John Williams: The Federal Government’s Fake News
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Reflections on the War on Cash
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Welcome back debt! Total household debt rose by $63 billion last quarter, pushing total household debt to $12.35 trillion. More than half of the debt increase came through auto loans.
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Gold Ignores 4.7% Drop In U.S. Building Permits In November
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Got ammo? Americans Bought ‘17,850 Tons’ of Ammo in Last 12 Months – DMS
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101 Uses of Silver in Everyday Life – DSV
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Hate Speech Hysteria at the University of Oklahoma – D.S.
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Dave Hodges Common Sense Show Podcast: James Wesley, Rawles-The Christian Foundation of the Patriot Movement.
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Highest Islamist Terror Threat Environment Since 9/11 ISIS Threatens Attacks On Christians – D.B.
“And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – Matthew 26:40-41 (KJV)
December 17th, 1905, was the birth day of Simo Häyhä, who was the world’s most successful sniper. Using an iron-sighted Mosin–Nagant in Finland’s Winter War, he had an astounding 505 confirmed sniper kills. He died April 1, 2002.
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Trying to stock up on fish antibiotics before the end of the year? Don’t forget Camping Survival has created a coupon code “fish10”, which will get you 10% off of all these antibiotics until December 31st, 2016.
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AGI is having a Christmas sale on Gunsmithing Courses. Save from 33% to 70% on subjects like Armorer Courses, Customizing, Tuning and Accurizing and even the Certified Gunsmithing Courses.
Do Americans really need to worry about a financial collapse in world money markets leading to national rioting and chaos? History shows it has happened before in many countries around the world and many so-called experts say we do, but they are leaving out the most important details.
Of course, when the media voices the opinions of the “experts”, that alone builds some worry into financial markets. Some astute observers may ask if this is by design and if by doing so they intentionally create niche markets for the products and services they sell related to gold and silver hedges and financial advice. Still, even if this is by design, the facts on the ground in regard to record national debt and quantitative easing are of themselves creating a situation where instability is a natural result; going too far out on any limb will ultimately cause the stress on the limb to exceed its breaking strength.
Central banks and equity markets around the world today are operating with hair-triggers, and nobody wants to be the last one out when the music stops; however, the music must stop soon. There is no such thing as unlimited debt and growth; corrections must and will come, one way or another. And since the markets have been manipulated to keep them afloat, when the correction (polite term) comes, it will now be far more devastating.
The people (elitist-globalists) who are directly and indirectly holding all of world debt ($20 trillions of which is owed by the U.S. government) will at some point have to be re-paid, one way or another, and therein is the big worry. Of course at the same time, the debt holders also see that the odds of these debts being repaid, which have already been re-structured many times, are growing dimmer by the day.
So these same elitists are setting themselves up to profit from a coming world crash. They are now marketing and selling their gold and silver, which they acquired at market-lows, and are now selling it back to the masses at market highs, while they quietly diversify into other essential commodities that people and governments will require. The point of this visionary strategy is to be in a position to wait-out a market collapse and the ensuing chaos and then, during that chaos and instability, buy back all of the gold and silver at new market lows. But why would gold and silver go into the tank? Some may ask this question, and there is a very good reason why that may happen related to market demand.
First of all, we must remove the selective perception that the marketing psychologists have instilled into the masses via media– “gold and silver yield security” in tough times. For average people, this is false. For the purposes of intergovernmental trade, yes there is some logic to this, if there is an agreed-upon value for these metals. It’s important to keep in mind that the intrinsic value of these metals only relates to their industrial, medical, and vanity jewelry uses, nothing more. But through the use of crafty psychological marketing, the elite have built a perception that gold and silver are now more valuable than the things people really need, like water, food, shelter, and other items that actually support life. Gold and silver are actually little more than illusions of wealth created by highly intelligent people who know how to manipulate the masses, as they have for millennia. And as history shows, for those who take the time to learn it, there is a cyclic pattern used by elitists who have extremely long-term wealth and power building models that are literally generational in nature, where one generation sets things into motion and the next generation follows the plan and reaps the benefits. By keeping the masses financially and educationally oppressed (much of the brainwashing starts in school), the masses have great difficulty in emulating a generational wealth building strategy. Adding to the advantages of the elitists over the masses is that they have been employing their wealth-building strategies for many hundreds of years. This is why we see the same names over and over again as being the wealthiest people in the world.
