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Stockpiling and Replenishing, by CPT Blackfox

…Peace Corps bringing in wheat to a starving African village, it’s usually gone within minutes.  That’s what it looks like when desperate people are competing over a very limited amount of critical supplies.  Bad Assumption #6- I need to keep up the same stockpile as I had before the collapse. We talk a lot about storing up everything you need for a collapse situation, but we do not usually talk about what those stores should look like when you are months or even years into TEOTWAWKI.  You still need some padding against the unknown, but you will likely not need years’ worth of supplies stashed away as long as you have a way to replenish some of your diminishing supplies.  I would recommend maintaining roughly six months of stores available in the middle of a collapse situation for those times when the logistics network is disrupted again or in case…


Silver and Gold Bartering, Now and Post-Societal Collapse, by T.R.

…leading edge to now all seems quiet, calm. Stocks are steady, companies are showing profits but simmering under the surface is 10 to 20% plus food inflation, 20% real unemployment, a continual lag in the housing market if not a continually collapse, unsustainable national, state and local debts that can only be salvaged by the Federal Reserve. This is to name only a few, do not forget rising oil and gas prices. Their whether they are spinning US Dollars or real gold it still creates something from nothing and debases the currency and fuels the fires of inflation and destruction of the US Dollar and other currencies worldwide. The other side of the storm is a currency collapse that will be global in nature, which will lead to variables that will spin out of control very quickly and if you are not prepared to weather the storm to get to…


400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, EMP, and Nuclear Armageddon, by Matthew Stein, P.E.

…might build their own nuclear device from scratch or buy one illegally, procure a Scud missile (or similar) on the black market and launch their nuclear device from a large fishing boat or freighter somewhere off the coast of the US, causing grid collapse and widespread damage to electronic devices across roughly 50% of America. Much like an extreme GMD, a powerful EMP attack would also cause widespread grid collapse, but it would be limited to a much smaller geographical area. A powerful  EMP  from a sub-orbital nuclear detonation would cause extreme electromagnetic effects, starting with an initial short duration “speed of light” pulse, referred to as an “E1” effect, followed by a middle duration pulse called an “E2” effect, which is followed by a longer duration disturbance known as an “E3” effect. The “E1” effect lasts on the order of a few nanoseconds, and is quite similar to massive…


Three Letters Re: Will Junk Silver Be Accepted for Barter, Post-Collapse?

…In my estimation it will take perhaps one week after the final collapse of the US dollar before people will be pawning their wedding bands and emptying out their kids’ coin collections. It won’t take long before everybody knows what still has value. Gold and silver have always kept their value since long before the Roman Empire. If anybody still thinks that pre-1965 90% silver coins will be difficult to use after the collapse of the US dollar, then I recommend buying a copy of A Guide Book of United States Coins 2009 by R. S. Yeoman. (It is often just referred to by its nickname, “The Red Book.”) Every Barnes & Noble store sells these. In the mean time it would be a good idea to begin to equate the values of common good to an ounce of silver today. At $17/oz. one ounce of silver buys six gallons…


I Survived an Economic Collapse – Part 2, by Siempre Listo

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Editor’s Introductory Note: Part 1 of this article on the Mexico currency devaluation was posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Today, Part 2 concludes this article. — In Part 1, I described how, while I was living and teaching in Mexico in 1982, there was a nearly 50% devaluation of the Mexican Peso, resulting in major economic hardship for the average citizen. In this installment, I would like to share a few lessons I learned from experiencing a currency devaluation –essentially an economic collapse– and how these lessons can help us prepare for a similar, or much worse collapse in the future. I would like to start by re-visiting my Lesson #1: Rules can be broken. I thought I was safe by having my money deposited in a Mexican bank in Dollars instead of Pesos. Wrong. As I mentioned in Part 1, I was shocked to learn that in order…