A Time For Urgency

While reading the blogs of friends and FaceBook posts,  I am detecting the affirmation of a sense of foreboding and urgency I have been experiencing as of late.

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/08/16/prepare-like-theres-no-time-to-waste/

I believe things happen for a reason, I also believe in conformation, when you see, read or hear the same topic over and over again from numerous different sources, it is usually a good indicator of someone trying to tell you something.

That little voice which some call intuition, others call a sixth sense has been working over time with me and  many of my colleges and friends.

The “voice” along with my dreams and numerous news articles all seem to indicate the harbingers of doom at our doorstep.

Being a Gulf and Bosnian war vet and having worked in the Mid East as a DoD contractor for numerous years, I have been warning that this fall could become very dangerous with respect to a Mid East war between Israel and Iran.

All of us know that a summer war in the Mid East is possible but not recommended due to the extreme heat.

Having said that, the horsemen seem to be saddling up and the war drums are beginning to sound for an all out confrontation very soon.

Israel prepping for war with Iran? Jewish state orders military fuel from U.S. Defense Department http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=196377

The conflict between Israel & Iran could erupt at a moment’s notice.

This is not at all comforting considering the US uses 25% of the worlds energy is basically bankrupt.

What would the implications of such a conflict have on the US and other “developed” nations in this point in time?

All it would take is for the Iranians to sink a super tanker in the Straits of Hormuz (which they have said they will do) and it’s lights out for the western world.

Especially the bankrupt United States. 
I’m not terribly confident in a flotilla of international aid coming to our rescue, are you?

The moment the “spigot” of Mid East oil runs dry the US and most western economies, already reeling from poor management , corruption, greed and pilfering will collapse.

What could we do in the case of such a catastrophe? Not very much.

Oh come on this is America you say! That’s not gonna happen here!

We are currently feeling the effects of a bankrupt economy at the Dept of Defense level.

Don’t think so? Read this article from The Joint Chiefs Of Staff.
National Debt Poses Security Threat, Mullen Says

http://www.jcs.mil/newsarticle.aspx?id=360

With US Forces deployed in well over 50 nations at this moment, with all of their equipment, (which equals OUR military equipment and might) the situation hits danger close here at home.

With a now worthless dollar, two wars in Iraq & Afghanistan and a full blown Mid East conflict all while the oil spigot is in the off position, it doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict the outcome for an oil dependent and broke US.

First: Fuel Rationing!

Second: A breakdown in basic services such as hospitals, water and sewage treatment followed by blackouts as a precursor to full blown grid collapse.

Most hospitals have only 3 days of reserve diesel fuel for their generators.

Third: wide spread chaos due to cuts in police, fire, (neither able to respond) due to critical fuel shortages.

There is a saying, “We are all nine meals away from chaos”, or three days of food.

In all disasters, disaster simulations or models the grocery stores are empty in 72 hours.
With that in mind let’s look at what may come next.

Four: Trucking, everything you eat, wear, purchase to resupply your family, home or business comes to you via truck.

All food and fuel deliveries will be for emergencies only and at a minimum for the Gubment, while sporadic if not non existent for the rest of us.

Any food in your freezer will spoil unless you have back-up power and can refrigerate. Drugs that need refrigeration will perish, so will the people who need them.

Criminals will be on the march knowing the police will not be able to respond, rape, murder, wide spread looting will run rampant.

Now let’s look at our border situation and terror threats. The 25 or so years of insecure borders could also rear it’s ugly head in this scenario.

 Most terror experts agree that there are numerous terror cells operating in the US on our soil.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53474

And then there is this! Huge Cache Of Weapons Found Near Mexican Border

 http://www.bluegrassbulletin.com/2010/06/huge-cache-of-weapons-found-near-mexican-border.html

We know that Hezbollah has infiltrated the US border and plans attacks on US citizens.

What better time to do this then when the US Police are not in a position to respond?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9dwXqiUts&feature=player_embedded

Back to the US Forces deployed overseas, there will be no way to carry on the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.