Between hungry people who are defending their belongings from outside threats, which may include neighbors who are also doing without the essentials of life as a result of a massive breakdown of the financial and supply-chain infrastructures, gold and silver will never fill an empty stomach or warm a freezing child. So who among these people would accept a gold coin in such conditions for a case of tuna fish, a warm coat, or a pack of cigarettes? The real answer is none of them. The reality is, as we saw during the period (1919-1933) of the Weimar Republic, society collapsed and descended into poverty and despair, where it took sacks-full of cash to buy a loaf of bread, while elitists bought-back gold and silver at huge discounts. But this time around, it will be brutally worse, because we now find ourselves in a world packed with needy people and desperate nations all around, nations desperate for the resources owned and controlled by the U.S.
During the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the world population was about one-fourth of what it is today, about two billion people. Today we have a world population of about 7.5 billion people, and all of these people require the same resources– drinking water, food, shelter, clothing, medicine, and other items to support life. The demand for these resources is now at the very limits of the new “just-in-time” supply chain infrastructure, which is extremely vulnerable to a myriad of potential points of failure, including but not limited to any financial collapse.
I will put it bluntly; if you fail to read When Money Dies, you will remain uninformed and in the dark.
And when a correction (nice way to articulate a collapse) comes, the effect of that collapse will be devastating this time around for many reasons that did not exist previously, as we now begin to understand. The parallels we now see unfolding between what happened in the Weimar Republic and the United States today are truly unsettling, and these conclusions are not being drawn with some product or service marketing agenda associated. Quite frankly, they fly in the face of those people working for the elitists who are touting gold and silver as a safe haven for average people. I personally couldn’t disagree more. Ask yourself this simple question: If gold and silver is so hot and is going to go up in value, why would they be selling any of it? It’s not like it will spoil or cannot be stored. The simple reason is the correct reason,–the elitists are now diversifying and dumping gold and silver at market highs. They are getting out while the getting is good, while the masses are being sold on what a great investment it is. Of course, this is typical behavior by these people; they feel they are superior to the masses and we only need to know what they want us to know. But the easily observable facts tell the truth.
First, we have huge population centers that are already disenchanted and ripe with unrest and lawlessness. The infrastructure of these cities is at the breaking point. This includes the supply-chain infrastructure, which provides the basic needs for life– water, food, health and sanitation, law enforcement, et cetera. And it won’t take very much to trigger a complete failure of these integrated services, where one affects another like dominoes.
Sadly, the current role models in power over the past eight years at the top of the American government are morally repugnant and have failed to lead by a positive example. Worse yet, they allow the continued media brainwashing of the people via the psychologists who craft all of the political and marketing messaging that is poured out onto Americans via all of the media outlets, which they control.
Some people are placing all their bets on the newly elected government in America, because hope is all they have. It’s the hope that someone, anyone new, might make the changes needed to make America great again, as coined by president-elect Donald J. Trump.
There was a song by the band The Who titled “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, which has the lyrics “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. As we watch the government appointments being made by Trump, the question that currently stands in American is this; will Trump do what he promised Americans he would do, or did he just say what he knew Americans wanted to hear? And will he instead embark upon the path that was preordained by the elitists? Americans voted for Trump because they believed in his campaign promises.
Americans who make up a large percentage of our total population are currently living at or near the poverty level and have reached the end of their wits. As a country, we have reached a level of desperation never seen before. These people are not a tiny isolated pocket of the population; they number in the many tens of millions, and many of those are illegal immigrants who have not been assimilated into America and retain their own cultural set of values, which dictates their behavior in any society. They see leaders at the top of American government who are benefiting from corruption and lawlessness, while they barely manage to eat. This same group of so-called leaders at the top have in many ways, through speech and action or lack thereof, condoned lawlessness by making excuses for the criminal behavior of political activists who seek to foment more unrest in the interest of creating an environment where they may have a chance to rise to power again via a violent revolution. There are without a doubt outside forces that have infiltrated the highest posts of American government (radical Islamists) and who also see unrest and instability in America as “opportunity”.
