Are you prepared?
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herewegoboys
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Except I studied hard in college, read a lot of books and earned some money, and so fourth. Therefore I know the end of everything (except maybe in the micro sense, ie I get hit by a bus) isn't coming any time soon. So there's that.
Tilt
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http://www.non-hybrid-seeds.com/survivalseedvault.html?gclid=CICM1Jet2aYCFQJvbAod6R8Q1Q
I think this is very good idea for survivalists too.
found a good link. Seed vault
Add on the site read thus.
The Survival Seed Vault™
Produces many of hundreds of pounds of food from 1 compact container, for years to come!
Feed your family and friends this year and into the future with 100% NON HYBRID (Open Pollinated) Seeds. You MUST use non-hybrid seeds in order to save seeds from your crops for future planting.
The Survival Seed Vault™ is processed for long term storage according to USDA developed methods. Twice the shelf life of normal seeds.
-More than 50,000 Seeds
-More than 1.5 pounds
-Comes in resealable bucket
-Varieties chosen for your SURVIVAL by seed experts
I think this is very good idea for survivalists too.
found a good link. Seed vault
Add on the site read thus.
The Survival Seed Vault™
Produces many of hundreds of pounds of food from 1 compact container, for years to come!
Feed your family and friends this year and into the future with 100% NON HYBRID (Open Pollinated) Seeds. You MUST use non-hybrid seeds in order to save seeds from your crops for future planting.
The Survival Seed Vault™ is processed for long term storage according to USDA developed methods. Twice the shelf life of normal seeds.
-More than 50,000 Seeds
-More than 1.5 pounds
-Comes in resealable bucket
-Varieties chosen for your SURVIVAL by seed experts
Maria_Vanessa
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Hmm. I couldn't find any information on whether or not these seeds are still viable for planting. You have to be careful and only buy seeds from well known, well trusted sources, either from your local neighborhood or nationally.
In addition, it is not hard to harvest the seeds from crops that you grow in your own garden too or asexually propagate them.
After bleep hits the fan, stay inside as long as possible or go out?
When I read this thread I think of that all the time. I have recently come to the conclusion of : If I happen to be home, when it pops off, I'm staying put for as long as possible.
Granted if a wild fire or other acts of nature, plans will change.
Here is why I will stay put. Please feel free to poke holes in my plans, I will welcome all imput.
If the grid were to crash, I believe the first 2 weeks would be chaos. It would be gun battle after shootouts.
The theives, rapist, looters will hit the streets. Racist, gangs, various ethnic power groups will hit the streets. The wanna be Rambos will the the streets. And what I consider the worst will hit the streets also.
The justifible homicide types. These are people who want to kill, dream about killing, but know in their heart that they could never get away with it. Their desire to kill is not greater than their desire to live in the free world. But if the grid were to crash, their true lust would be unleashed.
Then the honest guy who is searching for just the minimum in order for his family and him to survive. This guy is not a looter. He won't be raiding bestbuy, if anything he's the type that would prefer to honestly barter with another person.
The honest guy may be the first to go. He is a legal gun owner who is strapped just for protection. A paranoid trigger happy type may just see him with a gun going about his day and fire on him.
When I read this thread I think of that all the time. I have recently come to the conclusion of : If I happen to be home, when it pops off, I'm staying put for as long as possible.
Granted if a wild fire or other acts of nature, plans will change.
Here is why I will stay put. Please feel free to poke holes in my plans, I will welcome all imput.
If the grid were to crash, I believe the first 2 weeks would be chaos. It would be gun battle after shootouts.
The theives, rapist, looters will hit the streets. Racist, gangs, various ethnic power groups will hit the streets. The wanna be Rambos will the the streets. And what I consider the worst will hit the streets also.
The justifible homicide types. These are people who want to kill, dream about killing, but know in their heart that they could never get away with it. Their desire to kill is not greater than their desire to live in the free world. But if the grid were to crash, their true lust would be unleashed.
Then the honest guy who is searching for just the minimum in order for his family and him to survive. This guy is not a looter. He won't be raiding bestbuy, if anything he's the type that would prefer to honestly barter with another person.
