD training courses.

Third Prize:

  1. A Royal Berkey water filter, courtesy of Directive 21 (a $275 value),
  2. A $245 gift certificate from custom knife-maker Jon Kelly Designs, of Eureka, Montana,
  3. A large handmade clothes drying rack, a washboard, and a Homesteading for Beginners DVD, all courtesy of The Homestead Store, with a combined value of $206,
  4. Expanded sets of both washable feminine pads and liners, donated by Naturally Cozy (a $185 retail value),
  5. Two Super Survival Pack seed collections, a $150 value, courtesy of Seed for Security, LLC,
  6. Mayflower Trading is donating a $200 gift certificate for homesteading appliances,
  7. Montie Gear is donating a Precision Rest (a $249 value), and
  8. Two 1,000-foot spools of full mil-spec U.S.-made 750 paracord (in-stock colors only) from www.TOUGHGRID.com (a $240 value).

Round 66 ends on September 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.