But for the average American family, in the final analysis, the acquisition of gold and silver over the essential commodities of life is a failed strategy and plays into the hands of the elitists who intend to buy back all of the gold and silver in the hands of the masses at huge discounts when the markets collapse and people become desperate for the commodities they really need just to stay alive!
For the people who live in the cities and who are fortunate enough to have some discretionary funds, my opinion is that land, which can provide sustainable living, is now the best investment for an uncertain future. A place to live that is not dependent upon banks or just-in-time supply chains, a place with a garden, some chickens and pure water would be hard to beat in tough times.
Hope and pray for the best, but prepare for the worst in response to what history teaches us; of course, revisionist historians are hard at work deleting those inconvenient clues.
Mr. Rawles and Mr. Latimer,
As you may have seen in the news, the city of Corpus Christi has, yet again, been the subject of contaminated water. Over the last ~18 months, Corpus Christi has had a series of problems (five or six water boil notices, no drink advisory, et cetera) with the municipal water supply related to E.coli, low chlorine, high chlorine, and most recently chemical contamination Indulin AA-86 Asphalt Emulsion.
I began reading/following the SurvivalBlog several years ago and at a minimum keep a “go box” action packer for hurricane evacuations, et cetera. I have a small amount of supplies (rain barrel, Berkey water filters, WaterBOB, bottled water, MREs, et cetera). Thanks to being prepared, the previous water issues were a non-issue for my family, but this most recent water advisory is a reminder that being prepared is a constant, ongoing process. You must have primary and alternate/redundant systems/preps. A Berkey is a great water filter, but it can’t filter unknown chemicals from water, and while I was in much better shape than most standing in line at the supermarket there is always room for improvement.
Thanks for the advice and information from How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It and the SurvivalBlog. – Guido in Corpus Christi, TX
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HJL,
I just wanted to pass on this observation. The city of Corpus Christi, Texas reported an “event” with the municipal water system. According to the city mayor, there was a failure of an “anti siphon” device (check valve) near the “industrial” area of the city. The mayor called it an “over pressure” event; everyone else (news media) called it a “back flow”. It seems that some type of oily substance was injected into the water main.
It shut down water to the entire city of 300,000. You can’t drink, cook, wash, or bathe AT ALL. I said all that to say this; I live 50 miles away from Corpus Christi, and by 6:45 AM this morning the entire supply of water had been cleaned out to a 50-mile radius of the city. They were in my town buying up water 50 miles away.
Folks, if this is not a wake up call to plan ahead for your water needs, I don’t know what would be. – W.A.
Will Gold Prices Drop Below $1,000?
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Perpetual Assets interview with Jim Willie with many topics covered.
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Japan Dethrones China as Top U.S. Foreign Creditor
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Economic Science Has Been Hijacked
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Commander Zero has posted some very practical advice on how to mark ammo cans: Magnetic Stencils.
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POTD: Fight With What You Got – IKEA Chest Rig
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4 Improvised Weapons Used In The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
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From Backwoods Home Magazine: Bugging Out In Place – A.W.
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California DOJ Issues “High-Capacity” Magazine Ban Regulations – MME
“And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” – Genesis 32:24-30 (KJV)
December 16th, 1928, was the birthday of Philip K. Dick, who died March 2, 1982. He penned a remarkable number of sci-fi novels and novellas that have been adapted into movies, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers, Impostor, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Next, and The Adjustment Bureau. Though he had a troubled personal life (with drug use and several failed marriages), his captivating books certainly had a knack for envisioning potential futures.
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Today, we present another entry for Round 68 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $15,000 worth of prizes for this round include:
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Round 68 ends on January 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.