How would we pay for fuel for the war machine or to ship bullets and beans to them?

In that case we would bring them home right?

Without the ability to pay for fuel or shipping how will they and all of our military equipment get home?

Being a military logistics guy by trade, 90% or more of our equipment get’s into “Theater” and out again by commercial cargo vessels that (the Gubment) charters.

These vessels require fuel which requires money if you can even get the fuel!

The Army, (that’s right the Army) and the Navy do have some cargo vessels but not nearly enough to move all of equipment home and must be supplemented by commercial carrier.

It is also a mammoth undertaking to redeploy the troops requiring numerous personel & months at a minimum.

All operating on a worthless dollar and no fuel?

Some will be airlifted yes, but not the heavy’s like the Tanks etc etc.

Now we start to see how that could effect us here in the US where we no longer have a manufacturing base on which to draw to resupply our depleted war machine.

Russia and China are both having water and wheat problems which equal pandemonium in their respective counties.

They WILL come looking for food!

Now , with the dollar dead, our power and communication grids in the toilet, our troops and equipment basically stranded in overseas conflicts and no leadership here at the helm, the picture gets eerily more grim.

So PLEASE, read the alternative news media, listen to that voice telling you to prepare, prepare, prepare!

Listen to your gut feeling or the gut feeling of a loved one when they voice their concerns that something very dangerous this way comes and respond accordingly.

Do your own research, learn new skills, learn old skills, hunting, planting, get in shape, learn to shoot, stock up on supplies, look for alternate forms of energy while you can because tomorrow we could hear the hooves of the horsemen at our doorstep!

May G-d bless you and may He save the United States Of America!

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While Rome Burns & The American Government Slept

While Rome Burns & Most Of America Sleeps:

This morning while sucking down my daily dose of brain function juice (coffee) I was reading the headlines and my e-mail when I received a message from my friend Lisa “The Survival Mom” about the Senate shooting down the Grid Safety Act or H.R 5026.

 

I had to choke on my coffee. Why you may ask?

 

This bill would have put physical protective measures into place to prevent damage to the nations electrical power grid in the event of a natural or man made EMP or “electromagnetic pulse”

 

EMP can be a naturally occurring phenomenon that is caused by solar storms of many sizes, the worst being a CME or “coronal mass ejection”.

 

The last largest EMP to hit the US of any significance was from a CME in late August & early September of 1859. It started on August 28^th and continued through Sept 2.

 

The effects then were basically fried (as in burnt to the ground) telegraph wires and not much else. Oh well, that’s good right Oby Wan? No Grasshopper that’s still bad.

 

The reason that’s still bad is because if we were to have EMP now of the size of the one in 1859, we would be pushed back about 100 years in an instant.

 

Everything that relies on microchips and computers would fail, modern cars (with computers) ATM’s, all electronic banking records and transactions wiped clean in literally one second while most people on the ground would be none the wiser.

 

Cell phones, airplanes, water treatment facilities, refrigeration, gas station pumps, oil refineries, ships that bring oil, farm tractors (newer ones anyway) that utilize computers could no longer work farms and on and on and on.

 

Don’t believe me? The guys at NASA say the same thing and have been warning the diplo-dunks in DC about this very problem to no obvious avail.

 

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/23oct_superstorm/

The second and more sinister form of EMP is man made or a “TERRORIST” type EMP that can be caused by a missile fired above the center of the country from a cargo vessel causing a cascading grid failure of the entire nation resulting in all of the same failures mentioned above.

 

Club K Video:  At last check Al-Qaida owned over 100 cargo vessels.

 

This is not something we as a nation or people could recover from quickly, months or most likley even years could be required to restore electric power to the entire nation due to the fact we no longer manufacture large electrical transformers in this country.

 

I highly recommend reading the book “One Second After” by Bill Forstchen on this very subject. It will give you a reality gut check on the havoc this would create.

 

It ain’t gonna be pretty!

 

What does any of this have to do with my morning coffee & Lisa you may ask? Remember her? Well Grasshopper , it has everything to do with what Lisa mentioned to me above about HR 5026 and how it was dumped for a clean energy bill instead.