The honest guy may be the first to go. He is a legal gun owner who is strapped just for protection. A paranoid trigger happy type may just see him with a gun going about his day and fire on him.
I guess the point I'm getting at is:
after the first 2 weeks, there will be plenty of gun left over for the rest of us.
after the first 2 weeks, there will be plenty of gun left over for the rest of us.
Are you prepared for inflation and a new monetary system?
Ratigan And Fleckenstein Explain The Fed's Role In Recent Food Price Ignited Revolutions MSNBC Video
Keep printing Genocide Ben.
Ratigan And Fleckenstein Explain The Fed's Role In Recent Food Price Ignited Revolutions MSNBC Video
Keep printing Genocide Ben.
med_breeder
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Can anyone recommend a powerfull, almost blinding flash light?
windsurfer
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I dont think USA and UK citizens have to be at all worried about a food shortages in the slightest for at least the next 50 years or so
med_breeder
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Does anyone here own and operate a CB radio?
Any tips or ideas about alternative communication systems?
Any tips or ideas about alternative communication systems?
the Rock
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Just some thoughts here peeps.
These are some good reasons to get prepared for any eventuality that could come down the highway in the future and a cpl. tips so that you and your family can survive it in comfort. (dont depend on the government to save ya)
Sounds like that old survivalist mumbo jumbo to some of you, but it makes more sense than ever these days for the following reasons:
1. Social Security and Medicare: They’re going to collapse. (2012 is the year I heard) If you or any member of your family are connected with them, you’ll be affected. The less you are dependent on any government program the better.
2. The economy: America is in debt up to its ears. As it continues, some economists predict foreigners may lose faith in the American dollar, pull their money out, and we’ll be in an instant Depression. If you’re near a large population center, you could be in for trouble from desperate people pouring into the countryside.
3. Terrorism: Terrorism could visit America again, possibly in the form of a biological attack which could require us to hunker down in our homes for months. A “dirty bomb” may require us to evacuate for an extended period. A chemical attack would be less severe, unless it happened right in our town.
4. Rising crime in the country: It may be down in the cities, but it’s rising in the countryside because a lot of city scumbags have moved into our neighborhoods. The farther out you live, the safer you’ll be, but there are lots of self defense measures you can take, including being properly trained in the use of a gun.
5. Inflation: It’ll probably be the government’s choice weapon to battle the coming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, mentioned in number 1 above. If inflation reaches 21%, as it did in the Carter years, you’re going to look pretty smart with a garage full of survivalist items like a generator and a year’s worth of food and other supplies. Inflation is already affecting selected items, such as plywood which jumped by $7 a sheet a few months ago. Hard to build a home, addition, or anything else without plywood.
6. Illness: What if a deadly epidemic like the 1918 flu came back, and there is no vaccine available (Sound familiar?) to protect your family? You might have to stay home to avoid becoming contaminated with the deadly illness. Do you have enough food and supplies to do that? On a personal basis, if your breadwinner falls ill, who or what keeps the family going? If the main wood chopper falls ill, who cuts the wood for your wood stove? It’s tough having a sick family member, but it’s much tougher having it complicated by having too little food and other necessities in the house.
7. A personal economic meltdown: You personally could fall on temporary hard times with the loss of your income. Are you ready to weather such an event until you can get the income flowing again? If you’re making good money now, pay off your debt, and put some money away, either in a bank or in a drawer. (These days your drawer pays you almost as much interest as a bank.) Maybe even pay up your mortgage, if you have one, a few months in advance. That’ll also cut down on your interest payments. Stock up on food. Not only is it like having money in the bank, but it’s a good hedge against rising food prices.
8. A severe winter: No one knows where the price of oil and gas are going, so it’s a good idea to keep extra fuel on hand. I don’t keep a big tank of gas because even with a gas stabilizer added it tends to get stale. But I do keep my vehicles full of gas and I have several 5-gallon cans of Stabil-treated gas, plus oil and lubricants to take care of my chain saw and other 2-stroke implements. I also have about a three year supply of wood for my wood stoves, and backup propane heat. If there is an electric blackout I have backup propane lights in several rooms. One of the best ways to deal with a fuel shortage in a cold winter is to simply stay home with your ample supplies and enjoy the wood stove.