You can take a piece of an active hive and wire it into a frame in your hive. (Suit up and use a little smoke, which makes bees think their hive is on fire and they have to eat all the honey to save it). If you pay close enough attention and can access the comb, you will find that some comb cells have what look like tiny grains of rice in them. Using a strong flashlight helps to see them; these are new bee eggs! The best spots to take have flat brownish coverings (called capped brood) with open cells with eggs circling it, and will be mostly in the center of big chunks of dark color comb. By taking just a piece of this comb from a wild hive (with some “nurse” bees that cling to it), you can put it in your hive with some honey to feed them, and they will try to raise their own queen. It is imperative that the eggs are as tiny as possible, about the size of Lincoln’s nose on a penny or smaller. They need to be under three days old. Any older and it might not become a queen. It is important that all existing comb be oriented as it was in the hive, as comb is built with a slight pitch towards its center. Try to get comb as big as an 8×11 sheet of paper with a group of bees at least a big cereal bowl full. (You can wire the comb in more than one frame.) To start the hive, start them in a single box with a small entrance. If they’re successful, you’ll see eggs in a month or so.
Wire the comb under your frame to bars, stuff the entrance of your hive with grass, and then remove it in two days, if the bees don’t. To give them the best chance of living, add honey in a small flat container in the hive with cheesecloth or popsicle sticks on the surface of the honey. These items help to feed them and prevent drowning. This way, you get bees started, and the hive you took it from is not that worse for wear. You may even get the queen with your comb, and the wild hive will raise another. This is how I duplicate hives, repopulate, re-queen, or manage busy hives of my own (just in larger amounts). Sometimes hives die; it happens to the best of us. You will never learn if you never try!
Another way to get bees is to look for “swarms” in the spring. This varies by location, but a swarm looks like a droopy ball of bees that are hanging from something. They usually don’t hang around long, as they are looking for a new home, but if you can get to one quick, you can place that whole group in a hive box and close the entrance for a day or two. They should start drawing wax on your bars/frames and living there, if they like their new home. This is the natural way that honeybee hives reproduce and diversify populations. You won’t need to feed, since swarms eat honey before they leave their past hive, but it helps.
The last method of collecting bees is a swarm trap. Use your desired bee box with some lemongrass oil and some old empty comb inside, hanging the box 6-15 feet in the air. The box should be roughly the size of three to four men’s shoeboxes in volume, with a 1.5-inch hole at the bottom corner. This is my preferred way to get swarms, as it is minimal time and effort involved. Plus, the bees are already in a house you made when you find them. If you locate a wild hive in early spring, put a swarm trap or two within ½ mile at habitat edges and your luck increases exponentially. Usually they work best on south facing trees from April to June, but there is lots of debate to what traps work best and where. After all, variety and trying things is part of the fun of beekeeping!
In addition to area security, bees are a wonderful and valuable resource in which you can take pride in your food and economic security as well. I have yet to hear a hungry person say, “No, I don’t like honey thank you.” In times of famine, your hives could mean the difference between you and others going hungry or having the energy to split that last load of wood before a storm. Bees are, after all, one of the oldest animals raised by humans for a reason.
Beehives provide a plethora of uses around the home. Here are some “regular” uses:
Some non-traditional uses of bee products I have tried include the following:
Much smaller than the honeybee, this solitary bee is an amazing pollinator. Preferring to lodge and lay its eggs in pre-existing holes, the mason bee lives in areas that usually get cold (below 32 degrees F) for extended periods. They emerge when the temperature is around 55 degrees for at least a few days straight.
During the spring and summer, the females find holes approximately six inches deep suitable for young and lay their eggs in little compartments containing pollen, nectar, et cetera. The eggs hatch and the young spin little hard cocoons, where they stay over the winter. Females are laid deepest in the tube to protect against predators like woodpeckers. The next spring, males emerge first from the ends of the tubes and go about being bees. Since only a few males are needed to breed the females, this protects their population. After a few days of mating once the females emerge, the males all die off.
Their ability to get into the smallest flowers makes them even more efficient than the honeybee at pollination, in my opinion. They don’t need lots of room, and gardens will produce on average 15-20% more produce when properly pollinated. In a survival situation, even 5% more could mean the difference between starving and surviving.
For greenhouse gardening areas, my nod certainly goes to the mason bee for year round pollination, given you provide them with a small dwelling (tubes) and warm enough temperature. They hardly ever affect human activities in a greenhouse. One way to house them is to put out a mason bee “hotel”, which consists of a 6” long piece of 2”x6” non-treated wood (no cedar) with some 5/16” sized holes drilled in it. It is okay to drill right through, as long as you can screw a piece of wood to the back side to keep the eggs protected and dark. They won’t use it if the hole is through without a sealed backing. This also lets you clean out the holes from non-target insects. [Note: I rarely ever use any bee wood more than a few years, to cut down on parasites and disease.] I use four screws down the back plate with around 12-16 holes each for bees. I strap a few of these together when I set them out in a sheltered place. Then, I can pull what I need every few weeks. Make a bunch and set them aside for future use.