 

By the way, I was informed that my illustrious representatives are NOT hard at work on these problems because they are on “recess.” Sound childish? Consider the source!

 

HR 5026 would have put electric grid protective measures in place to prevent all of the failures mentioned above.

 

Instead they opted not to protect the energy grid we currently have but opted for clean energy bill instead. I guess they were right, NO energy is ultimately the cleanest form energy there is, right?

 

Our business name is Survival Solar Systems, and we do use solar, however we also use diesel generators, batteries and are adding small wind turbines.

We are also looking into wood-gas to run a generator to recharge our battery bank, (watch for a coming podcast on that topic.)

 

Lesson is, don’t put all of your energy dollars in one basket. Redundancy is key when it comes to energy.

 

What does all of this have to do with Rome burning and people snoozing?

 

Well how many even know what EMP is or the effects that it could have on modern society? Not many.

 

The Tea Parties are great, but we must asses our enemy and realize these diplo-dunks are smarter than they look.

 

They are keeping you busy hoping and praying for a change in November which I wholeheartedly support, however while you are focused on that very change, “THEY” (The Infamous They) seem to be doing all they can to destroy our ability to prepare or defend against any of these impending catastrophes.

 

And many impending catastrophes they are. Weather It be financial, EMP, Gun Rights, Food Safety Act HR 875 (which makes it illegal to have a garden) and vitamins are declared toxic under Codex Alimentarius in this bill or a form of it, they have us on the ropes and they want to knock us out.

 

Most of America is awake on the political front, which is a GOOD thing but very asleep in any real sense of knowing what is ongoing behind the political curtain.

 

Don’t allow all of your time to be consumed with endless calling and e-mailing of your representatives, In my humble opinion, your time may be far better spent in prepping for all of the above calamities to the extent that you can.

 

As you progress in getting off the grid and out of the system you will begin to feel a peace of knowing you no longer contribute to the machine that wants nothing more than to control every aspect of your life and the lives of your family.

 

In doing so you can actually grasp the ever fleeting freedom that those still reliant on the grid and the financial system will never know until it’s ultimately removed from them.

 

Something to ponder, would you rather work  your butt off now in preparation for you and your family or surrender to the machine as a slave in a work camp for a cold hard bed and a crumb of gubment cheese?

 

Now that we’ve had our daily dose of happy, have a nice day!

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The Case For Personal Energy Sovereignty:

The Case For Personal Energy Sovereignty:

Today I would discuss Personal Energy Sovereignty (PES) : What is PES?

Being able to provide your own energy needs without any outside assistance or reliance.

Do we need PES? Lets examine just a couple of articles out of hundreds being posted as of late.

Us Electricity Blackouts Sky Rocketing

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08/09/smart.grid/index.html?hpt=C1

DHS Deploys Special Teams To Battle Hackers In War For Infrastructure:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hackers-targeting-vital-infrastructure-dhs-sends-special-teams/story?id=11320125

These are just two articles taken from yesterdays headlines that could both imperil you and the lives of your family within hours. Within hours you say? How so?

There is a saying in the survival community that goes like this, we are just 9 meals away from chaos. Now just exactly what does that mean? Nine meals are equal to 72 hours.

Well, we are next day business society in modern America these days. Everything is “Just In Time” which means the trucks don’t arrive until we are almost out of whatever it is that we sell, food, water, toilet paper, whatever, in short, we no longer stockpile anything.

With an aging and extremely vulnerable electric power grid that controls EVERYTHING in our modern society we have become computer reliant people. That’s a very risky proposition.

We can do almost nothing without electricity to power the computers that now control our lives. Everything from water treatment plants, to power production facilities rely on another facet of industry which is also dependent on the electric grid to get what they need just to produce electricity.

Let me give you an example: Heavy equipment (bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks) that are used at the coal mines (coal powers the majority of America’s electricity) to dig and transport the coal to rail-cars which are in turn used to transport it to the power generation facility all rely on what to dig the coal? Computers and electricity.