Preparedness is cost effective, convenient, healthy, and fun. There’s nothing like coming home from Costco with a truck load of food and supplies you’ve bought at the much cheaper bulk rate prices. I seldom run out of anything no matter what I decide is for dinner. I date everything and rotate it with the new supplies, so it is very unusual for to have to throw anything away. I’ve also got lots of frozen kale (I love kale soup...) and stored pumpkins (...and pumpkin pie) put away from this year’s garden. I want a big garden and a bunch of chickens, so I can eat lots of pesticide-free food and phytochemical-rich eggs. (I'll also have wild game again and fresh seafood when I get back to Alaska)
I haven’t even come close to covering all the reasons to practice preparedness, or all the ways you can do it and have fun doing it. Plug in your own reason. Preparedness is really a way of life, just like losing weight or staying in shape. You have to want to do it. If you just store a bunch of stuff, it’s going to eventually go bad and you’ll end up throwing it out. Look around at the uncertainties in the world, and see if practicing preparedness in some form might be a good idea for your family
yeah hows all this babble working for you
Around this time the magnetic field around our planet, that protects us from solar flares and particle dust, is going to be weak. Also in 2012 the solar activity of the sun will be high because it will be at the end of its 12 year cycle.
Panama Red
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Personally I keep these...
And these...
And plenty of "bulbs" to blind the bad guys.
Flash light---HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!........
C
CLOWD11
I was wondering that myself
All this doomsday talk is not going to help anyone imo.
The percentage of people that are able to live off the land after hell breaks out, will be very very low given that weather related events could start or contribute to unrest.
Who knows where the current arab uprising will end. Some believe a united middle east will seek to remove Israel which will result in the last war. The bible certainly mentions a nuclear attack on Syria, interesting times ahead, but ima gunna keep smoking and living the way im accustomed to and enjoy life while its good instead of fearing the future.
these are currently out of production but there's a secondary market on used guns which is where I hope to find one of these
a KelTec PMR~30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2KZMI-qNvY
in this second clip below they turn the semi auto pistol into a machine gun, NOT to make a machine gun, no. They did it just to test the magazine feed @ fastest rate of speed possible, thus qualifying feeding the clip for ANY standard shooter would fall within the parameters of their machine gun test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6GxFws8B7k&NR=1
a KelTec PMR~30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2KZMI-qNvY
in this second clip below they turn the semi auto pistol into a machine gun, NOT to make a machine gun, no. They did it just to test the magazine feed @ fastest rate of speed possible, thus qualifying feeding the clip for ANY standard shooter would fall within the parameters of their machine gun test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6GxFws8B7k&NR=1
i like the pistol in the first vid.....90 rounds in 25 seconds.....that piece is sick!
Go to the link below @ Amazon for "AQUAMOX" which is an antibiotic amoxicillin for ornamental fish, scroll down a bit to see the entire gamut of antibiotics you can buy right now disguised as strictly fish tank antibiotics.
Tetracycline, Penicillin, Cephalexin, Doxycycline, Ciprofloxacin, Ketoconazole and many more are available. This is an affordable no prescription needed way to stock up on antibiotics.
If & when the shit hits the fan you'd want to have a supply of some of these on hand along with a guide for their usages. Shelf life is about 2-3 yrs but that could be extended by diligent storage. My veterinarian charges a lot for medicines and having these on hand has already saved me plenty.......
http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Mox-500mg-Amoxicillin-Antibiotic-Capsules/dp/B001T6XSAS
funny you say that. i used fish mox a couple weeks ago for a tooth infection.
didnt want to pay the doctor for a office visit and a prescription cost when i knew i could order it from amazon for $10.
i found a website that has a list of animal antibiotics that is safe for humans for various aliments, but its on my old computer, it was very informative....
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