Set it out next to flowers in spring, and the bees will lay a long chain of chambers sealed by mud in each hole. You can take some or all of the blocks in the late fall and put them in the refrigerator crisper for a few weeks. If you live somewhere cold in winter, you don’t need to do the refrigerator step. Just bring what you need straight into the greenhouse (or just let them hatch in spring and increase your outdoor pollination). After that, you can take single tubes or blocks out one at a time and place in the greenhouse. They will hatch shortly and continue to linger in the greenhouse trying to collect pollen and nectar for a few weeks. You can repeat this through the winter, provided your green space is consistently above 60 degrees F. You do have to take some care to keep them in. I had the idea to prop the door open while bringing something in during March, and they flew out thinking it was June. They didn’t make it far. Your mileage may vary, as temperature, amount of pollen plants, how often you open the door, and more will influence how well they do.
Once you get started in the adventure of raising bees, you will start a lifelong learning process that can provide for you and others. The uses for these creatures are numerous and beneficial, while at the same time preserving our way of human life. Without bees, after all, crops would fail and humans would starve. There is no amount of human or robot labor as effective as the bee. We are blessed with such creatures by the Lord, so we should enjoy them and share! Be vigilant, learn daily, and love, as we are created to do. By doing these things, your life can change from a lot of fear to a little hope, just like nectar is changed to honey!
Dear Hugh,
This research has been around for nearly a decade, but it is only beginning to surface. The purer the copper, the stronger the effect. Pure copper, or a 95 percent alloy, will kill 99.999 percent of everything within 30 minutes. Naturally, corporations are making copper alloy fixtures for hospitals that are 60 percent copper!
Readers can do some of this at home by taking sheets of copper and cutting it into push plates for doors, covering countertops, etc. However, it is extremely difficult to find copper doorknobs, except for cabinets. Perhaps taking regular doorknobs and having them heavily copper plated would help.
The copper must be left completely bare. Any type of coating on it prevents contact of the bacteria and viruses with the copper surface.
This might make a good business for some of your readers who do metalwork. Once this news gets around, there will be a strong demand for copper doorknobs.
Although brass also works to some extent, it must be very high in copper, and the percentage of copper is never given on commercial brass knobs. Furthermore, the protective coating that keeps the brass shiny makes it useless.
Check out this great article – It’s really interesting. – JW in NY
I predict that there will be a directly proportional relationship between the rapidity with which President-elect Trump implements his planned reduction of government policies and the rapidity of the Federal Reserve banking cartel’s interest rate hikes. The harder that Trump pushes, the harder that The Powers That Be will push back. In the end I believe that they are willing to collapse the credit market, crash the stock markets and collapse the value of the U.S. Dollar on the Forex rather than see Trump make any substantive change. Be ready for the events that will follow January 20th, 2017. There could be some Deep Drama, rather quickly. So go ahead and hedge into tangibles and keep your powder dry.- JWR
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U.S. SHALE GAS INDUSTRY: Countdown To Disaster
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Tax Code Compliance Costs Economy $1 Trillion Annually – B.B.
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4 richest Counties are suburbs of DC – Hmm, I wonder where all that money came from? – P.S.
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Janet Yellen and Donald Trump Are on the Same Page, for Now – (note: may require a login or subscription to read.)
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JWR notes that Season 2 of The Man in The High Castle should be available on Amazon video, today—December 16th, 2016. (Free for folks with an Amazon Prime subscription.)
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Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information
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Police reports show odd behavior in Boise Airport air traffic control tower – RBS
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Politicizing Children – DC-Area Marching Bands Opt To Sit Out Trump’s Inaugural Parade – D.S.
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Reclaiming the Bill of Rights – B.B.
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“They must find it hard to take Truth for Authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.” – Gerald Massey (1828 – 1907), English poet