How so Obi Wan? They all need fuel, which is pumped by what? Refined by what? Paid for by what? Electricity! We need electricity to power wall street investors and oil companies who rely on the computer to order and pay for the oil to be sent from abroad to the US which in turn relies on electricity to refine it, pump it, transact for it’s sale and transport it to the heavy equipment at the mines to dig the coal to provide the electricity for all of the above functions.

Take away one step due to a power failure, hackers, heat wave, terrorist, EMP and you have the cascade effect which results in blackout or grid failure.

You can’t get money from the bank to buy gas to go to the store to buy food, the store can’t sell you food because the trucks can’t buy fuel to bring it, you have no way to refrigerate it if you could buy it, no way to get water as water treatment relies on electricity to pump it to your home.

You have no lights or communications to even find out when, or even worse if the power may even come back on.

No way to keep life saving drugs cool and on and on and on. No Police, Fire, EMS, No security alarms, no lights, starting to get the picture yet?

How long could you last without any electricity? Take a Friday afternoon and turn off your main electrical breaker for the weekend and see. No communication, cooling , water, lights, etc etc etc.

How long will you last? It won’t take you long to realize the importance of PES.

How you arrive at PES it is up to you, there are many ways, solar, wind, diesel, wood-gas, or any combination of all of the above.

You are responsible for you, when the crap hits the fan and the switch goes off and your family is hungry because all of your food in the fridge has spoiled, you have no water, no security at night while there are only minimal police at best and no security alarms.

How will you feel then ,knowing that you had all the resources at your finger tips (while the power was on) but chose to do nothing, betting this day would never come?

Don’t take that chance, learn bout PES, learn a new skill, study, put down the remote and pick up the mouse and learn before it’s too late. The power may come back on, then again it may not, are you willing to bet your life on it?

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Just in case you have NOT noticed, this country has been in a shambles since John Kennedy was purposely removed from office.

 I personally have not revered an American President since, I despised Nixon, Carter, Bush & Clinton and made it known.

If you do your homework looking into Ronald Reagan, what he did and also what he didn’t do (Immigration) Iran Contra, you will begin to get the big picture.

They have all been horrible failures, usurped the constitution and the wishes of their constituents the American people.

The current occupant of the oval office however takes it to an entirely new level by flaunting and fomenting racial and economic divide among all people of the United States, Black ,White, Yellow & Brown.

He has done more to perpetuate The United States becoming a failed state than all of his predecessors, but is he really any different or is he just carrying out the agenda handed to him by HIS puppet masters?

If you can not see United States is rushing headlong into an economic crash, or on the fast track to becoming a failed state ruled by a shattered gubment remnants, drug cartel’s and or gangs you are sadly naive.

The Romans thought the same thing. You seen any centurions lately?

Until you realize that they are all of the same ilk, democrat , republican etc. you will never understand the big picture. There are the slaves and there are the slave masters. We currently are the slaves.

All who voted for Obama ( Black, White, Brown Or Yellow will SOON realize you have been screwed right along with the rest of us. You failed to do your homework and now you and all of us will reap what you have sown. Thanks allot

I no longer pity you who are so blissfully in denial of the trajectory of decline we are racing toward. The signs are everywhere, we will not escape this without serious problems.

Continue on your current apathetic path, retorting the calls of the masses, “that will never happen here, this is America” or we will change it in the November.

All the while swilling your six pack and being fed you’re nightly overdose of deception fed to you intravenously by the likes of Fox, MSNBC, CNN and their propaganda ministers.

This nation will never return to what it once was. A few years ago I would have said that would be a bad thing, but now? I’m not so sure.

It may be time to weed out the sluggards, those to dense to see, those in perpetual denial.

The strong need do nothing, the very system that is lauded by the serial deniers as infallible and eternal will do it for us.

We just have to prepare to pick up the pieces of our flag and our constitution to begin anew as we step over their rotting remains.

Now that we have had our daily dose of happy, have a NICE day.